Starting from scratch, Batman crushed my dream of getting rich

Chapter 354 Who are you, beautiful lady?
After the gas man was imprisoned in the superpowered prison, Central City was peaceful for quite some time.

For now, Ma Zhaodi really likes the villain intensity in Central City, and he's even starting to think that the Drakes made a very wise decision to move here—if nothing unexpected happens.

It's worth mentioning that after all these days of searching, the fans still haven't found any information about them. All they've done is share historical anecdotes and cat pictures in the group chat, along with various urban legends; things like a landmine girl who escaped from a military lab, or an Iron Man who ended up penniless and working in a factory, or a Flash who's taken too much and sneaks into a power plant at night to steal electricity.
A vibrant scene of life, where everything flourishes.

"I can see that the citizens of the central city are all highly skilled." Ma Zhaodi scrolled through the messages in the group chat and couldn't help but make a few comments.

But the skilled citizens weren't important for the time being; at least no one had died in these urban legends. What he was most concerned about was where Drake and his companion had gone.

"We couldn't find them in the three-wheeled vehicle either. Logically, they're probably not in the central city, but the system also said that the two of them are in the central city."

By now, Ma Zhaodi had begun to have some guesses.

"It probably ran off to another universe."

The couple is most likely not in this universe, so there's not much Ma Zhaodi can do about it. He's not too worried about their safety, since Drake can survive in Gotham, so it shouldn't be any harder for him to survive in a different universe's central city.

He just needs to push the pace forward a bit, and once he's familiar with the timeline of this universe, he can activate his smuggling skill again and go to another universe to find Drake.

Alternatively, we could wait for Cisco's abilities to awaken; negotiating with him would be much easier than dealing with the timeline.

So far, he has helped deal with three superpowered villains: Black, who controls the weather, Denton, and a bald man with poison gas. He has gained 15% of the timeline's approval progress. Based on this pattern, the remaining part will probably require about 17 more villains to fill in the gaps—of course, it is also possible that some particularly big bosses can provide extra progress.

But that's not something he needs to worry about right now. Barry isn't fast enough right now, and the data model for the three-wheeled motorcycle is still iterating and upgrading to match his speed—it can't target speedsters who are faster than Barry.

Just as Ma Zhaodi was scrolling through the messages in the group chat on his phone, a figure came to his side.

"They've switched to selling hamburgers today?"

"Ok?"

Ma Zhaodi looked up and casually put his phone back in his pocket: "Yeah, I'm planning to sell some fast food or something, see if I can get off work earlier—why are you leaving so early today?"

"I finished my morning run at eight o'clock."

"You're still so punctual. Didn't you take your sister out today?"

"Lisa went to the seaside city for a trip. I heard the scenery there is beautiful—do you need to see her?"

"It's nothing, just confirming the time."

"what?"

"nothing."

Ma Zhaodi looked up and smiled at his old, familiar customer.

"Snat, how many hamburgers would you like?"

Leonard Snatt glanced at his watch: "Four will be enough. We have things to do later, and eating too much won't help us move around—can you finish in three minutes?"

“Okay, give me one minute and eight seconds.” Snart’s lips curled up. Since nine months ago, he had been a regular customer of Ma Zhaodi’s food truck. At first, it was because Lisa wanted to try something new, but later it was because Ma Zhaodi’s cooking skills were indeed a bit addictive. No matter whether he liked the food or not, Ma Zhaodi could always make it delicious. It was a kind of cooking skill that transcended eating habits and personal tastes.

After the two became acquainted, he began to feel that the shop owner was not just a simple cook, although he has yet to find any evidence to support this claim.

Interestingly, the shop owner didn't seem to mind his quirk of strictly controlling the time. Even though Snart had set rather strict requirements for the food preparation time, Snart simply accepted them without question.

What pleased him even more was that the other party never asked any unnecessary questions. For example, today, he bought four hamburgers and told Ma Zhaodi that these four hamburgers were "not enough to fill him up," but Ma Zhaodi didn't ask any more questions and simply took the money and did the job.

Overall, he quite enjoyed buying food from this food truck, and he could even tolerate the truck owner's erratic behavior of wandering around the city—even though, for him, the fewer uncontrollable factors, the better.

Ma Zhaodi is one of the few people he can compromise with, but of course, that doesn't mean he plans to run all over town looking for a food truck, which is not in his nature.

He spent some time getting to know the group of people who frequently came to Ma Zhaodi to buy goods in bulk, roughly understood the cooperative relationship between the people and Lao Ma, and directly infiltrated the group of people.

Therefore, whenever Ma Zhaodi reports the location to someone to pick up the goods, Snart is usually able to obtain first-hand information directly, thus accurately locating the food truck's location—making the uncontrollable controllable, which has always been his style of doing things.

One minute and eight seconds later, Ma Zhaodi handed the paper bag to Snart without missing a second.

"Okay, here are your four hamburgers—remember to eat them while they're hot."

"Thank you."

After Snatt left with his hamburger, Ma Zhaodi casually took out his phone and glanced at the scene in the Star Labs again—Dr. Wells seemed to be helping Barry train his brain's thinking speed. Barry was using his Speed ​​Force to play chess with him, play ping-pong with Cisco, and play a medical simulation game with Caitlin at the same time.

Barry's speed is constantly increasing naturally, but his brain often can't keep up with his body. This is a common problem for novice Speed ​​Force users. The faster the speed increases, the more the mind needs to keep up, otherwise, foolish things like intentionally running into bullets will happen.

"It seems today will be another peaceful day."

Just as Ma Zhaodi was thinking this, another customer came in.

"Hello, I'd like to buy a hamburger."

"no problem."

"Sorry, I've been dieting and exercising lately, but the food from your food truck smells so good, I feel like all my recent workouts have been for nothing—wait, is that you?!"

"Ok?"

Ma Zhaodi looked up in confusion at the diner in front of him. He was certain that he had never seen this customer before, because she was strikingly beautiful.

She had beautiful long golden hair tied in a ponytail, wore a white blazer over a soft pink dress, and had bright eyes and white teeth. With her well-proportioned features, she was the kind of beauty that appealed to both Eastern and Western aesthetics.

He even wore glasses, giving him a somewhat intellectual, bookish feel.

She asked Ma Zhaodi in surprise, "Old Ma! What are you doing here? Where have you been all this time?"

Ma Zhaodi's brain began to work rapidly.

(End of this chapter)