While Earth's people were throwing themselves into self-rescue efforts, what about another group?
The Kryptonian Reincarnation Squad—General Zod and his people.
"Has the Phantom Engine been completed?"
At that moment, beneath the lunar surface, the Kryptonians had established a temporary base. There, General Zod intended to construct an enormous Phantom Engine that, once activated, could make the Moon jump a certain distance through space.
As long as they stopped the Moon from crashing, wouldn't that mean the mission was complete?
At least, that was how General Zod saw it. He disdained cooperating with humanity, and he scoffed at Clark's decision to go to Earth and help the humans. Out of sight, out of mind, he simply cut off all contact with the outside world.
He wanted to focus on building the Phantom Engine, complete his mission as quickly as possible, accumulate Reward Points, buy more equipment, and achieve the revival of the Kryptonians!
At the time, he did not know there were many ways to earn Reward Points. Stubbornly, he only wanted to complete the Main Mission. Clark knew this, of course, but there was no way he would tell General Zod and the others.
Naturally, the main reason was that General Zod had taken the initiative to sever communications, completely isolating them from the outside world.
What a fine example of working behind closed doors.
Otherwise, if they had seen the more than seven thousand colossal Planetary Engines humanity had built with its current capabilities, they would surely have been shocked as well.
Humanity's power could actually be this terrifying?
In the end, it was still arrogance. General Zod had no regard whatsoever for the backward humans. If this had been some other highly advanced Earth, like the China from the original Earth, perhaps he would have considered cooperating.