Once again, the world spun. When Clark came to his senses, he was standing in front of the Kent's Farm again, just as he had seen when he flew above the farm and landed.
Clark stood there, took a deep breath, then exhaled, and stepped inside. But in his view, everything was different now.
He first looked at the scattered bales of straw. If he remembered correctly, those should be stacked at the far right end of the yard, one atop another, piled up three to four meters high. To have them scattered all over the yard, someone must have gone outside the yard and toppled them from mid-air to achieve this effect.
Just toppling them wouldn't be enough, though. These things were tightly bound, even if they fell, they would just roll away intact. To completely scatter these bales, one would need to cut the ropes binding them individually with a knife.
Then he looked at the tire tracks. Clark didn't know about many types of cars, and he didn't drive often, but he knew that not all cars could spin in place.
To be precise, most commercial or household cars didn't have the capability to drift like this, making U-turns back and forth seven or eight times in a small yard, leaving so many scorched brake marks.
Next, he looked towards the collapsed half of the house. That part was a stone-stacked warehouse, which had been there for some years. And the last brake mark was directed at the load-bearing wall of the warehouse, showing that the warehouse had been crashed into and collapsed.
Despite the fact that the warehouse was made of stone and had been there for many years, stone houses hand-stacked from that era were quite sturdy, even more so than wooden houses built later. Even a tractor would struggle to excavate it, and yet it was knocked down by a car; this was no ordinary household car.
Although he wasn't well-versed in cars, Clark knew that even though those sports cars were expensive, they were designed for speed, not impact. To achieve such an impact effect, it had to be either an armored vehicle or a tank.
Next, he walked into the house. The collapsed dining table was nothing surprising, but the disassembled chairs on the ground were very strange.
If it was a violent impact, the four legs of the chairs should have splayed outward, even if the point of impact wasn't centered, they should have toppled to one side. But what kind of impact would cause the four legs of the chairs to leave the chairs and fly off separately?
Clark turned his head again to look at the completely destroyed island platform. This thing was stacked with bricks, and he had participated in its construction when he was a child, even jumped on it. A brick combined with a rock slab was not something that could be kicked over with a single kick; at least a hammer was needed to smash it to bring it down to its current state.
All these unreasonable aspects point to one answer: it couldn't have been done by those terrorists.
Firstly, terrorists couldn't possibly get hold of an armored vehicle. If they had that capability, they wouldn't have been arrested by the police and would have depended on Luther for bail.
Even if they managed to get a modified vehicle, there was no reason to circle the yard. Besides wasting time and startling the target, it served no purpose.
Untying the bales of straw could be understood as an attempt to set fire. However, how much time would it take to throw a lighter after taking someone away? Since the straw was already untied, there was no reason not to burn it. Yet the house remained intact and unburnt, making untangling the bales completely pointless.
The same reasoning applies to the warehouse being rammed. There was nothing important in the warehouse, at most some miscellaneous items and tools, and it was an exceptionally tough stone house. Besides potentially causing some counter-damage to the vehicle, it served no purpose.
Smashing tables and chairs was even more unnecessary. It wasn't a mob demonstration, a good kidnapper should come in and leave with the target quietly. Wrecking the house shouldn't be within their scope of activities, let alone demolishing such old wooden furniture, which wouldn't even incur much economic loss.
Destroying the island platform was even more unnecessary. The kitchen island neither concealed people nor posed any threat to the intruders. Going to such lengths to smash the island platform, besides creating a more shocking visual effect, served no purpose.
Clark also realized that all the actions taken by the other party were meant to produce a more shocking visual effect, to make him instinctively feel that everything was destroyed and greatly overestimate the seriousness of the situation.
When he arrived with the notion of "something disastrous might have happened," witnessing this scene felt like a nightmare coming true. This provided a substantial emotional shock, making him angry and lose his rationality.
But contrary to intuition, a kidnapping scene shouldn't be like this. His mother Martha Kent was just an ordinary human female, not Wonder Woman. Even if she tried to resist, she couldn't possibly have dismantled the house alongside the kidnappers.
If he had retained a sliver of rationality and had thought even slightly, instead of being completely driven by emotions, he would have immediately realized something was wrong. Because this scene, to a normal person, appeared almost laughably fake.
It was as if the person behind all this feared being too subtle, preventing him from realizing it afterwards, so they did everything possible, going overboard and doing all unreasonable things, trying to make him realize something was wrong using the exhaustion method.