The road to completion starts from the Gate of Truth

No wonder she found a lot less "fish" when she was wandering around the alleys "fishing" recently. She didn't expect that there was a fellow idiot... Moreover, this fellow idiot was different from her. He didn't use fishing enforcement to teach those hooligans a lesson, but took the initiative to attack with a more secretive method, and the scale of the action was much larger than hers.

Hmm - is this the difference between amateur and professional? Misaka Mikoto admitted that she did lose to the "Ghost Avenger" in this respect.

However, the unknown ability user just now should be someone at the scene. As the top level 5 electromagnetic operation ability user, Misaka Mikoto did sense some abnormal electromagnetic force at that moment.

But that time was too short, so short that she almost thought it was an illusion, so she didn't have time to calculate the other party's position.

Who could it be? The princess of Tokiwadai narrowed her eyes and scanned everyone around her one by one, trying to find the "Ghost Avenger" who was hiding very deeply.

')271'\u003eChapter 270 Aleister is watching you

School District 7, a building without windows.

In the huge cylindrical glass tank, in the red culture medium, a figure with ankle-length silver hair and wearing green surgical gown is suspended upside down.

How to describe his appearance? 　　He looks like both a man and a woman, an adult and a child, a saint and a prisoner, as if all the possible characteristics of a human being are gathered in one person, and it seems that this illusion is caused by the lack of personality of this person.

This is the founder and controller of the scientific base of Academy City, the general chairman, Aleister Crowley.

This existence who controls everything in Academy City, the true portrayal of the words "behind the scenes" and "conspirator", is now observing every movement in the city through the nano-level intelligence collection agency "suspended loop" throughout Academy City.

In the past, he usually focused most of his energy on "Fantasy Killer", "Accelerator", "A Certain Scientific Railgun" and other important characters in his plan, but today, no, to be precise, in the past few months, a large part of his attention has been placed on another existence.

In a light curtain formed by a holographic projection, dozens of videos are being played on screens of a foot in size.

Most of the scenes played in these videos take place at night. It can be seen that in dim alleys, abandoned construction sites, and deserted areas with few people, those bad scum living at the bottom of the city are either robbing, bullying others, molesting women, or conducting various illegal transactions.

But after an almost imperceptible flash, these people all disappeared, and then in the next moment, in another shot, this group of people appeared unconscious at the gates of the security offices of various school districts.

Comparing the time scales on the two shots, it can be found that all this happened in less than a second, which is incredible.

Slow down the video again and again until it is fixed to a certain frame in the middle, and finally a blurry light spot can be seen from the screen.

With the help of supercomputers, this light spot becomes clearer and clearer, and finally a black figure that is still very blurry but can already be seen as a human figure is revealed.

Some pictures also show the figure of a girl changing out of a black nightgown in a dim bedroom.

The only picture that looks like daytime is playing the picture of a bank robbery that happened in the past few days.

On the screen, a girl wearing a Zhachuan Middle School uniform, a petal-shaped hairpin on her head, and straight black long hair is placed in the middle of the picture, and the moment when the picture is frozen is when the tiny lightning on the girl's body just bursts out.

"Unexpected variables, maybe your plan will be messed up by this little girl and the existence behind her~" A voice mixed with many noises sounded in the ears of the "Hanged Man" in the huge test tube, and the indifferent tone could not hide the emotion of "wanting to watch a good show".

"No, this is not a variable, but a help!" The "man" who was suspended upside down did not speak, but instead, the simulated electronic sound from the machine-the existence named Aleister, with the help of life support equipment, all life activities and even thinking itself were handed over to the machine to perform, and speaking was no exception.

"Having a special power that is very different from the magic of the Osiris era, and at the same time being very close to the third person, it is better to say that with the help of her power, my plan can progress faster."

The super conspirator who has countless plans in his heart and countless backup plans for each plan said so.

"Haha, okay, this girl is indeed not a concern, but what about the one who gave her the power? This law is completely different from the current world, and there is a fog that even I can't see through. Maybe the other party is more troublesome than the devil~" The voice full of noise said so.

"You can't see through it either?" Aleister's slightly surprised voice came from the life support device.

"Yes, although the total amount of power can be said to be insignificant, let alone compared with the demon god, even compared with those angels, it is far behind, but I can feel that the other party's essence is extremely high, and what is displayed in front of us is only a tiny part of the other party's body.

However, what really makes me feel afraid is a kind of unknown that even I feel afraid of."

"Even you feel afraid of the unknown... huh..."　　Aleister seemed to chew on the words in that voice, the life support device was running, thinking, and fell into a long silence again.

"It seems that we have to contact the other party and see!"　　...　　On the other side, a certain superhero girl (thinks she) does not know that her little secret has been known by the big boss behind this city.

However, even if she knew it, she probably wouldn't react.

After all, as early as the beginning, a "master" who had never really shown up had told her that the city was full of tens of millions of nano-level intelligence collection agencies invisible to the naked eye--suspended loops, monitoring every corner of the academy city.

Any abnormality will be immediately brought to the attention of Aleister, the chairman of the Academy City General Council.

Although ordinary students are not even experimental animals for Aleister, at best they are just the basic materials for building an environment full of people with special abilities, a Lv.0 like Saten Ruiko, who has no future, will not even look at her unless she actively tries to get involved in some major events.

However, when she, a Lv.0, possesses a "superpower" that is completely different from the result of the quality judgment and is also very powerful in a short period of time, it is impossible not to attract Aleister's attention.

Even if the girl deliberately keeps herself in a state of lightning speed every time she "does justice" and "fights evil", and moves at a high speed that even high-definition cameras cannot capture, it is still impossible to really hide from the countless "spies" that Aleister has placed in the Academy City.

Especially since she used the power of "SHAZAM" in broad daylight this time, I believe her situation has definitely fallen into Aleister's eyes.

A barely detectable gleam flashed in the girl's eyes. The wisdom from Solomon made her thinking ability upgrade from an ordinary level to the level of a peerless genius. All kinds of possible probing actions against her and corresponding countermeasures flashed through her mind.

However... put these things aside for now, let's just let her enjoy shopping with her friends! ')272'\u003eChapter 271 The famous detective Leizi with future vision

Seventh Mist is a comprehensive clothing mall that is very popular among students in Academy City.

The electric princess of Tokiwadai, the guardian of the library, and the ghost avenger of midnight, three girls who are famous (in various senses) in Academy City are shopping here together.

"Come and take a look, this pajamas is so cute!" Misaka Mikoto, who has a very low-age aesthetic preference, couldn't walk after seeing a very childish cute pink pajamas. She pointed at the pajamas with a face full of joy and called her two companions to come and take a look.

"Hatsuharu, look! No one wears childish styles like this now!" The hearty and straightforward Saten Ruiko said so bluntly, which immediately made the princess of Tokiwadai freeze, and the joy on her face gradually disappeared. She could only maintain a polite smile with a stiff expression... "Although I still wore this style when I was an elementary school student, it is indeed a bit..." The girl with a wreath on her head, like a "walking vase", came over, looked at the children's pajamas, and unintentionally stabbed Misaka Mikoto in the heart again.

"That's right! You're already a middle school student, how can you wear this! Uh! Impossible!" Misaka Mikoto, who was showing her tsundere nature, held her chin with one hand, closed her eyes, nodded and said seriously.

Saten \u0026 Hatsuharu: "..." "Ah, I'll go check out the swimsuit!" "Uh, the swimsuit is over there..." The two considerate girls saw Misaka Mikoto's embarrassment and changed the subject tacitly, leaving some space for the princess of Tokiwadai for the time being... The two walked further and further away, and Misaka Mikoto opened her eyes - 'Well, pajamas are not for people to see anyway, just wear them at home...' Thinking of this, Miss A Certain Scientific Railgun, who ranked third in Academy City at Lv.5, picked up the children's pajamas on the counter at lightning speed, and rushed to the dressing mirror like the wind. She was about to appreciate the effect of wearing it on herself, but she suddenly heard a voice behind her that made her grit her teeth at the thought.

"What are you doing here! Bilibili!" "Hey~!!!" Turning around, he saw that it was the boy with the spiky head who had taken over his own railgun! Misaka Mikoto: "..." Was... seen? Is today her disaster day? ! ... Not to mention the small theater where the two male and female protagonists met again, on this side, Saiko, who was chatting and walking with Uiharu Kouri, just passed by a boy holding a frog doll. , suddenly her expression paused, and her consciousness fell into a trance.

The collapsed frog puppet, the explosion, the blood, the little girl lying on the ground, the seriously injured Uiharu Shiori... Scenes of illusions flashed through her eyes like illusions.

Is this...future vision? When Saten Ruiko came back to her senses, she immediately knew what had just happened to her.

It was a power her teachers told her about, but she never actually used.

The wisdom from Solomon has greatly strengthened her subconscious thinking ability. In conjunction with all the information she sees, hears, smells, and comes into contact with, she can actively or passively activate extremely short-term future vision, predicting from a few minutes to A future that is highly likely to happen within days.

And just now, after she saw this boy and the frog puppet in his hand, her future vision ability actually activated on its own! Thinking of the "Void Explosion" incident that Uiharu had been investigating for some time, Saten Ruiko immediately understood in her heart——There is something wrong with this boy! She suddenly turned around and looked at the boy who hadn't gone far yet.

The power of Zeus's thunder suddenly activated, and silently, the ordinary girl was closely connected with the ubiquitous electromagnetic field on the earth.

With the help of the ubiquitous electromagnetic field, Saten Ruiko seemed to have clairvoyant eyes, observing everything within thousands of meters around her with another sense that transcended the five senses.

Focusing this "electromagnetic field of vision" on the boy in front of her, the girl instantly saw that inside the frog doll he was holding, there was indeed another mystery - there was an aluminum spoon hidden inside! And not only that, the bag on the boy's shoulder was filled with a whole bag of various aluminum products.

Sure enough, this guy is not normal! Who would fill their bag with a whole bag of useless aluminum products when they go shopping? There is no junk collector in Academy City! Moreover, there is a spoon hidden in the stuffed doll, which is even more strange. There is definitely something wrong! ——Because she is not a disciplinary committee member or a security officer, Saten Ruiko does not know the specific details of the void explosion case, but with her recent future vision, coupled with the anomalies she discovered using electromagnetic vision, she is almost certain , the guy in front of me is the criminal in the "Void Explosion" case! "Saten-kun, what's wrong?" Uiharu, who was walking in front, noticed something strange about Ruizi and asked with some confusion.

"No, it's nothing!" Saten Ruiko came to her senses, and while distractedly paying attention to the suspect's movements through her wide-field electromagnetic induction ability, she and Uiharu continued to browse the store as if nothing had happened.

On the one hand, she doesn't have any evidence now. After all, there is no rule that says no one is allowed to go out with a bag full of aluminum products. Hiding aluminum products in dolls can also be said to be a personal hobby. Before the other party actually commits a crime, , no one can say there is anything wrong with him.

On the other hand, Ruiko couldn't explain to Uiharu and the others why she could detect this guy's anomaly. After all, she had future vision and electromagnetic induction abilities, but it had nothing to do with her Level 0 status.

Although Ruizi felt very guilty for hiding the fact that she had obtained another kind of extraordinary power from her good friend, but because this matter also involved her master, she had not thought about how to tell her. friends explained.

Anyway, after she enters the state of super speed, she can reach any place in this mall in an instant. Even if the suspect really commits a crime, she can arrive at the scene and stop him before the explosion occurs.

... A few minutes later, sure enough, there was a call from Shirai-san. Academy City's observation satellite detected signs of graviton acceleration. The location is right here, in Seventh Mist! And in Saten Ruiko's wide-area electromagnetic induction field of vision that never slackened, she also saw the boy's actions. It was indeed extremely despicable! ——You actually gave that bomb doll to a child and asked her to give it to the disciplinary committee? ! Saten Ruizi's face was as dark as water. While continuing to monitor the guy's position with electromagnetic power, he entered a state of divine speed.

In a world where time seemed to have stopped, the girl walked at a speed that seemed ordinary but was actually as fast as a real thunderbolt. She walked quietly to the disciplinary committee member with an innocent expression on her face. next to the little girl.

She carefully took the frog doll from the little girl's hands, held it tightly with both hands, and compressed it with her huge force comparable to a 10,000-ton hydraulic press. In the blink of an eye, the entire doll and the aluminum "bomb" inside were compressed into A small group, then walked to the open window, faced the sky outside the window, and threw the "bomb" in his hand upwards.

After letting go, this small ball was thrown upward at a seemingly ordinary but actually extremely fast speed.

I calculated the speed of throwing it out in my mind, and came to the conclusion that if this thing does not explode and is not burned clean by atmospheric friction, it will fly directly into the orbit of the earth and will no longer threaten people on the ground. Tears Zi then nodded with satisfaction and turned back to the starting position.

The next moment, time resumes its flow——')273'\u003eChapter 272: Poor and weak!

Bang——! A harsh blast of air sounded, and a hot orange-red trail appeared in the sky outside Seventh Mist. It extended from the second-floor window to an altitude of hundreds or thousands of meters. It lasted for several seconds. dissipate.

Then, and then nothing happens.

——The hypersonic throw of a humanoid rocket launcher girl directly caused the small lump of fiber, plastic, and aluminum to be burned up in the high-speed friction with the atmosphere.

The combustible organic fibers are directly burned into carbon dioxide and water, and the aluminum at the core is directly melted into a liquid metal jet at high temperatures, and eventually burns into countless aluminum oxide particles invisible to the naked eye in the atmosphere, which gradually disperse in the wind. .

Therefore, there is no way to actually activate the graviton acceleration that relies on aluminum materials when the material basis for its activation has been destroyed.

"Huh?" In the shopping mall, the little girl who was running with a frog doll stared blankly at her empty hands.

What about the frog? What about such a big frog? It just happened in the blink of an eye, why did it suddenly disappear? The young girl had a hard time understanding what was going on, but after living in Academy City for a while, she immediately came to her senses. This must be some kind of magical superpower! Which big brother or sister is joking with her or pulling a prank? The little girl who was just a primary school student looked around, hoping to find something, but in the end she found nothing. She could only turn her head with a frustrated expression, ready to find the big brother just now and tell him that the doll had been accidentally lost.

... "Damn it! What happened? Did someone with the ability intervene?" Outside the mall, a man with glasses wearing headphones was looking at the orange-red track that had dissipated in the sky with gritted teeth.

He was not an idiot, and he would not think that this trajectory was just fireworks released by a certain high-ranking ability user who was bored and used his abilities. In addition, the expected explosion did not arrive for a long time. He immediately knew that his plan failed! In fact, the crimson beam that shot straight into the sky just now was most likely the method used by the unknown powerful user to dispose of his bomb.

The man with glasses had a sullen face, lowered his head, and turned into the alley behind the mall.

Only when he got here did he take off his calm disguise, reveal a ferocious and angry expression, and punch the wall beside him.

"Damn ability users, damn disciplinary committee... You obviously didn't show up when I was bullied, why are you trying to hinder me now!" The man with glasses punched the wall twice more, and after a long time he finally calmed down a little. Feeling.

"Well, it doesn't matter if you fail once. Anyway, I have plenty of materials and time, and the target disciplinary committee members are everywhere... As long as I have this 'illusion...'" "What?" The voice suddenly came from behind me. The bespectacled man was startled. He turned his head stiffly and looked behind him. He found a little girl who looked weak and weak, and he was slightly relieved.

He usually scratched his hair and said with a hypocritical expression honed by long-term bullying: "No, it's nothing. Little sister, are you lost? Or do you want to ask me for help?" "Haha. ——" Saten Ruiko sighed helplessly, sighing in her heart, this guy is really an extremely standard villain villain, with such an unnatural expression on his face and such a stiff tone, he is a human being You all know there is a problem, right? "There's no need to pretend, and there's no need to make excuses. You are the culprit of the 'Void Explosion'! Everything you did in Seventh Mist just now, I saw clearly!" The girl said, "You must be the culprit." With an expression on his face, he pointed at the man with glasses and said firmly.

"You, what are you talking about, little sister! What a void explosion, big brother, I don't know anything about it..." Cold sweat broke out on the bespectacled man's forehead, but he still refused to admit it, and instead turned to one side. Stepping back, he reached into his bag and grabbed something.

"Ha! Do you still want to fight to the death?" Leizi closed her eyes and shook her head with a disappointed expression on her face.

"Die!" At this moment, the man with glasses, who thought he had caught the flaw, threw the thing in his hand, drew an arc in the air, and fell in the direction of the girl.

It was an empty can that is very common in the market. I don’t know if the man with glasses drank it himself or picked it up from somewhere else.

But that's not important. What's important is that just when the can was thrown towards Laizi, the man with glasses had already activated his ability.

The can, which was moving parabolically in mid-air, suddenly shrank and collapsed as if it had been squashed by someone. Space distortion visible to the naked eye emerged on it, and a sense of extreme danger emerged from the dark origin in the center.

The man with glasses who threw the bomb turned around and ran without looking back - not only because he was afraid that he would also be caught in the explosion, but also because he didn't have the courage to see another victim being injured or even killed.

In the final analysis, he was just a coward who didn't even dare to take revenge. He was bullied because of his low ability. After gaining stronger abilities, he didn't think about taking revenge on those who bullied him before. Instead, he was angry at the discipline committee members and high-level ability users who didn't help him in time in the past, and he would only carry out terrorist attacks like a rat.

He didn't have the courage to face the dripping blood like a warrior, even if the blood was from the victims he caused himself.

Bang - A muffled sound came from behind him that was different from the previous explosions, but the man with glasses no longer had the mind to think about anything, just ran with his head down.

However, an unexpected voice came from the direction he was running - "Tsk! Is it just this extent?" The man with glasses raised his head in astonishment and was horrified to find that the girl who should have been behind him and caught in the explosion was standing in front of him unharmed.

Did the can just be thrown crookedly? 　　No! 　　The man with glasses immediately threw this thought out of his mind, because he saw the girl's white and tender hands clapping against each other, shaking off some black ash on her palms.

The man with glasses turned his head and looked behind him, and found that there was no trace of the place where the explosion was expected to occur. When he turned his head and saw the girl's hands, he seemed to understand something.

- Could it be that this little girl caught his bomb with both hands, and also limited the full power of the explosion to the palms of both hands? ! ! 　　"Strange... Monster!" The man with glasses, who had lost all his courage, trembled with his legs and even forgot to run away. He could only watch the girl, who seemed cute but was actually extremely scary, approach step by step, and then put one hand on his forehead.

The next moment, a sharp tingling and numbness swept through his whole body.

"Tsk, poor!" This was the last sentence the man with glasses heard before he lost consciousness.

')274'\u003eChapter 273 Experiment... The role of disciples

"This world is really strange!" On the busy streets, a figure invisible to mortals walked like a ghost.

Although he seemed to be walking on an ordinary road, what he saw in his eyes was an abnormal world completely different from what ordinary people saw.

Layers of space covered the surface of the world, like layers of translucent curtains, making the world that should have been clearly presented in his eyes look completely different.

He could see pedestrians walking on the street, but in the blink of an eye he could see demonic beings, piercing through the bodies of pedestrians like phantoms, but it seemed that they did not affect the things they penetrated.

He could see the tall modern buildings in the city, towering above the earth like a steel forest, but in the next moment, the scene in his eyes turned into a hell like an abyss of fire. On the inverted iron branches, countless ghost-like figures were pierced. The number was extremely large, layer upon layer, and from a distance it looked like a black ant colony, which was terrifying.

When he walked past a church, he could also see the holy mountain full of holy light through the cross standing on the top of the church. Countless so-called "angels" who could not see human form and were completely different from the descriptions in the Bible were praying to a rainbow on the top of the stepped holy mountain. The hymns and holy light were always there.

"So-called phase, it turns out to be like this!"　　Retracting the infinitely extended soul tentacles, lowering his perspective from the height of seeing the infinite world at a glance back to the level of mortals, the infinitely changing strange world in his vision finally faded, and he "returned" to the ordinary material world again.

However, this world is already like this, so it can't be said to be ordinary... Fang Yuan thought so, and he recovered from the ghostly spirit state to the physical body, and suddenly appeared in the crowd, but under the influence of some invisible force, no one felt unusual about the figure that appeared out of thin air.

He didn't know which of the scenes he just saw were real, and which were illusions that had been distorted by many forces, but he did understand a little now, what kind of relationship the so-called "heaven", "hell", "god world" and other different worlds have with the real material world.

"Overlapping with reality but irrelevant" world, this is the essence of the so-called phase.

Some are similar to parallel worlds, but they are essentially different. Fang Yuan is very interested in the special structure of this world and the truth and law behind this special structure.

... It has been several months since Fang Yuan was thrown into this world by the main body. In addition to accepting a real disciple in the form of a "portable grandfather" in the Academy City, he also roughly figured out the real situation of this world.

Similar to the situation described in the anime novels of the main world, the main forces of this world, apart from the superficial national power, are the magic side represented by the Crusades which are divided into multiple sects, and the science side led by the Academy City, which are basically the real two poles of this world.

Of course, this is without taking into account those unspecified demons.

Even Fang Yuan now would avoid the existence of a bug that can reset the world with a single thought.

After all, he knew from the original light novel that each of the demons "sealed" in other phases had explored the entire universe countless times, and every one of them had been driven to mental abnormality by boredom.

If they knew that there was a visitor from a different world from all the phases of this world, who knows what they would do to Fang Yuan! 　　Although Fang Yuan still had a trump card to summon the boss, he was not sure whether he would have a chance to complete the summoning ritual in the face of the super bug that could tamper with the entire universe with a single thought.

Fortunately, Fang Yuan was still safe and sound until now, not knowing whether the demons had not discovered him, or whether they had discovered him but were hesitant about something.