Chapter 67

"We can help you cut it." The man holding the Panlong stick patted his chest, "We are experts in this field and can save you a lot of space."

They really had no intention of competing with Jiang Tianming and the others for the money. On the one hand, although they found the snake first, it was Jiang Tianming and his team who defeated it. If it weren't for these students, they would probably have failed.

Secondly, not being able to beat these students is also a very important reason. When facing opponents that you cannot defeat at all, of course you have to meet their demands.

They had no reason to refuse, and since they didn't intend to refuse, they might as well help them to the end.

To be honest, the four of them were relieved that the people who helped them were students. What does "student" mean? Of course, they are simply easy to deceive. If they were superpowers who often came to the alien space to do missions, they would have started blackmailing long ago. How could they be as shy as these students?

Hearing the other party say that he could help dissect the snake, Jiang Tianming nodded and agreed. For such a big snake, cutting is necessary. Of course, they have learned how to deal with nightmare beasts in school, but they are still unfamiliar with it. It's okay to practice with a small nightmare beast, but it's better not to waste materials on such a big nightmare beast.

Seeing that they agreed, the stick man patted the man with the buzz cut on the shoulder and said, "It's time for you to show your skills."

However, the crew cut man ignored him and looked at the blue-haired woman stubbornly. The team members all looked as if they were used to it. The blue-haired woman directly ordered: "Go deal with the corpse of the nightmare snake."

After she said this, the man with a crew cut seemed like a robot that was finally activated. He walked over and used his special knife to skillfully butcher the beef.

Others took this opportunity to start chatting.

Zhao Xiaoyu curiously asked the blue-haired girl: "Sister, why did your bow and arrow change color just now?"

"Are you talking about this?" The blue-haired girl summoned a handsome blue bow and arrow, which turned into a mini cute pink bow and arrow with a flash of pink light.

Zhao Xiaoyu nodded, and the other girls gathered around. Ling You glanced at them a few times, but in the end, he couldn't resist his curiosity and approached with a cool look on his face.

"This blue bow and pink bow are two forms of my special ability, Cupid's Arrow." The blue-haired girl didn't mind introducing her special ability. After all, they were not enemies. "The blue one is the normal mode, used to attack the enemy. The pink one is the Cupid mode, used for healing."

"What an interesting ability!" Mo Xiaotian, who had blended in with the girls' team without any problem, widened his eyes in amazement, and then asked in confusion, "What does that have to do with Cupid?"

Hearing this, the blue-haired girl was a little embarrassed. What she hadn't said just now was that being shot by her Cupid-mode arrow would not only heal you, but also increase your favorability towards her for a short period of time. This was the extraordinary ability of Cupid's Arrow.

But this ability is more suitable to be hidden as a trump card, so she will not reveal it. Who knew that this innocent-looking silly boy would ask the key point directly.

Seeing her embarrassed look, Zhao Xiaoyu's eyes sparkled and she took the initiative to help her out: "Isn't pink Cupid enough?"

After saying that, she changed the subject: "The four of you all have weapon-related abilities, so you formed a team like this on purpose."

"Yes." The blue-haired girl looked at her gratefully. "The four of us are classmates and have a good relationship. Our superpowers are all weapons, and we have close combat, long-range treatment, and defense, so it's natural for us to form a team. Counting it up, we have been working together for four or five years since graduation."

People with special abilities often form teams with classmates, because they are familiar with each other and know each other well. Many classmates can even become teammates for life.

After hearing her words, Ai Baozhu was somewhat moved: "That's great. I also hope to always be in a team with my classmates and not be separated."

The others nodded in agreement. If you can team up with acquaintances, who would want to team up with strangers? As for being a lone wolf, it's not impossible. But if a psychic is a lone wolf, then no one will know if he dies outside.

Not far away, Wu Jin stood alone in silence. He always looked gloomy, and everyone knew that he might have entered through the backdoor, so few people approached him.

Even though he is the principal and the relative of the most powerful person in the world, who wouldn't be a little proud?

Of course, Zhou Renjie actually wanted to get close to him. If he could establish a good relationship with him, it would be good to add strength to the family. But Wu Jin was really a stubborn person. He would avoid Zhou Renjie as soon as he approached him. After a while, he stopped trying to get close to him.

This resulted in the fact that after one month of class S, the only people who could talk to Wu Jin were Zhao Xiaoyu and Su Bei.

Seeing that he was staring at the crowd, Su Bei walked over with a lollipop from Mo Xiaotian in his mouth and asked, "What are you looking at?"

Wu Jin spoke in a very soft voice, rarely speaking a complete sentence: "I smell the scent of love."

"The smell of love" Su Bei looked in the direction of his gaze and saw the pink bow and arrow in the blue-haired girl's hand.

He had naturally heard the introduction of the green-haired girl just now. The other party's ability was called [Cupid's Arrow]. Now Wu Jinyou said this. Combined with Mo Xiaotian's question just now, Su Bei had roughly guessed what the green-haired girl was hiding.

Anyone shot by a pink arrow will fall in love with her

Interesting ability. Su Bei glanced at the buzz cut man. It seemed that his abnormal performance just now was because he was shot by the pink arrow.

He couldn't help but think of Wu Jin. The scene in the comic where Wu Jin made his opponent's pupils turn into hearts always felt like it was related to love.

But later when he asked the opponent he defeated, the opponent said he didn't feel anything. The clues were cut off, so naturally there was no way to investigate.

It is better not to study the secrets of teammates first. Su Bei looked away thoughtfully: "Is love also an emotion you can feel?"

The other party said before that he was particularly sensitive to emotions.

After hesitating for a moment, Wu Jin nodded: "Yes."

"Has that crew-haired guy developed feelings for that [Cupid's Arrow]?" Although it was a question, Su Bei used a declarative tone.

"Yeah." This time Wu Jin answered quickly.

Su Bei smiled and handed him an orange-flavored lollipop as a reward: "If his love fades, please let me know. Also, if anyone else develops this kind of love, don't forget to tell me."

Finally, the snake meat was processed. Chunks of black snake meat were piled together and packed into several large bags brought by the four-man team. The snake skin was completely peeled off and placed aside, and the blood was also placed in a bag.

It can be seen that the man with a crew cut is indeed an experienced worker, and his skills are comparable to those of a skin peeling master who has been working for several years.

"This snake blood has medicinal value. It's better to buy the snake meat and snake skin separately. I'll give you a list of the current market prices for nightmare beasts that we compiled ourselves. Please refer to it when you sell it to avoid being ripped off."

The green-haired girl had an attitude of repaying a favor, and what she said was very specific, which saved people a lot of trouble.

"Thank you so much, Qingqing, this is exactly what we need." The person in charge of communication now was Zhao Xiaoyu, and she thanked the other party very enthusiastically.

Through their interactions just now, they already knew the name of the green-haired woman. She said her name was Qingqing. This was obviously a pseudonym, but it was normal to be cautious when going out.

Qingqing lowered her head in embarrassment, and after a moment's hesitation, she asked, "Although it's embarrassing to say this, can we walk with you for a while?"

Perhaps she felt ashamed to entrust a group of students younger than herself, her face slightly flushed: "The difficulty of this alien space is higher than we thought, but the money has been paid. If we can't kill one or two nightmare beasts, this operation will lose money. We need money, so I thought if we can hire you to help."

Seeing that Zhao Xiaoyu did not answer immediately, she continued: "We are responsible for dealing with the nightmare beasts, and you are responsible for helping us when we can't defeat them. In addition, I think you don't have much space to store things, so we can also be responsible for carrying these supplies. When the time comes, we will split the money 30% and 70%, 30% for us and 70% for you, what do you think?"

"Let's discuss it." Zhao Xiaoyu had no intention of making decisions for others.

It's best to be able to discuss it. Qingqing was delighted and nodded quickly: "Okay, okay. Thank you for your help."

After saying this, she very tactfully led her teammates to move a little further away, leaving them ample space to discuss.

"What do you think?" Zhao Xiaoyu asked directly. She knew that everyone must have heard their conversation just now.

She wanted to agree to this. Just like Qingqing said, they didn't have much space to store things. The largest storage ring in the school mall was only 50 square meters and very expensive. If nothing unexpected happened, Su Bei should have bought the 20 square meter one.

This one snake alone took up quite a bit of space, and if there was another one, they wouldn't be able to take anything else with them.

Zhao Xiaoyu's family is not poor, but they are definitely not rich either. They are just ordinary people. They only have one house and her parents are both working class. They paid a large sum of money to allow her to attend the supernatural academy, so the family is a bit stretched.

After reading the price list given by the other party, she is really reluctant to give up this huge benefit. The next time to go to the alien space is uncertain, so why not seize this opportunity.

The sale of the snake just now would provide Jiang Tianming with a year's living expenses, but it would also provide her with half a year's living expenses. If she bought a few more, she could directly buy a house in her hometown.

But she also knew that there were many people present who were definitely not short of money. The only two people who were really short of money, according to her observations during this period, were Jiang Tianming and Wu Mingbai.

Seeing that Si Zhaohua and Ai Baozhu both looked indifferent and didn't like strangers, I estimated that there was a high probability that they would refuse.

If Zhao Xiaoyu asked them to follow him, it would indeed be possible. After all, they were all classmates, so they would still give him some face. But that would be too costly and not worth it.

We have to convince them. Thinking of this, she rolled her eyes and added, "They have been training in the alien space for four or five years. They must know something about 'closed point'."

As soon as these words were spoken, Si Zhaohua and others, who had originally not cared much about this matter and wanted to refuse, suddenly became interested.

Although he had selfish motives, what Zhao Xiaoyu said was indeed correct. Even if these four people had never seen the "closed point", their four or five years of experience in different spaces had made them know more than a few high school students.

Although they didn't care about that little bit of money, Si Zhaohua and the others really wanted to know this bit of information.

"I think we can agree to this," Si Zhaohua said immediately. Ai Baozhu and Zhou Renjie followed his lead and naturally had no objection.

Some of the others wanted to make money, some wanted to get information, and some just wanted to watch the show.

Yes, the one who wants to watch the show is Su Bei.

There is no such thing as coincidence. There are always many surprises in life. But this is a comic book world, and Su Bei doesn't believe that there will be so many coincidences.

All coincidences are just established plots.

But it doesn't matter, the plot always has to happen, and getting hurt and bleeding are the norm in boys' comics. As long as the development makes him happy and he is not the one who suffers, Su Bei will not stop it.

So in the end everyone agreed.

Having obtained a satisfactory result, Zhao Xiaoyu slightly raised the corners of his mouth.

Suddenly, Li Shu walked up to her and looked curious: "Sister Xiaoyu, why do you want to cooperate with them so much? Have you discussed this with Sister Qingqing?"

This means that Zhao Xiaoyu and Qingqing made a deal in secret, which is why he spoke so well of them.

He was very scheming and saw through Zhao Xiaoyu's little thoughts just now. She definitely didn't persuade everyone to accept the cooperation just because of the "closed" news.

Normally, a normal person wouldn't say anything even if they saw it, after all, what she said made sense. There were benefits anyway, so there was no need to expose it.

But Li Shu was obviously not a normal person. He didn't know how Zhao Xiaoyu had offended him and caused him to take revenge.

Zhao Xiaoyu was really gritting his teeth. Didn't she just interrupt the conversation between him and Jiang Tianming? Was there any need to choose this moment to take revenge on her? Li Shu, you are looking for trouble, and you still call her sister. If she really had such a brother, she would have beaten him to death long ago!

But it is worth mentioning that it is logically correct for Li Shu to call her sister. Because when they asked about birthdays before, Li Shu turned out to be the youngest among everyone. His birthday is in December, and he is not even fifteen years old now.

Thinking of the other party's age, Zhao Xiaoyu silently said to himself that he would not bother with the little brat, suppressed the anger in his heart, took a long breath, and said half-jokingly: "Yes, we have discussed it. She gave me one million and let me trick you into teaming up with them."

Hearing her say this, everyone burst into laughter. A crisis of trust was quietly resolved.

Li Shu curled his lips and said nothing more.

After a month of getting along, he also saw the personalities of his classmates. Both men and women were immune to his gossip, which was always effective before.

It would have been fine if I had just discovered Zhao Xiaoyu's flaw and said something, but if I had continued to pester her after she explained, I'm afraid she would have ignored me.

So annoying! Recently, there are only people like this in the class. Some are smart, some are quiet, and the only one is a complete fool. This makes Li Shu, who always likes to stir up trouble, really bored!

His eyes turned and fell on Jiang Tianming, and his eyes lit up. Fortunately, there was still an interesting person in the class. Li Shu licked his lips. He really wanted to know what Jiang Tianming's secret was...

Qingqing was delighted to learn that they had agreed to her request. The other two members of the team were also very happy, except for the man with the crew cut who was still staring at Qingqing intently, not caring about anything else.

After deciding to go together, everyone introduced themselves to each other, but they all used pseudonyms. The guy with a crew cut was called "Knife Brother", the girl holding a shield was called "Shield Sister", and the man holding a stick was called "Stick Brother".

After hearing their names, everyone said: "..."

Although they knew it was a fake name, it was still eye-opening to see how perfunctory it was. It seems that the name "Qingqing" that they thought was fake before was actually the most sincere among the four people!

"We have to keep going north." Jiang Tianming made three rules with them in advance, "We are not obsessed with finding the nightmare beast. If you plan to change the route halfway, you can just settle it on the spot when the time comes."

He had just seen the price list that Qingqing handed over. It was similar to the one he had seen in the market before, so it should not be a rip-off.

"North" Sister Shield looked at the direction of the sun in confusion, "Is there anything in the north?"

Jiang Tianming would not say directly that there might be a "closed point" in the north. He did not know these people yet, and of course he would not reveal his purpose. The money he could get by discovering the "closed point" should be quite a lot. Money is attractive, and he did not want to fall into trouble because of a casual remark.

So Jiang Tianming just calmly replied: "No, we just want to cross the alien space and see what we will encounter if we keep going in one direction."

Hearing this, Sister Dun laughed and said, "You have not been to the alien space many times, right? Newcomers will have all kinds of curiosity."

When she said this, she turned to look at Gun Ge and asked: "What stupid things did they do when they came here a few times before?"

Not wanting to lose face, Gun Ge pretended to be stupid: "Ah, haven't we always been so wise and brave? When have we ever done anything stupid?"

Such shameless words! Sister Shield glared at him and turned around and said, "Ignore him. We were newcomers once too. Since you are curious, we won't spoil the story in advance. Let's go together!"

In the blink of an eye, it was noon, and everyone was preparing to eat lunch under the shade of a huge rock. After walking in the scorching sun for a whole morning and killing many nightmare beasts, everyone's stomachs were already rumbling.

Mo Xiaotian, Brother Dao and Sister Dun went together to make grilled snake meat, while the rest of the people sat on the ground to rest.

"Why doesn't it seem like the end is coming?" Ai Baozhu took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat from her forehead, and reapplied sunscreen on her exposed skin.

"If you want to reach the edge of the alien space, you will probably have to walk for a long time." Qingqing said with a smile, "This alien space looks quite large."

Si Zhaohua was also talking to Su Bei and Jiang Tianming about the distance issue: "The teacher said that we have to go back to the hotel tonight, so the location of the 'closed point' must not be too far."

That's right, Jiang Tianming nodded: "And we just need to find the 'closed point', so the test for us should be our observation ability."

After they finished speaking, they looked at Su Bei and asked, "Why don't you say anything?"

Su Bei said thoughtfully: "I was thinking, this alien space has been around for a year. No one has found the 'closed point' for such a long time, but the teachers found it in just one month at most, and they thought we could find it too. Obviously, there must be something special about this 'closed point'."

That's true. Currently, there are no tools or abilities in the supernatural world that can accurately find the "locked point", so it can only be found manually.

The fact that it hadn't been found for a year was enough to prove that the "closed point" in this alien space was very hidden. The fact that the teachers were able to find it within a month must have been because they had discovered some obvious signs.

The above speculations are all correct, but the question is - "How do you know that this alien space has been open for a year?"

Before they came, they had no idea which alien space they were going to, and it was obviously impossible to search for such things on the Internet. So everyone was confused about this alien space. Before entering, they didn't even know what the terrain was like inside, let alone when it was established.

Su Bei shrugged his shoulders and said nonchalantly: "Who knows where he got it from?"

After hearing what he said, the two stopped asking. After all, he didn't want to talk about it, and they wouldn't get anything out of asking any more.

But Jiang Tianming was still thinking about this question in his heart. Logically speaking, Su Bei should have obtained this news through his special abilities as he had done in the past.

But if that was the case, he should have answered casually with "guess" as he always did, instead of answering that he got the answer from another channel as he did just now.

"Other channels" are channels that are different from the usual ones, and are not obtained through supernatural powers.

But if it wasn't a supernatural power, how did he know this news?

Watching the two people go to find their companions, Su Bei lowered his eyes and rubbed the silver ring on his index finger. After a while, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, revealing a sly smile.

In the storage space of the silver ring, in addition to the snake meat and some talismans, there was also a magazine.

If Jiang Tianming and others saw the name on this magazine, they would probably be stunned.

Because this magazine is called - "A Guide to the Introduction of the Alien Space in the Sand Sea".

While they were discussing this, someone else was also busy discussing some trivia about the alien space with Qingqing and the other three.

Zhao Xiaoyu was a shrewd person, and she talked about the "closing point" in a roundabout way. Although her purpose of cooperating with them was not for this, but since she said so, she had to pretend to do so.

"It's embarrassing to say that we've only met once in the past four or five years." Qingqing smiled helplessly, "That was when I met him with my teacher at school."

Sister Dun next to her continued, "Yes, that's why I said you don't have to be so curious. Your teachers will take the initiative to find opportunities to show you many things so that you can learn more. For example, 'Closed Point', as far as I know, most schools will always find opportunities for students to observe it in three years."

Zhao Xiaoyu and Wu Mingbai looked at each other, both of them were filled with bitterness. They were not curious at all, they were clearly forced.

Now they finally understood why they had to do this today. I think it was to let them see the "closed point" with their own eyes and learn more. But in other schools, teachers would take students to find it, but here they had to find it themselves.

Despite all the complaints, everyone knows that the teacher is doing this for their own good, so they still have to do their best to complete the task.

Zhao Xiaoyu said coquettishly, "But we don't know how long it will take for our teacher to take us there, so I want to know in advance! What did the 'Closed Point' you saw look like?"

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