Chapter 9

If I guessed correctly, from Feng Lan's temperament and the money in his meal card, he should be a rich man. Such people are faced with many schemes, so instead of beating around the bush and making others suspect that you have bad intentions, it is better to ask directly.

Anyway, everyone in Class F must be very curious after hearing about the supernatural power of [Prophecy], so Su Bei estimated that it would not matter if he asked.

As expected, Feng Lan didn't intend to hide anything. After swallowing the rice in his mouth, he answered: "It's [Prophecy]. It can consume mental energy to randomly predict some general things, such as 'something will happen on the first day of school'. It can also predict some specific things, but that consumes more mental energy, and in my current situation, the latter can only be used once a month."

"Something will happen on the first day of school"

If someone else heard this prophecy, they might just feel confused. But Su Bei deeply felt the power of Feng Lan's [Prophecy] ability.

This is exactly the supernatural power that Su Bei originally wanted to arrange for himself.

After thinking for a moment, his eyes flashed: "Doesn't that mean it has no ability to attack or defend and can't be used in battle?"

Feng Lan nodded and shook her head: "This ability itself does not have the ability to fight, but it can be used to fight."

After saying this, he lowered his head and continued to eat, and Su Bei did not ask any more questions. He knew that the relationship between the two of them was far from being open to the point where they could be made public, and it was already very good that Feng Lan was willing to say so much.

The information he revealed just now was enough to give Su Bei a new idea. Since Feng Lan's ability was not offensive, he could use this to adjust his own ability plan.

How to adjust the offensive destiny...

After dinner, the two returned to the boys' dormitory together.

The "Infinite Power Academy" was very generous in this regard, and all students had their own rooms. Even the F-class students who had basically no future had their own private rooms with toilets.

There were no other classes on the afternoon of the first day of school, so Su Bei said goodbye to Feng Lan, walked into the dormitory and began to pack up his luggage which he had haphazardly placed there in the morning.

While cleaning him up, he asked, "Are you here at 'Manga Sense'? Please send me a copy of the old manga. I want to study the old plots."

The plot of the first part made it easier for him to further study the personalities of the three main characters, and the beginning of the second part also offered much to study.

"Okay, I've put it and the forum on your phone, you can check it anytime. In other people's eyes, you are reading review materials."

Hearing this, Su Bei breathed a sigh of relief. This setup was great. If his phone was lost and someone else found it, he wouldn't have to worry.

He was touched by the rare thoughtfulness of "Comic Consciousness". You know, many students in the lower classes will self-study the content of general cultural courses in the gaps between attending the Academy of Special Abilities.

They have no talent in the world of superpowers, and will eventually return to the world of ordinary people. In the world of ordinary people, education plays a big role.

The Academy of Special Abilities actually turned a blind eye to this. They even assigned extra cultural courses to the students in Class F and helped recommend schools after graduation.

When I opened my phone, I found a comics app. The icon was a close-up photo of Jiang Tianming, Lan Subing, and Wu Mingbai.

When I opened the app, I was greeted by a very simple green interface. There were two books in it, one was the first part of "Superpowers Are King", and the other was the second part.

There are two columns at the top, one is the comics column and the other is the forum column.

After hesitating for a moment, Su Bei swiped right and entered the forum.

《The Academy chapter is about to begin. I'm so excited!》

"Please, give the academy chapter a few more cool characters. There are too few popular characters in this series."

What does Jiang Jiang mean by the words at the end of Li Tao's first film?

The hot posts were marked with yellow logos, which were very conspicuous. The post about the foreshadowing of the comic immediately attracted Su Bei's attention. After reading the comic, he was also very curious about what Jiang Tianming meant by the last sentence.

However, he did not click on this post, and the second part of the comic has not yet started updating. If the audience can guess the foreshadowing at this time, then this comic will not need to be updated.

Not seeing anything particularly useful, he flipped back to the comics interface and clicked on the second part. The first part was longer, so there must be more hidden information. But the problem was that the content of the second part was more urgent for him, and he had to study it quickly.

After packing up, I sat on the bed. When I was about to open the second part, Su Bei suddenly asked a question: "Originally, the second part of the comic was about my death. Now that I am alive, how will the comic handle this problem?"

Comics Consciousness didn't expect him to realize this. After hesitating for a while, he finally gave the answer. After all, this matter couldn't be hidden: "Someone else will die in your place."

The room was so quiet that even the sound of breathing could not be heard. "Comic Consciousness" seemed to be unable to bear such silence and spoke again: "So you..."

"I what?" Su Bei suddenly interrupted it and chuckled, "Oh, do you want to say 'So you should work hard and not let that person's death down'?"

If someone observed carefully, they would find that although he was smiling, there was no smile in his eyes, only coldness.

The half-hidden bangs covered his eyebrows, his lightly blinking eyelids, and the curved corners of his mouth, a sense of ruffian flowing naturally out of him.

“…Is there anything wrong with this sentence?” “Comics Consciousness” really meant to say this.

Su Bei, who had seen many criminals with his father, rarely fell into any logical trap. He was clear-headed from beginning to end: "You have to know that even I didn't provoke the killer because of negligence at that time."

He clearly remembered that his mind was in a state of chaos at that time, and his behavior was almost out of his control before his "comic consciousness" made him sober.

In other words, "Whether it's my death or the death of a substitute, it's all plot-killing!"

Su Bei is a man of iron and steel.

He would not punish himself for the death of his substitute, because it was clearly not his fault and he was also a victim.

"What really killed us was the killer, the plot, and the comics! As a victim, why should I feel guilty? I should even use this as motivation to work hard."

At this point, he raised his head and said with a hint of a smile: "No one will feel guilty about this, so who is PUA here?"

He had figured this out after he was resurrected and understood the situation clearly. Otherwise, he would not let someone else be a scapegoat and live with a life on his shoulders.

This remark successfully silenced the "comic consciousness" again, and it realized that although it did not intend to be a PUA when it first said that, as Su Bei said, it had indeed got the wrong direction from the very beginning.

Whether it is the death of Su Bei that was set at the beginning, or the death of the substitute now, it is the fate that the author set up in order for the comic to proceed smoothly.

But the comic book author will not feel guilty, because in his eyes, all the people in the comic book are characters created by his brush. How can it be wrong for the author to arrange the fate of the characters he wrote?

"I didn't choose the right words, I'm sorry, it really has nothing to do with you." After realizing his mistake directly, the "comic consciousness" apologized decisively without the emotion of shame that humans have.

At this time, Su Bei regained his usual smiling expression, as if the cold anger just now was an illusion: "Since you also know that it is your problem, then you almost framed me for murder, so do you want to give me some compensation?"

"…What compensation do you want?"

"Let me simulate the death of the original 'me'." Su Bei pointed to the last page of the second part of the comic, the gears scattered on the ground next to his body in the toilet, and said affirmatively, "I think 'me' should have found some clues about the murderer before I died."

Based on Su Bei's understanding of himself, he is definitely not someone who would subconsciously use supernatural powers to protect himself.

After all, in his opinion, that ability was useless except for reducing some expenses for running a hardware store. If he wanted to protect himself, his inherent fighting skills would be more useful.

So why are there so many small gears next to his body in the picture?

There is only one possibility, that he deliberately released the small gear. The purpose is to provide the protagonist with key clues. The number of gears, placement, size and shape... may be a metaphor for the identity of the murderer.

In other words, he should have seen the murderer's face before he died, or at least saw some clues to prove his identity.

And now northern Jiangsu is in great need of this clue.

There were two reasons why he wanted to know this. First, he was worried that the other party would come to harm him again. After all, although he did not see the man's face, with the man's decisive and murderous character, he would not necessarily let him go.

The second is that knowing the subsequent plot in advance will help him take the initiative to plan and establish his own character.

It is worth mentioning that there are generally only two possibilities for the murderer of a case like this one. Either he is found quickly, which only serves to get the reader into the plot quickly. Or he may lead to subsequent plots, such as the organization or conspiracy behind the murderer.

Or it could be a foreshadowing that runs through the main plot, and the identity of the murderer may not be revealed until the very end.

Su Bei hopes it is the former, if it is the latter then it will be troublesome.

That meant that he would not only be unable to immediately eliminate the danger on his body, but he might also have provoked a huge monster. This was in conflict with Su Bei's positioning of himself as a "three no-touches".

But no matter what, the clues left by this "self" before his death must be analyzed. The more clues you can get, the more you can create a prophetic character step by step.

You have to know that he won't be able to read comics in advance anymore. This is the easiest and only chance for him to create a prophetic character for himself.

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