People are in Type-Moon, but they practice science

"Well……"

It took Kuroto Kiryu a while to react to the large amount of information he obtained from the chance encounter with Ryougi Shiki - the capital group that continued to break through technology, the huge remuneration received by his sister, Ryougi Shiki's superhuman physical movements... This science city probably really has amazing secrets that are so amazing that they can subvert the world.

I haven't even returned home yet, but things have become visibly complicated.

As a result, he could only sigh helplessly, "Leaving... It's not that easy. I can't abandon my sister and go to another place to divide the family alone."

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Ryougi Shiki bounced over buildings in the sky above the city as if using a high-performance spring, but never touched any physical buildings, just like a volley.

This was achieved by using the silk thread of the Seven Days and Seven Swords to set up a "net" on the building, and then using the elasticity to continuously jump on it.

The buildings under her feet quickly receded in front of her eyes, and soon a Japanese-style dojo appeared in front of her. The wooden building revealed the breath of nature, and there were also vibrant cherry trees planted in the courtyard of the dojo, growing very well. Apart from this, there was nothing else, which was obviously favored by the owner.

This is the kendo field that she is most familiar with in the past few years. It is not the Ryougi family’s own dojo, but a private dojo opened by a swordsman named "Sakura".

"You're here." Sakura was sitting at the entrance of the dojo, seemingly in meditation, as if she had been waiting for a long time. There was no one else. After seeing Ryougi Shiki coming, she stood up and began to prepare her kendo equipment. According to the previous agreement between the two, they would fight first after meeting, and as for their respective topics, they could talk while fighting.

"Well, I happened to run into an old friend. I came a little late." When Ryougi Shiki got here, he dropped his stern face and looked quite relaxed. "It seems that your sister is not here this time?"

If we talk about who has the best relationship with Ryougi Shiki in Academy City, Sakura must be one of them. Maybe it's because they are both kendo practitioners. But to be honest, Sakura is a pure kendo master, and this level of kendo talent is the first time Ryougi Shiki has seen one. She feels like the reincarnation of the famous kendo masters of history like Miyamoto Musashi and Yagyu Tajima no Kami.

It can be said that her progress in kendo over the past few years was entirely thanks to Sakura.

Chapter 322 Imaginary Number District: Five Elements Mechanism

"Wow—"

The sharp sound of air currents echoed throughout the dojo.

Ryougi Shiki didn't use any abilities or real swords, and Sakura was the same. They just fought with unsharpened knives.

Even so, the strong wind from the swinging blades whirred in the dojo, and the figures of Ryougi Shiki and Sakura looked like blurry lights and shadows to ordinary people, moving in all directions in the wide dojo space. In the high-speed battle that even the wind could not catch up with, the dark blades of the knives collided intensively from time to time, becoming a unique way of communication between the two without words, but instead of words.

Both of them are swordsmen who are far superior to ordinary people. With extraordinary physical fitness and being agile players, they do not follow the positioning and configuration of secular swordsmanship. In addition, their respective schools are also unique due to their unique positioning. Sakura is a warrior who has experienced the battlefield of the Collapse World for many years, while Ryougi Shiki's swordsmanship comes from the "I Style" studied by the Ryougi family. In addition to the experience of fighting against vampires in recent years, her style has begun to lean towards the mode of extremely fast kills or continuous fast attacks.

These two can be said to have similar swordplay styles.

"Om-"

The sharp edge suddenly withered. Sakura retreated quickly and abruptly put away the blade.

what--

Ryougi Shiki swung her sword into the air, but she did not let her guard down. Compared to her who was in an offensive posture, Sakura at this moment, no, she would be more dangerous in the next moment -

"Shine——" A bright light shone over, crossing the space, as if a part of time in the middle was cut off, and the white and slender light flew to the front of her kimono that was close to her body——

Ryougi Shiki knew that it was not light, but Sakura's sword-drawing skill.

"Ping!"

The duel had lasted many times, and even if the special moves were used many times, they would eventually be figured out. Ryougi Shiki was able to judge the direction of the slash and respond in advance.

It blocked it, but not completely... The blades faced each other, and Ryougi Shiki's response was accurate to the point, but the unsharpened slashing light still penetrated Ryougi Shiki's weapon.

"Clang."

Only half of the blade was left in his hand, and the chopped-off part fell to the ground with a noticeable sound.

Sakura put away her sword-drawing stance, signaling the end of the sparring match.

"It still doesn't work."

Ryougi Shiki returned the two blades that were only half broken to Sakura, and sighed as usual, saying that she still didn't understand how Sakura did it. No matter how special the sword-drawing skill was, this unsharpened weapon could have the same sharpness as an ordinary sword, but she couldn't do it no matter what.

Ryougi Shiki is not a pure kendo practitioner, but she is eager to explore this aspect.

"Your sword path has not yet taken shape. Without the 'sword heart', the 'intention' will be nowhere to go."

At this time, Sakura cleaned up the dojo and began to prepare tea, pots, and trays, and then poured tea. "Kendo is also a way. No matter stupidity, hatred, or delusion, you must be aware and determined. Only in this situation can you use the 'skills of the heart' instead of the 'skills of the sword'. In short, I have no objection to your awareness when you swing the sword, but you... have not found what you want to stick to in your heart, so your path is not clear."

"I see... it's the growth of the mind." Can one achieve such extraordinary abilities with the growth of one's state of mind?

However, after seeing the results of various super power development, Ryougi Shiki was able to roughly understand that the growth of the heart is like the transformation of the spiritual world, just like the increase in super power level, but this method is relatively traditional.

So Ryougi Shiki thought, even if she had spent three years to fill the void in her heart, she was still just an ordinary person, far behind the advanced practitioners or monks. In fact, she was more curious about what kind of past Sakura had to achieve such a state?

"You're curious about this--? There's nothing to say," Sakura shook her head and refused every time. Those were not the glorious days worth sharing, but quite the opposite.

"But there are some things I can tell you. In fact, my heart and my way are very simple. They are just 'protection'." Sakura opened her terminal, and the lock screen showed two smiling faces pasted together with similar looks. One of them was Sakura, and the other was Sakura's sister Ling.

"I don't kill to destroy the enemy, I kill to protect my sister." Killing is to protect life.

"Protect..." Ryougi Shiki pondered over the word in her heart.

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A building with no windows.

The meeting of the General Council is still going on.

"…So it's not just the base, the inheritance of the magician families is also problematic. You need to think clearly about the nature of the other party before taking action," Qin Xuan was explaining the precautions of the scientific phase laying plan to the directors, "especially for families that have been passed down for more than a thousand years. The source of their family inheritance is even more ancient. Generally, their family magic imprints are made by embedding fragments of non-human species or treasures in their bodies in distant times."

In fact, apart from the problem of source, the magic mark itself also has problems. For example, the magic mark has the nature of a "living thing", and the heir of the family needs to be selected early, and then take medicine continuously for many years to ensure that the rejection reaction is minimized when the magic mark is transplanted, and it can only be reduced.

Coupled with the connection between the transplanted imprint and the magic circuit, the inheritance contained in the imprint, this mechanism is self-evident - it is simply that things from ancient times are continuously passed on to the present day in a baton-like manner. No wonder magicians are described as a group that worships and pursues the past.

"——It seems that I should thank the chairman for assigning me to work in Asia," Gray Snake spread his hands. "The vast areas here are areas that Western magicians disdain to set foot in. According to current investigations, there are more remnants of sorcerers and ancient witchcraft."

Walter then explained: "The American region where I live still retains magical power. Judging from the distribution of the United States alone, the power of the Clock Tower only covers a few states in the region. However, the power of the Holy Church is extremely strong in this country. It is said that it can even influence the outcome of the presidential election."

After saying that, he looked at Otto.

"——I don't need to explain, right?" Otto chuckled. He didn't seem very enthusiastic. "Even my position is below my old friend, Walter. I don't have an independent division. I'm just helping him and doing infrastructure construction."

"It's like this. In fact, Europe is more suitable for you, but there is no soil for development there." Europe can be said to be full of magician forces. Many ancient families have also mastered a large number of industries in the surface world, or simply colluded with monopoly enterprises. Otto's room for development is not large, or it is not the right time at this stage. At present, Qin Xuan has a plan for him to support, "You stay after the meeting, and Mobius."

"There is something I need to discuss with both of you specifically, regarding the issue of the imaginary number district."

Chapter 323 AIM Diffusion Field Collection: Xilin

Imaginary Number District · Five Elements Agency, an independent imaginary space that does not exist in the real (real) space, a city without shadows, weight, or airflow, full of gray and messy visual signals, also known as the City of Mirage, is located in the same area as the Academy City but in a different dimension. Its constituent elements are the AIM diffusion field that all ability users within the Academy City unconsciously emit.

This imaginary number zone was not formed recently. In fact, it existed in the early days of building the Academy City. Mobius discovered it when he was studying the AIM diffusion field of the ability users. However, it has undergone new changes recently. So Mobius reported it to Qin Xuan.

Then Qin Xuan ended this topic and moved on to the next one. "The laying of the scientific phase has been explained. Let me summarize it again: to create a collective environment for people with special abilities like Academy City. To make everything from practical technology to the human heart 'scientific'. With this as a foundation, we can combine intelligence particle technology with AIM diffusion field to forge scientific phase anchoring devices... These are all achievable within the scope of Academy City."

Qin Xuan was referring to Chang Guang. She had frequently taken over the creation of intelligence particle-related devices in the past three years, and she was still in charge of the forging project this time.

"And our next topic is about how to expand this scale of preparations—"

"Jackal, what is the progress of Shencheng Group's annexation plan for Luzon and other countries?"

Jackal lowered his head slightly after hearing this. "I'm sorry, Chairman. Since we have only been in business for a short time, we are still using the Fernando family's connections to invade the market. The scale involved is extremely large. The categories that have been confirmed include marine planting and breeding, seafood processing, cement, steel, wood, brick making, engineering construction, real estate, catering, transportation, warehousing, ports..."

After listing the companies, manufacturers and related industries with a total of three digits (including the number of branches and all stores with overlapping businesses), Jackal also said that the Fernando family also owned resources such as copper, iron, nickel, gold and coal mines. Then he looked up at Qin Xuan, and the meaning was self-evident. It was so rich to dig up the resources of a force controlled by Fernando, what if he swallowed up other families? Approval for additional manpower was required.

"Is that so? Okay, a new batch of people will be released soon." Qin Xuan wondered if so many were a bit outrageous, but it seemed that the gap between the rich and the poor in Luzon was very large, much larger than he expected. "But it seems that the previous expansion plan was still conservative. Let's do this. In addition to increasing the number of people released, I will also send a director, Wei Erwei, to help you with construction work. Not only infrastructure, but also some inconvenient (highly confidential) facilities in Academy City will be built there."

After all, Academy City is a place with a large number of people coming and going. It is okay to build wonders to attract people, but many facilities, such as military ports and large-scale space launch bases, are not suitable to be placed here. There is no construction plan or conditions for such bases. It is far better to find a country under the control of Academy City to carry out special construction.

"Eh?" Velvet tilted her head. "But what about Clylonomea's intelligence device? Doesn't Academy City need it?"

"Yes, you can hand over the task of mass production to the engineering department after the research and development is completed."

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After the meeting, Qin Xuan, Mebius and Otto came to the research room specializing in the study of AIM diffusion field.

"Okay, Mr. Chairman, you really confused me this time," Otto followed slowly behind, "I remember that the research I was doing in America was far from the field of people with special abilities, right?"

"Just look at this and you'll know."

Qin Xuan looked at Mebius next to him, only to see her open a video recording that showed a surveillance video.

It appears to be a surveillance video of the campus area.

Otto was a little confused, but the next scene made him narrow his eyes——

A figure suddenly appeared in the picture. The figure looked like a girl, with long purple hair reaching her heels, golden pupils, and was dressed like a schoolgirl.

The strange thing was that the people around her were coming and going, ignoring her. Moreover, her whole body seemed unstable, with a flash of snow from time to time, like an unstable entity projection that was interfered with by the signal.

Not long after that, the female student disappeared.

Whether it appears or disappears, it seems extremely abrupt.

——Although she had changed into a school uniform, Otto recognized her at the first sight. This was Sirin, the Herrscher who was born during the Second Collapse.

"Oh, Mr. Chairman, this is a big shock...scared!" Otto patted his chest solemnly, "To be honest, the information I submitted before has explained everything. Kiana Kaslana (K423) is the product of my implantation of Sirin's DNA. She should be Kiana's alter ego at most, but the current situation seems to be developing in the direction of some kind of 'urban horror legend'?"

When talking about 'urban legends', Otto hinted that he himself did not believe it.

"This is certainly not a boring urban legend," said Mobius, who had done more in-depth research and made a more accurate judgment. "I have read Kiana's information, including the 'setting' information and current ability information. She can move in real space by diving/surfacing with imaginary numbers. She is currently at Level 4. It seems that there is still room for improvement, but for some reason she cannot do it. We checked her mental data waveform and there is no abnormality or missing information. Her personality is obviously complete."

"After that, I checked the mental data of the other Raiden Mei according to the 'setting data' and still found no abnormalities. There was no so-called 'herrscher personality rising'. Of course, there is also a chance that it is in an unobservable latent state."

"Let's talk about 'Xilin'. During the time period when 'Xilin' appeared, the AIM diffusion field of the surrounding students was abnormally active. After she disappeared, the force field reaction returned to normal. This is what I learned from the person in charge of the campus security system. During this period, only machines and a female student observed her existence."

"Oh?" Otto showed an interested look, and at the same time he had a guess in his mind, "Who is that?"

"It's Kiana Kaslana."

Chapter 324 Teacher Jizi wants to change jobs

Late at night, in the confinement room of the academy where even the moonlight could not penetrate, the cold air drifted in through the cracks. There was neither warm heating nor comfortable beds, only bare cold floors and heavily enclosed wall panels.

The white-haired girl, Kiana, sat alone in the confinement room. She was locked up for no reason. She escaped from the school with Raiden Mei and Bronya during off-peak hours and was caught. Although she took the lead when leaving the school, she failed when returning - somehow, the dorm supervisor caught her.

She and Mei and Bronya had clearly gone to different places to return, so was she the one who was waiting for her by the dorm supervisor? Was that the case, or had her dealings with the "Cat Boss" been discovered by the school?

I don’t know what happened to Mei and Bronya. Oh my god, how unlucky she was to be caught.

"——Iron door, iron window, iron chain~ I hold onto the iron window and look outside..."

At this moment, Kiana really wants to sing a line of Tears Behind Bars, just like that moment...

"——Kiana, stop singing, we are here to pick you up."

The tightly closed wall panel was opened, and the outside air rushed in. It was Raiden Mei and Bronya.

"Great! - No, wait, is the detention over?" Kiana wiped away the disappointment on her face and jumped up excitedly, but then she scratched her head. She remembered that the warden who caught her said that she would be locked up for the whole night. "Mei, you guys didn't come here secretly to release me, did you? That won't do -"

"What are you talking about, idiot Kiana?" Bronya looked at the white-haired girl as if she were looking at a paramecium. "Don't think you are so important. We won't risk being caught by the dorm supervisor to release you. Although for some reason, the dorm supervisor did say that the confinement ended early. Really, you could have avoided being caught, but you froze in the middle of the way. What were you trying to do? Waiting for someone to catch you?"

“…Ah? Really?”

Kiana followed Mei and Bronya. She didn't remember doing this before, or...did she really play too much outside and become mentally confused? No, even if she really stood there motionless, how did Bronya know?

"Hey! Bronya, you weren't just watching me get caught from a distance, were you?"

"Oh, Bronya wouldn't do that."

The duck with the double helix hairstyle shook his head disdainfully. Couldn't she just secretly call up the system monitoring and take a look to find out?

The bright moonlight sprinkled on the flat and neat brick road. The green shades standing on both sides were like a dark and silent aggregate at the moment, only scattering tiny leaf-like shadows when the breeze blew. The rustling leaves rubbed against each other, making them appear to be recognizable as rows of well-growing leafy plants, rather than black shadows formed by some strange visual signals or something.

A strange black shadow...?

Kiana rubbed her eyes and looked towards the bushes in the distance. The shadows of the green plants were swaying, and between the blurry light and shadow, there was a dark shadow of a girl. It was hard to see clearly, but there was indeed a dark shadow of a girl with long hair looming there.

“Eh…? Who’s that? Hey!”

After feeling an inexplicable sense of connection in her heart, Kiana couldn't help but blurt out. At the same time, the girl's shadow seemed to notice this side and moved twice, but for some reason did not answer Kiana's question.

"Kiana? Why are you shouting in the middle of the night?" Her companions were puzzled.

"——Wait a minute, there's someone over there, hey, don't run!" Before Mei and Bronya could ask where there was someone on the road in the middle of the night, Kiana took a step and disappeared in an instant. The dormitory area did not allow the use of abilities so she had to run. The two did not know what was wrong with Kiana, and after looking at each other, they had to follow her.

As expected, when the two men caught up with Kiana who had stopped, they did not see any human figures around. Kiana in front of them was staring blankly at the wide, unobstructed asphalt road behind the bushes. There was nothing there except the dull asphalt road.

"Kiana, is that ok?" Raiden Mei persuaded in a low voice. She didn't complain directly like Bronya did, but her mood wasn't much better either. "There's no one here. It's late. We should go back to the dormitory."

"Ah."

Kiana and her companions retraced their steps while thinking about the black shadow. When she was chasing after it just now, the black shadow moved, but seemed to hide before she got close... No, it disappeared?