About my brother and I are both gravity making this thing

073 Alone in a Foreign Land as a Stranger

——I don’t miss my relatives very much during the festive season

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Although I don't quite understand where Edogawa Ranpo's confidence in me comes from, our goals are the same anyway.He has taken the initiative to give information and show the help he can provide, so in exchange, it is reasonable for me to sneak into the interior for exploration.

"So what's the time to infiltrate?" Since he found me, at least it means that there is a corresponding part of the plan, right?

I stared at Edogawa Ranpo's face, he looked like a boy, and I couldn't tell that Kuai was a person who was not confused at all.

"Ah, this. It's better to hit the sun than to choose a day, how about eleven o'clock tonight?" His tone was serious, not like he was joking, but I felt a little bit of suffocation—God, why is it better to hit the sun than choose a day!

Seeing my eyes widen in dissatisfaction, Edogawa Ranpo was not in a hurry to explain.He slowly took out his phone from his pocket, pulled out a picture and yelled at me, "Bryn Jesso has another party tonight, so it's more convenient to do things while he's away. Although you are very powerful, but Don’t be afraid of [-], just in case, it’s better to reduce the risk when doing things.”

On that picture is a guest list.

Bailan Jesso's name, which is all composed of katakana, is particularly eye-catching among a bunch of Chinese characters, and the name of the organizer is the taboo of the organizer-Seijuro Akashi.

I choked up for a moment, suddenly not knowing what to say.

But it's true to think about it. After all, ten years is too long, and it is enough for Akashi Seijuro, who is a sophomore in high school, to graduate from a graduate school (that is, a graduate student).Not to mention that he is still a Yu Caosi, giving up basketball and going home to inherit hundreds of millions of assets is a future that has been established since birth.

It was eleven o'clock in the evening, which meant that I had to get Chuya's permission to go out.

I hesitated, "What if my house has access control?"

"Don't worry about this, the cute hat-kun will not go home tonight." Edogawa Ranpo laughed, he seemed to have colluded with Mr. Mori, "He will not know you until you have finished sneaking in and arrived home safely. Where did you go. But..."

He touched his chin again as he spoke, "If conditions permit, you'd better not play Wushuang, okay? Let's try to keep a low profile if we can keep a low profile. Wuzhen and Gang Hei don't want to conflict with Bailan yet."

"Why?" I started pulling at the flower vines that were hanging on the patio fence.

"Because the mess they made in Italy must be cleaned up by the Italians themselves." He glanced at me like an idiot, and then muttered, "The Japanese branch of Vengley still hasn't got any No movement, probably what they were waiting for hasn’t arrived yet.”

"What are you waiting for? The Star Destroyer is assembled?"

Earlier, Ms. Hongye mentioned to me about Vengley, an old-fashioned mafia that pays attention to the purity of blood. The leaders of all generations are related to the first-generation leader of the family that was originally founded, and it has been followed to the tenth-generation leader.

Edogawa Ranpo stretched out his hand and patted me on the head very familiarly, "Stop scolding, if they have weapons of that specification—oh no, if they can have an alien of the same level as you and Chuya Nakahara Can a person with abilities still be suppressed and beaten by Bailan Jesso?"

I scratched my forehead and thought he was right, so I didn't refute and continued to listen to him quietly.

"It is said that Bailan Jesso's dream is to become the overlord of the world - he mentioned it when he first came to Japan and appeared on a TV talk show as a young and handsome diamond king. Anyone who watched that program would probably think that he Are you kidding? But I don’t think so. I think he is serious, very serious... But how can there be such a middle school person? He is 24 years old. My country is in the second grade When he was young, he had already seen through the irredeemable nature of this society and felt desperate for the people in this world, yet he still wanted to rule them in delusion."

Edogawa Ranpo shook his head while complaining, and then concluded, "Young people nowadays are too stupid."

People who squat on the terrace of other people's banquets, eat cakes prepared by others, and call others stupid are not much better.I silently looked around again.

Edogawa waved his hands in disorder to let me focus on him, "I haven't finished talking to you yet, what are you looking at?"

"See if there is a listening device or something." Besides, there are so many people in this place that it's easy to have ears through the walls.It would be bad if Edogawa Ranpo's violent words and plans were heard away.

"That. You don't need to worry about it - it's better to say that you are really slow to remember now? Zhongyuan Zhong also protects you too well."

I kind of want to contradict him.My confidence does not come from Zhongye, and I have not been protected by my brother to the point of being ignorant of worldly affairs.It's just that risk aversion has always been a dispensable thing for me.

I will do it on a whim, and if I don't have that mood, even if someone is eavesdropping, I can drag him out and break the whole spine.

And isn't he a detective?A detective should always check whether the environment is suitable before talking to someone, right?You can't let me, the message recipient who was dragged over, confirm this kind of thing, right?

I murmured in my heart to throw the pot away, to separate the relationship.

At this time, Edogawa stretched out a hand, crossed my shoulder, pressed it on the back of my collar, and gave a reminder from his mouth at the same time.

Suddenly, a cold little thing with a metallic texture pressed against the back of my neck through the fabric.Edogawa Ranpo took out a small button-shaped object of about the same size from his pocket.

The "button" was put on the thumbnail and bounced into the air, and then he caught it, "It was a small device that was developed ten years ago-but it was officially put into military use in the past two years. Here it comes. Sound is transmitted by vibration. This little thing can create small-scale air vibrations to change the sound frequency, and it also comes with signal shielding. You can become a detective by being thorough in everything. Your aptitude is too poor, and you have to work hard. All right, little girl."

He put this little thing on me when he grabbed my collar just now!

"..." I never thought of becoming a famous detective, and now I don't want to talk to Edogawa Ranpo at all.And speaking of which, why on earth did I know this person?

As if seeing my doubts, the 36-year-old baby face suddenly became serious, "I have invested four-fifths of my property in your fund, and you must make money for me!"

Hey, sure enough, once interests are involved, even strangers will become half-brothers.I remembered that Zhong also said that my fund can make a lot of money, "I know, but you should save this and tell me ten years later."

"No, no, I just want to instill in you the awareness of 'serving me' while you are still young!" Edogawa said solemnly.

Want to hit someone.I clenched my fists and suppressed the original impulse in my heart to break the law, "Let's get back to business."

"Okay... hey, where did you say it?"

I sighed, "...Bryn Jesso is an idiot."

"Oh yes." He nodded, "Actually, there is nothing else to add. It's just that I saw you distracted just now, and I think it's not good for the little girl to have this habit of not listening to the famous detective seriously."

Just when I was about to punch Edogawa Ranpo to death, he seemed to suddenly remember, "Ah, speaking of which, do you know the name of Vongola Judai?"

"I don't know." Putting down my fist, I frankly answered him with my ignorance.

"Vongola's Judaime is a native Japanese named Tsunayoshi Sawada. He was once bullied by a sophomore in Hyoidi High when he was in junior high school. At that time, there was a girl who drew a knife to help when she saw injustice, and that girl—"

"That girl is me." I consciously picked up his intentionally prolonged ending, appearing like an Odyssey hero.

"Bingo!" Edogawa snapped his fingers.

"Damn! So I was sent ten years later without even eating lunch. Is it a conspiracy by Tsunayoshi Sawada!" I hammered the railing.I didn't try hard, I was afraid of pain.

"That's not so... that Judaime is quite innocent, and his character is also remarkable. He always remembers that you are kind to him."

"No, how do you know that he remembers my kindness to him?"

"Because you will receive a bouquet from Italy every year after you turn 16." He answered truthfully.

"But why are you so clear about this kind of personal desire?"

"After all, I'm a detective." His natural tone made me give up the idea of ​​continuing to investigate.

"Okay, you're right..."

Is the famous detective already a universal rhetoric these days?

I climbed to the ultra-clean table where one person worked and lay down. With my hands and feet curled up, the windshields at both ends of the table could better touch the top of my head and the soles of my shoes, like a coffin with an uncomfortable mouth.

In the research institute after get off work, except for the gate guards I bypassed, there are no living people anymore. This is very different from the imaginary number research institute where I stayed for ten years.

The Institute of Imaginary Numbers is an unconventional research institute, and it does not have a dedicated main direction like most research institutes in Academy City.The Institute of Imaginary Numbers is responsible for a variety of projects, so it is also divided into several areas.

The mission of Academy City has always been to discover the potential abilities of every child and turn them into superhumans.These abilities will be applied in various fields according to the individual wishes of the capable person. While the capable person who participates in the experiment gets paid, the benefits they create can also promote the cooperation between the research institute and companies related to the research and development of cutting-edge technology products.

Once the research institute creates benefits, and because students with superpowers cannot freely enter and leave Academy City, the "Council" of Academy City not only receives land from the research institute rooted in Academy City every year, The "rent" for renting facilities can also be drawn from the cooperation between research institutes and corporate companies.

These rents maintain and promote the operation of the entire city.So this is why Level 5's ranking puts more emphasis on the research value of abilities—that is, the benefits that can be created—rather than destructive power.

As for why I say that imaginary number research is special, it is because my test-tube baby, who was born to become a Level 5 existence, does not conform to the spirit of humanitarianism from an ethical perspective.Once my peculiarity is discovered, Imaginary Number Research will definitely bear a bad name, but even so, they still created me.And I'm not unique, because there are as many children as I have in a kindergarten.

After I was taken out of the nursery school - just developed the basic ability, the level of knowledge is also in the high school stage, and it is only a Level 2 - and sent to the gravity laboratory, I really started to touch "how to become a 'gravity operation'" System education.

It is worth mentioning that before I spent two years becoming a Level 4 and a little touched the threshold of becoming a Level 5, I had no name all the time - if "little guy" can also be counted as a name, then When I didn't say okay.

On the day when the judgment result was announced, my main person in charge and the research team leader of the laboratory happily hugged me around several times. He put me on his lap and announced to the excited and noisy colleagues next to me: From today onwards, Call her Green, Morino Green!

I don't quite remember what the person in charge's face looked like.

I don't know if it's because he always tells me that it's better to spend more time digesting these equations than staring at my face. Anyway, my impression of him and them is quite vague, even though they always say They are in love with me.

That kind of comfort and praise cannot be said to be perfunctory, because they are indeed caring for me with their hearts.To be precise, it should be a concession and compromise made for the sake of a more robust growth of organisms.

But even so, I still care about what kind of image "green" looks to these people.

I've been thinking about this question for over a week.

Green is the color of a reassuring signal light.

Green is a hint that everything is working properly.

Green is the most encouraging symbol when the computer is running the correct data.

Green can also be gray and black mold growing on the rim of the dish.

But there is no doubt that I was born in the midst of great expectations, and then I stood out from the selection process of thousands of embryos, and after continuous training, I became the best group among millions of people.

At that time, there were two other people who participated in the Level 5 assessment with me.

One is a girl named Misaka Mikoto, and the other is a boy named Accelerator.

Yifang Accelerator's name doesn't look like a name at all, even Sen Yelu becomes cute and nice in front of Yifang Accelerator's name.As for Misaka Mikoto, she is much more normal, even too normal, more like a personal name than Morino Midori.

In that assessment, I was lucky enough to meet them in different venues, but unfortunately I couldn’t say hello to them. People's faces are covered in a layer of fog in my heart, after all, I grew up in an almost closed educational environment.And the troubles caused by the follow-up impact to Zhongye are also reflected in my low EQ, almost zero empathy, almost no compassion, as if KY has become a master, etc. Although it makes him feel very headache, so far I personally didn't have a particularly big impact.

Therefore, I don't have too much love or hate for Academy City.

"I said you, how long are you going to stay in the same place?" The sudden voice from the headset made me withdraw from my memories instantly.Lying on the ultra-clean table and counting my childhood that was not considered a childhood, I finally sat up and decided to continue to explore the interior of the research institute invested and built by the Mirufiore family.

"Are you supervisors? Who cares how long I stay?" I gritted my back molars twice.

"Is it tiring to help you hack into the system here? Would you like to hear the screams of our poor hacker? He has been crying for 10 minutes, why is this defense system updating the algorithm all the time?" !"

"......"All right.I took a deep breath, a little angry at myself for not being a user of the electromagnetic system.If I were a Level 5 of the electromagnetic system, how could they use this kind of excuse to push me back and forth.

Edogawa Ranpo really heard crying, and at the same time he was very inhumanely urging the man named Yamada Hanabou not to be lazy.

Except for the occasional passing through a few transparent glass rooms where you can see the constantly flashing lights on the operating table inside, every corridor is immersed in deep darkness.Fortunately, I brought a night vision device just in case, otherwise who knows what terrible traps or switches will be encountered along the way in the dark.

In fact, I have been thinking that if, as Edogawa Ranpo said, the space-time distortion caused by the mutual interference of supernatural powers "pulls" people from another world into this world, then there is no basis to guarantee that the person who comes is Academy City "Compatriots"?

Even if we assume that this stranger is indeed from the same world as me, how could "he" be trapped here?

Could it be a person with abilities below Level 4?But after so many years, has the rating standard changed?And speaking of it, is the time flow of this world the same as the world where Academy City is located?

What if, what if I somehow return to Academy City one day, if everyone gets old or nothing changes, and I am the only one who has undergone earth-shaking changes, what should I do?

Questions that I had never thought about before took advantage of the darkness to swarm into my mind.

Just as they piled up so much that I started to get a headache, there was a "Bang--!" from the glass of a glass room on the right.

I jumped up suddenly, and at the same time I was startled by the sound of my gasping for air, and Edogawa Ranpo on the other end of the headset.

"What happened to you? Don't tell me you really want to play Assassin Warriors?"

"Where is Assassin Wushuang? Where is Assassin Wushuang! This is clearly a biohazard!!! Are there really no illegal drugs being researched here?!" I hurriedly took off the night vision device, as if an ostrich would bury its head in the ground when it was killed. demeanor.It's as if terrible things don't exist if they can't see them.

To be honest, ever since I knew that there are not only gods but also goblins in this world, my understanding of the world has been in a precarious state.

From zero to ten years old, it is precisely because I firmly believe that there are no ghosts that I am not afraid of walking at night or listening to urban legends that do not conform to scientific common sense.

But such a firm belief was completely destroyed after I came to this world. I have repeated this thing a hundred times, and I really don’t want to say it again.

— After all, if ghosts really exist, gravity is useless to them! ! !

Even if I can spit out all the viscera of a person from the throat, it will be useless to the supernatural phenomenon of ghosts whose composition is unknown! ! !

Although I was talking fast, I still had the courage to raise my head and look in the direction of the sound.

The less heavy impact was the sound of fists hitting the glass.And a blocked, slightly dull "Hello!"

"Hey! They're studying language-capable creatures other than humans!" I took another step back.

"Senye Lu, can you curse again?!" The creature on the other side of the glass punched the wall again.

Who scolded you! ——I originally wanted to refute him like this.

Suddenly a scary voice came from the darkness and blocked my way. No matter how I think about it, it must be the other party's fault!

But what did this man call me just now?

Forest green?

Really fellow countryman?Even through the night vision device, he still couldn't see his appearance clearly. The figure of the guy whose visibility was too low was vaguely visible behind the glass, and he could only be seen as very slender.

Like a girl.

Whoa...but am I that famous?Can you name it casually?

Do I have acquaintances of the same age in Academy City? ——The answer is not at all!

But I am a celebrity.After all, I'm one of the few Level 5's, um... But if you can recognize me at a glance, shouldn't it be some kind of pervert?Although it is not impossible, the group of people in the laboratory should really sell all my files and materials for money!

And how did you see me from such a dark place?

I obediently asked this question.

Edogawa's fluttering laughter came from the headset.

The man on the other side of the glass asked in a natural tone: "Do you need a lamp when your head is so bright? This level of floodlight is enough to see your face clearly."

"..."

I'm so angry, even if it's not the first time someone teased me that my head is bright like a tungsten lamp, I have to leave!

Just die here and be a guinea pig for the rest of your life, ha ha!Anyway, he is also a weak person with no ability to survive!Otherwise, why can't even break the glass!

"Hey Morino, since you are here, at least you know where this is?"

"Don't be so loud! Do I know you very well!"

"Huh? Your hippocampus has shrunk? Can't even remember human faces?"

Wow, what's with this self-centered young lady's tone of thinking that the whole world should revolve around her?Are you from some noble Tokiwadai private girls' high school?

The sound blocked by the glass room has become very dull to my ears, like a special sound effect that has been lowered by eight tones through special processing.

After all, who is this guy?Before I came to this world, I never saw my peers outside the nursery school, and even the concept of "friend" was only seen in books related to sociology.

I have no acquaintances and no friends in Academy City.It's true that I want to see my fellow countrymen, but I don't want to have a relationship with someone who doesn't know why.

"How is it? It's someone from the same place as you, right?" Edogawa Ranpo asked, "Did you get along well?"

"Absolutely not."

"Is that so...well, I guessed it to some extent. After all, a place that can raise children like you knows that problem children will gather together."

"Suddenly calling someone else a problem child is impolite!"

"Isn't what I said the truth?"

"Don't you understand the meaning of the word 'reserved and euphemistic'? The most talked about quality of the Yamato nation has been fed to the dog by you?"

"It doesn't matter if you don't want that kind of indescribable quality... Closer to home, what are you going to do now? By the way, our hacker has stayed up for 48 hours straight before. Return to work."

I gave an indifferent oh, and didn't feel any sense of urgency because of Edogawa Ranpo's advice.

During our conversation, the person on the other side of the glass remained silent.

The sudden silence surprised me a bit.

Don’t act like you’re resigning yourself to your fate just now when you were jumping around alive and kicking just now—of course, this kind of cognition is all my imagination, but most of the time people are creatures that live on self-satisfaction.It is inevitable to use one's own thoughts to understand the stupid behavior of others without authorization.

After all, it's really not good to put this person here... Besides, there's nothing wrong with being a weak person?Weak ability does not mean poor study (although poor study ability is definitely not strong), when the time comes to hand over to Mr. Sakaguchi to take care of them, it will save them from dragging me to write an analysis report on the principle of my ability every day.

After taking off the night vision goggles, I reached out and touched the cold glass in the dark based on my impressions. Suppressing the slightly complicated mood in my heart and not knowing how to describe it, I bent my index finger and tapped on it. ——A small application of gravity operation, which can manipulate the magnitude and direction of the force, and it is not difficult for me to create a vibration. This vibration can cause a natural disaster-level earthquake, and it can only shatter a glass in an instant. .

I used to have a very restless sleep because of my medication, so as a kid I didn't like the nights to come.

Whether it is written by a poet or an essayist, the rain is always sad and lonely. The sound of the rain makes me feel like a dog is crying mournfully far away.

Negative is the math, and in real life two nasty things add up and only make things worse.

The sound of countless glass slags hitting the ground is also a bit like raindrops falling on the ground.

I won't deny that I ever wished to return to Academy City.But that's something I just came into this world.

Life on Lei Bo Street was not easy, at least compared to now it was too bad.The current life is as good as the one in the novel, I don't want to go back, so I never think about my past.

It's just that a large part of people's memories are not so much forgotten as there is no opportunity to recall them.

The night vision device can't see the face clearly, so I can only take out a fluorescent stick from my pocket and light it up, and through the not-so-faint orange fluorescent light, I can see a pretty pretty face. "It" is squinting its eyes, yet to adapt to the sudden light source.

Touching my brain, I must honestly admit that I still have an impression of this face!Although I can't remember the corresponding name anyway, I did see it!

As for the peers I met in Academy City...except for Misaka Mikoto who took the assessment together that time, Accelerator was the only one.

It's too bad to remember the name wrong, so I just have to hurry up and take a look at it while the person in front of me is still getting used to the fluorescent brightness.

The chest is very flat, and it is hard to tell whether it is male or female.

The limbs are quite slender, and cannot be used as the basis for identification.

But when I looked up and saw the short orange hair, I immediately called out her name.

"Misaka Mikoto?" At that time, I heard that Misaka Mikoto failed the Level 5 assessment and I was politely sad for her, but even if she failed the assessment, she is at least a Level 4, right?Otherwise, how do you get the qualification for the examination?So why on earth are at least Level 4 powerful users not even able to get out of a glass room?

I was full of doubts, but what responded to me was nothing but silence.

Just when I was stared at by Misaka Mikoto, she suddenly let go of the back molars that had been clenched just now, and asked me: "Why do you think I am Misaka Mikoto?"

"Huh? Because Misaka Mikoto has orange hair."

"...Are you a mononucleate? Recognize people by hair color? You change a light stick and take a closer look at who I am?!"

I regret saving Misaka Mikoto, Misaka Mikoto is so fierce.

But maybe it was the face blindness that I haven't committed for many years that took away my confidence. In short, I asked her to take out another fluorescent stick to light it up.

This time it's white.

As a result, the light projected on Misaka Mikoto's hair changed to the color of the most recent incandescent light, and her hair color also changed, from orange to...white.

Misaka Mikoto... oh no... Accelerator.

The sarcasm in his eyes looking at me added another layer.

Now it's my turn to be silent.