Academy City's Puppet Master

Yanshi Crow suffered heavy losses not long ago, resulting in a decline in rank, but still maintains a considerable position within the organization, but occasionally needs to be a "messenger" job.

With countless clones, he is also suitable for this job.

"According to statistics, at least one hundred and 65 cities of medium size and above broke out in turmoil." At the same time, the puppet city of the headquarters of the Yanshi Organization is calling an emergency meeting, and the crow's body is reporting, "As for the sporadic attacks have already Countless... We are the clearest about the characteristics of automatic puppets, but I still have to say that their proliferation and spread speed is still beyond my expectation."

The Yanshi present were silent. Strictly speaking, they who have reached the level of "Yanshi" are no longer the same existence as ordinary automatic puppets.

They never thought that the "low-level" puppets, who had always been regarded as ants by themselves, would violate their orders and run wild without authorization.

"It's not incomprehensible that this kind of thing happened." Crow said? "Because the puppeteer died... how many automatic puppets do you think were first made by her? Automatic puppets born 200 years ago? As long as they are still alive? At least [-]% of them are 'inspired' by the puppeteer. For them, the puppeteer is the 'mother'."

Pause for a moment? The crow continued: "What's worse, according to my observation? There are at least 32 'death marches' about to start..."

"The bad news? Our plan has gone bankrupt." The crow shrugged. "The good news is that after 500 years, we will most likely gather together again."

"But in fact? We don't lack Yanshi. And those quasi-Yanshi who have just been born? They are useless at all." Someone replied immediately.

"I know that too," the crow said helplessly, "but this is the only harvest we have."

Facts have proved that the crow's judgment is not wrong.

In the next 24 hours, 26 "death parades" of different scales broke out one after another? 26 quasi-Yanshi were born in one breath.

Of course, they have also been fully attacked by the silver puppet master and other forces from the mysterious side of various places.

Before the puppet cities even had time to name them one by one? Only three quasi-Yanshi survived.

Everything happened too fast and suddenly, not only was human society unprepared? The mysterious side organizations hidden under the ordinary world were also caught off guard.

Even if they shot in time and extinguished most of the automatic puppet riots? But they also suffered heavy losses when they fought against automatic puppets for the first time.

Even the Yanshi organization itself was completely unprepared? A riot that swept the world came down? It directly pushed all the automatic puppets to the opposite of human society.

Almost all the foundation laid in the early stage was in vain.

The only thing to be thankful for is that Baiyin also suffered an indiscriminate disaster, and was boycotted by people who don’t know the truth—after all, both sides are puppets, and the human society that has just been hit hard just now can’t distinguish whether you are a silk puppet or an automatic puppet .

The next day, the Roman Orthodox Church, which has been resolutely resisting automatic puppets, stood up again.

Piaggio Poussoni, who has just been promoted to Cardinal, delivered a live speech to 2 billion believers around the world through a televised speech.

After once again violently criticizing the "blasphemous creations from the Eastern Continent", Cardinal Piaggio immediately called on the whole world to believe in the Lord, to be willing to honor the Lord, and to gather together the warriors fighting for the peace of the world to eradicate the evil together. Creation automatic puppet.

Cardinal Piaggio Pousoni announced in the name of the Pope that the Crusades were formed again.

On October 10th, after 10 years, the Tenth Crusade begins!

……

October 10th, Academy City.

This is the tenth day since Ling Xingye disappeared.

But in the underground world, a gossip began to spread among bad boys.

——The leader Ling Xingye has returned, and he is summoning his cronies to prepare to restore the order of the group of armed incompetents!

Of course, since Ling Xingye did not show up publicly, not many people believed the news.

And...to be honest, "secret summons" is not the leader Ling Xingye's usual style of doing things.

But in fact, this is not a lie.

Those who were summoned were all associations leaning towards the "law enforcement team".And they all met with the leader Ling Xingye through video conferences.

It is said that it is because the current leader, Ling Xingye, is not in Academy City and can only conduct remote meetings.

"...In short, you have performed well, just continue to keep up and cooperate with the law enforcement team." Ling Xingye ordered indifferently, "Also, collect information about one person for me, all the information."

As he spoke, he manipulated the computer, and a picture popped up on the screen - it was an old man in a white coat with gray hair and a thin body.

In the photo, you can still see the name tag on his chest—Kihara Chime!

"Don't startle him, just observe and collect all the information about him." Ling Xingye warned, "Remember, don't startle him!"

"Ming...understood." The club boss on the opposite side of the screen nodded repeatedly, but there was a hint of doubt in his eyes.

——Ling Xingye, the leader on the opposite side, felt something was wrong.It's a bit too wordy to speak, and there is no domineering at all.

……

After cutting off the connection, Isshiki Qianhui threw away the microphone, jumped on it, and closed the laptop.

Then, Ling Xingye, who was sitting on the chair, suddenly collapsed and lay on the table.

Saten Ruiko crawled out from behind the chair, also sweating profusely.

Yakushiji Mixi hurriedly brought drinks and towels and handed them to the two.

"It's over, it's over..." While drinking water, Yise Qianhui wailed, "I can't continue acting, this may be ruined at any time!"

===Chapter 605 Substitute Puppet===

"What should we do next?" Several girls looked at each other in blank dismay.

At this moment, a girl walked in - wearing a denim jacket covered with metal chains and rings, her hair was dyed purple, and she also wore big rings on her ears.She almost wrote the words "bad girl" on her face.

But this non-mainstream girl was very kind. She greeted Saten Ruiko and the others with a smile, and then handed over the tablet in her hand.

"Thank you, this is the information about the next meeting object."

After a few days, Saten Reniko and Isshiki Chihui are already very familiar with this girl.

Although it looks a bit scary, she is Qifan's right-hand man, and she can barely be regarded as a secretary or something, right?

Qifan specially sent her to take care of these girls and be in charge of work contacts.

So in front of her, they were not restrained at all, and they all wailed in disgrace.Even Ruiko Saten, who was always full of energy, lay down on the table regardless of her image.

"No, no, no, no, no! I really can't do it!" Yise Qianhui said repeatedly, "I really can't continue acting, just now I felt that I was almost exposed!"

The bad girl comforted: "Don't worry, every meeting is a brand new object, with your performance, you won't reveal your secrets."

She thought for a while, and then said: "Your efforts have achieved certain results - since yesterday, the outside has become much more stable. The information of 'The Return of the Chief' has effectively deterred many people who secretly rebelled!"

Yaoshiji Meixi was even more worried: "It's all come to this point, if it is exposed, wouldn't the situation be even worse?"

Isshiki Qianhui smiled wryly and said: "It's too hasty, the squad leader's plan... When I came here, I didn't expect Xingye's status and identity to be so important."

Isshiki Qianhui likes to imitate others, not only the voice, but also the tone, way of thinking, and even character of the subject—this is no longer a simple strong ability of "voice imitation", but also a combination of "profile" ability "personality imitation".

Therefore, in the more than a dozen video conferences in the past two days, although some people thought "Ling Xingye" was a bit strange, no one suspected that the leader on the other side of the screen was a fake.

But just because Yise Qianhui's ability is too strong, in imitating again and again, she is also constantly guessing the real Ling Xingye's way of thinking, and personally understands the pressure of his position in this position.

Maybe it's nothing to Ling Xingye himself, but to the imitator Yise Qianhui, it's almost unbearable.

"To be honest, this is the first time I feel afraid of imitating others..." Yishi Qianhui looked bitter.

So much so that she became the first person who couldn't bear the pressure, even earlier than junior high school student Saten Ruiko.

"I'm almost reaching my limit." Saten Ruiko also raised her hand and said.

In order to manipulate Ling Xingye's stand-in puppet, her hands and fingers were already so tired that they were about to cramp.

The puppet was provided by Hitomi Shiranui, who transformed it from a half-finished puppet in Ling Xingye's apartment.

Ling Xingye's common tactic "Puppet Double Dance" originally required the sprites to be dressed up as himself, so Hitomi Shiranui easily found Ling Xingye's face mask, coupled with the cover-up of simulated skin and clothing, only revealing If the upper body is used for video conferencing, there are almost no flaws.

Finally, hand it over to Ling Xingye's "proud disciple" Saten Leizi to manipulate and make the puppet "live", and it will be really seamless.

The various image synthesis technologies of Academy City are highly developed, and with the technological level 30 years ahead of the world, it has almost reached the point where the real ones can be confused with the real ones.

However, people living in the big environment of Academy City, that is, citizens who have lived and grown up here since childhood, can instinctively distinguish the subtle differences between virtual images and real people.

Therefore, it is impossible to use image synthesis technology to deceive those club leaders. Instead, the "ancient" method of substitute puppets is more effective.

Seeing that his companions were retreating one by one, Yuan Shanyao had no choice but to stand up to boost morale.

"Big... Don't worry, everyone, we did a great job!" Yuan Shanyao mustered up his momentum, and his voice fell down again when he spoke—she is really not good at doing this kind of thing.

But there is no way, she and Hitomi Shiranui are the main promoters of the project to search for Ling Xingye, and when the squad leader, Hitomi Shiranui is not around, she is the overall person in charge of the plan.

"Well, don't worry!" Yuan Shanyao repeated again, "I will 'watch' carefully, and if it really reveals the truth, I will issue a warning in advance, so don't worry!"

With such a "prophet" as a guarantee, everyone really felt relieved.Although I continued to complain for a while, I soon entered the state again and started a new "performance".

Yuan Shanyao looked at the information, and quickly explained the key points of the next line to Yishi Qianhui.

"...This association usually smuggles high-tech products from Academy City, and its main customers are major European and American countries. Therefore, let them be responsible for collecting and providing information on John Brison."

"Foreigners?"

"Yes, he is the manager of an equipment supplier in name, but he is actually an observer of the United States. Although he is not a superpower, he has strength and has a reason to kidnap Xingye." Yuan Shanyao said, "It is one of the main suspects. one."

This John Brison was also a few days later, "Ling Xingye" ordered his subordinates to investigate the ninth object of intelligence collection.

In order to find the missing Ling Xingye, Shiranui Hitomi runs around every day.

Using the memory of Saten Ruiko as the starting point, she investigated all the people who were in the No.13 school district one by one. In the end, combining the memories of many people, she locked down ten main suspects.

Last night, Hitomi Shiranui visited "Hubrian Robot Development Co., Ltd." again, borrowed Lucun's "answering machine", and finally confirmed that the most suspicious person was Chime Kihara who was asked just now.

Hitomi Shiranui knew the name of the Kihara clan for a long time, and the surname "Kihara" has always been a frequent visitor on the top forums and journals of Academy City.

Then, she obtained the other side of the Kihara clan from Frenda through Saten Ruiko's relationship.

——Mad Scientist, a group of cold, weird and powerful monsters.

At this point, Hitomi Shiranui is almost certain that the suspect who kidnapped Ling Xingye is Chihara Kihara!

However, in order not to startle the snake, and to avoid other low-probability situations, Shiranuotong let Yishiqianhui and the others continue to investigate the other suspects.

As for Hitomi Shiranui himself, he didn't have a meeting with them.

She made a special trip to the residence of the flower group to meet with the leader of the flower group.

The two were not familiar with each other, so after a simple greeting, they went directly to the topic.

Commander Hua asked someone to bring over a box, about one meter high.

"This, I think it should be handed over to you." Commander Hua said.