Starting from scratch, Batman crushed my dream of getting rich

Chapter 432 Speed ​​Force, You Schemed Against Me

Generally speaking, in line with Batman's style, his creed has always been that the more backup plans the better, the more detailed the intelligence work on allies and enemies the better, and the more weaknesses of the opponent the better. His list of countermeasures is already itching to be used.

He certainly wouldn't give up this damp habit just because Gotham City has improved. However, superheroes generally have an unspoken rule: they rarely enforce the law in other people's territories. Everyone has a strong sense of territory, and no one would voluntarily go into someone else's area of ​​activity to overstep their bounds.

Batman usually creates countermeasures lists for the world after the Justice League is formed. As one of the leaders of the Justice League, the territory he needs to oversee expands from Gotham City to the entire world, and his allies change from Robin, Nightwing, and Commissioner Gordon in Gotham City to Superman, Wonder Woman, and others. Therefore, the list naturally becomes very long at once. Although the main additions are countermeasures against his own people, he has indeed made quite a few plans targeting his enemies.

Before the Justice League was formed, at this point in time, Batman wasn't really keen on making a list of superheroes around the world—unless someone came to Gotham City to cause trouble or attacked Wayne Enterprises' properties in other places, everyone was basically at peace.

The reconstruction plan for Gotham City alone has already kept him so busy that he's barely able to keep track of everything. This time, he only came out to check on the situation because the people that Ma Zhaodi was sending into Gotham City seemed a bit off. In fact, he already got the answer to what he wanted to know from Ma Zhaodi yesterday.

“As a superhero, Mr. Barry Allen isn’t careful enough,” Bruce thought to himself. “But that certainly increases his credibility.”

"The necessary work has been done, and I should now go back to work on the reconstruction plan."

After Barry and Henry hugged Nora and cried, Nora's wariness lessened considerably, and she was almost certain that they were her husband and son—but why did they look so much older?
"Barry, why have you suddenly turned into a young man? And Henry, how come you've aged so much?"

When the question was asked, Barry and Henry's expressions changed drastically.

They suddenly realized where Nora might have come from, or rather, what time period she might have come from.

Henry immediately looked at his son, his eyes questioning, "Barry? You went back in time again and changed the clock?"

Barry gently shook his head, indicating that he hadn't done so.

His thinking was even faster than his father's. He realized that if someone had really traveled through time to bring his mother from his childhood to the present, then the current timeline must have been altered. However, he still clearly remembered the scene of his mother's death and his father's experience in prison.

Therefore, the person in front of me cannot be my mother from when I was a child, or rather, she may not even be Nora Allen from this universe.

Who brought her here?
“Um, Mom,” Barry hesitated for a moment before saying, “Do you remember how you got to Gotham?”

"Me? I saw two beams of light run into our house at night. I don't know what kind of monsters they were, but one of them, a yellow-clad man with a red glow, stabbed me in the heart with a knife. The other one, a golden-glowing man, just carried you away."

At this point, Nora Allen subconsciously touched the spot where she should have been injured, but there was no pain there.

Am I hallucinating?

"And then you got to Gotham City?"

"Yes, and then I arrived in Gotham City."

At this point, Barry and Henry immediately pinpointed the timeline of Nora Allen's situation.

To confirm further, Barry asked, "Mom, do you remember giving me a teddy bear once?"

"Huh? Why are you suddenly bringing this up?" Nora was even more confused. "I bought you a ragdoll dog, not a bear." The father and son exchanged another glance.

“Someone saved my mother from another universe,” Barry thought. “And it was a clever move. Instead of directly changing what happened that night, he sent Flash’s mother to this universe.”

"But who did this? Who has the power to travel through time and space? Who knows that the timeline cannot be altered at will, but can only be deceived? Who went back to the night my mother was killed to save her? Who brought a person who was on the verge of death back to life?"

After asking a few questions, Barry already had a vague answer in his mind.

"It will only be another version of myself from another universe. He was better prepared and more meticulous. He knew the risks of changing the past, so he didn't choose to change the past directly. Instead, he deceived the timeline. He replaced Nora with another clone or a corpse obtained through some other means. That's right, the multiverse! The multiverse's clones have no self-awareness; they are just empty shells, making them the most suitable for deceiving everyone."

"The me in that other world is simply a genius. Moreover, this method is not only something he can do, but something I can do too."

As Barry thought about this, his heart began to stir with excitement.

"Since he can bring my mother to my universe, I can definitely bring her to his universe as well, unless he doesn't travel back and forth using the Speed ​​Force. But that's not a problem. We're both the Flash. If he can find a way, there's no reason why I can't."

"The problem now is, how do I locate his universe?"

As Barry was deep in thought, he looked up and noticed that Nora and Henry were staring at each other. He immediately coughed twice, interrupting their eye contact.

Henry looked at Barry and saw him secretly raising his phone behind Nora's back. The phone displayed the message: "This isn't our universe. Mom, Dad, wake up!"
Seeing Henry's expression suddenly change, Ma Zhaodi breathed a sigh of relief. He had just been wondering whether this person could be considered a minotaur.

Just then, there was another knock on the door.

"Hmm? Who is it?"

Ma Zhaodi walked forward and opened the door, somewhat puzzled: "Isn't this place usually deserted? What's going on today—"

His voice stopped abruptly because he saw the person standing in the doorway.

That was "Barry Allen" dressed in casual clothes.

"You—Holy crap, how did you get here?!"

"I can't find it. I can feel a trace of my own speed force in the air. I followed that trace all the way here."

Ma Zhaodi's vision went black.

"Damn it, I only used the Speed ​​Cube once, and it caused this problem?"

"Speed ​​Force, you tricked me!"

(End of this chapter)