"Supervillains?"
Halsey and Serena voiced their confusion in unison after hearing William's words.
"That's right." William had no intention of being deliberately cryptic. Instead, he spread his arms around the women's fragrant shoulders and explained:
"The source of Compound V comes from the giant monopoly in the show, Vought International.
"And the company's founder, Frederick Vought, was once a scientist for Nazi Germany during World War II. His original purpose in researching Compound V was certainly to help the Axis powers defeat the Allies.
"But shortly after the Compound V sample was developed, the Axis powers were already on the verge of collapse. Frederick Vought therefore wisely defected to the United States, giving America a superhuman squad that allowed it to destroy the Axis powers even faster.
"Frederick Vought developed Compound V partly because of a fanatical scientist's dreams and ambitions, and partly to profit from the war and satisfy his own desires and ambitions.
"Put simply, it was for money and power.
"But after the war ended, and after Vought Company and the upper echelons of the US Government signed a secret agreement, the public had no idea that Compound V existed.
"Until the first episode of the first season, 99.9 percent of the people in the world still believed that these Super Heroes were born that way.
"But as a drug capable of turning the tide of war, once it lost an opponent like the Axis powers, its level of danger was no less than a nuclear threat in peacetime—perhaps even greater than nuclear weapons.
"That was because Compound V produced no nuclear pollution. It was 'natural' and 'environmentally friendly.'
"So Vought Company and the upper echelons of the US Government used the most effective propaganda and brainwashing techniques of the Cold War to successfully promote Super Heroes