In stark contrast to the worry shown by 【Queen Maeve】, Homelander didn't seem to take it to heart at all, calmly reassuring her:
“Don't worry, Maeve, even if that cuckold comes, 【Soldier Boy】 still won't win against us… He has new helpers, so don't I? You haven't forgotten the two new members I recruited this time, have you?”
【Queen Maeve】 was taken aback at first, but quickly realized and tentatively said, “Are you talking about… that little bug wandering the streets, 【Spider-Woman】?”
“That's right, it's her.”
Homelander said smugly: “You better not underestimate her strength just because she is a street hero. I specifically went online to check her combat videos before. Although she lacks some practical experience, the potential in her, and the extreme combat power she can unleash at critical moments, is far stronger than all the other members of 【The Seven】 except me.”
“What?” 【Queen Maeve】 asked with a face full of suspicion: “Do you really think she is stronger than me?”
“Don't be nervous, I mean the power she explodes in an extreme state is a bit stronger than you, but that's not the key…”
Homelander ignored the angry look 【Queen Maeve】 gave him and continued with a nonchalant expression:
“The important thing is that her superpowers don't come from 【Compound V】, so she is likely to be a key part of us dealing with 【Soldier Boy】 this time… Ah, I can't help but want to witness that moment in person!!”
Although 【Queen Maeve】 was a little unhappy with Homelander's “degrading” remarks just now, the tense look on her face eased a lot.
However, just as she was about to ask something else, the phone on her desk suddenly rang.
“It's me, what's the matter?”
Homelander answered the phone casually, and a slightly nervous report came from the staff on the other end of the phone, “Sir, I'm really sorry to interrupt you suddenly, but someone called and said they must talk to you in person… He claims to be 【Soldier Boy】!!”
“Oh? Then connect him.”
After hearing the name of 【Soldier Boy】, there was no emotional fluctuation on Homelander's face, as if the other party was just an irrelevant person.
A few seconds later, 【Soldier Boy】's voice came over the phone, “You should be Homelander, right? I think you should know who I am and what I've done before…”
“Get to the point, are you calling to formally declare war on me?” Homelander interrupted expressionlessly.
“No, I got some interesting news from 【Mindstorm】 when I killed him, so I think the two of us might need to talk about it in person.”
“Stop acting clever in front of me, I already know about your cooperation with Billy Butcher…”
Homelander ruthlessly exposed him: “If you want to use this as an excuse to trick me over there, and then join forces with that cuckolded turtle to ambush me, I advise you to give up such a stupid idea!”
However, before he could finish speaking, 【Soldier Boy】 on the other end of the phone directly threw out a reason that he thought was enough to make Homelander unable to refuse.
“No, son, don't get so excited… I remember it was the autumn of 1980, when I suddenly received a call from a senior executive of 【Vought】 and was called to Vogbaum's laboratory to accompany them in an experiment, some bullshit experiment about genes… I also remember that they arranged a tall and beautiful woman for me at that time, named Danielle something, I can't remember her name and appearance, anyway, I only remember that the hair in her private parts was as lush as a female hound…”
“……”
Homelander's face suddenly darkened, because he had already guessed what the other party wanted to say.
It was nothing more than the secret about his background, but he had already learned about this secret by checking the confidential documents of 【Vought】.
But what really made Homelander feel disgusted, even disgusted, was that this secret was now spoken by 【Soldier Boy】 himself, and in such a mocking and playful manner, it shattered the last bit of good fantasy and expectation in Homelander's heart for his 'genetic father'.
This wild father of his who had been “lost” for many years was obviously no different from others!!
At this time, 【Soldier Boy】, who had not noticed the change in Homelander's emotions, was still talking endlessly on the other end of the phone:
“In short, the person in charge of the laboratory asked me to *fuck* her, and then release my life essence into the cup or test tube that they had prepared in advance. I was wondering what they were doing…”
“Until I found the answer from 【Mindstorm】… Now it seems that my life essence was finally used by Vogbaum to make a freak… He should have been born in the spring of 1981, and he was a boy…”
Speaking of this, 【Soldier Boy】 didn't know whether he was proud or mocking, and he laughed subconsciously, then paused slightly, seemingly just wanting to hear what Homelander on the other side would react to.
But to his surprise, Homelander on the other end of the phone remained ‘unmoved’ by this, as if he was talking about something else.
Seeing that he had failed to anger the other party, 【Soldier Boy】, feeling bored, ended his silence and continued to speak:
“Let me tell you something very interesting. If the senior executives of 【Vought】 want me to continue being a superhero, I will not hesitate to make you the focus, after all… which father wouldn't want to give the halo to his son?!”
Killing someone's heart!
All of these words were deliberately used by 【Soldier Boy】 and Billy Butcher after discussing them to anger Homelander.
Because a sober-minded Homelander is obviously more threatening and challenging than a Homelander in a state of madness.
So they decided to attack the heart first, and then kill!
But such a strategy is obviously useless to the current Homelander, “You have no chance, because 【Vought】 is now under my control… and I don't need your halo at all. As an outdated old guy, your popularity is not worthy of being compared with me!!”
“Huh?”
【Soldier Boy】 obviously didn't expect Homelander to answer like this, turned his head and glanced at Billy Butcher, who also looked dumbfounded, and said angrily:
“Kid, don't be so arrogant. When I was the top card in 【Vought】, you weren't even born yet…”
However, he was then persuaded by Billy Butcher and Hughie Campbell to calm down.
“Okay, I've said everything I wanted to say. If you've thought about it, you can send me the specific location information.”
After saying that, 【Soldier Boy】 hung up the phone angrily.
The pre-war harassment strategy obviously failed!!
“So… do you really believe the nonsense he just said?”
【Queen Maeve】 asked with a strange expression, obviously she had heard the entire conversation between the two with her extraordinary hearing.
Homelander did not directly answer her question, but first looked at his little assistant Ashley Barrett and ordered:
“Find me all the files about 【Soldier Boy】's past immediately!”
“Okay, sir, I will send you the information soon.” Ashley Barrett, with a bewildered expression, trotted out of the office.
When only Homelander and 【Queen Maeve】 were left in the office, Homelander slowly opened his mouth as if counting his family treasures:
“It seems that 【Black Noir】 and the senior executives of 【Vought】 have been hiding many secrets from me…
I still remember when the company first brought me in front of the camera, they promised me that I would have a team of my own in the future.
And I really hoped to become a family with my future teammates, because I grew up in a laboratory and never had my own family.
But now it seems that what I got was a group of useless trash who like to go against me!!”
Then his upper body leaned forward slightly, and his sharp eyes stared at 【Queen Maeve】 opposite him:
“Before this, I always thought that 【Black Noir】 was more important than all of you combined. You were never my family, and I don't need your help… But now it seems that even he is not my family.”
“If 【Black Noir】 wasn't dead now, I would have killed him myself.”
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“W… Why?” 【Queen Maeve】 didn't know what kind of evil wind Homelander was drawing, and asked subconsciously.
“Because he never told me about 【Soldier Boy】, he betrayed me, and what I hate most in my life is betrayal!!”
Homelander looked very excited, and it seemed that 【Soldier Boy】's words had a great impact on his heart… No, it should be said that it completely shattered his long-standing fantasy about the missing family role of 'father'.
“Maeve, I don't care whether you are pretending to submit or not, but if you really want to gain the favor and blessing of 【The God of Delight】, then it's best not to play any tricks on me in this mission, otherwise the first person I will kill at that time will be you!”
【Queen Maeve】's face suddenly became very ugly. She didn't like others threatening her, but she didn't dare to attack Homelander in person, so she could only suppress the anger in her heart and replied stiffly with some anger and some resentment: “I understand.”
…………
……
Night falls.
The studio of 【Vought News Network】 on the 60th floor of 【Vought】.
Ding——
The elevator opened, and four figures walked out of it. They were 【Soldier Boy】, Billy Butcher, Hughie Campbell, and… Kimiko, who had regained her superpowers!
It is worth mentioning that Kimiko, who had accidentally lost her superpowers after being hit by 【Soldier Boy】's “chest cannon”, was able to regain her superpowers because 【Soldier Boy】 and Billy Butcher accidentally discovered 【The Deep】, who was participating in a large orgy, while chasing 【TNT Twins】, and took photos of him using octopus XX with their mobile phones, and used this to threaten the other party to tell the location of the 【Compound V】 storage laboratory.
Considering that having one more superpower user would give them one more chance of winning when dealing with Homelander in the end, Billy Butcher asked Hughie Campbell to use his “teleportation” superpower to successfully steal a permanent 【Compound V】 from the laboratory, and then send it to the hospital for Kimiko to inject…
And this time, the number of people who came here was far more than just these 4 people. Even Marvin and Frenchie came along.
Although Marvin was still complaining about Billy Butcher's “betrayal” in his heart, under the repeated persuasion of Hughie Campbell and others, he finally decided to put the overall situation first and wait until he killed Homelander before settling the score with these two bastards, 【Soldier Boy】 and Billy Butcher.
However, he and Frenchie were still unwilling to inject 【Temporary Compound V】, and their goal this time was not to fight Homelander.
Instead, they wanted to use 【Vought】's high-end biochemical laboratory to develop a nerve anesthetic reagent called 【Novichok】.
As for the purpose… it was to use it to anesthetize 【Soldier Boy】 and “seal” him up again after successfully solving Homelander.
That's right, before the battle had officially begun, Billy Butcher had actually begun to plot against 【Soldier Boy】, who was his temporary teammate.
After all, in his eyes, the other party was just a necessary tool to kill Homelander!!
“Look, the culprit who turned the entire 【New York】 upside down is finally willing to show up?”
In the empty studio, Homelander looked at the four people with a calm expression, while 【Queen Maeve】's face was full of vigilance.
There was no way, 【Soldier Boy】 had the means to completely disable their superpowers.
It would be a lie to say they weren't afraid!
“That's right.”
Billy Butcher, who was walking in the front, couldn't be more proud. He first looked around the studio, and after confirming that there were only Homelander and 【Queen Maeve】, he laughed like a villain in a movie and ridiculed:
“What, your new partner didn't come? I clearly remember that you said in an interview with 【The Daily Bugle】 two days ago that you would join forces with your new partner to deal with us?”
“Could it be that she doesn't want to cooperate with a scum like you, so she deliberately stood you up?”
But who would have thought that Homelander would not be angry at all, his emotions were stable, he first raised his hand to look at the time, then bent his index finger slightly and pointed at Billy Butcher opposite him:
“Don't worry, she will definitely come, but… you better beg God to bless you so that you can live to see the moment she appears!!”
