Chapter 290

"But fate tells me that I have a good chance of participating in the competition." Su Bei was not comforted and continued to test the waters half-truthfully.

He may not necessarily participate in the final competition. There are six people in the protagonist group participating in the competition this time, including him. Normally, a team battle only requires five people to participate, so if he is lucky, he can be the one who does not participate in the competition.

But whether he wants to participate or not, he has to consider the worst possible outcome first. And if possible, he would still like to participate in the competition in Subei. This is likely to involve the main plot, and even if there are comics to read later, it is definitely not as good as experiencing it in person.

Hearing him say this, Calabash Nightmare Beast choked and asked suspiciously: "I will definitely participate as a substitute, so you should not have to play, right?"

It's not like it hasn't understood the rules of this world competition. There are a total of fifteen contestants from one school. Even if all the main contestants fail, there are plenty of backups, so there's no need to worry about everyone being kicked out.

It also knew about Su Bei's identity in advance. After all, the "Infinite Power Academy" has always been a major concern for the Nightmare Beasts. Naturally, they have to study their participants carefully.

"Who said that the backup can't play?" Su Bei said nonchalantly. He had already seen clearly from the fact that the other party was willing to deal with him even in this situation, that the Calabash Nightmare Beast should not be able to harm him. In this case, he naturally couldn't miss such a good opportunity to collect intelligence.

The Calabash Nightmare Beast had no idea of ​​the evil intentions of humans, nor did it guess that its paper tiger identity had been exposed by Su Bei. It naively thought that Su Bei just didn't want to cause trouble, so it pretended to be trying hard to help and find a solution.

After considering his words, the Calabash Nightmare said soothingly, "If you must participate, then try your best to win."

It doesn't dare to lie. Who knows if Su Bei has the ability to identify lies. What if it is found to be lying and it is directly exposed to the net?

Su Bei's brows wrinkled slightly. This was undoubtedly bad news. From what the other party said, could it be that only the final winner of the second round of the competition could escape?

So the protagonist group has a high probability of winning, well, it doesn't prevent this from being very difficult. Moreover, Su Bei has another problem to worry about, that is, does the "win" in the mouth of the Calabash Nightmare refer to the victory of the whole team, or the individual who stays in the end?

If it was the former, then he wouldn't have to worry about anything. Although his opponents were all extremely powerful people who were picked from thousands of people, and they were two years older than them, the protagonist's halo was not for show. Su Bei had an 80% chance of being sure that Jiang Tianming and his team would win. Then he would just have to win by lying down.

But if it's the latter, he has to survive to the end to win, but that's not so easy. Su Bei doesn't have the aura of a protagonist. Moreover, even among the protagonists, there are many who are eliminated in such a big competition for various reasons. There's really no confidence that he can hold on to the end.

Compared to taking such a risk, Su Bei would rather not participate in the competition. So he pretended to be unconvinced and asked: "The winners in the competition will probably be in a mess when they come out. I don't believe you don't have any arrangements for those outside the competition."

"Don't worry, the people outside are not our target this time. Even if there is danger, it is not a big danger." The Calabash Nightmare Beast replied, "We are all control-type Nightmare Beasts. We just need to control them at the critical moment and prevent them from causing trouble."

All the nightmare beasts present had one thing in common, that is, they all traded their attack power for control ability. They gathered here together to make it impossible for humans to save the students in the competition after discovering the problem.

Although this reason sounds reasonable, Su Bei clearly knows that the Calabash Nightmare Beast is lying. If the Nightmare Beasts' target is only these students, then why are there so many Nightmare Beasts gathered in the Nightmare Beast World at this moment?

It is known that the gourd nightmare beasts and other nightmare beasts that appeared in the hotel are for the purpose of controlling the people in the hotel. A small number of nightmare beasts in the nightmare world want to control xxx and are preparing to cause trouble in the fantasy world of the second game.

Then, are these remaining low-level and mid-level nightmare beasts also hunting students in the illusion?

The possibility is very small. Students who can come to participate in the world competition will definitely not be defeated by low-level nightmare beasts. Even if they want to use human wave tactics, it doesn't make sense. There are definitely many group attack-type psychics among the participating players. As long as they cooperate in time, it is not difficult to wipe out the low-level nightmare beasts in one go.

The Nightmare Beast was indeed cunning, and this kind of lie that was 70% true and 30% false was the best way to deceive others. If he had not been to the Nightmare Beast world in advance and knew what the current situation was there, he might have really been fooled by it.

It seems that nowhere is safe this time. The hotel has its own dangers, the competition has its own dangers, and the capital of Thesbia has its own dangers. Relatively speaking, it is safer to go to the competition, at least here there are the protagonists, and there is a high probability that the whole army will not be wiped out.

Su Bei nodded thoughtfully: "I understand. I'll leave first."

"Hey, wait a minute!" The Calabash Nightmare Beast hurriedly called him. It had just said so much, not to let Su Bei gather intelligence and then pat his butt and leave.

When Su Bei turned around, he asked unhappily, "You got so much information from me, shouldn't you do something?"

"What do you want to do?" Su Bei asked in a puzzled manner.

He knew that the other party wanted a guarantee that he would never tell anyone what he knew. He could make this guarantee, but he couldn't say it on his own initiative.

Proactive commitments can easily give the other party the opportunity to push their buttons. Only by showing your willingness to go back on your word first can you lower the other party's psychological expectations to the lowest level.

As expected, after hearing what he said, Calabash Nightmare Beast immediately became anxious: "Of course I'm going to make a promise, promise that you won't tell anyone about our plan! You don't want to go back on your word, do you?"

Not understanding what Su Bei said, it threatened again: "Although we don't like killing people, we still want to trap you here forever."

Until this moment, it was still trying to flatter itself, saying things like "it doesn't like killing people". Even Su Bei couldn't help but twitch his lips when he heard it. How could a nightmare beast not like killing people? Even if it wanted to cover up the fact that it had no attacking ability, it didn't have to lie so openly.

But what the other party said later was not wrong. It would not be difficult for a group of control-type nightmare beasts to trap him here forever. Su Bei knew that the reason they did not take action was because they were worried that his disappearance would attract other people's attention.

In fact, if I really went missing, others would definitely find me. When they checked again, they would find that these nightmare beasts in the hotel could not hide at all. From Hu Lu's speech just now, Su Bei could hear that they were able to hide here only because of a loophole in the hotel's security system.

Even he could "see" these nightmare beasts on the rooftop with the help of the [Gear of Destiny], so it would be even easier for those psychics who specialized in finding similar psychics.

As the saying goes, if they are discovered, the Nightmare Beast's overall plan may be in trouble. So they dare not gamble, and can only think of ways to prevent Su Bei from telling the truth.

Of course, the lesser of two evils is better. If Su Bei refuses to make a promise, then they can only trap him here. It is better to be found than to be exposed immediately. At least it can give the nightmare beasts some time to react.

Su Bei also knew this, so after lowering the other party's psychological expectations, he readily promised: "I promise not to tell anyone about this, okay?"

"Sign an agreement." The gourd nightmare beast did not believe his empty promise. Just as humans thought the nightmare beast was cunning, the nightmare beast also thought humans were cunning. Especially a guy like Su Bei, who seemed to have no morality at all.

Su Bei had no objection. He had no way of telling the truth in the first place. The author would not give him the chance. He was very satisfied to have gotten a lot of intelligence out of nothing.

After signing the agreement and leaving the rooftop, Su Bei turned on his phone and was flooded with messages. He quickly looked through the messages they had sent and soon became upset.

The author took action, right? In just half an hour, he missed two plots. The first was the match between Jiang Tianming and Elvis, which he missed on his own initiative.

The result of the game was unexpected. Except for Jiang Tianming, everyone else lost. Only Jiang Tianming won by revealing another supernatural power and catching Elvis off guard.

His newly revealed ability is also a time-related ability, but it is very strange, called [Time Sponge]. This ability adheres to a principle, that is, "time is like water in a sponge, if you squeeze it, you will always get something."

This is a pure gain-type ability. Using this ability can release a little time. Currently, Jiang Tianming can release it for five seconds. These five seconds can be applied to oneself or others, giving oneself an extra five seconds of time.

This does not mean that other people will be suspended, but it only increases his own time. In these five seconds, he can think about what to do next, recover his mental strength, and release a few superpowers in advance, but it cannot affect other people.

This ability itself is pretty useless, but it works wonders against opponents with time-related abilities. The time he applies can disrupt the flow of time that Elvis changes on him. Jiang Tianming seized the opportunity of Elvis's brief ability confusion and defeated him in one fell swoop.

To be honest, Su Bei didn't expect Elvis to be so strong now. It's just like what Lan Subing complained about. What kind of hormones did he take?

If Elvis's change surprised Su Bei, then the second thing made him sigh. The opponent of "Endless Superpower Academy" in the last game was "Saint Dante Superpower Academy".

"Saint Dante Academy of Supernatural Powers", like "Infinite Academy of Supernatural Powers", is a hot candidate to win this year's championship. The champion of the last world championship was this academy.

The result of the competition shocked everyone. In the five individual matches, the "Infinite Power Academy" only lost one! And that match was against Zhang Sheng, who had a support power. His power was not as powerful as others, so it was normal for him to lose against an offensive opponent. It can be said that they almost defeated the "Saint Dante Power Academy" in a crushing manner.

To be honest, Su Bei was not very surprised by this result. Mu Yunfan and the others' abilities were really strong. With just those few abilities, it was not an exaggeration to say that they were the protagonists. If there were many people stronger than them, then from the perspective of the comic, Su Bei felt that the combat power of this comic would be a bit unbalanced.

What really made him sigh was that he won four out of five individual matches against another favorite to win the championship, which almost sealed his victory in this world championship. He was crushing the opponent in the individual match, so how could he fail in the team match?

If you look at this alone, it won't make you think of anything else. But if you combine it with another piece of information - why Mu Yunfan and others can't participate in the second stage of the competition, and look back at the whole thing, you can find the problem.

A team that has almost secured victory, if other colleges still want to win, they naturally have to remove this thorn in their side first.

The reputation of "Saint Dante's School of Supernatural Powers" has always been average. In previous world competitions, there have often been cases of intentional injury to opponents in individual battles, resulting in the opponents being unable to participate in the next round of competition.

For a school with such a bad reputation, Su Bei had no doubt that they would resort to some tricks off the court.

Maybe it was because he often read comics and novels in the past, he had a deep understanding of the routines of these things, and his intuition was always accurate. This time he had a hunch that "Saint Dante School of Supernatural Powers" was going to cause trouble.

He sighed again and turned off his phone. He was grateful to his enthusiastic classmates. If they hadn't been so active in reporting the situation, he wouldn't have known that so many things had happened during his time on the rooftop, let alone guessing the plot.

Unfortunately, it is useless to speculate, and Su Bei will not remind Mu Yunfan and the others. "Saint Dante School of Supernatural Powers" should have some morality in doing things, and at most they will be temporarily unable to act. But if he destroys the other party's plan, and the author has to come up with a new plan, it may not be that dangerous.

Suddenly, the "Comic Awareness" reminder sounded, and the comics were updated at this time!

Su Bei was surprised for a moment, then understood. Yes, a lot of things happened in the past two days, he was framed, he fought with Elvis, and the "Saint Dante School of Supernatural Powers" which is likely to have a sequel failed. The plot is already enough, and the comics can indeed be updated.

Just as he thought, this comic update is mainly about these contents.

At the beginning, a few pictures of the starting players were given, showing their overwhelming battles in a day, and by the way, creating the atmosphere of the competition. The author did a good job in this regard, with numerous arenas, powerful superpowers, and gorgeous special effects, which immediately make people feel the grandeur of the competition.

Next up was Su Bei’s competition, and the readers were dying of laughter when they saw him getting cheated.

“Hahahahahahahahahahahaha”

"If you can't make everyone happy, then make everyone unhappy!"

"Su Bei: What's up?"

"Zhang Sheng is a good-looking, lively and trouble-making man"

“Others:”

“Indeed, everyone is unhappy, hahahahahahahahaha”

Seeing this, Su Bei showed a fake smile on his face. He said the same thing as before, that he would make Zhang Sheng suffer a great loss after the game.

Next, when he was framed for cheating, the author actually drew out the mental journey of the rival school. Su Bei had to admit that there is no hatred without reason in this world. Just as he thought before, they were so indignant at the time, but in fact they just made a foolproof choice.

Although putting profit above all else does not conform to universal values, it is understandable. The audience on the bullet screen also changed from being angry at their behavior to understanding after seeing the explanation.

"No, why would you suspect Su Bei of cheating? My brother Su Bei is just that strong, okay?"

“Some people still question the value of the destiny system”

"I want to laugh when I think about how they are going to be eliminated for reporting failures"

"No, it's not possible."

"I was just about to say that this person is a bit stupid, but it turns out that he is very far-sighted."

"It saves time to not say what needs to be said."

"Promote as smoothly as possible, and resign to save time. It's a good idea! But it's a bit unethical."

This matter was resolved, and the plot moved on to the competition between everyone and Elvis. Except for Jiang Tianming, all five people lost, which surprised all readers.

Although they knew that Elvis was strong before, he has become so strong now. This makes people curious about his experience, and at the same time, they also sincerely realize that the progress of the protagonists is a bit slow. They are all left as supporting roles. Isn't that a bit slow?

During this period, only Jiang Tianming made some progress, while no one else made any progress. However, since the author has already pointed out this problem, the progress of others should be put on the agenda soon.

The battles of Mu Yunfan and others were depicted relatively completely, with each person occupying more than one page. After they all finished fighting, the author deliberately gave some shots to the "Saint Dante School of Supernatural Powers".

The battle ended in such a crushing manner, and all of them looked gloomy. Even the teacher who led the team had a dark face. He first scolded his students, and then the last scene was fixed on his gloomy eyes looking at Mu Yunfan and others from afar.

Now, Su Bei didn't need to say anything. All readers, even those who had little experience in reading comics, could judge from this scene that they were going to become villains.

After reading the comics, I read the forums. Besides discussing Elvis, the forums were also discussing the last scene of "St. Dante's School of Supernatural Powers". They were sure that this school was going to cause trouble, but they didn't know how it would attack the protagonists.

The post about the first question was not interesting, and the second one did not make Su Bei click in to take a look. The cause and effect of the conspiracy of "Saint Dante School of Supernatural Powers" were very clear, and it was impossible to know what they were going to do from the plot given by the author, so Su Bei had no interest in the content of the post.

"Su Bei, you went back to the hotel early and missed several exciting battles!" Qi Huang shook his head and said regretfully while eating in the hotel restaurant, "The seniors are really amazing!"

"There is a replay." Su Bei took out his phone and shook it. On the screen was the latest video uploaded to the official website of the Sesbia Supernatural World Tournament. The battle video of Mu Yunfan and others was edited overnight and placed at the top of the website as a "front page".

Although Su Bei doesn't like to fight in person, he is still very interested in watching the games. To be honest, if Su Bei didn't know that this is a comic book world, he would not have worked so hard to learn fighting skills.

God knows he had imagined himself saving a beautiful girl in a dark alley before.

Now he has no such worldly desires at all. He just hopes that the comic plot will end as soon as possible and move on to world peace or world destruction.

After showing the video on his phone, Su Bei put away his phone and looked at the five people with interest: "How do you feel after playing with Elvis?"

He originally thought that many people would be disappointed, but surprisingly, no one did. Except for Wu Mingbai and Si Zhaohua, everyone else was very calm, even Qi Huang.

Seeing Su Bei's eyes fixed on him, Qi Huang, who knew his personality on the outside, snorted, "We'll fight again next time. This time my ability was restrained, but next time I will definitely not fail so easily."

Qi Huang has let go of her defeat in the fight with Elvis. Although she is usually very competitive, she has nothing to be upset about when everyone else has failed.

And just like she said, she will definitely improve next time. Qi Huang's cheerful and generous personality means that even though she loves to win, she won't be depressed for too long because of a defeat.

Si Zhaohua pursed his lips and admitted frankly: "I feel like I have been a little slack during this period. Elvis has made so much progress in just six months, so why can't I do the same?"

This is why he felt lost. The rapid progress of his peers made him feel anxious.

Wu Mingbai thought similarly, but he was more intuitive than Si Zhaohua, after all, he had Jiang Tianming as a comparison. The opponent also defeated Elvis this time, no matter what method he used, it was enough to reflect his progress.

Lan Subing was not worried at first, but after hearing what he said, she became worried: "If you say so, we really... Sigh, we just went to Weixi Island not long ago."

"That time, something went wrong midway through our trip, and we didn't have time to experience many projects." Jiang Tianming reminded calmly.

They didn’t have the God’s perspective like Su Bei, and had no idea what would happen next. Therefore, they experienced the project at will, and didn’t have time to do anything useful.

After saying that, he looked at Su Bei and said, "By the way, Su Bei, Elvis asked me to ask you when you will play against him. Are you afraid?"

"When will he stop using this crude method of provoking others?" Su Bei shook his head in disgust and did not intend to respond to the other party's invitation to compete.

Lan Subing burst out laughing. If Elvis could hear her comment, she felt that she could be defeated by him ten more times: "Please be considerate of your arrogance."

Even in that brief time of less than a month together, they all knew that Elvis was arrogant. Coughing and love could not be hidden, and neither could arrogance.

After the laughter, Su Bei suddenly remembered something: "How many days are left before the individual competition?"

Because he knew that the second stage of the game was the real meat of the game, he didn't pay much attention to the previous games.

"One more day." Si Zhaohua, who had been following the news, immediately replied, "Speaking of which, Huangfu Mingzhe and his team haven't been eliminated yet. We should be able to run into them tomorrow."

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Sorry sorry, I was on the subway and couldn't access the internet, so I forgot to update it orz