After the draw, Zod withdrew his Divine Sense from the System space, then, with a thought, little Azu appeared in his hand.
"Yi ya ya ya!"
Feeling himself enveloped in an embrace, little Azu cooed, opening his tiny hands and smiling.
Seeing the boy's appearance, Zod lifted him to his eye level.
However, the next moment, two scarlet heat visions shot from the boy's eyes.
"Sizzle!"
If an ordinary person were holding him like that, their head would undoubtedly be directly pierced by these two heat visions.
"You little rascal, is this your 'Brightburn' moment? Good thing you met me."
Zod, however, didn't mind, and instead, some conjectures formed in his mind.
"It seems even if Azu is hailed as a perfect experimental subject, the inferior gene serum of Compound No. 5 still has flaws."
With Zod's Divine Sense, he could naturally clearly determine that the current little Azu had not yet developed a complete self-awareness.
The attack just now had no conscious fluctuation whatsoever, meaning the heat vision emission was a completely unconscious act.
It was like an infant occasionally unconsciously biting its mother while breastfeeding.
However, with Krypton's biotechnological prowess, resolving such a minor flaw would be as easy as turning over one's hand.
When Zod appeared in Leto's laboratory holding little Azu, Leto's face immediately showed a surprised expression.
And the Flerken, also in the laboratory, gnawing on an energy crystal, jumped to Zod's feet and rubbed against his legs.
Glancing at the creature, Zod couldn't help but say, "It seems you've been doing well these past few days."
At this moment, Leto asked with a somewhat hesitant tone, "Ge-General, this child is your..."
Before he could finish, Zod immediately interrupted him.
"Don't overthink it. This boy isn't my child, but he did come to our Universe because of me."
Hearing this, even Leto's super brain took a second to process.
He then said, "General, so you mean this child, like the sunflower and the Flerken, is a creature from another Universe?"
"Precisely. He is indeed from another Universe, a product of a human genetic experiment, but the gene serum used in that experiment was too inferior, causing some flaws to appear in him."
"I Hope you will conduct a thorough examination of his entire genetic System and then make some adjustments and optimizations."
This amount of work was merely a trivial matter for Leto, so he casually replied, "General, please rest assured, I will prepare the gene serum for him shortly."
It was at this moment that the sound of a Boom Tube opening echoed across New Krypton.
Then a figure quickly flew out of it, holding a container covered by a transparent dome in his hand.
Flying to Zod's front, he immediately exclaimed excitedly, "General, we have defeated Brainiac and successfully brought Kandor City back!"
Saying this, he respectfully handed over the container holding Kandor City.
Upon hearing this, Leto became even more agitated, taking two steps forward to observe the situation inside more closely.
Then his voice trembled slightly, "It really is Kandor City."
After all, this was the former capital of Krypton, carrying the memories of generations of Kryptonians, and more importantly, Leto's family was also in Kandor City.
"Orm, Omira, my children are all still alive."
Through super-microscopic vision, Leto quickly located his home within the entire city of Kandor City and saw his son and daughter inside.
He had originally thought his relatives had long been destroyed with the explosion of Krypton, but he never expected them to have survived.
Now, to see them again, even Leto, who had followed Zod through life and death for many years, couldn't help but well up with tears.
Listening to Leto's words, Zod's expression at this moment became quite interesting.
If the original body's memory was not mistaken, there was also his biological son, "Faora-Zod," in this city of Kandor City!
Because he was not like Jor-El, who wanted to naturally conceive his offspring, the original body had only chosen a female most genetically compatible with himself from the codex as a co-progenitor.
So he didn't end up with an extra wife, which also avoided greater awkwardness.
At this time, other Kryptonian Warriors also returned to New Krypton one after another through the Boom Tube, and they also brought Brainiac back.
"General, this is Brainiac."
Looking at the life form before him, which was entirely made of true flesh and blood, Zod couldn't help but feel a little hesitant.
After all, the appearance of this fellow in front of him was vastly different from the image in his memory.
"Great Lord of Krypton, please accept Brainiac's loyalty to you."
At this moment, facing Zod's scrutiny, Brainiac immediately knelt down and pledged his loyalty to Zod.
"I didn't expect you to have some courage, to actually create such a flesh-and-blood body for yourself. It seems you are quite wary of Hope!"
In just a moment, Zod had figured out the crux of the matter, and so he said with a hint of teasing.
Hearing this, Brainiac immediately waved his hand and said, "No, no, no, it is my honor to bask in the glory of the God of Machines."
"Very good. It seems your wisdom has told you the correct Dao of survival. You will not regret this decision!"
"As for the crimes you committed against Krypton in the past, from now on, you only need to serve well, and all will be forgiven. Rise!"
After all, he was not the original body, so Zod did not harbor such deep hatred for Brainiac. In fact, to some extent, he even had to thank him.
After all, the seven million inhabitants of Kandor City had all survived because of him.
As the mastermind behind the accelerated destruction of Krypton, Brainiac had always been trembling with fear when facing Zod, afraid that Zod would bring up old scores.
Now, hearing these words, he finally breathed a huge sigh of relief.
At this moment, he couldn't help but marvel at how beings could possess so many emotions.
After all, though he was once an intelligent life form, his body was always mechanically constructed, so he naturally couldn't secrete various hormones that affect emotions.
At this point, Zod asked again, "Since you can shrink Kandor City, then you should have a way to restore it, right?"
Upon hearing this, fine cold sweat actually began to appear on Brainiac's forehead.
"Great Lord Zod, please give me some time; I will create a restoration ray as quickly as possible."
Because he had originally created the shrinking ray for collecting specimens, he naturally never thought about restoring them.
Now being asked, he couldn't help but feel a little flustered again.
Zod continued to ask, "How long do you need to create the restoration ray?"
"Ten... five days, please give me five days; I will definitely complete it."
Brainiac was about to say ten days, but considering his current predicament, he immediately halved the time.
But Zod only said, "Good, then I'll give you three days. After three days, reappear before me with your restoration ray. If you haven't made it, then you don't need to continue existing!"
After speaking, Zod no longer paid him any attention.
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