The Puppeteer of Academy City

Chapter 321: earthquake

Liu Yinjian stepped forward and retracted the steel needle.

Ignoring the man he killed just now, he went straight to the edge of the roof and looked at the convoy in the distance.

"How careless, the fish that slipped through the net didn't even notice..." Then he shook his head helplessly, "Xingye and those little guys are still too naive! They let these enemies live... Are you saving yourself for trouble!"

But at this time, Ling Xingye has temporarily put the matter of the hound unit behind him. He needs to concentrate on the problem at hand.

The magician Shirley and her stone statue, as well as another existence called "Fengzhan Binghua".

The former is easy to solve - because they don't lack combat power, especially with Shirley's colleague Kanzaki Kaori present, it shouldn't be difficult to deal with that problem.

What really made Ling Xingye unsure was Fengzhan Binghua—Index said that she would save her, and Kamijou Touma also said that she was a companion and a good person.

But in the current state, whether the existence named Fengzhan Binghua can be counted as a "human being" is still open to question.

At least biologically, this girl can't be considered human—she's not even a "biological" creature!

It seemed that after a fierce battle, when Ling Xingye and the others arrived, Feng Zhan Binghua was already scarred and tattered.

Even her head was smashed, revealing the inner workings...

There was no **** scene, and everyone present could see it—the inside of her head was not the brain as people recognize it, but a constantly rotating triangular columnar crystal!

So much so that when they first saw Feng Zhan Binghua, Ling Xingye and the others almost attacked her together.

Fortunately, there was Kamijou Touma following behind, who appeared in time to stop their indiscriminate attacks.

"Kanazaki! Why..." Seeing this familiar girl with a knife appearing in front of her, Shirley's expression shook violently, "Could it be that the Supreme Bishop knew about my plan long ago?"

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why Kanzaki Kaori rushed over just after he invaded Academy City on his front foot.

Shirley prides herself on her extraordinary strength—otherwise, she wouldn't have dared to invade Academy City alone. But facing this "sage of the Far East"... she is not sure of winning.

"The Supreme Bishop sent me here to prevent the attacks of magic forces..." Kanzaki Kaori said, "I thought I would face the opponent of the Roman Orthodox Church, but who would have expected that you would be the first to meet... "

Shirley backed away slowly, looked at Kanzaki Kaori cautiously: "Stop talking, even if it's you, don't try to stop me!"

"If possible, I don't want to draw my sword against my companion." Kanzaki Kaori's expression was gloomy, but his right hand was already holding down the handle of the knife.

"Kanazaki, you are really strong," Shirley said, "but now this is my home field!"

After all, she slid back suddenly in a skating posture.

At the same time, the stone statue behind him stretched out his arms and embraced her; then he fitted her body and charged towards the wall beside her!

Just hearing a bang, everyone felt that the ground shook for a while, and the ceiling above their heads was instantly covered with cracks, and then collapsed!

The stone statue broke through the soil layer of nearly 30 meters underground and fled into the tunnel next door.

Kanzaki Kaori broke through the falling rock and chased after him.

At the same time, Ling Xingye also used the flying blade to protect the others, but then ran to the other side.

"Misaka, come with me!"

Misaka 10001 immediately followed.

"Wait, they ran over there!" Misaka Mikoto was stunned for a moment, but still chose Ling Xingye's side.

Kazezhan Binghua has returned to its original state, and has also used some kind of ability to protect Kamijou Touma behind him.

She followed Kanzaki Kaori closely, and wanted to catch up to stop Shirley's atrocities.

Seeing this, Kamijou Touma hurriedly chased after him.

Uluft looked at both sides, and chased after Shirley.

"Xingye, where are you going?" Misaka Mikoto asked puzzledly, "Why are you running in the opposite direction?"

With Misaka Mikoto's character, if she hadn't considered her younger sister's choice, she would have definitely gone to the side that has the fight.

Ling Xingye just buried his head on his way and didn't answer.

But soon, Misaka Mikoto knew the reason.

"This..." the girl exclaimed.

Because just now Shirley manipulated the stone statue to strike recklessly, destroying the geological structure of the nearby area.

In fact, the part that collapsed was far more than the small area where they were just now.

The commercial street near the subway station was also affected. At this time, it was already a mess, comparable to the tragic scene after the earthquake.

Best of all, it wasn't empty when the collapse happened—the area was a staging post for emergency evacuations!

When the attack happened, everyone in the underground street gathered at several larger sites, and then were escorted back to the ground by the emergency rescue team.

And this rescue point was destroyed by the aftermath of the battle just now.

The damp smell of underground soil was mixed with a strong smell of blood; screams of pain and terrified cries could be heard endlessly.

"Save people." Ling Xingye said shortly with a stiff face.

After all, the sprites have already stepped forward and removed a collapsed roof.

Seeing such a tragic situation, Misaka Mikoto also turned pale. Without wasting time, she hurried forward and used the magnetic force to drive the steel bars inside the building materials and remove the debris.

Misaka 10001 also adopted the same method, cooperating with her sister to move heavy objects for rescue.

But soon, they discovered something unusual.

Although there was a lot of blood, no dead bodies or wounded were seen.

After careful identification, those cries were also concentrated in one place. Although flustered, there is not much color of grief.

"Someone has come to the rescue," Ling Xingye suddenly said to himself, heaving a sigh of relief.

Suddenly, the pile of ruins in front of them became restless.

"Get out of the way!" Ling Xingye yelled, pulling Sister Misaka aside.

Immediately afterwards ~lightnovelpub.net~ the rocks and rubble in front of them exploded, as if someone had ignited explosives inside.

Behind the original ruins, a relatively flat space was exposed, and it could be seen that it was crowded with people.

Several ability users stood in front of the crowd, raised their arms together, and jointly released a powerful shock wave to blow away the ruins.

Behind them, several people jointly propped up something like a shield to protect the people behind them from being injured by falling rocks.

At a glance, the strength of this effect is almost all ability users above level 3!

"It's really lucky that so many high-level ability users happen to be concentrated here." Misaka Mikoto said.

"But who gathered the wounded?" Ling Xingye asked doubtfully.

"My lord... You really didn't obey and stay up there." The figure of Shirai Heizi appeared behind them.