Chapter 280
Just as Su Bei was fighting with the second batch of nightmare beasts, he suddenly heard screams coming from afar.
It seemed that something had happened. Su Bei used a gear to harvest the head of the nightmare beast in front of him, retreated back to the [Gorgeous Realm] of Ai Baozhu, and then cast his gaze in the direction of the scream.
If I remember correctly, that was the examination room where Jiang Tianming and the others were. As expected of the protagonist, he was really good at causing trouble. I just don't know what happened and whether it will affect them.
Thinking of this, Su Bei once again looked up at the destiny compass above everyone's head, and then raised his eyebrows in surprise. In the blink of an eye, everyone's little needle actually moved a little to the left, directly to the second quadrant of the compass. This means that luck has become better!
What kind of magical disaster is this? Su Bei's expression suddenly became strange.
Suddenly, a cold and quiet voice sounded: "What did you find?"
Her light purple eyes, which were somewhat similar to Su Bei's, looked at him clearly, or rather at the strange expression on his face, and asked again: "What did you find?"
It was a rare opportunity for Ling You to speak more, but unfortunately Su Bei didn't intend to answer seriously. He just smiled and said, "We are really lucky that we were not affected."
Hearing that he didn't want to answer, Ling You naturally changed the subject: "Yeah."
Suddenly, Ai Baozhu next to him remembered something and asked nervously: "Then who was affected?"
Of course it was Jiang Tianming and the others. Su Bei smiled slyly: "Of course it's whoever is unlucky will be affected."
They didn't know the joke about "the most unlucky person" that Su Bei had said to Jiang Tianming, but after getting along with each other for so long, they still had a good idea of who was lucky and who was unlucky in the class.
The ones with obviously good luck are Lan Subing and Mo Xiaotian, and the one with obviously bad luck, besides the one in front of them, is Jiang Tianming.
Jiang Tianming is in the control department, and many people in their class are in the control department! Ai Baozhu's expression suddenly turned ugly: "Should we go over and take a look?"
Before he could finish his words, the teacher in charge of their examination room started to control the situation with a loudspeaker: "Please wait quietly and do not leave the examination room. The examination is suspended. We are investigating the situation."
The screams in other examination rooms were so loud that it was impossible for no one to hear them. Therefore, the academy did not intend to conceal the situation and took the initiative to inform everyone of the situation in order to stabilize the military training and prevent the students from causing chaos.
Just now, Ai Baozhu wanted to suggest that they go to Jiang Tianming to check the situation, but now it seems that this is not possible. She sighed: "It seems that we can only wait for the results here."
Hearing this, Su Bei looked at her strangely, turned around, took out his cell phone from his pocket, and called Jiang Tianming in front of her.
The mobile phones in their hands are almost all special phones for psychics. They can be used without network signals and can even make calls in different dimensions. In fact, this network was originally created for this purpose. Of course, in different dimensions, they can only be used to make calls, and other online games cannot be played.
So naturally, you can make phone calls in the Nightmare World.
And the most noteworthy thing is that, because it is very dangerous to have a cell phone ringing in the alien space, these special phones for people with special powers will not ring when they receive messages or calls. The phone will emit a signal wave that transmits the mental power of the phone owner, allowing the other party to feel it at the first time, and can be easily woken up even when they are sleeping.
After a while, the call was connected. Facing the stunned gazes of Ai Baozhu and the other two, Su Bei asked directly, "What's the situation over there?"
At the same time, Su Bei heard a reminder from "Comic Consciousness": "The King of Superpowers has been updated, please check it out."
The update time of the comic book surprised Su Bei a little, but it was understandable. The half before the final exam, whether it was the plot itself or the foreshadowing, could have formed a whole chapter of the comic book, so it was very reasonable to divide the beginning and the end into two chapters.
It was a pity that he couldn't read the comics right away. Judging from the current situation, he would have to wait until he got back to read them. Regardless of whether they would be affected by danger or not, now was not a good time to read comics.
Jiang Tianming's voice soon came from the other end of the phone: "It's a good thing you called me. I almost forgot that you can make phone calls in the Nightmare World. Please give the phone to Teacher Lei as soon as possible. We are on the run now."
Hearing the word "escape", Su Bei raised his eyebrows in surprise. It seems that Jiang Tianming and his friends finally left the "Cemetery of Death", but Su Bei was very curious about what kind of accident had happened that forced them to leave the examination room, and it seemed that they were the only ones who left. How bad was their luck?
The "we" mentioned by the other party probably refers to all the S-class students in the special department, including Zhou Renjie, Lan Subing, and Wu Jin. I just don't know if Wu Mingbai has been affected. Su Bei is planning to take some time to look at his exam later.
However, the most important thing now is to resolve the problem first. Su Bei immediately found the teacher in charge of their examination room and explained the situation to him.
Because there was someone else in Class S who really loved to stir up trouble, when everyone needed to take the exam in groups, Lei Zeen did not stay in the exam room with Su Bei and the other three, but in the control department exam room. Now that they could not leave the exam room, they naturally needed the team leader to find someone.
After hearing what he said, the teacher in charge immediately took them to find Lei Ze'en. Su Bei handed the phone to Lei Ze'en and turned on the speakerphone so that he could also hear the first-hand information.
"Teacher, we are running away from the nightmare beasts. The academy is surrounded by nightmare beasts and we can't go back for the time being. Do you have any way to take us back?" Jiang Tianming briefly described their current situation. Faintly, one could hear the sound of hurried footsteps and his own panting from the intense running.
Lei Zeen's brows were furrowed, and he looked worried. But his voice was gentle, and there was a soothing tone in it: "I need you to find a safe place, and then I will find a way to use the [Teleport] power to bring you back."
If it were the real world, they would know where they were. Even if they were always moving, Lei Zeen could accurately locate them through their movement trajectory, arrange for a few people to run to the designated location, place a teleportation array there in advance, and pick them up.
But this is the nightmare world, there is no location coordinates at all. So he can only let Jiang Tianming and the others find a safe place first, so that he can accurately lock the coordinates.
There was no other way. [Teleportation] was not omnipotent. If he was stranded outside, he could easily transfer himself even if he didn't know the geographical location of any place. But now that he was not with Jiang Tianming and the others, things would be much more difficult.
Seeing that Lei Zeen couldn't take them back immediately, Jiang Tianming was silent for a while before answering: "Okay, teacher, I got it. I'll call you again when we find a safe place."
Hearing that he was about to hang up, Lei Zeen quickly stopped him: "Wait, how many nightmare beasts are chasing you now? Can you still hold on? If not... turn on the location of your cell phones, I will bring a few teachers to pick you up."
Don't think it's an easy task. There are high-level nightmare beasts everywhere outside. Leaving the shield is no different from seeking death. They are taking great risks if they go out now. Not to mention that they have to go to a far place to pick up the students who are being hunted, which makes it even more difficult.
You should know that Lei Zeen cannot use the [Teleport] ability inside the shield. In order to prevent nightmare beasts from using their abilities to do unexpected things to the academy after being put in, one of the functions of the shield outside is to isolate any abilities. That is, the abilities used inside will not be transmitted to the outside world, and the abilities from the outside world will naturally not come in.
Therefore, even if you want to [teleport] out of the Nightmare's encirclement, you must first risk going out, and this alone is already very dangerous.
Jiang Tianming also knew that this was difficult, and the teachers might not be able to pick him up. He didn't know how many nightmare beasts would join the team chasing Lei Ze'en and others along the way. He didn't want them to get into trouble before they were picked up.
Thinking of this, he refused while running on the other end of the phone: "No need, teacher, Wu Jin got rid of those high-level nightmare beasts. They are searching for us nearby, and we are hiding and running. There is no danger for the time being. Let's not talk about it for now, I'm afraid they will find us."
Without giving Lei Zeen a chance to refute, Jiang Tianming hung up the phone after rejecting him.
Lei Ze'en sighed and looked at Su Bei and the others: "I'm going to report the missing students to Senior 3 Head Teacher Wang first. You guys stay here first, I'll be back in a while."
After saying that, Lei Zeen turned around and left, while Su Bei and the other two stayed behind under the sympathetic gazes of other students. Ai Baozhu and Su Bei were not uncomfortable at all, but Ling You didn't like the feeling of being the center of attention, so he took the initiative to walk into the shadows.
Noticing this action, Ai Baozhu looked around and quickly understood what was wrong with Ling You. She immediately walked up to a senior student and said, "Senior, can I ask Ren Jie... how did those missing students disappear?"
"Of course no problem." Being suddenly called, the senior student nodded quickly. She was in the examination room the whole time and naturally knew what was going on.
After her narration, Su Bei and the other two also learned about what had happened to Jiang Tianming and the others.
When the last wave of nightmare beasts came from the north, one of them had the ability to switch positions. As mentioned before, no ability can penetrate the shield, so it is impossible for that nightmare beast to directly switch Jiang Tianming and others to the outside of the shield. But it is still possible to switch them to the edge of the shield.
At this time, another Nightmare Beast cooperated and knocked the student who had moved to the edge of the arena out directly through the small crack in the protective shield that the Nightmare Beasts had worked so hard to create.
Jiang Tianming and his companions were just so unlucky. Because they stood out when they gathered together, they were accurately selected from among so many candidates and were bumped out together due to the seat swap.
"This luck..." Ai Baozhu twitched the corners of his mouth, expressing his speechlessness.
There weren't many candidates from the Department of Control, but there were still about 40 or 50 of them. What else could she say about being chosen so accurately? She could only mourn for them in silence.
Su Bei shrugged and looked up at Meng Huai who had just finished reporting and was walking back: "Teacher, can we meet up with the rest of the class? I think they must be worried about the missing person as well."
If the person here was Meng Huai, he would immediately become suspicious after hearing what he said, and would ask when Su Bei became so considerate. But now it was Lei Zeen who was here, and he didn't know Su Bei that well. So even though he felt it was a bit strange, he nodded in view of the fact that what he said made sense: "Okay, I'll take you to find them."
Since the exam didn't need to continue, Lei Zeen decisively took everyone in Class S out of the exam room and returned to the control department's exam room. On the way, everyone quickly understood what happened through Ai Baozhu's explanation.
"Are we just going to let them be hunted down by the nightmare beast?" the wooden iron man asked anxiously, "What if something really happens to them?"
Lei Zeen was silent for a while, his tall body slightly hunched, and it was obvious that he was in a bad mood. But he still gave a truthful answer: "There is no way. The Nightmare World is full of dangers. The life and death agreement you signed before the exam is not a joke."
Two days before the final exam, the college issued them a life and death agreement, and they would be responsible for their own life and death after entering the Nightmare World. Of course, it was not a forced sale, and the college did not force students to enter the Nightmare World. Students could choose not to enter and only take the cultural exam. As long as they passed the exam, they could get a passing score of 60 points.
Although this score is a bit low for the last exam of the senior year, it is actually reasonable when you think about it carefully. The purpose of the supernatural academy is to train supernaturals to fight against nightmare beasts, and the results largely depend on the students' ability to fight against nightmare beasts.
Students who dare not enter the nightmare world even under the protection of the school will be even more afraid to enter after graduation. Whether in terms of courage or ability, they do not have the capital to fight against the powerful nightmare beasts. It is normal for such psychics to get relatively poor grades.
Everyone knew that what he said was right, but this cruel reality still made them feel depressed. The only one who was not affected was probably Su Bei. He even had the mood to ask Wu Mingbai: "Don't you have different exam contents for the elemental department? Wu Mingbai, have you finished the exam?"
Seeing that he could still find him to chat at this time, Wu Mingbai glared at him fiercely. But before he could open his mouth to mock, he suddenly remembered something, and asked with bright eyes: "By the way, didn't you say before that you would answer one question for me unconditionally? Now fulfill your promise, will A Jiang and the others be in trouble?"
It so happened that the question he asked was the one Su Bei knew the answer to. He pretended to "calculate" for a while, then shook his head in disappointment.
Wu Mingbai's heart sank. He pursed his lips and asked cautiously, "You shook your head because you couldn't tell."
This was the best outcome he could think of, better than Su Bei shaking his head in regret.
"Aren't you asking me if anything will happen to them?" Su Bei pretended to be innocent, as if he was not the one who played a trick on others. "I shook my head, which means nothing will happen to them!"
Everyone: “…”
Although they were very happy to hear the news, they felt that this guy from Su Bei was asking for a beating. They felt their hands itchy and wanted to punch something.
Lei Zeen took the lead in realizing their wish. He was indeed Meng Huai's good friend, and his way of beating people was exactly the same as Meng Huai's.
"Ouch!" Su Bei covered his head and screamed, complaining unhappily, "You misunderstood, how can you blame me?"
"Did we misunderstand?" Lei Zeen was not fooled at all and asked angrily and amusedly. However, after getting Su Bei's affirmative answer, he also breathed a sigh of relief.
It was great that the students were fine, but I really didn't want to have the opportunity to teach students, only to find that some of them were missing when I returned. Although it was an accident, it was still his fault as a teacher.
"They can't come back now anyway, Wu Mingbai, answer my question!" Su Bei sat cross-legged on the ground, looking bored. It seemed that the question was just a casual question to kill time, and he was not very interested.
However, in fact, Su Bei really wanted to know whether Wu Mingbai had taken the exam and what he had taken. He originally thought that this would be Wu Mingbai's home court. After all, if he had not misjudged the purpose of the college organizing this final exam, then Wu Mingbai would definitely play a huge role in clearing the meteorite fragments. After all, he was the only earth element among all the people in the class and a member of the real protagonist group.
But this time, only Jiang Tianming and his group were involved, and he was not brought along. This made Su Bei doubt his own judgment. Could it be that Wu Mingbai was not involved in this incident?
This is understandable. I know that I am planning to invite them to visit Asian and African countries during the summer vacation. That will probably be Wu Mingbai's special event.
But according to his previous speculation, this final exam should be related to the main plot. What is the author's plan?
If you can't figure it out, forget it. You should be able to guess most of it by reading the comics later. However, he was still very curious about Wu Ming's test. Su Bei looked at him leisurely, waiting for an answer.
There was nothing that could not be said about the exam content. Since Su Bei had said that Jiang Tianming and the others would be fine, Wu Mingbai felt relieved and sat down cross-legged with him: "We have already finished the exam. The order of the elemental exam is fire, earth, water, wood, and gold. As a result, something happened right after I finished the exam."
When he said the last sentence, he couldn't help but sigh, not knowing whether his luck was good or bad. If he said his luck was bad, at least he finished the exam smoothly and did not do badly. If he said his luck was good, the students who took the exam later should not have to stay in the Nightmare World, and the difficulty of the exam would probably be reduced a lot.
"The Earth Element tests us to destroy nightmare beasts without getting any dust or gravel on our bodies. We need to destroy a total of 100 nightmare beasts." Wu Mingbai casually gathered the dust and gravel around him with the Earth Element, condensing it into a small stone floating on his hand. "It should be a test of our mastery of superpowers and our ability to do two things at the same time."
No, the test is on your method of clearing the meteorite. Su Bei silently refuted him in his heart.
However, it must be said that the test questions from the "Infinite Power Academy" were quite reasonable. If he had not guessed the inside story long ago, he would not have noticed the problem when he heard the test questions and would have thought it was just a simple test.
"What about you, Qi Huang?" After asking Wu Mingbai, it was naturally not good to favor one over the other, so Su Bei turned around and looked at Qi Huang again.
Qi Huang also sat cross-legged with them. Although she was also a young lady, she was rarely particular about things. Instead, she was more carefree and carefree like a girl from the underworld. "Our exam is very annoying. Those who have the ability to create fire will have to destroy 100 nightmare beasts without using open flames. Those who cannot create fire, such as the ability of [Magazine], will have to use open flames to destroy nightmare beasts."
That was indeed disgusting enough, and everyone immediately showed an expression of being speechless. Who would like such a twisted test? I just thought that the earth element test was a bit too difficult, but after hearing about the fire element test, I realized what it meant to be too difficult.
With the two of them starting, the others also began to recall the content of the exams they encountered in this exam room. Su Bei listened roughly and found that except for the special and elemental subjects, the questions in other exam rooms had nothing to do with the main storyline.
This was within Su Bei's expectations. To remove the meteorite fragments, the most relevant earth element and the most unexpected special element were most likely to achieve the goal.
After everyone chatted for a while, the "Infinite Power Academy" finally made a decision - they would take the students out of the Nightmare World early and return to the academy.
The official reason given was that a student had already gotten into trouble and it was not appropriate for them to stay here. This reason was of course fine, but it did not fit in with the usual practices of the academy in the comics.
But Su Bei estimated that the real reason was that the students who really needed to be tested here had already completed the test. Simply destroying the nightmare beast could be done in another dimension or even in the real world, so there was naturally no need to continue staying here in great danger.
"If we leave first, what about A Jiang and the others? They haven't come back yet!" After hearing the arrangements made by the dean of studies on the radio, Wu Mingbai's face changed and he asked anxiously.
But he was indeed somewhat confused by the authorities, because he was too worried about Jiang Tianming and the others, and lost his mind. Lei Zeen said gently: "Don't worry, the academy will leave some teachers including me here to guard, and we will immediately start rescue as soon as they call."
Hearing him say this, Wu Mingliang also realized that he was overthinking. Regardless of whether it was emotional or logical, the "Infinite Power Academy" would never openly abandon the students while they were still alive. They would definitely leave someone behind to rescue them.
"Can I stay here and wait?" After clearing up the misunderstanding, he couldn't help but ask. Jiang Tianming and Lan Subing hadn't come back yet, and he couldn't feel at ease returning to the real world alone.
Lei Zeen, who also has a close friend, can understand his feelings, but cannot agree to his request: "No, all students have to go back, so that we teachers can carry out the rescue without any worries. I know you are worried about Jiang Tianming and the others, but I promise you that we will do our best to bring them back safely, okay?"
Seeing his serious expression, Wu knew that there was no turning back, so he nodded in disappointment: "Okay, I understand."
Don't be fooled by his obedient appearance. As soon as Lei Zeen left, Wu Mingbai asked urgently: "I want to stay secretly. Do you have any solution?"