In the dark hallway, only the green glow of the emergency lights on the walls lights up the hallway. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Armed soldiers in full-coverage reinforced plastic armor wield submachine guns, and heavy gasps emanating from the filter breathing apparatus. They patrol the corridors with all their vigilance, and if the intended enemy appears, they will fire a storm of rubber bullets at the imaginary enemy.

In order to prevent No.3 from transmitting disinformation through her abilities, the Hound Force has stopped using radio, but the intensive arming ensures that the teams will not support each other for more than 30 seconds, and as long as they can hold off the enemy slightly, the next reinforcements will drown the enemy in an endless stream of attacks.

Kihara Shuta, still in the same outfit as he had just been, leaned against the wall with his hands folded, tiptoe a little impatiently, and the sound of his shoes hitting the floor echoed in the silent hallway.

Fifteen minutes have passed since the power was cut off, and according to the previous situation, No.3 is not a very patient type, or rather, she prefers to improvise in combat rather than plan and move. According to the previous practice, she should have started the offensive at this moment, and if it was a weaker defensive institute, she might even have her hands on it.

However, during these fifteen minutes, there was no news of any attack on the guards assigned to various key positions.

In other words, something must have gone wrong.

NO.4 Seeing that you can't do anything, you have already retreated?

No. With her character, it is impossible to retreat without trying, and even if she does, it can only be after discovering that she is unable to do so—the impulse peculiar to young people will even make the other person make the wrong choice in a certain situation.

She had quietly knocked down several squads and made a long drive from other routes to the central computer room?

It's also impossible, and the protective clothing designed to deal with the ability to control electricity can at least support them until they make a sound.

She's already sneaking over?

However, the NO.3 odor information has been recorded in the smell detector, and these newly developed machines have a detection radius of up to 1 km in the windless state, but there is no alarm now.

In other words, if No.3 didn't use special means to isolate his own scent, then it would inevitably be discovered by the hounds.

What else is possible?

Kihara Shudo inserted his fingers into his hair and rubbed hard.

This loss of control of the situation was very rare for Kihara Shuta, which made him feel a little uneasy.

Damn, this feeling of passive defense is really unpleasant......

He was deliberating whether to issue an order for the Hound Force to expand its defensive circle and send out scouts when a crisp footstep could be heard in the dark corridor.

It's finally here?

He impatiently turned to the end of the hallway.

What he saw, however, was a female researcher in a white robe hurrying out of the back of the hallway.

"Urgent report." The female researcher took a breath, "The Institute of Pathological Analysis of the Mizuho Mechanism has been attacked, and she has already started to fight against Flanda, a member of the Item's department, and it can be determined that the attacker is the No.3 Super Electromagnetic Cannon!" ”

no.3？ How did she end up at the Institute of Pathological Analysis of the Mizuho Institution?

After a brief moment of confusion, a thought that had just been vaguely felt suddenly popped through my mind.

I've been tricked!

So what is the purpose of the enemy in destroying the power supply lines here?

NO.3 in the sound of the east and west?

No, not so, but ......

After understanding the other party's intentions, Kihara Shuta sighed as if he couldn't stand it, and his two thin eyebrows raised.

Playing me like a monkey?

Especially when he imagined that the intruder might be swaggering in the central computer room, taunting him all the time, the anger in his chest rose tenfold.

No matter who you are, no matter how you did it, now, you're dead!

He spat viciously.

"Well, may I ask if it's time to go next—" The female researcher winced, but finally decided to fulfill her duties as secretary.

Then, she saw that Kihara Shuta's sharp gaze was like a pair of knives, and it was pinning her to death.

She didn't even have time to regret it, she seemed to see something silvery white with a strong wind passing through the corners of the retina, and felt a chill in her throat, followed by the boredom of suffocation and the indescribable intense pain.

The body that had lost its strength slowly fell, and blood gushed out from the torn carotid artery, wetting Kihara's white robe.

"You're fired." Finally, she heard Kihara's shouting farther and farther away, and finally disappeared into a dark chaos, "Bastards, call everyone, follow me to the central computer room!" ”

……

The large, empty room was illuminated by the light of the video wall on one side of the room, and on the wall of countless displays was a slowly moving progress bar, which was now 94% of the way.

In response to the lack of computing power caused by the corruption of the property graph designer, the high-performance server clusters, which had just been massively expanded at the beginning of the month, flashed green dots of light and countless fans hummed like giant beehives.

The air conditioning unit kept blowing cold air to neutralize the heat emitted by the servers, but even so, the temperature inside the room reached an uncomfortable 42 degrees.

The researchers had already gone to the underground shelter, so only three Hound soldiers were left in the room as the last guards.

However, at this moment, the three soldiers who were supposed to be on guard here were already lying on the ground, and there were no signs of a struggle around them, and it could be seen from the deformed helmets that they were knocked down in an instant in a state of surprise, and they didn't even have time to resist or warn.

And in front of the huge console, a girl in white was sitting in a luxurious transfer and turning in circles, whistling briskly, and in the dim light you could see a pair of cat ears shaking happily overhead.

"Kihara has a lot of numbers, that fool has probably discovered something, right? But it's too late, although I can't kill him, but I can teach him a lesson, so that he doesn't have to put on that invincible appearance all the time. Damn, the computers here don't even have cards and minesweepers——! ”

The girl complained twice, but in the end, she could only watch the progress bar on the monitor with her hands on her cheeks.

Thirty seconds later, the progress bar on the TV wall finally reached 100%, and the girl quickly jumped off the rotating swivel chair, unplugged the USB flash drive plugged into the external interface, and threw it in her hand, "Okay, then it's time to retreat!" ”

However, in the room where she should have been the only one awake, an old and gentle voice came from the darkness behind her, as if the elder was teaching: "That's not good, if you are allowed to take away those key data from here casually, it will be difficult for me or Shuduo to do it." ”

The girl's spine shrugged slightly, and she slowly turned around to see a slightly clumsy old figure standing there with his hands behind his back at the sealed door at the end of the dark hall.

It was an old man who looked to be in his seventies, with gray hair, looking in good spirits, with clear and sharp eyes, looking like an old professor in college who took care of his body, but there were a few annoying old age spots on his forehead, which made him not so likable.

There was a calm smile on his face—a smile that was like a mask over his face.

The girl's pupils, which shone in the dark, contracted slightly, and she subconsciously showed an expression of disgust, as if she had seen a disgusting slug, and then looked past the old man's pointed head to the door behind him.

Behind him, the sealed door remained intact and remained de-energized and locked. In other words, the old man entered the sealed room without breaking the door. In principle, even with a welding torch or **, there is no way to break through the space aluminum alloy plate that is several centimeters thick in a short time.

"How did you get in? Wood, Plain, Illusion, Life. The ear on the top of the girl's head tilted back vigilantly, and said word by word.

"Guess what? Maybe I was just hiding in a corner here? It's just like you. Kihara Phantom narrowed his eyes, "Infiltrate the research institute in advance, and then remotely cut off the power supply lines to lure the guards away." It's a bit old-fashioned, but it's working, and I can't help but applaud you. ”

The girl couldn't help but show such an expression, she rolled her eyes, and stuffed the USB flash drive into her personal pocket, "I haven't seen you for so many years, and you still like to be verbose...... Have you ever been a teacher before? Speaking of which, do you remember me, Kihara Phantom? ”

"Of course, of course I remember you!" Kihara Phantom laughed, "You know, for an old man, most of his time is spent reminiscing about the good old days, how could I forget such interesting material as yours?" To be honest, I was very, very sorry when I had to lose you. ”

Kihara Phantom really squinted his eyes like a dying old man, kneading his temples vigorously, as if trying to squeeze out the good past from his dry brain, but there was a creepy aura in his tone, driven by absolute madness and absolute rationality, "-Yasaki Yakumo-kun. ”

Kihara Phantom faced the vigilant girl and said with a male title.

ps: Meow hahaha, I didn't say that the research institute that Mikoto Misaka was going to attack in the last chapter was the research institute of the Kihara clan! (Well, it's me who is malicious fraud)

PS2: This week's stats are the same as last month, so I owe 1 chapter to make up next week. So, 3,000 words were offered.