The air was thick with stench. As the pedestrians devoured insects like mad, the reek of urine drifted over as well. Perhaps someone had been squeezed hard enough in the struggle to lose control of their bowels.
Jesse showed obvious discomfort, but Reverse-Flash wore a broad smile, even finding it amusing.
He had seen too much of this. In an era of dystopia, those underground workers had not lived any better than these Living Dead.
"It feels so real, Flash. I have always enjoyed witnessing humanity's cruel nature."
With his arms folded, he watched the feeding frenzy. When he saw someone perform a "vacuum-like inhale" on a corpse's navel just to eat a few maggots and pupae, Swann displayed the refined smile of a scholar.
"In our era, capitalists enslaved workers' bodies while using chemicals, video games, information-based brainwashing, cheap carnal pleasures, and other methods to grant them all manner of bliss, extracting their surplus value. But this place is different."
"Both of those are wrong!" Su Ming, playing Barry, gave an explosive performance. He stomped and screamed, though his voice was nearly drowned out by the sounds of chewing and sucking. "What people should enjoy is justice and equality, not this!"
"But this place is real, dear Barry. Heh heh. There is no deception, only the barest truth. Darkseid sees humans as maggots, and he does not bother concealing it. I rather appreciate his candor."
Whenever Reverse-Flash remembered that this Barry was fake, he wanted to laugh. After all, he had impersonated Barry himself, more than once.
It really was especially fun.
"I would call it extreme arrogance." J'onn, clad in black-and-yellow armor and looking like Deathstroke, spoke up as he shook his head. "When facing things he does not value, there is naturally no need to hide anything.