Chapter 257 DeVoe’s Fear
Over the next few weeks, Lucas continued to live a comfortable little life, occasionally taking business trips to Star City to make some new friends, such as Oliver Queen. This Green Arrow had quite a bright future ahead of him.
During Crisis on Infinite Earths, he played a quite significant role.
Lucas introduced his identity and then helped the other party uproot a few troublesome dark forces strongholds, naturally getting invited to be a guest at Queen’s place. Unfortunately, Green Arrow followed Batman’s script.
This guy was a bit too paranoid and saw at a glance that Lucas was no good egg.
Felicity, on the other hand, was very warm-hearted, constantly inquiring about Barry’s recent situation. To be honest, it was indeed a pity that she and Flash didn’t end up together.
I have to admit that compared to Flash’s rather unspeakable female characters, the heroine lineup of the Arrowverse was indeed much easier on the eyes in terms of looks.
Especially Green Arrow’s daughter.
In the future, she would inherit Green Arrow’s mantle, and her appearance and looks were practically pageant-grade white!
Afterwards.
Lucas then went to Earth-38 Universe, which was the Universe where Supergirl Kara was located. He casually crushed a few alien fleets, then stated his name, and easily gained Kara’s trust.
This Kara... was different from the black-short-haired Superwoman. One had a slightly cute style, while the other belonged to Anissa’s kind of caring big sister style.
One can only say each had its own merits.
Over in Central City.
The situation was not very clear. As the fastest man, Barry was either getting beat down or on his way to getting beat down.
In order to obtain a stronger body, the Thinker DeVoe used the technology developed with his wife’s help to forcibly transfer his consciousness into the body of a bus Supe, completing a body snatch!
What was even more vicious was that this guy carefully faked an assassination scene with his own failing and necrotic corpse, and grandly placed it in Barry’s apartment living room!
Not only were Barry’s fingerprints left at the scene, but there was also the murder weapon as ironclad evidence!
Barry was prosecuted for first-degree murder, sentenced to life imprisonment, and locked up in prison.
"Sometimes I really want to call the police, but the moment I think that the one responding might be you, I let it go!" Lucas came to visit in person. Little Flash was doing okay; at least he didn’t drop the soap.
Barry was wearing an orange prisoner uniform with handcuffs on both hands.
"This was my own request. You guys will definitely find a way to help me clear my name, right? I don’t want to rot in this prison while DeVoe is still out there committing atrocities! Lucas! I’m begging you for a favor, don’t let him kill Ralph and the others!"
DeVoe was constantly looking for substitutes. Every time he snatched a body, he would acquire that person’s superpower.
Ralph was also one of them, and even DeVoe’s most compatible physical body.
Because of his Elongated Man traits, he could accommodate dozens of superpowers.
"Then can’t you just use your superpower to run out?" Lucas felt speechless.
Barry shook his head. "No... DeVoe has calculated everything. If I use the Speed Force to forcibly break out of prison, Flash will become a true fugitive, and the order of the law will cease to exist."
"Stubborn blockhead."
Lucas shook his head. "Your morality is too noble. To deal with such a villain without a bottom line, you have to break out of conventional thinking, understand? Since he can falsely accuse you, can’t you use the same method to turn around and fix him?"
"Ralph’s Elongated Man traits give his cells the ability to have perfect molecular-level morphological camouflage. As long as you let Ralph turn into DeVoe and take a trip to court, wouldn’t you be out? It neither violates moral justice nor can it turn the tables on DeVoe!"
Barry was stunned for a moment. "You mean... I’ve been squatting here for almost a month, and the moment you arrive, you thought of a way to get me out? If you hadn’t gone on business trips to other Earths before, I probably wouldn’t have had to suffer this, right?"
"Hehe!"
...
Team Flash acted very quickly.
Ralph hadn’t learned the camouflage ability yet, but Cisco had already started giving him special training. If Lucas said it was possible, then it was possible.
Sure enough, under a series of emotional talks from his companions, Ralph really successfully turned into DeVoe.
From top to bottom, not a single bit off, even that...
Guaranteed that even DeVoe’s wife wouldn’t be able to tell them apart.
Thus, Ralph transformed into DeVoe and grandly walked into the court. Under the witness of the judge and the jury, he showed what the hell returning from the dead meant, and finally, the judge cast a questioning look at DeVoe’s wife.
The other party had no way to defend herself.
"Whether my man is dead or not, how could I not know?"
"He was already done for long ago!"
Barry was acquitted on the spot.
...
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
Inside the Thinker’s Base.
A ring of sparks, accompanied by instrument short circuits, exploded in the air.
DeVoe, who had snatched a new body, abruptly stood up from his hovering chair, viciously smashed the projection platform beside him with a ferocious expression, and his voice was violently distorted by extreme rage.
"In my three thousand six hundred and seventy-two deduction models, Barry Allen has a 99.8% probability of being sentenced to death or life imprisonment! He can never break my logical lock! My calculations... how could there possibly be a loophole in my brain?!"
The woman standing aside looked at her manic husband, a Flash of exhaustion crossing her eyes. "Clifford... perhaps, even a brain developed to the extreme will still have incalculable random variables."
"Shut up! There are no variables in my wisdom!"
DeVoe brought up the monitoring data of all members of S.T.A.R. Labs, from Barry, Cisco, Caitlin, Iris, to the newly joined Ralph... Every single person’s behavior pattern had been analyzed by him to the extreme.
However, when a photo emerged, DeVoe’s pupils suddenly froze.
"Lucas..."
Wrong!
Wrong, wrong!
When did this person appear? He had been there for a long time; when Flash defeated Zoom, he had already joined Team Flash! Yet why had he never analyzed this person all along?
DeVoe frowned deeply, feeling as if something was wrong somewhere.
"An outsider with very few records and no known ability data... My deductions have actually never incorporated him into the model, but it’s not too late now!"
"No! Impossible, this is absolutely impossible! All deductions about him will fall into an infinite loop."
A trace of panic appeared on DeVoe’s face.
His wisdom hit a wall for the first time.
"Lucas? This guy has been part of Team Flash for a while, but long before that, he had already saved Star City. Do you remember that black hole incident? Clifford! It was he who stopped that black hole from forming, thereby preventing Central City from being swallowed up!"
"Why do I never have any memory of this?" DeVoe became even more terrified. Things his wife could remember, he actually knew nothing about?
As if from the depths of his memory, an invisible barrier was preventing him from recalling it.
"This person... I’m going to test him!"
...
That night, Central City apartment.
Soft warm-yellow light sprinkled over the living room. Caitlin was on night duty at S.T.A.R. Labs, continuing to research the combination experiment of permanent Compound V and dark matter. That’s right, she was still busy with this scientific test.
Lucas actually wanted to enlighten Caitlin a bit, but felt that Caitlin probably didn’t want to do that.
So he could only let her study it on her own.
At this moment, Killer Frost was like a lazy cat, her fair and slender long legs resting on the edge of the coffee table, eating iced grapes while looking up at Lucas’s jawline with her beautiful, spring-frost eyes, her hands never stopping their actions either.
"This white-haired lady, stop touching my abs, eat some fruit platter instead!"
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