"It's a long story, but do you know a man named Kronos?"
Su Ming decided to use the simplest possible terms to explain where they were going next. But entering an unfamiliar area rashly carried risks, so he needed to draw on the intelligence from his previous life and explain the current situation as thoroughly as he could.
If the battlefield had not changed too much, it might prove useful.
"That name sounds familiar. Let me think." Kitty closed its eyes, its breathing gradually slowing as though it had fallen asleep. But only a few seconds passed before it opened its eyes again. "You mean Kronos, the former Guardian known as the Mad Blue Man?"
"Yes, him. A giant blue-skinned Maltusian. His people later became the Little Blue Men who led the Lantern Corps, and our friend Ganthet is a Maltusian as well."
It was not surprising at all that Kitty remembered him. After all, there was a saying in DC Comics: the history of the Multiverse was, in fact, the story of Kronos.
His name might have sounded unfamiliar, but he was truly the first being to transcend Hypertime and venture outside.
But that was not a good thing.
Kronos was a mad scientist, crazier than anyone humanity had ever known. To achieve his goals, he could sacrifice everything—and he truly had.
His first experiment created the Negative Universe. The planets consumed as energy alone numbered in the tens of billions, while the creatures that died were beyond counting. That was not even mentioning the monsters born from the Negative Zone that entered the Main Dimension and caused massive destruction afterward.
That had happened a very, very long time ago, when the Maltusians still lived on their homeworld.
That failed experiment had nearly wiped out their species. Different blue