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Previously, this skill was in the white attribute +2 state, but during the synthesis at the gym yesterday, the same skill was also synthesized.

After Xia Yan took some time to study, he unexpectedly discovered that its skill entry had changed to:

[Class Skill: Breath Block (Blue) +1]

It seems that this kind of skill with an advanced channel will automatically improve its quality when a certain number of points are added, from white to blue to purple, and this number should be in base 3.

There is no doubt that [Breath Blocking] is indeed full of potential and is a skill with extremely deep advancement channels.

If Xia Yan's senses were correct, then it should be the class skill of the Assassin, a heroic spirit from the Type-Moon world. It's the real deal!

According to Xia Yan's usual inaccurate speculation, his previous white-entry Breath Blocking should have been around D-level, and after being upgraded to a blue-entry, it should be C-level.

What is more interesting is the assassin's class skill. Unlike the traditional invisibility like optical camouflage, it is more like an ability to eliminate the outside world's cognition of itself and its own sense of existence.

When the skill level is high enough, not only the figure, but also the sound, heat and magic can be eliminated. In the eyes, ears and perception of others, it is as if he does not exist at all, and all traces of himself can be completely hidden.

What’s even more exaggerated is that this method, which is similar to “psychological invisibility”, can even deceive technological equipment.

In other words, although you are not optically invisible and your body heat will not disappear out of thin air, even the camera cannot capture your figure, the eavesdropper cannot record your voice, and you will not react when the thermal energy sensing infrared rays scan you.

I can only say that it is extremely outrageous and very mystical, and it doesn't tell you any science at all.

Of course, Xia Yan's super youthful and weakened version of breath blocking is far from being called an "advanced skill", and naturally it cannot be hidden from machines and equipment.

So when he sneaked into the security room, he chose to avoid surveillance and blend in with the security guards.

To do this, he actually didn't need to do much. He just had to change into a prepared uniform that was not much different from that of the security personnel. Then, when the security guards on night patrol passed by, he would take the opportunity to lower the brim of his hat and blend in from the end of the team.

Originally, it was impossible for such a crude method to be successful in infiltrating, because those security personnel could not be so stupid as not to count the number of people, but... who made him cheat?

He activated the breath blocking function and blended into the security group under the cover of night. Then, with his presence infinitely weakened, he would be like a ghost. Even the security guards around him would not notice that his team had unknowingly gained one more person.

No one would notice Xia Yan's face, which was too young and completely unfamiliar to them. It was as if their eyes would unconsciously skip over him when they swept over Xia Yan.

It can be said that no one knows about it.

The same situation occurs when the security guards are counting the number of people. Xia Yan just needs to quietly retreat behind a few security guards, try to cover most of his body, and then pull down the brim of his hat to cover his face. Then the security guards counting the number of people will subconsciously ignore him, as if they didn't see him at all.

This is how the sense of presence is weakened by using the visual illusion.

It’s like when you walk on a busy street, you may notice the appearance of the person walking towards you, but you don’t know what the person passing by you from the side looks like.

This is the result of not focusing your attention there and ignoring the other party.

The principle of breath blocking is basically the same, except that it greatly strengthens the possibility of being ignored by others, making this low-probability event become a "reality" that is bound to happen as much as possible.

In this way, Xia Yan sneaked into the security's main monitoring room through the patrol team, and obtained the deployment map of Xiuzhiyuan's surveillance and the security patrol route.

It can't be said that he has unimpeded access, but at least he can enter and exit Shuchiin relatively freely.

Of course, even if one reaches the blue level of Breath Blocking, it is still far from being an absolutely effective skill.

Perhaps reaching A-level breath blocking would allow one to walk up to the enemy from the front, step by step, and the enemy would not even notice before declaring that they had taken their head;

Perhaps with EX-level aura blocking, you can slash at the enemy in front of you while dancing, and the enemy will not be able to lock onto your figure.

But blocking the aura, which is roughly equivalent to C-level, only reduces the sense of presence.

Once Xia Yan does something that attracts too much attention, he will be "exposed".

For example, if you take off all your clothes in the street, you will definitely be socially dead and dead.

And there is...

Xia Yan walked through the garden of Xiuzhiyuan and came to a remote corner. There were a large number of landscape trees here, which provided shade and blocked the view. It was very suitable for climbing over the wall to go out or in.

Then Xia Yan took a running jump, lightly kicked the school wall for leverage, and then with a nimble somersault, he flew out of Xiuzhiyuan and landed outside.

——This kind of operation that falls from the sky seems to have too much visual impact and will still break the invisibility.

However, Xia Yan knew the security patrol route and was sure that they would not pass by here at this time, so naturally they would not be witnessed and their concealment would be exposed.

Next, just be careful to avoid the surveillance and alarm equipment on the road, and don't let the patrol team witness it directly. Then, if the breath is blocked and only a shadow passes through their sight, they will automatically ignore it.

I'm familiar with the route, so it's not a big problem.

Chapter 18: Weekend Date with Kato Megumi

Toyosaki Academy, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.

As an ordinary high school that had been established for less than ten years and was known for its liberal school spirit, Xia Yan didn't underestimate it...

It can only be said that every time Xia Yan held his breath and walked out of Xiuzhiyuan, rushing all the way here, when he saw the fifty-year-old security guard who was dozing off at the school gate, he could feel a sincere sense of intimacy.

Then, he was so distracted that he almost didn't even realize that his body had naturally turned to Xia Yan on Fengzhiqi Campus, and he began to walk towards a teaching building as if he was familiar with the place.

While maintaining his breath-blocked state, he passed by many students who were scattered around during lunch break.

But it was obvious that these students still failed to notice that Xia Yan, a student from another school, was wearing a school uniform that was quite different from theirs.

Xia Yan's figure quickly passed by, walked into the teaching building, and then walked up the stairs.

Soon, he arrived at the top floor of the teaching building.

Then he paused in front of the door leading to the rooftop, and after calming down, Xia Yan, holding a plastic bag, pushed open the door in front of him.

"Wow~"

"Sorry, I'm late."

As Xia Yan's voice rang out, two rays of light suddenly appeared in his eyes.

One of these rays naturally came from the sky, the warm winter sun shining directly down;

The other ray of light came from under the awning on the rooftop. A short-haired girl with a bob haircut and a cold expression appeared. A white light flashed past her body, and a fragment engraved with faint black, shadow-like patterns exploded beside her.

"Ah~"

The girl sitting on the bench has pretty features and fair skin. She is wearing Toyosaki's black and blue women's pleated skirt school uniform with a dark red string tie on her neckline. She looks like a friendly girl next door.

But for some reason, if you glance at the girl, you will feel that she is ordinary and forgotten in a flash.

At this time, the girl, Kato Megumi, ladylikely put her legs together, held the lunch box wrapped in a square towel in her hands, and placed it on her ivory-white thighs, looking like she was obviously waiting for someone.

But when she saw the person she was waiting for coming over, she instead complained quietly: "If possible, I really hope you don't come at this time...Yan Jun."

Xia Yan ignored the exploding fragment for the time being. Instead, he approached Kato Megumi under the awning and said softly with a hint of apology, "Uh, sorry, did I bother you?"

Speaking of which, the first heroine he came into contact with - or the girl who first dropped the fragments and successfully allowed Xia Yan to activate the system - was actually Kato Megumi.

There was no complicated cause and effect. Xia Yan just happened to pick up her lost wallet.

But Xia Yan still remembers Kato Megumi jogging over, holding her knees, panting slightly, and at the same time, she had a beautiful smile of joy and gratitude on her face, and...

The brightest light in the world suddenly appeared on her!

Of course, from Xia Yan's subsequent review, Kato Megumi was just an ordinary explosion fragment at the time, and the light that initially lit up her body was actually neither special nor dazzling.

What impressed Xia Yan even more was what happened next - the system was just starting up at the time, and he hadn't figured out what was going on.

So considering that Kato Megumi, the person who helped him trigger the system, could not be contacted later, and if the system could not respond without her, Xia Yan would be in trouble.

When Xia Yan thought about the possibility of missing out on what he longed for, he was so anxious that he didn't have time to think about it and asked Kato Megumi to treat him to a meal as a thank you for finding his wallet.

After that, he mustered up his courage and shamelessly asked for Kato Megumi's contact information, almost forcibly.

In fact, Xia Yan didn't know that Kato Megumi was also impressed by this, but not because of the two things mentioned above.

After all, retrieving the wallet helped her a lot. The other party had no bad intentions and did not go to any expensive restaurant with malicious intent. He just wanted to treat her to a meal at a family restaurant nearby as a thank you.

Isn't this the right thing to do?

Asking for contact information was a bit abrupt, but the two of them got along pretty well afterwards, so it was nothing to worry about.

What really impressed Kato Megumi was what happened later...

Someone who climbed over the wall of his school, ran several blocks, and somehow avoided the eyes and ears of so many teachers and students, and then ran back to his school within the tight hour of lunch break. He went through so much effort just to come and have lunch with him... someone's behavior.

I remember that even with Kato Megumi's calm temperament, three "?"s slowly floated in her head.

Ah~, Xia Yanjun is a strange... no, a very strange person~

Then she had this thought at that time, but...

"I don't hate it."

Kato Megumi stretched out her fair and delicate hand as if nothing had happened, stroked the pleated skirt under her thigh, moved to the side, and then reached out and patted the other side of the bench.

After Xia Yan sat down, Kato Megumi spoke in a cold tone, but with a soft and contrasting cuteness: "It's just that, Yanjun, you climb over the wall to see me every day, it feels like a hentai stalker who follows high school girls every day."

"Oh~, or are they like those stupid lickspittles you told me about, who only know how to go downstairs to the girls' building every day to give them milk tea and order takeout?"

"...Megumi, sometimes your words can be unexpectedly hurtful."

Listening to Kato Megumi beside him uttering vicious words in a soft and cute voice, Xia Yan opened the fried pork cutlet bento that he bought on the way here with a subtle expression.

The pork chops fried to golden brown, with the orange sauce poured on top, look very tempting and can whet one's appetite to some extent.

Of course, Xia Yan didn't have any expectations for its taste. After all, it was just a cheap bento from a convenience store. It was good enough to fill his stomach.

"Is there any?"

Kato Megumi glanced at the simple bento being eaten by someone next to her. As she opened the lid of her own lunch box, her expression remained unchanged: "Because it's useless for you to come to me like this lately."

"I've been helping out at home lately, so even if you ask me again, 'Are you free after school?' I don't have much time to hang out with you."

"What about the weekend?"

Xia Yan chewed on the greasy fried pork chop, completely unaffected and continued to look for opportunities - I am just an emotionless fragment-collecting machine.jpg

"If it's Sunday, it should be possible. Where should we go?"

"I haven't thought about it yet. We'll decide the meeting place and where we'll go when the time comes. Or, Hui, is there anywhere you'd like to go?"

"Well, let me take a look..."

While eating, Kato Megumi took out her cell phone from her shirt pocket, apparently checking online to see if there were any interesting places nearby that the two of them had not visited.

The way the two of them get along is just like a couple of student lovers who eat lunch while discussing where to go on a date on the weekend and spend the whole day being affectionate with each other.

Xia Yan also silently looked at Kato Megumi beside him. In fact, he has always been grateful to this girl.

Chapter 19: Hehehe, Teacher Kashiwagi Eri, you don’t want to…

Because his own system had never shown any intelligence, Xia Yan's situation at the beginning was actually very embarrassing - at first he didn't even know what this system was for!

Later, when he started to synthesize the fragments and knew the function of them, he was not sure who would drop the fragments.

Even with the example of Kato Megumi, he still tried them one by one.

try what?

Try going to some remote, quiet, and deserted alleys and beating up some "very friendly and enthusiastic people." Then, beat up the hot girl who came with the gangsters to cause trouble, and even put a sack on an anime male protagonist and beat her up.

The purpose is to see if these people can burst out emotional fragments.

As a result, after beating them so hard, no matter how hard he tried, he would gain some fragments of anger, hatred, fear, etc., but after not seeing any gains, he had to say with regret: these people were not among the target group.

In the end, Xia Yan still followed the principle of proximity and found a female supporting role, Ying Lili, to experiment with.

This was considered a little gain, and it confirmed that only the anime heroines that I remembered in my previous life, and some important female supporting characters, would explode into fragments.

I still remember that he had to rely on some special means to make an appointment with Eriri, who was in the same school as Kato Megumi and was the famous foreign mixed-race (expired) lolita in Toyonosaki Academy.

Sawamura Spencer Eriri is a girl with very obvious loser attributes such as blonde hair, tsundere, and twintails - or rather, it was she who successfully added the meaning of "loser" to these labels.

But in terms of appearance alone, Eriri is indeed blessed with porcelain-like skin, clear blue eyes from her British-Japanese mixed ancestry, beautiful blonde hair that looks like a work of art, and her petite figure, she looks like a cute doll.

Unlike Kato Megumi, who is as easygoing and friendly as the girl next door and has a weak sense of presence, Eriri is the type who seems to be shining all over and can attract boys' attention in an instant.

Because of this... Xia Yan was successfully discouraged.

Don't look at him like this, Xia Yan is actually a bit socially anxious - well, not the kind of social phobia, but real social anxiety.