I get stronger by sunbathing, just like Superman.

Without a word, Lei Ming grabbed the black thug by the neck and shoved him backward! A series of sharp cracks rang out from the thug's body as he bent at a ninety-degree angle at the waist…

The old woman stared blankly at the thug lying on the ground, his body folded in half, then rolled her eyes and collapsed to the ground.

Lei Ming listened to the old woman's heartbeat; she had simply fainted. Then, he took the thug's phone and flew into the sky…

After reconnecting with the White Queen, Lei Ming finally understood what had happened at his home. Based on what Max and the others had told him, along with the 911 call recording and statements the White Queen had obtained from the police, he roughly grasped the situation…

Four people were searching for the 'Tear of Apollo' or the 'Sun Crystal', and for some reason they knew that the gem was in Lei Ming's possession. They came to him, only to find that Lei Ming was away on a long trip.

The group was then imprisoned. One of the women, dressed in gothic style, accidentally taught Max a spell. Finally, an old man claiming to be a wizard emerged from the gem and used magic to transport them to Wyoming…

Lei Ming thought it was ridiculous; a spell from a comic book could actually break a magical seal…

Besides that… he now has three questions. First: why did scanning the gemstone with the bracelet show everything was normal at the time?

Second: Why did those four people know the gem was here?

Third: Why did the wizard take Max and his friends to Wyoming, more than a thousand kilometers away?

The answer to the first question is quite easy to guess. Perhaps physical technology can't detect magic; at least the hardware of the bracelet doesn't allow it to perform deeper operations, such as detecting radioactive isotopes. After all, the bracelet was originally designed as a convenient communication and location device for monitoring vital signs and possessing some computer functions…

The second issue, putting aside the fact that he couldn't possibly be unaware that he was being followed... only Electrolux knew that he had obtained the gem, and he had no reason to tell anyone else.

Unless… those people possess some kind of supernatural ability to find items, the answer might lie with the gothic woman who taught Max the incantation…

As for the answer to the third question, he didn't know and didn't want to know, because he wasn't very interested...

"White Queen, immediately use surveillance footage to find a woman who appeared near this town around that time... around twenty years old and dressed in a gothic style."

"Searching... Target found matching description..."

Less than five seconds after Lei Ming issued the command, the White Queen provided the answer. Having been upgraded by a supercomputer, it now has a processing speed of over 50 million operations per second, making small-scale monitoring and querying extremely easy for it.

Then, more than twenty screenshots of surveillance footage appeared on Lei Ming's phone. He eventually identified a woman sitting in the back seat of a black SUV, wearing heavy smoky makeup and a gothic style, looking out the window. Besides her, there was another woman and two men in the car.

Lei Ming immediately issued the order.

"That's her! Find her current location!"

"Searching... Search complete. The target was last seen on surveillance footage one hour ago at Los Angeles International Airport. According to passenger information from the airport network, she boarded a flight to Nevada, scheduled to land in one hour and thirty minutes..."

“Nevada, is that right… I’ll go to the destination and wait for her… You continue searching for Anko’s whereabouts, and notify me immediately if there are any developments…”

Lei Ming checked the route and was about to fly towards Nevada when he was interrupted by the White Queen...

“Lei Ming… Ever since I connected to the supercomputer, I’ve been searching for relevant information on the internal networks of various global powers. Until ten minutes ago, I obtained a video of human experiments from three years ago from an encrypted network. Perhaps you should take a look…”

"Human...experiment video?"

Lei Ming frowned, and then saw a video pop up on his phone screen.

In the video, a Mediterranean man wearing a white lab coat walks out, speaking fluent Russian…

Chapter Twenty-One: The Flight That Was Forced to Land

Less than a few hours had passed since the 'underground palace' incident, and the military hadn't even had time to block the news. The appearance of the underground palace within the United States had already caused a huge uproar.

It's not that it's too late... it's that it's simply impossible to block it.

Not only did it happen so suddenly, but some fearless tourists in the national park immediately uploaded videos of the underground palace emerging, and some even started live-streaming their desperate attempts to survive…

Furthermore, due to the military's mishandling of the situation, several media outlets followed the scene with helicopters, and footage of the battle between the two supernatural beings is now circulating online, sparking heated discussions.

So many people witnessed it that the authorities simply couldn't block it.

Meanwhile, the top U.S. officials in the White House were too preoccupied with the aftermath of the "underground palace" incident to deal with the public and the media. They had to arrange for personnel to seal off the site, handle public relations and appease the public through various official agencies, and finally send a large number of researchers into the underground palace to investigate and understand the cause and effect of the incident.

It is understood that this palace may have existed underground in Yellowstone National Park for a long time, but it has remained undiscovered. It is likely a relic of a civilization left by Native Americans two thousand years ago. The murals and totems on the interior walls of the palace also provide evidence for this. However, there are still many questions that require professional research and answers…

In just a few hours, the soldiers stationed outside the underground palace drove away countless people who came to interview or other unrelated individuals, until a silver Chevrolet SUV appeared.

"Supermarket Management Bureau? I've never heard of that organization! Get out of here immediately!"

Seeing the soldiers at the checkpoint throw down their identification and raise their rifles, Dylan in the car immediately raised his hand and shouted:

"Wait! Wait! My boss's name is Amanda Waller! Maybe you could give her a call or something..."

"Shut up! Put your hands behind your head and get out of the car right now!"

However, the soldiers were not buying it.

The female co-pilot couldn't stand it any longer and made a call, handing it to the soldier. The soldier cautiously took the phone, and the moment he put it to his ear, his expression suddenly became respectful. He shouted "Yes, sir!" several times before letting them through the checkpoint…

Dylan then carefully started the car.

In the passenger seat, a woman with a buzz cut, a thin face, and narrow eyes, whose skin clearly indicated Native American ancestry, crossed her arms and looked at Dylan, who was driving, with disdain.

"Your performance was like that of an amateur rookie. I really wonder if the guy who awarded you the medal for bravery has lost his mind."

Faced with the sarcastic remarks from the head of the 'Superpower Bureau,' who was also Amanda Waller's partner, Dylan simply shrugged indifferently and continued driving.

Ever since Amanda Waller left him an address, Dylan hadn't slept a wink all night, tossing and turning, and finally went to that address...

On the outside, the place looks like an ordinary food processing plant located in the suburbs, but it is actually a different world a thousand meters underground. It not only has a vast space and a large number of workers with corresponding professional skills, but also a large number of strange and bizarre 'containment items'.

There is also an elevator on the lowest level that can take you to a special prison hundreds of kilometers away in a short time. It is said that some 'special' criminals are held there.

Dylan then realized that the Superpower Management Bureau was a strategic command center that integrated intelligence gathering, technological research and development, and containment. Unlike Fopoli and Aifubiai, this place only dealt with supernatural-related events, and the 'Underground Palace' was naturally within their scope of investigation.

But this time they weren't going to the palace; they had been ordered to retrieve an item...

A severed hand.

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Late at night, with the last flight to Nevada landing in an hour, most passengers were already fast asleep. Although the events in the national park had shocked them, prompting some exclamations about the wonders of the world, they all went to bed as usual, and no one noticed anything amiss…

A shadowy figure appeared in the dark clouds outside the window.

Suddenly, the aircraft, which had its autopilot set to the flight path, shook, startling many people, including the co-pilot who was taking a nap.

"what happened?"

"It's just turbulent airflow... don't worry..."

Captain Nathan yawned and changed his position to continue sleeping.

"No...it's not turbulence...the instruments show our aircraft is veering significantly off course!"

"The co-pilot said nervously."

"Watfa?!"

Nathan instantly snapped to attention upon hearing this, ripped off his blindfold, and began checking the control panel, only to find everything normal! But the plane was definitely changing course! It was visibly obvious to the naked eye! Terrified, he immediately notified ground control for assistance…

The passengers in the cabin also noticed something was wrong and began to stir!

Suddenly! The entire fuselage shook violently again, and then began to accelerate... faster and faster!

"The plane is going to crash! We're going to die!"

Someone shouted something, and everyone panicked; the cabin erupted in chaos…

Only one figure in first class quickly slipped into the restroom, and no matter how chaotic things were outside, the door never opened again.

Outside, in the cold night sky, a passenger plane was diving at a 45-degree angle at a speed of 3,000 kilometers per hour! And it was still accelerating!

Above the plane, a figure was clinging to the fuselage with both hands, the fierce wind unable to shake his body at all!

Lei Ming's expression was calm... but his eyes always suppressed an emotion called 'rage'!

Let the bomb explode in your mouth...

His body was immersed in mercury for five hours…

His body was continuously burned at temperatures exceeding 3,000 degrees Celsius...

Injecting various lethal doses of toxins into the body, recording and observing the results...

And various forms of physical and psychological brainwashing and suggestion…

This is what Lei Ming saw in that video; it's no exaggeration to describe it as inhumane!

The subject of the experiment was An Ke, whom he had been searching for for four years!

Based on the torture Anko suffered in the video, the White Queen speculated that her body had also changed due to the environment of this planet, but it did not seem to be as exaggerated as when Lei Ming first received the transformation of stellar energy, but it was still far beyond the physical condition of ordinary humans here.

In the experimental video, the Mediterranean man appears to have covered Anko's ears with some kind of special audio device, making her extremely weak until she was powerless to resist.

It was precisely this special audio device that mitigated the impact of the encore, allowing each experiment to proceed...

The White Queen speculated that this device might also work on Rayleigh, who was also a human on the 'Gaia', and could become his fatal weakness, so he had to be very careful.

But Lei Ming was not afraid, not because of arrogance, but because he now had the support of laser eyes, and long-range attacks were no longer a weakness. No matter what kind of black technology device it was, he did not believe that it could stop his laser eye sweep for even a second!

So after calming down, he immediately had the White Queen find the flight path of the passenger plane carrying the Gothic woman. He located the plane directly using satellite positioning and then planned to force it to land!

If his guess is correct... that woman really does have some kind of magic or superpower to find things, which means she might be able to help him find Anko's exact location!

Unfortunately, although the White Queen managed to hack into the Russian Federation military's internal network based on the man's appearance in the video, she couldn't find any record of him. It seemed that, like Anke, his existence was also highly classified within the Russian Federation military, so classified that there was no record of him in the network database.

As for the source of the video, the White Queen provided an address, but it was too remote and had too many uncertainties, so he chose to find the Gothic woman first, and only make further plans if he found nothing…

As a result, the passengers on the plane had to land on the spot because of someone's exposure. This was only because Lei Ming showed mercy. If he hadn't wanted to avoid killing innocent people, he could have rushed into the cabin, found the target instantly, and left. Why would he have bothered to use his bio-force field to protect the plane and the passengers inside and force a landing?