"You..." Hearing Jor-El's words, General Zod immediately did not know what to say. He had always thought that when Krypton had been on the verge of destruction, although Jor-El had taken a different path from him, he had still wanted Kryptonian civilization to continue. And all this time, General Zod had never been able to determine whose path had been the correct one.
But now, Jor-El told General Zod that he had not thought about so many things. He had only wanted his child to live on, had not wanted his child to perish along with Krypton, had wanted his child to live a different life...
Jor-El, who in General Zod's mind should have been filled with grand loyalty to their people, was actually this narrow-minded, this selfish. For a moment, General Zod found it somewhat impossible to accept. Moreover, General Zod could not understand Jor-El's mentality at all, because he had never been a father, nor had he been born through natural reproduction. This emotional system was missing from General Zod!
However, General Zod fell silent then and did not speak up to attack Jor-El, because he saw Jor-El's matter-of-fact expression, as if letting his own child survive truly was more important than the continuation of Krypton. General Zod could not understand it, yet he wanted to understand it; he wanted to experience it, yet he could not...
"Was Krypton's path truly wrong?" After a long while, General Zod looked somewhat enviously at Jor-El and Clark, then murmured in a low voice.
"It was wrong. If it had not been wrong, how could Krypton have met such an end?" Jor-El looked at General Zod, shook his head, and said softly, "If we, as living beings, cannot even possess the most basic complete emotions, how can we be considered complete