The red lightning tore through the air, aimed neither at Barry on the ground nor at the gravely wounded Oliver.
It was aimed at Joe West.
An ordinary, unarmed cop.
"Joe!"
Inside the warehouse, the shouts of every SWAT officer were left far behind.
In Joe's eyes, the rapidly expanding red blur was practically a death sentence.
Yet half a second before that afterimage struck him-
A hand pressed firmly onto his shoulder and yanked him backward.
Then a black-clad figure shifted half a step sideways, shielding him.
It was Yang Ming.
He didn't even turn to look at Joe.
Facing terrifying momentum powerful enough to smash a tank, Yang Ming raised his right arm and lowered his elbow. Pitch-black Armament Haki instantly coated his arm.
Boom!
An extraordinarily deep, muffled crash rang out.
Red lightning slammed into the blackened arm.
Violent air currents exploded outward from the two men, sending the surrounding SWAT officers stumbling.
The concrete beneath Yang Ming's feet cracked instantly. The tremendous force drove him several meters backward, plowing two deep furrows through the floor.
The red lightning also jolted to a halt in midair, forced for the first time to reveal a blurry outline vibrating at high speed.
Reverse-Flash.
He had stopped.
"Interesting."
Reverse-Flash's voice carried a strange vibration as it echoed through the empty warehouse. "An ordinary man who can block me?"
Instead of attacking again, he began racing around the entire warehouse.
Red afterimages instantly filled every corner of the warehouse. His blurred figure appeared everywhere-on the ceiling, along the walls, between the reaction vessels.
The SWAT officers were utterly bewildered.
The guns in their hands had become useless sticks. They couldn't lock onto a single target.
A young SWAT officer instinctively raised his weapon.
Whoosh!
Reverse-Flash flashed past his muzzle, then appeared