Chapter 4316

At this very moment, Clark suddenly discovered the beauty of being above others by virtue of his own knowledge and experience.

Luthor seemed completely unaware that his mindset had a problem and that he already had a very serious regressive manifestation. But Clark knew, which meant that before Luthor also realized and controlled his emotions, Clark would be in an invincible position.

Once he thought of this, Clark's confidence was bolstered. He said leisurely to the other side of the phone: "Don't be in such a hurry. You have to tell me what you're seeing me for, right?"

"You..."

Luthor seemed not to adapt to this change in his mood, choked himself, stammered for a long time, and then said: "You bumpkin, don't you watch the news?! The Luthor Hotel collapsed!!!"

"I know," Clark picked his ear and said, "In any case, I can be considered a news media practitioner; I won't get the news slower than you. What's more, without me, it wouldn't be as simple as just collapsing."

"You know?! Then you..."

"Don't tell me that because the Luthor Hotel collapsed, I should be extremely sad, immediately call to comfort you, express sympathy for your encounter, and then help you as much as I can. Lex Luthor, let me ask you again, what kind of relationship do we have?"

There was a long silence on the other side of the phone. Clark was truly thrilled. He suddenly discovered that facing a crying baby with the posture of a mature adult could indeed satisfy a certain desire for control and make people feel happy.

"You must come over." Luthor seemed to have finally found some state, and he said in a low voice, "Now there are videos of you saving the Luthor Hotel everywhere on the internet. You must stand up and clarify for the Luthor Group that this accident is not as terrifying as the media reported, and not that many people died!"

Clark sneered in his heart; sure enough, it came. He said he was asking for something from him; it turned out he wanted him to come forward to testify.

But then again, the people who could be considered to be at the scene at the time were him, the military, and the aliens. It was obviously impossible for the military to come forward, otherwise their intentions would be exposed. If Clark didn't come forward to prove it, could the Luthor Group go and find aliens to testify?

The forces at the scene should all know that the accident wasn't that serious, and even the people in the hotel at the time, or the people on the road outside, could guess that actually no serious accident had happened. But they couldn't come forward to say so.

Now, the media had already rendered the atmosphere, the whole internet was mourning, and some people had already gone to the bottom of the building to place white tulips. At this time, if someone suddenly jumped out and said "actually not many people died, no need to be so sad," just see if he gets scolded or not.

And the reason Superman could say this was because Superman saved people, and most people were safe because they were saved by him. He had natural moral capital and could come forward to calm public opinion.

However, his moral capital was his own; why should he lend it to Luthor to use, making it seem like they had a good relationship?

"Sorry, I don't have time," Clark said, "I'm busy raising the average IQ of the Earth right now; I don't have time to care about your broken group."

"Clark Kent!!!!!!"

"Thanks, I like my human name very much, but you don't need to call it so many times." Clark said while gloating, "Doing bad things will bring retribution; my mother was truly right."

Then Clark heard a series of sounds of things being smashed. He sneered again and said: "Be careful, little Lex, if you smash your thumb and break it again, the Luthor Group will be completely finished."

Beep—beep—beep—

After a busy signal, Clark returned the phone to Diana. Diana looked at him and said: "I didn't expect you to be such a sharp-tongued person."

"It depends on who it is," Clark went to get a glass of water and said, "For my friends, I never skimp on praise. But Luthor... humph."

Diana didn't persuade him either, but walked to his side, sat down, and said: "Although I don't think you need to help Luthor do anything, I think you should still think more; I always feel this matter isn't that simple."

Clark also quickly extricated himself from that smug and gloating mood. Just as Diana said, this matter wasn't that simple. Schiller deliberately chose the Luthor building as the accident site and made Luthor have to come and beg him, just to deliberately provoke Luthor and make him go crazy. But why make him go crazy?

Clark had already discovered that that set of reasoning methods of finding details wasn't suitable for him. His memory was indeed good, but his associative ability and logic weren't that good. Many times he saw some special details but didn't know where to associate them, nor did he know which detail should be related to which detail. He could only try a simpler method.

Luthor being forced to go crazy, who benefits?

First, exclude the military, because the military had already obtained the gem, and no matter what Luthor did, it had nothing to do with them. If the Luthor Group collapsed, they wouldn't be able to eat much either.

The federal government, in fact, wouldn't sit by and watch the Luthor Group have an accident; they would still have to save it if they could, otherwise the situation on the East Coast might have a major turmoil. Although if it were a chronic death, they might be able to get some benefits, but that was too slow.

Looking left and right, in fact, Luthor going crazy benefited him the most; at least he could vent his anger.

But after thinking about it, Clark felt it was wrong again. In fact, Luthor becoming like this benefited the aliens the most.

In fact, Luthor was very powerful; even without the gem, if given some time, he might be able to think of a way to deal with the aliens, and he was a firm resistance faction, resolutely refusing to collude with any aliens. Whoever dared to cooperate with aliens was a traitor to the planet, and they would all be taken down.

This kind of resistance thinking didn't entirely stem from interests; he had principles, and sometimes he would rather lose money and do things that violated a businessman's instincts to implement human supremacy.

And others, whether it was the military or the federal government, weren't actually firm resistance factions. If their own interests were harmed, they would definitely resist, but if there was no real harm, they actually tended not to take action.

In other words, now the banner of the firm war faction had fallen; not only had Luthor lost his sanity, but the Luthor Group was also facing an unprecedented crisis. He had no time to care about what was in low Earth orbit now; it would be good enough if he could manage the affairs of Earth.

Clark seemed to have vaguely grasped some clues.

If Luthor were there, give him some time to recover, even without the gem, he could organize a group of firm resistance factions with his own intelligence and connections to go to war with the aliens. Now that he had fallen, there was no such person.

So, Schiller wanted Earth not to resist?

This wasn't right either, because accurately speaking, Luthor wasn't resisting, but going to war. He didn't want to defend and counterattack, but wanted to actively attack the aliens until they were all eliminated.

In fact, standing from Clark's perspective, Luthor's idea wasn't a problem; after all, aliens were invaders and had already attacked the military base, so repelling invaders was an instinct.

Then Schiller's approach was baffling. He couldn't be on the side of the aliens, right?

Or, besides fighting a war, there were some other solutions, and this solution might be better than Luthor's method of directly fighting the aliens, so Schiller took the lead in solving Luthor to prevent Luthor from intensifying the conflict in the middle, leading to the two sides having to go to war.

The more Clark thought about it, the more he felt it made sense. Although he could understand that humans wanted to resist invaders and defend their homes, he felt that Luthor was too extreme, and the resistance organization led by him would instead lose a certain degree of justice. Moreover, it would be fine if he only fought aliens, but he was afraid he would play the "internal pacification before external resistance" game, create an organization to exclude dissidents, engage in authoritarian politics, and in the end, before the aliens invaded, they would be in chaos themselves.

Facing a strong enemy, it was indeed necessary to integrate internally, but Luthor's method of integrating internally was absolutely not okay. This kind of thinking with extreme colors would only pull humanity into the abyss. Clark firmly thought, so pulling him down first was right.

However, what should be the next step? Whether it was fighting or talking, someone had to take the lead. Integrating resources internally and mediating externally, one had to be rational but strong, so that the best results could be achieved in such a complex internal and external environment.

Where could such excellent talent be found?

Just as he thought of this, Diana's phone rang. She picked it up, said a few words, and then handed the phone to Clark. After Clark took it, he said: "Hello? Lois? Are you okay?... I'm actually not bad. You don't know, Luthor just called..."

He vividly described Luthor's predicament to Lois, but after thinking about it, he felt that this made him look like a gloating villain, so he quickly added: "Of course, I'm not saying this is funny; after all, even if no one was really injured, the building was damaged, which is a waste of resources. And I didn't go, not entirely because of personal grudges with Luthor; in fact, I..."

"You have to go," Lois said, "The situation has completely expanded; the two parties are arguing endlessly about this matter, the military is also being accused of ineffective disaster relief, and even international public opinion is fiercely criticizing it. The federal government and the military are both in a hurry."

Clark frowned; he hadn't expected things to get so big. However, the dissemination power of modern media was terrifying, and the degree of distortion and exaggeration of information was also increasing exponentially. There hadn't been any big news in the last few years, so of course, there would be a carnival on the whole internet.

However, why did Lois insist on him going?

Originally, no one was injured; although the news was exaggerated, it wasn't good for America's reputation, but the reputation wasn't that good to begin with. Let those officers and politicians be in a hurry.

Clark didn't think Lois wanted him to forgive Luthor, so there must be something to gain from going to the press conference. But he really couldn't see what the benefit was in cleaning up the mess for these people.

Think about who I am... Clark started to think. Who else could he be? He was Clark Kent, a small-town youth from Smallville, Kansas, a superhero codenamed Superman. Were there any peculiarities about these identities?

No, Lois didn't mean that. After the aliens—accurately speaking, his Kryptonian kin—came to Earth, his identity was no longer a matter of professional distinction on Earth, but a distinction of stance between two races. He was first an Earthling, and then a small-town youth and a superhero.

That's right, he was an Earthling, and then what?

Clark became confused again. Suddenly, he was struck by lightning. Wait, Lois couldn't be trying to say that the excellent talent who could lead Earth was me?!!!