"It's all your damn parasite's fault! It's okay now, we are completely trapped here and can't get out!!!" Barry gritted his teeth and said in his mind in the most vicious tone he could use.
At this time, he was in a dark passage. There were some broken patterns on the walls, and the ground was very damp. Every step he took made a clicking sound, which echoed in the quiet air of the maze, making it even more frightening.
Barry held his arms and walked forward slowly, and said: "I said I should take advantage of the opportunity just now to find a place to climb up. Now that the road above our heads is blocked, where should we go?"
"Why are you so coward?!" Doctor Strange said coldly in his mind: "How can you not pay the price if you want to gain power?"
"I'm not here to gain power." Barry said sternly: "There is a very dangerous energy core underground in Gotham City. I suspect that the darkness of Gotham is inseparable from this. If someone really wants to do something evil,
, I have to know what they are going to do.”
"Got it, righteous boy, turn left now. I can feel the traces of energy becoming more intense at the intersection on the left. I think we are almost there."
After parting ways with Harley and Bruce Jr., Barry was not idle either. He wanted to find the Batman of this universe, and then let Batman find a way to send him back. It would be best to get rid of this strange voice in his head.
, Barry is almost driven crazy by the evil plans he talks about every day.
But at this moment, Doctor Strange showed Barry the flow of magic from his perspective. For some reason, Doctor Strange, who possesses the Dark Book, is particularly sensitive to the power of concepts such as darkness. Even in another universe, he
Like a hound with a keen sense of smell, he immediately smelled traces of unusual power in Gotham City.
However, his idea is different from others. Others have gone to study the dark power in metal and decided to gather together to make more. But Doctor Strange, who has devoured countless similar people, wants to directly get the largest source of darkness.
, so he told Barry that there is most likely a very dangerous energy source hidden underground in Gotham.
He was not lying. Barry also knew that what he saw through his perspective was true. He had no intention of putting himself in danger. He just wanted to tell Batman the news, but he couldn't find it after searching for a long time in the city.
Batman was missing, and more importantly, the dark energy underground began to fluctuate.
Barry didn't know when this huge magical energy bomb would explode, and he didn't know if Batman, who returned late, would be able to defuse the bomb in time, so he felt it was necessary to take a look. Even if he couldn't defuse it, he could provide Batman with enough time.
Information.
So, under the guidance of Doctor Strange, Barry found one of the entrances to the Owl Maze in Gotham's cemetery and successfully entered the maze.
This maze can trap Batman, and it is even easier to trap a Flash who has not yet fully awakened. Barry got lost while walking, and then the ceiling of the maze was lifted. He wanted to seize the opportunity to climb
He went up, but the wall was too slippery and he was not tall enough. After missing the opportunity, the maze closed again and he was trapped here again.
After experiencing this series of ordeals, Barry is no longer the ordinary boy who could only yell. During the extreme training at Karma Taj Magic Academy, he has touched the threshold of the speed force, just because there is no such thing in that universe.
The Speed Force was unable to continue to develop.
Now back in the DC universe, when Barry concentrated, he could feel that everything around him seemed to slow down. This symptom began to become more and more serious. At first, it only lasted for a second or two, and later
As long as you concentrate a little, the sound of dripping water in the maze can almost slow down to a few minutes, even though it was one drop per second before.
But Barry found that in this state, the strange voice in his head could not disturb him. He stayed there in a daze for more than ten minutes, and the outside world only passed for a few seconds. Barry had more time to think.
"It should be this way. Keep going forward. I seem to see a door in front of me." Doctor Strange's voice continued to ring in Barry's mind, but as usual there was no response, and he had to start shouting again: "
Barry! Barry! Wake up! Boy, stop being so dazed!"
Barry came to his senses and walked forward again. Doctor Strange said in his head in surprise: "What's wrong with you? Why are you distracted longer and longer?"
"It's nothing, maybe the environment here makes me a little uncomfortable." Barry stretched out his hands and rubbed his arms, exhaled a breath of cold air, and walked towards the door at the end of the dark maze corridor.
It was a very grand and huge wooden door, which looked like a hanging door used in a castle. The two huge door knockers were held in the mouth by the dragon's head, and the eyes were shining with strange light.
"I can feel the huge power of darkness inside. Go in, success or failure depends on this."
Barry slowly pushed the door open. He thought it would be very heavy, but this was obviously not the kind of ancient tomb door that had not been pushed open for centuries, but the door of a room where people often moved around, so although Barry took the trouble
With a little force, the door was still pushed out a small gap that he could squeeze through.
The moment he squeezed in, Barry felt that he was enveloped in a rich darkness. It was not the darkness of the room without lights, but a substantial solid darkness like hot spring water.
As the door was pushed open, the darkness poured out like water. Seeing this, Barry quickly floated back and closed the door. The door seemed to be some kind of sealing device. When the door was closed, the darkness also flowed out.
It won't be leaked anymore.
Barry was like a fish floating with the current in the endless sea of darkness. He didn't feel uncomfortable, nor did he feel swallowed. He just felt a warm feeling like returning to his mother's amniotic fluid.
Barry didn't forget what he was here for. He looked carefully and found a hole in the middle of the endless darkness. It was like a portal, and the rich darkness poured out from there.
Barry's Adam's apple twitched slightly, and Doctor Strange's excited voice rang in his mind: "Quick! Quick! That's right there. I feel the endless dark power there. Go in quickly. If you devour all the power there, you can be as good as the gods."
!”
"No, I..."
But Barry still felt an inexplicable attraction coming from the door. He continued to open his eyes and tried to observe the situation around the portal, and then in the darkness he vaguely saw a huge magic circle carved on the ground below the portal.
, the regular hexagonal array has a circle on each corner, and there are some wet footprints in the middle of the circle. Judging from the clarity of the footprints, the person who performed the ritual had just left not long ago.
"Someone opened a portal underground in Gotham, sent this solidified darkness to the underground of Gotham, and then used this darkness to pollute Gotham." Barry felt that he had deduced the whole truth, so he turned away and said
: "I have to go back and tell Batman. Maybe if he knows the truth, Batman can save Gotham."
"Hey, wait!" Doctor Strange yelled in his head: "Are you crazy? You went through a lot of hardships to get here, and this power belongs to you!"
"I don't need any power." Barry pushed the door hard and said, "I'm just an ordinary person. I sympathize very much with the people of Gotham living in chaos. I think they should live a better life. Batman is the one who works hardest to save people."
As long as their person knows the truth, he will definitely be able to find a way to close the portal."
"You, you are so hopelessly stupid!!" Doctor Strange gritted his teeth and cursed, but across a universe, he had no other choice but to watch, but he really couldn't bear to part with such a rich energy.
In short, this Doctor Strange was not very wealthy in his original universe. The objects he chose to devour were his young selves in other universes, just because these Stranges had not become the Sorcerer Supreme for a short time, and even more so
Easy to deal with.
But equally, a young Supreme Mage does not have much power. What Doctor Strange is doing is a bit like a beggar licking a CD or a thief stealing from a poor man. Now that such a large ball of energy is placed in front of his eyes, he
But he couldn't eat, so how could he not be in a hurry?
"Hey! Hey! Barry, don't make a decision in such a hurry." Doctor Strange slowed down his tone and used the patience to coax a child and advised: "Maybe you can help Batman better with this energy, he is sure
Will need your help, right? The people of Gotham also need your own hands to save them."
"Listen, power is not a sin. As long as you can control this power, you can use it to do what you want, but only if you obtain it first. What's the harm in taking this energy?
you……"
"As long as there is a one in 10,000 chance that someone like you will get energy, then I won't take any more energy." Barry said decisively: "It's not that I don't want to take it, I just don't want you to take it!"
After saying that, he completely shut up and stopped talking. Let's put it this way, paranoid people flock together, and strong people flock together. The Flash had a good relationship with Batman in the original work. Who can expect a friend who is not a strong person?
What about a tough guy?
If Batman is tough, he will be criticized for not being able to communicate. If Flash is tough, he will destroy the universe in seconds.
Barry pushed the door open without saying a word and was about to leave, but suddenly, he heard a commotion coming from the other end of the corridor. Through a small crack in the door that had just been pushed open, Barry saw a group of monsters with teeth and claws coming out of the corridor.
The end rushed over.
When the roar came, Barry showed a somewhat frightened expression, and he murmured to himself: "What death? Who is Darkseid? These monsters are..."
"Oh, Barry, it seems that you are really the chosen one. God wants you to absorb these powers here, because if you don't absorb these, the monsters that rush over will kill you."
Barry pushed the door shut with all his strength, pressed his back tightly against the door, widened his eyes and said, "What's going on with those monsters with mechanical armor on them? Where did they rush out from?"
Then, he gritted his teeth and inhaled slightly in fear, but soon, what he was most worried about happened. The monster rushed to the door and smelled the breath of living people inside, and they began to desperately try to rush in.
Barry turned sideways and blocked the door with one arm. Originally, it was impossible for him to be strong enough to withstand so many monsters, but the door itself seemed to be a seal, and creatures that did not meet the conditions would not be released.
, almost entirely relying on the strength of the gate itself to withstand the monster's attack.
But there were too many monsters rushing into this corridor. At first, they were just standing on the ground scratching the door, but as the number increased, they began to ride one by one, and finally the tall door was pressed against the monsters from bottom to top.
And they were all screaming and scratching, trying to tear the door apart with their terrifying power.
With a subtle "squeaking" sound, Barry was horrified to find that the seal of the door was crumbling.
He pressed his shoulders against the door, but felt that his meager strength could not even resist the monster for half a second. Anxiety and fear filled his heart.
Do we really want to absorb the power of darkness?
No! Barry bit his lip hard until he tasted blood. The monster in his head killed many people. If he got so much power, more people would die. It must not be like this!
The door was squeezed open a crack, and countless arms with spikes squeezed in through the cracks. One of the arms was almost able to pierce Barry's head.
In great anxiety and fear, Barry had no other choice but to keep moving and push the door forward.
One step, two steps, three steps, keep working hard, keep accelerating, keep focusing, faster speed, more strength, more firm belief——
Suddenly, the light through the gap in the door changed color, and the whole world was enveloped in lightning-like golden light.
This chapter has been completed!