Chapter 35: Unexpected Encounter

On weekends, by the lake outside the metropolis.

Carla regretted believing Jay's words, because she had begun to feel that this was "meeting parents" in the traditional sense.

She chose to appear in the image of Carla Kent today, because the image of the super girl seems to be too unconventional for the picnic activities. When she appeared in a bright shirt and short skirt with those square-frame glasses, Mr. Reynolds' chin almost fell to the ground.

"Are you... the assistant to Ms. Grant?" he asked in surprise.

"Well, my name is Carla Kent, please advise."

Mr. Reynolds shook hands with her blankly, unable to recover from his surprise for a while. This is no wonder, because Cara, who is Ms. Grant's personal assistant, gives everyone the impression of a clumsy, honest and silly girl. It seems that it is difficult for you to overlap the image of her and the super girl. At this time, he carefully looked at Carla again, and found that the only thing that made her look silly was the heavy pair of glasses, and the pair of glasses hidden under the thick lenses were crystal clear.

After looking for a long time, Mr. Reynolds commented: "You look like two people with her."

"That's right." Kara said with a smile, "Superman once told me that I would be surprised how good a pair of glasses can be for disguise. I didn't believe it at that time."

So they started talking naturally, which was a good beginning. At first they both seemed a little bit cautious. The Reynolds had never seen a real superhero so close, and Kara...well, she didn't know why she was nervous.

But this stage passed quickly, and Jay was very happy to see that the Reynolds and Kara seemed to have a good chat. The Reynolds and his wife began to ask questions about her as a super girl. They showed a great interest in Superman and other superheroes in life other than being heroes. When they heard about the various short stories about Superman's growth experience, they were very surprised.

When Kara said that the birth of Superman originated from an inconspicuous farm in Kansas, Mrs. Reynolds couldn't help but wonder: "Oh my God, is he a kid from a Kansas farm?"

"Smallville, that's the name of that town." Carla added, "He invited me to his house."

The Reynolds couple showed even more surprised expressions. They looked at each other, and then Mr. Reynolds said: "Oh my God, Jane, you and Superman are still hometowns!"

Mrs. Reynolds immediately raised her eyebrows and seemed to be quite proud of the outstanding people in her hometown. Mr. Reynolds thought for a while, and said: "This sounds...it sounds reasonable, but I guess we just never thought about that. The fixed thinking makes us feel that Superman should fall from the sky. , Helping people, and when he does not help people, he floats behind which cloud in the sky, overlooking the world like a god. But he grew up on the earth, of course he should have his own life..... ."

Mrs. Reynolds suddenly thought of something and interrupted: "By the way, where are his parents? Are they still there?"

"Yeah." Kara nodded, "They have always lived on a farm in Kansas. They are really nice, and I often visit them during holidays... They are like my only remaining family."

"Maybe we can go together next time." Jay interrupted, "I really want to see them too."

"Of course." Kara laughed. "They will be very happy to see you."

They set up the stove and began to prepare lunch. Mrs. Reynolds asked more about the Kent Farm, but it didn't take long for her interest to shift to Cara herself, which was also the beginning of her disaster.

Mrs. Reynolds began to ask if she had talked with her boyfriend, and Carla was embarrassed to say that she had, but it had been a while. She then asked about Cara's personal interests again, feeling like she was checking her household registration, which made her quite uncomfortable.

Seeing that the situation seemed to be wrong, Jay interrupted in time, "Uh, I seem to have left some ingredients in the car. Would you mind going with me to get it?"

Kara seemed to see the savior, and said hurriedly: "I will go with you."

The two went half a circle along the lake to the parking lot. Jay opened the back cover of the car and started rummaging. He actually found a missing handbag from the corner of the trunk. Kara leaned against the car in frustration and said, "You lie to me, I don't think I can trust you anymore."

Jay stretched his hands innocently: "I don't have any. I said that only my dad wanted to meet the superhero who saved his life. This is the truth. I have no guarantee that my mom will not ask unnecessary questions."

Cara thought about it, as if that was the case. That means you understand it wrong?

The more she thought about it, the more she felt as if she had been fooled, and she snorted as if she was playing temper, "Anyway, I'm angry, you have to make up for me."

"Well, I lied, I was wrong." Jay raised his hand in an extremely solemn manner, "Then you say how I should pay for it."

Carla was asked again now, she just complained casually, but didn't have any specifics. She tilted her head and thought for a while, and said, "I haven't thought about it for a while, so I can wait until I think about it."

The two people met inadvertently, and suddenly found that they had unconsciously approached a little too much. Jay suddenly felt that there was an indescribable magic in her blue eyes, and he caught his eyeball firmly and couldn't escape.

In an instant, the green mountains and clear lakes that they were in were all blurred in Jay's eyes, and faded to the brink of disappearance together with the blue sky and white clouds. There seemed to be only the beautiful woman in front of him in the whole world, and even the silly glasses that Cara put on his nose looked cute.

He didn't know what he was thinking at this moment, or more likely he just stopped thinking. He allowed his super brain to enter a temporary idling, letting his instinct drive himself to slowly and boldly approach Carla's delicate face. With those beautiful eyes open, she had no intention of avoiding it. Jay felt that his senses were released uncontrollably in a short moment. He could clearly hear Carla's soft and heavy breathing, and he could hear the gradual acceleration of her heartbeat in her chest. The beat of the blood. Oh and his own heartbeat, also losing his balance out of control.

They were closer than ever before, and the two figures of the sun projected on the lawn had merged into one. Jay could smell the breath of the other party with a unique fragrance, and was unconsciously attracted by her jade-like eyes.

But at the moment when something seemed to happen, a faint noise penetrated through the layers of bushes and penetrated into the sharp ears of the two at the same time. They separated quickly, saw a trace of embarrassment in each other's eyes, and then tacitly turned their attention to the shrub that made the noise.

The next development was completely out of the normal scope of a family picnic. They never expected that a woman would suddenly emerge from the rustling bushes beside this tranquil lake. She was wearing work clothes that looked like a worker in a certain company, with long black rubber shoes on her feet, staggering, her face was pale, her eyes were between waking and unconscious, as if she would fall down at any time.

Drilling out of this bush seemed to have exhausted all her remaining strength, she knelt down weakly, and the two hurriedly stepped forward to hold her to prevent her from falling.

Jay thought she looked familiar, maybe they had seen it somewhere before.

And Kara directly screamed out in disbelief: "Louis!?"

Jay instantly remembered where he had seen this woman-on a photo framed in a beautiful frame on the wall of the Daily Planet. She is Louise Lane, the legendary female reporter of the Planet Daily.

She is the heroine of the Superman story.