In a crossover anime, do you believe that a machine spirit can defeat a fake human?

Is there something wrong with his movements? Something looks off.

If the other person is supposed to be working, their movements don't quite resemble working; there's just an indescribable... sense of incongruity.

Because Hiratsuka Shizuka was driving too fast, he couldn't see her at all, but it probably wasn't a big deal.

"Commander, that wasn't a peasant." The 'Soldier Ant-1' lying 'dead' in front of the windshield spoke in Kruka's voice.

"What farmer?" Hiratsuka Shizuka asked.

"...Not a farmer?" Chen Yi was stunned for a moment, then took out his phone and pulled up the camera data of 'Soldier Ant-1'.

Rewinding the scene to a few minutes earlier, from the perspective of 'Soldier Ant-1', a white figure stands in the farmland beside the road.

"A fake human?" Chen Yi pondered. The sun hadn't even set yet, so could it be another mutant?

"This is... twisting and turning?" Hiratsuka Shizuka slowed down a bit, took a quick look, and felt her hair stand on end.

Because the resolution of 'Soldier Ant-1' was too low and the speed of Shizuka Hiratsuka's car was too high, even when the screen was paused, it was completely unclear, and all that could be seen was a white figure standing in the field.

"What does 'twisting and turning' mean?" Chen Yi asked, puzzled.

"It's just a ghost story, probably just a white scarecrow." Hiratsuka Shizuka thought for a while, dismissed the far-fetched guess, and her mood returned to calm.

To put it in the worst-case scenario, the other party is at most a pseudo-human mutant, unable to catch up with the car, so let's just pretend we didn't see it.

"I see." Chen Yi searched on his phone and found only some posts that were deliberately mysterious.

"Krooice, do you think it's just a scarecrow?" Just in case, Chen Yi casually asked Krooice.

After all, Krueger's observational skills allow her to measure distances with the naked eye, accurate to the millimeter, making it incredibly easy for her to see through the other party's true nature.

"I can't see clearly, the resolution of 'Soldier Ant-1' is too low." The mechanical mouse stood up, and the camera on its head swayed from side to side.

"Looks like I'll have to find a way to upgrade my computer when I get back." Chen Yi jotted it down in his notebook and set an alarm to remind himself when he got back.

"Chen Jun, aren't you afraid?"

"It's just a ghost story, an unverified horror tale. I think I might be a little scared if the other party is a fake person."

“Indeed.” Hiratsuka Shizuka nodded, looking like she agreed.

......

The sky turned orange, and we were less than ten kilometers from the city center.

"Beep—" Looking at the white-clad pedestrian standing in the middle of the road in the distance, Hiratsuka Shizuka honked the horn and began to slow down.

"?" Chen Yi, still half asleep, was startled awake by the car horn. He looked up and around.

"What happened?" He looked at Hiratsuka Shizuka, then glanced at the time.

It's already 5:30, and both sides are still desolate wilderness.

"There's someone in the middle of the road, can't you see?" Hiratsuka Shizuka stared at Chen Yi, a look of shock in her eyes.

"Huh? Wait a minute..." Chen Yi was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized something.

"Commander, vision has been synchronized." Kroos released the possession of 'Soldier Ant-1' and returned to her mind.

A figure appeared in their field of vision, with its back to them.

"Hiratsuka-sensei, don't slow down! That thing is an evil spirit. Stomp on the gas and run it over!" Chen Yi unbuckled his seatbelt, intending to flip over the hatch in the car to the trunk and pull out his rifle.

"Hold on tight." Hiratsuka Shizuka steeled herself and pressed the accelerator slightly harder.

The creature slowly turned around, revealing no facial features, but rather sharp teeth and mandibles blooming like lilies. Its body suddenly split open, its enlarged form sprouting legs, and it charged in the opposite direction towards the high-speed sports car.

"Damn it!" Hiratsuka Shizuka instinctively swerved the car to the right, and the other party's claws knocked the rearview mirror away, nearly causing damage to the driver's seat.

The immense inertia slammed Chen Yi against the car door from the side of the vehicle, and the pain made him loosen his grip on the door.

Several black tire tracks appeared on the ground. Hiratsuka Shizuka quickly turned the steering wheel to bring the car back onto the straight road.

Chen Yi, who wasn't wearing a seatbelt, felt the force of inertia again. If he hadn't been holding onto the back of the seat's neck pillow with one hand, he probably would have had a close encounter with Hiratsuka-sensei.

"Bang!" The grip returned to his hand, Chen Yi opened the car window, leaned out, and quickly pulled the trigger at the dummy chasing after the car.

"Damn it, I missed everything!" The car swayed from side to side, and Chen Yi was completely unable to aim. The bullets flew out like water.

"Come back!" Hiratsuka Shizuka floored the accelerator, the engine roaring continuously. "We can outrun it!"

The car roared, making Chen Yi's ears hurt. He shrank back into the car and fastened his seatbelt again.

Chen Yi kept his eyes glued to the rearview mirror, watching the distance gradually widen, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Hiratsuka-sensei, how did you see it?" Chen Yi pondered, noting that the thing was somewhat different from ordinary evil spirits.

It's incredibly powerful, on a completely different level from ordinary evil spirits, or even some fake humans.

“I saw it from afar, I thought it was just a passerby,” Hiratsuka Shizuka replied, her voice sounding tired, as if she were still shaken and weak.

"In other words, it was 'visible' from the very beginning."

Did Hiratsuka-sensei suddenly awaken the ability to block evil spirits from interfering with brainwaves? Or did that evil spirit do something? Or was it not an evil spirit at all, but another pseudo-human variant? Chen Yi was more inclined to believe the latter two.

But how exactly is this achieved? Is this the hunting mechanism of evil spirits? Is it a rule that triggers the hunting of others by randomly selecting lucky individuals who can see themselves?

Logically speaking... it doesn't make sense; the radioactivity of bacteria doesn't discriminate between individuals.

Furthermore, Rio Futaba has not yet been able to answer the question of how the evil spirit, which uses radiation to shield itself, manages to 'become invisible' under ordinary cameras.

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Adolescent Syndrome: Chapter Sixty-Two Hypothesis

Chapter 62

Chen Yi sent a detailed account of his experience to Rio Futaba and awaited her reply.

'There are variants? Is this a combination of Spider-Man and Evil Spirit variants?' Rio Futaba quickly replied, raising her doubts.

"Strictly speaking, they're different. Neither the Spider-Man nor the Evil Spirit poses that level of danger; it can even smash a rearview mirror with its claws," Chen Yi replied.

"This is troublesome... Are you still safe?" She asked Chen Yi with concern.

Overall, it was a close call, but ultimately without serious harm; the only problem was that we weren't able to take a single sample with us.

"If we don't have the sample, that's fine. Safety is the priority. I'll talk to Mother about the new variant you mentioned." Rio Futaba changed the subject, bringing up the question he had asked last night.

"I've made some progress on the problem you mentioned last night." Then, she sent me a compressed file, which contained a series of video files.

Chen Yi opened them one by one. Most of them were distorted images, and only a few blurry images could be vaguely discerned as public places.

As the video progressed, a dark shadow flashed by, and then the screen turned into static.

"Is this surveillance footage?" Chen Yi asked uncertainly, as if something had occurred to him.

"Yes, this is the surveillance footage from the day you successfully hunted the evil spirit. This is the complete surveillance footage from Rokkasaka Station. As you can see, these cameras are severely damaged."

Rio Futaba recounts the story in detail.

'Ionizing radiation damage?' Could the evil spirit be a huge source of nuclear radiation?

'No, it's radio frequency interference, directly coupled into the CMOS signal output path.'

Radio frequency interference? Chen Yi frowned, instinctively feeling that it didn't make sense.

'Radio frequency interference consumes a lot of power, which doesn't seem like a capability that spores could produce.'

"There are a few guesses at the moment." Rio Futaba sent over a few more pictures, which were her handwritten notes.

'The ray interference originates from the evil spirit itself, and works in conjunction with spores to achieve the dual effect of cloaking itself under the camera's view and remaining unseen.'

"Secondly, it could be a coincidence that someone attempted to sabotage the security cameras with the intention of launching an attack, but the plan was abandoned because the alarm sounded prematurely."

"The reason I proposed this second, somewhat far-fetched theory is mainly because our samples don't provide enough information to determine whether a dummy can actually cause electromagnetic interference."

Coincidence? Chen Yi remained silent.

"However, there's a third guess." Rio Futaba paused, then continued, "This theory is even more far-fetched than the first two... Do you want to hear it?" Rio Futaba sent out this question while taking a deep breath.

Tell me about it.

My personal theory is that the microbial scourge is a quantum coherent biological system.

What is this? Chen Yi was completely dumbfounded.

'If the invasive bacteria have evolved a special quantum coherence protection mechanism, forming quantum coherence pathways similar to those in photosynthesis, then electrons could coexist between multiple molecules simultaneously. This coherent state could potentially extend to the level of information processing.'

'The spores released by the bacterial flora possess quantum entangled pairs on their surface. When an entangled particle from a spore enters the human retina or cerebral cortex, it exchanges entanglement with tubulin in the observer's neurons, thereby generating a "negative wave function" in the observer's brain—actively inhibiting the visual cortex's perception of the bacterial flora and the host's outline.'

'You mean, from a scientific perspective, the secrets of evil spirits might originate from quantum mechanics?'

"This is just speculation, but from a quantum mechanics perspective, random observers, the unobservable nature of classical camera systems, and the white evil spirit you just encountered that granted you the ability to observe can all be explained to some extent."

When in doubt, quantum mechanics?

"Let me catch my breath." This question is a bit beyond the scope of the curriculum. Chen Yi rubbed his temples.

"I have to go now, I have an idea." Rio Futaba hurriedly said, putting her phone aside.

Perhaps the books at home can inspire her.

......

"So tired." Chen Yi returned home, turned on the living room light, and subconsciously looked around.

The detection system in the living room was working properly, and the surveillance footage did not show anyone breaking in while he was out, so overall it should be safe.

Checking the safety of the house is an essential part of his daily routine when he comes home.

"Kroos, thank you for your hard work today," Chen Yi said, turning to Kroos behind him.

"My mission, Commander," Kroos said, neither humble nor arrogant.

"What do you think of that white evil spirit we encountered when we returned to the city this evening?" Chen Yi put his suitcase aside and took out his rifle from his guitar case to start maintaining it.

“Commander, I think... the enemy might not be as simple as an ordinary variant.”

"Nonsense," Chen Yi couldn't help but roll his eyes.

"It possesses both the stealth of an evil spirit and the mobility of a spider-man; can it be as simple as an ordinary variant?"

There's no point in dwelling on this issue now, since we've already fallen behind. Upgrading unmanned equipment as soon as possible is a higher priority.

Thinking of this, Chen Yi picked up the 'Soldier Ant-1', slowly disassembled its camera with tools, and then rummaged through a pile of express delivery boxes.

It seems there aren't many cameras left... Found them.

Chen Yi pulled out a slightly higher resolution camera from the bottom of the box and replaced it with the 'Soldier Ant-1'.

Next, we'll discuss the design concept of the 'bee swarm'.

Chen Yi opened his laptop, skillfully clicked on the engineering drawing program, and began designing.

......

"If evil spirits are quantum beings..." Rio Futaba searched for information in her study at home.

(Ringtone)

The phone on the table suddenly rang; someone was calling.

"Mom? What's wrong?" Rio Futaba got off the shelf and picked up her phone to answer the call.

"The official patrol team has given us feedback," Futaba's mother said bluntly. "They successfully hunted down an 'evil spirit' and will deliver it tomorrow morning. Would you like to come and see?"

"Of course!" Rio Futaba quickly agreed, then, as if remembering something, asked, "Um... will the thermal imaging work properly?"

If it is electromagnetic interference, then thermal imaging probably wouldn't be able to detect the other party's trace either, which supports the previous conclusion.

“The thermal imaging doesn’t work properly, but the handheld radar does,” Futaba’s mother replied.

"I've sent you the battle video, take a look in a bit." He then hung up the phone, looking very busy.

Shuangye casually forwarded it to Chen Yi, and then began to check the content.

The scene is from the perspective of an ordinary soldier, who is holding a radar in his left hand and standing at the very front of the formation.

Teammates on both sides were wearing protective suits and holding flamethrowers.

Once the target was confirmed and out of sight, the soldier's colleague sprayed a large amount of flames toward the evil spirit in the open area.

The 'evil spirit' appeared, howling and writhing, before losing its strength and collapsing to the ground.

P.S.: I had already written up to the part about Ant-senpai, and I even went to check the original work... only to find that Sakura Anime had already sent it. When did this happen...?