Chapter 4334

"Ding-a-ling, ding-a-ling."

The alarm clock on the bedside table rang. Clark sat up from the bed and yawned. He threw the quilt to the side. Reached out to turn off the alarm clock.

He subconsciously reached for his phone. But as soon as he opened the phone screen, the screen was full of emails and message reminders. Clark slapped his forehead: "It's over!"

He unlocked the phone and clicked on the news software first. Sure enough, the headline on the top read: "Earth hero Superman is actually not from Earth?!"

Clark felt his breathing stop suddenly. His chest began to ache. Although he had expected it, when this matter was really announced, he still couldn't help but feel discouraged and frustrated.

Why? Why did he grow up on Earth, accept Earth's education, and never went to an alien planet, why couldn't he be an Earthling?

Why, even though he fought bravely and saved so many people, people only cared about which planet he was born on?

Clark slid the news page down. He didn't even dare to look at the content and slid directly to the comment section below. There were probably more than 700 comments here. He just scanned it slightly and saw many unfriendly words.

And very unsurprisingly, many people attributed the battle between the monster and Superman to the civil war of aliens, feeling that humans and the military were completely victims, and kept scolding and complaining in the comments.

Even, compared to the monster, they hated Superman more, because they felt that Superman deceived them, clearly an alien monster, but packaged himself as a hero, a clown who likes to show off.

Maybe many people will feel that this kind of speech is incredible, after all, no matter what, Superman also saved so many people. But in reality, in this kind of public opinion environment in the United States, the barriers between people are very thick, and in countless vertical cuts, everyone has been domesticated by society into a cold and selfish appearance.

In their view, Superman didn't save their own kind. People in small towns will feel that big city people have nothing to do with me, black people will feel that white people have nothing to do with me, and men and women also feel that they are not the same kind of people. Blue-collar workers feel that office workers deserve it, and financial elites feel that bottom-level people deserve to die.

So, even if Superman saved more people, many people will feel that he didn't do anything good. Some even said underneath that it would be better not to save them and just destroy Metropolis directly.

Clark sighed while flipping through the comments. Even though he had known long ago that the military would do this, and he had done psychological construction for himself, when this day really came, he found that he was still not strong enough. He felt more and more uncomfortable the more he looked at these messages, his heart seemed to be blocked by a big stone, and his whole person began to withdraw from the real world.

Clark terminated his getting-up action and fell back onto the bed. He put down his phone, closed his eyes, couldn't sleep, tossed and turned. Finally, he opened his phone again, preparing to look at something to divert his attention.

Clark originally didn't intend to click on the mailbox, because he was afraid of seeing his acquaintances and colleagues sending messages to scold himself. The suspicion of strangers is fine, but if he tore his face with these colleagues he sees every day, his life might be very difficult in the future. So he could only shrink his head and be an ostrich.

Fortunately, today is a rest day, no need to go to the newspaper office. Otherwise, he wouldn't know how to face the eyes of his colleagues.

However, when he saw the mailbox software, Clark hesitated again, because he was worried that Lois would send him an email. Lois is still in the hospital now, if something happens and she can't find him, that would be troublesome.

Thinking of this, Clark still bit the bullet and clicked on the mailbox. But what made him stunned was that many colleagues did send him emails, but it seemed they were not scolding him, and didn't even ask if he was from an alien planet. After removing all the polite greetings and euphemistic wording in all the emails, it can be summarized as one question — "Are you and Lois Lane dating???"

Clark's hand clicking the screen stiffened. His whole person was like that Tom cat who ate chili, his whole person turned into a ripe tomato, and his skull was almost lifted off.

The shock brought to him by these few words was more than all the 700 comments before.

Although he had already understood a part of Lois's plan before, and he had done some psychological construction for this, but when it was really executed, he found that his psychological construction was still done too little.

No, how did we start dating?! I haven't confessed yet!

Clark hurriedly clicked on the entertainment software. As soon as it opened, a huge picture jumped into his face: a tall and strong man, holding a long-haired woman in his arms. His pair of deep blue eyes revealed infinite tenderness, and his hand gently touched the woman's long hair. Behind them were the ruins of the building, and the sun shone on the two of them, looking like the last scene of a Hollywood disaster movie.

Clark couldn't help but cover his eyes. He really wanted to say: This photographer, you have this level of photography, you don't go to compete for the Pulitzer Prize, you are a small paparazzi here?!

This photo was taken with a high level, and neither of them showed their full faces, but the atmosphere was full. And precisely because they didn't show their full faces, one showed a pair of eyes, and one showed a jawline, which made people guess even more.

But the person people recognized first was really not Superman, but Lois, because Lois has been very popular recently.

There are many news media people as sharp as the editor-in-chief of the Daily Planet. They made a big fuss about Lois being poisoned, and kept selling misery in front of the media.

This is not surprising either. Because in most cases, reporters are perpetrators, the reputation of the entire news media industry is very bad, and others look at them as if they are looking at a pile of stinking dog shit.

This situation is indeed their own fault. However, precisely because of this, it is rare to catch an opportunity to be a victim, so they must make a big fuss and seize this matter to sell misery. This is called accumulating moral capital.

Many people will encounter this kind of person in life, and they will start selling misery when they encounter anything, always holding on to that point. If it is really something very miserable, that's fine, but most of the time it is inexplicable, and you will even feel that he deliberately messed things up, and then sold misery, and every time he encounters something, he is like this.

In fact, this kind of person is subconsciously accumulating moral capital. It's like a parent saying to a child "how hard I worked to raise you". In fact, it can't be said that it is not hard at all, raising children is indeed not easy, occasionally complaining once or twice is understandable, after all, everyone has times when they complain. But if you complain every day, complain every year, from birth to adulthood, it is actually moral kidnapping.

As long as you show yourself to be miserable enough and become a victim in the eyes of the public, you can get many benefits. For example, I am already so miserable, you can't ask more from me; and for example, I am so miserable in this aspect, then I will make up for it from another aspect, and no one can say anything about me, which is very convenient to take advantage of.

Now these media people are like this. There was no such opportunity in the past, and now it is rare to catch one, and it is still a perfect victim, so they must exert the power of communication to let the whole world know how miserable I am. This way, if I make any more moths in the future, it is also forced by this society.

Not to mention anything else, if those law enforcers dare to pull skin with themselves in the future, they will lie on the ground and say they were poisoned, because they wanted to cover up the truth and tried to silence them, after all, there is a precedent for this, and someone will definitely stand on their side.

So many news media people exerted their strength together, and the effect was surprisingly good. The heat of the news that Lois was poisoned and silenced even once suppressed the monster's invasion of Metropolis.

Although Metropolis was invaded by the monster, it didn't cause much loss. Everyone saw through the video that Superman saved the building. The road surface was just smashed with a few holes, at most it was leaking water and blocking traffic, which couldn't be called an epic disaster.

However, a female reporter who was doing an investigation report in Los Angeles was suddenly poisoned and silenced by the military, which is very interesting. What report was she doing in Los Angeles? What touched the sensitive nerves of the military? Why did the military want to poison her? And who saved her?

For these questions, the discussion on the Internet was boiling. Some were presenting facts and evidence, some were guessing by looking at pictures, and some were directly calling various military agencies, which also attracted many friends to be surprised. The matter was really not small.

And just at this time, a picture appeared on the homepage of the gossip website. At first glance, it looked like filming a movie, but after looking carefully, it was a bit wrong. Someone immediately recognized the heroine in the picture, who was the independent reporter Lois Lane who has been very popular recently.

Hot spots can echo each other. Everyone is digging up Lois's past materials, and naturally, they will not let go of this suddenly appearing picture. Most people think that the man in the picture is her boyfriend, so at first, this picture didn't cause a sensation, after all, they are all adults, and it is normal to have a boyfriend, and they just hugged on the street, and didn't take any more private photos, so it is difficult to cause waves.

However, as the picture spread wider and wider, another little clever ghost found something wrong: why does this man look a bit like Superman?

Still the same sentence, Clark's biological force field interference is limited, and he himself appeared on TV to preach, leading many people to remember his face deeply. This is fine now, he was recognized by just a pair of eyes.

The Internet is even more fried: Lois and Superman, this pair of the hottest men and women in recent news, are actually a couple!

Even with just this one picture, netizens began to dig deep into the relationship between the two. Some people investigated and naturally some people broke the news, the materials broken were true and false, but it aroused people's curiosity even more.

An independent reporter persecuted by the military, a superhero who saved Metropolis. What kind of entanglement is there between them? Will their couple relationship have a more far-reaching impact? And is it related to their recent experiences?

Some people feel, is it possible that because Lois is Superman's girlfriend, she was poisoned and silenced by the military?

But soon someone jumped out to refute, because Superman had already reconciled with the military and federal government and other forces before, and specially praised them in the lecture, they should be in the cooperation period now. The military might still have some defensive means, but there is no need to take such a dead hand, maybe they have to count on Superman to promote them.

And just at this time, major mainstream news media websites suddenly released a piece of news that Superman is not an Earthling, but an alien.

Everyone suddenly realized, but it was not because they learned Superman's identity, but finally figured out: it is not that the military went to poison Lois to deal with Superman, but the military went to expose Superman's identity to deal with Lois. Lois is the one the military wants to deal with!