As soon as Director Hansen finished speaking, new footage was already showing on the television screen.
Several soldiers appeared on screen, doing various exercises. A neatly dressed female reporter walked up to them.
["Hello."]
["I am reporter Memi."]
["Have you heard about the Security Bureau prosecuting Homelander?"]
The soldiers all nodded, indicating that they knew.
The reporter moved the microphone in front of one of the soldiers, ["May I ask if you participated in the Sylvester Town operation, and if you can tell us about what happened back then?"]
The soldier hesitated for a moment, then shook his head, ["No comment."]
The reporter looked shocked, ["No comment?"]
["Why? Did someone above issue a gag order?"]
["My God, do they not know that citizens have the right to know?"]
The reporter interviewed several more soldiers in a row, but none of them were willing to reveal even the slightest bit of information.
Seeing this, Hansen finally let out a sigh of relief and exchanged a smile with the senator.
The TV screen switched back to the live studio. The host said, ["What a pity. It seems that some big shots in our country do not know that citizens have the right to know."]
["I will not blame these soldiers. They have their own difficulties. But I want to tell them that although soldiers take obedience to orders as their duty."]
["Besides being soldiers, you are also citizens, also husbands or fathers."]
["So sometimes, you must speak up for justice."]
At this moment, the phone in the live studio rang.
The host answered.
["Hello, this is the CAD broadcast hotline."]
["Hello, I am Dave, um, a farmer."]
The host said, ["Hello, Dave. What do you want to tell me, tell the audience?"]
["Yes, host."]
Dave said, ["My family has been farmers for generations. We have lived in the suburbs since my grandfather's time. The corn our family grows is really good."]
["Oh, I am getting off track."]
["What I want to say is that I filmed a video and have already sent it to your station's email."]
["It is about Homelander."]
["I think you might be interested."]
The host jumped up, ["A video? What kind of video?"]
["Let us take a look."]
A moment later, a video appeared on the screen.
The video looked like it was shot on a phone. The clarity was average, but you could still see that the army had set up a checkpoint on the interstate highway in the distance.
In the video, people were discussing what the army was doing. Then cries of surprise rang out and the camera moved.
When it stopped, you could vaguely see figures on the highway. One after another, pitch black figures with glowing red eyes were sprinting like wild beasts.
Seeing this, the muscles on Hansen's face twitched immediately.
There were so many of those black figures that it looked like they could easily break through the army's checkpoint. Just as a clash was about to happen, a blue figure descended from the sky.
Homelander!
In the footage, Homelander hovered above the highway. His eyes lit up and he suddenly fired golden beams of light.
The golden beams swept across the highway, flashing through the black tide.
First, a 'path' was cleared through the black mass. Then flames surged up, turning all those black figures into fireballs.
Even though there was some distance between the filming location and the highway, you could still hear cheers coming from the soldiers over there. After that, Homelander saluted the soldiers, then flew up into the sky and left.
The video ended there.
["Look!"]
["What is this!"]
["Is this not proof that Homelander stopped a disaster?"]
The host reappeared on the television screen, shouting excitedly, ["If I am not mistaken, that is the interstate highway leading to New York."]
["In other words, if Homelander had not appeared, those monsters would have broken through the checkpoint, rushed into New York, and appeared right beside you and me!"]
["However, Homelander stopped them, and he even saluted the soldiers, fully showing his respect for the fighters, for the military!"]
["But what did the Security Bureau do?"]
["They actually dragged a hero into court!"]
["They banned soldiers from talking about this matter!"]
["They tried to cover up the truth, and even tried to twist the truth!"]
At this moment, the TV image shifted and switched to the square outside the Supreme Court.
At this time, people in the square were excitedly charging toward the Supreme Court. Although they were blocked by the police, they kept throwing the odds and ends in their hands inside and raising their middle fingers at the Supreme Court.
More people shouted in unison, ["Apologize! Apologize!"]
["Apologize to Homelander!"]
Thud!
Director Hansen and Senator Hope both sat down heavily on the sofa. They looked at each other. Neither of them had expected things to develop to this point.
At this moment, the secretary answered a phone call, then came over to Hansen's side.
["Director, the court wants to withdraw the charges."]
["In addition, they want you to personally come forward to explain. They want to know what those videos and recordings are about."]
["Also, the President's office has called. Their meaning is that you must deal with this matter as soon as possible and cannot further inflame people's emotions."]
Hansen's expression immediately turned extremely bitter.
[T/N: Just reminding, dialogues in square bracket represent speeches that are not in the direct scenario, or indirect, at that moment.]
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Just as New York was in an uproar over the Security Bureau's complete failure, the main figure of the incident, Alex, was on the other side of the ocean, walking into the hall behind the pyramid's stone gate.
The golden light in his eyes illuminated the surroundings.
The first thing Alex saw were the stone platforms placed in the center. Seven stone platforms, arranged in a circle.
Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs were carved around the platforms, and on top of each lay a corpse.
The corpses had long since turned into white bones, covered in spider webs and dust. It was unknown how long it had been since anyone had come here.
Looking around the hall, in every corner stood a statue of Anubis with a jackal head and a human body.
The entire hall was incomparably silent, as if time itself had forgotten to flow here.
Alex flew above those stone platforms and saw that in the center of them was a passage resembling a ventilation shaft.
On the surface of the passage was a layer of metal grating. From behind the grating, gusts of wind would occasionally blow up.
Alex scanned it and discovered that this passage could directly reach deep into the pyramid, reaching that room with the 'visual blind spot'.
He immediately fired two finger thick 'heat rays', cutting open the grating, then flew into the passage.
Suddenly, he stopped.
Just as he flew into the passage, those beings he had previously scanned on the pyramid, shapes similar to humans but with extremely high body temperatures, reacted.
One of them had already entered the passage.
Alex narrowed his eyes slightly and suddenly fired two golden beams down the passage below.
BOOM!
Golden light like sunlight pierced through the darkness that had lasted for thousands of years, shooting straight down and suddenly illuminating a handsome but pale face hidden in the darkness at the bottom of the passage.
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