Chapter 4439: Dark Prelude (Part 31)

The ambulance arrived at the fastest speed. Police, guards, and the army quickly surrounded the scene, and countless reporters moved at the news, instantly crowding the street until it was impassable.

Clark was quickly sent to the ambulance, but since this place was originally a large car accident scene, many cars had lost their power and couldn't be pushed, so the ambulance couldn't drive out for a while.

Everyone was trying their best to evacuate the crowd, and the tow truck had also rushed over here. But the Presidential Palace finally decided not to wait, first transferring the injured President to a helicopter, and then sending him to the hospital by helicopter.

The helicopter landed on the ground, and the stretcher carrying Clark was lifted out of the ambulance again and transferred to the helicopter.

The transfer process was a bit chaotic. On one hand, the density of the steel body was a bit high, and Clark was heavier than ordinary people, so it was naturally more laborious to move; on the other hand, the ground was slippery, and it was not easy for people to walk. Just for this short distance of a few meters, a few people stumbled for a long time and almost dropped the stretcher.

Although Clark was awake, he could still perceive the situation around him. He listened very attentively to every sound around him, and suddenly, heard a very light, very light plucking sound.

Clark pretended to struggle in pain and suddenly lifted one arm to try to turn over. When he did this, the stretcher, which was already unstable, turned to the other side, and the few people carrying the stretcher also fell to the ground.

But the next second, with a "whoosh," an arrow head was stuck in the ground not far away. The soldiers and police around were shocked, holding guns and starting to search, quickly locking onto the direction from which the arrow was shot, and immediately went to search.

Clark, who was pretending to fall to the ground, looked up and saw that the arrow head was green. No need to think, it must be made of Kryptonite. This thing can also be called a rich mine on Earth; from its discovery to now, the amount used in products might be more than many rare metals.

Wait, why is it a bow and arrow?

Clark recalled the sound he heard; he felt it should be a compound bow. He only heard the plucking sound because he didn't know what kind of sound a compound bow should make when pulling the bow, and just treated it as noise. Although this thing also had considerable power and could cause greater damage to ordinary people, how could it compare to a gun?

The flight speed of the arrow was slow after all, so it left him time to react. If it were a sniper rifle, he might not necessarily be able to dodge it; it was just that the bullet couldn't break his defense.

Just thinking of this, only heard a "bang," a bullet shot straight into the side of Clark's neck, hitting the carotid artery exactly. Clark let out a painful groan and covered his neck.

He could feel that the bullet shot into his body was still a Kryptonite bullet, and it was very precise, just aiming for his life. Fortunately, he had long been immune to Kryptonite and could even absorb Kryptonite. After the bullet entered his body, it was directly digested.

Clark was really going crazy; he couldn't act in this play anymore. Damn murderer, I must make you look good today!

But just as he took a breath and prepared to crawl up, he coughed frantically. It turned out that the shot just now was very accurate; although not fatal, it caused some blood in the artery to choke into his trachea while the Kryptonite hadn't been completely absorbed. Although the wound healed instantly, it still choked Clark quite a bit.

He coughed while retching, and it took a lot of effort to get the choked blood out. By the time he wanted to crawl up again, there was no unusual movement around. Clearly, the murderer calculated this time and left his perception range.

Since it was impossible to settle accounts with the murderer, it was better to continue acting. Clark sighed in his heart, then fell down again, letting people carry him into the helicopter and sending him to the nearest hospital.

Of course, the President wouldn't use ordinary doctors, but had a professional medical team. The medical team Clark hired was the doctors who had helped him deceive Amanda before. These people ran in in a hurry, and then saw Clark sitting on the operating table unscathed.

"Mr. President, you..." They all widened their eyes, wanting to find evidence that Clark was holding on. After all, the situation reported by the person who summoned them before was very serious: first stabbed, then almost shot by an arrow, and finally shot in the neck. This would be hard for even a god to survive, right?

Unexpectedly, Clark was fine and sat on the operating table in deep thought. He waved his hand at them and said, "I'm fine, it was acting before, just to let the murderer think they succeeded."

"Uh... why?" They asked.

Clark shook his head and didn't elaborate with them. In fact, there was no other purpose, mainly to maintain the information gap.

These murderers didn't know where they got the information, just feeling that he was restrained by Kryptonite. It was indeed like this before, but now he had basically become immune to Kryptonite under various exercises and experiments, and the other party didn't know about this.

Therefore, Clark had to pretend to be injured, letting them always not know about this. This way they would always use Kryptonite to deal with him, instead of thinking about any new tricks.

Just like the assassination just now, if he hadn't been seriously injured and fallen after being hit by the Kryptonite dagger, then the two murderers behind might have realized that Kryptonite couldn't restrain him, and those two would have run away directly. But he pretended like this, and the two people behind were exposed.

This information was very important, because the one who stabbed him with the dagger wasn't particularly professional. Calculating the unintentional with the intentional, it didn't need to be that professional, as long as the courage was big enough.

But the two behind were different. Whether it was the one shooting the arrow or the one shooting the gun, they were absolutely professional and top-notch murderers. The cooperation between the two was also very tacit: first using an arrow to divert his attention, and a sniper bullet hitting the lifeline directly. If he hadn't been an upgraded version, he might really be in critical condition now.

But even if he was an upgraded version, that bullet still caused him some trouble. Clark wouldn't naively think this was a coincidence; it must have been premeditated by the other party.

The position hit by the bullet was not the head, nor the chest, but the neck, which was actually the hardest to hit. The angle and force of the shot were very tricky, just right to bring the blood in the artery into the trachea, winning enough escape time for himself. This could no longer be described as professional; it was even to the extent that Superman would feel uneasy thinking there was such a murderer on Earth.

Indeed, he was no longer afraid of Kryptonite now. But what if the other party hit him with the power of Death? What if they hit him with some other strange power?

Clark felt more and more that his plan to pretend to be injured was wise. As long as they thought he was seriously injured by Kryptonite, they probably wouldn't find a way to find other powers, so he would be safe for the time being.

But it was only temporary. Diana mentioned that when his arm was turned like that, he had seen a thin black line. That thing was fast and hidden; even if Damian hit it, Diana's arm was hit. If that murderer hit it, his head might have to die for a while.

Clark immediately started making phone calls, demanding they thoroughly investigate the murderer. He turned the tightly guarded operating room into another office and started using all parties' power to track down this mysterious murderer.

And at this time, the police brought the latest news. They found a mechanism device in a nearby building, which was just using the simplest physical mechanism to make a timed compound bow launching device. That is to say, that arrow wasn't shot by a person, but by a mechanism.

Clark understood, which showed that there might only be one murderer. And the reason for choosing a compound bow was very likely to give himself a reminder.

The plucking sound of the bow and arrow was more unusual and easily noticed by himself. The flight speed of the bow and arrow was slower, leaving him time to make dodging movements. Hitting from that angle, he could only turn in the other direction. In that case, it was very likely that he would fall to the position predetermined by the murderer.

And the murderer had been aiming there, and the moment he stopped moving, the sniper bullet arrived as promised. This was the fatal killer move.

At that time, he shouldn't have dodged that arrow. It was just that his body instinct to avoid harm and super reaction force subconsciously made him avoid the assassination, but he didn't expect to fall into a more dangerous trap.

If it weren't for the fact that he was the victim, Clark would almost want to applaud this murderer. The other party must have known something about him, knowing he had super senses and super reactions, to set up such a trap. If it were an ordinary person, I'm afraid even the first arrow would be hard to dodge.

Clark almost mobilized the power of the whole country to track down frantically. But he also realized that this move probably wouldn't have any effect. One was that the murderer was too powerful and shouldn't leave clues; the other was that there wasn't enough manpower everywhere now. It was said to mobilize the national police force, but what could really be used was the state police, and the New Jersey state police were particularly unhelpful, with a car chase success rate of only about ten percent.

Just when Clark was racking his brains thinking about how to catch this terrible murderer, Diana called.

"Clark, I saw the news of your attack. I have some clues I want to tell you..."

Diana mainly talked about the theft of the archives on the second floor of the Metropolis Museum. At first, Clark didn't react to what this had to do with his assassination, until Diana mentioned the green gem.

"That data detailed the legend of Tutankhamun slaying the snake. The myth says that Tutankhamun used a scepter inlaid with a green gem to kill your kin. This is the most important clue in this data."

"You mean, they stole this clue just to find my weakness from it?"

"Yes. Although I don't know how they did it, they seem to know that the Martian invasion is just a lie, and you couldn't be a Martian. But at that time they didn't know that the Serpent of Frigine was also a lie. They felt that the Serpent of Frigine was real, and naturally it was easy to see the similarity between the red and blue giant snake and you from the previous legend. So they must have looked for your weakness from the data related to the Serpent of Frigine."

Clark suddenly realized. In this way, it was all connected. The focus of the artifact theft incident seemed to be on the artifact itself, but in fact, stealing the artifact itself might just be a diversion. What the buyer behind the scenes really wanted was detailed mythological data.

Because they wanted to find the weakness of Kryptonians through the story of ancient Egyptians killing suspected Kryptonian aliens described in the mythological data. This way they could use it to deal with himself, who was the most important and hardest to deal with.

Of course, judging from the previous news, it could also be roughly inferred that Kryptonians were afraid of green gems, so there was no need to look for detailed data. However, although the news gave a rough idea, it didn't mention the origin of the green gem at all. Everyone treated it as a small story after tea and dinner, and no one went to investigate, so no one went to study the origin of the green gem.

But these people couldn't. If they wanted to really hurt Clark, they at least had to master a green gem. So they wanted more detailed data, wanting to see from it where this green gem that could hurt Kryptonians could be found.

There was one on the snake's tail, legend says it was the one on the scepter, but no one knew if the amount was enough. Of course, the more of this kind of thing, the better; if they could get a Kryptonite TNT, it would definitely be easier to use than some small daggers, small arrowheads, and the like.

However, what Clark found a bit strange was that they smashed the Serpent of Frigine, so they should already know that the artifact was fake, so they should also feel that the legendary story was fake. Then how could they still use things in the fake legendary story to attack himself?