The Fourth Trial felt different the moment he entered.
The first trial had only a narrow, elongated corridor. The second had been a somewhat more spacious warehouse. The third had been a small town and a boundless sea. But now, Su Ming felt as though he had entered a complete world.
He had landed in a city. It looked somewhat unfamiliar, yet many places also seemed familiar. It appeared to contain echoes of every human city on Earth.
He was lying on a road, with a streetlamp not far away. When he reached out to touch it, the streetlamp bloomed with a flower as a gift.
It was clearly a cast-iron lamp post, yet it had grown a sunflower. That was truly abstract.
"Eek."
The Symbiotes indicated that the truly abstract part was not the streetlamp, but the city itself. It activated its sense of smell and hearing, yet found almost no traces of living things in the entire city.
So Deathstroke activated his Concept Power, touching through darkness and "seeing" through Quantum.
The city looked brand-new, but its utterly deserted state created an indescribably mysterious atmosphere.
In the central plaza, skyscrapers of steel and concrete stood tall, with smooth glass curtain walls and gleaming rooftops. Huge billboards had been installed in the plazas outside the buildings, continuously playing advertisements for all kinds of products.
The streets were paved with mirror-smooth asphalt, flanked by neat sidewalks. Traffic lights and road signs at railroad crossings instructed drivers to obey traffic laws, but in truth, there was not a single car or person on the roads.
In the city parks, leaves rustled gently above broad stretches of green grass. These new plants looked vibrant beneath the sunlight, while motionless cartoon dolls clung to the trunks beside the ponds.
There was also a