Chapter 455

"His speed exceeded 200 knots per hour, my God, this is truly amazing." Cisco glanced at the speed displayed on the monitoring equipment and exclaimed excitedly.

"How is this possible?" Caitlin exclaimed as well.

Dr. Harrison Wells remained calm and silent, but the corners of his mouth lifted slightly into a smile.

"200 knots per hour converts to 370 kilometers per hour. This speed is a bit slow—" Su Quan calculated in his heart.

Central City and Starling City are over six hundred miles apart, which is about a thousand kilometers or so. At Barry Allen's current speed, it would take two to three hours to run from Central City to Starling City.

Is it that slow?

Wouldn't it take less time for me to run a few round trips?

Or rather, even without using the Speed Force, A-Train's super speed alone is much, much faster than him!

But after all, it's his first run. The current speed is just the beginning; he will definitely run faster and faster as he goes.

"Boom!"

A loud noise came from afar; Barry Allen lost control and crashed into the 'guardrail' prepared in advance.

This injury wasn't light; he had multiple fractures and cracks throughout his body.

Three hours later.

At S. T. A. R. Labs, Caitlin held the X-rays of Barry Allen's fractures and exclaimed: "It looks like you had a distal radius fracture just now, but now it's healed, and it only took three hours!"

Barry Allen was somewhat incredulous: "How is this possible?"

"We don't know—for now, we don't know." Caitlin shook her head.

Dr. Harrison Wells sat in his wheelchair and came before Barry Allen, asking pointedly: "What happened just now? You were running fine, suddenly something distracted you."

Barry Allen was silent for a moment, then said: "I remembered something. When I was eleven, my mother was killed."

Everyone subconsciously stopped, revealing expressions of sympathy.

"It was late at night, I was woken up by a sound, I went downstairs, and then—what I saw was like a bolt of lightning, there was a figure inside, he killed my mother."

"The police arrested my father, he is still locked up in Iron Heights Prison for murder. Everyone, the police, the psychiatrists, they all say what I saw wasn't real."

"But, what if the killer is like me?"

Because of his own speed, because of the characteristics when he ran, Barry Allen thought of this possibility!

"Let me tell you clearly, there is only one person like you in the world," Dr. Harrison Wells said with a smile.

Barry Allen let out a disappointed sigh, believing it, just believing it like that!

"I'll head back first." He got up, nodded to everyone, and turned to leave with a somewhat low mood.

About half an hour later, he came back again.

As soon as he entered, he said excitedly and indignantly: "I'm not the only one affected by the particle accelerator explosion, am I?"

Dr. Harrison Wells glanced at everyone and said: "It's not certain yet."

"You said this city is safe, that there were no hidden dangers left behind—that's all a lie! What really happened that night!"

Facing the questioning, Dr. Harrison Wells thought for a moment and said: "After the accelerator started, we all felt like heroes, and then everything went haywire."

"A space barrier ruptured, releasing unknown energy into our world. Antimatter, dark energy, X-elements—"

Barry Allen interrupted: "These are all theoretical."

"Then how 'theoretical' are you yourself?" Dr. Harrison Wells retorted.

Barry Allen fell silent.

On the central monitor, following Dr. Harrison Wells's operation on his wheelchair, a city map centered on the laboratory appeared.

"We mapped the entire city and its surroundings, but we couldn't know for sure what—or who—was radiated."

"We have been looking for other super-powered individuals like you!"

"Super-powered individuals?"

"That's what we call them."

Barry Allen didn't dwell on this question and said in a deep voice: "I saw one just now, he's a bank robber, he can control the weather!"

Cisco couldn't help but say: "This is getting cooler and cooler."

Barry Allen retorted loudly: "This isn't cool! Okay? Someone died because of this!"

"Mardon's way of gaining super powers must be the same as mine, originating from that storm cloud. He's still at large, we must stop him before he hurts more people."

Barry Allen was very excited. Perhaps this is what a hero is, possessing the sense of responsibility to save everything, regardless of whether it has anything to do with himself.

"Barry."

Dr. Harrison Wells reminded him: "That's the police's job."

"I work for the police."

"You're a forensic assistant!"

This knife stabbed a bit hard. Barry Allen wanted to say something but stopped, then said: "You have to be responsible for this, responsible for him!"

"What's important is you!"

Dr. Harrison Wells said with a sense of 'iron not becoming steel': "What's important is you, not me. I lost everything, I lost my company, I lost my reputation, I lost my freedom!"

He patted his legs and pointed at Barry: "And you broke your arm but healed within three hours. Inside you, there might be a map to a whole new world—gene therapy, vaccines, medicine—treasures are deeply buried within you!"

"Barry, we can't risk betting all of this just because you want to go out and play hero!"

"You're not some hero, you're just a young man who was struck by lightning."

Dr. Harrison Wells's words were very blunt and very hurtful. The heartbroken Barry Allen glanced at the silent crowd and turned to leave in silence.

Su Quan watched Dr. Harrison Wells with interest, somewhat curious whether he was trying to motivate or discourage Barry by saying this.

Currently, it should be discouraging, but Su Quan knew that Barry Allen would come back.

He would ask Caitlin and Cisco for help—oh, maybe even himself—and then deal with the Weather Wizard together.

The old routine of heroes: suppress first, then promote. When Barry isn't the Weather Wizard's opponent, Dr. Harrison Wells will jump out to feed him chicken soup, motivate him, and then defeat the opponent in one fell swoop.

From the results, Dr. Harrison Wells's routine of suppressing first and then encouraging works very well. Barry Allen not only became confident, but he also naturally joined the Flash team and became Barry Allen's spiritual mentor!

Must say, ginger is still spicier when it's old!

However, your target is Barry Allen, and my target, hehe—is Barry Allen's opponents.

"Honey, I'm leaving first, I'll come pick you up tonight." Su Quan hugged Caitlin and kissed her cheek, then left S. T. A. R. Labs as well.