Academy City's Puppet Master

When the mouth of the hat turned towards Ling Xingye, an orange-red beam shot out!

Ling Xingye had been prepared for a long time, and immediately used the phase fulcrum to form a barrier to block it.

boom!

A slightly dull impact echoed in the venue.

Even with a "barrier" with absolute defensive capabilities, Ling Xingye was still knocked back several steps by a huge impact.

——It's not a laser, this familiar feeling...it's a railgun!

Smelling the smell of the air after excessive discharge, Ling Xingye immediately thought of Misaka Miqin.

"It's more powerful than expected! That girl..."

Ling Xingye has seen Misaka Miqin's famous stunt more than once, but it is the first time to bear such a blow head-on.

Obviously, the super electromagnetic gun just now is not comparable to the level of three times the speed of sound.

After receiving such a sudden blow, Ling Xingye was more at ease than being slightly frightened.

——Being able to fire such a powerful railgun shows that Misaka Mikoto is still alive and kicking.

Like the wind in front just now, I am afraid that Baoliang can't do anything about them for a while, so he can only use his space ability to trap them somewhere?

Maybe... Ling Xingye thought optimistically, Sister Yang and Shiranuo Tong were in a similar situation.

The blow failed, Bao Liang flipped his hat over and aimed at Ling Xingye again.

This time, the mouth of the hat became a vent, gushing out a violent gale.

But he was still easily dodged by Ling Xingye.

Baoliang put away his top hat and put it back on.

There is no value in losing the magic trick of surprise.

"Then..." it was thinking, and the Civilization Stick was flying nimbly at its fingertips, "Let's have some classic shows."

While Baoliang calmly responded to the attacks of Yaoyao and Ling Xingye, he raised his civilized stick and slammed it heavily on the ground.

"Stay tuned for the next show—Wan Jian Chuan Box!"

Bao Liang said softly: "The essence of magic is to play with matter!"

As if conducting an orchestra, Bao Liang waved his civilized stick.

Boom!

The ground of the theater stage vibrated; the flat marble floor suddenly melted, deformed, and finally turned into a box of unknown material, trapping Ling Xingye in it.

Then, the wreckage of the automatic puppet on the ground flew up and turned into twelve long swords in the air.

Under Bao Liang's command, the long sword flew down, piercing the box from different angles.

"From this angle, you have nowhere to hide..." Bao Liang frowned, "But the touch feels wrong."

Zheng!

With a flash of cold light, I saw that the box was divided into two obliquely.

Ling Xingye jumped out of the box unharmed.

Inside the box, there were broken swords scattered all over the place.

boom!

Thunderous cheers and applause broke out in the auditorium, and everyone rejoiced at Ling Xingye's smooth escape.

"You are so popular, hero!" Bao Liang laughed, "You really are a born performer!"

"Unfortunately, I was too obsessed with fighting, but neglected to perform on the stage." Bao Liang shook his head again with a regretful expression, "It's really not doing a proper job."

Ling Xingye raised his eyebrows: "You bastard! If you don't fight well, it's not doing your job well if you just indulge in acting?"

If the automatic puppets of the Yanshi organization were like it, maybe the world would really be peaceful, right?

...without taking into account the words of those poor "spectators" around.

"Hey, I'm pointing you out as a stage senior." Bao Liang smiled easily.

"Tsk!" Ling Xingye was calm on the surface, but he became anxious in his heart, "It's troublesome!"

He has no way to attack the enemy - phase fulcrum and sprites are not born for fighting.To put it bluntly, Ling Xingye's fighting methods are only a few, and at this time he is quite helpless.

"So, you can't do it." Bao Liang said, "Hurry up and let another you appear on the stage."

Ling Xingye remained silent. Through the Misaka Mikoto incident a few days ago, he had already learned that his second personality seemed to have some kind of stronger power-it could really do things like "manipulate thunder and lightning".

But this also made him vigilant. Before he figured it out, he didn't dare to try to switch personalities on his own initiative.

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion in a corner on the edge of the theater.

All of a sudden, the openings of the black holes were opened, and various sundries were ejected from them.

No, it's not sundries... Looking carefully, they are all the remains of automatic puppets.

"It's troublesome!" Bao Liang was stunned to himself, "Sure enough, those two crazy women shouldn't be allowed in!"

What it originally wanted were Lu Xuyang and Shiranui Hitomi, two women who were closely related to Ling Xingye, but because Misaka Mikoto and Shiranui Hitomi happened to act together, it had to arrest them both.

As a result, because they had no time to deal with it personally, they could only be exiled to the "backstage maze", using complex terrain and automatic puppets to delay time.

By the way, the wind ahead is handled in the same way.

At this time, under the stage, there is an intricate maze.

Lu Xuyang walked through the maze with Misaka Mikoto, carrying Hitomi Shiranui who fell into a coma on his back.

"Damn it! I can't get out at all!" Misaka Mikoto was irritated, her whole body was flashing with lightning, "Why don't you just use another electromagnetic cannon to open a way!"

"Calm down. Judging from the situation just now, the enemy has the power to move in space, and it can transfer your attack to other places." Lu Xuyang persuaded, "The worst thing is to shoot at us in reverse!"

"It's really annoying!" Misaka Mikoto couldn't help but think of Accelerator's vector operation, and she couldn't handle this type of attack.

Lu Xuyang said: "That's right, it seems that Baoliang is the legendary magician in Yanshi. Its magic...is far more than that!"

"Aside from manipulating space, what else?" Misaka Mikoto asked.

"There is still time, and matter." Lu Xuyang said, "Its magic can also be called-'world'."

===Chapter [-] The Rules of the World===

Time, space, and matter, together, is the "world".

Therefore, the magic of Baibian Baoliang can also be said to be the magic of "creating the world".

There has always been a legend among silver puppet masters that their "Pot Middle Realm" and the "Fangcun Mountain" of automatic puppets were created by a legendary school.

In ancient times, they were magicians and illusionists; in modern times, they walk the world as magicians.

Before that, Lu Xuyang always thought that this "magician" was a senior of Baiyin, but unexpectedly, it turned out to be an automatic puppet.

"Be careful, there are automatic puppets in front of you!" Lu Xuyang didn't forget to be vigilant despite being unwilling. She seemed to be able to predict the future, and suddenly reminded her.

Before the words fell, Misaka Mikoto saw a dazzling lightning gun radiating from the bangs in front of Misaka Mikoto's forehead, turning in the air, and hitting the enemy opposite the corner of the corridor.

"Nice job!" Lu Xuyang couldn't help admiring, "The cooperation is really tacit! Is it because you fought shoulder to shoulder with Xingye?"

"That's not true," Misaka Mikoto shook her head, "Actually, I worked with a strange guy when I visited the Wide Area Society not long ago..."

Misaka Mikoto was able to accurately grasp Lu Xuyang's prompts, and she didn't even need to say anything more.

At the same time, Misaka Mikoto also showed familiarity with automatic puppets, always hitting the vitals accurately and paralyzing them with one blow.

For those who are not familiar with automatic puppets, this is an almost impossible task-automatic puppets that look like humans are very deceptive, but they are not human in nature and have no "weakness" that humans call.

Therefore, no matter how strong a person is, when facing an automatic puppet for the first time, it is easy to be negligent or even overturned.

However, after observing all the way, Lu Xuyang found that Misaka Mikoto made no mistakes at all, and could accurately grasp her own prompts every time, and dealt with the enemy cleanly.

Of course there are reasons for her strong strength, but her own consciousness and quality are also the most important.

This kind of person is often the partner of the silver puppet master.

Ling Xingye was the only puppeteer next to Misaka Mikoto, so Lu Xuyang thought she had cooperated with Ling Xingye.

In fact, although Ling Xingye and Misaka Mikoto had the experience of fighting Kiyama Haruno together, that was far from "cooperation".

After all, Ling Xingye himself has just entered the industry not long ago, and has been fighting alone for a long time, and has no sense of "partner" and "cooperation" at all.

"When I was in the City of Arts, I met a strange man who claimed to be a private detective, but like Xingye, he also used strange puppets to fight." Misaka Mikoto said, "Well, for various reasons, we We worked together for a short while, and together we uncovered the secrets there."

Looking back now, the private detective did tell a lot of tips about dealing with automatic puppets.

After hearing this, Lu Xuyang was stunned: "So that's the case, it's him..."

"Who is it?" Misaka Mikoto asked quickly, "Speaking of which, I don't know his name yet."

Back in the Academy City, that private detective had been working under the pseudonym "Charlotte".

"That's Xingye's second senior brother, Ling Changfeng."

……

On the stage, the battle between Ling Xingye and Bao Liang continued.

Although Ling Xingye and Yaoyao continued to attack, but if you look carefully, it is Baoliang's unilateral play on them.

No matter how hard Ling Xingye tried, his attack still couldn't cross Baoliang's "close distance".

The cheering and cheering in the auditorium gradually quieted down, and everyone realized that Ling Xingye might not be Bao Liang's opponent.

Bao Liang turned himself into the master of the stage, constantly changing various props and traps to deal with Ling Xingye.But this is not so much a fight as a "thrilling show".

The sudden rain of knives and the raging flames from the ground caused a lot of damage to Ling Xingye, but they were all just enough damage. With Ling Xingye's self-healing ability, he could recover within a few seconds.

If Baoliang was willing to increase his power a little bit, Ling Xingye might not be so relaxed.

——Sure enough, is this guy still a "performer" in essence?

Ling Xingye thought in his heart - it seems that my first impression of it is not wrong, if it is not an automatic puppet, maybe we can indeed become confidants!

But there is no such thing as reality, Baiyin and Yanshi are old enemies.Right now, they are indeed fighting with their lives...