Chapter 179
"Then what good will it be for me to risk my life to save people?" Although he was willing to go in, even at this moment, Su Bei did not forget to fight for the benefits for himself. Praise, gratitude and honor are all false, only the benefits are real.
Faced with this question, Meng Huai was not surprised and raised a finger: "'Alpha Superpower High School' promised to give you a skill book that you can use after the task is completed."
Another skill book! Su Bei showed a surprised look. In total, Alpha Supernatural High School gave away about 20 skill books in this event, some of which were very valuable. If you don't know, you might think that skill books are some cheap stuff.
Especially the reward for myself, the skill book of fate is very rare, if it is of better quality, the price can fly into the sky. It is full of sincerity.
Seeing his shock, Meng Huai couldn't help but sigh: "This school has nothing but a lot of skill books. It would be great if we could catch a knowledge nightmare beast, but unfortunately this kind of nightmare beast is rare, and its self-preservation ability is very strong. There are also many high-level nightmare beasts protecting it, so it is really impossible to catch it."
Indeed, a Knowledge Nightmare is equivalent to an endless treasure trove. "Alpha Supernatural High School" has obtained this Knowledge Nightmare for a long time, and the skill books accumulated over the years are unimaginable.
"But I have something to remind you." He then added, "Although 'Alpha Supernatural High School' said that you will definitely be able to use that skill book, it may not be related to destiny."
Hearing this, Su Bei understood immediately. In addition to the fate skill books, he could also use some more common physical fitness skill books, but the value of these was generally lower.
Su Bei wasn't too worried: "'Alpha Superpower High School' wouldn't be so stingy."
If something really happened to more than 50 students, it would be a devastating blow to the school's reputation. As the only one who could get in, he agreed to go in and helped the other party a lot. It was reasonable not to be stingy with the reward afterwards. However, the quality could not be too demanding. Fate skill books were hard to come by, so I was thankful that I could use them.
Meng Huai thought the same thing, and just reminded him casually. Seeing that he had thought clearly, he said no more: "Let's go."
Su Bei was brought to the empty fighting room where Nightmare of Knowledge and other teachers from Alpha Superpower High School were. They were quite efficient and could find a way to enter the world in the book in such a short time, which was much better than the Infinite Superpower Academy.
I just don't know what the situation will be like when he goes in. I'm afraid Jiang Tianming and the others will have already dealt with the problem by then, and he would have gone in vain.
The white-bearded principal asked amiably, "Are you ready? It was our fault this time that allowed the enemy to take advantage, and we need your help. On behalf of all the teachers and students of 'Alpha Supernatural High School', I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you."
He did not ask hypocritical questions like "Are you willing to go?" Now only Su Bei could enter, and he had no choice whether he was willing or not. Asking again would only make people think he was asking for more. They could only try to increase the reward to make Su Bei's forced adventure worthwhile.
After a brief greeting, Su Bei had already moved his little pointer to the leftmost position. Since it was a random landing, he would of course try to land in a place that was convenient for him to move around.
Although he didn't have the vision of the world in the book, Su Bei knew very well that it must be very chaotic inside. Jiang Tianming and his men couldn't just sit there and wait for rescue, and the "Black Flash" organization couldn't let them find a way to leave.
With his luck, if he really went in without caring about anything, he might land directly on the main battlefield and become the target of everyone's attacks. It would be better to adjust his luck first to see if he can land in a better position.
It is worth mentioning that Su Bei discovered through numerous experiments that the upper and lower limits of each person's luck are completely different. With the same little finger at the far left position, if it is Lan Subing, he can easily avoid danger and not encounter any enemies. But if it is Jiang Tianming, he can only make sure that the enemy does not find him in the first place, giving him a chance to hide.
As Su Bei was one of the people with bad luck, even if his little finger was on the far left, he might not be able to find a good Feng Shui location. But he knew that it was better to make some adjustments than not.
Su Bei was sucked into the world of the book again. This time, he was already familiar with the place. He shook his head and began to look around. This was a storage room, and it seemed that there was no intelligence.
Before Su Bei opened the door, a voice came from outside. It was a shrill male voice that was obviously changed by a voice changer: "I must admit that I may not be able to do this at your age. But unfortunately, this entire world in the book is under my control, and I know everything you do."
Hearing this, Su Bei raised his eyebrows. He was lucky to have arrived at the room where the BOSS was. It seemed that the person he was talking to should be Jiang Tianming and the others.
As expected, Jiang Tianming's voice was heard next: "You caught us just to watch us die of old age."
Even now his voice is still very calm, as if he has already made up his mind.
The shrill male voice laughed. "How could that be? In fact, it's the exact opposite. I captured you and made you go through all this so that you can find a way to eternal life."
This was exactly the same as Su Bei's guess. He began to be curious about the identity of the person sent by the "Black Flash" organization.
"How can we possibly find a way to achieve eternal life?" Jiang Tianming said with a frown.
The man with the baby-faced mask shook his head. "No, you know that one of you can achieve immortality."
At this point, he looked at the students who were talking to each other every day and asked, "What do you think?"
Tiffany was the first to speak. She sneered, "If you want eternal life, let me be your first love. Then your life will be equal to mine."
This is true, people who are permanently possessed by a [Bloodline] superpower can indeed live and die together with the other person. And the possessor of this superpower often has a very long life, which is equivalent to gaining eternal life.
Therefore, Tiffany's family actually has a lot of vassals, most of whom are powerful superpowers who gave up their freedom for immortality.
"Little girl, don't be so quick to mock me. I know you have other ways." The man said with a smile, not at all angry about what Tiffany had just said.
Elvis and Ian didn't say anything, and Lan Subing didn't say anything either. Jiang Tianming pursed his lips and spoke again: "Since you captured us to study the method of immortality, then let the others go. They are useless to you."
"They are just temporarily useless for the goal of eternal life, but it doesn't mean they are useless to me. Everyone has his or her own use. There are no useless people, only useless users." The man said disapprovingly, and his earnest look made him look like a genial elder, which was particularly funny with his baby-faced mask.
Now, no one wanted to talk anymore, but there was no other way. Time was not running out yet, so Jiang Tianming calmly advised, "What's wrong with immortality? You just claimed that you are very reasonable. We don't care about immortality. If you are really reasonable, just let us go."
Without a doubt, the man shook his head again, looking at them as if they were children who didn't understand what was going on: "You are still too young. You don't understand that people have too many regrets in their lives that need to be made up. A mere hundred years is not enough to make up for those regrets."
After thinking for a while, perhaps because he really needed to find someone to talk to, or perhaps because of his status as the protagonist, the man sighed and said, "Let me tell you a story."
Then Su Bei and others heard a love story from him.
The story is simple. A man has a wife. They love each other and work hard for scientific research together. Then his wife dies in an accident, and the man is silent for a long time. Until he finds his wife in the form of a nightmare beast in the nightmare world, he decides to find a way to turn his wife back into a human.
The masked man is indeed a good storyteller, and because he has put a lot of emotion into the story, the whole thing sounds very moving.
Su Bei knew that it was impossible to turn a nightmare beast into a human being, and the other party's research would inevitably fail, so he listened calmly. But others didn't know that Lan Subing rarely spoke up and asked, "So how is your research going now?"
"It hasn't been researched yet, so I need a longer lifespan." The man replied affectionately, "The lifespan of a nightmare beast is infinite. If I die, what will happen to her?"
Once he died, his wife who had become a nightmare beast would be very lonely even if she came back to life one day. And what if she was killed by humans without his protection?
Being killed by the human being whom she once loved deeply and for whom she gave everything was too cruel to her wife, and a man would never let her fall into such a situation.
From the confidence in his eyes, we can see that he is very sure that he is the one who can research a method to turn nightmare beasts back into humans. According to the various studies of the "Black Flash" organization, we can also see that this scientist is indeed gifted.
At this time, Su Bei had already guessed who he was. If nothing unexpected happened, this man should be Mo Xiaotian's grandfather. He didn't expect that the big boss would come in person, which made him want to make trouble.
If we take off the opponent's mask now, can we directly expose Mo Xiaotian's identity?
But the problem is that [Destiny Gear] can't be used on Grandpa, so he has to find another way. In addition, his mental power can't be released. The leader of the "Black Flash" organization must have a prop that can sense mental power, so he can't expose himself.
The conversation outside was still going on, and it was Jiang Tianming's somewhat shaky dialogue. Not only Jiang Tianming, Lan Subing also spoke up and agreed with a few words, and it seemed that she felt the same way as her grandfather.
Elvis frowned and looked at them, telling them to clear their heads and not to listen to Grandpa's lies. No matter how touching his words were, they couldn't hide the fact that he was using other people's lives to pave the way for himself. Tiffany also frowned, but didn't say anything.
The two of them didn't know Jiang Tianming and the other two, but Su Bei knew them very well. He knew that they would not be shaken by such a story, at least not when they were carrying other people's lives. The reason why he said that just now was probably to delay time and let Grandpa relax his vigilance.
So he ignored it and continued to think about what he should do. Suddenly, there was a sound of the door being broken. Then Si Zhaohua's voice rang out: "Tianming, we did what you said and really found a way to break the deadlock!"
The next second, the noises outside became chaotic, but soon stopped. The man sighed and said regretfully, "It turns out you were stalling for time. I thought I had really met a soulmate."
After expressing his regret, he laughed like a schizophrenic: "But do you think you can really leave once you find a way out? There is no way for all of you to get out of this book world! The only exit left can only take 30 people out. What are you going to do with the rest? Abandon them?"
One of the basic settings of the world in the book is that there must be a way to break out, but because of the "space lock", the "Black Flash" organization successfully developed a method to control the number of people. No matter how many people enter the world of the book, only three-quarters of them can break out.
As the saying goes, a gentleman deceives others with his own tricks. The leader knew that as long as someone couldn't get out, these students who had been instilled with upright ideas since childhood would never abandon their companions and leave easily.
Therefore, he was never in a hurry from beginning to end, even if someone was not caught, even if he roughly guessed that Jiang Tianming was stalling for time, he was not in a hurry.
As expected, after hearing his words, those people's faces suddenly turned ugly. Jiang Tianming looked at Si Zhaohua, but Si Zhaohua just shook his head blankly: "I haven't tried it."
Although this is what they say, everyone knows in their hearts that the enemy is unlikely to lie about this.
Su Bei knew that it was time for him to go out.
After adjusting several destiny compasses and rubbing his face which had turned pale due to excessive use of his mental power, he pushed open the door and walked out with a joking smile on his face: "I heard something. Some people can't get out."
"Su Bei!" Jiang Tianming and the others all showed surprised and happy expressions at the same time, "Why are you here?"
After being sucked into the world of the book, they were initially left to fend for themselves while researching ways to save their lives, so everyone gathered together quickly, but Su Bei was not among them at that time.
Combined with the fact that Su Bei disappeared during the fight in the bell tower, everyone agreed that he was not in the book world at all. But who would have thought that he would suddenly appear at this critical moment!
"I will be here when I am supposed to be here." Su Bei curled his lips, "I brought books with me."
Although he said so, he did not take out the books from the ring right away. It is always safest to keep the books in the storage ring. What if they are destroyed when he takes them out?
When this was said, everyone was stunned at first, and then overjoyed. Now everyone present knew that as long as they tore up any book, they could leave the world in the book.
It looked like Su Bei had come in from outside to rescue them, so he must have a lot of books in his hands. Now everyone didn't have to worry about not being able to get out.
However, Su Bei, who should have seized this opportunity to show off his coolness, could hardly hold back. It was not until this moment that he could clearly see the current appearance of Jiang Tianming and others.
To be honest, it was really hard not to laugh when I saw a group of familiar people suddenly become adults.
All of them are now in their fifties or sixties. Jiang Tianming has a head of black hair mixed with a few white strands and his face is full of wrinkles, but his back is very straight, and he looks like a spirited old man.
Lan Subing also has a lot of white hair. It's amazing that no matter what color your hair is when you're young, it will turn white when you get old. Her cheeks are slightly sunken, and her originally big, bright blue eyes have become a little cloudy, but she's still a pretty little old lady.
Another beautiful girl is Ai Baozhu. There is not a single white hair on her head. However, her hairstyle has changed a little from before. It has changed from a bun to a normal ponytail. Su Bei guessed that she must have hidden her white hair.
Relatively speaking, the one who had the most advantage was definitely Si Zhaohua. Even if there were some white hairs on his head, they were not noticeable at all. Su Bei couldn't see them anyway. He was also very energetic, but because of his hairstyle and his temperament, he looked more like an elegant old man.
Elvis and Tiffany did not age. Due to his supernatural powers, Elvis could easily avoid the mechanism of this book world. As for Tiffany, it was because she did not age easily. Even sixty or seventy years old was nothing to her long life.
Ian is not here. I don't know where he went.
Su Bei didn't pay attention. His attention was mainly focused on Jiang Tianming and others.
"Pfft!" He couldn't help laughing. Sorry, these old faces looked really funny to him.
Everyone was stunned by his laughter at first, but then they reacted. Ai Baozhu was immediately angry and said, "What are you laughing at?"
Su Bei immediately put away the smile on his face, put his hands together and bowed, saying, "No more smiling, no more smiling."
The masked man had a completely opposite mood to theirs. He didn't expect that "Alpha Supernatural High School" could break through the "space lock" so quickly and let someone in.
It seems that this plan will not succeed. He sighed in his heart, but he still kept calm on his face: "Well, it seems that you are better this time. But it doesn't matter, we will see each other next time. Then I will..."
Before he could finish his words, Su Bei suddenly raised his hand to interrupt him: "Wait."
Facing the doubtful look from the masked man, Su Bei snapped his fingers and said, "The fun has just begun."
The next second, Ian suddenly fell from the sky, scaring Si Zhaohua and Jiang Tianming who were caught off guard so much that they immediately released their special powers.
In a place like this, their nerves were already tense. When Su Bei suddenly opened the door just now, they were actually startled. What's more, someone suddenly appeared from the sky.
One used [Object Control] to control the nearest chair to try to block himself, while the other scattered feathers in an attempt to capture the enemy that suddenly appeared.
Because of their unusual movements, the masked man had to move. Relying on his ability to sense danger, he first dodged the oncoming feather by leaning to the side, and then jumped away from the chair. Just when he thought he had nothing to worry about, a feather suddenly appeared behind him.
Because the feather did not bring him a sense of danger, the masked man did not try to avoid it. Who knew that it would suddenly cut the rope tied to the mask, causing the mask to fall to the ground.
"Click."
The sound of the mask falling to the ground made everyone stop, and everyone looked at the masked man in unison, wanting to see what the face behind the mask looked like.
As expected, under the mask was a face full of mist. It was not so easy to reveal the identity of the grandfather. Although Su Bei was surprised, he was not too disappointed.
But the grandfather, the masked man, was extremely surprised. Su Bei could see some shock on his misty face: "How did you do that?"
Su Bei knew what he meant. His destiny compass did not show it, so it was impossible for him to be under his control. And the series of events just now were obviously guided by destiny. The masked man must have been affected, otherwise the mask would not have fallen off.
That's why he was so surprised and didn't understand how he changed his destiny.
Facing this question, Su Bei calmly answered: "Destiny can be hidden, but it will not disappear."
It is true that he cannot touch his destiny compass, but that does not mean that the masked man has no destiny. As long as there is destiny, Su Bei can influence it, but he just needs to find a way.
Su Bei happened to master this method, which is the connection method. The fate of everyone in this house is likely to be related to each other, so as long as he adjusts the fate of others, the fate of the masked man will also be affected.
Knowing this, the next step is to control the direction of influence. It sounds difficult, but as long as you have a clear idea, it is not impossible to control the direction of the pointer without seeing the other party's destiny compass.
The large compass position chosen by Su Bei for the masked man is called "exposure." He had previously discovered through his "dream bubble" research that as long as the compass reaches this position, the owner of the compass will reveal something.
One advantage of this position is that it is right in the middle of the upper half. This is also the most critical point.
As the leader of the "Black Flash", the masked man will not die in a short time, so his thumb must be in the upper half. So the final position is set near the middle of the upper half. No matter where his thumb is, it can be easily affected by others.
But it was clear that not only the masked man was affected, but also Ian. Su Bei now knew where he was. He probably entered his own book world from the beginning. I just didn't know why he didn't send others in with him, and now he suddenly came out on his own initiative.
After hearing his answer, the masked man was silent for a while, and then suddenly disappeared from the spot, probably exiting the world in the book.
Su Bei raised his eyebrows, turned around and looked at Jiang Tianming and others: "Let's go, take me to find other people."
However, the others did not take action immediately, but asked him curiously: "What did you mean by what you said just now? He should know your ability, why would he ask such a question?"
"He has hidden his own fate, but he still wants to use this trick to guard against me." Su Bei raised the corner of his mouth and snorted complacently.
He did have reason to be proud, as he was able to make the leader of the Black Flash organization suffer a loss in front of him even though he was well prepared. This was already an achievement that surpassed most people.
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