"We'll have to use the clumsy method."
The first thing the bald man said upon striding back into the crowd was this. It did not sound particularly encouraging, but he had never cared much about other people's expressions or reactions.
Su Ming took a drag from his cigarette. As he stretched his neck and felt around his belt with one hand, he pondered for a moment before smiling and nodding.
"Oh? Go on, I'm listening."
Lex walked over to the round conference table and brushed his hand across its surface. A projection of the current Orrery of Worlds of Multiverse 1 appeared, with a flat plane connected beneath the sphere. On the other side of that plane was a projection of the Dark Multiverse.
He began a lengthy explanation.
"Our multiverse looks like this: worlds that are completely opposite on either side of a mirror. There are currently neither too many nor too few known methods of reaching the Dark Multiverse."
"I won't go over the others. Everyone has used them before. They amount to teleportation, or running through the Speed Force Plane."
"But there is also the most primitive and reliable method: passing through the World Forge. That is where all Single Universes are born, so it can serve as a transit point."
"So I made a deduction. The current Omega Universe should also possess such a place. Even if Darkseid did not design one when he created it, the universe itself would complete the missing piece."
"Just as the darker a dark world becomes, the more dazzling the tiny speck of light within it appears, this is the balance the universe currently follows."
"The clumsy method I mean is to find this 'forge,' or somewhere similar, and use it to reach the other side."
"Therefore, I think we