Harry doesn't want to be a wizard, he wants to be a superhero

Chapter 327 Clark: Magic is much more useful than heat vision!

The pale green aurora, like a giant veil suspended in the sky with violet halos around its edges, slowly swept across the radar antennas of the military base, turning the cold metal dome into flowing jade.

After climbing over the low fence of the military base, Louise, camera in hand, came to the front of the glacier.

She slowly adjusted the camera settings, and just as the lights from the observation deck swept across the glacier, she pressed the shutter.

Louise picked up her camera, ready to see how her photos turned out.

But after observing for a moment, she suddenly froze, zoomed in on a section of the photo, and saw something that shocked her.

On the glacier that has remained unchanged for thousands of years, two figures walk on it.

They were two strangers, which would have been fine, but they were wearing cool summer t-shirts.

Logically speaking, wearing such thin clothing and walking in sub-zero temperatures for less than fifteen minutes would cause hypothermia.

Judging from the way the two figures walked, they had clearly been walking for a long time, but their faces remained unchanged, as if they were not affected by the cold environment at all.

Louise's eyes lit up when she thought of the object resembling an alien spaceship beneath the glacier; it seemed like she had stumbled upon a major news story.

Louise immediately walked forward, following the path the two figures had taken, and ventured deep into the glacier, wanting to see what they had come here for in secret.
Following the path, Louise came to a glacier. Looking at the uneven glacier and the cliff on the side, she gritted her teeth and followed.

Fortunately, the uneven glacier had raised footholds, and Louise easily walked along the glacier.

At first, Louise thought she would need to cross the glacier to reach the other side to see any trace of the two of them.

But to his surprise, he discovered a huge cave on the glacier after walking only about ten meters along it.

The cave is about three meters in diameter, extremely spacious, and its edges are a regular circle. It doesn't look like a natural formation, but rather like a man-made ice cave.

However, Louise clearly remembered that when she came in the afternoon, she had looked closely at the glacier several times and did not see any trace of a huge ice cave.

Could it be that this huge ice cave was dug out in just a few hours?
So how was it excavated?
Louise touched the ice at the edge of the ice cave, where there were obvious signs of melting.

Louise couldn't believe her eyes. Could it be that this ice cave was actually formed by melting with thermal energy?

What kind of instrument could release such astonishing heat and excavate such a deep ice cave in a solid ice layer that has existed for thousands of years in just a few hours?

Can current human technology really achieve this?

Louise swallowed hard, her whole body tensing up instantly. Both the two strangers who had been wearing only thin clothes and the strange ice cave she was trapped in were full of questions.

If it were an ordinary person, they might turn around and leave, telling the stationed troops what had happened.

But Louise, being a journalist, was driven by an insatiable curiosity, so she gritted her teeth and strode into the ice cave.

She wanted to see what was inside.

………………

Meanwhile, Harry watched with curiosity as Clark used his eyes to shoot out intense rays that melted the ice in front of him.

Clark felt uncomfortable under Harry's gaze, so he asked helplessly:
"What's wrong, Harry? Is there something wrong with me?"

Harry shook his head: "I just find it a little strange. You said you can get stronger by sunbathing, but how can sunlight alone provide enough energy to shoot out high-energy heat rays?"

“I don’t know either. It’s been like this since I was a child. Maybe it’s due to some kind of alien technology… Wait, look at my gaze. It’s creepy. You don’t want to dissect me for research, do you?” Clark asked warily.

Harry shook his head: "Of course not, you're my friend, how could I do such a thing?"

Clark had just breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Harry say, "But if possible, please give me a vial of blood and some flesh tissue later. I want to study it."

"And you said you didn't want to dissect me!"

Clark melted the several-meter-thick layer of ice in front of him, and what was revealed was no longer ice, but a rather spacious area.

A spaceship is located in this space. The spaceship is almost completely covered by ice, but a small part of it is still exposed.

Perhaps sensing the approach of the two, the spaceship, which had been buried in the glacier for who knows how long, began to glow faintly on its surface.

Even after tens of thousands of years of wear and tear, this spaceship still retains its ability to operate perfectly.

Clark took a deep breath and clutched the small rectangular device his parents had given him.

His adoptive parents told him that the cuboid device came to Earth with him and was inserted into the core of the small spaceship, and that it must be a very important component.

With this component, it might be possible to open the spaceship.

As Clark reached out and brought the cuboid device closer to the spaceship, the spaceship shuddered and a hatch opened.

The ice on it did not affect the operation of the hatch at all. After the ice was completely shaken off, the scene inside the spaceship appeared before Harry and Clark's eyes.

The two entered, and after observing, Harry judged: "A very standard interstellar civilization. Its level of civilization should be at the level of a hegemon in the entire universe. It seems that you have an extraordinary background."

Clark didn't answer Harry; instead, he stared intently at a device in front of him.

On that instrument, there was also a rectangular recess. When he placed the cuboid device into the recess, the two easily joined together.

After he pressed the cuboid device into the recess, the entire spaceship lit up completely, and the spaceship was officially activated.

Clark was very excited: "Harry, did you see that? He started the spaceship, and it really is related to my background."

Harry nodded and said to Clark:
“That’s right, the device in your hand is the key to this spaceship. We might be able to get into the cockpit of this spaceship, where there should be more information.”

But before the two could find a spot with a driver's cab, a cry of pain suddenly rang out behind them.

"Ahhh!"

………………

Louise carefully walked for more than ten minutes in the dark ice cave before finally reaching the end.

When she saw the spaceship, which was hundreds of meters long, she was both surprised and excited.

Without a doubt, she had encountered news that was enough to shock the world.

Seeing that the spaceship's hatch had been opened, Louise guessed that the two mysterious people from before had entered the spaceship.

What are the identities of those two mysterious people? Their bodies seem different from humans, and they even know there is a spaceship here and can start it up. Could these two mysterious people be aliens?
Louise carefully climbed over the door and went inside, intending to see what the interior was like and take some photos.

As soon as she stepped inside, she saw a robot floating at the hatch. The robot was floating silently in the air, clearly possessing some kind of anti-gravity technology.

Louise immediately raised her camera, ready to take a picture.

But as soon as Louise pressed the shutter button, the still mechanical body in the viewfinder suddenly lit up with a red light.

Before she could even back away, a scorching laser beam pierced through her down jacket, tearing open a charred wound in her abdomen.

The excruciating pain made her curl up, and the camera crashed to the ground. The screen still showed the last image, the robot slowly floating towards her.

Louise looked down at her abdomen, where blood gushed from the wound, soaking her gray sweater.

She gritted her teeth and tried to crawl away, but her vision began to blur, and she could hear the clicking sound of the robot's joints turning getting closer and closer.

At this moment, her heart was filled with fear, and she only felt fear when disaster struck.

Is she going to die a miserable death here?
Just then, a roar came from afar and arrived beside Louise in an instant.

"No!"

An unparalleled impact slammed into him with a whooshing sound, and Clark's figure almost turned into a blur.

He didn't even use his thermal vision; he simply clenched his fist and swung it hard at the robot's head.

The robot's alloy shell dented and cracked instantly, like a tin can being hit by a hammer, with internal circuitry and chips mixed with machine oil spilled all over the ground.

The robot's laser cannon was still charging when Clark grabbed the barrel and bent it violently. The shrill scream of the twisting metal was so painful it hurt people's eardrums.

With red-rimmed eyes, he lifted the entire mechanical body above his head and, to Louise's astonishment, tore the several-ton robot in two. He casually threw the remains dozens of meters away, where they crashed into the ice wall and exploded into countless fragments.

Clark knelt on the ground, his knees sinking into the metal floor, and carefully lifted Louise up:

"Don't be nervous, don't be nervous, everything will be alright."

Seeing that Louise had calmed down from her panic, Clark continued:
"I need to see your wound."

Louise noticed Clark's good intentions and nodded gently.

Clark lifted Louise's clothes, revealing the gruesome wound beneath.

After observing Louise's specific injuries, Clark frowned slightly: "Your injuries are severe, and you need to stop the bleeding as soon as possible. I can use high temperature to help you stop the bleeding."

"But there's no machine here that can generate heat, how are you going to stop the bleeding?" Louise asked in confusion.

“I can do things that ordinary people can’t,” Clark replied.

Immediately afterward, Clark's eyes glowed red as he prepared to control the power of the heat ray to help Louise stop the bleeding, when he suddenly heard Harry say from the side:
"Although I don't want to bother you, I might be able to help this lady heal her wounds. You know, using high heat to stop the bleeding can burn flesh and tissue and may leave scars."

Harry drew his wand, its tip dangling with green specks of light, like a string of stars falling onto Louise's wound.

The moment the light particles came into contact with Louise's skin, they instantly transformed into a flowing film of light, covering the charred flesh.

Louise's body, which had been tense from the start, suddenly relaxed, and the sharp pain quickly subsided. She looked down and saw that the wound under the light membrane was changing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Just seconds later, the outer charred skin began to peel off, revealing tender new flesh. The bleeding edges seemed to be pulled together by an invisible hand, slowly closing into pale pink skin.

The red light in Clark's eyes quietly faded, and he could clearly sense the flow of the energy released by Harry.

It's not the suturing and repair of earth medicine, but a more fundamental reshaping, as if time is flowing backward at the wound, bringing the damaged tissue back to a whole state.

Soon, Harry stopped casting the spell, and Louise's abdomen was left with only a faint white mark, without even a scar.

She tentatively moved her body, her eyes widening in surprise:

"This...what is this?"

Harry put his wand away, and the particles of light dissipated at the tip: "Magic."

Louise: "???"

"Ah, so magic really does exist?"

Harry smiled without answering, using the same expression the Ancient One had initially given him to any Muggle who asked that question.

After Louise recovered, Harry and Clark led her to find the ship's cockpit.

Throughout the journey, Louise kept asking Harry and Clark all sorts of questions.

When Louise discovered that Clark, though older, was easier to deal with, she temporarily stopped asking Harry about magic and instead asked Clark about his various superpowers.

Although Clark had no intention of revealing his background, Louise, as a seasoned journalist, had plenty of tricks up her sleeve to extract information from others.

Louise was extremely surprised when she learned that Clark was actually an alien.

However, after Clark asked Louise to help conceal information about his background, Louise hesitated for a moment before agreeing.

After all, Clark was her savior, and given her morals, it was impossible for her to ignore her savior's request and leak his information without permission.

The three then successfully located the cockpit, and Clark verbally ordered the spaceship to leave the glacier and dock discreetly in a secluded location.

Of course, on the way out of the glacier, he also found a place that was neither too close nor too far from the research base to drop Louise off, so that she could return to the research base on her own.

………………

A few days later, Clark looked at Harry, who was praising the food as he ate, with a hint of helplessness, and finally couldn't help but ask:

"Harry, how long are you going to stay in my house? Don't you, as a wizard, have anything to do?"

Before Harry could answer, Clark's mother, Martha Kent, complained:

“What’s wrong with Harry staying with us for a while? He’s not a burden to us… Harry, if you like it, eat more. If you’re not full, Auntie will make more.”

Harry gave a thumbs up and said from the bottom of his heart, "Auntie's cooking is so good. I've only ever tasted such delicious food at Aunt May's."

After Martha Kent left, Harry looked at Clark and said meaningfully:
"Don't look at me like that. I only stayed because I meant well. I have a feeling that a big problem is waiting for you soon."

(End of this chapter)