Godolkin University in the Great Hall.
[Godolkin University, the Boys appears in the spin-off series V Generation, with notes at the end of the chapter]
The spotlight shines on John's golden hair.
He held the large wooden podium with both hands and had a perfect smile on his face.
Thunderous applause erupted from the audience, and thousands of pairs of eyes looked up at him feverishly.
John nodded slightly in greeting and scanned the rows of seats below.
This is his tenth time to give a speech at Godolkin University.
What made him feel a little sad was that the number of students in this All-America, the only school specially established for Supe, was getting smaller and smaller every time.
There is even a large area of empty seats in the back row.
And the culprit of this inconsistency is actually standing on the stage.
Back then, in order to create New Vanguard Camp, Edgar searched all over the world for children who had been injected with Compound V and whose abilities seemed normal and powerful.
That almost drained away the elite foundation of the entire North America Supe new generation.
Later, these elites were first eliminated by Edgar himself, and then a large number were tortured and disabled by Stormfront's inhumane high-pressure training.
Then came the rainy night Pentagon.
Edgar tried to escape in a helicopter with the last batch of carefully selected seedlings, but was completely burned by John.
The causes sown ten years ago finally bore fruit ten years later.
That group of children back then are now at the age where they should go to college.
But all the elites died, leaving Godolkin University in the embarrassing situation of not being able to recruit good seedlings at all.
In order to prevent this century-old prestigious school from closing down due to lack of students, the school's senior officials had no choice but to lower their heads and recruit all those marginal Supe who they had never looked down on before.
So what is sitting in front of John now is no longer a talented future hero, but a nest of strange... strange species.
John's eyes swept across the first row.
The male student on the left was staring at him excitedly. Every time he breathed, his cheeks would swell like a toad and bulge into two transparent fleshy balls.
The one in the middle spread his legs in a very awkward posture and slumped on the chair, because the two huge bolas in his crotch were almost swollen to the knees, and he could not even maintain a normal sitting posture.
On the right, there is a stone man covered in gray-brown stone skin, who is frantically taking pictures of him with his mobile phone.
At this moment, a slight commotion suddenly came from the back row.
A thin boy sitting on the edge of the seat was so excited that he trembled violently because he finally looked at Homelander on the stage.
There was a muffled sound.
A ball of white sticky spider silk was sprayed directly from the back of the boy's crotch, and accurately stuck to the textbook of a boy in the back row.
The boy's face was full of disgust, and several students around him were also disgusted by the smell and the picture.
But no one dared to speak out.
They were afraid of making any noise and interrupting the speech of the greatest Superheroes on the podium.
John Of course noticed that idiot who was spraying silk from his butt.
He ignored it and continued to recite the official speech on responsibility and glory prepared for him by Legend.
The sound is mellow and full of magnetism.
But his Super Hearing spread like a tide in all directions at this moment.
The sound of heartbeat, breathing, the sound of rats crawling in the sewer... all are filtered and reorganized by him.
His eyes also used the X-ray Vision ability to scan all directions of the university bit by bit.
No abnormalities were found.
Still the same as before, everything looked normal.
Ever since he took over Vought Empire ten years ago and stepped into Campus in Godolkin University for the first time, he had felt nauseated for no reason.
But it never happened again, and he once suspected that it was his illusion.
But he will have no illusions.
There's something not right about this university.
It was as if something was tightly covered by a barrier underneath this sunny Campus.
This is also the real reason why he is willing to cooperate with Legend's public relations arrangements and often come here to give speeches.
"Because you are the cornerstone of America's future."
John faced the microphone and finished the last sentence of his speech with a smile.
Great Hall once again erupted into roof-shaking cheers.
At this moment, Ashley's extremely excited voice came from the communicator.
"Sir! Marge and Duke have appeared!"
The smile on John's face on the podium disappeared instantly, and Azure's pupils suddenly sank.
He didn't even leave a word for the stunned students in the audience. He slightly bent his knees, and then exerted force on his legs.
Boom!
A deafening explosion of air exploded inside the Great Hall.
A huge hole was directly knocked out of the solid dome, and rubble mixed with wood chips fell on the crowd.
The students in the audience covered their ears in horror, but the blond boy had already turned into a stream of light, tearing through the clouds.
At this time, three layers of dazzling yellow warning tape had already been set up outside the fly house Diner.
The piercing sound of sirens rang out, and the red and blue police lights illuminated this dark old neighborhood like daylight.
A large number of Supe policemen holding riot shields blocked the entire street, surrounded by media reporters who had heard the news, and the flash lights of long guns and short cannons formed a white sea.
But no one dared to rush in.
The boss had already escaped through the back door.
Duke has remained invisible and sat on the chair.
Marge couldn't see his face or his movements.
"Marge..."
Duke's trembling voice came through the air, with an obvious cry, "Can you... go to the water dispenser and get me a glass of water? My legs are weak and I really can't stand up."
Marge looked at the empty air around him, a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes.
She just stretched out her hand gently and patted Duke's shoulder twice in her memory, which was a silent comfort.
Then she stood up and walked to the water dispenser in the corner of the counter.
The moment Marge turned around, the zipper of the rucksack next to him was silently opened by an invisible hand.
Duke moved quickly and pulled out the password box containing Original Compound V from his backpack.
Water flows into disposable paper cups.
Marge turned around with the warm water and handed the cup to the empty air.
She didn't seem to notice that the backpack had been turned over at all, and just stood there quietly.
The moment Duke was about to take the water glass with trembling hands.
Boom!
A dull sonic boom rolled from the sky above the street and hit everyone's heart.
The glass window shattered in the violent air waves, and glass particles splashed all over the floor.
The noise outside the door suddenly quieted down.
The policemen and reporters who were waiting in full formation seemed to have been forcibly pushed away by an invisible hand, and they retreated to both sides in an orderly manner, consciously giving way to a wide passage.
Everyone was looking at the man falling from the sky with eyes that were almost fanatical and awe-inspiring.
John landed in the middle of the street, stepping on the broken glass with his leather boots, and walked straight to the store door.
The sense of oppression was like substance, pouring into the restaurant.
"Ah!"
Without any warning, Marge, who was standing quietly, let out a painful groan.
A hand appeared out of thin air and stuck Marge's neck.
Duke immediately released his invisibility. His face turned red and the veins on his forehead popped out. He pinched Marge's throat with his left hand and raised the password box high above his head with his right hand.
"You fucking betrayed me!"
Duke yelled at Marge, spitting on Marge's face, and said hysterically, "In order to survive on your own, you actually contacted Vought behind my back and handed over the medicine and me to Homelander! You bastard!"
Faced with Duke's sudden betrayal and insults.
Marge It's like being struck by lightning.
She just stared straight at the ferocious boy in front of her, her eyes turning red a little.
"Crying? Now you know you regret it?!"
Duke looked at Marge's tears and roared even harder,
"It's too late! You have completely forgotten Mr. Edgar's kindness to us! You betrayed all of us just to survive! You have no fighting spirit at all now, you are a complete useless person!"
[Godolkin University, divided into two parts: School of Crimefighting and School of Performing Arts, established in 1965]
[Slogan: We cultivate the best and most dazzling Superheroes]