Chapter 198: Anti-Human Order Special Attack Magecraft

"Here is joy, no thought of home."

The one being referred to was undoubtedly Haruhi Suzumiya.

The main reason was also that during that endless August, although she could cooperate with herself, she had no way to openly explain to her family, after all, two Haruhi Suzumiyas couldn't possibly appear at the same time, right?

So the Team Leader could only stay at the Guangyang Garden Apartment.

Anyway, according to her, it was just right to keep Itsuki company.

Whether she kept Itsuki company well is hard to say, but during that time she indeed played very happily, not having to care about anything, carefree, not even having parental discipline — this was no longer just fulfilling, it was simply the summer vacation high school students dream of.

Just playing like this, she completely forgot she still had the option to go home.

After Xia Zhi's reminder, she suddenly remembered there was still this matter.

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"Excuse the intrusion……"

At the door of Room 708 on the 7th Floor of Apartment 1-56, Xishan Town, Guangyang Garden, the Team Leader coughed lightly, cleared her throat, and said this.

She ultimately still chose to return here, mainly because today's Summer Vacation Syndrome was too severe; she felt if she went home normally, her family would definitely notice something wrong, she really didn't want them to worry, plus thinking about this situation was just troublesome——

So she decided to stay here one more night.

As for whether it was really like that, who knows; anyway, the Team Leader herself said so, the point wasn't to persuade others, but that she found this reason to persuade herself.

"Drop the formalities, you're not here for the first time, didn't see you this polite before, just go in."

At this time, the youth who had just opened the door urged from the side.

"You know, but Itsuki doesn't know, she doesn't have the memories of the later summer vacation…… at this time, isn't this my first time coming? Of course I have to be a bit more formal!" Haruhi Suzumiya argued confidently; she believed this was exactly the case, Nagato Yuki didn't know about the summer vacation matters.

"……"

"……"

The Literary Girl beside them blinked gently, but said nothing.

She naturally had the summer vacation memories, just that, regarding this, there didn't seem to be any special necessity to explain?

"Even not counting the summer vacation, you've been here before, you came before……" Regarding the Team Leader's confident argument, Xia Zhi didn't even raise an eyelid, reminding her expressionlessly.

"……"

"……"

"Eh? Is that so?"

The girl immediately frowned her slender eyebrows, there was even this kind of thing?

Thinking carefully, it seemed there really was such a thing, but it was so long ago she almost forgot. But this wasn't anything important, she decisively tossed it to the back of her mind, didn't dwell on it.

Walking into Room 708, Haruhi Suzumiya pursed her lips, stood in the entryway examining the placement of indoor slippers, and naturally discovered there were no slippers of hers, immediately pouting a little in dissatisfaction.

Although she also knew, this was what was normal.

Right now she hadn't moved in yet, this house originally shouldn't have any of her things.

However, knowing is knowing, the power of habit is undoubtedly strong; after these several hundred years, perhaps she herself had no perception of it, but this place had already become familiar to the point of being unable to be more familiar.

——Not that this place is like a second home……

——Rather, it should be said, compared to here, her own home is more like a second home……

Changing into a new pair of indoor slippers, Haruhi Suzumiya sat in the Living Room, examining the surroundings' familiar-to-the-point-of-impossible layout and style, lightly exhaled a breath, feeling full of peace of mind. And just at this time, Xia Zhi's voice came over.

"Hurry and call home now, tell them."

Along with the words, a smartphone was handed over from the side, he said calmly——

"After all, you didn't go back last night, if you don't go home tonight either, they'll definitely worry, right?"

"Got it, got it……" The Team Leader wasn't very curious, very casually took his smartphone, agreeing while proficiently swiping to unlock, and also pouted her lips.

Returning to this normal Timeline, that was last night's matter, but at that time it was already very late. So she didn't go back much last night either, but with someone's so-called "Mansion Technique" help, dealt with one night, this morning she was even late.

But the other party's words also made sense, two consecutive days not going home, even if parents are open-minded, they'd probably worry.

Simply using the excuse of "staying overnight at a known close girl's house" might not be enough to get by.

The Team Leader thought seriously, and also felt a bit troubled.

"How about I help you make this call?" At this time, Xia Zhi seemed to have perceived her struggle, very thoughtfully suggested, indicating he could do it for her.

"Don't you dare——" Haruhi Suzumiya looked at him with a face full of vigilance, as if realizing what he wanted to do: "If you make this call, that would really mess things up! And you'd definitely say something like 'your daughter is in my hands' that kind of easily misunderstood thing!"

"How would that happen, I'm not some troll……"

The youth defended himself with a face unchanged.

"Hmph, anyway just don't make a sound later." The girl hmphed lightly, then she looked toward Nagato Yuki's direction, said seriously: "Itsuki, come here for a bit…… Right, Ilya come too, help out, in a bit just say there's only you sisters at home, so I'm staying here one more night."

"Tch."

Discovering the Team Leader's vigilance was high, the Magician couldn't help but tch.

Haruhi Suzumiya glared at him once, but didn't say anything more, instead very proficiently input her home phone number on the smartphone's screen.

It could be seen, she had already used this smartphone many times, was very clear on the operation method……

This wasn't one of those currently popular classic color-screen phones, which only starting this year gradually replaced black-and-white screens to become mainstream, and phones each with their own characteristics——for example Samsung with flip covers, MOTO with V3, NOKIA with bricks——but a large-screen Smartphone that would only appear in the future.

Just despite operating very familiarly while inputting, however very quickly, Haruhi Suzumiya got stuck again, her body as if frozen, paused for half a moment before raising her head:

"Th-that, what's my home phone number again?"

"……"

"……"

You really are a filial daughter.

The Magician's expression became very playful, just staring straight at her like that.

"Wh-what are you on about, it's been this long, I forgot, is that not allowed?"

Haruhi Suzumiya, stared at by him, felt both embarrassed and somewhat lacking in confidence: "It's been so long since I called my home phone, of course I wouldn't be able to remember it."

Even during the looping summer vacation, she needed to cooperate with herself, frequently communicating by phone to exchange necessary intelligence — for instance, about what happened yesterday, or about tomorrow's arrangements — in order to ensure a smooth handover between the two of them, so they wouldn't expose themselves by acting inconsistently in many matters.

However, just to be safe —

This wasn't done through the home landline or her parents' cell phones either.

But directly through a certain someone's Magic Formula.

The result was this strange situation: because she hadn't had occasion to use the home phone for far too long, she discovered those numbers had already been completely deleted from her mind, and she couldn't recall them no matter how she tried.

Conversely, the SOS Brigade members' phone numbers she remembered very clearly, because during the vacation she often had to call them, telling them to come out.

After smoothly resolving this problem, the Team Leader didn't delay, quickly organizing her words and dialing the home phone. The communication process wasn't that difficult either; after confirming she was indeed staying overnight at a close female friend's house, the other side was still relatively open-minded and agreed.

Only, Xia Zhi always felt this perhaps also had to do with Haruhi Suzumiya herself.

Because she was too gloomy, and had never had any friends to speak of; probably starting after elementary school, she became a weirdo, always doing strange things. Moving classroom desks out into the corridor, painting patterns on the school roof with paint, pasting strange talisman papers all over campus...

This kind of inexplicable behavior that also carried a certain neurotic quality naturally caused her, once her reputation spread, to have even fewer friends.

She became more and more gloomy, the whole person unhappy day after day, emitting a strong feeling of impatience and anger no matter who she spoke to...

How to put it, this seemed like she was single-mindedly walking toward the dark side of life.

Her parents naturally saw this and were anxious, but there wasn't much they could do.

Now suddenly discovering that Miss Haruhi seemed to have made friends again, and was returning to the track of a normal high school girl — for this kind of situation, they would certainly be very happy to see it.

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Although Miss Haruhi spoke politely on the surface.

However, she was ultimately too familiar with this place, and quickly entered character, unable to be reserved at all.

For instance, right now: in the living room with the TV on but unwatched, she instead enthusiastically pulled Nagato Yuki into discussing various topics she was interested in; even though many things had already been said more than a few times, she still tirelessly wanted to understand them again.

Nagato Yuki also cooperatively maintained her Information Mage rookie persona, calmly dealing with the Team Leader, packaging the various Information Manipulation-related abilities she possessed into the logical form of spells following a scientific explanatory approach.

Just a few simple sentences could often make Miss Haruhi's eyes light up with excitement.

She even enthusiastically pulled Nagato Yuki, wanting her to give a demonstration.

The latter didn't mind much; anyway, according to the Information Integration Thought Entity's instructions, the observation method had already been changed. Moreover, her abilities were indeed very convenient, able to easily reconstruct the information environment, triggering all kinds of extraordinary abnormal phenomena.

Plus, during Information Manipulation or Information Linkage, she could rapidly chant codes, composed of a string of extremely regular Mors Commands — that is, the commands used when reconstructing environmental information. Those spell-chanting-like movements easily evoked associations with "Wizards" in fantasy novels.

Therefore this Information Mage persona had no problems at all; on the contrary, it became increasingly unshakeable.

As for the real Wizard, she had long since hidden in her own Workshop —

Calculating the harvest from this trip.

At this very moment, the Workshop was undergoing an earth-shaking transformation; on the planar surfaces of every wall, ceiling, and floor in all directions, unknown fluctuations rippled, outlines blurring like waves, proceeding according to some law.

Looking closely, one would discover those were countless tiny micro-modules rotating and spreading out, accompanied by mechanical operating sounds, like a Rubik's Cube endlessly arranging, combining, expanding and splitting.

Not much time passed before the entire Workshop was completely renewed.

Smooth metal surfaces created a space with a strong futuristic sci-fi feel.

Although the surface changes didn't look that great, in reality the entire Workshop had already undergone Nano Expansion, fully taken over by intelligent Gray Gu. Without exaggeration, even the coffee machine Xia Zhi casually left on the workbench had upgraded to a Quantum Crystal + Internet of Things configuration at this point.

It was no longer a mere coffee machine, but a sub-individual under the jurisdiction of the Super AI.

Gray Gu are this brutal, rapidly devouring all matter, consuming matter to copy themselves, then rapidly recombining and transforming into new forms via countless active Nanobots.

Once they lose control, they can inevitably destroy the existing world, civilization, and order across the entire material domain.

As for why they could be brought back, that's actually a normal process: that aircraft from the beginning had long been hijacked and assimilated by Gray Gu, becoming a nano unit... then afterward, was brought away from that time point by Xia Zhi.

Although it seemed like just taking away an aircraft, according to the Nanomachine's Characteristics, plus the Highest Permission he inherently possessed, it was actually equivalent to him copying Gray Gu's achievements.

Incidentally copying a set of the Time Travelers' tech tree data as well.

Mainly an eat-and-take-all approach.

As for the other harvest, naturally it was the last of the three monsters he created; only, this trial that was terrifying in the Time Travelers' eyes... was formless.

Its essence tends toward the Origin of Magic King Goetia — a so-called Magecraft possessing will.

In that endless August, Xia Zhi referenced Fu Fu's Existence Element, and injected his own grasped "Absolute Evil" Concept into that phenomenon of endlessly looping August, and finally, with Miss Haruhi's unconscious permission, obtained a portion of "Divine Power" that made time loop —

Finally creating this Jutsu.

From the History Cycle Law phenomenon of history endlessly looping, mixing in the Beast's nature and the Absolute Evil Concept, causing a deteriorated terrifying phenomenon... that is this Magecraft's essence.

Called "History Cycle Law," also known as "History Periodicity Law" or "History Cycle Theory" — the name tells you what this Magecraft is. It represents the phenomenon where nations or societies in history, after developing to a certain stage, periodically exhibit a kind of regression or repetition.

Those phenomena often manifest as periodic changes in politics, economy, culture, and social structure, as well as the cyclical occurrence of power replacement and social turmoil.

Therefore this Magecraft doesn't have just one manifestation form, but changes appearance according to the "intrinsic incentives of humans destroying humans."

— Bloodline theory, racial discrimination...

— Declining birthrate, anti-intellectualism...

— Carbon emissions, dystopia...

Basically that's it; unrelated to external forces, completely elements humans themselves developed that could lead to self-destruction, materialized. It can be said to be a completely different form from Human Order Incineration Formula's manifestation — another form of special-attack Magecraft against civilization, against Human Order.

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(PS: Is Guangdong having extreme rain this year... (T_T))

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