nownovels Chapter 42 Feeling Sorrow for One's Kind
Chapter 42 Feeling Sorrow for One's Kind
Krypton is a very contradictory planet. They have technology that seems like that of gods to Earthlings, but when their home planet was destroyed, everyone was trapped on that dying planet and could not escape.
The spaceship that Superman, the last surviving member of Krypton, rode in was almost the only spaceship with FTL (faster-than-light) capability produced under Krypton's space ban.
Joey had seen too many of these "alien journeys" stories and wasn't surprised, since every world is different.
For example, the cold fusion core called the Arc Reactor, which is currently hidden on his chest, is the product that Iron Man tinkered with in a cave in the Yuezhi Kingdom within a week.
In its original world, even sustained and controllable thermonuclear fusion, costing tens of billions, has not yet been achieved.
The citizens of the metropolis are holding their annual day of mourning. Twenty years ago, a meteorite fell from the sky and crashed into the city center, causing tens of thousands of deaths and injuries. After the disaster, a monument was erected at the impact site to commemorate those who lost their lives.
Joey was also walking among the crowd, wearing his flat-bottomed black-rimmed glasses, aimlessly strolling in front of the monument.
What landed here twenty years ago was not a meteorite, but a spaceship carrying Kryptonians.
Joey originally had his own escape spaceship, which his adoptive parents buried under a barn. Joey didn't want to live as a Kryptonian, and his adoptive parents didn't want their son to know that he was an alien too early.
The two sides lived in this tacit understanding for fifteen years, until the unexpected happened. The spaceship was completely destroyed by the aftermath of Joey and [Rage], and Joey chose to push it into the mantle.
Sometimes fate is just that messed up. What Joey didn't want to accept back then, he now has to actively seek out again because he needs the things on the Kryptonian spaceship.
Joey might be able to rescue Karl El, who's inside the spaceship, but the most important thing is to get the spaceship.
The spaceship itself carries a database from Krypton, and Joey needs this knowledge that is centuries ahead of Earth. Even if it can't be used to correct his time watch, it will still have other uses.
"Crawling through sewers...that's something Batman or the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would do."
After wandering around the monument for a long time, Joey found the path to the classified research facility a mile underground, part of which was connected to a sewer facility in Metropolis that was not open to the public.
He could have simply dug his way into the secret base from the ground, but in a place dedicated to studying Kryptonian visitors, that was clearly not a good idea.
To be honest, infiltration wasn't a good idea either. Joey's understanding of infiltration in both his lives was basically limited to Assassin's Creed or 007, as well as some movies and TV shows that couldn't be broadcast on television.
But he never imagined that infiltration would be so easy.
When you can see every hidden camera in the base, moving faster than the security personnel can react, and even faster than the sensing frequency of the security sensors, then almost all the security systems on this planet are wide open to you.
Ah, there are exceptions, such as this lead-steel electromagnetic lock door weighing tens of tons in front of us. Without authorization, no one can pass through here.
Boom! Joey punched a large hole in the door, and the alarms throughout the base immediately went off.
It seems that stealth will have to be temporarily suspended.
Joey floated into the research base. The area behind the large door was clearly the core area of the base. As soon as he entered, he discovered a room in the center of the area that was separated by layers of lead plates.
And surrounding the room are various laboratories, almost all of which are filled with biological culture chambers, in which all sorts of grotesque creatures are soaking in nutrient solutions, all of which are defective products made from Kryptonian genes.
The researchers in the lab had already begun fleeing towards the emergency exits upon hearing the alarm. Joey used his heat vision to detonate the red sun lamp covering him, grabbed an older researcher, and shouted:
"Where's the spaceship?!"
After entering the facility, Joey did not see the Kryptonian spaceship, and there were too many places in the base that were beyond his sight, which is why he asked the question.
The researcher, who had been grabbed by the collar and lifted up, was already terrified. Coupled with the chaos of the scene, he couldn't possibly hear Joey's words clearly: "What?"
"Where did you put the spaceship, the one carrying aliens?!"
Seeing Joey's fierce expression and the red glint in his eyes, the other person shook his head repeatedly:
"No...not here. General Ryan ordered the ship to be moved to Star Labs a few months ago!"
Joey swung it backhand and slammed it onto a row of biological incubation chambers, which shattered under the impact, awakening the monsters inside.
The first thing these mutilated aliens, infused with Kryptonian genes, did upon waking was to devour their creator.
Accompanied by screams of limbs being torn apart, the experimental subjects tore and bit in all directions, releasing more monsters like a chain reaction, making the scene even more chaotic.
Using his thermal vision to slice a test subject that was lunging at him in half as a warning, Joey floated toward the room in the center of the facility.
Peeling away the layers of lead alloy plates that were getting in the way, Joey was about to meet the Superman of this world, a Superman who had not been raised by the Kents but had instead fallen into the hands of the military.
wrong.
After removing the last lead plate, Joey saw a room less than ten square meters in size, which was more like a cage than a room.
The red sunlight beams from the top floor shine through this translucent cage year after year, illuminating the prisoner inside and ensuring she has no power to resist.
Yes, it was her, and inside was a gaunt Kryptonian, a Kryptonian woman huddled in a corner.
She was wearing a very loose white lab coat, her face covered by long blonde hair, making her expression impossible to discern; only her hands, feet, and limbs were exposed. Even without superhuman vision, Joey could see the dense needle marks all over her body.
Bathed in the red sunlight, Joey punched through the cell wall and picked up the poor Kryptonian woman, who seemed weightless by adult woman standards.
Indeed, the Kryptonian in Joey's arms looked as if he had survived a famine. The muscles in his arms and calves had almost disappeared, leaving only a thin layer of skin covering his bones. The skin on his waist and abdomen was taut against his ribs, as if it might be punctured at any moment.
Joey had never seen another Kryptonian before, and even though she was mentally prepared for this trip, seeing her in such a miserable state still gave her an indescribable feeling.
"Get away from Subject Number One immediately!"
The research director in the laboratory had already led the armed forces to quell the chaos outside and arrived at the cell in time. She looked at Joey and shouted loudly:
"Don't be fooled by her thin appearance; she's extremely dangerous! You have no idea what she'll do once she's exposed to sunlight!"
"No."
Joey stared intently at the head of research in the lab, instantly incinerating him to ashes, then revealed a cruel smile:
"I know exactly what she's going to do, and I'm going to show you first!"