Chapter 83

"Changed species?" Zhou Renjie was stunned, and then immediately looked at Ling You, "This one doesn't seem to eat corpses. Do you have anything else to deal with their virus?"

Unfortunately, Ling You was at a loss this time: "No."

She can obtain the plague virus in two ways. One is to find the virus in the real world and include it in her supernatural power. This virus must be touched personally and the principle must be mastered before it can be used, and using it requires a lot of mental energy.

The other type is a virus that is automatically generated through training and learning. Some of these viruses exist in reality, while others have never been heard of in reality. They can be used without consuming any mental energy, and their usage varies.

The virus Ling You used just now was something he had comprehended himself, and it could deal with all insects. There were almost no plague viruses that could cause great damage to insects in real life, so in order to make up for the lack, Ling You could only specialize in comprehending plagues related to insects. But that was all he had prepared.

"Then let's hold out for a while and then go in." Si Zhaohua continued to attack with the torch, and at the same time reminded, "Don't use your superpowers. I'm afraid you will have to use them after entering the castle. Save your mental energy."

Others thought the same and attacked with only torches.

There were more and more bugs, and the torches were no longer effective. Si Zhaohua and Su Bei hid behind the wooden iron man's protective shield, which contained the remaining three people.

Fortunately, the bugs attacked whoever they saw, and did not bypass the shield to attack the brains of the people behind. The stalemate lasted for another half an hour, and the shield had not cracked yet, but the others could no longer bear it.

Those nightmare insects had already piled up to a height of one and a half meters in front of the protective shield. The newest ones on the top were as big as a palm, and each one was baring its fangs and claws, making the three people inside look pale.

"I can't take it anymore... Ugh! I feel like vomiting!" Zhou Renjie vomited and quickly closed his eyes. "I think when the shield cracks, these bugs won't fly directly into our faces, right?"

None of them had seen what a shield cracked like before. If it cracked gradually, it would be fine, at least it would give them time to leave. But if it broke directly without any warning, then they would be doomed.

So many bugs were clinging to the protective cover. Once the cover broke, they would inevitably rush directly to their faces. The first to be hit would be the three people in the protective cover.

As soon as these words came out, even Ling You, who was cold and indifferent, couldn't help but change her expression. Not to mention being hit on the face, even if it hit her body, she couldn't bear it!

"Let's go into the castle." She turned and looked at the two people behind her.

Su Bei and the other two also didn't want to face such a scene, so they nodded. Taking advantage of the opportunity when the three people in front of them attracted the attention of the insects, they walked to the castle gate one by one.

“Squeak—”

As luck would have it, the moment they arrived, the door slowly opened. At the same time, the lights inside lit up layer by layer, and in a moment it became brightly lit.

Si Zhaohua's face darkened. Even though he had known for a long time that there must be a conspiracy here, when the conspiracy was laid out so blatantly, his heart couldn't help but sink.

"Come here quickly!"

After the three wooden and iron men arrived at the door, the five of them walked in together.

"Bang!"

As soon as they entered, the door was closed. Si Zhaohua and the other three were startled, and Zhou Renjie tried to open the door, but couldn't push it open at all.

"We're trapped!" he cried out.

"Otherwise, they brought us here so that we can have a good rest here for a night?" Su Bei said lazily, while taking out a lollipop from the storage space, opening it and putting it in his mouth.

The lack of mental strength and the lack of proper rest have made him feel a little weak now. He must replenish some sugar to activate his brain.

Seeing that the others were looking at him without saying anything, Su Bei was very sharing and took out a few more lollipops: "Do you want some?"

He originally thought that no one else would want them, but to his surprise, everyone actually took one from him, so that the stock in northern Jiangsu, which was originally sufficient, suddenly became scarce.

There are five people, each holding a lollipop in their mouths. The picture is very funny.

After sucking it for a while, he absorbed a lot of sugar. Feeling that his brain was a little more alert, Su Bei finally had the mood to observe his surroundings.

The castle hall was decorated with gold and jade, and looked very luxurious. But there was no one inside, no other living things, not to mention supplies. It was just an empty hall.

The only thing worth mentioning is that at the end of the hall there are five separate stairs that are only one person wide, with a sign next to them saying "Only one person allowed per staircase."

Others naturally noticed the sign, and Zhou Renjie sneered: "Only one person is allowed to pass, so what can they do if two of us take one staircase?"

Before anyone could react, he stepped onto the stairs and couldn't walk. Because he was fat, he almost squeezed in.

"You are crazy!" Si Zhaohua was shocked by his reckless behavior, "Come down quickly!"

Zhou Renjie didn't care much: "Nothing happened, did it?"

However, he still listened to Si Zhaohua's words and started to walk down. Unexpectedly, when he reached the last step and wanted to return to the ground, he suddenly seemed to bump into something.

"Ouch!" Zhou Renjie covered his forehead and cried out, then looked ahead in confusion. There was nothing in front of him, so what had hit him just now?

Zhou Renjie touched it with his hands and widened his eyes: "There is a transparent wall here!"

Hearing this, Si Zhaohua also reached out to touch it, and indeed he touched a transparent wall. He sighed helplessly, "It seems that one person can only walk up one staircase."

Unfortunately, this is something that can only be understood through personal experience. Zhou Renjie was in tears: "If I had known, I would not have come up. What should I do now?"

"Everyone, find a staircase and go straight up." Su Bei said decisively, "We just stayed outside for a while and attracted a bunch of bugs. If we stay in this hall for a while, who knows what else will be waiting for us."

This is true, and everyone thought that this was the only way. However, they stayed in the hall for a while longer. What if they waited a little longer, the teacher would come at the critical moment?

Until a few bugs crawled in from the ground floor of the gate, everyone knew they couldn't wait any longer, so they each chose a ladder and climbed up.

Before going up, Su Bei had already looked over everyone's heads, and there was no problem with the size of the pointer.

After the others left, he took out the mirror and looked at the top of his head. The little pointer was also tilted to the left, but the position was very centered.

After thinking about it, Su Bei directly used up the rest of his mental energy, leaving himself only a little mental energy to support his actions, and successfully moved the little pointer to the far left.

It is worth mentioning that the mental energy consumed by adjusting the pointer from the right to the left is far greater than the mental energy consumed by adjusting it from the left to further left.

If nothing unexpected happens, he should be able to pass this level easily.

Su Bei, who has read many boys' comics, knows very well that these levels created by villains are mainly to provide progress for the protagonists.

But he doesn't need to. As a character walking on the edge of justice, all he needs to do is be mysterious and powerful. Progress has nothing to do with him. If he really works hard to fight the enemy like everyone else, he will lose his advantage.

And looking at the finger on his head, Su Bei was really worried that he would make a mess this time. It would be a small matter to be tired, but it would be a big matter to ruin his image!

Besides, he doesn't need progress from villains, he can just rely on comics and forums.

After the adjustment, Su Bei walked up leisurely, turned the corner and came to the second floor. The second floor was a large platform with a sofa and a coffee table in front of the sofa. There was a fruit plate on the coffee table, but now there were only a few pieces of cut apples in it.

Where are the people?

Su Bei looked around in confusion, and after making sure that there was no one there, he continued to walk upstairs.

There was no one on the second floor, no one on the third floor, and no one on the fourth floor. The fifth floor was the top floor, and as expected, there was no one there either.

But the decoration here is particularly comfortable and looks like a place to rest. Thinking that the little pointer has been adjusted to the left, Su Bei boldly fell asleep on the sofa.

"Wake up, wake up"

The soft female voice woke Su Bei up from his sleep. He opened his eyes suddenly and saw Ye Lin, whose face was full of worry and surprise.

Su Bei stood up with some confusion, and found that he had returned to the hotel where he stayed yesterday, with the unconscious Feng Lan next to him.

"Teacher, what's going on?" he asked with some confusion.

Ye Lin first frowned, looking a little confused. Then she sighed and was about to say something when she was interrupted by two people who walked in from outside the door.

It’s Meng Huai and Lei Ze’en.

Before he came in, Lei Zeen was saying, "They can only rely on themselves. If they can't wake up, there's nothing we can do outside... Su Bei, how come you're awake already!"

Seeing Su Bei sitting up, Lei Zeen shouted in surprise.

Meng Huai was also surprised and looked at Ye Lin.

Ye Lin shook her head: "Just now I saw Su Bei suddenly move a little, as if he was about to wake up, so I called him tentatively, and he actually woke up."

At this time, Su Bei had already guessed what happened from their words and interrupted to ask: "Those were just illusions?"

Ye Lin nodded.

Su Bei immediately said in a pretentious tone: "Sure enough."

Acting is about capturing every detail. He believes that as long as this sentence appears in the comic, it will definitely cause a great response in the forum.

Others naturally couldn't know what he was thinking with such a calm face. Meng Huai asked seriously: "Tell me what happened in the illusion and how you got out of it."

What happened in the illusion was very simple. Su Bei recounted it quickly. Until he got to the part where he walked up the stairs and went all the way to the top floor to sleep, the three teachers fell silent.

In the end, Ye Lin spoke first: "Then the reason you were able to come out must be that you fell asleep in the illusion and left it automatically."

After that, she said admiringly: "But you should have guessed it a long time ago."

This can be seen from Su Bei's actions and his previous reactions. Otherwise, Ye Lin would find it hard to understand how someone could fall asleep in such a dangerous place. How careless must one be?

Su Bei nodded and admitted it without hesitation. Since he had decided to pretend, he would pretend to be a complete fool. No matter how the comic book author drew it, he would be able to explain it.

"If there's no one along the way... why did they capture you? Just to scare you?" Lei Zeen asked with an "I don't understand" look on his face.

Meng Huai, who had already understood, sneered and asked Su Bei: "How did you do it?"

He was sure that there were supposed to be other people on the platforms on the upper floors of the castle, and they were probably fighting with the enemy and couldn't get out.

Su Bei must have done something to prevent the enemy who was supposed to appear from appearing and to allow them to leave smoothly.

But it's obvious that Su Bei would never tell the truth. He also wanted to see how comics were drawn. If comics showed him using his superpowers, he would see if he could take the opportunity to exaggerate his own superpowers.

If the comics did not include this part, he would have led public opinion to the direction of "Su Bei had already known about the Black Flash organization's plan."

Although the former can better improve his own style, his personality has already been established, so it doesn't make much sense to consolidate it. At most, he can only take the opportunity to slightly improve his supernatural powers, and the extent of the improvement is still uncertain.

The latter is different. If the comics really did not show him using his supernatural powers, he would directly use the name of "Prophet" and take this opportunity to directly connect with the "Black Flash" organization.

His thoughts wandered for a moment, and when he felt Meng Huai's unfriendly gaze, Su Bei immediately came back to his senses and showed an innocent expression: "Maybe I'm lucky."

Meng Huai rolled his eyes without disguising, and then hit him on the head: "Put away your little thoughts."

Su Bei just smiled and said nothing.

After thinking for a while, he asked about the other people's situation: "Teacher, why are Feng Lan and the others like this?"

"How should I know? Don't you have to ask them yourself?" Meng Huai said unhappily, finding a chair to sit down. "When you sent out the distress signal, we rushed over. As a result, you had already entered the illusion created by the black door. There was no other way. We could only send you back and then look for other people."

Lei Zeen beside him added: "This incident was probably done by the 'Black Flash' organization, so we decided to terminate this activity."

Meng Huai nodded and continued, "When we got there, they were in the same situation as you. But they were not sent into the illusion by the black door, but were transformed chess pieces."

"Black Flash" not only transformed the exit, but also changed the chess pieces in the alien space. A thought suddenly flashed through Su Bei's mind, but this thought passed so quickly that he didn't catch it at all.

There is no way, the mental energy consumption is too much. Even if everything that happened just now was in an illusion, the mental energy consumption is real.

Su Bei yawned: "Teacher, I want to take a rest."

"Then take a rest." Ye Lin said gently, "You must be tired at this late hour. Get some sleep. Don't worry about others. The teachers will find a way to save them."

Su Bei thought to himself that he was not worried, but the next second, Meng Huai said what he was thinking: "He is not worried!"

However, despite saying this, Meng Huai actually had no intention of being dissatisfied. Everyone has their own personality. After all, they have only known each other for two or three months. How can we expect everyone to be like a family?

Especially since Su Bei was obviously a cold-hearted person, there was no need to criticize him. For example, he only had two friends among so many classmates at that time.

Su Bei was already extremely tired and was too lazy to say anything more, so he just fell asleep.

When he woke up the next day, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon. Su Bei looked to the side and saw Feng Lan was still in a coma.

His stomach was already growling, so he quickly got up, washed up, and went to have a late lunch. This small hotel naturally did not provide lunch, but fortunately there was a restaurant next to it.

When I came back from dinner, I happened to meet Lei Zeen who had just returned from outside. Thinking of what happened last night, Su Bei asked curiously: "Teacher Lei, can they only rely on themselves now?"

He wanted to know if the school had any remedial measures in the face of this situation.

It would be fine if there were remedial measures. After all, the current situation is that the enemy is in the dark and I am in the light. It is normal for the enemy to take advantage of the loopholes due to negligence. As long as there are remedial measures, it can show that both sides are at least evenly matched.

But if we can't make amends, it will be troublesome. The situation is that the enemy is in the dark and I am in the light. Facing the enemy's attack, if I don't have any countermeasures, I will be waiting for death.

Fortunately, things didn't get to the worst point. Lei Zeen nodded: "Of course, but it will take three days. After three days, we can pull them out of the illusion."

After three days, the daylily will be cold!

Su Bei complained in his heart, but in fact, he knew that it was already very good to be able to do this. It is not so easy to solve other people's illusions, not to mention that the person who created this illusion is obviously a very powerful psychic. It was really a fast speed to pull someone out in three days.

Besides, this is not useless. If the enemy's purpose is to trap them in the illusion, then pulling them out is victory. In the comic world, it would be unscientific if the existence of a school could really help the protagonists.

After making sure that the school was still strong enough to fight the "Black Flash" organization, Su Bei started to act heartlessly again. To be honest, before the final battle, it was hard for him to worry about the members of the protagonist group.

As he expected, in the afternoon, the others woke up one after another. The first one to wake up was Li Shu. Coincidentally, Su Bei and Ye Lin came to his room at that time.

Li Shu suddenly opened his eyes. His face was as pale as paper, but his eyes were shockingly bright: "So this is an illusion!"

"Li Shu, you're awake," Ye Lin said in surprise, and then used her supernatural powers to check his body. After confirming that there was nothing wrong, she left to call other teachers.

Su Bei stayed here: "What is illusion?"

Perhaps because he was excited, Li Shu answered his question directly: "The real illusion is a combination of reality and illusion. It doesn't have to be detailed!"

Su Bei understood. It seemed that this guy not only successfully saw through the illusion, but also gained some insights. His special ability was originally [Illusion], so this test was tailor-made for him.

As soon as he finished speaking, Meng Huai and three others walked in and began to ask Li Shu how he entered the illusion and what he encountered in the illusion.

He was in a group with Jiang Tianming. When the two were being chased, they ran into a chess piece that could pass through walls and fainted. When he woke up again, he entered a fantasy world.

What he encountered before was similar to what Su Bei and his friends had experienced, but there were only two stairs in that castle. There were several huge nightmare beasts guarding the first floor, and they seemed to have some mental resistance, so his illusions were not very effective and he could only fight them in melee.

After dealing with them, I went to the second floor. There was a man with makeup on the second floor. His supernatural power was also illusion. The two of them fought against each other. Li Shu lost at the beginning and fell into the opponent's illusion.

Later, he found a flaw, came to his senses, successfully defeated his opponent, and discovered that the whole world might be an illusion.

Li Shu's own special ability was to create illusions, so he was naturally very familiar with illusions. After discovering the situation, he didn't even go upstairs, but jumped out of the third floor window and returned to the point where he came in to look for the eye of the array.

The so-called array eye is a base point of the illusion, which must be a dead object, so its position and shape are uncertain.

Su Bei and his friends had never learned this knowledge, after all, it was not yet time to specifically talk about various superpowers. Lei Zeen quietly told him while Li Shu was talking.

Among all the people in Class S, Li Shu, the illusionist, is probably the only one who knows this bit of knowledge.

Sure enough, the eye of the array was attached to a tender green vine below the cliff. He came out after pulling off the vine.

"But how do you know the eye of the array is at the very beginning?" Su Bei asked curiously.

Li Shu looked a little weak, but he still explained softly: "The larger the illusion space, the more mental energy is consumed. If the road outside is useless, why didn't the other party let us appear directly in the castle hall?"

So that's how it is! Su Bei understood. It was because he didn't use his brain, otherwise it wouldn't be difficult to think of this.

Slowly, everyone woke up. According to their descriptions, they had encountered challenges on each floor. Two floors were related to illusions, and one floor was specifically designed to target their superpowers.

It is worth mentioning that among all the people who are awake at present, except Su Bei, no one else has reached the fifth floor. Among these people, except Li Shu who left on the third floor, the rest of them broke through the illusion and left on the fourth floor.

There are still five people who haven't woken up yet. In addition to the three original protagonists and Si Zhaohua, surprisingly, there is also Zhou Renjie. How could this guy sneak into the former team? It feels a bit strange no matter how you think about it...

Looking at the other person's sleeping figure, Su Bei raised his eyebrows and showed a meaningful expression.

Others had never been to the fifth floor, but he had been there without any hindrance. From his point of view, that floor was definitely not for fighting, but seemed more like it was for talking.

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On why Su Bei did not encounter danger in the castle:

ABCD were originally the gatekeepers on each floor of the stairs where Su Bei was located, and A was the illusion maker.

When a few people from Northern Jiangsu arrived, they were eating fruit and watching a play on the second floor.

A: "Get ready, go back to your respective floors, and don't forget to hide your faces, this is just a test."

B: "I know, I know. I'll wait until I finish the fruit plate. You did a great job replicating the reality."

C: "Wait for the replica of reality"

B: "Don't you know?"

C: "I..."

D: "Gulu Gulu (my stomach is growling)"

D: "Help! Why do I suddenly have to go to the bathroom?"

“Gulp Gulp—”

A: "I'm starting to want to go to the bathroom."

B: "Me too, who put laxatives in the fruit bowl?"

C: “…”

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