"So, can you tell me, how long was I unconscious?" Barry asked the two people standing in front of him, a little surprised.
"Four months," Cisco told him, "To be exact, four months and three days!"
"Only four months? Why has this world changed so quickly?!" He looked at them with a bewildered gaze and asked, "Has this world changed too fast, or have I fallen behind?!"
"Actually," Cisco didn't know how to explain it to him, so he gave a dry laugh and said, "A lot has happened too quickly recently. Don't even mention you, even I can't quite keep up right now."
"So our current President is really Homelander?"
"Yes," Cisco nodded.
"Why didn't anyone stop him?!" Barry asked Cisco, a little confused, "I think, according to normal procedures, he couldn't possibly become President."
"They tried, but no one succeeded!" Cisco shrugged, "Buddy, he's getting stronger and stronger now. No one is his match!"
Before Cisco could finish, Caitlin, who was standing nearby and seemed a bit impatient, interrupted him.
"We'll talk about Homelander later. Right now, you have more important things to deal with," Caitlin said to Barry with a serious expression, "Dr. Wells will be here soon. You'd better put on some clothes first!"
Barry looked at his body awkwardly, took the clothes Cisco handed him, and walked out with an unnatural expression as he put them on.
But as soon as he took a step, he bumped into the doorframe with a bang.
With a loud thud, Barry fell to the ground, clutching his nose.
Cisco, standing nearby, was dumbfounded.
After a while, he looked up and asked his partner, "Did you… did you see that? His speed just now was like a flash of lightning. In the blink of an eye, he moved from here to the doorframe!"
"Yes, I saw it!" Caitlin said with a complex expression, "I don't know what happened, but his body seems to be different!"
Clutching his bleeding nose, Barry's head felt even dizzier now.
He didn't know what had happened, but that sudden acceleration just now gave him a strange feeling.
Everything around him slowed down, while he kept accelerating. Motion and stillness created a peculiar sensation in his sensory world.
"Hello, Barry Allen, I'm Dr. Wells. Welcome back!" As he was immersed in this strange atmosphere, a voice sounded from outside the door.
He looked up, clutching his nose, and saw a middle-aged man in a wheelchair speaking to him.
The gentle middle-aged man smiled slightly and said to him, "I think we have a lot to talk about."
Facing the scientist he usually looked up to as an idol, Barry stood up and said to him nervously, "It's good to see you, Dr. Wells."
The time was "now," and the location was a building near S.T.A.R. Labs.
Dr. Wells was on stage, presenting the latest scientific research results on the particle accelerator.
"Months ago, that scientific experiment destroyed my legs, and many researchers lost their lives because of it! In every way, this was a complete tragedy, but I don't believe I will back down. As everyone knows, science is a great human endeavor that progresses through continuous effort. Setbacks and these sacrifices will only make me strive harder."
Dr. Wells's words drew enthusiastic applause from the audience in the hall.
Sitting on the stage, "If I had known it would be such a boring event, I wouldn't have come!" Rachel complained to her classmate, Sophia.
"My mom told me to be back before dark!" Sophia, a Mexican-American girl, looked at her parents sitting nearby and said to Rachel, "But didn't you just say you were going to stay in Central City for a long time and weren't planning to go home for the night?"
"That's because I didn't know about this kind of event." Rachel felt that such an event was boring and said to Sophia dejectedly, "If it were an amusement park or a pirate ship experience, I'd be very happy!"
"I thought you'd be very happy to experience this kind of academic atmosphere." Sophia felt she might have misunderstood Rachel's preferences.
"I often see you reading in class, and I thought you liked technology and these novel things." Sophia, wearing glasses, looked at Dr. Wells on the podium, her eyes filled with admiration.
"Dr. Wells is one of the greatest scientists of our time! Although S.T.A.R. Labs has been designated as a Level 4 hazardous area by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and cannot conduct experiments, I think Dr. Wells will not be defeated by these setbacks!"
"Well, congratulations to him!" Rachel said weakly, "But I'd rather know what exactly happened with that big explosion you were discussing?"
"I only heard about it; I don't know exactly what happened." Although Sophia was petite, she was very good at these scientific topics and said to Rachel, "It is said that the first 45 minutes were normal, but then the electron volts became immeasurable, the laboratory's giant ring suddenly exploded, and the energy of the explosion shot straight into the sky. Later, that energy formed a rain cloud—"
"It was a rain cloud that formed a lightning bolt and struck me!" Barry Allen said to the curious Cisco, while watching Dr. Wells on the podium from backstage.
A week had passed since Barry first woke up.
By now, Barry had a basic grasp of how to use his speed.
"That truly was an astonishing lightning bolt; it allowed your speed to reach 200 kilometers per hour!" Cisco said to Barry admiringly.
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