Chapitre 36: Chapter 36 U Disk
Metropolis, hospitals.
It was now three o'clock in the afternoon, and brilliant golden light was projected from the window with the curtains drawn halfway up, pouring down on the bed covered with the white quilt. Louise Lane lay unconscious on the bed, with all kinds of life support equipment attached to her body. The curve regularly beats on the electrocardiogram, representing her gradually stabilizing life.
The planned weekend cookout was no doubt interrupted by this sudden surprise, as Carla was sitting by the bedside with the unconscious Louise, and Jay was here with her.
Doctors say she's out of danger for a while, but it's hard to say when she'll wake up, or maybe never. Carla seemed rather frustrated; she appeared to be on good terms with Louise.
Jay patted her shoulder comfortingly, "She'll be fine. She's Lois Lane, isn't she? She's not a woman who can fall like that."
"I know." Carla stared at Louise's pale face absentmindedly and couldn't help feeling embarrassed.
Jay whispered, "You seem very close to her."
Carla clasped his hand and nodded lightly: "We haven't been in touch for a while, but Louise is like my family. She and Karl... when I first came to Earth. At the time, they took great care of me in every way. Karl may be the only blood relative I have on earth, but Louise made me understand what it's like to have a sister."
Jay nodded emotionally, "I can understand."
"I just hope she gets better." Carla stared at Louise on the hospital bed and said, "But why is she there? By the lake on the outskirts of Metropolis? What is she doing there? Who is she? Made her like this?"
"Hey, don't overthink, okay?" Jay held her hand and said, "We'll figure this out; I'll figure it out, I promise."
Hearing what he said, Kara suddenly remembered something and asked, "By the way, when we found her... did she give you something?"
Jay nodded and pulled a thumb-sized USB stick from his pocket, the delicate silver casing gleaming in the sunlight.
"A USB stick?" 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 important; maybe she thinks it is more important than herself."
"It's her style." Kara sighed, "always accompanied by 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's in it. Maybe the content is related to what happened to her. This will help us find out."
siluke.com
"No, I'm going to find out." Jay took the USB drive from her and said, "You need some time to rest. And if Louise wakes up, she'll need you here."
Carla opened her mouth and hesitated, but after another look at Louise, who was in a deep coma, she finally nodded and compromised.
Instinctively, Jay thought maybe he shouldn't use his home computer to open the unknown USB drive, so he took it to the Daily Planet newspaper.
Since it was a weekend, no one was in the newspaper office today; not even Perry was in the office, which provided him some convenience. Jay sat down at the desk Perry had temporarily assigned him and turned on the computer, which sounded like a gasping hum from the old computer case. It took more than two minutes for the desktop background to be displayed on the monitor reluctantly, and it felt like a sleepy person who just got out of the winter quilt.
Hopefully, this old guy can at least read a USB stick.
Jay inserted the small USB flash drive into the port of the case, and the small indicator light at the end of the USB flashed a faint red glow. He stared at the screen, watching the progress bar of the regular scan of the USB drive moving at a turtle speed, and finally read it. A folder interface popped up on the desktop; on the white interface, only one folder was left alone in the upper left corner.
"SDE project," that's its name.
The name attracted Jay. He couldn't help but think of the mysterious top-secret plans in science fiction movies that the government concealed. According to the movie's plot, such programs can always cause many troubles. He felt he had been drawn into such a plot, and invisible undercurrents were quietly approaching him, but he didn't know where they came from.
He moved the mouse cursor to the folder and double-clicked it to open it. After the cursor changed to a small circle representing loading, and after several processes, a long list of file icons popped up in the interface. But when he tried to double-click them to open, each folder gave him a frustrating exclamation mark and a dialog box for a password.
Jay felt a little frustrated, but not to say it was utterly unexpected; rather, it would be more unreasonable if the contents of the USB stick were completely unencrypted and displayed in front of him at a glance. He began to consider whether to use Helena's help and whether cracking the code would not be too difficult for her.
At this time, his eyes were attracted by an additional text at the end of the file list and the indifference of all the other contents in the folder. He thought for a while and clicked on the reader with the cursor. After a short pause, a long list popped up in front of him.
"SDE Project's Director-General: General Sam Lane" reads the title.
Jay thought. Sam Lane, Lane...Isn't this Louise's dad? In the original comics, General Sam Lane is a conservative and stubborn older man, a patriot through and through, but he is always against Superman. Traces of the nasty more aged man.
Jay continued to scroll down, and there was a long list of "side project" stakeholders, but almost every participant's name was marked with "Dead" in small red letters. Including the person in charge, General Ryan himself should have been confirmed dead. This is not surprising. Six years ago, there were countless casualties in the doomsday invasion incident, and myriad soldiers died in battle. None of these people survived.
Except for one person.
The document was flipped to the end, and Jay finally found the only name not identified by the bright red "Dead" in the inconspicuous corner - General Simon Gilson, followed by the light green font " retired."
As long as people are alive, it's OK to say, then find a way to find out the address of this general Gilson, and then visit...
Jay was thinking of this when a buzzing sound that seemed to be coming from a very distant place blew into Jay's ears from the open window. His super hearing amplified the sound, like a whole nest of buzzing wasps approaching at high speed, vaguely like a team of galloping riders, with a thunderous roar.
He narrowed his eyes, looked out the window subconsciously, and couldn't help but be instantly petrified.
It was a missile, slicing the clear sky with its long tail, flying straight at his window at speed far beyond sound.
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