"In a way, you are his idol, Barry.
Dr. Norris said to Barry with a serious expression.
"An idol?"
Barry was silent for a moment, then said, "Before I gained superpowers, I was just an ordinary police officer. I never thought I would become an idol, an idol respected by others. This is too unreal for me."
"Truth and falsehood, sometimes we who are in it cannot easily distinguish them. But he wants to be like you. I have talked with him, and he is not an ambitious young man."
Dr. Norris led Barry to an office and brought him inside.
"Would you like something to drink? Coffee, or a beverage?"
After sitting down in the office chair, Dr. Norris asked him.
"No, thank you."
Barry declined the offer, taking the opportunity to look around the office.
It was a typical hospital office.
Piles of documents were stacked, and there was a faint smell of disinfectant.
"Barry, what do you think Sunstar Hero was thinking at that moment? When his idol caused him harm?"
Dr. Norris asked him.
"I… I don't know."
Barry didn't know how to answer the question, and after a long pause, he said something that even he found disheartening.
"Whatever happened, I… I am very sorry."
Barry looked up, his apologetic gaze directed at Dr. Norris.
He felt a bit guilty.
When Eric and Wonder Woman were subduing Sunstar Hero, he shouldn't have stood by.
A few words flashed through his mind, a self-interrogation.
I am Flash.
No one runs as fast as I do.
Dr. Norris noticed Barry's expression and said nothing more.
She pulled a sheet of paper from a drawer and handed it to Barry.
"This is Sunstar Hero's preliminary physical examination report. If no miracle happens, he will spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. His spine is severely damaged, and his central nervous system has suffered irreversible damage. Although he survived, perhaps this is not an acceptable fact for him."
She said to Barry with a low voice, "He is a rebellious child. Perhaps he made a mistake, but he shouldn't be treated like this. I don't know how all this happened, but I know, Barry, you are a kind young man. You clearly know what is right and what is wrong."
After a pause, she looked out the window at the scenery.
Winter oak trees exuded a faint, cold color in the desolate chill.
Combined with the cold winter temperature, it presented a desolate and decaying appearance.
"Perhaps you should talk to Dr. Wells. He is very worried about your physical and mental condition right now. We talked on the phone earlier, and he thinks you have changed a lot, Barry."
"I… I don't know."
A look of confusion appeared in Barry's eyes. "Maybe I've changed, or maybe I haven't changed at all from the beginning."
"I learned from Dr. Wells what kind of person you are. He has many expectations for you, which is why I'm telling you so much. I hope you don't get annoyed by it."
Dr. Norris said to Barry.
"No, I am very grateful to you, Doctor."
Barry forced a smile at her.
After bidding farewell to Dr. Norris, Barry rushed to Gotham City Government.
Although he had parted ways with Dr. Norris, her words kept echoing in his mind.
Had he really made a mistake?
His body turned into a lightning bolt, and Barry sped forward along the road.
After being struck by lightning, he gained superpowers.
With the help of Bart and others, he mastered speed faster and faster, and now he has caught up with Bart's speed.
Although he hasn't mastered Speed Force yet, he has already begun to move along that predetermined path of destiny.
Running on the streets of Gotham, others couldn't even sense his presence.
They only felt a faint breeze blow past them, and Barry's figure completely disappeared from the street.
Running forward along the road, he unknowingly lost his way. He didn't head towards Gotham City Government, but instead ran out of Gotham along its roads.
Located at the southernmost tip of Gotham, the "90-Mile Straight" is one of the longest and straightest roads in the United States, stretching over 110 kilometers.
The highway was almost abandoned, with only occasional bored and crazy tourists visiting.
Besides that, there were only huge convoys of trucks, forced to pass through here for Gotham's business.
Such a straight road should be a runner's paradise for speedsters.
But Barry felt no joy in running; he just ran forward instinctively.
After a frantic run along the road, Barry quickly stopped.
Because he saw a mangled corpse on the highway.
More precisely, it was the corpse of a moose.
Barry stopped and gazed at the moose carcass, its blood already dry, lying in the middle of the road.
This should be a North American reindeer, short and stocky, good at swimming, always in herds, migrating every summer and winter. Winter is their breeding season, and male deer engage in fierce fights to compete for females.
Perhaps this reindeer was migrating for breeding and was hit by a car while crossing the road.
Barry looked at the shocking wound on the North American reindeer's neck and made his own speculation.
A North American reindeer, six feet tall and two hundred pounds, was nothing to a two-hundred-ton freight truck traveling at seventy miles per hour.
The driver probably didn't notice the North American reindeer at all; he didn't slow down.
Or he saw it but didn't brake.
Barry looked down at the reindeer on the road, many thoughts flashed through his mind, and he said to himself internally:
"But I noticed.
I saw this reindeer in the middle of the road. I even saw its tragic appearance before it died and heard its wail as its body was run over by a freight truck."
Barry gazed at the long-dead North American reindeer, his eyes showing intense unbearable sorrow.
In his vision, this North American reindeer turned into Sunstar Hero.
Sunstar Hero lay on the ground, motionless, the wound on his neck identical to the reindeer's wound.
Rubbing his eyes, Barry looked down again.
The illusion disappeared from his mind, and Sunstar Hero, lying on the ground, turned back into the North American reindeer.
It was as if Sunstar Hero, whom he had seen before, had never existed.
"Damn it, what am I doing?!"
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