"The Boys?"
Tony immediately understood. It seemed this was the codename for that other universe.
Of course, this codename was completely different from the ones used in the Marvel system.
It wasn't a numerical designation, nor was it a special word.
Instead, it seemed to use the name of a superhero organization.
Without a doubt, this "The Boys" was similar to the Avengers or the Ultimate Team—a specific superhero group.
But what kind of organization was it exactly?
The name sounded far too unofficial!
It even seemed a bit too casual.
After all, what kind of organization would name itself something as simple as "The Boys"?
Wasn't that a bit too lazy?
Yet, even so, since Satan himself had used this organization's name to refer to that entire universe, it meant this superhero group must be an iconic one.
The Playboy found himself deeply intrigued by this "The Boys."
And, of course, by The Seven.
This superhero organization seemed much more "official" than "The Boys." At the very least, it actually looked like a superhero team.
What about the members of The Seven?
The diary mentioned a few names—A-Train, The Deep, Black Noir, Homelander—but their codenames were too abstract for Tony to glean any truly useful information from them.
However, the Invisible Man's ability was undoubtedly invisibility.
*So my guess was right,* Tony thought. *The Seven really is a superhero organization.*
*Oh, wait, not a superhero organization. A superpowered team is a more accurate description.*
After all, the diary explicitly stated that most of the people in this group were far from being "good people." In fact, some of their actions had truly opened Playboy's eyes.
Take the Invisible Man, for example. Could you believe this guy was actually a peeping tom?
*Good grief,* Tony thought. *The Invisible Man is the perfect peeper—completely undetectable.*
It seemed the Invisible Man had fully leveraged his advantage and maximized his ability.
Although the diary didn't list any other misdeeds, the fact that he'd stoop to peeping proved he was definitely no saint.
What Playboy never expected was that the Invisible Man's peeping had reached a truly sickening level.
The bastard actually spent years staked out in the bathrooms!
In a way, you could even call him a pervert.
As for Homelander's drug use, Deep Sea—whose diary explicitly called him a pervert—and Xuanse's killing machine tendencies...
Alright, Playboy had been overthinking things before.
The members of The Seven were indeed a bunch of scoundrels.
But, Homelander drinking milk?
"What does that even mean?"
A look of confusion crossed Tony's face. He really couldn't wrap his head around this point.
Isn't drinking milk a perfectly normal thing?
It's rich in nutrients and highly beneficial to the human body.
Countless people around the world have the habit of drinking milk.
Even he, the Great Tony, sometimes had milk with his breakfast.
So what?
Why did it seem like such an evil thing in Satan's words?
Why was it singled out as an issue?
Even with Playboy's super-high IQ, he found himself unable to comprehend it for a moment.
"Absolute nonsense!"
"All of it is absolute nonsense!"
Starlight, who was reading the other diary, couldn't help but curl her lips in disdain.
Was that guy Zhou Cheng deliberately trying to get her attention this way?
If so, he'd certainly succeeded!
The Seven were the world's most popular super-celebrities. Each member had countless fans and possessed their own unique charisma. They actively fought crime on a global scale and dedicated themselves to public welfare—they were all good people!
Zhou Cheng was simply slandering them!
But then, this guy claimed he'd eventually joined The Seven?
What was he playing at?
Deliberately provoking her, only to later offer her a compliment?
How utterly absurd.
Starlight's contempt for the diary's spoilers grew, her disdain deepening. The accusations—Homelander's drug abuse, the Invisible Man's voyeurism, The Deep's perversions—infuriated her even more.
This was blatant slander!
And not even clever slander. He even brought up Homelander's love for milk.
First of all, how did this guy know about Homelander's love for milk?
And second, so what if Homelander loved milk?
Wasn't that perfectly normal?
Starlight drank milk all the time herself.
*If the Justice League found out that their bootleg counterparts in another universe were all like this, they'd probably cry, wouldn't they?*
*Especially Superman.*
*He's such a kind-hearted person. But what about his low-budget version? He's more despicable than any of the villains Superman ever fought.*
*To help Vought International get its claws into the Department of Defense, Homelander killed an entire plane full of civilians.*
*He didn't even blink as his heat vision swept across, destroying the aircraft!*
*He even went as far as secretly selling Compound V to terrorist organizations just to make themselves, the superheroes, more important.*
*Creating supervillains in secret!*
"Justice League?"
"Bootleg?"
Tony froze for a moment, then quickly connected the dots.
Judging by the diary, did everyone in The Seven have powers similar to the members of the Justice League?
If that was the case, what did the nickname "A-Train" represent?
Speed?
So, A-Train was the equivalent of The Flash in the Justice League, and his superpower was speed?
What about The Deep?
What was "deep deep"?
If Tony had to guess out of thin air, the playboy would have come up empty.
But with the Justice League as a benchmark, Tony's mind quickly raced.
*Could Deep Sea refer to the ocean?*
*Then Deep Sea must be a superhero like Aquaman?*
*An aquatic-powered individual!*
As for Xuanse, Tony thought for a while but still couldn't find anyone in the Justice League who corresponded to him.
However, the diary explicitly stated that Homelander was equivalent to Superman!
And the opponent did indeed possess Homelander's heat vision.
The diary mentioned that Homelander had used his heat vision to destroy a plane.
Although the diary didn't provide much detail about the specifics of this operation, this kind of thing should have happened high in the sky, right?
Using the thick cloud layer as cover, it was done without a trace.
Even if the plane was destroyed, people would only think it was an accident.
So, this meant Homelander also possessed the ability to fly.
This really was another Superman.
It's just that the things he did were truly unthinkable.
Earlier, the diary mentioned that The Seven were scum and even listed a few examples.
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But these were all trivial examples. Tony was still muttering under his breath, wondering just how scummy these people could be.
*Could Satan be exaggerating?*
Now, the Playboy finally understood.
Others might not dare to say it, but this guy, Homelander, was indeed an extremely evil, completely inhuman supervillain.
The kind of person Tony would definitely take action against if he ever met him.
"Justice League?"
Starlight, standing before the other diary, couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.
Besides The Seven, had Vought International launched other superhero teams?
How come she had never heard of it?
Wait a minute!
Something was wrong.
What did "another universe" mean?
Was the diary saying that the Justice League was an organization from another universe?
What a joke!
Could this parallel universe stuff actually be real?
Please, those were just scientific hypotheses, plots from some sci-fi movies.
"Slander!"
"This is blatant slander!"
But when she saw the part about Homelander destroying a plane and killing everyone on board, Starlight couldn't take it anymore.
*There's a limit to how much you can slander someone, isn't there?*
*Fabricating rumors is a crime, you know!*
Though Starlight's idol was The Deep, not Homelander, she still held a great deal of respect for him.
How many criminals did Homelander capture across the globe each year?
How much of his own fortune did he donate to charity annually?
How many times had he set an example for the world to follow?
*They're just making stuff up now.*
*They're completely ignoring the facts.*
And the claim that Homelander was secretly cultivating supervillains? That was an even more outrageous lie.
Who didn't know that a superhero's powers were awakened spontaneously?
All superheroes were the chosen ones, blessed by the heavens!
No one in the world had ever succeeded in artificially creating a superhero.
*And this "Compound V" nonsense—do they really think they can fool me with some plausible-sounding fabrication?*
*How ridiculous!*
[That's right. Superheroes aren't born; they're mass-produced by Vought International.]
[I'm afraid no one knows about this, right?]
[Vought International has made secret agreements with many people, injecting their children with Compound V. This is how all the Supes in this world were created.]
[The whole "born with powers" thing is nothing but Vought's bullshit.]
[Of course, Supes can also pass down their abilities genetically. For example, Homelander has a son...]
[...who completely inherited Homelander's powers.]
[Even Homelander himself was an IVF baby from Soldier Boy.]
"What the hell is this guy talking about?"
"Has he lost his mind?"
Starlight didn't even know what to say.
Supes aren't born naturally, but are manufactured by Vought International?
What a wild imagination.
And he's got guts, too, daring to say such things out loud.
If his words ever got out, he wouldn't just be offending Vought International.
He'd be insulting and slandering over two hundred superheroes all over the world!
Including her, Starlight!
"No, that's not right."
But Starlight quickly shook her head again.
No matter how she thought about it, she felt this matter might not be as simple as she had imagined.
Whoever this Zhou Cheng who wrote the diary was, one thing was beyond doubt: he was a Supe, a superhero.
If he were to slander Supes so viciously, wouldn't he be slandering himself as well?
Besides, why would he suddenly use his power to contact her just to say some nonsensical things?
Logically, that just didn't hold up.
So, what if she looked at it from the opposite perspective?
What if he was revealing some major secret to her?
Wouldn't that make more sense?
*Hiss—*
*No way!*
The thought made Starlight's expression turn unprecedentedly grave. Her heart even seemed to beat a little faster.
*It can't be, can it?*
The events mentioned in the diary were just too shocking! They completely overturned Starlight's long-held beliefs. How could she possibly believe them so suddenly?
"This isn't real."
"It can't be real."
After a moment of careful thought, Starlight still shook her head.
She simply couldn't accept the "bombshell" revelations from the diary.
"Soldier Boy?"
The name quickly caught her attention.
He had been a massive celebrity, a first-generation, global phenomenon. In his era, Soldier Boy's influence across all fronts was in no way weaker than Homelander's.
He was a legend of his time.
One could even say that Soldier Boy was the Homelander of his generation!
Unfortunately, it was said that Soldier Boy died a heroic death while on a mission in Ohio.
As time passed, the public gradually forgot about him. Only a few of his old movies continued to circulate.
In everyone's eyes, he and Homelander were completely unrelated.
Yet the diary claimed Soldier Boy was Homelander's father?
*That's a bit too far-fetched, isn't it?*
"This Vought International... they're really something else," Tony muttered, unable to hold back his astonishment as he stared at the other diary.
Starlight refused to believe that Supes were artificially created, but the Playboy was now a firm believer.
After all, the information revealed in the diary had never been wrong so far.
That was why Tony felt so shocked and surprised.
This was about creating Super Soldiers!
In Tony's own world, and even in the neighboring 1610 Ultimate Universe, Captain America had been around for so many years, and research into Super Soldiers had been ongoing for just as long, yet no significant progress had been made.
In fact, it could be said that the biggest breakthrough was the Hulk, an accidental byproduct of a laboratory.
But in the world of *The Boys*?
They could fucking mass-produce them!
The gap was just too huge.
Even more outrageous was that the world of *The Boys* could not only create Super Soldiers, but also Super Soldiers with all kinds of different superpowers.
They could even create a Super Soldier like Superman.
Hadn't the diary mentioned it? The Seven were just a bootleg version of the Justice League.
At the time, Tony thought it was just a metaphor, an exaggeration.
But now it seemed it was simply describing a fact.
The Seven were probably created by Vought International, modeled after the Justice League, right?
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