"Six more enemy reconnaissance planes were shot down over Washington. The Air Force Admiral personally visited the crash site, calling it a great victory on humanity's road of resistance and urging the Air Force to keep up its efforts..."
"Latest news from Tokyo: The reconnaissance plane that had been circling above Tokyo Tower the day before yesterday has been shot down, resulting in one minor injury. Eyewitnesses at the scene said the aerial battle was extremely fierce!"
"The British Royal Family issued a statement mourning fallen heroes: The coffins of three combat heroes killed in the air disaster on the 23rd have entered the Royal Air Force cemetery, and the Queen personally attended the memorial. May the heroes rest in peace."
"Latest news from New Delhi: They claimed to have shot down 1,300 enemy aircraft and severely damaged an enemy frigate, causing it to crash into the Indian Ocean. They ranked first in this joint human operation..."
Report after report never ceased. Since Brainiac launched his full-scale offensive, humanity's resistance had not been crushed. Instead, it had only grown stronger. News of enemy aircraft being destroyed kept coming in from all over the world.
Brainiac could not help but marvel at how boldly humans could boast.
There was a generational gap between Kryptonian technology and humanity's. Since the war began, fewer than three hundred aircraft had been destroyed in total. Yet according to news reports around the world, humanity claimed to have shot down more than a hundred times that number.
Their method of estimating battlefield casualties was probably "if it touched, it counted"—as long as a weapon hit something, regardless of whether it actually brought it down, it all counted as a victory. And they had blown the effects of nuclear bombs completely out of proportion. A bomb had