With a hum that made space tremble, a broad Portal opened on a street in Metropolis.
"The designation corresponds to negative three. Who knows what kind of crazy mess we'll run into in this universe?"
A group of oddly dressed people emerged from the Portal in orderly succession. After several years of development, the Multiverse Justice League now spanned more than twenty-seven parallel universes, with tens of thousands of superheroes and other extraordinary individuals among its members.
By now, the Multiverse Justice League had well-established, experienced teams for dealing with the many dark universes.
Each team consisted of superheroes from a particular parallel universe. After their information density was measured, they would be dispatched to a dark universe with a lower information density than their own.
This ensured their safety during missions to purge those dark universes. Even if they encountered an unexpected danger, they would at least be able to send a distress signal back to the Multiverse Justice League.
The team visiting this dark universe had thirteen members.
Their leader was a young Chinese man named Kong Kenan, dressed in a red-and-black uniform with a yin-yang symbol on his chest.
Kong Kenan's red-and-black uniform had an unmistakably Kryptonian style, and his superhero name was fittingly Chinese Superman.
However, Kong Kenan himself possessed no Krypton genes. His powers came from Chinese spells and technology that replicated and awakened Kryptonian abilities. Their outward manifestations were the same: a body of steel, flight, searing vision, and the like.
Their underlying nature was different.
Every superhero who joined the Multiverse Justice League received a free training session to improve their abilities. Under Brad's guidance, Chinese Superman had also made a qualitative leap.
Although Brad was more proficient in technology, he was no stranger to Eastern Qi cultivation.
The cultivation system he had