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Chapter 439 Lawyer's Letter Warning

Clark actually controlled his strength quite well.

Ma Zhaodi was glad that Superman hadn't forgotten to restrain himself despite his emotional turmoil, so this hug only had a little extra force—an ordinary person would have screamed in pain, and someone with a slightly weaker physique might have been injured, but for him, who had regained his intermediate-level physical enhancement, this force was still within the range of a normal greeting.

"Why are you so happy?" he retorted. "Weren't I talking about Batman and Superman?"

“Oh, because I’m from Metropolis,” Clark quickly explained. “You know, in Metropolis, everyone really likes Superman; I’m a huge fan of his, so I’m happy when you praise him.”

"Oh, it's nothing." Ma Zhaodi waved his hand.

Just then, Clark's ears twitched, and he turned his head slightly, his expression becoming somewhat serious.

“Well, I have to go.” He turned back to say goodbye to Ma Zhaodi and Bruce. “It’s getting late, I need to get back to Metropolis soon. It was nice meeting you two today.”

“You’ve known me for a while,” Bruce corrected. “Today is our first official meeting, Clark Kent—it’s a pleasure to meet you.”

Ma Zhaodi chimed in from the side, "Me too."

Clark smiled, turned and left the cemetery.

Bruce stared intently at his retreating figure, but asked, "You know him?"

"Who? Me?" Ma Zhaodi countered. "What do you think?"

"I feel like there are many things you haven't told me."

Ma Zhaodi shook his head and retorted, "First of all, you didn't ask anything yourself; secondly, I didn't deliberately hide anything—and you were capable of finding out everything anyway, weren't you?"

"When did you find out Superman's true identity?"

"I knew that a long time ago."

"So, you also know the Flash's true identity."

“I didn’t go to the central city of the parallel world for nothing. In fact, I have some connection with the Flash there.”

"You also learned about Superman's identity from another world."

"You can say that."

After the interrogation was over, Batman didn't even say a few more words to Ma Zhaodi. Instead, he left the cemetery satisfied, leaving him alone in the grove, gritting his teeth and secretly vowing that he would never bring any snacks to any of the Gotham trio again.

"Eat, eat, eat 47."

An angry Ma Zhaodi left the cemetery, got on the Harley-Davidson motorcycle parked at the entrance, and rode all the way to his hut.

Is this your original world?

The three-wheeled motorcycle, now transformed into a motorcycle, couldn't help but ask, "I always feel that the differences between your two worlds aren't that great. Both have the Flash, Central City, and Star City and Green Arrow—but where did this Gotham City come from? There's no such place in the other universe."

“This isn’t necessarily a bad thing,” Ma Zhaodi said calmly. “A universe with Gotham City is bound to experience a cataclysmic crisis; it’s part of the matching mechanism.”

"Okay. Aren't you curious why Clark left so quickly?"

“It’s just some unexpected event in Metropolis again,” Ma Zhaodi replied. “Don’t worry, he can handle it. Our universe is relatively clean.”

“Okay, you guessed right.” The three-wheeled vehicle suddenly felt bored: “A giant chimpanzee has appeared in Metropolis, swinging on a newly rebuilt skyscraper, and it’s already been uploaded to the internet by many people.” “Holy crap, there’s King Kong in this universe too?!” Ma Zhaodi suddenly perked up: “I have to sit up and see this.”

“His name isn’t King Kong. I found an old report in the Metropolitan Museum of Art about that chimpanzee—it was originally a circus chimpanzee named Toto.”

"Then?"

"Then Toto was sent to a space satellite, which was bombarded by radiation from the collision of two meteors during its journey—and after returning to Earth, Toto's size swelled to this extent."

Were villain characters really created so casually back then?

"In short, it's currently carrying Louis up the roof of the Daily Planet building." A live media broadcast suddenly appeared on the tricycle's display screen, a shot from an extremely high overhead angle, with the incessant hum of helicopter rotors.

Clearly, thanks to Superman's influence, news media in Metropolis now consider helicopters an essential filming prop.

Just as Sanbengzi said, at this very moment, a gigantic chimpanzee with glowing green eyes is indeed holding a woman and shouting loudly on the roof of the Daily Planet building.

"This is totally King Kong! Copyright, copyright! Aren't you afraid of copyright disputes?!" Ma Zhaodi pointed at the screen and couldn't help but complain, "And why is Louis in its hands?! This is clearly Superman being handpicked to deal with it, isn't it? And why does the green light in its eyes look so ominous?"

"The two meteors that collided in space were mainly composed of uranium and a mixture of uranium and kryptonite, respectively."

"?"

Just then, Superman appeared on screen, rushing toward Titanor. Logically, his strength should have been enough to smash the giant beast away with a single punch—or even smash it through, depending on whether he used a bio-field to cover it.

"Ah, I missed his transformation when he tore off his jacket," Ma Zhaodi said with some disappointment, as this part was clearly a classic scene.

However, the next second, Toto's eyes emitted two beams of green light, which swept directly across Superman's body.

"what!"

Superman's body suddenly plummeted, like a bird with broken wings; Toto's green vision had clearly caused him considerable harm.

"I knew it."

Ma Zhaodi thought for a moment, considering whether he should fly directly to the metropolis in his three-wheeled vehicle. Toto's vision definitely had the same properties as the radiation from Kryptonite, and those two meteors just happened to arrive by chance.

But after hearing Toto's roar on the screen, he changed his mind and decided not to go over.

"Louis! He's a good man! I'll protect him!"

"It can fly! You bad guy! Don't hit me!"

It was clear that Toto had no ill intentions towards Louis; it even sounded a little aggrieved.

“Wait a minute, you mentioned a report about Toto,” Ma Zhaodi suddenly asked. “Who wrote that?”

“Louise, she was good to Toto before it mutated.”

"Well, Metropolis is basically safe now, and we can even watch a free movie of Kong vs. Superman—it's just that the people inside the building are going to suffer a bit."

“The high-rises in the Metropolis are all rebuilt now, but the interiors aren’t finished yet, and there’s nobody inside,” Sanbengzi Rui commented. “I think the buildings themselves are suffering more. They were just rebuilt not long ago, and now they’re going to be demolished again.”

(End of this chapter)