Gotham, a suburb of the city.

"I said, you can't do that!"

It was a trembling old man, dressed in an old jacket, with a somewhat rickety figure but surprisingly firm gaze.

This is a woodland that has been here since a long time ago. Lush trees surround the lake, which is as calm as a mirror, and the breeze ripples across the lake. Towering trees and lush bushes make up a lush sea of green.

But that's in the past.

Now, it's filled with modern facilities and dust. Roxon Industries bought the land and prepared to fill in the lake and push away the woodland. This has become the construction site.

Cranes, bulldozers and forklifts surround the woodlands, excavators shovel out sediment, and workers' vehicles pull sand and gravel into potholes.

The foreman wearing a hard hat and bronzed skin was attracted by the old man's shout, and he couldn't help but frown.

"Here we go again"

He stepped forward and patted the shoulders of the two staff members who were holding the old man outside the blockade area.

"Stand down, I'll come."

The foreman stopped in front of the old man and said impatiently, "Why are you here again?" I should have said yesterday that I wouldn't be polite next time."

"No, you don't understand." The old man said emotionally, "This is a cursed jungle, and it has been so since a long time ago.

Once upon a time there was a swamp here, a swamp where sin was buried! A notorious drug lord in the city slept here years ago because his wicked actions offended the wrath of the swamp god!

This is a common habit of the inhabitants of the neighborhood for many years, and no one dares to pass by here at night, because we all know that the god of the swamp inhabits this place."

"Pull it down." The foreman interrupted impatiently, "Listen, old fellow. As it happens, we are already on a tight schedule, and now we suspect that an unknown environmental terrorist has set foot on the project

So now we are all under a lot of pressure, and we don't have the heart to listen to those boring urban legends. If you know each other, this is the last time you're here to harass us.

Otherwise, don't blame me for not warning."

A screeching noise interrupted his words, followed by an unsettling thud. The foreman was taken aback and looked back: "What's the situation?" ”

"It's the rig, the rig seems to have a problem."

The foreman didn't care about the old man for the time being, and quickly leaned over to check the situation.

"It seems to be a malfunction of the hydraulic system. You'll have to take it apart and see what's going on. ”

The machine enclosure was disassembled, revealing the structure underneath. But the picture that appeared under the shell made everyone stunned.

It's grass.

Or to be more precise, all sorts of grass-like plants that spread out of nowhere into the machine, extending through the cracks in the machine.

"Hell yes."

The foreman muttered, and suddenly heard someone behind him scream.

When they turned around, they saw a worker unsuspectingly dragged into the darkness with his legs wrapped around his legs and disappeared without a trace.

"What's going on!?" The foreman was stunned.

The next moment, the lights went out.

The jungle fought back.

Dao vines pierced out of the darkness like tentacles, and the domineering power enveloped everyone in the field, dragging them into the darkness without saying anything. The ground crackled, unknown plants sprinted out of the ground, excavators were flipped to the ground, sparks crackled from the equipment, and cables were cut in two.

The sound of falling objects, explosions, and the screams of workers was incessant, and in an instant plants took over the entire field, and the construction site was in chaos.

The old man shrank in the corner, watching the plants in front of him and the figures flying around, and he couldn't help but tremble.

"I warned you, I warned you a long time ago"

Midtown.

"So, you're sure you've traveled through time?"

In the café in Midtown, Shen You looked at Barry suspiciously across the table.

"At least 90 percent sure no, eighty or seventy is good, there will be no less." Barry said firmly.

"Tell me, what's going on?"

Shen You took a sip of coffee, and at the same time quickly gave an evaluation in his heart, which was not as good as his own.

"Okay. Call. It's nice to have someone to say that, I really don't have anyone else to share. Barry took a deep breath and said, "That's right. You know, I've been trying it lately um. Use my talent to help others and so on.

And then there have been some guys with superpowers popping up in Midtown lately. One of them was the one I encountered yesterday, who can manipulate the weather and calls himself a 'weather wizard.'"

This Shen You has the impression that he seems to be a member of the Flash's classic fan group "Rogue Gang". But in fact, this one does not rely on superpowers, but a black technology device "Weather Wand", which was made by a scientist named Clyde, but was taken away by a weather wizard.

"In short, the weather wizard, he was cornered by me, and he decided to give it a go. Then the Weather Wizard unleashed his abilities, which I had never seen before unleash with such a force. He wanted to cause a tsunami to flood Midtown. Although I found and knocked him unconscious, it was too late, and the tsunami was unstoppable.

And obviously I don't have the strength of yours, and I can't push it back. So I came up with an idea."

"You're running as fast as you can along the shoreline, trying to create a wall of speed and force to push it back, right?" Shen Lobby.

Barry looked surprised: "How do you know?" ”

"Guess."

Shen You remembered that the first season of the American drama "The Flash" had this plot. It was Barry's first time time traveling, and the Flash was still a rookie in his debut, and he ran as fast as he could to push back the tsunami, but he accidentally rushed into the time tunnel, and when he came out, it was already a day ago.

"yes, after I came back this time, I knew the weather a day earlier, and the wizard's position was under control, but I still don't think it's possible. I'm fast, but I can't be faster than the light."

"I can't tell." Shen You said, "Maybe the situation was urgent, and you broke through the limit without realizing it. Or maybe it's just your instinct that pulls on some of the hidden properties of the Speed Force."

Different versions have different settings about The Flash's journey through time. Sometimes the setting requires him to speed faster than light, but similar to in TV series, it is not needed.

Shen You was not present at the time, and he lacked data in his hands, so it was difficult for him to draw conclusions before further research.

"We may need to do some testing, or if we can find a way to draw the speed force energy from your run and store it for research."

"Like a treadmill?" Barry proposed.

"That's right, it's like a treadmill and you're smart." Shen You smiled.

He hadn't had much contact with the time system in the Land of Light before, but it was important to figure out the laws of this part when he got to DC. Because of the existence of the special group of Speeders, there are more incidents of messing around with time on DC's side than in the Marvel studio next door.

Figuring out how this part of the rule works is not only a must-have, but also a means of protecting yourself in the dizzying time crises of the later stages.

And in the entire DC universe, the one who can help him master this knowledge faster is definitely Barry in front of him.

And the device called the "cosmic treadmill" is an indispensable artifact in this. Specially tailored for the Flash, it can store, amplify, release the speed force, and even add the ability to manually set which specific timeline, which point in time, or which specific parallel world to lock, allowing the Flash to run to any dimension and any time and space at a fixed point at a fast enough speed.

In the big event of Zhenglian vs. Avengers, the third-generation Flash even successfully ran through the blockade of the DC universe with the help of the cosmic treadmill and ran to Marvel next door.

As he spoke, Shen You had already put this device on his to-do list.

So far, the list is a bit long

"But there's one thing you need to know." Shen You said solemnly, "Even if you succeed in mastering this skill, this is a trick that must not be used casually.

Time travel is a very dangerous thing. Disrupting the laws of time can lead to a series of problems, and even the slightest change to the past can lead to devastating consequences."

"The butterfly effect, I still understand this." Barry nodded repeatedly.

"It's not all." Shen You said, "It may also cause a series of other troubles, but I'll tell you slowly in the process of research later." ”

The Flash's most famous event, Flashpoint, nearly wiped out the world, and even though he reversed his changes to the past and tried his best to leave history intact, it still led to a reshuffle and reboot of the Overworld.

Many heroes have died as a result, many have never even existed, and more origins have changed.

Not to mention that traveling through time is also dangerous for the speedsters themselves. There is a chance that traveling through time will attract the attention of the "Time Undead", an undead who inhabits the Speed Force Field and specializes in obliterating the Speedsters who mess with time. Theoretically, once targeted, no speeder can outrun the undead of time.

"Oh sorry, I'll answer the phone in a minute."

Shen You gestured to Barry and answered the phone.

It was Kara who called.

"What's going on?"

"Well, I think you'll probably want to come back." Kara sounded a little embarrassed, "Our side. A little plant condition occurred. ”

(End of chapter)