A Guide for Background Characters to Survive in a Manga - Chapter 340 : Chapter 340

Chapter 340

“Cough cough… you’re awake?”

As soon as I woke up, I heard the voice of the “Manga Consciousness” in my ear. My memory gradually returned. Remembering what happened before I fainted, I couldn’t help but laugh with anger. “You didn’t even remind me beforehand that I would faint after eating the mushroom?”

“I didn’t know you would faint either…” The “Manga Consciousness” was very guilty. It mainly had theoretical knowledge but no practical experience.

Theoretically, the poisonous mushroom could help break the seal, which was completely fine. But no one in my situation had eaten a poisonous mushroom before, so it didn’t know that I would faint after eating it!

Then it quickly explained, “Of course, this is my mistake. So if any danger had occurred while you were unconscious, I would have helped you solve it. See, aren’t you awake now, safe and sound?”

That was true, and I didn’t lose anything. I rolled my eyes and didn’t pursue the matter. I stood up, patted my butt, and felt my current situation. “It doesn’t seem to be any different from before?”

The “Manga Consciousness” scanned my physical condition and said while scanning, “You’re sealed, so naturally you can’t feel it. Let me see… you’ll be unsealed in about three months.”

Originally it was less than six months, but now the time had been reduced by half. The significant effect made my eyes light up. “Then can I eat another one?”

Although I knew it probably wouldn’t work, I still couldn’t help but ask. What if? One bite could reduce the time by three months, and two bites would be half a year. I could go back to school right away after fainting for a while.

Of course, even if I immediately recovered my ability, I wouldn’t go back to school. I had finally found a completely reasonable reason to openly suspend my studies. I would be a fool to go back.

What’s more, if I went back now, I would encounter danger right away. Even if the author had promised that I wouldn’t die in the main storyline, I didn’t want to get involved in such troublesome matters.

The result was as I expected. The “Manga Consciousness” didn’t give me any hope. “No, this mushroom has already done the limit of what external force can do. The rest has to be recovered by yourself.”

I sighed slightly, but I wasn’t surprised. It was already an unexpected joy that this seal could be reduced by half. To remove it completely was simply wishful thinking.

After returning to the hotel from the big forest, while I was still on the road, I heard the “Manga Consciousness” broadcast, “《King of Abilities》 has been updated, please check.”

The manga was updated at this time. Did something happen again?

I opened the manga and took a brief look. I raised an eyebrow. To my surprise, the author didn’t draw the plot of me meeting Jiang Tianming and the others later. The readers still didn’t know if I was dead or alive.

This made the readers who were originally convinced that I was still alive start to hesitate. Logically speaking, the doll in the previous chapter of the manga was almost ironclad proof that I was still alive. In that case, what was the need for the author not to release me yet?

Could it be that the doll was actually a feint by the author, to give them hope before letting them despair, which was a common trick of the author.

“Homepage reminder, Su Bei still hasn’t resurrected in this chapter.”

“Old thief, what are you trying to do?”

“Why hasn’t Su Bei been resurrected yet? How many chapters are you going to bury a foreshadowing for?”

“I have a bad feeling…”

“Old thief, you can’t possibly let Su Bei die, right?”

“No suspense!”

I was also very helpless. I asked the “Manga Consciousness,” “Why didn’t the author let me back?”

“That way, when you appear at the end, it will cause a bigger sensation,” the “Manga Consciousness” said as if it were a matter of course. “Don’t worry, unless the author confirms in the manga that you are dead, there will definitely not be a vast majority of readers who think you are dead.”

That was true. Most readers would not be willing to believe in the death of a righteous character, especially a popular player like me whose death was controversial. There would definitely be many people who hoped that I could be resurrected. No, it should be said that they hoped I was not dead, so they would naturally not meet the conditions to change themselves through the forum.

Without saying anything more, I continued to read the manga. This chapter was Ling You’s special. Because of her previous performances, she was finally noticed by the Nightmare Beasts.

If it were before, it would not be so easy to notice her. After all, countless low-level Nightmare Beasts were produced every day. So what if she killed them quickly?

But now it was different. The Nightmare Beast world could no longer generate new Nightmare Beasts, so even extremely low-level Nightmare Beasts could not be treated as mere consumables. A guy like Ling You who could reduce the number of Nightmare Beasts on a large scale was naturally regarded as a thorn in their side.

Especially now that she could cause such an effect before she had grown up. What would happen if she grew up?

Next was the relatively conventional kidnapping plot. Ling You generally did not leave the academy, but this time the situation was different. A big shot in the medical field who studied viruses was going to hold a special seminar abroad. Only those who were invited could attend.

This seminar would be very beneficial to Ling You’s ability research, and it just so happened that Meng Huai had an invitation in his hand.

Seeing this, I couldn’t help but smile. For a seminar in the medical field, those who could receive an invitation must be big shots in the medical field. It was known that Meng Huai’s ability was definitely not related to medicine. Then who gave him the invitation?

In order to lead to Ye Lin’s second defection in the later stage, the author had taken great pains.

In addition to a few teachers, Class S also sent Lan Subing, Ai Baozhu, and Zhou Renjie to go with Ling You. The three of them could play a good protective role, and they were more convenient than the teachers who had other tasks.

The organizer of the seminar was just an ordinary person. Although he had hired many ability users as bodyguards, the Nightmare Beasts really couldn’t be stopped if they wanted to cause trouble. Especially since one of the people he invited was Ling You, one of the protagonist group, it was even more impossible to stop them.

Next was the conventional find-and-rescue part, which I was not very interested in, so I flipped through it quickly. Soon I came to the end of this chapter.

Because Ling You was a member of Class S, and the big trouble in the Nightmare Beast world not long ago was brought by the members of Class S, the Nightmare Beasts now hated their class to the bone. Now that they had someone in their hands, the Nightmare Beasts naturally couldn’t let Ling You die so easily.

The way they found for Ling You to die was to die from a plague virus. The [Plague] ability user died from a plague. This was both an insult to Ling You by the Nightmare Beasts and a warning to humans.

But as we all know, villains die from talking too much. If Gray Wolf didn’t insist on eating cooked meat, 《Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf》 would have ended eight hundred years ago. The time they were wasting now was the water in their brains, and the price of having so much water in their brains was a complete defeat.

In the end, the plan failed. Not only did they let Lan Subing and the others rescue Ling You, but they also let her fuse with that virus and obtain a powerful virus that could spread indiscriminately in the Nightmare Beast world.

This was what it meant to try to steal a chicken but lose the rice, and lose the wife and the army. I was amazed.

And besides Ling You’s progress, another point worth noting in this chapter was the change in the villains.

The “Black Flash” organization, as usual, cooperated with the Nightmare Beasts. They were now almost openly enemies of all mankind. The government wanted to clear them out as before, but found that they couldn’t even find their base.

At the same time, reactionary organizations in other countries also surfaced and began to move. Because they were active enough and numerous enough, they soon replaced the “Black Flash” organization and became the new major threat to various countries.

The villain pattern could be said to have suddenly changed from the original one-superpower-many-strong to a multipolar pattern (a big fog). Instead, the originally prominent “Black Flash” organization had become hidden.

As the saying goes, when a child is quiet, he must be up to no good. The people in the situation couldn’t see it, but as a bystander, I could see it clearly. The silence of the “Black Flash” organization was definitely not because it was suppressed too much, or because it had lost its goal and was in a slump. They could only be secretly accumulating strength, and then suddenly give the world a big one.

But I didn’t care. If nothing unexpected happened, the “Black Flash” organization would definitely be completely eliminated in this season. The author’s habit was obviously one villain per season. For example, in the first season of the manga, it was the group that killed the orphanage director’s mother, and this season it was the “Black Flash” organization.

Speaking of which, I was actually quite curious about what the next season would be. If the Nightmare Beasts were resolved, logically speaking, there shouldn’t be a bigger villain, right? Could it be a split within the righteous side?

Thinking of this, I couldn’t help but shake my head. It was best not to be like this. I hated my own people fighting my own people. But I also knew that if my previous guess was true, then the possibility of this guess was actually very high. After all, if something didn’t go wrong with my own people, how could the academy be in chaos?

I could only hope that the previous guess was false, and that the author would directly open up a new battlefield for the third season of 《King of Abilities》 instead of continuing to cause trouble in the “Endless Ability Academy.”

So annoying. Why don’t I just drop out of school at this opportunity?

I let out a long sigh, closed the manga, and then asked, “So I need to go back in three months?”

“Not that fast,” because the tourists hadn’t come yet, the “Manga Consciousness” still had plenty of time. “It’s just that the plot definitely won’t last for six months, so I have to help you recover as soon as possible.”

That is to say, there was still a gap between my recovery of ability and my appearance. I planned to make full use of this gap. Otherwise, if I disappeared for almost half a year without any progress, while others were slowly making progress, wouldn’t that be equivalent to me regressing?

While my ability had not yet recovered during this period, I could first think about which direction to develop next. It just so happened that I had had a related inspiration before, but things had happened too quickly afterwards, so I didn’t have time to think about it carefully. Now was a good time to think about it.