Both Lex and Bruce gathered around the boy, but they didn't go up to help him, but watched him out, after all, the timing and manner of his appearance was a little too weird.

"Excuse me, can you help me? I'm a little uncomfortable. The boy coughed twice, then said.

Bruce didn't move, just stood there and asked him, "Who are you?" What are you doing here? ”

"My name is Clark, Clark Kent, and as I said, I'm a student at the Met, and when I see smoke coming from my dorm room, I want to put out the fire."

The teenager named Clark sighed, and then continued, "I just started college this year, and my student ID is in my pocket, you can take it out and look at it, I'm not lying." ”

Bruce walked over and fumbled through the pockets of his clothes, and sure enough, he found a student ID that read "Metropolitan University first-year student, Clark Kent, major in journalism and communications." ”

He put his student ID in his pocket, then stepped forward and helped Clark up, who he helped out of the messy reception room and into a nearby room.

Clark lay on the bed, and after resting for a while, he seemed to feel better, and he removed the gas mask from his face, revealing a handsome face that was on par with Bruce.

He exhaled a few times, then stroked his chest and said, "Hell, how am I ......"

At this moment, there was a knock on the door of the guest room, and when Lex, who was standing by the door, opened the door, he found that it was Schiller standing outside the door.

Bruce began to look down at the pattern on the bed sheet again, Lex also buried his head in studying the structure of the doorknob, Schiller walked in, and when he saw another person lying on the bed, he was stunned for a moment, looked at Bruce and said, "...... This can't be your helicopter engine, right? ”

Clarke, who had regained some strength, sat up from the bed and said, "Hello, I'm Clark, thank you for saving me." ”

Schiller narrowed his eyes, then looked at Clark and said, "Are you in high school or college?" ”

"I just started college this year, and I'm at Metropolitan University, not far from here, so when I saw the smoke coming from here, I rushed over right away."

"How did you get here?" Schiller asked.

Bruce also turned his head to look at Clark, obviously curious about the question as well, Schiller glanced at the sky outside the window, and said, "If my guess is correct, the snow is now far thicker than a vehicle can pass." ”

"I came on foot."

"I used to teach at Metropolitan University, which is so close to here, but it's a minimum 20-minute walk, and it doesn't take more than three minutes from fire to smoke......

"I'm a fast runner, and I'm our long-distance champion this year." Clark struggled to explain.

Obviously, the three people in the room, except for Clark, didn't believe his rhetoric at all, and just as Bruce wanted to ask, Schiller said, "You look a little bad, what's wrong?" ”

"I am...... Suddenly a little uncomfortable. Clark frowned and said, "Maybe I ran too fast." ”

As if he had reacted suddenly, he looked at Schiller and said, "You are a professor at Metropolitan University?" That, I'm ......."

"It's urgent, isn't it?" Schiller continued his words, and Clark showed a relieved expression, saying, "Thank you for your understanding, I know the school told us not to go out......"

"It doesn't matter how you got here, but it's clear that you're just as trapped as we are."

"Or ......" Schiller said, looking into Clark's eyes, "you can show us how to run from the mayor's mansion to the Metropolitan University in three minutes." ”

Clarke's head shook like a wave drum, and he said, "No, I'm a little tired." ”

Schiller turned to Ricks and Bruce and said, "I'd like to talk to him about the current situation at Met, and if you're okay, go back and rest." ”

Lex looked like he had something to say, but Schiller turned his head straight back, he hesitated, but left the room, and Bruce walked out after him, walking down the dimly lit hallway, Bruce turned to him and said, "You should know something, right?" ”

"What do you mean?" Lex didn't answer his question directly.

"That so-called treasure, and your father, and that conspiracy from two years ago, and that professor......"

"Oh, you're here." Selena appeared at the top of the stairs, and she went back upstairs to look at the messy reception room across from her, then shook her head and said, "You two are really good, you really blew this place up." ”

After saying that, she looked Lykes up and down again and said, "Are you really a citizen of the Metropolis?" Your kind of destructive power is not often seen in Gotham. ”

Lex didn't seem to want to talk to Selena at all, he stopped, looked at Bruce and said, "I'll admit you're a genius too, but that's a far cry from me, and that perfect helicopter engine you call is nothing more than that......"

"I can tell you that I do know a lot." Lex crossed his arms and looked Bruce in the eye and said, "My father has been looking for a treasure, and in these two years, he has not found nothing. ”

"Today's banquet was originally his conspiracy, he invited all the celebrities of the East Coast here, on the one hand, he wanted to take the opportunity to kill the people who got in his way, and on the other hand, he also wanted to make trouble, muddy the waters, and then fish in troubled waters."

Bruce narrowed his eyes, he looked directly at Lex and said, "You mean, the treasure is here?" ”

"That's right." Lex replied in the affirmative, and then he began to pace in front of Bruce, saying as he went:

"The Mayor's Mansion is the oldest manor house in the metropolis, and it was built by the first European settlers, but it has since been the residence and office of successive mayors after the immigrants left the city."

"Everyone knows that, unlike your Gotham, the Metropolis is a city with a strong mayoral system, where the mayor has a lot of power, and the mayor who served two terms before White had high expectations, and the Met is prospering day by day under his rule."

"Some people say he might be a strong candidate for the presidency, but after he left the mayor, he mysteriously disappeared, but the mayor still left behind many rumors, including the one my father heard."

"He'd heard that the mayor had been conducting some secret radiation experiments, and that he had found a way to modify the human body and brain, making it a strong, long-lived, intelligent mutant."

Lex glanced at Bruce's expression and said, "I know, it sounds like a fool's imagination, but he did find some evidence that the mayor was conducting secret experiments underneath the mayor's mansion." ”

"He didn't want to gain superior wisdom all the time, so he kept investigating the matter until he bought all the buildings around the mayor's mansion, and then planned this incident to take the opportunity to investigate the secrets under the mayor's mansion......"

Lex stopped, looked at Bruce and said, "The affairs of the Met should be handled by the people of the Met, no matter what the mayor is doing underground, it has nothing to do with you, go back to your Gotham." ”

"You know what I'm really interested in, what the hell was going on with that conspiracy two years ago? And, the professor......"

"At that time, I was indeed in the mayor's mansion, but I never left the room, and I don't know what happened in the manor."

"So ......"

"I'm not going to say anything about that professor."

Lex crossed his fingers, crossed his mouth with a fork, lowered his hands, turned and walked away, and smiled slightly wickedly before leaving.

When he was gone, Selena leaned in and walked side by side with Bruce, and when the two of them returned to the room, Bruce sat down on the bed against the head of the bed, with a tired expression on his face, which he rarely showed in front of outsiders, but Selena seemed to be used to it.

"Looks like you're a little unhappy?" Selena sat down next to him, then turned to look at his face and said, "Do you want to know that professor's story so much?" ”

Bruce pursed his lips, and he replied, "If I can't figure out where he came from, I can't turn a blind eye to his dangerous abilities." ”

"You don't trust him? But I think he trusts you. ”

"Where do you see that?"

"Didn't you notice? In the moment when Lex wanted to attack you, he chose to be on your side. ”

Bruce shook his head, and he said, "I just don't trust those dangerous abilities, and if these abilities get out of control one day, I need to have a way to counter them......"

"Okay, so let's talk about that treasure, I like to look for treasures, what about you?" Selena said to Bruce with a smile.

"Ricks told me that there is a secret under the mayor's mansion, probably so that I can find his way."

"yes, but ......"

Selena deliberately dragged a long note to cause Bruce to turn to look at her, and then, Bruce saw that Selena reached out a hand and picked her index finger, and a key appeared on her fingertips.

"What if I get a key from him?"