The Puppeteer of Academy City

Tufang Hu took Yuan Shanyao and ran away, waving the sharp blade in his hand all the way, cutting through all the obstacles in front of him.

Yuan Shanyao had foreseen this scene a long time ago, so he was not surprised at all, but ran along with him very cooperatively. And from time to time, he opened his mouth to give directions, avoiding the men in black who were chasing and intercepting him in advance.

In this way, the two quickly escaped from the research center when even the earth guard felt surprisingly smooth.

Tu Fanghu's motorcycle was parked by the side of the road, he pulled the girl into the back seat, started the engine and drove away.

Feeling the speeding acceleration, Yuan Shanyao finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the light in his eyes gradually went out.

"Why did you run to such a place alone?" Tu Fanghu asked loudly, "If I hadn't noticed you leaving and came to find you, you would have been in trouble today!"

"Go back and explain." Yuan Shanyao said wearily, "By the way, don't turn left at the intersection ahead."

Although it would take a bit of a detour, Tufang Hu followed her guidance and chose to turn right.

"What would happen if you took the left road just now?" Then he couldn't help asking.

"I'll meet that old man just now—the owner of the research center."

"Catch up? How fast is he?"

"No, what we saw just now was just a projection of him, and he himself is on his way back." Yuan Shanyao said, "Otherwise we wouldn't be able to escape so easily."

The earth guard didn't say anything more, and drove to the underground bar at full speed.

Back in the underground command center, Isshiki Chihui, Yakushi Tera Miyuki and Saten Ruiko who were staying in the conference room rushed up to greet her.

"How is it? Have you encountered any danger?"

The three of them clearly knew what Yuan Shanyao had done.

"It's very dangerous." Yuan Shanyao didn't hide it, his face was full of fear, "It's really close, like walking a tightrope."

While talking, she patted her chest, not at all as calm and composed as she was when she was chatting and laughing with Kihara Chime not long ago, but changed back to the shy girl everyone knew in normal times.

"That is to say, you went to Xingye?"

Listening to the exchange between several girls, Hijikata quickly pieced together the truth of the matter.

"How did it turn out? Did you find the starry night?"

Yuan Shanyao nodded: "It's there. But I can't get close."

"Tell me the location, I'll go find him!" Tu Fanghu clenched the handle of the knife and stood up suddenly.

"Don't be impulsive, if we don't defeat Kihara Chime, we won't be able to rescue Ling Xingye!" Yuan Shanyao said quickly, "It's hard for me to describe, but that place has become his lair. Everything that happens there will be Become beneficial to him... I also tried just now, no matter what method I take, I can't save Xingye successfully!"

Hearing what she said, the Tufang guard reluctantly gave up his plan to rush over immediately.

"Next time there is such an action, don't take the risk alone." When the guardian stood up and was about to leave, he added, "Fortunately, I noticed that you were not here this time, so I didn't worry about chasing after you, otherwise you would really be very sad. Danger!"

"Thank you, but this is also within my expectation." Yuan Shanyao said with a smile, "Don't worry, I won't risk my life easily."

The earth guardian shook his head helplessly, and left the room.

Without the boys present, Yuan Shanyao could no longer care about his image, and just slumped on the sofa.

Excessive use of abilities tonight made her brain seem to be overheated and burned out. At this moment, she just wanted to close her eyes and have a good sleep.

"Um... do you want to tell Senior Shiranui what happened tonight?" Saten Renko asked.

"Not for the time being." Yuan Shanyao said with his eyes closed.

Yakushi Tera Mixi brought an ice pack and applied it to her forehead and eyelids.

"Anyway, it has been confirmed that Xingye is safe for the time being." Yuan Shanyao said, "We will tell Hitomi after we have more information."

— Hitomi Shiranui has a closer relationship with Xingye than everyone else; others may be able to keep calm and restrain themselves from messing around, but Hitomi is not necessarily.

Yuan Shanyao sighed inwardly.

Another thing she didn't tell anyone was that during her investigation, Ling Xingye was in a coma all the time. Although there was no obvious trauma, it was hard to say that she was "all right".

Yuan Shanyao tried, but couldn't wake him up, so her rescue operations always failed.

Now, even if Mukata or Hitomi Shiranui could find the place where Ling Xingye was being held, it would be difficult to escape with a comatose person.

Thinking of this, Yuan Shanyao couldn't help but sigh again.

But it makes sense to think about it. If Ling Xingye is awake and able to move freely, there is no need for the girls to try to rescue them, right?

The other three girls looked at each other. Although they still had a lot of questions in their hearts, seeing Yuan Shanyao's tired look, they felt inconvenient to continue asking.

"Let's stop here today," Isshiki Qianhui finally made a decision, "Rest early, there are still many things to do tomorrow."

"It's actually today, isn't it?" Saten Renko complained.

These days, they stayed up until the early morning of the next day every day, which was really hard.

Yakushiji Mixi went on to say: "Let's stay here today too, I'll go get the quilt."

"I'm going to prepare bath water." Saten Saten also stood up.

At this time, Yuan Shanyao took off the ice pack on his forehead, wiped off the water on his head with a towel, and was about to get up.

"Ayao, just take a good rest, we'll take care of other things..." Isshiki Qianhui said hastily.

Yuan Shanyao shook his head, and while looking for a mirror to touch up his makeup, he said, "Get ready, someone is visiting."

The few girls didn't doubt it, and hurriedly arranged their attire.

Sure enough, two minutes later, the bad girl's secretary knocked on the door and came in, saying that someone was visiting and wanted to meet them by name.

Yise Qianhui frowned: "Who actually knows we are here?"

The secretary shrugged: "I don't know, she looks like a young lady, quite kind."

"No problem, don't worry." Yuan Shanyao said, walked out of the room first, and went to the reception room dedicated to the underground command center.

In the living room, there was a girl who was about the same age as Saten Ruiko waiting, her whole body covered under a beige overcoat.

When Yuan Shanyao and the others came, they happened to see the girl take off her coat and hang it on a hanger beside her.

Under the coat was a uniform they were all familiar with—the uniform of Tokiwadai Middle School. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

The person who came was a student from Tokiwadai Middle School, with a good face and elegant temperament—no wonder the secretary said she was a young lady.

The lavender hair is made into gorgeous princess rolls, which complements her figure perfectly. From the perspective of a junior high school student, her figure is too plump, but she doesn't seem to be aware of it, she straightened her body, and looked at Toyama Haruka and the others generously.

"Good evening, Toyama-senpai, Isshiki-senpai, Yakushiji-senpai; good evening, Saten-san." The girl greeted each one politely, "I'm visiting late at night, so I'm sorry to disturb you."

Several girls also quickly returned the gift.

"Excuse me, are you..." Isshiki Qianhui asked.

"I'm Junko Homokaze, a third grader at Tokiwadai Middle School, and a member of the Queen-Shokuhou faction." The girl introduced herself.

Then, Fanfeng Junzi took out four invitation cards from the bag beside her.

"The Queen—Shokuhou-san invites you all to participate in the tea party tomorrow...it's this afternoon, and the location is inside the Academy House. Please come by all means."