The Faltine's avatar watched him. Its facial features were invisible within that intense light, which really matched humanity's perception of aliens.
After Herbert George Wells published the science-fiction novel The War of the Worlds in 1895—the novel about Martians invading Earth—people's fear of outer space grew ever more severe.
Ordinary people had never seen aliens, but that was precisely why the unknown was more terrifying.
From then on, all kinds of science-fiction works emerged, and the aliens they depicted gradually became similar: Little Green Men or Greys with round bald heads and huge eyes.
But that was not the most famous rumor. In the present year of 1956, the most popular claim was that aliens abducted humans for experiments. Many "experiencers" described everything vividly, filling people with panic.
According to legend, abducted Earthlings would be sucked into flying saucers, their minds left muddled as they lay sprawled across cold operating tables, able to see only faceless aliens and the bright light overhead.
Then those aliens would shove enormous high-tech probes up the abductees' asses, as if searching for something.
Of course, that was merely a folk rumor. The knowledgeable people of Earth knew perfectly well that aliens such as the Kree, Skrulls, and Shi'ar had no interest in the structure of the human digestive tract.
And those so-called experiencers had all been in the same state when it happened—The Hangover.
Su Ming held the Nightfall Greatsword and calmly met the Faltine's gaze. He had the Time Stone, and only a very small number of Dimensional Demon Gods possessed time-related abilities. The Faltine was clearly not among them.
And he could not die anyway, so why not negotiate to his heart's content?
Seeing that Deathstroke was fearless and clearly prepared, the Faltine remained silent for a long while. She controlled the