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Chapter 422 From Mulberry Fields to the Sea, From the Sea to the Mulberry Fields

With a sharp, deafening roar, golden lightning pierced through the rain.

In a short moment, the rainwater was swept and impacted by the high-speed airflow and the human body, either scattering in all directions or being swept up, forming a long hole that extended all the way to the edge of the rooftop and then from the edge to the ground.

In that instant, Barry's body formed a 90-degree angle with the building's exterior wall. He sprinted along the wall at high speed, while the Speed ​​Force converted all his speed into downward velocity, allowing him to walk on the building's walls as if they were flat ground.

In a flash, Barry arrived beside Caitlin and Cisco, grabbing them one in each arm and leading them back to the ground. Then, he ran up the side wall of the building and used the same method to rescue Dr. Wells, who was falling later.

"Caitlyn, Cisco, are you alright?"

"I'm OK."

"I'm alright." Cisco was still in shock, feeling dizzy, and plopped down on the ground. "I almost thought I was going to die."

Caitlin nodded in agreement.

"Doctor, how are you?"

“I’m fine too.” Wells was sitting on the ground, his eyes shining with joy. “Barry, your speed has recovered just in time.”

Barry shook his head: "No, I should have realized it sooner."

His face seemed to have lost some of its childlike innocence at this moment, and gained a touch of seriousness and maturity.

Golden lightning flashed again, and Barry reappeared on the rooftop, but this time, the yellow figure did not reappear.

"He ran away?"

Barry was feeling frustrated and depressed. He didn't know what the man in yellow was doing here tonight, but he knew that the man was very likely the murderer who killed his mother, and who had just killed his friend and mentor.

Barry was slightly disappointed that he failed to catch that guy this time.

"Alright, we've finally wrapped up work smoothly for tonight."

Ma Zhaodi closed his phone, then put the energy block filled with golden lightning back into his system space. He patted the three-wheeled vehicle beside him: "We can go back now. Barry's ability recovery went smoothly. Cisco and Caitlin don't need us to save them."

“I understand—Barry Allen’s speed just now seemed to far exceed his previous top speed.”

“The Flash’s speed is quite idealistic,” Ma Zhaodi explained. “Although it seems like he’s using scientific methods to train and increase his speed, in reality, every major leap in speed comes from Barry’s own inner explosion. When he believes he can do it, he can do it.”

"This time is the same. The more intense the suppression and stimulation, the stronger his speed force breakthrough will be."

“No, that’s not what I meant.” The three-wheeled vehicle flashed its headlights. “Based on my sampling analysis of the Speed ​​Force energy cubes, it seems that Barry Allen’s current speed, combined with Reverse-Flash’s current speed, is already sufficient to accumulate enough kinetic energy at high speeds.”

"?What's the meaning?"

"They may have already met the requirements for time travel."

The world fell silent the moment the three-wheeled vehicle uttered those words.

"Now?! Impossible, impossible! Firestorm hasn't even finished its training, that gorilla Grodd hasn't appeared yet, Green Arrow hasn't visited Central City, several super-powered criminals haven't shown up, and even Barry's first time travel hasn't happened yet."

"You're telling me those two can already travel through time?! What kind of cosmic joke is this?"

"I'm not joking, this is the conclusion I've drawn from my calculations of the Speed ​​Force energy blocks—"

The three-wheeled vehicle suddenly fell silent. "Huh? Why aren't you saying anything?"

Ma Zhaodi looked at the three-wheeled vehicle with a puzzled expression, but it fell silent, unusually so, without making a sound.

"What's going on? Are you mute?"

Ma Zhaodi patted the three-wheeled vehicle curiously, but she remained silent.

"No, there's something wrong."

Just as this thought popped into his mind, he suddenly realized that the continuous rain around him had suddenly stopped.

That's right, they neither continued to fall nor floated in weightlessness; they simply remained suspended in the air.

Ma Zhaodi realized something and instinctively stepped out of his hiding place, glancing at the sky and the street. Sure enough, a bolt of lightning was hanging across the sky, but there was neither thunder nor flash of light; and Barry and Wells were sitting quietly on the ground, as if they had turned into wooden figures.

Time stood still.

A feeling of utter absurdity welled up in Ma Zhaodi's mind. He couldn't understand why this phenomenon was happening—something that had never occurred in the original timeline.

"why?"

The moment the thought arose in his mind, he immediately found the answer.

"Why? Isn't it obvious?"

"The moment Barry regained the Speed ​​Force, the future of the Flash was rebuilt. The Speed ​​Force once again spread along his path to every branch of timeline and every spacetime, once again spanning the past, present, and future of this universe."

"Barry and Reverse-Flash have now reached the speed required for time travel, so Reverse-Flash's plan has been realized, and the future will only follow his plan step by step."

"The future of this world is already clearly visible."

As he pondered, the raindrops around Ma Zhaodi began to move again.

But instead of continuing to fall, they flowed upwards.

The boundless rain flew into the sky, transforming back into clouds, floating ice crystals, and water vapor. The puddles on the ground turned back into raindrops. Cisco and his two companions flew into the sky, while Barry's golden lightning bolt shot back onto the rooftop.

As the stars reversed and time flowed backward, Ma Zhaodi witnessed the world changing rapidly. The surrounding houses transformed back to their original appearance at a visible speed, and the light and shadow of the crowds moved back and forth on the streets. He watched as the entire central city's scenery changed rapidly, and the mulberry fields turned back into the sea.

He silently put the tricycle and the silly cat back into the system shop; he already knew what had happened.

As if he wasn't fast enough, a golden streak of light suddenly shot out, carrying Ma Zhaodi at high speed. Just as the three-wheeled vehicle had said, a wormhole was created in spacetime by the enormous kinetic energy, and Ma Zhaodi flew into it.

At this moment, fragments of spacetime flickered and flew past him. Ma Zhaodi looked at them and could clearly feel the difference between these world lines and his own.

"This is... the original timeline?"

He looked into the void, and a somewhat familiar scene suddenly flashed by.

"Was that Ronnie's original destiny?"

(End of this chapter)