The Puppeteer of Academy City

In the 17th school district, the five-kilometer area around Sanze School has been completely closed to martial law.

All the teachers and students of Sanze School were evacuated by emergency rescue. After receiving "psychological counseling", they were transferred to other counseling institutions to continue their studies.

Fortunately, there were no more innocent victims.

After all, it is the 17th school district, which is sparsely populated. Only such a wonderful school as Sanze School chose to build here—there is a relatively bustling street around it, but after the last kidnapping incident, martial law was searched for a while, and many shops were temporarily closed for a few days.

Strictly speaking, the other factories and buildings affected by the battle were the official assets of Academy City, so it wasn't too much trouble to deal with them.

All in all, the entire Seventeenth School District is now under martial law.

Those teenagers who heard the gossip and wanted to come to "expedition" to find the legendary vampire were disappointed.

However, there is a real search force, which is constantly searching the two automatic puppets that escaped in the early hours of this morning.

Eliminating the threat is part of it, of course the main reason is to obtain the black technology on the automatic puppet.

In order to compete for this "treasure", various big and small battles even broke out among the major organizations that nominally belong to the government.

Under such conditions, the Sanze School at the core of the battlefield and the road at its entrance became the top priority and were strictly guarded, waiting for specialized researchers to come to investigate and study the mysterious technology inside.

No one can get close before then - not even a fly can fly in.

However, even under such a strict blockade, a crow still landed on the roof of the Sanze School without a sound.

Surrounded by powered armor, the heavily armed guards were unaware. Using the shadow of the building, the crow glides and landed on the top of the ruined hillside.

The crow was pacing, walking among the ruins, and kept picking apart debris, as if looking for something.

If someone looked closely, they could find that this "crow" was not a living thing, but an extremely delicate mechanical crow.

Suddenly, the mechanical crow stopped and turned its head to listen carefully. Then it flapped its wings and flew forward.

In front is the place where Yan Shijia "died" for the last time. His body had already been taken away by Baiyin Yao, and some of the remaining debris had also been recovered by Academy City.

But the crow scratched the ground, and quickly found a small cube among the mechanical ruins all over the floor.

The crow picked up the cube, opened its chest, and put it in.

Then, it flapped its wings and flew away from here.

"You're here at last, Raven."

The cube is connected to the crow's body by gears and wires, which then convey the message.

"This time is really miserable."

"There are too many accidents beyond the calculation, and our understanding of super power forces is seriously insufficient." Yan Shijia said, "We need to step up the collection of intelligence - the outside world has begun to exceed our inherent cognition."

"That's true. Now that even you are seriously injured and only one core is left, it must be able to attract the great witch's attention, right?"

"Hmph! I would like to know why you came so slowly! If you can arrive in time as planned, then all missions this time will be a success!"

"Don't be angry," the crow responded casually, "I have various situations here too."

"You were also blocked?"

"Yeah, the spider on the silver side... is an old opponent. When I get rid of him, it's over for you too."

"But I picked up the alchemist." Crow said.

"At least one of the original goals was accomplished."

"But that guy seems to have been stimulated by something, and his spirit is a little abnormal."

"At that time another group of people were dealing with him," Yan Shijia said, "but it doesn't matter, the great witch will cure him."

The crow flew all the way at low altitude before scuttling into a departing plane.

…

Kihara Kazuta closed the news interface on the computer screen.

"It seems that the experiment has to be postponed again... I have some skills!"

At the bottom of the web page, Ling Xingye's photo and enrollment files were revealed.

He snorted coldly, and closed this page again, at the bottom was the admission file of Misaka 10001.

Suita Kihara looked at the photo above, then suddenly picked up the phone and called the insider.

"Tell Fangchuan Kikyo to pay close attention to the psychological state of the test subject, and to appease Accelerator's emotions by the way."

After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone, and then said to himself: "We still need to activate the backup plan... I hope that the 'human brain array' he claims really has a powerful computing power comparable to the 'tree graph designer'."

…

AIM Analysis Research Institute, in Kiyama Haruo's laboratory.

The mechanical crow is standing in front of the computer and talking.

"...Because of the series of incidents yesterday and early this morning, Academy City has secretly entered a state of emergency," Crow pointed to the top of his head with the tip of his wing, "All the big figures above are focusing on the third force that suddenly appeared, Beyond that, their focus, once again, is on the Roman Orthodox Church and magicians."

"That is to say," Crow patted the screen behind him, on which was the latest news update, "The little commotion we caused a few days ago has completely faded out of people's sight. Now the most popular urban legend is no longer It's 'Fantasy Hand', but 'Vampire' and 'Auto Puppet'."

The crow's eyes were fixed on Mushan Chunsheng: "It's time for the next step."

"What are you going to do?" Mushan Chunsheng had already given up on himself, and chose a path to the dark.

"Actually, I've already started." The crow walked aside and tapped on Mushan Chunsheng's cell phone with the tip of his claws.

Then directly manipulated her mobile phone and downloaded a certain program.

"This is the mobile phone software I released on the day of the commotion," Crow introduced. "The name is 'Fantasy Royal Hand'. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com is a mobile game software."

"Mobile game?" Mushan Chunsheng snorted, "What's the use of this?"

"Of course it is for further promotion and to allow more people to join our plan." Crow said, "Do you remember? I said that I want to expand the scale of the network by at least ten times!"

Crow pushed the mobile phone in front of Mushan Chunsheng: "Here, your mobile phone is bound to the administrator account—the highest authority. You are the highest node of the network."

Haruno Kiyama picked up the phone, and he could see a background interface that ordinary "players" did not have—the level of all "players" was displayed on it.

In short, it is a leaderboard.

The two at the top of the ranking jumped to the top overnight because they completed the task of "resisting vicious invaders".

"'Puppeteer' and 'Electric Shock Gutai'?" Mushan Chunsheng read out these two names with a strange expression.

"Heh, it's really simple and easy to understand." Crow commented.