The male was bald, wearing a uniform with intricate, unknown black patterns, exuding an aura that warned people to keep their distance.
The female's uniform was more form-fitting, with black and dark grey patterned armguards and chest armor, and a chilling gaze gleamed from beneath her long hair.
"Please, please don't hurt me!"
Lana, who was seriously injured at this point and had specks of blood on her body, immediately pleaded with them after realizing they might be "evil aliens."
The female reached out, preparing to grab Lana's neck, when suddenly the sound of helicopter rotors came from the sky.
Lana looked up to see two military helicopters flying towards them.
The sound of military vehicles speeding on the road also became audible.
In just a moment, helicopters and police cars surrounded the two unidentified individuals and Lana.
"Lie down immediately! No resistance! Lie down on the ground immediately!"
After the military vehicles and helicopters surrounded the group, they immediately shouted at the three.
Lana, who understood English, immediately lay down.
However, the two individuals who emerged from the spaceship seemed to have no intention of surrendering.
The woman's eyes shot out a Heat Vision beam, piercing through the helicopter flying in the sky.
The helicopter, damaged in its rotor area, tumbled and crashed, exploding with a "boom" upon hitting the ground.
The man was not to be outdone, using Heat Vision to destroy the other helicopter.
Seeing how abnormal the two were, the military commander immediately gave the order to open fire.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Bullets formed a dense storm, sweeping towards the two.
The machine guns mounted on the Humvees also fired, unleashing all their bullets in the shortest amount of time.
Facing the "metal storm" of bullets, the two had no intention of dodging, but instead directly withstood the bullets with their bare bodies.
The "clink-clank" of bullets hitting their uniforms caused no damage to them.
Whoosh!
The woman instantly activated her super speed, moving in front of a military vehicle.
With one punch, the soldier hiding behind the police car was sent flying.
Then, using her formidable skills, she eliminated all the soldiers around the military vehicle in less than a second.
Her cold eyes looked at the soldiers frantically shooting at her, then she single-handedly lifted a nearby Jeep Humvee and hurled it at the attacking soldiers.
A huge fireball rose, and smoke and dust scattered in all directions.
The shockwave from the explosion instantly blasted all the surrounding soldiers away.
The male who emerged from the spaceship focused his gaze on the machine gunner shooting at him.
After activating his super speed, he moved near the machine gunner, and with just a casual punch, he sent the Jeep flying dozens of meters away.
Then he activated his Heat Vision, aiming at the tumbling vehicle in the air.
Boom!
A soaring ball of fire erupted!
The machine gunner, along with the car, was reduced to ashes.
Lana, hiding nearby, saw how formidable the two were and dared not stay, immediately lying down and quietly slipping away.
The two individuals who emerged from the spaceship quickly dealt with the soldiers in front of them.
After taking care of everyone who was in the way, they realized that Lana, who had been nearby, was gone.
"Where did that girl go?"
The long-haired woman surveyed her surroundings, then frowned and asked the bald man.
"She escaped, but unimportant people don't need to be dealt with. Our target is Kal-El! Not an Earth woman!"
The bald man said to the woman, then turned and left.
On the other side, the Arctic.
Clark, who was being sought by the two unidentified individuals, entered the ice-sculpted space with Eric.
Clark looked at the breathtakingly beautiful crystals and the vast space inside, his mouth slightly agape.
Eric, meanwhile, was recalling his previous memories of Superman.
This thing in front of him should be Superman's "Secret Fortress," right?!
While thinking, Eric crouched down and broke off two silvery-white, gleaming Icicle from the ground, giving one to Clark and keeping one for himself.
The two walked to a mysterious, ancient-looking ice pillar in the very center.
Clark looked at the text on it, then after glancing around, shouted, "What is this place?"
"You can call it the 'Secret Fortress.' The state of our planet has been replicated here. This is a place for your training."
Jor-El's voice emanated from the pillar in front of them.
"What do you want to train us for? Eric and I don't need your training. Krypton has been destroyed, and all the past is irrelevant to us now. I just want to go home."
Clark had no interest in any training.
"It's too late, Clark, Eric. The dark forces of Krypton have been awakened, and they have now set foot on Earth. They will bring their destruction and slaughter to this planet. If you are to stop them, you are the only choice!"
Jor-El's voice echoed in the space, "You must do as I say and unleash your potential. That is the only way to save this planet."
"I don't need this!"
Eric, who had been silent, said to Jor-El, "You know, I'm not your son, and I don't think this place has any use for me."
Eric believed his template was Homelander, and the Kryptonian factors in his body had already been removed by the system. He didn't think training in this "Secret Fortress" would be useful to him, nor did he have any interest in the other party's training.
"Eric, you have always tried to correct fate's changes to you. You think you know where you came from, you think your abilities come from divine right, but—you should understand that when you consider this world from your own perspective, the individual's existence is but a drop in the ocean."
Jor-El's voice had no emotional change. "So, Eric, let me ask you a question. If you can answer, I will no longer have any entanglement with you."
"What?"
Eric frowned.
"Were you an Earthling from birth? No, you can't even find any information about yourself in this world. You are not an Earthling. Your bloodline is inextricably linked to Krypton. Even if you don't consider me your father, Krypton is still your homeland."
Jor-El paused for a moment, then continued to Eric, "You and Clark are the hope for Krypton's continuation. Eric, I can bestow upon you even greater power. You are Clark's younger brother. You can protect him, and he can protect you. Hope lies not in the purity and nobility of bloodline, but in understanding the meaning of protection."
"Is that so?"
Eric sneered slightly, "Your change in thinking is truly surprising. I thought you would continue to incite Clark to conquer the world."
"If you believe that releasing the shackles of your heart and facing your own life journey is evil and incomprehensible, then your channel for interpreting the world is too narrow."
As soon as Jor-El finished speaking, two beams of light suddenly descended from the dome, enveloping the two.
And an invisible small storm generated between them.
A huge gale howled, quickly sweeping through the entire space.
Eric immediately felt his body bound by an invisible force, unable to move.
The gale sweeping through the entire "Secret Fortress" blew across Eric's body, making him feel a biting cold.
It was important to know that according to his usual cold resistance, this level of low temperature would not affect him at all.
But now, his physical constitution had completely become unable to resist the cold.
At the same time, a vast amount of information was poured into his mind.
All knowledge about Krypton, including Kryptonian writing, art, history, and politics, was transmitted into his mind.
With so much information being transmitted into his head at once, even with his vast mental world, he felt a slight dizziness.
Clark, next to him, was even more unable to bear the pain, directly crying out.
"Eric Kent, I now bestow upon you the name of Kryptonian. Do you accept?"
Jor-El's voice sounded in Eric's mind.
"No!"
Eric immediately refused!
"Your consciousness need not refuse me! I have no intention of harming you now. All I am doing is transmitting to you knowledge of Krypton's past and future that cannot be unsealed. Your brain is powerful enough to accept all of this!"
Jor-El's voice contained no emotion. After a pause, he said, "There are certain existences that Clark cannot access, which I hope you will inherit. You are light and dark, one entity. If you abandon each other, then you will inevitably encounter difficulties unique to one side."
As his words sounded, Eric's mind suddenly gained a lot of secret and profoundly difficult-to-understand knowledge.
He even glimpsed information about the super bioweapon—Doomsday—within it.
Is it transmitting all these secrets, originally sealed in Krypton's history and unknown to anyone, directly into my mind?
Eric thought to himself as he received the information.
He didn't know how long it had been, but he awoke from the painful state in his head.
At this moment, his head was hazy, and he didn't even notice that Clark next to him was still being infused by the other party.
Shaking his head, he stood up and walked outside, facing the sun, recalling the memories that had been poured into his mind, and then shot straight into the sky.
Kryptonian technological civilization?
For him, while it was an incomparable power, it could also be a burden.
Boom!
Eric accelerated, instantly disappearing into the sky.
His speed continuously increased, and as he became more proficient in controlling his body, his speed control became effortless.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
In an instant, he flew out of the atmosphere. Eric stood outside the atmosphere, looking at the snow-capped Arctic, and took a deep breath.
Closing his eyes, he recalled the memories that had just been infused, and slowly exhaled.
Using the knowledge about Krypton he gained in his mind, what path will I, in the future, truly take?
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