Starting from scratch, Batman crushed my dream of getting rich

Chapter 384 It's normal to suffer setbacks
"No, ultimately, the first and second sentences you said are completely unrelated."

Ma Zhaodi couldn't help but complain in his mind: "'My friend was electrocuted and turned into a charcoal' and 'I'm so hungry' are completely different topics. How can you combine these two things so naturally and smoothly?"

“Listen, Gibran,” Barry was still trying to calm the agitated Gibran: “Your friend’s death wasn’t your fault, don’t let it—”

“I know it’s not my fault!” Gibran roared. “It’s all that Wells! That damn Wells! That damn Harrison Wells’s fault!”

Upon hearing this, Barry couldn't help but frown anxiously. Gibran seemed to harbor considerable resentment towards Wells, and he was worried that Gibran would use his superpowers to go to Star Labs to seek revenge on Dr. Wells.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," Gibran roared a few times, then suddenly regained his composure: "I'm sorry, I'm just so hungry. These past few days, I've been getting hungrier and hungrier, and I can't stand it anymore."

Looking at the emaciated Gibran, Barry couldn't help but ask, "Have you not eaten for the past few days?"

“Eating? No, no. Food is useless. Ever since the day I was struck by lightning, my body, my cells, have been craving something else. I need energy, lots of energy, the more the better.”

At this point, Barry finally realized what was going on.

So that's why he was following that substation employee, and that's why someone broke into the substation a while ago.

“You need to absorb a lot of electricity to satisfy your body’s hunger, so you sneaked into the substation before,” Barry concluded. “But you didn’t have time to absorb too much electricity before the substation discovered that someone had broken in. They upgraded the security system and now you need to swipe a card to enter, so you haven’t been able to sneak in since then.”

“You’re following Donahue because he has the substation access card and he’s alone—Kahlil Gibran. If you kill him, you’ll become a real murderer.”

“I don’t need to kill him.” Gibran’s eyes gradually showed impatience, and the hunger that was surging through his body made his mental state quite unstable: “As long as he is willing to give me the card, I will let him go directly.”

"I only want to kill Wells. I don't need to kill Donahue. I just need to sneak in. Yes, I just need to run into the substation and absorb enough energy."

"Just a little bit, I don't want to inhale too much, just a little bit is enough."

Watching Kahlil Gibran mutter to himself as if he were insane, Ma Zhaodi suddenly realized that the other man's mental state was clearly no longer suitable for normal communication.

“Dr. Wells can’t be killed either!” Barry exclaimed urgently. “He has made many mistakes, but he doesn’t deserve to die! The court hasn’t sentenced him to death.”

“Tell my friends and my life that!” Gibran immediately flew into a rage upon hearing someone speak in defense of Wells: “He made me a murderer!”

"No, you're not—"

"Wells must die!"

At this point, the topic finally exploded with discussion.

Gibran suddenly raised his hand, and a sharp electric current immediately burst from his fingertips. The crackling arcs of electricity turned the dim street into a pale white light as it struck Barry.

"He can not only absorb electricity, but also discharge it!"

Barry was utterly astonished. Without any warning, the lightning bolt was incredibly fast. By the time he activated his Speed ​​Force to run, the arc of electricity had already struck him.

"Bilibili——"

"cheers!"

Barry, who was lying on the ground in pain from the high-voltage electric shock, barely managed to lift his head and look at the figure shouting "Cheers!"

"Cough cough, sorry, it was subconscious, I couldn't help it." Ma Zhaodi chuckled awkwardly as he ran over from the side and helped Barry up: "Are you alright? Can you still hold on?"

"It hurts so much, but I can still bear it."

Barry quickly put a chocolate-covered liqueur in his mouth, and his body immediately began to heal faster.

"You two, get out of my way!" Gibran's voice was now almost manic. "I'm so hungry, so very hungry! Don't stop me! Don't stop me!"

“Kahlil Gibran, calm down and come back to Starfall with me—” Barry paused abruptly. The Doctor was in the lab, and bringing Gibran back would be like inviting a wolf into the house.

"Buddy, we might be able to help you, but please don't attack the substation directly yet, okay?"

"I said, don't block my way!"

Gibran unleashed a lightning whip in an instant, but Barry was prepared this time. He and Ma Zhaodi vanished in a flash, preventing the attack from hitting him.

“Old Ma, the situation was too urgent just now, I didn’t have time to take you home first, and now the situation has become even more dangerous.” Barry put Ma Zhaodi directly into the substation and hurriedly instructed him, “I can’t take you back first, you must hide well and don’t run out.”

"What do you want to do?"

"I'll stop him!"

While the two were exchanging instructions, Gibran did not rest at all. He strode back to the entrance of the substation, and to make matters worse, it was already past closing time.

The substation staff came out at this moment, each of them carrying an employee access card, and it was clear that Gibran no longer intended to carry out the previous plan of sneaking in.

Blocked on the road by the Flash and some random guy, he knew his plan had been exposed and hiding was pointless, so he decided to take the most brutal and direct approach to obtain the energy he wanted.

Amidst the crackling and dazzling flashes of electricity, Gibran rushed towards the workers at the substation. Intense arcs and sparks erupted from his body, leaving charred marks on the ground. If such an electric current were to strike an ordinary person, its effect would certainly be instantly fatal.

"You forced me to do this!"

At this moment, the employees who came out of the substation were so frightened by the sudden change that their minds went blank. Some employees reacted quickly and turned around and ran away, while others were simply stunned and stood there.

"Run!"

Barry shouted anxiously, transforming into a golden lightning bolt and rapidly moving the employees towards the substation at supersonic speed. However, he was only one person, and the speed at which an electric arc breaks through the air was by no means slow.

zizi——

An arc of electricity swept across the street, and as sparks flew, most of the employees were swept away by the golden lightning, but Barry was sent flying heavily.

He wasn't fast enough, so he could only use his body to shield an employee from the electric current.

"Run."

"What's the point of running now!" Ma Zhaodi's voice suddenly rang out: "It's too late! Everyone, hurry up and throw away your access cards!"

(End of this chapter)