Chapter 187

Su Bei had thought before that if there was any way to solve the changes brought about by the meteorite, it would be to make the meteorite disappear again. And the first step to make the meteorite disappear is undoubtedly to find the location of the meteorite.

But now it seems that the meteorite has become a pile of rubble. How can we make them disappear together?

Su Bei couldn't think of a solution for the moment. Perhaps he would have new ideas after he went to the Nightmare World himself.

But there is still a problem. The meteorite cannot be scattered only in the nightmare world. There must be a part left in the real world. Where is that part?

No, that's not right. There's no need to bother. Suddenly, Su Bei's brows relaxed. It was known that the author had no plans for this meteorite, so why should he add more trouble to himself?

Meteors that fall in the Nightmare world constitute Nightmare, so meteorites that fall in the real world constitute Psychics. Isn't this a good idea? Following this line of thought, they only need to completely destroy the meteorites in the Nightmare world. In this way, not only will the Nightmare disappear, but Psychics will also continue to exist.

It was a perfect plan. Su Bei's mouth curled up slightly. He had to find an opportunity to go to the Nightmare World. If he could determine the location of the meteorite, he could continue with the plan.

Of course, he did not completely believe that those stones floating in the air were transformed from meteorites. If they were actually just a setting of the Nightmare World and had nothing to do with meteorites, then he would have to consider whether the "Life Stone" was a meteorite.

"Life Stone" is a type of stone introduced in Nightmare Lore. It only exists in the Nightmare World. It has powerful energy and can improve the quality of Nightmare spawned around it.

This setting may also be a meteorite. When Su Bei heard the introduction of the Nightmare Beast, he had some doubts.

The difficulty of these two guesses varies. Whether it is collecting all the dust and stones floating in the air in the Nightmare Beast world, or snatching those "Life Stones" from countless powerful high-level Nightmare Beasts, the difficulty is definitely not low.

Su Bei felt that the former was more likely. After all, the author did not make any arrangements for the meteorite, so it was naturally impossible for it to have the same effect as the "Life Stone".

But in the end, the comic world has already formed a world, and not everything will be arranged according to the author's ideas, especially when the author has no ideas here. Where there are no ideas, the world will naturally give birth to flesh and blood.

Just like comic book authors certainly never thought about what kind of TV series or novels would appear in their world, but don’t we still have those things in this world?

So even though Su Bei felt his worldview was overturned after learning that this was a comic book world, he never doubted the reality of this world. He only questioned the plot and the characters in the plot.

Characters and things outside the plot are certainly beyond the author's control.

Continuing with the plot, after they successfully entered the Nightmare World, they followed the coordinate props to find the "closed point" of the "Delicious Nightmare Farm". Su Bei did not look closely at the various encounters on the road. He was mainly concerned about whether there was any content related to the main storyline or the secrets of the Nightmare World.

The author did not waste this opportunity to enter the world of Nightmare Beasts, and mixed a lot of settings in it. What Su Bei found useful was undoubtedly the point that "Nightmare Beasts are accumulating strength."

This was the news Feng Lan and his team got after they captured a high-level nightmare beast. The high-level nightmare beast was a control type, but it failed to control Wu Jin's charm. Coupled with Li Shu's [Illusion], it was finally forced to reveal part of its memory.

In its memory, there was a war among the nightmare beasts at the beginning. They were malicious towards everything, but they were most malicious towards humans. Without a "closed point" to attack humans, they could only cause internal chaos.

In the past few decades, many high-level nightmare beasts led them to attack the human world, and the internal fighting among nightmare beasts has decreased a lot. After all, they can attack humans, who wants to fight with their own kind?

In recent years, although there have been few battles, the Nightmare Beasts have not had any internal strife. Su Bei couldn't help but suspect that they were accumulating strength and preparing for a big one.

There were no battles in the human world, and nightmare beasts did not fight each other. Everything seemed like the calm before the storm. And the next storm might sweep across the entire human world.

Qi Huang and the others didn't see anything from the Nightmare's memory, but Lei Zeen's expression became more and more solemn. Apparently, he thought the same as Su Bei, who had a God's perspective, and they both felt that the Nightmare's brief peace was brewing a bigger conspiracy.

At this moment, Feng Lan suddenly stood still, his eyes were tightly closed, and a faint golden light emanated from his whole body. Lei Zeen was well-informed and immediately realized that it was his [Prophecy] ability that was at work, so he decisively became Feng Lan's guardian.

When a superpower uses his superpower in the nightmare world, it is as eye-catching as someone lighting a fire in the dark. One after another, nightmare beasts rushed over to kill the sheep that had strayed into the wolf pack.

In order to train the students, Lei Zeen had no intention of taking action. At most, he would filter out some overly powerful nightmare beasts in advance. But this was enough. Qi Huang and the others were not some little sheep to be slaughtered.

After turning over a few pages, Feng Lan woke up and indeed got a prophecy. He predicted that there would be a large-scale battle next, and countless people would be involved. Even these first-year psychics would not be spared. This prophecy coincided with the thoughts of Lei Zeen and Su Bei.

At this point, the commission from the "Delicious Nightmare Beast Farm" was no longer a big deal, but after all, they had to be loyal to the person who entrusted them with the task. Besides, the Nightmare Beast attack was unlikely to happen in these two days, so they completed the task safely.

The main plot here tells this story, and then comes the ending plot in three locations.

After reading this, Su Bei opened the forum and took a quick look. After all, it was not related to the main plot, and there was no multi-faceted perspective like his, so readers did not see anything useful. At most, they thought the world of nightmare beasts was very novel.

However, Feng Lan's prophecy made everyone anticipate the direction of the next plot. There must be a large-scale battle about to begin, but no one knows when this battle will take place.

After a month of activities, everyone finally returned to the familiar campus and began to prepare for the three-school competition for the midterm exam. According to Su Bei's guess, that battle would definitely take place after them, no matter how fast it was. So the first priority was to get a good ranking in the midterm exam.

At the same time, he should also think carefully about this competition, including what he can do in the subsequent battles. It would be best to improve his strength in the three-school competition first, so as not to be cannon fodder in a large-scale battle.

Although he probably can't be cannon fodder with his current abilities, it's better to be safe than sorry. Becoming stronger is never a bad thing.

After taking a bus and then a teleporter, they finally arrived at the school gate. The five of them looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar campus and couldn't help but feel a little emotional. It was only a month, but it felt like a long time had passed.

They had experienced so much in this month that the time seemed particularly long. However, the students of the "Infinite Power Academy" obviously did not think so. For them, a month was not too long, and naturally they would not feel that Jiang Tianming and the others were strangers, after all, they did not see each other every day.

Seeing five people suddenly appear at the school gate, many people immediately gathered around curiously, whispering and guessing what they were doing.

Su Bei and his friends had no intention of showing off, so they quickly left the school gate and headed straight for the dormitory. Today was Friday, and they would have two days of rest. Except for Su Bei and Jiang Tianming, all of the five of them planned to go home.

After all, I've been away for a month, so it's only right that I tell my family when I come back.

At 8pm, the other students in Class S also came back one after another. But they also didn't stay long, and went home immediately after being sent to school.

In the end, only Su Bei and Jiang Tianming remained in the school.

Jiang Tianming and Wu Mingbai's orphan status was known to everyone early on, and Zhou Renjie bullied them for a certain reason. However, no one knew Su Bei's life experience, except that his parents seemed to have passed away and he was living alone.

Although they were very curious, in order to avoid hurting others, neither Jiang Tianming nor Wu Mingbai wanted to ask. While eating out, the three of them exchanged some information about this event, and they talked about Zhou Renjie.

"After his betrayal, who knows what will happen next." Wu Mingbai sighed, "I heard from Teacher Ye Lin that the Zhou family has been monitored, and if Zhou Renjie shows up, he will be arrested."

This treatment, which was like treating a criminal, made Jiang Tianming feel complicated. After all, he was not the one who had personally experienced Zhou Renjie's betrayal, and his impression of him still remained that of a classmate.

Wen Yan also sighed: "Although I felt it was not good before, it is still a bit hard to accept that he really made such a choice."

This is not hindsight, in fact, many classmates in class should have noticed the clues. Zhou Renjie has been a little gloomy since he failed the monthly exam, and he tried hard to pretend to be cheerful.

But there were some truly cheerful students in the class, and his original personality was not cheerful, so he looked particularly strange.

If it was just disguise, it wouldn't be a big deal, but the problem was that he always looked at everyone with a gloomy look.

The psychics have strong mental strength and are very sensitive to things like sight, so Zhou Renjie's secret spying could not be hidden from them.

However, most people would not think that he would betray them. At most, they thought that he wanted to take revenge on them. After all, the latter was just a personal matter, while the former even concerned his family.

Wu Mingbai had naturally seen some of it in advance, otherwise he would not have been on guard against Zhou Renjie at that time: "Zhou Renjie's betrayal must have a lot to do with the match with Mo Xiaotian, but Mo Xiaotian is like nothing happened. He has a very strong sense of perception. This is probably because stupid people have good fortune."

Hearing this, Su Bei couldn't help but chuckle. How could Mo Xiaotian be so insensitive? He was the one who caused Zhou Renjie's betrayal. He was so happy about it that he couldn't wait to feel sad.

His sudden smile made Jiang Tianming and the other man look at him. However, Su Bei had no intention of explaining. He shook his head to signal them to continue, and he lowered his head to eat again.

The two of them tacitly withdrew their gazes and continued chatting. Wu Mingzhi was observing Mo Xiaotian, while Jiang Tianming was observing Si Zhaohua: "Speaking of which, Zhaohua's performance is very strange."

"What do you mean?" Wu Mingbai asked, and Su Bei also raised his head to listen.

"Except for the little emotion he showed when he first learned the news, he seemed to have completely forgotten about it afterwards and didn't even mention it." While speaking, Jiang Tianming soaked all the rice in the braised chicken soup.

If he hadn't said it, Su Bei wouldn't have noticed it, but once he said it, it seemed to be true. Not only Si Zhaohua, but Ai Baozhu also didn't say anything extra, as if Zhou Renjie's betrayal was nothing to them.

But these two people are obviously not the cold-hearted type, so how is it possible that their mood is not affected at all? But if you say that they are affected, it is really hard to see, there is really no expression at all.

"Perhaps rich people have some special skills in facial expression management." Wu Mingbai responded with a nonchalant attitude, "After all, it is impossible for the two of them to betray us. Even if Zhou Renjie came to them, they might not be willing to help them."

According to Si Zhaohua and Ai Baozhu's personalities, whether for themselves or for their families, they would never accept the traitor Zhou Renjie unless he voluntarily surrendered.

But is that possible? Obviously not.

"You're right..." Jiang Tianming nodded hesitantly. Although he still felt something was wrong, as Wu Mingbai said, they would not betray him, nor would they provide aid to Zhou Renjie. There was nothing to worry about.

Su Bei, who was eating beside him, was also thinking about Jiang Tianming's discovery. He thought it was very strange. Except for the moment when they just received the news that day, Si Zhaohua and Ai Baozhu were not affected at all afterwards.

If it were Li Shu or Mo Xiaotian, they might guess that they were heartless, but Si Zhaohua and Ai Baozhu were obviously not such people. The reason they behaved like this was either because they were very good at pretending, as Wu Mingbai said, or... they already knew something and were not worried about Zhou Renjie's safety.

Thinking of this, Su Bei's eyes flashed. Is there any hidden secret behind Zhou Renjie's betrayal? Or did he miss some details and fail to see the key points?

Chewing the mushrooms full of soup in his mouth, Su Bei chose to give up thinking. In the end, no matter what the specific details of Zhou Renjie's rebellion were, it had little to do with him.

After dinner, the three of them walked back together. Jiang Tianming curiously asked Wu Mingbai, "By the way, isn't your ability much stronger? I haven't seen it since I came back."

Although Jiang Tianming had long known that Wu Mingli's [Earth Element] had made great progress after the conspiracy of the "Black Flash" organization, he had never seen it with his own eyes because they were not in the same place.

Of course, when he was in "Alpha Superpower High School", he and Lan Subing had a video call with Wu Mingbai, and Wu Mingbai also demonstrated his new abilities on the phone. But how could such a small screen show so much that neither party was very satisfied.

This question really hit the spot for Wu Mingbai. He was still worrying about how to naturally show off his special abilities to his friends, but he didn't expect his friends to ask him about it. It really was just what he needed.

Fearing that Jiang Tianming would go back on his word or Su Bei would leave directly, Wu Mingbai nodded immediately. After looking around, he pointed to the stone pillar on the top of the building that was at the farthest point in his sight, a few hundred meters away, and stretched out his hand towards it.

The next second, a knee-high stone pillar flew directly in front of him.

"So far?" Jiang Tianming showed a surprised expression. Before, Wu Mingdao's control over earth element objects was far from being so strong.

"More than that, we brought it here just because it is the farthest earth-related item we can see." Wu Mingbai said proudly, "Look at this!"

Wu Mingbai raised his hands above his head, his face gradually turned pale, and sweat broke out on his forehead. Just when he was about to give up, a small stone fell from the sky and landed in his hands.

Where did the stones come from in the sky?

Su Bei and Jiang Tianming widened their eyes at the same time. It was rare to see both of them so surprised, especially Su Bei, who made Wu Mingming feel extremely proud.

"This is a meteorite," Su Bei guessed.

He had been thinking about meteorites falling from the sky before, and now seeing Wu Mingbai performing extremely similar actions, he would naturally think in this direction, even though it was very unlikely.

As expected and beyond reason, Wu Mingbai actually nodded: "Yes, it's a meteorite."

"How is this possible?" This time it was Jiang Tianming who spoke, his face full of disbelief and surprise, "Your ability can already control earth elemental items from such a distance?"

"Uh... that's not the case..." Facing his trusted companion, Wu Mingbai did not hide anything, "I just used a little trick."

Without waiting for others to continue asking, he took the initiative to explain: "I used the [Earth Element] to increase my own mass, which is equivalent to turning myself into a small earth, and naturally there will be planets belonging to me flying over. Of course, the actual situation is not that simple, anyway, this is roughly the idea."

It sounded a bit impressive. Although Wu Mingbai's explanation was rather abstract, both of them understood the general meaning. Jiang Tianming blinked and asked a key question: "What is the maximum size of the meteorite that can be summoned?"

Meteorites are, after all, just rocks. They just fell from the sky, which was a bit unexpected. If they were big enough, they could cause considerable damage. But if only Wu Ming knew how big the one in his hand was, it would be useless.

And looking at Wu Mingbai's performance just now, just summoning this one piece has consumed a lot of his mental energy, and he is afraid that he does not have the ability to summon a bigger one.

Sure enough, Wu Mingbai shook his head with a pale face, half leaning on Jiang Tianming, but his expression was not much disappointed: "Do you think I can summon a bigger one like this? Let alone summoning, it's difficult for me to use supernatural powers now. This skill can't be applied to actual combat at least for now, but it's okay to show off."

At present, this ability is completely useless, but Wu knows that he still has a long way to grow. The ability to summon meteorites is useless to him with weak mental power, but when his mental power becomes stronger in the future and he can really summon a large number of meteorites, this will be a very powerful ability.

However, for Su Bei, Wu realized that the key to this newly developed ability was not its strength, but its connection to meteorites.

According to his previous idea, if he wanted to completely eliminate the Nightmare Beast, he would have to do something with the meteorite that changed the world in the first place. And since Wu knew that he could control the meteorite, could he also include it in this plan? If the protagonists participated, would it be even more powerful to complete the mission of saving the world?

This is very possible, but he needs to think about it carefully. Wu knows that he can summon meteorites, but what he needs now is to destroy the meteorites. How can this skill play its due role?

The break time passed quickly, and it was Monday in the blink of an eye. As soon as the class started on Monday, Meng Huai told them the next training goal, which was to let everyone learn to cooperate tacitly.

In addition to the individual battles in the arena, there are also group battles in the arena. And relatively speaking, the group battles account for more points than the individual battles.

At this point, he also explained the scoring method of the competition. In individual competition, each round is 2 points. If it is a tie, each team gets 1 point. A total of five rounds are played. There is no limit on how many times a person can play. If a person can beat five players, it is also in compliance with the rules. In team competition, there is a total of one round, and winning can get 8 points.

That is to say, unless you win all the individual matches, you must compete in the team match. Even if you win four games in the individual match, losing the team match may still result in a complete loss.

Although he already knew the rules of the competition, Qi Huang still couldn't help but frown: "The team competition score is so high, why not just compete in the team competition instead of the individual competition?"

"Individual competitions reflect personal strength, but team competitions are the most important to the human world." Meng Huai glanced at her, but didn't make any sarcastic remarks. He also thought so when he was young, but later he learned more lessons and understood the reason.

Seeing that Qi Huang still looked unconvinced, he explained unhappily: "What do you think the primary goal of the superpowers is?"

"Of course, it is to destroy the nightmare beast." Qi Huang answered as a matter of course. This is the consensus of all the superpowers, "But as long as the individual is strong..."

Before Qi Huang finished speaking, he was interrupted by Meng Huai: "It is to solve a large number of nightmare beasts in the battle. The others are just minor fights. Only the battles where nightmare beasts broke out will pose a real threat to human society. Do you think you can defeat so many nightmare beasts by yourself?"

They had personally experienced battles during the final exams of the previous semester. It was indeed not something that could be fought by a single person, at least not something that most espers could fight alone. The espers who could fight against a large number of nightmare beasts alone were all geniuses picked out of ten thousand, and the number of such geniuses was undoubtedly extremely small.

The school has many students to teach, so it is impossible to serve such a rare genius. Naturally, the three-school competition will not take care of geniuses. It is held more to set an example for ordinary people with special abilities and become a weathervane for the student world.

Knowing that what Meng Huai said made sense, Qi Huang stopped talking and sat down again. Although she was confident that she could be independent in the future, the school obviously had more to consider. Although she was proud, she would not ask for special treatment at this time, as it would be meaningless.

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