Academy City's Puppet Master

Hitomi Shiranui saw that it was a transnational package, the address on it was exactly the "dormitory building" of this flower group, but Ling Xingye's name was filled in the addressee item.

"What is this?" Hitomi Shiranui asked.

"Just look at it." Commander Hua also looked at it curiously.

Shiranui Hitomi didn't refuse, and directly opened the package, only to find that inside was a puppet curled up into a ball.

"Puppet?" Hitomi Shiranui wondered, "For Xingye? Did he order it abroad?"

"This is no ordinary puppet." Commander Hua observed it carefully and said solemnly.

"Is there anything special about it?"

Commander Hua didn't speak, but pointed to the back of the puppet's neck.

Above is the signature of the manufacturer, just like a trademark.

The maker's name is - doll maker.

===Chapter 606 The Gift of the Dollmaker===

"Puppeteer? Is this a person's name?" Hitomi Shiranui asked strangely. It looked like a handwritten signature, but the content was more like a trademark.

Commander Hua frowned, "It's not a human being, but an automatic puppet—no, strictly speaking, it should be the name of a Yanshi."

"It's strange," said Shiranuo Tong, "Yanshi has the meaning of a puppet maker, but he even named it a puppet master?"

"It's really strange," Commander Hua held Shiranui Hitomi to prevent her from getting close to the puppet in the box, "The doll master was once one of the most famous Yanshi, but he disappeared a century ago, and we never heard of it again. I told her whereabouts. How did she know Ling Xingye? And she gave him this puppet?"

While speaking, Commander Hua waved his hands, manipulating his metal petals to surround the puppets, as if facing an enemy.

"Be careful, you back away first." She pulled Hitomi Shiranui behind her, called Hua 72 and the others, and transferred the puppet to the underground laboratory with full armor.

After more than half an hour of comprehensive inspection, Commander Hua let go of the puppet with doubts.

"How is it? Is there any question?" Seeing her serious expression, Hitomi Shiranui asked hastily.

But Commander Hua shook his head: "No, there is no problem at all. It's just an ordinary puppet...impossible. According to legend, the puppet master is a master who can make Yanshi-level puppets. How could he send one that looks like a toy? Ordinary puppet?"

Shiranui Hitomi didn't care about these things: "Then shall I take it back?"

"Of course..." Commander Hua was about to nod in agreement, but suddenly changed the topic, "No! Ah, what I mean is, before Ling Xingye comes back, it's best to keep this guy with us, and I will send him 24 hours a day. Human surveillance—after all, it is the work of a puppeteer, so don't be careless!"

I don't know that Huotong's thoughts at this time are all looking for Ling Xingye, and he doesn't care about Commander Hua's abrupt attitude change, nor does he care about this puppet sent from outside.

"In this case, please Miss Hua continue to help me keep an eye on Xingye and Kihara Chime's news." Shiranui Hitomi didn't stay any longer, said goodbye and left.

After letting Hua 72 see off the guests, Commander Hua stayed alone in the laboratory, looking at the puppet.

"As far as I know, the news of the death of the puppeteer just came two days ago, right? Calculating the time, this puppet was probably sent here after that... What's the purpose?"

No one answered in the empty lab.

After a moment of silence, Commander Hua continued, "You can come out now, there is no one else here."

Then, I saw a silk thread hanging from the ceiling, and a mechanical spider the size of a washbasin was hanging down along the thread.

"You really didn't tell her?" Commander Hua was not surprised by the spider's appearance.

"Do you mean?"

"Information about Ling Xingye and that Muyuan." Commander Hua pointed her mechanical prosthetic eye at the spider in front of him, "You should have this information, right?"

"That child is an outsider," said the spider. "It's best not to get involved in the matter of our silver."

Commander Hua sneered and said, "In your opinion, I'm the real outsider, right? You never trusted me, did you?"

Commander Hua is a clone created by Yanshi Crow. It was originally a tool to replace Hua 21, and was once a deadly enemy with the real silver puppet master.

"You're being serious." Spider said, but he didn't hide his doubts. "Of course, if there are only other members of the flower group in this resident, it may be more credible."

The pupil of Commander Hua's prosthetic eye suddenly narrowed, flashing a dangerous red light: "So compared to me, you trust Lu Cun's [-]-year-old boy more?"

Her tone was full of sarcasm: "Don't tell me you don't know his secret plan! The people at the headquarters may not know, but since they are all in Academy City, even I know something about that guy's connection with there!"

The spider was silent for a while, and then said: "You don't have to worry about it, I am free."

"Hehe." Commander Hua sneered twice, and shot suddenly.

The metal petals rose suddenly, rushing in like a tide.

Cut off the spider's silk thread, and then turn it into a chain, binding the spider like a hairy crab.

"What are you doing!" The spider was shocked and angry.

Commander Hua didn't speak, and directly shot a cutting laser from the fingertips of the mechanical prosthesis, cutting through the spider's outer armor.

With a light flick of the fingertips, the armor was lifted, and the spider suddenly stopped struggling.

"Sure enough..." Commander Hua sneered, "How do you explain this?"

I saw the familiar signature engraved on the torso of the spider - the doll maker!

With the heartbeat, the metal petals gathered and turned into a sharp sword, aiming at the spider's body.

"Wait!" Spider shouted quickly, "I am Baiyin! I am absolutely loyal to Baiyin!"

"Such words are the most meaningless." Commander Hua sneered again and again.

"No, I swear by the Iron Law of Baiyin, I will protect Ling Xingye with all my strength - this is Baiyin Yao's order."

"Then why hide information from Hitomi Shiranui?"

"Because she is Ling Xingye's most important person! So I have to protect her too!" Spider explained, "If I tell her where Mu Yuan is, what do you think she will do?"

"Looking for someone?"

"She will die! Kihara... That guy is a monster. I have never seen such a terrifying and weird existence. Although the Muhara clan itself is beyond common sense, that guy will go one step further—I even doubt that he Is it human!"

"So, this is how you protect Ling Xingye?" Commander Hua sarcastically said, "Prevent others from saving him?"

"So I told Lu Cun the information." Spider said, "He will definitely go to take Ling Xingye back, but he will definitely not succeed. He will find out the situation for us - at present we lack information about the enemy."

"Okay." Commander Hua was persuaded, she dispelled the long sword in the air, but did not untie the chain on the spider, "The last question—"

She suddenly thought of something, and quickly asked, "Why did you stop me from handing over this puppet to Hitomi Shiranui just now? Is there any problem with it?"

"It was made by a dollmaker—that's enough," said the Spider.

After thinking for a while, he added: "You may not know that the puppet made by the puppeteer...has the potential to become Yanshi."

In essence, Yanshi is a high-level life form detached from automatic puppets.Unlike imagination, Yanshi cannot be copied and cannot be backed up.

Because Yanshi's "soul" is completely fused in the suspected liquid in the body, once the body is destroyed and the suspected liquid dissipates, it means Yanshi's death.

Dungeons, doppelgängers and the like are impossible for Yanshi.

"There are only two exceptions," Spider explained, "One, the Yanshi born through the 'death parade', because its essence is the life fusion of thousands of automatic puppets, there is a 'core' - that is The elected automatic puppet, its suspected liquid will condense into a specific form. At that time, as long as the core is transferred, the backup regeneration can be realized. Of course, the side effect is a drop in rank, and it is difficult to restore the Yanshi seat again. "

"Second," the spider said solemnly, "it is the body made by the puppeteer, who is 'attracted' by the puppeteer to become an automatic puppet, and finally evolves into Yanshi—as long as you have a body that is also made by the puppeteer, you can be free. Convert and backup with almost no side effects!"

"That is to say," the spider concluded, "in the eyes of some Yanshi, this puppet is their spare body! It's better to keep this troublesome thing with you."

"The Puppeteer of Academy City"

===Chapter [-] Extra Individual===

Late at night, at the door of the hotel suite.

Misaka Mikoto tidied up her clothes, then straightened the brim of Misaka 10001's hat beside her, took a step back, looked up and down, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Okay, let's go."

At this moment, the Misaka sisters were not wearing Tokiwadai Middle School uniforms as usual, but changed into ordinary casual clothes.

He wore a dark sweater and trousers, and put on sneakers for easy movement on his feet, and tied up his short hair and hid it under a peaked cap.

Misaka 10001 was very curious about this novel outfit, and wanted to run to the mirror to take a closer look.

"Don't look, our outfits are the same, just look at me." Misaka Mikoto said.

These are the clothes that Misaka Mikoto bought during her summer vacation, the "combat uniform" specially prepared for "covert operations".Considering the issue of battle wear and tear, several sets of the same style have been prepared, and this time it happens to be replaced with Misaka 10001.

That's right, after nearly two months, Misaka Mikoto started to act at night again.And the thing to do is the same as before - search for a specific research institution.

It's just that this time she has an extra younger sister to act together.

During the summer vacation, Misaka Mikoto wanted to destroy the relevant research institutions in order to stop the "Absolutely Capable Person Evolution Project".

Although the expected effect was not achieved in the end, considerable experience has been accumulated.Now that she is doing the same thing again, she feels a little embarrassed.

"Well, as long as you can find Xingye, your efforts at the beginning are not in vain." Misaka Mikoto said to herself.

"Misaka thinks it would be better to inform Senior Shiranui?" Misaka 10001 said.

"No, don't tell her until you're sure." Misaka Mikoto shook her head, "If you make a mistake this time, it's better not to tell her from the beginning than to make her happy in the end."

Misaka 10001 nodded in understanding.

Just as Shirai Kuroko complained, since Ling Xingye disappeared automatically, Misaka Mikoto has once again started the behavior of not returning home at night.

Of course, this time her purpose was not to hide the truth from Shirai Heizi.

In this regard, Baijing Heizi felt relieved, but at the same time, his resentment towards Ling Xingye was even deeper.

A moment later, the two girls jumped off the roof of the hotel and manipulated the magnetic force to swing to another nearby building.

"Is that how my sis saved us back then?" Misaka 10001 sighed, "It really is something only sis can do."

Misaka 10001 carefully manipulated the electromagnetic force. With her level 4 strength, she could barely do similar things, far less relaxed and natural than Misaka Mikoto.

Usually, if you want to play this trick of electromagnetic fall, you have to spend at least a few seconds to prepare for the simulation calculation. In recent days, thanks to the help of Misaka Mikoto, Misaka 10001 was able to jump down without any scruples.

As for the other sisters, it was even worse.

"Save you?" Misaka Mikoto smiled bitterly. "In the end, it was just a waste of time? In the end, it all depends on the starry night."

"Well, the master is indeed very powerful!" Misaka 10001 said immediately.

Misaka Mikoto gave her a speechless look.