Chapter 73 Why Not Let Me Give You the Captain's Position?

Unfortunately, Huey and Billy did not get any useful clues at the mutual aid meeting.

Instead, Frankie thought of a man named Metzmer, whose superpowers were very special and he could see what the other person was thinking through physical contact.

As far as he knew, the other party should appear at a hero autograph session a week later. As for this hero autograph session, it had nothing to do with the Water Group. It was spontaneously organized by a group of superhumans who had already passed their prime. The superhumans in it relied on signing autographs and taking photos with their former fans to obtain some meager profits.

You know, before joining Water, Metzmer helped the New York police solve many cases and became famous for a while. However, he was soon spotted by Water because he had the ability to read minds.

The olive branch that Water threw to him was quite tempting. They promised Metzmer that as long as he joined Water, he would be trained to be a superhero like a locomotive, with fame and money. In the end, Metzmer could not resist the temptation and chose to join Water Company.

Everything was normal at the beginning. He really enjoyed the pleasure of soaring popularity. The feeling of being admired by countless people was as addictive as gambling. But gradually, Metzmer found that Walter was constantly weakening his presence, from once every half a month to once every two months, once every half a year, and even directly hiding him in the end.

The shelf life of a superhero is not long, especially when more and more superheroes appear.

Soon, Metzmer, who has the ability to read minds, was forgotten by the masses.

At first, Metzmer wanted to leave Walter, but was told to pay a large amount of liquidated damages. Looking at the long list of liquidated damages on the contract, Metzmer was silent. Such a large amount of money could not be paid even if he was sold.

Later, Walter actually used his superpowers to trade stocks on Wall Street. After completing the original accumulation of capital, he abandoned him like a hot potato, making him notorious, and was jointly sued by several financial companies, divorced, and lost custody of his children.

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The next afternoon.

The Superhero All-Star Promotional Conference opened as scheduled in New York Square.

Madeline held this All-Star Promotional Conference in order to eliminate the impact of the previous plane crash on Walter.

The first person to come on stage was Homelander. Compared with his previous rebelliousness, he was gentle at this moment, with a sunny smile on his lips. He greeted the fans and shook hands with a white man in the audience.

"Homelander! Homelander!" The white man excitedly raised his arms and shouted, constantly shouting Homelander's name.

Others responded to this, and the reaction on the scene was quite enthusiastic.

Seeing this scene, Homelander's smile was brighter. He came to the microphone and said, "Welcome to the All-Star Promotional Conference today! And I am the chief guest! Welcome!"

The crowd in the audience was so excited that they could not express it in words to see their idols up close, and could only respond to Homelander with roars.

"I have been thinking about why superheroes are born. It was not until I saw you that I understood the meaning of superheroes! Please always believe me, my responsibility is to protect the entire United States, and superheroes are born to protect ordinary people!"

Madeline in front of the TV was very satisfied with Homelander's speech. It was rare for Homelander to give a speech according to the script she provided in advance. It seems that after the plane crash, Homelander has indeed restrained himself a lot.

However, the next speech by Starlight made Madeline stunned.

Starlight actually revealed that she was sexually harassed when she just joined Walter, which instantly stunned the audience in the audience.

As Starlight shed tears, the audience on the scene and online were excited for a while.

"Starlight! Please bravely say the name of that person."

"Excuse me, is it the locomotive? Or is it black?"

"Is it Homelander?"

The people in the audience want to know who the bastard who sexually harassed Starlight is.

Ashley, who was standing by, didn't expect that the promotion she had carefully planned would turn out like this. She was so scared that she lost her ability to control her expression. Madeline, who was watching TV, was extremely angry. If her eyes could kill people across the screen, I'm afraid that Xingguang would be burned to ashes by the anger in Madeline's eyes.

However, Shenhai in the lounge breathed a sigh of relief.

He still can't forget what the motherland said when he passed by him a few days ago.

"Congratulations, it seems that your popularity will surpass mine. Why not give you the position of captain."

When he heard these words, he felt creepy and a chill surged into his heart, so when Xia Shang found him, he was grateful to Xia Shang.

"The fact that Xingguang can tell about her terrible experience is enough to show that her courage is admirable." Homelander walked to Xingguang calmly, as if he was not surprised by Xingguang's revelations just now. He patted Xingguang's shoulder with a serious expression: "I didn't expect that this kind of thing would happen in the Seven-Man Group. I am also responsible for this. Come on, tell me the name of that person. I, Homelander, will always be your solid backing."

His speech won him a lot of favor from the audience.

It also made many people begin to doubt whether the air crash was really related to Homelander. After all, there is no accurate evidence to prove that Homelander was the initiator.

"Thank you." Xingguang looked at Homelander's profile, and then said: "Sorry, he has only recently achieved success, and I don't want to ruin it."

After saying that, Xingguang turned and left the promotion meeting.

Boom! Xingguang's words were like a bombshell!

Countless people began to discuss who that bastard was, and the matter quickly fermented, becoming a hot topic of discussion on the Internet in just two or three days.

After this incident, the stock of Water International, which had risen slightly, gradually declined.

Water's shareholders wanted Madeline to give them an explanation, so unfortunately, Ashley became the victim of this accident.

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A few days later, the incident continued to ferment. Just as Xia Shang expected, Xingguang's brave move won her the support of more than 10 million women, and she was nominated as the image spokesperson of the Women's Rights Protection Association, and helped Water resist the trend of continuous stock decline.

Water Building, in the vice president's office.

Madeline was worrying about the candidate for the head of talent and public relations department.

Her original plan was to let Ashley stay out of the limelight temporarily, and wait until the storm was over, and then find a random reason to transfer her back to the company.

However, several shareholders at the shareholders' meeting, contrary to their usual practice, put pressure on her to quickly decide on the candidate for the supervisor to avoid similar incidents from happening again without anyone handling the matter.