Chapter 124. Sandman Recruited
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"You're... the Superman?" Johnny landed beside Nolan, eyes wide. "You're real?"
He'd seen the viral footage: a lifeless man rising from death, exploding upward into the sky like a god. It was almost biblical.
"Wait, do you actually bring people back from the dead?" Johnny asked, half-joking, half-awestruck.
Nolan chuckled. "No. That man wasn't dead, not technically. Cardiac arrest, maybe. His brain still had electrical activity."
"And the resurrection part?"
"Let's just say... that's proprietary."
Johnny squinted. "You sound like Reed."
Nolan smirked. "Thanks. I'll take that as a compliment."
Then he turned toward the trembling figure slumped on the pavement, Flint Marko, a.k.a. Sandman.
"You have two options," Nolan said flatly. "Come with me, and I'll cure your daughter. Or I can hand you over to the authorities."