Chapter 248

At this moment, Su Bei heard the voice of "Comic Consciousness": "The King of Superpowers" has been updated, please check it out."

Hearing this tip, he couldn't help but feel his heart skip a beat. It can be said that apart from the first few comic updates, this one made him the most emotional.

If the plan succeeds and the author really puts the plot he performed in the comic, then his mission will be half completed. It can even be said that with a definite method to destroy the Nightmare Beast, even if he does nothing next, the author will design his own plot to help this comic world solve the fundamental problem.

Back in the room, Su Bei couldn't wait to open his phone and read the comics. This comic update mainly talked about a series of events that happened today. Su Bei was not interested in other content. He quickly flipped through it and soon found the content he really wanted to read.

As he expected, the comic book author did draw what Jiang Tianming and his friends heard in the comic book. From Jiang Tianming's perspective, the process of their eavesdropping was shown. There was no flaw in the whole process, and it was impossible to tell that someone had deliberately guided them to hear these contents.

The plot was not spoiled, so readers naturally had no doubts and were all shocked by the information revealed in the comics.

"The method to destroy the Nightmare Beast has finally appeared!"

"Eavesdropping on Dafa is Good"

"That meteorite is not just a setting, but actually useful."

"Damn! It's actually the lime dust in the air of the Nightmare World!"

“It’s so difficult. This is impossible.”

“Sounds a bit familiar”

"Ahhh, a meteorite is falling from the sky! Did Su Bei ask?"

Seeing that no one doubted the information revealed in the comics, Su Bei couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, even though he knew this was normal. Just like when he created a new superpower for himself, even if the process was fine, it didn't prevent him from worrying about the result.

After reading the plot he wanted to read, Su Bei read the comic again carefully, and then found something very strange - the author seemed to be intentionally leading the readers to doubt themselves.

He drew a lot of things, such as Jiang Tianming's confusion about why he actively "tempted" everyone to go to the shopping center, and what the Spider Nightmare said when he was helping.

Of course, those things really happened, and Jiang Tianming and his friends did suspect Su Bei. But the author's drawing was very strange. These things had nothing to do with the plot and could have been left out. In fact, the author never drew his exposed flaws before, and even helped to cover them up.

When he used comics to change his supernatural powers, it was his first time doing this, so there were actually a lot of flaws. But the author didn't draw them at all, and instead used comic special effects to completely cover them up for him.

He had done it many times before, but why was it different this time?

No, it didn't start this time, but from the last time. Su Bei frowned, thinking of the doubts he had last time.

Considering the situation this time, it seems that the author is indeed trying to let him reveal something. It is definitely impossible to reveal that this is a comic book world. Then the only option is to reveal that he is in collusion with Nightmare.

The author wants to train him to be a villain.

Su Bei lay on his back on the bed with his eyes closed, and asked his "comic consciousness" in his heart: "Am I right?"

After waiting for a while without receiving a response from the other party, Su Bei laughed sarcastically: "Don't play dead."

This time, the "comic consciousness" finally emerged: "No, I was just dealing with other things and didn't notice you."

Su Bei was too lazy to expose this lame excuse. He asked directly: "Answer my question."

“…”

There was another silence.

To be honest, "comic consciousness" really didn't expect Su Bei to be so sharp. He noticed the author's change as soon as he made it. This sharpness caught it off guard. It originally wanted to keep it a secret, but now it seems that it can't be done.

Without waiting for a reply, Su Bei knew immediately: "It seems to be true."

A rare feeling of confusion rose in his heart: "But why?"

What good does it do for the author to make himself a villain? Besides, didn't he ignore the existence of his character before? Why did he suddenly have a different plan for him?

"…because he noticed you." Comic Consciousness stopped playing dead and finally answered a question.

But this answer made Su Bei a little confused: "Why would he notice me? Aren't you his subconscious? Are you covering up for me? And even if he noticed me, why did he label me as a villain?"

"Comic Consciousness" couldn't help but sigh: "The changes you made this time are quite big. They are at the level of comic settings. I can't hide it even if I want to."

That's true. If the author doesn't even notice that the setting of the comic has been changed, then he doesn't take the comic seriously enough.

Before, Su Bei rarely took the initiative to participate in the plot, and would not fight the boss. So even though he was added as a character, the plot did not conflict with the original setting of the author, and the "comic consciousness" could naturally deceive the author.

But now the changes are too great. Even though there are "insiders" inside, the author still discovered him, or noticed this character who seemed to be a little out of his control.

"So the author wants to make me a villain," Su Bei asked with a frown, "but there's no need for that. There are enough villains in Class S."

A long-lost traitor Zhou Renjie, and an undercover agent Mo Xiaotian who has not left yet. Two of the fifteen people have already come out, do we still need to design a third one?

"Actually..." After hesitating for a long time, "Comic Consciousness" made up his mind and chose to expose the author's true colors, "He wanted to kill you immediately. It's just that you're too popular, so he wanted to see if turning you into a villain could reduce your popularity or make readers more accepting of your death."

Hearing this, Su Bei suddenly opened his eyes. After repeating it several times in his heart, he sighed and asked incredulously: "Destroy the bridge after crossing the river"

He worked so hard to perfect the comic world, but just as he completed his mission, the author wanted to kill him.

Seeing that he had misunderstood, "Comic Consciousness" quickly explained, "No, no, you won't really die. The author just wants to kill you because he has never designed a character like you and doesn't know how to write it. But I can prepare another body for you, and you can be resurrected directly from that body after you die. For this new body, you can decide your age, family background, appearance, etc., and I will try my best to satisfy you. So you-"

Before he could finish, Su Bei interrupted him neatly: "On what basis?"

"What?" "Comic Consciousness" was stunned. It thought it had come up with a good way to achieve the best of both worlds.

But Su Bei obviously didn't think so. He even laughed angrily: "I helped you save the world, but in the end I have to lose everything I have. If you had made it clear at the beginning that this was the case, I might not be willing to be resurrected. What's more, our deal now is that you help me be resurrected and I help you save the world. Now I have to complete the task, and you are cutting off my source of income."

And just because I don't want to draw his character, I let him die. I'm sorry Su Bei can't accept it. He doesn't want to die in such a miserable way.

"Comic Consciousness" knew it was in the wrong, and seeing that Su Bei disagreed with the solution it had prepared, it just comforted him in a gentle voice: "Don't be angry, I took it for granted, but this matter is not completely hopeless. The author wants to take you offline, but he won't destroy his own comics. So you don't necessarily have to die, I will try my best to help you."

Su Bei understood what it meant, that is, as long as he could make the readers' acceptance of his death very low, then the author would not force him to die. Just like now, the author would only use various roundabout methods to try to increase the readers' acceptance.

After calming down a bit, Su Bei began to think about what he should do. He might not be able to escape the author's arrangement, but he could find a way to make himself very popular even if he was a villain.

In this case, as long as he has not broken the law, readers will most likely not accept his death.

However, self-rescue is self-rescue, and the behavior of "comic consciousness" to cross the river and destroy the bridge after crossing it cannot be so easily passed off.

In a sense, the author himself is innocent. He was unaware of their deal at the beginning, and he was not aware of Su Bei's existence because of his "manga consciousness". So after he suddenly noticed it, he wanted to remove this character that was not designed by him. Although Su Bei didn't want to accept it, it was actually understandable.

A character that did not exist in the original outline suddenly appeared in the work I designed. Not to mention how troublesome it is to redesign the plot for this character, this fact alone is enough to make people scared.

Even if the "manga consciousness" as the author's subconsciousness eliminated the author's fear and made him less aware of the strangeness of this matter, it is normal for him to not want to design this unimpressive character given his lazy nature.

But the "comic consciousness" is not completely innocent. In any case, this is its fault. It was because it did not think of this in advance, failed to hide Su Bei well, and failed to persuade the author, which led to his undeserved disaster.

Moreover, it did not even intend to tell Su Bei after the problem occurred, but only wanted to conceal it and give him a new body when the problem occurred. Although this was because it was a good way to have the best of both worlds in the eyes of "Comic Consciousness", it obviously did not consider Su Bei's thoughts.

"Then how do you plan to compensate me?" Su Bei asked straight to the point.

It is obvious that "Comic Consciousness" is not really unreasonable and intends to destroy the bridge after crossing the river. So Su Bei chose to ask this question directly. If the attitude of "Comic Consciousness" just now was not so good, Su Bei would not ask directly, but would choose to ask for compensation in his own way.

That is to say, he was trying to destroy the method he had created without hesitation to completely eliminate the Nightmare Beast.

This is very simple. He only needs to tell Meng Huai about the matter immediately, and Meng Huai will help to refute the rumor. As long as the rumor is successfully refuted before the next comic update, the author will not use this method again.

Su Bei was not disappointed. "Comic Consciousness" was indeed very remorseful: "I am sorry for this matter. I don't know what you want, but as long as you tell me, I will do my best to complete it without violating the rules."

What did he want? Su Bei thought again. This request must be very important to his life. He must rely on "manga consciousness" to have a better chance of competing with the author.

After all, he had done a lot of tricks before, and the author could just give him a few flashback kills in the comics to immediately make the readers believe that he is a villain. Then the setting of "the reader's impression can change the plot" will backfire on him, making him a real villain.

With this in mind, he made his first request: "I want the author not to bring up old accounts and draw things I did before into the comics."

"Sure." "Comic Consciousness" readily agreed to this request, "Anything else?"

Given its understanding of northern Jiangsu, it is impossible for the other party to make only one request, and a request of such low difficulty and little effect.

Sure enough, Su Bei nodded and continued, "Secondly, I want you to tell me in a timely manner every time the author intends to deal with me."

The current situation is that the enemy is in the dark and I am in the light, and the other party holds absolute initiative. Only by knowing what the author wants to do in advance can he deal with it better.

"I may not be able to detect his thoughts and tell you in time, I can only say that I will try my best." "Comic Consciousness" said honestly, because it clearly concerned Su Bei's life, so it did not dare to lie at all.

Su Bei was not surprised by this. He was very satisfied that "Comic Consciousness" agreed to this request.

But satisfaction doesn't mean he's going to stop there. Su Bei made a third request: "The last one, I need a reminder. Once the author can achieve, or is about to get close to the goal of 'making readers accept my death', you must remind me."

By that time the situation would be extremely critical, and knowing this information in advance, even if he couldn't come up with a way to deal with it, would at least allow him to come up with a way to deal a heavy blow to the author.

"No problem." Comics Consciousness agreed again readily.

And Su Bei did not push any further: "That's it, you can leave now."

Comic Consciousness did not dare to object to his behavior of throwing away the product after use, and said timidly: "I am really sorry, I am sorry for you. The plan I proposed before is effective at all times, and you will always have a way out."

There are many things it cannot do. It cannot tell the author that his comics have created a new world, and that his every stroke may determine the life or death of a living person.

Once the author knows about this, his worldview will collapse and the manga will probably not be able to continue. At that time, the "manga consciousness" will also die.

So now the impression of Su Bei by comic authors is that he is a character they created before, but they don't know how to write him afterwards. The "comic consciousness" had a good idea when it instilled information in the authors. Generally, for such a popular character, the author would just draw it according to the readers' wishes. And Su Bei is very good at manipulating the readers' thoughts, so nothing will change in the end, which can be said to be a happy ending for everyone.

However, the author of "The King of Superpowers" is obviously not an ordinary author. It can be seen from the fact that he knew that the world view design had loopholes but was too lazy to change them that this guy really doesn't want to use his brain.

So it was the same for the character of Su Bei, because he had no subsequent plans for him in his mind, so compared to replanning a reasonable route for him, he would rather get Su Bei offline directly.

Anyway, there are many popular characters who have been offline in comics, so as long as it is reasonable enough, it will be fine.

To be honest, when I realized that the author had this idea, I felt like the sky had fallen on my "comic consciousness". I worked so hard to help perfect the little world, but the creator of the world wanted to kill me. Anyone would say that this is ungrateful and ungrateful.

But the author didn't know this, nor did he know that these characters were real lives, so he thought there was nothing wrong with taking a character offline.

There was no other way, so the "comic consciousness" could only come up with a solution on its own. However, it did not come up with a solution, and Su Bei did not accept its proposal at all.

Fortunately, the two parties finally reached an agreement through negotiation, otherwise it was really afraid that Su Bei would just give up and destroy the comics.

Su Bei ignored it and opened his phone to check the forum.

The most popular topic in the forum is naturally the one discussing how to destroy the Nightmare Beast.

"How can we clean up the dust on the earth? Anyone who knows can come in."

[Yellow Handbag No.0: I don’t know what you think about the method of completely destroying the Nightmare Beast after reading this chapter. Anyway, this is my idea in the title.

I originally thought that the dust and gravel in the air of the Nightmare World were just the environment settings to show that the Nightmare World is different from the real world. Now you tell me that I need to clean them all up before the Nightmare World can completely disappear. This is no different from the scene in Journey to the West where the Emperor of Heaven ordered that it would rain in the county only when the chickens had eaten all the rice, the dogs had licked all the noodles, and the fire had burned out. It is a task that is impossible to accomplish.

[No.1: That’s right. I was also confused when I saw what Wu Mingbai said.]

[No.2: Logically speaking, how can a superpower have such a wide range? Just like the original poster said, this is simply impossible to accomplish.]

[No.3: Good news, we have found a way to destroy the Nightmare Beast. Bad news, it is impossible to do so]

【No.4 replied to No.2:

That's not right, right? Meteorites won't grow anyway, so we can just let earth-type psychics clean them up slowly. There's no need to clean them up all at once.]

【No.5 replied to No.4:

The problem is that the Nightmare Beasts also know about this. Will they allow humans to clean up the meteorites bit by bit? The Nightmare Beast World is originally the territory of the Nightmare Beasts. It is very troublesome for humans to enter and clean up. And once they clean up, they will inevitably be surrounded and attacked by the Nightmare Beasts. Then, if one person enters, one will die, and if two enter, both will die.]

[No.6: Hahahahahaha, what the above person said is a bit funny]

[No.7: I feel like we finally understand that this is going to have a big effect]

【No.8 replied to No.7:

No, he is the only one with earth attribute in the group, and his ability is the most essential [earth element]

【……】

【No.52: I suddenly thought of something! When Wu's supernatural powers were first enhanced, it was through the research of the "Black Flash" organization. Maybe they also know this truth, so they are specifically researching how to concentrate all the earth elements into one person so that this person can destroy the meteorite in one breath】

【No.53 replied to No.52:

If you say so, then the "Black Flash" organization is really for the country and the people ()】

【No.54: You know what, they really have taken sacrificing their small self to achieve their big self to the extreme】

[No.55: Is it possible that the Black Flash organization is actually the decent one?]

【No.56 replied to No.55:

A revelation! (bushi)】

[No.57: The villains in "Alien King" really are... each with their own hidden secrets. This is probably why even though they are hated, they still have fans.]

【……】

[No.111: So how did Su Bei know about this? It seems that only the Nightmare Beast and the upper echelons of the decent faction know about this.]

【No.112 replied to No.111:

It is not uncommon for Su Bei to know information that others do not know.】

【No.113: Not interested at all】

[No.114: Your northern intelligence network...]

[No.115: However, Su Bei’s performance in these two chapters is really a bit strange. There is a discussion thread next door]

【No.116 replied to No.115:

Which post give me a link?

【No.117 replied to No.116:

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[No.118: There seems to be a diversion upstairs. I was diverted there first.]

After seeing the content at the end of the post, Su Bei immediately clicked on the link provided by the owner and went to see another post.

Now, saving the world is no longer the most important thing for him. As long as the impression that "destroying the meteorite will destroy the nightmare beast" is realized, saving the world can be said to have been accomplished.

What really matters is whether he can continue to live as Su Bei, and closely related to this matter is naturally the attitude of forum readers towards him.

If they think he should die, then the author can legitimately send him to death. So it's okay for him to be a villain, but he must have a good grasp of the readers' opinions.

《Analysis of the two chapters in Su Bei》

[You are me, then who am I No.0: Something is wrong, it started from the last chapter when Su Bei made a deal with someone in the dark. From those two short sentences, we can see that Su Bei is actively giving "performance" to a guy who is not on the same side as him. We don't know what the performance is here, but if he is not on the same side as him, there are only two options, either the "Black Flash" organization or the Nightmare Beast. At least that's what I think.

Next, let's look at the content of this chapter. Su Bei is a person who will fish if he can and run away if he can. If we look at it from the perspective of importance, safety should be more important to him than fishing. But this time, he actually took the initiative to recommend everyone to go to a more dangerous shopping mall. I don't believe it was just for fishing.

Then let's look at what the Spider Nightmare said - "What are you doing?" This question is very strange. As a human, isn't it normal for Su Bei to attack it when it attacks its own teammates? What is the Spider Nightmare questioning?

Overall, you should know what I suspect. I suspect that Su Bei secretly contacted Nightmare Beast and deliberately led Jiang Jiang and the others to the shopping center. But I don't know the purpose, at least after they came, I really didn't see that Su Bei did anything bad to everyone.】