Chapter 64: Declaration

On Tuesday, in the square in the center of the metropolis.

There is no sunshine in today's metropolis, and gray clouds shroud the sky above the city, and from the clouds rained finely. The high-rise buildings are silently infiltrated, and every inch of the air is exuding urban moisture.

But the rain did not stop the enthusiastic crowd. People gathered in the middle of the Metropolitan Square with umbrellas. Colorful umbrellas stretched out in succession, looking down from the sky like a field full of flowers. In this square more than a month ago, the citizens of the metropolis cheered for the arrival of the new Superman, and this time the theme was about Superman.

The controversy over Superman's controversial changes reached its peak on Tuesday. Among them, the internal debate in Metropolis, the birthplace of Superman, was particularly intense, and finally evolved into an open debate today. The most clear-cut people of the supporters and opponents of Superman's current practices were selected as representatives of both sides in today's debate. Both sides formed a small team of more than a dozen people, ready to start a fierce debate on Superman.

The debate was scheduled at nine o'clock in the morning, but before eight o'clock, the square was full of emotional people. Before the meeting officially started, the citizens participating in the meeting split into two factions and quarreled fiercely. Many people held signs with opposition slogans, and many people also raised support for Superman. The argument between the two sides intensified, and the atmosphere was boiling before the nine o'clock bell came.

At 8:50, representatives from both sides of the debate stepped onto the stage and the host briefly introduced it. The huge square finally ushered in a brief moment of silence at this time, allowing the host to have the opportunity to speak the opening remarks.

However, this debate never officially kicked off. Just as the host introduced the representatives of both sides, and was about to recite the prepared speech to guide the debate to start, the protagonist of the debate unexpectedly came to the scene in person.

That's right, it is Superman himself, who people are arguing about. With the gust of wind and afterimages, he dragged two thin water lines drawn by rain from the high sky and crashed into the center of the stage. Countless drops of water flew around the bright cloak, and the transparent waves spread out around him.

The host's head went blank for an instant, and all the speeches that were memorably memorized suddenly disappeared from his mind, but this is nothing shameful, because hundreds of people in this square reacted like him. Everyone stayed in place, and the debate representatives stood on the two wings of the stage like sculptures. Only the continuous drizzle still proved the passage of time.

Superman took a step forward, and the red boots stepped on the stagnant water, naturally becoming the protagonist of the entire venue. Numerous cameras were concentrated on him, and the images were simultaneously transmitted to multiple large video websites and news channels, and countless people were sharing this scene through electronic data in front of the screen.

He glanced at everyone with a cold and sharp gaze, and everyone who was swept by that gaze involuntarily lowered his head. Superman retracted his gaze and said loudly: "I know what you are here for today. Many of you feel that what I have done has crossed the bottom line and that what I have done is too extreme to be recognized. But in What I want to say here is that I am not doing what I do for praise and recognition. It was not before, and it will never be. I do all this because it is necessary."

He paused, but no one dared to interject, and the square was so quiet that he could not hear a cough.

"I know you all have a lot of questions, such as why I have to make these changes." He continued, "Actually, I don't know. I guess the experience of resurrection made me see more clearly. I have seen countless difficulties and tragedies on this planet, countless things that I have the ability to change, but have not changed in the past due to various factors, which makes me feel regret. But now here, with this opportunity, I want to The world promises that I will never allow tragedies to happen again, even if it means getting my hands dirty."

When he was talking about this, a helicopter suddenly broke into the quiet meeting place, and landed not far from the stage with a roar of a hurricane, with the Planet Daily logo printed on the shell. The hatch was eagerly opened when it was still in the air. Louise Lane jumped off before waiting for the plane to be completely stable, hurriedly onto the stage, and stopped at a position about five steps away from Superman.

She succeeded in attracting Superman's attention, and he also turned his head to look at her from the sky, and fell into a sly silence.

If Superman is truly in the dark, and there is only one person in the world who can pull him back to the light, the first choice must be Louise Lane. If it hadn't been for the damn doomsday invasion six years ago, they would have been married.

Louise gasped in a low voice, adjusted her turbulent breathing for a moment, and asked, "Where have you been?"

He did not answer.

"What happened?" She continued to ask without giving up, "Tell me and let me help you. No matter what happens, we can face it together."

"Sorry, Louise." He finally spoke, but his voice was as cold as mechanical, "Can't ask questions today."

Louise was stunned.

He stopped paying attention to Louise, turned his head again, facing everyone, and continued the previous topic as if nothing happened: "I haven't finished. It's not just the warlords and terrorists, but all the people in this world that have caused bloodshed Tragedy, life-saving villains, I want to warn you, your good days are over. All sins will be punished...just start with the worst."

After speaking, he didn't say a word any more, and directly rushed into the sky like a rocket. Once again, a wave of air mixed with rain exploded on the stage, and Louise was shocked to retreat for two steps, staring in disbelief in the direction where the little dot disappeared in the sky.

He didn't even look back at her again.

At this moment, Jay, who saw this scene through the webcast in the dormitory, walked outside and dialed the phone number of Kara, who had returned to Nacino to go to work: "Carla? Did you see those?"

"I saw it." Kara's tone sounded visibly restless. "Clark is not normal. We must find him... I'm going to the metropolis now. He needs our help."

"Or there will be others who need help," Jay said. This is equally bad for them. If this superman is allowed to continue what he is doing, the situation will soon affect other superhumans including them. Superman is declaring war on the entire world, and soon every person with abilities has to choose a side in the upcoming war.

And no matter which side you choose to stand on, it means that the current balance will be broken and the peaceful life of each of them will be a thing of the past.

"Did you hear what he said last?" Jay frowned. "I have an ominous hunch, as if he would do something crazier than he is now."

At the same time, Gotham, Bat Cave.

"All sins will be punished...just start with the worst."

The picture on the bat computer's super-large monitor was frozen at this moment, and Bruce Wayne stared at the face of Superman in the picture, his face pale.

"That looks... bad, sir." Alfred stood behind him, staring at the Bat Computer screen with a frown, "Do you think that is Master Clark?"

"I don't know, Alfred." Bruce said with his hands folded. After a while, he bounced up from the seat abruptly: "But the worst has happened, Alfred, I will go out and take the big guy."

"Big guy? Sir, don't you mean..."

Bruce looked directly into his eyes and said, "Yes, Alfred, that's it."

Alfred furrowed his brows, hesitated for a while, and couldn't help saying, "I don't think things are so bad, sir."

"No," Bruce stood up stubbornly and walked to a dark corner deep in the cave, "worse than that."