Chapter 141
"North Pole!"
Su Quan said with a faint smile.
North Pole.
Snow-covered landscape, a thousand miles of ice.
A biting wind swept across the sky, and as far as the eye could see, there was nothing but an endless expanse of ice and snow.
The golden Teleportation Portal brought a second color to the monotonous polar region. Inside the Teleportation Portal, Barbara and Veronica, wearing thick coats, followed Su Quan out.
A gust of cold wind blew, and the two of them shivered instantly. The thick coats they had thought were heavy suddenly seemed insufficient.
It's so cold!
Su Quan, still wearing only a single layer of clothing, didn't share their worries. He already possessed Loki's Cold Immunity, and with the fact that he had recently mastered so many Atlanteans basic abilities, this level of cold was nothing to him given his current physical condition.
Su Quan slowly floated into the air with his feet off the ground, at a steady pace. After several dozen seconds, he stopped in mid-air and activated his X-ray Vision, his deep gaze searching through the thick ice layer.
"Not here."
Su Quan shook his head inwardly, and with a whoosh, flew off into the distance, then controlled his speed, searching as he flew.
His current fastest flight speed should reach several tens of times the speed of sound. He hasn't tested how fast it is, mainly because he doesn't have many opportunities to fly normally. He can just use a Teleportation Portal to get wherever he wants.
"Found it."
A few minutes later, Su Quan's eyes lit up, and he quickly arrived at a certain ice layer.
Beneath the deep snow and thick ice, a huge spaceship lay there obediently.
Su Quan waved his hand and opened Teleportation Portal to take Barbara and Veronica. Just as the trembling Veronica was about to speak, Su Quan's eyes turned blood red, and then Heat Vision blasted into the ice layer.
A sizzling sound rang out, and soon, an ice cave large enough for two or three people to walk side by side appeared on the ice.
Su Quan went inside, while continuing to excavate the passage using Heat Vision.
Before long, they arrived at the location of the spaceship.
The spaceship's hatch was open, and because the spaceship and the ice layer had become one, it gave it a 'subterranean ruin' feel at first glance.
Barbara and Veronica were dumbfounded. On one side was Ice, and on the other was metal. The feeling of being between two completely different worlds just a step away was no less than when they stood in the Teleportation Portal and arrived in the North Pole.
"This, this is a spaceship? An alien spaceship?" Veronica exclaimed in surprise in a low voice.
"Whoosh."
A one-meter-tall metal workbench suddenly appeared in the previously empty metal corridor.
There are no displays or buttons on the control panel, only a small notch, the shape of which is the symbol of the House of El.
In the movie, Clark Kent first came here and activated the spaceship using the House of El necklace around his neck. In other words, without identity verification, one would be attacked by the robots on the spaceship.
"What is that?!"
Barbara suddenly gasped as an inverted cone-shaped machine floated up beside her, its mechanical chains already binding Barbara.
"Bang bang bang!"
Gunshots rang out suddenly. Veronica gripped the pistol with both hands and fired several shots at the machine, but not a single dent or scratch was left.
"Get out of my way!" Barbara shouted, pulling the rope back and forcefully dragging the machine over, then kicking it into the air.
"Bang!"
The machine was kicked away.
The kick caused the machine to dent and crack, with a few sparks flashing. After falling to the ground, the machine shook a few times and then stopped moving.
"Friday."
Su Quan raised the Void Battle Bead, and Friday's projection appeared instantly.
"Get it done."
"Okay, boss."
On Friday, Tian Tian smiled and looked at the control panel with great interest. Then, a thread made of nanoparticles appeared from the Void Battle Bead, which then transformed into the shape of the House of El and was inserted directly into the notch.
Perfectly fitted!
Kryptonians have advanced technology, but they don't pay much attention to artificial intelligence, and their defense mechanisms are not particularly sophisticated.
Friday is considered a top-tier artificial intelligence, and during this time when Su Quan has nothing else to do, he also has her study the Life Core Codex.
Before meeting Veronica, Su Quan had originally planned to have Friday take charge of the Kryptonians.
"Buzz!"
Suddenly, rows of hidden lights in the corridor lit up, and then a figure appeared at the end of the corridor, but before they could see him clearly, the person turned around and disappeared.
"Whoosh."
Another figure appeared, but this time it was Friday.
She has completely taken control of the spaceship and used its technology to achieve greater freedom in holographic technology.
The Void Battle Bead returned to its original state, and Su Quan walked deeper into the corridor while asking Friday, "Could you tell me about this spaceship?"
"Okay, boss."
"This spaceship is Krypton reconnaissance ship, numbered 0344, and its captain is Kara Zo El."
"The crew members were Lin Dark, Ho Pa, Skye Kos, Elsie, and they are all now dead."
"An unregistered stowaway named Deford Em destroyed their hibernation pods and killed them. He was then killed by the awakened Captain Kara Zo El, which damaged the ship, forcing it to make an emergency landing here and initiating the hibernation program."
"The surviving Kara Zo El has left the reconnaissance ship and her whereabouts are currently unknown. Should we try to find her?"
"Not needed for now."
Su Quan shook his head; all he wanted to do right now was shout "Good heavens!"
The captain of this reconnaissance ship was Kara Zo El.
Who is she?
She's Superman's cousin, the future Supergirl! If I remember correctly, this reconnaissance ship landed on Earth a long, long time ago.
The age difference between my older cousin and my younger cousin is just too big, isn't it?
Well, the origins of Superman and Supergirl in the Parallel Universe Earth-38 are more normal!
Su Quan asked Kara Zo El in detail about the matter on Friday, and learned that after the forced landing, she did not leave immediately, but instead entered the hibernation pod again after failing to start the ship, hoping that Krypton would discover the anomaly of the reconnaissance ship and send someone to investigate.
As a powerful and warlike race in the universe, Kryptonians are somewhat similar to Saiyans. Warlike Kryptonians send out many reconnaissance ships to learn about the situation of planets in other star systems, and it is normal for them to hibernate for a long time while on the road.
Therefore, it is reasonable that Kara Zo El went into hibernation, and then countless years passed.
According to the ship's records, Kara Zo El left the ship several years ago!
PS: The story of Kara Zo El and this spaceship comes from the pilot comic of Steel Body.
Besides Kara Zo El, there was something else that pleased Su Quan: on Friday, it was said that the reconnaissance ship was equipped with Growth Program and a large number of Kryptonians embryos.
Under normal circumstances, once the reconnaissance ship arrives at the designated target planet, it will activate the Growth Program, and the embryos stored on the ship will begin to develop. Soon after, a large number of Kryptonians will terraform the planet to resemble Krypton, turning it into New Krypton.
According to the records on the spaceship, at least several thousand Krypton flew to different star systems at that time, which the Kryptonians called the Great Expansion Era of Krypton!
Unfortunately, due to the damage to the spaceship and its long period of hibernation and self-repair, a large number of the Krypton embryos stored on it died. The number that could have been comparable to the total population of Krypton after all of them were conceived is now less than a thousand.
At the current rate, by the time General Zod arrives on Earth, all the embryos will have died.
Su Quan instructed that on Friday, the spacecraft's energy should be mobilized to ensure the remaining embryos could survive as much as possible.
Ready-made Krypton embryos, ready-made Life Support Pods, ready-made Growth Program —it's like getting nearly a thousand Kryptonians who are entirely yours for free!
Although the genes of these Kryptonians should have been programmed, even non-combat Kryptonians would probably become very strong after basking in the sun for twenty or thirty years, right?
If they are nurtured and educated from a young age, they can absolutely become Kryptonians are devoted to Earth, just like Clark Kent!
Of course, Su Quan doesn't need them to be loyal to Earth, he only needs them to be loyal to him!
"By the way, was that Joe El?" Su Quan walked for a while and suddenly realized that the figure from before seemed to have disappeared.
Friday shook his head and explained, "Jor-El is indeed mentioned in the records of Krypton history, but there is no influence of his consciousness on this ship."
"That was just a small mistake I made while adjusting the holographic imaging technology, or rather, a small test."
Not Jor-El?
Su Quan was surprised for a moment, then realized that it couldn't possibly be Joe Al.
After all, this spaceship came to Earth a very, very long time ago. Jor El's son, Clark Kent, has only been on Earth for a few years. How could there possibly be any image of Jor El's consciousness on this spaceship?
Although Clark Kent met Jor El on this spaceship and learned about his origins in the movie, the main reason was the House of El key that he used to open the spaceship!
In other words, Jor-El's consciousness image is stored in the key, not in the spaceship!
On Friday, they had taken complete control of the ship and intercepted signals sent to Krypton and other Kryptonian Spaceship.
Guided by it, Su Quan and his two companions quickly toured the entire spaceship and finally arrived at the Life Support Pods.