The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

"It's all your fault, you damned parasite! It's alright now, we're completely trapped here and we can't get out!!!" Barry gritted his teeth and said in the most vicious tone he could use in his head.

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 would make a rattling sound, which echoed in the quiet air of the maze, making it even more frightening.

Barry walked forward slowly with his arms in his arms, and said, "I just said that I should take advantage of the opportunity just now to find a place to climb up, and now the road above my head is blocked, where should we go?"

"Why are you so timid?!" Doctor Strange said coldly in his mind: "If you want to gain power, how can you not pay the price?"

"I didn't come 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 has something to do with it. If someone really wants to play tricks , I had to know what they were going to do."

"Understood, 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 with Harley and Bruce Jr., Barry was not idle. 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 was almost driven crazy by the evil plans he talked about every day.

But at this moment, Doctor Strange showed Barry the flow of magic in his perspective. For some reason, Doctor Strange, who possesses the book of darkness, is particularly sensitive to the power of concepts such as darkness. Like a hound with a keen sense of smell, it immediately sniffed out the unusual traces of 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 most powerful source of darkness. , so he told Barry that there is most likely a very dangerous energy source hidden underground in Gotham.

He wasn't lying, Barry also knew that what he saw through his perspective was true, and he didn't intend to put himself in danger, he just wanted to tell Batman the news, but after searching for a long time in the city, he couldn't find it. Batman was missing, and more importantly, the dark energy under the ground began to fluctuate.

Barry didn't know when the huge magical energy bomb would explode, and he didn't know whether the late Batman would be able to dismantle the bomb in time, so he felt that it was necessary for him to take a look. 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 fully awakened. Barry lost his way while walking, and then the ceiling of the maze was lifted. He wanted to seize the opportunity to climb Go up, but the walls are too slippery, he's not tall enough, and after a missed opportunity, the maze recaps and he's stuck here again.

After experiencing this series of tribulations, Barry is no longer the ordinary boy who can only yell. In the extreme practice of Karma Taj Academy of Magic, he has already touched the threshold of speed force, just because there is no such thing as that universe. The speed force was not able to continue to develop.

But now back in the DC universe, when Barry was concentrating, 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. As long as you concentrate a little bit, the sound of dripping water in the maze will be almost as slow as a few minutes, which was obviously every 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, I seem to see a door ahead." 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, don't be dazed!"

Only then did Barry come back to his senses and walked forward again. Doctor Strange said in his mind in great surprise, "What's the matter with you? Why have you been distracted for longer and longer?"

"It's nothing, maybe the environment here makes me a little uncomfortable." Barry reached out 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. Two huge door knockers were held in the mouth by the dragon's head, and its eyes were shining with strange light.

"I can feel the huge power of darkness inside, go in, success or failure depends on it."

Barry slowly opened the door. He thought it would be heavy, but this is obviously not the kind of ancient tomb door that has not been pushed open for centuries, but the door of a room that is often visited by people, so although Barry took a lot of effort Trying harder, but the door was still pushed out a crack he could squeeze through.

The moment he squeezed in, Barry felt that he was surrounded by a dense darkness. It was not the darkness without lights in the room, but a 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 will no longer be leaked.

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 did not forget what he was here to do. He looked carefully and found a hole in the center of the endless darkness. It was like a portal, and the rich darkness poured out from there.

Barry's Adam's apple moved slightly, and Doctor Strange's excited voice sounded in his head: "Quick! Quick! It's there, I feel the endless dark power there, go in quickly, you can swallow all the power there, and you will be able to rival 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. , a regular hexagonal circle, each corner has a circle, and there are some wet footprints in the middle of the circle. Judging from the clarity of the footprints, the person who performed the ceremony just left not long ago.

"Someone opened a portal in the underground of Gotham, sent this solidified darkness to the underground of Gotham, and then polluted Gotham with this darkness." Barry felt that he had deduced the whole truth, so he turned his head and walked away and said : "I have to go back and tell Batman, maybe knowing the truth, Batman can save Gotham."

"Hey, wait!" Doctor Strange yelled in his head, "Are you crazy? You've worked so hard 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 with the people of Gotham living in chaos. I think they should live better. Batman is the one who works hardest to save them." Their people, as long as he knows the truth, will be able to find a way to close the portal."

"You, you are so stupid and hopeless!!" Doctor Strange scolded through gritted teeth, but across a universe, he had no other choice but to look, but he was really reluctant to part with such a strong energy.

In short, this Doctor Strange was not very rich in his original universe, and he chose to devour his young self in other universes, just because these Stranges have not been Supreme Sorcerers for a long time, and even more so. easy to deal with.

But again, the young Supreme Master means that there is not much power. What this Doctor Strange is doing is a bit like a beggar licking a CD, a thief stealing a poor man, and now such a large mass of energy is placed in front of his eyes. 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 persuaded with the patience of a child: "Maybe you can use this energy to help Batman better, he must Will need your help, right? The people of Gotham also need your own hands to save."

"Listen, power is not a sin, as long as you can control this power, then you can use it to do what you want, but the premise is that you have to obtain it first, what harm is there in taking this energy? you……"

"As long as there is a one-ten-thousandth possibility that someone like you will get energy, then I won't want more energy." Barry said firmly: "It's not that I don't want to take it, I just don't want you to take it!"

After finishing speaking, he completely shut up and stopped talking. Let’s put it this way, paranoid people flock together, and stubborn people are divided into groups. The Flash has a good relationship with Batman in the original book. Who can expect a stubborn friend to not be What about a stubborn species?

Batman's stubbornness can at most be criticized for not being able to communicate, while Flash's stubbornness can destroy the universe in minutes.

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 gap in the door that was just pushed open, Barry saw a group of monsters with teeth and claws coming from the corridor. The end rushed over.

When the roar came, Barry showed a somewhat terrified expression, and he muttered 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 rushing over will kill you."

Barry tried his best to push the door closed, pressed his back against the door tightly, and said with wide eyes, "What happened to those monsters wearing mechanical armor? Where did they rush out from?"

Then, he gritted his teeth and took a slightly terrified breath, but soon, what he was most worried about happened. The monster rushed to the gate and smelled the breath of the living people inside, and they began to desperately want to rush in.

Barry turned sideways and blocked the door with one arm. It was impossible for his strength to withstand so many monsters, but the door itself seemed to be a kind of seal, and creatures that did not meet the conditions would not be released. , almost relying on the strength of the gate itself to resist 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 roaring and scratching, trying to tear the door apart with their terrifying power.

With a subtle "squeak" sound, Barry was horrified to find that the seal of the door was crumbling.

He pressed his shoulders firmly against the door, but felt that his meager strength could not even withstand the monster for half a second, anxiety and fear filled his heart.

Is it really necessary to absorb the dark power?

No!Barry bit his lip hard until he tasted the blood, that monster in his mind killed a lot of 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 the midst of great anxiety and fear, Barry had no other choice but to keep moving forward, pushing 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 passing through the gap in the gate changed color, and the whole world was shrouded in lightning-like golden light.