The Death Knell

The blue light in the universe shone on the three of them, and the stars were like magnificent beacons in the darkness. But when they heard the discovery of the death knell, even a powerful warrior like Captain Carrot instantly felt cold sweat break out on his back.

He didn't understand the reason why Deathstroke asked the two to run the route again at first, but now he knows, because whether it was intentional or not, neither he nor Jesse had even jumped on one leg.

The distance between asteroids varies, some are close and some are far.

But Deathstroke instantly checked tens of thousands of asteroids and secretly compared the footprints without the two's knowledge. The results proved that neither of them made any jumping movements during the most natural running process.

"Are there no signs of jumping on the same foot among the other players?" The captain became serious. He also hooked his fingers on the collar of his uniform, as if it was easier to breathe this way.

"No, each of them chose a different route, but there is absolutely no one who jumped on one foot." Su Ming shook his head, and his will-o'-the-wisp eyepiece looked into the space ahead: "Barry's condition was obviously not right when he entered the speed force plane. , this is one of the clues to his disappearance.”

"Oh! So awesome!"

Jesse started applauding on the spot and looked at the man with admiration. After all, in just a few breaths, Deathstroke had found clues from hundreds of thousands of footprints. This was so cool, just like a TV series about solving crimes!

The captain who was stroking his beard was obviously thinking more. He rolled his red eyes, tilted his head and groaned for a while, and then came up with a hypothesis:

"Is it possible that Barry lost control of the left side of his body at that time? He couldn't control his left leg? He entered the Speed ​​Force plane to get rid of this control? And the disappearance was a means of self-protection? "

This is no longer a hypothesis, Captain Carrot is a series of guesses.

However, it is indeed logical.

"This is indeed a possibility, although if he is in normal condition, he should be able to return to me as a 'lightning rod'. At least I am now sure that Barry's shoelaces were not untied at that time."

While telling a cold joke, Su Ming responded to Rabbit calmly, without saying anything more, and just looked at Jesse Quick:

"Little beauty, now take us into the speed force plane, go straight to the 'outpost', and go there to inquire about the news."

The speed force plane has many nicknames, such as speed dimension, speed field, speed paradise, time stream, speedster cemetery, etc. You can call it whatever you want. People who know its existence will understand what you are talking about no matter which one they hear. it.

The Speed ​​Force is related to many concepts. It is a cosmic force based on speed and movement. It is one of the seven concepts of light attributes that constitute the "Power of Connection".

Both a representation of reality in motion and a cosmic force that drives space and time forward.

Reverse Flash Albert Swann once said something about the existence of the Speed ​​Force in the eyes of a paranoid speedster. Although it sounded a bit crazy, Su Ming recognized his statement.

This is what it says.

'When you open the electric curtains, you can understand the true face of the Speed ​​Force. It separates many things, but is connected to many things. Such as the inertia of all timelines, such as the vibration of matter passing through matter, such as the speed force storm that will shatter human consciousness over time, but it is also the speed force that connects me to everything and everyone. ’

It sounds a bit mysterious, but this passage mentions the essence of the Speed ​​Force. To sum up, it can be used to travel through dimensions, matter, energy and time, and can also connect these concepts. If the various things that constitute a multiverse The concept is a piece of rag, then it is the needle and thread that sews these pieces together.

However, whether the sewing machine is a doll or a punching bag depends on the direction in which the Speed ​​Force is traveling.

Anyway, there are only so many necessary conditions to form a universe, and the Speed ​​Force can pass through almost all of them. This makes solving the disappearance case a lot more difficult, because now Barry is a 'traveler'.

When it comes to the topic of time travel, Deathstroke is very familiar with it. The two main types of time travel are 'soul travel' and 'transportation'. Barry's current situation is the latter.

Well, the possibility of being kidnapped has increased, because Su Ming himself was kidnapped and came to DC.

Someone specifically chose this day of the Lightning Cup game to start.

In order to participate in the competition, Barry did not bring the spider totem and X metal disc given to him by Deathstroke. The Lightning Cup is a running competition, not a QQ Speed ​​​​prop competition. The contestants do not use any props except wearing their own uniforms.

This joyful game time was also the time when he was filled with joy and least alert.

Anyway, if Su Ming planned to kidnap someone, he would choose similar opportunities to do so.

But this style doesn’t look like Darkseid’s layout, but more like Batman’s plan.

Forget it, let’s investigate again.

As mentioned before, after entering the speed force plane, the speedster cannot stop on most paths. Otherwise, he will fall out of the dimension at best, or die inexplicably at worst.

But there are exceptions to everything. There is a saying in the Chinese dynasty that says, "The Great Dao is fifty, Heaven's evolution is forty-nine, and humans can escape one of them." It means that there are no absolutes. The laws of nature and the world are elusive, and human behavior often changes. Changed a lot of things.

The 'outpost' that Su Ming mentioned before is one of the special cases in the Speed ​​Force plane.

The Speed ​​Force can be used to travel through time. As we all know, when running in that plane, many scenes from the past and the future will appear next to the 'road' like a revolving lantern, and become difficult when moving forward rapidly. Discernible bands of light and bright spots.

But for Speed ​​Force users, those pictures can be seen very clearly, and they are also entrance channels to different time streams.

Isn’t that how Flashpoint was created? There was no Flashpoint event before. This story shouldn’t have happened. It was Barry’s intervention at a certain point in time that created a new branch of time and created the Flashpoint. Click on the Earth.

In the same way, Barry is not the only one who wants to use the Speed ​​Force to save people. Although not everyone will cause a major event that can restart the multiverse every time, it will always cause various impacts.

The timeline of the Marvel Universe is like a big tree, while the timeline of the DC Universe is like a river.

Although there will be branches, the two are completely different in their ability to self-repair, or in terms of timeline inertia and butterfly effect.

The Speed ​​Force itself will 'purify' itself internally, using black lightning to complete the survival of the fittest among speedsters. And for those worlds that appear due to various time paradoxes, it will also wash away these 'garbage' like a real river. Walk.

As we all know, when a river turns, its flow speed will be greatly slowed down, and the sediment and garbage in the river will be deposited at the turn, forming areas such as sandbars or deltas.

The 'Savage World' where the outpost is located is just such a place where the garbage of the time stream settles down.

As long as you reach the wild world, you can stop temporarily, where you can take a breath and learn a lot about the speed force plane in the human settlement outpost.

The biggest problem there is that you can't get out once you get in. After all, getting out means having to 'swim upstream' against all the speed, which is not something ordinary people can do.

But Su Ming felt that it would be okay for the cloak to bring everyone out. Since Barry was missing in the Speed ​​Force plane, someone might have seen that scene.