The moment Qingshui and Harvey Dent stepped out of the elevator downstairs and opened the main door, Barry, accompanied by a red flash of lightning, appeared before Qingshui.
"Woah, what happened?" Barry asked Qingshui.
"Another world, one that has already fallen into darkness, is about to invade ours and drag us down with it. He has a split personality and can communicate with his other-world self." Qingshui gestured towards Harvey Dent.
"Uh... buddy, I feel like I've seen you in newspapers and on TV news. You look like... some kind of supervillain?"
"I'm Harvey Dent, and you're right. I'm a supervillain who's robbed banks more than a dozen times, but for now, I'm on your side."
"Alright, you can call me The Flash," Barry said to Harvey Dent.
"He sent out a distress signal, asking for immediate backup. He can't hold out much longer," Two-Face suddenly interjected.
"Who is he? Where is he?" Barry asked curiously.
"Batman. He's already gone to the other world ahead of us." Qingshui relayed the route Harvey had just described to Barry.
Suddenly, Qingshui felt a dizzy spell, and the three of them instantly swapped locations, arriving in a vast, dimly lit underground auditorium.
Around the auditorium were mysterious and eerie owl carvings, and at the far end was an open circular gateway.
Beyond the gateway was another space, presenting strange colors of red, yellow, and green.
However, standing before the gateway was another person.
An old acquaintance of Qingshui's—Nightwing.
"Woah..." Nightwing looked at Qingshui, pursing his lips.
He still remembered how he had been toyed with by Qingshui, allowing him to escape Arkham Asylum.
But now, in just over a year, such drastic changes had occurred, and even today, they had to rely on Qingshui's power to help Batman save Jason and this world.
"Batman sent you here to guard the gate?" Qingshui asked Nightwing.
"Something like that," Nightwing replied calmly, nodding. "This is The Flash from Central City, the backup I called in. If things go south, he'll be our last line of defense." Qingshui introduced him to Nightwing.
If the situation truly became irreversible, they would have to rely on The Flash's ability to travel back to a point in time when things could still be salvaged, resetting the universe's timeline to a specific moment. As long as he didn't reset it to before his arrival in this world, Qingshui could recover his memories by synchronizing with his main body.
"I know you," Nightwing said to Barry. He had seen Barry's file on the Batcomputer.
"Normal, I'm often in the papers," Barry said with a chuckle, shrugging. "Now, should we get going?"
"Let's go." Qingshui extended his five fingers towards the white suitcase.
In the blink of an eye, the White Knight attached itself to Qingshui, forming a tall, white metallic robot.
Only after stepping through this circular spatial gate did Qingshui realize that the strange colors he had seen earlier were the colors of this world's sky.
In the distance, the sun was slowly setting, casting a tranquil pale red and orange. The rest of the sky was covered in green, fading from light to dark.
The night here seemed to be this color, making the world appear eerie and oppressive.
"Oh, this looks like the set of a Poltergeist movie." Barry curiously surveyed his surroundings, playing the role of the mood-setter.
This must be the outskirts of Gotham.
"Follow me. The terrain here is different from our Gotham, and the people are different too. We need to be careful," Harvey Dent said, leading the way.
This place was very similar to their Gotham, but the architecture was even more absurd and bizarre, as if the entire city had been scribbled into existence by some entity, chaotic and disordered.
As soon as they entered the city, screams erupted one after another.
In the sky not far away, a person dressed like an insect flew, wantonly spewing flames at a group of fleeing citizens, letting out maniacal laughter.
"That's Firefly. Our Firefly needs an armored suit to breathe fire, but the one here has pyrokinetic abilities, and his suit amplifies his power exponentially," Harvey Dent explained.
Barry couldn't hold back. He transformed into a red blur and swiftly moved the fleeing citizens to safety.
"Hm?" Firefly extended his hand, expanding the range of his flames several times, sending out countless fiery serpents to chase Barry.
"Sigh..." Qingshui knew it was impossible for Barry to ignore this. He could only help him deal with this problem as quickly as possible.
Immediately, the White Knight's wings unfolded from his back, and he shot into the sky.
Firefly noticed the white metallic figure flying towards him and again flung a large ball of scorching flames.
A deep blue glow gathered in the White Knight's right arm, finally shooting a thick freezing ray from the port on the side of his arm, directly at the fireball.
Steam erupted, then quickly condensed into frost, which then pushed back towards Firefly, freezing him solid.
Current coolant remaining — sixty percent
Fortunately, the Freeze Gun and Firefly were mutually exclusive; Qingshui only needed to release enough coolant to exceed Firefly's burst limit to quickly deal with him.
For this, Qingshui directly used forty percent of his coolant reserves.
"You can't intervene every time you see something like this. You can't save everyone in this world," Harvey Dent said to Barry, who had returned to his side.
"I know, but when I see it, I just want to try. And with my speed, it doesn't take much time, does it?" Barry smiled.
"No matter how fast you are, there will eventually be times when you're too late," Qingshui said as he walked back to Barry.
People who are fast are always the ones who are most often late for the most important things.
The Flash was like this, and Minato Namikaze was also like this.
"We have more important things to do; we can't waste time here, Barry. You need to remember that what we bear now is an entire world."
"Alright, I get it. So, where do we go next?"
"We need to hide first." Qingshui suddenly turned his head to look at the distance in another direction.
A figure as massive as a mountain, like a monster, was slowly walking towards them.
This was this world's Killer Croc, and he was far stronger than the one from Qingshui's world. He was over a hundred meters tall, incredibly powerful, and had tough scales.
He had been attracted by the large commotion Firefly and Qingshui had just caused.
The three quickly moved, avoiding Killer Croc.
"Didn't you say many villains here had been killed? How have we already seen two in such a short time?" Qingshui asked Harvey Dent, scrutinizing him.
-----------
Machine Translation by: https:// beta.randomtranslator.com/
Read 1111+ original & fanfic translations in English, Español, Português, Deutsch, Français, or Русский at: https:// beta.randomtranslator.com/
Join our Discord: https:// discord.gg/NSWvfN7vua
-----------