Persuading a fight becomes stronger: starting from the Kryptonian war

On the night when the world was reeling from Senator Finch's statement, Superman silently returned to his hometown, a farm in Smallville, Kansas.

Under the bright starry sky, Superman walks and talks with his mother.

"People hate what they don't understand, but they understand you when they see what you do."

Looking at her unique son, Superman's mother Ms. Martha said earnestly.

"You're not a killer, and you're not a threat. I never wanted the world to have you."

She paused, then said expectantly:
"Be their hero, Clark, be their monument, be their angel, be what they want you to be..."

Superman frowned, his expression subtle.

Seeing this, Martha turned and said:

"Or do nothing. You don't owe the world anything, never."

……

"The CIA thinks it's a trap, someone wants to add crime to Superman..."

On a bench, Swanwick said to Louise.

"What about the bullet?"

Louise asked.

Swanwick handed the bullet back to Louise, explaining:

"It was developed by a private company."

"what company?"

Swanwick was silent for a moment, and replied:
"Luther Group."

After speaking, he stood up and prepared to leave.

"It doesn't make sense."

Louise said puzzledly:
"If they want to harm Superman, why can they confirm that Superman will appear in that desert..."

In the middle of speaking, Louise's voice gradually lowered.

She figured it out, it was all because of herself.

The guy who harmed Superman obviously knew his relationship with Superman, and he was sure that Superman would rescue him when he was in danger.

……

Congress.

The media has already set up long guns and short cannons outside the Capitol, and the angry citizens held banners telling Kryptonians to get out of the metropolis and die, and the abusive protests became louder and louder.

These reporters and public opinion, which had been suppressed by Wang Wu for a long time, finally erupted at this moment, even more violently.

At the security checkpoint, the security guard's metal detector passed Wallace's body, and then let him enter the venue.

……

The subway was standing, and Louise was walking in a hurry, saying something quickly into the phone:
"I have an anonymous ancestor who can attest to everything I've told you about what happened in Neromi..."

"An anonymous informant?"

Perry, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Planet, asked questioningly on the other end of the phone.

"You have to publish it!"

Louise emphasized:

"Luthor planned the Desert Incident, which was a trap for Superman! Trust me, think about Watergate!"

"Okay, then you have to think about the lawsuit. If you are wrong, Luthor will sue the newspaper until it closes down. You have to have evidence!"

Perry declined.

"Come on! Get it published now! Before the hearing! If Superman finds out, he might change his story."

Louise, who couldn't contact Superman, was very anxious, and now she could only pin her hopes on the newspaper.

She wants to use the Daily Planet to convey the truth to Superman and change the current bad situation.

"I'm not going to risk the newspaper office so that you can pass a note to your savior in class..."

Perry has trouble making the decision to help Louise because he doesn't own the newspaper.

He is just an editor-in-chief with dozens or even hundreds of employees under him, so he has to think about everyone.

They'd all lose their jobs if the newspaper was declared non-existent because of his recklessness.

……

Half an hour before the hearing starts.

"I'm going to talk to MPs before the hearing, do you understand how important that is?  …"

Senator Finch, who was working at his desk in the office, heard the quarrel outside the door, put down his pen and walked out.

A woman was arguing with Senator Finch's secretary and security, the black woman who had sued Superman.

Seeing Senator Finch appear, the quarrel stopped.

The black woman turned her head to look at Congressman Finch, and said apologetically:
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you the truth."

Senator Finch sensed that something was wrong, so she brought the woman into her office.

Under Mr. Finch's questioning, the woman confessed the whole thing without hesitation.

She said that she stood up to sue Superman under the circumstances of being threatened and lured. In fact, her family members are all alive and well. The accusations in Congress were just performances, and even the lines were memorized in advance.

Congressman Finch was shocked. She wanted to do something, but the hearing was about to begin.

In desperation, he could only tell his colleagues about the matter while stepping into the venue.

……

Inside an office of the Wayne Group.

Bruce looked at the familiar employee on TV, and asked a subordinate who just came in:

"Why didn't he get our check?"

After the disaster, the deep-pocketed Wayne Group distributed relief funds to those group employees who suffered from bad luck.

"He got it, Mr. Wayne."

The department head in charge handed over a stack of checks and explained:
"He gets a check every month from the Victims' Fund and he bounces it all."

Bruce took it over and looked at it, his brows furrowed quickly.

A note was pasted on the top of the check, with large bright red characters on it:

"Bruce Wayne, open your eyes!"

Bruce turned to the next one: "I'm your ghost!"

carry on.

"Wayne never stands a chance!"

"Never cease fighting!"

"I won't let you go!"

"Bruce Wayne = Blind!"

……

"Why have I never seen these?"

Bruce asked with an ugly face.

"Sorry, I'll check it out..."

As soon as the words fell, the voice on the TV suddenly rose.

"Superman is coming!"

I saw Superman slowly landed from the air, and stepped into the Capitol amidst the insults and scorn of the people.

Bruce was staring intently at the TV screen when someone walked up.

"Here is your letter, sir."

……

Superman entered the venue, and the hearing officially began.

Senator Finch, who was sitting in the center, looked at Superman and spoke:

"...First of all, I want to thank the witness for coming before us today..."

The media and audience in the venue all turned their attention to the man in the wheelchair, even Superman was no exception.

What no one noticed was a slight look of doubt on Superman's face.

He found……

There seemed to be something in that wheelchair blocking his vision.

But now is not the time to care about such things.

After a pause, Congressman Finch continued to speak:

"That's how democracy works, we talk to each other and act with the consent of the people."

Superman turned his attention back to the topic, and Senator Finch faced him and said:
"I've sat here and said before that the committee will not tolerate black-box operations, nor will it tolerate lies, so today is the day when the truth comes out..."

Below, Luthor's female secretary glanced at the empty seat with the "Lex Luthor" label on it, feeling a little puzzled in her heart.

"Because only by saying..."

Senator Finch's words stopped suddenly, and she stared at a cup filled with some kind of yellow liquid on the table in a daze.

Some images of meeting Luther kept rewinding in her mind, and then she reached out and turned the cup.

On the other side of the cup was a note that read:

"Grandma's peach tea."

This is what she brought up during her conversation with Luthor, followed by "I won't buy it".

Senator Finch remembered that Luthor wanted her to help him transport kryptonite into the country.

But Senator Finch refused righteously, and told him that even if he could describe urine as grandma's peach tea and describe kryptonite as an assassination weapon as a deterrent, she would not buy it.

But now, a cup of urine appeared in front of her, and it told her it was "grandma's peach tea".

What does he want to do?
Senator Finch looked vigilantly at Luther's seat, but found that he was not here at all.

The next moment, Superman turned his head as if feeling something——

boom!
A small flame emerged from Wallace's wheelchair, and it expanded instantly, engulfing the entire Capitol.

In the terrifying flames, Superman had a complex expression.

He doesn't understand why things are like this, why people always kill each other?

……

In the office, Bruce stared at the Superman on the screen, his expression gradually grim.

He held an open newspaper in his hand, on which was the news about the collapse of the Wayne Building, and the bright red characters were even more eye-catching:

You killed your family!

The Wayne Building was built by Bruce Wayne himself. It is stronger than most buildings in the world. It can not only resist earthquakes below magnitude [-], but also has a complete fire handling plan.

Because of this, the building will automatically close all passages when it encounters a sudden natural disaster, so as to prevent the people inside from making irrational actions due to fear and causing unnecessary casualties.

However, in that disaster, Wayne Building killed most of the people inside.

The extremely sturdy building cannot withstand the impact of Superman, and the automatic locking passage of the building makes those employees whom Bruce regards as family members can only wait to die in place.

This sentence poked Bruce's wound, making it difficult for him to calm down.

It's time to do something about it.

Thinking this way, he turned his head and left.

……

A few hours later, among the researchers full of police officers, Luther looked at the empty glass box that originally contained kryptonite, with a sinister smile on his face.