Temperature Control in Academy City

Thinking of this, Natsume felt relieved.

Chapter 446: Losing Patience

The subtle changes in the body were worrying, but the overly optimistic girl didn't care.

In her inherent concept, she rarely spends extra energy on unimportant things, and may even deliberately avoid some troublesome but avoidable problems.

I don't know how this concept was formed, but Natsume is somewhat at ease with this kind of life. This also causes her true will to be often affected by this kind of self, until the anxiety in her heart makes her unable to sleep.

However, what keeps Natsume awake at night is probably that the environment on which she depends for survival has been destroyed, or that she has been affected by the experiences of her friends.

"By the way, that Senior Sister Severon is exaggerating."

"She was able to eat mackerel dishes until she cried, and she even had such a touching expression. It seems like she and Saten-san can really get along well."

The girl with the bun hair, who was good at finding and spreading gossip, raised her eyebrows and thought of something. A thoughtful expression appeared on her face.

I apologize for making such casual comments about Saten-san's work, but Natsume-san is probably used to the exquisite lunches prepared by the maid, and she doesn't have much interest in mackerel, so she thought it was just an ordinary meal.

But the more this happens, the more people care about the senior's exaggerated behavior. It seems that senior Severin really loves her hometown.

The lights in the Tokiwadai student dormitory were on, and a young girl was sitting quietly at a desk.

The unfolded notebook was filled with incomprehensible Martian language, and a bank card with insufficient balance was casually placed in the corner of the desk, as if telling some sad story.

By the way, there is also an Indian poker card in Natsume Sonoko's hand.

I've heard a lot of news about Indian Poker recently, some good and some bad.

After returning to the dormitory in the evening, I asked Shirai about the attack case in the afternoon and almost confirmed the rumors from Saten.

Moreover, it seems that there are more than one similar cases, and the incidence has turned into a high level.

According to a ponytailed discipline committee member who happened to pass by the place where more than a dozen cases occurred, Indian Poker seemed to have finally attracted the attention of the Seventh School District Security System.

It is not yet known what measures the guards will take against Indian Poker, but the guard branches of one or two school districts are simply unable to solve the problem of Indian Poker that has already spread.

If we want to solve the circulation of such products, only the order of the General Council is effective.

Having said that, this card really seems to have the ability to interfere with other people's thoughts.

It can instigate users with weak willpower to act, and even give people the courage to violate the rules of Academy City.

Thinking of this, a curious girl blinked and began to study the card.

But it was still the same as before, she couldn't find any abnormal situation inside. The saying that "every profession has its own expertise" also applies to people with special abilities.

Even when she turned her thoughts to the aim phase perspective, she could not find any useful intelligence.

"According to what Shokuhou-senpai said, the Indian Poker is most likely used to develop abilities, but I can't find any trace of a force field."

Slightly puzzled, Natsume-san had exhausted his patience again.

Chapter 447 Influence

The girl who has run out of patience is like the pickled salted fish hanging under the eaves, exuding a strong smell of decadence, but it is sweet.

After all, most people cannot maintain their enthusiasm for things that have not made any progress for a long time. They can only remember them in their hearts and tell themselves that such a thing happened.

But Natsume-san is still a lucky girl with complicated thoughts. After a while, her eyes widened slightly, and it was obvious that she had another idea.

The force field perspective in my mind moved away from the Indian poker in my hand, gradually spreading from a small point to a wider space.

At the same time, in a position parallel to the coordinates of the real world, the aim force field perspective based on the body formed a simple God's perspective. A pair of invisible eyes quietly covered everything, enveloping the entire Tokiwadai student dormitory.

With the body as an anchor in the real world, Natsume doesn't have to worry about not knowing where he is. This is probably the biggest help this small body provides to perception.

Even those who are in a sleeping state are continuously releasing aim fields from their bodies. This is something that they cannot avoid.

If the aim force field has color, then the world in Natsume's head must be colorful.

In fact, the aim field is just a special kind of energy.

Only in the so-called aim phase is there some color of reality, but in essence it is still a poor imitation of the real world by the thoughts of the ability users contained in the force field.

It has long been proven that the AIM force field can contain human thoughts.

This is proven by both the monster that was formed by the gathering of Saten and many powerless people, and the fact that Misaka-senpai was able to manipulate the materialized force field that extended from herself when she entered the state of a partial absolute power user.

However, this unconscious thought is too small, and can only be achieved when a large number of people gather together, or when there are sufficiently powerful individuals.

Let's get back to the point. After expanding his perspective, Natsume inevitably peeked at his classmates and seniors.

If you don't look from another angle, you can only see the part about the aim force field, otherwise you will inevitably be known as a Tokiwadai peeping Tom.

This is also the reason why she is usually very restrained and hardly uses radar to scan her own student dormitory. Natsume does not want to be a pervert, and her goal is to be an excellent young lady.

But even so, the girl with a bun looked a little uncomfortable, probably because of her image as a big sister.

"If there is no apparent problem with the Indian Poker itself, it does not mean there is no problem when it is used."

"This card takes effect when a person is asleep, so in order to detect its problem, this condition may also be met."

With a more serious look on his face, Natsume swept away his previous decadent look and took a deep breath.

She didn't want to slack off all the time, but she didn't want to waste her efforts and her life to be surrounded by endless troubles.

Then you have to manage your time well, try to solve the case while having fun, and achieve a happy ending for all innocent people.

However, since she has thought of this possibility, Natsume is willing to give it a try. She still cares very much about this city and her classmates.

"So there are still so many people awake, even though it's already so late."

"But this is normal. Nowadays, it's rare to see middle school students who go to bed on time."

While thinking about all sorts of things, Natsume was constantly sensing the changes in everyone's aim force field.

She knew that some senior schoolmates had bought Indian poker, so she just needed to observe those senior schoolmates who used the poker while sleeping.

Before they knew it, this kind of card had gradually become popular in their student dormitory.

Although the use of such things is no longer allowed within the Shokuhou faction, one faction obviously cannot represent all students, and there are many opponents and neutral factions.

"The AIM force field released during sleep seems to be a little different from usual. How should I describe it? It is not as peaceful as expected, but more chaotic and disordered. This should be because the brain has no subjective motivation after the consciousness is dormant."

Speculating about something, Natsume is a girl who likes to think.

Even some people with the ability of aim force field system may not be able to observe to such an extent as she can.

Natsume's computing power is also rapidly consumed as time goes by.

In order to cover a certain range and record the changes in the force fields of hundreds of people for a long time, even Natsume found it a bit strenuous. Fortunately, if he really couldn't hold on any longer, he could still rely on Zero.

"what is that?"

Natsume was sitting at her desk in good health, but her expression changed as her thoughts changed. She seemed to have seen some extremely strange phenomena.

In fact, it is not a remarkable phenomenon, it is just a little too abnormal.

The AIM force field during sleep was originally quite chaotic, and the AIM force field of some students in the sleeping state became slightly distorted at the moment of formation, and the originally stable force field characteristics were subjected to unknown impacts.

Only after the force field was completely separated from the body did it gradually return to its original state, as if its own aim force field was being interfered with by something else.

It is almost certain that these students who have distortion phenomena are using Indian Poker.

The next second, some thoughts appeared in Natsume's head.

After all, he is someone who fully understands the importance of aim field to people with special abilities, and the guy with a bun immediately thought of the existence of personal reality.

The aim field emitted unconsciously by people with special abilities is actually a manifestation of personal reality in this physical world.

Personal reality is the ability users' own understanding of the world.

Because the ways of understanding are different, various interference phenomena and methods that are suitable for understanding will appear. This is probably the most popular way of saying personal reality in Academy City.

How can beings like people with special abilities only be understood from the perspective of their thoughts and ideas? Aren't they no different from ordinary people?

This kind of card, called Indian Poker, can not only subtly brainwash the user's brain, but it also secretly affects a person's personal reality.

Once a person's personal reality is distorted, their own abilities will inevitably be affected to varying degrees, especially for those whose abilities have already been fixed.

However, for people in the early stages of developing their abilities, it can play a guiding and corrective role.

And according to some information that Natsume knows, simple brainwashing cannot affect the aim force field or even personal reality, otherwise Shokuhou-senpai would definitely be able to walk sideways, so it must be the influence of the card itself.

Chapter 448: No Extra

The night is dark and the moonlight is faint.

The lonely observer girl is addicted to the interface of nothingness, and her thinking level has reached a superhuman level.

Natsume has maintained excellent adaptability to this strange world that is layered like a domeiji, allowing him to use his perception abilities happily as if nothing had happened.

After observing the abnormalities of his classmates for a while, Natsume let go of the strong vigilance that had arisen in vain.

However, it is not because Natsume has found a solution to this anomaly, but because he found that the ability of this card to interfere with personal reality is too weak, so weak that the aim force field will return to its original state as soon as it leaves the body.

If it is only used for a short period of time, it should not be able to shake an ordinary strong ability user. As students who have developed their abilities to at least level 3, the personal realities of the Tokiwadai girls must be relatively stable.

Of course, since Natsume's current observation objects are all his own classmates, he is unable to collect data on those with lower-level abilities or those without abilities.

This weakness is most likely due to the insufficient capacity of the card, which is unable to accommodate something powerful enough to even engulf the user's personal reality.

In the meantime, just think a little bit about where this card came from and how it was made.

This factor that interferes with the changes in other people's aim force fields and causes chaos in personal reality is likely to come from the manufacturer of the card, that is, the gifted dreamer himself.

This kind of card might have invaded the aim field and personal reality of the gifted dreamer, and then simulated and recorded the gifted dreamer's personal reality through technological means.

At the same time, when the card is used, it will be fed back to the user through dreams or other means.

In other words, in addition to learning from other people's experiences and knowledge, this kind of card also allows people to learn about other people's personal realities, which is really worth the money.

Probably only when two personal realities collide will the user's aim field become unstable.

Then the factor within the card that interferes with the user's personal reality is naturally the simulated and recorded personal reality of the gifted dreamers.

It is associated with the fact that this product comes from a capacity development organization called Talent Studio.

Then perhaps we can speculate that the previous talent room might have used this kind of card to develop abilities, or simply used cards to guide the direction of ability development.

Influenced by this thought, another thing appeared in Natsume's mind, that is, the fantasy hand that has appeared frequently recently.

Although the Fantasy Hand has been compared to this type of card many times, the angle has changed a bit this time.

The Fantasy Hand uses brain waves of the same frequency to achieve shared capabilities and computing power. In fact, the guy who acts as the master brain can take absolute control of everyone's brain without losing control, and obtain multiple abilities that are generated by the mixture of multiple personal realities.

So what if there is a gifted dreamer whose cards are widely spread, and her personal reality can also play a role in entangling the personal reality of the corresponding card user?

Perhaps it is possible to temporarily or permanently assimilate other people's personal realities in a way similar to brain wave synchronization, assuming the position of the mastermind in the Fantasy Hand incident, and then a foreseeable future would emerge.

And unlike the Fantasy Hand, the product formed with the help of Indian Poker is likely to result in a single, huge personal reality, rather than a patchwork of multiple other people's personal realities mixed together.

The single personal reality that was created at that time was a product of the assimilation (fusion) of the personal realities of a large number of people with special abilities. And a person with such a personal reality is likely to become a powerful monster with multiple ways of interfering with his abilities.

If the degree of fusion is larger and more serious, it can even reach the level of replicating the interference methods of all ability users.

Although it is uncertain whether a single person can master more than two methods of interfering with abilities, if a personal reality is composed of multiple people with abilities, then this possibility will be infinitely magnified.

But then again, once this exaggerated personal reality exists, its existence will inevitably manifest itself in the form of an aim field.

To put it simply, it turns the corresponding card user into a part of the personal reality of the gifted dreamer who provides the card, and they need to be connected to each other in the form of an aim force field and presented to the world.

However, a talented Dream Pather of this level should not exist, and the capacity of the card itself also limits the possibility of assimilation.

The most important thing is that the human body is simply unable to bear the constantly dissipating AIM force field and cannot become something called a force field core.

As long as the AIM force field cannot be stably retained in the material world to form a channel connecting the main brain and the clone, this fusion-like personal reality will not appear.

The fused personal reality will immediately disappear as the aim field returns to the phase, and without the connecting channel, the fusion will naturally not be able to be maintained.

The aim force field energy on the sleeping seniors in front of him also disappeared in the real world immediately after it appeared. It was almost impossible to contact it with some inexplicable main brain, unless it formed a so-called core that could appear stably in reality.

This is probably the biggest difference from the Fantasy Hand. After all, the Fantasy Hand operates based on the principle of brain wave synchronization. The aim force field only serves as a medium rather than a channel, so there is no need to worry about maintaining the connection.

As long as there is no core that can gather the aim force field, the danger is greatly reduced.