The Puppeteer of Academy City

During class, a challenge book woven by Morse code suddenly came out from the radio. In order to prevent intruders from wantonly injuring innocent people, Ling Xingye went to the art building to challenge alone.

In the dance classroom, he met Cinderella, one of the enemies who invaded the campus this time.

Cinderella uses the weird "crystal shoe" curse, forcing Ling Xingye to greatly reduce her ability to move.

Just when Ling Xingye was about to launch a counterattack, the flames used as stage special effects suddenly turned into real flames, burning his cheeks.

This surprised Ling Xingye.

A set of holographic projection equipment is installed in the dance classroom to make stage special effects so that students can rehearse various dances.

Until just now, Ling Xingye thought that Cinderella only borrowed the special effects device from the classroom for "the gorgeous performance effect of the dance party".

But now it seems that this is probably a means to hide her real attack.

You can tell from the name that the magic used by Cinderella comes from the fairy tale "Cinderella", so there is such a weird symbol as "crystal shoe".

But... Ling Xingye quickly recalled the story of Cinderella in his mind, but he still couldn't find anything related to "flame".

Not only flames, but a forest of swords suddenly appeared on the ceiling and fell from Ling Xingye's head.

This is also a holographic projection scene, but Ling Xingye dare not take it lightly. With no time to care about Cinderella, he swung his flying blade across the blade above his head.

But there's no tactile feedback—it's just a projection, after all...

Hundreds of sharp swords fell.

Stab it! The skin on his body was wounded by the sword blade, and bloodstains appeared.

"Old lady of the pumpkin carriage, please give me the carriage transformed from a pumpkin, and take me to my destination..." At the same time, Cinderella did not rest, and continued to sing the spell like a nursery rhyme.

A pumpkin carriage in the style of a fairy tale appeared on the stage and rushed straight towards Ling Xingye.

Ling Xingye manipulated the silk thread, pulled his body away in time, and dodged the impact of the pumpkin carriage.

Ling Xingye only felt that it was difficult for a while. The enemy's strength could not be considered too strong, but he was very good at "fighting against people". His moves were small, precise and extremely effective.

Coupled with the deceptive "stage special effects", even Ling Xingye felt a headache.

More importantly, this is just one of the enemies. Judging from the wording of the challenge letter, the enemies are obviously plural.

Whatever the reason, there must be other enemies lurking in the shadows.

"The one who is manipulating the holographic projection device is your friend, right?" Ling Xingye asked.

While dodging the endless fancy attacks from the enemy, Ling Xingye launched a counterattack.

The flying blades criss-crossed, weaving a dense network of knives and enveloping Cinderella.

But Cinderella calmly avoided every slash with her dance-like graceful movements. From beginning to end, even the dress on his body was not harmed in the slightest.

Even without an accomplice, Cinderella is already quite a formidable enemy.

"This is my ball, only me and His Royal Highness the stage." Cinderella said, "Come and dance, let me witness your dancing!"

Speaking of inexplicable lines, Cinderella didn't reveal anything about her companions.

Ling Xingye gave up her plan to get information from her, and endured the discomfort of her feet and continued to deal with her.

The two tacitly limited the battle to the dance classroom without causing additional damage.

But strictly speaking, Ling Xingye, who is playing at home, is even more restrained and cautious.

He didn't want to disturb the teachers and students who were in school, and he didn't want to cause serious damage to the teaching building, so that most of his strength was sealed.

The high-speed and fierce battle lasted for nearly ten minutes, and Ling Xingye was covered with scars—although they were not serious physical injuries, they looked very embarrassed.

Cinderella had a look of disappointment on her face, and just as she was about to say something, the bell rang for the end of get out of class.

There was a sudden commotion outside, a large number of students poured out of their respective classrooms, and the campus suddenly became full of vitality.

Ling Xingye and Cinderella looked at each other, and tacitly closed their hands. Cinderella took the initiative to distance herself and left the dance classroom from the window.

This is also the "rule of the game" agreed in the challenge book.

Leaving the battle, Ling Xingye straightened his phalanges, took off his blood-stained shirt, packed it together with the damaged shoes, and threw them into the trash can outside.

Then, Ling Xingye slipped into the locker room, changed into sportswear, and when he came out again, he saw Hitomi Shiranui waiting at the door.

"Starry night!" Hitomi Shiranui leaned over and sniffled, "Are you injured?"

"Don't worry, some injuries are still within the scope of recovery ability." Ling Xingye said.

"Is the enemy very powerful?" Hitomi Shiranui looked at him with heartache, "Everyone is very worried about you."

Ling Xingye said "Go and go back", but he disappeared until the end of get out of class.

"It is indeed a guy who can be described as 'troublesome'." Ling Xingye narrowed his eyes, "Especially if you start a war in this kind of place..."

"Do you need my help?" Hitomi Shiranui asked.

"Don't worry, you just need to go back to class with peace of mind and comfort the classmates." Ling Xingye said, hugging the girl in his arms.

Lowering their heads, their foreheads touched.

"Huh?" Hitomi Shiranui showed a look of surprise, then nodded slightly, "Okay, I understand."

The ten-minute recess time is short, and the preparatory bell has already rung.

As if worried about being late, Hitomi Shiranui hurried back to the classroom.

Ling Xingye packed up his mood and rushed to the school hospital building next door.

"Before the second round begins..." Ling Xingye whispered to himself, "First let me find a puppet—the puppet master to go on stage, how can there be no puppet?"

—The target is the medical mannequin in the medical warehouse.

…

The new battlefield is in the basketball arena. Two figures, like gray lightning and a whirlwind, collide continuously in the middle of the arena.

The basketball hall also has equipment similar to holographic projections, but Cinderella did not use it. At this time, she was just singing nursery rhyme-like mantras. Although the attacks she issued were still weird, they were monotonous and easy to guess.

Cinderella didn't rely entirely on magic spells, and more often, she was like a warrior with full agility, fighting close to Ling Xingye.

And Ling Xingye did not continue to use the flying blade, but held two scalpels, and started a thrilling face-to-face dance with the enemy.

The battle between the two is beyond the limit of what human eyes can track. To outsiders, it looks like two groups of gray shadows colliding with each other in the middle of the field.

Suddenly, Cinderella raised her leg and kicked out, taking advantage of the situation to distance herself.

"Puppet!" Cinderella's face was ugly.

After fighting at close range for so long, I never realized that the opponent was just a puppet!

No wonder the "glass slipper" curse seems to have little effect.

"How cunning!"

"You too." Ling Xingye's voice came from the puppet's mouth, "The attack method is much more monotonous—what about your accomplice, he was the one who hid in the dark and cooperated with you to attack together?"

After a short pause, Ling Xingye then asked: "What about others now?"

Cinderella didn't change her face: "Hmph, who knows?"

"I didn't deny it," Ling Xingye said, "It seems that you two acted together... So the only ones who invaded the school were the two of you?"

Cinderella smiled: "Of course not, it's just the number of people you found."

"NO! She's lying ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ There are only two people." Hitomi Shiranui's voice came from the earphone.

Ling Xingye nodded: "As long as you find out the whereabouts of another enemy, you can collect the net."

The reason why he was restrained was because the enemy was in the dark, and he was worried that the enemy's accomplices would jump over the wall and take the students as hostages.

That's why I asked Hitomi Shiranui to ask the students in the class for help to discern whether what Cinderella said was true or false.

The sub-branch ability of "foreseeing the future" - level 3 "binary judgment".

It can only tell whether the other party is lying or not, and make a binary judgment of "YES or NO", but the accuracy rate is as high as 99%!

It is precisely because of this ability that Ling Xingye rejected the plan to let Hitomi Shiranui risk approaching the enemy.

Since it was confirmed that there were only two intruders, it was still within the limit that could be dealt with; Ling Xingye no longer hesitated, and decided to make a quick decision and deal with Cinderella in front of him first.

At this moment, there was a sudden explosion in the distance!