Chapter 329

Not to mention him, even Su Bei was very skeptical. Si Zhaohua's strength is indeed not to be underestimated, but this is the world of nightmare beasts. If someone can take the initiative to come here to train and even be selected for the official patrol team, shouldn't he be a very strong psychic?

Being defeated so easily gives people the feeling that the good guys are doomed.

"You misunderstood." Not wanting outsiders to misunderstand the Sanxue base, the team members who were watching hurriedly explained, "Our team is only responsible for patrolling the camp during the day. This is the safest of all patrol teams, and naturally the most... ahem, weakest team in the team. You can understand that we are the relatives he mentioned who came to plate gold."

Everyone: “…”

So that's how it is. It's like the thief crying 'stop thief'. Because I'm a relative, I'm upset to see the new relative, and I want to exercise the little rights I have.

But he didn't expect that the new relative, although indeed a relative, was not a soft persimmon like him. Instead, he was a rose with thorns, which would prick his hand and make it bleed if he touched it.

After being exposed, the red-haired captain was furious and yelled: "How could you attack your teammates? I will report this to my superiors and have them send you back to the academy!"

"You don't think those people are dead, do you? You provoked us first, so we are not at fault anyway." Zhao Xiaoyu was speechless and choked up, "Even if we can't testify, these bystanders can testify."

"They can testify to what they saw," the red-haired captain said arrogantly, "They only came to join in the fun after we started fighting. And you were the troublemakers who followed the captain's orders and started a fight with him."

Under the oppression of their identities, if they fight for unknown reasons, it will ultimately be judged to be the fault of the team members. After all, the captain does have some rights to discipline his team members.

Judging from the red-haired captain's expression, it was obvious that he was very sure that the other team members who had seen the whole process would not expose him.

If there is no evidence, they may really suffer a loss.

But unfortunately they had evidence. Under Si Zhaohua's trusting gaze, Su Bei took out a recorder and said with a smile: "What if I have evidence to prove that you were the one who started the trouble?"

The next second, the red-haired captain's voice came from the recorder: "I know you are here to plate gold..."

This recording proves without a doubt that it was the captain who started the incident first and did it intentionally.

How could someone record at this time?

The red-haired captain could no longer be arrogant. He did not want to lose this job at all, so he was very flexible and immediately begged for mercy: "I'm sorry, I was just too greedy. If you are willing to let me go, I can give you..."

I have to say, this ability to change one's face is quite powerful. There is a sense of power that does not care about self-esteem at all. If it were a soft-hearted person, or a greedy person, maybe he would agree.

But unfortunately, he was facing Mr. Si, who was not short of money at all. Before he could finish his words, Si Zhaohua interrupted him without hesitation: "No need."

He turned around and left with Su Bei and the others. The other team members gave their captain a helpless look and ignored him. After all, although they had some conflicts of interest, it was just a little bit, and there was no need to take risks for him.

Si Zhaohua went all the way to the office on the 7th floor, quickly found Jiang Yan, and handed the recording to him.

After listening to the recording, Jiang Yan said solemnly: "Don't worry, the base will definitely handle this matter."

"Then what about our mission today?" Zhao Xiaoyu was naturally most concerned about this issue.

The existence of the red-haired captain was a mistake of the base, so Jiang Yan relaxed the task directly: "You can continue patrolling with the team in the afternoon, and I will give you a new captain."

Su Bei and Zhao Xiaoyu were very satisfied that they could use the morning's rest time for free. Wu Jin also seemed to be in a good mood. After saying goodbye to Jiang Yan, he curiously asked Su Bei: "Did you keep the recording on all the time or did you predict something in advance?"

Every time, Su Bei seemed to be able to get a useful and accurate recording. It would be fine if it was the recording after he disappeared, but this time he was clearly with the team the whole time, and he was able to start the recording in advance.

"It's a prediction." Su Bei answered without hiding anything. "After all, he is a new acquaintance. When you don't know his temperament, isn't it normal to be more cautious?"

It's normal to be more cautious, but it's not normal to be so cautious that you have to record all the time. Wu Jin showed an expression that was hard to describe: "Just be happy."

I was busy in the morning and patrolled the safe spots in the afternoon. Su Bei just felt that it was great not to be with the protagonists. It was rare to be able to live so comfortably during the incident.

However, he also knew that this was mainly because the incident lasted for a long time, a full month. With such a long time, there was no need to rush to do anything on the first or second day.

In the evening, everyone gathered together and talked about their experiences on the day's mission. Su Bei and his team didn't have much to say, except for the story of the red-haired captain, it was really unremarkable.

As for the others, Jiang Tianming and Wu Mingbai's group encountered a nightmare beast, a rat nightmare beast. They had encountered quite a few rat nightmare beasts and were very familiar with their functions. This kind of nightmare beast generally has only two uses: digging tunnels and spreading viruses.

Of course, the premise is that they appear in groups. If only one or two appear, there is no problem. After all, although rat nightmares do not reproduce like ordinary rats, their number is indeed the largest. In addition, they are small in size, so it is normal for them to appear in a crowd.

Lan Subing's group encountered students sent by the "Houde Supernatural Academy" for research, and a conflict arose with them over the allocation of tasks.

"I don't know what they were thinking." Ai Baozhu complained speechlessly, "Instead of looking for trouble with the academy that decided all this, they came to look for trouble with us. They really know how to bully the weak and fear the strong."

Patting her on the shoulder, Lan Subing calmly comforted her: "After all, in their eyes, we are the beneficiaries. Although we are not very smart, it is understandable."

Although honey to one person may be poison to another, they don't need special care at all. But who made them fail to communicate in advance? In the eyes of others, they took advantage of others, and retaliation was expected.

Ai Baozhu was a little confused: "This is not something you would say"

Although she has a kind heart, Lan Subing is not someone who would morally blackmail herself.

Wu Mingbai next to him sneered: "Did you win?"

"Of course." Ai Baozhu lowered her chin slightly with pride. How could they fail?

Wu Mingbai threw his hands up and said, "That's the reason."

Jiang Tianming, who also knew Lan Subing, nodded: "If she lost, she wouldn't say that."

She was completely seen through. Lan Subing smiled shyly, not thinking that there was anything wrong with her idea. They had taken advantage of each other and won the fight. The other side could be said to have lost both the lady and the soldiers, so she was naturally willing to go easy on them.

But if they lose, there is no need to say anything about being lenient. She will immediately report to the teacher a series of behaviors such as bullying the weak and fearing the strong, not respecting the teacher's arrangements, bullying classmates in the Nightmare World, and ask the college to decide the winner.

Of course it was in written form. If I really had to say these words word by word to the stranger Teacher Jiang, she would have died on the spot.

If this were in the outside world, I would have probably laughed at this, but now I'm in the world of nightmare beasts which suppress happiness, so I can't laugh. But I feel a lot better nonetheless.

The next few days will be spent adapting to life. Their presence here is already a bit of a hassle, so Jiang Yan will naturally not assign them any particularly difficult tasks.

The plot has not progressed for a long time, but Su Bei is not in a hurry. With the author controlling the pace behind the scenes, a crisis is only a matter of time.

At the end of the first week, Su Bei and his team finally had their first independent mission. The thirteen people in their class, except Feng Lan, were divided into two groups, one with six people and the other with seven people, to complete the mission.

Both missions were to explore the map, but in different locations, one in the east and one in the west. To ensure their safety, Jiang Yan also gave each of them a teleportation ball, which could be crushed to return to the base and receive a healing spell at the same time.

According to Jiang Yan, the teleportation ball was given by Lei Ze'en, but the healing spell in the teleportation ball should come from Ye Lin's supernatural power.

Just by looking at the natural way she said the name, everyone guessed that Jiang Yan probably didn't know about Ye Lin's defection. But they didn't talk about it in a bad mood, but asked curiously: "Teacher, are you familiar with Teacher Lei and the others?"

The person asking the question was Lan Subing. After a week of getting along, she was already able to speak naturally in front of the other person.

"Didn't your teacher tell you?" Jiang Yan was a little surprised. Seeing them shaking their heads, she answered helplessly, "We are in the same class, and I am the monitor of our class."

Since he is the class monitor, he will indeed take care of them. After all, he must have been used to taking care of Teacher Meng and the other three, so it would be easy for him to take care of their students.

Su Bei thought it was quite funny that the position of squad leader really had to be someone with a motherly personality.

After chatting about gossip, it's time to talk about the mission again. Su Bei, Jiang Tianming, Wu Mingbai, Ling You, Zhao Xiaoyu, and Si Zhaohua are going to the coordinates to the east of the base, and continue exploring eastward with that coordinate as the center.

As for the rest of the people, they have the same mission, but the coordinates are in the west.

There are many such coordinates around the entire base. In the vast world of Nightmare Beasts, the people at the Three Schools Base rely on these coordinates to confirm their locations and draw maps.

After accepting the task, Su Bei and others immediately went to the person who said that they could spend points to help draw the map. Because they had not yet learned the knowledge in this area, no one in their class could draw maps professionally, so they had to rely on others for help.

After paying the points, the man immediately handed them a blank piece of parchment: "This is my special ability [World Map]. Just carry it with you and unfold it every hour, and it will automatically draw a map of the route you have passed."

It was a really profitable business. The seemingly useless superpowers could be very useful at certain times. It turned out that there were no useless superpowers, only useless superpower users. After everyone sighed in their hearts, they paid the points without hesitation and took the props away.

The so-called exploration of the Nightmare world is to find a valid natural coordinate, or to create one artificially. Then, survey or clear the nearby Nightmare groups.

Survey is a basic task, and paying it off will earn you extra points and bonuses. If you can't pay it off, the Three Learning Base will release the relevant tasks to other psychics after getting accurate information from here.

Because there were two members of the main character group here, Su Bei had a feeling that there was something wrong with this mission. The team was arranged with Jiang Tianming walking in the front, Si Zhaohua and Wu Mingbai on the left and right. Two girls with weak self-protection ability walked in the middle, and Su Bei followed at the end of the team, carefully releasing his mental power to explore the surroundings.

With his current mental power level, he was already able to prevent others from noticing his detection if he was prepared. Of course, the premise was that he would immediately retract his mental power when he sensed other mental powers. If he released it for a while longer, it would be noticed.

But this is enough. At least I don't have to worry about colliding with other people's mental power all the time, so as not to be startled.

Nothing went wrong the whole morning, and everyone was just exploring the map and clearing out nightmare beasts as normal.

Perhaps because they knew there was a human base nearby, even though they expanded outwards, no nightmare beasts gathered here to target them. After all, as long as they held on for a while, support would arrive.

This is also the reason why Jiang Yan dared to assign them this task.

"Or I should just activate my supernatural power directly." Si Zhaohua said with a frown as he looked at the gray-black wilderness without any trace of nightmare beast.

The hidden feature of this power [Angel] is that it is extremely attractive to Nightmare Beasts. Once it is actually used, a large number of Nightmare Beasts will immediately smell the scent and come looking for it, so they don't need to go through the trouble of searching everywhere.

"Young Master, are you serious?" Zhao Xiaoyu asked helplessly, tilting his head.

Choking at the title of "Young Master", Si Zhaohua touched his nose and said, "Don't call me that. Is there anything wrong with this method?"

Seeing that he hadn't noticed the problem, Zhao Xiaoyu said in a weird tone: "I vaguely remember that our mission is to explore the map, not to destroy it... No, it's to actively pick on the Nightmare Beast."

Of course, it's good to exceed the mission, but it's not so good to actively look for trouble. Zhao Xiaoyu hasn't enjoyed the peaceful mission enough, and doesn't want the mission to suddenly become difficult mode.

Su Bei expressed his full support for her idea: "That's right, don't look for trouble, okay? Trouble always comes to you, and you are trying to go in both directions, right?"

"Pfft!" Zhao Xiaoyu couldn't help laughing out loud, and Ling You next to him also had a smile in his eyes.

The other three people couldn't laugh, they all felt that they were implied.

When it was lunch time, Zhao Xiaoyu took out the picnic cloth, grill, nightmare meat, etc. that he had prepared in advance in the storage ring, and had a DIY barbecue in the Nightmare World.

The best cook in Class S is Mo Xiaotian, who has become the Saint of the "Black Flash" organization, and the second is surprisingly Si Zhaohua. The eldest master is really good at cooking, and the others don't have much comradeship, so they decisively give up the barbecue position to him.

Si Zhaohua, who was forced to become a temporary cook, tied his ponytail high first, then turned the cut meat on the grill while glaring at Su Bei who was adding green peppers that he had prepared at some unknown time onto his grill.

However, Su Bei did not repent, and without changing his expression, he took out another string of enoki mushrooms and put it on top.

This time Si Zhaohua was really angry and laughed: "Is there something wrong with you? Why are there these things in the storage ring? And you were the one who contributed the least just now, but you were not vague when eating."

Four questions in a row, each one getting stronger and stronger. Unfortunately, this strength did not affect Su Bei in the slightest. He patiently answered each question one by one: "I'm fine. It's always useful to prepare more things. I just made a lot of efforts, and using mental power to guard the surroundings is also part of my role. You can't ignore my efforts just because you can't see and there is no danger. Food is the first necessity of the people, and you can't be vague when eating. Can you do it? Why do you have so many questions?"

His arguments were well-organized and logical. Si Zhaohua would have applauded him if he hadn't been the one being criticized.

"Is he deliberately trying to irritate me?" Even the coldest Ling You noticed something was wrong. After all, under normal circumstances, Su Bei would not be rude to others when eating food cooked by others. He would not pick up the bowl to eat and then put it down to curse his mother.

Zhao Xiaoyu gave her a knowing look: "You forgot that when Zhaohua urged Su Bei to walk faster, he asked him if it was not possible."

There was a trace of confusion in Ling You's eyes. She certainly remembered this little episode, but she didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

Understanding her confusion, Zhao Xiaoyu gave her a long explanation, "A man can't say no."

Ling You continued to be at a loss, and turned to look at Jiang Tianming and Wu Mingbai. The two nodded seriously, indicating that Zhao Xiaoyu was right.

Ling You was confused and puzzled, and Ling You expressed his acceptance.

After reading the fortune compass once in the morning, Su Bei used his supernatural powers to read it again after lunch. He raised his eyebrows at the first glance and realized that something bad was going to happen in the afternoon.

At this time, the big pointer above everyone's head is pointing to the "exit" point.

To "go out" in a place like this where there are no houses at all, you either have to leave the nightmare world or find a new place.

I have to say that the point "going out" seems to be very practical in northern Jiangsu. It appears much more frequently than points like "getting injured", "eating", and "studying".

After finishing lunch on the spot, everyone continued to explore outside.

"Stop, something seems to be wrong." When they reached an open space, Jiang Tianming, who was walking in the front, suddenly raised his hand to stop everyone following behind him, frowning slightly, "We haven't encountered a nightmare beast for a while."

Although it is almost impossible for Nightmare Beasts to cause trouble to them because there are three school bases nearby, only high-level Nightmare Beasts and some mid-level Nightmare Beasts are aware of this. Most Nightmare Beasts are not aware of this and are just instinctively attracted by the human aura.

Therefore, they actually encountered quite a few nightmare beasts along the way, most of which were low-level nightmare beasts that could be easily dealt with. They were the most useless but most numerous creatures in the entire nightmare world.

However, even with so many low-level nightmare beasts, they didn't encounter even one in such a long time. This was obviously a problem.

After he said this, everyone finally realized that something was wrong. Just now, because they were bored, they were listening to Zhao Xiaoyu talking about the gossip she learned about her homeroom teacher's student days. Everyone listened with great interest and didn't notice anything unusual for a while.

Jiang Tianming was the one who multitasked, listening to gossip while observing his surroundings.

"Let's all look around to see if we can find anything wrong. Lingyou, you and Zhaohua, Xiaoyu, you and Subei." Jiang Tianming made a decision quickly. It would be too inefficient for them to look for the problem together, so they had to look separately.

Su Bei was using his mental power to detect. Just now, because he had heard gossip, he subconsciously ignored the abnormality. But now that he had perked up, he immediately discovered something was wrong - there seemed to be something underground.

His mental power could not detect anything underground, which was one of the reasons why Su Bei did not find the problem just now. But after coming to his senses, he finally realized what the problem was.

How come there is nothing underground?

There was no soil, gravel... there was only nothingness that could be easily swept away by mental power.

There is no doubt that there is something beneath this land that can block mental detection.

And this should be the place where they go after "going out" according to the fate shown above their heads.

At this time, Wu Mingbai also made a discovery: "Look here! Does it look like a man-made trace?"

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw obvious tire marks at the place he pointed out, as if someone had driven a car and stayed here for a long time.

"It could also be because the car is very heavy that it left such an obvious mark." Si Zhaohua had a different opinion, "The size of the wheel could also explain this."

Indeed, the wheels looked even bigger than those of off-road vehicles and trucks. Jiang Tianming could only think of the vehicles on construction sites that needed such large wheels.

But the problem is that this is the world of nightmare beasts! Why would something like this appear?

"Could it be a site for one of the three academic bases, but was later abandoned?" Zhao Xiaoyu guessed.

Su Bei was too lazy to listen to them beating around the bush, so he gave the answer directly: "There is something under this place."

As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at him. Jiang Tianming looked down at the ground under his feet, which was not damaged at all. He did not doubt what Su Bei said, and asked cautiously, "What is it?"

"I don't know." Su Bei shook his head honestly, "But it should be something that cannot be seen in public."

It's in the nightmare world, buried deep underground, and prevented from being detected by mental powers. Isn't it shameful to see the light?

Now everyone is interested. As I said before, how can the protagonists not stir up trouble? With the secret so blatantly in front of them, it would be strange if they didn't explore. As for reporting it to the base and letting them explore, it is reasonable and correct to do so, but it is not like the protagonists.

Obviously, none of the protagonists present had this intention. Even Zhao Xiaoyu only suggested: "Let's set up a delayed call for help. If we haven't come out after two hours, we will automatically send a message to Teacher Jiang for help."

With food in hand, they were not in a hurry. They had the ball made by Lei Zeen and could return to the base at any time. Under the premise of ensuring safety, Zhao Xiaoyu's desire for exploration was also aroused.

Su Bei naturally had no intention of objecting. This was the inevitable process of the author's plot. If he really persuaded everyone to report this matter to the base first, a bunch of nightmare beasts would appear in the next second, forcing them to quickly pry open the underground space and hide inside.