Chapter 121

Obviously, they didn't expect to meet Su Bei here, and they immediately showed a look of surprise. However, Su Bei didn't give them a chance to greet him. He pointed at the crystals and looked at Wu Mingbai: "Do you have any idea?"

Crystals grow in the ground, and Wu Mingbai's ability is [Earth Element], so it should be easy to dig them out.

As expected, Wu Mingbai nodded: "Okay!"

After saying that, he controlled his supernatural powers and made the soil around the nearest crystal become sparse. Then Lan Subing easily took the crystal out of the soil.

Seeing this, Su Bei looked at the couple with a smile and said, "Let's divide these crystals equally among the six of us."

Just now, when they were in a group, they didn't bully others, and Su Bei naturally wouldn't do that either. But there was one more thing. Seeing the other party's hesitant expression, Su Bei added: "But we are not responsible for helping you take out the crystal."

The boy who was about to talk about this topic was stopped by Su Bei's words and was immediately a little frustrated. However, he also knew that Su Beixian was willing to divide the spoils equally according to the number of people when they had more people than him, which was already a bottom line, so he could only sigh and shut up.

But his girlfriend suddenly thought of something and suggested: "How about this, I'll pay half of the crystals and hire you to help us get the crystals out."

That is to say, out of the six shares shared by all people, the two of them only need one share. Although it seems like a loss, it is better than getting nothing.

Su Bei looked at Wu and understood that it was he who dug out the crystal, so naturally he had to make the decision on this matter.

"Okay." Wu Mingbai agreed without hesitation.

Since Su Bei had said before that the six of them would share the crystal equally, he would naturally not try to take the other two's share. If they were willing to spend some crystals to hire him, it would be pure profit. Wu understood that there was nothing wrong with that.

After quickly dividing up the crystals, each of them earned at least 200,000 yuan. The couple was very satisfied, and tactfully said goodbye and left the room.

After they left, Su Bei asked about the follow-up of the previous incident: "How did you escape later? Should we go out now and tell the guard at the entrance that we have encountered a wanted criminal?"

Sometimes the government can only confirm that the wanted criminals have fled to an alien dimension, but cannot confirm which alien dimension they have fled to, so it is still necessary to talk to the guards.

Who would have thought that after the three of them looked at each other, Jiang Tianming actually said awkwardly: "No need... Just wait for them to go out and collect the reward money."

After hearing this, Su Bei was stunned. After a moment, he opened his eyes wide and said, "He's dead!"

Only when a person dies can the prize be claimed directly. No proof is required, and there are special tools to detect lies and extract memories.

Jiang Tianming nodded and began to recount what happened after Su Bei left: "After you led them away, the three of us managed to escape. It turned out that the wanted woman's ability had a positioning function, and she finally found us."

Hearing this, Su Bei couldn't help but understand. No wonder they believed Jiang Tianming's statement that his companions had the ability to track without even confirming it. If he were a kidnapper, he would have thought that they were lying to save their lives. It turned out that because they themselves had the ability to track, they would subconsciously believe that others had it too.

"But this time, because we were prepared to be caught, the three of us ran separately. Ah Bing was caught first, but because of her supernatural powers, she was able to keep herself safe for the time being. So they had to leave one person to guard us, and the other person chased us. The two of us joined together and killed the man, then went back and killed the woman."

After finding out that the three of them had escaped and Su Bei had not brought anyone with him, the two wanted criminals realized that they had been deceiving them. They were naturally very angry about being deceived, and they were not going to back down.

It’s a pity that he failed to kill someone and was killed instead.

After telling him the whole story honestly, he finally showed a somewhat nervous expression. He looked at Su Bei and hesitated for a long time before asking, "Do you think I am cruel?"

As a student, killing someone is still a very distant thing, even if they are supernatural beings. This matter is not like killing the mayor before entering school, which can be concealed. It is necessary to tell the other party.

To be honest, Jiang Tianming really didn't want to see his friends looking at him strangely. Although he wouldn't doubt himself because of this, he couldn't avoid feeling uncomfortable.

"I" Su Bei pointed at himself with a look of surprise on his face, "When will you ask me this kind of question?"

As soon as these words came out, the three people who were originally uneasy suddenly laughed. Yes, who is Su Bei? Judging from his usual behavior, he is definitely not a soft-hearted person.

He would probably be indifferent to their deaths, let alone the death of a stranger.

"I told you that you're overthinking it." Wu Mingbai rolled his eyes in annoyance. "If it were him, he would definitely do something worse than you."

Lan Subing beside him nodded in approval and murmured, "That's Subei."

They didn't think there was anything wrong with Jiang Tianming's murder. They imagined using Su Bei's face to morally blackmail him into not killing people. That scene was quite weird.

Jiang Tianming heaved a sigh of relief, a smile appeared on his face, and his dark eyes were relaxed: "Okay, okay, I apologize. Let's rest here for a night, and go to the door to collect the bounty tomorrow! The bounty will be divided equally among the four of us, and you are not allowed to refuse."

During the break, Su Bei leaned against the wall and closed his eyes, thinking about this matter thoughtfully. He had already deduced that Jiang Tianming's ability was not [control of objects], but [death summoning]. He summoned the dead to use their abilities.

He killed two people today, so he might be able to use the special abilities of these two people.

It seems that he will have to take a closer look at the wanted order after he gets out. It must contain the superpowers of the two wanted criminals today. Jiang Tianming had not strengthened his power for such a long time that he almost forgot about this superpower. He did not expect it to suddenly strengthen at this time.

The next three days passed peacefully. Although there were occasional attacks by mid-level nightmare beasts and conflicts with other psychics, there were four of them after all, so there were not too many problems.

Until the fifth day, today is the last day, a total of one hundred hours of training time. They have stayed in the alien space for four days and three nights, and they have to stay for one more day. It is enough time to leave tonight.

In addition to finding the spiritual crystal room on the first day, they were also lucky enough to come across a kitchen with a lot of food, some of which had special abilities. For example, sudden acceleration, increased strength, and temporary night vision...

There are also such superpowers among the superpowers, and the food they make has special powers, but they have never encountered it before, this is the first time. The feeling of speeding up after eating a cookie is quite interesting. The four of them collected a lot of them in the storage space. In order to make room, they even threw away the corpses of nightmare beasts inside.

Early in the morning of the fifth day, Jiang Tianming glanced at the map and said, "Let's go back today. We can reach the entrance in about a day."

Although they had walked for four days, they did not walk straight ahead and took many detours. So as long as they did not waste time on the return trip and walked in a straight line, they could return to the entrance in about one day.

This was the route Jiang Tianming had specially planned beforehand. On the return trip, they would not pass through the rooms they had visited before, so there was no waste at all.

"Ah, this room!" Lan Subing widened her eyes and called out in a low voice when entering a room.

Others also showed surprised expressions. Wu Mingbai walked to the bookshelf and looked at the books filled with books: "This is a small library."

But this was not the most surprising thing. The most surprising thing was the clouds hanging from the ceiling. Jiang Tianming frowned: "Are those clouds in the sky real? Cloudy weather seems to have never been recorded."

There are only four types of weather recorded in the Weather Alien Space. If the clouds in the sky are real, then this is undoubtedly the fifth type of weather that has never been recorded!

Hearing this, Wu Mingzhi withdrew his gaze from the books and looked up at the ceiling, hesitantly confirming: "It seems to be real clouds, not something man-made."

After discovering new weather reports, you will definitely get a lot of rewards, and it is very likely that it will not only be a monetary reward, but also something else. The three of them showed happy expressions, except Su Bei.

Su Bei stared at the clouds for a long time before he slowly said, "They are not clouds."

As soon as he said this, the three of them looked at him. Jiang Tianming immediately asked, "If it's not Yun, then what is it?"

Hearing his question, Su Bei did not turn around, still staring at the clouds. After a moment, he finally spoke: "If I am not mistaken, you are the high-level nightmare beast in this alien space."

This sentence was like a thunderbolt, and the expressions of the three people suddenly turned ugly. They gathered together and stared at the clouds on the ceiling vigilantly.

Just as he finished speaking, a black cloud hidden behind other white clouds slowly came in front of them. A voice that sounded like a little girl rang out from inside the cloud, sounding somewhat cheerful: "You are so smart! How did you know my identity?"

How did he know that? Of course it was because he clearly saw the compass of fate in the middle of the clouds. With that thing there, doesn't it mean that the clouds in the sky are actually a living being? A strange life form that appeared in the weather alien space, and it happened to be in the shape of clouds. It was hard for Su Bei not to make this guess.

However, he didn't mean to tell the truth, he just tilted his head and looked at the bookshelf next to him: "You like reading books"

Jiang Tianming also reacted at this time. He looked at the books carefully and said in surprise without waiting for Yun Duo to reply: "You like to understand human beings, right?"

Most of these books are related to human beings, including history books, social books, psychology books... They are obviously specialized in studying human beings.

The black cloud spun around lively: "You guessed it right! Since you are so good at guessing, let's play a game of guessing!"

To be honest, they didn't want to play games with the Nightmare, even though it didn't seem to have any ill intentions towards them. But the teachers at the academy had warned them many times that the Nightmare was naturally malicious towards humans, and they must not be soft-hearted for any reason, especially when facing a high-level Nightmare.

There are advanced nightmare beasts that are as intelligent as humans and can skillfully use all kinds of human strategies, and can even pretend to have emotions. Many powerful psychics have died because of their momentary weakness.

But the opponent was a high-level nightmare beast after all. Even though it was said to have little attack power, the four people did not dare to leave rashly. The fact that they could find this room was enough to show that human beings were very unreliable in exploring this alien space. God knew what methods this nightmare beast had. If a thunderbolt struck, everyone would be in trouble.

Thinking of this, Jiang Tianming nodded: "We can play with you, but because we have other things to do, we can only play for five minutes. And after playing, you must let us leave this alien space safely."

"Five minutes." Black Cloud sounded a little dissatisfied. "No, then what if you deliberately delay the time? Let's do this. You only need to guess three questions correctly."

"Tell me the rules of 'Guess Guess' first." Wu Mingbai said immediately.

Speaking of games, Cloud Nightmare became excited again: "Okay! This game is that I ask a question about myself. If you guess all the answers correctly, I can give you a small gift. If you guess any question wrong, you will become my food."

The four of them felt a chill in their hearts when hearing the most cruel words spoken in the most innocent tone. Suddenly, what the teacher had said in class before, "Nightmare Beasts have a natural hostility towards humans," came true. It was indeed very hostile.

If you lose you will die, and the game is connected to your life. Even the easiest game will not be fun.

However, this game can also help them better understand this high-level nightmare beast, so it is not entirely without benefits.

Bargaining is necessary at this time. Jiang Tianming did not hesitate to fight for more benefits for his side: "The difficulty is too high. We don't know you. How can we guess this is not a game? If you want to kill us, you might as well do it directly instead of torturing us in this way."

This makes sense. Although the Cloud Nightmare does harbor deep malice towards humans, it also really wants to play the game, and naturally does not want the game to be completely boring.

After thinking for a while, it changed the rules: "Each of you can guess an answer. As long as one of you gets it right, you pass. How about that?"

The new rules were much better than before, so Jiang Tianming did not push any further and asked another question: "You cannot ask a question that has no answer. If you ask a question, it means we have completed a question. The gift after answering each question correctly must also be beneficial to us."

It must be said that Jiang Tianming was very thoughtful. Su Bei couldn't help but look at him with admiration. He was indeed the protagonist. He hadn't even thought of the gift issue just now.

Indeed, gifts are definitely good things from the perspective of humans, but nightmares may not think so. If the other party deliberately plays a word trap with them, if it is not resolved in advance, everyone is likely to suffer a big loss.

The Cloud Nightmare was clearly getting impatient. Lightning could be vaguely seen under the dark clouds: "It's so annoying! Why do you have so many requests?"

"To you this is just a game, but to us it involves life." Jiang Tianming's expression was still very calm, and he even managed to keep a faint smile on his face when facing the threat of the Nightmare Beast. "So I have to be more cautious."

"Okay, okay, then there's no problem now, right?" The cloud floated up and down twice, showing its impatience.

Unable to think of any other questions at the moment, Jiang Tianming turned to look at the others. Seeing that they had no intention of speaking, he nodded and said, "Okay, let's sign a contract, and then you can ask your questions."

He couldn't bet that the Nightmare Beast would keep its promise, so he had to sign a contract with supernatural powers to feel at ease. After saying this, he quickly produced a contract.

Seeing that he finally agreed, the lightning in the clouds disappeared instantly, and he rubbed the contract and successfully imprinted his own aura: "First question! Why do I have so many books here?"

"Can we discuss this?" Lan Subing raised her hand and asked carefully.

The Nightmare Beast had no objection to this: "Sure."

So the four of them huddled together, and Lan Subing, who had just spoken, was the first to make a guess: "Could it be to study us and then better rule the world?"

As I said before, these books are all about human beings, and many of them have been read before, most likely because the author wants to use them to understand human beings.

"No, I don't think its thoughts are that complicated. It's just interested in books related to humans." The speaker was Wu Mingbai. He glanced at the black cloud that was as active as a child, and gave his own guess.

What they both said made sense, but Jiang Tianming proposed another possibility, which was close to Wu Mingliang's, but not exactly the same: "It may not be just books in this room, other types of books may be in other rooms. So it may not necessarily be that he likes to read books about human beings, it may be that he simply likes to read."

The three of them could not convince each other, so they all looked at Su Bei. Su Bei then slowly withdrew his gaze from the books being read and said quietly: "Tell me, how does a cloud turn the pages of a book?"

The three of them were stunned when these words came out. Yes! This nightmare beast looks like a black cloud, and it should not have limbs like hands. But most of the books on these bookshelves have traces of being read repeatedly, so it can be judged that the one reading the books may not be this black cloud.

After being reminded by him, Lan Subing also realized that something was wrong: "If it really has read so many books, how can it still be so childish?"

This is not personality discrimination, but mainly because books can increase a person's reading experience, especially books that study human beings. But the nightmare beast has always shown the mentality of a child, and it really doesn't look like a creature that has read so many books.

Jiang Tianming seemed to suddenly understand something: "These books are indeed not for it to read, but for the people it has locked up here."

He had just realized this problem. If this nightmare beast really wanted to understand humans, a better way would be to capture humans and learn about them in person, rather than just reading books.

There was no doubt that it had brought people into this room before. Combined with what Su Bei had just said, Jiang Tianming suddenly understood. These books were placed there to make those who were captured by it less bored, not for this high-level nightmare beast to read itself.

The remaining three people also thought this guess was the most reasonable, so they told the Cloud Nightmare.

As expected, they guessed correctly: "Congratulations! You are really good at solving puzzles. These books are for you to read. If you fail to answer the questions, I can be merciful and not kill you, as long as you can stay with me."

That was really unnecessary. Being locked up here and losing his freedom would be easier for Su Bei than dying. He was a typical person who believed that freedom was more important than life. This was also the reason why Su Bei was not very surprised when the "comic consciousness" first came to him, and he did not even have much desire to save himself.

He didn't want to be imprisoned forever and lose his freedom just to save himself.

"Then the second question is, what does my true form look like?" The black cloud moved twice and asked happily.

This question once again made the four people fall silent. They had always thought that the true form of this nightmare beast was a black cloud, but since it asked this, the answer was probably not this.

Of course, it is also possible that this nightmare beast is deliberately messing with their mentality. In fact, the answer is very simple, it is the black cloud. But no one dares to bet, because you know that the price of losing the bet is either death or loss of freedom.

Everyone gathered together to discuss again, and Jiang Tianming spoke first: "It can control the weather, so its original body must also be related to the weather."

There is no doubt about this. Wu Mingzhi added: "And it should be a kind of weather that can include most of the weather."

Sunny day But sunny day already exists as a kind of room weather.

Anyone with a little common sense knows that the so-called sky is just the atmosphere on the surface of the earth. The answer can't be the atmosphere, that's too abstract!

When everyone was guessing in this direction, Lan Subing suddenly proposed a possibility: "Do you think it is possible... that it is white clouds or clouds?"

This was what she suddenly thought of just now. The room was originally filled with white clouds, but because the high-level nightmare beast appeared in the form of black clouds, everyone mistakenly thought that its true form was black clouds, and even directly ruled out the option of clouds.

But if you think about it carefully, if the correct answer is clouds, it does fit the evil taste of the Nightmare Beast. Perhaps only someone with a wild imagination like Lan Subing could come up with such an answer so quickly.

Anyway, there were three chances in total, and Jiang Tianming and the others didn't mind letting her make a mistake once. After all, this answer sounded quite reliable, and several people felt that it was very likely the truth.

“My answer is clouds!”

I don't know if it's because Lan Subing has always had good luck, but she actually guessed it right. Not only were the four people from Su Bei surprised, but the Nightmare Beast was also very surprised.

"…Guessed it right." The sound of gnashing teeth was heard.

Unlike the last time, this time they were able to guess correctly, which was obviously beyond the Cloud Nightmare's expectations. The unexpected result caused small lightning to crackle on its body again, and its voice became low because of its anger and embarrassment: "Guessing so quickly is really boring! But you definitely can't answer the last question!"

When it said the last sentence, it became proud again, and asked happily like a child: "The third question, do you think I will kill you?"

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