Ever since Dilios had led a group from X-Mansion in carrying out vigilante work in Central City, they had naturally drawn the attention of all kinds of media outlets.
Because of this, the media had split into two camps over the vigilante incidents involving Dilios and the others.
One camp believed mutants should be treated rationally, accepted, and granted the civil rights they deserved.
The other camp believed mutants were a cancer upon the world. No matter whether the evidence before them was reasonable or not, they insisted on smearing them. It was as though mutants themselves were synonymous with darkness and evil—even when they did good deeds, these people would portray them as wrongdoing. On top of that, there were few in the world who were accustomed to viewing events rationally, while there were many who blindly followed the crowd. As a result, this camp's cries directly drowned out those of the rational side, and anti-mutant demonstrations often broke out everywhere.
That alone would have been bad enough, but the key issue was that several rounds of anti-mutant demonstrations had even been organized within Central City. That was truly hurtful.
Even the city they were protecting had such things happening, and the members of the Superpowered Guard Team were deeply shaken by it.
"This is too much."
At S.T.A.R. Labs, Cisco Ramon stared in disbelief at the pundits on the news spouting all kinds of theories about the mutant threat. "How can they indiscriminately guide people into thinking mutants are synonymous with evil? How many people have we saved lately? Can't they see any of that?"
"Someone must be manipulating public opinion from behind the scenes."
Caitlin Snow's face darkened as she said heavily, "Otherwise, it couldn't have become this serious."
Over this period, she had witnessed the Superpowered