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Chapter 289: Kryptonian Visitors from the Old World
"illegitimate child?!"

Hearing this name, the bat cubs couldn't help but let out a cry of surprise. Along with the cry, there was a sound of glass breaking on the ground.

Turning around, it was none other than Alfred.

Alfred, who was always regarded as extremely wise and calm, now gave people the impression that he was the most shocked among the crowd.

His eyes widened, his pupils dilated, and the monocle that was stuck in his eye socket fell directly to the ground. Looking at Thomas, Alfred even said with a slight tremor in his voice: "Master, Master? You said...what did you say? The young master has a child? A little young master?! I, I want to be...no, I mean...I..."

Thomas did not show any dissatisfaction when he saw Alfred, who was having trouble speaking. This included Alfred's attitude towards Bruce's illegitimate son.

"Relax, Alfred, don't worry. In Martha's and my heart, you have long been an indispensable member of the Wayne family and our real family." Thomas said seriously: "Although you always call yourself a butler, both Martha and I have regarded you as Bruce's godfather. Over the years, we have remembered your protection and love for Bruce."

"Is it Talia?"

Suddenly, Bruce asked in a deep voice: "Is it Talia or Selina?"

"You shouldn't ask that!" Ron's face showed a deep look of disgust when he heard Bruce's question.

"You should say Talia al Ghul, or Selina Kyle, or Natalia, or Silver St. Cloud, or Vicko Valli, or Julia Pennyworth, or Julie Madison."

"..." Hearing this, everyone fell silent, and then Barbara at the side couldn't help but say: "I suddenly feel that Batman is a bit... uh, a bit of a scumbag."

"Bruce is a playboy after all." Drake seemed indifferent.

Alfred, on the other hand, was confused. He looked at Ron and asked tentatively, "Julia Pennyworth?"

"Yes, it's your daughter." Ron stretched out his hand and made an OK gesture and said, "Although she is not from this universe and she is not married, it should be okay to count her as a romantic partner. After all, we are all adults. And do you know anything about the sexual liberation movement?"

"…It's better if it's not from this universe."

After hearing Ron's words, Alfred breathed a sigh of relief and said with some sadness on his face, "I know her character. She has always been disgusted and angry because I am a servant for a spoiled billionaire."

On the side, Mrs. Martha also looked solemn after hearing the news. She opened the small bag beside her and counted them. Mrs. Martha took out two bracelets of similar but different shapes and said, "It seems that the bracelets I prepared are not enough... Thomas, we must prepare more gifts for the meeting."

"Ah."

Thomas nodded. Then he looked at Bruce and the others and said, "I will personally handle this matter regarding my grandson. But not yet - the first problem we need to solve is the Kryptonian spaceship from the old world."

After hearing Thomas' words, Alfred couldn't accept it. He took two steps forward and said, "No, Master, you know what this means to me! You should at least let us know the young master's name!"

"That's enough, Alfred."

On the side, Bruce's eyes flickered twice, and then he said in a deep voice: "This matter is a private matter of the Wayne family. Compared with this, the threat from the outer universe is more important... Once the threat from the outer universe is resolved, we will have plenty of time to deal with it."

"Not bad." Thomas nodded: "Reasoning is a treasure passed down from generation to generation in the Wayne family. You have done a good job in this regard."

Watching the conversation, although Clark was also curious about Bruce's illegitimate child, like Bruce, Clark suppressed his curiosity and said after a moment of silence: "Compared to this, Mr. Thomas, are you sure that it is a spaceship from Krypton?"

"Ah."

Nodding, Thomas raised his arm, and a scene was projected from his wrist.

In the endless deep hole, a bright silver warship covered with green lines was sailing at high speed. This warship had obviously gone through a rigorous test, and the originally smooth and hard shell was covered with pits and grooves. One of the engines was even completely broken, and the exposed cables emitted a little electric light. In the hull of the warship, black tar-like substances continued to overflow.

Located at the bow of the battleship's main cockpit, a huge S symbol surrounded by a pentagon caught everyone's attention at the first moment.

Seeing this symbol, everyone held their breath involuntarily.

S is the symbol on Superman's chest, representing "hope". But again, this is not a symbol that every Kryptonian can possess.

Almost at the moment of seeing the symbol, Batman narrowed his eyes, then lowered his head without saying a word to hide his presence.

But even though Bruce hid it well, these reactions were still captured by the clown next to him, which made the clown in the can smile silently.

Superman stared at the screen, his eyes filled with a complex mixture of expectation and fear.

"That is……"

"That's a Kryptonian warship." Thomas said silently, "I hijacked the management module of the watchtower, and asked Cyborg to use the technology of the watchtower itself to strengthen some of the deep space telescopes under my control. These telescopes use special technologies from other worlds. They can directly observe distant places through media. They are the combination of technology and magic."

"No, I mean...I mean the ship!"

Clark was a little out of control. He stood up and pressed his hands on the table in front of him. Because of the huge family emblem, Clark was a little excited and didn't control his strength and smashed the table directly.

At this moment, before Clark could even come to his senses, he felt a pain in his stomach. Then, a strong feeling of powerlessness invaded his whole body, and his strong body almost immediately lost all its strength, as if it had lost the support of its bones, and collapsed to the ground like a noodle.

Reluctantly reaching out his hand to hold onto the table beside him, Clark wanted to say something, but his extreme weakness made it difficult for him to speak. In the end, he could only look at the attacker with disbelief on his face. And the attacker was none other than Bruce.

When he let go of his hand, everyone saw a seemingly ordinary folding dagger piercing Clark's lower abdomen.

"Don't worry, Clark. There's only a trace amount of kryptonite in here. I've limited the intensity of the kryptonite radiation. As long as you don't lose control further, the radiation inside won't be fatal." Bruce said calmly.

In other words, if the detection device inside the dagger gets out of control, the kryptonite radiation will become instantly lethal?

Seeing this, Barry stood up suddenly, protected Superman behind him, looked at Bruce and said, "Bruce, what are you doing!"

“… Everything is done to prevent the worst from happening.”

Bruce looked indifferent.

"Well done, Bruce."

Thomas on the side nodded and said, "Just as I thought."

There was no communication, but Bruce and Thomas perfectly accomplished what they had envisioned together.

"it's not finished yet."

Bruce did not answer Thomas, but said calmly: "There is more than one Kryptonian on Earth. Kara Zor-El, and Clark's son Jonathan Kent Jr. The latter does not know Clark's true identity and knows nothing about his bloodline, but we need to protect them... for a short time."

"Bruce!" Superman on the side gritted his teeth, looked at Bruce and said, "I trust you so much! Why are you unwilling to believe me even now!"

"I just don't trust anybody...that's all."

Bruce seemed indifferent and numb. Perhaps he had rehearsed similar situations countless times before today. This allowed Bruce to make the most rational decision in any situation - even if it was not the most correct one.

On the side, Ron couldn't help but applaud, then raised his thumb and said, "You are worthy of it! Bruce!"

Ignoring Ron's praise, Bruce said to Clark: "Krypton is too dangerous for Earth... The radiation in the dagger is not fatal, and the place where I stabbed it is safe enough. It's just a flesh wound. As long as you don't try to pull it out by force, it won't hurt your internal organs, and it won't even affect your life."

"Bruce...you..."

With a complicated expression on his face, Clark stared at Bruce, but facing Bruce's righteous and firm eyes, even though his heart was full of resentment, Clark still had to admit that this was indeed the right choice.

After thinking for a while, Clark simply let go of his hand and stopped trying to stand up. Instead, he looked at Thomas and said, "Mr. Thomas, now that I am like this, you should be able to speak freely, right?"

"Yeah." Thomas nodded, and then adjusted the screen. As the timeline of the video changed, a scene of Kryptonians in combat uniforms leaving the spaceship to collect supplies came into everyone's eyes. The Kryptonian in the lead, who was wearing a white combat uniform with green stripes, also attracted people's attention.

Almost the moment he saw this person, Clark couldn't help but widen his eyes.

Although the clothes are different, the facial features and temperament of a person are difficult to change. And this person...

"Jor-El."

Thomas said, "Based on the features I collected and the intelligence features about Jor-El in the Batcave terminal system, the probability that the guy in the picture is Jor-El, Clark's father in another world, is more than 90%. Considering the differences in the worlds and the fact that the intelligence iteration about Jor-El in the Batcave terminal system stopped at the last scan of the Fortress of Solitude, this probability of less than 10% can basically be ignored."

Hearing this, everyone fell silent. Surprisingly, they were not even surprised that Batman's system had the data of the Fortress of Solitude - well, given Bruce's personality, how could he not try to invade and decode the Fortress of Solitude that hid a lot of Kryptonian lost technology? Even...

"I gave Bruce all this data. Don't doubt him because of it." Superman sighed, his brows filled with complexity and pain as he said:

"In other words, the leader of this spaceship is also my father in another world?"

"Yes, that's almost certain." Thomas nodded.

"Is it possible that they came here with good intentions?"

Clark couldn't help but say, "I know my father. There are some of his writings and diaries left in the Fortress of Solitude. There is also an intelligent AI based on my father. I can assure you that my father is a kind man!"

His eyes were full of seriousness. Even though he was stabbed by the kryptonite dagger, when talking about his father, Clark still showed new strength. He stood up under Bruce's narrowed eyes and said seriously:
"Perhaps they are survivors from the old world like you - is that right? Just like you, Mr. Thomas, can leave the original old world, others can too. And if Krypton had not been destroyed, I mean if that world had not been destroyed, it would not be a completely unattainable fantasy to create technology that can escape from the original universe!"

"You're right." Thomas nodded and said calmly, "With Krypton's technology, if it had avoided the crisis of extinction, it would not be impossible to develop a machine to escape from the original world. But according to the information that has been confirmed, the reason why this battleship was able to escape from the completely closed universe that was in the process of reincarnation was due to the unknown energy in the warp engine."

"According to the information we have obtained, the energy source in this engine is the substance that caused the destruction of our world, namely the 'world virus'. The probability is... 100%."

After hearing Thomas' words, Clark, who had never been exposed to the world virus, still had a little confusion between his eyebrows. On the side, Barry, who had witnessed the doomsday scene of the Flashpoint world with his own eyes, opened his mouth and took a deep breath and said:

"Then, there is no other way..."

(End of this chapter)