"Why did you suddenly think to ask about that? Did Amanda Waller put pressure on you again?" Barry asked from beside the coffee machine.
Jena pressed a button, hesitated, but still said, "It's nothing. I was just thinking it would be nice if I could help."
"This case is indeed a little strange." Barry frowned. "All the residents in that old apartment building suffered from mass hysteria. They all claimed they saw something, but Brainiac didn't capture anything at all."
Jena shuddered. "Could they have seen ghosts?"
Barry shook his head. "It would be better if it were that simple. They all said they saw something, but during the follow-up questioning, none of them could say exactly what it was. But they kept repeating one sentence."
"What?"
"'Don't look out the window.'"
"Outside the window? What's out there?"
"That's the problem. There's nothing outside the window." Barry shrugged. "The streets outside are normal. No monsters, no criminals. But they firmly believe there's something out there, to the point that law enforcement can't even get them out of the apartment building."
"They still haven't been taken away?"
"No. They resisted too violently. Some of them even seemed like psychiatric patients in the middle of an episode, breaking past their muscular limits and injuring the officers. Sedatives and anesthetics didn't work. Otherwise, this wouldn't have become such a major case."
"My God, what's going on?" Jena asked worriedly. "Why didn't you tell me sooner?"
Barry shook his head. "The situation is too bizarre. Letting an Empath get close to those lunatics would be very dangerous."
"So you believe they really saw something."
Barry nodded again. "There are too many things in this world that science can't explain. Haven't we seen enough of them in Gotham?"
"But even by Gotham standards, this is