While Fang Yuan was busy expanding his company,
New York, Vought Corporation Headquarters.
President's office.
Stan and Voughtbaum were sitting on the sofa, chatting.
They were both high-ranking Vought Corporation executives. In particular, the project Dr. Voughtbaum was working on was the company's cash cow for the next few decades, so Stan naturally paid close attention.
They met at least once a week.
After Dr. Voughtbaum finished his work report, the two began to chat. Stan casually brought up the topic of Base security.
"Be sure to tell Barbara to pay attention to the Base's security and ensure that the previous Subject escape incident doesn't happen again!"
"Subject escape?" Dr. Voughtbaum was stunned, frowning as he recalled, "When did a Subject ever escape?"
This time, it was Stan who frowned deeply.
"Two months ago, Subject 071 went missing. He was also your assistant, did you… forget?" Stan sat up straight, asking with a serious expression.
"Subject 071? Fang Yuan?" Dr. Voughtbaum still looked very confused, "Fang has always been at the Base. He even helped with inspections today."
Stan's eyes widened. He looked at Voughtbaum's expression, which didn't seem to be faked, and suddenly felt a chill down his spine.
A Subject's disappearance was a major event, because once Vought Corporation's secret experiments were exposed, it would cause a lot of trouble for the company.
The contingency plans for related incidents were still on his desk, and now the Base scientist who first exposed the Subject's disappearance actually said it never happened?
Stan knew that between him and Voughtbaum, one of them must have a problem.
He felt that he had no problem, so the one with the problem was definitely Voughtbaum!
"Do you remember… what Fang Yuan did in the past two months?" Stan asked.
Voughtbaum thought carefully, then suddenly looked a little blank: "I don't really remember. It seems… like it was just normal work?"
Stan's eyes instantly narrowed, and he quickly pressed, "Are you sure Fang Yuan is still at the Base?"
"Yes!" Dr. Voughtbaum answered this question readily.
"Good, nothing else." Stan said calmly, "Oh, by the way, don't go back to the Base tomorrow. Other Bases have encountered some difficulties and need your assistance."
"Okay."
Dr. Voughtbaum didn't suspect a thing and readily agreed.
After he left the office, Stan's expression instantly turned cold.
He picked up his president's exclusive desk phone and immediately issued an order.
"Immediately, in the name of technical support, transfer two Louisiana Base staff members and have them flown here on a private jet!"
"No!" Stan suddenly thought that doing this late at night might alert them, so he changed his mind, "Come tomorrow morning!"
Then, after hanging up, he dialed another number.
"Assemble the armed forces and head to the Louisiana Base!"
"Remember, act in secret, especially, absolutely do not let the people at the Base know!"
After doing all this, Stan's face was grim as he recalled everything Dr. Voughtbaum had said.
There must have been a huge change at the Louisiana Base, and the core of it lay with Subject 071.
Stan rummaged through the files in the cabinet. All information about Fang Yuan when he disappeared had been reported to him.
"According to the data, Subject 071's ability was inferred to be outstanding appearance, but he was always unable to be fully trained to be a normal person, so he could only stay at the research Base as an assistant."
From the data, there was nothing particularly special.
Everything would have to wait for the other Base staff members to arrive and corroborate.
The next day, with Vought Corporation's private jet, the Base staff arrived quickly. Stan specifically woke up early to meet them.
Through the two randomly selected staff members, Dr. Voughtbaum's statement was completely confirmed.
"Subject 071 really came back, and everyone forgot that he had ever disappeared."
Stan Edgar murmured, "He underwent a secondary mutation? Is it a psychic ability?"
His eyes grew brighter and brighter.
Stan didn't care what abilities Fang Yuan displayed; he cared that Fang Yuan was actually capable of secondary mutation!
If this were true, it would be a huge breakthrough in their compound v research!
So he dialed the phone again: "Notify the armed forces to bring hypnotic weapons!"
"Act now, and be sure to capture him alive!"
Meanwhile, at the Louisiana Base, Fang Yuan was happily looking at the huge iron box in the room.
Inside were all the data Fang Yuan had collected. The largest were two IBM hard drives, about 60 centimeters wide and one meter high, weighing nearly a ton. These were relatively advanced hard drive models in the X-Men World, with a terrifying capacity of 5MB!
No choice, due to the era's limitations.
In addition to that, Fang Yuan also brought some 1980s floppy disks and reading equipment, all containing important data he needed.
He had understood the rules beforehand; when traveling through, he could carry items no more than two meters in length, width, and height.
This large box could definitely be taken back.
What?
Fang Yuan's strength couldn't move these two-plus tons of stuff?
An E-rank strength attribute was indeed a bit strenuous, but don't forget Fang Yuan was a small Wan Tie Wang. Under the effect of [Metal Manipulation (B-rank)], this metal box was no problem.
"I can go back to the X-Men World in another hour. I'll go play with little John again." Fang Yuan made his plan.
However, not long after Fang Yuan walked out of his room, he immediately felt something was wrong.
[Telepathy] showed that there were quite a few strangers in this Base today.
Fang Yuan's heart stirred. He switched [Telepathy] to [Metal Manipulation] and immediately sensed that it wasn't just people who had appeared around him, but also…
"Damn, so many guns!"
Fang Yuan cursed under his breath and immediately turned back.
He found a hidden corner, teleported outside to take a look, and indeed, a group of fully armed soldiers were slowly approaching the Base from different directions.
He understood now; these suddenly appearing armed personnel must be coming for him.
After all, Fang Yuan's [Telepathy] was only B-rank, and he couldn't perfectly manipulate target memories.
So Fang Yuan began to think about countermeasures.
Escape?
For him, who could teleport, it was naturally not a problem. However, Fang Yuan was thinking about deeper implications.
Since Vought Corporation could find him, they must also know that he and John have a close relationship. If he ran, would it affect Vought Corporation's plan to promote Homelander in the future?
You know, John is still young now. If the risk outweighs the potential, Vought Corporation might very well switch to promoting someone else.
It's not that John is Homelander, but rather, only the one Vought Corporation strongly promotes is Homelander.
If he affected John's becoming Homelander because of himself, then all of Fang Yuan's efforts in PUA for so long would be in vain.
"So I have to eliminate this threat for John." Fang Yuan thought.
He already had an idea.
It's just… it might not be very friendly to John.
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