Chapter 350

A series of events unfolded as soon as he woke up. There was the investigation, meeting up with the people from Endless Ability Academy, restoring his identity, understanding the cause and effect, the manga update…

By the time he had gone through the entire process, it was already nine o’clock at night the next day when Su Bei arrived at his new dormitory.

As his former teacher, Ye Lin was the one responsible for showing him the way. That’s right, during the last few manga updates, Ye Lin had already defected for a second time, and she had even brought her younger sister with her this time.

That particular plot point used half a chapter to detail the internal changes within the Black Flash Organization. Gong Yuzhi and Ye Lin had collaborated, leading a large group of members in a defection. Some of them left willingly, while others, who were guilty of heinous crimes, were hypnotized by Gong Yuzhi and taken along as bargaining chips for future negotiations with the righteous side.

Cyril absolutely could not accept the leader’s cooperation with the Nightmare Beasts. However, he wasn’t a fool either. After accumulating power for a period, he defected directly with the majority of the research staff. His current whereabouts are unknown.

Thanks to having a close scientist friend, he knew exactly what those researchers wanted. By prescribing the right medicine for the illness, he successfully won them over.

The only ones who still chose to follow the leader were Li Xiang and Mo Xiaotian. Both had been raised by him since childhood, and their loyalty was on a completely different level from the others. Su Bei wasn’t sure about Li Xiang’s situation, but it was clear that Mo Xiaotian wouldn’t follow this path to the very end.

Returning to the present, Ye Lin was, after all, a two-time defector. Although Meng Huai and Lei Ze’en vouched for her, she couldn’t be completely trusted. As a result, she had a relatively free schedule, which was why she had the time to guide Su Bei.

“Xiao Huai asked me to ask you what your plans are next,” Ye Lin said, not leaving immediately after they reached Su Bei’s dorm. Instead, she relayed the message Meng Huai had entrusted to her.

Now that he was back, his faked death could no longer be maintained, which meant he couldn’t return to the Arctic like before. Even if they agreed, the Nightmare Beasts certainly wouldn’t.

Having already thought it through, Su Bei put one hand in his pocket and answered calmly, “I’ll help out if there’s anything I need to do. But Teacher, you also know my situation is quite dangerous right now. The government won’t be arranging any trouble for me, will they?”

Upon hearing this, Ye Lin nodded in understanding. “Don’t worry, I’ll convey your request exactly as you’ve stated it.”

Seeing her in such good spirits, Su Bei couldn’t help but ask curiously, “Teacher Ye, how have things been for you since you came back?”

The question was vague, but Ye Lin clearly understood, smiling as she replied, “Not bad. My ability is very useful, after all, isn’t it?”

This time, it was Su Bei’s turn to understand. That was true. Ability users were rare, and powerful ones were even rarer. The government’s attitude toward such scarce and indispensable individuals had always been lenient. As long as they didn’t commit any errors of principle, they were generally given a chance to atone for their crimes through meritorious service.

As for the so-called errors of principle, one of them was cooperating with Nightmare Beasts. This was also why Ye Lin had decisively left the Black Flash Organization and secretly contacted her old classmates after discovering the leader’s actions.

Other major crimes naturally included things like murder. However, as a healing-type ability user and not even a researcher for the organization, she had spent a large part of her life on the righteous side. Therefore, she really didn’t have many sins to her name, which was why she could be so free.

Su Bei had to admit he genuinely admired Teacher Ye Lin. Talk about emerging from the mud unstained (Just kidding)! She had been in the Black Flash Organization for twenty years and was deeply trusted, yet upon her return, she was only sentenced to probation.

After bidding farewell to Ye Lin, Su Bei returned to his room, opened his phone, and started reading the manga.

The beginning of the manga picked up where the last chapter left off. With great foresight, the government began preparing the Sanctuary Cities. Both Ability users and ordinary people were contributing to their construction, preparing to face the battle that was about to break out.

Just as Su Bei had expected, the message Wu Di sent him, hoping the leader of the ‘Destiny’ organization could personally participate in the war, was also featured in the manga, even getting its own dedicated panel.

At first glance, this seemed to be a way to build an atmosphere of uniting all possible forces during wartime, but in reality, it was foreshadowing for the later reveal of his identity as the leader.

Soon, the battle erupted. Everyone performed their respective duties. Defense-type Ability users were assigned to different Sanctuary Cities as before, while those with offensive abilities mostly followed their previously submitted team rosters to eliminate Nightmare Beasts in the war zones.

The turning point in the plot was when Mo Xiaotian contacted Jiang Tianming and told him the news about the Black Flash Organization’s leader. Seeing Mo Xiaotian again, his appearance was vastly different. He was dressed in black, his face wearing a rare, expressionless look. It wasn’t like he had turned evil, but more like his heart had died.

His gaze was still firm. As soon as they met, he bluntly explained the general situation. The leader possessed a method that could link the fates of two opposing forces, as long as enough power was sacrificed.

It was essentially a magnified version of Su Bei’s ability.

The leader’s plan was to link the fates of Nightmare Beasts and humans. By consuming a large number of Advanced Nightmare Beasts and countless human lives, and then using the people of an entire city as a catalyst to forge the connection.

Finally, he would cause the Nightmare Beasts to die collectively, thereby achieving a result of mutual destruction.

Of course, this wasn’t what the leader told Mo Xiaotian. He had deduced it himself after sensing something was wrong and searching for clues.

The only definite piece of information he had was his grandfather’s current location in the Nightmare Beast World—the place where the sacrifice of the Advanced Nightmare Beasts was to be conducted.

This method could be completely thwarted simply by preventing one side from completing the full sacrifice, thus failing to meet the required energy threshold. Mo Xiaotian had a way to get there; it was a teleportation talisman his grandfather had specially given him, so he would have a way to seek help if anything major happened in the real world.

However, because there had been too many traitors in the Black Flash Organization recently, even though he had great trust in his grandson, his grandfather had still placed a restriction on the talisman: it could not teleport adults.

There was no time to lose. Believing what Mo Xiaotian said, the protagonist’s group traveled together to the Nightmare Beast World using the teleportation talisman.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Ai Baozhu’s city massacre operation had officially begun.

Seeing this, Su Bei finally perked up. It was almost his time to make an appearance. He hoped the author would draw him a bit more handsomely.

However, the author didn’t reveal his identity right away. In this chapter, Su Bei’s first appearance was as that brown-haired persona. The scene was the one where he saved Ai Baozhu from her leader. Although this persona had appeared before, it had been so long ago, and his appearance was so ordinary and his clothes had changed, that not many readers could guess it was him at first.

Instead, there were many spoiler-leakers from later parts of the story revealing his identity in the bullet comments.

It wasn’t until they saw him use his gear to attack the leader’s wrist, causing the man to die a sudden and violent death the next second, that the bullet comments finally exploded.

“Ahhhhhh, what did I just see? Su Bei is resurrected!”

“Su Bei, is that you? Is that you, Su Bei?”

“Still as handsome as ever.”

“I knew he wasn’t dead. Even though I guessed it long ago, I’m still so excited!”

“Nice try, I’d recognize you even in a disguise.jpg”

“Ta-da! Your boy Bei makes his grand entrance!”

’The following plot shifted to Su Bei’s perspective. First, he came to the window and saw the sudden appearance of a horde of Nightmare Beasts. It was clear that the Su Bei in the manga wasn’t surprised at all. After settling Ai Baozhu down, he made his way to the top of the city wall and activated his ability.

This time, the depiction of his ability was much more conspicuous than before. The phantom of the Destiny Compass behind him was significantly more solid. It had to be said that the author was very detailed; compared to before, Su Bei’s Mental Energy had indeed been strengthened somewhat.

This was all thanks to that faked death. After his entire body’s Mental Energy and all his abilities were expended, his body would automatically generate new Mental Energy to fill the void, much like how one’s mouth automatically produces saliva when thirsty.

But this newly generated Mental Energy didn’t come from nowhere; it was squeezed out from his body, which was equivalent to indirectly stimulating his potential.

Every person who exhausted their Mental Energy actually had at least one such opportunity for improvement, but most people didn’t feel the increase in Mental Energy due to the loss of their life force.

While using his ability, he was like a magical girl transforming in an anime; his hair, eyes, and even his face changed, turning into the familiar, dazzling appearance that readers knew so well.

The bullet comments erupted once again, but this time Su Bei didn’t pay them much mind. Instead, he quickly flipped the pages, arriving at the part with his final line.

After he said with a playful expression, “The principal said to come, so I came. I really am a good student,” the frequency of the bullet comments didn’t decrease at all. In fact, it got even higher.

“What does that mean? When did the principal tell him to come?”

“Is he referring to the school motto?”

“Wait? It can’t be what I think it is!”

“He’s talking about that letter the principal wrote to the ‘Destiny’ organization, right?”

“This is terrifying if you think about it, my friends.”

“Su Bei, you?!”

“It can’t be… Su Bei can’t be the leader of ‘Destiny’, can he?”

Seeing a bullet comment accurately point out the truth, Su Bei instantly felt relieved. He hadn’t failed; everything had proceeded smoothly according to plan. The author’s hint wasn’t obscure. With the wild imaginations of these readers, as long as one person guessed the truth, the others would soon believe it as well.

Continuing to read the manga, after his part of the story ended, the scene shifted back to Jiang Tianming and the others.

Without a doubt, they thwarted the Black Flash Organization leader’s conspiracy, interrupting the sacrifice at the critical moment. At the same time, more than half of the Advanced Nightmare Beasts didn’t survive either, having perished in the ritual.

They were able to achieve this largely thanks to Mo Xiaotian’s unreserved help. He single-handedly isolated all the Advanced Nightmare Beasts one by one and then used spatial compression to immobilize them, which gave the protagonist’s group the opportunity to act.

At the very end, seeing the sacrificial plan fail, a space-type Advanced Nightmare Beast unleashed its power, trying to tear open a spatial rift to take everyone away. Jiang Tianming and his group managed to escape successfully, but Mo Xiaotian’s group did not. He had wanted to take his grandfather away, but his grandfather refused. In the struggle, they were both sucked into the spatial rift.