American Comics: Starting from the Invincible Young Hero

Chapter 53: Is it not too much to repay me? (3rd update)

"It's you?"

The butcher recognized Russell at a glance, who suddenly appeared and effortlessly dealt with the special forces team.

If this mysterious guy hadn't grabbed him and taken him to Mallory, he wouldn't have known the 'truth about the soldier boy's death'.

"Infinite Man!"

Huey exclaimed.

The video of an infinite number of people saving the plane and preventing the second World Trade Center tragedy has been widely circulated on the Internet.

Nowadays, there are few people in the world who don’t know this most popular superhero.

When Huey saw the video and the interview, he couldn't believe that Infinite Man was the nameless metahuman they ran into in the abandoned restaurant that day.

Breastmilk and Frankie breathed a sigh of relief. At least they were saved temporarily.

“What have you come here for, too, to kill Soldier Boy’s weapon?

To kill people from your own country and eliminate competitors within your own company?"

The butcher's eyes lit up and he licked his lips.

News of the conflict between the Homelanders and the Infinite had been circulating everywhere since the hijacking incident.

He hates all superhumans, but if there is a chance to drive a tiger to devour a wolf, he doesn't mind cooperating with superhumans.

However... a moment of doubt flashed through the Butcher's mind. Why was Infinite Man so slow? As a superhuman, he came behind him.

He didn't know that Russell had come here earlier.

"I am indeed here to look for 'weapons'."

Glancing at the replaced tank door deep in the laboratory, Russell seemed to know that the experimental base had visited here. He chuckled and looked at the butcher and Hughie.

If Edgar had not found the records of several people going abroad, he might have arrived a step late and missed out on these two promising temporary superhumans.

Find weapons and see what they do?
The two of them looked at each other puzzled by his look.

"I saved your lives, so it's not too much to repay you, right?"

"How should I repay you?" The butcher was suspicious and suddenly had a bad feeling.

……

"Good news. Only three votes remain to be determined, but victory is already secured. The bill to include superheroes in national defense is imperative to be passed."

After hanging up the phone, Madeline turned around with a smug look on her face and shared the good news with her countryman sitting on the sofa in the office.

"good."

The Homelander didn't seem particularly happy and only said this coldly.

The fact that superheroes entered the national defense system had nothing to do with him. It only reminded him of the white cloaked figure that he resented.

My country has been plagued by negative news recently and is on the verge of collapse, so I am definitely not happy.

Madeline is well aware of her advantages over other senior managers, and with the help of her special connections with her fellow countrymen, she has been able to rise to the position of vice president step by step.

However, she couldn't go against the director's wishes. It was her fault for being so blind as to go against the director. But she still had to appease him.

"Do you still remember Becca from the marketing department?"

Madeline sat down on the sofa next to Homelander's shoulder, smiling and was about to let him lie in her arms like a mother comforting him, but Homelander suddenly mentioned.

In the past, whenever there was a chance to get close to her, Homelander would be eager to do so, but today he seemed to be acting out of character.

"Who?"

Startled by the name, Madeline pretended to be confused.

"Becca Butcher, I suddenly thought of her recently. She was considered missing by the police for a long time. The time period of her disappearance was very coincidental. It was the day after I was alone with her in the office for a few hours..."

The homelander's deep eyes reflected Madeleine's face clearly like a deep well, and no subtle expression of hers could be hidden.

"Why are you asking about her all of a sudden?"

Madeline was a little flustered.

The man in front of her seemed like a different person. He no longer showed any affection towards her, no longer freely expressed any childish emotions towards her. It was as if he had grown up a lot overnight, but she couldn't figure out what could make a man who had never grown up suddenly grow up.

"Why can't I ask, is there anything special about her?"

The people of my country seemed to be smiling.

"Okay... okay, I admit that over the years, there's one thing I've been hiding from you. I broke our promise to keep no secrets between us, but I did it for your own good. I was afraid you wouldn't be able to bear the blow."

Madeline's smile was awkward and her voice was broken.

"That Becca Butcher became pregnant with your child after that day. Walter found her and took her under his protection, but she miscarried soon after.

Her weak body cannot provide the nutrition your child needs.

Yes, you had a son."

Madeline thought.

The only thing that can make a man grow up instantly is the news that he has become a father. How did the people of China know about this?
"abortion?"

Homelander stood up expressionlessly, his chin slightly raised.

"That's a different version from what I heard from Wagbaum."

"You went to see Wagbaum?"

Madeline's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

She had never seen Homelander show such a cold attitude towards her before, but she was not unfamiliar with it. This was a sign that Homelander was extremely angry and wanted to kill someone.

Why didn't her fellow countrymen, who had always been the most infatuated with her and trusted her the most, find her first when something went wrong? This was very strange.

"Did someone say something to you?"

"answer my question!"

Homelander's eyes lit up with scarlet lasers.

"No…no, calm down, John."

Madeline jumped up from the sofa in fright, her face pale and she stepped back.

Could it be that during this period, the company allowed public opinion to attack the motherland, which really annoyed this giant baby who desperately needed love and forced him to lose control?

“Don’t call me by that name, call me your countryman.

John, that’s the name Walter gave me to promote the fact that I was born in a normal family!”

"But...but, Homelander is also the name Walt gave you."

Madeline was puzzled.

"What did you say!"

Homelander angrily teleported in front of Madeline, grabbed her head with both hands, and made her look into his eyes.

"Say it again!"

"Don't hurt me, Homelander."

With the Homelander's strength that could easily crush steel, just a slight movement could crush Madeline's head like a watermelon. She was so scared that she trembled all over, as if she was facing a man-eating monster.

"You're right. I was born in Walter's laboratory and grew up according to the life Walter arranged for me. My name, image, pursuits, and dreams were all given to me by Walter!"

The homelander's expression was filled with resentment, mixed with a deep sense of his own misery. This pain fueled his immense anger and murderous intent, and his eyes were bloodshot.

"I am nothing but a deformed child who was forced to grow up in the iron frame set by Walter! I am like a doll that can be dressed up by anyone, without any rights of my own.

I can’t even think of anything that belongs to me.”

"You think I'm pathetic!"

"No... no, I never felt that way."

It was as if decades of grievances and anger had suddenly burst out. Looking at her fellow countrymen who were becoming increasingly agitated, Madeline felt horrified and almost cried.

(End of this chapter)