Wednesday morning.
The morning sun shone inch by inch on the sleeping Metropolis, and Jay flew back to his dorm from Gotham before the dawn completely covered the city. Although he had an exciting night in Gotham last night, that didn't stop him from having to go back to school today before the sun rose and be on time for the first class in the morning.
He quietly went back to the bedroom, trying not to make a sound to disturb his sleeping roommate, but only after entering the door did he realize that it was unnecessary. Mike slept like a dead pig, snoring loudly in his nose as if it were about to topple the roof, and didn't even notice that someone was coming in. Jay was happy and worried at the same time because it meant that if he wanted to sleep in the dormitory in the future, he had to sleep before the roommate.
Jay usually doesn't have the heart to listen carefully, and after the battle with Superman last night, he has no mood. In the whole morning class, he had been sitting by the table with his chin in one hand almost in a daze. He seemed to be listening to the professor's lecture in his ears, but he didn't think about it at all. His mind was full of superhuman things, and he spent almost the entire class staring at the top of a tree outside the window in a daze, spinning a ballpoint pen involuntarily in his hand.
Twenty minutes left until the end of getting out of class when a high-pitched sound pierced the space and hit his cochlea from the window.
Jay shuddered, and the ballpoint pen fell to the ground involuntarily. The noise was almost torture, and the intense sound was like listening to the sound of a chainsaw on a construction site at close range, making people almost burst their heads.
Jay covered his ears subconsciously, but of course, that didn't cut off his super hearing. He looked around, the professor on the podium was still spitting, the students were still listening with relish, and no one but him seemed to notice the unbearable sound waves.
Jay quickly realized it was an ultrasound that only he could hear, but where did it come from? Someone deliberately let him hear it? Or is it just which lab is doing ultrasound-related experiments?
Maybe after today, he'll have to ask Kara to ask him how to actively block his super-hearing, but now he's feeling a little unbearable. Ignoring that he was still in class at the moment, he got up and left the classroom under the attention of everyone. He found a place where no one else was, took off his coat and put on a Superman shirt, and flew up and flew towards the source of the noise.
A vacant lot of abandoned houses in the metropolitan city.
Amanda Waller had her hands behind her back, her almost slit eyes staring at the blue sky of the metropolis through two small round spectacles. Two agents in black suits followed him left and right, and a horn-shaped device was flashing a red light indicating activation, emitting harsh high-frequency sound waves throughout the city.
Humans can't hear this frequency, and the recent domineering "Superman" is stopping the riots on the other half of the planet, and only one person in the city can hear it.
When the figure in the red and blue uniform appeared directly above the clearing, Amanda Waller smiled. She waved her hand and signaled her subordinates to turn off the noise-emitting machine, then looked up at the sky and said, "Since everyone is here, why don't you come down and talk?"
Her voice is not loud, and the volume is the same as when she speaks face to face, but she knows that the Kryptonian who is dozens of meters in the air can hear it. Jay looked down at Waller in midair, frowning slightly.
When a two-dimensional comic image appears in the real world, there is a slight difference of course, so before Jay encountered some characters in the original comics in this world, he couldn't recognize them for the first time. The only exception was Amanda Waller—Jay recognized her immediately because she was so conspicuous. Looking down at Jay from her height is like a black ball of flesh tightly wrapped in a blue formal suit, coupled with the unbelievable sharpness of a steel knife in her eyes, the unique image is almost like It became her business card.
According to the comics, Jay remembered that Amanda Waller was the head of an organization called the Sky Eye Society, similar to Nick Fury of Marvel S.H.I.E.L.D. She is a very tough character. In the original work, she holds most of the secret identities and weaknesses of superhuman beings, and she always has her share in many secrets that are not visible.
The current situation looks like she's deliberately using this sonic transmitter to lure herself here, which at least conveys the good news - Waller still doesn't know the true identity of the new Superman, otherwise, she should be sitting with her legs crossed right now. In Jay's dorm waiting for him to go back.
After thinking for a while, Jay landed and stood in front of Waller. He didn't know what medicine the other party was selling in the gourd, but at least he couldn't show weakness.
"Amanda Waller." Jay decided to strike first. "You want me?"
Waller was a little surprised: "You know me?"
"I know who you are, so we can just skip the nonsense." Jay said lightly, "What's the matter?"
Maybe he's a tougher guy than he thought, Waller secretly added a note to the new Superman's database, and said quietly: "You know me, then we can indeed save some opening lines. I went straight to the point. Remember the unusual wind and waves in the Philippine Sea a week ago?"
"Remember." Jay folded his arms, waiting for her to continue.
"I saw your performance on the news, your heroic act is admirable," Waller said, but there was no expression of admiration on his face. "It's just a little careless."
"How?"
"I bet you didn't use your super eyes to look into the sea when you were busy with disaster relief to study what caused such abnormal weather."
Jay didn't argue, she was telling the truth, Jay didn't even think to observe any climate cause at the time.
"Fortunately, my people observed, and we noticed a huge energy source, right at the bottom of the Philippine Sea," she said. "The energy index is very strong and very unstable, and it may cause more disasters. I was only busy saving the disaster in front of me, but I didn't see the source that caused it, and that may lead to more disasters. So I sent two excellent agents to investigate the sea area to find the source of the released energy... ...but not long after they went down, some kind of accident happened at the bottom of the sea. Because of the communication interruption, we had no way of knowing what was going on down there, only that I lost contact with the two excellent agents. And after that, The storm at sea reached an unnavigable level again and my ships had to withdraw."
Jay probably understood: "You want me to help you get your people out."
Waller nodded: "If there is no other choice, I don't want to ask you for help. But now the storm level is higher than before, even the underwater is affected by a special energy, and no means of transportation can get close to it. In this area, you are the only option left for me."
"Are you so sure I'll help you?"
"No, but I know one of the missing agents. She knows you well," she said. "Helena Wayne, Huntress, remember?"
"The Age of Rebirth"
Joy frowned slightly.