"First, we need to establish one premise: Rao does not exist."
Su Ming's opening statement caught his teammates by surprise. The gorilla frowned and paced twice across the flying carpet, unable to figure out how Deathstroke had reached such a conclusion.
"Why do you say that, Slade?"
"It's simple. We already knew that Van-Zee was a cousin of the House of El, and the House of El was a famous family of religious zealots on Krypton. For generations, they had revered Rao beyond measure, constantly invoking his name."
After setting down his soda and taking another drag from his cigarette, Su Ming silently gave Adjutant an order through Strangle, telling him to send Synthezoids over to maintain order. The Red Sun had already stripped the Kryptonians of their superpowers.
"Knowing that, as New Krypton's highest leader, Van-Zee was effectively also Rao's High Priest. That makes his disappearance worth discussing. If Rao really existed and had joined My Lord, would he, as a powerful Kryptonian god, have allowed a human like Old Six Deathstroke to use Van-Zee as a chess piece?"
Su Ming quickly laid out his discoveries, deductions, and the calculations between himself and Old Six Deathstroke.
It was indeed possible that Rao had loaned Van-Zee to a human as a pawn, but the odds were minuscule. After all, God did not follow other people's plans. He only ever claimed that he had "already arranged everything."
That meant Old Six kidnapping Van-Zee from his office had another explanation.
For all this time, someone had been impersonating Rao and using that deception to maintain order on New Krypton. Van-Zee knew about it, and there was a strong chance that he had been the one playing the role.
They had also learned earlier that Kandor had a no-fly rule.
If the Yellow