Chapter 2389: Battle of the Bats (Part 8)

The red figure ran fast in the golden space, and at the same time, a low voice echoed around him, "Do you think this is fast enough? Barry."

"This doesn't solve any problems, Batman." The younger voice said, "Now you are the producer of the Speed Force, and also the controller, but you just jumped from one tragedy to another tragedy."

"Your tragedy lies in yourself." Flash-Batman said.

"But even if you become me, you can't reverse the tragedy of either of us. The tragedy is not in you or me, but in time itself. It is destined to pass and cannot be recovered."

"I don't know you are such a pessimistic person."

The young voice fell silent, but suddenly a more immature voice came from behind Flash-Batman.

"Stop! Stop quickly! Otherwise you will lead him over!!!"

Flash-Batman maintained the running posture, but turned his head to look. He discovered that a younger Barry Allen actually caught up with him.

This young Barry was still just a teenager, much younger than the Flash that Flash-Batman knew, but at this time, there was some anxious emotion on his face, and he said, "You can't run any faster, otherwise you are overdrawing your life, and Death will find you."

"Who are you? Why are you here?"

"I am another Flash. You have to believe me, Batman. Transcending time must pay a price. The Speed Force will not allow anyone to only consume it without replenishing it. Once you consume too much, it will make you become nutrients."

"You all say I transcended time, but I cannot control time. This is what I should have been able to do. What exactly have you not told me?"

Flash-Batman's voice revealed a trace of anger. Barry was slightly stunned, because he heard a faint and weak voice telling him, "Leave quickly, Batman has gone mad, he wants to reverse time and return to the past..."

"Shut up, Barry!"

"You can't do it." Barry said, "No Flash can do it. They tried countless times, but eventually ended in tragedy, and your rash action like this will only make you sink deeper and deeper."

"Tell me." Flash-Batman was almost roaring, "Tell me what the truth of time is! As long as I can control time, I can reverse the past..."

"I said you can't!"

"That means I'm not fast enough!"

Barry was a bit desperate, but Flash-Batman ran faster and faster, seemingly wanting to shake him off, proving that he was right. Barry had no choice but to move his steps faster, which was not difficult for him.

"Why are you so fast?" Flash-Batman looked at Barry and said, "You are faster than the Flash in our universe."

"Because I am not completely Flash." Barry looked down at the golden light under his feet. Different from the vast majority of speedsters, because it was black-gold.

The darkness most essential to this world that once poured into his body had merged with the Speed Force he could produce. He still had the nature of the Speed Force, but had been distinguished from ordinary Speed Force.

Precisely because of this, Barry was no longer bound by the fate of speedsters, but he knew very well that every speedster in this universe had the same fate, even if the one using the Speed Force now was Batman.

Flash-Batman didn't seem to want to accept all this. The intense anger in his heart made him run faster and faster. He tried his best to get rid of Barry, get rid of the things he kept nagging in his ears about not being able to do.

The golden light of the Speed Force began to get stronger and stronger, and finally, after breaking through a certain critical point, a black figure appeared behind them.

It was a pitch-black monster, almost fleeting in the Speed Force. No matter how fast Flash-Batman was running now, this pitch-black figure appeared behind him immediately, grabbed his shoulder, and threw him to the ground.

After stopping running, he should have left the Speed Force, but now the space was no longer the blurry and faintly glowing appearance when running, but a piece of pitch black.

Flash-Batman turned over and looked at the monster in front of him with slight fear. The person had a face like his, but was covered in black spikes.

The other party seemed to not see Barry standing beside him, but walked straight towards Flash-Batman. Flash-Batman scrambled to get up and escape, but collapsed the moment he touched this black power.

He was grabbed by the neck and lifted high. Oxygen was getting less and less, and he was almost dead, but just then, he heard Barry's voice again.

"Save him, please, save him, I know you can, don't create another tragedy."

"He killed you, right?"

"He was just deceived and blinded. The experimental data was inaccurate, just giving him an answer he wanted. We know that was wrong, but this is not his fault."

"He could have completely erased my consciousness, but he didn't do so. He felt anxious, fearful, and angry, but didn't completely lose his conscience. He still believed in his friends, and I must pull him back."

"Now he is no longer the great hero Batman, but just a prisoner of his own desires, a poor lost child, save him, Barry."

Barry seemed to have made up his mind. He took a deep breath, stretched out a hand, and the black-gold intertwined energy poured out from his hand, but didn't attack the black shadow, but wrapped around Flash-Batman's body.

Accompanied by the black-gold intertwined energy gradually covering Flash-Batman's body, the black shadow's movements revealed a trace of confusion. He slowly let go, looking left and right, as if looking for a target.

This space seemed to be extremely unstable. After this black shadow didn't detect the existence of concentrated Speed Force, the space began to collapse, and the black shadow's figure began to gradually dissipate.

Flash-Batman fell heavily to the ground. He soon regained consciousness, but didn't climb up from the ground, just lying there and muttering to himself, "I felt death, it has never been so close to me. If it could have taken me away earlier, I wouldn't have to pursue the answer to all this."

"The one who gave you the wrong answer was not the experiment that someone tampered with." Flash's voice appeared again, "But yourself, yourself who has always stayed in the past time. You knew that experimental result was incorrect, but you hoped so much that it was correct."

"But it was also you who once told me that the black and white of this world are not reversed by personal views, nor can they be confused by anyone's greed. Right is right, wrong is wrong."

"You are right, Barry." Batman's voice began to become ethereal, "Then let all this end."

"Wait!" Barry standing on the side said, "Batman, do you know what a big trouble you just caused? You don't want to leave the two of us here to clean up the mess you made, right?!!"

Flash-Batman's movements paused. Barry spread his hands and explained helplessly, "I warned you, if you run too fast, it will bring disaster. Now the disaster has descended, and it hasn't just descended on you alone. You brought the disaster of speedsters to another universe, and you have to be responsible for solving it!"

"What exactly is that?" Flash asked.

"Haven't you encountered it?" Barry sighed helplessly and said, "It seems you haven't run fast enough, but I and some other speedsters who run fast enough have encountered it. That guy is Death, the Death exclusively for speedsters."

"We all know that the Speed Force is easy to use. Yes, we are also the creators of the Speed Force, but the Speed Force has its own operating rules and is not completely under our control."

"While creating the Speed Force, we are also consuming it. The faster we run, the more we consume. And once we reach the critical point, in order to maintain its own balance, the Speed Force will let Death come to find us, kill us, and use our power to replenish the Speed Force. This is the life and death cycle belonging to speedsters."

"Are you saying the Speed Force is a conscious creature?"

"No, it doesn't have any. It is just a kind of existence that follows natural laws. Death also doesn't have any consciousness. It will only constantly pursue the relatively concentrated nodes in the Speed Force, catch up with them, and kill them, so I said you can't run too fast."

"Why can you avoid it?" Batman cared more about this.

"I... I don't completely use the Speed Force. You also saw that there is other power in it."

"But this is impossible. I cannot master any power other than the Speed Force, let alone combine them into one."

"Because that is a very special power, more fundamental and essential than any power in this world. To be precise, it comes from you, Batman, that is your darkness."

The two voices in the heart of the person lying on the ground were silent. After a while, he slowly stood up, looked at Barry, and said, "You still have too many secrets."

"Yes, but now is not the time to talk about this." Barry sighed again and said, "Originally Death only existed in the universe on our side. I was extremely careful when I was active in this universe, paying attention not to run too fast, just because once it attracted the other party's attention, he could cross the universe to this side, and there are speedsters in this universe too. They might not use the Speed Force, but their speed is equally fast."

"At the same time, there are also concepts of time and death here. No one knows whether this guy will appear behind every speedster and time controller after he comes..."

Spider-Men finally entered the National Library. The books here are as vast as the sea, distributed in two buildings. The interior of the library is luxurious and retro, brightly lit, and incomparably prosperous.

Finally, they met the time manipulator in the central circular hall. His expression was still very dull, but he had some fluctuations when he saw Noir Spider-Man.

"Do you come from the past?" He looked at Noir Spider-Man and asked actively.

"War is not the past in our universe, but the present." Noir Spider-Man tilted his head and said, "Germany and the Soviet Union are fighting fiercely, and winter is coming soon."

"And you are standing here, doing nothing." The time manipulator's tone finally carried a trace of anger, "You have the ability to stop it."

"I am trying to stop it." Noir Spider-Man's tone was very calm, and he said, "In fact, due to the changes I brought, the situation has improved a lot. Due to the joining of some flexible, powerful, and always kind-hearted special young people, the Soviet Union has gained an overwhelming advantage, and the war may end ahead of schedule."

"You and your companions?"

"Don't talk nonsense, just some universe tour group members who help when they see injustice."

The anger on the time manipulator's face dissipated, replaced by a complex expression, and he said, "Perhaps you have already noticed that every personality and their abilities here did not appear randomly, and my appearance is because of a war that David has never experienced and should not have experienced, coming from his mother, Ms. Haller." ===== CHAPTER 2390 =====