Boom!
A meteorite impacted the ground, causing a violent explosion.
After a massive meteorite struck the ground, it let out a thunderous roar, instantly creating a huge crater.
Soil from within the crater splattered outwards, accompanied by scattered flames.
Clark, standing on the farm with a crystal in his hand, watched as the meteorite, falling from the sky, carved a deep crater into the ground and then burst into a raging fire.
Seeing houses throughout Smallville town pierced by meteorites, with flames and smoke everywhere, his inner anxiety became increasingly uncontrollable.
"No! Eric couldn't have done this!"
Clark watched the premature meteor shower, his eyes burning with an unquenchable fire.
"I must go to that cave!"
With that thought, Clark immediately left the farm, activating his super speed to rush towards the cave.
Bang!
The deafening explosion caused the entire ground to shake violently.
A massive fireball struck a large fire truck driving on the highway.
A deafening explosion erupted, and the rear of the large fire truck exploded, instantly scattering flames.
Fortunately, the fire truck's driver, sensing danger, jumped out in time, avoiding a fiery death.
Residents stuck on the highway outside Smallville also suffered.
The meteorite's impact clearly extended beyond the town.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Meteorites, carrying fireballs, slammed onto the road, triggering powerful explosions.
People crammed in the middle of the road immediately abandoned their private cars, screaming and fleeing in all directions.
Screams and shouts mingled in a chaotic din.
In the chaotic and noisy crowd, a father accidentally lost his child.
"Henry!"
Upon realizing his child was missing, the father immediately pushed against the crowd, shouting his child's name as he struggled back.
Meanwhile, Henry, the child his father was calling for, was tottering along, bending down to pick up a toy model car from the ground.
A sharp whistling sound from above made him look up in confusion.
Above him, a meteorite, trailing flames and making a sharp tearing sound, was hurtling towards him.
Three or four-year-old Henry, clutching his toy fire truck, watched with wide eyes as the massive fireball drew closer and closer.
In the nick of time, Clark activated his super speed, and, unseen by any human eye, quickly ran over, scooped up the little boy, held him in his arms, and shielded him from the incoming meteorite.
Boom!
The meteorite crashed into the surrounding ground, causing a huge explosion.
Flames and displaced earth rained down on him.
"Henry!"
The father, calling for his son, finally found his way over.
With a stunned expression, he watched as Clark handed him the child in his arms, saying, "Go quickly!"
The father, still dazed, took the child, saw Clark's tattered clothes, swallowed, and backed away while thanking him.
"Thank you! Thank you!"
After completing his rescue, Clark let out a long breath, reactivated his super speed, and vanished from the scene.
Upon arriving at the cave he had visited yesterday, he shouted all around, "Jor-El, you must stop all of this! I don't know where those stones are, I don't have time now, I can't combine them, but you can stop this catastrophe!"
"No, Kal, I cannot stop what has already happened. Only you, by piecing the three crystals together, can stop it."
The cave walls suddenly emitted an incredibly dazzling light, and Jor-El's voice emanated from within.
"I... I can't do it. I can only watch everything be destroyed!"
Clark, clutching the only crystal in his hand, knelt on the ground, tears streaming from his eyes.
"I'm sorry, I caused all of this to happen. I didn't want to do this."
Clark, feeling responsible for the meteor shower, was filled with self-reproach.
Suddenly, he felt a tap on his shoulder.
"Clark, when facing a desperate situation, you should not be thinking of self-reproach."
Eric's voice sounded behind him.
Astonished, he turned around and saw Eric standing behind him with an expressionless face.
"Eric?"
"Get up."
Eric reached out and pulled Clark, who was kneeling on the ground, to his feet.
"Sorry, I..."
Clark struggled to compose himself, "I don't know how to save this world. I've never felt so powerless as I do today. Perhaps I'm just someone who constantly puts himself in danger, but always implicates others."
Eric's gaze shifted to the brightly glowing wall in the cave. "Man is a rope tied between animal and Superman, a rope over an abyss. To walk across is dangerous, to stop midway is dangerous, to tremble is dangerous, to stand still is dangerous."
"No matter how you struggle, you will be trapped in danger."
As Eric spoke, he took the crystal from Clark's hand and inserted it into a recess in the wall.
He then aligned his second and third crystals with the recess and inserted them.
The moment the three crystals came together, they were instantly drawn by an invisible force, forming a sky-blue stone.
The aggregated sky-blue crystal trembled slightly, emitting a faint "humming" sound, and continuously rotated in the air.
Eric and Clark stared intently at the sky-blue crystal.
The next second, Eric reached out and grasped the sky-blue kryptonite, which was still trembling.
An invisible gale immediately swept from the part of Eric's hand holding the stone, engulfing the entire cave.
At the same time, a powerful suction force gripped Eric, causing him an indescribable pain.
"Ugh!"
Eric let out a soft groan, gritting his teeth to prevent himself from making any sound.
"Eric!"
Seeing his brother seemingly suffering greatly, Clark disregarded everything else, reached out and grabbed the crystal, attempting to separate Eric from the sky-blue crystal.
But a soul-wrenching pain immediately assailed him.
Clark instantly let out a scream.
"Ah!"
A strong flash of light passed, and the entire cave was instantly filled with this dazzling white light.
Whoosh!
As the strong light disappeared, the two vanished from their original spot.
Everything in the cave returned to its original state; the light and the gale completely disappeared. All abnormalities and irregularities seemed to have never existed.
When the pain subsided and he opened his eyes, Clark found himself standing in a world covered in white snow.
Eric was also standing beside him, surveying the snowy landscape.
"W-where are we, Eric?"
Clark, who had been somewhat flustered, immediately relaxed upon seeing Eric and asked him.
"Obviously, the North Pole!"
Eric looked at the strangely familiar place and shook his head.
This was where he had once buried his spaceship. Although the weather had changed from polar night to polar day, and the distribution of the ice underfoot was slightly different from before, the surrounding topography had not changed much.
As the two spoke, the sky-blue crystal slowly descended from the air into Eric's hand.
Feeling the cold blue kryptonite, Eric weighed it in his hand, then suddenly threw it forward.
The blue kryptonite cut a beautiful arc through the air towards the sun and landed in the snow.
Clark was wondering why Eric suddenly threw away the sky-blue kryptonite when the ground suddenly rumbled.
Then the entire ground began to tremble slightly.
Where the blue kryptonite had fallen, the ground suddenly collapsed over a large area.
The ice and snowflakes followed the collapsing ground, all falling downwards.
The "rumbling" sound of the ground shaking, accompanied by the ground splitting apart, filled Clark with shock.
Then something even more incredible happened before their eyes.
From where the blue kryptonite had disappeared and the ground had collapsed, an Icicle rose.
The Icicle pierced through the ground with a massive "rumbling sound," rising to the sky in an instant, forming a pillar.
Crack! Crack!
Countless Icicles, some sharp, others with strange shapes, rose, folding and combining with each other, forming an ice palace with a bizarre yet grand and majestic design.
Looking at the palace, or rather, fortress, before them, Eric's brow furrowed, while Clark's expression was filled with astonishment.
The two walked to the towering "Ice Fortress," and the main gate opened with a "crack."
It seemed to be welcoming their entry.
The dazzling sunlight streamed down, making Clark's eyes uncomfortable.
"Ugh!"
Looking at the blinding sunlight above, Lana slowly reached out, shielding her eyes from the sunlight that made them ache.
She touched her eye socket and found specks of blood on it.
Only then did she remember that she had been in a car accident.
While driving her car away from Smallville on the road, a meteorite, trailing a long flame, had hurtled towards her.
In a panic, she swerved sharply to the left to avoid the meteorite's impact, but her car hit a rock by the roadside, and she was knocked unconscious.
After painstakingly getting out of the car, she roughly bandaged her wound and staggered towards the middle of the road.
Had the meteor shower stopped?
Lana thought to herself as she simply treated her wound.
After walking a few steps, her gaze caught sight of a massive meteorite crater in the distant wilderness.
And white steam was faintly rising from the crater, suggesting that what had fallen into it was not an ordinary meteorite.
Drawn by curiosity, she slowly walked towards the meteorite crater, wanting to find out what was inside.
She slowly climbed up the dirt slope, and when she reached the top, she looked down.
She was startled to find that what existed in the pit was a pitch-black spaceship!
The spaceship emitted a misty white vapor, and in her line of sight, two figures faintly emerged from within the spaceship.
Upon seeing the two figures emerge from the spaceship, Lana was so frightened that she immediately slid back down the dirt slope.
But just as she slid down, she saw a man and a woman standing in front of her.
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