Chapter 40: Can You Be Faster Than Lightning?

The center of the dark clouds above is just near the Flash Museum.

The closer Yuri gets to the city center, the fewer pedestrians and vehicles become on the road.

The power supply in the city is suspected to have been completely cut off, all traffic lights have stopped working, and all monitors have been turned off.

By the time he was less than three blocks from the Flash Museum, Yuri couldn't see anyone walking down the road.

Not only is there no one on the road, but there is not even half a figure in the convenience store or shopping mall.

All that was left was empty cars parked haphazardly on the road.

It's as if all the inhabitants of the city center have vanished.

For the first time, the city, known as the jewel of the Midwest, has fallen into such silence.

Yuri's brow furrowed, he could guess that it was the blacksmith who had done it.

After all, it was something he had known for a long time that the blacksmith was preparing a big conspiracy, but he didn't expect the blacksmith to do it so quickly.

And it was just when he was about to leave Midtown.

Yuri couldn't help but wonder if there was a possibility that he was arranged by someone.

Suddenly, Yuri's eye flashed from the rearview mirror, and he quickly stepped on the brakes to make an emergency stop.

I saw that there was a Cole cemetery about 100 meters behind the left of the old broken car, where many of the dead policemen in the Wedge Rock City Police Department were buried.

It wasn't the cemetery itself that caught Yuri's attention, but a suspicious figure!

Yuri couldn't see the image clearly in the rearview mirror for a moment, but the man who walked into the cemetery seemed to be holding some weight on his shoulder.

Judging by the current situation in Midtown, Yuri has to be wary of this.

There are two possibilities for the mysterious disappearance of all the inhabitants of the city center.

One is to be killed cleanly, and the other is to be imprisoned somewhere.

The first possibility is that Yuri met the blacksmith, and although his first impression was not necessarily correct, he believed that the blacksmith was not the kind of person who would do senseless killing, and that she valued money more.

Killing all the people in Midtown doesn't do the blacksmith any good, so it's more likely that the blacksmith imprisoned everyone.

It's not hard to guess where the captivity is, the second-generation mirror master McRoch is working under the blacksmith, what better place to contain a large number of residents than the endless mirror space?

Yuri may not be right about the blacksmith, but if the city center residents are really dead, then no one should be here.

All in all, the people who walked into Cole's Cemetery at this point in time would certainly not be ordinary citizens, but only blacksmiths!

And it seems to be carrying some kind of heavy object, maybe some kind of high-powered time bomb or something.

Don't be careful!

So, Yuri got out of the old broken car and chased after Cole Cemetery.

At the same time, Wedge Rock City.

In a middle-class apartment, Wally's home.

Linda casually dressed in a shirt and shorts, sitting barefoot on a couch with a laptop in her lap.

"Wally, we can't let Hartley stay in Iron Mountain Prison anymore, he's been framed."

Linda was tapping on the keyboard as the video of the Pied Piper killing his parents was playing, and she held out a finger pointing at the screen.

"Look at it, although it is mostly obscured by the hood, you can still see that there is a little hair showing out, it is a braid."

"But we all know that it's been a long time since Hartley cut that braid, and he should have short hair now, and the person in the video isn't Hartley at all."

Wally turned his back to her and shook his head, "This can't be used as evidence at all, and it is impossible to exonerate the Magic Flute." ”

"Then we can't do anything? He is our friend, and we save Him. ”

Linda said with a disgruntled expression.

"I want to rescue Hartley as much as you do, and believe me, I've been trying to get him out of Iron Mountain Prison these days, especially when I saw him in Iron Prison when the virus broke out...... But I can't do that. ”

Wally turned, "There's only one way to save the Pied Piper, and that's to catch the real killer as quickly as possible." ”

"We have good reason to suspect that the prisoner is the Mirror Master, and recently Chayer and Morillo have been investigating McCrouch's whereabouts, and I should now go and ask them about their progress."

Linda nodded and agreed, "You'd better hurry up." ”

I saw a flash of lightning, Wally instantly put on the uniform of the Lightning Boy, and came to the Wedge Rock City Police Station in the next second.

Then he found that the police station was empty, and there was not even a single figure to be seen.

"Hey! Guys! Is anyone here? ”

Wally searched for him in the police station and shouted loudly.

"Chayer? Morillo? ”

Wally walked into the office of the Transhuman Crime Investigation Team, and there was still no one there.

"Jingle bell!"

Suddenly, a landline on a desk rang.

Wally's face was grim and he picked up the phone.

"Look in the mirror ......"

Wally's face changed dramatically, and he knew who the owner of this voice was.

Mirror Master!

"McCrouch, what are you doing......"

Before Wally could ask questions, McCrouch interrupted him.

"Look at the glass behind you!"

Suddenly, Wally thought of something, and he immediately turned to look at the glass on the door.

I saw a dense crowd of figures in police uniforms emerging from the glass, all of Wally's familiar faces.

In addition to the police from the Wedge Rock Police Department, even the police from the Central City Police Department were all locked inside.

"Damn! McCrouch, where are they now? ”

The figures of the police officers in the glass vanished, replaced by the figure of McCrouch, who appeared to be standing in an alley somewhere.

"Lightning boy, there's nothing you can do about it, imprisoning these strips is just the beginning."

McCrouch smiled.

"Listen, my buddies plunder is dealing with your friends - Chayer and Morillo, if you don't want these strips to end up with them, then you can get the place I designated......"

"You've made a serious mistake, McLaw."

The lightning boy turned cold and said calmly.

"Really? Tell me, you hairy boy......"

Bang!

Wally didn't answer McCrouch, but entered a state of speed, smashed the door and ran out in an instant.

He knew every nook and cranny of the Twin Cities, so Wally knew where he was when he saw McCrouch's background.

The alley behind the right of the Midtown Flash Museum!

In less than a second, Wally rushed into the alley, and McCrouch's "hairy boy" words were not finished.

Then, he smashed a floor-to-ceiling mirror that had been placed in advance.

"What?"

Wally's heart sank as he looked at the mirror fragments on the ground.

"You've shown your attitude, Lightning Kid."

On a piece of shard, McCrouch's face emerged.

"Then it's the rogue gang's turn!"

There was a rumbling sound in the sky, and Wally looked up to see thick dark clouds gathering above him, countless electric lights streaking through the air.

"We've fought a lot of battles with your mentor, the Flash, and far less with you, so I'm curious to know how far apart you are from your mentor......"

The corners of McCrouch's mouth rose slightly.

"Tell us, can you outsmart lightning?"