Persona: Devil Summoner

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Chapter 300 If you want to sleep, someone will give you a pillow

There is a saying, "making wedding clothes for others". It means that you have made efforts, but the results are enjoyed by others. This saying can probably highly summarize Jiang Tianwei's current situation.

Among the game consoles I bought, the PSP was a handheld game console that could only be played by one player. If you wanted to play online, you needed the most precious and expensive accessory in the gaming industry: a friend. But Nintendo's corporate culture of focusing on family fun was reflected in the era of the red and white machine. They equipped the game console with two handles.

Takemi Mia is from this era after all, so she has played the Famicom and other games. If you ask her what her favorite game is, it is of course "Dr. Mario"! This game is so popular that even if you haven't played it, you must have heard its BGM from various places... especially the comedy and ghost areas...

In the era of Nuwa, let alone electronic games, even the concept of electricity was just a celestial phenomenon. Naturally, people had never heard of it. Looking at this new thing, they were also very curious.

Fang Zexia is full of interests. According to her, the two sisters decided to become professional rhythmic gymnastics athletes when they were very young, so they naturally spent a lot of time on training.

In ordinary families, children love to play, and parents try to stop them from playing every day. In the Fangze family, the Fangze sisters work too hard, and their parents are afraid that their children's childhood will only have painful memories, so they bought them a red and white game console - perhaps, this is the original child of other people's children...

Of course, playing video games with her sister after training is also an indispensable part of Fang Zexia's memories.

Please listen to the question. It is known that there are currently four people in Jiang Tianwei's family. There is a red and white game console, a PSP handheld game console, and an old TV that is rented out with the apartment building. How should the four people distribute it? .

This problem is just like how to divide a cake equally among three children with three cuts. As long as the first cut kills one child, then two cuts will divide the cake equally among two children. It is very simple.

Similarly, since there are more wolves than meat, wouldn't it be enough to just kill the wolves until there are as many as the meat?

So, although this was not the scene of the Werewolf, Jiang Tianwei was ruthlessly purged. There is a saying called "the party unites to exclude the dissidents". Among the people present, only Jiang Tianwei has a different gender. If not him, who else should be excluded? These women reached a consensus at this moment. Three people took turns playing the red and white machine, and the remaining person happened to play the PSP. Only Jiang Tianwei was left out of this cycle.

It is said that three women make a play, and it is obvious that Jiang Tianwei has no place in this play. Isn't this embarrassing? Anyway, Jiang Tianwei opened his demon summoning program and began to synthesize demons out of boredom.

During the special training in the cognitive space before, Jiang Tianwei also captured a large number of demons, so he could happily start synthesizing, synthesizing, and synthesizing again.

By the way, the Nuwa that was accidentally synthesized before was classified as level 89 in the software. Although I don’t know what the maximum level is, judging from the space left in this data, it is estimated that the maximum level is 99. 89 is already a very high level. After evolution, Cu Chulainn is level 87, which can be fully regarded as Jiang Tianwei’s left and right guardian.

However, as a price, the energy required to summon them is also enormous.

Fortunately, Nuwa seemed to be different from ordinary demons. She would consume Jiang Tianwei's energy in one breath only when she returned to the phone. So Jiang Tianwei now used Nuwa as a hypnotist. When he lay on the bed and prepared to sleep, he took Nuwa back, and then a huge fatigue surged in his heart, and then he fell asleep directly.

Although his house is not very big, he can still go to sleep directly when he is tired of playing, without any problem.

When synthesizing, he did think, will there be another fusion failure, biu! A super invincible demon will jump out, and he won't have to be afraid of anything in the future. This is the so-called gambler's mentality. Once you have tasted the sweetness of an exception, you will always unconsciously look forward to the exception coming again.

This is why casinos always use some tricks to let new customers win several rounds on purpose, just to let them taste the sweetness, and then let them lose miserably...

Jiang Tianwei combined all the materials he had on hand, and there was no fusion failure again, which made him sigh and start thinking "next time for sure". If he didn't have to monitor Fang Zexia's body operation time, he would have wanted to go to the cognitive space right now to get a set of materials back.

Seeing everyone having fun, especially Fang Zexia immersed in the game, Jiang Tianwei couldn't help but smile, but didn't join in. This time, let her have fun.

In order to kill time, Jiang Tianwei couldn't help but start thinking about Meijiede.

(I don’t know any good hackers at all… By the way, let’s ask the person who helped me with this project, Naoto.).

Jiang Tianwei briefly summarized the matter of Meijiede and sent it to Chie Satonaka, Yosuke Hanamura and Akihiko Sanada. He was about to close his phone and continue watching the family drama at home, when suddenly the screen of his phone lit up and began to vibrate!

Someone called!

There was an unfamiliar number on the screen. Jiang Tianwei was startled. He had watched so many animations, and based on the development of the animation, his first reaction was, could it be that Meijiede called him? !

He took a deep breath, trying to keep his mind as calm as possible, and then quietly went out. As soon as the wooden door, which was not very soundproof, was closed, he immediately felt that the noisy atmosphere of fireworks was completely isolated. Jiang Tianwei then pressed the dial button.

"Hello, who are you?"

"[I haven't seen you for a few days. Don't you recognize me anymore?]"

Unexpectedly, a familiar native language came from the other end of the receiver. Jiang Tianwei was startled. He didn't know how to call himself.

Is it a Chinese friend on the phone? Master Liu is next door to me. If I have any questions, I can just call him. There is no need to call him.

Telephone, and the old man doesn’t really know how to use this thing.

"【Who are you?】.

"Haha, I won't tease you anymore, assistant."

Jiang Tianwei had just switched to his native language when the other party started speaking Japanese again. This speaking style would definitely not let the other party gain the upper hand. Add to that this familiar voice and this name... Jiang Tianwei could only think of one person!

"Straight... Detective Baek Jong!"

"Haha, it's okay if you don't change your words."

“You can speak Chinese?”

“I taught myself a little bit while I was on the plane.”

Noticing her assistant's abrupt change of words, Bai Zhongzhidou casually said a few words to ease the atmosphere. Then, she changed the subject and started talking about serious topics: "Let's get back to the point. We have initially obtained some information about your father. Are you ready to listen now?"

"Yeah, that's convenient."

“According to our investigation, your father, Jiang Jie, is an excellent scientist…”

Before Bai Zhongzhidou finished speaking, a cold and beautiful female voice suddenly came from the other end of the phone: "Bai Zhong, let me speak."

It is obvious that there is another person next to Bai Zhongzhidou, probably the collaborator of the Shadow Walker she mentioned.

"Hello, classmate Jiang Tianwei. I am the leader of Shadow Walker, Kirijo Mitsuru."

Jiang Tianwei had indeed never heard of this name, so he said "oh". He just had a vague feeling that he had heard of the surname Tongtiao somewhere...

"I'm really sorry, Jiang Tianwei. I'm very sorry about your father's matter!"

Before Jiang Tianwei could remember where he had heard this surname, the cold and beautiful female voice on the other end of the phone apologized without hesitation!

(My own father... apologize? What is her relationship with my father? This person seems to be a Shadowwalker. Is my own father related to them?).

At once, many thoughts flooded into Jiang Tianwei's mind. Because he was too confused, he calmed down...

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Chapter 301 Don’t Mention the Past

The human brain tends to remember things that it notices inadvertently. You may not be able to remember the cause and effect, but you will feel familiar with a certain keyword.

There are also times when you feel familiar with things that have never happened before. This is what is often called déjà vu.

Jiang Tianwei's impression of the surname Tongtiao was because of the former.

Where had he heard this last name? Of course, it was when he met his mother and heard her talk about his father.

【Tong Tiao Human Factors Research Institute】.

Kirijo is not a particularly popular surname in Japan, and the possibility of different people having the same surname is not very high.

Therefore, this Kirijo Human Factors Research Institute is indeed closely related to Kirijo Mitsuru. In other words, it is closely related to the Kirijo Zaibatsu behind her.

As the name suggests, this is a family business. Kirijo Mitsuru is the heir to the Kirijo Zaibatsu and the head of Shadow Walker. You see, excellent people are excellent in all aspects.

The Kirijo family started studying shadows very early.

Jiang Jie claimed in his theory that only people with special qualifications can observe the extra shadow time after 0 o'clock. The Tongtiao Human Factors Research Institute happened to study this shadow time.

The person in charge of this project at that time was named Jiyue Xiusi.

Specifically, was he studying shadow time from the beginning, and then Jiang Jie submitted his research materials to him, or was it Ji Xiusi who got Jiang Jie's research materials first, and then started studying shadow time? The cause and effect cannot be traced with the disappearance of this research institute.

But there is no doubt that the person who caused Jiang Jie to suffer a great loss and made him realize that human hearts are unreliable was this Ji Yue Xiu Si.

Of course, it is obvious that someone who can do such a bastard thing is not a good person. Ji Yue Shusi, who cheated Jiang Jie of all his research data, is indeed a big villain. The shadow events at that time of Kirijo Mitsuru were basically caused by him.

Even Kirijo Mitsuru's most important companion, or in other words, the most important companion of all Shadow Walkers, passed away because of him, and their youth was forever frozen in their best years.

If it weren't for this person, the Tongjo Zaiba would definitely have noticed Jiang Jie's talent and invited him to work for the Tongjo Zaiba. I can't say that everything would have gone smoothly afterwards, but at least he wouldn't have ended up with a mysterious death.

Kirijo Mitsuru spoke sincerely, but these things were too far away from Jiang Tianwei after all, and he didn't have any special understanding of such things. Moreover, he didn't like to think about assumptions like "what if it was like this back then". Because it was meaningless.

Unless you have the power to reverse time or change your fate, it is meaningless to think about what if. Since there is no way to solve it, there is no need to think about it. This is just like worrying about nothing.

"Well, Ms. Kirijo, I don't know the whole story, so naturally I won't forgive you on behalf of my father."

"It's natural for you to say that. I understand."

"But, this is obviously not your problem, right? The bad guy is the one called Jiyue Shuji, right? And you seem to have dealt with him, right?"

"yes.".

"Then it'll be fine."

"Ah, is this okay?"

Kirijo Mitsuru's voice sounded a little shaken, and it was obvious that she was prepared for Jiang Tianwei to complain viciously or even scold her. But Jiang Tianwei forgave her casually.

"If you can't be at ease, Ms. Kirijo, how about this? Can you help me investigate 'Mejed'? It's a world-class hacker organization. They seem to have launched a provocation against the Phantom Thieves."

"Mejed... I understand. I'll use my connections to investigate. If there's any progress, I'll tell Mingyan directly. You just have to wait for his contact."

"uh-huh.".

"And...thank you."

Kirijo Mitsuru whispered a thank you, and it seemed like she had let go of a heavy weight in her heart. It was obvious that she was the type of person who was too serious. Once she found out that she had done something wrong to others, she would not be able to help but complain about herself in her heart.

Especially after learning about Jiang Tianwei's father Jiang Jie and his research, Kirijo Mitsuru couldn't stop feeling guilty...

In a nutshell, Jiang Jie is what is often called a "folk scientist" on the Internet.

However, unlike ordinary amateur scientists, Jiang Jie is a scientist with real talents and knowledge. This is a bit like Stephen Chow's movie "Forbidden City Cop", a scientist with talents but lack of a platform, this is Jiang Jie.

In China, his information is not strictly blocked, but he is indeed not very famous. The biggest difficulty in finding him is not that the information has been blocked, but that many places will not report on such people at all.

The scariest thing is...

Jiang Jie’s research direction is frighteningly correct.

Shadow time, Tartarus, shadow... these familiar keywords actually appeared in the mouth of a foreigner, which shocked Kirijo Mitsuru. These are the core of a series of stories and accidents experienced by the first generation of shadow walkers... no, the students who were just called "Special Extracurricular Activities Department" at that time.

The guy named Jiyue Shuji is just like the devil in traditional works. He has a heart that wants to destroy the world and exterminate mankind no matter what.

The method he used was to summon the destroyer named Nyx through the super tall tower Tartarus that appeared in the shadow time...

However, at that time, Kirijo Mitsuru and her companions were unable to defeat Nyx who was summoned.

In the end, because of the awakening and self-sacrifice of a certain young man, he became the barrier that sealed the Earth's call to Nyx, preventing the end of the world that should have come.

As a result, this young man remained in his prime forever.

Even if this legendary experience was really made into a game, many people would be confused when playing it and would not be able to understand the details and logical relationships, let alone a foreigner who did not experience all this personally and figured out these things through his own research.

If it weren't for the Tong Tiao family's mistake, if they had noticed Jiang Jie's talent earlier, maybe the tragedy that made people sigh would not have developed like this. After all, Jiang Jie proposed a completely different approach from the Tong Tiao Consortium. If everyone used Jiang Jie's theory in the end, would it be different?

Kirijo Mitsugu said a lot, which was different from her cold voice. Perhaps noticing that her mood was a little unstable, Bai Zhongzhidou took the phone and continued to tell Jiang Tianwei about the information he had found.

They also found a photo of Jiang Jie when he was young in Jiang Tianwei's hometown, and planned to send it to Jiang Tianwei later. But they didn't find anything related to research. After all, Jiang Jie came to Japan to continue to be a scientist, and he would definitely take all his research documents with him.

More stuff... No. After all, Jiang Jie moved to Japan with his whole family, and the things left behind were of little value.

"We are going back to Japan today."

Bai Zhongzhidou's words made Jiang Tianwei feel relieved. Once she came back, all intellectual problems could be handed over to her for help!

"Hey, Jiang Jiang, what are you doing out there? Hurry up and get a drink!"

Suddenly, Fang Zexia's rude shout came from inside the door. It was obvious that she lost this round and was in a bad mood. She could only blame Jiang Tianwei. Bai Zhongzhidou obviously heard the voice and laughed: "You guys are always so lively here. Then I won't disturb you. See you later in Japan."

"Yeah, I understand..."

"Bring me some drinks quickly - ah! He's dead, it's all your fault!"

Fang Zexia's voice rang out again. Jiang Tianwei sighed and quickly closed his phone: "I know, I'll come right away... Really, how come she acts like she's drunk even though she didn't drink..."

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Chapter 302 Reliable Companion

Akihiko Sanada is also working out today.

As the saying goes, "Practice never leaves your fists and practice never leaves your mouth." As a fighter, you cannot slack off in training for even a day.

Especially if you have the muscle mass of Sanada Akihiko, if you don't exercise every day, the muscles will soon turn into fat...

"Mr. Sanada, there are two missed messages. Do you want me to reply to them?"

Beside him, a girl's voice sounded, lacking in intonation and somewhat similar to the AI ​​voices that have become popular recently.

Along with the voice, a beautiful girl with short blond hair appeared. She looked about 17 or 18 years old. Her face was as cold as her voice, without any emotion. If you look closely, you can see the "inhuman" characteristics of this girl's neck, ears, body joints, and other parts. It was like the structure of a metal doll.

In science fiction works, there are often "robots that are very close to humans", but current science is not yet able to achieve such exquisiteness. The appearance may be very similar to that of humans, but the behavioral logic is difficult to achieve.