Academy City's Puppet Master

Kihara evolved unimpeded all the way to the director's office.

The office needs to swipe a specific ID card to enter. Adam immediately recalled: "The ID card is on the director's body, I will go get it back."

After killing the director just now, he hasn't had time to search his belongings.

"Need not."

Kihara Evolution stopped him, then took out a card from his pocket, and swiped it in front of the electronic lock.

"Welcome back, Deputy Director."

An electronic greeting came from the speaker, and the door opened.

"My lord, you..." Adam asked in surprise.

"I'm more or less an excellent researcher. Isn't it normal to have a cooperation project with Academy City?" Kihara Evolution said.

Then, he walked into the office with ease.As the director of the institute, he naturally has the identity of a scientist and researcher, so this office is actually the director's exclusive laboratory.

Through the identity card, Kihara evolved to activate all the instruments and devices of the laboratory as the deputy director-he has such authority.

"Start 'Planet II'." Kihara Evolution issued an order.

"'Planet II' started, self-inspection completed, in good condition..."

The holographic projection device in the middle of the laboratory was activated, refreshing a massive data stream, and then gradually stabilized, turning into a three-dimensional model of the earth.

"Identity verification...failed, please enter the opcode."

"Hey, has my operating authority been cancelled?" Kihara Evolution said in shock, "It's really frustrating to need to enter a [-]-digit operating password."

Although he complained so much, his hands turned into afterimages, and he quickly entered the password on the keyboard.

The operating password of "Planet No. [-]" is not a constant [-]-digit number, but a data string that needs to be calculated by a special algorithm.

Only the core members of the real research institute will master the relevant algorithms.

"My lord, have you ever stayed here?" Adam couldn't help asking.

He had already noticed it all, and Kihara Evolution was too familiar with this research institute.Not only can they shuttle through the interior with ease, but they also informed the security situation and defense measures of the research institute in advance, so that they cleared all the resistance forces and occupied the place without any effort.

"Well, that happened more than ten years ago..." Kihara evolved an expression of reminiscence, he didn't seem to mind telling the story of the past while waiting for the result.

"That was when I was not 'Kihara', I once visited Academy City as a geoecologist." Kihara Evolution said, "Although Academy City doesn't attach much importance to the disciplines of geology and ecology—they only I'm interested in breaking the earth's crust with three kilograms of iron sand—but it's undeniable that as a holy place for scientific research, the various research facilities and conditions here are far better than anywhere else."

Even though it was not a mainstream research direction, Kihara Evolution at that time found a suitable research institute, namely "Planet II", and started cooperative research with it.

In the next year and a half, Kihara Evolution won the trust of everyone in the institute with his extraordinary talent and achievements, and even became the honorary deputy director here.

That's why he has such high authority and has all kinds of confidential information of the Institute.

Even after leaving "Planet II" and returning to China, he still keeps in touch with the research institute and visits from time to time to keep the information timely and accurate.

"Retrieve the document "Planet (Earth) System Balance Research Report", and start the 'Evolution Machine' program." Kihara Evolution ordered.

"Mission confirmed, please wait..."

The three-dimensional projection globe in front of him rotates slowly, and a progress bar appears on it.

This holographic projection is just a "display screen", and the real core is the huge mainframe hidden deep in the underground of the research institute.

Few people know that this low-key and unremarkable research institute owns a supercomputer - "Planet II".

Of course, Planet Two cannot be compared with a tree diagram designer at all, it is just a computer with a single function.The only purpose is to calculate the planet's ecological environment, geological evolution...

In short, it is a "planetary simulator" with sufficient computing power.

As you can tell from the name, this computer is the foundation of the institute. The researchers of "Planet II" are not so much geologists and ecologists as programmers and software and hardware development engineers.

The "Planet II" supercomputer can simulate planetary-level ecology, climate, and geological environments.It provides a key proof for the research of "ecological balance theory".

And it also has a function, that is, it can "play God", artificially interfere with parameters, and simulate and control various disasters.

Being able to control means being able to create disasters.

When the researchers brainstormed, they specifically tried to simulate how to trigger a natural disaster in the simplest and fastest way.

After the conclusion was reached, a special verification was carried out, and it was found that it was indeed feasible!

This conclusion immediately attracted the attention of Kihara Evolution.Under his prodding and instigation, everyone continued to conduct in-depth research, and finally deduced the "disaster chain".

That is, one disaster triggers another or more disasters, and then forms a chain reaction, detonating more and more disasters, and finally destroying the entire ecosystem.

The most exaggerated simulation even led to the destruction of the planet!

The researchers at that time also wrote two sets of "scripts", both of which were calculated and theoretically feasible.

They are the initial verification version "Japan sinks", and the subsequent advanced version "all sink except Japan"...

Of course, all of this is nothing more than a delusion in essence, a brainstorming and thought experiment conducted by researchers when they are bored.

Destroying the world at the lowest cost is really too absurd, so no one takes it seriously.

After all, in the final analysis, it is only theoretically feasible, and in fact it is not feasible at all.The first step of the entire "disaster chain" - how to artificially trigger a natural disaster, and precisely control it - is an impossible task.

Just the huge amount of energy required is beyond the limit of the technological level at that time.

Therefore, the relevant research only formed a piece of unpublished "Planet (Earth) System Balance Research Report", and then it was quickly forgotten.

"But it's different now." Kihara Evolution said, "Now we have the most 'unscientific' superpowers. As long as you find the right abilities, even the most difficult prerequisites can be easily achieved!"

Kihara Evolution came prepared this time, using superpowers—personal reality to interfere with the real world, directly triggering the "first" disaster, pulling the trigger, triggering a "disaster chain".

Now, what he has to do is to find the timing and position to pull the trigger.

And this requires the calculation results of "Planet Two".

Halfway through the progress bar, Kihara Evo said: "It's almost time to wake them up...the real 'apostles'."

Adam behind nodded, walked to the door immediately, and ordered a few words to his clansmen.

The latter flew away immediately, left the research institute, and rushed back to the hotel where they lived.

=== Chapter 64 Natural Disaster ===

rumbling...

The earth roared.

Ling Xingye was awakened by the vibration of the bed board under her body.

Driven by the fighting instinct, he turned over and fell to the ground, his fingers interlaced, and the fingertips pulled the silk thread, and the stand-by puppet on the side responded accordingly, ready to fight.

"It's an earthquake, who are you going to fight?" A voice came from under the next table.

It turned out that it was Shokuhou Misaki and Kamiya Mitsuko, who immediately hid under the table.

Shiranui Hitomi was at the bedside, and Misaka 10001 and Misaka [-] made a gesture of reaching out for help. It seemed that they wanted to take Ling Xingye to escape together, but he escaped in advance.

The Japanese archipelago has always been plagued by disasters, so the citizens have some rich experience in responding to natural disasters such as earthquakes.

On the contrary, Ling Xingye, because he is from the mainland, is very unfamiliar with the countermeasures in this regard.

Moreover, Academy City has adopted some kind of black technology, which seems to stabilize the ground under its feet. Since its establishment, it has not suffered too serious earthquake disasters.

Although disaster prevention and evacuation drills are often carried out in the school, they are not real after all, so that when an earthquake really happened, Ling Xingye subconsciously took completely different countermeasures.

——I thought the command center was under attack!

The ground under my feet was still shaking violently, as if I was standing on a bumpy boat, and I couldn't stand at all.

The first round of vibration lasted for more than ten seconds. As soon as it stopped, the stand-in puppet kicked open the door, and a group of people hurried out.

This is the "underground" command center!There is nothing more foolish than staying in a basement during a strong earthquake.

Fortunately, the construction quality of Academy City is very good, even the abandoned office buildings can withstand the attack of this round of earthquake.

All personnel in the speakeasy and the command center were evacuated to an open area on the ground.Fortunately, there were no casualties.

When Ling Xingye and his party came to the ground, they saw the terrifying scene of black clouds pressing down on the city, violent storms, and thunder.

The pouring rain was like the Milky Way pouring down, and the thick rain curtain made it difficult to see the scene fifty meters away.

Because they ran in a hurry, many people didn't have time to prepare rain gear, so they could only stand in the open space and soak in the rain.

At this time, the second round of shock hit.

Even more violently, against the background of the thunder, it seemed that the sound of buildings collapsing in the distance could be heard.

"Boss!" Qifan ran to Ling Xingye in the rain and shouted loudly, "The situation is not good!"

"Are the casualties serious?" Ling Xingye asked.

"Our side is okay, I don't know about other places." Qifan shook his head, "But these are not important! Look at this!"

Qifan handed over a tablet computer.

Ling Xingye wiped the rainwater off the screen, but under the heavy rain, this effort was of no avail.

Suddenly, Ling Xingye felt the top of his head go dark, and the sky darkened again.But at the same time, the rain stopped.

Looking back, it turned out that it was Misaka Mikoto who made a move, propping up a curtain of iron sand above everyone's heads to keep out the wind and rain.

Misaka 10001 was on the sidelines assisting her sister, mainly to disperse people who got too close to them.The environment is humid to prevent accidental electric shock.

"Thank you!" Ling Xingye thanked.

Misaka Mikoto gave a thumbs up: "Leave it to me!"

With the canopy, Ling Xingye was finally able to take a good look at the information Qifan handed over.

What was displayed on the screen was another disaster scene.

"This is a picture from the coastal area," Nanami explained, "The scope of the disaster is wider than we imagined."

The sea was full of turbulent waves, and Ling Xingye almost couldn't find where the coast and land were.There are also lightning and thunder on the sea. Referring to the buildings on the seashore, the waves raised are at least tens of meters high-this is a tsunami!

In the seawater farther away, there is a bright orange-red glow, but it is the eruption of a submarine volcano.

"This is..." Ling Xingye looked at Qifan.

The latter said: "This is the real-time video data sent back ten minutes ago...it was sent by the secretary of the governing council, Passy."