Aside from the fact that there was hardly anyone here, this really was a fine city. It ought to have been some sort of "gathering place" concept, only appearing in this form through the eyes of him, the Watcher.
Concepts were abstract, but when humans saw them, they tried their best to take forms people could understand. So what did CAAT's Crown image represent?
Then again, he had a high-tech Death Star like Sepulk, an alien city like Contraxia, and a Magic Fortress amid the mountains like Kamar-Taj.
Yet deep down, did he actually still prefer ordinary human cities?
Towering skyscrapers and broad roads, as well as dark alleys awash with sewage—seeing such things really did put him at ease.
But why were there so few creatures in the city? Not only were there just seven people scattered throughout it, but his earlier conceptual scan had not even found any mice or cockroaches. It was truly desolate.
Still, those thoughts were merely passing thoughts. Su Ming remained focused on the task before him.
The first place he planned to visit was a library. Although he could not sense much from it through concepts, he could see that it contained many books.
They definitely were not books, but appearing as books within Deathstroke's understanding meant they surely represented some kind of knowledge.
There was no clear boundary between knowledge and intelligence.
So he chose that as his first stop. His senses told him there was a lifeform inside the library. She might be a librarian, or she might be a cleaner. Concepts could not probe much about her, and the Book of Origin was ineffective against her, so he could only get closer and see for himself.
For now, he would call this city the City of Action. Its library was