Chapter 27: A Single Steel Pipe

  "What was that noise just now?"

  "The timeline of the two worlds is different, I can communicate normally after adjusting the environment nearby."

  Kadokawa's reply, the timeline is different? The Nine Lives suddenly felt that the phone's function was greatly reduced, and it would have such a situation. If he made a call in another world in the future, it would definitely happen again. As for the mysterious shop, there's no need to worry about it, since it has been around for who knows how long, it wouldn't be affected by something as trivial as a mismatched timeline...

  Or rather, the timeline of the mysterious shop and other worlds has always been 'symmetrical'.

  "So it's like this, I'm seeking help now. Hmm, I accepted a commission and then encountered a very troublesome opponent. Can you help me solve it? I owe you one."

  The girl from another dimension fell silent for a moment, "Okay."

  Jiǔ Mìng let out a sigh of relief, "Great, do you have any special way to break through the defense? I encountered a super turtle shell and almost got bounced to death!"

  Isn't that a bit of an exaggeration?

  Forget it, as long as I can break that white-haired guy's turtle shell, the rest... Without that layer of turtle shell, what is he afraid of?

  "Wait a minute, it's a bit difficult to manipulate information through mobile phone's cross-time and space connection..."

  The chaotic noise started again, information manipulation? What's going on.

  "Find a carrier for ￥% one item……"

  The chaotic noise continued for a full ten minutes before it was intermittently transmitted. Nagato Yuki's intermittent words, the medium?

  He glanced around for a moment and directly pulled out a hollow steel tube with one end being extremely sharp from the medical equipment on one side.

  "Is this okay?"

  "It's okay."

  I don't know how she judged the thing in Jiǔ Mìng's hand through the mask, but since it was possible, that was enough. The steel pipe in Jiǔ Mìng's hand twisted slightly and then returned to normal. "Although I couldn't change its shape, it was fine."

  "Thank you, I won't hesitate if there's anything else I can help with in the future." Having said that, Jiǔ Mìng looked at the thing in his hand.

  Steel Pipe

  [Type: Consumable]

  Attribute: Break Defense

  Usage count: 3

  Quality: Ordinary

  Note: How can such an attribute appear on just a single rusty steel pipe!? This is unscientific!

  Convertible Source Power: 450

  No, it's not ignore defense. Nine Lives shook his head. The attribute of breaking defense is similar to ignoring defense, but the actual difference is not small. According to the game's terminology, ignoring defense means that no matter how high the opponent's defense is, one's own attack will always be effective, whereas breaking defense... only occurs when the attack exceeds the opponent's defense, otherwise it would be forced to 1 point of damage or even 0 damage.

  It's just that this isn't a game, and the meaning of breaking through defenses is closer to the meaning of breaking armor, only slightly higher in level.

  "Note that since it's a trans-temporal information manipulation, this thing is very unstable and can only be used a limited number of times."

  Just as the nine lives were sizing up this steel pipe that had been sealed into a card, Hsi's voice came again, this time to remind... Limited number of uses? No wonder this thing's type wasn't classified under weapons.

  But no need to say three times, once is enough.

  Then the communication was cut off, Jiǔ Mìng put down his phone and stared at the black screen in disbelief. He pressed the power button... but it was out of battery! How could this be? He remembered that the phone's battery had always been kept fully charged when he was using it. Not to mention a 15-minute continuous call, even a 150-minute call wouldn't have been a problem!

  The electricity has been mysteriously and completely consumed!

  Sigh, anyway, as long as the thing is in hand, it's fine. At the same time, Koyomi's vast divine power had another insight into Nagato Yuki's abilities. Cross-dimensional communication was one thing, and this phone could do that, but cross-dimensionally turning an ordinary object in his hand into a 'magic' tool with special effects wasn't something just anyone could do.

  Alas, this emotional debt is getting bigger and bigger.

  "Although I won't hold it against you for taking a sick leave on your own, it's not right to deliberately damage public property." After dawn broke, Ming Tu Zhui Hun looked at the short steel bar that Jiu Ming had forcibly pulled out from the hospital bed with a helpless expression, especially under someone's deliberate gaze.

  That section of rebar has a sharp pointy end that looks really scary, it's meant to stab people to death!

  "Well, it's an emergency... Okay, I had a nightmare and accidentally broke it." The ninth life shrugged his shoulders, feeling that the explanation was unclear. He could see that Dr. Frogface was just complaining about it.

  "Whatever, just don't do it next time." Anyone with eyes can see how much of an excuse Nine Lives' reason is. Can you casually come up with something at this level? Are you teasing me or challenging the lower limit of others' IQ?

  "No need for next time." The steel bar in Jiǔ Mìng's hand was spinning rapidly, creating a faint whistling sound in the air, "OK! This is enough..."

  "What's enough?" The Underworld Soul Chaser looked at the Nine Lives' deadly weapon and said, "With this thing in hand, you must be planning to do something dangerous, right? I'm saying, with your abilities, you shouldn't need such a 'useless' thing, why not throw it away?"

  If you can manually pull down this steel pipe from the sick bed, how can you use such an ordinary product?

  "No way, this thing is not ordinary at all. If someone knew its value, they would cry and beg to buy the 'non-existent' steel pipe from me."

  What happened next was that the long gate of another world, Hifumi, and another white-haired character from a different world who came with an anti-injury plug-in, clashed. Who would be more awesome?

  It should be the former, after all, after seeing Nagato Yuki, she gave Kurenai a kind of 'omnipotent' feeling, and could even move to the mysterious store based on the location of a mobile phone. This is already considered a transcendent standard, that white-haired one can't do such high-difficulty and technical things... The gap is revealed here!

  It's just a white cat!

  "...Looking at the steel bar in Jiǔ Mìng's hand, Mìng Tú Zhui Hún shook his head, feeling a sense of palpitations every time he looked at the sharp tip of the steel bar."

  "By the way, can the doctor say something about her physical condition?"

  Kazakiri glanced at Misaka 1, who was sitting quietly over there. As his gaze shifted away, Misaka 1 seemed to sense Kazakiri's gaze and slowly turned her head, expressionlessly staring back at him.

  He curled up the corners of his mouth, and Jiuming withdrew his gaze. No matter how he looked at it, it was still unsettling...

  "I'm starting to suspect you're some kind of ignorant invader, not even understanding the basics of Academy City." Shaking his head, Mei Misaki's expression was one of exasperation. "Let's go, we'll talk somewhere else."

  Intruder of the suffocating kind? In some ways, you're right, but he's more like a high-end intruder who says he crossed over from another world, Academy City?

  No wonder most of the people seen on the main streets here are students, with a glance, he saw almost ten different types of school uniforms!

  "Let me tell you, that kid's abilities are quite something to behold. After all, she is one of the seven Level 5 espers in Academy City, ranked third strongest, and known as the 'Electromaster' with her 'Railgun'."

  "Hmm... Seven people? The Seven Heavens? The third-ranked Railgun, the Seven Heavens? Hmm, this cute-looking girl actually has such a title? Thinking of Misaka Mikoto's appearance, since she's a clone, her original body must be exactly the same too."

  "What's wrong with you?"

  Nothing, then ask... previously I met a white hair, which one should it be?

  "White hair? It's wrong to badmouth others behind their backs."

  "Alright then, it's just a sissy with white hair and red eyes."

  "Hey! That's even more exaggerated!"

  "Hmph! I haven't even reached the point of being taken advantage of by him, yet I still have to pretend to praise him behind his back." Jiǔ Mìng rolled his eyes, thinking that Bái Máo's mental state needed electrotherapy.

  @Yang Yongxin!

  "That 'Super Electromagnetic Cannon' thing... what's her name, Mikoto something? The one who can release electricity? Human Pikachu?" A certain junior high school girl suddenly felt a chill run down her spine.

  "...I won't say anything more about how you've been treating that child. I'll go organize some documents for you, just wait."

  The frog-faced doctor shook his head, the conversation with him was quite casual, but that unyielding attitude was also revealed to be quite firm. Ordinary advice was of no use, and the best way was to let him complete the commission between Uiharu 1 and him.

  "By the way, what's this 'entrustment' between you two? It shouldn't be some kind of business secret, should it?"

  "It's nothing, just helping her find her body and meet in person."

  "You'd better be careful then, it's not easy to get into the school she's in." The frog-faced doctor kindly reminded Jiǔ Mìng.

  "Hah! Sneaking into school isn't something I've done for the first time." Jiǔ Mìng smiled lightly, indicating that sneaking into school to find someone was something he had experience with.

  "I think we should inform the disciplinary committee in advance... no, the security guard would be more suitable." The frog-faced doctor was torn, saving Misaka Mikoto was his duty as a doctor, but leaving her here with Nine would be... if he hadn't seen what she did, he would have reported it to the police already.

  "For ordinary people, it's just a matter of an instant in my hands. The number isn't the key, but for those with abilities... this method should be effective against shape-shifting monsters."

  "Hey! Ability users are human too, they're all students. Be careful, I don't want this place to suddenly have a lot more patients."

  "Hmm, Doctor, if you're bothered, I can make it so they don't need to come here... Haha, just kidding, I'm a pacifist." Seeing the frog-faced doctor's twitching expression, Jiu Ming smiled, "Don't worry, I won't do that."