Judge Howard looked at him, her expression instantly horrified: "You, you're already dead."
The The Mist stared at her: "You make it sound like it was an accident. Do you remember the last thing you said to me in court?"
"May God have mercy on your soul!"
Bang!
Green gas permeated the The Mist's body; he was about to transform.
Samuel sighed faintly. The Iron Man nanotech armor was ready.
To be honest, he didn't want to expose his superpowers or special extraordinary technology right now.
Once exposed, the days of being a hands-off Boss like this would be gone.
How good is it now? Eat and play as he pleases, get rewards without doing anything, and if he encounters interesting abilities or people, he can even be a behind-the-scenes manipulator and bring them over.
The carefree life is just this simple and unpretentious!
Most importantly, Samuel and Dr. Harrison Wells have the same goal: to help Barry Allen run faster, fast enough to open a time wormhole, fast enough to travel through time.
Dr. Harrison Wells wants to go home, back to his own era.
Samuel wanted the Flashpoint event to arrive as scheduled, so he could find Dr. Manhattan.
If his abilities or the fact that he had a suit were exposed, then reasonably, when Barry Allen encountered certain dangers, he wouldn't be able to stand by and watch, which would reduce Barry Allen's motivation to run faster.
What a pity, that guy The Mist courted death!
Just as Samuel was holding the triangular nanotech suit reactor, preparing to place it on his chest, the system's drop reward notification suddenly rang.
"Ding!"
"Detected combat, drop reward: Poison Gas Transformation (The Mist)"
"Ding!"
"Detected combat, drop reward: Machine Bee (Brie Larvan)"
Samuel's movement slowed by a beat, and he turned his head to look at the The Mist who was undergoing poison gas transformation.
The Mist's transformation movement paused slightly, a tiny bee dropped from his leg, and immediately after, The Mist had completely transformed into gas, turning directly into a ball of green toxic gas.
Just as The Mist was about to attack Judge Howard, the elevator's ventilation system suddenly activated, sucking the gas-transformed The Mist into the ventilation duct with an absolutely abnormal power.
"Ding!"
The elevator door opened automatically.
The change happened too quickly; Judge Howard, who had thought he was going to die, leaned against the corner in a daze, unable to react for a moment.
Samuel glanced at the bee on the ground, put the nanotech suit reactor back into the system, took out his phone to send a signal to Star Labs, then picked up the bag on the ground, shouted "Run!" to Judge Howard, and leisurely walked out of the elevator.
A small ventilation system naturally couldn't deal with The Mist; before long, The Mist would return and continue to hunt Judge Howard, and whether she could survive would depend on how fast Barry Allen was.
About ten seconds later, The Mist, whose revenge had been thwarted, reappeared, and in his anger, he directly surged towards Judge Howard in the form of gas in broad daylight.
"Whoosh—"
A golden Flash of lightning flickered, and Flash arrived.
Without needing to ask for the situation, he saw Judge Howard being chased by a ball of gas, and although he hadn't figured out the specific reason yet, saving people was definitely the right thing to do!
Barry Allen glanced at Samuel, saw that he was fine, and with a whoosh, he directly picked up Judge Howard and ran out of the mall in an instant.
The Mist pursued relentlessly, but purely in terms of speed, even if he could transform into gas and fly, he couldn't compare to Flash, and in the end, he could only give up unwillingly.
Samuel turned and walked into the crowd, leaving the mall.
Void Medical, President's Office.
Samuel carried a few bags and placed them smilingly on Felicity's desk; Felicity pushed up her glasses in surprise and asked Samuel, "For me?"
Samuel smiled and nodded, "I don't know if you like it."
Felicity shook her head, "As long as it's from you, I like it! I, I mean, no girl dislikes receiving gifts."
Samuel sat on the desk, "Oh right, do you still remember Brie Larvan?"
"Brie Larvan?" Felicity nodded readily, "Of course I remember her, she was my strong rival and my biggest competitor."
"When you first started the company, she came to apply, and she made a great contribution during the initial stage, but later you made me the company's CEO, and she quit in a fit of anger and left the company."
"I remember she seemed to have joined Mercury Labs later, and also—"
Felicity looked at Samuel with a hint of resentment and jealousy, "You two had a history back then, and later when you chose the CEO, you chose me and not her, and she even thought I had seduced you."
"At that time, we weren't even together..."
Felicity said the last sentence very softly.
Samuel shrugged apologetically; after coming to the Green Arrow Universe, he had indeed let himself go a bit, these past five-plus years, well, he basically spent them eating, drinking, and having fun.
But he could explain!
Whether it was the Flashpoint event changing the timeline or the subsequent Crisis on Infinite Earths event merging Universes, the best way to prevent these non-protagonist characters from being erased, from having their current life trajectories changed, or from having their destinies altered, was to use his ability to negate time.
By making the past constant, they would naturally not be affected by the timeline or the rebooted Universe.
....
Samuel couldn't give them the ability to negate time, nor would he, but he could deepen their connection and bond with him, thereby achieving the same effect.
To use a somewhat inappropriate analogy, when one person achieves enlightenment, even their close associates ascend!
"She saved me today." Samuel thought for a moment and told Felicity what had happened at the mall.
Felicity stood up abruptly and quickly checked Samuel's body, "Are you okay? Are you hurt? Did you go to the hospital for a check-up?"
Samuel held her hand, signaling her not to be so nervous, "I'm fine, even without her, I would have been okay. However—she showed kindness, and I won't be ungrateful; she should have already left Mercury Labs, find out where she is."
Felicity's expression changed, and she murmured, "You're not going to get back together with her, are you?"
"Stop messing around, having one Caitlin for breaking up and getting back together is enough; Brie Larvan—she's not exactly a good person, I'm just helping her out."
Samuel smiled wryly and delivered a line, "She's still young, don't let her go down the path of crime!"
Brie Larvan, codename: Bug-Eyed Bandit!
After being fired by Mercury Labs, the more she thought about it, the more she hated it, and she began remotely controlling machine bees to kill and seek revenge; calculating the time, the revenge hasn't started yet, but it's coming soon!
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