Ron briefly told Clark about what they had gone through. Clark looked utterly bewildered. Was Bruce some kind of great prophet? There really was an invasion by impostors?!
Wait, Clark suddenly realized. Bruce's Martian invasion plan couldn't have been intended only to force humanity into unity and spur technological development, could it?
The more he thought about it, the more likely it seemed. The impostors' greatest trait was that they looked exactly like normal humans. That couple had been captured and examined by so many scientists, yet no one had been able to spot any difference. Without the Martian invasion plan arranged in advance, once they entered Earth, wouldn't they be like a Flood Dragon returning to the sea, free to swim wherever they pleased?
But with the Martian invasion plan in place, the entire world was now united against a common enemy. From top to bottom, everyone hated Martians capable of disguising themselves as humans, and every department was on maximum alert. At a time like this, people who should have died years ago suddenly coming back to life would immediately be branded enemies. They could forget about muddying the waters.
That impostor pair posing as Barry's parents had been caught this way. They had called the police themselves, intending to have the police verify their identities and force Barry to submit. Without the Martian invasion, if the police saw two living people like them, even knowing they had supposedly died, they might have assumed there had been an accident back then and that the dead bodies had not been theirs. They had merely gone missing and now returned. Even if they looked younger, perhaps they had simply taken good care of themselves. There was no conclusive evidence proving they were not who they claimed to be.
But the