Lex Luthor sits in his old mansion. Compared to the office, this is a more private space.
He did not accept the invitation of General Sam Lane, Lois Lane's father, to watch the small ceremony in which Superman surrendered to the Kryptonians at the military base.
That was more like a personal insult to him.
He has been locked up in the old house, and he has never even seen Superman who walked into the cage on his own initiative, let alone Lois Lane, who was captured and brought to justice within a few hours.
There is no one in the house, not even his female secretary is qualified to stay here.
The fire in the fireplace was slowly consuming the coals. Luther sat on the sofa and stared at the TV in front of him.
The ceremony was broadcast above. This was a real-time broadcast, and countless dignitaries, scientists, and politicians who could not make it to the scene were watching this contact with aliens together with Luther.
Luther hummed lowly, tapping his fingers on the small coffee table next to the sofa again and again.
Bata...bata...bata...
"The red cloak is coming...the red cloak is coming..."
He watched the red-cloaked Superman take the initiative to greet the aliens who came down from the spaceship.
"Speeding down the street to warn us...one light by land, two lights from the sky..."
(Adapted from a Revolutionary War-era alarm)
There is a painting hanging behind him: a perfectly symmetrical picture of angels and devils. This means there is no upper or lower way to hang the painting.
At this time, the devil of this painting was hung above. He turned his head and stared at the hanging painting, half of his face hidden in the shadows. He groaned softly:
"The devil does not come from hell...but comes from the sky."
On TV, the Kryptonian female lieutenant named Fiora asked Lois Lane to follow Superman into the Black Zero, and Lois did so.
Luther poured himself a glass of red wine and shook it.
With the sound of mechanical transmission, the floor behind his sofa suddenly flipped over, and a hidden laser gun suddenly emerged from under the slightly decayed pine board and was pointed directly at the corner next to it.
"Tsk."
Luther exhaled and put the wine glass on the coffee table with a soft thud.
Click, click, click, click, click!
Following his movements, the floor was lifted, vases deformed, and dozens of various messy weapons rose up from this room with old-school European-style furniture, densely aimed at that corner.
The sofa where Luther was sitting made a mechanical sound, and then a blue stance shield was put on his body.
The old-looking sofa floated up, turned Luther 180 degrees, and then quickly retreated.
"It's not a good idea to break into someone's home."
"If I press this button, you'll be reduced to a pulp by dozens of different weapons," he said.
"Then you blow up your own home just to destroy one of my communicators? Save it, Luther, I'm here to negotiate terms."
Luther pursed his lips. He saw fine black dust seeping through the cracks in the floor.
"And my communicator is useless."
These fine black dust condensed on the ground into a small car stereo, which even has Batman's iconic pointed ears.
"Some kind of nanobot? Fantastic cutting-edge science, Batman." Luthor said, "But other than that, we have nothing to talk about. You thought we were friends because we talked together on the radio. ?"
"I ask you not to interfere with our plan to fight Zod." Chen Tao's voice rang from the car stereo: "You want to kill Superman, you are hostile to Superman, OK, these are all fine, but not now, Earth We need to defeat General Zod, and then we can talk about the future.”
He continued to add without waiting for Luther to speak:
"Therefore, I am here to ask for a guarantee from you, Luther. I hope you have not forgotten the existence of Brainiac. The earth needs to unite everything that can be united."
"No more infighting."
Luther heard the other party say: "At this time, whoever fights among themselves is a traitor. Do you think I don't know about your degraded versions of parasitic demons? They are a group of beasts who cannot distinguish between ourselves and the enemy. You and the people in the military will Their release will only interfere with Superman."
Luther slowly leaned back and crossed his fingers.
"Interfering with Superman?"
He repeated Chen Tao's words, and then said: "How ridiculous. Ha, ha, ha."
Chen Tao remained silent. Luther wanted to use the Joker as a pain point to stimulate him, but due to incorrect intelligence, this operation only showed a can of air.
"Ridiculous! Ridiculous! Stupid!"
Luther angrily said:
"When we feel a crisis, the first thing that comes to our mind is not self-rescue, but 'Superman will definitely come'. How terrible is this!"
"When the world is really in crisis, we have no power to resist, but we just look at the sky and shout, 'Look, that's Superman!'?" Luthor accused:
"Batman, you shouldn't trust everything to Superman, he's just an alien!"
But it's clear that Batman isn't moved by his words.
"Whatever you say, Luthor. But Superman will always be the strongest fighting force at this stage, and the earth cannot give up borrowing his power."
At this point, there is nothing left to talk about. Luther knew that the next plot was about threats and counter-threats. So he took the initiative and said:
"Okay, okay, I promise you, I would never do that."
"I want you to say every word."
Luther blinked his eyes. He sighed again: "Okay. I swear, at least until I successfully deal with General Zod, I will never stab Superman or you in the back."
"Absolutely not. Are you satisfied?"
He heard the little car stereo say:
"Remember what you said, Luther. If you dare to break your promise, I will come for you."
Then Luther just watched as the small speaker spread again into tiny nanorobots, penetrated into the floor, and disappeared without a trace.
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General Zod couldn't help but recall what his subordinate Ur, the chief scientist of Krypton, said to him dozens of minutes ago.
"We have found Carl's true identity in Lois Lane's memory."
At that time, on the Black Zero, Ur showed the screen to General Zod. Next to them were the unconscious Clark Kent and Lois Lane who was connected to the machine to read the memory.
This is why they specifically asked Lois Lane to board the spaceship with Kal-El. Carl only allowed this Earthling to take photos of him and publish them on their backward information dissemination medium called newspapers. There must be a connection between them.
"Kal-El—or should we call him Clark, the human name? The veil of his biological position left in Lois Lane's memory has been overcome by me. Insert here, the breathtaking application method, I also just said Discovering that when we are exposed to the yellow sun, our cells can... I'll get on with the business."
Scientist Ur said: "I hacked into the low-level Internet of this planet based on the name provided by the human named Louis. Through investigation, I roughly delineated the location where Carl's original escape spacecraft may have crashed. As long as you are there If you fly around a possible location, you should be able to detect the escape hatch's signal."
"Well, okay, I understand." General Zod nodded, and then asked: "Are there possible enemies around the escape ship?"
Uhl said: "I found out about his family situation from the employee reservation information of the newspaper called the Daily Planet where Carl works. He has an adoptive mother named Martha Kent, who is just an ordinary human being."
Let's turn the time back to now.
Yes, just an ordinary human being.
General Zod thought.
He is just an ordinary human being, what is there to be surprised about?
General Zod slowly came down the stairs. His female adjutant Fiora and the big warrior Ekko followed him on the left and right. A small Kryptonian reconnaissance plane jetted behind him, kicking up bursts of fine dust.
He wore a full-body respirator mask that turned transparent in just a few seconds, revealing his face.
He walked straight to the Earthling named Martha Kent: "Where is the ship that brought him here?"
But he didn't get the answer he imagined.
Martha Kent still had that crooked smile. She stumbled and said, "You...who are you?"
A chill rose from the hearts of the three people present. These did not look like living creatures.
General Zod gave his lieutenant a wink.
Fiora walked straight forward, grabbed Martha Kent's throat, and lifted her up: "Where is the Code of Life?"
But the scene of suffocation and kicking of legs that should have occurred did not appear. As Martha Kent was picked up by the neck, her expression became agile in an instant, like a puppet master operating dozens of puppets at the same time. In an instant, he suddenly strengthened his control over a specific puppet. and performances.
Then Fiora saw the look of infinite love in the eyes of the woman in front of her.
"It doesn't matter... People of Krypton, Earth welcomes you! Earth loves you! I love you!"
?
The female adjutant's super-brain suddenly stopped for a moment as she spoke in a neurotic manner that did not answer the question.
There is no mother's role in the social structure of Kryptonians. They are produced like worker ants. From birth, their genes determine the work content they undertake in society.
However, this social state of Kryptonians is the result of postnatal compilation. They can also give birth normally, but they artificially erase [father] and [mother].
Therefore, for a standard [mother] role, Fiora fell into a strange kind of confusion.
"Mom loves you! No matter what you do to her, she will tolerate you unconditionally, because this is mother!"
Martha Kent stretched out her hand and rubbed Fiora's cold helmet directly, and then looked like she was in tears:
"Ooooh, my daughter!"
? ? ?
Fiora said in disbelief: "What are you talking about? Have you understood the situation before you?"
"Oh, my daughter, you are so unfilial, why don't you always come to see me -"
"enough."
General Zod spoke directly: "Let me do it."
"Sorry, General."
Fiora put down Martha Kent, lowered her head, and returned behind General Zod.
General Zod walked up to Martha Kent, who fell to the ground, covering her neck with a strangely gentle smile on her face.
"Where did he hide the code of life?"
General Zod's voice sounded gloomy and thick under the ventilator, like a silent volcano. Just hearing such a voice made people feel a cold air rushing from the soles of their feet to the top of their heads.
He stood there like a hurricane lying upside down on the ground, which made people feel the urge to worship him for no reason.
boom!
He just raised his hand slightly, and Martha Kent's car was spun and thrown into the sky like a toy car. Then it fell on the roof of the house like a comet, smashing through the second floor and falling to the first floor. , gravel flying.
"Tell me, life, code! Where is it!?"
This was supposed to be an extremely oppressive threat, but he only received the following response:
"Son! It's here at mom's place! Do you want to drink again?"
"Ah ah ah ah ah!"
Zod kicked the Kent family's wheat harvester away. The machine, which had not been used for several years, was spinning and falling apart in mid-air. Then, the remaining parts were poured into Kent's house like sharp swords. The house of the family. Several large holes were punched through the poor house.
"Are you really, not afraid of death?!?"
"My son can fly with peace of mind, my mother will always be with you!"
Zod suppressed his anger and controlled his urge to punch the opponent into pieces.
Creatures like Earthlings are too fragile, and their bodies will be torn apart if they are not careful. The psychopath in front of him named Martha Kent may be the person who knows the whereabouts of the Code of Life. Zod must control his temper and not kill the other person.
He suppressed the anger of being fooled.
"Where is the Code of Life? If you dare to fool me again, I will take out all your internal organs and see their color - don't tell me!"
"Son, you don't have to pay. Mom, I can do it myself, yeah!"
General Zod paused, and the words that were brewing in his mouth were stuck in his throat like a piece of old phlegm.
I saw Martha Kent lying on the ground with her belly exposed, and then scratched it with her nails. With a "pop" sound of skin and flesh being separated, her body suddenly opened from her belly to her chest, as if she was lying down. The live pig waiting to be slaughtered on the chopping board had two ribs turned out, facing General Zod directly.
?
General Zod's brain also fell into chaos. He stood there, lost in thought.
Is it possible that creatures like Earthlings can turn out their own internal organs?
Martha Kent took out her large intestine and wrapped her small intestine, straightened the intestines directly in front of Zod, and then used her intestines as a rope to start jumping rope.
Bang bang bang bang bang!
Every time she jumped, it was like jumping into the hearts of three Kryptonians.
Then after dancing for a while, she stopped again and took out her heart, lungs, liver and kidneys: "Which organ do you want? Just take what you want. Mom loves you——"
Zod numbly took the other person's heart, and then watched the other person jumping around. He opened his skull and grabbed the brain in his hand, playing with it like jelly.
"Oh, I almost forgot, if it's to this extent, it should be bleeding."
Bah!
The blood was like a shower head, belatedly rushing out from Martha's head and drenching the three Kryptonians.
Martha put her brain in Zod's hand, and then said: "Oh, in this situation, you should die!"
Then it was too late, and soon after that, she suddenly lay down on the ground and fell asleep peacefully.
Only three Kryptonians were left standing there looking at each other like fools, doubting life.
"So...so what is this." Big Ek looked at Fiora and then at General Zod. Then he looked at the waist stuffed in his hand, opened his mouth and closed it again.
General Zod opened his mouth.
"Forget it, let's search this place first and see if we can find the Code of Life. Anyway, find the location of the escape cabin first, and then--"
Before General Zod finished speaking, he suddenly turned his head. There was a violent whistling sound from the sky, and a figure with a fluttering red cloak brought a hurricane and a sonic boom, roaring back to the Kent farm like a strong wind.
"Hell, why did Ur let him run away? Didn't he capture Kal-El and draw blood?" Fiora said: "He's too..."
But she had no chance to say the next words.
As soon as Clark returned to the Kent farm, he saw Martha Kent "dead" on the ground like a disemboweled dead pig. The three Kryptonians each held one of Martha's organs.
Clark's eyes turned red on the spot.
Superman is angry with blood!
(End of chapter)
