Chapter 36: U Disk

Metropolis, hospital.

It was already three o'clock in the afternoon, and the brilliant golden light was projected from the window on the upper half of the curtains, and poured onto the bed covered with white bedding. Louise Lane was lying on the bed unconsciously, with various life-saving devices on her body, and the curve was beating regularly on the electrocardiogram, representing her gradually stable life.

The original weekend picnic plan was undoubtedly interrupted by this sudden accident. At this moment, Cara is sitting on the bedside with the unconscious Louise, and Jay is here with her.

The doctor said that she was temporarily out of danger of her life, but it was difficult to say when she would wake up, and she might even never wake up. Carla seemed quite depressed, she seemed to have a good relationship with Louise.

Jay patted her shoulder and comforted: "She will be fine. She is Louise Lane, isn't she? She is not a woman who can fall so easily."

"I know." Cara stared at Louise's pale face blankly, her heart stunned.

Jay whispered: "You seem to be very close to her."

Carla held his hand tightly and nodded gently: "Although we haven't been in touch for a while, Louise is like my family. She and Carl... At that time, they took great care of me in all aspects. Carl may be my only blood relative on earth, but Louise let me understand how it feels to have a sister."

Jay nodded deeply feeling: "I can understand."

"I just hope she gets better." Carla stared at Louise on the hospital bed and suddenly said, "But why did she show up there? On the lakeside outside the metropolis? What is she doing there? Who is she? Did she become like this?"

"Hey, don't think too much, okay?" Jay shook her hand and said, "We'll figure it out. I will figure it out, I promise."

Hearing what he said, Carla suddenly remembered something and asked: "By the way, when we found her... Did she give you something?"

Jay nodded, and took out a thumb-sized USB flash drive from his pocket. The exquisitely crafted silver shell reflected a shiny luster in the sunlight.

"A USB?" Carla took it and looked at it. "She gave this to you?"

"She gave it to the first person she met with the last consciousness, which shows that it is very important, maybe she thinks it is more important than herself."

"It's really her style." Kara sighed lightly. "Always be with the danger, chasing the truth that others dare not touch."

She stared at the gadget in her hand for a moment, and said: "We should see what is inside. Maybe the content inside is related to what happened to her. This can help us find out."

"No, I'll check it out." Jay took the USB drive from her and said, "You need some time to rest. And if Louise wakes up, she will need you here."

Cara opened her mouth, and stopped talking, but after looking at Louise in a deep coma again, she finally nodded and compromised.

Jay instinctively thought that maybe he shouldn't use his home computer to open the USB flash drive of unknown origin, so he took the USB flash drive to the newspaper office of Planet Daily.

Because it was the weekend, there was no one in the newspaper today, and even Perry was not in the office, which provided him with some convenience. Jay sat down at the desk that Perry had temporarily assigned to him and started the computer. There was a panting buzzing in the case of this somewhat old computer. It took more than two minutes to display the desktop background reluctantly on the monitor, and it felt like a sleepy-eyed person just out of the winter bedding.

I hope this old guy can at least read a USB flash drive.

Jay inserted this small USB flash drive into the port of the chassis, and the small indicator light at the end of the USB flashed a faint red light. He stared at the screen, watching the progress bar of the regular scan of the USB flash drive moving at a turtle speed, and finally read it out. A folder interface popped up on the desktop, and only one folder remained alone in the upper left corner of the snow-white interface.

"S.d.e.project", this is its name.

Jay was fascinated by the name. He couldn't help but think of the secret plans in science fiction movies that were concealed by the government. Plans like the plot of the movie can always cause a long list of troubles. He felt like a character who had been involved in such a plot, and the invisible undercurrents were quietly approaching him, but he still didn't know where they came from.

He moved the mouse cursor to the folder and double-clicked to open it. The cursor changed to a small circle representing loading. After turning for a long time, a long list of file icons popped up in the interface. But when he tried to double-click them to open them, each folder only gave him a frustrating exclamation mark and a dialog box for entering a password.

Jay felt a little frustrated, but he couldn't say that this was a completely unexpected result. It would be even more unreasonable if the contents of the USB flash drive were not encrypted at all and displayed in front of him at a glance. He began to consider whether to use Helena's help, and it would not be too difficult for her to crack the code or something.

At this time, his gaze was attracted by the additional text at the end of the file list. The icon was completely different from the rest of the content in the folder. He thought for a while, clicked the text with the cursor, and a long list popped up in front of him after a short pause.

The headline "s.d.e.project chief: General Sam Lane" reads like this.

Jay's heart moved. Sam Lane, Lane... Isn't this Louise her father? In the original comics, General Sam Lane is a conservative and stubborn old man, a patriot through and through, but he is always opposed to Superman. He is a representative of the military's opponents of superpower. This is an annoying thing in many major events in the comics. Traces of an annoying old man.

Jay then turned over, and there was a long list of "sdeproject" related parties below, but almost every participant's name was marked with "dead" in small red letters. The person in charge, General Ryan himself, should have been confirmed dead. This is not surprising. There were countless deaths and injuries in the Doomsday Invasion six years ago. Uncountable soldiers died on the battlefield. Obviously none of them survived.

Except for one person.

The document was turned to the end, and Jay finally found the only name in the inconspicuous corner that was not marked by the bright red "dead"-General Simon Gilson, with a light green font on the back. Retired".

As long as the person is still alive, it's easy to say, then just find a way to find out the address of this General Gilson, and then go visit...

Jay was thinking about this, when a buzzing sound that seemed to be coming from a very distant place blew into Jay's ears from the open window in the wind. The sound was amplified by his super hearing, as if a whole nest of buzzing wasps were approaching fast, vaguely like a team of galloping riders, with a thunderous roar.

He squinted his eyes and looked out the window subconsciously, instantly petrifying.

It was a missile that cut the clear sky with its long tail flame, and flew straight into his window at a speed far exceeding the sound.