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"Hey, I don't agree with you."
At this time, seeing that Kevin and Victor had decided on the candidate, Johnny stood up in dissatisfaction.
"Ben, you were originally destined to be one of us. You can't just leave because of a word from him."
"Johnny, don't be willful." Victor quickly grabbed the future Human Torch and said, not wanting to blow the deal.
For this deal, he even gave up his fiancée, so he can't give up because of this.
Kevvin, who was originally planning to leave after watching, looked at Johnny and said, "Do you have any suggestions?"
"What do I have to say? Because you, a fake guy who got in through connections, just made such an excellent astronaut leave his post with just a casual word. Do you think it's appropriate?"
Johnny broke free from Victor's hand, stepped forward, and looked directly at Kevin.
Looking at the big guy in front of him, he thought for a moment and said, "Your name is Johnny Storm, right?"
"That's right." Johnny said with a nonchalant expression on his face and his hands in his pockets.
"If what you said just now was serious, then to be honest, you do have a talent for comedy," he said.
"What do you mean?"
"A year ago, you sneaked into a flight simulator with two Victoria's Secret lingerie girls, causing the flight simulator to crash and you were fired by the space agency."
"With your level of dedication and past rich experience, it's hard for me to imagine how you got into this project if it wasn't for your sister, who is the genetic supervisor."
"You said I got in through connections. What? Is it because the flight simulator isn't enough for you? Are you planning to destroy a space station this time?"
Kevin said calmly. In the face of Victor's shocked look of "there is such a thing", Johnny became more and more guilty, and Susan also showed an embarrassed expression on her face.
"That's enough. Stop talking." Seeing Johnny so embarrassed, Ben took the initiative to step forward and said, "I'll just leave."
Seeing Ben's moved look at Johnny's righteous words, Kevin thought for a moment and smiled with pleasure, saying to Johnny:
"Since you insist on letting Ben go to the space station, then I take back what I said. Ben's space quota is still valid, and you can go up with him."
"Is it so easy to change your words?" The others were a little surprised, but then they thought that Johnny was Susan's brother, and it made sense.
But only Kevin smiled deeply as he looked at the two people who seemed relieved.
Since they insist on having their own way, I'd better not interfere.
I just hope that Ben, who has turned into a stone man and lost his fiancée, can be more balanced when he sees Johnny the Human Torch who has gained new powers.
"That's settled then. Ben, Susan, Johnny and Mr. White will go to the space station together, and I'll just wait for news on the ground." Victor breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that there were no major problems.
But at this moment, Kevin tilted his head slightly in confusion, because in his ears, hundreds of meters away, he could hear constant scolding.
"Get down here, mutant!"
"Death to the inferiors!"
"The Devil Kevin White, get out of this world!"
...
At this moment, a few hundred meters away, a parade of about two hundred people was walking towards the Doom Group, shouting insulting words.
Along the way, due to its grand momentum, it attracted many onlookers wherever it passed.
The reporters who were originally preparing to film Kevin White were now excitedly holding up their cameras to film the parade.
Most of these people are made up of European and American extremists who hate mutants. Especially after they know that they must practice this new energy method because of Kevin and will be forced to pay taxes to him in the future, their mentality explodes.
After knowing that he wanted to visit the Doom Group today, they directly held a parade, ready to denounce him and ask him to withdraw his decision to collect taxes.
Soon, the huge noise was heard by the people in the company. Victor's face changed slightly. He didn't expect so many bad things to happen today.
A few people walked to the balcony on the seventh floor and looked down and found that the marching crowd had surrounded the company. The momentum of hundreds of people was too overwhelming, making it difficult for the security guards who were maintaining order to appease them.
Looking down at the rioting crowd below, Kevin laughed lightly and said, "It's only been two days. Has the Internet's trend changed so quickly?"
"It's not your problem; it's the current public opinion environment towards mutants." Kingpin said with sweat on his forehead, fearing that Kevin would get angry.
Victor tried to smooth things over by saying, "Please don't take those people's words to heart. Please wait in the company for a while. We will take care of the matter."
"It's okay. This is the first time I've encountered something like this. It's quite fun. Let them hold it for a while longer." Kevin supported himself on the edge of the balcony with his hands, looking down at the parade below.
These people also held various posters of Kevin, on which his face was painted with varying spoof images.
"That mutant freak is there!" At this time, a sharp-eyed person downstairs pointed at Kevin who was lying on the balcony on the seventh floor and shouted.
Afterwards, all kinds of insults were directed at Kevin on the seventh floor. Some people even wanted to throw a rotten egg or something like that, but they gave up because the height of more than 20 meters was too far.
Victor and Kingpin on the side were staring at Kevin nervously, afraid that he would be angry, while Johnny and the others were watching the show, ready to see how Kevin would deal with it.
On the balcony, Kevin stared at these people's faces one by one.
He discovered that several of these people were the same ones who had excitedly shouted his name and supported him under the building on the day of the press conference.
But now they joined the parade and kept scolding him.
"Get off, you mutant freak!"
"Withdraw the tax bill, bastard!"
"Get down!"
...
Seeing the excitement below, Kevin gently knocked on the edge of the balcony and said, "Fisk, I remember what your job is."
"Uh, I'm the chairman of Value Line Company. Currently..." Fisk answered doubtfully but was interrupted by Kevin the next second.
"Is that what I'm talking about?" He said calmly, "You haven't done too much business legitimately, so you've forgotten your roots, have you?"
"Don't these people know that I founded the purple energy?" he looked down at the people below and asked, "Have they always been so brave?"
"You mean..." Fisk said cautiously.
"Now, call a group of people to break their legs, two, um... break three." Kevin said with great ease.
As he spoke, he took out his cell phone, turned on the wide-angle lens, and took a panoramic photo of the people below.
"Ah..." Fisk was stunned for a moment and whispered, "When?"
"Of course it's now. Are we going to let them spend the rest of Christmas dragging their good legs around?"
"This..." Fisk hesitated for a moment. He didn't dare to do such a thing in front of so many people.
"Or you can break three legs for them personally." Kevin said slowly, and Fisk was so scared that he hurriedly said, "You are right, I will arrange for someone to do it right away."
"Remember to be cautious when picking on people, and don't give them the chance to get compensation." Kevin advised kindly.