Academy City's Puppet Master

Then he turned his head to the side and seemed to be listening carefully to what was going on in front of him.

Then, as always, he walked forward in a straight line.

Toyama Haruka watched him nervously, desperately trying to convey his warning with his gaze.

Da, da, da, da...

But the earth guardian turned a blind eye and rushed towards them as if there was no one else around.

Yan Shijia frowned, took the initiative to step aside, and pulled Yuan Shanyao to escape together.

"..." Tu Fanghu turned his head sideways and listened carefully again, "Is there anyone in front?"

Even though he asked this question, he didn't intend to wait for a reply, and rushed straight forward—towards the distant mountains.

"Sorry, there are people here." Yan Shijia stopped him in time, forbidding him to touch Yuan Shanyao.

The earth guard was caught off guard and almost staggered, but fortunately he supported himself with a blind stick in time.

"Why is there no sound when walking in broad daylight?" Tu Fanghu complained, breaking away from the other's arm in a very angry manner, and continued to walk forward.

Yuan Shanyao looked back, but saw Tu Fanghu walking away without any hesitation.

While letting out a long sigh of relief in my heart, I couldn't help feeling a little bit disappointed.

After walking far, the earth guard lowered his head and looked at the thing he was holding in his palm—it was a cylindrical box about the size of a AA battery, and the rotating hatch slid open, revealing a stack of coin-sized stickers inside.

At the moment when she met Yuan Shanyao just now, a patch had already been attached to her body silently.

Tu Fanghu nodded and put away the box: "Although I don't know what happened..."

He raised his hand and tapped on the frame of the sunglasses - the molecular tracker was activated.

An orange mark clearly appeared on the lens... in front of his eyes.

It's like a winding ribbon, starting from his palm and extending behind him.Hijikata knew that the other end of the "ribbon" was on the girl named Yuan Shanyao.

The earth guard remained calm, and continued to grope forward at the unhurried speed just now.

It wasn't until he turned a corner and completely out of sight of Yuan Shanyao and the mysterious man that he quickened his pace again and returned to his normal pace.

While striding forward, Tu Fanghu dialed Ling Xingye's phone number.

"Hey, Xingye, something is wrong with me." Tufanghu stopped in front of the zebra crossing, as if waiting for a traffic light, "...No, it's not me, but the girl named Yuan Shanyao, yes, it was noon yesterday The one I met, is she your classmate?"

The green light of the zebra crossing was already on, but the earth guard turned a blind eye and continued to stand on the spot to talk—but his identity is "blind", and it is normal not to see the change of the signal light.

"...I think Yuan Shanyao was threatened and kidnapped."

The earthwork guard looked at the "ribbon" and the map presented on the lens for positioning.

"I'm going to rescue that girl, how about you?"

He asked like this, but he already knew Ling Xingye's answer in his heart - after all, Ling Xingye was his friend, and the so-called friend was the gathering of the same kind, like raccoon dogs.

Sure enough, the earth guardian received a satisfactory answer as expected.

"Okay, I've done the marking and tracking, and now I'm going back to replenish the equipment." The earth guard strode across the zebra crossing, "We meet at the entrance of the coffee shop opposite the research institute."

===Chapter [-] Silver Taboo===

……

Time back to half an hour ago.

The uninvited Baiyin Yao sat down at Ling Xingye's house generously, waiting for dinner.

Because yesterday's dinner was eaten here, Bai Yinyao didn't feel unfamiliar—or, this woman didn't have the concept of "shy" at all, right?

To make matters worse, Ling Xingye found himself getting used to it...

Sure enough, for creatures like "sister"... no, it should be said for "people like Sister Yang", I really have nothing to do!

Ling Xingye felt that he had returned to the old days in the circus, honestly cooking for the brothers and sisters...

But having said that, Ling Xingye has indeed gotten used to it for a long time, thinking that he has to eat lunch anyway, so he just doesn't have to go out to buy vegetables, and saves the food expenses, so why not do it?

To be honest, Ling Xingye's cooking skills are actually mediocre. Compared with "delicious" which is the most critical element of cooking, Ling Xingye's cooking skills are almost all focused on "how to cook the ingredients in his hands into meals". item.

To put it simply, it is the technology that can best reflect the value when it is like survival in the wilderness.

As for the deliciousness of the food itself, it can only be said to be at the level of ordinary home-cooked dishes, almost entirely dependent on the ingredients themselves and the effects of seasonings.

Shiranui Tong is now the person who eats Ling Xingye's cooking most often. Her evaluation of Ling Xingye's cooking skills actually has a considerable degree of subjective factors added.

This is the so-called "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" or something like that?

Fortunately, Baiyinyao is not short of money, so all the ingredients he buys are the highest grade ingredients that can be bought in the supermarket.

Therefore, today's lunch is also very rich, full of color, fragrance and taste.

After lunch, Ling Xingye made tea, and sat down with Baiyin Yao across the low table, ready to get down to business.

He couldn't believe that Bai Yinyao came here today just to have lunch!

"Well, the taste is good!" Bai Yinyao didn't realize it, but sipped the tea seriously.

"This is the black tea chosen by Tong." Ling Xingye explained dryly, but he himself didn't know much about it.