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

"So Mai can make jokes like this?" Chen Yi casually patted her head.

"If you keep poking me, I'm going to kill you tonight." She reached out and poked Chen Yi's face with her finger, but he nimbly dodged it.

Following the editor from Machida out of the station, Chen Yi walked through Akihabara's most classic intersection using a combination of navigation and explanation, and looked at the huge billboards.

Some of the works are similar to those in the previous life, with only slight differences in the names. However, the most popular theme seems to be various urban heroes, which can give us a glimpse into the desires of the people in this world.

"Krookai, the proportion of pedestrians carrying bags on the street is way too high." Chen Yi couldn't help but complain after looking around for a while. Is everyone in Tokyo armed? You can tell what kind of treasures are inside just by looking at the size of the backpacks.

“I don’t think they were all armed. Akihabara is a commercial district that is only busy during the day, so there is almost no space where people would need to use firearms to protect themselves.”

"Oh, so you've come to Akihabara to buy goods." Chen Yi understood.

In the past, anime and manga was a very popular industry in Japan, and the same applies here. However, due to the isolation of commerce, the number of neighborhoods with a single business as their characteristic is much higher than in the past.

Oh, their logistics are quite advanced too. The low-altitude economy developed early on, with various cargo drones flying between skyscrapers at speeds far exceeding those of ground trucks.

......

"So many people..." Chen Yi glanced down through the transparent glass and couldn't help but complain.

They were placed in the café on the second floor of the bookstore. Because of the book signing event, the café was temporarily closed to the public and was instead a place for the staff of Shinazugawa Bunko and the volunteers who helped maintain order to take a short break. They were arranged to stay there by editor Machida.

"Huh? I don't think I brought my book. I can't go to line up for an autograph." Yui rummaged through her handbag and realized she had forgotten to put it in before leaving home.

"Take mine." Yukinoshita stuffed the bookmark back into the book and handed it to Yui. "I'll just buy another one later."

“You can just sign whatever you want when you’re in the Service Club at school, right?” Yotsuya Miko’s attention was drawn from a book of supernatural tales, and she looked at Yuihama.

"Hmm... a sense of ceremony? I'll return the book to Yuki!" Yuihama thought for a moment and replied to Yotsuya Miko, thanking Yukishita before running downstairs.

"Aren't you going to ask for an autograph, Yi-kun?" Mai Sakurajima asked listlessly, propping her chin up with one hand as she sat across from him.

“My book is signed,” Chen Yi replied.

His copy was even a proof before color printing; it didn't even have a cover.

Hmm, what message did Kasumigaoka write back then?

"But that's what I'm saying... I'd better go downstairs and buy a new book and get an autograph." Chen Yi thought for a moment and then changed his mind.

......

"Kasumigaoka-senpai, please sign it on the title page." Yuihama, who had finally gotten her turn, handed Yukinoshita her book and winked at her senpai.

"Okay, let me think..." After writing down her name, Kasumigaoka wrote down the words 'For Yuihama-senpai'.

"Senior, this book belongs to the club president..." Yuihama reminded her quickly after seeing the message she had written.

“Yukinoshita?” She subconsciously flipped to the page marked by the bookmark. The page contained a passage describing the president of the Service Club, filled with dramatic stereotypes.

P.S.: Sorry, meow, I'm a little late today.

Summer Vacation: Chapter 131 Interference

Kasumigaoka glanced in his direction.

As Chen Yi looked towards the exhibition booth, his gaze met that of Kasumigaoka.

Chen Yi slightly raised the newly bought, still-unopened copy of "Heartbeat Service Department" in his hand, and before she could react, he consciously walked to the end of the line to join the queue.

Speaking of which, I haven't read the newly released third volume yet.

Chen Yi looked at the book in his hand. Apart from the very intimidating traditional Chinese characters, it showed a corridor and a picture of a man and a woman.

"Who is the illustrator? They look like they just came out of the sea..."

Chen Yi's eyelids twitched violently as he watched the female lead run.

This is just too... indescribable.

Chen Yi flipped to the list of specific personnel on the title page and saw the name 'Eri Kashiwagi' in the illustrator's section.

"So it was Eriri."

Now I understand.

Chen Yi opened the introduction and casually flipped through it while waiting in line.

......

"Thank you, senior. Also, this is for Yotsuya-kun." Kato Megumi placed the two books on the table and adjusted her slightly askew hat.

"You write really well," she praised.

"Thank you for the compliment, Kato-kun. I will continue to work hard."

Well, all my friends are reading my book and urging me to update it... It's both a blessing and a curse.

Especially that guy Chen Yi.

For some reason, Kasumigaoka always felt a subtle sense of shame when showing her work to others, as if she were describing her own fantasies about them in detail... It seemed like there was no real difference!

Just thinking about all the heroic rescues and blatant attempts to win over the 'female lead' that I added to the book...

Kasumigaoka, who was writing a message for Yotsuya Miko, suddenly blushed and could only pretend to push up his glasses to hide his embarrassment, while covering his face with his palm to block the camera in the line of readers and fans.

Kato Megumi subtly moved closer to the table, using her body to block Kasumigaoka's expression.

"Thank you, Kato," Kasumigaoka said softly, deliberately slowing down her signing pace. Only after calming down did she hand the two books to Kato Megumi.

......

"Is this illustration really okay?"

Chen Yi looked at the artistic lettering that occupied almost half of the illustration and couldn't help but want to denounce the artist's inaction.

What's going on? Where did the movie I wanted to watch... no, the pictures to aid my imagination go? So what am I supposed to watch... huh?

Chen Yi stared intently at the text above, his teasing thoughts completely vanishing.

"You're boiling."

"You can hear the laughter of thousands."

What do these two sentences mean?

Chen Yi continued reading, translating words like 'Bible' and 'feast' from the English sentences, creating a completely incongruous effect.

So he flipped through the preceding and following text. This was a rather tender chapter, telling the story of how the male and female protagonists caught in a dangerous situation and comforted each other...

So what does this have to do with the Bible?

"Handsome guy...want to add each other on LINE?" A female voice interrupted his thoughts. Chen Yi turned around and saw a woman dressed like a hot girl looking at him with great interest.

"Look at how eagerly you're staring at the illustrations... You don't mind if your older sister teaches you some adult things, do you?" She put her finger to her lips and gently stroked it.

"Who are you? I don't know you." Chen Yi said curtly, putting on a stern face, and distanced himself from her.

"Tch, you idiot anime fanatic." Seeing Chen Yi's guarded expression, the hot girl clicked her tongue in annoyance and walked away.

Chen Yi looked down again, and all the text he had seen before disappeared, and the illustration changed to the female protagonist sitting on the sofa in a somewhat disheveled state.

Is it just my imagination again?

I closed the book and reopened it to that page, but nothing had changed.

"Krooka," Chen Yi called out.

"I'm here." A figure appeared next to Chen Yi.

"I haven't been subjected to any abnormal state such as mental interference or cognitive rewriting, have I?" He looked at the other person.

“…Commander, no.” Kroos checked inside and out before answering.

No...?

In Kroos's eyes, I am 'normal' now.

Chen Yi recalled the variant he had dealt with before, Nightmare.

Nightmare hypnosis is fundamentally different from psychological attacks like the Rain Man; it is transmitted through sound.

This is also why Kroos couldn't defend against it at first.

So, from what aspect did this thing begin to influence me? And when did it start?

Chen Yi took out his phone and quickly wrote it down in his notepad.

"Junior, it's your turn," Kasumigaoka whispered to Chen Yi, who was still playing on his phone.

"Ah...oh." Chen Yi's attention was diverted, and he handed her the book "Heartbeat Service Department" that he had been holding under his elbow.

What kind of message should I write?

As Kasumigaoka pondered, she realized that even in public, her thoughts uncontrollably drifted towards intimacy.

If he were a bottle of wine, Kasumigaoka would be someone who gets drunk after just one sip.

He wrote down his pen name, paused at the last horizontal line, then added his real name, without writing a message.

"Wait for me backstage for a bit, okay?"

Chen Yi took the book back, and there was only this short sentence on the title page.

What do you want to do?

Chen Yi understood her plan, could only sigh softly, and left the group.

Hmm, it seems I'll have to refuse firmly.

......

"Have you found out what the cause is?"

The voice on the phone was a little hoarse, and it sounded tired.

"This scarecrow is indeed a variant, but as for its ability to cause mental pollution, I don't think there's a problem with the raw materials."

Dr. Ju stood outside the laboratory, watching the people inside working tirelessly, and then glanced down at the research report on the table.

"It incorporates some genetic traits of the Rain People, and the Rain People's mental interference is controllable."

Dr. Orange explained slowly.

"Does the doctor mean... this scarecrow is consciously using mental pollution to hunt?"

The other person paused, then asked incredulously.

"That's what they say, but it's already dead. I don't know for sure. Maybe it possessed both mental pollution and mental interference capabilities?"

Dr. Orange shrugged and leaned against the wall in a more comfortable position.

"By the way, shouldn't a number of patients have already recovered?"

That's certainly true...

“Then there’s no problem. The mental disturbance caused by the Rain Man doesn’t require medication. Just continue the Scarecrow blocking medication treatment for a while longer,” Dr. Orange said.

"Oh..." The other party hung up the phone decisively after receiving an affirmative answer.

I put my phone on the table, tidied up the reports and tossed them aside, revealing another report underneath.

Fog Man, Low-Temperature Pseudo-Man, Electronic Eye...

The pseudo-human mutant that appeared in that hotel in Izu still hangs like a cloud of mystery over Dr. Tachibana's head.

Summer Vacation: Chapter 132, Kasumigaoka Round!

The acid-etching rifle, by all accounts, is arguably Chen Yi's greatest asset right now, providing a much greater sense of security than the exoskeleton.

Exoskeletons cannot be worn in most situations for various reasons, but acid-etching rifles can be taken out anytime, anywhere.

Chen Yi fiddled with his tactical axe and casually found a relatively clean spot in the backstage storage room to sit down.

"Junior brother."

Kasumigaoka pushed open the door, looked left and right to see if anyone was watching, and then came in.

What do you want to talk to me about?

Chen Yi deactivated the tactical axe and watched as Kasumigaoka casually closed the door, looking for the deadbolt knob. His eyelids twitched violently.

"The door to the storage room is usually locked from the outside," Chen Yi reminded him.