The aliens who were picked up by Superman at the beginning

"If the person on the other side is Lex Luthor from another world, I think you'd better not act rashly."

Batman's voice came through the headset, preemptively rejecting Reverse-Flash's idea of ​​continuing to the next timeline.

"But how much longer can The Flash wait?"

Seeing that Reverse Flash seemed hesitant to speak, Lee Jung directly asked him what was on his mind.

"No, strictly speaking, the Flash will be fine for the time being, but if you two act recklessly, you'll only get yourselves into trouble."

Batman tapped the screen, and with Cyborg and Oracle's help, he was able to analyze the data of the other world at lightning speed.

The Bat computer showed that those meaningless, mixed time structures had been reduced to just a few.

"Luthor should already know some information about the two of you. According to the data we've gathered, the other side has already put away most of the temporary timelines. This energy-saving move will give The Flash a temporary respite."

"But if you rush directly into the next time point, you will definitely be met with a highly targeted trap."

Li Zhen felt something was strange.

"But what can we do when we go back? Give them more time to prepare?"

Reverse-Flash, who initially disagreed with Batman's opinion, sighed helplessly upon hearing this and waved to Li Zhen.

"Time is not like that. The amount of time that the other party can use in reality is a fixed value that will not change from beginning to end."

As a university professor obsessed with the Speed ​​Force in the future, Reverse Flash couldn't help but explain to Lee Jung while gesturing the famous symbol in the air with his hands.

The red lightning bolts were somehow suspended in mid-air by reverse flash, leaving a strange and slow trail of lightning where the finger had passed.

"If we say that the other person's world is a circle."

Reverse Flash drew a circle in the air with his hand.

"When we step into someone else's circle, and if they are prepared, they usually have no choice but to decide where we land."

"If the opponent splits into multiple temporary timelines, it's like mixing many small circles. While this makes it easier for them to hide their true headquarters, it also means that no matter how each temporary timeline is arranged, the ambush force won't be too strong."

Previously, Reverse Flash was in a hurry to pull Lee Jung aside and head to the next timeline, intending to eliminate all the small circles used to confuse the public as quickly as possible.

But now that the other party is prepared, they have taken the initiative to shorten the time.

"Whether we talk about leaving in an hour or leaving right now, we will still be put into the designated circle by the other party, and the time we leave will not affect the fact that the other party has made thorough preparations."

"Time only flows at a fixed rate in the real circle where they are based. Every hour we delay means they have an extra hour to think."

"The temporary timeline acts as a distraction, delaying us. It will only activate its flow the moment we enter it, when there is an external observer."

Li Zhen's eyebrows twitched as he listened. To be honest, this part of the content was a bit too profound for him, and he didn't quite understand it.

If I had to give an analogy...

People from Wittrum are all athletes; the more outstanding they are, the more athletic they are.

"How will the other side prepare if they need us to go in as observers to activate it?"

Ni Shan's eyes widened, seemingly surprised that after all his explanations, Li Zhen finally asked a question that, in his view, was similar to why one plus one equals two.

"That's why it's called a temporary timeline!"

"Everything only makes sense after there are observers. Before that, they didn't dare to spend extra energy, so each point in time was pretty much the same, just a simple copy and paste of samples from the state of their original world."

"But now that most of the timelines have come to an end, there are many areas where we can take action."

"For example, before fracturing that node, we can move the time pointer back one section, so that the node's starting time is yesterday for them."

"If you were an ordinary person, and you wanted to transport a gun from the United States to Australia before a duel, one minute would definitely not be enough; you would need much more time. That's okay; if you start preparing yesterday, you'll definitely have enough time."

"The program can plan everything for you. It assumes you had the gun yesterday. All you need is enough speed force, because everything in it is not yet real. Before we go in and observe, all the settings are meaningless."

"But as soon as we went in to start observing, we already had guns pointed at our heads."

"In their true reality, the things that are prepared to be placed there are in a superposition of existence and non-existence. If we don't go to that node to activate it, then when the time comes and the node shrinks, they will have neither changed nor lost anything."

Reverse Flash spread his palms out, letting two fingers hang down and pressing them against his palms in a running pose.

"So I kept running. Every time I stepped into a node, I became an observer. Their prepared manpower and resources were locked in the reality of the temporary timeline. But I didn't fight them. Those people could only watch me leave and wait for destruction to come."

"This can continuously cause real losses in terms of manpower and financial resources to the other party."

Li Zhen finally understood.

No wonder the other side was so surprised when they discovered Reverse Flash; it's because their initial plan didn't take into account the existence of a speedster.

"So, if their computers had sufficient computing power, technological capabilities, and energy, and we had rushed into the next timeline without any preparation, we might have encountered a super-Earth capable of transforming into cosmic-level robots?"

Reverse Flash snapped his fingers, looking at him with an expression that suggested he was a promising student.

"It's not that exaggerated, otherwise we might as well just surrender—but it's clear that you've already grasped the basic knowledge of 'The Contraction and Expansion of Time' and 'The Idea of ​​the Energy of the Speed ​​Force' five hundred years from now."

He flashed backwards and opened his arms wide.

"You can even go directly to my class in the future, before I lost my job, when I would probably teach one or two students a year."

With a dark expression, Li Zhen hugged the superhuman corpse, which was so thin it was almost uncomfortable to hold, and activated the locator.

When he and Reverse Flash appeared in the Batcave one after the other, Shazam, sitting in the corner with a donut in one hand and a cup of hot chocolate in the other, occasionally dipping it in and taking a bite, seemed to have regained some of his energy.

As a childlike guy, Shazam rarely gets frustrated for long, even when faced with the most difficult situations.

Of course, when this big, clumsy guy saw the corpse in Li Zhen's arms, he was dumbfounded once again.

He put down the food in his hand, opened his mouth wide and walked forward. Looking at the thin but familiar face, he carefully and cautiously reached out and gently touched the corpse's chest.

A chocolate fingerprint was left on Paigu Chao's chest.

Of course, since this Superman suit is black, it's not so obvious.

"Oh! It's dead!"

Reverse Flash rubbed his forehead and walked to the side, avoiding this guy he didn't want to talk to at all.

Shazam didn't care whether a registered supervillain in the Justice League ignored him or not, and looked at Lee Jung with some sadness.

"So there really was a Superman who could kill people, and you killed him?"

"I can even swear to Zeus, who gave you the thunderbolt, that I never intended to kill him in the first place."

Li Zhen looked at the ribs in her arms, found a relatively empty table, and gently placed them on it.

"He couldn't communicate with people at all, nor did he know how to fight. When I hit him, it felt like I was abusing a child who didn't understand anything, and I don't have that kind of fetish."

Although Li Zhen said some harsh words when he first subdued the other person, he was only trying to scare them at the time.

"He was killed by Lex Luthor from another world."

Li Zhen casually removed the tracking device that she had haphazardly put on the corpse.

"The corpses of powerful races like this are considered valuable spoils in Witrum's curriculum—so I just brought them back without thinking."