American Comics: Starting from the Invincible Young Hero

Chapter 54: There Will Be No More Homelanders After Today (Part 4)

"It was Vogelbaum who researched me. There's nothing Walter doesn't know, but he told me that my son died when he was born because his mother's belly was torn open and he drowned in a pool of blood.

You all lied to me, didn’t you? "

"Tell me where my son is. I will never let my child go through the same pain as me again!"

Homelander growled, his hands so powerful that he almost crushed Madeline's head, causing her to scream in pain.

There is something fishy about what both of them said. There must be something hidden. Compared with these two people, he now believes more in the information given to him by Storm, the wife of Water's founder.

"Ah, your son is indeed still alive... He has been well-placed by the company and is receiving an education. He lives a happy life. I don't know where he is."

It was useless to argue at this time. Madeline told part of the truth with trembling teeth, but she did not betray Walter completely and hid the specific location of the Son of Homelander.

"Life is happy, haha... Do you think I will believe it?
He must have grown up in a cold laboratory like me. Judging from his age, he must have already started to undergo various inhuman experiments to test his abilities, such as electric shocks, fire, and nerve poisons..."

Thinking of his own painful experiences and twisted childhood, Homelander didn't believe that Walter could be so kind. When he thought of his son going through what he had experienced, he became furious.

Bang bang bang!
“I want to find my son and bring him back to me.

I'm tired of Walter manipulating me, and everything will be different after today!"

Homelander picked up Madeline in one hand, broke through the roofs in the blink of an eye, and came to the top of the building. The Water Commercial Building and the prosperous city were all at his feet.

"Let me go, fellow countryman, I've told you everything..." At the dizzying height, in the cold wind of the high school, Madeline begged for mercy frantically.

The loud noise attracted the attention of some passersby below to the movement of the Water Building. They stared at the two black spots above the building and pointed.

"what sound?"

"What is that? What are the Homelanders doing up there?"

"He seems to be holding someone in his hand. What is he going to do? Kill someone?"

"I told you that Homelander is a cold-blooded butcher, and being a hero is just a disguise... Look everyone..."

"You've caused panic among the people, John. Let me go."

Madeline begged in tears, hoping to use the weakness of her fellow countrymen to make him spare her.

Homelander's super hearing allowed him to hear everything those people said. In the past, he would have immediately panicked and broken into a sweat, worried about his image.

But in the past few days, he has heard too many accusations and seen too many disgusted faces, and has developed a lot of resistance.

The people from the motherland remained indifferent, and their cold voices were terrifyingly clear in the wind, containing a suppressed angry madness.

"Someone told me that Walter is to me like a stake is to an elephant. What has been restraining me is just the fear that I have cultivated in my heart over the years. I have the ability to create a world that runs according to my will!

Now—I want to give it a try.”

After saying this, Homelander mercilessly shot out a red beam, piercing Madeline's head, and let her miserable corpse fall to the ground.

After a free fall of hundreds of meters, the corpse exploded like a smashed tomato, and minced flesh and blood splattered on the faces of passers-by.

"Blood...murder, the Homelanders are killing people!"

"He's crazy!"

"Help!"

Passersby screamed and fled in panic, like a colony of panicked ants, and the fear quickly spread from the entire street to the entire city.

"Sir, Homelander is out of control!"

Through the floor-to-ceiling window, Edgar looked at Madeline's body on the ground. His face was solemn as he took out his cell phone to report.

Just as he finished speaking, a figure with bloodshot eyes fell from the top of the building, staring at him through the glass like the god of death.

Homelander shattered the glass and flew into the office on the 82nd floor with the cold wind.

"You're crazy! Do you know how much trouble this will cause to the company?"

Edgar did not retreat, but instead scolded angrily.

His composure in the face of a mountain collapse made the people of his country raise their eyes, but he would not be intimidated this time.

“One thing Walter has taught me these days is the importance of public relations.

As long as you manipulate the media machine, black can be turned into white, just like Walt covered up what I did in the past.

I really need Walter. If I want my fans to like me, I can't do without Walter." Homelander put his hands behind his back and changed the subject.

"Once Vought is in my hands—drug influence, mind control, shapeshifting metahuman criminals, or mass hallucinations?
The 'truth' will be written by me.

This incident will soon pass, at most becoming a topic of conversation after dinner for a while, and then no one will mention it again."

"you are dreaming."

Edgar sneered at his daydreaming.

"Oh? Then tell me, what can Walter do to stop me?"

"The company has spent countless amounts of money and energy to train you. We won't destroy you so easily. We were just teaching you a lesson before.

But now you've gone too far—the Director will come back and take you down, and then it will be too late to hope for what you have now!"

"You mean the Infinite Man?" Homelander sneered, not believing Russell could defeat him. "He's a kid who hasn't even grown all his hair yet. What can he do to me?"

"Stop being so arrogant. Did you know that the wife of your Water's founder personally stroked my face and told me that Water is nothing but a wooden stake that I can break with just a little force?"

"It turned out to be Storm."

Edgar cursed the crazy woman inwardly. It was the right decision for his master to kill her.

Homelander's figure flashed, and he grabbed Edgar's neck with one hand, lifted him up, and moved him out of the window, apparently wanting him to follow in Madeline's footsteps.

"I really admire you a little bit, your heartbeat is still steady without any fluctuations.

I'm sure you wouldn't say a word even if I threatened you with death to tell me where my son is!"

Even the old Edgar would have found it difficult to remain calm if he were about to be smashed to pieces, but the current Edgar didn't care about his life at all.

"...In that case, go to hell. I will send countless people to see you right away!" Looking at Edgar in his hand with an expressionless face as if he simply disdained to talk to him anymore, a trace of exasperation flashed in Homelander's eyes.

Swish!
He let go of his hand, and Edgar fell at high speed. The people who had hidden under the building looked up in horror, seeing that another person was about to be brutally killed by the Homelanders and smashed into a meat paste.

A figure flew over with arms like giant bird wings, turning into a giant flesh-colored trampoline and catching Edgar.

"No one can save the person I want to kill!"

The person he was about to kill was rescued, and the homelander's face was gloomy as he was about to rush down.

Whoosh!
Suddenly, a figure came flying from a distance as fast as lightning, stopped in mid-air, revealing a slender figure in a pitch-black battle suit.

"Really? If I let you kill Edgar, where can I find another CEO who is so useful to me?"

Russell stood in front of Homelander, causing him to stop moving and sneer in surprise.

"How dare you appear before me in this situation!"

"Infinite Man!"

"Homelander went crazy, he killed people in the street~"

"Capture Homelander, bring him to justice, and bring justice to the innocent people who died at his hands in the past, Infinite!"

As the world's newest and hottest superhero, Russell's appearance was met with cheers from the people. They looked up at the figure, as if they saw a savior, with hope appearing on their faces.

When did he become the villain standing opposite the superhero?

"These aspirations... these cheers and admiration, originally all belonged to me!"

Looking away from below, Homelander was deeply jealous, his face twisted, and he shot a look full of resentment at Russell, his eyes flashing with laser-like red light, as if he wanted to skin him alive.

"I am the most powerful and most admired superhero in the world. Ever since you showed up—you manipulated Edgar to destroy me!"

"Hero? From now on, the planet beneath your feet will only remember you as a super villain who has been hiding his evil nature for a long time."

Russell said slowly, as if stating a fact that was about to happen.

Edgar had the phone still on in his pocket and heard the whole thing.

He had killed Storm quickly enough, but she immediately became restless and went to find Homelander upon her return, instigating him to declare war on Vought and cleanse the world.

But that’s okay.

"After today, there will be no more Homelanders!"

(End of this chapter)