A Guide for Background Characters to Survive in a Manga - Chapter 352 : Chapter 352

Chapter 352

“It’s that one.” Feng Lan nodded. “The name of this item is ‘The Queen’s Poisoned Apple.’ Eat the red part, and no matter the cause of death, you will only enter a state of feigned death. You can return to normal after coughing up the apple. However, after one feigned death, if your body suffers a second fatal blow, the item will no longer work.”

To put it simply, this was a resurrection item, and it had no drawbacks, so it could be said to be very powerful.

“Why are you giving this to me?” Su Bei asked in confusion.

Feng Lan’s expression was one of innocent matter-of-factness. “A replacement.”

Because Su Bei had used one, he was replacing it for him here, lest he encounter danger again later and have no resurrection item available.

Before Su Bei could say anything, Wu Mingbai stood up, also holding an item in his hand. “The three of us also want to give you a replacement resurrection item. You don’t have to deny it. I know you definitely saved me. This is what you deserve.”

“I also prepared one.” Si Zhaohua stood up right after, also with a resurrection item.

Su Bei tilted his head. “Did you guys plan this?”

The few of them looked at each other and shook their heads helplessly. Jiang Tianming laughed in amusement. “Not really, it was just a coincidence.”

Su Bei accepted the items from the other two groups with a clear conscience. He had indeed saved people, so wasn’t it right for him to be rewarded? But Feng Lan’s was different. After putting away the other two items, he held the apple and handed it to Feng Lan. “There’s no need. I don’t lack them now.”

“Our family has a lot of these.” Feng Lan said with a serious face. He wasn’t lying. Their family had so many of these resurrection-type and defense-type items that it was like hair on an ox. These years, the Feng family had collected most of this kind of item.

What a big shot. Su Bei felt a little amused, but in the end, he did not refuse his classmate’s kindness again.

As the host, Si Zhaohua had prepared the dishes without any problems. There were no dietary restrictions at the table, and as far as the eye could see, there was at least one dish that everyone liked. It was unknown when he had observed this.

Everyone at the dinner table was talking and laughing, but they all tacitly avoided topics related to Mo Xiaotian. Although the continuous battles during this period had eased their grief a lot, the death of a classmate was still difficult for them to let go of.

Although Mo Xiaotian was a traitor, he had done far more good things for them than bad, so naturally, they couldn’t blame him.

Wu Jin sat quietly for a while. When there were no people surrounding Su Bei, he leaned over and asked in a low voice, “My dad asked me to ask you how many people from the ‘Destiny’ organization came? Also, this is for you.”

He also gave Su Bei an item, but it was not a resurrection item, but a defense item.

Although Wu Di saw the bounty posted in the organization, he didn’t know who had taken it, so he asked his son to ask his classmate. Of course, there was another purpose, which was to find out if the leader had come.

As for this item, it was to thank Su Bei for what he had done. He should have thanked him long ago, but Su Bei was feigning death before, so he couldn’t do much.

Su Bei shrugged. How could he answer this question? Wouldn’t that be exposing the organization’s secrets? Therefore, he just answered very innocently, “The members of an intelligence organization keep their identities secret even from each other. Probably only the leader knows the answer to this question.”

It was just that he happened to be the leader of the “Destiny” organization, so he really knew the answer to this question.

The update time of the last chapter of the second season was within Su Bei’s expectations. After more than half a year, the Nightmare Beasts were almost wiped out, at least they couldn’t form a large-scale attack anymore. The long-lost voice of the “Manga Consciousness” finally sounded: “《King of Abilities》 has been updated, please check.”

When he heard the notification, Su Bei was eating. Hearing this, he raised his eyebrows, quickly finished the few mouthfuls of rice in his bowl, picked up the school resumption notice on the dining table again, looked at it, and then opened his phone to check the manga.

Although he had participated in the entire plot later on, and there were no unexpected events, there probably wouldn’t be any major surprises in the manga either. But after all, it was the grand finale of this season, and Su Bei, who had participated in the entire season, of course had to give it some respect.

The plot in the beginning was very normal; it was a segment of everyone working together to eliminate the Nightmare Beasts. The Author intentionally created a group portrait in the grand finale, giving many of Su Bei’s acquaintances screen time.

Including the students of “Alpha Ability Academy,” Mu Yunfan and Feng Manman, Officer Zhou and Zhou Min from Longevity Village, the still imprisoned chairman of “Life Tech Machinery Co., Ltd.”, Feng Ling, Cyril, and other former members of the “Black Flash” organization, Wu Mingbai’s family, Meng Huai’s trio……

At the very end, it was the main character group’s turn to appear.

Probably in order of plot importance, Su Bei was the fourth to last to appear. The Author did not put him in front just because he had been lazing around doing almost nothing during this period. Even his lazing around was drawn very interestingly. And it was a huge contrast to the others. While they were bravely killing the enemy, Su Bei was watching cartoons in his room.

Drawing everyone’s plot required a lot of space. The rest was the overall situation of the battle. From the intuitive decrease in the number of Nightmare Beasts in the battlefield’s bird’s-eye view, to the Ability users having time to reunite, to ordinary people starting to go out and do business…… one by one, they all indicated that the battle was gradually tilting towards the human side.

The state of all things reviving after the severe cold was revealed bit by bit through these details in the manga. While making people feel happy, it also made the readers realize that this season seemed to be coming to an end.

And that was indeed the case. The end of the main story was the plot where Su Bei and the others received the school resumption notice from “Endless Ability Academy.” Their return to school symbolized the gradual subsidence of the storm of this battle.

Su Bei had just received the school resumption notice. They were still minors, so it was very necessary for them to go to school. The current situation was not as tense as before, and the battlefield was controlled in a few fixed places. Even ordinary people were gradually relocating and returning to their homes, so they naturally had to start school again.

To be honest, Su Bei had mixed feelings about going to school. Although this notice indicated that their lives were about to return to normal, which student these days likes to go to school?

“Eh? Why is there more?” Based on past experience, the plot should have ended here. Just as he was about to close the manga, Su Bei suddenly noticed that the manga seemed to be able to be flipped to the next page.

He stopped his action and clicked to see the next page.

The first scene after flipping the page was a scene right after a war. Because it had just ended, the corpses of the Nightmare Beasts had not disappeared yet. The dense pile of Nightmare Beast corpses and some human corpses looked very cruel.

After the war, some humans came to clean up the human corpses, recycling them and then burying them. The families of these deceased would receive a large sum of consolation money. For the deceased without families, this consolation money would become their burial expenses.

In the next scene, the corpses of the Nightmare Beasts began to dissipate. The Nightmare Beasts, born from the resentment of the dead, finally had their resentment dissipate after they themselves died.

Seeing this, a look of confusion appeared in Su Bei’s eyes. There had been no problems with the plot up to this point, so why add such a segment?

No, wait, there seemed to be a problem?

Suddenly, Su Bei’s brows furrowed. He noticed that when those Nightmare Beasts were dissipating, a wisp of black smoke appeared on their bodies.

At first, he subconsciously thought that this was the manifestation of resentment dissipating in the manga, just like how their Abilities also had relatively concrete auras in the manga. These were things that people in the manga couldn’t see with the naked eye; it was just that the Author drew them this way to make the manga more beautiful and clearer for the readers to see.

But what if it wasn’t this time? Not black mist drawn to add special effects, but something had indeed escaped from the Nightmare Beasts’ corpses?

With that thought, Su Bei flipped to the next page.

The next page had only one large picture——

On a grayish, isolated island, the waves were constantly churning. A slender figure, completely shrouded in a black robe and holding a long-handled scythe, stood on the edge of a cliff. Wisps of black mist descended from the sky like ghosts and spirits, and were finally absorbed by him into the scythe.

Su Bei’s eyes widened, and he immediately reacted, “Is this the boss of the next season?”

He wasn’t the only one who thought so; the bullet comments also exploded.

“What the, what the, what the! What is this?”

“Looks so imposing. Is this the boss of the next season?”

“Another end-of-chapter foreshadowing for the next season”

“Although I can’t see the face, this silhouette looks very handsome”

“Looks a bit like the Grim Reaper”

“A new character has appeared, how can we stand still?”

“Next season’s villain is booked”

Anyway, it was just a silhouette, and he was wearing a black robe. Even if I saw him in reality, it would be impossible to recognize him. So the “Manga Consciousness” didn’t mind telling Su Bei the answer: “That’s right, he is the final boss of the next season!”

After a moment of silence, Su Bei suddenly asked, “Is he one of Jiang Tianming’s parents? No, to be precise, it should be his father, right?”

“……”

This time it was the “Manga Consciousness”’s turn to be silent. It was silent for a full five minutes. Just as Su Bei had finished washing the bowl, it finally spoke belatedly, “Why would you think so?”

“Isn’t it obvious?” This was almost a disguised answer to his question. Su Bei understood and shrugged. “As the protagonist, Jiang Tianming’s parents certainly wouldn’t be unknown. There’s a high probability that there’s a plot about them. Since it wasn’t written in the first two seasons, it should be in the third season.”

Pausing for a moment to organize his thoughts, he continued, “Jiang Tianming’s Ability, 【Death Summon】, has actually always been a landmine. Similarly, since it didn’t explode in the first two seasons, it should explode in the third season.”

After stating the two suspicious points, it was time to move on to the analysis of this character. “This black shadow holding a scythe perfectly fits the image of the Grim Reaper. With the previous two clues as a foundation, it’s hard not to think that he’s related to Jiang Tianming, right? Of course, you can also say that this is just my pure speculation based on manga tropes. But obviously, I guessed correctly, didn’t I?”

“……Then why are you sure it’s his father and not his mother? You shouldn’t be able to tell the gender just from this silhouette, right?” The “Manga Consciousness” was still a little unwilling to give up and wanted to find a loophole in Su Bei’s argument, although it didn’t know what it was fighting for.

Hearing this, Su Bei glanced at the sky strangely, as if looking at a child who was desperately seeking any solution. “Isn’t Jiang Tianming’s mother’s Ability that [Death Ray]?”

“……”