"Someone sold our location out to those agents."
Bruce spoke as he helped Clark up and let him lie on the bed. Then he explained, "Just now, Lex and I were both hunted down. I went to save him first, then came to find you."
Before Clark could ask, Bruce continued, "He was weaker than you. By the time I got there, the agents had already knocked him unconscious."
"Have those agents gone insane?!"
Clark asked in utter confusion. Bruce still spoke in a low voice. "At first, they might have thought we killed Benjamin, so it wasn't strange for them to hunt us down."
"But now, someone has clearly incited them. It's a lunatic who is best at stirring people up. He has turned the agents completely against us, and the situation is getting a little out of control."
"So they really have gone insane," Clark concluded.
"I..." Clark had just been about to say that he could take everyone away from here when Bruce, as if he had anticipated what he would say, continued in a low voice:
"Have you not noticed? Some kind of force is affecting this manor. Everything here has started becoming abnormal. I'll find out what it is, or this anomaly could affect all of Metropolis."
"I've been meaning to say this." Clark hesitated, sighed, then said, "I feel a little unwell. I felt the same way when I first arrived here."
"Under what circumstances do you feel that way?" Bruce asked with a frown.
"I don't know. I've never been sick before. My body has always been healthy, and I've never felt anything like this," Clark said, deeply puzzled.
"That only further proves there may be a problem beneath the manor." Bruce stroked his chin as he speculated. "Lex told me earlier that