Academy City's Puppet Master

People can't help but think of beasts that may violently injure people at any time.

This combination of male and female "transfer students" stood by the podium, bowing respectfully to the whole class.

But it feels like engraving "bad boys and girls" on the forehead.

The classroom fell into a deathly silence, and Sachiko-sensei, who watched this scene, could only let out a silent sigh. Oh, is it really too sudden?

After two seconds, under the leadership of Hitomi Shiranui, the students came back to their senses and gave applause to welcome the new students.

The applause stopped quickly, and then the whole class turned their heads to look at Ling Xingye.

If the two new students are delinquent boys and girls, there is also a leader of a delinquent group here!Sure enough, this situation should be left to "professionals" to handle it?

Accelerator and Misaka Miho also looked at Ling Xingye.

"Yo, Starry Night!" Misaka Mihoi greeted with a smile.

"Okay, you all sit down." Ling Xingye had no choice but to come forward, pointing to the vacant seats on both sides of him, which were specially vacated for the two of them.

"Okay, okay!" Teacher Sachiko clapped her hands and stood back on the podium again, "The new classmates have also met, and now the formal class meeting begins..."

……

After the morning meeting, the curious students started to act immediately.

Even though their posture was a little scary when they appeared on the stage, people quickly discovered that the two men didn't seem so vicious, so people soon surrounded them to make contact.

"I'm not here to play house with the kid!" Fang Accelerator said to Ling Xingye.

At the same time, those students who tried to approach found that they could not get in touch with Accelerator anyway.

"I'm looking for me when I'm doing business." Accelerator put on a pair of glasses, stood up and walked towards the back door of the classroom.

"Huh? Where's the person? Why did he suddenly disappear?" The students around him suddenly exclaimed.

"Did you use your ability to become invisible? You are indeed the No.1 superpower user!"

In their eyes, Fang Accelerator suddenly disappeared just under their noses.

The principle is not difficult to guess, it must be to deflect the light around you to achieve the effect of optical invisibility.

Some "Psychic" superpowers who are good at precise manipulation can do this kind of thing.

After one escaped, the students turned their attention to Misaka Migata.

I don't know what kind of mood is in it, Misaka Miho is very friendly to communicate with the students.

Compared with Accelerator, she seems to really want to be a high school student.

This made Ling Xingye and Shiranui Tong deeply gratified.

Throughout the morning, Accelerator did not show up.

During the lunch break at noon, Ling Xingye found him on the roof.

Nibbling on the bread he bought from the vending machine, Accelerator looked southwest.

Ling Xingye came to his side: "I really can't see that you care so much about that child."

Ling Xingye knew that that direction was where the elementary school of Changdian Shangji Academy was located.

At this moment, the final signal is going to school right there.

This is one of the conditions for persuading Accelerator to come to class.

Because Accelerator used the excuse that if he came to school by himself, no one would take care of the final signal, so Ling Xingye gave a "package plan" to bring the final signal to the school for class.

But Accelerator wanted to come to the high school, but the final signal was to go to the elementary school. There was a long distance between the two, so of course Accelerator could not agree.

In the end, Mr. Huang Quanchuan convinced him

"You can't protect her forever, and you can't use protection as an excuse to deprive her of a normal childhood life."

Accelerator finally made a compromise in order to finally signal that he could go to school, live, and make friends like a normal girl.

"Don't worry, for you, I have also taken over the campus security work of the elementary school." Ling Xingye said, "So you should also save face and go back to class."

"Is it necessary to listen to that kind of simple course?" Accelerator dismissed it, "And if you want to, you can quickly master all the knowledge, right? I don't understand you, what's the point of continuing to stay there and take lessons."

"Because I'm a student." Ling Xingye said, "Going to school, leaving school, doing homework, and taking exams step by step are the daily routines I pursue and cherish."

"Weird!" Yifang Accelerator commented.

"It's not your turn to talk." Ling Xingye said, "By the way, should you come back this afternoon..."

Accelerator interrupted him: "I won't waste my time on those useless classes! Instead of talking about it, should you find a way to install more cameras on the campus? There are too many dead spots, and that brat likes it again." Running around, often out of sight!"

As he spoke, Accelerator pushed his glasses.

"Enough is enough for you! The prosthetic eye agent is given to let you confirm the safety of the final signal at any time, not to ask you to follow and monitor it 24 hours a day!" Ling Xingye couldn't help complaining.

The pair of glasses that Accelerator is wearing is the terminal of the real-time monitoring system called "Prosthetic Eye Agent".

In order to dispel Accelerator's concerns, Mr. Huang Quanchuan specially borrowed a set of "prosthetic eye agent" from the equipment department of the security force and handed it to him.

The "Prosthetic Eye Proxy" system can invade and retrieve all camera records around the target, including the camera equipment carried by the target itself.

It was through this prop that Accelerator was able to continue to observe the final signal from a distance.

Restricted by the number and angles of cameras, there are often dead angles of view that are not covered by cameras.

That's why Accelerator asked for additional cameras.

"Okay, I'll get a set of prosthetic eyes first and come back to study it." Ling Xingye said.

===Chapter 74 Perpetual Motion Machine Development Department===

In the afternoon, Accelerator still did not return to class after all.

There was nothing Ling Xingye could do about it.And to be honest, it would be better if Fang Accelerator wasn't there. His atmosphere and the class were really out of tune. Even Ling Xingye was worried that he would suddenly go berserk or something.

After school was over at [-]:[-] pm, it was time for club activities—it was also time to prepare for various matters of the festival, and the whole campus suddenly became noisy.

The real work of Accelerator and Misaka Miho began.

Led by Ling Xingye, the two came to the school's scientific research building.

This area borders the university department, and is strictly speaking a part of the university-affiliated research institute, but many research clubs in the high school also use the laboratories inside.

This time, the one who is going to participate in the Yiduanlan Festival's results display is the "Perpetual Motion Machine Development Department", a scientific research club that is in the same line as the high school and university departments.

Arriving in front of the research building, Accelerator raised his head and glanced at the tall modern building, as well as the researchers coming in and out of the door, and let out a cold snort.

Misaka Miho who was next to her didn't have a good face either.

It's no wonder—Ling Xingye knew that they didn't have a good impression of places like research institutes.

"Don't worry, our place is legal." Ling Xingye comforted the two.

The two glanced at him, and then walked in with their heads held high.Like it or not, they are much more familiar with the "institute" than Ling Xingye.

"Welcome, welcome! Finally, you are here!"

In front of the laboratory, Coles, the president of the high school department, greeted him warmly.

"Huh? Perpetual motion machine?" Misaka Misaki looked at the club sign on the door and various perpetual motion machine models on the display cabinet at the door, and said sarcastically, "Is this kind of club really okay?"

She looked at Ling Xingye suspiciously, saying that she was here to help with a certain research, but she didn't expect it to be such a project that had already been proven to be a pseudoscience.

Accelerator did not laugh at it: "What's so strange about this? Compared with those absurd studies, this one is even cuter. Besides, the perpetual motion machine..."

Accelerator stretched out a finger, and a small whirlwind was formed, spinning at high speed, making the sound of whistling wind.

"We superpowers themselves have broken the law of energy conservation in a sense, right?"

"Well said!" President Cowles applauded and praised, "As expected of level 5, if nothing else, this vision is well-deserved!"

"Although the name of our association has 'perpetual motion machine', we don't want a real perpetual motion machine." Cowles continued, "Different from the traditional first-type perpetual motion machines and second-type perpetual motion machines, we try to create It is a 'relative perpetual motion machine'."

"Relatively?" Accelerator raised his interest.

"For example," Cowles raised his finger and pointed to the sun outside the window, "For us, the sun is a giant perpetual motion machine—although stars also have a lifespan, for us humans and even human civilization, in In the foreseeable future, it will be an inexhaustible energy source. The reason why human beings want to create a perpetual motion machine is to obtain an inexhaustible energy source.”

"It's like a mobile phone battery with a huge capacity," the female staff member next to her continued, "as long as the battery doesn't run out before the mobile phone itself ends its service life, then it's a 'relative perpetual motion machine' for the mobile phone."

To sum up, what the "Perpetual Motion Machine Development Department" wants to demonstrate is a system that can output energy stably for a long time without external input - "relative perpetual motion machine".

"If the volume of the device is large enough, Academy City's technology is not without a suitable method," Cowles said, "but those batteries are just filled with a large amount of fuel at one time, which is not what we want. "

Then, he took out a model, about the size of an adult's fist: "What we're going to do is this—'Heart of Gold'."

Open the case of the model, and the inside is like a mechanical clock, full of precise gear structures, running stably and orderly.

After watching for a long time, Ling Xingye couldn't help asking: "Then the question is, where does the energy for this thing come from?"

"According to our assumption - from high-dimensional space." Cowles said.

He took out another small ball from his pocket, let go and dropped it to the ground: "In the three-dimensional space we live in, the height difference has energy. So we are going to use the 'drop' between higher latitudes to generate energy. For this , we need to create a 'heavy hammer' that can enter high-latitude space—so, we must rely on the power of 'vector operation' and 'super electromagnetic gun'."

"Sorry, I'm just a level 4 'Denshocker'." Misaka Mihoshi said coldly.

"Ah, I don't need too much effort, as long as the precise manipulation ability can match that of Misaka Mikoto, that's enough." Coles, who had entered the state, no longer cared about other people's emotions, "Fang Accelerator, can you manipulate vectors at the atomic level?" ?”

"Hmph, who do you think I am?"

"That's good! First of all, we have to process this—" Coles brought a few people to the workbench, and there was a crystal shining with a strange luster in the glass vessel above, "'not in metal', in large The strange substance collected during the Baxing Festival. Research has found that changing its microscopic structure can make it have the properties of a four-dimensional space!"

"But that's just the modification of trace atoms in the laboratory. If you want to use it to make a 'heavy hammer', you probably have to be busy for several years?" Cowles shrugged, "So I need the ability to prepare on a large scale , I have already asked classmate Lily Mezzas to provide stellar-level ultra-high temperature, but we still lack the ability to manipulate specific microscopic particles, so I have to ask the two of you!"

Only then did Ling Xingye discover that Lily was also in the laboratory.Now, her true ability seems to have been exposed-not just the ultra-low temperature "Ice Age"; it can also create ultra-high temperature, which should be strictly called "thermal operation".

Accelerator looked at Ling Xingye and said, "Manipulating particles, your ability seems to be more suitable for this kind of thing?"

"If we focus on development...maybe?" Ling Xingye shrugged. The ability of "phase fulcrum" should essentially be applied to the microcosm. "But all my skills are focused on manipulating puppets, so I can't do anything."

After confirming that Yifang Accelerator and Misaka Meixing got along well with everyone in the "Perpetual Motion Machine Development Department", and that Lily had no intention of jumping out to challenge Yifang Accelerator, Ling Xingye finally felt relieved.

"You guys are busy, I'm leaving first." He said goodbye and left, "There is still a meeting to attend later."

——The invitation sent by Passy five days ago, inviting Ling Xingye to attend the regular meeting of the governing council.

When he came to the school gate, Shiranuo Tong was already waiting for him.

"Xingye, do you really want to go?" The girl looked worried.