Chapter 288
After hearing what it said, the other nightmare beasts were speechless. Although what it said was true, it made them feel embarrassed to say it so bluntly. They all have wisdom, so why did their plan fail this time?
The Mermaid Nightmare couldn't help but sigh, but he didn't think of refutation: "That's true, let's continue to look for the human defense line. If we break their hidden power, our plan will be more successful."
From their words, Su Bei could clearly hear that these nightmare beasts had a plan. This plan could ignore the defense of Sesbia and attack Huang Long directly, putting their contestants in danger.
But what kind of plan can ignore the defense? The Thesbians are not fools. They have finally managed to host a world championship, and with Nightmares causing trouble every year, it is impossible for them not to make adequate preparations.
I continued to wait patiently. After a period of silence, the Big Brain Nightmare finally spoke again: "I checked, there is no problem, you just need to kill that Gillam."
Su Bei raised his eyebrows when he heard an unfamiliar name. Who is this Ram? It sounds like he has a lot to do with the Nightmare Beast's plan. If he can find out the identity of this person, maybe he can infer part of the Nightmare Beast's plan from it.
"Something seems wrong." Suddenly, in the corner of the tent, a nightmare beast made a sound that was difficult for humans to make. At first glance, this sound felt like it came from heaven, and even Su Bei's high mental power was momentarily distracted.
He turned his head suddenly and saw that in the corner, there was indeed a nightmare beast in the shape of a black angel.
However, it was not the kind of humanoid angel with two pairs of wings on the back that people usually understand. Instead, it had a large eye in the middle and a bunch of alien angels in crossed circles outside.
This kind of angel, even if it was pure white as described in the Bible, would be very permeable at first glance, let alone now that it was pure black. The moment he saw it, an evil feeling arose spontaneously, and Su Bei couldn't help but shudder.
Fortunately, he had used his mental power to shield himself in advance, so his sight was not noticed by the other party. The angel nightmare continued in that ethereal voice: "I feel that the success rate is decreasing."
"Didn't you say you couldn't feel the success rate of this plan?" The mermaid nightmare asked doubtfully. The humans were not vegetarians. They knew they had angel nightmares, so they worked out a countermeasure early on.
Every time something big happens, the angel nightmare beasts can't do anything. There's no way, its most useful ability to the nightmare beasts is to detect the success rate of an event, and when it can't detect it, it's naturally useless.
In response to its questioning, the Angel Nightmare replied calmly: "I can't feel the success rate, but I can feel the ups and downs of the success rate. From the beginning, the success rate has been decreasing."
Hearing this, Su Bei's heart sank. Others may not know, but how could he not know what was going on? The decline in success rate must have a lot to do with him eavesdropping here.
But he actually felt it was a bit strange. Logically, the Nightmare's success rate in completing this mission should be zero. After all, the protagonists were there, and they couldn't succeed anyway. If that was the case, how could it be reduced? The success rate couldn't be divided into points, right?
"You misunderstood." The voice of "Manga Consciousness" suddenly sounded, and it sounded a long time ago. Although he often heard the notification sound about the update of comics, it was still very different from normal chat.
"Long time no see." Su Bei simply said a greeting, and then asked directly in his heart, "What do you mean?"
"Comic Consciousness" tried to explain to him: "What it means is that if you look at it from a macro comic perspective, Jiang Tianming and his team are definitely going to win. But from this perspective, except for you, no other characters in the comic can perceive it, so the success rate that the nightmare beast mentioned is also the success rate after ignoring this point."
It sounds a bit hard to understand, but fortunately Su Bei understood it. He suddenly realized that it was very reasonable. If the angel nightmare beast calculated the success rate of Jiang Tianming and others' tasks every time, it would sooner or later find that their success rate was 100% every time, and then it would definitely find something wrong.
A long time ago, the "comic consciousness" said that comic characters could not know where the comics were, and even he could not tell anyone about it. Naturally, there would be no flaws in the comics.
"What is the success rate of this mission that the nightmare beast can calculate?" Su Bei asked curiously. Although the other party could not measure it due to human interference, it did not hinder his interest in it.
There was nothing to hide about this question. Su Bei knew that he would definitely fail in the end, so the "comic consciousness" didn't mind answering him: "At the beginning, it could sense 80%, but now it should only be 40%."
Hearing this, Su Bei was a little surprised: "Can my eavesdropping cause such a big change?"
It went from almost being successful to almost not being successful, and he didn't even know that his role could be so significant.
"Of course, once you tell others about this, the organizers of the competition will naturally respond." "Comic Consciousness" said as a matter of course, "But the nightmare beast doesn't know that even if you tell others, the plot will still go on as usual, just with a little extra episode."
The author has designed the plot well. Even if Su Bei exposed the Nightmare's conspiracy in advance, the author will use various means to make the plot unfold smoothly. Otherwise, wouldn't his design be in vain?
Soon Su Bei was in no mood to continue developing his thoughts. While he was chatting with "Comic Consciousness", the Nightmares had already guessed part of the truth about the decline in success rate.
The reason for the sudden death of the nightmare beast outside has not yet been figured out, and the angel nightmare beast has noticed something unusual. The brain nightmare beast lived up to its appearance and immediately speculated a possibility. Although it was a question, it used a positive tone: "No human has sneaked in, right?"
"It's really possible!" Hearing it say this, the mermaid nightmare beast's expression immediately became serious. "The nightmare beast outside died strangely. Now I think it might be a trick used by humans to sneak in here."
Apparently the other nightmare beasts also agreed with this guess. They stopped talking and looked around vigilantly. Su Bei could feel waves of mental power sweeping through the tent.
Unfortunately, Su Bei was also a high-level spiritual power owner, and had mastered the method of hiding himself. Even though they scanned his spiritual power around and around, they could not find any trace of him.
"How could it be gone?" The voice of the Brain Nightmare was finally tainted with some confusion. It didn't understand why its reasoning was wrong.
But soon its voice became firm again: "It must have used some props to hide itself. I am sure this human is in our place."
As the smartest being here, the other Nightmares trust the judgment of the Brain Nightmares. The Screen Nightmares immediately came up with a good idea. They said to the Angel Nightmares, "Hey, go test the probability of us finding this person."
This is indeed a good method. On the one hand, it can determine whether what the Big Brain Nightmare said is correct, and on the other hand, it can allow them to judge whether to continue searching.
However, the Angel Nightmare shook his body: "No, the most important thing now is to seal the space and don't let this human escape."
You know, although the information they just revealed is not much, the content about Gillam may still allow humans to find a way to deal with it. Moreover, even without these, it is not a good thing for the nightmare beasts to release a human who knows they have a conspiracy.
Although the government of Sesbia, including other psychics who came to participate in this competition, should know that they will definitely take this opportunity to cause trouble. But guessing and confirming that they have gathered here are two different things, and they don't want to expose the current situation of the Nightmare World.
"That's right. I'll block off this area immediately." The merman nightmare beast stood up and walked out of the tent and walked back. "Why don't you test it first in case there is no human inside or the human has already left."
What it said made some sense. The huge eye in the middle of the angel nightmare beast closed, and black light emanated from its body.
After a while, the angel beast opened its eyes again and gave the answer: "50% chance, the person is still here. It seems that they can't leave immediately. Seal the space quickly!"
Only after hearing the last sentence did Su Bei finally smile. He had waited until now just to make these nightmare beasts believe that he was still here, so as to prevent them from changing their plans midway and causing his risky trip to become in vain.
Now that the nightmare beasts have come to a conclusion, he certainly doesn't need to stay here. Although the "Gate to Nightmare" has a long CD, it's not the only thing he can rely on to return to the real world.
Su Bei took out the teleportation item that Lei Zeen had given him before. This item allowed him to teleport directly from the Nightmare World back to school, which was just right for the current situation.
The paper was torn into pieces, and Su Bei only felt that something seemed to be sucking him. In a moment, he appeared on the playground of the "Endless Superpower Academy".
Because it was summer vacation, the playground was empty. This saved him the trouble of explaining to others why he suddenly appeared here. This was within Su Bei's expectations. If he hadn't known that there would be no one on the college playground, he wouldn't have come back in this way.
Otherwise, there would be a bunch of people on the playground, and he would attract everyone's attention as soon as he appeared. Even if he was not socially anxious, he would become socially anxious in this situation.
However, Su Bei was so concerned about not being discovered when he showed up that he forgot that the mere fact that he used the props provided by Lei Zeen would be discovered by the teacher.
Before he even reached the school gate, Su Bei's phone rang with a message. He opened his phone and saw that it was a message from Lei Zeen: "Aren't you participating in the world competition? What are you doing back at the academy? Stay at the academy and don't move. I'll come find you right away!"
I forgot about that. Su Bei twitched his lips and turned to walk towards the classroom. Their classroom didn't have a lock, and they could just push the door open. After entering, he sent a location message to Lei Zeen, and then sat down patiently to wait for someone.
Before long, Lei Ze'en pushed the door open and walked in, followed by Meng Huai.
When they saw Su Bei sitting obediently in the classroom, they subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, then walked in with complicated expressions.
Lei Zeen sat down next to Su Bei, while Meng Huai turned his chair around and sat in front of him, then asked calmly, "Tell me, why did you come back so suddenly?"
The truth must not be told. He cannot reveal the Nightmare's plan before the incident has even started. The author must have let the incident unfold smoothly, so once he reveals the plan first, then the three of them may all be in danger. Only when the three of them are in trouble together can they ensure that no one will reveal the Nightmare's plan.
Su Bei was not particularly worried about the safety of the teachers, but he hated meaningless sacrifices. After telling the truth, not only will it not change anything, but it will also cause him to fall into a coma and be unable to continue to participate in the plot, which is really not worth the gain.
So Su Bei had already thought of an explanation while waiting, and answered directly: "I left something at school, and I didn't need to play these few days, so I came back to get it."
"What?" Meng Huai didn't believe his explanation.
Su Bei didn't expect the other party to believe him just by saying it, so he took out a book from his storage ring: "Hey, this is the review material I usually read, you should have seen it."
In fact, this is the notebook of the "Destiny" organization. With the blessing of comic consciousness, its appearance is just like an ordinary math tutoring book, and anyone in the comic world can't see the flaws.
Meng Huai and the other person did often see him reading this book when he had time during breaks. Meng Huai had asked about this book before, and then learned that Su Bei would return to a regular school after graduating from the Academy of Superpowers, so he was quite impressed by this book.
"Do you have to take it now? Even though the item I gave you is not very valuable, it is also a good life-saving item. Did you use it for this reason?" Lei Zeen asked suspiciously.
It's not that he's narcissistic, it's mainly because as a master of formations that is famous all over the world, his teleportation formation is also very valuable. As long as it is used in time, no matter how dangerous the situation is, it can be teleported out.
As far as he knew, Su Bei was not an ignorant person. Since, as he said, there was no need to compete in the next two days, he could just take a plane back. Why did he have to use a prop?
Besides, do we really have to seize these few days to study? The world championship is less than two weeks at most. It will be the same if we study after two weeks.
"Because there is a school advance test recently, I want to try it." Su Bei turned on his phone and clicked on the interface he had searched in advance. It showed the enrollment information of a school. After completing an exam during the summer vacation, one can obtain admission qualifications.
"You..." Lei Zeen hesitated to speak. Although she had long known that Su Bei intended to go to a normal school after getting the supernatural license and take the exam to obtain the academic qualifications required by ordinary society, she was still surprised that the other party had started preparing for the school so early.
This shows how little sense of belonging he has towards the supernatural world, he has actually been so premeditated. But to be honest, none of them thinks that Su Bei will really leave the supernatural world after graduation, that would really be a waste of talent.
While the two of them were talking, Meng Huai specifically checked the surveillance in the classroom and found that the facts were indeed as Su Bei said. After arriving in the classroom, he first took out the notebook from the hole in the desk, put the notebook into the storage ring, and then sat on the chair waiting for them to come.
The two looked at each other, their eyes full of confusion. Could it be that Su Bei's sudden return was really okay?
"Let me contact Teacher Li." Meng Huai decisively called Teacher Li. He wanted to make sure that Su Bei did not need to compete during this period.
And Su Bei did not lie about this. After a while, Meng Huai hung up the phone: "Teacher Li said that you should take advantage of these few days to travel."
"How can traveling back to the country not be considered traveling?" Su Bei shrugged, looking righteous.
Unable to find any flaws, Meng Huai had to give up: "Since you have already got the book, then hurry back and don't let me see you in the country again before the competition is over."
He stood up and said, "Let's go. We'll take you to the airport."
It was already past nine o'clock in the evening when they returned to Thesbia. They turned off their cell phones on the plane, and when they got off the plane and turned them back on, Su Bei saw several new messages, all from Jiang Tianming and others.
[Street Light Renovation Project: You went on a trip to northern Jiangsu]
[Do you understand? Your freedom amazes me]
【Death is Coming: Where did you travel】
[Flame Wutong: Is this why you don’t want to compete? Awesome!]
【manage:】
Su Bei Tongyi replied and told them that he had returned. Then he went to the official website of the competition and searched for Gillam's personal information.
As one of the main persons in charge of the competition, he searched and found the introduction panel of Jiram. The opponent was a master of illusion, and his ability was somewhat similar to Li Shu, called [True Illusion].
Judging from the supernatural powers of this person in charge, the second stage of the world competition must be related to illusions. Su Bei estimated that it might be similar to their first semester final exam, fighting in an illusion.
The Nightmare Beasts wanted to kill Gillam, an illusionist. The effect would only make the illusion disappear naturally, and would not cause any harm to the contestants. So the Nightmare Beasts' goal could not be to kill Gillam, so they could only control him.
Controlling Jiram and then creating danger in the illusion was the only possibility that Su Bei could think of. If that was the case, he wouldn't have to worry. High-level mental power was the biggest enemy of all illusion-type abilities. Even if Jiram was also high-level mental power, it would be very difficult to confuse him if Su Bei was prepared in advance.
I just don't know where the nightmare beasts want to create danger, but unfortunately they reacted quickly and immediately realized that they had to seal off the space. If Su Bei wasn't afraid of not being able to come back, he could still collect more intelligence there.
Regarding unknown dangers, he hoped that the dangers they designed would be targeted at each individual superpower, rather than the kind that could easily affect innocent people. For Su Bei, keeping himself safe is always the first choice.
On the other hand, since we already know that the Nightmare Beasts will cause trouble in the second stage of the competition, that means that at the latest, Mu Yunfan and others will have to get into trouble the day after tomorrow. Only if they get into trouble, the protagonists will have the opportunity to participate in the second stage of the competition.
What a miserable group of people! The protagonists are so unlucky that they can attract harm at any time.
Upon learning that Su Bei had returned to the hotel, Jiang Tianming and others gathered in his and Si Zhaohua's room.
"So what did you do today?" Qi Huang asked in confusion, "If you were traveling, you should have waited until the personal battle was over before coming back. There is still at least a whole day left, and you came back today?"
Su Bei was also helpless. He originally planned to stay in the Nightmare World for two days and leave when they were about to start doing good things.
Who knew that there was an angel nightmare beast with strange abilities in there. It could check the success rate and judge by the success rate whether someone had accompanied him into the tent, and then start looking for his hiding place.
"Actually, I went back to school to get something." Su Bei repeated the reasons he had given to the teachers and once again received a bunch of complicated looks.
Wu Mingbai twitched his lips and said, "You are too impatient."
"I feel like I'm in a hurry to be a social animal and work 996." Lan Subing said sincerely, "I'll consider my company after graduation."
Even without taking into account his powerful supernatural powers, Su Bei's grades were good enough. If he continued to study at his current level, it would not be difficult for him to join her company. So Lan Subing decisively recruited people for her company in advance.
Su Bei also shook his head decisively: "Forget it, I have no intention of being a social animal."
Lan Subing showed a disappointed expression, but no one sympathized with her. Even Jiang Tianming and Wu Mingbai, who were closest to her, looked at her with a look of disdain. They were also quite afraid of Lan Subing's capitalist attitude, and were afraid that she would arrest them and make them work 996 at any time.
"So which school are you going to apply to?" Si Zhaohua asked curiously while sitting on the bed. "I also plan to go to school in the ordinary world after graduating from the 'Endless Ability Academy'. If you choose the right one, maybe we can be classmates for a few more years."
The Si family does not require members to go to ordinary high schools and universities, but it does not exclude this. Their family's business involves a wide range of things, and it is inevitable to deal with ordinary people. As the young master of the family, it is good for Si Zhaohua to have more contact with the world of ordinary people.
"We are the same." Jiang Tianming spoke on behalf of the three people, "Although the resources in the supernatural world are enough for us to make money and support our families, we still have to go to school. I will feel uneasy without a college diploma."
As ordinary people before, their obsession with going to college was much stronger than that of people in the supernatural world.
Qi Huang, who was born in the supernatural world, didn't have any obsession with this, but seeing that several of his companions had the same idea, he couldn't help but think: "It's okay to go, anyway, no matter where I am, I am one of the best!"
Facing their curious gazes, Su Bei said helplessly: "The one I found is not particularly good, I just took the exam first to keep a way out. As for the high school I really want to go to, I haven't decided yet, anyway, as long as the teaching staff is not bad, it shouldn't be difficult for me to get into a good university."
He didn't want to mislead other students. The school he mentioned was found just for a reason. He didn't know the specific situation and he certainly couldn't use it as a reference for others, otherwise he would be harming others.
Si Zhaohua certainly didn't think that he was lying because he didn't want to go to the same high school as them, so he nodded and said, "Then I'll wait for you, including you guys. If anyone has a favorite school, don't forget to let me know."