Chapter 81: The Feasibility of Black Technology...

  "What a hassle." He scratched his head, temporarily rolling up the newspaper in his hand. Jiǔ Mìng arrived at the pizzeria. These days, small eateries like this one were temporarily closed for business, while larger establishments had installed disinfection equipment that customers had to pass through before entering.

  After ordering a pizza, I sat down to read the newspaper. Spores that can infect people with unknown diseases...

  It's not just Lingshui City where this happened, other places have also seen such situations, and some superpowered individuals even ended up in the hospital after inhaling too many of these spores. Fortunately, their physical constitution is better, otherwise they would probably be lying in the morgue by now.

  It didn't take long from the appearance of these spores to the outbreak of unknown diseases, but there have been many deaths. The preventive treatment is still under development, and a preliminary vaccine has been developed. In short, everyone in the city needs to be vaccinated.

  After all, when these micro-particles spores appear, everyone is not prepared, and it is estimated that the number of people who inhale them in the entire city is not small. Even if they inhale a little bit, or even come into contact with their skin, they may be infected with complications brought by these micro-particle spores.

  Fortunately, after vaccination, the number of cases infected with spore-borne diseases has decreased significantly. The incubation period for these spores is three days, so starting from the day they appear, if there are no abnormalities three days later, it's almost nothing to worry about. However, there are also a few cases where the incubation period is longer, so don't wait until something happens, get vaccinated and take medicine early!

  As for whether symptoms of secondary infection will appear... In short, be prepared, these spores like high-temperature environments... just like the human body, so the simplest way to prevent it is to lower the temperature, those down jackets are a good choice.

  Not a bad choice? Jiǔ Mìng raised her eyes slightly, tsk, how did she end up looking at the classifieds section of the newspaper.

  He put the newspaper aside, and after eating his fill here, Jiǔ Mìng took the customized pizza away with him. He noticed that the packaging of the pizza box was now coated with a thin film, very standardized.

  Jiǔ Mìng heard a faint humming noise, looked up and saw the scene that made him slightly open his mouth, "Huh? This is a rocket flying soldier!?"

  He saw several people fully armed with a strange backpack, next to which were two frames with jet nozzles, and they quickly approached the small black dots in the sky that looked like flying birds.

  Because the distance was already very high, Jiǔ Mìng narrowed his eyes and looked carefully for a while but couldn't see any detailed process. What can be confirmed is that the two must have had a fierce battle. These 'rocket flying soldiers' seemed to be specifically used to snipe those 'flying birds'.

  Well, it doesn't seem like a big deal anyway, let's just head back first.

  Found a deserted place, Jiǔ Mìng directly returned to a certain store, what he saw was an empty and spacious hall, standing there, Jiǔ Mìng scratched his head, no one?

  Is it really leaving?

  He let out a breath, put the pizza in his hand on the coffee table, and lay down on the sofa with his eyes closed. The sofa still had some residual warmth, huh? Did he press something?

  Jiǔ Mìng stretched out his hand and fumbled around for a while, and when he saw what he was holding, the corner of his eye twitched involuntarily. This is... underwear!?

  "Oh? You're back? Just in time to help me get this down." The voice came from the bathroom, and Nine Lives turned his head to look over, C.C's head poking out from behind the door, her wet hair still dripping water, staring at the small shorts pinched in Nine Lives' hand...

  "Hand me what you're holding right there."

  "How can you be so calm...... where's your pride!?" Dazed for a moment, Jiǔ Mìng suppressed the gloom in his heart. This kind of thing that could make a girl scream, and you're reacting so calmly?

  "There's no need for that, you're not human, hurry up."

  Blood pressure rose again, fingers snapped, and the little pants in hand drew a parabola.

  "And there's another thing, it should be under the quilt."

  Ahahahaha... Nine Lives' cold voice laughed with a slightly twisted heart, feeling that the lost mood he had when he came back earlier was simply ridiculous... But it's also good this way.

  She sat up with a start and Nine Lives pulled off the blanket that had been carelessly thrown over the sofa.

  ……………

  "Do you want to drink water?" Staring at C.C's seductive red lips, Jiǔ Mìng took out a bottle of mineral water from the refrigerator. Seductive? Obviously it was because she had eaten too much spicy food, but even so, she still monopolized this ultra-spicy pizza by herself.

  This stuff is so addictive that once you start eating it, you can't stop even if you want to, even if you eat too much and feel uncomfortable... In my past life, I almost got into trouble because I secretly ate some of this stuff.

  "Drink some water first, I'll be done eating soon."

  "Whatever."

  Jiǔ Mìng put the ice water in his hand aside and continued to read the book beside him. He really wanted to tinker with a Gauss gun or that high-energy beam gun, even if it was just for fun... But, how delightful!

  This alone is enough for him to take action, he has nothing better to do, at least not currently, idle people always like to make trouble for themselves when they have nothing else to do.

  "Here comes another new weekend, I'm here again!"

  Upon hearing this voice, Kamine knew exactly who it was just by the sound of their footsteps. It was Suzaku's childhood friend, Euphemia li Britannia, filled with an enthusiastic heart. Although she had come to this place and first carefully observed Kamine and C.C., what was she suspicious of by looking at them like that?

  She caught a whiff of the scent of C.C.'s bath products and raised an eyebrow, fortunately she was sitting across from Nine Lives and not next to her. She squeezed in beside Nine Lives and asked, "By the way, it seems like you've been coming over to my place less often lately... is there some kind of reason?"

  "Ah, this one." Jiǔ Mìng didn't even think about it and directly pulled out the newspaper that had been stuffed into the sofa seam by him. "Look at the headline."

  "Huh? Spore infection? Your world is facing a biological crisis?"

  "...is it really okay to curse a good world with such malice? How did you connect the two? This is a spore, not a virus."

  "Don't hit my head in front of others!" A slap opened the nine-lived cat's paw, and Suzumiya Haruhi frowned in dissatisfaction. "Anyway, they're all parasites, looking like there's no difference."

  Jiǔ Mìng shrugged and didn't take it to heart, thinking that this situation had nothing to do with him. As for a solution, he didn't have any relevant biological knowledge, so it was better to leave it to the professionals. The newspaper also specifically stated that ice-type and fire-type ability users only needed to maintain their abilities at the lowest level to be completely immune to these spores.

  Ice-type is a no-brainer, they just need to activate their ability to lower their body temperature to a critical point and those spores will die off. As for fire-type, just raise your own temperature and you're good to go. Although these spores like heat, it doesn't mean they are immune to heat, so if you feel too hot, just attach a weak layer of flames on the surface of your body.

  Pyrokinesis is also very fragile when floating in the air, and it's easy to get burned. The prerequisite for doing so is that you have the control, as long as you don't burn your own clothes. Compared to ice system abilities users who freeze themselves to death, the number of fire system abilities users who burn themselves to death is obviously more.

  "Even if it's said like that, it has nothing to do with me anyway. In any case, that thing definitely won't have any effect on me."

  "Also, let's hurry up and continue the experiment, aiming to complete the product within a month!!" The confident words were met with a helpless sigh from Kurenai, who thought that one month was an impossibly short time.

  A group of students can produce a finished Gauss gun in just two months... even if it's prefixed with "homemade", the finished product will not be associated with "homemade" at all, that is a genuine deadly weapon.

  Haruhi Suzumiya's initial goal was to break through the Terra Firma Cannon within three months, and achieve the High-Energy Beam Gun within a year... Incidentally, she also made those high-energy bombs' byproducts.

  Is this a joke? There's nothing, no knowledge, no parts, no machine tools. If it can be done within a year, then all the scientists in the world might as well kneel down and die.

  This is science, a gradual approach. Let's talk about the unscientific way first. If we're really being rushed by Haruhi Suzumiya, even if it's just for show, it'll be fine as long as we can fool her with some fake goods. And as for the fake goods, I won't have to worry either, I can just find a toy factory and pay them to make some.

  Ensuring the exterior is identical to the real thing, even though it's just a toy.

  Don't rush, this is just the first unscientific step, and the second step... which is almost the last step, to test it in the world of spring, let her try it with her own hands, on the condition that she can't know what's in her hand is actually a Western goods.

  She thinks it's real is enough, in her world, under her will, counterfeit goods can also be corrected (distorted) into genuine goods, this is even blacker than dark technology!

  This method has been explored with the participation of Nagato Tohsaka's friendship, and its feasibility is as high as 99%... The remaining 1% possibility is that Kuzuki Souichirou is simply being honest when he says it's a toy.

  But Jiǔ Mìng really didn't want to do this, alas. Doing so would always make him feel a sense of guilt for deceiving an innocent girl, even if she wasn't actually an innocent girl at all.

  The local scene transformation makes the hall produce a very discordant feeling, to describe it like this, from C.C.'s point of view, it's as if a wall has been demolished, and you can directly see a metal-glossy building in the 'outside world', with a blue sky and white clouds in the background.

  That metal house is the site of Jiǔ Mìng's mysterious shop, and that's all there is to it. Inside, it's empty and bare, with nothing in it, and you have to prepare everything yourself. The things left inside won't be deleted either. Normally, this place is hidden by Jiǔ Mìng, and when needed, just 'pull' it out.

  "Black goods are simply expensive to death." Looking at the various parts on display, Jiǔ Mìng muttered under his breath. For just a house full of 'common' items, they directly chopped off two high-grade high-energy crystals from him, and the remaining ones were temporarily out of stock... Even if it was Jiǔ Mìng himself, he would have to weigh whether he could afford to buy them.