A certain scientific Saten Ruiko

After teaching Kuroko who wanted to attack her, Misaka Mikoto returned to her room angrily. The four of them lived on the same floor, and they were all next to each other. The room layout of the four of them was that Saten Ruiko lived in Misaka Between Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko, and Uiharu is next door to Misaka Mikoto.

It was because of this that Saten Ruiko could hear the noise just now.

After Misaka Mikoto returned to the room and closed the door, she lay directly on the soft big bed, thinking about the battle between the fighter jets and the flying fish this morning.

As she expected, the morning incident was handled as a "show" by Gakui City, which made her even more convinced of her suspicions. If Saten and she weren't present today, the battle between Feiyu and the fighter planes would have definitely gone wrong. There will be casualties, but now that the result is here, she still feels that Academy City will still use the ingenious method of "show performance" to turn this incident into a visible but non-existent situation, thus suppressing the truth of this incident.

Although she didn't know how many times this kind of thing had happened before, she felt that she had to take some action, at least to understand what the city was doing.

But... this is not Academy City. If she randomly investigates matters related to facility secrets, even if she is assassinated by the other party on the grounds of protecting intelligence, there will be nothing to say. And the most important thing here is that, here It was a place where anyone could suddenly pull out a gun, which meant she had to think of a rigorous strategy before getting involved in the investigation.

Suddenly an idea flashed in her mind and she jumped up from the bed.

Go to the corner of the room. There is an ATM-like machine there. Since Gakusei City is a place with a theme of sea and water, it is not convenient to carry banknotes. Therefore, an IC card will be issued when entering here, and they can use this to use the money. The machine recharges money into the IC card, which means that guests staying here only need a card and tip money to travel around the facility as they please.

She rubbed her thumb on the chip of the IC card, and then put it into the reader for recharging.

"Drip~"

In just an instant, the screen changed from a panel used by guests to a dedicated interface for maintenance staff. Yes, this was her hacking ability. She used this ability to easily invade the other party's system.

However, the next moment she showed an incredible expression. It was not because of how tight the system's protective wall was. On the contrary, in front of her, the system firewall in a city like this was like, for example... like... In the new energy era, we see things like the steam era.

Invading the other party's system so easily made her have some doubts. Was it a trap of the other party?

"Although Academy City's science and technology are 20 to 30 years more advanced than outside, isn't this too simple? To use such ancient code to write the system..."

However, she seems to have forgotten who she is. She is the third and strongest electrical superpower in the entire Academy City. In terms of hacking technology, only one person in the entire Academy City can defeat it. Maybe she had hacked into Academy City's intranet and was used to the strict advanced firewall. Suddenly facing the outside world, she was like a doctoral student who found out during the exam that the test paper she took was for the first grade of elementary school. I feel the same as the test paper.

No matter what, for her, the security system of Xueyi City is useless in front of her. She can easily obtain information, and the information obtained does not have any false parts.

"That is indeed actual combat!"

Intelligence showed that the fighter jets like the one this morning were indeed F-35s, but the paint on them was different, and there were as many as fifty sorties. And it's not just these, there are also ground weapons such as tanks and armored vehicles.

"PAC3...isn't this a surface-to-air missile used to intercept nuclear missiles?!!"

This is what shocked Misaka Mikoto the most. What kind of crisis was it to prevent such a large budget?

And that's not all. As she continued to investigate, she finally discovered that the combat power gathered in such a small academic city far exceeded the combat power of the M Army base in Japan.

However, this does not have the unique sense of oppression of a regular army. Instead, it feels like encountering some powerful enemy, desperately gathering combat power and being forced into a desperate situation to fight to the death.

With such a strong preparation, the enemies to be dealt with may not be as simple as spies or terrorists.

So the enemy is the organization to which Morning Flying Fish belongs?

But even though she had a glimpse of the whole system, she couldn't find any news about Feiyu.

"Sure enough...it is impossible to put truly confidential things on a network that may be hacked."

Real secrets will only exist in a separate body that is not connected to the Internet, or in the brain of an insider. However, she prefers the former to the latter, because people sometimes forget, but those who are alone do not. A compromised computer won't.

The information she has now may not be core, but more likely just some insignificant scraps. There is no useful information found on the Internet, so she simply exits from the system carefully without leaving any browsing traces. Come out and switch the mode of the IC card recharge machine back to the guest interface.

Putting the IC card away, Misaka Mikoto looked out the window. The location of the computer that existed but could not be hacked was already confirmed.

"Then... let's start from here and dive in physically."

.......

"Oh~~ I knew Misaka Mikoto wouldn't be so honest..."

Saten Ruiko, who had been paying attention to Misaka Mikoto's actions with the ability to read words, sighed helplessly. Looking at the figure of the girl who fell along the wall on the beach, Saten Ruiko didn't just do that. Regardless of the other party, he opened the window and followed him, hanging behind him not far or near.

Although it is already late at night, the city of science and art is still brightly lit, with various lighting fixtures emitting colorful light. Even the water surfaces of the sea and canals are painted with lights depicting the art of light.

However, beneath this light, there are still dark corners.

Following Misaka Mikoto to a place far away from the hotel, what appeared in front of Saten Ruiko was a huge building.

If you look at it with your eyes, you can roughly estimate that this is a facility that covers an area of ​​about three square kilometers and is composed of countless rectangles of different sizes, with a large robot model standing in the middle.

But this model didn't make her care. What she really cared about was a solid fortress-like facility built of steel and concrete next to it.

Judging from the situation, Misaka Mikoto probably wanted to go in here to check something. Now that it happened, she no longer needed to hide. She quickly appeared behind the sneaky Misaka Mikoto, reached out and patted her on the shoulder. Hide to one side before it reacts violently.

Sure enough, Misaka Mikoto, who was on high alert, was suddenly slapped by him. Her body stiffened and a bolt of lightning struck where she had just been standing.

"Misaka, it's me."

"Saten?! Why are you here?"

Misaka Mikoto opened her eyes wide in surprise, not expecting that the other party would appear in this place.

"I should ask you, why are you acting alone again?"

Saten Ruiko did not answer the other party's question, but complained to the other party with some blame, and then came to the door of the facility, which read Large Launcher (Rocket Launch Site!) in English.

The official explanation here is that it was built for the filming of science fiction movies. It is also mentioned in the manual, and this rocket launcher also has many "famous scenes" in the movie, so tourists are not allowed to enter here. , but it can be viewed from outside, and it is also one of the famous attractions in the art city.

Misaka Mikoto, who was complained by Saten Ruiko, laughed sheepishly, "With your indifferent behavior during the day, I thought you didn't want to care about things here... so I just... ..”

"Although I don't want to interfere with things here, you are Misaka Mikoto and my friend. I can't ignore you, right?" Saten Ruiko rolled her eyes at the other party angrily, and then ignored Misaka Mikoto, who was blushing inexplicably, and pointed Pointing to the electronic lock in front of him, "Is this the secret to be investigated? I'll follow you, and you'll be responsible for bypassing the security system. I'll keep an eye out for you."

"Oh, okay...ok..."

Misaka Mikoto scratched her head in embarrassment, and then stepped forward. After releasing a burst of electricity from her palm to the electronic lock, the door of the fortress in front of her was easily opened.