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Weeks put away the memory card with a sigh of relief and turned to walk back to the base. His mind was now filled with the thought of getting back to the base as soon as possible and finding out what that red dot of light was and why it appeared in that place.

Because his mind was completely focused on the red dot, he didn't notice the reporter Sack, who secretly hid the other memory card. He continued to follow Weeks, taking pictures of the surrounding scenery, afraid of missing any strange phenomena like the one he had just witnessed. For a well-known freelance journalist, to get exciting news reports and solidify his position in the industry, he had to be meticulous and bold, and obtain first-hand news information before anyone else.

"Are you sure there was a red dot flying towards the glacier?"

At a base in the U.S. Arctic, the person in charge asked Weeks, who had just returned, about the white frost on his face. He hadn't even had time to wipe it off before taking a sip of hot water and rushing to the office.

“I am absolutely certain that if that thing is not equipment from any country, but some kind of anomaly, or something from an extraterrestrial civilization, it will definitely be a good thing for us, and our base will be the first to discover it.”

Weeks drank hot water to ward off the cold, occasionally placing his hands on the iron cup to warm them, and his voice trembled slightly as he spoke.

"What if it's just a hallucination? The base hasn't detected any signs of life on the glacier, nor has it detected any objects."

The person in charge asked in a serious tone.

"It's absolutely true, I swear to God, it's definitely not a hallucination, and Sack even filmed it, so we might..."

Weeks was speaking.

Suddenly, a loud tremor and a deafening roar came from not far from the base, as well as from the collapse of a glacier. The sound was so loud that it almost drowned out the howling snow outside, and even the legs of the tables in the base shook slightly.

"Boss, signs of life have been detected on the glacier, and... the glacier has collapsed!"

A staff member came running up and shouted.

"what?!"

Upon hearing this, the person in charge and Weeks exchanged a glance and quickly headed to the hall without saying a word. At that moment, several devices in the hall were reporting the situation on the glacier, and different images were displayed on the screens. One of the screens showed the extent of the large-scale fracturing of the glacier.

"What's the situation now?"

"The person in charge asked."

"According to the detection data, the glacier was first melted by high temperature and then impacted by a huge force, which led to its collapse. This is very strange. We can't think of any equipment or weapon that could cause such an effect. In addition, we did not detect any large objects before this."

As the staff were explaining, he then saw in the footage that the glacier had broken up again, with most of it collapsing, as if it had been hit by a huge earthquake wave.

"impossible"

at the same time.

On the desolate, white glacier, a huge...

The tremors emanating from this deep pit are what caused the surrounding glaciers to crack. Looking down into the pit now, one can see that it has been opened up at some point, forming a tunnel leading straight to the bottom of the earth. The tunnel is surrounded by pits and craters, and one can vaguely see fist marks. This passage was actually punched out by someone. After thousands of years of freezing, the ancient glaciers were already incredibly hard, but now they have been punched out by someone, creating a bottomless tunnel.

"call"

At the bottom of the tunnel, the culprit was none other than Luo Wei. To make it easier to move around, he had taken off his clothes. In the dim light, his muscle lines appeared sharply defined. His tall body and broad shoulders made him look imposing, like a stone statue carefully sculpted by an artist.

"Finally found."

Rowe stared straight ahead. Through the thick ice, he could clearly see a huge black spaceship behind him. Because the spaceship was frozen in the Arctic, and thanks to the Kryptonians' advanced technology, the spaceship did not look dilapidated. On the contrary, it looked incredibly high-tech. Even with the Kryptonians' technological level of 20,000 years, it was still beyond what humanity could achieve at present.

Boom!

Thinking it over, he punched the ice layer, which suddenly collapsed. He opened the spaceship's door and strode inside. Before getting off, he had specifically chosen to enter through the hatch at the rear of the spaceship. Now, after smashing through the ice layer, he would find the spaceship's hatch.

click

"Identity verification successful, Karl El!"

As the system beeped, the spaceship door opened, revealing a long, dark, and narrow passage. The passage was circular and made entirely of steel plates, with some exposed, thick wiring visible. Perhaps because the spaceship had its own ecosystem that could produce oxygen for life, Luo Wei didn't feel stuffy at all after entering; on the contrary, he felt quite comfortable. This might be related to his physical condition.

“Karl.”

When Luo Wei heard this name, he felt a lot of emotions. After all, the only time he had ever heard someone call him by this name was sixteen years ago, when he had just been reborn into this world. Now, sixteen years had passed in the blink of an eye.

In fact, the usable space of the spaceship is not particularly large. It's just that the ceiling of the interior space is designed to be very high. Luo Wei soon walked to the hall. The light here was dim. This place is also the main control room of the spaceship. There is a control console in the center, which looks like a podium. Luo Wei walked over, stood there, and placed his hands on the control console. The control console started and emitted a faint light. The dim hall suddenly became bright as the lights above were turned on one after another.

Buzz

Just then, a tall, thin figure was projected onto an open space directly in front of Luo Wei. The figure gradually blurred and then merged, eventually coalescing into a middle-aged man who was both familiar and unfamiliar.

"Hello, Karl El, my child."

Joe El was in a dazed state, but as his vision gradually cleared and he saw the young man in front of him, a name inexplicably surfaced in his mind: Karl El, the name of his son.

"Are you my biological father?"

Luo Wei asked the question knowing the answer already.

"Hmm, but you don't seem too surprised."

"Joel said slowly."

I vaguely

I remember you, but those childhood memories are too blurry. However, I'm certain that my body is different from that of Earthlings, so I came here to find the truth.

Luo Wei didn't dare say that he had memories.

“I’m sorry, child. I sent you to Earth alone so that our race could continue. Although Krypton is an ancient and corrupt civilization with inflexible rulers, I still don’t want Krypton to be destroyed.”

"Therefore, I will send you to Earth, and at the same time, I will inject the treasure trove of Kryptonian wisdom, the Codex of Life, into your body. It contains all the genetic sequences of Kryptonians. If you make good use of it, you will be able to restore Krypton's glory."

Jorel's image spoke, and although the image in front of him was very intelligent, he was still just an image, and the content recorded in it was all about the memories of Krypton before its destruction.

His existence was to answer Rowe's question: why send a newborn baby to a distant planet?

Why Earth?

Luo Wei continued to ask.

“About 20,000 years ago, Kryptonian explorers came here. They discovered that this planet was bathed in the light of a golden sun, and that Kryptonians could unleash unparalleled power after absorbing the energy emitted by the golden sun. The explorer found that he possessed great strength, super speed, and even the ability to fly at will.”

Joel paused, a hint of sadness in his expression. "It was after that that explorers realized that Kryptonians had been cursed since their birth. Not only was there a red sun hanging in the sky above Krypton, but even the land was covered in Kryptonite. For the Kryptonians, it was practically a prison. These things suppressed their potential, imprisoning the entire civilization in a cage. Even after they were born, they were destined to be trapped in an iron cage, forced to choose a pre-determined path, unable to change it."

"It's the Codex of Life. You want to give me the Codex of Life so that you can rebuild a completely new Kryptonian civilization, giving people the right to choose their own lives, instead of continuing the old and decadent civilization system?"

Lowe knew about Joril, his biological father, who had always opposed Krypton's system and did not want people to be bound by it. As mentioned earlier, after a Kryptonian is born, everything is allocated by the Biographies of the Dead to make them warriors, doctors, or scientists. Some people may think this is good and perfect because such a system only exists in the legendary utopia.

Jorel was a dystopian figure whose ideal was that everyone had the right to decide their own life and choose their own way of life, and not to be controlled. However, this ideal never gained the support of the Kryptonian leadership until Jorel died and Krypton was destroyed.

"Karl, you truly are my own son. You are very intelligent and have perfectly inherited the genes and bloodline of the El family!"

Joel was delighted to see how quick-witted he was.

"It just came to mind by chance."

Luo Wei thought to himself, "I can't exactly tell you that I have the answers, can I? After all, if there are answers to the exam, and I still get it wrong, then I must be out of my mind."

“Child, it is an honor for the Kryptonians that you have such thoughts.”

Jorel took a deep breath, and the image began to blur. This memory recorded Jorel's emotions, which made his voice gradually choke up, "Go, child, develop your greatest potential, and don't let me and the family down!"

Done.

The video feed suddenly went dark and stopped, but the recording was still there. It was just that the recording time had expired, and the video feed could be restarted to communicate with Joel in the future.

"Oh, poor thing."

Rowe sighed. As a revolutionary of the older generation on Krypton, Jorel ultimately waited until Krypton was destroyed before he was able to complete his great cause. He must have felt so unwilling before he died.

"Let's leave here first. I don't know if we've been spotted."

After a moment of silence, Luo Wei decided to leave the place first.

If he were discovered, leaving would be troublesome, given the spaceship's large size; he was worried about being captured.

Thinking it over, he started the flight engine. A huge roar instantly resounded, and the entire spaceship trembled. The surrounding ice layer was affected and gradually cracked, spreading outwards like a spider web.

at the same time.

On the glacier.

Two snowmobiles broke through the blizzard and arrived. Several people got out of the vehicles, including Weeks and reporter Sack. The others were also staff members of the U.S. Arctic base. They were fully armed and cautiously walked toward the conspicuous opening in the glacier.

"Be careful, the noise we detected is coming from here."

Weeks reminded him to glance at the instrument in his hand from time to time.

Hearing this, the men became even more cautious as they walked, raising their spears in preparation for any possible emergencies.

But just then, Wesker, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped. The next second, he lunged to the side, shouting, "Get out of the way! The instruments show something is about to rush out from inside!"

Just as everyone was stunned.

Boom!

The ground suddenly shattered, the ice layer was smashed open by the enormous object that rushed out from underground, flying like snowflakes. The ground was quickly torn open with deep cracks, which continued to spread and collapse, like the scene after a soft sandbag was washed away by a flood. The glacier was now as fragile as a sand dune. Then, a huge black and gold spaceship, like a giant dragon, soared into the sky. Its enormous body came into everyone's view, and the shadow it cast covered everyone's heads, as if the sky had suddenly turned dark!

[PS: The setting of Chapter Fourteen, the Codex of Life, was incorrect. It has now been corrected; you can go back and check it.]

Chapter 16: Lex Luthor!

"Are you sure what just flew out of there was a spaceship? My God, if that's the case, how many years has it been hidden under the glacier?!"

The head of the Arctic base, dressed in heavy cold-weather clothing, walked somewhat clumsily to the cave entrance. By then, a cordon had been set up, and looking down from the edge of the line, the cave appeared bottomless.

“I’m absolutely certain. Sack’s camera clearly recorded everything. My God, I can’t believe a spaceship just flew right past me. It’s incredible. I wonder if it was carrying aliens.”

As Weeks spoke, he took out his camera, which repeatedly played the moment the spaceship burst out. Although the lens was shaky and somewhat blurry in the raging snow, it still clearly captured the appearance of the spaceship. It was an all-black, technologically advanced spaceship, and its shape alone was enough to tell that its technology far surpassed the level that Earth currently possessed.

"Who is Sack? This video is well made, but I'm afraid he won't be able to take it back."

The person in charge looked at it and said.

“Sack was a reporter sent by Lex Luthor. He came to film the glacier, but he didn’t expect to encounter something like this. Now the glacier has collapsed.”

Weeks put away his camera, glanced at the bearded man sitting in his car warming himself not far behind him, and continued, "I don't think Luther has the right to interfere with us, after all, this is a big deal."

"Don't worry, Luther is just a businessman. We'll find an excuse to send Sack back later. Also, before you send him away, remember to check if any memory cards are missing. These freelance journalists are shrewd when it comes to news."

Before leaving, the person in charge gave a word of advice.

At this moment, a staff member ran over, his face full of shock, and said, "Boss, according to the instrument measurements, the cave goes straight down to a thousand meters underground. It would take at least ten thousand years for such a thick layer of ice to accumulate. We can't rule out other abnormal weather that could melt the glacier, but even so, it is enough to indirectly prove that the spaceship we just saw was parked here at least ten thousand years ago!"

"Ten thousand years ago, my God, this was done by a bunch of damned aliens. If that's the case, an alien civilization descended on Earth ten thousand years ago, and then left for some reason, leaving only a spaceship behind. But now they've come back and just drove off with another spaceship!"

The base leader was incoherent, deeply shocked by the news, and even his speech was somewhat unclear, but everyone present understood what their leader meant.

That is, about ten minutes ago, an alien species arrived and drove away a spaceship that had been here ten thousand years ago. This explains why the spaceship's technology appears so advanced, far ahead of humanity—it comes from an extraterrestrial civilization. Having grasped the current situation, everyone belatedly realized that from this moment on, in their understanding, humanity is no longer the only life form in the universe! Nor is it the only civilization that possesses technology!

It's important to understand that, in most people's minds, humanity is alone. Since NASA began exploring the vast cosmos in the last century, no extraterrestrial civilizations have been discovered. Humanity is like a lonely ship adrift on a boundless ocean.