Barry-Alan, a forensic examiner of the Central City Police Department, is a sunny and cheerful big boy.
It's just that it's hard for outsiders to imagine that he experienced an extremely cruel childhood nightmare when he was eleven years old.
The father, a doctor, was accused of killing his wife and was arrested and imprisoned.
This is a reality far more tragic than losing a parent.
Let a child accept his father as a murderer.
The gentle mother died under the knife of her husband.
It's just too dark.
If the background is placed in the dark Gotham, it is no surprise that Barry-Allen will become a super criminal or a gang leader.
Then join the huge fan group of Batman, and go in and out of Blackgate Penitentiary and Arkham Asylum all year round.
fortunately.
This is Central City.
DC Universe There are few cities that can be called normal in style.
Even the villain Rogues is very principled and never bullies the weak.
Compared to Gotham's psychopaths, lunatics, and anti-human elements, they simply look like Angel.
Barry-Allen, who lost his parents and had no one to take care of him, was not sent to an orphanage after that.
Police officer Joe West of the Central City Police Department adopted him and raised him until he graduated from college.
The other party is a friend of Barry's father, an upright policeman and a warm-hearted good man.
After graduating from college, Barry chose to enter Central City Police Department, hoping to clear his father's name, who was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Yes, he never regarded his father as a criminal who dehumanized himself.
Because the young Barry had witnessed the murderer!
At that time, there were two red and yellow lightning bolts in the room, entangled with each other!
But no one believed it. They all thought that Barry was suffering from strong mental trauma, which led to hallucinations.
What an eleven-year-old said had no weight at all.
Therefore, Barry successfully entered Central City Police Department with the firm idea of reuniting with his father.
As he worked, he looked for new clues.
Until that lightning fell from the sky and broke his peaceful life.
The big explosion of the particle accelerator, coupled with the liquid mixed in the laboratory and the falling lightning, completely changed the fate of Barry.
He got Speed Force and became a speedster.
Since then, Central City has welcomed its first superhero, Flash.
While Barry was using Speed Force to punish evil and promote good, and fight crime, he was also investigating the tragedy that happened when he was a child, and finally learned the truth.
A future person nicknamed "Reverse-Flash" and named "Alberd-Thawne".
It was he who traveled to the era where Flash lived and murdered Barry's mother.
The real target of Reverse-Flash is actually the young Barry.
But he was blocked by future Flash. In order to vent his anger, he killed Barry's mother, causing the birth of that tragedy.
It's just that Reverse-Flash ignored the continuity of time and space. He relied on the accident of copying Flash to obtain Speed Force.
Once Barry-Alan does not become Flash, then he will also be affected and lose everything.
In other words, Reverse-Flash locked himself in this time and space with his own hands and could never return to the future.
Because without Speed Force, he cannot continue to travel back and forth in the endless corridor of time and space.
In order to save himself and return home, Reverse-Flash could only wait silently for Barry-Allen to grow up, and then personally create the accident, allowing Flash to reappear, thus forming a closed loop of time and space.
This is Reverse-Flash and Flash, the feud between these old enemies.
"I seemed to have had a long sleep and had a long dream."
Barry-Alan woke up and took the coffee from his adoptive father Joe.
He looked like he was hungover, and his thoughts were in a tangled mess.
I just feel like a lot of pictures are flashing by, like a revolving door of fragmented memories.
"You are probably too stressed, Barry."
Qiao held the young man's shoulders and consoled him. "But there is nothing we can do. We have spent eighteen hours on this case, but we still don't have any definite clues. The citizens want to know the truth, and the media is fanning the flames. Everyone is under great pressure."
"So you work harder, Barry, and try to extract more critical clues from the physical evidence found at the crime scene."
Joe is an experienced veteran policeman. He and his colleagues were recently solving a murder case.
Through preliminary judgment, the murderer is likely to be a super criminal.
"Well, thanks for the coffee and the cheering antebellum, Joe."
Barry smiled and nodded. After drinking the steaming cup of coffee, he habitually started working with Speed Force.
"Ah, this... where is my Speed Force?"
Later, Barry-Alan woke up and felt something was wrong.
Speed Force, gone!
That wonderful force that is not bound by the laws of physics can not only accelerate Barry when he is running hard, but its help is also indispensable in life.
As long as you use Speed Force, the flow of time will seem to slow down.
Barry can complete the work several times with amazing efficiency.
For example, read all the file information in ten seconds, then run around Central City twice, track the criminal through clues, and then kidnap him to the door of the police station.
Endorsing exams, getting takeout, doing experiments... Even if you can't get up in the morning and want to sleep in, Barry will use Speed Force to quickly wash up, and then rush to the Central City Police Department.
It can be said that Speed Force is simply the best tool for Flash.
But!
Now!
It's gone!
Barry's thinking is still running "slowly" at the normal speed.
Work that used to take just one millisecond to complete now takes minutes and hours.
Barry felt very uncomfortable, as if he had become the sloth named "Lightning" in "Zootopia".
Everything is done so slowly.
"What's wrong, Barry?"
Joe asked, frowning.
He noticed something unusual about Barry, and the other party seemed to be very uncomfortable.
"I... feel like vomiting."
Barry strives to adjust his condition and return to a normal life rhythm.
"By the way, Joe, if this is a murder case of a super criminal, what should we do? Ask Flash for help?"
While pretending to be working, he changed the subject and diverted his adoptive father's attention.
But then, Qiao's answer left Barry completely stunned.
"Who is Flash? What are you talking about? Did you drink too much last night?"
Joe's eyes were strange, and he didn't understand what Barry meant at all.
"To confirm the identity of the criminal, of course we need help from 'Citizen Cold'. He is the most Great Hero in this city."
Citizen Cold?
Barry eyes widened.
Could it be that what Joe was talking about was Captain Cold from Rogues?
When did that guy become a superhero?
Barry felt that everything was wrong. He was filled with too much confusion, but no one could provide an answer.
"Forget it, Barry, you should go back and rest for a day. You look too tired."
Joe said, shaking his head.
This young man, who is usually smart and clever, is talking nonsense today and looks like a drunkard.
"Okay, okay, Joe."
Barry nodded in agreement, he needed to understand all this and what happened.
Putting on his coat, he ran as usual, and then he remembered that Speed Force had disappeared.
"My ring..."
The ring that holds Flash's battle suit is not in Barry's hand either.
When his thoughts were lost, he missed the steps to go downstairs, rolled and fell down, and hit the ground heavily with the back of his head.
After the impact, the brain seemed to be stimulated, and a large number of unfamiliar memories instantly poured out.
There was no tragic experience when I was eleven years old. My mother was not murdered and my father was not sent to prison.
Nor did he... become Flash!
Central City is the most Great Hero, called Citizen Cold.
Rogues Those damn villains have all become positive figures that everyone respects.
"Iris..."
Barry thought painfully.
Iris-West, who was supposed to be his wife, did not join hands with him in marriage, but became someone else's wife.
At this moment, Barry was filled with bitterness.
He didn't know whether he did the right thing or the wrong thing.
Winning family affection and saving mother.
But after losing love, my wife settled with Old Wang next door.
"No! I have to find a way!"
Barry struggled to get up and patted the dust on his clothes.
A bold guess vaguely emerged in his mind, but he did not dare to confirm it.
If the world is really completely changed, then only one person can help you!
Batman!
Justice League's brain!
No matter how weird and weird things happen, Batman can always accept them quickly and then give solutions!
Barry walked to the side of the road and immediately reached out to stop a taxi.
"Go to Gotham!"
he said to the driver.
ps: I'm sleepy, I'll make up for it tomorrow~