Academy City's Puppet Master

"Master Xingye, are you busy?"

"Ask knowingly, I don't believe you can't see the picture here." Ling Xingye said, "Stop talking nonsense, just say something."

"Okay, it's like this..." Passy directly began to explain the situation.

The accident occurred outside Academy City, that is, Tokyo City.

Since the early hours of the morning, large-scale mass sleep coma incidents have occurred one after another in Tokyo.

Originally, at this juncture, the governing council did not want to pay attention to the trivial matters outside.But the problem is that the coma incident is getting bigger and bigger. So far, less than half of the residents of Tokyo City have fallen into a coma!

A similar incident happened once before, that is, when the front wind invaded, the effect was caused by the "Spell of Scourge".

After research and judgment, the governing council thinks that the front wind may be invading again, so I want to ask Ling Xingye, who has confronted her before, to confirm.

"It's not her." Ling Xingye immediately affirmed, "Since you and the other directors who were hostile didn't faint, it means it wasn't the effect of the 'Spell of God'."

"It's a 'dream'." Eve, who had been keeping quiet and waiting for his call, suddenly said.

"Dream?"

"The apostle of the dream," Eve revealed the answer, "the strongest apostle ranked number one."

"The Apostle of Destiny only occasionally works part-time to 'collect voters'. The real professional is the Apostle of Dreams." Eve smiled brightly on her face. "Do you know how many people are half the population of Tokyo City? 3 million!"

This is a huge number that exceeds the total population of Academy City!

With a majority vote based on 3 million "voters", there is no difficulty in pushing Eve to level 5.Even reaching the throne of level 6 is not impossible.

=== Chapter 55 Ceremony Opening ===

The small square outside the Metropolitan Theater has changed its appearance. The originally well-designed green space and square have all been reduced to ruins, dotted with the wreckage of countless robots.

Only Ling Xingye and Eve were still standing there.

"Facing an opponent with 3 million 'voters', do you still have the courage to challenge, Puppet Master Ling Xingye?" Eve asked.

She raised her hand and made a fist.The air exploded with a "snap"—this is the explosion produced by breaking the sound barrier at the speed of a fingertip.

At this moment, Eve's gestures contained great power.

There is no need for any miscellaneous abilities, just with this physical fitness, Eve can blow up most of the enemies.

Not even a saint can match her in physical fitness.

Unlike the apostles who each had special abilities, Eve has no other abilities...or in other words, her ability is "majority voting".

Only she is the one who can represent the will of countless "voters".

As for the apostles, they just borrowed Eve's ability to strengthen their respective abilities.

So Eve was very calm and confident, even knowing that all the apostles under her command had been defeated, she didn't change her face.

"Because I'm still here. I will win for my master!"

"What a great determination." Ling Xingye's insincere praise and applause responded to her, "So, you are the real bait for Muyuan Evolution, right? It would be of great help if you could tell me where your master is."

"Hmph! Daydreaming!" Eve scolded.

As time went by, Eve's aura became stronger and stronger, and even made Ling Xingye have the illusion that standing in front of her was not a girl, but a majestic mountain.

Eve is undoubtedly very strong, in terms of deterrence alone, it can even be compared with the former archangel Gabriel.

But facing such a strong enemy, Ling Xingye still secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

——At least one thing is certain, there is only Eve here, and Kihara Evolution is not here.

Although I was pinned down by the enemy, but thinking about it the other way around, isn't Eve, the top threat, also pinned down by me?

What we need to do now is to find out the evolution of Kihara as soon as possible!

"What is your purpose?" Ling Xingye asked, "It feels like you are not on the same level as the rest of Gremlin."

"Gremlin? That organization was originally put together by a bunch of different forces," Eve sneered disdainfully, "It's just a bunch of lunatics and mobs."

Eve's purpose is to delay time and attract attention, so she doesn't mind chatting with Ling Xingye.

However, the two sides are hostile after all. Although they are still chatting calmly on the surface, the atmosphere between the two is becoming more and more tense.

It was like a rubber band that had been stretched to its limit and might break at any time.

Whoosh~~bang!

A firework exploded in the air.

The world-renowned Yiduanlan Festival officially opens!

This firework has also become the horn of battle.

The two people who had already been ready to go took action at the same time.

Zheng!

The silk thread fluttering in the wind suddenly tightened, turning into an indestructible flying blade and slashing at the enemy.

Eve reacted quickly, just flicked her fingers, and her nails were like blades, cutting off the flying blade.

At the same time, the other hand opened and sucked a piece of gravel from the ground.

Eve shook her hand and threw the stone.

boom!

At the moment of the shot, the stone broke through the sound barrier and continued to accelerate—just like Misaka Mikoto's signature technique "Railgun".

But Eve simply performed a miracle with great force, directly throwing the stone out of the hypersonic speed.

Even with the addition of Eve's will for protection, ordinary stones can't withstand the heat generated at high speed.

Like a meteorite falling through the atmosphere, it shines brightly due to friction with the air.

The distance of just a dozen meters is almost negligible at this speed.

Ling Xingye didn't have time to react, his body was penetrated by this crimson beam.

The light dimmed for a moment, and then burst out suddenly.

After the dull explosion sound, Ling Xingye's upper body had disappeared—it was blown up by this shell!

Seeing that her attack was easy to succeed, Xia Wa raised her vigilance and looked carefully.

Sure enough, not far from the blown body, she saw Ling Xingye again.

"Haunted and haunted!" Eve said to herself.

You don't need to think about it to know that what you attacked just now was just a substitute puppet.

According to intelligence, that was Ling Xingye's usual trick.

Of course, Eve had already been mentally prepared. At the beginning of the operation, she thought that she might be an enemy of Ling Xingye, so she specially collected information and formulated a tactical plan.

Obviously, he has been paying attention to the opponent's every move, but he still failed to notice when he exchanged with the double puppet!

What's even more weird is that Eve recalled a little bit, and was surprised to find that Ling Xingye himself had been standing there the whole time, and hadn't deliberately hidden at all!I did see him, but for some reason, I kept ignoring such a big living person and focused all my attention on the stand-in puppet!

Looking at the smiling young man in front of him, dressed neatly, as if preparing to perform on stage, Eve felt an inexplicable fear in her heart.

——In terms of strength, of course I am stronger!But Ling Xingye is really too weird!

Eve couldn't help wondering whether what she saw now was the real Ling Xingye.

Therefore, she can only use "absent and haunted" to evaluate.

"Thank you for the compliment." Ling Xingye smiled and cupped his hands, "It's just a small performance skill that uses visual misleading and psychological blind spots, and it's not worth mentioning."

As he said, Ling Xingye used some stage performance techniques, which are usually used to divert the attention of the audience when performing tricks.

Of course, the specific effect Ling Xingye has displayed so far is very unscientific.

Strictly speaking, this should be the effect of "theatre special effects" - Ling Xingye's "puppet theater" in Huzhongjie.

Ling Xingye's silver blood in his body is not enough to start "The Realm in the Pot", but with his superb skills, he reproduces the "Puppet Theater" in the real world.

For Ling Xingye, as long as he wants, anywhere can be a stage for him to perform.

Use skills to enter the Tao, enter the hall and enter the room.

Ling Xingye's so-called "tricks" are actually equivalent to at least level 3 "psychological invisibility".

And his signature skill "Puppet Double Dance" is even more superb. Except for himself, no one knows when he and the puppet will replace each other, let alone whether it is himself or a double puppet that appears in front of him!

Eve strengthened her vision as much as she could, and raised her full attention to observe, but after all, all she could see was the person on the opposite side.

"Forget it, let's just believe that this is his real body!" Xia Wa put aside the hesitation in her heart and attacked Ling Xingye.

——Battle, after all, is a competition of hard power!It doesn't matter if you are a human or a puppet, as long as you blow them all up!

Eve made a decision in her heart, and it just so happened that she had the strength.

Outside the Metropolitan Theater, Ling Xingye and Xia Wa officially launched a fierce battle.

In the theater, the opening ceremony officially began, and the whole process was broadcast live to the world simultaneously.

===Chapter 56 "Super City" Project ===

"Ladies and gentlemen, good morning! Welcome to Academy City!"

In the Grand Theater, the opening ceremony of Yiduanlan Festival was held as scheduled.

The speaker representing Academy City at the opening ceremony was a middle-aged man.

In Academy City, this man might not be well-known—most citizens even saw him for the first time.

The head of Haiyuan, the current head of Changdian Shangji Group, is a well-known man in the education and science circles.

Changdian Shangji Academy was originally the first of the five prestigious schools in Academy City; apart from the most famous high school, Changdian Shangji is a large-scale conglomerate covering many fields such as education and scientific research.

Coupled with this Yiduanlan Festival, Academy City's most important promotional achievement "perpetual motion machine" is a project of Changdian Shangji Academy.

Therefore, the master of Haiyuan got the chance to lead the opening ceremony.