Chapter 1704: S: The Apocalypse Event (Part 7)

"It's all your fault, you damn parasite! Now it's good, we're completely trapped here and can't get out!!!" Barry gritted his teeth and said in his brain in the most vicious tone he could use.

At this time, he was in a dark tunnel. There were some broken patterns on the walls, and the ground was very damp. Every step he took made a "da da da" sound, echoing in the quiet maze, which was even more chilling.

Barry hugged his arms and walked slowly forward, saying: "I said I should have taken the opportunity just now to find a place to climb up. Now the road above my head is also blocked. Where should we go?"

"Why are you so timid?!" Doctor Strange said coldly in his brain: "If you want to acquire power, how can you not pay a price?"

"I didn't come here to acquire power," Barry said righteously: "There is a very dangerous energy core under Cat Getan City. I suspect that Cat Getan's darkness has an inseparable relationship with this. If someone is really playing tricks, I must know what they are doing."

"Got it, righteous boy. Now turn left. I can feel the traces of energy becoming more intense at the intersection on the left. I think we'll be there soon."

After parting ways with Harley and little Bruce, Barry hadn't been idle either. He wanted to find this universe's Batman, and then let Batman find a way to send him back, preferably to expel the strange voice in his brain. Barry had been driven crazy by the evil plans he muttered about every day.

But just at this moment, Doctor Strange showed Barry the flow of magic in his vision. Due to some reasons, Doctor Strange, who possessed the Darkhold, was particularly sensitive to dark concepts of power. Even in another universe, he was like a hunting dog with a keen sense of smell, immediately sniffing out unusual traces of power in Cat Getan City.

However, his line of thinking was a bit different from others. Others went to study the dark power in the metal, deciding to gather the small into the large, but this Doctor Strange, who had devoured countless variants, wanted to get the source of darkness with the largest share directly. So he told Barry that there was a highly dangerous energy source hidden under Cat Getan.

He wasn't lying, and Barry knew that what he saw through his vision was true. Barry hadn't intended to take risks himself, only wanting to tell Batman this news, but he couldn't find Batman after searching for half a day in the city. More importantly, the dark energy underground began to fluctuate.

Barry didn't know when this huge magic energy bomb would explode, nor did he know if the late-returning Batman would have time to dismantle the bomb. So he felt it was necessary for him to take a look. Even if he couldn't dismantle it, he could provide Batman with enough information in time.

Thus, under the guidance of Doctor Strange, Barry found one of the entrances to the Court of Owls maze in Cat Getan's cemetery and successfully entered the maze.

This maze could trap Batman, and trapping a Flash who hadn't fully awakened was even easier. Barry got lost as he walked, and then the ceiling of the maze was lifted. He wanted to seize the opportunity to climb up, but the wall was too slippery and his height wasn't enough. After missing the opportunity, the maze was sealed again, and he was trapped here again.

Having experienced this series of hardships, Barry was no longer the ordinary boy who only knew how to scream. In the extreme practice of the Kamar-Taj Academy of Magic, he had already touched the threshold of the Speed Force, only because that universe didn't have the Speed Force and he couldn't continue to develop.

And now back in the DC universe, when Barry concentrated, he could feel that everything around him seemed to slow down. This symptom began to become more and more serious. At first, it was only a second or two of distraction, but later, as long as he concentrated slightly, the sound of dripping water in the maze slowed down to once every few minutes, even though it was once a second before.

And Barry found that in this state, the strange voice in his brain couldn't interfere with him. He would be stunned there for more than ten minutes, and the outside world would only pass a few seconds. Barry had more time to think.

"It should be this way, keep going forward, I seem to see a door in front." Doctor Strange's voice continued to sound in Barry's mind, but as usual, it didn't get a response. He had to start shouting again: "Barry! Barry! Wake up! Boy, don't be stunned!"

Barry then came back to his senses and took a step forward. Doctor Strange was very surprised and said in his brain: "What's wrong with you? Why is the time of distraction getting longer and longer?"

"Nothing, maybe the environment here makes me a bit uncomfortable." Barry reached out to rub his two arms, exhaled a cold breath, and walked toward the door at the end of the dark maze corridor.

That was a very magnificent huge wooden door, looking like a drawbridge used by a castle. Two huge door rings were held in the mouths of dragons, and the eyes flickered with strange brilliance.

"I can feel the huge dark power inside. Go in, success or failure depends on this."

Barry pushed open the big door slowly. He thought it would be very heavy, but this was obviously not the kind of ancient tomb door that hadn't been pushed open for centuries, but a door to a room that was often active, so although Barry spent some effort, the door was still pushed out a small gap that he could squeeze into.

The moment he squeezed in, Barry felt that he was wrapped in a thick darkness. It wasn't the darkness of a room without lights, but a substantial solid darkness like hot spring water.

With the small gap pushed open by the door, this darkness also surged out like flowing water. Seeing this, Barry hurriedly tried to float back to close the door. This big door seemed to be some kind of sealing device. When the door was closed, the darkness no longer leaked.

Barry was like a sea fish drifting with the current, floating in the endless sea of darkness. He didn't feel uncomfortable, nor did he feel swallowed, just feeling a warmth like returning to the amniotic fluid of his mother.

Barry didn't forget what he came for. He concentrated and looked closely, finding that there was a hollow in the center of the endless darkness, which looked like a transmission gate, and the thick darkness surged out from there.

Barry's Adam's apple moved slightly, and Doctor Strange's excited voice sounded in his brain: "Fast! Fast! That's it, I felt the endless dark power there, go in quickly, you can compare to the gods if you swallow all the power there!"

"No, I..."

But Barry still felt an inexplicable attraction coming from the gate. He continued to open his eyes wide and tried hard to observe the situation around the transmission gate, and then vaguely saw a huge magic circle drawn on the ground under the transmission gate in the darkness, a regular hexagonal magic circle, with a circle at each corner, and some damp footprints left in the middle of the circle. Judging from the clarity of the footprints, the person who performed the ritual hadn't left long ago.

"Someone opened a transmission gate under Cat Getan, transmitting this solidified darkness to the underground of Cat Getan, and then using this darkness to pollute Cat Getan." Barry felt that he had deduced the whole truth, so he turned and left and said: "I have to go back and tell Batman. Maybe knowing this truth, Batman can save Cat Getan."

"Hey, wait!" Doctor Strange shouted in his brain: "Are you crazy? You went through all kinds of hardships to get here. This power belongs to you!"

"I don't need any power." Barry pushed the door hard and said: "I'm just an ordinary person. I sympathize very much with the Gothamites living in chaos. I think they should live a little better. Batman is the person who tries hardest to save them. As long as he knows the truth, he will definitely be able to find a way to close the transmission gate."

"You, you are simply stupid beyond cure!!" Doctor Strange gritted his teeth and scolded, but separated by a universe, he had no other way except looking, but he really couldn't bear such thick energy.

In short, this Doctor Strange wasn't very rich in his original universe. The object he chose to swallow was the younger version of himself in other universes, just because these Stranges hadn't been Supreme Sorcerers for long and were easier to deal with.

But at the same time, a young Supreme Sorcerer meant not much power. What this Doctor Strange was doing was a bit like a beggar licking a disc, a thief stealing from a poor ghost. Now such a large group of energy was placed in front of him, but he couldn't eat it. How could he not be anxious?

"Hey! Hey! Barry, don't make a decision so quickly." Doctor Strange slowed down his tone, took out the patience to coax a child and persuaded: "Maybe you can better help Batman if you take this energy. He will definitely need your help, right? Gothamites also need you to save them personally."

"Listen, power is not a sin. As long as you can control this power, then you can take it to do what you want, but the premise is that you must first obtain it. What harm is there in taking this energy? You..."

"As long as there is a one-in-ten-thousand chance that a person like you will get energy, then I won't want it no matter how much energy there is." Barry said decisively: "It's not that I don't want to take it, I just don't want you to take it!"

After speaking, he completely shut up and didn't speak. Let's put it this way, paranoid people gather together, stubborn people gather together. The relationship between Flash and Batman in the original work was good. Who could expect a stubborn friend not to be a stubborn person?

Batman being stubborn is at most criticized for not understanding communication. Flash being stubborn can destroy the universe in minutes.

Barry pushed the door and wanted to leave without saying a word, but suddenly, he heard a commotion coming from the other end of the corridor. Through a small crack in the door that had just been pushed open, Barry saw a group of monsters with teeth and claws rushing over from the end of the corridor.

When the roar came, Barry showed a somewhat terrified expression, and he muttered to himself: "What death? Who is Darkseid? And these monsters are..."

"Oh, Barry, it seems you are truly the chosen one. God wants you to absorb these powers here, because if you don't absorb these, the monsters rushing over will kill you."

Barry tried his best to push the door shut, pressed his back tightly against the big door, and widened his eyes and said: "What's going on with those monsters wearing mechanical armor? Where did they rush out from?"

Then, he gritted his teeth and inhaled slightly in terror, but soon, the situation he was most worried about still happened. The monsters rushed to the big door and smelled the breath of living people inside, and they began to try their best to rush in.

Barry turned sideways and used one arm to block the door tightly. Originally, his strength couldn't be stronger than so many monsters, but this door itself seemed to be a kind of sealing device. Creatures that didn't meet the conditions wouldn't be released, and it almost relied on the strength of the door itself to block the monsters' attack.

But there were too many monsters rushing into this corridor. At first, they were just standing on the ground scratching the door, but as the quantity increased, they began to ride one on top of another. Finally, the tall big door was covered with monsters from bottom to top, and they were all constantly roaring and scratching, wanting to tear the big door with their terrifying strength.

Accompanied by a faint "creak" sound, Barry discovered in horror that the seal of the big door was crumbling.

He pressed his shoulder tightly against the big door, but felt that his meager strength couldn't even block the monsters for half a second. Anxiety and fear filled his heart.

Is it really necessary to absorb dark power?

No! Barry bit his lip hard until he tasted the bloody smell. The monster in his brain had killed many people. If he got so much power, more people would die. Absolutely not!

The big door was squeezed open a crack, and countless arms with sharp thorns squeezed in, one of which almost pierced Barry's head.

In extreme anxiety and fear, Barry had no other way but to constantly move his steps and push the big door forward.

One step, two steps, three steps, continue to exert force, continue to accelerate, continue to concentrate, faster speed, greater strength, firmer belief—

Suddenly, the light through the crack of the big door changed color, and the whole world was shrouded in golden light like lightning. ===== CHAPTER 1705 =====