Ordinary Kihara is the Strongest in Education

"Shooting down old fighter jets won't end the crisis."

Mikoto repeated the usual words.

"If the UAV sending the detonating signal reaches Academy City, the entire neighborhood will be wiped out..."

"No, have you underestimated the destructive power of hydrogen bombs?"

"Now is the time to worry about destructive power!"

There is no time to return to Academy City now.

What Misaka Mikoto and the three of them can do here is to find out the shady secret as the "successor" and terminate the plan from the top down.

Just, where is that shady scene?

The "upper section" of the Russian shopping center is already out.And the accomplices of the "outside organization" behind this also do not appear to have inherited the program to use nuclear weapons.

So, who is leading this plan?Is there an in-depth organization with many levels of "behind the scenes behind the scenes behind the scenes" that is the mastermind behind this matter?

Is the situation going to a dead end again?

No.80

"Don't worry, the other party has no time to detonate the hydrogen bomb. I just got the news that the guards have moved the hydrogen bomb to the isolation area deep underground to start the dismantling operation. The signal of the isolation layer of [-] meters underground cannot pass through."

"So fast?"

"Because the seventh person and the second person went to help, there is no need to worry. I also asked the second person to 'reinforce' the isolation. Now even Academy City's internal communication can't reach the bottom. World isolation'~"

Hearing Kihara Tento's brisk tone, Misaka Mikoto's dangling heart calmed down, and the feeling of fatigue from the high-intensity use ability just now began to manifest.

Misaka Mikoto sat on the bench in the lounge, took the drink that Leza handed her, raised her head and drank it.

"I wanted to say 'I didn't expect you to know the seventh and the second', but thinking about you, a freak, to be honest, do you know all the superpowers in Academy City? You and Shokuhou are familiar, right?"

"That? Because Shokuhou is the one responsible for my ability development. As for the second person, most of them are assisting in the research. As for the seventh person, it is purely accidental. Because he is also a rough stone, so there is no way to study it. of."

"You're not number six, are you?"

"Unfortunately, it's not me. Strictly speaking, I'm NO.0. I'm a non-staff. How do you compare to this? It's already afternoon."

Since breakfast in the morning, Misaka Mikoto hasn't eaten anything or drank any water, and has been running around to protect Academy City.

"Compared to me, although the crisis has been lifted now, if we can't find the real mastermind behind the scenes, there will be endless troubles like this."

"Yeah, but aren't the clues broken now? What's the situation on your side? I seem to have heard a lot of noise, and what happened to your right hand?"

At first, Misaka Mikoto noticed the Kihara Celestial Body that was covered with a windbreaker from a clothing store.

It is obvious that there is a slight difference between the right arm and the left arm of Kihara Celestial Body, and such a sense of incongruity will naturally appear without the driving-like armor covering the arm.

"The amount of effort was so strong that the drive-like armor was reimbursed. To be honest, I didn't expect the materials to be so unscathed. When I go back, I have to find a way to ask the high-level rare materials to repair it."

"Speaking of which, why are you wearing this kind of thing? Is it because of your ability?"

Kihara Celestial Body did not expect Misaka Mikoto to ask this question, but after thinking about it, Kihara Celestial Body was relieved.

To be honest, the three of them have been running around for two days. It would be a lie if they were not curious, right?

"Because I can't control my abilities well, I need a drive-like armor to limit my power. As you can see, if it wasn't for the limitation of the drive-like armor, my right hand might be missing now."

"What the hell did you do... not the completely abandoned street outside..."

Misaka Mikoto just remembered that when she was going to meet here, she found that a street was completely reimbursed, and the entire road was smashed by something, but when it came to the shelling just now, Misaka Mikoto didn't think too much, but now ......

"While I don't mind bragging about myself a bit, now we have something to do, right?"

"Well, it's almost time to rest, what should we do next?"

That said, but now the thread seems to be back where it started.

Just, where is that shady scene?

Is it true that there is a "behind-the-scenes behind-the-scenes" operating all this as I said before?

"It's true, even though I think so..."

Just when Misaka Mikoto thought of this, Leza suddenly said:

"There should be no other shady things...how come there are so many unfolding?"

"You said that the plan to use nuclear weapons has continued without a leader?"

"No, it's not like that."

Reza spoke in the same tone that she didn't know how to explain.

"I don't know much about the science side. Maybe I will be laughed at by the top students and research fellows of Academy City."

"what."

"Yes."

Compared to Misaka Mikoto's protest, Kihara Tianti shamelessly admitted...

"You guys are outrageous, in all aspects. In short, as far as this block is concerned, even if there is no clear BOSS, I think there are ways to make large organizations operate..."

"Inhumans, right?"

There is a very nasty feeling.

Misaka Mikoto can also understand from this conversation.

If you think about it, those who are deeply related to the events at the beginning, those who spread urban legends, those who caused riots, drove the media and semi-public AR, read people's reactions, automatically created new rumors and sent them with wave signals, and the group Psycho is something to fiddle with like a toy car.

That's right.

There is one thing that can be done without leaving any evidence at all, something that can even be played by high-level officials, security guards and others!

Project CodeEIC!

"Shady is...CodeEIC...?"

That's the only way to think about it, right?

A superpower, an excellent researcher from Academy City, and a team of four mysterious girls, despite all the information gathered, they still couldn't find any clues about the opponent.

Just like what Kihara Celestial Body said, what the other party did was too clean, as if it was done by someone "inside".

And if this "internal" does not refer to the operating system, but...

How about the real system itself, that is, the system itself with the name Project CodeEIC?

All data comes from him, and all abnormal clues also come from him.

In fact, from the moment I set foot on this shopping mall, I never left the scope of Project·CodeEIC.

Even Misaka Mikoto and Kihara Tenki used Project CodeEIC for their investigations, as well as for the intelligence gathering of the security guards.

If the criminal itself is the system, it will naturally hide or even destroy information that is not good for itself. In fact, if it has enough wisdom, it can even release "smoke bombs" to disrupt the investigation.

more than this......

Put the blame directly on Academy City's head!

"The celestial body can't be true, can it?"

"I would also like to hear the opinions of professionals on this point. How about Kihara celestial bodies?"

Kihara Tenti looked at the surprised Misaka Mikoto and the thoughtful Leisa. To be honest, he also felt incredible, but now he needs to make the most reasonable judgment.

"It is possible that Project CodeEIC itself is a highly centralized algorithm. To be honest, artificial intelligence technology and initial results, if it is really because of the input and recording of a large amount of data, even through the semi-open AR covering the entire shopping center. When the system collects the data needed by the senior management of the cooperation organization, if you study it 'intentionally'..."

Kihara Celestial Body looked at the display screens all around.

"In your terms, 'it' may have become 'he' or 'she'..."

No.80

"Don't...don't be kidding, this isn't science fiction, anti-human artificial intelligence or something..."

"Unfortunately, although I don't want to admit it, I will only make a reasonable analysis now. According to your two ideas, it is actually very possible that I will receive a large amount of data all year round and undertake all the calculation and aggregation work of the entire shopping center. , collecting information, psychology, intelligence and behavior patterns of travelers for decades, I know it's hard to believe..."

Kihara Celestial Body paused for a moment, then looked at the display panel on the wall that was slightly tilted due to shelling and fighting, and said.

"The development of a supercomputer with an 'anti-human personality' is not just a science fiction story...it can exist in reality."

Mikoto stared blankly at the serious-looking Kihara Sky and the thoughtful Reza.

If you think about it normally, the answer should be "no".In any case, it is too unreliable for a machine to rebel.I have never seen a real computer and program do such a thing, and everyone who has had a little exposure to computers knows it.

but.

After all, CodeEIC is a system that uses rumors to interfere with people's hearts in order to increase the price of selected products or add value to brands.

In a world without humans, the existence of CodeEIC has no meaning.Only a world full of humans can fully utilize CodeEIC.In this case, even if there is no general "intention" such as "hatred of human beings" or "establishment of a new order", such as "functional expansion" or "expansion of the possible range of options" such a messy and simple command, it is possible to make It stretches its claws to humans.

So did Misaka Mikoto, and so did Leza.So is the mysterious convenience store, all the human beings in the shopping center, even the upper-level department and external organizations, are played by CodeEIC?

Just to expand the function of the machine, it is necessary to attack Academy City?

"Because of dissatisfaction? Dissatisfied with the gap between myself and Academy City."

"You mean the advanced emotion of 'jealousy' affects this system? That's too strange, isn't it? Even if you have your own ideas through 'learning', but jealousy is too much?"

Thinking of this, Mikoto shook her head.

"Impossible? What do you think about celestial bodies?"

"It's true that if there is a real sense of 'jealousy' in the system, I'll be honest, it's probably worse than it is now, but what if it's 'dissatisfaction' or 'anger'?"

"What do you mean?"

"If it is to simulate the behavior of the high-level!"

Lisa said so suddenly.

Misaka Mikoto's eyes suddenly widened. It was not due to her own "emotions", but the actions of those high-level people who "inherited" and died.

It's almost like the ghost of the high-level parasitic on the system, in order to continue the strange development of his own plan.

"Is this impossible? Importing human thinking into computers or something..."

"Import human thinking into a computer? It's possible, but it's not its own personality, but a similar pseudo-personality simulated by the computer itself."

It's getting more and more outrageous, this kind of speculation has already surpassed the scope of science fiction!

"So it really is like this?"