"I don't know who is helping her, but there is one thing I must pay attention to."
Louise said seriously, "So many things have happened in your family, with penguins and lions. Once it were exposed, it would quickly become the focus of the news. But a few days have passed and the media is quiet. No one is reporting on it."
"Even if the media didn't report it, the satellite would have captured the footage and sent the anomaly to the FBI. But in the end, the FBI didn't come to our door."
Clark frowned and said, "Someone helped her cover her tracks."
"Of course."
"Who is that person? What is his purpose?"
Louise shook her head. "There's too little information to guess. Perhaps you could ask your cousin."
…
On an icy island somewhere in the Arctic Ocean.
Linda Danvers landed in the center of the island and raised the crystal pendant. A white light shot out from the pendant, penetrated the ice, and disappeared deep underground.
A few seconds later, the ground suddenly shook and the ice cracked into countless cracks, as if something was about to come out from the ground.
The tremors became stronger and stronger, spreading over an area of several thousand meters.
suddenly!
With a loud bang!
The ice exploded, and a massive building rose from below.
The building is extremely large, with a length and width of more than a kilometer. It is made up of countless large and small crystal pillars. The crystal pillars reflect various colors in the sunlight, red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple... The different colors of light blend together, wriggling and changing, as if they have life.
"The Fortress of Solitude!"
Linda murmured to herself, her eyes filled with excitement as she walked to the door and presented the crystal pendant.
A beam of light shot out from the main gate, enveloping the girl's body:
"Checking the information..."
"Kara Zor-El!"
"Welcome back!"
The white light quickly intensified, and the next second, the person disappeared.
Inside the fortress, the central control room.
Looking at the buildings around her engraved with the El family emblem, Linda couldn't help but cover her mouth and sat on the ground crying softly.
A middle-aged man with gray hair and gentle eyes came over and asked gently,
"Are you okay? Kara!"
"Father!"
Linda was stunned for a moment, then she thought of something and suddenly woke up.
"Don't test me this way. I know it's a projection."
As soon as he finished speaking, the middle-aged man disappeared, replaced by a gray suspended object the size of a human brain. The suspended object was made of liquid metal and kept wriggling and changing, occasionally transforming into various human faces. These faces were all members of the El family.
"Hello, Kara, I'm Al, the intelligent butler of the Fortress of Solitude. Welcome back."
Linda wiped away her tears and said seriously, "I want the highest authority in the Fortress of Solitude."
"Ultimate authority belongs to Kal-El."
"What permissions do I get?"
"All permissions except the highest."
"I need to check my permissions."
"Please wait a moment."
A virtual screen was projected, detailing all the powers that Kara Zor-El, a descendant of the House of El, could control. Linda carefully browsed through it for a dozen seconds before turning off the screen and saying solemnly,
"Help me locate Krypton."
"I'm sorry, but Krypton cannot be located."
Linda's heart tightened. Although she had expected this outcome, she couldn't help but ask, "Why?"
"Krypton no longer exists."
Just a few simple words hit her hard, and it took her a while to calm down.
"Locate the red dwarf star LHS2520!"
The gray suspended object changed rapidly, and a star emitting red light and as bright as the sun emerged.
"The red dwarf star LHS2520 has been located!"
Linda breathed a sigh of relief.
Krypton is a planet orbiting the red dwarf star LHS2520. As long as we find LHS2520, we can return to our hometown.
For the next period of time, Linda wandered around the fortress, and after understanding the permissions, she left directly.
The Fortress of Solitude was beautiful, but it was too big and too empty. The uninhabited fortress felt like a cage, reminding her of an unpleasant experience.
A few minutes later, in a villa in the western suburbs of the metropolis.
When Luke saw the Kryptonian girl falling from the sky, he quickly stood up.
"Success?"
Linda nodded and tossed the chip to him, "This is what you want."
Luke quickly took out the scanner and copied the data on the chip to the computer. However, when he saw the tadpole script on the screen, he was completely stunned.
"Kryptonian writing?"
"Why is it Kryptonian writing?"
The girl feigned innocence and said, "Kryptonian technology is of course recorded in Kryptonian writing. Is there a problem?"
Luke: "…"
You have a good point, but this is just bullshit.
"Ms. Danvers, please stop making trouble. I haven't learned the Kryptonian language, so how can I understand it?"
"That's your problem, not mine."
"That's too much."
Luke was also annoyed. "I helped you out of good intentions, giving you advice and covering up for you..."
Linda glared angrily, "What did you say?"
Luke corrected himself, "I'm not covering my tracks. To help you, I hacked into the satellites of seven countries, and all you give me is incomprehensible data. Don't you think that's excessive?"
"It doesn't matter if you don't understand, you can learn!"
"What are you learning? Kryptonian writing!"
The girl said as a matter of course, "If you learn Kryptonian language, you will understand it."
"Stop joking, okay?"
"I'm not kidding."
Luke was stunned for a moment, and his eyes immediately became strange. "Ms. Danvers, don't beat around the bush. Tell me, what do you want?"
Linda coughed and said in a reserved manner, "The Fortress of Solitude is short of a co-pilot. I think you are quite capable and can take on the role."
"If you agree, I will teach you the Kryptonian language and even some other Kryptonian techniques."
When she spoke, she held her head high as if giving something alms, but her hands behind her back and her stumbling tone revealed her nervousness.
Luke didn't say anything either. He just sat on the sofa and looked at her quietly, which made her face turn red and her heart feel anxious. Then he said slowly,
"Your eyes told me you were afraid. Now I remember it was because of that trip. You once told me that when you came to Earth, you accidentally strayed into a chaotic space-time where time had stopped. You stayed there for over a decade before you were able to escape."
"Long-term loneliness can lead to confusion, fear, loss, irritability, and bottomless despair. I know that feeling very well. Having experienced it once, I never want to..."
Without waiting for him to speak, Linda turned and left. "Forget it if you don't want to go. Just ignore what I said."
"Wait a moment."
Luke asked word by word, "Tell me how long it takes to go there and back. I want an exact number."
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