A Scientific Urban Detective

“So… what should we do next?” Having finally found a suspicious target, Kozaku Mii frowned, asking with some distress, “Go straight up, or notify headquarters? Or find a security guard teacher nearby?”

Disciplinary Committee members don't actually have the authority for surprise searches in off-campus areas, but under normal circumstances, citizens would choose to cooperate and wouldn't be so fussy.

Kozaku Mii is the nominal leader, but in essence, she's still a rookie, and she's not confident when she encounters this kind of situation.

“Just go over and ask him to open the box for inspection, isn't that enough?” Lin Wuming said.

Lin Wuming was just suggesting a routine procedure: “Everyone does it this way.”

Kozaku Mii nodded: “That makes sense.”

So she took the lead and walked towards the man wearing the white coat…

“No! Absolutely can't open it!” The man hugged the briefcase in his arms, looking nervous and wary, “Even if you really are Disciplinary Committee members, you can't open it!”

“What do you mean even if we really are…” Kozaku Mii pointed to her armband, “If you don't believe me, you can log in to the Disciplinary Committee website to check and verify. But before that, please open the box for us to inspect. Don't worry, it won't take up too much of your time, and we won't touch anything inside—as long as there are no prohibited items inside.”

But the man hugged the briefcase even tighter.

“It seems…” Kozaku Mii pushed up her glasses, a sharp light flashing in her eyes, “There really is something hidden inside that can't be discovered?”

“Just snatch the box and check it,” Hōzuki Tōmi said from the side, her hands already wrapped with ribbons, ready to draw her sword at any time.

“Hey, are you really Disciplinary Committee members?” The man became even more nervous, suspecting that he had encountered robbers.

Suddenly, he felt a lightness in his arms, as if the briefcase had lost its weight.

“Huh?” The man in the white coat quickly looked down, only to find that the briefcase was still safely held in his arms, heavy and no different from before.

—How strange, was that just an illusion?

“Hey,” Lin Wuming suddenly called out to him, “After getting a large sum of money, what do you plan to do?”

“Huh? What?” The man in the white coat was stunned for a moment, a little confused.

“As expected…” Lin Wuming sighed softly—they were mistaken, this man was probably misunderstood.

Just now, Lin Wuming used his Nen ability to weigh it, and that briefcase only weighed 7.42 kilograms, which didn't match the weight of 100 million yen… at least, 100 million yen couldn't all be in there.

Then Lin Wuming very suddenly tested him, but the man showed no reaction to the keyword “money”.

It can be further judged that the briefcase does not contain cash. Or, the man himself doesn't know what's inside.

“What are you guys doing here?”

Suddenly, a figure wearing a dark blue uniform reached out and pressed on Lin Wuming's shoulder.

Looking back, it turned out to be a four-person security guard team, who had arrived here at some point.

Probably noticing the conflict that was happening here, the security guard teacher stepped forward to ask about the situation.

Kozaku Mii briefly explained the situation.

“Huh? 100 million yen in cash?” The man in the white coat immediately shouted, “What a joke, how could I possibly have that much money…”

“Then this briefcase…”

Not only Kozaku Mii, but the security guard teachers who came over also became alert after noticing the briefcase—it wasn't just similar to the briefcase that appeared in the surveillance footage, it was exactly the same!

Kozaku Mii and the other two only heard the description from the communicator, but these four security guard teachers had just left the Ginko Insurance Company, they had seen the surveillance video with their own eyes, so they were even more certain.

“We must check it!”

Seeing that the security forces had spoken up, the man in the white coat dared not resist any longer. On the one hand, he trusted these uniformed security guards even more, as for the three clumsy young men and women, he couldn't believe that they were really Disciplinary Committee members—at least, Disciplinary Committee members couldn't possibly do something like “robbery in the street”.

The man in the white coat still hugged the briefcase tightly: “I can accept opening the box for inspection, but it must be done in a vacuum and low-light laboratory environment.”

According to his description, the box contained biological samples that he personally developed and cultivated, which could not be exposed to the air casually.

At this point, Kozaku Mii also realized that they might have mistaken the target and misunderstood him.

She noticed that Lin Wuming had been keeping his distance and hadn't stepped forward to snatch the box, so she quietly moved closer: “Wuming, have you discovered anything?”

“The weight of the box is wrong, it doesn't feel like it contains 100 million yen in cash,” Lin Wuming said.

“You should have said that earlier!” Kozaku Mii couldn't help but shout.

“No, I only just figured it out,” Lin Wuming said, “And, I'm also very curious about what's inside the box that can block your superpower.”

“You're too cunning, Wuming!”

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In Academy City, it's not difficult to find a qualified laboratory environment. With the security forces taking the lead, the group quickly found a suitable location nearby.

In the dim light, the silver-white briefcase was placed in an experimental box that simulated a vacuum environment and opened remotely by a robotic arm.

Unsurprisingly, there was indeed no money in the box.

In fact, almost the entire inside of the box was filled with a flexible rubber material, leaving space for only one test tube in the very center, and the test tube stored the biological sample that the man in the white coat was talking about.

This shows that he didn't lie.

Kozaku Mii apologized to him very awkwardly.

“No wonder I couldn't see through this box,” After returning to Lin Wuming and Hōzuki Tōmi, Kozaku Mii complained, “It turns out this box is solid!”

In fact, she had seen all the contents of the box from the beginning, but because she failed to recognize the essence of the contents, it led to misjudgment.

The security guard teacher also apologized to the man in the white coat and thanked him for cooperating with the investigation.

The man in the white coat waved his hands repeatedly, meaning he didn't blame them: “If it weren't for the special nature of this sample, which can't be opened casually, I wouldn't have refused your investigation…”

The leading security guard teacher suddenly asked: “Just consider me nosy, can you explain what kind of thing this biological sample is?”

Checking dangerous items is also one of the duties of the security forces. Seeing that the man in the white coat was so careful in preserving the sample in the test tube, her professional instinct made her ask this question.

She was just worried that the test tube contained some kind of dangerous bacteria or virus.

“No, no, no, it's not a dangerous thing at all!” The man in the white coat quickly shook his head, “It's just that its lifespan is relatively short. After it comes into contact with light and air and enters an active state, it will wither and decompose within an hour… This is a sample that I finally managed to cultivate, and I'm preparing to use it to attract investors, how can I let it die so casually?”

“Artificially synthesized cells?”

“To be precise, it's a chimera formed by combining a certain fungus and a herbivore's cells,” The man in the white coat corrected, “It hasn't been officially named yet.”