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Chapter 351: Chapter 351: The Research Institute and the Explosion Chapter 351: Chapter 351: The Research Institute and the Explosion I originally thought that Qianqian’s spur-of-the-moment enthusiasm had cooled down after completing the “Boundless Love” feat, but now it seems I was still too naive…

Merely a stable period of less than twenty-four hours had passed, and my girlfriend, who is always full of energy and vitality, came up with a very creative new idea and put it into action over the next three days, she bought the “Zongcheng Research Institute”.

By the time I came to my senses, I had already become the director of some nameless research institute.

How utterly nonsensical this godly development was, what an absurdly mismatched setting!

Alright, I know our source of funding is the entire financial system of the human world, I know that in this world far from Earth, we can do some crazy and bold things while being ready to leave at a moment’s notice, but could someone with wild and imaginative ideas activate their brain cells before taking action, please? What on earth do you plan on doing with such a big house after buying it?

“Of course, it’s because it feels very fulfilling!”

Faced with my conflicted expression, Qianqian cheerfully responded like this.

“Our family suddenly has so many big houses now, much bigger than a three-bedroom and one living room! But Ah Jun, you’re really slow to catch on, it took you this long to realize I’d bought this place?”

I simply cannot imagine through what brutal struggle normal thought processes must go in Qianqian’s head to be twisted to this extent.

At times like these, the one who always mediates is Big Sister’s voice, with its healing power at five plusses, “Well, Ah Jun, don’t be angry, since we’re idle anyway, we can’t just sit here waiting for the Star Ring Fragments to fall, can we? It’s not easy to find such an interesting world, so it’s good to keep Qianqian busy with something.”

Are the implications that if Qianqian had nothing to do, she would cause even bigger trouble? I wholeheartedly agree with that; who knows how many odd ideas this girl could come up with, compared to those unpredictable whims, buying a research institute seemed like the best-case scenario…

“Sigh, alright then,” since everything was a done deal, and with the help of the mischief-making Visca, the research institute, already prepared for sale, was now in Qianqian’s name, there was no point in what I said, “Since it’s bought, it’s bought, and since it didn’t cost a penny, then what do you plan to do with this research institute?”

“I don’t know.”

Qianqian’s answer was crisp and straightforward.

I knew it would be like this!

This girl really did make the decision on a whim!

“At least you have to tell me the name of the research institute, right? Don’t tell me you could complete the registration of a new facility without even coming up with a name!”

“Xyrin Research Institute, it’s written on the sign at the entrance.”

You really haven’t thought this through at all, have you?

“Alright, sweetheart, you win,” in the end, faced with Qianqian’s uniquely ingenious way of thinking, I had no choice but to raise the white flag, “Have fun however you like, just remember not to make too much noise. Even though Pandora can handle everything online, if we make too much fuss, we’ll attract attention from the people here.”

Qianqian made an all-is-okay gesture, “Don’t worry, don’t worry. You still have Big Sister to keep an eye on things, right? Oh, Ah Jun, are you going out?”

“Oh, I’m just going for a stroll, to tell you the truth, I’m also a bit curious about this place that claims to be a Superpower User’s paradise.”

With a sense of inexplicable annoyance, I walked out of the place now registered under my name, turned back for a glance at the newly placed sign that read “Xyrin Research Institute” in large letters… it’s gotten even more Sparta.

A research institute that suddenly popped up without any clear main research direction, with investors whose identities were full of various complaints, and more importantly, a research facility that bizarrely didn’t employ a single staff member–even with the most complete data registered in the computers of Academy City, skepticism was bound to arise, wasn’t it?

Especially since this Academy City also had a “human” that one could almost describe as demonic, I could fully believe that “it” had already noticed our arrival, but out of curiosity or some other reason, “it” had chosen to wait and see.

Qianqian, that girl, she really knew how to ruin my precious vacation…

However, despite Qianqian’s whimsical actions, I wasn’t completely uninterested. Based on Lin Xue’s predictions, the Star Ring Fragment that was about to collide with this world might not appear anytime soon; the earliest could be in half a month, while the latest might take several months. With so much time to “vacation,” finding some interesting things to do didn’t seem like a bad idea.

With all these messy thoughts swirling in my head, I strolled leisurely through the streets of the city, which outsiders found so mysterious. By conventional wisdom, Academy City boasted technology at least twenty years ahead of the outside world. However, according to the model of civilization development summarized by the Xyrin People, a technology gap of twenty to thirty years was not sufficient to cause a significant change in human living patterns at the current level of human civilization. Thus, as I walked down these tidy streets, I merely felt like I had arrived at a more modern metropolis, oh, naturally, excluding those suspicious round barrel-like cleaning robots that were everywhere…

The feeling, it really was like coming to a youthful city.

I couldn’t help but express such sentiment.

Eighty percent of Academy City’s population were students, which meant that if you walked on the streets, you’d mostly see young boys and girls full of youthful vigor. Not surprisingly, one could develop the odd impression that “this city really is young.” Moreover, as I walked through the city, I could always sense those covert and abnormal energy flows around me, some of which were unintentionally emitted by a few Superpower Users, while many more were probably part of the city’s components.

That “human” was indeed a genius.

“Lord Brother, when can I go outside?”

The voice of Alaya suddenly rang in my mind, nearly causing me to crash into a lamp post. Fortunately, before I hit the lamp post, I was tripped by a drink can on the ground that the cleaning robots had failed to find in time.

That wasn’t good at all! In terms of embarrassment, wouldn’t these two things be just about the same?!

“Lord Brother, I’m sorry…

“…No problem.”

“What misfortune!”

A bland exchange with a certain someone, almost a daily occurrence, was abruptly interrupted by a lamentation not far away. Following the sound, I saw an ordinary young boy with a spiky hairstyle, wearing a white T-shirt and shorts.

In front of the young boy on the ground lay a flip phone broken in two. It wasn’t hard to guess who the unfortunate owner was.

“Lord Brother, that person is really unlucky. He just took out his phone to check a message, and then it fell on the ground. When he went to pick it up, he wasn’t stable and stepped on his phone, breaking it. Could this person have angered Grandma Chen Qian?”

“No, in this world, there is a creature that can live in misfortune without any curse from Big Sister and courageously marches on within this misfortune, challenging more and more varied forms of bad luck, ultimately earning the honorific title of a Legendary God of Misfortune!”

“Somehow, Lord Brother’s description feels filled with a lot of content that Alaya can’t understand but can’t help but agree with…”

Touma Kamijou, in that moment, the young man before me matched up with the information stored in my brain. This nice guy with a miraculous right hand, who was known as the king of a new era’s harem and the Emperor of Tragedy, was indeed unforgettable.

Big Sister would probably take great interest in this guy–a born loser who doesn’t need a curse to live like he’s carrying a beacon of misfortune. What a marvelous creature!

Hmm, the second person who might be interested in him is probably Visca, as a Xyrin Apostle who developed a specialized interference system for Superpowers, that girl would likely be extremely interested in Kamijou Youth’s natural Illusion Killer, and given Visca’s terrifying personality, dissecting him for study would probably make sense.

Thinking about it, isn’t he truly a tragedy within a tragedy?

“Excuse me…” I couldn’t help but immerse myself in the non-stop rant against a certain skirt-chaser until someone suddenly greeted me by my ear, snapping me back to reality. I turned around and saw the face of an average boy shrouded in misfortune, “Seeing you suddenly standing by the roadside, lost in thought, do you need help?”

To be such a mess yet still such a good Samaritan?

Truly… such a commendable young man!

Although he’s someone basking in the protagonist’s halo, in my opinion, it’s generally better not to get too close to a natural-born beacon of misfortune. Even my sister’s powers can misfire, and I really can’t guarantee that I won’t be dragged into trouble by his bad luck aura. After mumbling a quick thanks, I still left the danger zone surrounding him.

“What to do next…?”

Surveying the unfamiliar streets around me, I talked to myself. Although I had information transmitted from Bubbles, this world’s real developments couldn’t just be deduced from the “plot”. Without a clear understanding of the situation, there was no starting point to get involved in the messy but interesting affairs of both the science and magic sides. It seemed like, apart from aimlessly wandering around, there wasn’t much else to do.

“Zuotian, I heard that yesterday morning…”

As I strolled, the mention of a name in the conversation drifting from behind suddenly made me halt in my steps–Zuotian Tsuruya?

Turning around, the black-haired girl who I had met a few days prior was indeed walking this way. She seemed to have noticed me too and, with a slightly surprised look, waved friendly in my direction.

Beside her was a petite girl wearing a flowery garland-like hair accessory, also dressed in a sailor uniform.

The first time we met, I simply thought of her as a stranger I casually encountered by the roadside. But after reviewing the materials sent by Bubbles… well, mainly after reading the kid’s highly subjective comments on each character, I came to admire this girl who, despite always being at LEVEL 0, remained optimistic and strong. There’s this saying that true warriors come in two kinds: one is the hero who wins after countless failures, and the other is the brave soul who can keep smiling despite endless defeats. While it’s somewhat inappropriate to use such adjectives for a girl, this Zuotian Tsuruya really is someone you can’t help but respect.

Of course, there’s also a bit of sympathy–the unfairness of the world really is pervasive.

“Yo!”

As she approached, I waved my hand, greeting her with a sunny disposition.

“Such a lame way to greet someone…”

The girl who seemed to be Chichun Shili, following beside Zuotian Tsuruya, murmured very quietly.

Your voice is so low that even Zuotian Tsuruya couldn’t hear you, but I heard you loud and clear, dammit!

“Hello, good to see you again.”

Completely unaware of what her close friend had just said, Zuotian Tsuruya slightly bowed to me and said politely.

“Zuotian, this is…”

The one next to her… let’s still call her Flower Pot, began with a puzzled voice.

“Mm, I met him a few days ago near the little park, I mentioned him to you, remember?”

“Hello,” I extended my hand to the person opposite me, “Chen Jun, um… I work at a nearby research institute.”

“First… first time meeting!” Chichun Shili jumped like a startled rabbit, then quickly touched my hand, “I’m a friend of Zuotian’s…”

Why do I feel like I’m already being treated as some kind of dangerous guy who randomly chats up girls with ulterior motives?

“Chichun Shili, right?” As if possessed, I blurted out her name before she finished speaking, and the girl opposite me immediately exclaimed, “Why do you know my name?”

“Uh, this… that…” My brain cells were rapidly burning, “Ah, right, I work at the nearby research institute, you see, we have some data on power users, and you’re included in it.”

“Is that so, I see.” Chichun Shili seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, as if she finally believed my “researcher” identity. But did she really not believe me until now?

Since we weren’t very familiar, merely “acquaintances,” we chatted sporadically and were about to say goodbye when, possibly due to a recent encounter with the unfortunate God named Touma Kamijou, some subtle bad luck seemed to have rubbed off on me. Just a few meters away from us, an explosion occurred unexpectedly in a shop.

“Boom!”

With a loud bang, the glass showcases shattered instantly from the force, scattering like fireworks, followed by smoke billowing and the acrid smell of charring in the air. The crowd was silent for a second, then screams of various pitches tore through half the street.

The glass door of the shop was violently pushed open from the inside, and a series of disheveled customers stumbled out, their bloodstains stark against the polished floor. At the same time, the belated soy-sauce-like anti-riot alarm from the shop rang out.

“…This is Chichun Shili, there’s been an explosion at the shopping street, um, the location is…”

As the explosion occurred, Chichun Shili, as part of the Disciplinary Committee, quickly made contact with the guard team. The girl, who had initially seemed shy and weak, now acted decisively and calmly, making me wonder if she had been body-swapped. While on the other side, Zuotian Tsuruya, a normal student with no powers, first froze at the sound of the explosion, then suddenly pointed at the smoke-filled shop entrance and exclaimed, “Ah! That girl…”

At the entrance of the shop that had exploded, a girl who seemed to be a waitress was struggling to walk out, leaning on the doorframe. But after taking only two steps, she slowly fell forward–with a broken metal rod horrifyingly protruding from the area of her heart, likely a part of a shelf.

The sudden misfortune made the term flash through my mind. I swiftly made a spiritual connection with Pandora, “Prepare a life support chamber for humans immediately, get some carbon-based life experts from Shadow City over here, someone is injured–don’t send the army! And put away that bombing formation, retract the missile silos!”

Dammit, is the biggest crisis on this planet not the Star Ring Fragments, nor a civil war among humans, but some hot-blooded loli who plans to conquer the world at any moment?

Right after I gave commands to Pandora to prepare for rescue and seemingly prevented a massive war that could have resulted in human extinction, I felt a gust of wind beside me as Zuotian Tsuruya ran out.

“She’s still breathing!”

The black-haired girl rushed to the female waitress who had fallen at the shop’s entrance and shouted with joy. However, since she didn’t know any first-aid skills, she could only look on anxiously, her eyes desperately scanning the surroundings for help–sadly, at this moment, everyone was avoiding the area as if it were the plague, and with the metal shard clearly piercing the girl’s heart, no one believed there was any chance of rescue.

“Zuotian! It’s dangerous over there!” Chichun Shili, as a member of the Disciplinary Committee who had some knowledge of emergency situations, immediately called out anxiously, “The shop’s electrical system might explode again!”

Chichun Shili is a Prophet Emperor–the moment her words ended, I clearly felt another energy burst brewing inside the smoke-filled shop. The first explosion went unnoticed because my attention wasn’t focused there, but this time, I felt the abnormal flow of energy precisely.

Almost in the next moment, a faint red glow flashed behind the shop’s showcase windows, and the muffled sound of the explosion began its prelude–regrettably, it only managed to start before I snuffed it out.

“Energy Freeze!”

The already occurring explosion vanished like an illusion, the dancing flames and the shrill alarm both stopped abruptly, and even the continuous popping sounds of items exploding inside the shop quieted down. Except for the dense smoke still billowing, everything became a thing of the past.

Chichun Shili’s surprised gaze turned towards me, and in response, I could only awkwardly come up with a temporary lie: “This… my ability can halt energy changes and stuff… Ah, haha, hahaha…”(To be continued, if you wish to know what happens next, please log in to www.NovelFire.net, for more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!)

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