Sometimes, fate simply favored certain people.
Kandor City had clearly been scattered into some corner beneath the remnants of Huihe Star, just like thousands of cities from other races, protected by a strong-force barrier while being struck away by Mogo's attack on Huihe Star.
Yet Fiona and dozens of Kryptonians had circled around that very corner more than ten times without finding it!
The detectors placed by Kryptonian scholars had observed that very corner for ages without discovering anything!
But once Clark no longer had to remain entangled with Mantis and resolved to recover his people!
In an instant...
Kandor City appeared!
Looking at the palm-sized city, Clark's face immediately lit up with joy. He abruptly accelerated, smashing through countless layers of soil and metal before scooping Kandor City into his hand!
Although Kandor City had been proportionally shrunk by Brainiac's Mobius Technology, its weight had not changed. Holding the tiny city, Clark rapidly flew toward the surface.
Meanwhile, inside Kandor City...
The listless Kryptonians gazed hopelessly at the sky.
In their eyes, their sky was pitch-black.
Not long ago, Brainiac had placed them near Huihe Star's southwestern core.
But all of a sudden, their original sky had been completely covered by some unknown soil.
Mogo's attack had slammed them from their originally climate-controlled, sheltered environment into the remnants of Huihe Star.
Because of the defensive barrier, the people of Kandor City had not been injured.
Yet even with their bodies intact, they had no interest whatsoever in the sudden changes taking place in their city.
That was because their spirits had long since been utterly destroyed by decades of living as pets.
It was not as though they had never resisted...
Once, Kandor City had a population of three million. During the initial resistance, Brainiac slaughtered more than two