[Superman] Number One Enemy

Audrey narrowed her eyes suspiciously, examining the woman in red who claimed to be Diana.She is not stupid, she will not believe everything the other party says, the problem is that the other party has already taken the machine, and the force value is obviously much higher than hers, and she can't make things worse, how to get back the data from the other party?

"Letting me take it would be the best decision." Diana continued, striking Audrey's front of the neck suddenly, telling her softly, "I will pass the information to Natasha. For me Say hello to her."

Audrey heard hurried footsteps behind her.She fell backwards, and the other party took her in his arms, thus missing the opportunity to catch up with Diana.It's Bruce, coming down to harvest, and seeing this.

"Audrey, what did she do to you?" Bruce asked, helping Audrey up, while caring for Audrey, he stared at the direction Diana left, "Damn it. Why did she attack you? "

Audrey glanced at Bruce. "She took the machine."

Bruce froze for a moment, then realized that he had fallen into a trap, cursing in a low voice.

The two returned to the first floor and joined Tony.Tony was leaning against the long table full of meals, sipping whiskey, holding up the glass from time to time, looking at the contents of the cup, as if he was quite disdainful; he turned his head and saw Bruce with a stinky face, and Odd with some red marks on his collarbone Li.

"Missed?" Tony understood.

Bruce didn't want to answer at all, grabbed the glass full of martini and drank it all.

"Things are a bit complicated, meeting an unexpected opponent." Audrey explained vaguely, not planning to let Bruce know what Diana said to her now.

"Are you okay?" Tony asked, staring at Audrey, pointing to where his bow tie was.

Audrey nodded slightly, glanced in Luthor's direction, and asked, "Didn't that bald man come to you just now?"

Tony sneered twice, rolled his eyes, disdainful and contemptuous. "Haha, how is that possible? He was very happy to get the three of us together, and asked me, where are you going?"

Audrey frowned slightly. "He did it on purpose."

Hearing this, Tony turned his head slightly, stared at Audrey, and fell into thought. "You put it that way, I suddenly realized... This is somewhat similar to the behavior of the second princess of Asgard back then."

Audrey was about to respond to Tony, but found that Bruce was not listening at all, so she nudged Bruce dissatisfied.

"Sorry." Bruce returned to his senses, looking away from a distance, "I was thinking just now..."

"No, it's not just this part. There are too many similarities." Tony began to talk to himself, rubbing his thumb against his chin. "Don't you think so, Audrey."

"What are you talking about?" Bruce frowned.

"We're talking about Loki and Lex," Audrey replied, glancing at Bruce and then back to Tony, "Lex's behavior now also reminds me of Loki. It's exactly the same as when the Avengers first formed." , This guy wants to borrow a knife to kill someone."

After a pause, Audrey looked around, "Where's Clark?"

Clark had followed Bruce downstairs.But in the process, he was attracted by the LCD TV hanging on the wall of the channel, and the news bulletins broadcast in real time.A deadly factory fire interrupted the local Day of the Dead celebration in Juárez. It can be seen on the screen that a [-]-year-old girl was trapped in a room on the fourth floor of the factory building, calling for help through the window. , but the local firefighting equipment was insufficient to rescue the girl.

Clark did not hesitate to change his formal clothes and went to the local rescue. When he took the girl out of the fire, he realized that he forgot to call Audrey.

He crossed the crowd, knelt down, and handed the girl back to the other family, with a gentle smile on his face.However, when he got up and found that everyone around him stretched out their hands, intending to touch him, Clark hesitated.

He just wants to save people.It's very simple, I want to save this person.

It was never Clark Kent's purpose to deify Kayle's image.No, that wasn't what he was doing, it wasn't supposed to be his life, he didn't even think... didn't think he was Kael.He was just an ordinary Kansas boy who grew up on a farm with no toys to rival his classmates and played in the cornfield every day.

When did things start like this?

Clark flew back to the Barnes house, feeling a little dejected.He didn't go inside right away, but stopped over the courtyard, looking at the lights in Brandon's room, trying to regain his composure, but to no avail.

Maybe it's been a long time.The lights in Brandon's room were turned off and the windows darkened.Clark lowered his eyes, listening to Audrey's footsteps moving towards their room.She walked into the room, opened the window, and saw him.

She was still wearing the dress she wore to the dinner, standing on the balcony; light tulle, long skirt flying, rich purple, velvet ribbon reminiscent of Byzantium tied on the shoulders, outlining her beautiful curves, the print on the dress Delicate and elegant, neat and sexy, when the night wind blows her skirt and hair, Audrey is like a golden rose blooming in the twilight.

Clark landed slowly, his feet on the wooden floor of the balcony.He picked off the white roses that climbed on the outer wall of the building and were planted by Natasha, and gently placed them in Audrey's hair.

Audrey smiled, looked up at Clark, and raised her hand to stroke his face.

Clark twitched the corner of his mouth slightly, with a bitter smile.

"What are you suspecting, dear?"

"I just... hope things are easier than they seem."

Clark hung his head, shoulders slumped.He pursed his lips, swallowed the bitterness in his throat, and gently pressed his face against Audrey's palm.

"I just want to save that child." Clark murmured, his voice almost dissipated in the wind, "I just...follow my father's last wish and try to do more good things for this world."

Audrey stared fixedly at Clark, and after a while, took his hand and walked into the house.

"You know...About half a year before you returned to Metropolis, the Avengers broke out in civil war. The main reason is that the government wanted to implement a superhero real-name system, forcing all superheroes to register their real names, and those who agreed to sign the contract. Steve advocated not to sign Tony is the opposite. Steve believes that superheroes should not be used as political props, but Tony believes that the real-name system will help the general public to trust them more. The two sides are at a deadlock, Natasha signed, James did not.”

With her back to Clark, Audrey walked to the table and poured two cups of hot tea.She put the cup on the table and turned to look at Clark with a calm tone and expressionless face.

"This civil war not only tore apart the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D., but also severely damaged my family. They fought at the airport, Natasha was hunted down by the government afterward because of her defection, and Steve and his rebels sneaked into the Underground, operating as a secret avenger. Tony was plagued by trauma and stubbornly refused to give in. Even I was restricted from moving and became a key observation target of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Clark frowned, looking at Audrey in disbelief.

"So we cherish each other even more now." Audrey said, nodding slightly towards Clark.

"How did this work out?" Clark asked.

Audrey folded her arms around her chest and raised the corners of her mouth.That was a sneer. "In less than two months, Thanos attacked. At that time, you were probably still on the journey back to Earth... I don't know how many things happened outside. The whole earth was put on alert, and Thanos could destroy the entire X Academy with one blow. He doesn't just want the Infinity Stones, he likes dead bodies everywhere he walks."

"So, the world was forced to admit that they needed superheroes. S.H.I.E.L.D. retrieved the Secret Avengers. After the incident, the government backed down. Captain America returned to the leadership position of the Avengers. The CIA canceled the hunt for Natasha. Ling. Tony told me his deepest fear was that when they faced Thanos, even Steve would be vulnerable and there was nothing he could do. James is happy that we are reunited."

"On the day of victory, the whole world celebrates. No one cares about the real names of superheroes. We only need them to stand up when the crisis comes. No one cares whether lives are sacrificed in the process of saving the world, because everyone So happy. Those people you see protesting in the street, shouting Superman get out of the earth, they also shouted Captain America to die six months ago, and shouted Captain America long live three months ago.”

As Audrey said, she lowered her head, took off the white rose that Clark had put in her hair, and gently placed it in the white porcelain cup.Rose petals swirl with hot scented tea for a light aroma.

"Are you disappointed?" she asked, looking up and looking straight at Clark. "This is the human being you want to help. This is us. A group of animals driven by profit, forgetful, and don't learn their lessons."

Clark frowned, and even he himself was surprised, subconsciously shook his head.

"Are you angry?" Audrey asked again, picked up the teacup, and blew the petals on the water, "These people use you and call you when they need it, and when they don't need it, or think that what you do is not in line with their expectations, then scold you, reject you."

Clark pursed his lips, and this time he was more sure, shaking his head in denial.

"No," he said, looking down at Audrey, "I'm not disappointed or angry."

Audrey took a sip of her scented tea. "Why?"

"Because..." Clark frowned, looked at Audrey, and murmured softly.

Because he just wanted to save those people.

And he knew that he could save those people.

Audrey put down the porcelain cup and curled the corners of her mouth.This time, she didn't sneer.

"For ordinary people... being a saint is too tiring." Audrey said softly, walking towards Clark. "Ordinary people don't have extraordinary abilities. What they see is only things around them, or things they want to touch. Most people choose to deny the parts that cause pressure and remind themselves that they should change. Many people just You can’t even care about the people around you.”

Clark lowered his head, looked at Audrey in discomfort, his lips were tightly closed, and he let Audrey stop beside him, and put his hand gently on his shoulder.

"For ordinary people, it is not easy to imagine the suffering that has never been experienced. What people do every day is to waste food, consume the earth's resources, preach right and wrong, coldly blame the victims in the news reports, and rationalize everything ──Because we are just ordinary people.”

"I believe that most of the time, as Lewis said, maybe we don't like ourselves, but we always love ourselves. Everyone likes to be ordinary people. There is no pressure, no responsibility. But more often, everyone suddenly becomes passionate , Consciousness rises, joins a certain power camp and shouts slogans, and collectively rejects the things they oppose. When this happens, people think they are superhuman.”

"This is the scariest part of the world. A world full of good people pretending to be good—people are self-satisfied with their own goodness. Such a world may be more difficult to redeem than the miserable world."

Speaking of this, Audrey looked up at Clark.She moved her palm to Clark's chest, feeling the strong heartbeat buried under his chest.

"But you're not," she said, with a slight smile. "You cared about suffering because you knew you had enough power, and you also knew that you were never superhuman."