Temperature Control in Academy City

"To some extent, Lingzi is the product of an experiment. And due to some complicated reasons, I am taking care of her now."

"But even if it involves experiments, Lingzi herself is not dangerous. She is just a special girl."

After taking a serious look at Shirai-san, he organized his words and restrained his facial expression.

Since the existence of Reiko has been exposed to everyone, she doesn't intend to hide it anymore. After thinking about it, she reveals some information about Reiko to Shirai and the others.

However, since Reiko was involved in some secrets of Academy City, there are still some risks in letting everyone know about it.

"The product of an experiment?"

Shirai was stunned for a moment, and seemed to want to continue saying something, but the words were stuck in his mouth.

Yes, Natsume-san is also a person with super powers after all.

It is normal for Academy City to conduct some experiments on her, and this girl named Zero is probably a by-product of some experiment.

Just like her elder sister, Natsume also has some unknown and unspeakable pressures, so the two of them stick together for warmth.

Thinking of this, Shirai became quiet instead. She seemed to be in low spirits and felt a little depressed.

Like everyone else, she cherishes the city in front of her and is willing to work hard for it.

But the more this happened, the more she found it difficult to accept reality. She insisted on her own justice and fought against criminal incidents, but she neglected the important partners around her.

"Ah."

Natsume nodded slightly and looked at the change in the expression of the discipline committee member beside him in surprise, feeling a little puzzled.

Shirai-san, did she misunderstand something?

However, most of the time, Natsume's mind is not sharp enough to guess what other people are thinking. He just feels a little strange and then stops worrying about it.

For people with special abilities, seeming distraction is nothing.

Especially a girl with a bun-like haircut whose body was far less useful than her brain. Her new perception was always focused on Kihara Gensei.

In Natsume's perception, Kihara Gensei walked and stopped, and then stopped at a place where there was some energy left.

That place is facing away from Natsume and the others, and Kihara Gensei is still distracted, which seems to be the best time to launch a sneak attack.

"Shirai-san, that position."

"Most of Kihara Gensei's parts except for his brain are prosthetic parts. Don't hold back."

Suddenly, Natsume squeezed Shirai Kuroko's hand hard.

Inexplicably, there was some thin mist around Kihara Gensei, outlining a faint outline. Natsume also used his ability at the same time.

After observing for a period of time, Natsume still did not find any possible traps on Kihara Gensei. He just looked like a slightly gloomy old man.

Moreover, she kept changing her position, constantly looking for the moment when Kihara Gensei was off-guard, thereby reducing the risk of her own exposure.

Nodding silently, Shirai Kuroko briefly let go of the hands of the two people beside him.

His fingers slid across the weapon belt tied around his legs, and dozens of steel metal strips suddenly disappeared.

It can be regarded as an approval of Natsume's suggestion that this time Shirai Kuroko did not deliberately avoid her opponent's body.

However, she still did not attack Kihara Gensei's brain, which was also Shirai's bottom line.

For some tough enemies, spatial movement is more convenient than other abilities, and can even eliminate opponents unexpectedly.

This is true even for Accelerator, even if the methods and approaches need to be flexible.

One of the conclusions that Natsume has reached so far is that spatial movement can take a shortcut through the eleventh dimension, thus ignoring the limitations of the human soul.

However, Accelerator can still reflect spatial movement (mentioned in the original work, but it will cause special phenomena). There are many different opinions on the specific reasons, and the issue of restraint between users of various abilities is an unsolved mystery.

It seems that as long as there is a direction, he can interfere with this kind of damage. The ability demonstrated by Accelerator has exceeded the scope of vector operation.

Just like Natsume's temperature control has long since broken away from the initial barriers, and has actually shown a trend towards microscopic particle control.

These stereotyped and outdated impressions are still beneficial to people with special abilities. The more popular the title of superpower is, the safer it is; the more detailed it is, the more dangerous it is.

Like Misaka-senpai's title of a certain railgun, her trump card is exposed as soon as she hears it.

However, for someone with the ability to move through space, there is no need to directly attack the main body to deal with Accelerator.

As long as you teleport Accelerator's bowl away every time he eats, so that he lacks energy, or add something to the rice and add a layer of mental attack, there is still hope of defeating Accelerator one-on-one.

Although the time and energy required are a bit scary, and we also have to guard against Accelerator's large-scale attacks, it is theoretically feasible.

In fact, Aoki Yuuki, who does not require manual contact and can move only by confirming the coordinates, is more suitable for this job.

Back to the point, Shirai-san's attack tore through the barrier of space.

It took a detour through the eleventh dimension, traveled an actual distance of more than eighty meters, and attacked directly in the direction of Kihara Gensei.

Just as Natsume Sonoko finished her words, a strange spatial fluctuation appeared on Kihara Gensei's body, and dozens of special steel needles were densely inserted into Kihara Gensei's body.

Just as expected, Kihara Gensei fell to the ground.

However, there was no expected sound of metal hitting the ground, but instead there was a feeling that was real and indistinguishable from that of a human being.

"Is it space movement?"

"How disappointing! It seems that the vector operation calculation suit is not up to the level of Accelerator and cannot simulate reflection in eleven dimensions. It can only be regarded as a semi-finished product."

Kihara Gensei, who had fallen to the ground, slowly opened his eyes and wanted to look back at the attacker's location but found it difficult to move.

Some bright lights suddenly appeared on his body. A high-tech product called Vector Operation Computing Suit was performing real-time calculations, but it did not play the role it should have.

The technology derived from Accelerator has long been applied to some important projects in Academy City, such as the building without doors and windows, or the vector operation calculation suit specially prepared by Kihara Gensei.

The reason why Natsume Sonoko couldn't detect his warmth and figure was not because he was a multi-talented person, but because of the loading capacity of this vector operation calculation suit.

The idea of ​​this kind of equipment was first proposed by Teliyan, and the production ideas were improved by the Virtual Number Research Institute and the Wuqiu Affiliated Research Institute.

Finally, the product was transferred to the department directly under a certain director of the Board of Governors who did not want to reveal his name for research and development, and a few trial products are already available.

Chapter 383 He stood up

Even if it is a prototype, just activating the basic reflex unit is enough to suppress an entire modern army in a head-on confrontation.

In other words, under normal operation, this vector operation computing suit can allow the user to temporarily gain the combat power of a super-powered person.

This level is probably the lowest among those with super powers. No matter how advanced the built-in computer of the computing suit is, it faces the dual limitations of energy consumption and internal space. Its endurance is worrying, and it naturally cannot catch up with the highly developed brains of those with super powers.

This can probably be considered a mass production plan for people with special abilities in another sense.

The only difference is that the research object changed from Misaka-senpai to Accelerator, and the product changed from clones to computer suits, but the goal is still to mass-produce people with super powers.

However, this plan has almost failed. The acquisition of relevant data and the long experimental cycle are not big problems. The biggest difficulties are still battery life and high prices.

Not counting the production costs, the daily maintenance and debugging of such a computing suit can overwhelm the cash flow of an ordinary research institution.

As for endurance, unless the minimum output is maintained all the time, it would be good to run for a few dozen minutes to an hour. If it were to run recklessly like Accelerator before, the energy would be exhausted in a few minutes.

Unless a miniature nuclear fusion reactor can be built and installed on the chest, this problem will be difficult to solve and the best we can do is to continue to optimize it.

However, even the current Academy City probably does not have technology similar to the micro-reactor, after all, the technology tree points are different.

Academy City is filled with various cutting-edge technologies developed based on people with special abilities, and has much less interest in other aspects of technology. The previous Anbu study chose to retaliate against society because his research was not taken seriously.

"The thermals are being repelled, there's no mistaking that feeling."

The moment he launched the attack, a strange thought came into Natsume's head.

Cooperating with Shirai, Natsume not only used his ability to outline Kihara Gensei's silhouette, but also attempted to use hot air to invade the opponent's nasal cavity in order to shock his brain.

Although it is not known whether the hot air can affect Kihara Gensei, and maybe his engine is even hotter than this, the guy with the bun still made his insignificant effort.

I don’t know when, but in Natsume’s eyes, Kihara Gensei has turned into a semi-human creature covered in a technological shell, and the degree of mechanization is really too high.

Before she had time to think about the abnormality of Kihara Gensei, Natsume clenched her palms slightly. The meaningless body movements combined with the introduction of formulas in her brain caused a lot of changes in an instant.

The mud and sand around Kihara Gensei began to roll continuously, and the materialized air hand went straight to grab the fallen body.

The timing was just right, just the second after the needle entered his body and he fell to the ground.

However, the moment of contact, it dissipated uncontrollably, causing a loud gas explosion and blowing up a large amount of building debris caused by the collapse.

By the time the air currents around him calmed down, Kihara Gensei, who had been lying on the ground, had stood up again.

There was still no panic or dissatisfaction on his face, but instead there was an inexplicable peaceful smile, as if he was signaling something to the attacker.

"Haha, what an interesting result." Kihara Gensei said.

His face remained calm, but one could vaguely tell that he was suppressing some strong emotions.

The old and indifferent tone was in line with the identity of an elderly person, but there was some unspeakable joy in the tone.

That emotion was not anger from being attacked, but pure joy, so strong that he forgot his own situation.

Even the subsequent reckoning by the Unified Council and the three Avengers girls standing right before their eyes were insignificant.

This is a mad scientist who is extremely paranoid.

Although it is a pity that the experiment was stopped midway, the data collected is enough.

There are so many that several stagnant projects can be revitalized, some research institutes can receive more funding from the Unified Council and large companies, and some super weapons based on Misaka Mikoto will have more reference data.

But the most fundamental thing is the precious data related to those people with absolute abilities. Excluding the third one who was an experimental subject, the first and eighth ones can be said to have made great contributions.

His eyes couldn't help but look up at the sky, but he didn't find any trace of the attacker, only a dazzling light.

"I'm a little curious, Natsume, how did you find out about my existence."

"Based on the information I got from your brain, you should not be able to detect me in this state. Although this set of things is half-finished, it is enough to deal with you."

Kihara Gensei hunched over, spoke to himself, and didn't expect anyone to really answer him.

At this moment, a telekinesis was supporting his body.

He ignored the dense steel needles in his body as if they did not exist.

The needles disrupted the functioning of many of his bionic organs, but most were pointless decorations that served only to keep him feeling human and able to function normally.

Perhaps a single bionic organ needs to be used in conjunction with a normal organ, and once destroyed it will have a great impact, but when most of the human body is gone, this impact is infinitely reduced.

You just need to ensure the normal energy supply to the brain, and you don't need to worry too much.

It is not like what Natsume and the others think, that destroying his organs will make him lose his ability to resist. This is an error caused by inherent thinking.

However, it did have an effect. These steel needles destroyed his ability to move, and he could only rely on his ability to replace his limbs.

A portion of the telekinesis was allowed to pass through the computing suit, allowing Kihara Gensei to continue standing.

In fact, he had experienced a large number of tragic experimental accidents, and there was not much human left in him. Even his brain had been partially modified to adapt to the bionic body.

Perhaps it is because of this physiological change that Kihara Gensei can use humans as experimental subjects without any care.

Sure enough, the identity of the half-robot has been confirmed, and Natsume is confused and can't tell the difference between the bionic body and the robot body.

However, when he addressed Natsume-san, he used her last name, perhaps because he felt that he and Natsume Sonoko were not strangers.

Of course, this was only one-sided, Natsume Sonoko didn't know him at all.

For Natsume and her classmates, only people who are familiar with each other will call each other by their last names, and the dorm supervisor often calls them by words like Natsume or Shirai without suffixes. If it is the dorm supervisor, it will give people a sense of superior-subordinate relationship.

Adding a suffix like "classmate" makes it sound a little more formal, but also seems more distant, while calling someone by their name seems a little impolite.

As for Sonoko and Kuroko, probably only very close people would do so. (It is roughly classified like this, different people call each other differently, anyway, the protagonist has always called each other "classmate", so it doesn't affect much)

"He's standing up!" It was an exclamation.

Ignoring Kihara Gensei's mumbling, Natsume-san and Shirai-san were both surprised.

Only Miss Lingzi, who didn't understand the situation, secretly grabbed her sister's hand, which was smaller than hers.

In fact, bringing Lingzi along was not a well-thought-out decision, but it was not a good idea to keep Lingzi around at this time.

At the moment when the attack seems to be ineffective, Natsume-san takes over Reiko's body and prepares to get her away from here.

The three-person team began to disperse to avoid being wiped out by Kihara Gensei by accident.

Chapter 384: Solution

Given a choice, Natsume would tend to choose the safer approach.

These safe methods may not necessarily produce better results, but at least they will not make the situation worse. Natsume is such a girl who does things cautiously.

There was a little more redness on her face, and Natsume's complexion had recovered a little as her injuries improved, but her hands were still clenched into fists, fully revealing her inner nervousness.