American comics: You're asked to fish, but you catch a Superman template?

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And so, the rocket returned to Earth. Lois hurried back to the Messenger and wrote down the story she had just told. She happened to run into Superman, who had also returned to Earth and turned back into Clark, and told him the 150 things.

Clark: "Louise, thank goodness you're alright. I contacted them to come pick you up as soon as I got back to Earth."

Louise: "This is not the time to talk about spaceships, Clark. We are in danger. Aliens are going to attack Earth. We must prepare now."

Clark: "Prepare, prepare what?"

Louise: "This is telling people."

Just as Lois was recounting what she had seen in the universe, the building next to the Messenger newspaper suddenly began to shake, and then Clark pointed to a giant pair of pincers and exclaimed.

Clark: "What is this?"

Louise: "It's too late!"

Seeing this, Louise felt utterly hopeless. It turned out that, without her knowledge, Metropolis had also been amassed by die-hard fans. This sight in the sky made Louise decide that even Superman couldn't save them.

On the other hand, Superman, disguised as Clark, didn't think so. He escaped wearing a space sheepskin suit and actually waited for Blanchick to assemble Metropolis before entering the spaceship.

After changing back into his clothes, Superman tried to get out of the bottle, but failed.

Then, Brainiac used an airship to plug the bottleneck containing the metropolis with a particularly hard metal.

Superman: "What is this?"

Chapter 691 City of Honesty

Superman: "Transportation?"

Superman rubbed his head and looked at the cork in the bottle.

Despite the reduction, Superman's strength was not diminished; he used his superpowers to push the cork away.

Superman: "You can't let Blanchick know I've left the bottle."

Superman opened the stopper, stepped out, and then closed it again to avoid arousing Bregnac's suspicion.

Superman: "That must be the stopping device Brainiac used to repel attacks."

Immediately afterwards, a short superhero quickly discovered a gadget inside the flying object: a pen-shaped thruster.

Brainiac: "Wait a minute, there's a fly buzzing around. Coco, swat it for me!"

Coco: "Squeak!"

Superman was just about to take a good look at the power generation device on the shelf when Brainiac noticed his movements and opened his mouth so that the monkey-like alien creature Koko could swat him with a fly swatter.

Click!

Superman: "Luckily, Brignac didn't notice, but his pet has been following me, and I need to find a place to hide."

To avoid being hit, Superman hurriedly flew into the open bottle.

Superman: "Why does this place look so familiar?"

Looking at the city in the bottle, Superman felt a strange sense of familiarity, but the next moment he realized that his flying body had landed on the ground, and that the city actually belonged to his home planet Krypton. The bottle had replicated Krypton's original gravity, causing his superpowers to become ineffective.

Superman found one of the scientists in a bottle and introduced them, discovering that this scientist and his father were college roommates. Superman recounted his experiences over the years, and the scientist told him that Kandor was the capital of Krypton, which had been destroyed by Brenniak before Krypton exploded.

Superman tells the scientist about his current mission. The scientist tells him that during his years in the bottle, he had already deactivated the device used by the brainwashed fan and gave Superman a blueprint to help him restore the city in the bottle to its original state. However, Superman also expresses his helplessness, because he no longer has superpowers.

Superman: "I really want to do all this, but I've lost my powers, and the gravity in Kandor won't let me fly."

The scientists told Superman everything about Kandor: they had built flying machines that could fly inside bottles, kept rare moles that could eat metal in captivity on glass, created robots that could do farm work, and even built an artificial sun, all of which left Superman sighing in disbelief.

Briniak: "Very good, Coco, the next step is to wait."

On the other hand, Bregnac has completed his collection of all the major cities on Earth and intends to return to his home planet, where he and his pet Koko will hibernate until they awaken a hundred years later.

Scientist: "My telescope saw Bregnac enter the bedroom, which is not a good sign."

After learning all this through the telescope, Superman hurriedly told him everything. Just as Blanchett's hibernation began, the entire control system did not restart until a hundred years later. Superman was surprised. He was worried that a hundred years later, everyone he knew in the bottle would be married and have children, and Lois would be long dead.

Superman: "Something has to be done! We can't let this happen!"

Thinking of this, Superman made a quick decision. He borrowed a flying car and a metal-eating mole from the scientists, drove the flying car to the bottleneck, and had the mole bite a hole in the bottle opening. Superman came out of the hole, away from Krypton's gravity, and regained his superpowers. So he followed the map and pressed the corresponding buttons with his body, and Metropolis was restored and returned to Earth.

Superman: "There's only one person left."

After all the cities on Earth have been restored, the remaining energy can only be used once more, requiring a choice between oneself and the city of Kandor.

Superman: "...The people of Kandor need a size adjustment hook more than I do."

Just as Superman was about to rebuild Kandor, the miniature spaceship pressed a button, and a beam of light made Superman grow larger.

Superman: "Doctor, why did you do this?"

Scientists say, "Breeniak won't give up easily. Once he comes to his senses and discovers that all the cities he collected have disappeared, he will definitely launch a new attack on Earth. We must protect Earth and prevent Superman from shrinking!"

Superman discovers that a scientist in a miniature spaceship also sees this in a bottle and makes the choice to restore Earth's greatest hero and continue to keep Earth safe.

Superman took Candor from Brainiac's flying car to Secret City.

Superman: "I promise that one day Kandor will be rebuilt."

He was the first alien villain to appear in the Superman series.

The appearance of the fanatic left a deep impression on readers, especially when he shrunk cities on Earth one by one and sealed them in bottles. Readers who saw this in the Daily Courier gasped in astonishment, and for a moment even wondered if their current New York City had already been shrunk into a bottle by Bregnac, and just hadn't been discovered yet.

From the very beginning, the appearance of Kando City has created more connections for readers to the subsequent storyline of the comic.

Chapter 692 Doctor Strange

Doctor Strange?!

If Xu Fu were here, he would recognize that the person in front of him who called himself Doctor Strange was none other than Stephen Strange.

In just a few months, the other side seemed to have undergone a radical change.

He had transformed from an energetic neurosurgeon into the god-like Doctor Strange standing before Banner.

"So you're the one who saved me?"

Recalling the last image in his mind, Banner asked, looking at Dr. Stephen Strange standing in front of him.

"No, it's fate. Fate brought me to you."

Dr. Strange or Stephen said meaningfully to Banner, shaking his head.

"destiny?"

Upon hearing Stephen's answer, Banner frowned, looking at the person standing in front of him. It seemed that he was always hiding something that Banner didn't know.

Stephen didn't explain much to him; he glanced at the surprised Banner and refocused on his work.

As Banner looked at him, the man who called himself Stephen seemed to be searching for something among the many solemn ritual objects in the room.

"...Mephistopheles parchment? No, not this one, I don't want to be a corrupt soul..."

"The feather of Anubis is a complete fake; who knows what kind of people it will summon..."

“Let me see. Yan Moore isn’t very familiar with… Satan, well, he shouldn’t be under his control…”

Stephen pulled a completely blackened parchment from the statue, opened it, studied its contents carefully, then closed it and put it back in the box in front of him.

Standing to the side, Banner saw part of the parchment through Stephen's finger. When he could barely make it out, his brain began to throb, as if countless voices were whispering in his mind. His vision blurred, and a distorted, illusory world appeared before Banner, like a half-dream.

He saw a colossal figure perched high atop a skeleton, surrounded by a vast sea of ​​fire and blood, which consumed his body. From the figure on the throne came cries of pity, to which she responded with deafening, maniacal laughter.

Then, the scene changed, and Banner was back in the center of the room.

He stood behind Stephen, watching as the quiet words on the parchment began to ripple, wriggle, and burst forth, emitting alluring sounds, as if possessing them would grant unprecedented power. As the parchment rustled, Banner's expression changed; he took a step forward, leaning closer to Stephen.

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However, before he could get any closer, the other person fixed their gaze on him again.

At the same time, the illusion before Banner's eyes vanished without a trace.

Blinking, Banner pulled the parchment aside and looked down at his soaring feet, a flicker of fear crossing his eyes.

At that moment, he seemed to lose all desire to snatch that strange parchment from Dr. Strange.

Banner was stunned by what had just happened.

On the other hand, Stephen seemed completely oblivious to what was happening behind him. He picked out a somewhat ugly-looking puppy from the pile of statues and summoning rituals, casually picked up the other head lying to the side, and nodded, saying, "Found it, Legba..."

Stephen held the puppy statue in one hand and threw the skull in the other behind Banner's back. Banner instinctively reached out to catch it.

"this?".

When he saw that Doctor Strange had thrown him a dried-up, curled-up, ugly head, he couldn't help but exclaim that he was going to throw it away.

"If I were you, I wouldn't do that..."

Just then, Stephen's hoarse voice rang out, causing Banner to abruptly stop what he was doing.

"The skulls were typically made from the heads of victors in tribal wars, undergoing a series of special procedures, such as removing the eyes and teeth, destroying and removing the bones, brain, and muscle tissue inside the skull, leaving a head full of human skin. This skin was then filled with hot stones to allow it to shrink and dry, the eyelids and mouth were sewn together, and the skin was filled with stones or grass. The remaining hair was tied up and hung on a door or around the victor's neck as a trophy or war medal, symbolizing that the conquered soul belonged to him, and serving as a talisman and a means of communication with spirits."

"If you don't want what just happened to you to happen again, hurry up. This is a great tool I got from the Gypsies for a lot of money."

Stephen's explanation intensified Banner's discomfort with the dried-out head lying before him. He looked down at the head, no bigger than a fist, and at the clearly visible stitches on its eyelids and mouth. Banner struggled to suppress his unease and resistance, clutching the head tightly in his hand.

The unusual appearance of the parchment had already left a deep impression on him.