Chapter 4400: Far Star Project (25)

"It was you, right? You killed Rafanas." Clark walked over, crossed his arms, narrowed his eyes and asked.

"My god, how could you think so." Schiller seemed very surprised and said, "I have no grudges with this gentleman..."

"But you look like the kind of person who would kill someone you have no grudges with."

"Terrible prejudice." Schiller didn't agree; he shook his head and said, "What ability do I have to kill him? As you can see, I am just a civilian staff member; this gentleman's weight is not light, how could I move him?"

"Perhaps you happen to have super-powers." Clark said, "Like suddenly becoming incredibly strong."

"Even so, it's impossible for me not to leave any traces. Even the most professional police and agents couldn't find out..."

"Perhaps you happen to be a very skilled serial killer, most skilled at fishing in troubled waters in such crowded banquet occasions."

Schiller opened his mouth, then looked Clark up and down from head to toe. Clark really didn't feel he was a very brilliant detective, but unfortunately, Schiller had already written the expression "how did you suddenly become smart" clearly on his face.

"It really was you!" Clark gritted his teeth and said.

Then he suddenly paused, and then said: "You wouldn't really be a serial killer with super-powers, would you?... You aren't, right?!"

Schiller shrugged, saying nothing. In this matter, silence wasn't good news. Clark wanted to ask, but realized he still had to solve the trouble at hand first. He took a deep breath, looked at Schiller and asked: "Why did you kill him?"

"I didn't kill him." Schiller said, "At most, I am just a loser of the same type as you."

"You also moved the corpse?"

At this time, Lex, who was standing beside the two, looked at Clark in shock and said: "You moved the corpse??? Why did you move the corpse?!"

"Haven't you seen it yet? This is a trap aimed at me." Clark said somewhat impatiently, "If I didn't find a way to deal with the corpse, I should have been taken to the interrogation room by now."

"So where did you hide the corpse?"

"I didn't hide it, I destroyed the corpse." Clark said, "So you don't have to think about getting words out of me, wanting to ask where the corpse is. I can tell you clearly, it's impossible for anyone to find it, because the corpse has disappeared."

Lex let out a long breath, and Clark couldn't help but look at him. Lex said angrily: "What trap aimed at you, this is clearly a trap aimed at me! At this critical juncture, the Director of the Metropolis Municipal Administration Bureau died at my banquet..."

"You know it's a critical juncture, yet you still insist on holding a banquet; isn't this you asking for it?" Clark didn't give an inch. If he lost to anyone, he couldn't lose to Luthor, even if it was a war of words.

Lex was angered by him until he leaned back, and Schiller said: "So it's a trap aimed at you two, I thought it was a trap aimed at me."

"Who are you..."

"Sorry, let's re-introduce ourselves, person in charge of the US National Security Agency's DEO." Schiller handed out his credentials, then said, "Someone asked me to issue a detailed 'suspected Martian' list within a week. If I encounter some trouble, the names on the list naturally have the possibility of being changed."

"Then you still went to move the corpse?" Clark stared with wide eyes and asked.

"No way, I couldn't solve the corpse." Schiller spread his hands and said, "I could only move or hide it, but had no way to destroy the evidence. We all know that only by letting the corpse disappear completely can the mastermind's conspiracy be crushed."

"So you threw the corpse at me?"

"I'm your fan." Schiller smiled and said, "You definitely can do it; I believe in you."

Clark couldn't help but close his eyes. He really wanted to say there was no need to believe so much, but he also knew Schiller must be stubborn, so he simply didn't say anything. He looked back at the banquet hall, then said: "Someone is targeting you two; I can probably guess the reason, nothing more than that bit of election trouble, but why are they targeting me?"

"You think you can escape that bit of election trouble?" Lex was obviously somewhat collapsed; he said, "Now those politicians just want to drag everyone to play that crazy election game with them. They are targeting you, mostly for this too."

"Okay, let me think." Clark thought seriously, then said, "They think I can also identify aliens, right? Perhaps they want me to produce a list they are satisfied with."

"It's not that simple." Schiller said, "Now they shouldn't adopt any way to stimulate you; after all, they are also afraid you'll move the Capitol to another place again. So it's unlikely to force you to do anything through framing and slandering you; at most, it's using some things to drag you down, or confuse your hearing and vision."

"So they don't want me to show up." Clark realized immediately, "Because they think I can really distinguish who is a Martian, and if you put private goods in the list you give them, I might expose them."

"It's very likely." Lex said, "But listening to you, you can't distinguish?"

Clark nodded and said: "Now there are two possibilities: either the person was killed by a Martian, and I really can't distinguish; or the person was killed by a human, and there are no aliens among those present except me."

Lex also began to think, saying: "They chose to act at my banquet, maybe it's also wanting to use me to drag you down, or to test you. They want to know if you can really distinguish."

Clark naturally thought of this point too. It was well known that he and Luthor had old grudges. Now someone died on Luthor's turf, and he was the one who mixed in suddenly; his suspicion was the greatest. Luthor would definitely pursue it aggressively, because Luthor was completely in the right, and he might face great pressure.

If he really discovered any abnormality in the crowd, for example, someone's body structure was wrong, he would definitely point it out, and wouldn't not say it because he couldn't be sure or was afraid of wronging a good person. The mastermind who designed this trap was just wanting to use the pressure Luthor applied to him to force him to prove his innocence.

Then, the decision to destroy the evidence was correct. Because as long as the corpse couldn't be found, it could only be handled as a missing person case. The judicial pressure faced by everyone dropped off a cliff, and it was very difficult to take anyone away for investigation just because of such a short disappearance. Naturally, he didn't need to prove his innocence. Fortunately, his reaction speed was fast, and he left a hand before, which was how he escaped a disaster.

Before Clark could breathe a sigh of relief, Schiller said: "Do you really think they will give up like this?"

Clark looked at him, Schiller looked at the banquet hall, then said: "They can kill one, they can kill the second."

"You mean they will act again?!" Clark was somewhat shocked, saying, "But now the police are here, all our actions are under surveillance; even if another one dies, we have no suspicion. They shouldn't do this, right?"

"We have no suspicion, what about Martians?"

Clark didn't react for a while; he looked at Schiller. Schiller continued: "If the names on the 'suspected Martian' list cannot be manipulated, then take a step back, sitting down on the fact that Martians do exist, isn't that okay?"

This logic was a bit roundabout; Clark thought for a while before understanding what was going on. Simply put, this mastermind wanted to create a "kill list", wanting to label certain people unfavorable to himself as Martians to be tried.

His first step was to find Schiller, letting the DEO, a super-powered organization, investigate who was a Martian. But actually, the investigation wasn't important; what was important was to find a way to get Schiller into trouble, so they could talk conditions, let Schiller change the names on the list, or simply fabricate a list to eliminate dissidents.

However, this plan had a loophole, which was that humans had no technical means to distinguish who was a Martian, but Superman, who was also an alien, might be able to distinguish it.

And it was obvious that Superman had no good feelings for this group of politicians; even if it wasn't to save the persecuted, just to add some trouble to them, he might expose them.

And before, Superman's speech made his influence very large; if he stood up and said this list was wrong, then the public might be more inclined to him, and the jury might not dare to offend him, then the so-called Martians on the list might not be tried at all. The so-called "don't kill the snake, follow the stick up", the mastermind might be bitten back by them.

In order to solve this problem, they fabricated a murder case, first wanting to frame Schiller. That is to say, Schiller was very likely to encounter the first crime scene, and the other party might also arrange for someone to break the news. Then at this time, Schiller's suspicion was the greatest.

However, because this was Luthor's turf, with Luthor present, and Luthor and Clark had old grudges, and Clark was the one who mixed in suddenly, his suspicion wasn't small either. Luthor would definitely apply crazy pressure to Clark, insisting he was the murderer.

Then at this time, in order to prove his innocence, Clark would go to find the real murderer. Of course, he might also attack Schiller directly, but if he really discovered some suspicious people with wrong body structures or behaviors at the previous banquet, he would definitely say it. Because although Clark might not be willing to wrong Schiller, he definitely wouldn't be willing to let the murderer run away.

Then at this time, both Schiller and Clark would have to be taken away for investigation. Schiller would be detained, and someone would naturally find him to talk conditions, and they wouldn't really dare to do anything to Clark, at most dragging him down, letting him be overwhelmed during the trial, unable to expose the truth of the list.

Because theoretically, Schiller and Clark had no time to communicate, so Clark wouldn't know about the existence of any list. Not knowing, naturally there would be no targeting; as long as some other things were found to attract his attention, naturally he wouldn't be exposed.

However, the mastermind might have ignored that neither of these two were ordinary people, or rather, he had envisioned it, but hadn't thought they were so extraordinary. Schiller moved the corpse out of the first crime scene in a very short time and threw it in front of Clark, and Clark also didn't think at all, directly destroying the evidence, and destroying it cleanly.

This led to the inability to confirm death now, and within such a short time of investigation, there was no way to rule out the possibility that the person walked away by themselves. Even if the surveillance cameras didn't film the departure, it could be that the person didn't take the usual path and jumped down from the second-floor window. Unable to investigate as a murder case, the suspicion of everyone would drop off a cliff, the reason for detention investigation wasn't sufficient, and the matter of fiddling with the list definitely wouldn't work.

However, this kind of person's planning was always obedient to adjustment; if the professional they wanted wasn't accepted, it didn't matter; being adjusted to another professional was the same. He had long envisioned that if this matter went wrong, what was the minimum goal that could be achieved, and this professional that was adjusted to was confirming the existence of Martians.

Assuming the police really didn't find anything, existing evidence wasn't enough to take anyone away, then kill another one, and do it under the surveillance of everyone. Everyone had an alibi, but people still died, which would make people easily associate it with super-powered crime.

Just like the reasoning Clark conducted before, being able to move a corpse from the first floor to the second floor in such a short time, the murderer must be extraordinary. Similarly, being able to commit a crime under the condition of being unable to leave the police's sight, this person definitely wasn't an ordinary person, and must have super-powers.

And because of the panic of "Martian invasion" rendered before, the pot was buckled onto the Martians, and the purpose was to manufacture a sensational enough case to completely sit down the existence of Martians. ===== CHAPTER 4401 =====