Data Loss!

Following Zhang Ye's suggestion, Little Barry Allen grabbed the Time Twister and sprinted out, beginning to run at faster-than-light speeds around the entirety of Wayne Manor.

The immense energy erupted in an instant, creating gigantic rings of lightning visible even to the naked eye of ordinary people. It caught the attention of Old Batman and Barry Allen, and even Kara on the rooftop cast a curious glance in that direction.

But they merely looked once before withdrawing their gazes and continuing with what they were doing.

Though they had no idea what nonsense the little brat was up to now, since Zhang Ye had told him to do it, there had to be some deeper meaning behind it. Nothing should go wrong anytime soon, and with time pressing, restoring Barry Allen's Speed Force was the priority.

Fortunately, Wayne Manor was located in a remote area, and a vast stretch of land around it belonged to the Wayne family's private property. So although the little Flash was making quite a commotion, no one besides them noticed.

About five or six minutes later, Little Barry Allen returned to Zhang Ye. However, he was in terrible shape. He practically came back crawling and stumbling. Pietro quickly caught him and helped him over to Zhang Ye.

"Are you... okay?" Zhang Ye did not immediately take back the Time Twister. Instead, Little Barry's condition startled him.

Little Barry's face was slightly green, and sweat covered his forehead. He collapsed into a chair, gasping for air like he had just finished a marathon. Zhang Ye had not expected that simply charging it would exhaust the little Flash to the point of collapse.

After all, Little Barry Allen did not possess merely one layer of the Speed Force right now. He was also carrying Barry Allen's counterpart Speed Force. For someone with such tremendous power to become this exhausted, charging the Time Twister was clearly far from as simple as Zhang Ye had imagined.

"I'm fine. Just too tired. Hah... what is this thing even for? While I was running, I felt like all the energy around me was being sucked into it. It was even draining my stamina. Running with this thing was like carrying some horrifying weight."

It took Little Barry Allen quite a while to steady his ragged breathing. Only then did he finally complain to Zhang Ye about the strange little gadget and toss it toward him. Judging from his expression, he never wanted to touch the thing again for the rest of his life.

Catching the Time Twister, Zhang Ye tapped its screen. Soon, something resembling a fingerprint unlock prompt appeared. This was the first time Zhang Ye had seen anything inside the Time Twister besides Miss Minutes.

Licking his lips, Zhang Ye placed his thumb on it.

A piercing pain immediately shot through his thumb. It felt as if his thumb had been caught in a door. Amid the intense tearing sensation was a numb, tingling feeling like an electric shock, causing Zhang Ye to instinctively pull his finger away.

The next moment, Zhang Ye suddenly felt a chill run through his entire body, and the scene around him changed beyond recognition.

Zhang Ye was now standing amid a sea of stars. It was an indescribably bleak and frigid sensation. He could not feel any ground beneath his feet, yet he was unmistakably "standing" on something, suspended in this expanse of the cosmos.

Zhang Ye stared at the scene before him in astonishment, completely frozen.

As far as his eyes could see, a colossal rift in the horizon had split the starry sky into two parts. Zhang Ye himself remained in a normal universe where countless stars glittered, but on the other side, a canopy like eternal night shrouded an unknown number of worlds.

The massive, black, torn rift exuded a horrifying aura that was impossible to look at directly, as though all life would be extinguished there. It was a terrifying energy beyond Zhang Ye's imagination, one no known source of power could rival.

The worlds beneath that canopy had become one dead planet after another. Though they were far away, Zhang Ye seemed able to sense the rotten toxins and black-green lava flowing through them. The densely cracked ground had split apart completely. There was no life within, only suffocating annihilation.

Shattered worlds lay everywhere, an utterly horrifying sight that left Zhang Ye's mind blank for a moment.

A strange energy was contaminating every world it could reach through some indescribable means. Everything in its path was constantly splitting apart and collapsing. Meanwhile, the other stretch of starry sky, still normal, looked like a flock of lambs awaiting slaughter in Zhang Ye's eyes.

At the edge of the canopy's reach, an incomparably enormous "creature" lay sprawled in the gap between darkness and light. Strictly speaking, however, it was not something that could be called a creature at all.

Rather than an object, it was more fitting to call it a celestial body. It was a mass formed by countless stars gathered together, a giant with a vaguely human outline created from innumerable rivers of stars. Its facial features had become so chaotic that they could not be discerned, while infinite starlight filled its body, giving it an uncanny presence.

Yet its surface was covered in wildly writhing shadows. They were maggots seemingly formed from darkness, endlessly twisting as they devoured the Starlight Giant's body, trying to burrow into it and corrupt its core.

Zhang Ye stared blankly at everything before him. Though even one more glance at the scene made his head spin, he continued to watch that unimaginable sight without blinking.

"...Stop looking. We don't have the ability to help it."

As Zhang Ye stared dazedly at the light and shadows in the distance, a voice suddenly rang beside his ear. He jumped, sharply turning toward it, his expression shifting uncertainly.

As his gaze moved, an orange clock appeared in his field of vision. It had human facial features, as well as human arms and legs.

Zhang Ye recognized it at once. It was Miss Minutes, created by the Time Variance Authority. Only this time, she had not appeared on the Time Twister. She had truly entered "reality."

"What do you mean, we don't have the ability to help it? Do you know that Starlight Giant?" Zhang Ye opened his mouth and asked.

"Data loss. System archive error."

Miss Minutes responded quickly, but her words made Zhang Ye frown deeply.

"What is going on? Why did you bring me to this universe? Did something happen to the Time Variance Authority? What exactly happened here?"

Zhang Ye asked anxiously, but the response he received was still Miss Minutes' utterly cold, emotionless voice.

"Data loss."

"...System archive error."

(A little mystery for you—can anyone guess the giant's identity?)