Lex's questioning left Dilos silent.
Why was he silent? Mainly because Lex's question made far too much sense.
Although Clark's alien identity being discovered by Lex had caught Dilos somewhat off guard, that was actually manageable. But the key question was whether Clark had truly been sent to Earth for the same reason stated in the comics and movies from Dilos's past life—to seek refuge on Earth and save it.
The law of the jungle was the same everywhere. Even Earth, despite its highly advanced civilization, still harbored countless internal conflicts.
Clark's home planet was Krypton, a world with technology so advanced it could even be called terrifying.
Earth and Krypton were like ancient people and modern people. Sending Clark here was equivalent to someone from a city sending an absurdly powerful child into a primitive tribal settlement filled with low-level civilization.
Under those circumstances, it was hard to believe he had not come to invade.
Especially that diamond-shaped groove in the underground cave, along with the diamond-shaped piece of metal that clearly belonged to Clark—both invited too much speculation. Given that aliens possessed a technological civilization far superior to Earth's, it was easy to suspect that placing the metal into the groove might activate some kind of advanced device and lead to something terrible.
Leaving aside whether another Kryptonian truly remained on Earth, the chain of suspicions triggered by Clark's identity alone was already enough to cause grave concern.
"Even though I always say this is a real world and that I can't judge it by the virtual world from my past life, I still unconsciously confuse the two because so much of this world resembles it. Otherwise, I wouldn't have overlooked something like this."
Dilos sighed silently to himself and secretly resolved to correct that mindset. Some developments