Chapter 108

Early in the morning, Su Bei received a message from Wang Qiangxin: "The person I sent to warn the government has lost contact!"

Losing contact is indeed the worst case scenario.

Su Bei's heart sank, and after thinking for a while, he replied, "Don't send anyone else, there will be problems."

After that, he sent a message to Lan Subing: "If Jiang Tianming shows up, ask him to find out if there were any new people imprisoned in the prison yesterday."

"Okay, what about you?" Lan Subing asked.

"I have something to do."

Su Bei did not say that he was going to the sewer. In fact, he had not yet thought about what he would do next if the alien space was really in the sewer.

Although I don't know why, it's obviously unreliable to ask the government for help. This is a test given by the college to these candidates, so we still have to ask the candidates for help. But even if it's for the purpose of early withdrawal, it's too unreliable to directly tell them the location of the alien space.

An idea gradually came to Su Bei's mind, but he still had to wait until he got some effective clues before doing anything.

With this in mind, he put on his schoolbag, left home to avoid surveillance amid his mother Su's complaints of "Why do you carry a schoolbag when you go out to play?" and went straight to a sewer manhole.

The manhole cover that most people couldn't open even if they tried their best was easily lifted up in his hands.

This was the entrance he had found in advance. It was located in a remote alley with no surveillance around, so it was easy to get out without being reported.

He changed his clothes first, wrapped the clothes he was wearing in a plastic bag and stuffed them into his schoolbag, so that his mother wouldn't find out when he returned home. Then he put on a mask and rain boots.

Then Su Bei climbed down the iron ladder from the well mouth and climbed to the bottom of the well step by step. Before coming down, he did not forget to move the well cover back, of course, he did not cover it completely, but left a small gap for himself.

When he reached the bottom of the well, Su Bei covered his nose and turned on the flashlight to look around. It was dark all around and the ground was full of mud. Fortunately, he had just bought a pair of rain boots, otherwise his sneakers would have been useless.

He stood there, took a deep breath, and then slowly resumed his normal breathing rate. Even with a mask on, the stench of the sewer was still hard to cover up. After he had almost adapted to it, he opened the map and began to walk through the sewer according to the optimal route he had designed before.

In addition to the previous method that ordinary people can use to find the alien space, there is another simpler method, which is to use mental power to perceive it. However, it must be a high-level mental power. Ordinary psychics cannot sense it unless they are standing at the position where the entrance to the alien space is about to appear.

Su Bei was obviously not among them. He directly activated his mental power and inspected the sewers on a large scale.

In just half an hour, Su Bei had only walked halfway through the sewers, and he had discovered seven spatial fluctuations. This kind of fluctuation was a sign that the entrance to the alien space was about to appear. Sure enough, he guessed correctly, most of the entrances to the alien space did appear in the sewers, and this time it was a chaos in the city!

Without wasting any time, he continued his search.

Suddenly, when he reached the center of the sewer, Su Bei stopped and frowned: "This entrance has been opened."

Following the spatial fluctuations, he quickly walked to the side of the steel pipe, and indeed saw a black hole the size of a manhole cover. The entrance had already been formed, and according to the previous rules, after the entrance to the alien space was formed, the nightmare beast would immediately emerge.

In other words, there are nightmare beasts in the city now!

Su Bei's purple eyes widened slightly, he didn't expect to encounter such an accident. But he soon calmed down and began to think about the derivative clues brought by this discovery.

It is certain that a nightmare beast has escaped. Once a nightmare beast comes to the world, it has only one purpose, which is to eat humans. However, due to the different strengths of nightmare beasts, they can be divided into three situations.

If it was just a low-level nightmare beast, it would just follow its instinct and quickly leave the sewer to kill people. It would definitely be discovered quickly and then subdued. But the problem was that he had also been paying attention to the news in the past few days, and he hadn't seen any news about nightmare beasts hurting people.

Even if the government didn't want to disclose information about the superpowers, and therefore didn't report it, they should at least send someone to find the entrance to the space where the nightmare beast was released.

Let's think about the second scenario for now. If it's a mid-level nightmare beast, it might not be discovered immediately. Just like the nightmare beast they encountered before, it can hide in the wall and kill people silently.

However, they were transported here at a time when the battle was about to break out, which could not be more than a month. A nightmare beast had already gone out, and according to Su Bei's judgment, at least one person had to die in order to facilitate the investigation of the candidates.

But he had previously looked through the news over the past month on his mobile phone and had not seen any news of anyone dying mysteriously.

You have to know that ever since the emergence of psychics and nightmare beasts, whenever someone dies unnatural deaths, those reporters swarm over like hyenas smelling blood, just to get first-hand intelligence about the psychics and nightmare beasts killing people.

It's not so bad now with all the restrictions, but it was even crazier before. This is the timeline of ten years ago, Su Bei doesn't believe that if someone really died because of the nightmare beast, those media people with a keen sense of smell would miss it.

Let's put this guess aside for now. There is only one possibility left, which is that it is a high-level nightmare beast. It is said that high-level nightmare beasts have an IQ that is completely comparable to that of humans, and have overwhelming dominance over other nightmare beasts.

If a high-level nightmare beast came out first and ordered the other nightmare beasts to lie in wait for the right opportunity, it would indeed be possible to cause a sudden beast tide.

If this is the case, their most important task at the moment is to find this high-level nightmare beast.

But the premise is that this is really the case.

There was one possibility in both of the two scenarios that he had temporarily put aside. That was that the nightmare beast from the alien space had indeed committed a crime, but was suppressed by the local government, just like the student who had lost contact after giving a warning.

What is the situation?

While Su Bei was thinking, he marked this location on the map with a red circle that was different from the other marks, then used the invisibility symbol and went straight in.

From what he learned in the academy, he knew that many times one could judge what kind of nightmare beast would appear in a different space by looking at the environment of the different space.

In a space with a normal natural terrain, generally, at most, mid-level nightmare beasts appear. In a special space like a maze, high-level nightmare beasts are more likely to appear. In addition, if it is a very dangerous natural environment, high-level nightmare beasts are also likely to appear.

Once they entered the alien space, they found themselves in a common forest terrain. This kind of terrain usually only produced ordinary nightmare beasts. Su Bei frowned and continued to go deeper inside.

With his spiritual power fully opened, he could naturally sense many nightmare beasts hiding in the forest. They were all ordinary nightmare beasts like nightmare snakes and nightmare tigers, nothing special.

However, the more he walked, the more he felt something was wrong. It was a feeling that something was wrong. A psychic, especially one like him who had awakened a high level of spiritual power, had a very keen sense of perception.

What's more, Su Bei's ability is [Gear of Destiny]. If he feels something is wrong, then it must be wrong. Su Bei never ignores his feelings.

He stopped exploring and after a moment's hesitation, he prepared to go back. Since he already knew there was something unusual here, the best option was to make a decisive decision. He was alone, and if something really happened here, no one would know.

It would be better to withdraw first and think long-term, even if it's just telling Jiang Tianming and the others the location, as long as the protagonists are there, they can always turn the danger into safety.

However, after walking back a few steps, Su Bei knew something was wrong - he was lost.

This was a very incredible thing. It was normal for ordinary people to get lost in the forest, but his sense of direction was always good, not to mention his mental power to explore the way. He could even find the nightmare beasts he had encountered before, but he couldn't find the exit.

What is going on?

Meanwhile, outside the screen.

"I have to say that this student from Class S in your school is really quite capable." Sitting outside the large display screen, Ms. Xiao, the principal of "Houde Academy of Supernatural Powers", looked at the blond boy with wrinkled brows standing there with a look of admiration on her face.

The principal of the Sky Dome School of Supernatural Powers also nodded in approval: "We were able to find the key point in such a short time. It seems that this battle can be easier."

Principal Wu Di smiled modestly: "He is not as amazing as you say. This kid is too independent and doesn't know how to take advantage of his companions. It would be good if he can get out smoothly. If not, he will really shoot himself in the foot."

However, even though he said this, everyone could tell from his smiling face that Wu Di was not being sincere.

After all, although Su Bei did not look for a companion, he was cautious enough to use the invisibility charm before entering the alien space. If he did not use it and just barged in directly, it would be reckless indeed.

The two principals saw through it but didn't say anything. They talked about the other people: "You guys in Class S have performed very well. The student who was assigned to the prison at the beginning has begun to realize that his identity is not entirely a bad thing."

That's true. Although random identities cannot be completely fair, it won't be so unfair that your spawn point is directly in prison.

The reason for this setting is that this identity makes it easier to get closer to clues.

"The one with the golden hair is called... Su Bei, right?" Ms. Xiao pointed at Su Bei. "With the clue he gave, I believe the prisoner student will be able to find useful clues quickly."

At this time, Meng Huai walked in. As a teacher who could teach Class S, his status was very high. Only a small number of teachers and principals could enter this inner studio, including him.

Principal Shangguan of the Sky Dome School of Supernatural Powers did not notice him. He continued what Ms. Xiao said, "As long as Su Bei can leave the space smoothly, tell the students about it, and lead the team to make preparations in advance and clean up the spaces that are about to appear, he will definitely win the first place."

"The premise is that he cannot tell the government about this." Wu Di added.

The other two principals nodded in agreement, and a look of disgust flashed across their eyes.

After listening to their conversation, Meng Huai suddenly sneered, shook his head, and said firmly: "Su Bei will never follow the rules."

As soon as these words came out, the three principals looked over, and Wu Di asked curiously: "Xiao Meng, what do you say?"

Meng Huai looked at the boy on the screen again, and calmly said to Wu Di: "Teacher, Su Bei is a person who only wants to create chaos. I don't know what he is going to do, but he will definitely not honestly announce the news."

Everyone followed his gaze and looked back at the big screen. The blond boy on the screen observed briefly and then continued walking.

Su Bei has figured it out. There might be a high-level nightmare beast in this alien space. However, he is not sure whether the opponent's ability is to change the terrain or to cast an illusion.

If it was the first case, then things would be troublesome. With the ability to change the terrain, he could be trapped here forever. So if this was the case, he needed to find the nightmare beast as soon as possible and find a way to stop it. Otherwise, the enemy would be in the open while he was in the dark, and he would never be able to find the exit.

If it is the second type, it is easy to solve. Su Bei is now trying to solve the second type.

Through Li Shu's occasional revelations, he knew that illusions were usually divided into two types. One was... in popular terms, an illusion that made people dream. The "battle replica" they were in was also of this type. This kind of illusion required a lot of energy, but it could trap people in this space. Unless they found a way out, they couldn't leave.

The other type is a sleight of hand illusion, which only changes the appearance, taste, and even touch of the things in front of you, but in fact the things are still the same and have not changed.

This is very easy to deal with. As long as you are determined and don't follow your vision, you can easily get out of it.

Of the two scenarios, Su Bei naturally preferred the second one. After all, he was very sure that he was awake all the way here, and it was only when he turned around that he realized that the scenery around him had changed, which was very similar to the second scenario.

Therefore, Su Bei turned on his mental power, trying to feel the reality of the objects around him. But soon he turned off his mental power again. There was something wrong with this nightmare beast, and the advanced mental power could not sense any problem.

Fortunately, he closed his eyes and walked forward in the direction of his memory. There were many obstacles on the road that did not match his memory, but Su Bei was unmoved and walked past them.

When he reached the place in his memory, he opened his eyes and saw a towering old tree in front of him. The tree was very thick and strong, and he had to take a long detour to get to the other side. However, Su Bei obviously had no intention of taking a detour. He even looked calm and didn't show any trouble at all. He raised his legs and walked straight towards the old tree.

When he should have hit the wall, Su Bei felt dizzy. The next second, he was back in the sewer.

Sure enough, everything was just a trick. Su Bei raised the corners of his mouth slightly, but then they fell flat in an instant, and his brows wrinkled again.

He could be deceived by the illusion in the alien space, which showed that the high-level nightmare beast was in the alien space at the moment. If he had not been in stealth mode, it would not be so easy to find it out.

But to be honest, as a novice exploring an unknown alien space, in Su Bei's eyes, as long as you are not stupid, you should make sufficient preparations in advance. If you really go in directly, it will be pure death. Even if it is full of low-level nightmare beasts, the human wave tactics are enough to kill a not-so-strong psychic.

Back to the question itself, the energy of a small or medium-sized alien space can only allow one high-level nightmare beast to appear at a time. Otherwise, if too many high-level nightmare beasts appeared at once, humans would have suffered heavy losses.

The strange space just now was obviously not too big, and a high-level nightmare beast lived inside.

There are two situations now. Either this high-level nightmare beast is restricting other nightmare beasts from leaving. Or there are indeed low-level or mid-level nightmare beasts that have left, but the government has done something to prevent the news from spreading.

If it is the former, then the Nightmares must have some plan. The many different spaces in the sewers may also be one of their plans.

And if it's the latter...

Su Bei shook his head and continued to fill in the map. The government affairs will probably be resolved in the next few days, and then he will know which guess is right. Why rush now? There is still plenty of time for the exam.

After exploring all the way, when he went out, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon. Su Bei packed himself up and walked out of the alley again.

Although he had changed his clothes and shoes, he still exuded a faint and unpleasant odor. Su Bei wrinkled his nose in disgust and hurried home.

He took the key to open the door, and without even closing it, he said hello to Su's mother and went into the bathroom. Su's mother reluctantly went to close the door, and suddenly smelled a bad smell in the air. She frowned and said to herself in confusion: "This kid went to blow up the dung pit."

After washing himself several times and making sure there was no peculiar smell on his body, Su Bei walked out of the bathroom, returned to the room and turned on his cell phone.

I haven't checked my phone all day, but there are already several new messages on my phone. Some are from Wang Qiangxin, some are from Jiang Tianming's group, and there are friend requests from Wu Mingbai, Qi Huang, Si Zhaohua, and Zhou Renjie. They have also joined the big group. The only one who hasn't joined the group yet is Feng Lan.

Su Bei first clicked into the group and looked at the chat history. Jiang Tianming had indeed found the person he mentioned, who was locked up today. The other party was locked up for spreading rumors and causing trouble.

After learning that Jiang Tianming was also a candidate, he was particularly angry and denounced the government: "The administrator of this city is really shameless! I fed him the food, but he spit it out and even said that my food was poisonous. Ha! This city deserves the outbreak of war."

Jiang Tianming comforted him and asked him questions. He soon found out what he had done, and then connected it to Su Bei. So after reporting that he was indeed in prison, he @Su Bei and asked him if he had reviewed this battle.

Others also exchanged their discoveries in the group. They did not waste the two days. In addition to looking for companions, they were also actively exploring the map.

Qi Huang said that the main map of this "battle replica" is this city. There is still some space outside the city, but it is not possible to go out any further. Her current occupation is a police officer. There are no cases recently, and it seems that the nightmare beast has not appeared yet.

But a mysterious team from their police station, which she said was composed of people with special abilities, went out a few days ago. After they came back, they looked relaxed but refused to say anything.

As a government worker, Lan Subing has discovered that her boss seems to have a bad temper recently. She has also learned from colleagues that he has become a lot busier. He used to sit all day with a cup of tea, but now he has to go out on field trips every day and comes back with a gloomy face.

To be honest, I don't know how she, a person with social phobia, managed to find out this information.

Wu Ming searched street after street and finally found an entrance to an alien space in an alley. However, due to a small reason, he was not sure whether this entrance was related to the war.

Zhou Renjie was also assigned the role of a doctor. He paid close attention to the situation in the morgue and found that the causes of death of two bodies were very strange. On the surface, it seemed that he had killed them, but there was no sign of an autopsy. He guessed that these two bodies might have been killed by the Nightmare Beast.

Following this clue, he successfully found the crime scene, but Zhou Renjie did not have the ability to sense nightmare beasts, so he could not see anything when he went to the crime scene.

Coincidentally, the crime scene was near the alien space that Wu Mingbai had discovered. If nothing unexpected happened, it should have been the nightmare beast that emerged from the alien space that injured someone.

The last one was Si Zhaohua. In fact, except for the three people who were originally in the group, the rest were found by him. He used the invisibility talisman to fly in the sky to look for clues, and happened to see a bunch of familiar faces wandering around the city. Then they added each other as friends and found the group by the way.

It’s hard to comment, Si Zhaohua’s biggest role is actually finding people.

But what is even more difficult to judge is that among all the clues from these people, Zhou Renjie's clues were the most useful to him.

Someone died because of the nightmare beast, which shows that the nightmare beast did come out of the alien space. Qi Huang's clues gave Su Bei the information that the nightmare beast that hurt people was most likely destroyed by the mysterious team of the police station, which would explain why they came back so easily. How could it not be easy to complete the mission successfully?

But now a problem arises. A nightmare beast suddenly appears in the city for no reason. They don't even suspect that it is from another dimension.

Even if they had not thought about this before, they should have thought about it after the candidate warned them. How could they lock up the candidate for spreading rumors and still ignore this matter?

And what Lan Subing said, her boss in the government has suddenly become irritable recently, probably because of this incident. Knowing that there is a problem, but still unwilling to deal with it, why?

“Dingdong!”

At this time, Jiang Tianming suddenly sent another message: "It seems that there are key clues in the prison. I handed over my phone and will tell you when I get the clues."

There are key clues in prison. Su Bei never doubted what Jiang Tianming said. As the protagonist, it was too reasonable for him to have key clues.

At this time, Su Bei suddenly realized that there was indeed a reason why this guy was sent to prison at the beginning. If there were no clues in the prison, he would not have been so unlucky to become a prisoner.

Of course, such a thing with both advantages and disadvantages is not worth envying. At least Su Bei still hopes to be comfortable.

However, these clues did help him understand a lot of things. The only problem now was to find out why the government wanted to hide the appearance of the alien space in the city. Su Bei had a hunch that once Jiang Tianming found the key clues, he would be able to reconstruct the whole truth.

Feeling in a good mood, he stretched himself and casually looked down through the window of the room, when suddenly his eyes fixed.

The one sitting downstairs in their house, surrounded by uncles and aunts asking about their well-being, and a calm-looking white-haired boy, who else could it be but Feng Lan!

How did Feng Lan come here?

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