Starting from scratch, Batman crushed my dream of getting rich

Chapter 416 Firestorm Matrix

P.S.: After Firestorm, Reverse-Flash will appear, and then the Flash storyline will be over. Sorry friends, my writing hasn't been very good lately, I'm really sorry, I'm speeding up now.
"You're a really nice person."

Ma Zhaodi's blatant sarcastic remarks made Snart even more unhappy. He straightened up and wiped his hands and mouth.

"roll."

"No problem—but you probably won't be in the mood for the fries and fried chicken I brought?"

Snart raised an eyebrow and looked at the paper bag in Ma Zhaodi's hand.

"I'm not kidding you anymore." Ma Zhaodi smiled and handed over the bag: "Heatwave's performance this time is a bit dangerous, can you control him?"

“Don’t worry, if Mick wants to kill someone, I’ll take care of him first.” Snart dumped the fries from his plate into the trash can, then took out fries and fried chicken from a paper bag: “I won’t break my promise to you.”

"That 300,000?"

“It will be delivered to your home.” Snart waved his hand impatiently: “It’s such a small amount of money, don’t keep bothering me.”

It's clear that Snart got a little cocky after receiving the twelve million dollar painting—but given that the Flash didn't show up this time, his disappointment probably outweighed his joy.

Judging from the way he ate the fried chicken, this depressed mood probably won't last long, and he'll be able to regroup soon—that's how the Rogues and the Flash are, their main theme is a series of tumultuous relationships.

The piper was sent home and will have to continue dealing with his parents for a while; Snart got the painting and won't cause any more trouble for the time being, so there are two fewer problems, but there are still some issues that need to be resolved.

The next day, Ma Zhaodi went to the Starry Sky Laboratory to deliver food again, and this time, he was stopped by Caitlin.

“Facial recognition on the street pinpointed Ronnie’s location.” Caitlin’s expression seemed somewhat conflicted. “It’s strange, he’s been loitering near a building—do you know Professor Stein?”

"Martin Stein?"

Cisco, the know-it-all standing nearby, immediately perked up his ears and began his usual enthusiastic and rambling explanation: "He's a very impressive scholar. I remember he focused on the study of the transformation of matter into different forms—it might sound a bit like science fiction, but he has indeed achieved considerable success in such mysterious fields as molecular deformation and quantum splicing."

"He received the Conway Medal of Science and Technology, and three times in total." Wells browsed through the professor's file and couldn't help but exclaim in admiration, "It's a pity that this wasn't one of my previous honors, and they certainly won't award it to a scientist with a bad record who has been involved in a major accident."

“The key point is that Ronnie was loitering near Professor Stein’s house, where his wife lives,” Caitlin continued. “And we discovered that Professor Stein also went missing in that incident, and even more coincidentally, we found out that he had recently been working on a project called ‘Firestorm’.”

Ma Zhaodi casually asked, "Do you have any video footage of Stein on the night of the accident?"

“Joe gave us all the footage from that night, and there was one shot in which Professor Stein happened to be.” Barry waved his hand. “To be honest, I was a little surprised when I was going through the footage, because I had seen him on the train before the explosion.”

"That's quite a coincidence."

"The key point is that Professor Stein published a paper on the Firestorm project itself. This research on molecular splitting and recombination has progressed to the point where it can directly split apart an entire wall, destroying it at the molecular level—but there's only one paper on it." Professor Wells sneered, "The university was furious about this at the time, and after he disappeared on the night of the accident, an old acquaintance of ours took over and confiscated all his research materials and documents."

“Ah, let me guess.” Ma Zhaodi chuckled: “An old acquaintance, with this level of authority, and the Firestorm research itself is so destructive, plus the school’s inexplicable anger—the military has its eye on Stein’s research, right? General Erling probably thinks his results are very suitable for making weapons, so when he publishes a paper, the military sees it as a leak.”

"bingo."

Wells nodded: "Although Erlin has become more low-key now because of the mountain of public opinion issues and has been hiding in the military base recently, the troubles he caused before are still there."

"After Stein disappears, just pack up his research and take it with you, without even paying for it. Those bastards might be secretly laughing right now."

"That's just how things are."

Barry snapped to pause, and the video on the big screen froze at the moment of the explosion. In the flames, Stein was holding a strange, square-shaped device, while a humanoid ball of flame rushed towards him. "That thing is..."

“It’s Ronnie,” Caitlin replied through gritted teeth. “I can recognize him at a glance. This ball of light is Ronnie.”

"So, the two of them became one in the explosion?"

"We speculate that the Firestorm Matrix is ​​responsible—the instrument the professor is holding."

"That makes sense, which is why Ronnie went to the vicinity of Stein's house, and why Firestorm said he wasn't Ronnie."

Is Naroni still alive?

"You'll have to ask Firestorm about that."

Ma Zhaodi nodded knowingly.

"So, what did you keep me here for?"

“Shauna couldn’t handle Firestorm,” Cisco said. “We all saw it. He was on fire that day. Anyone who got close to him would be roasted to a crisp, let alone get close.”

"Then why are you looking for me? Even if I were roasted, I'd turn into charcoal."

“No, no, you don’t need to fight him.” Caitlin replied immediately, “We all have confidence in your eloquence. What fists can’t do, you can usually do with your words.”

A question mark slowly appeared above Ma Zhaodi's head.

"What if I get roasted?"

"We'll save you with alcohol."

"Could you go find Snart?"

“The essence of Project Firestorm is not simply flames,” Professor Wells replied. “It’s the ability to break down and recombine matter at the molecular level—although it seems that Ronnie can’t do that yet; he’s just making fire.”

"so?"

"So Snart might not be able to control him, otherwise we would just need to have Cisco build another freeze gun."

Ma Zhaodi couldn't help but sigh.

"Why is everyone failing to do their job and just relying on unqualified personnel to come to Bari? When are you finally able to recover your abilities?"

"I can't get there, I just can't use my own speed."

Wells narrowed his eyes

“Don’t worry, Barry, you’ll recover quickly, I assure you—just a little psychological stimulation will be enough.”

Ma Zhaodi thought to himself, "This is not a good word."

(End of this chapter)