Chapter 129 Public Enemy (4K large chapter)
Compared with the Brooks, the security environment in Queens is much better.
However, there are still many criminal activities in Queens.
The so-called good is only compared with the Brooks.
After using teleportation to come to Queens, Richard immediately used telepathy to lock on the gangsters and criminals who were committing crimes.
Although these gangsters and criminals were committing different crimes, Richard treated them equally and did not treat them differently.
Material decomposition!
After locking these gangsters and criminals with telepathy, he decisively used the decomposition ability in material manipulation.
In the face of the overbearing and unreasonable material decomposition, these gangsters and criminals immediately experienced severe pain that they had never experienced before.
Although he could completely decompose them in just a few tenths of a second, Richard did not do so, but deliberately controlled the decomposition speed.
10 seconds!
He deliberately controlled the decomposition speed to about 10 seconds, so that these gangsters and criminals experienced the severe pain of their bodies being decomposed bit by bit before they died.
Time flies.
More than two hours later, Richard finally completed the small goal of killing 300 criminals tonight.
Unlike last night, when killing these criminals tonight, he added an extra small action.
In addition to leaving only the heads of these criminals, he also deliberately used the ability of material decomposition to "carve" his newly changed hero code "Death Archon" on the heads of these criminals.
Tattoo (qíng) punishment!
In order to make the new hero code name of Death Archon deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in the shortest time, Richard deliberately referred to the ancient tattoo punishment of carving words on the face of the flower-growing family.
If there is any difference, it is that the ancient tattoo punishment of the flower-growing family would only be used on living people, while he used it on the remaining heads of criminals.
After doing all this, Richard did not hesitate to perform teleportation directly to leave Queens and return to the luxury suite on the 96th floor of the Super Seven Tower.
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The next morning.
Richard, who was having breakfast in the restaurant, saw the reports on the "Death Archon" on major news channels as he wished.
Without any surprise, his actions further angered the general public and the US government.
This not only led to more intense condemnation from the public and the US government, but also caused the stock of the Water Group to fall sharply.
If it were the Homelander and Queen Maeve, they would definitely care about the fall in stock prices.
But he wouldn't.
Let alone the fall in stock prices, even if the Water Group went bankrupt, he wouldn't care.
The only thing that made him care about this world was when he could become the most famous "superhero" in the world.
As for the rest, he wouldn't care.
Time passed by little by little.
Just when he was about to finish breakfast and decided that he had to hire a few Chinese chefs immediately, Xingguang, who was wearing a platinum uniform, came to the restaurant.
Because there was no meeting this morning, Xingguang got up late.
Although I don't know what Xingguang did last night, judging from the dark circles on her face, she didn't sleep well last night.
After discovering that Richard was also in the restaurant, Xingguang hesitated for a moment.
Then, she took the initiative to come to Richard and greeted him.
"Good morning, Mr. Wesley."
Xingguang said to Richard.
After hearing Xingguang call him Mr. Wesley, Richard replied: "I remember I told you the day before yesterday that you can just call me Richard or Wesley."
"I don't really like my companions in the same organization calling me Mr. Wesley."
If Xingguang was his subordinate, or if Xingguang was not his nominal teammate, he wouldn't mind Xingguang calling him Mr. Wesley.
"I'll pay attention next time."
Xingguang replied quickly.
When they first met, she had a good impression of Richard and thought that Richard would be a good companion.
But after hearing that Richard was killing people in the Brooks District, she found that she was a little too naive.
In addition, Richard's performance in the conference room yesterday also proved this point.
The seemingly friendly Richard is much more domineering and powerful than she imagined.
A powerful and domineering dictator!
This is what Xingguang thinks of Richard now.
Richard didn't say anything else and nodded.
Seeing that he had no intention of chatting, Xingguang turned and walked towards the food display table in the restaurant.
However, just after she took a few steps, Richard remembered something and said to her, "Wait a minute."
Xingguang stopped, turned and looked at Richard, and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Let the marketing department design a new uniform for you. Your uniform is a little too girly."
Richard said calmly.
Although Xingguang's current uniform is not ugly, it is still a little too conservative and childish.
Little girls and conservative adult women may like Xingguang's current uniform.
But for adult men, Xingguang's current uniform does not show her graceful figure perfectly.
To put it simply, it is too tight.
What?
After hearing Richard's words, Xingguang was stunned.
After a few seconds, she said, "I don't think there is anything wrong with my current uniform."
"It's just that you don't think so."
Richard said seriously.
Uh...
Although Richard's tone was calm now and he didn't strongly ask her to change into a new uniform, after thinking for a few seconds, Starlight nodded and said slowly: "After breakfast, I will let Ashley notify the designer of the marketing department."
After that, Starlight continued to walk towards the physical display stand.
In the following time, Richard and Starlight did not communicate again and enjoyed their respective breakfasts.
After breakfast, Richard first returned to the luxury suite on the 96th floor.
Sitting on the sofa in the living room to rest for a while, and searching his name on the Internet, he smiled with satisfaction after seeing that his name firmly occupied the headlines of major search engines and social networking sites.
Although his reputation has been rapidly developing towards an irreversible bad situation, he didn't take it to heart at all.
Just like the saying goes, black and red are also red.
As long as he can become the most famous "superhero" in this universe, he won't mind whether his reputation is good or bad.
Even if others regard him as a Hitler, he won't mind.
After browsing the overwhelming negative reviews of himself online, Richard put his phone back into the system space and used teleportation to leave the Super Seven Tower.
He did not perform the so-called heroic activities, but teleported to the office building where Congresswoman Victoria Newman was located.
Today, Victoria Newman has not yet become the head of the Superhuman Affairs Office, nor has she used her superpowers to blow other people's heads off everywhere.
After being teleported to the roof of Victoria Newman's office building, Richard did not go to Victoria Newman's office, but used telepathy.
Without much effort, he locked Victoria Newman and began to read her memory.
Soon, he found the information he wanted from Victoria Newman's mind.
First, as he knew, Victoria Newman was indeed Edgar's adopted daughter.
Secondly, she had previously launched various condemnations against the Water Group, which was also Edgar's order.
As for why Edgar did this, on the one hand, he wanted to plant a pawn in the US official, and on the other hand, it was also to suppress Vice President Madeline.
From the position point of view, Madeline is indeed Edgar's subordinate.
But the Water Group is not a one-man show by Edgar.
As a listed company, the Water Group has many shareholders, and Edgar is just the president appointed by the board of directors.
In other words, as the president of the group, Edgar is restrained by the board of directors and the vice president Madeline in many aspects.
Although Edgar wanted to drive Madeline away and replace her with a more obedient vice president early on.
But unfortunately, Madeline is not a vegetarian.
Whether in the board of directors or outside the group, Madeline has a large support group.
It is precisely because of this that Madeline, as the vice president, can be fully responsible for the affairs of the Super Seven in the Water Group.
Richard is not interested in the power struggle within the Water Group.
Whether it is Edgar or Madeline, he doesn't care about it, and he won't have the idea of cooperating with them.
After finding the information he wanted from Victoria Newman's mind, Richard did not directly cancel the telepathy, but sent a telepathic voice to Victoria Newman.
"I'm Richard Wesley. I'm on the roof of the office building. Come up."
After sending a telepathic message to Victoria Newman, Richard cut off the telepathy without waiting for the other party to reply.
A few minutes later, Victoria Newman, wearing a black women's suit and high heels, came to the roof alone.
After seeing Richard, she immediately said, "Mr. Wesley came here on purpose. He shouldn't come to show me his superpowers or threaten me, right?"
As expected of a female congressman who has worked hard in the US political arena, Victoria Newman started trying to take the initiative in the conversation as soon as she came up.
"You are wrong. I came here to threaten you."
"You are a smart person, so I won't waste my words with you."
"I know you are Edgar's adopted daughter, and I know why you are staring at the Water Group."
"Whether you denounce the Water Group or denounce me, I don't care."
"I don't care how you want to win people's hearts."
"If you don't want your relationship with Edgar to be exposed, I suggest you increase the intensity of your denunciation of me."
"If possible, it's best to get to the point where the Senate and the House of Representatives need to vote to introduce a superhuman restriction bill."
Richard looked at Victoria Newman calmly and said slowly.
What?
Victoria Newman looked at Richard with a puzzled look.
When Richard said that she was Edgar's adopted daughter, her first reaction was to use her superpowers to blow Richard's head off to prevent Richard from revealing the matter.
But soon, she gave up the idea and wanted to see what Richard was going to threaten her to do.
However, after hearing Richard threaten her to increase the intensity of his denunciation, her expression became extremely strange.
What exactly does he want to do?
Does he want to be the public enemy?
Or does he enjoy being criticized by the public?
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One guess after another flashed through Victoria Newman's mind.
Although she didn't know what Richard was planning, she didn't waste her brain cells guessing and asked directly: "Just tell me, what is your purpose?"
"I don't think anyone likes to be condemned by the whole world!"
After hearing Victoria Newman's words, Richard shook his head and said with a smile: "I don't need to tell you what I am planning."
"Or rather, you are not qualified to know."
"By the way, I'll give you a personal suggestion, don't inject compound No. 5 into your daughter."
"Not everyone is so lucky to awaken a superpower that has a good effect and does not affect normal life."
"If you awaken a superpower that seriously affects your life or causes physical mutations, you will regret it and have no place to cry."
Although superhumans have appeared in this world, the number of superhumans in this world is not particularly large.
Even the Water Group now has more than 200 public superheroes.
Even if those superhumans who are imprisoned and used as guinea pigs and retired superheroes are counted, the number of superhumans in this world is at most two or three thousand.
In other words, people in this world have not yet realized that useless superpowers that will seriously affect their lives will become the mainstream.
Just like the Epsilon and Delta levels among mutants account for nearly 80%.
Although Richard gave his advice sincerely, it was obvious that Victoria Newman did not accept his advice.
Richard did not continue to say anything to her, and directly performed teleportation back to the Super Seven Tower.
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The days passed one by one.
Unknowingly, a week had passed.
During this week, Richard carried out his superhero activities every night as before, killing criminals equally.
From the beginning of his heroic activities to now, nearly 3,000 criminals have died in his hands.
Although more and more criminals died in his hands, the condemnation and protests against him have become less and less.
This is not because the public relations department of the Vought Group has started to work hard, nor is it that Victoria Newman ignored his threats, but the residents of New York have clearly experienced the changes brought about by the significant reduction in the number of criminals.
According to the latest crime rate report released by the New York Police Department, the crime rate in New York has dropped by more than 90% in the past week.
Especially at night, the crime rate is only about 2% of the previous level.
The reason why the crime rate at night has dropped more than that during the day is very simple, because Richard's actions are mostly at night.
After discovering that the public's attitude has begun to change significantly, Edgar, Victoria Newman and others finally understand why Richard has been ignoring the public opinion.
Just as he guessed, there is no crime that cannot be stopped by killing. If there is, it only means that not enough people have been killed!
In addition to the sharp drop in crime rates, a relatively unimportant thing happened in the past week.
Unfortunately, a fire broke out at the residence of Madeline, vice president of the Water Group, one night, and Madeline died on the spot.
Although fires are common, Madeline's death still caused some sensation in the outside world.
In any case, Madeline has been the vice president of the Water Group for so many years.
The rising share price of Water Group in recent years and the growing fame of the Super Seven Team are mostly due to her.
To the outside world, this is just an unfortunate fire.
But Edgar, the president of Water Group, knows that this is not an accident, but the fire was caused by the motherland.
Not only Edgar knows, Victoria Newman also knows.
However, they did not disclose the truth to the public, and they completely hid the truth.
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