"It's not just me who should be thanking you..." Clark's expression turned solemn at his words, and his gaze flickered slightly. "When I stepped in to save Dad, I seemed to see some figures whose aura of power was similar to mine, yet different. They wanted me to thank you. Of course, that might have just been an illusion..."
"But fortunately, you appeared. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have accepted my power as I do now. I would have been even more lost, and no one would have directly helped me make a choice at such a critical moment..."
"You were just too tense. You even started hallucinating!" Robet said with a laugh and a shrug. "So, to celebrate our survival, let's go have a big meal! I'm starving!"
"Why don't we go together? To thank you for saving our entire family! We'd like to treat you to a meal..." The woman from earlier happened to hear Robet's words when she came over with her two children to thank The Kent Family, so she extended an invitation.
And it wasn't just her. The people The Kent Family had directed to take shelter beneath the bridge also came over one after another to thank them.
They hadn't noticed Robet and Clark revealing Superman's abilities, but The Kent Family had done them a great favor by helping them when disaster struck. Naturally, they wanted to repay them...
"A meal?" Robet's eyes lit up slightly. He scratched his head bashfully and said somewhat awkwardly, "That doesn't seem right. I eat quite a lot. I'm afraid I'll scare you..."
"There's no need to treat us. We weren't thinking too much at the time. We just felt that we ought to step forward..." Seeing that the people around them truly hadn't noticed anything unusual about his two sons, Jonathan breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at the grateful crowd around him and laughed heartily. "Besides, my younger son really does eat a lot, and he's quite strong too. He's a certified big eater of Kansas City!"
"However big his appetite is, we can still afford one meal. And it's fortunate that he was strong enough and decisive enough. If he hadn't opened that emergency window, our whole family would have been trapped in the car!" Mrs. Grace shook her head with a smile as she looked at Robet, then softly said to the two children beside her, "Mackay, Shiro, you should learn more from this older brother!"
"Big brother, your hairstyle is so cool! Why doesn't it droop down?" Since they were still too young, Mackay and Shiro had no real understanding of the crisis they had faced or the fact that he had saved their lives. Instead, they focused on Robet's hairstyle, which seemed completely unaffected by gravity.
"Mackay, Shiro, you mustn't ask such an impolite question..." Grace gently patted the two children on the head and admonished them softly. Then she looked at Jonathan and said, "All our cars have been swept away or destroyed. We have to leave on foot anyway, so why don't we find somewhere to rest properly together?"
"That's right. You saved us, and we haven't shown any gratitude at all. God will punish us!"
"It's not some expensive gift. It's only a meal, and it's also a token of our appreciation!"
As soon as Grace finished speaking, the others around them chimed in as well. Jonathan smiled helplessly but ultimately didn't refuse their goodwill, because he knew it would help them feel a little better...
Before long, the somewhat disheveled group walked toward the nearest city. Having survived the disaster, they felt the preciousness of life and chatted warmly with one another.
The most popular person among them was naturally Jonathan. Compared with the taciturn Clark and bashful Robet, Jonathan was much easier to talk to...
"How did you do that earlier?" Clark walked over to Robet's side and asked quietly.
"You mean Solar Flare?" Robet raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "It's a technique that converts the Ki in your body into light energy. The burst of Ki draws people's attention, then pure light stimulates their eyes and blocks their vision..."
"Solar Flare?" Clark's eyes flickered slightly. He looked at Robet expectantly and said, "I want to learn it!"
"Huh?" Robet froze for a moment, then looked at Clark suspiciously. "That move isn't particularly powerful. Why do you want to learn it?"
"When you used Solar Flare, I could still see the things within the light. And from that ray of light you released, I sensed warmth and familiarity..." Clark's voice held a trace of hesitation.
"Warmth and familiarity? Solar Flare can do that?" Robet scratched his head. Solar Flare could be considered the most widely used technique in the Dragon Ball World. The technique itself wasn't complicated, but Robet couldn't be certain that Clark could learn it. After all, the energy within Clark's body was different from Ki.
"I don't know whether you can learn it. I'll teach you after we get back!" Robet thought for a moment before saying quietly.
"And that way of speaking directly in someone's mind!" Clark rubbed his hands and looked at Robet expectantly again.
It was clear that although Clark had experienced a crisis and struggled with his inner conflicts, this might not necessarily be a bad thing for him. At least Clark would no longer be immersed in the sorrow and confusion caused by the deaths of his biological parents.
Clark now understood how to cherish the present. His biological parents had sacrificed themselves, but his adoptive parents, The Kents, were still alive. He couldn't let them down, nor should he continue making them worry about him. More importantly, he had to protect them properly!
"That's Mind Reading. It's a way of communicating through mental power. I don't know whether you can learn it..." Robet spread his hands. Since he had already decided to teach Clark Solar Flare, teaching him one more Mind Reading technique wasn't a big deal.
Robet had also learned Mind Reading from Master Roshi. It had to be said that Master Roshi truly deserved to be called a grandmaster of martial arts. He possessed far more abilities than any ordinary Earth martial artist.
However, Mind Reading wasn't as mystical as it sounded. It was merely one application of mental power. Apart from establishing Telepathic Communication, truly reading another person's memories wasn't easy either. At most, one could read some important memories from the other person's recent past. Hearing every thought in someone's mind was impossible.
Therefore, Mind Reading was mainly used to establish Telepathic Communication during battle, preventing enemies from hearing one's side of the conversation. Chiaotzu, Tien Shinhan, Piccolo, and the others often used it for this purpose. As for Master Roshi and Master Crane, who had been the first to use this ability, they had only ever used it while trading insults...
Unlike Solar Flare, which required Ki, Mind Reading was an extension of mental power. Thus, Robet simply explained some of its principles to Clark.
"Is that how it works?" Robet hadn't expected that, immediately after he finished explaining the principles of Mind Reading, Clark's voice would ring out directly in his mind. Robet couldn't help marveling at the strength of Clark's talent.
Originally, the previous chapter had been intended as a minor climax, with Clark's beliefs colliding with Robet's. In the end, at the critical moment, Clark had instinctively followed Robet's words and stepped in to save Jonathan, then acknowledged Robet's viewpoint afterward...
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