Chapter 167

The other first-year students may not know because they have never been there, but Elvis, as the principal's personal disciple, must know a lot about it. He played games with Elvis for so many days, so he felt no shame in getting some information.

Elvis really knew a lot of information: "This resource space was formed very early, and the map inside is a city that is more like an ancient city."

The "ancient times" he mentioned were certainly not the ancient and quaint ones, but the medieval ones of Mousse, with tall buildings, castles and ruins everywhere.

It's interesting, it's a map they've never been to. In fact, they haven't been to many alien spaces with traces of human life, and only resource alien spaces have such maps. The ancient times of the country of Mus, Su Bei turned on his phone and began to catch up on the relevant knowledge.

The day after Meng Huai finished speaking about this, the head teacher of Class 1 announced this news in the classroom. They can stay in this resource space for a total of three days. When the three days are up, the gate will automatically open for six hours, and everyone needs to return the same way.

Those who succeed in leaving through the gate at the end will keep all their gains. If they are eliminated early, they will have to hand in all their gains. And those who fail to get out in time after the gate opens and are rescued after the gate closes will have to hand in half of their gains.

At the same time, there is another piece of news, that is, this time everyone can form a team to explore, three to five people in a group. Everyone will be dropped off at different locations, and only those who have reported to the team in advance will be dropped off at the same location.

For a large alien space like this, where nightmare beasts exist, it is safest to explore in a team. And Su Bei and his group, needless to say, are all exchange students in one group.

Time flies, and soon it is the day to go to the resource space next week. This activity involving the whole grade is very important to everyone, as if they are going on a spring outing, and they come to the classroom early to wait excitedly.

Because there is no great teleporter like Raizen, the entrance to the space of "Alpha Supernatural High School" is inside the school. The advantage of this is that it is very convenient to enter and exit, but the disadvantage is that sometimes naughty students may break in, and enemies who covet the resource space also know where this space is.

The door to the alien space here is decorated as a door covered with flowers and vines. It is three meters high and two meters wide, and can allow many people to enter at a time.

The principal of "Alpha Supernatural High School" has a typical appearance, with kind eyes and a long gray beard. He looks like one of those white-bearded old men that are unique to the magical world.

He and Xi encouraged everyone for a few words, and without wasting much time, they announced the official start of this activity. Then they asked Su Bei and other exchange students to go over, as they were to be the first to enter the alien space.

The hatred was really strong. Several people looked at each other helplessly and walked to the flower gate. Under their guidance, the five people held hands and walked in vertically.

The dizziness of traveling through space made Su Bei frown and close his eyes before he reopened them to observe the surrounding environment.

They were now on a medieval street, surrounded by tall, simple gray buildings with pointed roofs. Many of the walls had scratches from wild animals, and many were chopped off at the waist or had large holes smashed in. If it weren't for these marks, this place would probably have a rather artistic feel.

Of course, Su Bei was only talking about vision, not smell. Hey, after Baozhu came back, she covered her nose with her hands, with a look of disgust on her face: "Eh~ what is this smell?"

"If I remember correctly...more than a hundred years ago, people in Mousse Country solved their physiological problems on the streets..." Si Zhaohua, who was good at history, said in a dark tone with a very unpleasant look on his face.

Everyone was silent. After a while, Lan Subing said awkwardly, "Then this stench is quite long-lasting..."

Everyone was silent again.

In the end, it was the most reliable Jiang Tianming who brought the topic back on track. He took out the map and said, "Before others come in, let's find where the clock tower is."

Su Bei had thought about this when he was observing the surroundings just now. He originally thought that the bell tower should be relatively high, so it can be seen even from a distance. However, he did not expect that the residential houses here are generally relatively high, which strictly blocked the view and he could not see far away at all.

"Should we look for it separately or together?" Ai Baozhu asked.

"Let's split up..." Jiang Tianming thought for a moment. This is a big couple space, so it would be faster if we explored separately. "Si Zhaohua, you team up with Ah Bing and Baozhu. We can fly, so even if we encounter enemies, we can take them and escape smoothly. I'll be in a group with Su Bei. This alien space is full of freshmen, so we should be a little intimidating to them. If we're just exploring, generally no one will take the initiative to provoke us."

One of them was the first one to tie with Elvis, and the other one actually defeated Elvis in combat. When the two of them walked together, the other students of "Alpha Supernatural High School" would indeed be subconsciously a little wary.

This is a more reasonable allocation, and no one objects. Si Zhaohua then added: "Let's walk forward together for a while, and then separate when we find a good gathering place."

Everyone had no objection and walked forward together. They walked to a house that was a darker color than the other houses, opened the broken wooden door and walked in. This was a two-story building, and if you ignored the traces of the nightmare beast, it was still a pretty good place to live.

Su Bei, who had been radiating his spiritual power, suddenly stopped when he was about to sit on the chair. He looked upstairs and said with a smile: "Who will go upstairs to see if there is a bed?"

"We're already in this place, how come you're more refined than me?" Si Zhaohua complained as he and Jiang Tianming went upstairs. Soon, the sound of a fight came from upstairs, but before Ai Baozhu and Lan Subing could go up, the fighting stopped.

Soon the two of them came down together. Jiang Tianming had a dark face and said, "It would be better if you tricked us into going up there because you knew there was a nightmare beast up there."

"How can it be considered cheating when it comes to scholars?" Su Bei said without any guilt.

Ai Baozhu burst out laughing: "So it's safe here now, let's go out and explore the way!"

It is now eight o'clock in the morning. After agreeing to meet in the house at noon at the latest, the five of them walked out together and went their separate ways according to their previous groups.

Su Bei and Jiang Tianming walked to the left together, thinking about what hardships they would encounter along the way. This guy was simply a human danger attractor. He only humbly hoped that nothing would happen one after another, otherwise Su Bei would really regret not directly rejecting Jiang Tianming's grouping.

The city planning of this alien space was very good. The streets were all straight lines, and it felt like the entire city was divided into several districts. Only ten minutes away, the two saw a relatively luxurious white single-family castle.

There is no doubt that a wealthy family must have lived here.

It is known that this alien space was once inhabited by people with special abilities. According to the information Su Bei had previously found, people with special abilities in this era generally gathered together because the church treated them as aliens like witches and eliminated them.

Witches don't really exist, they are just a slander against women in this era. But people with super powers do have real super powers. The siege of them by a group of ordinary people certainly didn't cause much damage, but it also made this group of people choose to live together to prevent others from seeing them as different.

Generally speaking, people with special powers are relatively wealthy, after all, they are paid to exorcise evil spirits (destroy nightmare beasts). Therefore, if nothing unexpected happens, this apparently wealthy house may be the home of a person with special powers.

"How about... let's go in and take a look?" Su Bei asked. Although their main goal was to find the clock tower on the map, it would be nice if they could make some extra money on the way. Who knows if there are any good things in this superpower's house?

"I think it's okay." Jiang Tianming and he hit it off immediately. Su Bei took the initiative to step back and let Jiang Tianming open the door first.

However, Jiang Tianming is not a person who forgets his mistakes. He always learns from his mistakes. He noticed that Su Bei's behavior was a bit unusual and looked at him suspiciously: "Is there any danger hidden behind this door?"

Seeing that his intention had been discovered, Su Bei smiled awkwardly: "It seems there is a nightmare beast."

Jiang Tianming: “…”

Before he could say anything, Su Bei very consciously went to open the door. He just wanted to save some trouble, not that he really couldn't defeat the nightmare beast behind the door.

As soon as I opened the door, a rat-like nightmare beast as big as a human head jumped up. The rat was as black as ink. If it was smaller, it might be a bit interesting, but it was so big that it just made people want to scream.

However, Su Bei was not afraid of rats and easily cut its throat with a gear. This was a low-level nightmare beast, and it was easy for him to deal with it now. If it was when he had just become a psychic and gained the ability to control gears, this gear would not have been able to cut the opponent's rat skin.

After dealing with this nightmare beast and confirming that there were no other nightmare beasts in the house, Su Bei collected his mental power. If the range of his mental power was not too large, the consumption was actually not great, and he could recover it while walking.

This is the advantage of advanced mental power, the recovery speed is very fast.

The house looked like an old house that was about to be renovated but had not yet started. There were old and damaged parts of tables and chairs, as well as some broken utensils everywhere. It was not difficult to see that this place had encountered some danger many years ago.

However, after entering, the two looked at each other, not knowing what to do next. Jiang Tianming shook his head and said, "Then let's search separately."

Neither of them had been to the resource space before, so they had no idea how to explore it, including finding any mineral veins. It would be fine if Wu Mingli was here, because he had the ability [Earth Element] and could sense abnormalities underground, but they didn't. Could they just search randomly?

"Let's look through it first, and find whatever we can." Jiang Tianming was the first to break the silence, saying helplessly. It was the only way, Su Bei nodded, and he and he split into two groups, one looking from the top layer downwards, and the other looking from the bottom layer upwards.

The one on the lower floor is of course Su Bei. He chose this location very carefully. First, he doesn't have to climb the stairs. Second, the treasures on the lower floor have usually been found long ago, so he doesn't have to put in much effort, because even if he does, he won't find anything. But the upper floor is different. There may be treasures that haven't been found on the upper floor. Jiang Tianming, as the protagonist of the comic, has the ability to attract treasures, so it's most appropriate for him to go to the upper floor.

After Jiang Tianming went up, Su Bei used his mental power to carefully search the two floors below, and indeed did not find any supernatural fluctuations. But think about it, it has been so many years, if there are still supernatural fluctuations, how could the nightmare beasts living here and the many waves of supernatural people who came to explore before not discover them?

Even if this alien space can regenerate resources, the resources that are regenerated should generally be the mineral resources underground.

Suddenly, Su Bei seemed to be enlightened by something and looked abruptly at the land under his feet.

Is there a treasure underground?

He wasn't sure, but it was a possibility. Compared to the resources on the ground that were consumable and had been searched for countless times, there must be more resources underground.

Thinking of this, when Jiang Tianming finished a round of searching and found nothing, Su Bei told him his guess.

Jiang Tianming thought for a while and said: "What you said does make some sense, but the problem is how can we find the treasure underground?"

At this point, he couldn't help but sigh: "If only I understood."

"No, actually you can do it too." Su Bei had already thought of a way during that time. His advanced mental power was difficult to penetrate solid objects, so he couldn't use his mental power to probe downwards. But Jiang Tianming's [Control Objects] ability could.

Hearing his words, Jiang Tianming asked curiously: "What method?"

"Use your special ability [Object Control] to manipulate a grain of sand underground and slowly explore downwards." Su Bei didn't care at all whether he was giving others a difficult problem or not, he just explained the method for his own benefit.

Undoubtedly, this method is difficult. Even if it is the [Control Objects] ability, controlling a grain of sand requires extremely high proficiency and precise control of the ability. Moreover, controlling objects to move underground and searching for minerals is not an easy task.

However, Jiang Tianming was not embarrassed. He squatted down, touched the ground with his palms, and then closed his eyes.

Su Bei knew that he was using his supernatural powers, so he didn't bother him and just went to the side to rest. In fact, he wasn't tired, after all, he could say that he had done nothing before, but this didn't stop him from sitting down and resting for a while.

15 minutes later, Jiang Tianming suddenly opened his eyes in surprise: "I found it!"

Su Bei, who was resting his eyes, also opened his eyes at the same time: "What is it?"

Because it was just an object touching another object, Jiang Tianming couldn't make an accurate judgment: "It seems to be a metal. I suspect it is a rubber energy alloy."

"Rubber Energy Alloy" is a magical metal. It has the same elasticity as rubber, will not be easily damaged, and has high plasticity.

However, because this metal is very rare, it is not circulated in the secular world, and there are not so many alloys for ordinary people to do research experiments. And more importantly, when it is used, it must be neutralized by mental power, otherwise it will explode. Therefore, it is not produced for ordinary people to use.

The greatest use of this metal is actually for psychics, especially metal psychics and weapon psychics. The former may acquire new abilities by observing this alloy, while the latter can fuse their own weapons with this alloy. If they can fuse something new, their weapons may evolve.

At the same time, even if you are not a superpower with the above two powers, you can use it to make weapons for yourself. High toughness and strong plasticity are the necessary qualities of a good weapon material.

Therefore, "Rubber Energy Alloy" is quite popular in the market of psychics, and the price is naturally very high.

The two of them started digging immediately. They all had shovels in their storage rings. After all, they knew they were here to find resources, so the school still let them bring the necessary props, but they couldn't bring anything too fancy. Some of them brought treasure hunting equipment, but they were confiscated by the teacher on the spot.

The psychic had good physical strength and great power, so digging was no problem for him. After a while, a five-meter-deep pit was dug out. The rubber energy alloy also surfaced.

Its appearance is light blue, and small pieces are embedded in the ground like natural crystals. The surface is matte, and no metallic luster can be seen. Just looking at the appearance, people who don't know it would definitely not guess that it is actually an alloy.

After digging out a piece, it was very light. However, the top and edge of the rubber energy alloy were very sharp. If you scratched it with your hand, it would easily leave a bloody mark. It was indeed a material very suitable for making weapons.

A total of about five kilograms of rubber energy alloy was dug out in the entire area, which should be worth more than 500,000 yuan according to the market value. The two people sighed that the psychics really made money while neatly putting everything into the storage space.

After exploring here, the next step is to look for the clock tower that they originally targeted. As soon as they went out, they ran into another team, a total of five people, all wearing school uniforms.

There are more than 500 first-year students at "Alpha Supernatural High School", so it is not too difficult to meet them in a city.

The two of them didn't have any ideas, but the group of people saw that they were facing a powerful enemy and had no intention of talking to them. They stared at them vigilantly as they slowly retreated, and ran away as soon as they retreated to the corner of the street.

Su Bei and Jiang Tianming were speechless. Jiang Tianming touched his face and said doubtfully, "Are we that scary?"

"Forget it, it's a good thing. It would be great if everyone could be so self-aware." Su Bei quickly accepted this phenomenon and expected others to do the same. That way, their trip would be much easier.

After strolling around for a while, Jiang Tianming suddenly stopped. Su Bei turned to look at him curiously, then looked around, but didn't find anything strange, so he asked, "Why did you stop suddenly?"

Jiang Tianming's expression suddenly became indescribable: "Why don't we climb up to the roof and take a look?"

Su Bei: "..."

His expression suddenly cracked.

Yes! Why don't they climb to the roof and have a look? The reason they wander aimlessly here is because the building is too high and blocks their view, so they can't find where the bell tower is. But if they climb to a higher roof, wouldn't this problem be solved?

But they had never thought about this problem before, so they wasted so much time. If it weren't for the gains during this period, Su Bei would really vomit blood.

The two of them twitched their lips and jumped onto the roof in two steps at the same time, looking into the distance. Just as expected, once they jumped onto the roof, they could see the entire city at a glance.

They were located in the southwest of the city, and the bell tower was in the middle of the city. The distance was not too far, but it would definitely not be enough to go back and forth before 12 o'clock.

"Let's go back and wait for Ah Bing and the others." Jiang Tianming made a decision. "Let's go back first and see if there are any nightmare beasts on the way. Kill two and make lunch later."

Meng Huai, who was watching their actions through the big screen outside the alien space, sneered: "They finally reacted here. If Si Zhaohua didn't have the [Angel] ability, the other group would probably still be searching blindly on the ground."

John shook his head helplessly: "It's normal that I didn't think of it for a while. We may not be very smart when we arrive in a new place."

The teacher next to him agreed, "That's right. Most of the students in our school never thought of climbing up to the roof to see what was going on. Even those who had received the resource point map never thought of going up there to see what was going on."

They definitely gave more maps to their own family members than to transfer students, which were distributed in previous activities. However, they were not necessarily skill book resource points, but also some other resources.

Almost all maps start from the clock tower. There is no other way. The most eye-catching and easiest to find symbol on this map is the clock tower.

Another advantage of setting the starting point of the map at the clock tower is that it can stimulate the first wave of group battles. I believe that many people will go to the clock tower, and when everyone sees each other, it will definitely be easy to fight.

"Alpha Superpower High School" organized such an event, of course it is not just to give resources to students for nothing. Their main purpose is not only to make students stronger, but also to enable students to adapt to encounters with other teams in the alien space as quickly as possible.

If they could fight, not only could they train each other, but they could also eliminate some people, reducing the consumption of resources in the alien space, thus killing two birds with one stone.

After finding the location of the clock tower, the two quickly found their gathering place after many twists and turns. To be honest, it is easy to get lost in a place without landmarks, but fortunately they have good memories and still found their way back.

However, as soon as they returned, they were immediately aware that someone was already in the room, because the door was now closed. In order to prevent others from entering to explore, they had simply opened the door to create the illusion that someone had searched the room, which was of course true. Now that the door was closed, someone must have gone in again.

"Could it be Si Zhaohua and the others?" Jiang Tianming guessed, looking at Su Bei at the same time.

Su Bei shrugged: "There are five people inside."

His mental power couldn't tell who was inside, but it was easy to judge the number of people. Five people, that must be a team. Because a team can only have five people at most, most of them are in teams of five.

Su Bei told Jiang Tianming about this situation. The two looked at each other helplessly. They were too lazy to go in and argue with each other that this was the house they had found first, so they just waited at the door of the house next door.

Anyway, this is just a gathering place with nothing in it. They found such a place just to have a place to rest later. And it doesn't matter if this place is replaced by another house, as long as Si Zhaohua and others can see it first.

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