Academy City's Puppet Master

The last moment before entering the puppet theater? Ling Changyun snorted coldly: "Don't even try to escape!"

"Understood!" Ling Changfeng responded immediately.

After all, within the scope of the No.13 school district, a whirlwind suddenly rolled up.

All the active individuals outdoors—whether automatic puppets, or soldiers who came to collect intelligence, or "recover the lost ground", were all swept up by this whirlwind, and flew towards the puppet theater involuntarily.

Not far away, Saten Renko and Flander were no exception, they were caught in the "black hole" before they even had time to react.

When they came back to their senses, the two found that they were actually in a huge stadium... No? It just looked like a stadium? After careful observation, they found that it was more like a large open-air theater.Surrounded by the auditorium below is the stage of the theater. At this time, it is tightly surrounded by a circle of curtains, and it is impossible to see what is inside.

Not only them, but all the people in the No.13 school district were sucked in and arranged in the auditorium of the theater.

Flanda saw at a glance that Mugino Shirley and the others were sitting in the next few rows of seats.

The sudden change in the environment shocked everyone present, and there was a lot of noise for a while. People ignored the embarrassment and guard, and quickly communicated with the people next to them, trying to figure out what happened.

The auditorium can change positions at will, but there is no exit.And for the sake of safety, no one wants to go to the stage below to find out.

Mugino Shenli and Lili, two level 5s, had nothing to fear, but under Saten Ruiko's explanation, they did not "kill each other" with Ling Xingye either.

Behind the circular curtain, Ling Xingye's voice suddenly sounded.

"...Why did all these people come in?"

It was Ling Changfeng who responded to him: "In that case, there is no way to distinguish them one by one, so we can only scan them all in."

"Anyway, your theater is empty," Ling Changyun said, "For a big show like the end of the Yanshi curtain, there must be some audience witnesses."

Then, Ling Xingye let out a long sigh, and then the atmosphere of the whole theater suddenly changed, and the audience was also silent.

With a sound of swiping, the dome lights of the theater were fully turned on, illuminating the entire theater like daytime.

Immediately afterwards, the curtain was slowly lowered.

"The actors are in place, the stage is ready, then..." Ling Xingye spoke again, with a loud and passionate voice, "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Puppet Theater, today's performance has officially begun!"

Explosions and flames appeared in front of the audience along with the "leading actors".

The stage was a mess, with broken limbs and puppets scattered all over the place.

In the middle of the stage, the seven members of Ling's class manipulated their own puppets, destroying and dismantling all the automatic puppets around them one by one.

Only Yanshi Bing stood motionless on the stage like a sculpture.

As the curtain fell completely, it finally officially "appeared" and gained the ability to act.

At this time, Ling Xingye and the others had wiped out all the other automatic puppets, weakening Yanshi Bing's strength to the greatest extent.

"There is no script for today's performance." Ling Xingye said, "It's just bullying the weak, bullying the weak with more, please brothers and sisters do what you can, let's fight!"

===Chapter 96 Kihara Chime===

More than a dozen figures criss-crossed on the stage, colliding with each other from time to time to create intense shock waves.

In the auditorium, most of the people could only look down in bewilderment, unable to figure out what happened for a while.

No, they can understand that there is a fight on the stage, but they can't see the details of the fight.

From a viewing point of view, this "show" is completely unqualified.

Yanshi Bing and the puppets started a super-speed battle, and even moved at supersonic speed from time to time, making bursts of explosions.

If it weren't for the isolation measures between the stage and the auditorium, the audience in the front row would have been stunned by various shock waves.

The eyes of only a few people can keep up with this battle. Most of these people are "observers" of various forces, and they all become more and more shocked as they watch.

With the strengths displayed by both sides on the field, even without other messy abilities, just this super-high-speed movement ability is enough to cause headaches.

Except for the strong ones of the same level, the only way to deal with this kind of target is the ultra-long-range attack beyond the line of sight-once they appear in the line of sight, at this speed, it is only a matter of time before they are defeated by distance.

Saten Leizi stared at the battle below with wide eyes, but she was just an ordinary middle school girl, she couldn't see the details of the real battle at all, at best she could only see the relatively slow moving speed of the Ling Family Class puppet masters .

"Come on! Master Xingye, come on!" But this did not prevent her from yelling and cheering for Ling Xingye.

——Looking at the entire theater, I am afraid that Saten Ruiko is the only one who can be counted as a qualified "audience", right?

Mugino Shenli and Lili, who were sitting with them, looked over in surprise.

As for Frenda, she was no stranger to this new friend's nervousness along the way, and she had an expression of "ah, it really is Saten Renko".

"This child..." Mai Ye Shenli looked sideways, "Is it really all right?"

"Hmph, is there a problem?" Lily refuted her words reflexively, "I don't see anything to be afraid of... Could it be that our fourth person is afraid?"

"Huh? Where does a No.8 get the courage to laugh at me?" Mai Ye Shenli raised his eyebrows.

Seeing that the two level5s were about to start a "performance" in the auditorium, Frenda hurried forward to persuade them.

"Okay, okay, don't be angry, just watch the battle below... After all, this is their territory!"

Lily and Mugino Shenli didn't really want to fight in such a weird place, so they both snorted coldly and sat back to their original positions.

Saten Ruiko's cheers and cheers also attracted the attention of other people around.

It's just that these prying eyes were ruthlessly turned back by Mai Ye Shenli.

at the same time……

"Oh! This move is beautiful! Wonderful!"

In addition to Saten Renko's voice, there was another loud applause.

Everyone followed the prestige, and saw an old man in a white coat standing on the seat in front of them on the left, cheering loudly.

Judging by his attire, which research institute he should be, and his performance and image, it makes people feel that he should be the kind of "studied".

Saten Leizi's performance is understandable, because the party on the stage is his master, and it is normal to cheer for Ling Xingye.

And this old man was purely "watching a show", with one hand holding a binoculars he got from somewhere, and the other hand holding a paper roll and waving it up and down, which is very high-spirited.

"There really are such people..." Frenda was dumbfounded, and then looked at Saten Ruiko next to her, "Could it be something wrong with me?"

"That's the trick! Perfect coordination!" The old man was still immersed in it. "It's just amazing, this scene alone is worth the price of admission!"

Those who didn't know thought that he really bought a ticket to watch the performance in the theater.

"Ah! I won!!!" Saten Ruiko suddenly burst into cheers.

That's right, the dust had settled on the stage below, and Yan Shibing was killed without any surprise.

The old man also reluctantly put down the binoculars and said to himself: "I didn't expect that I saw something good and thought it was a boring action... Unfortunately, it is just a half-finished Yanshi, and it is completely one-sided. It’s just ravaged. I really want to see a close battle if I have the opportunity.”

Yanshi?

Saten Leizi, who calmed down, caught the key words. It stands to reason that people who have nothing to do with it will not know the existence of "Yanshi".Even the people who participated in this battle will only know the term "automatic puppet" at most.

"Grandpa, do you know Yanshi?" Saten Leizi stepped forward and asked.

"Of course," the old man turned around, with gray beard and hair, thin body, slightly stooped, which is the most common image of an old man, "Several Yanshi have done so many things in Academy City in recent months, old man How could you not know?"

"Huh?" Saten Renko thought for a while and realized that what he said made sense. It seems that this old man is not an ordinary person who knows many things.

At this moment, Lily, Flanda, and Mugino Shirley also came over.

"Who is this old man? Reniko, you know..." Mugino Shenli suddenly saw the name tag on the old man's chest in the middle of his words, "Kihara?"

Mugino Shenli's face changed slightly, and he pressed Flanda's head with his backhand to keep her from talking.

Kihara Chime - according to the name on the name tag - said with a smile: "Don't worry, the old man is just an observer..."

……

"It's time to end." Looking at Yan Shibing who was smashed into pieces in front of him, Ling Xingye said softly, "We must send all these audiences out."

Lu Feifei smiled and said, "Now I'm also the one who defeated Yanshi."

"It's just a semi-finished product. There's nothing to be proud of." Ling Changyun dismissed it.

Indeed, what they attacked this time was only an unfinished Yanshi.

Because it doesn't have a "square inch mountain", it can't get rid of Ling Xingye's puppet theater at all. In addition, the seven disciples of the Ling family class shot together, so it's strange that they can't die.

Unlike the Yanshi Jia Ling Xingye had met, Yanshi was born in the "Death Parade", and only when he matured would he realize his own "Fangcunshan" domain.

Before that, the "death parade" itself was their "square inch mountain".

But this time, the "death parade" was forcibly breached, and the scattered automatic puppets were also wiped out ahead of time. In the end, only Yanshi Bing was left with a bare commander...

To Ling Xingye and the others, this is just a "powerful automatic puppet", not a "terrible Yanshi".

After disarming the puppet theater, the auditorium returned to the real world. Because of their respective identities, many people were unwilling to stay for a long time and left in a hurry.

At the heart of the incident, the seven members of Ling's class also avoided the crowd for the first time and appeared on the roof of a building.

After a whole night of scuffle fighting and the complete quelling of the automatic puppet riots, it was already dawn.

"You are all here," Lu Xuyang and Ling Chanjuan also found here, "It's great, everyone is safe and sound."

Lu Xuyang smiled.

The sun jumped out of the horizon, and the first ray of sunshine on the morning of September 9 shone on people's faces.

===Chapter 97 The oriole is behind===

In the early morning of September 9th, the Academy City Security Force officially entered the No.30 school district and reclaimed and took over the school district.

The short-term invasion war has subsided, and the automatic puppets have been almost wiped out. Only a few fish slipped through the net, and there is no trouble.

This brief war has attracted the attention of the whole world - through the satellite, it can be seen that with Academy City as the center, the gathered clouds almost cover the entire Japan and the nearby sea areas, so it is so quiet that it is difficult not to be noticed.

The war was fierce, but the residents of Academy City were the last to learn the truth.

It wasn't until dawn that the students learned about the imminent crisis from the news bulletins.

The only good news is that the casualties in the No.13 school district were not too serious, so it didn't cause much commotion.

At this moment, everyone in the Ling family's class gathered at the gap in the west gate, saying goodbye.

"It's hard to come here, don't you want to stay for a few more days?" Ling Xingye made the last attempt to persuade him to stay.