Lex Luthor is sitting 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 where Superman surrendered to the Kryptonians at the military base.
To him, that was more like a personal insult.
He has been locking himself in the old house, and has never even seen the Superman side 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 devouring the coals. Luther sat on the sofa and stared at the TV in front of him.
The ceremony was broadcasted above. This was a real-time broadcast. Countless dignitaries, scientists, and politicians who could not make it to the scene were all 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 came by land, two lights came from the sky..."
(Adapted from an alarm during the Revolutionary War)
There is a painting hanging behind him: a picture of angels and devils that are completely symmetrical up and down. This means that there is no upper or lower way to hang this painting.
At this time, the devil in the painting was hung above. He turned his head and stared at the hanging painting, half of his face hidden in the shadow. He groaned in a low voice:
"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, then placed the wine glass on the coffee table with a soft thud.
Click, click, click, click!
Following his movements, the floor was lifted, vases deformed, and dozens of various and 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 him.
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."
He said: "As long as I press this button, you will be beaten to a pulp by dozens of different weapons."
"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 in from 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 had 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 before 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 can't distinguish between ourselves and the enemy. You and the people in the military will
If they are released, they 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 clown as a pain point to stimulate him, but this operation was due to incorrect intelligence, so he 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 this is!"
"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 obviously, Batman was not moved by his words.
"Whatever you say, Luther. 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 was 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 will never do that."
"I want you to say every word."
Luthor 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 small car stereo say:
"Remember what you said, Luther, if you dare to break your promise, I will come to find 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 spacecraft with Kal Al. Carl only allowed this earthling to take photos of him and publish them on their backward information media called newspapers. There must be a certain relationship between them.
There is contact.
"Kal-El - or should we call him Clark, the human name? The veil of his biological stance that he left in Lois Lane's memory has been overcome by me. Insert here, the breathtaking application method, I also just said
I found that when we are illuminated by the yellow sun, our cells can... I will continue to talk about business."
Scientist Ur said: "I hacked into the low-level Internet of this planet based on the name provided by this 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?"
Wuerl said: "I found out 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.
That's right, 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 walked down the stairs. His female adjutant Fiora and the big warrior Ekko followed him on the left and right. The Kryptonian small reconnaissance plane sprayed behind him, rolling up waves.
of dust.
He wore a full-body respirator mask, which 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 maintained that twisted 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 winked at his adjutant.
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 been there did not appear. As Martha Kent was grabbed by the neck and lifted up, her expression became active in an instant, like a puppet operating dozens of strings at the same time.
The puppet master suddenly strengthened his control and performance over a specific puppet in an instant.
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 because of her neurotic speech that didn’t 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 her eyes were filled with tears:
"Woo woo woo, my daughter!"
Fiora said in disbelief: "What are you talking about? Have you understood the situation before you?"
"Wow, my daughter, you are so unfilial, why don't you always come to see me——"
"That's 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 strange and 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?"
"Ahhhhhh!"
Zod kicked the Kent family's wheat harvester away. The machine, which had not been used for several years, spun and fell apart in mid-air. Then, the remaining parts were poured into Kent's house like sharp swords.
My family’s house. Several large holes were punched through that poor house.
"Are you really not afraid of death?!?"
"My son can fly with peace of mind, and 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 lunatic named Martha Kent in front of her may be the person who knows the whereabouts of the Code of Life. Zod must control his temper.
, you cannot kill the opponent.
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 from her belly to her chest suddenly opened in response, 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 jumps, it's like she's jumping in 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 over the opponent's heart, and then watched the opponent jump around. He opened his skull and grabbed the brain in his hand, playing with it like jelly.
"Oh, I almost forgot, if it's this level, it should be bleeding."
Bah!
The blood was like a shower head, belatedly rushing out from Martha's head, showering the three Kryptonians all over.
Martha put her brain in Zod's hand, and then said: "Oh, in this situation, I should die!"
Then it was too late, and soon, 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 exactly is this?" The big man Ekko looked at Fiora, then at General Zod. Then he looked at the waist stuffed in his hand, and opened and closed his mouth.
General Zod opened his mouth.
"Forget it, let's search this place first to 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 horizon, and a figure with a fluttering red cloak brought hurricanes and sonic booms, roaring back to Kent Farm like a violent wind.
"What the 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 pig. The three Kryptonians each held one of Martha's organs.