On how PhDs become human evil

Bai Jie's words stunned Misaka Mikoto, and then an indescribable anger erupted in her heart.

The Phantasmist Mage—that's an incident involving over ten thousand students in Academy City! Misaka Mikoto had initially thought that Hakuge might be able to produce some research results, but she hadn't expected this man to be so nonchalant, even forgetting what the Phantasmist Mage was...

"Bilibili..."

Electricity crackled on her forehead again, and Misaka Mikoto's face darkened: "Fine, since you've forgotten, I'll make you remember."

"That...Misaka?"

"You've heard of electroshock therapy, right? Now you can experience it for yourself, you bastard!"

"Hey! Wait a minute! If you discharge electricity here, my room will be—Stop it, Misaka!"

Bai Jie felt a large "danger" character appear above his head.

However, Misaka Mikoto completely ignored his words and released the maximum power of electricity. Through her hands on Bai Jie's body, Misaka Mikoto transmitted the electricity with the force of almost electrocuting Bai Jie!

"Bilibili Bilibili Bilibili!"

“NO————————!!!”

Bai Jie's room was destroyed in the lightning.

P.S.: My playtime for Lady Butterfly is from 4 PM to 7:30 PM. I can now clear the first life without taking damage, but I can't seem to get past the second life. I've already used up all my crucial "Sound Seeds," and now every time a phantom appears, I can only run in circles. It's so frustrating.

Section 514, paragraph 14: Jump in front of me?

"It's unbelievable! She's clearly the young lady of Tokiwadai, yet she's flirting so wildly in someone else's house!"

Several tens of minutes later, in Bai Jie's living room, Bai Jie was angrily berating Misaka Mikoto, who was kneeling in front of him.

"Thanks to you, all the data on my computer is gone. How are you going to compensate me?"

"Is it my fault? It's all because you've been playing games the whole time!"

Misaka Mikoto said angrily.

"I trusted you so much and hoped you could come up with a solution for the Imagine Breaker, but you actually said you forgot about it! There's a limit to how much you can play with a girl's heart!"

Faced with Misaka Mikoto's accusations, Bai Jie sighed helplessly: "Fine, I admit I made a mistake, but you didn't have to discharge electricity like that! My computer is now completely ruined!"

"Besides, I already took care of that Illusionist. I just didn't remember it for a moment."

"what?!"

Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko suddenly jumped up from the sofa and quickly brought their faces close to Bai Jie's.

"You've already analyzed the entire Phantasm Master?!"

"And the result? And the solution?"

"Don't get so close to me, you two brats!!!"

Bai Jie gave each of them a flick on the forehead in an annoyed manner, then sat back down on the sofa.

"As I just said, I have finished analyzing the files on the Fantasy Master. It's surprisingly simple. To put it bluntly, it achieves a learning device-like effect through the empathy brought about by music."

"A learning device? What's that?"

"Don't you know? It's a piece of equipment that allows you to quickly gain a lot of knowledge just by wearing it."

Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko both looked puzzled by Bai Jie's explanation, clearly indicating that neither of them knew anything about the learning device.

(Were you intentionally hiding something, Aleister? You really have a lot to hide about this city.)

After subtly criticizing Aleister's secretive approach, Bai Jie continued, "Well, it's fine if you don't know. To put it simply, the Imagine Mage establishes a computing hub and then connects people who hear about the Imagine Mage through some means, thereby gaining a large amount of computing power and increasing their ability level."

"I see..."

The strength of superpowers is essentially the strength of computing power. The stronger the computing power, the more things the ability can do. Therefore, although computing power cannot completely represent a person's ability level, it can still be a rough approximation.

"Then what's the solution?" Shirai Kuroko pressed.

"Just disconnect from the internet."

"....What?"

"So—since the brain was in a coma due to connecting to an illegal network, why not just disconnect from the internet and avoid connecting to that illegal network?"

Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko were both stunned; they never expected that Bai Jie's solution would be so simple.

No, upon closer inspection, it's not entirely wrong.

Just like Bai Jie said, if the fantasy master connected someone to an illegal network, the best solution is naturally to disconnect the network.

"But the problem is how to disconnect from the internet."

"Fantasy Master is an audio file that makes people connect to the internet after listening to it. So we can do the reverse and create an audio file that makes people disconnect from the internet after listening to it."

"Oh right—wait a minute, does that mean you've already finished it, Professor Bai Jie?"

Bai Jie nodded at Shirai Kuroko's surprise, then shook his head: "I did manage to make it, but unfortunately, the audio is gone."

"Huh? Why?"

Bai Jie didn't answer immediately, but instead pointed at Misaka Mikoto.

Now they both understood—Misaka Mikoto had just electrocuted that audio file.

"Well, making a new one isn't out of the question, but it would take at least a day, and dealing with all the details would be quite troublesome."

"Could you please remake a section as soon as possible?"

"It's possible, but I don't feel it's necessary."

Bai Jie's words stunned Shirai Kuroko and Misaka Mikoto. Before they could ask any questions, Bai Jie snapped his fingers, and the spatial teleportation was activated on the spot. The three of them disappeared from the living room in an instant.

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On a highway near the outskirts of Academy City.

With the appearance of a magic circle, Bai Jie and his two companions appeared on the road.

"This is... the outskirts of Academy City?!"

"Huh? Really?"

Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko both showed barely suppressed surprise. After all, this was the outskirts of Academy City, while Bai Jie's home was almost in the center of Academy City. Yet, the distance between them was traversed in a mere second.

"Teacher Bai Jie, who exactly are you?"

As a spatial ability user, Shirai Kuroko stared at Bai Jie with utter terror. She never expected that Bai Jie would possess such a terrifying spatial movement ability.

Shrugging, Bai Jie chuckled, "It's just a passing human villain and magic king. Compared to this, I think that thing should have been dealt with sooner; in terms of its nature, that thing is quite troublesome."

Following the direction Bai Jie was looking, both Shirai Kuroko and Misaka Mikoto trembled, their faces showing obvious shock and fear.

It was a semi-transparent baby monster.

"Hehehe... I never expected such a monster to be born. If it were published, it would definitely win an award..."

Suddenly, a slightly deep voice rang in everyone's ears, and they then noticed a woman slumped on the edge of the highway. Coincidentally, both Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko knew this woman.

"Kiyama Harumi? What are you doing here?!" Shirai Kuroko exclaimed in surprise. "What on earth is going on?"

"Oh my, little disciplinary committee member, what happened... I think it's unnecessary to explain."

In fact, without Kiyama Haruo's explanation, Shirai Kuroko's understanding of the situation was already quite clear, given that Kiyama Haruo was the only person on the highway with a blue sports car. Considering Kiyama Haruo's words and the monster, it was almost certain that the monster's appearance was related to Kiyama Haruo.

“You’re the mastermind behind Phantasm Master, aren’t you?” Bai Jie said. “Physm Master users are all connected to an extra network, and the one that can connect to the brain is naturally the brain. So the question is—whose brain are Phantasm Master users connected to? Or rather, where is the Phantasm Master terminal located?”

"After seeing you, this question was finally answered. After all, there are so many threads wrapped around you that I don't even want to count them."

Before Bai Jie's eyes, tens of thousands of threads were wrapped around Kiyama Harumi's body, and these threads were exactly the same as those on Saten Ruiko's body.

The result is then clear: Kiyama Harumi is the mastermind behind the Gensoumitsu incident.

"So what if I know? The network of the Fantasy Master is out of control now; it's beyond my control."

"...Ha, so that's why you guys always like to control things beyond your control. Troublesome." Scratching his hair, Bai Jie looked at the baby monster. "Shirai, contact the security personnel and have them come and arrest the person. Misaka, you stay here to protect them. I'll deal with that monster."

"You're going to deal with that... That's a collection of ten thousand ability users! How are you going to stop that fantasy beast all by yourself?" Kiyama Harumi looked at Bai Jie in disbelief.

With a cold smile playing on his lips, Bai Jie said, "It's just a collection of ten thousand ability users, is that so troublesome?"

Section 515, Chapter 15: The Fire Bull Makes Me Feel Depressed Again

“GGGGGAAAAAAA!”

The howls of the fantastic beasts echoed across the wilderness, as if the combined will of ten thousand of the lowest-ranking ability users in Academy City had turned the fantastic beasts into a collection of negative emotions.

Jealousy towards those with higher abilities, resentment at being stuck at the bottom, anger towards those who bully him... such emotions erupt through the roar of the fantasy beast. If these emotions could be quantified, the values ​​would probably be off the charts.

"Ugh, it's so noisy! Don't you know you're disturbing the neighbors?"

Amidst this extremely unpleasant and oppressive roar, Bai Jie teleported from the highway to the front of the fantastical beast.

Scratching his hair, Bai Jie looked at the increasingly bloated and swollen fantasy beast: "Honestly, every world has plenty of people like you. You vent your frustrations on the outside world because you're too weak. I know it's a way to relieve stress, but can you please not cause trouble for others?"

Whether it's the world of Kamen Rider, the world of Godkiller, or the world of Honkai Impact, Bai Jie has seen too many of these struggles of people with low abilities. Having also gone from being an ordinary person to his current extraordinary state, Bai Jie can understand them.

but.

Just like he said, you can vent your stress by yourself, don't cause trouble for others!

"Om-!"

Suddenly, the earth trembled violently, and then the ground beneath Bai Jie's feet abruptly transformed into a soft asphalt surface, swallowing Bai Jie's legs like a quagmire.

And in the next moment—

"Boom boom boom!"

The thunderous lightning gathered above the head of the fantastical beast, forming a vortex of lightning like three flowers converging at the top of the head.

Then, lightning erupted!

"Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!"