Chapter 176: Disgraced

"Are you talking about the seal of the fire-breathing boy?" Su Heng, who was far away in Canada, answered the call from Reed in SHIELD, closed his eyes slightly, and felt the seal that the fire card had imposed on Johnny, and then said to Reed on the other end of the phone.

"Well, in my perception, the seal has not loosened."

"So there should be no loss of control of the ability."

"Is that so?" Reed in SHIELD showed joy: "I feel relieved with your words."

"Hey, don't worry so early." Su Heng leaned on the railing of the hotel and said casually: "What I said will not work in court. You'd better find evidence."

"Don't worry about this. I called you just to confirm whether it was Johnny's fault."

"Now it has been confirmed that it is not his problem, so the real suspect should not be difficult to find!"

He nodded to Susan beside him, with a little confidence in his eyes, which is the confidence of a highly intelligent person.

"Well, since you already have an idea in mind, that's fine." Su Heng touched his chin and said strangely: "But, did you just say that the fire-breathing boy was locked up in the police station?"

"Yes." Reed heard the strange meaning in Su Heng's words and asked him quickly: "So is there any problem, sir."

"If I'm not mistaken," Su Heng smacked his lips: "That guy is constantly moving in New York now."

"Moving." Reed didn't quite understand what Su Heng meant.

"Mr. Reed." At this time, an agent from SHIELD trotted to Reed and handed him a tablet.

"You'd better take a look at this first."

Reed took the tablet and looked at the content on the tablet.

This is a news report from the Daily Bugle called "What is Justice".

In the report, the reporter interviewed the victim Shell's mother and relatives.

In their tearful accusations, Reed and Susan were described as two selfish people who disregarded the lives of others for their own selfish desires.

Just when Reed and Susan were puzzled, they saw the paragraph under the report.

"Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman used their connections to pick up Johnny, who was supposed to be the murderer of the Schell case, from the police station less than 24 hours after their family was detained in the police station."

"And as the lawyer who took Johnny away, he kicked the victim's mother to the ground in front of the police station in full view of the public, and threatened the victim's mother, telling her not to pursue the case anymore, otherwise she would suffer."

"He should have been a highly-regarded superhero, but because his family committed a crime, he covered up for it. Can such a person really be called a superhero?"

After reading this paragraph, Reed and Susan were shocked.

It was only a few hours later, why did Reed and Susan feel that they could not understand what was written in this report at all.

Johnny was taken away? Or did he and Susan use their connections to pick him up from the police station?

Why did Reed feel that he had no memory of this incident at all?

Could it be that he had lost his memory?

"Mr. Reed." The SHIELD agent smiled bitterly and continued to scroll down.

"Now the more terrible thing is the comment section."

This report was published less than two or three hours ago, but the number of views has exceeded 10 million, and the comment section is full of curses.

And now there are even employees who claim to be "Doom Industries" in the comment section accusing Reed of owing Doom Industries hundreds of millions of dollars in debt due to failed experiments.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Su Heng, I think I have to sort out my own affairs now." Reed hung up the phone with a trembling voice. He licked his dry lips and asked the SHIELD agent.

"What is going on?"

"Just as the report said." The agent smiled bitterly: "Someone took Johnny away from the Manhattan Police Station in the name of you and Ms. Susan."

"And, they humiliated the mother of the deceased in public."

"If we are not mistaken, the other party is likely to come for you and Ms. Susan."

"What about Johnny?" Susan beside Reed asked the agent quickly.

"Where is he now?"

"Sorry." The agent shook his head: "We also waited for the report to ferment before we saw it. Although we called the road cameras in New York to check where the car that took Mr. Johnny went after we found something wrong, there is still no trace so far."

"It's like the car disappeared after leaving the police station."

"." Reed patted Susan's hand and soothed her emotions: "Don't worry, if those guys on the other side are really coming for us, then Johnny should be safe now."

"Mr. Reed, do you need us to help you two block this report?"

The agent asked Reed.

"We can't block it." Reed shook his head and whispered, "If we block the report at this time, it will make us look guilty."

"Okay." Before the agent could take back the tablet, he found that the report suddenly disappeared.

The "This content is suspected of violating regulations" displayed on the webpage made the agent stunned.

"Did any of you block the post?" The agent pressed the Bluetooth headset beside his ear and asked his colleagues in the same group.

"No."

"We are also curious about who blocked this report."

"This is a serious problem." Reed's expression became more and more solemn.

Just as Reed thought.

When the audience who was browsing or forwarding this report found that the report was blocked, the emotions that were originally dissatisfied with Reed became more and more intense.

Especially under the secret instigation of some people, various platforms on the Internet were full of insults against Reed and Susan.

All kinds of unbearable remarks made Susan blush.

"." Now Reed has no good way, and can only wait for the next move of the mastermind in a confused mind.

Although Reed didn't know what the mastermind wanted to do, he believed that the current situation was definitely not the ultimate goal of the mastermind.

Soon, Reed's mobile phone rang.

Reed looked at the caller ID and frowned slightly.

"Ben?"

"Reed." On the other end of the phone, Ben rubbed his head helplessly: "So what happened? How come in just one afternoon, your reputation has become so bad that even beggars on the street spit on you?"

"Do you believe me?" Reed asked Ben.

"Nonsense, we are friends." Ben said without hesitation: "Don't I know what kind of character you are?"

"Someone is definitely framing you."

"Yeah"

"But speaking of it." Ben tilted his head, put the phone against his ear with his shoulder, and tore open the letter he just brought home from outside.

"I have a letter here, it seems to be for you and Susan."

Ben looked at the content on the letter, and his originally relaxed expression began to become solemn.

"What letter is it?" Reed asked Ben.

"."

But on the other end of the phone, Ben suddenly fell into silence.

"Ben?" Reed looked at the phone in confusion and found that Ben did not hang up the phone.

"Hey, brother, you seem to be in some big trouble." Ben said to Reed on the other end of the phone with a serious face: "The guy in the letter asked you to go to the top floor of the building in Times Square, New York tonight."

"He said that if you don't come, he will throw Johnny directly from the building."

"Tonight?" Reed murmured in a low voice: "With such a complicated method, it seems that we can know what the guy is doing tonight."

"Brother, do you need help?" Ben asked Reed.

"I appreciate your kindness." Reed sighed: "But now you are just an ordinary person. For your safety, it is better to pretend that nothing happened."

"Is that so?"

"After I solve this matter, let's find time to have a drink." Reed said to Ben.

"Okay." Ben nodded: "Then we will meet then."

"See you then."

Ben looked at the hung up phone, gently put the letter and phone in his hand on the table, spread his hands, lowered his head and looked at his fleshy palms, and didn't know what he was thinking for a while.

Times Square in New York is almost one of the iconic attractions in New York. There are multiple buildings with functions such as food, entertainment, leisure, and shopping.

This also leads to a bustling scene on this square from morning to night.

But in a building under renovation in this square, several cranes lifted several square objects similar to containers, but completely covered with black cloth.

At the top of Times Square, Johnny was tied to a sign on the top of the building with lifeless eyes, and next to him sat a guy with clown light makeup and equally lifeless eyes.

Creak--

The iron door on the top floor of the Times Square building was opened, and the figures of Reed and Susan appeared from the inside.

"Johnny!" Susan saw Johnny tied to the sign at a glance, and hurriedly wanted to rush towards him, but was stopped by Reed.

"Susan." Reed motioned Susan to look at the guy sitting by the wall next to Johnny.

"You're here a little too early." The guy with lifeless eyes stared blankly at the sunset in the sky and spoke to them without turning his head.

"We were supposed to meet in the evening, but it's still a few hours away from the evening."

"Sorry, for me, arriving early is considered punctual." Reed took a deep look at the man who still didn't look back.

"So you went to great lengths to call me and Susan here, what on earth do you want to do?"

"I didn't want to do anything, I just happened to see a good script." The guy continued lightly.

"Script?" Reed looked at him in confusion.

"Not bad." The man nodded slightly: "A script about a superhero who becomes a street rat, but has to continue living even if he is despised by others."

"I don't quite understand what you mean." During the conversation, Susan had become invisible and came to Johnny and the man.

Susan's index finger was released from the invisible state, and she drew a circle towards Reed in the air.

"!" In a flash, Reed's hand quickly extended out, stretched like rubber, and his arm directly wrapped around the man and pulled him to his side.

And Susan also came to Johnny's side, cut the rope tied to Johnny with the knife in her hand, and put Johnny, whose eyes were lifeless, down from the sign.

"Nice trick."

The same voice as before came from the arms of the man who was tied by Reed's hand.

"!" Reed felt bad.

Puff--

The sound of the sharp weapon piercing the flesh resounded on the already quiet rooftop.

Reed watched Johnny, who had his eyes lifeless, stab Susan's lower abdomen with the knife in his arms.

"Susan!" Reed's eyes were bloodshot.

"What a good show." The voice that continued to come from the arms of the man who was tied by Reed's hand, coupled with the situation that Johnny put the knife on Susan's neck not far away, made the originally calm Reed begin to panic.

"What on earth do you want to do?" Reed took out the intercom from the man's arms and gritted his teeth unwillingly.

"Didn't I say that I just wanted to watch a show."

"Mr. Reed, you have two choices now."

Johnny held Susan hostage and stood on the edge of the rooftop.

"In a moment, this little guy will take his sister and jump off the rooftop."

"And behind you."

Crash--

Reed turned around as instructed by the voice and looked at the black cloth that had been lifted high not far away, revealing the iron cage that looked like a container inside.

And inside the iron cage, it was filled with New York citizens with equally lifeless eyes.

"Let me introduce you."

The voice came from the intercom.

"The people in these cages are the families of the victims."

"You should know what I mean, right?"

"I know you have a function similar to rubber."

"But the question now is, do you choose to save your future wife and future brother-in-law?"

"Or do you choose to save the relatives of the victims who keep accusing you online?"

"You have ten seconds to make a choice."

"Ten--"

Listening to the content on the intercom, Reed was in great entanglement.

The distance of the landing gear over there was too far. If he really went to save the families of the victims, he would not be able to take care of Johnny and Susan.

But if he only saved Susan and Johnny, Reed had already guessed how he would be arranged in tomorrow's news report.

"Mr. Fantastic secretly murdered the victims' families for his own selfish desires!"

"Nine--"

But if he continued to think about it, it might be too late.

"Eight--"

"Reed!" On the edge of the rooftop, Susan saw Reed's entanglement. She covered the wound on her lower abdomen with a pale face, nodded to Reed, and looked at Johnny, who was holding her hostage with his eyes still blank.

"Seven--"

Before she could continue counting on the intercom, Susan hugged Johnny and jumped off the rooftop together.

At this time, Reed also understood what Susan meant, gritted his teeth, and rushed towards the landing gear.