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"boom!"

The door to the conference room was slammed open.

"I didn't expect you all to be here..."

With his hands behind his back and crow's feet extending to his temples, Homelander walked in with a smirk and came to the center of the conference room.

It was right in front of Jonathan and Kate.

"Wow, you two have nice outfits...especially your black uniforms."

“It kind of sounds like what I meant.”

Homelander smiled hypocritically, his eyes only lingering on the two of them for less than two seconds before quickly glancing away and turning his head to the electronic screen in the middle of the conference room, which Edgar used for video conferencing.

"Mr. Edgar... I heard that there is a captain rotation meeting today? I am not late, am I... So, what should I do?"

"It's very simple, Homelander. You just need to hand the captain's armband on the table to Wujin, and then take a photo together."

"group photo?"

Hearing this, Homelander's practiced fake smile suddenly became stiff, and his entire face was filled with gloom.

"Yes, a photo."

"The captain change ceremony must be specially recorded, and then the photos must be uploaded to the official website of the Seven Team to be made into a web poster."

"My countryman, do you have any opinion?"

On the electronic screen, Edgar's expression did not change.

That calm look without any emotion caused the originally suppressed nerves of the motherland to start jumping.

Damn Edgar...

Homelander twitched his eyes violently, suppressing the emotion that was about to erupt. He first opened his hands and put on a generous smile.

Then he came to the conference table, picked up the captain's armband, and walked in front of Jonathan.

"Congratulations, newcomer... As a senior, I am very proud of you. However, I can tell you seriously that being a captain... is not that easy, and..."

Then, Homelander placed the armband on Jonathan's palm with one hand, then leaned forward and whispered into Jonathan's ear with gritted teeth:

"The position of captain is not something that just anyone can take."

"Listen, I don't care what dirty tricks you used to get to the top, but don't think you can order me around just because you're the captain of the Seven. You don't have that qualification."

"And I can tell you very clearly that if you want to do this, you will become a bunch of disgusting meat floating in the Atlantic Ocean tomorrow."

"do you understand?"

After that, Homelander suppressed his gnashing of teeth and put on his usual fake smile with a normal expression.

He still had one hand left, so he placed it on Jonathan's shoulder and patted it symbolically.

“Keep up the good work and don’t let us down.”

After saying that, Homelander took his other hand away from Jonathan's, revealing his palm, where the armband had been squeezed into a shapeless piece of iron.

"Oh, sorry, I used a little too much force, you don't mind, do you?"

Homelander looked at the armband, covered his mouth somewhat exaggeratedly, and made a bluffing expression of "I didn't mean it".

Looking at A-Zu's hard work, Jonathan was not angry, but smiled gently:

“It’s okay, there are many such armbands… but as a junior, I only know one thing.

The person in charge of the Seven-Man Team seems to be Mr. Edgar, senior, if you have any suggestions, you can give him feedback."

Jonathan is telling the truth.

As the CEO of Vought Group, Edgar is basically responsible for approving and handling the affairs of the entire company, especially the Seven, a pseudo-superhero organization that focuses on profit.

To put it bluntly, as long as Edgar is willing, with just one order, Homelander will be completely hidden and banned.

why?

Because A-Zu, who grew up in Water Laboratory, was guided to have a "weakness" from an early age to be used for checks and balances, and this "weakness" was the recognition of the world and the vanity that he wanted to get by any means.

It can be said that if the motherland was hidden and banned, it would be the same as killing him. At that time, he was not only mentally ill, but also had not experienced the subsequent darkening process.

It's so easy to control.

"You, can you say it again?"

Homelander originally wanted to turn around and leave, but he didn't expect Jonathan to be so tactless and dare to say such words to him.

"Tell me, do you want to die?"

Then his eye sockets began to turn red, veins popped out, and he was about to fall into a hideous state of madness.

At this moment, Edgar's voice came from the electronic screen behind Homelander:

“Actually, he’s right, if you have any opinions, you can come to my office directly.

Don’t forget, in addition to group photos, the captain change ceremony also includes photos of the meeting process.”

Edgar's words directly caught the weakness of his countryman, making it difficult for him to lose his temper.

If these photos were really leaked, his approval rating would definitely drop by dozens of percentage points.

"Just wait for me."

Homelander glared at Jonathan fiercely, then cooperated obediently to complete the subsequent handover process and then took pictures.

After the meeting, Homelander quickly disappeared from the scene and went upstairs to question Edgar in a threatening manner.

"boom"

Homelander walked into Edgar's CEO's office with a gloomy face and slammed the door.

"Edgar! I have contributed so much to the group, and you let a newcomer take my place... I need an explanation."

Homelander leaned forward with his hands on the desk, staring at Edgar.

Seeing this, Edgar calmly took off his glasses and folded them, then said slowly:

"Homelander, calm down and don't break my table."

"You run a superhero company, but you never think about your superheroes, right?"

"For example... let me think about it, letting a damn loser be casually stuffed into a team of seven."

Homelander taunted.

"Oh? So you think that recruiting Wu Jin should be approved by you?"

"Why not? I approved the other members to participate. I am the leader of the seven-member team."

"I respect every member of the Super Sevens."

"But I don't think you respect me very much. No, not even Madeline dares to play this trick on me."

As he spoke, Homelander's expression began to become more ferocious.

"You obviously know how important you are to the other people in the Vought Group."

"No, no, Edgar. Speaking of which, my contract expires at the end of this year. Maybe it's time for me to do something else... How do you think your shareholders will feel about this?"

Edgar was amused to hear the countryman's seemingly determined tone. He walked to the white wall, under a huge portrait of a man.

"Hehe...how much do you know about Frederick Water?"

"what?"

"This is not the profit-seeking nonsense that I brainwashed the shareholders with, but his true story."

"Oh? Tell me."

"He received his doctorate in Munich and his genetics was far ahead of his time. He was such a young man with a promising future...

Hitler appointed him chief physician at Dachau concentration camp in 1939, providing him with available human subjects to test the initial version of Compound .

"Of course, we condemn his actions in the strongest terms."

"In 1944, he realized that the war situation had changed and fled to the Allied countries. When Oppenheimer was still researching the atomic bomb, Dr. Water had already used the clinically tested compound No. ."

"Back then, heroes like Soldier Boy slaughtered waves of Germans, but Roosevelt pardoned him, and later he became a household name like Disney and Edison."

"Well, this story is interesting, although it has some moral implications... But I don't understand your point, Edgar."

Edgar was silent for a moment, then responded to his countryman with contempt:

“The point is, if you think of us as a superhero company, you’re wrong. We are actually a pharmaceutical company.”

"And you are not our most valuable asset. The most valuable thing is the secret formula we use to make Compound No. 5, but you, a giant baby, leaked it to the whole world."

"I do not know what you're talking about."

"Then let me remind you that you secretly supplied Compound No. 5 to terrorists around the world in order to allow you and your teammates to enter the national defense system."

"But the cost may be the destruction of the entire company."

Edgar's eyes made Homelander shudder.

"I don't like your tone, sir."

"You are just a product, so you know how to position yourself...Okay, I'm still busy, so I won't send it off."

Homelander had no advantage, and all the harsh words he had prepared were useless. He could only glare at Edgar fiercely, turn around and slam the door and leave.

night.

He came to the roof alone, looking at the full moon above his head, and the anger and frustration in his heart reached its peak.

"I fucking do whatever I want, and no one can control me!"

There was a red light in the Homelander's eyes, and he suppressed a roar towards the sky until he leaned back and let out a low growl before he calmed down.

After the incident, his eyes turned cold and an evil smile with unknown meaning appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"That's just right, parahuman terrorist... newcomer, this is enough for you to drink a pot."