"Breaking news: LexCorp CEO Lex Luthor was recently arrested. He broke into a nuclear facility and altered the target of a nuclear warhead in an attempt to attack the United States..."
What the hell????
Li Jie had barely entered the police station's front lobby that morning when he heard the bombshell on TV. He wasn't the only one stunned-even his fellow officers and the prisoners were dumbstruck.
Wait... attack the United States? Had Lex Luthor defected to the communists?
Li Jie rubbed his eyes hard and looked around the room. Blond hair, blue eyes, Black people, white people-only then did he confirm he hadn't transmigrated back to China.
But the TV report hadn't gone into much detail, and it ended while he was still staring in shock. He turned to the officer beside him. "Uh... Luthor's American, right...?"
"Yeah..."
The officer beside him looked just as confused as he reached for that morning's Daily Planet. "Isn't he that rich guy across the bay? Has he lost his mind?"
"Quick, quick! Read out what the paper says!"
The officer coughed and cleared his throat. Even the prisoners who had been trading insults with the police clamped their mouths shut, afraid of missing some earth-shattering revelation.
"...According to reports, Lex Luthor intended to redirect a five-hundred-megaton bomb toward the San Andreas Fault on the United States' West Coast, sinking the three coastal states of California, Washington, and Oregon into the sea... His motive was that he had purchased vast amounts of cheap desert property in the neighboring inland states of Idaho, Nevada, and Arizona. If... the West Coast sank into the sea, the inland territory he controlled would become the new West Coast, and property prices would soar..." (The plot of Superman I.)
"That bastard!"
"That's vicious!"
Everyone immediately started cursing him,