I get stronger by sunbathing, just like Superman.

Lionel's long-term covert investigation also allowed him to understand the source of Clark's power and the method used to weaken him.

He did not intend to kill Clark, because that would be a desecration of his deceased wife.

He devised a way to make Clark permanently harmless while still allowing him to continue living as a normal person.

Lionel is a person with a strong sense of crisis. He believes that humanity should take precautions against unknown threats in advance.

For example, what should humans do if Earth is hit by another meteorite impact?

A: Go live underground.

Thus, the ruins of the Gendaya people's underground kingdom became his target.

More than a decade before Lex was born, Lionel, through his extensive network of connections and the manipulation of vast wealth, obtained permission to develop and renovate parts of the Gendaya underground kingdom ruins.

He replicated the entire underground space, spanning hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, according to the environment of Smallville and other surrounding towns.

Even the 'ocean' and 'sky', and even the 'sun', are no exception.

Then, he recruited a group of 'residents' to come to this underground world for a long-term living experience.

There is nothing in this world that money can't buy.

Why not earn a huge reward for living in a place exactly like the outside world?

Of course, they also had to sign an agreement not to reveal any information they knew to anyone.

This person is Clark, who was brainwashed and hypnotized by Lionel with drugs, and completely forgot everything that happened before.

He was given to a couple who were unable to have children and became a farm boy.

He was frail and sickly from a young age, and suffered from frequent headaches, requiring him to take 'medicine' on time. He also had to wear the amulet given to him by his 'parents' at all times.

A green kryptonite necklace.

Clark grew up completely unaware of this until he met a new 'transfer student' in middle school.

Lex Luthor.

The two became brothers again.

And this position lasted for nearly thirty years.

……

……

When Thunder and Kara, guided by Lucifer, arrived in the Underworld.

The place is a complete mess, as if it had just experienced the apocalypse.

A dome, constructed using some kind of advanced optical technology and disguised as the sky, was torn to pieces by the extremely high-temperature heat field.

Like a shattered mirror, it cracked layer by layer, and the debris kept falling down.

The entire town was engulfed in flames and thick smoke, and countless charred corpses lay buried beneath the ruins of collapsed buildings.

It filled the air with an offensive and extremely pungent smell.

And Clark,

In the ruins of a church, he was holding the body of a woman dressed in a wedding gown.

He knelt on the ground with a blank expression.

This scene,

The scene was remarkably similar to the one in Lei Ming's memory, before the timeline was reset, where Louise died in Clark's arms.

The only difference is that,

Louise died in the World Overlap, while Lana... was killed by Clark himself.

In the instant he collapsed, his heat vision destroyed the entire church, and no one present was spared, including his parents, wife, and brothers.

Even though it was all fake, it still caused Clark unbearable pain after he regained consciousness, a pain and despair as if his heart was being torn apart...

Clark Kent, a man with almost the same unparalleled strength as him, also had a fate just as tumultuous.

But there is one small difference.

Even though Clark lived in a false world constructed for him by others, there were still people who truly loved him.

His life may have been a fabrication, but the love his parents and Lana had for him was real.

Even his former nemesis, Lex Luthor, treated him like a brother.

She was even willing to betray her own father for him.

Lei Ming admitted that he could not match Clark's personal charisma and could not envy it.

Because he understood a truth very early on.

Those are people like them.

Some things are destined to be unattainable.

Kara looked at Clark in the ruins and felt a pang of heartache for no reason, even though she didn't know the cause and effect of what had happened.

She had thought that finding her cousin who had been missing for many years should be a happy thing.

But I never expected that this would be the first scene I saw.

Chapter 131 The Person I Hate the Most

A giant artificial satellite is suspended about two thousand kilometers above Earth's orbit.

This is the headquarters of the Justice League.

Watchtower.

Just a few dozen hours earlier, the watchtower received a 'package' from the International Space Station.

A girl of about fifteen or sixteen years old.

She was currently in an isolation room inside the watchtower, sitting on the bed, gazing blankly at the starry sky and universe outside the window.

He seemed puzzled as to why he was in this place.

Unbeknownst to her, someone was watching her through a surveillance camera in the corner of the room.

Two figures, one in black and one in green, stood in front of the control panel in the main control room of the watchtower.

"She looks like just an ordinary girl."

"Yes."

"But she can survive in the universe."

"Yes."

"She also said that the timeline of this world has been reset, and that there should have been two worlds originally?"

"Yes."

Do you believe what she said?

"Yes,

No… I’m not sure.”

Bruce shook his head and turned to look at the man in the green battle suit beside him.

"But I'm sure she wasn't lying; at least she believed she was telling the truth."

The man in green next to Bruce is John Stewart.

One of the Green Lanterns.

He was an architect and a former Marine.

Since Hal Jordan left the Justice League, he became the new Green Lantern as a substitute and joined the Justice League. The satellite watchtower under his feet was also his creation.

He was standing with his arms crossed, looking thoughtfully at the girl on the screen.

"Let's observe for a while. If what this girl says is true, then it means..."

There exists in the world today an alien species even more powerful than the Kryptonians.

Bruce nodded. "I think so too."

"correct…"

John suddenly said:

"What did she say her name was again?"

"Christine."

Bruce had barely finished speaking when he noticed movement coming from the control panel in front of him.

Members of the Justice League sent out distress signals and marked their locations.

"It's Kara, she's fighting someone."