Chapter 345: Invited to the Opening Ceremony
Time quickly passed to a morning over a month later.
Xia Shang turned on the television as usual, tuned it to the New York News Channel, then returned to the kitchen, picked up his breakfast, and walked towards the living room.
Today's breakfast was passion fruit juice and a sandwich, very ordinary, but it tasted good.
"Ms. Ashley Barrett, head of the Global Health Service Organization, a Vought subsidiary, and a Vought Vice President, announced that more funds would be invested to provide services for Supes with permanent health problems, stating that the service was essentially a charitable activity, with all costs borne by Vought.
At the same time, Ms. Ashley Barrett called on everyone to pay attention to the health problems of Supes, especially families with Supes. Once you discover that your son, daughter, or wife or husband has physical or mental health problems, please promptly call the Elmai Adult Rehabilitation Center hotline..."
Listening to the host's voice on the television, Xia Shang slowly cut off a piece of the sandwich with his knife and fork and put it in his mouth. As a former Vought Vice President, he knew very well what this so-called rehabilitation center was. To put it bluntly, it was an illegal organization that disguised itself as a free medical service but was actually detaining and researching Supes behind the scenes.
Most of the expendable Supes in Stan Edgar's experiment bases came from here.
However, overall, the emergence of this organization did indeed solve some factors that might lead to social instability and also greatly reduced the Supe crime rate. Therefore, among the American people, this organization has a good reputation because they can always appear with the greatest speed and take the Supes away.
"Next is a piece of regrettable news. At 3 PM yesterday afternoon, Vice Presidential candidate Lamar Bishop accidentally drowned. According to witnesses at the scene, Lamar Bishop entered the water several times. The sea surface was calm at the time, with no large waves, but when Lamar Bishop entered the water for the last time, he never reappeared until his corpse was pushed onto the beach by the waves, and people discovered in horror that he was dead.
According to the autopsy report currently released by the police, there were no external injuries on Lamar Bishop's body. The cause of death was inhaling seawater which blocked his respiratory tract, leading to Lamar Bishop dying from asphyxiation. Here, I hope that when swimming, everyone must do warm-up exercises before entering the water to prevent sudden cramps while swimming."
"Accidental drowning?" Xia Shang smiled slightly after hearing this.
At this critical moment of the Vice Presidential election, for a candidate like Lamar Bishop to die from drowning, this cause of death is as ridiculous as being shot more than ten times in the back and then declared a suicide.
"The Deep was really quick." In fact, before acting, The Deep had already told Xia Shang that he was going to kill Lamar Bishop, so Xia Shang was not surprised by Lamar Bishop's death.
The reason why The Deep wanted to kill Lamar Bishop was also very simple. Simply put, Lamar Bishop was Robert Singer's running mate in his faction. Since each faction can only put forward one Vice Presidential candidate, Victoria Neuman, who was also in Robert Singer's faction, could only replace Lamar Bishop's position if she wanted to become Vice President. Only in this way could she become the new candidate in Singer's faction and exclusively enjoy her faction's political resources.
Pushing Victoria Neuman into politics was Homelander's plan, but the actual manipulator behind the scenes was Stan Edgar.
Of course, Xia Shang was very happy to be a person who reaps the benefits without effort. After all, pushing Compound V to the world is absolutely impossible without official support. Although he could also directly brainwash the US President through the Memory Storm ability, after his many experiments, he found that people brainwashed by him had incomplete consciousness. For example, suppose he brainwashed someone to kill Homelander. That brainwashed person would only think about how to kill Homelander and recklessly carry out the operation, completely losing their own thoughts, and even basic daily activities were difficult to maintain.
However, something Memory Storm cannot do, Cate's superpower might be able to do, but the actual situation can only be known after making contact.
At this moment, the host on the TV screen continued to say: "After reporting on the Vice Presidential candidate, Lamar Bishop's drowning death, we will now livestream the campaign event in Sioux Falls. Dakota Bob just announced his new running mate there, member of Congress, Ms. Victoria Neuman."
Immediately, the screen image changed, and Xia Shang followed the camera to see the campaign situation at the event scene.
"What do you think about Vought and Homelander's public support? Before, you seemed to have always kept your distance from them and made many statements unfavorable to Vought, but now they are supporting you, putting aside past grievances. What do you think about this?" The reporter extended the microphone towards Victoria Neuman.
"First of all, I must state my point of view. What I opposed before was not Vought, but an illegal organization that condoned and facilitated crime. Secondly, I will always fight against Supe criminal activities to the end. I hope to give the United States public a safe and reliable future. Finally, the mastermind who caused Vought's chaotic crime has stepped down. Perhaps we should regard them with a new gaze."
It could be seen that at the campaign parade scene, there were many people wearing attire with Supe elements, constantly shouting Victoria Neuman's name.
Clearly, driven by Vought International, Victoria Neuman's chance of winning is high. Amidst the public's cheers, a smiling Homelander suddenly descended from the sky.
But different from the original plot, when the protesters from the opposing faction rushed out and cursed Homelander as a fascist, Homelander's reaction was indifferent, even directly ignoring them and greeted the fans in the surroundings.
[Congratulations player for slightly changing the original plot, gaining 1240 fantasy value]
The pop-up window that suddenly appeared was a pleasant surprise for Xia Shang. Although Billy and a few others did not show up to cause trouble, his fantasy value was still slowly increasing due to the previous influence.
Xia Shang finished the last bite of his sandwich and walked out of the villa.
Just three days ago, he received an email sent from Godolkin University. The email content was: [To celebrate the start of the new semester, Godolkin University has decided to hold an opening ceremony. Students and teachers who received this email, please arrive before 7 PM three days from now, heading to Godolkin University's gala venue. Signed: Godolkin University Chief Executive Officer, Indira Shetty]
On the way to Godolkin University by car, Xia Shang summoned his panel to check his fusion progress.
(End of this chapter)