Chapter 295
If Su Bei's guess is true, then the others are in danger. The author of "The King of Supernatural Powers" is not the kind of person who would consider that this is a shonen manga and not allow death to appear in the manga. In fact, since the first part, a lot of time has been triggered by a death. Death is often inevitable in the process of events.
But this time the consequences will be more serious. Killing a classmate may leave a psychological shadow. But Su Bei doesn't think the author will be soft-hearted. Those who deserve to die will definitely die.
However, there shouldn't be any problems in the early stages. Just as he analyzed before, they don't need to kill too many people in the early stages. What they need to do is to complete the mission and destroy the nightmare beast. Next, it depends on when the protagonists can discover the truth. The sooner they discover it, the fewer people will die.
However, Su Bei was very curious about how they could discover the truth. He relied on advanced mental power to perceive it, but Jiang Tianming and others did not have advanced mental power, and there was no superpower like Li Shu in the team. It was extremely difficult to see through the illusion of the illusion master.
After leaving the dark corner, Su Bei planned to return to the haunted house. Originally, he wanted to be so idle that others would be too lazy to kill him. Although the chances of winning were average, he didn't necessarily want to "raise pigs" when facing a strong school. After all, their goal was to sweep the world.
But the good thing is that he can play without restraint. It doesn't matter if he is eliminated. There are dangers inside and outside the game anyway. He can find a reason to excuse himself no matter what.
Previously, Su Bei was worried that being eliminated too early would lead to OOC, but he had already provided enough information at the beginning, plus the threats of internal and external troubles, even if he left early, it probably wouldn't cause any waves among the readers.
But now Su Bei couldn't help but care about being eliminated. If the price of elimination was death, then he could only stay here and either become the only winner or find a way to forcibly break through the illusion.
Since the protagonists are also in the illusion, they can only take the second route. However, how to break Jiram's illusion is also a difficult problem. Anyway, Su Bei's advanced mental power can't do this.
And if the Nightmare Beast is not stupid, it should have prepared some countermeasures. Although it will definitely not succeed, it can still cause a lot of trouble for the protagonists.
Su Bei naturally couldn't run around at this time. It was not easy to escape in the illusion, not to mention that he knew clearly that he was a thorn in the eyes of the nightmare beasts, and they must have wanted to kill him for a long time.
I didn't have the chance outside before, but now that I'm in the illusion, he is the knife and I am the fish, the nightmare beast will definitely not show mercy.
Compared to other open-air places, the haunted house is relatively safer. And as the birthplace of the protagonists, they should have almost cleared out the nightmare beasts inside, so they can move in with their luggage.
The pure black environment made Su Bei feel safe, and he planned to stay here until the end of the competition. This is the good thing about being a character that is not in the author's plan, you can decide whether to participate in the plot or not.
Although he would not be safe even if he did not participate in the plot, would he be safe if he participated in the plot? There are many protagonists who died in the boys' comics. And they are the characters in the plot planned by the author. It is much more difficult for them to escape the control of the author than for themselves.
Sitting on the huge skull, Su Bei began to think. What he said was a mess only in terms of the plot, and it didn't mean that he really didn't have to do anything during this period.
The haunted house was actually just a relatively safe place, relying only on darkness and information gaps. It was not as safe as the "Holy Spirit Banyan Tree" where he hid last time.
Whether it was the Nightmare or the contestant, they could come here and unexpectedly discover him. For this unsafe hiding place, the best way to deal with it was to find a way out in advance.
And in this illusion, the only way out is to leave the illusion.
Because he was not an illusionist, even if he had advanced mental power, Su Bei might not be able to break the illusion of the illusion master. But at least he found something to do so that he would not waste his time here doing nothing.
Regarding the illusion, the academy sent someone to explain it to them. Of course, this knowledge point is not something that freshmen should learn, but who made them S-class students and experienced several illusion journeys?
There are three ways to solve the illusion. The first is to complete the illusion mission normally. Note that there may not be only one illusion mission. Some are invisible. It all depends on whether the people inside can find them. The second is to break the illusion forcibly. The third is to find the eye of the formation.
The second one was something none of them could do. Since Gillam was invited by the Sesbia government to participate in the production of the second round of the competition, he must be a very powerful and talented illusion master. With their highest age being only 18 or 19, even if they all had illusion abilities and high mental strength, it was almost impossible for them to forcibly break through the illusion.
Of the first and third possibilities, the third one can be implemented in northern Jiangsu at present.
The only known task was to eliminate everyone. If one wanted to find a hidden task that one didn't know if it existed, one would have to spend a lot of energy to complete the task in the amusement park and destroy the nightmare beast. He didn't need to do this openly, so the first method was ruled out.
The only way left is to find the eye of the array. Although it requires traveling all over the map, fortunately Su Bei has advanced mental power, so he doesn't need to explore every corner personally.
He had also looked for the eye of the array under the arrangement of the school before. In the absence of any obstruction, the eye of the array looked like a small vortex in the perception of mental power.
The larger the illusion, the bigger the array eye. This is also a limitation for illusionists. Only those who can freely hide array eyes of various sizes through the environment can become illusion masters.
Su Bei was not sure how big the amusement park was. He had to see the entire amusement park to confirm how big the array eye was and thus find a suitable location for placing it.
Thanks to him for learning some extracurricular knowledge after class because he knew that he would definitely experience falling into an illusion again. Now he can clearly know how big the illusion is and how big the array will be.
Sighing, Su Bei stood up and walked out. It was highly unlikely that Jiram would place a map in this amusement park, and even if there was one, it could only be obtained by completing a mission. So he could only leave the safe house he had just found and go to the highest point of the amusement park to look for the target.
In a relatively empty area, the highest point is easy to see. Su Bei saw a Ferris wheel popping up from a distance. Ferris wheels are always the tallest structures in amusement parks, so he must have found it right.
It's just that the Ferris wheel is a bit far away, and I don't know how many people I will meet along the way. Su Bei couldn't help but sigh, and he began to miss his invisibility talisman.
Even if they had the best luck and walked along the shadows, they were still seen halfway through. There were three people on the other side, belonging to the same famous academy. If I remember correctly, this academy is also ranked in the top ten. If the three seniors joined forces, Su Bei would definitely not be able to defeat them.
Seeing the three people staring at him, it was clear that they were not going to let him go easily. Su Bei felt helpless and greeted them casually: "Hello, seniors."
Three people came over with interest. Among them, the girl with a pair of distinctive water sleeves asked with interest: "You are from the 'Endless Power Academy', right? Why are you walking alone?"
She suspected that Su Bei was carrying all the points of their team, so she asked this question. Although a group of freshmen probably couldn't get many points, but a little bit is still better than nothing.
Su Bei had done well in his ability to see through people's hearts. Seeing that the other party didn't show any curiosity when he asked, he immediately said, "You want to see how many points I have, right?"
Without waiting for the other party to respond, he showed the watch without hesitation. On the simple interface, the large 0 points was very eye-catching.
Just when he decided to go out to look for the eye of the formation, he deliberately gave all the points to Jiang Tianming and others, asking them not to give the points to him before his next speech.
If the protagonists were found to have a lot of points, it wouldn't necessarily be a disaster, but it would definitely be a disaster for him.
"Not at all," the girl with water sleeves asked in disbelief. She thought the other party would at least have some on hand.
Su Bei, who had already prepared for the rainy day, answered as a matter of course: "Let's not talk about the quarrel between me and them. Even if we didn't quarrel, they would not give the points to me. Otherwise, if I go alone, wouldn't it be like a child making trouble in the market with gold or holding a loud speaker and announcing that I have points all the time."
That was true. The girl with water sleeves was speechless for a moment. Didn't she subconsciously think that he had points when she saw him walking alone? Now she thought that Su Bei might be used for fishing, and the target was people like her.
Just as she was about to wave goodbye to Su Bei, one of her male teammates with teardrop moles under his eyes suddenly asked curiously, "What's the conflict between you two?"
Su Bei repeated his previous reasons succinctly, but the man with the tear mole responded differently from the others who had heard his words before: "You don't have a team now anyway, why don't you just follow us?"
Another girl wearing sunglasses snapped her fingers excitedly: "I remember you seem to have destiny-related abilities! Great, we can have a chance to exchange ideas!"
"You also have destiny-related superpowers." Upon hearing this, Su Bei, who was originally thinking about how to escape, suddenly became interested.
The girl in sunglasses nodded confidently: "That's about right. My special ability is [Don't Believe in Fate]."
Su Bei: "..."
He had to find a way to escape.
You have to run away, but Su Bei is still very interested in this ability. In addition, the left direction of the trio is exactly where he wants to go, so he didn't rush to find a way to leave, but asked curiously: "So what skills does this [person who doesn't believe in fate] have?"
In a sense, Su Bei is a person who does not believe in fate. He is now defying fate and changing the cannon fodder fate that the author has arranged for him.
The "comic consciousness" had reminded Su Bei before that, except for him, the characters in the comics could not realize that this was a comic world. So Su Bei did not expect the sunglasses girl's ability to break through the limitations. He was just simply curious about the "person who does not believe in fate."
"It's very simple. When I don't believe in something, the thing I don't believe in will not succeed." The woman in sunglasses answered without hesitation, but the answer was a little unexpected.
Su Bei's eyes widened in surprise: "If combined with the hypnotic ability, wouldn't it be invincible?"
This ability sounds powerful when viewed alone, but it is not that powerful in reality. How can the brain easily change what the eyes see and what the body touches to cut a wound on the hand? Even if I tell myself countless times that this wound is fake, I may not believe it.
Although the other party must have been specially trained and should have a strong ability to change his self-cognition, it still goes against human nature.
But it would be completely different if hypnosis skills were used. Hypnosis could make the girl in sunglasses stop believing something she wants to believe as quickly as possible, thus making it a fact.
Hearing this, the woman in sunglasses was also surprised. She didn't expect him to come up with such a good idea immediately. But it was a pity that she had possessed the superpower for so long that she had already thought of it and tried it: "My mind will not be controlled during the use of the superpower, so I often use this superpower as a mental barrier."
Yes, if it could really be combined with hypnosis, the woman in sunglasses would have been invincible long ago.
She sighed, and said with some regret and some relief: "Although I can't be invincible with this, at least I won't be coveted by some inexplicable people. I would rather my supernatural power is not that strong than be controlled by others."
If this ability can really be controlled by hypnotic ability, then she is like a sharp knife that can be used by any hypnotic ability user. Compared to the uncontrolled strength, the sunglasses girl still prefers it like this.
The group chatted as they walked forward. Because they were in a team, Su Bei was not stopped by anyone along the way. They just stopped and started to kill nightmare beasts along the way, and they didn't know when they would reach the Ferris wheel.
Seeing that the direction was a little off, Su Bei finally decided to give up the convenience of forming a team: "I'm leaving. I can't play the amusement facilities with you guys."
The girl with water sleeves hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "Then we'll watch you get on the jumping platform before we leave."
At first, he agreed to let his teammates take Su Bei along because he thought Su Bei might have some secret mission assigned by the "Infinite Power Academy".
After all, the "Infinite Ability Academy" is an old and strong school. Although it suffered a "disaster" in this competition, a skinny camel is still bigger than a horse. Who knows if they have any hidden cards? Under such doubts, Su Bei's single move seems very suspicious.
But from what we have seen along the way, Su Bei really had no intention of completing the mission or destroying the Nightmare Beast. He was just messing around the whole time, which was exactly the same as the reason he gave before.
Judging from the current situation, he couldn't see any results if he continued to watch. A team of three was too many, and one person wouldn't make them feel comfortable. So the girl with water sleeves finally decided to let Su Bei leave.
Normally, they didn't kill anyone in the early stage in order to allow everyone to kill the nightmare beasts faster and accumulate more points, which would be convenient for them to harvest later. People like Su Bei who don't do anything productive can be sent away directly. But seeing that he just got along well with everyone and didn't do anything weird, the girl with water sleeves was willing to let this junior who was two years younger than her go.
He was not surprised that they let him go so easily. He had not spent all his time with them in vain. He had understood the temperaments of the three of them, so he asked to leave directly.
If these three people were not bad-tempered and brought him along deliberately as cannon fodder for their experiments or to relieve boredom, then Su Bei would have found another way to leave. But then it might not be so peaceful.
Because he had already walked most of the distance with the trio, Su Bei did not encounter any obstacles in the remaining short distance and arrived under the Ferris wheel easily.
Many of these big projects have mission points, and the Ferris wheel, as the only one in the entire amusement park, is no exception. Because there has been news that there are mission points here, there are quite a few people gathered below.
Su Bei was not in a hurry to go over, as he was not here to complete any tasks. There were usually only about ten tasks, so he would have enough time to go over after all the tasks were completed.
However, where there are many people, there are rivers and lakes. After a while, a fight broke out there. Several teams started a big fight together, and the chaos made Su Bei sigh. You know, death in the illusion is likely to be real death. They are attacking so hard now. When everything is over, if they are still alive, they will be stabbed to pieces by the boomerangs at this time.
In fact, Su Bei had thought about reminding everyone that since he, who possessed advanced mental powers, could see that there was something wrong with the illusion, then those with illusion-related powers could probably also see it.
But no one would believe him even if he said it. It was just a freshman's words, how could they have any credibility? Some people might even think that he said it so that his team could survive a little longer. After all, if they didn't kill anyone, wouldn't they have more time to accumulate points?
Besides, even if someone believed it, they might not be an illusionist who could verify the truth. Such people were not the mainstream team participating in the competition, and there were probably not many of them among the more than 200 people.
It's just causing more trouble.
Besides, his character setting doesn't allow him to do this. Su Bei can't even remind the protagonists. If some people don't die, how can the importance of the protagonist's actions be reflected? Even if he ignores his character setting and reminds them directly, it is estimated that it will not be passed on.
Even if the news could be spread, Su Bei is not so selfless.
Using my supernatural powers to take a look from a distance, I saw that the large pointers on the heads of many of the people in the melee had already reached the lower half of the compass, and it wouldn't be long before they died.
After about an hour, the battle was finally over. The people who were originally here were killed, injured, or fled. Su Bei wanted to take the opportunity to go to the Ferris wheel, but suddenly noticed someone walking here. Not sure if they had discovered him, he chose to continue hiding.
Fortunately, they didn't find Su Bei, they just happened to come here. One of the girls with blood on her face said, "I don't know if it's my illusion, but I always feel that the touch of killing is too real."
Even though they have already graduated from high school, they are probably not as good as Jiang Tianming and his friends in terms of the number of people they have killed. Normally, the most killed by superpowers are nightmare beasts. Occasionally, when they clash with superpowers in the alien space, they may accidentally kill someone, or when the "Black Flash" organization is causing trouble, they may kill one or two people. They have never experienced such a big fight among humans.
"I think you've never killed anyone before, so you're too nervous." The boy next to him didn't take it seriously, "Besides, this is an illusion created by Master Gillam, isn't it normal to be more realistic?"
It was reasonable to say that what he said was correct, but the girl always felt that something was wrong. She murmured to herself: "...Forget it, I'd better concentrate on destroying the nightmare beast."
After they left, Su Bei walked out from the shadows. It seemed that he was not the only one who noticed the problem. Many of the two hundred people should have noticed it. However, they did not have a God's perspective, so they naturally would not consider such an outrageous possibility. The main reason was that everyone had been killed, so who would dare to think about such a terrible truth?
However, this reminded him of one thing, that is, Su Bei had previously thought that even if he announced the truth, no one would believe it. Now it seems that this is not necessarily the case. If many people have already planted the seeds of doubt in their hearts, then his words can definitely make these seeds take root and sprout.
He just needs to find the right opportunity. As a qualified intelligence dealer, now that his identity as a member of the "Destiny" organization has been revealed in disguise, he can take the opportunity to make a profit for himself, and of course reduce the losses of the psychics at the same time.
But you have to eat one bite at a time and do things one step at a time. Compared with making profits, your life is more important. Su Bei did not rush to think about the opportunity to disclose the information. After agreeing with Mr. Xiao Chou, he walked into the Ferris wheel. The door of the car closed, and the surrounding scene began to slowly rise.
Although it was not night and there was no brightly lit night scene, the colorful daytime also had its own unique flavor. Su Bei briefly admired the scenery for a while, and when the carriage rose to a height where he could overlook the entire amusement park, he put away his thoughts of entertainment and observed it carefully.
He was not allowed to use his cell phone or props during the exam, so he had to draw a rough map of the playground in his mind as quickly as possible so that he could explore it on his own more quickly later.
Most importantly, Su Bei didn't plan to stay on the Ferris wheel for long. He would leave after riding it twice at most. This kind of entertainment facility with some special meaning and uniqueness is a plot point no matter how you think about it. Even if it is not a plot point, other players will inevitably come here.
Su Bei didn't want to be seen in a place where a group fight could happen. He would not be able to leave even if he wanted to, and he would easily be the first to be killed if a fight broke out.
Let him take this opportunity to take a good look at how big the playground is and where is the best place to place the array.