Chapter 78 Madeline Disappears

Several days had passed since the meeting with Butcher, and Kevin was still wondering when Butcher would take action.

But he didn't expect Butcher to act so decisively and quickly.

Kevin had clearly talked to Madeline on the phone in the morning, talking about the recent documentary, but in the evening he heard the news that Madeline was missing.

I don't know how he did it.

Madeline's disappearance was a big deal for the entire Water Group, especially the Seven-Man Team under Madeline's management, who had to go to the conference room at this critical moment to discuss how to find Madeline.

Or, in other words, they had to go to the conference room under the order of the Homelander.

Kevin called Starlight and told her about it, asking her to rush to the Seven-Man Team first.

Kevin himself called Hughie to confirm their progress.

But he got a reminder that the phone was turned off.

"Okay, that's cautious enough."

Kevin couldn't get through the phone, so he knew that Butcher must have cut off all his communications just in case.

Kevin didn't care about it. Even if he couldn't get specific information from Butcher, the Seven would definitely have relevant information.

After all, Butcher kidnapped Madeline to target Homelander.

With his personality, he would definitely provoke Homelander.

This is foreseeable.

He rushed from home to the meeting room of the Seven, where the Seven gathered together very rarely.

Except for the dead invisible man, everyone was here, and Kevin was the last to arrive.

"You're late, Deep Sea."

Homelander habitually said to Kevin as soon as Kevin arrived.

The fight between the two has not been completely exposed, but Homelander, a stingy guy, will not miss any opportunity to attack Kevin.

Even in this situation, he has to say a few sarcastic words to Kevin.

Kevin smiled slightly, looked at the time on the surrounding display screen, and did not confront Homelander. He apologized very cooperatively:

"Sorry, I'm busy with work at Godokin University recently, so I'm a little late."

Perhaps because of Madeline's disappearance, Homelander was not in the mood to quarrel with Kevin.

He had a gloomy face and did not intend to pick a fight with Kevin. He said directly to everyone:

"Everyone, we are in trouble now."

As he said, he pressed the remote control, and a picture appeared on one of the large screens in the conference room.

The picture showed a wall.

The wall was sprayed with bloody fonts by red spray paint, and the bloody fonts formed a sentence, a sentence specifically provoking the Seven Team.

-Now your mother has been captured by us, come and find her if you have the guts! Homelander!

This sentence was full of provocation, and the expressions of the team members present were different.

The locomotive looked at the bloody font with astonishment, and Maeve subconsciously glanced at Kevin for some reason.

Xingguang's expression didn't change much. She just stared at the line of words on the screen and frowned.

Xuanse tilted his head without any expression.

As for Kevin, he suppressed his smile, glanced at the black-faced Homelander, and said:

"Is this... a provocation to us?"

"This is a declaration of war! Deep Sea! This is a declaration of war on us!"

Because Madeline disappeared, and an enemy targeting the entire Seven Team appeared, Homelander no longer cared about the grudge between him and Kevin, and directly used "we" to represent everyone present.

He used the word "declaration of war" to express the severity of the matter.

Homelander slapped the table, and a concave handprint appeared on the tempered table.

With anger in his eyes, he swept his gaze over the members of the Seven Team one by one:

"We have to find this group of people, we have to find Madeline! Let them know that the Seven Team is not something they can provoke!"

After Homelander finished speaking, he immediately began to issue orders:

"Locomotive, the search work in the city will be handed over to you and Xuanse, Deep Sea, you will be responsible for the search work on the sea surface, Starlight will be responsible for assistance, Maeve and I will find Madeline as soon as possible, and we must not let her get hurt! Do you understand!"

"Got it."

"No problem, Captain."

Locomotive and Kevin answered one after another.

In the case of Madeline's disappearance, no one wants to anger Homelander, including Kevin.

He deeply understands that Homelander is now a powder keg that will explode at any time. If Kevin dares to express a different opinion, Homelander may really fight with Kevin here.

Kevin is not afraid of Homelander now, or he really wants to fight with him to test Homelander's strength and his own physique.

But it is better to avoid such unnecessary fights.

The Seven rarely act together. Homelander and Maeve leave the roof of the Seven together and search from the sky.

The locomotive looked at Kevin, then at the starlight beside Kevin, and said nothing. After a gust of wind, it disappeared in the meeting room of the seven-man team.

I don't know if Xuanse heard Edgar talk about something. Before leaving, he nodded to Kevin and turned to leave.

In the end, only Kevin and Anne were left in the room.

Anne didn't have time to chat with Kevin until everyone left:

"Ms. Madeline is missing? She... How is it possible? Isn't the Homelander always watching her?"

"The Homelander is not always watching her."

Kevin sat on the chair and said to Anne:

"Madeline probably took her son to the hospital for a checkup as usual, so someone caught the opportunity. She usually doesn't bring any guards at this time."

Beside Madeline, there are almost no guards who can be used except the Homelander, and she actually doesn't need a bodyguard or something like that.

Because the Homelander can be called at any time.

But unfortunately, the Homelander can't always be with Madeline.

When Madeline took her son to the hospital for a checkup, the Homelander would not be there.

It's a bit funny to say that Homelander seems to be a little jealous of Madeline's son and doesn't like his existence, because Madeline cares about her son more than him.

So when Madeline is with her son, Homelander usually doesn't stay with Madeline for a long time.

This gave Butcher an opportunity to kidnap Madeline without anyone noticing.

"So now we go to the sea... or?"

Anne asked Kevin for his opinion.

Kevin picked up the pen on the conference table, put it on his finger and spun it in a circle. After thinking for a while, he said:

"You go to the nearest waters and wait for me. I still have some things to do."

"What? Do you need my help?"

"No, it's just a small matter. You go first. I'll be there soon."

Kevin raised his hand and rubbed Anne's head, smiling.

Seeing Kevin's smile, Anne stopped asking questions. She nodded obediently and then left the meeting room.

After everyone had left, Kevin waited in the meeting room for a while before picking up the internal phone in the meeting room of the seven-member team to contact Edgar.

Perhaps Edgar had been paying attention to this place, and Kevin had just called and the call was immediately connected.

"Did you do the Stillwell thing?"

"What are you talking about, sir? What does this have to do with me?"

Faced with Edgar's question, Kevin asked back in great confusion.

At this time, even if Kevin did it, he would never admit it here, not to mention that he was not the one who kidnapped Madeline Stillwell.

"..."

There was a little silence on the other end of the phone, and then there was a chuckle:

"So what do you mean by calling me...?"

"Ms. Madeline is missing, and it is not certain when she can be found. If I remember correctly, she is in charge of the group's current strategy of entering the Ministry of Defense, right?"

"Indeed, so her disappearance is really a headache for me."

"Then Mr. Edgar, if you don't mind, let me handle this matter."

"Haha, let's talk about it after Madeline is completely gone."

Edgar did not agree, but he did not refuse either.

He laughed a few times and then cut off the communication with Kevin.

When Edgar hung up the phone, Kevin smiled.

Although Edgar didn't seem to agree with anything, Kevin knew that as long as Madeline really couldn't come back, Edgar would hand over Madeline's job to him.

Kevin would then be able to successfully become a member of the management of the Water Group.

The plan went smoothly, and Kevin smiled.

But let's talk about the future later, and now it's important to do the "business" first.

After ending the communication with Edgar, Kevin also left the Water Building and searched "diligently" on the sea with Anne.

But the result was not as expected. The members of the seven-member team searched for a whole day and couldn't find Madeline, let alone the group of people who kidnapped Madeline.

Kevin was not surprised by this result.

The butcher was not good at other things, but he was a first-class expert in this area.

Tracking, counter-tracking, covering up the tracks... these are Butcher's specialties.

He can survive as an ordinary person in the black robe world against so many superhumans because of this ability.

As long as Butcher wants, unless the Homelander really uses his perspective ability to scan all the lands in the world bit by bit, it is unlikely that the Homelander will find Butcher.

What's more, there is a Frenchman named Frankie who is also good at this to help him.

Madeline probably won't be able to come back in a short time.

The problem Kevin needs to face now is how to determine whether Madeline is alive or dead.

The Homelander can't find Butcher, and Kevin can't find him either.

Butcher cut off contact with everyone.

But Kevin was not in a hurry.

Because he believed that if Butcher really wanted to deal with the Homelanders, Madeline alone would definitely not satisfy him.

They would call him.

This time would not be too far away.

...

"No! No! Butcher, calm down, you have to calm down!"

In an abandoned air-raid shelter, Marvin and Hughie stopped Butcher who took out a gun to shoot Madeline in the head.

Stop him from killing Madeline.

Yes, they kidnapped Madeline, but that doesn't mean they have to kill this "witness" who can be used against the Water Group.

Marvin and others' ideas are very normal and simple.

Madeline has a lot of black materials about the Water Group. As long as there is evidence to prove that the black materials she said are correct, then in court, she can send all the high-level people of the Water Group to prison one by one!

Now that Butcher wants to kill her, it will be a waste for the entire black robe team.

A huge waste!

They can't let Butcher kill her!

"Get out of here!"

Butcher struggled hard in the two people's attempts to stop him. At this moment, his eyes were red and his face was full of anger. He was like a mad beast, baring his bloody fangs at Madeline who was tied to the chair.

From Madeline, Butcher already knew about his wife Rebecca.

He knew that Rebecca had died of dystocia and even lost the child!

After years of obsession and searching, this is the result in the end.

Butcher simply couldn't accept it.

"Hey! Butcher, listen to me!"

The black man Marvin tried his best to stop Butcher and persuaded him:

"Even if you kill her now, it won't change anything! On the contrary, if you keep her life, both Homelander and Vought Group may be overthrown by you! Butcher——!"

"Get out!!!"

In anger, Butcher directly shook off Marvin and Huey, picked up the pistol, took two steps forward and put the pistol against Madeline's forehead.

When he was about to pull the trigger, Marvin shouted again:

"Butcher! Is it more important to take revenge on someone who only knew but didn't say it, or to take revenge on the culprit who caused all this! Get rid of Homelander or get rid of her, think it over yourself!"

Perhaps Marvin's words worked, and Butcher's finger that was about to pull the trigger finally stopped.

At this moment, the air seemed to solidify, and everyone fell silent.