Chapter 183: Boiling a Frog in Warm Water

Homelander acted quickly.

When he knew what happened on the Internet, he didn't care what Ashley said to him, and immediately came to Kevin's office from the set and made a request:

"You must deal with this matter as soon as possible!! Do you know how much my number of fans has dropped! Nine point five!! Nine point five!!!"

In front of Kevin, Homelander was like a child who lost his toy, roaring hysterically.

These days, he was already annoyed by the fact that Storm gradually replaced his C position, and now such a terrible thing happened.

Homelander didn't know what he did wrong. He was obviously getting rid of a super villain for those damn bastards.

Isn't it just killing an ordinary person by mistake? What's the big deal?

If the super villain is still alive, more than one ordinary person will die!

Why should we protest against him!

Why do you treat him as a demon just because of such a small thing!

And it's not common for superheroes to accidentally injure ordinary people while performing their "official duties"?

Even the dead locomotive once killed a person!

Why didn't he receive much condemnation from the public, but the netizens called the motherland a bad guy?

What made the motherland even more angry was that in the face of the public opinion storm on the Internet, Kevin's advice was to "not comment" and wait for the storm to pass? !

What is this?

Is Kevin going to put him on ice just after he became the CEO! ?

This is where the motherland is angry. He is unwilling to just stop and keep things quiet. If he does nothing, his number of fans will drop further.

It will be lower than Storm and Kevin!

His number of fans is lower than Kevin's, but Homelander is still relatively calm.

Because Kevin has confirmed that he will quit the Seven, his number of fans is only temporary. When Kevin completely quits the Seven and walks from the front to the backstage, his number of fans will gradually decrease.

Homelander is still the brightest star in the Seven.

But under Storm, Homelander can't stand it at all.

Because this guy will stay in the Seven!

If she continues like this, she may become the captain of the Seven in the actual sense, replacing Homelander's position! !

Even because of this incident, the voices on the Internet for Storm to become the captain of the Seven are getting more and more. How can Homelander tolerate such a thing happening?

So he is furious now, which is far less calm than his performance in the same period of time in the plot.

"The public relations department is responding, and I believe that it won't take long for this matter to slowly subside."

In sharp contrast to Homelander's attitude, Kevin's expression is very calm. He smiled and looked at Homelander, as if this matter was not a big deal at all.

Kevin's attitude made Homelander even more angry.

He came to Kevin and asked directly:

"Is this your way of handling things? Do you know that doing this will let that bitch Storm ride on my head! Or do you really plan to change the captain of the Seven?"

"How is that possible? You have always been the captain of the Seven, I can guarantee that, but... I am working on another plan now, so I can't let the current situation escalate, do you understand?"

"What... what plan?"

Seeing Kevin's confident look, Homelander's anger dissipated instantly, and he frowned and asked.

Kevin pulled out the drawer under the table, took out a prepared plan from it, and threw it to Homelander.

Homelander picked up the plan, flipped through it for a while, and suddenly looked up and asked:

"'Hero Association'?"

"You should have seen the specific plan. I plan to reduce the number of superheroes, and then bring the remaining superheroes together to form a hero association that belongs to Walt."

"...Is there any difference between this and the Seven?"

"The difference is... The Seven will still be under the jurisdiction of the American government, but the Hero Association... is a global association. If the association is successfully established, then no one will stop you from doing anything to fight crime on Earth in the future."

Kevin stood up with a smile, walked to Homelander, and whispered to him:

"Think about it, if the Hero Association is established, then as the president of the association, you will have the power to go to all parts of the world to fight crime at any time without being restrained by anyone. At that time... your number of fans will be much more than now."

"... Wait, you mean, I will be the president?"

Homelander understood the key point and turned his head to ask in surprise.

Kevin answered as a matter of course:

"Of course, besides you, the captain of the Seven, who else is qualified to be the president of the Hero Association?"

"But... I thought you..."

"By that time, I probably won't be a superhero anymore. I may be qualified to join the Hero Association, but I won't be able to become the president.

"And I have to run the Vought Group, and I really don't have the energy to deal with the affairs of the Hero Association, so the position of president can only be you, and only you can be the president of the association."

Kevin said with "regret", and seemed to have high hopes for Homelander.

Homelander was blinded by Kevin's plan, and he thought about the future that Kevin talked about.

At this time, Kevin continued:

"So, you need to be quiet during this period, understand? Don't do anything... Pay attention, anything that may make you lose support."

"But... the public opinion on the Internet about this matter..."

"I will take care of it. We are on the same side, Homelander. I will help you take care of everything, and you just need to calm down for a while. Can you do that?"

"..."

Kevin has already said this, what else can Homelander say.

It's not that the Water Group will not deal with Homelander's affairs, but things are too urgent at this stage, and it takes time to conduct public relations.

And Kevin's plan cannot have any mistakes at present, so even if Homelander is anxious about the continuous decline in the number of fans, he has to listen to Kevin temporarily, calm down for a while, and talk about it after the storm is over.

In the end, Homelander was confused by Kevin's big pie, no longer cared about the number of fans, and turned back to the set to continue filming the Seven.

Kevin called Newman after Homelander left and confirmed that he was no longer paying attention to this place:

"The protest continues, the bigger the better, understand."

"Okay, I get it, but sir... won't this cause losses to the Vought Group?"

"You don't have to care about these, you just need to do your own thing and gain political resources for yourself, don't worry about the rest."

"...Okay, sir."

Newman hung up the phone after answering.

Kevin's eyes fell on the plan on the table, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly.

The plan to form the Hero Association is of course true. If not, how can he get those top superheroes to stand on his side?

It's not even a lie that the Hero Association can directly rescue a certain place without obeying the orders of various governments.

Because the Hero Association is benchmarked against real hero teams such as the "Justice League" or the "Avengers", and mainly deals with global crises.

Superpower criminals, high-tech criminals, and even aliens are all within the scope of the Hero Association.

But Kevin never said that the heroes who formed the Hero Association would definitely be those who stood at the top.

Kevin will only let them think that they will be selected into the Hero Association and will continue to make a lot of money as heroes as before.

Only in this way will the superheroes help him, and the Homelanders will also help him.

And after everything is stabilized, it is time for Kevin to deal with them.

"Boil the frog in warm water... I don't know how many frogs will jump out at that time."

When all the superhumans realize that something is wrong in the future, Kevin has achieved his goal.

I just don't know how many people can become Kevin's opponents at that time.

...

Kevin's plan is gradually being implemented.

The first thing to do after becoming CEO is to make a statement on the matter of Compound No. 5, and meet with the Secretary of State at the same time to delay their original plan to let some people in the military selectively inject Compound No. 5.

Regarding the statement on Compound No. 5, this is easy to do.

Edgar has withdrawn from the top management of the group, and Kevin will not care if he puts some blame on him.

And before this, Madeline was the one who took the blame. Now that Edgar is included, the public can quickly accept this matter.

The problem lies with the Secretary of State.

When Edgar was in office, they had agreed to study the temporary No. 5 for the military to use. Now Kevin wants to go back on his word. Not only will he have to pay a large amount of liquidated damages, but he will also have to face legal liability.

If Kevin was alone, he could just ignore everything and carry on.

If the State Council had the guts to take action against him, we'd see who would be more hurt.

But unfortunately, Kevin is now the president of the Water Group and is responsible for many people, so he can't be so casual.

So the strategy there now is to delay as much as possible, and wait for Kevin's plan to be completed after a while, and then find a way to deal with the troubles on the State Council side.

Just as everything was going on smoothly, an uninvited guest came to Kevin's office.

Storm came uninvited.

"Not bad, you actually dared to attack Edgar, which really impressed me."

Storm, who had just come to see Kevin, said this to him first.

Obviously, Edgar's abnormal withdrawal now was seen by Storm as Kevin's doing.

Kevin did not deny it. He sat casually with his feet on the desk in front of him. He looked up at Feng Bao and asked:

"Why did you come to me? I told you, I'm not interested in your ideas, and you'd better not bother me."

"Not interested?" Feng Bao walked to Kevin and sat down on Kevin's desk, looking at him with a smile:

"If you are really not interested, then what about your plan for the Hero Association?"

"..."After hearing Feng Bao mention this, Kevin looked up at her, "Homelander said to you? I didn't realize that your relationship is so good that he can even tell you about this plan that is only in the planning stage."

"Hehe, don't be angry, I just promised him to settle his recent troubles, so he told me this. In fact, our relationship is not much different from before."

Feng Bao said, looking at Kevin meaningfully:

"After all, the person I admire is not his Homelander."

Kevin: "..."