A Scientific Urban Detective

After finishing shopping, Lin Wuming prepared to return.

He bought quite a few things on this trip to the supermarket, but it was nothing to Lin Wuming's telekinesis. If he wasn't worried about attracting too much attention, he could even have levitated the three full shopping bags around him, using telekinesis to carry them along with him.

To keep a low profile, Lin Wuming honestly held a paper bag in his arms, while the two large plastic bags hung on the handles behind the wheelchair, fully loaded.

Even so, his appearance attracted the attention of many people, and some kind-hearted people even came forward to ask if he needed help, but of course, Lin Wuming politely declined them all.

"Tsk, if this goes on, I'm going to get used to this state," Lin Wuming muttered to himself. "It feels like sitting in a wheelchair for the rest of my life wouldn't be inconvenient..."

Telekinesis is really too useful!

Chuckling softly to himself, Lin Wuming left the supermarket, ready to embark on his return journey; then he realized something was wrong.

——The scene outside the supermarket had changed!

The scene before him was so unfamiliar that Lin Wuming began to doubt his own memory.

"That's not right, I clearly saw it before I came in, there was a bank across from the supermarket entrance..."

But at this moment, before his eyes was a lush green park.

Soon, Lin Wuming understood—the large supermarket had more than one entrance, and he had obviously gone to another exit.

He took out the supermarket floor plan from his phone, and Lin Wuming quickly verified this and determined his location.

"Very good, as long as I go counterclockwise along the road outside the supermarket, I can quickly return to the entrance I came from, and then I can return the way I came along the planned route," Lin Wuming nodded, driving his wheelchair forward.

A few minutes later, the wheelchair drove into the park's green space, and Lin Wuming, as expected, got lost.

"Okay, I really shouldn't have been so clever..." Looking at the lush bushes around him, Lin Wuming sighed, opened the phone map, and began to study the route again.

Returning to the supermarket entrance, such a simple route, shouldn't have been difficult for Lin Wuming, but while he was walking and checking the map, he suddenly realized that going through the park's green space could save some distance, taking a shortcut to reach the apartment faster.

So, Lin Wuming immediately changed his route and plunged into the city park.

Then he lost his way in this beautiful and intricate park path.

As a modern urban youth, Lin Wuming was the type of person who couldn't distinguish between east, west, north, and south even before he transmigrated. It was okay when there were landmarks or road signs to guide him, but the park was full of trees and bushes, a natural landscape, which in his opinion was no different from a maze.

By the way, Lin Wuming couldn't distinguish the types of trees either, so all kinds of green plants looked almost the same to him.

"Okay..." Lin Wuming gave up and put away his phone. "In any case, I'll leave this maze first and return to the civilized world."

At least in this park, there were road signs indicating the location of the exits. Don't be clever, just follow them honestly.

"Next time, I must avoid places like parks..." Lin Wuming silently recorded this lesson in his heart. "Also, I have to get the electronic payment account done as soon as possible."

The mobile phone navigation software has an automatic navigation function, but you must open a membership and purchase the corresponding service to use it. Lin Wuming has not yet opened an electronic payment account—his mobile phone was bought with the help of Yomiikawa Aiho—so he cannot purchase this service, which ultimately led to the current predicament.

...

"Shopping, then strolling in the park, the target is really leisurely, not like the escaped experimental subjects we encountered before."

"Don't be careless, don't forget that we almost lost the target when he entered the park just now."

"We don't have enough manpower, and we can't get too close."

"Don't worry, the boss has already called the lackeys, the shortage of manpower has been filled."

The "Hunters" who were observing in the dark communicated with each other.

At this time, the leader of the "Hunters" issued an order: "Get ready to capture the target at the exit of the park."

"Understood! But boss, we don't have anyone near that exit."

"Just get over there, there's enough time," the hunter leader said. "Let the lackeys keep an eye on the target, his wheelchair can't run too fast."

The "lackeys" they were talking about were a specialty of Academy City—groups of delinquent teenagers, that is, hoodlums.

According to the organizational structure, each dark side organization has several subordinate organizations to cooperate with, and things like logistics support and errands can be handed over to them.

Those affiliated organizations are the main components of the so-called "armed powerless groups."

The "Hunters" of course also have such affiliated organizations, which are just right for use at this time to fill the manpower shortage.

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In Academy City, where students are the main residents, "delinquent teenagers" are a fairly common "phenomenon." Not all of them are necessarily harmful. Many times, they are like background boards or scenery, coexisting peacefully with other ordinary citizens, without interfering with each other.

They are actually more like a non-mainstream subculture group, rather than a reserve yakuza group like "Bōsōzoku."

In broad daylight and in public, as long as you don't actively provoke them, you generally won't be targeted by the delinquents on the roadside...

Such "common sense" was told to Lin Wuming by Yomiikawa Aiho during casual chats, so when he noticed the group of delinquent teenagers wandering and entrenched in the park, Lin Wuming didn't pay much attention to them, pretending not to see them, and drove towards the exit on his own.

However, the delinquents he left behind exchanged glances with each other, and their eager expressions became more and more intense.

As a subordinate organization, there are also rewards and remuneration for cooperating with the dark side to complete tasks. In the world of the dark side, the simple creed of the able get more is practiced. If you want to earn more, you have to make more contributions.

——Since this cripple in front of us is the target of the "Hunters", then if we take him down and hand him directly to the boss and the others, we should be able to get more rewards, right?

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

Because the mission targets of the "Hunters" are generally not characters with strong combat power—the experimental subjects who escaped from the laboratory are often better at hiding and running away; so finding them is often more difficult than capturing them.

As long as the target can be locked, even "powerless" hoodlums can easily take them down.

In the past, the "Hunters" were nearby, so the hoodlums of course didn't dare to snatch prey from them; but this time, there happened to be no "Hunters" near the mission target!

That's why it's said to be a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

Furthermore, the mission target is a cripple in a wheelchair, which further reduces the difficulty of capture.

...The "Hunters" didn't tell these temporary workers that the target was a level 3 strong esper.

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