The Knights of the DC House

In the dedicated office of Lex Enterprise Group, Vandal Savage was also sitting upright, listening to Lex tell the story of his past. Only after Lex told this story, Vandal Savage could solve the doubts in his heart.

Why would Leticia Luthor, Lex's mother, cooperate with Apokolips and go beyond her own children? None of this makes sense, including throwing Lex to Apokolips as part of Darkseid's godhood experiment.

After drinking a glass of wine, Lex's eyes began to blur, and he once again recalled his unbearable past.

"I think you have already investigated my birth, my parents, Leonard Luthor and Leticia Luthor. So there is no need to say more about the story before I was born. You all know it. Let me tell you.

The story after I was born and before Lena was born."

"Yes, this is the part that interests me the most."

Lex nodded and continued: "As you have investigated, my birth was very simple. I was born when my parents got what they needed. It was only when I was three years old that I first showed signs of

After my extraordinary wisdom, everything became different. I still remember what I did at that time. I took apart the broken TV at home and reassembled it. I removed several unnecessary parts and added

I optimized it by adding some things that I thought should be added.”

Hearing Lex's description of the first time he showed his extraordinary intelligence, Vandal Savage also whistled in cooperation, because it sounded very cool. For a three-year-old child, this was

A gift given to him by God, a sign that sets him apart from ordinary people.

"Yes, it's your expression. After my parents saw that I was far more intelligent than my peers or even ordinary people, my couple's life, which was originally without any emotional connection, became more active because of me. They all know it.

What does such a talented descendant represent? As long as I reach adulthood and maintain this state, the scale of the business territory created by my father will only expand beyond his imagination. Therefore, you should have a clear idea of ​​what my life will be like next.

Life, right?”

Savage nodded.

"All the best resources will be poured into you, whether you can accept it or not, your parents will do it."

Regarding Savage's answer, Lex also expressed his affirmation.

"Yes, as you said, after I showed extraordinary wisdom, many of my performances were different from those of my peers. How can I put it, I feel very precocious. Those things were instilled in my mind by my parents' spoon-feeding education.

I could understand all aspects of the knowledge in it. At that time, my understanding of the entire world came from books and personal trainers’ explanations, and I had no personal experience with it.

Even with this kind of cramming education, it only took me one year to complete all the courses my parents arranged for me. They originally thought that these courses could support me until I went to elementary school, but I overcompleted.

When I was five years old."

"Amazing. He is indeed the smartest person in the world."

"Yes, it's amazing, but I didn't know it at that time. This was just the beginning of my miserable life. I had already learned everything that could be taught and learned, and the rest I had to do on my own.

To extend the field, but this thing does not come just by saying, it requires some practice. But my parents also disagreed on this point. My father regarded me as a treasure and always protected me in the manor. Very soon

I don't go out to meet people as much as he is afraid that his business competitors will do something to me.

My mother, on the other hand, wanted to show me to the upper-class people in this circle and let them know what a genius son she had. So my parents’ previously active marriage also had cracks. They started to quarrel, get into fights, and get violent every time they quarreled.

After the fight, my father would drink. He was a very bad drinker. Every time he drank too much, he would hit my mother and then violently abuse her. Well, in his words, my mother was

His legal wife, it is natural for a husband to ask his wife to have conjugal life, and it does not count as violence."

Hearing this, the image of Lex's parents was also established in Savage's mind. The man was a drunken and promiscuous bastard, and the woman was a bit vain, but so far there were not many disqualifications, but

This does not fit with the image of cooperating with Apokolips. At least in Savage's view, to cooperate with an extraterrestrial civilization like Apokolips that eats people without spitting out their bones, you have to be a guy who eats people without spitting out their bones.

.

And Lex's story about his parents continues.

"Every time after he was violent to my mother, my father, who had not vented enough, would come to me, pull out his belt, and start instilling his principles into my mind, beating me with the belt. Oh, I was only five years old at that time.

As a little kid over the age of 10, no matter how smart or talented I am, in front of adults, I have nowhere to run, and I don’t know why I run away. Am I not their hope? Am I the treasure they use to promote their reputation? Why?

I want to be beaten? There is no reason.

My father would only tell me there that you are unique and one in a million. You are destined to be above all others and become the leader of mankind. And I am your father. Without me, you would not be able to survive.

You will be born, and you won’t have such a talent, so you have to remember, remember everything I said, and don’t disobey me! He just kept repeating these words that he could only think of, and kept beating me,

Ignoring my cries and begging, he took the trouble to ask me if I remembered.

Every time I answered a sentence and remembered it, he would hit me, so hard that I was covered with bruises."

When he talked about his own past, Lex's expression became ferocious and distorted. These memories that he had never told others had always been stored in his mind. With his wisdom and memory, he could not forget them at all, he would only

It is regarded as a box that is buried deep in the memory and is unwilling to be opened. Every time he opens it, his mood will become very bad, and when he is in a bad mood, someone will suffer.

"What about your mother? What role does she play in it?" Savage also asked.

When Lex heard this, he also smiled, a bit sadly.

"My mother? Ha, she is a smarter woman, better than my father's self-righteous and rough teaching behavior. Every time she drags her body that has been ravaged by my father, she comes to me, hugs me, and stays with me.

I cried together. Then I said, my poor Lex, everything will pass. You have to remember that what your mother is suffering now is all for you. You have to remember your father's words. He is right. You are destined to be the best.

Above everyone else, including your father, but you still need time to grow."

Savage was speechless. He really didn't expect that Lex's mother would be more ruthless and suffer the consequences. Children are naturally close to their mothers, especially in this situation, seeing that his mother suffered the same injuries as him.

, the influence of empathy will make him recognize his mother more and rely on his mother. Savage can even think of how Lex spent his childhood.

The combination of his father's whipping and his mother's cruelty instilled in him a distorted outlook on life, especially when he grew up without any contact with the outside world or any communication with his peers.

Lex would be a ghost if he didn't grow crooked.

"This kind of life lasted for ten years, and it didn't change until I entered junior high school, because at that time, my sister, Lena, was born. You may not believe it, but I grew up in this environment.

I was an isolated guy when I was in junior high school, because apart from good grades, I didn't know how to communicate with others. I was weak, timid and twisted. But at this time, Lena's birth changed me.

I started to have some ideas of my own."

When talking about his sister, Savage also noticed the change in Lex's expression, which was different from when he just talked about his parents. To put it simply, his whole person became brighter, as if he had thought of something.

Sweet thing.

"You don't know what it feels like, Savage. When I looked at Lena sleeping in the cradle, I had a feeling that my sister would be just as smart and just as different as me. In my case

When I realized this, I also started to be afraid, because I was afraid that what happened to me would happen to Lena again. What a terrible thing it would be. How could I let my sister suffer like this?

The pain, don't you think, Savage."

"So you're going against your father?"

Lex shook his head at Savage's guess.

"I have already said that I was weak at that time. I was more afraid of my father than angry. How could I go against it? I just became more withdrawn. I would go home as soon as school was over every day to look after Lena and take care of her.

I didn’t want her to be influenced by my parents. But at that time, my parents had long been quarreling day after day. My father didn’t come home all day long, and my mother was also being abused by him day after day.

They indulged themselves and began to look for men outside, but they still acted as a loving couple in the outside world even though they knew each other well.

It wasn’t until our family of four went to the small town of Smallville to inspect our business that our encounter with Clark changed everything.”

Hearing this, Savage became a little uneasy because he didn't expect that Lex and Clark would meet so early. They had known each other since Clark was just Clark.

"Heh, it seems like you haven't investigated everything very clearly." Lex looked at Savage's surprised expression and teased before continuing: "Lena was already three years old at that time.

I was almost the same. She also showed excellent talents. My father was also planning how to use the method of educating me on Lena. However, before my father could implement it, the trip to the small town of Smallville changed everything.

his understanding.

There was a simple traffic accident, and our family of four fell into the river, basically waiting for death. Then, he appeared, covered his nose and mouth with a red scarf, and easily lifted the entire car out of the river.

He came out, held up our family of four, flew up, landed on the bridge, then just waved his hand at us and flew away."

"This was the turning point?"

Savage still didn't understand how Clark's rescue act turned out to be a turning point in the Lex family's fate.

"Yes, the turning point, an accident happened. I definitely couldn't go to the small town of Smallville. When I got home, my father was deeply shocked. He looked at me, took out the belt and beat me again, humiliating my mother, saying that my mother

It's a shameful thing to hook up with a man outside, because he thinks that it doesn't matter that I show superior intelligence. In the face of this kind of accident, like him, I'm just waiting to die, without any effect. And he is the one who saved our family.

A person who can easily resolve all crises, and my birth will only serve as a foil for him.

His brain, soaked in alcohol for many years, is as broken as his crumbling business empire. He doesn't know how to think about the inevitable connection. He just kept beating my mother and me, and made a fuss.

He was drunk and crazy, and I could only hold Lena in my arms and endure his whippings, fearing that Lena's cries would arouse his anger, while my mother, on the other hand, beat my father like a madman.

in one piece.

She was also there scolding my father, saying that all his hard work was in vain in the end. The business world was like this, the relationship with her was like this, and even after raising her two children for so long, they could only be treated as ordinary people.

A foil. Just like the family name, Luther will always be a loser!"

Savage listened to all this in silence. Regarding Lex's past, he did not expect such a development. He also had to say that Lex's parents were indeed not very smart, and they would become hysterical because of such a mess.

.Thinking about it this way, it makes sense for Lex and Clark to compete with each other when they were Superman. It was not only due to conceptual issues, but also influenced by them.

Lex wants to defeat Superman to prove that he is not the so-called foil of Superman. He is Lex Luthor, the only being in the world and universe who can defeat Superman!

"So what was the final result of this family quarrel caused by him?" At this point, Savage also felt that he was close to the truth and asked.

Lex just looked at Savage and said nothing, but Savage was not a fool. The previous foreshadowing and twists were enough to explain what the final outcome would be. So, he also told the answer for Lex.

"You killed your father, didn't you, Lex."

Lex's silence was the best answer, and Savage didn't show any surprise at the result. If it were him, this father might have died earlier.

"Yes, I killed my father. During the struggle between him and my mother, I just pushed him in the back, and his fat body rolled down the stairs, smashed his head, and lay on the ground.

He died, and my mother witnessed it all."

The story comes to an end here. Lex no longer tells stories about his past, but Savage still feels something is wrong. What does this have to do with Lex's mother becoming a partner in Apokolips?

"I know what you are thinking. After my father died, the police came, but my mother cooperated with me and handled the scene together to fake the situation that my father slipped and fell to death after being drunk. He did drink too much at the time and fell to death.

Death is normal, so the case was settled like this. But after that, I just fell from one devil's cave to another. Because I had the handle in my mother's hands, I also started to follow my mother's instructions.

With the instructions, my father's previously shaky business group was restored, and my mother became the top leader at the time.

After that, my mother seemed like a different person, crazy and obsessed with so-called superhumans, seeking such existence all over the world. Relying on the Lex Enterprise I saved, using resources to seek everything. I don’t know why she

So, at the time, I had no intention of disobeying my mother. I just let her do what she did. At the same time, I was also responsible for taking care of Lena, training her, and raising her up.

Speaking of which, it is really thanks to the birth of Lena. Because of her, I did not become a mentally twisted lunatic. Although I was indeed a bit extreme in many things. But at least I got out of the legacy left by my parents.

Shadow. What happened after that is very simple. I don’t know what my mother did in her obsession with superhuman things over the years, but I think she got in touch with Apokolips through some means. You and I both know that Apocalypse

Stars have not visited the earth in modern times, they have been here in ancient times."

Savage was silent, because Lex was right. As the emperor at that time, he led the army to fight with Darkseid, but needless to say the outcome, he lost and signed a humiliating agreement, which allowed the earth to be destroyed.

Exists until now.

"It's still wrong. If you didn't lie, I also understand why you were exiled to Apokolips. But your sister, Lena, can't be ignorant of these things. Even if she was still young at the time, she must have had an impression.

Yes, but I don’t see the same character as you in her. Even if it’s protection, you can’t be so perfect.”

Lex was helpless when it came to Savage's pursuit of the truth. He sighed and said, "Do you have to ask everything to get to the bottom of it? It's very simple. I brainwashed her memory and re-woven a false story for her.

, but with some real memories, I built a perfect childhood for her. I don’t want the tragedies that happened to me to affect her future growth. This is the truth of the matter, and this is why I joined the Illuminati.

, but he kept stabbing you in the back and was even exiled to Apokolips. Are you satisfied?"

At this point, Lex became impatient, but Savage remained unyielding. Knowing the previous truth was one thing, and he came here to obtain the truth to give Lex a warning.

"It doesn't matter whether you are satisfied or not. You have to ask your mother what she is going to do next. If she is still in contact with Apokolips now, do you think Apokolips will not do anything during Clark's inauguration ceremony at the end of the month?"

Hearing this, Lex was also stunned, because he knew that Savage was not an alarmist. With his mother's distorted character, she could do anything.

"Do you have any clues about my mother?"

"Please take a look at this report."

He took a file out of his arms and threw it on Lex's desk. Looking at the description in the report, Lex's heart skipped a beat.