"Legion Strike!"
A clear female voice resounded in the spacious underground testing ground, followed by a gunshot. Zuotian Lei was holding a strange silver spear that was about 20 centimeters long, which was obviously different from the ones commonly used by humans. The recoil from the firing of the gun caused the girl, who wasn't that strong to begin with, to immediately take a few steps back. The 17 targets in front of her simultaneously exploded into fragments that filled the sky.
"A single bullet simultaneously locked onto and destroyed 17 targets. Rating: Intermediate."
Vega blinked his eyes and said after recording the data.
"We can take a break now."
"Phew …"
Zuotian Lei let out a long breath and put down the spear that was obviously a little too heavy for her. She swung her aching hands and slowly walked back.
"Today's situation wasn't bad," I patted her shoulder encouragingly. "I had just grasped this skill. I didn't expect to be able to use it to the intermediate level."
Although she couldn't use most of the advanced skills of the Storm Commander due to her human body, Zuotian Lei's talent in these general skills was truly astonishing.
"However, your physique still needs to be strengthened," Vega followed behind, holding the long silver 'pistol' that Zuotian Lei had just used. "The Deadwood-Bramble Dual Pistols are already the lightest type of gun. Half of your abilities are related to shooting, but you still have to hold a gun with both hands. It's really ridiculous."
"It's alright." Zuo Tianlei smiled embarrassedly. He then scratched his head, "I'm still a little afraid of that genetic enhancement thing … I just feel that it's a little strange. Can this really be called a superpower? Although they aren't ordinary people's abilities, there are so many strange skills. I just feel that they aren't the same as the average superpower user. "
"That's why I don't let you talk about it outside," Lin Xue was still wearing the researcher's white robe, even though this lass usually only caused trouble for the unlucky scientists. "It's not a good thing to have such an abnormal talent as it will bring you all sorts of trouble. Furthermore, you are a smart child, so you must have realized that many of our research should be treated as top secret. So, it's better to keep it a secret."
"Ah, haha, so it's like this …" Zuo Tian Lei smiled unnaturally. Since we didn't hide much from each other, she naturally discovered that we were different from ordinary people after interacting with each other for the past few days. Even though she explained that our research was highly confidential and ordinary people would find it mystical, Zuo Tian Lei wasn't a fool. She obviously knew that she had probably gotten involved with some incredible people. At the start, she naturally panicked a little, but now …
"Fortunately, you are all good people. So, even if you think that you are involved in some extraordinary matters, I wouldn't worry about you harming me."
Just like that, everyone in the Schilling Research Institute was labeled as a good person …
"Speaking of which, I haven't seen Chu Chun and Shirai come over for the past few days. Only Osaka Mikoto comes over frequently."
"Ah, that's because the Morals and Discipline Committee member is really busy, so it's hard for them to enjoy the leisure time of the commoners." Zuotian Lei said with a hint of envy on her face. It seemed that she was quite interested in the 'Morals and Discipline Committee member', which sounded like a really powerful job. "Right, Big Brother Director, when I was at school yesterday, the teacher mentioned my name. He said that it's quite an amazing thing to be promoted from level 0 to level 3, so he wanted everyone to use me as a role model …"
Looking at Zuotian Lei's happy smile, my mood improved as well. This naive girl didn't know how to hide her feelings at all.
Erm, I ignored Lin Xue's nagging of "Congratulations on getting another younger sister" and Shallow Shallow's obviously unfriendly gaze.
"Right, Ah Jun, accompany me on a shopping spree later."
Just as we were about to leave the Research Institute, Shallow Shallow suddenly spoke up.
"Shopping spree?"
I was surprised. Actually, due to the fact that I had been tormented by Shallow Shallow's various strange ideas for the past few days, it was rather surprising that she suddenly said something so normal to me — — If this brat had suggested going on the streets to catch monsters with me, it might have been easier for me to accept it.
"It's buying — — things — —!!!" Shallow Shallow said word by word with a strange expression on her face. "Why is your expression so exaggerated, Ah Jun?"
"It's nothing, I just don't know if you will suddenly have the idea of opening a few shops when you are buying things, so I'm reserving my opinion on this."
"Hey, Ah Jun, that's a great idea. Where's Pandora?"
You shouldn't be taking it seriously, baby!
After staying in Gakuen City for almost a month, I have become very familiar with the surroundings. Now that I am out for a stroll, I can't find the novelty that I had in the beginning. It is as if I am just temporarily staying in a foreign city. Other than raising my head to look at the gigantic screen of the airship and the spinning wind turbines not far away, I don't feel like I have transmigrated to another world.
Of course, it is also because this place is too close to Earth.
"Ah Jun, Ah Jun! Look at this! "
Shallow Shallow ran energetically between the shop windows of the shopping street. Her entire body was filled with energy like an 8 cylinder engine. I don't understand, how does this brat have so much stamina?
"Coming, coming …" I replied as I followed her. "Shallow Shallow, you should keep your movements down, the number of people turning their heads is too high …"
As mentioned above, the number of people turning their heads is very high. Not to mention Shallow Shallow's appearance, just based on her energetic appearance, she should be the center of attention, right?
"Hmm?"
Turning my head, I noticed a familiar figure reflected in the glass window beside me. However, when I turned my head to look, I only saw a bustling crowd.
"What's wrong, Ah Jun? Did you see something? "
Shallow Shallow curiously came over and followed my line of sight to look for the enemy. Thank the heavens, there isn't a bikini beauty or something that would bring me undeserved calamity.
"It's nothing, I might have seen wrongly."
I shook my head, then pulled the overly energetic Shallow Shallow into my embrace. At least this way, this brat can calm down a little.
"Ah, Ah Jun, this, this, I think I saw it on TV yesterday!"
"Ah Jun, over there, let's go take a look, there are so many people!"
"Wow! Ah Jun, Ah Jun, so this is the place I was talking about a few days ago … "
I take back what I just said …
Well, at any rate, this overly energetic appearance is just how cute Shallow Shallow usually is. Seeing her jumping around in joy can be considered a type of enjoyment in life. Every man who goes shopping with his girlfriend should have such a resolution in order to save the world, right?
While I was thinking of all sorts of ways to distract myself, a familiar figure flashed in the corner of my eye.
"Osaka?"
"Hmm? Ah Jun, did you say something just now? "
Shallow Shallow tilted her head and asked curiously.
"Was that Osaka Mikoto who just passed by?"
"Just now?" Shallow Shallow pointed at her lips with her finger, then smiled devilishly. "The sands of time go round and round …"
The scenery around me rapidly retreated, as if I was rewinding a movie and rewinding it to one minute ago.
Hey! Is it really alright to rewind time for such a small matter?
"So it really is Osaka!"
Even though I was silently criticizing Shallow Shallow's wasteful way of using her ability, I still managed to locate the figure in the crowd in a hurry. Although I couldn't see his face, judging from his back, it was indeed Osaka.
However, in a flash, Osaka Mikoto once again disappeared into the crowd. She didn't even respond to our loud greetings from behind.
Strange, why was she in such a hurry?
But since she was still quite a distance away, there was no need to stop time and pass through layers of people to greet her. Following that, Shallow Shallow and I continued our journey of shopping — at least for me, this was indeed a journey, and based on Shallow Shallow's current level of vigor, this journey wouldn't end anytime soon.
But perhaps that bastard God of Fate couldn't bear to see me pass the day so peacefully. Just as I thought that I would slowly pass the day by shopping with Shallow Shallow, I suddenly bumped into a certain acquaintance.
Osaka Mikoto. I knew it, I'd seen her wandering around this street a long time ago, but I didn't expect to bump into her in front of a pastry shop.
When we passed by, the brown-haired girl was leaning against the window of one of the shops along the street. She was so engrossed in observing something that she didn't even notice that someone had approached her. Following her line of sight, there was, unsurprisingly, a frog pendant — it was placed beside a gigantic birthday cake, as if it was a gift from that thing.
What a cruel obsession. Looking at Osaka Mikoto's drooling expression, I placed my hand on my forehead and sighed silently.
"Osaka, what are you looking at?"
After hesitating for a moment, I finally chose to greet her.
"Wah!"
It was a rather exaggerated reaction, as if she was a kitten that was startled by a sudden voice. Osaka Mikoto's entire body almost drifted sideways. After she got into a defensive stance and observed carefully, this girl whose nerves had dulled due to being immersed in Keita's charm heaved a sigh of relief.
"Oh, so it's Uncle Director … Ah, it hurts!"
"You have to call him Brother Director!"
Osaka Mikoto, who was respectfully addressed as Sis Cannon by countless otakus, called him Uncle. How despairing was that? It was only in this aspect that I would never back down, you bastard!
"Oh," Osaka Mikoto mumbled subtly as she flashed past my title. Then, she happily greeted Shallow Shallow, "Sister Shallow Shallow, you're here too."
Why can she call me sister so happily! Brother-in-law and Uncle should be on two different levels in terms of age, right!?
"Were you looking at the cake here just now?"
Qian Qian cleverly avoided the frogs at the bottom of the cake. Instead, she pointed at the huge birthday cake at the side.
"Ah … No … I just think that this shop … Mm, the display is beautiful. Haha … Ahahaha …" Osaka Mikoto laughed suspiciously, but the blush on her face became more obvious. The hot steam that often appeared on Pandora's head seemed to have the intention of appearing on Osaka Mikoto's head as well. Such a reaction … Isn't she too stupid?
"If you like it, just buy it." I twitched the corner of my mouth. I couldn't understand Mikoto's thought process at all. She obviously wanted it so much, but she was lying next to the display window and drooling for half a day. As the Missy of Long Dish Platform, she should at least act like a Missy! Spending a lot of money to buy the entire dessert shop for a pendant should be the style of a Missy, right? If it was Lin Xue … Ugh, that might not be the case. If that girl could act a little like a Missy, then she wouldn't go crazy with us all the time.
"I … I don't want it. How can a girl like that kind of frog …"
Hey, hey, hey, I'm talking about the cake. Your automatic imagination is too amazing!
"Oh right, Osaka, why were you running in a panic just now? I called you a few times but you didn't hear me."
I sighed at the idiotic reaction of this guy who didn't mean what he said. I suddenly remembered how he panicked at the corner of the street and blurted it out.
"Just now?" Osaka Mikoto repeated in confusion. Her face was full of question marks.
"Over there." I pointed at the street in the distance. "Didn't you run over from there?"
"No, I've been watching from here …" Osaka Mikoto shook her head. However, before she could finish her sentence, she suddenly froze on the spot. Then, the fake smile on her face instantly shattered and was replaced by the sadness she suppressed in her heart. "I'm … sorry, I'm not feeling well …"
"Wait!"
I pulled the girl who was trying to run away. A guess quickly formed in my mind.
"What's wrong, Osaka? You don't look well. "
"It's okay …" Osaka Mikoto struggled in vain. Then, she shook her head with a pale face. It seems that the thing I mentioned just now made her self-anesthesia lose its effect. What does she want to do now? Flee, flee to someplace, and weep in solitude?
"That bastard's experiment still hasn't stopped?"
I suddenly said in a low voice. There was no way out.
Feeling the girl in her hand suddenly stop struggling and shiver, Osaka Mikoto raised her head in disbelief. Her eyes were filled with undisguised panic.
"What … What are you talking about? What experiment … "
"Silly girl." Qian Qian shook her head helplessly. "Misaka Meimei, who do you think we are? Twenty thousand military clones?"
It was that plan. By having the strongest metahuman kill Osaka Mikoto's cloned younger sisters, he would achieve a breakthrough in his power level and create the strongest existence at level 6. It was such an inhumane plan.
The pale-faced girl in front of me, Osaka Mikoto, could be said to be one of the cornerstones of this plan. She was also the biggest victim of the entire plan. Because she believed in the lie of "saving people who were suffering from terminal illnesses" and provided her own DNA sample, it led to the birth of twenty thousand younger sister clones. The original purpose of all this might have been to see if it was possible to artificially create a level 5 metahuman. But after the failure of this experiment, everything took an unbelievable turn. The flesh and blood clones were treated as killing targets for a certain level 5 metahuman to level up. And the elder sister of twenty thousand younger sisters, Osaka Mikoto, fell into the deepest despair.
But what I wanted to say now was that this didn't seem to be the worst situation …
"Osaka, listen to me. First of all, our identities aren't as simple as you think. That's why we are one of the people who knew about this inhumane experiment. But at first, I thought that everything had been stopped, but I didn't expect …"
"Stopped?" Osaka Mikoto repeated blankly. "Who stopped it? Who could go against the power of this school city? With my measly power … "
"Ah Jun, we'd better change locations." Shallow Shallow suddenly tugged on my sleeve and gestured for me to pay attention to the passersby who were gradually attracted to us.
I noticed that more and more people were attracted to us. Occasionally, there would be people pointing at the "family of three" who seemed to be in trouble. I immediately pulled Osaka Mikoto into an alleyway.
Thank the heavens, the author finally knew to arrange an alleyway where we could hide at any time …
Osaka Mikoto had never mentioned that plan to anyone. Even though she had prayed for someone to save her countless times in a secluded corner, she knew very well how dangerous it was to go against the darkness of the entire school city. This overly kind girl could only choose to face everything alone because she didn't want the people important to her to be dragged into danger. But now, the situation seemed to have changed. That mysterious research institute, perhaps it really had some unknown power?
Even though it was only a faint hope, Osaka Mikoto, who was already at her limits, seemed to have seen the light at the end of the tunnel. She finally let go of the barrier of self-protection.
"I never thought that I would have to ask for help from another research institute in the end." After saying everything, Osaka Mikoto seemed to finally heave a sigh of relief. She leaned her head against the mottled cement wall. "But it ends here. Although you are one of the few research institutes in this city that I feel close to, to stop the plan that is protected by the dark side of the school city …"
I didn't wait for her to finish her sentence. Instead, I turned my head and asked, "Shallow Shallow, have you made the arrangements?"
Time was of the essence. As soon as we confirmed that the plan was still in progress, Shallow Shallow and I had already started to make our own arrangements.
"I've already informed Pandora to take over the surveillance system of the school city and put in all efforts to find the location of Osaka's younger sister. What about Vega and her Scorpions?"
"They're ready … Wait, why did the connection with Visca get cut off?"
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