People are in Type-Moon, but they practice science

Well, let’s not think about it. Go back to bed. There are no worries at all. When I close my eyes and open them again, it’s a new day.

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a new day.

Kiana hurried to the classroom. It was the Daihastar Festival, so classes were basically suspended. To be more precise, there were very few classes. Because in the early preparation stage of the Daihastar Festival, the students needed to form a Daihastar Festival Operation Committee to prepare for the work. Therefore, even if there were no schedules and no classes, they were not idle.

For example, the high school campus of St. Freya Academy where Kiana is located needs to be organized by the operation committee like them to plan and lay out the competition routes. These need to be completed in advance and then handed over to construction workers and security personnel to complete the blockade. There are also various chores, including broadcasting, giving directions, and taking care of the junior high school students.

Of course, even if you become an operations committee member, you cannot be exempted from the obligation to participate in the competition. So when the competition officially starts, you will be both a committee member and a contestant. If you don’t arrange your schedule well, it will become even busier. Kiana’s behavior of sneaking out with the two of them yesterday was the last relaxation in a sense.

Well, Mr. Himeko - their class teacher said that this is the first Daiba Star Festival held in Academy City. Although the campus competition part will not be open to the outside world, it is very commemorative and must serve as a reference for similar competitions in the future.

Therefore, they must be fully alert and prepare seriously. At the same time, adult teachers such as Teacher Ji Zi will also participate in their preparations throughout the process and hold special seminars to discuss the matters that need to be prepared and possible unexpected situations that may be encountered.

Hey, she is still a student. If she only had to attend classes, it would be troublesome. Kiana began to be lazy again. Didn't she realize that she also slept a lot during normal class time, which increased the teacher's blood pressure?

But speaking of which, Dad said he was always doing tasks outside, would he take time to come and watch my game? Kiana's thoughts turned to another direction.

She recalled the days when she was a student at St. Freya Academy, and felt deeply incredible - she became a student here as soon as she woke up, and then gained new "common sense". It's like, the night before, she was still an ordinary working soldier (?) who survived the Great Honkai disaster, but when she woke up, everyone told her: Honkai is over, it's gone, you should go back to school.

Well, this is reality anyway, we have to accept it, but——

"Damn it! Why do we have to go to school if there's no Honkai?"

Kiana inadvertently shouted out her inner thoughts, and then ran into someone who almost gave her a cardiac arrest, "—Eh, ha, ha, Himeko-sensei?"

"Really?" Ji Zi listened helplessly to Kiana's outrageous remarks. "Don't want to go to school? What? You were just released from detention. Are you planning to do something again?"

Himeko Murata had no objection to "changing jobs" to a teacher after she woke up, and students with special abilities are generally much smarter than Valkyries. However, Kiana's performance broke this rule. Not only did she look stupid, she also often did things that made her blood pressure soar.

How about considering whether I can apply to the higher-ups to allow me to return to my old profession of studying aerospace dynamics?

Chapter 325: Psychic Development Mechanism

Now, let's switch the perspective to Himeko's side.

Himeko Murata, female, former A-rank Valkyrie of the Far East Branch of Satori and concurrently the captain of the Hyperion, currently a teacher at the Saint Freya Academy in the Japanese Academy City, and currently an unmarried woman in her thirties... No, this is not important at all (emphasized)!

Let's start from the beginning. Jizi was a genius and ranked first in her grade when she was a student. She applied for admission to California Institute of Technology at the age of 15. Under the influence of her father, who was a space fanatic, she chose to major in aerospace and obtained a doctorate at the age of 19. Later, she chose to join Sentence in order to investigate the truth of her father's death (in fact, the truth was covered up by Walter. Her father was essentially a researcher who kept breaking the bottom line in order to realize his dream. He took care of Jizi out of guilt for his wife's early death. In the end, he died because he was killed by Walter for plotting the power of the First Herrscher). After that, she also experienced a series of battles and witnessed the sacrifice of teammates, and finally became a Valkyrie instructor under Theresa.

But these are all old news.

When she woke up again at some unknown time, Jizi was told that Honkai no longer existed and the students did not have to face dangerous battles. The world she lived in became a world with various superpowers, magic (magic), and fantasy elements...

In addition, her body was no longer at the level of an A-class Valkyrie, but considering that the side effect of shortened lifespan had also completely disappeared, this was actually a good thing.

After confirming that the physical burden had disappeared, Jizi quickly familiarized herself with her new job - still a teacher at St. Freya Academy, still leading a group of students, but the teaching content had changed from Valkyrie training to a superpower development course.

So, what are super powers?

In the education that students receive, this is a reality that belongs only to individuals and is constructed based on the principles of quantum mechanics. As for the source of the development method, students have no way of knowing.

Senior teachers like Ji Zi, who are in charge of super power development courses, were told that this world has a mysterious system that has existed since the past and is completely different from science, and that the later scientific system is the unstable one. The task of these teachers is to help establish and prove the scientific laws in the world.

The method and approach among them is the development of super powers.

At the beginning of learning the teaching plan, Jizi read these materials. These are said to be the arguments set by the directors of Academy City after preliminary research:

[Archival materials: Theoretical basis - "Self-Reality Theory"]

【After preliminary research and integration, we believe that the existing magic system that is widely popular around the world is nothing more than the product of accumulated experience and the product of the long-term monopoly of the wide-area magic information source in the form of magic base.】

[The consequence that comes with it is that the autonomy of people is taken away based on religious beliefs, mystical culture, etc., and the basic forms, attributes, qualifications and other standards are forcibly defined, thus shaping the current magic circuit system.]

【What people can really rely on is themselves, and the direction of progress should be developed according to their own characteristics, directions, and wishes. In the magic world, this concept is called "origin". But in our theory, origin is also the "blurred perspective" and "illusion" that magicians get from their system. All phenomena are non-eigenstates before observation, and only after the measurement of the system (science/magic) can the collapse and eigenvalue be determined. 】

【In this way, we can know the direction to move forward. Superpowers are essentially eigenstates that are different from the magic system. The "personal reality" they construct is ever-changing based on the mental structure of the ability user. The first step we need to take is to "awaken" the ability users, so that they can observe the reality that belongs only to them.】

—— Academy City Evolution Department & General Council "Report on Criticism of the Current System, Exploration of the Nature of Superpowers, and Exploration of the Direction of Human Evolution"

Skipping the reports, materials and lesson plans that she was already familiar with, Jizi turned off the electronic screen. At this moment, she came to the office, where she and her colleagues worked and discussed student education issues together. After all, these colleagues were teachers in charge of the superpower development course.

Then Jizi began to organize the course schedule and teaching plan. In Academy City, in addition to basic courses and super power development courses, students' training also includes an annual "physical examination" and the accompanying mental structure examination and adjustment.

In fact, the latter is the key point, and the former is more of an auxiliary function, which is used to fool the "correct" conclusion of the Japanese officials.

The device for the mental structure of people with special abilities has undergone many improvements. The first version was actually the one that Qin Xuan first made for Asagami Fujino three years ago. The principle at that time was still quite fantasy-like in the style of immortal books. However, after the establishment of the project for the development of super powers in Academy City, Aponia's discipline ability and Mobius' research and transformation were added. Now it is very different from the original version.

In addition, based on Floran's brain structure, Mebius also developed a drug for people with special abilities, called Alpha. This drug can stimulate the structural mutation of brain neurons, which can increase the chances of awakening and increasing the strength of abilities. However, in order to reduce possible side effects such as headaches and mental illness, Mebius greatly reduced the efficacy of the drug and added a degraded version of the life essence, which can simply enhance a person's physique.

In this way, the side effects almost disappear. Judging from the performance in recent years, there is generally a short period of fluctuation in ability level after taking the drug, and everything else is almost normal. However, due to the reduction of drug efficacy, if the individual's condition is too poor and relies entirely on drugs to develop their abilities, I am afraid that they need to continue taking it from school age (6 years old) to obtain significant improvement in ability.

In short, the use of alpha drugs is planned in the annual physical examination program and is covered up by reasons such as physical examinations and ability tests. The drugs themselves are prohibited from outflow and abuse and will not appear outside of physical examinations.

Ji Zi flipped through the students' files one by one. The ability test items in the annual physical examination must determine the item type and test scope based on the ability type of each student. All this preparation will have to trouble her as a teacher.

Suddenly, a colleague came over and said, "Hey, Jizi, how was your morning class today? You didn't look very well."

"...Don't mention it. It's Kiana again." Himeko got a headache when she mentioned this. She didn't understand how Kiana became a husky in this Saint Freya Academy where everyone is a genius. "First she slept in class and failed the exams, and now she's saying that there's no need to go to school if there's no Honkai. Really, what will she do if she doesn't go to school? Will she just wait to be a parasite?"

Although there are rules for judging the quality of people with special abilities in Academy City, these ability ratings are not to encourage people with special abilities to become warriors, but to make various abilities become the building blocks for the progress of science, society, and civilization. The school itself encourages students to come up with their own development ideas, just like the graduation projects of ordinary college students.

Correspondingly, Academy City is also reducing pure manual labor positions. Except for a few management positions, most of them are expected to be technical positions or other positions that require certain skills. In short, simply becoming a fool is not enough.

Chapter 326: Padufils' Confidential Information

"Oh my, Jizi is also very hard-working," the colleague said, "It's the same for everyone." "By the way, there was a male teacher in St. Freya Academy back then. I didn't expect that he was the one who went against entropy."

Because the organizational structure of Academy City has undergone a major adjustment, the personnel of the original three anti-Honkai organizations have been split and adjusted. The person who is talking to Himeko is actually the only original member of St. Freya Academy besides Himeko.

As for the original "Honkai World Personal Data", it actually has little reference value. But it is still sealed as a kind of personnel data with different confidentiality settings. For example, directors like Mebius can access all the data; and internal senior teachers like Jizi can access some of the basic job qualifications. Walter Yang's "history teacher" when he was "lurking" in St. Freya Academy is listed, which is particularly conspicuous compared with the "former leader of Anti-Entropy" record.

"He was an associate professor at the university I attended back then," Ji Zi said as she took a sip of coffee after chatting for a while, her memories gradually drifting through her mind. "I was majoring in aerospace at the time, and if it weren't for what happened later, I might have become an astronaut and gone into space."

Then Ji Zi couldn't help laughing again. In a world where Honkai was raging, the resources of major organizations were invested in fighting Honkai, and the aerospace industry was constrained. I'm afraid that even if I didn't join Skyrim, it would be difficult to continue pursuing my dreams.

"——Huh? Speaking of aerospace bases, it seems that our Academy City hasn't built one yet. I don't think there's any relevant internal public information from the foreign cooperation agency."

"That kind of thing will happen sooner or later... Don't you see who our board of directors is made up of? There are elites and leaders from the original organization, and even people from the 'pre-civilization'. What else can't be developed?"

Ji Zi stretched and suddenly remembered the career change she was considering. "There is no space base... but there is an observatory... Forget it, why don't I wait until I finish teaching this class of students."

I always feel that Kiana is a child that is hard to trust.

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"Hey~!"

Kiana erected a tall, wide black barrier at one end of the road, and there were many barriers of the same specifications next to it to block the road. This was the route area they had planned as the operating committee of the Daiba Star Festival. Now the plan had been submitted to the transportation department, and the corresponding road blockade was required.

However, the Ministry of Transport's blockade will take some time, so in order to arrange the venue in advance, they have to use some materials to cover it.

In addition, in order to conceal the ability users, they are prohibited from using conspicuous abilities before the blockade is completed... For example, Kiana cannot teleport the baffle to the middle of the road with one click, but must move it in the normal way.

"It's really troublesome. It's like this outside and it's like this in the dormitory area. Aren't the abilities developed to be used more often?" Kiana was a little annoyed. She felt that moving around like this was both boring and cumbersome.

"Kiana has complained at least seven times in 10 minutes. Bronya suggests that you talk less and do more. Otherwise, your performance will make you look like a hyperactive monkey instead of a model girls' school student."

Bronya said calmly.

Kiana turned her head and saw that the little duck was sitting upright on the bench, typing something on an electronic device. He looked much more comfortable and relaxed than her.

“Hey, hey, hey, why are you just sitting there doing nothing? Damn it! — Mei…! Uh, Mei seems to have gone to the student union to help. I’ll report to her when Mei comes back—”

"Bronya suggests that you should stop your groundless slander." Bronya turned the device over, which was filled with densely packed list information. "Bronya is planning the schedule for everyone's competition. The current data volume is still short of three schools. Otherwise... Kiana, can you help fill it in?"

"——Uh no no no, you should come!"

Kiana waved her hand hastily to refuse. She got a headache and dizziness when she saw those things. "I'm going to continue moving things. Bronya, please move aside and don't block me."

"Bronya just thinks it's pitiful for Kiana to work alone. It seems that Kiana doesn't need extra care. In this case, Bronya won't accompany you," Bronya moved the small stool and left. "Besides, there are still many things that can't be done if you stay here. Bronya is going to help Sister Mei."

Kiana watched the little girl leave with a sullen face, and then she breathed a sigh of relief, "Humph, I don't need you to accompany me."

Then she looked around to see that there was no one around, ran to an area that had been covered with black panels, knocked on a corner in a regular pattern, and spoke in a low voice.

"Boss Cat."

"Here it comes," a female voice came through the baffle.

Then, Kiana first saw a cat's tail hanging in the air, and then a very fast black shadow rushed down, and turned into a woman with a cat's tail and a hood covering her face in front of Kiana.

"——Hey, what does my little customer want today?" Kiana's so-called cat boss, that is, Padofils clapped her hands. She seemed to have brought nothing with her. "As long as the customer wants it and offers the price, the cat boss guarantees that it will be delivered in time. It is worth the money and we will never cheat anyone!"

Although she couldn't see his face, from listening to the conversation, Kiana could tell that Boss Cat was determined to get the points (money) in her account. "Well... Actually, today, I want some special...service."

"-Oh?" Hearing this, Padufils glanced up and down at Kiana's figure and appearance, "Oh, my guest, although you don't want to keep yourself clean, I, the cat boss, can respect your wishes..."

"Ah no," Kiana said frantically, "Boss, I just want to ask, do you have any... inside information to sell?"

"Oh, it's an information transaction. It depends on whether you can afford the price!" Padufils would not reveal too important information, but she would not ruin her reputation. She knew very well the point reserves of students with abilities like Kiana who had a little money. If Kiana wanted to ask something she shouldn't ask, she could just quote a relatively high price to make her give up.

"Great!" Kiana didn't know what Padu was thinking at this time. "Actually, I just want to ask, during the Daiba Star Festival, are there any projects that allow me to use my abilities freely?"

Kiana was very troubled. Although she could freely use her space ability to set up the stadium after the road was blocked, and the Daiha Star Festival also encouraged students to use their abilities, there were not many sports that allowed the use of space abilities, and the few events that Mei and the others arranged for her did not have them. In addition, Mei was also forbidden to use her Lv5 electromagnetic ability in the competition because it was too powerful.

Anyway, Kiana's general meaning is to see if Boss Cat has any good news. Maybe other school districts will arrange other special competitions, which will give students a chance to show off their spatial abilities.

However, what Kiana didn't expect was that Paddo did give news later, but it had nothing to do with the sports meeting.

Chapter 327 Clock Tower: Superpowers are not worth mentioning

"A new commission?"

Far outside of Academy City, in a dimly lit secret room somewhere in Tokyo, two people sat opposite each other. One of them was about 40 years old, dressed in a suit and tie, with a solemn and serious look, just like a senior government official. The temperament of the person opposite him was completely opposite to this one -

He is a sturdy man wearing a black jacket and black sunglasses. He has three scars on his right eye. He has long brown hair and a small beard. His ferocious appearance gives people the feeling of an American fugitive. If he were equipped with a gun, he might be comparable to Schwarzenegger in "Terminator".

"That's right, Mr. Lion," the government official said in a businesslike tone, "I think you have heard about the large-scale comprehensive science city that Tokyo Prefecture has been running in recent years. It is a well-known project that costs a huge amount of money every year."

“Science City——?” The man named Shizijie raised his eyebrows, “I’ve never heard of it.”

This person's full name is Shizi Jie Li, a former student of the Clock Tower, and a professional necromancer. But this does not mean that the Japanese government has contacted the Clock Tower, because Shizi Jie has now become a magician and bounty hunter.

The reason why he was able to study in the Clock Tower was because his family once had the corresponding strength. His family was a family of magicians who drifted from Europe to Japan several generations ago. The name "Shizijie" was given after they went to Japan. They had already declined before going to Japan, and even the magic seals were close to disappearing. After moving to Japan, they were even worse, almost declining to the point where they could no longer be called magicians.

The turning point was that the head of the Shishi family at that time signed a contract with something, perhaps an evil god or a demon, which enabled the Shishi family to miraculously revive and even exert a power greater than its heyday. As a result, almost all the magic they had learned in the past was forgotten, and instead they mastered necromancy.

Miracles are never free.

The price finally became apparent in the generation of Shizi Jie Li. Shizi Jie's child died at birth, and his wife died soon after. Even if he found a child to adopt, he would die when the magic seal was transplanted. Because Shizi Jie's magic seal was poisoned, it would immediately become a deadly toxin once it left the body. The family originally planned to seek other methods, but Shizi Jie dissuaded him. He left home on his own and degenerated into a magician who was employed by others and wandered for a long time.

However, even though he fell, he never forgot his adopted daughter who died because of him, so he would return to Japan once a year to mourn his adopted daughter.

He had not originally intended to accept the commission this time, for no reason other than he was feeling heavy-hearted after paying his respects.

But the conditions offered by the government were generous, and they also said something like "some things cannot be done with magic, but maybe there is a place where they can be done with scientific methods."

Tsk, you're just fooling around.

Even if the government investigates his physical problems and can find a way to solve them, will his lost adopted daughter ever come back?

Shi Zijie originally felt that there was no need to take over, but in the end he agreed to meet and talk, "Ah... Revitalize the family, well, my situation may have been proactively informed by my hometown, it seems that they have not given up the idea of ​​having offspring..."

"I see. Since you don't have any relevant information, you'd better read the following information carefully," the official took out a sealed package from his briefcase, opened it, and handed over a stack of information inside. "The technological level of that science city may be beyond your expectations. In addition, they also have a secret research and development direction. Only the science city and relevant government departments know the specific information on this point. Then it's your turn, so--"

"Oh? It will be burned after reading and kept strictly confidential, right?"

The corner of Shizijie's mouth curled up, he probably wanted to laugh, but unfortunately his smile did not match his ferocious face, instead it looked extremely terrifying. Even though the official opposite had a good psychological quality, he couldn't help but turn his head away.

Shizi Jie had long been accustomed to this, and he was somewhat self-aware of his appearance. Shizi Jie gradually turned the pages of the bound materials, "Hmm? Superpowers?"

Superpowers, of course Lion Jie knows about this kind of thing.

From the Axis powers during World War II to the bipolar world during the Cold War, all governments have been keen on developing this "special ability". Later, any government with a little bit of power would do this to some extent. The Japanese government is no exception.

But in terms of progress... at least it cannot be said that there is no progress.

Before the establishment of Academy City, there were a handful of research institutes in Japan that conducted research in a black box manner, and they were able to put it into practice... but they only knew how to use it. They knew nothing about the principles of superpowers or how to cultivate and improve them...

Moreover, they have not mastered the method of identifying people with special abilities. As a result, those with special abilities are usually treated as mentally ill and sent to mental hospitals.

Outside the surface world, there is a legacy of people with special abilities. Shizijie knows this more clearly. For example, some demon-killing families in Japan are people with special abilities. As for the Clock Tower, as far as Shizijie knows, they don't care about it. They just regard things like "superpowers" as "one-time phenomena" and "not worthy of being included in the designated objects of observation and sealing."

This is true. Except for a few people like the Exorcist Family, most people with special abilities are born with them. For example, the superpower of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception is not like the magician's Mystic Eyes. Even if the owner's eyes are dug out and transplanted, the death perception ability cannot be obtained, because the ability does not come from the eyes, but from themselves, because their mental structure is different from that of ordinary people.

Another proof of this is that the absolute future vision of Guanbuzi's mother gradually became invisible as she aged, which shows that abilities are positively correlated with one's own life state, and once you die, they are gone. In the eyes of the Clock Tower, "superpowers" are not even qualified to be soaked in formalin.