Chapter 380
Chapter 380
"Not going to show up yet?" Alexander bent down and poured a glass of lemonade for Carl who was slumped on the sofa. "You didn't accept any invitations."
He recently moved back to the Ayr mansion, but he didn't appear in Karl's presence much - he always had his own things to do - but in this way, his move back to the Ayr mansion would have nothing to do with it. significance.
Alexander stopped living here much a long time ago.
When did it start?Carl thinks, seems to have started with him and Lex, or earlier, when he exposed Superman to everyone.
"You don't have to live here, you know that?" Carl said casually. "I don't think it's weird or intrusive that you live here, I'm just curious—you don't have to."
Alexander glanced at Carl: "I see what you mean. I'm experiencing a completely new way of thinking... doing unnecessary things, spending hours thinking about unnecessary thinking, reading some books... "Alexander paused. "Poetry, play, or novel."
"Speaking of which." Carl remembered, "I said why there are a few more Kryptonian fairy tales and myths on my bookshelf."
Alexander stared intently into Carl's eyes: "Have you read it?"
"not yet."
"I thought you'd like Kryptonian stories."
"I like it, but that's the strange thing. I don't really want to read these fairy tales and myths. They feel a little strange to me, as if they were forced in." Carl pondered, "It's this kind of Feelings—they just popped out of nowhere, punching a gap in my memory of the past and then plugging it in."
"..."
Alexander calmly put the soda glass in his hand on the table.
"But you're right. It's time for me to reappear in social situations. It's impossible to hide for a lifetime." Carl's thoughts turned to the question Alexander asked him at the beginning, "I don't need to read to know that there will be invitations. How boring... Rao, why do these people like to hold parties so much? A large group of people holding wine glasses, standing together in small groups and talking, what's the point?"
Karl also knew that his complaint was that standing and talking didn't hurt his back. To him, these parties were of course meaningless, but it was these boring parties that supported the entire social life of the upper class—decent, elegant, not too relaxed and not too relaxed. Very dignified socializing.
Earlier he had received more interesting invitations.
Those who invited him to go horse racing, those who invited him to row boats, those who invited him to so-and-so tastings and auctions, and those who invited him to give speeches at various charity conferences, those who invited him to present awards, and those who invited him to go to Baganzi The ribbon-cutting ceremony at the company's opening ceremony...
After getting acquainted with Tony, technology awards and technology expos began to send him invitations; when people learned that he had a good relationship with Bruce, countless invitations related to extreme sports poured into his mailbox continuously.
After the relationship with Lex was made public, more invitations were sent to him for various parades and lectures of minority groups, as well as invitations to some extremely political occasions.
Not to mention the various invitations brought by D&M—reasonable and unreasonable, those who should go and those who shouldn’t, the puritanical unscrupulous ones, the beauties like clouds and the handsome men like clouds—of course, Carl alone Never been there.
After thinking about it for a few minutes, Karl himself was shocked.
"Am I so mysterious?" He said incredulously, "I don't seem to have attended a private party in the name of Kal-El at all!"
The most important thing is that he has basically never received any serious party invitations.
The kind of invitation letter sent directly to the public mailbox is obviously not a serious invitation. The sender knows the answer to whether the recipient will read the invitation letter. Sending the invitation letter is just a polite expression "if If you're in the mood to come to the party that day, we've got the door open for you," with no hope that the recipient will come to the party.
"You're never even at Stark's and Wayne's private parties," Alexander said. "Nobody thinks you're going to say yes to their invitations." So they don't bother.
They couldn't find a way to find trouble, and they couldn't even find a way to make a brazen relationship. People with Carl's private number can be counted on two hands.
"Actually, if Nini and Brucey really want to invite me, I'll still go..."
"Like I said before, you spend too much energy on another identity."
"Okay." Carl said, "Okay. Now that Superman is on vacation, let Karl-El, who has never shown his face, take a good look at his presence."
He turned over and sat up on the sofa, stretching comfortably.
Claire clicked on the jj forum.
There hasn't been much activity on the forum lately - nothing officially organized.Now, almost everyone in the forum knows who the person behind this forum is, and the real identity of the undisclosed administrator "Clark" is something that every newcomer who enters the forum will be popularized.
Based on "Clark"'s willful behavior style, various official activities of the jj forum have always been extremely generous with money.
Giving movie tickets is the norm, and gifting peripherals—a full set of peripherals at one go—is just a piece of cake. The most exaggerated are the various big reward activities of "XXX luxury seven-day tour" and "XXX luxury half-month tour" , Of course, such activities are basically designated.
If one day your account receives a separate private message from "Clark", then congratulations, you have won the jackpot.
Until now, people still don't know what standard "Clark" is using to throw money, but according to the observations of some forum elders, "Clark" does and should have a standard in his heart, and they tend to think that such a luxurious gift package will be accepted. Presented to creators favored by "Clark" on the forum.
For such speculation, Claire can only say—the netizens are really sharp-eyed.
Her boss is very rich, so rich that he can buy the copyright of all the novels he likes; if the one he likes is a fan who cannot be published, as a compensation, he will give a super luxury travel package to encourage creation creators to create more works.
When she cautiously suggested that some more profitable methods should be adopted to run the website, the boss replied:
"No need, dear, the cost of maintaining the forum is far less than you think. I can only say that this forum is supported by the scientific research products of the parent company, and the existence of the forum itself is also a very good experiment. Why the severe data loss and system crash?"
Claire thought to herself that it was the data loss and system crash that made me so worried, okay?
After knowing the real reason for the data loss and system crash... She felt complicated and didn't feel comforted at all.
The boss seemed to know what she was thinking: "Of course, because we have a strict backup system, the lost data was retrieved after two hours of emergency maintenance. As a website that showcases and applies cutting-edge technology, jj's instability As essential as its stability, you understand, girl?"
"I understand." Claire replied.
Up to now, jj forum still has the most advanced real-time translation service in the world, covering more than 20 commonly used languages; the hidden area of the forum has not been breached by any hackers, and if you follow the regulations restlessly, you will be permanently blacked out. No one can escape from the small black room; even the content discussed in the forum itself cannot be fully quoted outside.
——Claire is no longer the little girl she was a few years ago. She knows how incredible these understated achievements of the jj forum are in this dangerous world.
This inconceivability only intensified her confusion about "Clark".
But the confusion is irrelevant.If I have to say it, she has a direct relationship with the boss, but the manual administrators of the jj forum are only two or three kittens, and they have long been unable to undertake the tedious review and management work.
Now these tasks are all done by AI, and the administrator's work is more inclined to select the best part from the qualified works filtered by AI, and send them to "Clark" for review.
And in the forum, there has been no grand prize winner handpicked by "Clark" for more than a year.
Has the boss lost interest in the jj forum?Or is he troubled by something and can't continue to follow the forum?But he obviously had the time to make that... movie that made the insiders wonder what to say.
Claire browsed the forum, picked out a few works that she was satisfied with and sent them to "Clark". There was also a letter that took her more than half an hour to write. newsletter.
No, nothing weird was written in the newsletter.
She simply asked if the boss was not satisfied with the works she had selected recently.
Carl doesn't really want to appear directly in front of everyone.
What he meant was that he didn't plan to jump out of a dark corner with a lot of fanfare and jump directly in front of the media.
So far, his mental state is very good, his will is very firm, his mood is very stable, although it is inevitable that he will be a little frustrated and depressed, but these are easy to overcome, and he has always been good at presenting things in front of people. Cover up the lows, process and digest them alone.
But the integrity of media people is completely untrustworthy.
God knows how unscrupulously they will use their thinking.
When Carl is in a good mood, their nonsense is just a little spice; but when he is not in a good mood, it is annoying to read the continuous speculation, so Karl does not intend to give them too much. room to play.
After thinking about it, he turned his attention to the jj forum.
This forum, which has been in a state of stocking since its birth, is growing day by day. Thanks to Alexander's selfless maintenance and the enthusiastic contributions of Claire and Anna, Karl knows that he has nothing to do here.
He browsed the forum for a while, intending to find out if there were any new scripts that could be adapted into a movie, but he couldn't help but follow the post after flipping through the pages.
The popularity of "Superhero" made the homepage of the forum full of related posts, and fans all over the world gave amazingly consistent comments on this movie.
——That LL has no plans for S?it's so funny.This movie has lifted the fig leaf at best.
——I don’t believe that LL and S are purely hostile ♂ relationships anyway. After all, is there a purely hostile ♂ relationship in this world [funny]?
—I don't believe it, I don't believe it, I don't believe it!What about the little prince!The little prince is my first heart!
——The big triangle is so cute, hee hee hee, I eat Amway upstairs, and we are rivals in love with each other, so let's have a 3P~
—So what do you eat? S×K×LL?
——I eat mix-and-match, expensive mess and so on, the most interesting!
All right, Carl thought.
It may be that he underestimated the acceptance of fans, he thought that everyone would tear CP apart...
Unexpectedly, the mashup party will eventually become the winner.
Of course, there are also weak resistance in the forum.
——I don't want to eat my old enemy, crying, my old enemy is too cruel!Although the meat is delicious, but the previous binding CP is so sweet, every day, I feel like eating sugar...
——LL cheated!Mental derailment is also derailment!
——Don’t be too sincere upstairs, who knows if it’s true or not?In fact, the previous official match was quite fake, it was too sweet, it made me panic.
However, these resistances were quickly submerged in the torrent of ecstasy, without causing any waves.
Compared with the enthusiastic atmosphere in the forum and the weird silence outside, they are simply two extremes.
Karl doesn't believe that Lex has not been criticized by the outside world.
But the other party was able to carry out the control and evaluation work so covertly and naturally, without any trace, which is also very powerful. He deserves to be a guy who ascended to the presidency as a non-partisan at a young age.
But it's been so long since he's been back, and Lex has managed to hold on, neither speaking on social media nor coming to see him.
Phone no.SMS no.mail no.
What the hell was Lex thinking?
Carl wasn't worried about that.
He came back from the dead and made an allusion to Lex.Luthor and Superman movie.
In fact, Karl didn't intend to humiliate or mock Lex, but he also knew that no matter what he did, Lex would regard it as ridicule and provocation.
—he knew he didn't have to do anything.
There is no need to add bricks and tiles, and there is no need to do more.
Because a person like Lex who is both narcissistic, arrogant and inferior, and who loves and hates him like Lex, will complete the whole process of self-humiliation.
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