"Boom!"
Heavy bundles of straw fell into the pickup truck bed.
Clark clapped his hands and let out a soft breath.
"You got up early today, Clark. Are you fully recovered?"
Seeing Clark helping him carry things so energetically, Jonathan, who came out of the barn, asked in surprise.
"I'm recovering well, Dad."
Clark said as he threw a heavy bundle of straw into the carriage. "Although I was a little weak at first, I have now fully recovered my previous strength. If I were sick, I wouldn't be able to move these things now."
"That's good. It's finally over. Fortunately, the final result is not bad."
Jonathan lifted a bundle of straw and put it in the car, then said to Clark, "Your mother and I are going to the medical center for a routine checkup. Do you want a ride to school?"
"No, thanks. I can just take the school bus."
Clark bent down and continued to move the straw into the carriage.
"How does mom feel now?"
He asked Jonathan after he let out a breath.
"not bad."
Jonathan stood in the carriage and took the crop from Clark. "She's pregnant. I still can't believe it."
"That"
Clark walked to the side of the carriage and pushed the straw inside. He asked Jonathan with a smile on his face, "When can we tell everyone the good news?"
Closing the carriage, Jonathan shrugged, "Don't worry, this is a secret that everyone can happily share."
"Yeah, this baby is very lucky."
Clark dusted off his hands and replied to his father.
Jonathan walked to the cab, ready to check the safety of the pickup truck, but as if he remembered something, he turned around and said to Clark hesitantly: "Son, I don't want you to misunderstand."
Putting her hand on Clark's shoulder, "This child will bring great changes to us, but it will not affect our feelings for you. Clark, you and Eric, Martha and I have always loved you."
"I know."
Clark understood what his father was trying to say and nodded.
"That's good."
Jonathan smiled with relief and turned to walk towards the cab.
"I'm glad everything is back to normal."
He said to Clark while opening the door of the cab.
In the other living room, Martha came out and shouted to her husband, "Jonathan, we're going to be late. We have to go!"
Eric also came out of the living room with his mother.
After saying goodbye to their parents, the two watched the pickup truck drive away.
"You're not going to school now?"
Clark bent down and continued to move the straw at hand into the barn, and asked Eric by the way.
"If I didn't have super powers, I would follow the school bus and get to school on time."
Eric glanced at Clark and walked into the living room.
"But once I know how to take a shortcut through the 'black hole', I won't have to be on time for school."
"Hmmm, Chloe's silly joke, I didn't expect you would remember this."
Clark shrugged his shoulders, lifted the heavy pile of straw with ease, and walked towards the barn.
What he meant by "Chloe joke" was that Chloe often joked that he "traveled through a wormhole" because he clearly missed the school bus but always arrived at school before Chloe.
"correct."
Eric stared at his cheap brother and suddenly asked him, "Clark, do you remember what you did last night?"
"What?"
Clark blinked in confusion and put down the straw he was holding, "Last night? After dinner, I went back to my room."
Because he often took leave from school during this period, he borrowed Chloe's study notes and was busy copying them.
"You don't remember where you've been?"
"of course I remember."
Clark thought for a moment, "I stayed in the room the whole time, didn't I?"
"never mind."
Eric shook his head and turned to walk into the living room.
I saw with my own eyes last night, Clark walked out like a sleepwalker.
Although he was not woken up, he was watched as he wandered around the farm and wasteland like a ghost.
Now that Clark doesn't know he's sleepwalking, why not just not tell him and see if he continues to do it at night.
He became curious about why Clark suddenly started sleepwalking.
late at night.
Dark clouds covered the sky, and the hot night became even thicker and darker.
Clark lay down and fell asleep immediately.
In my dream, I felt like I was flying up in a daze.
Passing through farms and woods, across roads and rivers, and finally flying into a hidden cave.
The dark and deep cave seemed to have no end in sight. I mastered the ability to fly and slowly passed through the cave, finally arriving at the depths of the cave.
The deepest part of the cave is illuminated by phosphorescent plants, emitting a faint green light.
Clark fell from his suspended state in the air and found a strange text pattern engraved on the rock wall in front of him.
It was somewhat similar to the pattern on the spaceship that he had seen in the cellar.
There is an octagonal gap in the middle of the pattern.
Just as he was wondering, he found a piece of metal suddenly appearing in his right hand.
The octagonal piece of silver metal, the key that Eric found that seemed to be able to open the spaceship.
Clark swallowed and slowly extended the octagonal metal piece in his hand towards the pattern on the wall.
The moment the metal piece touched the wall, it was sucked away and disappeared.
Then a beam of light burst out from the pattern on the wall and shone directly on his face.
"Well!"
Feeling a stinging pain, Clark stretched out his hand to block the dazzling beam of light that burned his skin.
Whoosh!
The scenery in front of me suddenly changed, and the image of the rock wall suddenly disappeared.
What comes into view is the night illuminated by dim lights.
He found himself lying barefoot on the wet road in his pajamas, his hands still raised.
Next to it was a pitch-black forest, and the light from an old street lamp dispelled the darkness nearby.
"Isn't the cold ground uncomfortable?"
Just as he was about to stand up from the road, Clark heard a familiar voice ringing in his ears.
Looking towards where the voice came from, he found Eric standing aside with his arms crossed over his chest, looking at him with a teasing look.
"I, what's wrong with me?"
Clark touched his slightly painful forehead and asked Eric.
"It's obvious that you just had a sleepwalking episode, and it was a seemingly serious sleepwalking episode."
Eric looked around and said, "This is Highway 8, 22 miles from the farm. It looks like the rabbit hole you went through in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is unexpectedly long."
Just as he finished speaking, a car appeared uphill from the other end of the road.
The car, with its high beams on, didn't seem to see Eric and Clark lying on the ground, and instantly moved in front of the two.
Eric, who has super speed comparable to the speed of sound, grabbed Clark's clothes and took him off the road one tenth of a second before the car hit him.
Clark saw a flash before his eyes, and then he and Eric appeared in the woods together.
"I was sleepwalking?"
"It seems so. Or do you doubt that I would bring you here without clothes in the middle of the night out of boredom?"
"No"
Clark scratched his hair in confusion. "I remember I just went to a cave and saw some words on the cave wall. I seemed to be able to read them vaguely. There was also an octagonal pattern on it. Maybe it has something to do with where we came from."
"Eric, do you know how to get into that cave?"
He asked Eric with a little excitement.
Clark was a little impatient thinking that the mystery of his life might be solved soon.
"No, I didn't see you go into any cave."
Eric shook his head. "I just saw you walk here after leaving home, and then suddenly fall down."
"So. The cave, the murals, the key, the bright light, that was just something I saw in my dream?"
"Maybe. Now you'd better go home before your family finds out."
Eric turned and prepared to leave.
Yes, he lied to Clark.
Clark did enter a secret cave while sleepwalking.
If my guess is correct, it should be an existence related to Krypton.
Ever since Clark came into contact with the spacecraft, the Kryptonian genes in his body began to awaken gradually.
At the same time, it seems that the forces on Krypton that were ready to move also began to take action.
Excluding General Zod who is being exiled to the universe, even if it is impossible, this force can only be Superman's father.
But as far as Eric knew, Krypton had already been destroyed, and Superman's father had turned to ashes.
Since you're already dead, don't add drama to yourself!
Eric sneered, bent his legs slightly, and prepared to fly away.
But he was soon stopped by Clark, "Eric!"
"Why? Do you need me to take you back?"
"No, it isn't."
Clark took a few deep breaths and walked over to his brother, "The cave may hide the answers we have been looking for, the truth about where we came from. Aren't you interested at all? Or don't you want to know why our biological parents abandoned us?"
"The truth is, I'm not interested at all."
Eric shook his head, his voice cold, "That's your own idea, don't impose it on anyone, especially me."
"It's not imposed."
Clark thought about the words and patterns in the cave. "I just think we can touch the truth."
"That's not the truth I want, Clark, and I'm not interested in it."
He learned that Superman's immortal father seemed to be up to something, and that the spacecraft emitted radiation for no reason, which almost killed Martha. After experiencing a series of events, he no longer has any good feelings towards the other party.
He turned to Clark and said coldly: "Clark, if you imagine life to be too beautiful, you will fall hard!"
"certainly."
Clark nodded, but retorted: "If you think too badly about life, you will lose the courage to face it, right?"
Clark became more and more excited, and his last sentence was even a little angry, "Why are you afraid of finding the truth!"
Facing Clark's questioning, Eric did not answer. He simply ignored him and disappeared from the spot in an instant.
Clark was left there feeling a little annoyed.
He felt like a bit of an asshole!
It was a normal conversation, but he messed it up with his rude words and irrational behavior.
The next day, evening.
Clark was accompanying Chloe to an extracurricular activity and had not yet returned from school.
Eric returned to the farm early from school and told his parents about Clark's sleepwalking.
"Clark has been acting strangely these past few days, ever since he found out about the spaceship."
Jonathan sighed and put down the coffee cup beside him. "He also looked absent-minded. I always thought he hadn't fully recovered yet."
"Clark is somewhat obsessed with finding the truth."
Eric tasted the orange juice stirred by his mother. "And the spaceship seemed to be luring him intentionally or unintentionally."
Martha looked at her husband worriedly and asked her youngest son, "Eric, didn't you feel the call of the spaceship or something?"
"I?"
Eric put down his cup, "Maybe, maybe not, but who cares?"
In the astonished eyes of his parents, Eric said casually: "I am an Earthling, born and raised in Smallville. As for that spaceship, who cares where it comes from? Who cares what message it wants to convey?"
"This is my home. If it wants to tell me or instruct me on what to do, I think it's overthinking."
The couple were a little surprised to hear what their youngest son said.
But what emerged from deep in my heart was more of an emotion.
Eric is different from Clark. Compared to Clark's confusion about his identity, the youngest son puts the farm family at the most important position.
Martha even thought of the worst case scenario, that Clark would leave her, but Eric would never.
"Knock! Knock!"
As they were talking, there was a knock on the door.
"Maybe Clark is back. I'll go open the door."
Jonathan put down the coffee cup he had been holding and walked towards the door.
"Wait a minute, Dad. I'll go open the door."
Eric's eyes passed through the door panel and saw the existence behind the door. His eyes immediately narrowed and he stopped his father's actions.
"?"
Although he was a little surprised as to why Eric had to open the door himself, he finally nodded and stopped.
Eric walked to the door, gently pushed it open, and a beautiful body came into view outside.
A girl with golden hair and delicate features stood outside the door without any clothes.
"Hello, Eric Kent, I'm Kara El."
Although she was naked, revealing her exciting figure, the other party didn't seem to care at all and introduced herself to Eric with a smile.
Kara El?
Hearing the name, Eric's gaze, which had been fixed on the two indescribable objects, was immediately diverted.
Super Girl?!
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