"Are these the young people in town who were infected by the meteor rocks?"
Inside Lex's secret laboratory, Dilos swept his gaze over the twenty-odd young men and women through the one-way glass. Among them were a few people he knew, such as Tina and Alec.
Dilos glanced at the boys and girls, most of whom were seventeen or eighteen, and asked Lex beside him, "How many of them were created in this laboratory?"
"Other than Alec, none of them are artificially created superpowered individuals. The rest were death-row inmates I found through my connections. After gaining their powers, they were basically all imprisoned at Cadmus Labs, the special prison I prepared for superpowered individuals."
Lex handed Dilos several reports. "These are the ability profiles and detailed information I compiled on the superpowered individuals."
"Do they all know that the others have superpowers?"
Dilos looked at the twenty-some people beyond the glass and noticed that most of them were staring fearfully and hatefully at a pretty girl clinging to Alec's arm. "Or did this girl do something that made everyone hate her so much?"
"The latter. Also, the others all think this is a laboratory observation class. I went to some trouble to have the so-called 'random assignment' place them together."
As he spoke, Lex pointed at the girl beside Alec. "Her name is Alicia Baker. She's one of the special superpowered individuals. We have no idea how her mutation occurred. We only know that she gained the ability to teleport during the meteor shower over a decade ago. As long as she has been somewhere before, or can see it with her naked eye, she can teleport herself there with a thought. But she has a weakness: she can't move inside a room lined with lead."
"A very rare