Academy City's Puppet Master

Only a cloak was left on the spot and slowly fell to the ground, but Baoliang himself was nowhere to be seen.

Clap clap clap!

Several spotlights were turned on at the same time, shining towards the center of the stage together——

Dressed in a tuxedo, wearing a top hat, and holding a civilized stick, the magician is bowing to the audience.

Ling Xingye rushed to the sky, but the sprite on the other side had already escaped, and charged towards Baoliang with a broken body.

Baoliang snapped his fingers, instantly lengthening the path in front of the monster.

"Okay," said Bao Liang, "it's time for your farce to end."

"I admit, your performance is wonderful. But it's not enough. If you want to beat me... you still have a long way to go!" Bao Liang laughed.

"Indeed..." Ling Xingye said to himself, "But my purpose is not to defeat you!"

Ling Xingye also straightened her body, looking around the auditorium as if she was going to perform the final curtain call.

On this too wide stage, only Ling Xingye noticed that a shadow was flying quietly.

Ling Xingye laughed, then looked up.

Baoliang was startled, suddenly remembered something, and quickly raised his head.

Above the stage, there was a huge birdcage hanging all the time.Inside the cage was a girl—a silver.

That is Baoliang's favorite collection, and it is also its biggest rival in life!

Baiyin Xiao, one of the members of the Baiyin "Bird" Legion.This petite girl is the most powerful "assassin" puppeteer in the world. She is swift and has the nickname "Swallow".

She acted alone all year round, assassinating high-level automatic puppets, even Yanshi who had mastered the "Fangcun Mountain"!

A year ago, Xiao tried to assassinate Bao Liang, but his deeds were exposed in the "magic theater", which led to a failure in the end and fell into the hands of the enemy instead.

Then, Akatsuki was almost drained of "silver blood", leaving only the minimum amount to maintain her life.

But in fact, the "silver blood" in Akatsuki's body is also slowly recovering.

She only needs one chance to get rid of Baoliang's shackles and surveillance, and then she can "fly" out of the cage and regain her freedom!

——In the battle just now, Ling Xingye created this opportunity for her.

On the surface, Ling Xingye wanted to release Misaka Mikoto and Front Wind as a boost.

But that was just to divert Baoliang's attention and force it to relax its monitoring of Baiyin Xiao.

So Akatsuki rushed out of the cage and plunged into the shadows.

This ability to walk in the shadows is Akatsuki's domain - "The Realm in the Pot. The Realm of Shadow".

Her domain is invisible and qualityless, but it can be attached to or even integrated into other people's domains, making it difficult to be detected, thereby creating good conditions for her to kill with one blow.

It's a pity that Baoliang is the master of the "magic theater", and it has completely mastered the spatial rules in the field.Therefore, Akatsuki's "Shadow Realm" was easily seen through.

Even so, Xiao's "killing blow" still hit Baoliang hard.

Now, after a year of dormancy, Akatsuki's "Death Strike" showed its brilliance again!

Bao Liang looked up, only to see the cage door swaying weakly in the air, and the empty birdcage.

The moment it was distracted, a gray swallow swooped out of the shadows and pierced its chest like a bolt of gray lightning.

Akatsuki's puppet - Xuanniao!

Bao Liang was pierced by a blow and suffered the most serious injury since the start of the war today.

A suspected liquid as thick as mercury spewed out of the body.

But for a Yanshi puppet, this degree of injury is not serious.

On the contrary, Xiao, because of being trapped for a year, was seriously injured. After barely delivering this blow, he was immediately knocked down by Baoliang's counterattack, and fell out of the shadow world. His life and death are unknown.

But taking this opportunity, Ling Xingye regained the position of the positioning cube.

Boom!

Both ends of the stage suddenly exploded.

On the right side of Ling Xingye, it was Zhifeng in front who broke out alone. She looked at the situation on the field and didn't care so much. She directly summoned Gale and included Baoliang and Ling Xingye in the attack at the same time.

On the left are Lu Xuyang with Hitomi Shiranui on his back, and Misaka Mikoto holding a coin.

Ling Xingye shouted loudly: "Meiqin, attack with all your strength!"

The light from the railgun illuminates the theater.

Baoliang wanted to manipulate space, but Ling Xingye didn't give it this chance.

——I don't know when, its body was covered with silk threads, and under Ling Xingye's restraint, it couldn't move for a while.

The strong wind hit, and the orange beam of the super electromagnetic gun tore Baoliang's body.

===Chapter 21 ends===

September 9th, the seventh day of the Daha Star Festival.

The grand closing ceremony was held as scheduled, and the awards, announcement of the rankings, and the final city-wide parade were proceeding in an orderly manner.

Although the atmosphere is still warm and the interest of the students and tourists is also high, it still feels a little bit worse after all.

It seemed that there was an invisible haze over Academy City, which was the aftermath of the series of events that happened the day before yesterday.

Even though Academy City, Japan, the United States, and even the Roman Orthodox Church have jointly blocked news and controlled intelligence, there is no impenetrable wall in the world after all.

What's more, the attack on the US Navy fleet alone is enough to attract the attention of the whole world.All kinds of news and gossip spread all over the world immediately, and when we looked back, it was too late to block the news.

Fortunately, after the best efforts of all parties, the management of public opinion and intelligence leakage is still within a relatively controllable range.

"The evidence is the closing ceremony that is going on as usual." Shokuhou Misaki said, "Although I don't want to admit it, this kind of group emotional interference is indeed a technology developed by using my ability."

"It feels like everyone has forgotten what happened the day before yesterday. It's a bit scary." Shirai Kuroko said, "Obviously Academy City was invaded, and there was almost a naval battle outside, but calm returned overnight."

"In terms of concealing information, he is still proficient as always." Misaka Mikoto also said, "Well, after all, that kind of thing happened, in order to avoid commotion, it is inevitable, right?"

After all, she also used the power of Shokuhou Misaki to hide information about her younger sisters, so her attitude towards Academy City's behavior is also very contradictory.

"Speaking of which, how is Ling Xingye doing? It is said that he was seriously injured this time and even had to be admitted to the hospital for treatment?" Shokuhou Misaki asked again.

"It's more like fatigue than injury?" Misaka Miqin recalled the scene when they visited the hospital yesterday. Judging from his appearance and medical certificate, Ling Xingye didn't have any injuries on his body, but he rarely asked for hospital treatment. And depressed, declined visitors.

Even Hitomi Shiranui didn't stay for too long.

"Something must have happened?" Shokuhou Misaki said.

Late at night on September 9, Yanshi Baoliang’s Fangcunshan “Magic Theater” in the abandoned theater “Bomingzuo”.

A railgun shot by Misaka Mikoto put an end to the day's fierce battle.

Baoliang suffered two heavy blows one after another, his body was completely torn in two.

In desperation, Misaka Mikoto didn't hold back at all, the air waves rolled up by the super railgun even broke through the gale of the wind ahead.

The latter immediately looked over with unkind eyes.

However, due to the limited viewing angle, Misaka Mikoto did not notice the existence of the wind ahead for a while.

Seeing this, Ling Xingye immediately shouted: "Meiqin, don't pay attention to that guy! She is an accomplice here."

Dispel Misaka Mikoto's hostility in time to prevent her from being attacked by the "Damn Spell".

And Lu Xuyang seemed to recognize the God's Right Seat immediately, so he was not affected.

Front Wind picked up the hammer, thought about it and then put it down.

Indeed, as Ling Xingye said, in this weird field, they are not the primary enemy.

Of course, not friends.

The reason why she listened to Ling Xingye was only because of his strength.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but the wind in front feels that it is the young man in front of him who controls this area at this time.

Feng Front carefully kept a distance from Ling Xingye, watching him while searching the auditorium for traces of Sister Agnes.

But at this time, the auditorium that witnessed the defeat of the magician Baoliang was completely surrounded by cheers, and it was so chaotic that it was difficult to find a girl among them.

Misaka Mikoto and Lu Xuyang immediately ran towards Ling Xingye.

Ling Xingye took a deep breath, looked up, but noticed Shiranui Hitomi on Lu Xuyang's back.

"What happened to Hitomi?"

"Don't worry, I just fell asleep." Lu Xuyang said, "There is no problem with the physical condition, but the reason is unknown."

"Okay, I see." Ling Xingye nodded.

He knew the reason. Not long ago, Haruki Kiyama was running "Fantasy Hand 2.0" with all his strength. As the core of this network, Hitomi Shiranui fell into a deep sleep because of the heavy burden.

"There are two biggest problems now!" Ling Xingye suddenly raised his voice, intending to let the wind in front of him hear it.

"First of all, the nearly [-] spectators here are about to be liberated." Ling Xingye looked around, "In order to avoid crushing and stampede accidents, I will control the speed and range of release. But after all, it is a huge scale of [-] people, and it is huge Most of them have lost a lot of blood, and suddenly appearing in the outside world will definitely cause all kinds of problems."

"So I need you to go out to seek support first, whether it is Academy City or the Tokyo government," Ling Xingye looked at the wind ahead again, "Whether it is Christianity or not, in short, find a force that can receive [-] people as soon as possible!"

"Wait, Xingye!" Lu Xuyang said quickly, "From what you said, Xingye, can you control this square inch mountain?"

"Almost," Ling Xingye said indifferently, "I can restrain it temporarily. But it won't last long, please hurry up."

The wind in front said: "Can't we just let it out? Is there an open space outside?"

All she really cared about was Sister Agnes.

"Impossible," Ling Xingye vetoed flatly, "There are not only victims and spectators here, but also automatic puppets."

As a Yanshi-level puppet, Baoliang actually doesn't need human blood to keep running.But it still collects "blood coins" regularly, and even raises blood bags of [-] people.

Its fundamental purpose is to provide it to those automatic puppets under it.

Under Baoliang's "magic theater", there is a huge automatic puppet army.

But Baoliang almost never used them to fight, and only occasionally let them perform on stage, or do odd jobs and keep the theater running.

No one knows what it is thinking.No one knows how many men it has.