National City, Friday.
The load-bearing shaft of a crane on the top of a building under construction broke, and a bundle of three pieces of steel fell on the street with a heavy whistling. The workers in the cockpit of the crane exclaimed that they were pulled from the slanted window by gravity. After coming out, it sounds like Nashinuo's daily life.
When the footsteps of people fleeing in panic and the screams of the worker who fell from the height of the twenty-story building reached his ears, Cara was listening to Ms. Grant's daily complaints in her boss's office. When she realized the movement outside, she pulled out an excuse she didn't know how many times to go to the bathroom in front of Ms. Grant, and quickly left the office without waiting for a reply.
To be honest, she still felt a little sense of relief, because the malfunctioning crane provided her with a legitimate reason to escape Ms. Grant's nagging anyway. And just as she was planning to take off her glasses and go into battle, she noticed a red and blue whirlwind sweeping past the window from the corner of her eye, and she flew towards the scene of the accident first.
Kara raised her eyebrows in surprise: "Jay!?"
The worker who was howling in mid-air suddenly froze when he fell to less than ten meters above the ground. His heart beat wildly for a while, and he raised his head tremblingly, surprised to find that the young man's new Superman was alone. Putting his hand in his arms, he smiled and asked: "Hi, how are you?"
For a moment he felt that his brain seemed to be blank, and his lips might reflexively replied: "No...nothing, I'm fine."
Jay was about to put him down, but suddenly he heard a crisp sound of metal breaking above his head. When he looked up, he saw that the broken half of the load-bearing shaft was finally overwhelmed. The crane half-hung on the edge of the construction building fell off the base. The metal hook flew up in the sky and smashed it heavily on the edge of the building. The huge gap.
"Hold on a little longer, brother," Jay said to the horrified worker in his arms, who had already flew up again against the crane. "We have to catch that."
Jay flew to the bottom of the crane, and his free right hand gently pushed on its falling shell to straighten his body, and then went around to the top of the crane and held the metal tab on the roof with one hand. The heavy crane started to decelerate significantly under the pull of his arm strength. In just two seconds, most of the kinetic energy was consumed, and it was about to stop.
However, things did not unfold so smoothly.
When Jay heard the deep buzzing of the pull ring in his hand, he was vaguely aware of something wrong. And as if to confirm his premonition, the pull ring made a muffled sound in the next second, and he was dragged down from the top of the crane. Jay hugged the exclaimed worker and turned back twice under the influence of inertia, and the crane, like a beast that broke free again, suddenly speeded up and launched another round of charge towards the street below.
Citizens on the street scattered like birds and beasts. In the chaos, a young mother and the baby carriage she was pushing were knocked away by a frightened citizen who had fled. The car slid towards the dangerous area by inertia, and the mother was shocked. Yelling, but couldn't squeeze through the crowd in the first place.
Desperately, she pushed aside the crowd, came to her son's side, and shielded him tightly with her body. There was still an innocent smile on the baby's face, as if he hadn't realized the arrival of death at all.
Three seconds left.
Jay saw this scene clearly in his eyes, and his figure suddenly accelerated. The red and blue afterimages surpassed the crane instantly like a gust of wind, and fell to the ground first. He gently placed the worker in his arm beside the mother and child, stood up straight and looked up at the beast of steel that was close at hand.
"boom!"
Extreme operation. It's thrilling, Jay, you should have done better. He said to himself.
The citizens of Zhou Za were shocked and looked towards the center. The flying dust gradually fell, and the huge silhouette of the crane gradually appeared in the eyes of everyone. The new Superman is like a flagpole sticking straight into the ground, and the road on the edge of the red boots shatters under the pressure. He held the crane with his hands and sank deep into the deformed and concave metal shell, and the huge machine was lying in his hands like a tamed beast.
The shocked people remained quiet for a while, until Jay put the huge machine aside lightly before they burst into cheers. Jay smiled and waved to everyone, and patted the forehead of the baby who was giggling excitedly, then floated up and flew away from the scene amid applause and cheers.
He has become more and more comfortable with these.
Since there was already such an episode, when it was time for get off work, Kara was not surprised when he found Jay in the lobby on the first floor of Catco Media. She greeted her happily and asked, "Hi, why are you here in Nacino?"
"Always let the lady take the initiative to come to me and I feel uncomfortable, and you gave me a surprise last week, I think I should be courteous." Jay said, helplessly spread his hands, "I wanted to surprise you too. Yes, but I just happened to hear the worker calling for help on the street..."
Speaking of this, he said embarrassingly: "Well, I know I don't handle it very well. I'm still a rookie in this line, and I would do better if it were you."
"What are you talking about, you just became handsome." Kara encouraged, "You have done a good job, and I can't do better."
"Really? Are you sure this is not just an encouragement to a novice superhero?"
"Of course not." Kara said, pulling Jay over, giving him a light kiss on the cheek, and smiling redly, "Look, this is the reward you deserve."
"Wow, I feel more motivated immediately. Seriously, is there anything else I can do? I can't wait to save another plane, train or something."
"Think beautifully," Carla stuck out her tongue, "only once a day."
The two said they had walked out of Catco's hall, and Carla asked, "So, do you have any plans for this week?"
"This is your home court," Jay smiled lightly, moving out the original words she had only said in the Metropolis a week ago, "You are the master, naturally listen to you."
"Okay, it turns out you came here to find me because of this idea."
"The conscience of heaven and earth! Ah wrong, it should be Rao! I have absolutely no such thoughts!"
"..."
The two were still laughing and playing, and a loud mobile phone text message suddenly broke their playing. Jay took out his phone from his trouser pocket, and saw an unknown number displayed on the screen, but a bat-shaped label was attached to the content preview.
Jay was surprised: "Is this... Wait, why didn't I remember giving him my number?"
"Are you kidding?" Kara rolled his eyes. "Are you asking why Batman has your phone number?"
Jay thought, yes, this question is really stupid enough. But what is worthy of Batman texting him?
Two Kryptonian heads huddled together and stared at this small screen. Jay clicked on the content of the message. After reading it, the two of them couldn't help but be surprised.