Let's Go on an Archaeological Adventure

Three days passed quickly.

Over the past three days, every channel was flooded with talk about Homelander being sued—from the evening news to late-night talk shows, TV and the internet discussed it almost nonstop around the clock.

For three days, this topic dominated the number one spot on online searches.

And its popularity left the second-place topic in the dust by a wide margin.

Today, the Supreme Court would convene at one in the afternoon.

By regulation, Homelander had to arrive before one.

That morning, the large square outside the Supreme Court was already packed with people, forcing the NYPD to dispatch a majority of its officers to maintain order.

In the square, onlookers held up all kinds of signs.

"Homelander, you're my idol, I'll always support you!"

"Homelander, don't you dare let me down!"

"Homelander, I love you!"

"Homelander is a demon, wake up, you idiots!"

"Homelander should be burned at the stake, he's a heretic!"

All sorts of signs and slogans filled the entire square.

Someone even brought a Homelander doll and set it on fire, but that person was quickly arrested by the police.

Right now, the focus of the entire city, even the entire country, was fixed on the Supreme Court.

People waited eagerly, but even at 12:30 PM, Homelander still hadn't shown up.

Seven Tower.

Ashley screamed, threw her phone onto the couch, and yanked at her hair in a frantic shout.

"How the hell should I know where he went! I'm not his babysitter!"

"I'm just working a job here, stop coming to me!"

Since this morning, Ashley's phone had been blowing up.

Reporters, media, online influencers, company higher-ups—everyone.

Everyone was looking for Homelander, trying to find out in advance whether he would attend the Hearing.

But from early morning, Ashley hadn't seen Homelander. His phone was left in Seven Tower, and he was nowhere to be found.

Just now, Edgar ordered her to get in touch with Homelander immediately and make sure he showed up at the Hearing.

Otherwise, she'd be sued for breach of contract, and in a worst-case scenario, Ashley could face massive compensation!

Hair falling out strand by strand, Ashley clutched her head and screamed, "God, please, just make Homelander show up!"

At the same time.

Azu's nose itched, and he sneezed.

He rubbed his nose, then looked down at his feet. Beneath him was a highland.

The Balka Highlands!

After breakfast that morning, he'd left Seven Tower, flown halfway across the globe, and arrived in west-central Jordan, on this highland.

Annika had said that the two heavy criminals Vought demanded be released both came from this place—from an ancient town on the highland.

Oster.

Vought had shown up one after another, and Azu had no patience for playing their game of killing the son only to have the father show up.

He decided to smash their lair directly and be done with it.

Besides, he wasn't planning to attend the Hearing anyway. Whoever wanted to go could go.

What a joke—since when did a bunch of white pigs have the right to interrogate him?

Those ants of mortals, if they didn't like it, they could meet him on the battlefield.

Of course, Azu wasn't a warmonger.

He leaned more toward enjoying the comforts of material abundance, so unless force was necessary, he didn't intend to burn bridges.

Otherwise, he'd have already gone to meet the head of those ants long ago.

Now, Azu scanned the land below and quickly spotted a town.

The next second, he was already in the town.

It was noon, and not a single person was in sight.

The crumbling buildings bore the marks of time, their broken walls filled with lush green weeds and wildflowers.

The wind blew through the town, carrying a sense of emptiness and deathly stillness.

Azu swept his gaze around—aside from animals, he didn't see a single human.

Thus, it was clear.

This place had long been abandoned.

"If this is the birthplace of Vought, there should be some clues left behind."

Azu floated into the air, using his special ability to scan the surroundings, even probing beneath the town's ground.

A moment later, he let out a soft "Huh." Outside the town, beneath a mountain peak, Azu had detected the shadow of something resembling a structure.

The reason it was a shadow rather than a clear image was that the area seemed to contain zinc—the one thing that could obstruct Azu's scanning ability.

But even without a clear view, the outline of the shadow suggested it was a Pyramid.

"Since when did Pyramids get built all the way out here? Those Egyptians really do whatever they want."

Azu flew over to the foot of the mountain. His eyes lit up, then transformed into two golden beams, radiating scorching heat and blazing with fierce light, blasting down at a 30-degree angle to the ground.

Instantly, grass and trees turned to ash, the soil melted away, rapidly forming a tunnel leading deep into the earth.

Two thousand feet underground lay an empty space—perfectly flat, with clear signs of artificial workmanship.

Darkness was the theme here, but today, that theme was shattered.

As the golden light, like sunlight, broke through the soil and poured into this space, a gust of wind blew into the underground chamber, which had not seen fresh air in who knows how long.

Then Azu flew in, his eyes glowing as they pierced the darkness.

He could now clearly see that, in this vast and expansive space, there was indeed a Pyramid on the ground.

He scanned the Pyramid and found that only its tip was above ground.

This Pyramid was buried deep in the earth, its scale so massive it was almost like a labyrinth.

Azu studied the structure, thoughts rising in his mind.

"Could Vought be connected to this Pyramid?"

Just as he thought this, Azu suddenly detected some living creatures deep inside the Pyramid.

Proportionally, these creatures were similar to humans, but their body temperatures were extremely high—far beyond human norms.

Moreover, at the lowest level of the Pyramid, in a central room, Azu also discovered a 'Visual Blind Spot.'

That room seemed to contain an object built from zinc, placed at the center of the chamber, its contents unknown.

Staring at that blind spot, Azu smirked. "Time for an archaeological expedition?"

But just as he was about to move, he heard a dull explosion from below, followed by a flash of light.

Azu immediately flew toward the Pyramid and landed on its tip. He looked toward the explosion and heard voices coming from there.

"We broke through."

"Finally opened a passage."

"This took us three months—no easy feat."

"Look, just like the professor said, the ground here is flat, clearly artificially polished."

"Looks like we've made a major discovery this time!"

Azu gazed into the distance. After a scan, he found that an Archaeological Team seemed to have arrived.

Now, seven or eight men were hauling various supplies inside, setting up instruments, and excitedly taking measurements.