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Chapter 174 The Night That Still Continues

Academy City has a population of more than 270 million, of which [-]% are students...

This sentence is not an exaggeration, but a statement.Needless to say, this is an extremely young city, so in addition to the security guards, it has to rely on the disciplinary committee formed by the students to maintain law and order.

So basically from 06:30 in the afternoon, it will enter the "curfew time" of Academy City——

The city itself does not require a curfew, but in order to prohibit students from going out at night, the last buses and trams in Academy City mostly coincide with school dismissal time, and will stop running at 06:30 at the latest.This policy is to curb students going out late at night by stopping the operation of public transportation.

Most of the entertainment facilities in Academy City are concentrated in No.15 School District and No.20 Second School District, and the closing time will be relatively early.Because in such a big city, it is very unrealistic to walk and move completely by foot power, so the students will naturally go back to rest as time goes by.

The only place where there is a real curfew is the Garden of the Academy, because the thing that gathers the most in the Academy is the student dormitory.But in fact, it should be said to be access control, and the rigid rule is after ten o'clock in the evening.

Basically, at that point in time, there will be no more people, unless it is a guy who doesn't have to go to class tomorrow or knows that he will go to class tomorrow, but still chooses to stay up all night.

Just like now——

The streets are empty, rows of street lamps are neatly arranged, but there are no people there, as if under the black sky, as time approaches late at night, this scientific metropolis gradually falls into a quiet sleep .

After all, it was already late at night after ten o'clock. Although the rumor was still spreading rapidly throughout the city, apart from the Internet, there were not many direct exchanges between the students in reality.

Therefore, a certain piece of extremely absurd news can only spread wildly in various online communities and chat rooms like wildfire, and is regarded as nonsense by most people, not even qualified as an urban legend .

Because it is too ridiculous, and there is no explanation.

Almost all the guys who are still surfing the Internet at this late hour almost burst into tears after seeing such news that is definitely a rumor.

——"The myth is shattered! The strongest Academy City is defeated!"

——"Suspected to directly airborne first, the mysterious Level 5 became the strongest eighth?"

——"The new king has been crowned!"

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But Mu Xiu doesn't have time to surf the Internet now, so he doesn't even know that such a thing happened.

Therefore, when the major online communities and chat rooms are in full swing, he is like those really good students who don't know anything about what is happening on the Internet.

It's just that he is also not studying hard, burning the lights at night, or hurrying up to sleep or something.but...

"Well, I remember that I don't have cats here." The boy sighed, looking at the black cat nestled in the cardboard box, and Misaka sister holding the cardboard box.

He didn't wait for the other party's answer, so he turned his head and looked around the stairwell on the second floor to see which room he should pack up for the other party to stay for the night besides his own.

Yes, stay for one night.

It's not that he dislikes Misaka's sister or anything, it's just that he simply judges that it's not suitable for him to place her here.

——After all, it’s only such a small second-hand bookstore, Kamijou Touma and himself will be here on weekdays, so Misaka Mikoto will inevitably frequent... Once you touch it, the explanation is not clear.

Because you know, Sister Pao still doesn't know about the Misaka sisters, if she is mistaken for having evil thoughts about her and wants to use human cloning technology to achieve it...

Tsk, that scene is too beautiful to imagine.

Sister Misaka stood in the stairwell holding the cardboard box, her face was expressionless and her movements were very calm: "Here is a black cat. Misaka wanted to point to the inside of the cardboard box, but he regretted giving up because he didn't have extra arms. You see this hungry cat The black cat with its stomach full, would it choose to leave instead of extending a helping hand? Misaka asked a question."

"Of course, it won't like us..." Mu Xiu said angrily.

At this time, the black cat inside the cardboard box seemed to deliberately agree with his words, cringed in horror, and kept making weak calls, completely frightened and frightened.

The perception of animals is much sharper than that of humans, as if before an earthquake, they can feel the changes in the magnetic field produced underground due to changes in the earth's crust, and they have some abnormal behaviors.

As an ability user of the electromagnetic system, whether it is the highest level Mushu or Misaka Mikoto, or a "defective power level 2" like Misaka sister, the body will unconsciously emit electromagnetic waves to the surroundings and generate a weak magnetic field.

Let’s not talk about whether you can make use of this phenomenon and turn it into one of your own skills, but this phenomenon itself is just like human body temperature, which belongs to a normal state and is difficult to eliminate. As long as AIM The diffusion force field will continue to be generated while it is still radiating.

So these two guys are the type that animals will naturally hate.

"..." Sister Misaka suddenly stopped moving, her body remained completely still, although she was expressionless, she could still feel that she seemed a little unhappy.

"Come with me, you can only be wronged here tonight..." Mu Xiu didn't seem to notice it, turned around and waved to her, and was about to walk to an empty room at the end of the corridor .

"Then... what about the cat?! Misaka asked eagerly." Sister Misaka spoke expressionlessly.

"Do you want to raise it?" The boy turned around and asked with the same expressionless face.

"...It is impossible for Misaka to raise this cat, Misaka answered honestly."

"Then it's fine, let's keep it for now, at most, let Kamijou boy feed it—" Mu Xiu turned his head and waved his hand indifferently. It's not a problem to raise it, let alone a cat.It's just that he doesn't like keeping pets very much, and he finds it troublesome.

"..."

After a few minutes.

Cleaning up an empty room swiftly, Mu Xiu looked at the simple room with only one bed and one table, tilted his head slightly with one hand on his hips, and said, "That's it, that's enough... You are staying here for one night today, and I will see how to accommodate you tomorrow, by the way, the guy just now should be able to apply for an ID, right?"

"Misaka pretended not to understand what you were talking about. Misaka wanted to know if you were willing to adopt, and Misaka questioned..."

"Wait, this topic will stop immediately, Master Mu Xiu stretched out his hand angrily to stop... Bah, bah, it's already affected by your way of speaking!"

Mu Xiu shook his head vigorously, and then replied without hesitation, "The area here is not big, unless you don't go downstairs all the time, otherwise——no, even if you don't go downstairs all the time, you can't completely avoid being caught. Possibility of discovery of your true body."

Speaking of this, the young man couldn't help raising his eyebrows: "In this case, it seems that you can't be nearby. I should think of a better way to accommodate you. The nearby area is impossible. I don't know the doctor Can there be..."

"Oh, that's right. Che, Misaka replied with a polite smile." Standing at the door, Misaka's sister, who was still outside the corridor, turned her head away.

"..."

Mu Xiu sucked in his breath, and raised his head slightly to look at the fluorescent lamp on the wall, as if this could relieve the pressure in his head.

After a few seconds, as if nothing happened, he waved his hand and said, "That's it, please come and sit here—I want to ask you something, it will take a long time, is it okay?"

"..." Miss Misaka looked at his face with unemotional eyes.

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Academy City, the seventh school district.

Police Branch.

Aiho Huang Quanchuan, who had been busy all day and had to replace the night shift in the iron decoration factory, yawned and kept her eyes wide open.The technological cold light of the computer screen on the table reflected in her pupils a densely packed page full of text and pictures.

This is the first-hand on-site information of an "accident" not long ago.

"Level 5 battles... The entire building was burned by the spreading fire, and it was difficult to extract evidence at the scene... There was also a student who was burned by the fire—no, it was just suffocated due to lack of oxygen? The injuries on his body were man-made beaten..."

She couldn't help but yawned again, then looked at the time display in the lower right corner of the screen, and finally got up lazily to make herself a cup of coffee.

According to experience, tonight may be busy for a long time, and there is a high possibility that such things will always go unresolved. After all, cleaning up such messes is also one of the duties of the security guards.

"I just hope that the only injured person stranded at the scene can provide enough evidence, and the recovery and aftermath of that place is also very large..."

Thinking of this, Huang Quanchuan Aiho felt a headache.

tuk tuk tuk-

Just when this super-fit female security guard with a long ponytail returned to her seat tiredly holding a coffee cup and just sat down, there was a knock on the office door.The guard closest to the door stood up and opened the door.

What came in was a middle-aged man with dense scars on his face, who looked very scary.

"Chief."

"Good evening, Chief."

Everyone greeted him one after another, but didn't notice the complicated emotions on the chief's face for a while.

The middle-aged security guard had a serious face, stood by the door, looked around the entire office, coughed and cleared his throat.His behavior made the other security guards feel that something was wrong, so they all stopped their work and looked at their immediate boss with serious eyes as if something serious had happened.

"Well, the condition of the only person involved at the scene and the injured has stabilized. There is nothing serious, and his identity has been found out—" The muscles on the chief's face twitched, pulling the dense scars on his face, It looked extremely hideous and terrifying.

"It is the strongest among the seven superpowers in Academy City, the ability is "Vector Manipulation", and the code name is "Accelerator"..."

"So it's number one... what! Number one?! Level 5?!!"

A tall guard about two meters tall touched his chin clearly and nodded.Two seconds later, with a loud roar, he slammed the table and stood up with a bang.

In an instant, more than a dozen security guards in the office all entered a state of petrification.

(End of this chapter)