Chapter 20

"What did you say just now?" The wooden iron man who was waiting for them at the door not far away suddenly asked, "Did Su Bei give you any hints?"

Because of his supernatural powers, his five senses were all quite sharp. Although he was standing far away, he could still vaguely hear what Jiang Tianming and the others said. He didn't understand what they said about the wooden iron man at the end, but he did understand a little bit about the part about Su Bei at the beginning.

He had been curious about Su Bei's abilities since the first day of school, but anyone who had listened carefully to the conversation between him and Jiang Tianming at the time would not have believed that his abilities were really something like "gears".

Although he normally wouldn't take the initiative to explore, he couldn't help but be curious when he heard about it.

After hesitating for a while, Jiang Tianming shook his head: "Sorry, maybe you can ask Su Bei directly."

It's not that he didn't want to tell Mu Tieren. After all, Jiang Tianming had fully understood that the monitor was indeed an upright and good person after spending more than a week together. He was not stingy in helping his classmates, and he was usually very sensible and would not pry into other people's secrets.

However, this was Su Bei's business after all, and if he told others about it, it would probably bring trouble to Su Bei. The other party had helped him after all, and it would be bad to repay kindness with enmity.

Mutiren was not angry because of his concealment. Instead, he said with great understanding: "I should be the one to say sorry. If I want to know something, I should go to Su Bei and not make it difficult for you."

"What are you talking about?" Mo Xiaotian came over curiously, "I seem to hear Brother Mu asking Brother Bei if he has anything to ask him. Brother Mu, can you take me with you when you have time?"

It was obvious that this guy knew nothing, but was keen to join in the fun. Wu Mingbai pouted: "He's just a fool, why did you bring him along, Tianming?"

Jiang Tianming looked at him helplessly: "Then go and chase him away."

Wu Mingbai was speechless now. Even he couldn't chase away a guy who couldn't understand what people were saying, especially since Mo Xiaotian was not smart but he didn't do anything wrong. He couldn't really hit him.

The five of them walked into the cafeteria together. With the help of the school, all the cafeteria staff that day were gathered in the cafeteria hall.

It is worth mentioning that the Academy of Superpowers did a very good job in this regard. They did not look down on them just because they were students. Instead, they actively helped Jiang Tianming and others find the murderer.

After all, this is not an ordinary school, but a superpower school. They are not training ordinary students, but superpowers who will need to fight against nightmare beasts in the future.

People with special abilities are often accompanied by accidents, dangers, and death. It is impossible to cultivate students who can face such dangers in the ivory tower of the school. This is also the reason why special ability schools often organize some competitions and actual combat.

Now that they have encountered unexpected situations in school, the school will naturally be happy if they can solve them themselves.

At this time, there were about 20 people sitting in the cafeteria, who were the staff of the cafeteria that day. After all, they had been working in the cafeteria and had heard about what happened that day. Now that they were called over, many of them vaguely realized what had happened and their faces were not looking good.

Being inexplicably involved in a murder case and becoming a suspect is something that no one can take lightly.

Everyone stood in groups according to their positions. Jiang Tianming looked around and said, "First, each of you should tell me what you were doing between 4 and 5 pm that day."

This time period is the time of death of the deceased. Sun Ming was killed by a knife piercing the heart from behind. There was no such thing as delayed death.

The Iron Man added reliably: "If there is a problem with the timeline he said, or if there is something he missed, others can refute it after he finishes speaking."

"Anyone who provides valid evidence will receive a reward of five thousand yuan." A mechanical voice rang out, coming from Lan Subing's cell phone.

During this time, because solving cases often required communicating with people, although Lan Subing still suffered from severe social anxiety, she finally found a method that suits her, which is to communicate using mobile phones.

Although this doesn't help much with using her supernatural powers, at least she has a way to communicate with strangers.

With the support of the bonus, everyone became enthusiastic and their eyes were no longer filled with complaints about being implicated. They recounted the day's events one by one.

Soon a male chef arrived.

When Jiang Tianming and the male chef looked at each other, he was stunned for a moment. At that moment, he suddenly realized something in his mind and could hardly control his facial expression.

But he quickly reacted and adjusted his expression. After the man finished introducing his own timeline, he listened to the other two people's timeline before speaking: "Everyone, take a break and drink some water. Let's discuss the information we just got."

The staff at the cafeteria just thought that he was sympathizing with them. After all, they were just a little suspicious and had not really harmed anyone, so they had no guilt in taking a break.

Others didn't know, but his companions could naturally realize that Jiang Tianming was not right at this time. So no one contradicted him and they followed him out of the cafeteria obediently.

As soon as he walked out of the cafeteria, without waiting for others to ask, Jiang Tianming's expression became serious: "Just now, a chef's eyes were exactly the same color as the one Su Bei gave me!"

After hearing this, Lan Subing and Wu Mingbai were both stunned for a moment. They really didn't pay attention to such details.

It has to be said that Jiang Tianming is indeed the most careful among the few people. After getting Su Bei's reminder, he carefully recalled the purple-red smoke that Su Bei used his supernatural power to create that day, which enabled him to notice the difference of the chef at the first time.

Although Wu Mingbai didn't notice this, he believed in his friend's judgment: "Among the suspects just now, except for the one you mentioned, there is indeed no one with purple eyes."

"So it seems that one of the meanings of that hint actually represents eye color." Lan Subing had tried to analyze the hint that Su Bei gave at the time before, but she never figured it out. Now she has finally uncovered the tip of the iceberg.

At this time Mo Xiaotian couldn't bear it anymore. The only reason he could endure it for so long was because the wooden iron man had already asked Jiang Tianming and they were unwilling to say anything, so he didn't bother anyone anymore.

But at this point, if they still don’t say anything, then it’s a bit boring: “What exactly are you guys talking about? It’s already this late, you can’t just keep it secret.”

Jiang Tianming really had no intention of continuing to hide the truth: "The clue we got should be the identity of the murderer. It was a ball of purple-red smoke, the color is exactly the same as the eyes of the chef with purple-red eyes just now."

In fact, the hint that Su Bei gave at the time did not specify what it was, but as things had developed to this point, the hint must have been the identity of the murderer, otherwise it would not have been effective.

"Brother Bei gave it to you." Mo Xiaotian's eyes lit up, and then he wrinkled his nose. "He was so mean. He didn't tell me before that his ability was so powerful! I'm going to be mad at him when I get back!"

Although he said this, he obviously didn't seem to have any grudges, but was very happy. And this kind of happiness was not the happiness of holding a big thigh, after all, he was the pride of Class A, he was just happy that his friend became more powerful.

After all, on the path of a superpower, having weak superpowers not only means being unable to make a name for yourself, but also represents great danger.

Anyone with special abilities, no matter how strong or weak, will attract attacks from nightmare beasts. Even if they never leave the city for their entire lives, they may not be safe. Only by being strong can one be guaranteed safety.

This is also the reason why Mo Xiaotian is so happy.

After spending more than a week together, Lan Subing had a good impression of the innocent Mo Xiaotian and could speak a little in front of him: "Su Bei didn't tell us what his special ability is."

The implication is that he is not hiding it from you on purpose, he is hiding it from everyone equally. Until now, Su Bei still firmly says that his ability is [Gear], and he doesn't care if anyone believes it.

Knowing that Lan Subing was comforting him, Mo Xiaotian smiled widely and nodded vigorously: "Yes! Then I feel relieved!"

Lan Subing: ""

"Pfft!" Wu Mingbai, who had listened to the whole thing, laughed out loud, not giving his friend any face at all, and said smugly, "Well, I'll just say that he and I have the same personality."

——They are all white and black.

Jiang Tianming's eyes were also full of smiles, but after hearing Wu Mingbai's boastful words, he still glanced at him and said, "There's no need to frame Xiaotian like this."

It was the most reliable big brother, the Iron Man, who brought the topic back on track: "If, as you said, the purple-red color represents the color of the pupils of murderous tactics, then what does the smoke represent?"

The hint is purple-red smoke. I originally thought that they were one and the same, but now that the purple-red has a place to go, the smoke should naturally have its use as well.

"What does smoke represent?" Jiang Tianming's thoughts also came back, "Smoking"

Wu Mingbai also guessed, but he couldn't completely separate the purple and red color from the smoke, so he thought of "fire."

Mo Xiaotian looked left and right, and shook his head: "No one guessed it was a superpower?"

A word awakens the dreamer!

No one had ever considered the possibility of superpowers before, but now it seems that the possibility is actually very high.

There are also many psychics working at the Psychic Academy, but most of them are weak F- and D-class psychics. These people don't want to give up their psychic identities, but are afraid of attacks by nightmare beasts, so they just happen to have some special skills and come to the school to work as staff. So it's hard to say whether these suspects have psychics or not.

And this murderer is so elusive that it is hard to say whether he really has some supernatural power.

Jiang Tianming made a prompt decision: "I will go to the class teacher to ask if the school has a machine that can detect superpowers. You guys hold them back and don't let anyone notice the problem."

Several people split into two groups, and Jiang Tianming quickly found Meng Huai and explained the help he wanted.

Meng Huai didn't doubt anything and decisively took out a machine, which was the machine used to test students' superpowers before school started.

He thought a little more than Jiang Tianming. In addition to the teachers, there were no psychics higher than D-level in the school. If there were suspects with higher psychics, even if they were not the murderer, they probably had bad intentions.

After getting what he wanted, Jiang Tianming returned to the cafeteria without stopping, this time with Meng Huai by his side. After all, if the murderer was really in the cafeteria, he might attack and hurt people after being discovered, so it would be safer for him to follow.

As soon as they entered the cafeteria, everyone in the cafeteria looked over. When Wu Mingbai, who was staring at the biggest suspect, saw the other party's face change when he saw the machine in Jiang Tianming's hand.

But the man soon returned to normal. If he hadn't been watching him, he probably wouldn't have noticed.

With the cooperation of everyone, the machine checked very quickly. In less than half an hour, everyone was checked and no one had any problems.

The chef with purple eyes doesn't even have any special powers.

Could it be that they guessed wrong about Jiang Tianming's suspicion, and the smoke was not a hint of superpowers, but something else? But if that was the case, things would be at a stalemate again.

After all, the hint given by Su Bei's supernatural power was very abstract. If Jiang Tianming had not happened to make eye contact with the suspect, he would never have been able to realize in advance that the purple-red smoke was a combination of purple-red and smoke, and that the purple-red referred to the color of the murderer's eyes.

Seriously, who could realize this?

The other people who knew the inside story also had unhappy expressions. They had thought they were about to find the truth, but who could have imagined that something would go wrong at the last minute.

Could it be that they were wrong?

"Since nothing abnormal was detected, I'll leave first." After putting away the machine, Meng Huai prepared to leave. Although he had nothing to do in the office, he and the school had the same idea about this matter: students need exercise. It would be best if these students could investigate it themselves, and he would not interfere if he could.

"Hmm..." Jiang Tianming hesitated and said nothing. He always felt that their guess was correct.

Just as he was doubting himself, Wu Mingbai's eyes suddenly flashed, as if he had thought of something. He took a step forward and whispered in his ear, "The detective's ability didn't work on the murderer either."

After hearing this, Jiang Tianming suddenly understood.

Yes, this machine that tests superpowers is actually tested by storing a superpower that can test superpowers. In simple terms, it uses superpowers to test the user's superpowers.

The detective said before that the reason why he couldn't use his supernatural powers to summon the souls of the dead was because the dead were "supernaturally prohibited."

Since he could give the dead a "supernatural power ban", he could naturally give himself a "supernatural power ban". If the murderer also used this ability on himself, it would be normal for the machine to not be able to detect it.

Jiang Tianming is more and more convinced that this chef is the murderer. Now that Meng Huai is right next to him, it is the best opportunity to expose him.

"Teacher, is there any way to remove the 'power ban'?" He knew that because of their actions just now, they must have been alarmed. If he went out and told Meng Huai about his guess in private now, it would easily make the other party defensive. It would be better to tell him in person now and not give him time to prepare.

As soon as the words came out, Meng Huai understood what he meant. After all, he was at the scene when the detective used his superpowers, and he knew that the deceased was "power-banned".

However, before he could reply, the chef with purple eyes suddenly rushed forward like a hunting leopard, heading straight for Wu Mingbai who was closest to him, making it clear that he wanted to hold him back in order to find a way to retreat.

His speed was so fast that Wu Ming had no time to react. Or it could be said that it was impossible for any first-year student to react to the sudden attack of a high-level esper.

But this obviously does not include their class teacher. Being able to become a teacher in a supernatural school and having taught Class S, Meng Huai is definitely not a pushover. Almost at the same time as the murderer acted, he turned into a shadow and rushed over, trying to protect Wu Ming and subdue the criminal.

He was confident in his own strength. It was almost impossible for a superpower below S-level to escape from him, not to mention injuring someone in front of him. Otherwise, he would not have dared to follow Jiang Tianming alone when he knew that they might have found the murderer.

As expected, the murderer was less than two meters away from Wu Mingbai, but Meng Huai, who was five meters away, was able to rush to Wu Mingbai's side before the murderer arrived. With a "whoosh", he stood beside Wu Mingbai as if he had teleported, and stretched out his hand to catch the murderer.

But the murderer was no fool, he was clearly aware that he was no match for the school teacher, so when he was about to be caught, he suddenly turned into smoke and ran away.

Meng Huai still wanted to catch him, but unfortunately the killer in smoke state was not so easy to catch. He disappeared into the air in a moment.

"You run so fast." Although the other party disappeared, Meng Huai was obviously not in a hurry at all. He withdrew his hand leisurely and had no intention of chasing after him. He just took out his mobile phone and fiddled with something.

After finishing, he put his phone in his pocket and turned around to see a group of people staring at him blankly. Meng Huai frowned, but ignored the staff and looked at the students with his arms crossed: "Why are you standing there? Why don't you go find someone?"

Jiang Tianming was confused at this time: "How do I find it?"

Wu Mingbai, who also didn't understand, followed closely, hoping to get more help: "Teacher, aren't you going to look for it?"

Then came the good squad leader Mu Tieren, who had a frown on his face and was dedicated to the people: "Let's find him. What if he hurts someone during this time?"

Lan Subing typed quickly with both hands and pressed the play button after mastering the voice chat on her phone: "Where is it?"

Finally, he looked left and right. Although he didn't have much to say, he felt that he would be a bit out of place if he didn't say anything at this time. So Mo Xiaotian raised his hand actively: "Accept the mission! The detective game turns into hide-and-seek!"

Lan Subing held her forehead, pulled his hand down, and signaled him to shut up.

After they all finished speaking, Meng Huai said slowly: "He can't hurt anyone, and that ability won't last long. All the indoor buildings have been sealed off. Can we go find him now?"

Since Meng Huai dared to say this, he must have the confidence. After eliminating the problems he solved, the murderer could only move in the outdoor area of ​​the school in the flesh, so it would be much easier to find him.

Without any hesitation, they left the cafeteria together.

On the other side, Su Bei just came out of the library and was about to go back to the dormitory. He didn't plan to go to the cafeteria today, and would just have a casual dinner. He knew that the cafeteria would not be peaceful today, and it would easily trigger his cannon fodder fate.

He hadn't taken a few steps when his brows furrowed, realizing that something was wrong.

When did this place become so quiet? Why is there no one here?

Although other first-year students rarely come to the library, the flow of people is not bad because the library is next to the teaching building.

But at this time the whole road was empty, without a single student.

What happened?

Su Bei subconsciously took out his cell phone and opened it. Two messages popped up on his cell phone immediately. There was a signal jammer in the library, so he was unable to receive them in time.

The two messages, one from the class group and the other from the grade group, had the same content: "There are dangerous people in the school. All students are requested to stay indoors and not go out."

Su Bei: "..."

He rolled his eyes, turned around decisively and prepared to return to the library for shelter.

Even a fool knows that the "dangerous element" mentioned in this information is the murderer who killed Sun Ming. If he, who has a causal relationship with the other party, appears outside, he is very likely to be found. It is better to hurry to a safe area to save his life.

Speak of the devil and he will appear.

As soon as his hand touched the library door, Su Bei felt a chill on his neck.

He didn't even need to lower his head to know that a sharp dagger was pointed at the fatal spot.

"Be quiet, don't move if you don't want to die!" the person behind him said viciously, while his other hand tightly clamped around Su Bei's neck, as if he was going to strangle him to death.

Su Bei sighed silently and followed the opponent's force obediently: "Stop strangling me. If you strangle me to death, how can you find another unlucky person to be your hostage?"

Hearing this, the murderer's arms relaxed a little. He didn't think Su Bei could escape under his control. After all, the physical fitness of high-level psychics was much stronger than that of low-level psychics. Most importantly, he had the blessing of psychics, so there was no possibility of him falling.

He didn't realize that this was the same student who had thrown him a shoulder throw before, and of course Su Bei had no intention of throwing him a shoulder throw again.

Last time, the other party was completely unprepared, and my "comic consciousness" must have helped a little, so I was able to subdue him so easily. But this time, I was a hostage, and the murderer could not let his guard down.

So forget about running and just make yourself comfortable.

Apparently, Su Bei's attitude confused the murderer: "You are not afraid"

"I'm scared. I'm scared to death." Su Bei dragged out the words, sounding lazy and nonchalant. You could tell he was talking nonsense as soon as you heard him.

He really didn't feel afraid. Besides anger, he also felt a lot of bad thoughts.

He didn't even dare to participate in solving the case for the sake of his own life. As a result, he ran into the murderer just by going out, which made it difficult for him not to suspect that he would eventually die at the hands of the murderer.

Fate cannot be avoided. All we have done is just one more death.

If this is true, then he and this damn "comic consciousness" should die together, and this comic world should die too.

So now he has a rotten idea, it doesn't matter if he can survive or not, he has done what he should do anyway.

"Comic Consciousness" was also pretending to be dead at this time, not daring to say a word, for fear that Su Bei would break down directly.

"you……"

Before the murderer could finish his words, he heard footsteps not far away. His arms tightened again, and he forcibly turned Su Bei around and rushed towards Jiang Tianming and others.

The murderer shouted in a hoarse voice: "Stand there and don't move. If anyone moves again, I will kill him!"

Jiang Tianming and the other five stood in a row, looking at the place in surprise. They were not surprised that the murderer could take a hostage, but they did not expect that the hostage would be Su Bei.

How did he get caught?

"Didn't the teacher say that no one would be hurt?" Ever since the murderer was discovered, the wooden iron man's brows have been furrowed.

Hearing his words, Su Bei's eyebrows raised slightly.

"I don't know..." Jiang Tianming shook his head, looking at Su Bei who looked calm, and miraculously he was no longer that worried. If it was Su Bei, it shouldn't be so easy for him to get into trouble.

This is not entirely a fluke. It's mainly because Su Bei had always acted like he knew a lot. Wouldn't it be strange if he died so easily?

Thinking of this, he also asked: "Su Bei, do you have any way to save yourself?"

After a second of silence, Su Bei calmly replied, "Yes, but this is your stage."

The implication is that he won't help, even to save himself.

But in fact, he didn't need to help. Su Bei silently watched the five protagonists communicating with him, but in fact they were already quietly making plans - Lan Subing's scarf seemed to move, Mo Xiaotian's fingers were hanging down and spinning...

He immediately felt relieved. They were indeed the protagonists and they worked well together.

The murderer did not notice this, or rather, he did not take these first-year students seriously and did not care about their little actions.

But Su Bei's words made him feel a little uneasy. As the dagger leaned back, a purple-red mark appeared on his neck. If it moved a little further down, it would turn into a blood line: "Don't play tricks, tell me! What can you do?"

"Hey!" The five people who were secretly doing something over there were startled by his action and looked at Su Bei worriedly, fearing that the other party might accidentally kill him.

Although Su Bei said that he had a solution, facing such direct damage, he might not be able to get any good results.

"If I can fool them, how can I fool you?" Su Bei said in a low voice with a helpless look, "What can I do but just want to make them feel at ease."

The murderer didn't quite believe what he said, but he really didn't think of what else he could do, so he had to warn him again, and then looked back at the protagonists: "Let me leave the school, and I will let him go."

The five of them looked at each other, and Jiang Tianming said, "Don't hurt him. Let's go to the school gate first. We'll go talk to the teacher."

When they reached the school gate, they could leave immediately once the school opened. The murderer nodded and strode forward with Su Bei.

“Boom!”

Before he had taken two steps, there was a sudden crash. The murderer's head seemed to have hit something, and the hand that was restraining Su Bei loosened.

Su Bei is never a person who wastes opportunities. He had already made sufficient preparations. At this moment, he seized the opportunity, struggled hard to break free from the opponent's restraints, and ran forward as fast as possible.

The hostage escaped, and the killer wanted to chase him, but he was tripped by a lump of earth that had risen up from under his feet. This made him completely lose the chance to capture the hostage.

The next second, a vine cage rose from the ground and trapped the murderer inside.

This cage is not the supernatural power of Jiang Tianming and others, but a support from the school.

The matter was completely resolved, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Mo Xiaotian gave Su Bei a thumbs up, his eyes sparkling: "Brother Bei, you ran so fast just now! We really have great tacit understanding!"

Just now, it was because he saw Mo Xiaotian move his fingers that Su Bei was able to run out in the first place. If nothing unexpected happened, the thing that the murderer hit was Mo Xiaotian's supernatural power.

Is it a good thing to have such a good understanding with a naive person? Before Su Bei could think about this question clearly, he heard Wu Mingbai curiously ask: "So do you really have a way to escape?"

Hearing this, the others also looked at Su Bei. They were also curious about this question. Without their help, how would Su Bei save himself?

Only Mutieren was not very curious. Due to his good physical condition, he heard the whispered conversation between Su Bei and the murderer just now, so he did not think that Su Bei could really escape. He just wanted to reassure everyone.

Seeing people asking questions, he wanted to help Su Bei. However, before he could open his mouth, he saw Su Bei shrugged and shouted at the top of his voice: "Teacher, help me... Ouch!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he was shocked.

Meng Huai, who appeared out of nowhere behind him, took back the hand that was knocking on his head and said unhappily, "What are you yelling about?"

After saying this, he looked at the people present and smiled with satisfaction: "Well done."

The next second, the voice of "Comic Consciousness" sounded after a long absence: "The King of Superpowers has been updated, please pay attention and watch it."

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