The aliens who were picked up by Superman at the beginning

Li Zhen never expected that she would play Gala Gem in Mon El's memory.

Logically speaking, memory should follow a predetermined process, and Li Zhen should just be a powerless bystander.

He didn't know how Mon El had managed to hand over the choice of how the plot would develop to him.

After silently repeating "Mont El" several times without receiving a reply, Li Zhen had no choice but to make her own decision.

He rejected the Phantom King.

This was not a hasty action, but rather Li Zhen's observation that the Phantom King and the few Kryptonian prisoners, whose numbers were far smaller than they would later become, were all ordinary people at this moment.

Without the Yellow Sun Bracelet invented by Mon Ayr, these Kryptonians wouldn't be much stronger than Earthlings.

Their only advantage lies in their genes, which are pre-tuned by advanced technology and civilization, and their personality, which has virtually no major flaws.

Yes, after genetic modification, these Kryptonians are rarely lazy and do not focus most of their material desires on enjoyment.

For them, the 'conquest,' 'force,' and 'military style' that are already ingrained in their genes are the source of their happiness.

But these things still couldn't help them survive in the Phantom Zone.

This crimson continent, later shattered by Li Zhen's punches and kicks, was now a living hell for these still-weak Kryptonians. Extreme heat, drought, and the ever-present threat of strange monsters.

The latter is especially deadly.

Therefore, the Phantom King would inevitably crave Mon El (Lee Jung)'s technology to help them survive better.

As expected, Li Zhen's lack of cooperation did not immediately arouse Phantom King's murderous intent.

He simply ordered his men to take Li Zhen away, lock her in a cell, and come over every now and then to try to persuade her.

While feigning compliance with the Phantom King, Li Zhen patiently and carefully observed the history of the Phantom King before he rose to power.

It is certain that this Phantom King is not the same Phantom King that Li Zhen later saw, the one played by Mon El.

Although both of them altered their voices using some kind of device, their behavioral habits were completely different.

If we were to adopt the identity of a Kryptonian, or even just the identity of a sister planet of Krypton, the Phantom King that Li Zhen saw in her memories was practically a super succubus comparable to a combination of Liu Bei from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Liu Bang from the TV series.

It's hard to describe the specific manifestations of that kind of charisma, but it somehow managed to bring together a group of Kryptonian prisoners who should have had their genes modified.

However, Li Zhen also discovered more discrepancies with what came later.

To figure out these issues, Li Zhen began to loosen her lip a little, which allowed the Phantom King to release her and keep her by his side every day. The questions were simply too numerous to count.

For example, the way the Phantom King constantly turned the phantoms of those Kryptonian prisoners into physical forms was not because he invented any kind of cloak.

Instead, like ancient tribes on Earth, they erected an incredibly ugly statue and periodically placed offerings obtained from hunting on it in prayer.

The Phantom King claimed that it was a primordial god named Ethel, and that the red land and the sun in the sky were fabricated by that god.

Li Zhen felt that the name Ethel sounded familiar; it seemed that she had heard several blue phantoms talk about it when she first entered the Phantom Zone.

But in the mouths of those blue phantoms, Ethel was just a monster that constantly devoured souls.

Yet another difference; these ever-increasing questions were giving Li Zhen goosebumps.

The god Ethel was concerned about all the creatures active on the Crimson Continent, whether they were the constantly awakening Kryptonian prisoners or the inexplicably spawning monsters.

Under normal circumstances, there is basically no special treatment or discrimination.

The reason the Phantom King is the Phantom King is simply because he was the first to discover that by offering tributes to Ethel, one could occasionally obtain the 'gift' of a designated portion of the phantom life forms having physical forms.

That's how Li Zhen woke up.

In the days that followed, Li Zhen watched as the Phantom King gradually regrouped and expanded his forces. These officers, trained by Krypton, were skilled in combat, understood warfare, and could even pilot and repair spaceships.

In the Phantom Zone, the only useful knowledge is that of extreme survival skills in extreme environments.

This knowledge is of almost no use to those powerful monsters that keep spawning.

There are no trees here, only gravel and stones everywhere. The stones are incredibly hard, with a hardness and toughness comparable to steel, making it difficult for these ordinary Kryptonians to even attempt to emulate primitive tribes and forge the most basic weapons.

They could only hunt small monsters, because encountering a medium-sized monster would be a life-or-death ordeal for the entire group.

Fortunately, the time-space properties of the Phantom Zone are still in effect, so 'Li Zhen' doesn't need to worry about the lead poisoning in her body continuing to evolve. Everyone can survive without food and water, and the only purpose of hunting is to provide tribute to Ethel to strengthen the manpower.

Even Li Zhen, who shared Mon El's knowledge, could only say that even a skilled cook cannot make a meal without rice.

According to his calculations, if a preliminary light industry could be developed within ten years, it would already be considered a result of everyone's concerted efforts.

Not to mention the sky sailboats, sun bracelets, and all sorts of other weird high-tech gadgets that followed.

Fortunately, Li Zhen's increasingly intense curiosity did not last long.

An uninvited guest has entered this world.

He was a guy who combined the characteristics of both Green Lantern and Batman. His entire body emanated an eerie green light, and he was extremely bloodthirsty, slaughtering a group of powerful monsters that were like an apocalyptic catastrophe to the Kryptonians led by the Phantom King.

As he watched those enormous bodies fall one by one, the Phantom King's expression turned extremely ugly.

As the first Phantom King to be awakened by Ethel and to have faced that god directly, he knew that the mysterious man's rampant killing was the behavior that Ethel hated most.

Perhaps this mysterious creature will simply leave, but when Ethel awakens again and discovers this scene, it will likely take its anger out on the other surviving creatures.

Li Zhen learned from this that the god named Ethel was indeed primitive, seemingly lacking even a certain level of intelligence, yet possessing the ability to rewrite the illusion and reality in places like the Phantom Zone.

The Phantom King ran to the altar and, using the offerings he had just hunted the day before, informed Ethel that a mad Lantern Ring assassin had infiltrated the Phantom Zone.

Ethel woke up.

He appeared directly from nothingness, with a face even uglier than the aliens in the movies of my previous life, and wore a simple, tattered purple robe.

As a god of the Phantom Zone, Ethel was indeed displeased with the indiscriminate killing by the ring wielder.

Without saying a word, the two sides started fighting.

This battle completely wiped out the Crimson Continent!

Yes! The commotion caused by both sides was even more outrageous than when Li Zhen first fought the fake Phantom King.

One is a primordial god who possesses the ability to fabricate reality out of thin air and holds a certain degree of control over the Phantom Zone.

The other one was a guy with a pair of long bat ears on his head, his body was a mixture of black and dark green, and he wore a strange green light ring.

The ring holder immediately enveloped the entire Crimson Continent in an eerie green light, then clenched his fist and shattered it.

This meant that Phantom King and his group never saw the outcome of the subsequent battle.

When Li Zhen awoke again, she discovered that the Crimson Continent had inexplicably recovered.

He carefully got up from the ground and walked along the same stone path as the simple village he had just visited. Then he found the Phantom King talking to the holder of the mysterious lamp ring.

No, to be precise, the Phantom King's posture was even more subservient than that of a servant.

The mysterious man stated that he knew it was the Phantom King who sent the message to the primordial god, but he still chose to kill them.

The other party extended its hand adorned with the eerie lamp ring. Phantom King crawled down amidst the strange and twisted power, using both hands and feet to reach the other party's feet. Only then did it slightly raise its head, like a pet dog waiting to be ordered around.

A strange lamp touched my head, and shadows followed.

The Phantom King became the first person to be transformed. As for Lee Jung (Mon El).

The man glanced back at the direction where he was hiding before leaving, letting out a few ambiguous sneers, seemingly not taking him seriously at all.