Chapter 68

Since she said so, Shield Sister naturally agreed: "We went to a glacial alien space at that time. It was an alien space whose closing point had been found long ago, so it was easy to see. The 'closing point' was in a very deep crack."

She turned to look at Gun Ge to confirm: "Am I remembering correctly?"

"Yes." Brother Gun laughed, "That 'closed point' is very interesting. The place where I was born was very bad. I was directly sealed in the ice. At first glance, I thought the ice was black."

The "closed point" is the same as the entrance they came in through, both are in the form of a black hole. However, the size is not fixed, and sometimes it is so small that it is difficult to detect.

His words also brought back memories from long ago: "Yes, that's why there have been no nightmare beasts in that alien space. After all, the entrance is sealed, and the nightmare beasts can't get out. You can go back and ask the teacher, the alien space should not have been closed until now. If the academy can't find other 'closed points' for a while, you can bring students here to visit."

At this point, she seemed to suddenly remember an important question: "By the way, where is your teacher?"

These people are obviously students. When students come to a different dimension for training, they must be led by teachers.

Outside, Wu Mingbai always looked innocent and lively. He answered without hesitation: "The teacher thinks this alien space is not too difficult for us, and it is just waiting for us at the entrance."

This family is always malicious, even if Qingqing and the others are just passers-by, they still want to test them. They deliberately said that the teacher was not around, if they really have bad intentions, they will be easily caught.

Besides, the truth can't be told, so just find a reason.

Zhao Xiaoyu blinked and did not refute him.

Qingqing's eyes sparkled when she heard Wu Mingbai's answer. In fact, if someone else said this, she would suspect that the other person was on guard against them. But Wu Mingbai looked like a simple person, so Qingqing didn't suspect too much.

She smiled and said, "Your teacher must be quite confident in you. You must be the elites of the academy. For ordinary students like us, the teachers always stay close to us, fearing that something might happen to us."

"Elite, are you okay..." Wu Mingbai smiled shyly with his head tilted. The brown-haired boy's expression was not at all inappropriate, refreshing and cute.

Jiang Tianming and Lan Subing watched Qingqing from behind as she pretended to vomit.

Qingqing's eyes also showed a smile, and she said with certainty: "He must be an elite, from Class A."

"Yeah." Wu Mingbai nodded, "I was lucky to be assigned here. I should be the worst one in our class."

Hearing him say this, Qingqing tried to comfort him for a while, which made Dao Ge behind her angry. He glared at Wu Mingbai who was trying to be a good boy.

Su Bei watched from a distance and felt that Brother Dao might be about to take action. After all, although Wu Mingdao was still a minor, he was only five or six years older than Qingqing, so there might be a chance. Brother Dao was in love with Qingqing, so he naturally felt a sense of crisis.

Suddenly, Brother Dao staggered forward, pressed his temples, and blinked hard.

The guy sitting next to him supported him skillfully, without any worry: "It's okay."

Brother Dao recovered quickly and nodded: "It's okay."

After exchanging a glance with Qingqing, he glared at Wu Mingbai with an extremely jealous look.

But Su Bei, who was watching from a distance, felt that his expression was a little fake. It was genuine just now, but now it felt more like an act.

Was Qingqing warning you?

Just as he was thinking this, Wu Jin, who was hiding in the corner, suddenly came over and said, "No more."

What is gone? Su Bei was stunned for a moment, then reacted. If nothing unexpected happened, Wu Jin should be talking about the "love" of Brother Dao. Qingqing's Cupid skill failed.

Wow, that's a long time. From 9am to 1pm, a full four hours.

That would be very interesting. Su Bei watched Brother Dao's performance and raised his eyebrows slightly.

Even though he is no longer under the control of his supernatural powers, he still pretends to like Qingqing. Is his purpose to conceal the special nature of Qingqing's supernatural powers?

If you think about it simply, this kind of secrecy is just a warning to strangers. But if you think about it more complicatedly, is their secrecy intended to do something?

Both explanations make sense, but Su Bei has never minded assuming the worst of strangers.

Let's keep an eye on them, Su Bei released his mental power to cover the four people. He didn't mind them making trouble, but the premise was that this matter would not fall on him.

If the person he is controlling is really full of love, then his personality will be ruined.

After eating, we survived the most unbearable noon. When we saw that the sun was not so bright anymore, we continued to move forward. Because Zhao Xiaoyu had explained it before, Qingqing and the others did not find it strange that we were moving north all the time.

In addition to dealing with nightmare beasts along the way, they also encountered many teams of superpowers. However, because of their large numbers, those teams did not dare to get close to them to avoid getting into trouble.

As the sun sets, the orange-red sunset dyes the sky, the smoke rises in the desert, and the poetic verses of the setting sun over the long river become concrete at this moment.

After walking for a whole day, even though the physical fitness of a psychic is far superior to that of an ordinary person, they can't help feeling tired.

Without enough energy, everyone stopped fighting and walked forward in silence.

"ah!"

A cry of surprise revived everyone's spirits.

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and found that it was Zhou Renjie who was stuck in the sand.

It's quicksand!

I saw that half of Zhou Renjie's body had sunk into the water and was still sinking.

Quicksand is not uncommon in the desert. If an ordinary person is not an experienced explorer, he or she may be easily swallowed up by quicksand.

But people with special powers are obviously not ordinary people. Even when they encounter danger, they are often calmer than ordinary people because of their special powers.

After a brief scream and struggle, Zhou Renjie, who was half buried, finally calmed down and stopped struggling, but he was still sinking slowly due to his weight.

"What should I do?" he asked in a panic, then looked at Wu Mingbai, "Your ability is [Earth Element], can you control this quicksand?"

At this time, Wu Mingbai no longer cared about the previous grudges. Although they were very hostile to each other, they had not yet reached the point of wanting each other's lives.

Wu Mingbai tried to manipulate his supernatural powers to control the sand. It should be easy to clear some of the quicksand with his [Earth Element].

But surprisingly, Wu knew that the best he could do was to stabilize the sand and prevent Zhou Renjie from falling further. It was impossible to rescue him directly.

Feeling that his ability was greatly weakened, he frowned and said, "Something is wrong. Is it because the force of the quicksand is too strong? I can't control all the sand that makes up the quicksand."

"What should I do?" Zhou Renjie was shocked and wanted to ask if the other party deliberately did not rescue him. However, he was under control and did not dare to offend Wu Mingbai any more.

The wood iron man had learned a lot of wilderness survival knowledge before, and he immediately instructed: "Don't move too much, sway your body left and right to shake off the sand, and then slowly walk yourself out."

Hearing this, Zhou Renjie had no choice but to follow his instructions and move slowly. Wu Mingbai cooperated and manipulated the sand to help him get out faster.

This method really worked, and after a long half hour, Zhou Renjie finally came out. He was sweating all over, his face flushed with fatigue, and as soon as he came out, he quickly got away from the quicksand, then sat down on the ground to rest, panting heavily.

Seeing that the man had successfully come out, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief. Si Zhaohua thought for a moment and said, "Let him rest here for a while, and then we can take a detour and continue on our way."

Naturally, no one had any objections. The sun was not very bright now, so it was okay to take a break. Sitting on the ground, Jiang Tianming asked Wu Mingbai with some doubt: "What did you feel when you controlled the sand just now? Why can't you control it now?"

He was very familiar with Wu Mingbai's progress in supernatural power training. For existing standard earth elements such as sand and ordinary soil, Wu Mingbai's control could be described as pure furnace fire.

They also saw it when Zhou Renjie was struggling just now. Although the depth of this quicksand was unknown, its area was not very large, only about 30 square meters. This area multiplied by the depth Zhou Renjie fell into was completely under Wu Mingliang's control.

Even if the quicksand itself might have forces such as suction and gravity that they did not quite understand, it would not be enough to weaken Wu Mingbai's control to that extent.

Honestly, if he didn't know Wu well, he would probably think that this was his revenge for Zhou Renjie's previous bad words.

But it was impossible. Although Zhou Renjie was always the one who picked the fight, he was also the one who suffered the loss. In this case, even if Wu knew that he would take revenge, he would not want to kill him.

He estimated that others would also doubt Wu Ming, so in order to prevent the team from falling apart because of such doubts, Jiang Tianming simply took the initiative to ask. He was also the most suitable person to ask this question.

Sure enough, as soon as he asked, Zhou Renjie was the first to look over. He was smart for once, and didn't say anything, just waiting for Wu's explanation.

In fact, Wu Mingbai was also confused: "I don't know either. I feel like my ability seems to be weakened by this quicksand... That's right! It's weakened a lot."

As he spoke, he used his special powers to control the sand on the left side of the quicksand, and all the sand was easily lifted up by him as if he were moving his fingers.

Then the sand along the way floated up one by one, until it reached the quicksand, and suddenly only a few pieces of sand floated up, which was very different from the large pieces of sand next to it.

Now everyone's attention was drawn to it. The wooden iron man looked at the quicksand and said, "This won't be a problem, right? I've never heard that quicksand can suppress supernatural powers."

Dao Ge, who had experienced desert terrain before, nodded affirmatively: "It's definitely not like that, why don't you let one of you try it?"

They all saw clearly that there was either something wrong with the quicksand, or something wrong with Wu Mingbai's ability, or something wrong with Wu Mingbai. The best way to verify this was to find another person to try again.

"Let me try." Si Zhaohua took the initiative to ask for help. It was the fairest thing for him to do this. He didn't even need to spread his wings. A feather appeared in his hand.

He controlled the feather to land on the quicksand, inserted it directly into the sand with force, and then controlled it to take the feather out of the quicksand.

Soon Si Zhaohua frowned, clenched his fists and waited for about five seconds. The feather slowly reappeared from the quicksand and then floated back into Si Zhaohua's hands.

"There is indeed a problem." He made the feather disappear and walked carefully to the quicksand. "When I just pulled the feather out, I encountered a lot of resistance."

Hearing this, Qingqing said in confusion: "Pulling out an object stuck in quicksand directly will encounter great resistance."

"No, that's not the case." Si Zhaohua thought for a moment and used a more accurate description, "It's not that kind of external resistance, but my own control over the feathers has weakened."

Finally, someone understood how he felt at the time. Wu Mingbai immediately nodded vigorously: "That's it! Our abilities have been weakened in this quicksand."

Hearing them say this, Su Bei raised his eyebrows and a guess suddenly flashed through his mind.

Almost at the same time, Jiang Tianming's eyes widened slightly, and he looked at Su Bei fiercely: "Is it possible that this quicksand is the special place?"

He was talking about Su Bei's previous speculation about what was special about the "closed point".

Su Bei thought so too, and he nodded affirmatively.

A special place that can weaken supernatural powers is definitely not an ordinary place. Moreover, this place is located in the north, a natural barrier. Doesn't this coincide with the possible existence of the "closed point" that they speculated before?

When he said this, Si Zhaohua immediately responded: "So, have we completed the mission?"

The teacher gave them the task of finding the "closing point", but did not ask them to close it, nor did they say they had to see the "closing point" with their own eyes. If they could be sure that the "closing point" was indeed here, they could go back now.

The other members of Class S naturally understood what was going on after hearing their conversation. Was there a "blocking point" in this quicksand? Then they really hit the jackpot!

But it's definitely not possible to go back like this. The wooden iron man shook his head: "We have to at least go down and see the "closing point" to be sure. If we just guess, even if we guess correctly, the teachers probably won't approve it."

"I think so too." Zhao Xiaoyu nodded, and in between words, he made a vivid gesture of looking around to everyone.

Everyone knew what she meant: the teacher must still be nearby, and even if they wanted to lie to the teacher and say they had already gone down to check, it would be useless.

Ai Baozhu looked at the quicksand with disdain. When she thought about how she would be covered in sand if she went down, she wanted to kill someone: "Who goes down?"

"I, I, I!" How could Mo Xiaotian, who had just secretly asked Feng Lan and knew what they were talking about, miss such a fun thing? "I want to go down!"

He was really curious about what was under the quicksand!

"I'll go." Wu Mingbai also raised his hand. His superpower was [Earth Element]. Even if this quicksand had the ability to suppress superpowers, he still had the greatest advantage among everyone.

Seeing that there were only two people going at the moment, Jiang Tianming thought for a moment and said, "I'll go down too. There may be a lot of nightmare beasts down there, so a few more people need to go, and only one or two can stay up there to support them."

This is true. If there is really a space below and there is a "closed point" in the space, then there must be many nightmare beasts in this space. If only one or two people go down, they may not be able to get out smoothly.

After being persuaded, more people raised their hands immediately. Si Zhaohua, Li Shu, Ling You, Qi Huang, Zhao Xiaoyu, Mu Tieren, and Lan Subing all decided to go down. Together with the three from before, there were ten people in total, which should be enough.

Just as they were about to make a decision, Qingqing, who had been at a loss for a long time, finally couldn't help but ask: "No...what are you talking about? Why can't you go down?"

Everyone then realized that they had ignored these four people. Zhao Xiaoyu coughed and said, "Our teacher assigned us a task to explore a special quicksand. We think this should be the one the teacher mentioned."

“I see.” Qingqing didn’t know whether she believed it or not, but she pretended to believe it and said enthusiastically, “Then we will also support you up there. If there are really a lot of nightmare beasts down there, don’t forget to bring them up so we can deal with them.”

She glanced at the five people who decided to stay there. Coincidentally, except for Zhou Renjie, the others had not taken any action when they encountered the giant snake before, and now they didn't want to go down, so their strength must not be that good.

But there are still too many people...

Thinking of this, Qingqing winked at several teammates, and Brother Gun and Sister Shield "inadvertently" took a few steps forward to block the other two people.

After a while, Brother Dao came over and suddenly asked, "I want to go to the restroom over there. Does anyone want to go with me? It's better to go together to avoid danger."

Zhou Renjie raised his hand. He was frightened enough just now: "I'll go."

I don’t know if it was because he was too anxious or what, but Brother Dao didn’t ask anyone else and took Zhou Renjie to the distant sand dunes.

The others ignored them and started talking about the next arrangements. They were not worried about entering the quicksand, because Mo Xiaotian's ability was [Air], so they would not be in danger of suffocation.

But quicksand is something that is easier to get down than to get out, even if there is nothing underneath. Zhao Xiaoyu asked sincerely, "How do we get out after we get down?"

"There must be a way." Mo Xiaotian said carelessly, "The teachers can get out from down there, so we can too!"

Adhering to the principle of not talking to fools, everyone tacitly ignored his words. Qi Huang looked at the two prophets, Su Bei and Feng Lan: "Hey, do you two have any predictions for the route?"

What Su Bei predicted was not specific, but Feng Lan's prediction was very specific. However, the prediction opportunity for this month has already been used.

But after a month of training, he actually developed a useful new ability. Feng Lan closed his eyes, then opened them again after a moment, looking at the other person with his golden eyes: "Just let it go."

"Letting things take their course means we don't have to worry about anything, right? This answer is quite worry-free." Qi Huang muttered, then turned around and continued discussing with others.

Seeing her turn around, Su Bei raised his eyebrows and looked at Feng Lan: "What kind of newly developed ability is this?"

"Yeah." Feng Lan nodded, the corners of her mouth raised a few pixels, "You reminded me before."

Hearing this, Su Bei pointed at himself unexpectedly: "I"

Feng Lan didn't keep the secret: "You told me the other day that you often see some prophecy fragments. I actually have this problem too. After you left, I was thinking, my ability is pure [prophecy], can I make use of these prophecy fragments?"

At this point, Su Bei also understood: "So now you can freely control yourself to see the prophecy fragments."

"Once a day." Feng Lan nodded again to confirm his statement, "You can ask a small question. If you succeed, relevant fragments of images will flash in your mind. But the success rate is not high at the moment."

It's normal that the success rate is not high. After all, I have just mastered this ability. The success rate will always increase with more contacts. For all superpowers, being able to actively develop new uses for superpowers is the greatest success.

Su Bei raised his eyebrows and asked: "So what did you see just now?"

"There is only one road in the space below." Feng Lan replied.

Hearing this answer, Su Bei couldn't help laughing. There is only one way. If it leads to the top, just follow it. If it doesn't lead to the top, then you can only wait for the teachers to rescue you.

So it really just happens.

But he was not laughing because of this, but because Su Bei suddenly found that Feng Lan was actually a very qualified riddle teller. The answer of "Let it be" was full of riddles.

Based on what Feng Lan had just said, they had already decided to go ahead like this. Mo Xiaotian began to prepare air blocks for everyone to put on their heads.

Zhou Renjie and Dao Ge came back together. They looked no different from before, but Su Bei, who was watching them, saw Zhou Renjie glance at Qingqing.

While he was observing, Wu Jin came over and whispered, "Zhou Renjie smells like love."

As soon as these words came out, Su Bei understood immediately. It seemed that they had fought just now. It should be Qingqing who passed the pink arrow to Dao Ge just now, and Dao Ge took advantage of going to the toilet to stab Zhou Renjie in the back.

Zhou Renjie is such a miserable man.

Now, there are five people on the shore, namely him, Feng Lan, Wu Jin, Ai Baozhu and Zhou Renjie, among whom Zhou Renjie temporarily rebelled. If the others leave and Zhou Renjie swallows up another person, the remaining three people may not be able to defeat the four-man team on the opposite side.

Moreover, Su Bei had a feeling that if nothing unexpected happened, when Zhou Renjie attacked, he would be the one to be swallowed up. After all, he was the one with the strongest attack power among the remaining few people.

Thinking of this, Su Bei twitched his lips. He was not afraid of Zhou Renjie's ability. Even if he was sucked in, he would definitely be released in no time. But being swallowed by others was something that should be avoided if possible.

Should I remind others?

After thinking about it, Su Bei decided not to ruin the plot.

Neither Feng Lan nor Ai Baozhu were the kind of characters that would be drawn as ugly characters by the author. The probability of them being hit by the pink arrow was very low, not to mention Wu Jin. Su Bei even suspected that he would not be affected even if he was hit.

So even if he didn't remind them, the worst they would do is get caught. The best case scenario is that they would have a chance to establish their own personalities and break away from the real protagonists.

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