Chapter 53

But no matter what, this huge nightmare snake successfully frightened the people on the riverside. Even those who didn't want them to join in occupying the territory didn't dare to say anything.

After all, I have the power to kill nightmare beasts, so facing them is probably just like killing monsters. What is the difference between looking for trouble and looking for death now?

As the snake meat sizzled on the fire, the aroma gradually wafted into the air.

There were no other animals in this forest except nightmare beasts. The people who couldn't defeat the nightmare beasts by the river had been running for a whole day and were now tired and hungry. When they smelled the aroma of meat, they couldn't help swallowing their saliva and felt their stomachs growling.

The green-haired man came up shamelessly and said, "Give me some. I can teach you some information."

He knew that if he asked directly, he would most likely not get what he wanted, and he might even be laughed at when he got back, so he revealed his cards right from the start.

"Information about what?" Jiang Tianming was a little interested. This snake meat was too much for them, and it was inconvenient to carry it all the time. If they could exchange it for some information, they would be happy to do so.

But the prerequisite is that the other party really has useful intelligence.

The green-haired man was quite confident when he said this: "We found a task stone tablet that gives 1,000 points! I just want to ask you if you are interested."

1000 points

Jiang Tianming was obviously stunned. You know, they only gave 500 points for killing five beasts. How could a task give 1,000 points?

"Okay, I agree. Tell me what the task is and have you completed it?"

While he was talking, Su Bei glanced at the points ranking. As expected, the top three teams all had thousands of points, and it seemed that they had all accepted this mission. However, their team and Si Zhaohua's team were far behind.

The green-haired man nodded proudly: "Of course, and it's a very simple task, just hand in the watch."

After hearing what he said, Jiang Tianming and the other three suddenly realized that none of the people by the river had watches on their wrists. Of course, they didn't notice it before, not because they were careless, but mainly to prevent the glass cover on the dial from being accidentally damaged. Usually, they put the watch in their sleeves. If you don't look carefully, you can't see it at all.

"Who is right? How can you get 1000 points for such a task?" The wooden iron man frowned, feeling that something was wrong.

The green-haired man said as a matter of course: "Isn't it obvious? With the watch, we can not only confirm the location of our companions, but also complete tasks and steal other people's points. Without the watch, we can't do these. After we lose the opportunity to earn more points, of course we should be compensated!"

It sounds like what he said does make sense. However, Jiang Tianming was quick to spot a loophole: "Why not wait until the last minute to complete this task? This way you can get the previous points and also earn this task."

Hearing this, the green-haired man rolled his eyes slightly with a guilty conscience before answering, "Well, isn't it because the earlier you hand in this task, the more points you get? The first person to hand in the watch gets 1,000 points, the second one only gets 950 points, and the points for the following people will be reduced by 50 points."

This was one of the reasons why he was willing to tell Su Bei and the others about this news. It had been so long since he accepted the mission, and he probably didn't have many points left after completing this mission, at least not as much as their team earned. Otherwise, he would be stupid to tell others about the news that he could earn a lot of points.

So that's the case, then it makes sense. Jiang Tianming suddenly realized: "So you guys are planning to join the group and hold out until the end of the three days?"

"That's right!" The green-haired man chuckled twice, "This is one of the reasons why I am willing to tell you the news. I can take you to complete this task, and after you complete it, you can stay here with us, and we can wait here safely for the end of the monthly exam."

"I think you are looking for a free bodyguard," Jiang Tianming said speechlessly with dead fish eyes.

The green-haired man did not deny it and asked expectantly, "So are you guys getting it?"

He knew this couple. Although most of them were from Class F, they were both ranked in the top ten in their personal stations. With them here to protect him, he didn't have to worry about being eliminated on the last day.

Of course, it doesn’t matter if they are eliminated, because their watches are not on them and their points cannot be taken away. If they are eliminated, at most they will lose a point, which will not affect their ranking too much.

Jiang Tianming hesitated. Although it might be like what the green-haired man said, the points earned by completing this task now are not many. But having their watch taken away does not mean that they cannot earn points. They can still earn points by destroying nightmare beasts or eliminating classmates. No matter how you look at it, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

I just don't know why, he inexplicably felt that this task was not so normal. After all, this task seemed to be to improve the scores of those students with poor grades, but is it necessary to do this for the monthly exam?

“No.”

Just as he was hesitating, Su Bei suddenly spoke up. He curled his lips and looked very interested: "But we want to go and see the stone tablet."

As he was talking, he threw the grilled fish that Mo Xiaotian had just handed to him. He used his mental power to control it, but the green-haired man didn't know and caught it in a panic: "Hey, hey, hey! Why did you throw it directly to me? What if it falls?"

Su Bei ignored him and continued, "This is my reward for leading you alone. It should be separated from what Jiang Tianming promised just now."

"Sure!" The green-haired man agreed readily. He had originally planned to take these people with him. Although they decided not to accept the reward, it was enough for them to earn an extra piece of snake meat.

At this time, Jiang Tianming walked back to Su Bei's side and said to the green-haired man, "We have something to discuss. You can fill your stomach first."

After the other party left, he looked at Su Bei with a serious expression: "Why didn't you take me to see what you found?"

After thinking about the wording, Su Bei replied thoughtfully: "They are all in deep misfortune."

This was not a lie. Normally, Su Bei would not deliberately look at the compass of destiny on other people's heads. But when he heard that their mission was to take off their watches, Su Bei realized that something was wrong.

He had verified that the transmission was fine, and was still wondering how the mastermind could harm them if he really had a conspiracy. But when he heard about this mission, he immediately understood.

As expected, when I looked at the fate compasses of these people, the needles were all madly tilted to the right, and had already reached the rightmost position. It was absolutely correct to say that they were "deeply doomed."

Don't be fooled by his relaxed appearance, he is actually feeling extremely heavy inside. There is indeed a conspiracy behind this team competition, and I don't know if he can successfully get out of it.

Doom heard their conversation, and the Iron Man came over and asked, "Is it because there is a problem with the mission they accepted?"

Before he could give an answer, someone heard Wu Mingbai's voice: "We started on the road early in the morning, and we are finally back with the main force!"

Lan Subing, who looked a little bit wolfish, nodded fiercely beside him. Since there was no one around, she spoke in a low voice: "We found out early this morning that you guys had come together. What happened?"

Jiang Tianming nodded, handed each of them a piece of Mo Xiaotian brand snake meat, and then briefly recounted what had just happened.

After saying this, he looked at Su Bei again, waiting for an answer.

Su Bei shook his head: "I'm not sure either, so I want to go and take a look."

He couldn't just say he suspected a conspiracy, that would be too baseless. But now he was almost 100% sure that there was something wrong with this mission, and he was willing to risk his ten-year comics fandom!

Seeing him like this, Mo Xiaotian raised his hand: "Then let me give it a try. When I take on that mission, you can come and see if I am also entangled in bad luck. How is it? Ouch! What are you doing, squad leader?"

Before he finished speaking, Mo Xiaotian covered his head and looked at the wooden iron man with grievance.

The Iron Man withdrew his hand from his head and showed a rare expression of disapproval: "This is your punishment for not cherishing yourself."

The taunting skill finally came in handy. Fawu Mingliang sneered, "You know that accepting a mission might be dangerous, but you still want to try. You don't think you are so great, do you?"

As always, Mo Xiaotian ignored his ridicule and said honestly: "I just think this is the simplest testing method. I'm sorry to have worried you."

With him like this, even those who disagreed with his method just now couldn't get angry at all. Jiang Tianming sighed: "Think more about yourself next time."

After the discussion, several people followed the green-haired man to the location of the stone tablet he mentioned. The place was not far from here, and the green-haired man was very smart to make small marks along the way, otherwise he would not be able to find it himself.

At this time, there was no one around the stone tablet, and it stood alone in a small open space. Su Bei walked over and saw that it was exactly the same as the stone tablet they saw on the first day, except that the content on it was different.

“Mission 30: Recover the watch. Touch the display with the watch to recover it. After being eliminated or after three days, you can leave the alien space.

Reward: 650 points"

"I didn't lie to you, did I?" the green-haired man said with a smile, "Then I say you should just take this mission, it's 650 points! If you want to take it again in the future, you won't have so many points."

Looking at the words on the display tablet, Su Bei looked solemn. He turned to look at the green-haired man, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it.

Perhaps he saw that he had something to say, so the wooden iron man very considerately led the green-haired man away. After they left, Su Bei put on a relaxed expression again: "Do you remember what the dean said about the methods for us to leave the alien space?"

Everyone remembered the methods of leaving very clearly. Jiang Tianming repeated according to his memory: "Exit by breaking the glass cover, being fatally attacked, eliminating all students, killing all nightmare beasts, and the three days are over. These five methods can all leave the alien space."

He remembered everything very well, Su Bei nodded in satisfaction. He was afraid that someone might have amnesia and forget one or two things, and if he tried to explain it, it would be too embarrassing.

"So which of these five methods are related to our watches?"

On the surface, there are only the first two, but there are definitely more than that. Jiang Tianming thought for a moment and answered: "Breaking the watch and being fatally attacked... I probably need the watch to help me quit after three days."

The Dean of Studies did not say this explicitly. She said, “We will teleport you out in three days.” The “teleportation” was obviously based on a watch.

Because he was thinking about this question, he didn't have time to think about anything else. However, the people who heard his answer realized that something was wrong and their faces turned unhappy.

Looking at their expressions, Su Bei smiled and said, "Tell me what you thought of."

The wooden iron man said with a serious face: "The watch is the only item that can guarantee that we can exit the alien space."

They had not thought about this problem before, but after listening to Jiang Tianming's summary of several methods, they suddenly realized this. Compared with the uncontrollable "kill all nightmare beasts" and "eliminate all students", the remaining three methods that can be easily withdrawn are all related to watches!

From this we can see that there is definitely something wrong with the task of asking students to hand over their watches! It is equivalent to cutting off the students' way to easily leave the alien space.

And more importantly, without the watch, what if they encounter a fatal attack? Can they still leave the alien space smoothly?

If they can, that's fine, but if they can't, doesn't that mean that these people are in a very dangerous situation?

"What's going on? Is this a task specially set by the school to test our analytical ability?" Wu Mingbai asked with a frown, and half-jokingly said, "Maybe if we don't accept this task, we can get more points."

This is indeed what most people would think of after discovering this. After all, without a God's perspective, it would be impossible to imagine that there would be enemies in the alien space controlled by the school.

Su Bei did not comment on this speculation, but just touched the watch on his wrist: "Maybe. I plan to act alone next."

"Why?" Everyone was stunned by this sudden news. Mo Xiaotian asked directly, "Are you not taking me with you?"

Su Bei nodded: "This place is quite interesting, I want to go around by myself. Now the group has been gathered, you can go with everyone."

He was in a hurry to reunite with the protagonists before because he was afraid that he would be alone without the halo and encounter something unexpected.

But after seeing the task stele, his nervous mood relaxed. From the content on the stele, it can be seen that the mastermind behind the incident was to trick the students into taking off their watches.

In other words, they couldn't stop the watch's transmission function, so they wanted to cut off the source of the problem. Then as long as he kept wearing the watch, he wouldn't have to worry about being unable to leave here.

In this case, he would naturally take advantage of this time to go out and have some fun. Being with the protagonists does allow him to encounter many things and participate in many plots.

But it also loses its mystery.

Those who follow the protagonist all the way will undoubtedly be included in the protagonist group, and only those who are vaguely visible can have their own plot line. He did not intend to become a completely righteous party at the beginning. Joining the villain organization can give him more clues, which may be of great help to him in completing the ultimate mission.

Lan Subing whispered, "It's easy to get into danger alone."

"Don't worry, the worst that can happen is I'll just withdraw from the competition." Su Bei shook his watch and said with a smile.

After hesitating for a while, Jiang Tianming asked: "Do you know anything?"

This question is not easy to answer. Su Bei thought for a moment and conjured up a gear of destiny: "I owed you a chance to predict my destiny before, so I'll pay you back now."

Hearing this, Jiang Tianming's expression froze. He realized that since Su Bei chose to suddenly use this opportunity at this time, it could only mean that he thought it was time.

But if Wu Mingbai's guess was correct, then they now had a great advantage and there was no need to use a prediction opportunity.

So Wu must have guessed something wrong, and it must be a very bad mistake, otherwise there would be no need for Su Bei to predict their fate.

Thinking of this, he nodded. If there was something they hadn't guessed, he also hoped to get the answer from fate.

Su's controlled mental power moved the gears to the direction of the compass needle pointing above Jiang Tianming and the others' heads. With his advanced mental power, he was no longer limited to predicting three people at the same time, but could predict five people at the same time.

After being contaminated by the breath of fate, his face turned pale, but he still chose to let go and let this gear of fate be displayed.

Almost at the moment when he threw the gear, he felt a large amount of mental power being drained from his mind. The feeling of mental power loss was very uncomfortable. Su Bei endured the headache and looked up at the gear with the others.

Surprisingly, the hint given by fate this time was very simple.

It was an arrow, pointing clearly to the southeast.

"What does this mean?" Mo Xiaotian scratched his head, "Does it mean we should go in this direction?"

Others thought so too. After all, this was the simplest judgment. They all looked at Su Bei, expecting the owner of this instruction to give an answer.

Su Bei actually guessed something in his heart, after all, the hint this time was too obvious. But he needed to buy himself some time, so he said meaningfully: "When the time comes, the meaning will be clear."

Hearing this, Jiang Tianming couldn't help but think of the first time they got the prophecy. It was true that he couldn't guess it before, but when he saw the murderer's purple-red eyes, he immediately thought of the meaning of the prophecy.

Thinking of this, he was no longer in a hurry: "I understand. After reading this fate, do you still want to leave?"

Su Bei nodded, waved lazily to everyone, turned around and disappeared into the dense jungle.

After he left, Mo Xiaotian looked at the direction the arrow had pointed to: "Should we still go in this direction now?"

He didn't quite understand what Su Bei had just said, mainly because he didn't understand whether the other party was suggesting that they follow the instructions or not.

Jiang Tianming shook his head: "No. This hint may not be for us now. Even if we go now, it may be useless. When it's our turn to go, we should know it naturally."

On the other side, Su Bei had already made a big circle and started moving in the direction indicated by the arrow just now.

If he guessed correctly, this direction should be the location of the mastermind. The protagonists will always have to solve this danger later, so fate will prompt them in this direction.

Undoubtedly, this direction is very dangerous. But Su Bei must go there to take a look. This is his best chance to get close to the villain organization. If he does it well, he may be able to open up another hidden line in one fell swoop.

The other party would not have thought that someone would discover them the next morning, so the precautions must not have been adequate. He had to go over and confirm the identities of these people first, and then consider what to do next.

It doesn't matter if he is discovered, at worst he can just exit the alien space. In this way, although there will be no camera shots afterwards, at least his life will not be in danger.

And most importantly, it doesn't matter if he withdraws early, after all, readers don't know why he withdrew, and there will definitely be many speculations. When he uses the forum account to echo his own explanation, he may get unexpected gains.

Just as he was thinking this, his limited spiritual power suddenly sensed something approaching rapidly. Su Bei frowned, turned around and saw a bunch of black wasps emerging from the woods.

Wasps are not easy to deal with. Ordinary wasps are hard to deal with, let alone nightmare wasps.

“Buzz buzz buzz—”

The buzzing sound made by a group of hornets was very loud. Su Bei felt a splitting headache and was dizzy.

etc.

He quickly realized that something was wrong with his condition. Even though he had just consumed a lot of mental energy, he shouldn't have become like this just because of an unpleasant sound.

It seems that this is the ability of this group of nightmare bees. It is really a bit troublesome. Su Bei ran forward while throwing out several gears with his backhand. The sharp gears have strong penetrating power under the drive of mental power. Each gear can cross the bee group several times and take away the lives of countless nightmare bees.

But there were too many nightmare bees, and they were not arranged densely. Su Bei's use of mental power was not yet as good as his own, and he could not easily pass through the bodies of each nightmare bee with a small number of gears.

Besides, he had just used up a lot of his mental energy and now he was seriously lacking in mental energy.

This can't go on!

Su Bei immediately turned around and ran towards the river. He was not as good at remembering the way as Jiang Tianming, but fortunately a big river was not something very hidden, so it was not difficult to find it.

Before I ran for long, a female voice suddenly came from the front: "Get out of the way!"

The moment he heard this, Su Bei dodged with a side flip. The next second, a flame rushed towards his original direction and burned the group of nightmare bees to ashes.

The person who came was Qi Huang.

After killing all the nightmare bees, Qi Huang crossed his arms and looked at Su Bei calmly: "Hey! Isn't this our classmate Su Bei? How come he looks so bad after not seeing him for just one day?"

Su Bei didn't care about her teasing and patted the leaves on his body: "Thank you, where are your teammates? Why are you alone?"

Seeing him like this, Qi Huang curled his lips in boredom: "They are not far away, I heard the noise and came to see. But you, where are your teammates?"

Su Bei did not answer the question, but looked at her thoughtfully, and suddenly looked down at his watch. After a moment, he showed an understanding expression: "Someone in your team has taken up that mission."

What "that mission" refers to, everyone who knows can think of it at the first time. Qi Huang didn't expect Su Bei to know this mission, and he didn't bother to lie, and nodded: "Yes, a few people who think that they can't kill the nightmare beast and can't eliminate people took it."

Su Bei raised his eyebrows, thought about it, and for the sake of the other party's help, he reminded: "If you don't want them to get into trouble, you'd better not separate from them."

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