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Chapter 424 Destiny, isn't it strange?
A flash of red light, and Reverse Lightning knocked the man unconscious. Then, he picked up a fruit knife from the room, gripped it in his hand, and walked straight toward the woman.

"No, no! No! Don't come any closer!"

However, pleading and crying were useless at this moment; Reverse Lightning plunged a knife into the woman's heart.

Seeing this, Ma Zhaodi subconsciously wanted to rush over, but there was nothing in the void to use as leverage. He floated in place like a jellyfish—ordinary people without the speed force could not cross timelines with their physical bodies alone.

The fruit knife was plunged into the woman's heart, and she fell heavily to the ground, her gaze still unconsciously fixed on the doorway—Barry had just been carried away by that golden light, and she was instinctively worried about her son's safety.

Silence fell over the room.

Just then, Ma Zhaodi felt a strong push against his back; something—or rather, someone—shoved him into this space-time.

He appeared in the room, which was a complete mess.

"What should I do? What can I do?"

In less than a second, Ma Zhaodi figured out the answer.

He quickly bent down and gently tapped the woman's head.

Substituting one thing for another, deceiving the heavens and crossing the sea—this is precisely the greatest function of the skill of "smuggling".

At this moment, the flow of time and space was cold and still, as if it had not been affected in any way, and the woman on the ground was also lifeless.

But Ma Zhaodi could sense that the system was operating stably, and Nora Allen's soul was being silently transported to another world.

There, she will be reborn.

Just as he finished doing this, the golden lightning struck again, and Ma Zhaodi was once again pushed into the flow of time and space. This time, time began to jump backward.

He saw the man in yellow running through the street, but the electric light on his body began to fade rapidly and eventually disappeared.

"Why? Why did my Speed ​​Force disappear?!"

He pulled down the hood in shock and anger, revealing the face of a strange man—it was not Professor Wells.

“Professor Elberd Swan,” the AI ​​projection answered the man’s question, “Due to the changes in Barry Allen’s parents, the Flash disappeared—therefore, you could not replicate the Speed ​​Force from his suit, and thus could not possess the Speed ​​Force, and therefore could not travel through time again.”

"You can never go back to your own time."

Upon hearing this answer, Swann's face showed a look of astonishment, which then turned into a ferocious expression, followed by despair.

"Do not--!"

However, the timeline does not change according to anyone's will.

The golden lightning didn't stop, and Ma Zhaodi continued to leap backward.

boom!
A loud bang came from a certain time segment. He subconsciously looked over and saw Dr. Wells crawling out of an overturned car, his face covered in blood and his expression was miserable.

Elberd was standing nearby; he removed the nail barricades from the road and walked over to Wells.

Blood was flowing from the car, and half of a woman's body could be vaguely seen—she was dead.

"Please save my wife!"

"Stop joking, she's been dead for over a century."

Swann took out a small machine, bent down, and stared at Dr. Wells's face.

“In 2020, you and your wife, Tess Morgan, launched the particle accelerator, changing the course of history—but if I want to go home, I’m afraid I’ll have to make it happen sooner.” “I’m sorry, Dr. Wells.”

He inserted one end of the machine into Wells' heart and the other end into his own arm. At that moment, their bodies began to undergo astonishing changes. Swan's face twisted and blurred, becoming like Wells's, while Wells's body began to dry up and dehydrate, eventually turning into a mummified corpse.

Time moved backward once more.

But this time, the leap in time seemed to far exceed Ma Zhaodi's imagination. After the particle accelerator exploded, he automatically jumped out of the time flow and entered the real world.

His body seemed to be carrying some kind of inertia, repeating what he had done before at hundreds or even thousands of times the speed of accelerating time, while his consciousness was quite clear. He felt that he could break this inertia as long as he had a thought, but he did not do so.

Barry didn't jump back into the timeline until he regained his superpowers and saved Cisco.

The lightning bolt hadn't stopped yet; he was being propelled forward, hurtling towards the future.

When Ma Zhaodi turned his head again, he saw Mark Madon, one of the Madon brothers, appear, trying to manipulate a tsunami to flood Central City; he also saw Cisco being forced to give Snart's sister the nickname "Golden Glider" and to build her a golden gun; there was also a hacker who controlled mechanical wasps, a super-powered criminal who could transform into anyone, and the madman "Magician" who threatened the entire city with bombs.
He could only skim over these fragments and hope that Barry could handle this group of never-ending supervillains.

Finally, he saw Wells and Barry, both wearing Reverse Flash uniforms, facing off.

"Your real name is Alberd Swann?"

"That's right, that's the name I was born with."

"How far into the future are you from?"

"136 years later—no need to beat around the bush, just ask the question you want to ask."

Wells looked at Barry, his eyes gleaming with excitement—a light that Ma Zhaodi recognized all too well—it was the same light the Joker always had when he saw Batman.

Why did you kill my mother?

Wells laughed heartily.

"Because I hate The Flash."

“I once idolized your future self. I devoted myself to studying everything about you and pursuing the same power as you. In the end, I detected the remnants of your Speed ​​Force on one of your uniforms.”

“I have mastered the Speed ​​Force, but you don’t like me, so I became your opposite, I became Reverse-Flash.”

“We are enemies, adversaries, opposites, completely opposite beings, and what’s worse, we are evenly matched.”

"Until one day, I learned your name, and I also learned how to defeat you—I traveled through time and space back to when you were a child. As long as I kill you back then, the Flash will cease to exist."

"But your future self caught up with me, and I couldn't kill you, so I killed your mother and framed your father—the trauma of your childhood was huge enough to deviate from your original destiny, enough to make the Flash disappear."

"But you know what's the funniest thing?"

Barry didn't answer, but Swan continued talking to himself.

"The funniest thing is that after the Flash disappeared, I also lost the Speed ​​Force—because my Speed ​​Force came from the Flash."

“It was then that I realized I was stranded in this era. To me, you are all souls who have been dead for 136 years, and I am all alone. I dream of returning to my own time.”

"Therefore, I have no choice but to create my nemesis once again, to create you—The Flash."

"Fate, isn't it a strange thing?"

(End of this chapter)