Temperature Control 38

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Chapter 38

Fight in Tokiwadai Dormitory

“Since it’s just a simple celebration, why do you need this kind of medicine?”

“It seems that to treat your abnormal personality, you have to use strong medicine, just like your name becomes charred.”

Senior Misaka’s hair has begun to sparkle with electric sparks, blue and white visual effects cover her whole body, and silver snakes made of electric current fly around her.

Natsume Enako looked a little scared, the hissing sound of the electric current was like a pre-battle notice, is it going to break out in this poor student dormitory again? A brutal battle of ability users.

Inexplicably worried about the household appliances in the whole building and the laptop she just bought, but she couldn’t care so much. Natsume Enako protected Uiharu-san and Saten-san behind her, and showed a fearless spirit of sacrifice on her face.

Looking at this scene in front of her, Natsume Enako had a different idea in her mind.

Senior Is the current controlled by Misaka direct current or alternating current?

She remember that Senior Misaka seems to have a move called real lightning strike, which is a pulse discharge generated by the movement of a large amount of electric charge in a short period of time. Lightning can also be considered direct current to some extent.

And Senior Misaka’s railgun seems to use a direct current electromagnetic field.

But in fact, we can’t think so. Alternating current requires a stable change cycle, and the consumption of computing power is much greater than that of direct current. Maybe Senior Misaka just wants to save computing time and energy.

After thinking a lot, Natsume Enako looked at the tense scene in front of her with some nervousness. Fortunately, air is a poor conductor of electricity, so there is no need to worry about accidentally hurting several people here.

The electric shock only remained in the air for a few seconds before it became invisible. The door of the 208 dormitory only lasted for a second under this huge power, and it was broken into pieces in a burst of dust and electric sparks.

The communication device at the door was also affected by this discharge. Before the courier brother could finish his words, Black smoke came out from it, and it was obviously in need of repair.

“Too miserable, no wonder the Dorm Supervisor kept stressing not to use ability in the dormitory.” Natsume Enako said with emotion.

If Natsume Enako faced Senior Misaka’s powerful discharge, without Shirai’s convenient space movement ability, the better way to deal with it would be to create an ice layer or a pseudo-AT force field.

Although the ice layer can also block electric shock, it can also conduct electricity when it is polluted or encounters very strong high voltage electricity. No matter how you think about it, it is definitely not able to stop Senior Misaka of one billion volts.

If it is a pseudo-AT force field, the air around it can be transferred by ability to quickly raise and lower the temperature, taking away the current in the air. If the ability is calculated quickly enough, can it be immune to electric shock?

In fact, not only electric shock, but all materialized attacks should be blocked, so it looks not much different from the AT force field. (From a reader’s post, she don’t know if it is feasible, and she am soliciting opinions)

As long as it rotates fast enough, the electric shock will not hit me, Natsume Enako thought so.

The battle is still going on. Since the Dorm Supervisor is not present, the battle has begun to move from the dormitory to the corridor. If Senior Misaka and others can repair the door and communication device before the Dorm Supervisor comes back, then there may be a chance to escape.

“Senior Misaka and others are okay, making such a big noise.” Uiharu-san said with some uneasiness, and looked at the smoke and door fragments on the ground with concern.

“It’s okay, the Dorm Supervisor is not in the dormitory now.” Natsume Enako comforted, but it was not clear whether the Dorm Supervisor would be okay after returning.

“Stop and don’t run, don’t use your cheating ability.” Senior Misaka declared angrily, with electric light all over her body, like an angry Pikachu.

“Sister is really too much, she obviously used such a strong electric shock.” Shirai-san appeared at the end of the corridor, sighed and said helplessly.

The super ability battle in the corridor became more and more intense. Shirai-san was like a cunning fox, always appearing suddenly in the blind spot of Senior Misaka’s vision. Senior Misaka could sense the bioelectric signals on Shirai-san, so she could find Shirai-san in the first time.

“Natsume-san, aren’t you going to stop it?” Saten Ruiko-san said hesitantly, looking out her head to observe the fight between the ability users outside the dormitory.

“Yeah, I should have gone to stop the fight.” Natsume Enako woke up from her dream and hurriedly ran between the two people, but ended up bumping into Shirai-san who teleported over.

“What are you trying to do with your bun-head!” Shirai-san stood up with her teeth bared. Before she could say anything more, she saw Senior Misaka approaching from behind.

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The weather was sunny and cloudless. Shirai-san was absent from the daily activities of the Discipline Committee on this day.

In the Discipline Committee Branch 177, Natsume Enako and Uiharu-san gathered in front of the computer, her eyes piercing as she watched the surveillance video in the computer.

“Another bizarre case of missing bicycles.” Natsume Enako’s eyes sparkled, as if she saw hope for solving the case.

“Not counting Natsume-san’s bicycle disappearance case, six similar cases have occurred recently. Most of the missing bicycles were expensive high-end bicycles, and the positioning systems in the vehicles were also destroyed by humans.”

Uiharu-san played several surveillance videos of bicycles moving strangely on her own. It looks like the two wheels of the bicycles are rolling automatically, but the pedals are not moving at all, which is very similar to Natsume Enako’s situation.

“Then the other party’s goal is very clear, which is to steal expensive bicycles and make profits.” Natsume Enako nodded, staring at the surveillance video, and said affirmatively.

“Aren’t there six cases? Why are there only five surveillance videos here?” Natsume Enako asked in confusion after counting the video windows on the computer.

“Because when this case happened, all the surveillance equipment near the crime scene was under repair, so no surveillance videos were taken, and we couldn’t get any useful information.” Uiharu-san explained.

“And this case is also very different from the previous ones. The bicycle lost this time is very ordinary. The price is about one-eighth of Natsume-san’s bicycle. It is also the only bicycle that is not that expensive.”

Uiharu-san frowned in confusion. Obviously, she couldn’t figure out why these thieves would go back for a bicycle that was worthless.

Natsume Enako looked at the information of the person who reported the case, and there were two photos on it.

One was a boy with a black hedgehog hairstyle, wearing an ordinary male high school uniform, and the other was a photo of the lost bicycle.

“The person who reported this case was Kamijou Touma, and he said he lost it during a supermarket sale. He remembered that he locked it at the time, but the bicycle and the lock disappeared strangely.” Uiharu thought for a while and said.

“I see.”

Natsume Enako looked at the figure in the photo thoughtfully. She was a little familiar with the guy in the photo. She was the male protagonist of Magical Index, the legendary Fantasy Slayer.

She didn’t expect that he also lost his bicycle.

“Based on the analysis of multiple crime scenes, it can be roughly determined that the other party’s crime scene is in this area of ​​the seventh school district. Except for a small part of the commercial street, the surrounding area is basically student dormitories and faculty dormitories.”

Uiharu-san pressed the keyboard a few times, and most of the areas on the seventh school district map on the computer began to gradually go out, and finally only a small area was left.

“At the same time, I also monitored several second-hand trading websites on the Internet. If there is information about similar bicycles for sale, I can know it first.” Uiharu-san added.

“It’s amazing, Uiharu-san, your computer skills are too strong.” From someone who only knows how to browse forums and play games on the computer.

Natsume Enako wrote down the area on the computer, and silently regarded this area as the club’s field trip area in the next few days.

By the way, Senior Natsume Enako did a great job in the first club activity. She has applied for a special page on the urban legend website. Now she just needs to submit an investigation report to the president.

“There is one thing I’ve always been concerned about. Shirai-san took a leave of absence today and didn’t come to the branch. Was she punished for what happened yesterday?” Uiharu-san asked worriedly after turning off all the surveillance videos on the computer.

“Yes, the Dorm Supervisor was very angry when she came back. Senior Misaka and Shirai-san were punished to clean the entire school swimming pool.”

Natsume Enako recalled the majestic look of the Dorm Supervisor and trembled a little. When using ability, never demolish the house. This is a taboo.

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