Chapter 272
Su Bei's purple eyes flashed with interest. It seemed that the key lay in the neutral faction. The expert faction and the radical faction were suspected of colluding with each other. Only the words of the neutral faction, who were disliked by both parties, would be more credible.
But how to find the neutrals? At present, they should be the absolute minority on this island, and it is not easy to find them accurately. And there is no need to make mistakes along the way. Once this idea is exposed to the other two factions, Su Bei may immediately be on their alert list, and it will be even more difficult to find people at that time.
His brows wrinkled briefly, but soon relaxed again. Su Bei walked back with a smile on his face. Why should he care about this? These were things that the protagonists had to do. He only needed to get the news in advance, seize the opportunity, and then occasionally provide some help to the protagonists.
Not long after returning to the hotel dormitory, it finally became quiet outside. I guess the island-wide melee that lasted for two or three hours has finally come to an end.
However, Su Bei's ears were not quiet. "Comic Consciousness" sent a reminder: "The King of Superpowers has been updated, please check it out."
He came at the right time, so he could use the comics to take a look at what happened. How did Jiang Tianming and his team cause such a big mess when they just wanted to get information from the leader?
The comic begins with them landing on the Weixi Holy Land. The previous chapter has already mentioned that they are going to the Weixi Holy Land to find a detoxification method for Zhou Renjie, so this chapter goes straight to the topic.
The first day had two plot points: one was the guard fight they encountered, which led to Lin Qi's information, and the other was the nightmare beast Jiang Tianming encountered. When the two plots were combined, the readers actually came up with the same inference as them, that is, the radicals wanted to contact the nightmare beast to stir up trouble so that the status of Weixi Holy Land could be raised to a higher level.
"This is a holy place, why do you have to do all this nonsense?"
"Human greed is like a snake swallowing an elephant..."
"Feng Lan: Still want to cooperate?"
"As long as we can defeat the radicals in time, the Holy Land of Weixi should not be affected too much."
"Conservatives are too miserable. When their peers cause trouble, they have to keep it to themselves in order to protect the common honor."
"It's like I was forced to cover up for my classmates because it was a group assignment."
Judging from the content in the comics, these conservatives do seem innocent. Unfortunately, according to the information Su Bei has learned, these people may not be good people.
At nightfall, the comic camera turned and jumped to Mo Xiaotian.
[The restrictions that the "Infinite Power Academy" had placed on him in advance finally took effect. Mo Xiaotian had a splitting headache and wailed uncontrollably on the hospital bed.
A bunch of people in white coats gathered around him to discuss what to do, but it was obvious from their frowns that they were helpless and couldn't find a solution at all.
In the end, it was Ye Lin who took the lead and injected Mo Xiaotian with a sedative to make him unconscious. Then she calmly concluded, "This might be caused by the 'Infinite Power Academy'. The person who rang the bell must be the one to untie it."
As they were talking, the purple-haired woman who had appeared twice in the comics before came out. She was Ye Lin's sister Ye Shu: "What should we do? Sister Xiaotian has become like this. The leader will definitely be sad when he comes out."
Sadness is more like anger than anger. Ye Lin lowered her eyes to hide the sarcasm in her eyes: "Others are trying to find a solution, but in case we can't come up with a solution, we have to send someone to negotiate with the 'Endless Ability Academy' at the same time."
"That person must be you." Cyril walked out with a smile, but the person following her was not Li Xiang, but a mature woman with long wavy wine-red hair. 】
This woman is wearing a black deep V dress, which perfectly outlines her curvy figure. The lipstick in the same color as her hair makes her look very coordinated. Her gray eyes seem to be filled with mist, mysterious and passionate, a type of charming beauty that has not appeared in this season of "The King of Superpowers".
"Hiss, hiss!"
"Is this a villain? Then I will join the villain camp without hesitation."
"Who is this beautiful sister? I want to know all her information within one minute."
"With this face and this body, I hate that "The King of Abilities" is not an anime!"
"The old thief's painting skills are getting better and better"
[While readers were discussing this frantically, Ye Lin calmly revealed the identity of this person: "Miya Yuori, how did you end up hanging out with Cyril?"
"Don't frame me." Miyahaori brushed her long hair and took two steps to the side. "We just met by chance on the road."
Facing their disapproval, Cyril was very dissatisfied. She took out a red rose from nowhere, bent slightly, and frivolously handed it to Miya Yuori: "You are not satisfied with having a handsome man like me as your partner?"
Miyahaori took the rose gracefully and put it in the water cup on the table next to her. She smiled as if she was flirting: "Well, I'm not satisfied."
"Then what do you need to be satisfied?" Cyril asked devoutly, as if he was bewitched by her. When a pair of peach blossom eyes focus on someone, they can always give the other person a very affectionate feeling.
"Go and solve Mo Xiaotian's problem." Gong Yuzhi seemed to have just said a trivial matter casually, like throwing a bone to a dog.
Unfortunately, Cyril was not a dog, and was not really deceived by her. Upon hearing this request, he immediately put away his affectionate look, stood up, raised his mouth and shook his head: "Then you are still not satisfied."
Ye Lin rolled her eyes, obviously she was used to the behavior of these two people. She also reminded her confused sister gently: "Stay away from these two people in the organization, understand?"
"Got it!" Ye Shu answered obediently. 】
The relevant plot ends here, and it does not show how the "Black Flash" organization negotiates with the "Infinite Power Academy". However, it is obvious that they either have to come to the Weixi Holy Land, or they can only negotiate with the academy honestly.
They probably have no chance here. Weixi Holy Land claims to be upright, so of course they won't receive people from villain organizations. The identities of those who can come here have been investigated, so they have no chance to fish in troubled waters.
Of course, we don’t know whether the “Black Flash” organization can come to northern Jiangsu privately. If they can really come privately, it doesn’t matter. Unless they don’t want to come in the future, they will definitely not cause trouble here.
Mo Xiaotian's story ended, and the comic returned to the Holy Land. What Su Bei didn't expect was that the scene of them taking a hot spring bath was also drawn.
Subei: ""
He could only sigh that it was a good thing that Si Zhaohua and Feng Lan didn't know that this was a comic book world. If they knew that their appearance was seen by countless readers, they would probably die of shame.
Compared with those two people, he had a much lower sense of shame. He watched the plot openly and nodded with satisfaction. The author was fair and had strictly drawn the boundaries of the three people's abdominal muscles, so that his figure would not be the same as those two people.
Su Bei can proudly say that he has the best figure in the class! The wooden iron man also has a good figure, but his body is made of metal and imitation leather, and there is no comparison value at all.
The readers on the bullet screen are also very discerning.
"Wow wow wow wow! Is this something I can watch?"
“The old thief sells meat well”
"I'm drooling, hiss, hiss, hiss"
“Can you draw the bottom more clearly and not just focus on the top?”
"Su Bei is indeed the one with the best figure among the three of them."
"I really like Su Bei's abdominal muscles. Can I touch Feng Lan and Si Zhaohua's? I'm not picky."
"Is the old thief out of the surrounding area?"
It can be seen that the readers have no sense of shame like him, they are all good and generous children. Su Bei closed the bullet screen expressionlessly, comforted himself in his heart, and then continued to read.
After finishing the two tasks in the morning, Jiang Tianming and Si Zhaohua went to do something. The previous plan was based on what Su Bei knew. The leader of Weixi Holy Land really tried to deny that they had a faction in secret and that the radical faction had ulterior motives.
Jiang Tianming and others outside received the news and started to stir up trouble on the island. The three of them did not stir up trouble together, but separately in different places. In case one of them failed, the other two could still be used as backups. Anyway, it was nothing wrong to make things bigger.
However, it was obvious that they not only did not fail, but were too successful. Fights broke out in the three places under their deliberate instigation. Unfortunately, the three places were not too far away from each other, so when the three parties were fighting and trying to pull people together, the people they pulled together bumped into each other on the road.
When the parties saw that the enemy was holding a family business and was from an enemy camp, they knew that they must be reinforcements, so they started fighting on the spot. The war then escalated and soon spread to the entire island.
So there was the island-wide war they saw in northern Jiangsu.
After reading this strange and confusing scene through the comic, Su Bei was silent. He had thought that if the comic was not updated, he would wait for Jiang Tianming to come back and ask them how they could have caused such a big trouble. Now it seems that they themselves don't know what happened.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but chuckle. He didn't expect that in the end, he, an outsider, would have the clearest understanding of the situation. Comics are really good things.
In this chapter, the author obviously did not intend to reveal the meaning of the neutral party, nor did he intend to make readers doubt the relationship between radicals and conservatives. Judging from the current plot, all readers are sure to agree that radicals are bad people and conservatives are good people.
Perhaps some readers will have the same doubts as him, thinking that the plot is too smooth and there will definitely be more twists and turns later. But without evidence, I'm afraid few readers will discuss it on the forum, and then the "prophet" account can come into play.
Previously, "Manga Consciousness" had hinted to Su Bei that as long as he did not use this account to mention things related to himself, the author would basically not care. In this case, he must work hard to increase the presence of this account, and strive to achieve 100% trust in the forum when he says one thing.
Conservatives are not necessarily good people [Prophet's Post]
[Prophet No. 0: According to the author Lao Zei’s habit, each of his plots likes twists and turns. This time, the protagonist was given clues directly, and the fact that there was no setback at all made me suspicious.
Since the current plot is that the conservatives are the positive side, I reasonably suspect that the old thief will reverse in the next chapter and make the conservatives the bad guys. But this does not mean that the radicals are the good guys. I think the Weixi Holy Land is a double villain configuration.
If these two parties are really villains, then I boldly speculate that there is a third party on the island who plays a decent role, otherwise this copy will be hellish for the protagonists. 】
What Su Bei said was a little exaggerated, but it didn't matter, this was the effect he wanted. It didn't matter if he was sitting there, it would be best if he could make readers feel that he had inside information and believe him unconditionally.
Instead of continuing to read the forum, Su Bei closed the comic and opened the chat software. Just now when he was reading the comic, many messages popped up, but he ignored them for the time being. Now that he had finished his work, he naturally wanted to see what the message was.
First, they chatted privately. Ai Baozhu, Mu Tieren, and Ling You all sent him messages. The messages came not long after the war broke out on the island, and the three people's messages were roughly the same.
To put it simply, there is a problem in the Weixi Holy Land, and there is a fight outside again. Ask him and Jiang Tianming and others if they are in the hotel. If they are, please go down and find them quickly. It will be safer for everyone to stay together.
People of lower class status cannot go up to the higher floors, so they cannot come up in person to confirm whether Su Bei and the others are in the room. They can only confirm by sending messages.
After half an hour, probably realizing that they were not in the hotel, the three began to ask them where they had been, and told them not to forget to report safety when they came back, and that it would be best if they could go look for them.
Of course, these messages were mainly sent by Ai Baozhu and Mu Tieren in turn. Ling You sent very few messages, only two in total - "Are you in the hotel?" and "Please reply when you come back."
It seems that Ai Baozhu and the other two have discovered something, otherwise they wouldn't be so insistent on letting them go in person. Su Bei thought about it and sent a message to the three groups.
【Dongnanxi: I came back first. Fenglan and the others may have to wait for a while. Let's talk about it when everyone is gathered together.】
Just one sentence triggered a bunch of replies.
[silent: good]
[My Lady: You are finally back!]
[My Lady: You didn’t come back together and you sneaked away again!]
[This lady: I won’t ask you what you have been doing. I just have one question: is the fight outside related to you?]
[Gold and Wood Dual Spiritual Roots: Are you okay? You haven't come back for so long. Did you encounter any danger?]
[Gold and Wood Dual Spiritual Roots: ...Isn't that a problem?]
Su Bei first briefly answered the questions from Ai Baozhu and Mu Tieren. Of course, his answers were all nonsense literature, and it was impossible to get any words out of him.
After answering all the questions, he asked the wooden iron man curiously.
[Dongnanxi: What's wrong with your name? Although I understand the meaning, it doesn't seem like a name you would come up with.]
[Gold and Wood Dual Spiritual Roots: ... Mo Xiaotian gave me this name before. He was reading a novel about cultivating immortals at that time.]
[Gold and Wood Dual Spiritual Roots: I will change them now]
When replying this sentence, Mu Tieren's expression was a little dazed. Until now, he still had no idea that Mo Xiaotian was actually an undercover agent of the "Black Flash" organization. He always felt that he would reappear in front of him in the next second and tell him that it was all a prank.
The memory of Mo Xiaotian talking about the plot of the immortal cultivation drama and forcing him to change his online name is still vivid in his mind, but it’s a pity that everything has changed now.
Mutieren lowered his eyes and quickly decided on his new online name.
【Wooden Iron Man: OK】
【East, South, West: Panda Head is hesitant to speak.jpg】
【Dongnanxi: That’s not necessary… and how can someone who uses his real name in his online name be worse than the original one?】
It showed "input in progress" for a while. After waiting for a long time, Mu Tieren replied again.
【Iron Tree Silver Flower: This is much better :)】
Not only did he change his name, he also changed his profile picture from the original "木" (wood) with black letters on a white background to a picture of iron flowers.
Su Bei could see that Mu Tieren was indeed very satisfied with his transformation. He was completely speechless. He gave a perfunctory compliment and decisively exited the chat box. He couldn't chat with this old man.
After turning off his phone, Su Bei walked slowly to the window. This hotel is specially prepared for tourists, so tourists will naturally not participate in the disputes on the island. Hearing the fighting outside stop, many people came out of the hotel one after another, wanting to go out and find out what was going on.
Most people don't know the inside story, they just know that the aborigines on the island suddenly started fighting like crazy. If the aborigines hadn't been very reasonable and didn't hurt the tourists, I'm afraid these tourists would have asked to leave the island.
Reasonable... Su Bei curled his lips. Thanks to their rationality, he was able to discover the clues in time.
After turning on his supernatural power and glancing at the fate compasses of the people downstairs, Su Bei retracted his gaze with relief after confirming that there was no problem. However, before he left the window, he saw the figures of Jiang Tianming and others. They were back.
The plot was about to continue. Su Bei sighed and went straight to the elevator entrance to wait.
“Ding Dong!”
The elevator door opened, and Jiang Tianming and his friends were shocked to see Su Bei standing at the door. Wu Mingbai responded quickly and asked with a smile, "Wow, you came here specially to wait for us. We are so touched."
Obviously, although he had a smile on his face, he was not happy that Su Bei was here, and he spoke in a sarcastic tone.
Su Bei pretended he heard nothing: "Did you check the message on your phone?"
"No, what's wrong?" Jiang Tianming asked in confusion. As soon as the battle was over, they discussed with their leader and went to the "All-Knowing Conch". After everything was done, they rushed back to the hotel without stopping. They had no time to check their phones along the way.
Su Bei nodded as expected and walked towards the elevator: "Let's take a look now. Ai Baozhu asked us to go there after we come back."
"You're finally here!" Ai Baozhu opened the door and welcomed them in. "It took you so long to come back. You must have been responsible for what happened outside."
Si Zhaohua and his team had not colluded with Ai Baozhu and the other two in their plan, so they were unaware of it. Upon hearing this, Si Zhaohua briefly explained what they had done, but as expected, they really didn't know why it ended up turning into a group fight that affected the entire island.
"So what answer did you get from the leaders of the Weixi Holy Land in the end?" Mu Tieren asked curiously, "After such a fight just now, they can't be trying to cover up their mistakes, right?"
In fact, it was a good thing for Si Zhaohua and his team that it turned into a war on the entire island. If the matter had not been made so big, perhaps the other party could have used some excuses to get away with it. But now that the matter has become so big, it is not so easy to get away with it easily.
Jiang Tianming nodded: "They did admit that this was a fight between two factions, but they didn't say anything bad about the radicals. They just said that their ideas were a bit radical and would disrupt the originally peaceful life on the island, which made the conservatives dissatisfied."
Seeing him drinking water to moisten his throat, Wu Mingbai continued, "Because neither side is willing to give in, there may be a fight like this every few months, and the usual small conflicts are endless. He said that he was also very troubled, and asked us tourists not to get involved, so as not to get hurt."
"Compensation was also given." Lan Subing reminded in a low voice.
"Yes, we have also been given compensation." Wu Mingbai nodded quickly, "All of us can stay here for one more day. If we get injured, we can go to the island's hospital for free treatment, and then we will be compensated based on the assessment of our injuries."
Hearing this, the Iron Man looked around at everyone and said, "I think no one among us is injured."
Si Zhaohua shook his head: "Feng Lan and I have been with the leader the whole time. Tianming and the others fled the scene after they had their reasons. Su Bei..."
At this point, he looked at Su Bei with an inquiring look. Before Su Bei could reply, Ai Baozhu suddenly asked, "Where have you been all the way? It seems that you have just returned not long ago when you replied to the message."
"I went to the library and tried to avoid people all the way back, so naturally I was a little slow." Su Bei answered casually.
He didn't intend to talk more about his own affairs, and quickly changed the subject: "Why did you ask us to come here?"
Speaking of business, Ai Baozhu was too lazy to ask any more questions and quickly said, "You know I have a lot of props on me, one of which is to detect my real-time status. After the two-day trip to the Weixi Holy Land, I found something very strange - my body data has been decreasing at a rate of one per hour."
As she spoke, she placed a pink rose watch on the table. This was the watch that Abaozhu usually wore. Everyone had always thought it was just an ordinary watch, but they didn't expect it to be a supernatural prop that could detect physical conditions.
"Normally, if the body shows abnormalities, it will sound an alarm. But because the amount reduced is very small, and the project can also improve physical data, the watch did not remind me, and I didn't find any problems at first." After others picked up the watch to check, Ai Baozhu continued, "But when I came back today, my hand was bumped by someone. I was afraid that there was something wrong with the watch, so I kept watching it, and then I found the reduced value. The value decreases very regularly, decreasing every hour, which is definitely not a normal situation. So I suspect that there may be something wrong with the Weixi Holy Land."
Mu Tieren and Ling You had obviously heard about this from her, but they didn't say anything. Wu Mingbai asked, "Could it be that your watch was really damaged?"
"Humph, are you doubting my judgment?" Ai Baozhu raised her chin arrogantly, "Anyway, the result of my inspection is no, if you have similar props, take them out and try them and you will know."