"Mr. Eric, we meet again."
At the Smallville Police Department, the female sheriff stood opposite Eric, smiling as she spoke to him.
Eric, sitting in the interrogation room, looked at her with a puzzled expression, "Have we met before?"
"Of course, I once handled a case for your brother, Clark Kent."
The somewhat older female sheriff sat down at the interrogation table, a faint, almost imperceptible smile on her lips, and said, "Your brother threw a Xiao Hunhun twenty yards, from the alley onto my windshield, breaking his cervical spine so he couldn't move. Then he was sued for a million. I don't think you'd forget something that impressive."
The female sheriff then reined in the smile on her face, "Although some bizarre things happened afterward, causing that million to not be paid as expected, I am deeply impressed by you all."
"You and Clark Kent often appear at various crime scenes. Although subsequent investigations show these cases seemingly have nothing to do with you, I don't believe such things happen without reason. Now, it's time for us to deal with each other again. Although the subject of this interaction has changed to you, not your brother, I think there should be no difference."
"Sheriff Nancy?"
Eric nodded, "I remember now. Aren't you almost retired?"
He thought this old woman had long since retired, but he didn't expect her to still be working at the police station.
"Haha, as a sheriff who just transferred to Smallville, my police career here has just begun."
Sheriff Nancy said to Eric, "Let's stop beating around the bush and get back to the point, Eric Kent. Dikes Kevin, is his Death related to you?"
Nancy asked Eric about the Death of Teacher Dikes.
"Sorry, I was just at the scene, one of the students who saw Teacher Dikes suddenly go mad. I don't remember anything after that."
Eric replied.
"But many students provided testimonies that you killed Dikes Kevin."
Nancy raised her voice, her face, which had always held a subtle smile, suddenly turned serious, and she stood up abruptly, staring at Eric.
"Yes."
Eric still maintained an unchanging expression, "They also said I launched a crazy attack on a group of them, but the truth is, they fought among themselves. It's obvious—"
Eric's eyes gleamed with a meaningful look as he watched Nancy, "Officer Nancy, they have some mental problems, and Teacher Dikes had very serious mental problems."
"They saw scenes and images that didn't actually exist or didn't happen, otherwise, this cannot explain the abnormality of Dikes and this group of students."
"You cannot trust a group of people with mental problems; you should choose to trust normal people instead!"
"Is that so?"
Nancy stared sharply at Eric.
Now there were only two people in the interrogation room, so she could speak to Eric without reservation, "I know the strangeness and absurdity of what happened in there must be inseparable from you. I will definitely investigate the truth and expose your fox tail, you bad boy."
"Whatever."
Eric put on an indifferent expression, "Officer Nancy, a piece of advice, I hope you can reduce your curiosity, otherwise—"
"Otherwise what?"
Nancy took a step closer to Eric, placing her hands on the table in front of him, "You'd better be clear about who you are, Eric Kent. Within the jurisdiction of the law, no matter who you are or what abilities you possess, once you commit a crime, I will punish you!"
"I look forward to it, Officer Nancy."
Eric faced her rather imposing statement and did not retort, merely smiling slightly.
"Very good."
Nancy took her hands off the table, picked up her patrol cap, and put it on her head, saying to Eric, "Next, doctors will conduct mental evaluations on you and the other students. You'd better hope they are the ones with problems, not you, otherwise you will be in very big trouble."
With that, she put on her hat and walked out of the interrogation room.
Outside the interrogation room stood a slender but imposing Black woman. Upon seeing Nancy emerge, she immediately went up to her.
"Officer Nancy."
The Black woman, who was Amanda Waller, extended her hand to Nancy, "Hello."
Looking at the uninvited guest who had suddenly arrived, and after hearing her self-introduction, Nancy's brows furrowed slightly.
She didn't know why someone from the military would come to such a remote small town.
"This is the first time our small town police department has cooperated with the military."
Nancy dealt with the other party while considering her purpose.
"It's like this."
Amanda Waller did not beat around the bush with Nancy but directly stated her intention.
"We hope the Smallville Police Department can transfer Eric Kent to us tomorrow."
Nancy was greatly surprised by Amanda Waller's sudden proposal to hand Eric over to the military.
But she quickly suppressed her inner shock, and after a moment of silence, she said, "This is not something I can decide."
"Of course, I've already spoken with Chief Keller, and he agreed."
Amanda said with a slight smile on her lips.
Nancy's expression became somewhat complicated.
The other party wasn't here to ask for her consent; she was probably here to inform her!
This woman...
Nancy's eyes narrowed, and she turned to look at Eric inside the interrogation room.
She saw him standing with his arms crossed over his chest, eyes closed, seemingly lost in thought.
And this Eric Kent, what exactly is his identity?!
Eric, who was being watched by Sheriff Nancy, suddenly opened his eyes and looked towards her.
The glass in the interrogation room was one-way, meaning one could only see inside from the outside, and those inside could not see out through the glass.
But for some reason, she felt Eric's gaze fixed on her through the glass.
Then Eric's gaze shifted to Amanda.
Amanda also seemed to notice Eric's gaze fixed on her.
With a look of caution in her eyes, she met Eric's gaze.
A pair of eyes emanating a heart-stopping gaze, the moment Amanda made contact with him, she immediately felt her heart pound rapidly.
Since the police department temporarily had 24 hours of investigative authority over him, and he also had to undergo a mental evaluation by a doctor.
So Eric had to stay in the police station's detention cell for a while first.
The police led Eric into the somewhat narrow and long corridor.
The slightly deep and long corridor contained rooms for temporarily detaining suspects.
Some temporary prisoners who were undergoing police punishment or needed to be transferred to prison were all held inside.
Most of the rooms inside were single occupancy, so Eric was not assigned to a room with others.
The police walked ahead, and Eric slowly followed behind.
From the rooms on both sides, ill-intentioned voices emerged.
"Hey, it's a pretty boy!"
"Hey, kid, since you're in here, interested in playing with us?"
Eric listened to the voices coming from the rooms on his left and right, but he didn't pay attention.
He just gave a cold glance to the left and right and continued walking forward.
"Clang!"
The iron door was shut, and Eric was confined in the somewhat cramped single cell.
Looking at the countless pairs of eyes staring at him from nearby, Eric stood in front of the door, gripping the iron bars with both hands, a reddish glow emanating from his eyes.
Late at night.
Eric was resting on the bed in his detention cell when he suddenly noticed a black shadow spreading from the corridor.
At first, it was an unnoticeable dark shadow, then it continuously spread along the corridor floor towards him.
"Creak!"
The iron door to Eric's cell burst open instantly.
Then the shadow extended to Eric's feet, transforming into a human figure.
Eric looked at Devourer of Heaven, who appeared before him with gray-black cracked skin, pointed ears, and red glowing eyes.
"Hmm."
Devourer of Heaven, taking a somewhat neurotic breath, smiled slightly and asked Eric, "How does it feel to be in jail?"
Before Eric could speak, Devourer of Heaven extended a hand to stop Eric from speaking, "I understand this feeling, I understand it very well. The fact is, I once spent several hundred years in the 'dark heart' that imprisoned me."
"And you, you've only been here for a day. Although this feeling of being imprisoned isn't very pleasant, it's not the worst situation either."
He shrugged his shoulders and said to Eric.
Eric stood up, his eyes glowing faintly red, looking as if Heat Vision could erupt at any moment, "What is your purpose? I don't believe you simply came here just to mock me."
"Purpose? After regaining freedom, my purpose is incredibly simple: to master both darkness and light."
With a playful expression towards Eric, Devourer of Heaven said to him, "Do you know the Star Scepter? It is a conduit for spiritual enlightenment, the power that creates itself. As long as I control it, I will possess the power to control light. Obtaining this world will be effortless for me."
"Your purpose is for the Star Scepter in my hand?"
Eric's lips curled into a cold sneer, "Do you think you have such strength now?"
"Perhaps, perhaps not. Your eyes are sharp, able to see through the illusions in your mind, but believe me, your friends and family beside you are quite fragile!"
"Is that so?"
Eric's lips curled into a cold sneer, "You should understand one thing, and that is you are also quite fragile, especially in the night environment, standing in front of me."
Boom!
A powerful beam of light shot directly from the Star Scepter in Eric's hand, striking Devourer of Heaven's chest.
Rumble!
Devourer of Heaven, suddenly under attack, was unable to dodge and was hit in the chest. His body flew backward, and the wall of the narrow room was immediately shattered.
Eric's eyes emitted Heat Vision, continuing to blast Devourer of Heaven's body as he was sent flying.
Devourer of Heaven, suddenly ambushed by Eric, was blasted into another room.
The burly man in the room had just seen a bizarre fellow smash into his room's wall when his consciousness was immediately controlled by an invisible force.
The burly man, whose mind and consciousness were controlled, charged towards Eric, but Eric pressed his head down with one hand and slammed it against the toilet with a bang.
Bang!
With the shattering of the ceramic toilet, the burly man immediately fell to the ground, his face covered in blood.
This burly man in front of him was the one who had spoken rudely to him when he first entered. Of course, Eric wouldn't hold back against such scum.
Although he had slammed the burly man's head against the toilet in one blow, by using the burly man he had seized control of, Devourer of Heaven's figure immediately transformed into a puff of smoke and vanished from the room.
The moment Devourer of Heaven disappeared, a commotion immediately erupted in the detention cell corridor.
All the doors of the cells opened, and the suspects inside swarmed out like locusts.
The suspects detained in the cells, whose minds were controlled by Devourer of Heaven, had eerie blood-red eyes and furiously attacked those around them.
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