With matters in the Speed Force Plane settled, Black Flash had gone back to his old job of hunting down the speedsters who had slipped in. After a simple fried chicken gathering, Su Ming sent the two of them back to their respective homes with Quantum Concepts, while he returned to Central City with Mina.
This whole series of events had taken quite a while to explain, but not much time had passed outside. By the time they returned to the little hilltop park outside Central City, it was just past two in the morning.
The stars twinkled overhead, rhythmic insect calls drifted from the bushes, and the mountain air at night was fresh, as though there was not a trace of pollution.
Compared to a world garbage can like Gotham, Central City was absurdly clean. There was no trash or homeless people along the streets, making it barely seem like a city in the United States.
"Whew~ In~"
Mina stretched beneath the dim streetlights. Her black uniform blended into the night as she closed her eyes and savored the free air outside. From her subjective perspective, she had only been trapped for roughly an afternoon.
But in reality, more than ten years had passed. Looking at the city lights in the distance now, she found it so unfamiliar that she could barely recognize it.
Fortunately, this was Central City. It had not sprouted too many skyscrapers with the changing times. Once she identified landmarks such as lakes and rivers, she could still barely make out traces of the past.
It was just that the cars on the roads, the electronic advertising screens on buildings, and the smartphones in pedestrians' hands were all new models she had never seen before.
For a scientist, that was good news, because her life