The Puppeteer of Academy City

On the morning of August 1st, Class 3, Grade 1, Senior High School, Changdian Shangji Academy.

A pair of teenagers and girls walked into this classroom—it was Ling Xingye and Hitomi Shiranui who were wearing ordinary clothes.

"This is our class." Shiranui Hitomi opened her arms wide to show the spacious and bright classroom to the fellow teenagers as if introducing the master of her territory.

"I still have this level of memory." Ling Xingye said helplessly, "You know it best, right? I just lack the memory of the last two weeks..."

In order to help Ling Xingye better "rehabilitation after surgery", and fully integrate the memories read from the backup later into his mind, Shiranui Tong has been pulling Ling Xingye around for the past few days, walking all over Academy City. Everywhere I've been.

It's school's turn today. Although Ling Xingye's memory of this place is extremely deep, he still can't resist Shizhi Huotong's persistence.

"By the way, there shouldn't be any major incidents in the school in the past two weeks, right? And at the end of the semester, there won't be any transfer students or anything..." Ling Xingye muttered.

"Yo, Hitomi, good morning!"

"Good morning monitor!"

Although it was summer vacation, the class was not empty. Several students who came to the school for self-study or attended club activities greeted here one after another.

This shows Shiranui Hitomi's popularity in the class.

Of course, everyone did not ignore Ling Xingye behind him.

"It's early, too, the puppet master! Why did you remember coming to school today?"

But the name is a little tricky.

Of course, Ling Xingye didn't mind.

"Idiot, you can tell at a glance that you were dragged here by the squad leader!" Someone responded.

"Oh, the relationship is still as good as ever."

Hitomi Shiranui responded generously to the greetings and playfulness of her classmates, while coming to her seat.

Ling Xingye also sat down in his seat, habitually looking out the window at the scenery of the playground below.

"How is it? Do you still remember everyone?" Hitomi Shiranui turned around and asked in a low voice.

"Of course, although we haven't communicated much, everyone's basic information has long been recorded." Ling Xingye shrugged, "Okay, hurry up to the security department, my sprite is still in their warehouse, I don't know if it was broken or not."

During the "battle" not long ago, Ling Xingye was admitted to the hospital urgently due to serious injuries and unconsciousness. At that time, Shiranui Hitomi and others were so anxious that they had no time to take care of his puppet, so they were taken back as evidence by the guards who rushed to the scene later.

Being separated from the sprite for so long has already made Ling Xingye feel uncomfortable. If Hitomi Shiranui was not by his side, he would definitely have taken the sprite back on the day he was discharged from the hospital.

Hitomi Shiranui sighed leisurely, but considering that Ling Xingye's enemies have not been really eliminated, restoring combat power as soon as possible is indeed one of the most important options.

She finally decided to follow Ling Xingye's arrangement.

Although a bit willful, but it can make him endure for several days not to retrieve the sprites, but to hang out with himself... It seems that my psychological suggestion is quite successful.

Hitomi Shiranui nodded and stood up: "Okay, the next stop is to go to the warehouse of the security department."

"Squad leader, and student Ling," a girl sitting next to Shiranui suddenly stopped them, "Please wait."

During the summer vacation, this girl was the only one in the class who still obediently wore a uniform, her hair was simply tied into a ponytail, and she wore a pair of simple thin-rimmed glasses on her beautiful face. On the desk in front of her, books and stationery were neatly arranged.

This girl gives the impression that she is the kind of good student who studies harder than Hitomi Shiranui.

In fact, Toyama Haruka does fit this setting. In terms of academic performance alone, she can even be evenly matched with Hitomi Shiranui.

In the quiz before the summer vacation, three people got full marks. Apart from Shiranuotong and Ling Xingye who cheated, Yuan Shanyao was the third person.

But unlike Hitomi Shiranui who is excellent in all aspects, Haruka Toyama is an ordinary and pure "good girl" in character. Although he looks good, he is not good at dressing up and acting. On weekdays, he also maintains a low-key and easy-going state to get along with everyone.

For such an introverted and good girl, Ling Xingye felt that she had nothing to do with her at all. But this time she spoke to herself explicitly.

Shiranuo Tong took the opportunity to sit down, and Ling Xingye also returned to her original position, without questioning her request.

In fact, not just the two of them, but all the students in Class Three, including Teacher Sachiko, would listen carefully to this girl's words and act according to her instructions.

Because this girl she...is a "prophet"!

Of course, in Academy City, people would not easily believe in those superstitious legends.

Yuan Shanyao's jokingly called "Prophet" is just a nickname used in jokes among classmates.

Because of Yuan Shanyao's super power - prophecy.

According to the name of the library, it is the strong ability of level 3 "foreseeing the future".

According to Yuan Shanyao's own state, she can "see" the scene from 30 to 150 seconds in the future.

Because it is "seeing", the scope of prophecy is also limited to what happened around her.

Moreover, due to the short time of foreseeing, it is actually a relatively weak ability in normal times - only when buying scratch cards is invincible - it is not even used for cheating in exams.

After all, if it's a question that you can't answer, you won't see the answer even if you wait a hundred and fifty seconds...

However, none of the classmates would ignore her words because of this. For example, tripping over a table, overturning a pencil case, and the teacher's coming soon... This level of "unfortunateness" can still be avoided through Yuan Shanyao's ability.

"If you go out now, you will meet Sachiko-sensei, and then you will be called to the office to talk for a long time." Sure enough, Toyama Haruka immediately explained.

"Then we really should wait." Ling Xingye nodded.

Because Mr. Sachiko knew about the hospital admission before, it is conceivable that no matter for the purpose of caring or teaching, Mrs. Sachiko will definitely give him a good lecture.

"Ah, I see." A moment later, Ling Xingye saw from the window that Teacher Sachiko Sakura walked by downstairs, "It should be fine now."

Hitomi Shiranui said suddenly: "I estimated the time. Even if we met Sachiko-sensei on the stairs, it should have been more than 150 seconds. Haruka, your ability has improved!"

Yuan Shanyao shook his head again and again: "No. My ability is not... It is because of the relationship between the squad leader and Ling that I can see a little farther."

Yuan Shanyao is the only person with the ability of "perception" in Class 1 and 3, which does not match the theme of Class 3, "Psychology and Memory".

She is the only exception in class three... Of course, except for Ling Xingye. When she entered the school and was divided into classes, Ling Xingye entered the third class together as Shiranui Hitomi's "accessory". Moreover, he who owns the memory palace seems to be treated as a half-memory ability user.

Otherwise, according to the normal situation, Ling Xingye should actually go to the class with the theme of "psychic power" ability in the second class, or the "space" ability in the seventh class.

Going back to the original topic, the reason why Yuan Shanyao was divided into three classes is that her abilities are very rare and there are no classes with special themes. More importantly, this class can enhance her abilities.

Psychology and memory, under the leadership of Hitomi Shiranui, who has great ability in "memory construction", the theme of the third class gradually shifts to "memory". and control" direction.

Because the class is full of students with similar abilities, in addition to ordinary communication, everyone will also conduct a certain degree of "spiritual direct connection" through their abilities, and jointly form a local area network that includes all members of the class—thanks to this activity, The atmosphere in the third class is so good that everyone can get along well.

And an additional function brought by "Mind Direct Connection" is "Information Sharing". Bring together what everyone has seen and heard, and everyone can get this information at the same time.

Yuan Shanyao's "foreseeing the future" is precisely an ability that needs to rely on these information to operate.

According to the researcher's explanation, the essence of "foreseeing the future" is actually a so-called "Laplace's demon". By obtaining the intelligence and data of the current world, deduction and calculation are carried out, and then events that will inevitably occur in the future are obtained. Because it does not conform to quantum theory, it can only draw a unique and definite future.

In other words, the accuracy of the prediction directly determines the length of the prediction time, and only the correct future can further deduce the next future.

If you want to improve the accuracy rate, you need to obtain as much intelligence and information as possible.

Haruka Yuanshan is not a person with absolute memory ability, so the information obtained by relying on his own senses is really limited.

However, with the help of "direct mind connection", even if it is only directly connected with Shiranuotong or Ling Xingye, with the help of their absolute memory ability, Yuan Shanyao's "foreseeing the future" ability can get a qualitative leap!

It is for this reason that Yuanshan Yao usually likes to come to the class and stay with everyone.

This time she was able to see the future one hundred and fifty seconds away, obviously relying on the blessing of the class.