Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
Over those three days, no matter what channel you turned to, the news was completely flooded with talk about Homelander being prosecuted.
From the national evening news to stand-up talk shows, TV and the internet were almost nonstop, twenty-four hours a day, discussing this matter.
Within just three days, this topic had seized the number one spot in online search rankings.
And its popularity left the second place far behind by miles.
Today, the Supreme Court would open proceedings at one in the afternoon.
According to regulations, Homelander had to arrive before one o'clock.
But by the morning, the large plaza outside the Supreme Court was already packed with people, so much so that the New York Police Department had no choice but to deploy the majority of its officers to the plaza to maintain order.
In the plaza, onlookers held up all kinds of signs.
"Homelander, you're my idol, I'll support you forever!"
"Homelander, please don't let me down!"
"Homelander, I love you!"
"Homelander is a demon, wake up, you idiots!"
"Homelander should be burned alive, he's a heretic!"
All kinds of slogans and statements filled the entire plaza.
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 all of New York, even the entire country, was on the Supreme Court.
People waited eagerly, but even by 12:30 at noon, Homelander still hadn't appeared.
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[Seven Tower]
Ashley let out a scream, threw her phone onto the sofa, grabbed her hair, and shouted in a breakdown.
"How would I know where he went? I'm not his babysitter!"
"I'm just doing a job, stop calling me!"
Since early this morning, Ashley's phone had practically been blown up.
Reporters, media outlets, online influencers, company executives, everyone.
Everyone was looking for Homelander, wanting to know ahead of time whether he would attend the hearing.
But since morning, Ashley hadn't seen Homelander at all. His phone was left in Seven Tower, but he himself was nowhere to be found.
Just moments ago, Edgar had ordered her to get in touch with Homelander immediately and make sure he attended the hearing.
Otherwise, he would sue her on the grounds of breach of contract. If it got serious, Ashley could be facing massive compensation claims.
Strands of hair fell one by one. Ashley clutched her head and screamed, "Oh God, please, let Homelander show up!"
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At the same time.
Alex's nose itched, and he sneezed.
He rubbed his nose, then looked down at his feet. Beneath him was a stretch of high ground.
[The Balqa Highlands]
That morning, after breakfast, he had left Seven Tower, flown across half the globe, and arrived in central-western Jordan, at this very highland.
Anika had said that the two serious criminals the "Dark Night Council" demanded to be released both came from this place, from an ancient town on the highlands. Oster.
The "Dark Night Council" kept popping up one after another, and Alex had no mood to play their game of killing the son and having the father come after him.
He decided to directly wipe out their nest and be done with it once and for all.
Besides, he had no intention of attending the hearing anyway. Whoever wanted to go could go.
'What a joke. What right does a bunch of white pigs have to put me on trial?'
Those ant-like mortals, if they weren't satisfied, then they could meet him on the battlefield.
Of course, Alex wasn't a war maniac.
He leaned more toward enjoying all kinds of pleasures brought by abundant material wealth, so if he didn't have to use force, he didn't plan to tear things apart.
Otherwise, he would have gone to meet the leaders of those ants long ago.
At this moment, Alex looked down at the earth and quickly found a town.
In the next second, he appeared above the town.
It was noon, and there wasn't a single person in sight in the town.
The ruined buildings bore the marks of time, and among the broken walls and collapsed ruins, lush weeds and wildflowers grew everywhere.
The wind blew through the town, carrying a sense of emptiness and deathly silence.
Alex scanned the surroundings. Aside from animals, he didn't see a single human.
From this, it was clear.
This place had already been abandoned.
"If this is where the 'Dark Night Council' originated, there should be some clues left behind."
Alex floated up into the air, using his special ability to scan the area, not even sparing the ground beneath the town.
After a short while, he let out a soft "huh." Beneath a mountain peak outside the town, Alex detected a shadow that looked like a structure.
The reason it appeared as a shadow rather than a clear image was because that area seemed to contain zinc, the only thing that could interfere with Alex's scanning ability.
But even without a clear view, judging by the outline of the shadow, it looked like a pyramid.
"Since when did pyramids start getting built out here? The Egyptians are really going wild."
Alex flew over to the mountain's base. His eyes lit up, then transformed into two golden beams, radiating scorching heat and blazing brilliance, firing down at the ground at a thirty-degree angle.
In an instant, vegetation turned to ash, the soil melted, and a passage leading underground rapidly formed.
Two thousand feet underground was a vast, open space, incredibly level, with obvious signs of artificial construction.
Darkness was the theme here, but today, that theme was broken.
As golden light like sunlight pierced through the soil and shot into the space, a gust of wind blew into the underground area that hadn't received fresh air for who knew how long.
Then Alex flew in, his eyes glowing, cutting through the darkness.
He clearly saw that within this enormous, expansive space, there really was a pyramid standing on the ground.
He scanned the pyramid and discovered that what appeared above ground was only the tip.
This pyramid was deeply buried in the earth. Its scale was so vast that it was almost like a maze.
Alex examined the structure, one thought after another rising in his mind.
"Could the 'Dark Night Council' be connected to this pyramid?"
As he thought this, suddenly, deep within the pyramid, Alex detected some living beings.
Judging by their proportions, these beings were about the same size as humans, but their body temperatures were extremely high, far beyond that of humans.
Moreover, at the very bottom of the pyramid, in a central room, Alex also discovered a "visual blind spot."
Inside that room seemed to be an object constructed with zinc elements, placed at the center of the room, and it was unclear what was stored inside.
Looking at that blind spot, Alex's lips curled up.
"An archaeological expedition?"
But just as he was about to take action, he heard a dull explosion coming from below, followed by flashes of light.
Alex immediately flew toward the pyramid, landed on the tip, and looked toward the source of the explosion, hearing voices coming from there.
"It's broken through."
"We finally opened up a passage."
"This took us three months. That wasn't easy."
"Look, it's just like the professor said. The ground is flat, with obvious signs of artificial polishing."
"Looks like this time we've made a major discovery!"
Alex stared into the distance. After a scan, he found that an archaeological team seemed to have arrived there.
Seven or eight men were now carrying various items inside, setting up instruments one by one, excitedly carrying out all kinds of measurements.
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