It's time to improve the strength of the infinite world

Chapter 186 Changes and Procedures White Wolf
The storefronts on the shopping street were dark.

There wasn't even a single light on in the building that had sprung up from the ground like a bamboo shoot.

The only artificial light in this gray and gloomy world is the faint street lamp.

This area, located in the time gap of the extra-dimensional fault, named "Locked Space", is very strange. It is not far from the world where people live, like a direct copy of the human world, but it is completely isolated from the normal world and independent of the time axis of the universe.

So even though I had already received information about the closed space from the superpowers, and I had already wanted to see it for myself...

However, Xia Zhi was not able to enter and touch this realm until today.

The main reason is that the nature of the existence of the closed space is too special.

This phenomenon can be said to occur completely randomly. Sometimes it occurs twice a day, sometimes once every two days, and sometimes it may only occur once every several months.

There is no pattern, mainly related to Suzumiya Haruhi's stormy mental state. As long as her mind becomes unstable, the closed space will appear. Moreover, probably because the closed space is completely isolated from the normal human world and independent of the time axis, it is almost impossible to detect.

Even Nagato Yuki once said that the closed space was very troublesome.

——It is very troublesome to observe...

——Trying to interfere is even more troublesome...

Even with the support of the powerful computing power and intelligence network of the Information Integration Thought Body, it is still a thankless task to break in from this aspect.

He couldn't find it, and he couldn't touch it. There was no way to get in. He had no way to get in. Therefore, Xia Zhi naturally had no way to explore the closed space. Even if he had any ideas, he had no way to put the corresponding plans into practice.

Until today——

Koizumi Kazuki invited him, and taking advantage of the opportunity to form a team, he was able to participate in this dungeon legitimately.

And from this, we can see an extremely important opportunity for upgrading.

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A few minutes later.

Kyon kept breathing heavily and raised his head to look at Koizumi Kazuki in front of him.

The two were climbing the stairs of a building and were about to reach the eighth floor in one breath. He couldn't help but feel tired. His legs seemed a little heavy and his breathing became noticeably rapid.

"Hey, Koizumi, should we... continue climbing? Can we go a little slower?"

Kyon couldn't help but call out to Koizumi-san, his tone of voice sounding a little weak.

He didn't want to show weakness. After all, they were all high school boys. If Koizumi Kazuki could climb up to the eighth floor without any effort while he was panting and out of breath, wouldn't he appear to be a weakling?

however……

The result went against one's will. Although Axu tried hard to be tough in words, he couldn't be tough physically.

He was just an ordinary high school boy. His physical fitness was only average, although he was not well-trained. If he continued to climb up like this, he would probably collapse from exhaustion.

"We'll be there soon... Sorry, I didn't realize your physical ability is still at the level of an ordinary person." Koizumi Kazuki reacted, turned around and said apologetically, while slowing down his pace.

"Whoosh..."

Ah Xu pulled the corner of his mouth, took a few deep breaths, and then he couldn't help but look at him.

"So, you are no longer an ordinary person now?"

"..."

"..."

Koizumi Kazuki smiled but did not answer. His body began to emit red light, and in the blink of an eye his entire silhouette was engulfed by the light.

But in just a few seconds, what appeared in Axu's eyes was no longer a human being, but a huge ball of light suspended in the air. He was speechless and didn't know what to say.

The light ball of Koizumi's incarnation began to sway left and right as if giving him a secret signal, and circled around him. It then immediately flew towards the upper floors at an extremely fast speed. Not long after, it returned to its original position and transformed under Kyon's gaze.

The light quickly dimmed and finally stopped shining, and Koizumi Kazuki's figure appeared before him again.

His breathing was smooth, without a trace of disorder.

It was as if the transformation just now and the process of displaying abilities did not consume any of his strength, or rather... it was not his strength that was consumed.

"This this……"

Ah Xu opened his mouth, feeling a little confused, and didn't know what to say.

"Just as you have seen, I am indeed a person with super powers. I just couldn't show it to you before because I can only possess super powers in this closed space." Koizumi Kazuki said.

"I, I know...but, no matter what, this is still weird!"

Ah Xu took a breath, slowly came back to his senses, looked at the strange space outside the building with a wry smile, and could only force himself to accept reality.

"Even if Suzumiya arranged it this way, why did she do it this way? Creating a group of people with super powers like you, but making you have super powers only in this space, isn't this completely meaningless?"

"I thought so before, but later I thought maybe it's not the case."

"What do you mean?"

“That is to say, we say we are superpowers, but in fact, our role may just be to repair the phenomenon of the closed space.”

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"..."

Axu felt that he didn't quite understand.

"…The nature of the closed space is like the "acne" caused by Suzumiya's mental fluctuations, and we, the psychics, are the drugs used to suppress and treat acne. We have the ability to reflect her rationality, and we can also find the closed space and enter it."

Koizumi Kazuki had a complicated expression and said in a low voice:

"As long as Suzumiya-san's mind is unstable, this space will appear. And as long as this space appears, my companions and I will be able to detect it. To be honest, we don't know why we know it. Anyway, we can somehow know the location and time of the locked space, as well as the method to enter."

The feeling is indescribable.

Just like the sudden awakening of their superpowers, they knew what kind of abilities they had and how to use them without any reason, and they knew that this ability was brought by Suzumiya Haruhi...

Anyway, it's inexplicable, as if I knew it by nature and I know it without anyone explaining it to me, but at the same time there is no way to explain it to others.

Because of this, the appearance of these superpowers is very suspicious. It seems that from the beginning to the end, another mechanism appeared to suppress the closed space, that is, Suzumiya was in a bad mood and had some kind of impulse similar to the desire to destroy, but she wanted to suppress her irrational impulse.

“…That’s probably it. It’s quite contradictory, right?”

Koizumi Kazuki sighed and concluded.

Ah Xu frowned, thought for a moment, and was about to say something when he suddenly heard a dull vibration coming from the distant sky, and then the building under his feet shook slightly.

What happened? An earthquake? An earthquake also occurred in this closed space?
Koizumi Yishu understood something and hurriedly called out to him, "It seems to have already started. Let's go up quickly and we'll be able to see it when we get to the rooftop!"

Ah Xu gritted his teeth and could only quickly catch up.

Fortunately, after a rest, my strength recovered, so the last few levels were not a big deal.

Arriving at the deserted rooftop, he had a broad view from the height, so he could immediately see the shocking scene happening in the distant horizon without Koizumi Isshu pointing it out.

In the gaps between tall buildings in the distance.

A huge white wolf is ruthlessly ravaging the city.

Its body is extremely huge, one head taller than a 30-story commercial building. Its hair is extremely smooth and beautiful, as if covered with a layer of faint silver glow from moonlight. It looks extremely majestic when it walks, like a silver wolf walking in the forest.

It’s a pity that this forest is a steel forest made of reinforced concrete…

And this white wolf is also a monster that should have appeared in special effects films... Its casual movements can cause waves of horrific noises like local earthquakes. When its sharp claws swing and its strong and powerful tail sweeps, the buildings around it collapse like sand castles. Cement, steel bars, and rubble fall to the ground in slow motion, making a deafening sound.

And around the white wolf, there were red balls of light flying at high speed, circling around its huge body like satellites, seemingly hindering the silver wolf's movement forward.

However, compared with the behemoth that is more than thirty stories high and almost twice the average height of Ultraman, these huge glowing spheres seem extremely insignificant. If it were not for the extremely obvious red light they emit, they would probably be as inconspicuous as sesame seeds.

Axu had no way of noticing those spots of light at this time. The moment he saw the huge white wolf, his whole body froze.

He felt a kind of extreme terror...

That was an extreme feeling that far exceeded the human psychological threshold, a despair felt directly from the soul, and a fear that had succumbed to the biological instinct...

——Without any reason, he already understood that the white wolf was the "natural enemy" at the top of the food chain and the "ultimate natural disaster" that threatened all primates in this world.

——Normal humans have no way to resist it, and they don’t even have the desire to resist. They can only wait to be killed and hope for a quick death.

“It’s scary, isn’t it…”

Koizumi Kazuki noticed that Kyon's body was shaking unnaturally, and said, "People with superpowers have always been fighting this thing in a closed space. I can't say exactly how long it has been, but since I awakened, I have fought this thing at least a dozen times..."

"Although we have been able to successfully suppress it every time, it seems to be getting stronger and stronger, and its outline is becoming more and more specific and clear..."

As he said this, he looked out at the battlefield in the distance with a worried look on his face.

"If that's the case, you guys are really good, really awesome..." His teeth chattered, making an unconscious clicking sound.

Ah Xu took several deep breaths and tried to calm down, but to little avail. He could only turn his head away and not look at the terrifying figure in the distance. Not directly taking in information through vision seemed to make his body less instinctively fearful, so that every cell was trembling.

"You're not going to go over now?"

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"No, just like what Xia Zhi said, I'll stay here and see for now—" Koizumi Kazuki was silent for a while before speaking. "I can't really help much, after all, I'm just a low-level employee in the "agency" and I don't have a say."

"This……"

"Let's just watch. To be honest, I doubt that Mr. Xia Zhi will be easily controlled by the "mechanism". " Gu Quan said with a serious face and uncertain tone, "I even suspect that he did it on purpose, because he seemed to have wanted to enter the closed space for a long time, but there was no way..."

"We are people with super powers, but we only have super powers in this closed space. If the leaders of the "agency" want to control Teacher Xia Zhi, they will definitely find a way to trick him in here... But Teacher Xia Zhi may be waiting for us to trick him."

He did it on purpose.

The more Koizumi thought about it, the more he felt that this might be the case.

Otherwise, why did Teacher Xia Zhi accept the invitation and follow me even though I had hinted at him so many times? He even asked me to stay here and not move around, saying that he could go over and negotiate with the "agency" himself...

No matter how you look at it, this is a very suspicious development.

Just as Koizumi Kazuki was lost in thought, Kyon's voice suddenly came from the side again. His voice was still trembling and he even stuttered as he spoke:
"Wait, wait! I... suddenly remembered something. Koizumi, you just said... you guys have been fighting this thing all this time?"

"Yes, is there any problem?" The transfer student nodded and looked at him strangely.

The problem is serious, okay?
For some reason, Axu suddenly felt a chill in his body: "Didn't you say before that you were in the closed space... and were always fighting against a blue "god"? "

"What blue god?" Koizumi Kazuki frowned. "I don't remember...did he really say that?"

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"..."

Ah Xu bit his lips tightly and shivered a few times.

He looked around helplessly, and intuitively realized that something had changed, and it had directly affected the world line.

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On the battlefield behind the tall buildings in the distance.

The red ball of light cleverly avoided the white wolf's attack, flying at high speed, while continuously attacking the white wolf.

High-speed laser-like red light crisscrossed and left marks on the white wolf's body. Although it did not directly penetrate the white wolf's body, its attack power was still very significant... I don't know if it was because of its high value or the noble bonus of special attack on the white wolf.

The white wolf flailed around angrily.

However, even with its extremely fast speed, it is still difficult to hit these annoying flies.

If it continues like this, it will soon be defeated as it is already covered in wounds, and will repeat the fate of being sealed once again.

But at this moment——

The beam of light whistling from afar violently pierced through the atmosphere, as if it was going to split the gray sky in two, and following closely behind it was the sound of rumbling thunder.

Two red balls of light were barely able to dodge and were about to be swallowed up by the torrent of light.

After narrowly dodging the sudden attack, the red ball of light quickly moved horizontally to a tall building several miles away, and then dispersed its light. A tall man with an angry and gloomy face looked in the direction of the attack: "Who is it... Wait! Is it you? A person from another world!"

"it's me."

On the rooftop of a building on the other side, the magician waved and greeted with a sunny and cheerful face.

"How dare you! How dare you attack us? Don't you know who we are?" The man was a little exasperated and angrily demanded an explanation.

"What's there to be afraid of? If I don't do it, you guys will have to do it later, right?" Xia Zhi said disapprovingly, "It's all the same. We're all adults now, so don't be so naive... Come on, do you want to follow the procedure or just be direct?"

"What do you mean by going through the procedures? What do you mean by being direct?"

The magician said without blinking: "The procedure is to fight and then you feel inferior to me; the direct way is to not fight at all and you feel inferior to me directly... I recommend the second one."

"You...you!" The tall man almost choked out his breath. He roared like thunder: "What nonsense are you talking about? We invited you here to show our sincerity!"

"There's no need to flatter yourself now. I know your plan better than you do."

The young man had a look on his face that said, "You're being too polite."

"In the final analysis, your "organization" itself is very strange. According to Suzumiya's setting, you only have superpowers in a closed space, and you have nothing in the normal world. Then how can you establish such a strict and huge secret organization?"

"Bring people in here and show your powerful strength..."

"Intimidation, threats, and inducement are probably common in the process of making a fortune..."

At this point, his words suddenly stopped, drowned out by the loud sound of an explosion. In the thick smoke and dust, dense red rays intertwined to form a firepower network, screening and killing those near the center of the explosion.

"How was it? Was it successful?"

The tall man frowned as he looked at the several huge glowing spheres rising from the smoke and dust of the ruins, then turned his head to look at his other companions who were restraining the White Wolf.

"Of course—it didn't work."

With a hearty smile, she answered him, but that annoying voice seemed to come from the other side along with the wind that shouldn't exist.

The man's pupils suddenly contracted and he looked to the other side.

On the rooftop of a tall building over there, the young man seemed to have been standing there from the beginning. He didn't seem to care about the sneak attack at all. He just laughed and said, "It seems like you want to go through the procedures..."

As he said this, he reached out and touched the white-haired ball lying on his shoulder, then picked it up and threw it out.

With an astonishing roar, the white-haired ball's body expanded rapidly in midair, and in the blink of an eye it transformed into a giant beast that was several miles long! In an instant, it transformed into another white wolf, exactly the same as the giant beast on the other side of the battlefield.

The young man pointed his finger and gave orders to the white wolf in a decisive tone that left no room for doubt.

"—Go! Eat them!"

(End of this chapter)