Let me show you a new way Chapter 076

On a certain highway.

“Barry Allen, I told you, destiny has been waiting for a long time!”

Lin Dong’s voice echoed in Barry’s mind, but Barry felt a sense of decadence and unease he had never experienced before.

“I’m not the real Barry Allen. I’m just a fake, an imitation, a robot created for experiments,” Barry said weakly in his mind. His speed was too slow, even far slower than Wally West’s before he lost his speed, let alone Johnny Quick’s current speed.

His speed, his identity, his memories, his appearance, were all just imitations of the real Barry Allen, imitations of the real Flash, and he was just a robot.

“No, you can’t think like that! You are Barry Allen, you are the Flash! You must be!”

Lin Dong’s voice rang out.

“If your thoughts truly mimic the Flash, then deep within your programming, you know what the real Flash would do!”

“Run, Barry, Run!!!”

The robotic Flash, lying on the ground, propped himself up, faint currents of electricity sparking around him.

“Alright, Doctor Fate!”

“I guess you’re right!”

Boom—

The robotic Flash ran desperately, golden currents of electricity appearing around him. A strange energy began to flow within the robot’s body—the power of the Speed Force.

Then, silently, the robotic Flash entered an unfamiliar environment, filled with countless colors, currents, and images.

He saw a spaceship falling from the sky, crashing near an ordinary farming couple in Kansas.

He saw a woman killed by a robber during a home invasion.

Then he saw ahead, a constantly running red figure.

This was the Speed Force dimension, a space difficult to analyze and control, the source of power for all speedsters, and a mysterious region beyond the timeline.

Far ahead of him, the man in a red suit with golden lightning stripes continued to run, run.

“Barry, Barry!” the robotic Flash shouted, desperately increasing his speed. He could easily feel the gradual loosening of his internal components, damage caused by overloading.

The Flash running ahead heard the call and turned his head. His face showed clear wrinkles, and his legs and body were on the verge of collapse.

The aged Flash paused, thought for a moment, and then slowly understood.

“It’s you. It seems they found a suitable energy source,” the aged Flash seemed very pleased.

“The world is facing disaster again. Please tell me, what should I do?” the robotic Flash asked loudly.

“Run as always, Barry, you just need to run!” the aged Flash replied. Ahead of him, a special scene began to faintly appear: a robot in a black bat suit appeared on the ground, fearlessly facing Darkseid, and was then shattered by an Omega beam.

“But… I’m not as fast as you.”

“But… I’m not as fast as you!”

The aged Flash smiled, looking at the Flash beside him who looked exactly like him.

“No, You’re faster!”

The aged Flash smiled, then unhesitatingly charged towards the time barrier. Beyond the barrier, Wonder Woman used her pure white wrist to block two Omega beams. She let out a mournful scream but did not retreat, ultimately being erased from existence by the Omega Effect.

“Bang—” The barrier of the Speed Force conduit was shattered by the aged Flash. He carried immense power and struck the struggling Darkseid with a punch.

A flash of lightning illuminated, and the entire Speed Force conduit was enveloped in a blinding white light.

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On the distant roadside, Johnny Quick, with a cruel smile, tightly gripped Wally’s neck with his left hand.

“See! I’m the fastest person in this world! I’m the god of speed!” His right hand vibrated continuously, slowly approaching Wally’s heart. “What can you do?”

“Cough, cough… I really can’t do anything!” Wally coughed, looking behind Johnny Quick, a smile appearing on his face. “But he can!”

“Wh—” Johnny Quick didn’t finish his word before he was sent flying by a heavy punch carrying golden lightning, crashing hard onto the ground.

In his place, the Flash, Barry Allen, appeared from nowhere. Endless golden currents of electricity coiled around his body, crackling in the air like a god descended upon the world.

“Miss me?” the Flash said, a warm smile gracing his lips.

“Ho… how is that possible?” Johnny Quick showed an expression of disbelief.

Johnny Quick shouted loudly, the robot’s body clearly contained only a simulated Speed Force, it was impossible for it to possess true speed, but… how could this be possible?

Johnny Quick shouted in disbelief, he immediately leaped up and threw a punch at the Flash.

Then everything stopped…

Even for a speedster like Johnny Quick, in the face of the Flash’s maximum speed, he was no different from being frozen.

“Impossible?” Barry twisted his wrist, the lightning on his body constantly flickering in the stagnant time. He punched Johnny Quick in the face again, sending him flying backward. “You have no idea what’s possible!”

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Speed Force.

Something that, theoretically, a robot could not possess.

The Speed Force is not a superpower; it is a rule, a phenomenon.

This phenomenon only appears in biological organisms. Robots can generally only imitate it, but they cannot truly master it.

But when the robotic Flash witnessed the real Flash sacrificing himself, he felt something.

It was the true rhythm of the Speed Force; they leaped, cheered, and ran endlessly.

That was the power of the Speed Force.

The power belonging to Barry Allen.

“Barry, do you have time?” Doctor Fate’s voice sounded in his ear.

“I have plenty of time!” Barry replied with a smile.

“Good. The world is in chaos because of the previous global blackout. Cyborg is already rebuilding the network and power, but there are still people taking advantage of the situation. How long will it take you to deal with them?” Lin Dong said, observing the world from outside Earth’s atmosphere.

“I will deal with them within one second.” Barry’s body instantly transformed into a bolt of lightning, picked up Wally who was lying on the ground, and instantly appeared in a hospital bed.

Then he transformed into lightning again and began to travel across the globe.