"Are you ready?"

Cyber looked at Quicksilver in front of him, although the 15-year-old kid said that he was not nervous, but at this moment, his breathing still became heavy at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in front of him, there was a walking stick.

Filled with silver light, suspended in the air, as if the entire body was made of silver gemstones, two blue serpents of divine power wrapped around the staff, spiraling upwards in a mysterious and obscure spiral, splitting into two symbiotic snake heads at the very top.

Beautiful, noble, and dangerous.

Anyone who is not recognized by it, as long as they get close to the range of 5 meters, will be terrible The ruthless counterattack of the two divine power snakes, the speed is so fast that ordinary people can't dodge it at all.

"Whew"

Quicksilver took a deep breath, he nodded to Cyber, then looked at Wanda who was nervously closing her fingers, signaling that she didn't need to be nervous, then looked at the cane, took a step forward, stepped into the dangerous attack circle, and two blue snakes opened their scarlet eyes in an instant and pounced on him.

Quicksilver subconsciously retreated, but was stopped by Cyber:

"Don't move!"

Quicksilver's already raised foot was immediately retracted, and a snake had been wrapped around his neck, but it didn't bite down with its mouth like it did to others, and the other snake looked at Cyber with fierce eyes, spitting out letters, this guy was very spiritual, and he could see at a glance that Cyber was the most dangerous here.

"There's a play!"

Cyber snorted, took a step back, spread his hands, and signaled that he had no ill intentions, and the snake shrank back again, it didn't seem to be interested in Quicksilver at all, but the other snake was different.

It took the initiative to break away from the cane, crawled in front of Quicksilver, and propped up its upper body to look at him, this posture made everyone a little confused, but the next moment, it bit at Quicksilver fiercely, this time it was different from before, the speed was extremely fast, and even Cyber only saw a blue afterimage.

Quicksilver's figure disappeared in place with a snort, and when it reappeared, it was already standing ten meters away, and the snake bit into the air, but it seemed to be addicted to playing, and continued to chase Quicksilver to bite.

"It's testing your speed! Fast! Run as fast as you can!"

Wanda's head turned fast, and he turned his head and shouted to his younger brother: "Don't be bitten by it, this should be the second stage!"

Quicksilver gestured to the others in an OK position, and his figure disappeared into the darkness in the next moment, and the blue snake also broke through the space and disappeared, starting their game of chase.

Finally, this kid still has a bit of brains, knowing that there is a speedster in the city that he can't afford to mess with, and he gallops all the way out of the city, and the speed has reached the limit in a short time, exceeding the ultimate speed of Mach 10, but compared to the speed of light... It's still too far off.

"Looks like we're on the right side of the game. ”

Cyber relaxed, he looked at the cane with only one snake left, and said to the others, "Quicksilver is indeed qualified, but it seems that his talent is not the best, otherwise the two snakes should jump out together, Divine Speed... This thing really has something to do with speed. ”

"And what about the rest of this?"

Coulson had a headache, if it was in S.H.I.E.L.D., this dangerous item would be stored in a vault far away from the world, but now there is no such condition, he can't let him put this thing in his home as an ornament, right?

"I'm going to return the cane to its holder, and the divine power will slowly dissipate, so we just need to wait for a while. ”

With a wave of Cyber's hand, everyone relaxed, and just as they were about to wait for news from Quicksilver, Lady Audrey pushed open the door and looked at Cyber with some confusion:

"Well, Mr. Cyber, there are two young men looking for you outside the door... They say, they are your friends. ”

"Friends?"

Cyber turned his head to look at Coulson, who took out his mobile phone and pressed it twice, and the surveillance screen at the door turned to the phone, he turned the screen to Cyber, looking at the two guys on the screen, Cyber froze.

"Let them in... I'm curious, what are they doing?"

After a few moments, Sisko helped the pale Barry into the room, and he looked at the unkind people in the room with some fear, especially when he saw Cyber's red eyes, he couldn't help but shrink his head slightly.

Barry was more calm, maybe he really saw the failure, maybe the person he trusted the most suddenly turned around, he understood some truths, maybe he had grown, in short, he didn't have the anger he had when he was with Oliver before, he looked at Cyber and took a deep breath.

"We... Having found the truth about Harrison, I admit that I made a mistake, I shouldn't have let my personal feelings blind me, and I hope it's too late to admit it. ”

"It's too late to admit your mistakes. ”

Cyber waved his hand, and he looked into Barry's eyes, "I'm more curious about what kind of news you brought that made both of you so nervous, as if the world was going to be destroyed. ”

"Well, almost. ”

Barry swung his shoulders, Sisko, who was hiding behind him, was a little reluctant to stand up, took out a USB stick from his arms, and put it on the table, he looked at Cyber, and in order to hide the fear in his heart, he raised his voice:

"Harrison isn't just going back to lightning, he's got an even more terrifying plan, he's going to build a timeline portal in Central City! he's going to go back to his 22nd century, but at the cost of... Our timeline is going to collapse completely because of the flashpoint paradox!"

Coulson picked up the USB flash drive, plugged it into the computer next to him, and turned his head to look at Sisko:

"Mr. Sisko, I know you're one of MIT's finest experimental physics graduates, but given the level of knowledge of the people in this room, I'd suggest you describe that "flashpoint paradox" in a simpler way. ”

"Well, I'll just say simply, you've all heard of a time paradox. ”

Sisko looked at the people around him, and Mrs. Audrey brought them tea, and this beautiful woman, who was full of the strength of a woman, approached, and Sisko blushed in shame, and it was not until after Mrs. Audrey left that he continued to speak:

"If you went back in time and killed your grandfather, would you still exist?"

This question made Cyber's eyes narrow, and then he heard Sisko continue: "The flashpoint paradox is a more advanced manifestation of the time paradox, when two timelines collide, it will inevitably be accompanied by the collapse of one timeline, and some people who do not belong to this timeline will be thrown into this timeline, if they find themselves in this timeline and kill them, it will cause an even more terrible timeline spiral collapse." ”

Of course, the real flashpoint paradox is much more terrifying than this. ”

Barry said, "Just look at this video and you'll know. ”

Coulson also opened the video at this moment, and the next moment, a terrifying picture appeared in front of everyone's eyes, it was a camera facing the sky, in the center of the horizon, a purple-black storm pierced the sky, like a hole in the sky, devouring everything on the ground in a frenzy.

Everyone was fleeing in terror, but with their footsteps, their bodies turned into a point of light and disappeared into the air, and in the last scene, the energy storm in the sky collapsed inward, faster and faster, until finally, the whole vision was distorted, it was the light that was distorted, and then everything disappeared in the last flash.

The picture returns to calm.

Even Cyber was stunned for a moment by this devastating picture, and he turned his head to look at Sisko, who shrugged his shoulders with a sad face:

"That's the scene where the flashpoint paradox develops to the end, the whole world collapses itself with the collapse of the timeline, and no one can survive this catastrophe, except..."

"A speedster who can travel through time, right?"

Cyber gave the answer, rubbing his chin and whispering, "So how is Harrison going to do all this, and why is he doing all this?"

"That's not Dr. Harrison, the real Dr. Harrison died 15 years ago, and now with that same cheek is a guy named Albert Swan, he is from the 22nd century, and he is the biggest opponent of the Flash of that era, Reverse Lightning!"

Sisko went on to explain, "I found information from his super space-time computer, he invented a device that could transform the speed force, allowed himself to steal Barry's power, and then he tried to go back in time to kill Barry completely and make himself a real Flash, but he missed, and this image is the price of that miss, a complete timeline collapsed. ”

"He was thrown into the timeline of 2024, but he didn't give up and continued to hunt down the Flash, and the two went back in time in battle, and the reverse lightning killed Barry's mother..."

Sisko said this, and the others were already a little dizzy, but Cyber stopped Sisko from continuing, and he turned his head to look at Barry:

"In other words, of the two rays of light you saw when you were a child, one was reverse lightning and the other..."

"It's me!"

Barry coughed lightly: "To be precise, it's myself from 2024, Reverse Lightning is likely to have killed him, because Sisko checked our timeline about the Flash, and it was all up to the morning of November 17, 2024, or rather, he may be hiding, but... No one could find him, and neither could I. ”

The answer to this question was so unimaginable that everyone in the room fell silent, except for the scarlet witch's eyes, which sparkled in her whisper:

"Can you go back now to save your mother?"

"It turned out that it should have been possible. ”

Barry said with some regret: "When I ran to top speed before, I always felt an obstacle, like a wall, it was supposed to be the self-protection of the timeline, but even if I could do that, I wouldn't do that, after realizing the terrible collapse of the timeline, I can't put my own family above the safety of the whole world." ”

"Hey, boy, don't talk so much. ”

Coulson flicked the cigarette ash in his hand without care, and the perceptive former agent said solemnly to Barry:

"When you're capable of doing that, it's hard to restrain yourself from doing it... Don't ever be an enemy of yourself, maybe at some point in the future, you've already done it, maybe you've caused that thing many times yourself... Yes, the "flash point paradox". ”

"Maybe..."

There was a hint of calmness on Barry's pale face, and he spread his hands: "But now I'm not a Flash, so I'm here to ask you guys to stop the reverse lightning....In the lab, we don't know where that thing is, but it needs a speeder to collide with a hydrogen atom to activate, and the collision speeder will die a tragic death, and after I become a normal person, that thing can't be activated, so you just need to catch him..."

"Damn it!"

Cyber slammed his fist on the table, and the others also stood up, and Wanda shouted even more nervously: "Quicksilver, my brother, will he..."

"Don't pin your hopes on the stupidity of your opponent!"

Cyber turned his head and grabbed his trench coat and shouted to the others, "Gather all who can fight! TM is going to save the world again!"

After the others walked out, Cyber walked up to Barry, and Oliver stood behind him, and the two men looked at Barry, and finally Cyber stepped out of the way, revealing the Serpent Scepter on the front table, and he whispered in Barry's ear:

"I took away your speed power, and I'll give it back to you now... I'll give you the choice too. ”

"Barry Allen, I said that you don't have a hero's heart yet, because you didn't choose to be a hero, you were chosen by that damn lightning, and you don't have the right to refuse, so you use your power as a kind of self-show and a tool... No one can be a hero in that mindset. ”

Oliver stepped forward, took Cyber's words, and whispered:

"Now, we give you the choice, right in front of your eyes, fate has separated two paths, either to become an ordinary Barry Allen, or to become the hero Flash... Remember, this time you're not passive, and no matter what you choose, no one will blame you!"

Cyber patted Barry on the shoulder:

"Being a superhero is never about strength... I've seen an ordinary person become the greatest superhero, I've seen powerful mutants make trouble, and it's the heart that matters!"

His finger tapped on Barry's chest:

"Do you have a strong enough heart? Why did you get on this path? Think clearly before you make a choice, and it will help you get back on your feet when you are about to be overturned by your opponent in the future. ”

"What about you, sir, how did you choose in the first place?"

Sisko was also agitated by these words, and he looked at Cyber, eager for an answer, and Cyber glanced at him and shrugged:

"I'm sorry, I've never been a hero... But villains can save the world, can't they?"