In an instant, Barry felt that his entire life had been changed.

His life, everything he's been through, his life so far, seems to have suddenly become a joke.

Because of his mother's death, he would desperately try to prove his father's innocence, so he joined the criminal identification department, and only then did he appear in the laboratory where he was struck by lightning. It can be said that these indirectly contributed to him becoming the Flash.

And it is precisely because he has become the Flash that his opposite will be derived in the future, this sick old enemy Reverse Lightning. And it was precisely the reverse lightning that ran back in time and killed his mother, which led to the beginning of this space-time cycle.

"So I can't go back in time and kill you, or make your existence disappear, because that would also make my history cease to exist." Reverse Lightning was still talking, "But I can hurt the people around you, I can take everything except your life."

He realized only one thing.

My mother's death may have been my fault.

It was his future identity as the Flash that caused this disaster, and it was his enemies who caused the destruction of his childhood home.

For so many years, he felt nothing but sadness, pain, frustration and regret about that case. And now, perhaps for the first time ever, he felt. Guilt.

It turned to anger.

"You son of a bitch!"

Crimson flames radiated from him, like blood-colored flames burning. Barry's eyes were bloodshot, the red light of anger on the emotional spectrum.

It is part of Shen You's spectral power, which resonates with Barry's emotions and becomes active.

However, their speed seems to have decreased.

The corners of Reverse Lightning's mouth outlined a sinister smile that had succeeded in his treacherous scheme.

Just as he expected.

As anger and emotions spiraled out of control, Barry's speed force efficiency decreased. He seemed to be struggling to get harder, and it was becoming more difficult to try to keep up with the reverse lightning.

But Shen You could feel that it was not Barry's body that couldn't keep up, but his spirit.

Such a coincidence seems a bit ironic. Barry Allen, synonymous with speed and the source of speed, was born a slow man. He has the impression of his life that he is always half a beat slower than others.

He never got to work on time, and he never left work on time.

Through the memories now shared, he could get a glimpse into Barry's heart, and he could see the fragments of memories flashing through his mind.

He saw years ago, as a child, Barry and his mother, Nora, who were forced to stop on the side of the road because their car broke down. The downpour fell on the mother and son, the mother was concentrating on repairing the car, while little Barry stood helplessly on the side of the road, watching the cars on the side of the road line up and splashing a man high.

"Unbelievable, Mom." Barry said frustratedly, "No one stopped to help us." ”

"I guess everybody's too busy." Nora looked at him with a smile and said, "I guess if you meet someone in need, you're going to stop, Barry, right?" ”

"Of course." Barry didn't hesitate.

Nora smiled and touched his head, "What a good boy. ”

“.”

That's what he said, and he's always done it. Barry has been on a stop all his life, and he can't ignore anyone around him who he doesn't know, so he's always slower than anyone else.

After his mother's death, he was even more isolated from the world, and tried his best to prove his father's innocence, allowing the world around him to leave him.

Becoming the Flash was a major turning point in his life, but it never changed the way his life was.

That's loneliness.

Speedsters are always lonely. Because no one can keep up, it also means that you always have to live in solitude.

"You connect the past with the future, Barry, and you step on the singularity of time." Shen You said to him, "The weakness of the speeders is not kryptonite, but the fear of loneliness.

The secret to becoming faster is to slow down. ”

"Slow down?" Barry was surprised.

"Yes, slow down. We have broken through the barriers of time and are moving along a high-purity flow of divine speed, and it is easy to get lost in it once we are swayed by emotions. ”

Shen You said.

"Don't listen to what Reverse Lightning is saying, focus on catching up with him. Slow down your mind, calm down, and try to think about Iris, think about your lightning rod. ”

Barry closed his eyes lightly and took a deep breath.

Think Iris, think about it

The red bow tie in my memory resurfaced.

Then it was their first date, and Iris was smiling in that beautiful black dress.

The past is gone. If you dwell on the past and can't extricate yourself, it's easy to get lost. Shen You is right, this is the kryptonite of the Extreme Speed, and it is the curse of the Divine Speed Force.

So he has to always remember who and what he is running for.

His speed is about creating a better future, not chasing the old.

"I'm the Flash, the fastest man in the world."

When Barry opened his eyes again, the golden electricity had burst out with vitality again, and the speed of the power was at its peak again.

"Even though you've been distorting this fact, Reverse Lightning."

The distance between the two sides was shortened in an instant, and the afterimage of the electric light overtook him in a straight line in an instant, rushing in front of him over the reverse lightning.

But I've always been faster than you."

"What!?"

In an instant, he was easily overtaken, and the surprise on Reverse Lightning's face was beyond words.

His negative speed power had never been more abundant than it was today, not to mention that he had also gained the power of death. Why is it still not fast enough?

What else is there about the secret of the Flash's speed that he hasn't been able to discover?

But then he discovered that there was something even more terrifying.

That is, he can't stop anymore.

When Ultraman's body swept past him and rushed forward, the trajectory of time and space was rewritten. It was as if he was using the energy released by his body to guide the direction of the entire space-time, and the god-speed energy of the space-time they were in was like a turbulent river.

Ultraman guides the direction of the river, and his reverse lightning is just a flat boat in the rapids. His engine horsepower was completely unable to resist the thrust, and he had to go with the flow.

"Okay, we took the initiative, now what?" Barry asked, "Last time we tried to kill Black Lightning, but now it doesn't seem to work very well. ”

"It's okay, I have a plan." Shen Youdao.

Shen You didn't even turn his head back to sprint at full speed, and he used the tail flame of the god speed force to drag the reverse lightning and had to follow them all the way.

Shen You took them away from the twenty-first century and sprinted towards the future. Fragments from different eras flickered like blurry slides in this chaotic time and space.

Fifty million years later, Reverse Lightning rushed into the plane after them, and his body was as small as a black dot.

Eight hundred million years later, Barry was amazed to find that their descendants numbered enough to fill a solar system. They looked distracted, and Reverse Lightning caught up a little.

Sometime two billion years later, the Earth was destroyed. Red stars engulf the aqua-blue planet. The Milky Way has fallen, and the stars have cooled.

They're still accelerating, they're still moving forward. Everything in the universe is constantly changing, and a single step is hundreds of millions of years away. After running for an unknown amount of time, they finally broke out of this force field and crossed the finish line, the boundary of the godspeed force field covering the multiverse.

Because this is the end of time.

They ran to the farthest point where time spread, reaching out of time. There is no concept of time here, life has long since ended, and the universe itself has ceased to exist.

Even the concept of death no longer exists.

"I don't."

Reverse Lightning was finally able to stop running. He fell to his knees in pure white nothingness, clutching his head.

"Death. Death is gone. You guys. No way."

Shen You's figure silently appeared behind him.

"Black lightning is the embodiment of the law of death and cannot be killed. The only thing that can destroy the rules is the rules. There was no death at the end of time, so the moment it stepped into this realm, it was obliterated. ”

Shen You said calmly.

"Looks like your research isn't enough to get home, Dr. Swan."

But to be honest, this is not Shen You's own creativity, but the third-generation Flash Wally West in the comics. Black Lightning is almost unstoppable when it first appears in the manga, completely invincible. And Wally defeated him with this trick.

Of course, this has to be based on having enough sheer speed to rush to the end of time. Even if you know the method, no one but the Flash can do it.

"Accept it, Swan, your time is over. Or is it not here yet? It doesn't matter anymore. ”

Shen You stepped forward and came behind Reverse Lightning.

"I don't understand."

Reverse Lightning looked at him blankly.

"There is no death at the end of time, then there is no life either. The black lightning is gone, why wouldn't you"

"Did you make a mistake? I'm not the embodiment of life. ”

Shen You smiled lightly and reached out to pat Reverse Lightning's shoulder gently.

"I'm just an Ultraman passing by."

The energy is released, and it erodes into the body of the reverse lightning. The latter still maintained that incomprehensible and unwilling expression, and his body disintegrated in the flow of energy, turning into countless particles, which disappeared at the end of time.

(End of chapter)