Running from the road outside the junkyard along their original route back to the lowest level of the research facility, they had now reached the floor where countless biochemical bombs were stored.
There was only rudimentary lighting here. Black mold had grown across the surrounding walls, and the damp air was thick with a disinfectant-like smell. Thick pipes stretched overhead in every direction along the corridors like dark veins, occasionally venting pale yellow steam.
Su Ming raised both guns and searched for any trace of the cat, but apart from dripping water and hissing steam, there was no other movement.
"Where did you find Falcone and his daughter?"
"This way. Follow me."
With a burst of Speed Force, Barry and Su Ming appeared in a steel-enclosed room filled with all manner of instruments. A white cat sat atop the control console, its tail swaying back and forth like an ordinary housecat watching cartoons from a sofa.
Its furry ears twitched, and it pressed a button.
Then its head twisted around one hundred and eighty degrees like an owl's, staring at the two of them in a posture that made it seem as though its head had been severed from its body. A bizarre smile spread across its feline face.
Its long black tongue licked across its fangs as it shrieked in a human voice.
"All roads shall lead to darkness! All things shall welcome Barbatos's return!"
"Fxxk!"
Su Ming immediately opened fire. Barry, stunned by the fact that the cat had actually spoken, had no time to stop its little move.
The cat leaped down from the console, and an inky-black, disc-shaped energy shield appeared around it. Su Ming's bullets vanished into it like stones sinking into the sea.
"Hehehe."
Laughing grotesquely, the cat charged at them. The dark energy