People are in Type-Moon, but they practice science

He was not worried that Changguang would use up his labor costs in vain. After all, the experimental process of Academy City was monitored by the system. Through the signal connection, all on-site processes would be faithfully recorded in the [Library] system. No one would risk being punished by the Academy City judgment system connected to the library data to engage in such salary deductions.

Therefore, no matter what, he will definitely get the "overtime pay" for this extra work afterwards, but this does not mean that Pingcang Guangliu is very satisfied with this arrangement. Alas, people always want to be the one who has the easiest time.

The only thing to be thankful for is that this kind of physical work is usually not too complicated. Due to the special conditions and the outdoor experiments, the experimental instruments are also packaged in some additional ways, making it difficult to guess their original purpose.

In the center of the experimental site is a laboratory table, which is empty. Except for a bracket of a certain height and a curtain covering most of the area, it is impossible to tell what other items are placed on it.

However, Heikura Koryu knew in his heart that there was a "model" inside that imitated all the elements of Academy City.

Calling it a model sounds like an "idol worship" tool in magic theory, like imitating Academy City to obtain its properties. But it's not.

Although Changguang is proficient in magic in theory, according to the will of the entire board of directors, the "abnormal science" experiments she needs to do cannot include this kind of sensory magic that is obviously passed down from ancient times.

Therefore, the "Academy City Model" created this time, which is hidden behind the curtain, is essentially a computer named "Urban Processor" that performs complex calculations and uses electrical signal pulses to reproduce the data-state Academy City.

It is completely transparent, and a large number of circuit boards and components can be seen through the outer shell. From the back, you can see many tiny glass tubes several millimeters long closely arranged together.

The agglomeration city is like an aerial photograph stored on microfilm, replicating the current flowing through the city through electrical signals flowing through its semiconductors, thus perfectly simulating the city's "pulse". The large number of small vacuum tubes inside are designed to achieve free and random access between data A and B without distinguishing between cause and effect, thereby achieving what traditional computers that operate with 0s and 1s cannot do - reproducing human thinking.

From its working principle, we can more or less guess that the result of this combination of complex calculations and electrical signals actually refers to the calculation modes of some ability users - namely, Raiden Mei's electrical ability and Bronya's high-speed calculation ability.

But this is just one of the experimental supplies.

Bottle Warehouse smoothly lifted a corner of the curtain and installed a signal connector on it, which was not used to receive ordinary electric field signals, but the overall signal of the AIM diffusion field.

To be more specific, it is the AIM diffusion field signal coming from a distant shading computer.

"But on the one hand, if you say it's a simulation, I can accept it," Heikura said after a while of busy work, and breathed a sigh of relief, "In other words, the real object of this experiment... the so-called human nature, is only limited to the entire Academy City...?"

Changguang clapped his hands gently. "Thank you for your hard work. That's right! After all, although you haven't studied the details of AIM's diffusion field, at least you know that it only has a special phase of generation and distribution in Academy City, and Academy City happens to be within our control range. In the outside world, there are no such conditions and no such special force field, so there is no need to experiment."

If the Accumulation City is regarded as a miniature model of human nature (limited to the scope of Academy City), the AIM diffusion field connected by the shading computer... the key point is that the imaginary number area (simulated city) formed by it is the basic material, the filler that makes its content rich and keeps it running.

This is similar to the relationship between the surface world currently ruled by human civilization and the "anchor" that fixes the surface.

"——Oh, bottle warehouse, wait a minute. Before that, I have something else to prepare. After all, the unblocking procedure takes a long time."

As he spoke, a 'black box' appeared in Changguang's hand, which was the one handed to him by the chairman.

"Hey, Director, what is that?" Ping Cang Guang looked at the black box that Chang Guang took out from somewhere, and felt a creepy feeling for no reason. It was like a strange story of rules that suddenly broke into a science fiction movie, and an inexplicable sense of disharmony came over him.

Does this thing have anything to do with human civilization and human principles?

This thing was not explained in Changguang's experimental materials, so Pingcang Guangliu couldn't help but have doubts in his heart.

"You think it has nothing to do with humans, right?" Changguang's monocle reflected a faint light in the dark night. "Actually, I think so too. After all, it is a 'Pandora's Box'! Once it is opened, countless disasters will be released..."

Pingcang Guangliu was speechless for a moment, "......It doesn't sound reliable just by listening to it. Director, please don't make such a mythical joke. What on earth is this?"

"Hahaha... Now that we have the mold and the materials, the next step is of course the 'forging' before forging is complete!"

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industrial area.

Kiana was confronting Jesta, and the scene was solemn for a moment.

Because it was the first time that Kiana encountered this kind of fantasy creature, she didn’t quite understand what a Dead Apostle was. But ignoring those weird abilities, overall it looked like a "vampire" in the story, right?

Super powers have appeared, and it is understandable that there are fantasy creatures, except for the outrageous vitality that this vampire had previously demonstrated -

A few minutes ago, when Kiana discovered that ordinary blows did not hurt the Dead Apostle Zesta, she used her ability slightly.

Her spatial movement is through the imaginary plane - the ability to teleport objects from the real world into the imaginary world, and then float out of the real world. Since the imaginary world and the real world are unrelated in time and space, no matter how long the transmission distance is, the time required for movement is zero.

However, if it is too far away, the accuracy will decrease, but it is okay in normal battles.

Theoretically speaking, the calculation requirements for this ability are much higher than other abilities, and Kiana is a talent because she can use it without thinking and "relying on feeling".

Chapter 355 If so, how will you respond?

The sky was dotted with stars at night, but the atmosphere on the ground was not peaceful and tranquil. The remaining blood was seeping into the broken road surface, and the piles of corpses and flesh in several small places had no way to escape, emitting a fishy and unpleasant smell.

In addition, there were several guys called magicians who were kicked down and fainted by Kiana. Half of their bodies were pressed against the ground, inevitably stained with blood and meat, looking horrifying like a serial murder scene in a slaughterhouse.

At this time, Kiana was already trying hard to ignore those messy restricted scenes... and the inexplicable excitement of the vampire opposite her.

——"Ohhh, what is this? So superpowers are miracles of this nature!? A miracle that belongs only to one person (reality)! Miraculous! Absurd! Ingenious!"

Even though Kiana had just attacked him, Jesta spared no effort in speaking, and then began to talk about his exciting experience when he first encountered super powers -

"Too amazing... Just like the amazing abilities of the blood clan like me! No spells, chants, rituals... any preparations are needed to activate it at will! Yeah, it is clear that there are no ritual characteristics at all. It is neither a gift from God nor the bloodline of ancestors. It is simply a special ability of humans... What's more, um, spatial ability is the most special ability among all the special abilities! It is worthy of being the soil of science. Its uniqueness cannot be underestimated. The previous "I" was really careless!"

While Jesta was talking to himself, Kiana was also frantically thinking about the meaning of his words. What are the characteristics of the spell? God? Ancestor? They seem to be two different or opposing existences? And the spell... Ah, I don't understand. What kind of tactics is this? A chat-style tactic that deliberately confuses the opponent with riddles?

After pondering for a long time without getting any useful information, Kiana decided to fight first. Since he's a vampire, it's okay to use some tricks, right?

With this thought in mind, she stretched out her legs and touched a piece of gravel slightly larger than a fist at her feet.

"Oh, beautiful lady," although Jesta was talking, his attention and reaction were always online, and Kiana's little movements could not escape his sight, "Although I appreciate the heterogeneity of your abilities, it is not beautiful to interrupt my speech and act on your own -"

Gulp...!

Jesta was suddenly stuck. He felt his chest sink and his speech was interrupted, physically interrupted.

Because his chest, where his heart and lungs were, suddenly expanded... No! Something had squeezed it open in an instant!

A large piece of gravel - hey, it was the one Kiana had just touched, it moved to Jesta's chest in an instant, cutting off part of his heart, lungs, and a small amount of spine in an instant, causing flesh to turn inside out and blood to spurt out, and the gravel simply ignored all previous body structures and ran across his body in an extremely abrupt manner.

That's right, the so-called spatial movement is not a straight line, but a point-to-point movement, that is, the "moved object" will push away the "object at the target position". If the object is moved to a position where there are other objects, both sides will push each other away regardless of the hardness of the objects.

Even if Jesta's physical strength exceeds that of ordinary materials, or even that of gravel mixed with soil, it cannot hinder Kiana's spatial movement, because the target of the ability is not Jesta, the Dead Apostle, but the space he is in.

In other words, as long as Kiana controls herself well, she can cut Jesta's body with a piece of paper.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

It was as if Jesta's body functions had suddenly failed. He lowered his head, bent his body, and bled profusely. Just when Kiana thought that Jesta was going to collapse from excessive blood loss, Jesta did a frightening move - he stretched out his hand and forcibly "pulled" the stone out of his chest.

puff.

The blood, mixed with some unknown substances, pieces of organs, flesh, and bone fragments, surged out even more crazily, like a gorgeous and bloody suicide.

But Jesta did not die.

"Repair. (Order)"

A whisper came from nowhere, and Jesta, who had already taken out the stone, felt as if time had gone backwards. The blood and various body tissues that had been flowing out of him automatically rebounded and re-entered his body as if they were rewound.

"......?" Kiana was stunned by this "high-speed regeneration".

Vampires in movies aren’t acted like this, right?

Gollum-

The blood returned and the wound healed quickly. Jesta raised his head again with a mocking smile.

It has to be said that Kiana's ability is very tricky. Any human magus would have died long ago. However, the immortality of the Dead Apostles is beyond imagination. It is not comparable to the kind in the movies, but a real immortal curse.

The repair of the Dead Apostles is a time-reversal repair. If you don't take targeted measures (special attacks), there is really no way. The reason why the Holy Church can calmly defeat the Dead Apostles is because they use holy water, black keys, or other sanctified weapons.

Besides, ordinary magicians cannot deal with it, not to mention that Kiana is a student who is encountering the mysterious world for the first time.

"In that case... let's do it again!"

Kiana didn't believe that such an ability had no limits, so she quickly moved around. At the same time, various objects began to emerge from various parts of Jesta's body, and then physically cut his body into pieces.

"Hey, Miss, you not only interrupted my speech," Jesta said, using her magic power to speak even though her body was already trembling. "But you also attacked me like this, so don't blame me for being ruthless!"

"Lüe, you blood-sucking monster, why are you so arrogant!"

As a mature warrior, Kiana definitely does not intend to be weaker than others in words.

But the next moment, Kiana knew where Jesta's confidence came from——

Rumble——!

The ground was shaking and cracking, and then a huge, long, wriggling object emerged from below. Was it a branch? Or some other structure?

The road surface of the entire street was cracking, and tree branches popped out one after another, blocking out the dim moonlight.

"Ghost, can this be considered a vampire?" Kiana had to keep teleporting to avoid branches that appeared out of nowhere.

"So, what should you do next, beautiful lady?" said the huge, moving "forest".

"!"

Just as Kiana was thinking about what to do, a voice came -

"stop!"

Chapter 356: Huge Weapon HsPS-15

Sakura finally arrived at the battlefield in time. Since the speed of cars outside was really limited, she simply ran all the way from the port to Academy City with light steps.

At this time, near the tenth district, the road surface was full of potholes, many walls had piercing scars, and some seemed to have been directly shattered.

"Hmm? Is it over already?"

Sakura looked puzzledly at the drive armors lined up there that had not yet left. These should be operated by the security team, waiting here to hand over the task to her. However, there were no enemies or even corpses left at the scene except traces of battle. If they had dealt with it, they would not have called her back so urgently. Did the enemy escape and need to be pursued?

The drive armor parked on the roadside is a row of manned drive armors covered with special armor, from head to toe and even fingers. There is gray armor, model HsPS-15, with a total length of 2.5 meters. Its handheld weapon is a revolver shotgun for partition walls. Each shell is loaded with dozens of anti-material bullets, and the bullets are automatically loaded by machinery. Just one shot is enough to penetrate a tank, and a close-range shot can also blast open the door of a nuclear bomb shelter.

However, the charge of this shell is not fixed, so this specification is not needed all the time. When facing blood-sucking species, it can also be adjusted in advance to suppress the blood-sucking species. Therefore, after determining the suppression target, the troops formed by the driving armor are enough to deal with it. Could it be that something unexpected happened in the middle?

Sakura took the initiative to walk towards the driver armors over there and started chatting with them. One of the driver armors took the initiative to remove his weapon and handed Sakura a portable tablet with a replay of the battle recorded on it.

At the same time, Sakura also learned through communication that the enemy did escape in an unexpected way.

In the battle replay, a group of blood-sucking species similar to the Dead Apostle Jesta, but obviously inferior in overall physical fitness, attempted to approach the strictly guarded confidential research institute.

Then, as expected, they were discovered by the security guards at a distance. So when the vampires approached, what was waiting for them was a whole row of heavy-duty armor that reflected metallic luster. As a driving armor, HsPS-15 not only has powerful weapons, but also has its own movement performance dozens of times that of humans. In addition, due to different manufacturing specifications, the actual combat power may not always be this data.

It is naturally no pressure for it to deal with this group of scumbags - even without using weapons, HsPS-15 can deal with the blood-sucking population with its super athletic ability.

And when it used a shotgun, with one bang, rows of vampires would fall down. In the same straight line, big holes would be opened on the bodies of several vampires, and those that were closer would be blown to pieces. The bullets would penetrate the targets in a line and finally leave bumpy marks on the ground.

bang bang bang-

There is nothing much to say about what happened next. The HsPS-15 fired continuously, and short sparks flashed for a moment. Then the dim moonlight filled the street and the broken body of the vampire on the ground.

"Eh... these vampires... some of them are using guns?" Sakura did not simply watch the HsPS-15 display its power during this process. She noticed that some vampires took out guns to fight back during the resistance. Unfortunately, these guns that had been modified with crude magic were obviously not powerful enough to cause damage to the armor of the HsPS-15.

Using guns... This is a suspicious point. Sakura is very clear that vampires are completely different creatures from humans. In essence, they are the real "dead". Guns and tools are what only humans rely on. Vampires can also be transformed from humans. So it is possible that this group of vampires were transformed not long ago, and they happened to retain the memories and habits of their previous lives.

But this is not the reason why they can escape from the Drive Armor.

Especially when it has been defeated.

"Wait, they've been defeated...?"

Sakura had a hunch, and sure enough, the next recording was that when the security team thought the vampire suppression operation had been completed and was preparing to withdraw and clean up the scene, the body fragments on the ground suddenly began to move -

This was originally impossible. After long-term research, it was found that blood-sucking species below the ancestral level would usually only be killed by vampire suppression ammunition.

But the situation changed rapidly, and while the guards didn't react, a large number of branches emerged from under the broken ground. Then, these body fragments seemed to have found their backbone in an instant, moving, contacting and blending with the extended branches, and were completely absorbed the next moment. At the same time, the branches quickly drilled back into the ground and disappeared.

Although some guards opened fire in time, only a few fragments were left.

"Where are the fragments?" Sakura asked.

The person who played the recording back to her answered, "They have been collected and sent to the research institute for emergency analysis. The initial guess is that the strategic intention of these blood-sucking species is not to invade, but to test our combat effectiveness."

"Yeah, I noticed that, too." Sakura looked at the desolate and mottled ground, without a trace of enemy presence. "Some vampires still retain the habit of using human firearms. They must be cannon fodder converted from somewhere. By the way, do those vampires have any identification?"

"Most of their belongings were severely damaged due to the battle. From the few pieces of evidence we have collected, it seems that they are all outsiders who entered Academy City recently."

Suddenly, footsteps were heard in the distance—a security guard ran over from the research institute and delivered the preliminary analysis results of the vampire remains.

Sakura took it and looked at it, ignoring the large amount of life data indicators written on it, and directly turned to the results column, "Found life activity far beyond that of ordinary blood-sucking species? Some of them showed characteristics...similar to [█-level observation subject] Floran Kloiduni!?"

Sakura frowned. She understood the thorny aspect of the matter. Floran herself was related to a large number of Academy City's biological achievements. So how did outsiders...how did non-vampires acquire this characteristic?

Floran herself obtained it accidentally from the outside world, so it is understandable that similar things appear in the outside world again... I hope it is not a situation where something went wrong inside Academy City.

Sakura was here to deal with the vampires, so it would be best if she didn't go back to her old ways like she did back in the poison pupa.

Chapter 357: Sanctified Cyborg Priest

In the darkness, several figures were flying between tall buildings.