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Chapter 530 Father, Lover (Please subscribe and read, monthly ticket recommendation!)
It only took Clark a few minutes to fly back to Metropolis from the new city.

He briefly told Louise about his schedule for the past few days, arranged the time for their next date, and then started working again.

Then, Louise suddenly called and said she had to meet him today.

Clark did not suspect anything, arranged the work at hand, asked for leave from Martian Hunter, and then prepared to set off.

But before setting off, Martian Manhunter pulled Clark aside and talked a lot, making Clark think about these words all the way.

Clark saw Louise waving at him on the rooftop of the Daily Planet, slowed down, and slowly landed on the roof.

"Clark!"

Louise threw herself into his arms, hugged his thick body, rubbed it twice, and then gave him a sweet kiss.

Clark and his lover hadn't seen each other for many days. They finally met each other and he was immersed in the atmosphere and kissed Louise deeply.

After a few minutes, Lois patted her lover's back gently and Clark quickly let go.

They looked at each other with blushing faces and laughed out loud, then hugged each other again, enjoying this rare time together.

This silent atmosphere lasted for a few minutes. Lois was the first to break the silence. She looked at Clark's clothes and tilted her head and said, "I haven't seen you wearing Superman's clothes for a long time since you went to the new city."

“Because I don’t need to use clothing to express my attitude in a new city, everyone agrees with me and supports my work.”

When talking about the new city, Clark's face immediately glows with a different look, a sense of belonging that is a mixture of pride and emotion.

It was a look Louise had never seen on her lover's face.

Because Clark was always torn between the two identities in the past, unable to integrate Clark Kent and Kal-El.

But now, he seemed to no longer have such problems, as if he had found his home on Earth.

"Martin is such an amazing person. When he invited you at first, you were still so conflicted, but now it hasn't been long and you have completely accepted this reality."

Louise sighed and suddenly felt a little jealous of Martin.

Because that mysterious man did what even her lover could not do.

"When Martin invited me, I thought it was just a simple management job. You know, I'm not a management talent. But after I got there, I realized that I wasn't going to manage anything, but to create something new, to create a new city that belongs to the alliance."

When Clark talked about the new city, the person on the right started chattering, but noticed Lois's eyes and immediately stopped.

"I've talked enough about my own affairs. Now it's time for me to hear what you have been doing during this period of time?"

"Me? There's nothing new here. It's just the same old interviews."

Louise's face suddenly changed. After taking a deep breath, she seemed to have made up her mind and mustered up the courage to say, "Clark, I have something very important to tell you..."

"Since it's a secret, don't tell it in advance. Let me guess the surprise myself!"

Clark put his fingers over Lois' mouth and kissed her on the lips before letting her lead the way.

The two walked down from the rooftop. Clark didn't hear any voices from his friends inside the building, but the smile on his face remained unchanged.

Finally, Lois brought Clark to the door of the largest conference room at the Daily Planet.

"Clark, you still..."

This time, Clark didn't answer Louise, but knocked on the door directly, and a familiar voice came from inside.

"Please come in!"

General Sam's voice came from inside.

Lois closed her eyes, rested her forehead on Clark's shoulder, and whispered, "I shouldn't have kept this from you."

"He is your father. It is unfair to ask you to choose between him and me."

Clark didn't blame Lois, nor was he surprised.

"Just leave the Daily Planet. There's no need to watch us quarrel!"

"No, no, no, I'm going to stay here and see what he has to say."

Louise decisively shook her head and refused. She was not a weak girl and had the courage to face all this.

"Louise!"

Clark gently lifted Louise's face with his right hand, kissed her soft lips, and whispered, "I promise you, no matter how we argue, I will never lay hands on your father and make things difficult for you."

"But my father will do that to you."

"So what? Their weapons are just average. I even survived Martin and Bruce's special training. Am I still afraid of these people?"

"Come on, Louise, just for me."

Under Clark's gentle exhortation, Lois hesitated again and again, and finally left.

Asking a person to choose between his father and his lover is a cruel thing in itself. Even though Louise's excellence has been able to break through the traditional boundaries between men and women, she is still a human being and does not want to face such a thing from the bottom of her heart.

After Lois left, Clark looked around. The entire floor had been covered with lead plates, but it couldn't block the sound behind the lead plates.

If he moved his ears, he could tell what was hidden behind the lead plates, but he didn't do that. Instead, he pushed the door open and walked in.

General Sam was the only one sitting in the room. There were many eavesdropping devices secretly set up, but Clark didn't count them.

"If you want to see me, just call me. There's no need to embarrass Louise."

Clark pulled out a chair and sat directly across from General Sam.

"Is that what you say to your elders?"

Sam stared at Clark, acting like an elder, trying to morally crush Clark.

"This way of inviting people makes me wonder whether you want to meet Clark Kent or Superman from the Justice League?"

Clark smiled slightly, dealing with Sam's first attack perfectly.

This is what the Martian Manhunter warned him about before he set out, and prepared a plan for him on how to respond to inquiries from his family and friends about the Alliance's actions, with General Sam at the front of the line.

"It seems Martin has trained you well."

Sam said seriously, "This is why I asked Louise to call you here. Only by getting rid of Martin's influence can we have a frank talk."

"Do you think I'm a three-year-old kid? I have no IQ, and Martin can fool me with just a few words?"

Clark did listen to Martin's words because he had proved his reliability to everyone through his actions time and time again.

"Although you are a Kryptonian, you grew up on American soil. Legally speaking, you are an American."

General Sam was intimidating without even getting angry, and his mustache moved from time to time, as if he was a teacher giving history lessons to children.

"But now you have betrayed your country and joined forces with a group of lunatics to undermine the United States." "Oh my God!"

Clark was not a liberal. He grew up in rural Kansas and even had the habit of going to church, but he still found General Sam's words ridiculous.

"I can't remember how many times the government attacked me while I was saving people in the name of eradicating aliens."

"That was because you had just appeared and we didn't know your origins, so we made a wrong judgment. But after you saved many people, we immediately changed our minds."

General Sam put his hands on the table, showing no apology for his past actions. Instead, he implicitly blamed Clark for revealing his identity too late.

"Ron is right, I shouldn't try to reason with a representative of the military."

Clark muttered quietly, and then began to use the plan prepared by Martian Manhunter for him: "Then let me be more clear. While the Justice League is actively preparing to fight against the invasion of Apokolips. My dear General Sam, what are you and your army doing?"

"The so-called Apocalypse is just a lie you made up. So far, is there any direct evidence to prove this?"

General Sam mistook the Justice League's vigilance against Apokolips as a redneck conspiracy theory among the American people.

"The evidence is everywhere, but you can't see it yourself. We have no obligation to explain anything to you."

Clark didn't bother to explain to the general who was just following orders from his superiors.

"I just hope that you still remember that you are Louise's father. If you want to contact me in the future, just call me directly. Don't involve Louise in our affairs."

Clark said, and was about to get up and leave.

"Let me go first now, I still have a lot of things to do."

"Since you are so stubborn, I am afraid I cannot let you go."

General Sam also stood up, shook his head with a regretful expression, and then retreated to the wall: "For Lois, I won't hurt you, but don't even think about returning to the Justice League."

"If you want to keep me, you have to show your real ability."

Clark exerted force with his legs, and the floor beneath his feet cracked, shattering into tortoise-shell-shaped cracks, with a large amount of debris flying in all directions.

Immediately, a large amount of crystal-like kryptonite fell in the room. It was angular and continuously emitted green light, containing a large amount of radiation.

Steel plates suddenly fell from the windows and doors of the conference room, blocking all exits.

Clark had already prepared himself to face the radiation. Even though his cells were suddenly weakened, he managed to keep himself steady, landed on the wall, clenched his fists and punched out directly.

Boom!
The wall with lead plates broke, and the lead plates turned into dust and sprayed out, covering Clark's eyes, and then he felt a pain in his arm.

He waved his hand to clear away the dust in front of his eyes and found a kryptonite fragment stuck in his hand, ten centimeters long, at least half of which was embedded in the joints between his fingers.

The wall in front was densely covered with green kryptonite, all in the shape of spikes.

"The military has mastered the method of artificial kryptonite?"

Clark was surprised. The large amount of kryptonite continued to weaken his cells, and waves of severe pain came from all over his body, making it difficult for him to even stand.

"This is just the first appetizer. If you don't surrender, there will be other things waiting for you."

General Sam shook his head and sighed, "You are a good son-in-law, Clark! It's a pity that you chose the wrong side and shouldn't become the enemy of the United States. This leaves me with no choice."

Hey!
He said and snapped his fingers, and Clark closed his eyes.

But nothing happened, no sound waves, no electric shock, no bullets, and no explosion.

"what happened?"

A drop of sweat fell on General Sam's forehead. After he snapped his fingers, a secret passage should have appeared behind him, allowing him to escape.

"Looks like you're stuck here with me."

Clark didn't know what happened, but he knew that General Sam's plan had gone wrong, and then he pressed the distress device that the alliance had installed on each member.

According to Martin's idea, these distress devices should penetrate deep into people's consciousness, but currently the people in the scientific research department can only shrink them to under the skin.

If Clark is not unconscious, he can activate the distress device by tapping a fixed frequency code on his arm.

"Don't be complacent, Clark. This is America. It's not certain whose people will arrive first."

Of course, General Sam also prepared a plan. If he was trapped, his people would come to rescue him.

At present, he has the advantage. If the Justice League sends people to rescue, even with teleportation, they will need to cross many places.

And General Sam's men were just outside the door.

Clark closed his eyes and didn't look at General Sam. Even if he became an ordinary person, he could still strangle General Sam's neck.

But he didn't do it, for Louise.

General Sam's gun was on his belt, and he didn't draw it.

Still for Louise.

boom!
Something hit the door. Clark and General Sam both heard the sound and became nervous.

"If the metahumans from the Justice League came to rescue, they probably wouldn't have rammed the door, but teleported right in. Looks like I won!"

General Sam smiled.

The next moment, there was a loud bang and an explosion outside the door. The steel door flew out and was nailed to the wall. Smoke and dust rose up, making it impossible to see the situation at the door clearly.

Boom!
Something fell to the ground, and General Sam's smug expression immediately changed.

The person who fell to the ground was a man in U.S. military uniform. There was an obvious footprint on his chest, and it was obvious that he was kicked in.

"Looks like I came at the right time!"

This time it was Clark who smiled because of Martin's voice coming from the door.

The next moment, Martin, wearing sportswear, walked out from the smoke and dust. He turned around with the Mother Box in his hand, and the closed conference room returned to normal.

"It's you? What did you do to my soldiers?"

"Martin, why are you here?"

Martin pulled a chair over and sat down, threw a work ID to Clark, and said, "I was happily preparing to experience the life of a reporter today, but when I got to the workplace, I found that it was forcibly occupied."

Clark looked at the Planet Daily work ID card with Martin's portrait in his hand and felt lucky.

"I was teleported here directly. Except for this fool, no one else knows what happened here."

Martin looked at General Sam, waved his hand and said, "For Louise's sake, you can go away! If I see you in this kind of situation again next time, you will die."

PS: Done!

(End of this chapter)