The aliens who were picked up by Superman at the beginning

Reverse Flash bent down and picked up the tattered helmet from the ground.

"In the future, superheroes will become a proper noun in history classes."

"Some people are obsessed with the knowledge in textbooks and museums, using their imagination and experiments to chase after the endless stream of superpowered people in the 20th and 21st centuries, but they don't want to become heroes."

"I used to be one of them, a crazy fan of The Flash—the greatest one."

Reverse Flash held the helmet in one hand, while gently stroking the remaining lightning bolt mark on its left side with the other.

A tiny wisp of golden lightning was guided out by reverse lightning using some kind of magical technique.

"Locard's law of exchange states that every contact leaves a trace."

"But when I extracted the Speed ​​Force from the Flash's suit and used it to give myself superpowers, I saw a scene in an infinite flow of time that completely shattered my worldview."

Reverse Lightning lifted the helmet that was constantly flashing with fine golden lightning, a mocking smile playing on his lips.

"I used to admire you immensely. You could travel through time, yet you adhered to your principles. I thought that my safe birth in the future was the best proof of your great self-discipline."

"In the end, all you do is mess up the timeline over and over again, and then try every possible way to fix it."

"The Earth can still have a future only because of your luck. Your so-called greatness is just that you have repeatedly accomplished events with a probability of one in billions of times. Originally, any arbitrary modification of time could have led to the complete destruction of humanity in the future."

"If you can do that, why can't I?!"

Li Zhen watched Reverse-Flash acting out a scene by himself in front of the helmet of the dead Flash, and wiped the complex expression from her face.

Seeing that Reverse Lightning was even beginning to reveal a sinister and arrogant demeanor that even its high-speed tremors couldn't conceal, as if it were about to burst into laughter in some strange sound at any moment, Li Zhen couldn't help but raise her hand.

"Um, Mr. Swann, our question doesn't seem to include the villain's origin monologue?"

Reverse Lightning paused, composed herself, and glared at Li Zhen with a look of utter indifference, as if they were on completely different paths.

"How come you don't have any sense of epic scale? I'm just getting a little emotional build-up before I'm about to personally participate in a grand historical event."

Li Zhen scratched his head, feeling that Reverse Lightning's quirks were a bit hard to understand.

Perhaps it's the passion of future generations to participate in major historical events that's hard to conceal.

"Should I explain it like that again?"

Li Zhen coughed, clenched his fist, and composed himself. Within seconds, his eyes revealed a sense of vicissitude and confusion.

"I come from a planet that takes glory in conquest..."

"You don't need to, I know your history inside and out."

Reverse-Flash ruthlessly interrupted Lee Jung's performance, signaling the two to focus their attention on The Flash's helmet.

"Normally, it's difficult for Flash characters from different universes to cross paths."

"But this is not absolute."

"As I said before, every time the Flash changes time, there is a very high probability that it will bring worse consequences. Obviously, that madman who wanted to kill you is not so lucky as to be able to make amends again."

"During one of his disruptions to the flow of time, he created a world on the verge of destruction, which utterly terrified him."

"He frantically entered the timeline, trying to stop his past self, but the resulting time paradox would erase the world that was created out of his own selfish desires."

"Even though that world may have already been on the verge of collapse."

"But nature itself can also save itself, and so can the universe. It does not want to be erased by such a careless person."

"From a macroscopic perspective of multiple time concepts, there just happens to be a Flash, the one from our universe, who broke into the time tunnel built by the Speed ​​Field."

"A madman who thinks of redemption but does destruction, and a fool who may not have thought of anything but is just driven by emotions, at a certain moment, perhaps under the will of nature, the two spacetime barriers that have been repeatedly weakened by the Speed ​​Force intersect."

"The madman came here, while the fool ended up in a place desperately wanting to save himself."

Li Zhen listened patiently to the whole thing.

In fact, when he received the letter signed Thomas Wayne, he roughly knew where the Flash came from.

Flashpoint event.

Very famous, but hard to evaluate.

Before that madman tried to correct his mistakes, Earth in that universe was probably in the midst of Captain Atom's self-destruction.

The Aquaman in the Flashpoint world is not the big, dumb guy from that world; he's more like a tyrant of Atlantis with the ideals of Orm.

In the final stages of the event, the tyrant Aquaman transformed Captain Atom into an unstable bomb that constantly absorbed excess energy, claiming that the bomb could bring about the end of the world and detonate it.

If that naive and innocent Flash from this universe had gone to the near-destruction Flashpoint, would he still be alive now?

After glancing at Reverse Lightning, Li Zhen silently dismissed her previous thought.

If this future madman didn't have someone in reality to play house with him, he certainly wouldn't be so calm.

"So a world on the verge of destruction pulled our Flash there, but what can they do? The phrase 'on the verge of destruction' isn't just there to explain their background; what can they possibly accomplish?"

Reverse Lightning handed the helmet he had been holding to Li Zhen.

"The speed of destruction is no longer an issue once they capture a young and naive speedster."

"As long as it's not just a fleeting moment, even if it's the next hour or the next minute, they have an endless number of experiments to do before they can completely torture that fool to death."

"If they succeed just once, they can open the door to escape the apocalypse and enter this new world where the Justice League has just fallen apart."

Li Zhen recalled that guy who talked so much that he would unconsciously shake his leg when he stood in front of him.

Imagine the somewhat introverted Flash being tricked and deceived by a group of apocalyptic lunatics, even being tied to a testing table and subjected to knives.

Li Zhen frowned slightly.

"How did the world resolve this invasion in the original historical record?"

Reverse Flash's lips twitched slightly.

"What I just talked about can all be analyzed and deduced from reality through technical means. I just sped things up a bit. I can't answer your question that directly asks for the answer."

"The only thing I can tell you is that this world cannot avoid a terrible war. It may not be a massacre, but for many people it will still be a huge trauma."

Of course, it's not just a war.

Reverse Flash silently added a sentence in his mind.

Li Zhen glanced helplessly at the silent Rachel.

He disliked war in this world, not only because it meant his already established resort would be affected, but also because of that guy who could draw strength from this war.

Of course, the eye contact he and Rachel had just exchanged was merely a tacit understanding between their souls, but it's always better to double-check some things.

Li Zhen extended a hand to Rachel.

Rachel paused for a moment, then took a step forward, so that Li Zhen's fingers touched her forehead.

The two had a brief spiritual communication through a previously established soul-to-soul connection.