<h4>Chapter 493: USL’s Highest Committee</h4>


    After Toadman left, Feng Bujue started to pace in the room. Under the circumstance, the only thing he could do was to wait patiently. Escaping was information. From the information that he had collected, Brother Jue was currently at the USL headquarters and knew basically nothing about the environment, the people, the defences that they had, so it was impossible toe up with an escape n; in terms of forcing his way out, any star-level hero could topple him easily and there was nothing here but superheroes sitting around…


    Of course, even if there was a chance at escaping, Feng Bujue would not do so. Just like what he told Toadman… he indeed had nowhere else to go, aligning himself with USL was his best choice for now. This organization was powerful, rich and had endless potential. With Brother Jue’s ability, if he could gain their trust, he would have a sanctuary and it was only a matter of time until he rose through the ranks…


    …


    At the same time, inside USL”s conference room. The big hall was decorated with scientific device and a bigputer. A very futuristic looking oval-shaped metallic table was ced in the middle of the room. At that moment 7 superheroes were seated at the table. They were respectively, Toadman  Manhattan), Tinfoil Man  Mud), King Eggnt  Non-Smilers), Ape Hunter  Uchi), Queen ckhole (Unknown Species), Professor Permanence (Earthling), and Captain Poop  Poop).


    Of these people, three of them looked like human—Toadman, Tinfoil Man and Professor Permanence. The former two’s difference with actual human was… People from Manhattan had very high cheek bones and those from Mud had deep eye bags. And Professor Permanence was from earth, he was a mixed heritage of a human and an alien. He looked like a Caucasian in his 40s (actual age unclear), he had a small patch of bear, curly hair and wrapped his body in a ck cape.


    Other than these three… the other four could not have looked more different than a human if they tried. For example, King Eggnt… looked like a giant eggnt that was 2 metres tall and thick like a tree trunk. At the top of this vegetable that was a small ‘face’ that protruded out. The face had 3 circr eyes and one mouth. There was no sight of organs like ears or nose.


    Then we move onto the Ape Hunter. He was covered in short brown hair and his body was as thin as stick; his limbs were about the same length as his body and he stood up at 3 meters at full height. As someone from Uchi, he had a natural racial advantage—very powerful eyesight. His eyes were simr to rabbits, they grew at the sides of his head and were slightly protruding, this gave him wide peripheral vision so he could look behind him without turning around. And the eyes had the ability to gather light so he could look in the dark.


    Then the Queen ckhole, this was easy to describe… a ck ball of light that was one metresrge that spoke in a female voice. Thenstly… it was Captain Poop. Now don’t you worry, his body was not made from poop and he had no poop equipment like a poop shield. Overall, he was a humanoid creature that was gigantified with a V shaped body. His height was 3 metres tall but his body was much more muscr than Ape Hunter. Since he was wearing a mask and bodysuit, his actual appearance was an unknown. And these seven were the current USL’s highestmittee members.


    Based on the time concept on Earth, USL had been in existence for over 50 years already, during this period, the membership of the highestmittee had indeed changed. At the beginning, there were 10 superheroes but 5 left due to various reasons. Then with the addition of Ape Hunter King Eggnt, itpleted the current pantheon.


    “That is the basic situation… what do you think?” Toadman shared Brother Jue’s issue with the rest of the superheroes, he analysed the believability of each information without any prejudice before finally asking.


    Tinfoil Man was the first to speak, “What else can we think?” he chuckled lightly. “From how I see it… you are in big trouble.”


    “What?” Toadman was startled to hear that. He thought. [The trouble caused by this Feng Bujue is far more serious than I thought?]


    But actually Tinfoil Man was talking about something else. “Do you know how manyint I have received from the other superheroes in this past one universe week?”


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    Hearing that, toadman’s face darkened. “We should focus on this Feng Bujue now and theints about me can be movedter…”


    “No, no, no… we can’t do that. Theints against you is the league’s current biggest trouble,” Tinfoil manughed. “Old friend, you have stumbled into a big trouble, do you understand that? If not for the six of us helping you toe up with an exnation, you would have been beaten into a pulp by the other members of USL already.”


    TOadman sighed, and replied, “Fine, if you want to talk about that, I shall be direct…” He paused, “Yes, I am spying on the other superheroes. Every person above star-level and parts of those who I believe I need to keep an eye on are all in my surveince list.”


    “In other words… the six of us are in your list as well?” Queen ckhole asked.


    “Unfortunately, even if I do wish to spy on all of you, it is impossible technically wise.” At this point there was nothing for Toadman to hide. He first turned to Tinfoil Man to say, “In terms of machinery and nanotech, Stark better at them than I am, so be it tweaking with his armor or inserting nanobot into his food, they will be exposed immediately.” Then he turned to Professor Permanence. “it’s even more difficult to nt any spying device on Prof. Even if I seeded, the moment he used his ‘dimensional power’… like teleportation, the device will malfunction.”


    Then Toadman turned to address the other superheroes at the table. “Ape Huntre’s super senses, King Eggnt’s special gic make up also means that the possibility of surveince is zero.” His eyes slowly moved. “And with regards to Queen ckhole and Captain Poop… after so many years, I can’t even tell the nature of your superpowers and their limits much less…”


    “Wait! Wait!” Ape Hunter interrupted Toadman and demanded in an agitated tone. “We are asking why would you do something like that. But you turned it on us and started toin?”


    “Whether you understand my intention or not, I believe my action is necessary.” Toadman argued. “Think about it, if one of the star-level superheroes suddenly decided to turn and started a massacre among the USL, what will happen?”


    “The basis of USL is built trust, your suspicion is the reason if any betrayal is going to happen. Your suspicion is an insult to the other heroes.” King Eggnt countered.


    “I do not suspect anyone, I am just being cautious. One shan’t be too careful…” Toadman replied. “Furthermore… as long as no one knew, no one would be insulted. I have always been careful with my actions.”


    “Hah! Then how did your caution get exposed?” Ape Hunter said mockingly.


    “I… have underestimated ‘his’ intelligence…” Toadman said darkly. “I thought… it was fine saying those things before Pi Li Dance Hero and Tap Monster but who would have thought… that Feng Bujue managed toe to this conclusion and expose me before everyone…”


    “Oh?” Professor Permanence said with contemtion. “That sounds like an interesting character.”


    “Enough… enough…” Tinfoil man stood up. “Ladies and gentlemen… arguing and blowing the air is not going to solve any problem.”


    “But I have not said a word…” Captain Poop grumbled.


    Tinfoil man lifted his eyes to look at him. “For that I am thankful, captain.” He smiled and continued, “In any case, now is not the time to decide who is right or not but to solve the problem.” He turned to Toadman, “Wayne, there is only one solution you can do… you have to stop all the spying on all the superheroes immediately. You can insist on your views but you have to apologize to the superheroes that you have spied on and give them an exnation.”


    “I will do that without an order from you…” Toadman replied but he did not finish his sentence and it was… [After all, I have collected more than enough data already.]


    “So now…” Toadman paused for a few seconds before adding. “We better return to the main reason why we are here… Do any of you think, this The Poker, Mr. Feng Bujue from a parallel universe is trustworthy or not?”