A Scientific Urban Detective

Hufeng Toumi proactively took over the responsibility of treating everyone, and Lin Wuming shrugged, not refusing. He just noted it in his mind that he would save some cash for emergencies when the next scholarship money was issued.

Although it was Hufeng Toumi treating everyone to drinks on Lin Wuming's behalf, she wasn't considerate enough to cater to everyone's preferences and tastes.

So, she completely followed her own preferences and bought five bottles of the same type of honey yuzu tea—the sweetest one on the market.

Because they were very interested in this case, Misaka Mikoto and Kinuhata Saiai did not leave immediately, but chose to act with the three members of Judgment.

Misaka Mikoto still used electromagnetism to carry the two metal cans of different sizes, which served as important evidence, hovering around her like small satellites.

Lin Wuming's Nen ability could do the same thing, but his mind was not on this matter, and he only regretted in his heart—that he didn't bring one or two Gekota-themed items when he went out today.

It was a pity that the savings he had invested with great effort could not be used in time.

Back on the shopping street, the ultra-modern art metal cans hovering around Misaka Mikoto attracted a lot of attention.

"Let's send the evidence to the branch first?" Kofuku Meiwei suggested, feeling a little inconvenient to swagger through the city with such a large metal object.

"That's right." Misaka Mikoto nodded. The reason why she was so persistent in personally carrying these two metal cans was to participate in the subsequent investigation.

After all, the culprit was the dangerous and powerful "Bomber," whether it was out of pursuit of challenge and excitement, or to protect the safety of Academy City, Misaka Mikoto had reason to join in the fun.

However, after being in contact for a while, she realized that since Lin Wuming and Kofuku Meiwei didn't refuse her help, there was no need to continue holding this "mission item."

In addition, Misaka Mikoto and Kinuhata Saiai were also very interested in the Judgment's branch location, and now that they had the opportunity to see it, it was also very good.

At this time, it was the busiest time of the afternoon, and the shopping street was even more crowded with people. Ordinary citizens were not affected by the "serial bombing incident" and continued to enjoy their peaceful daily lives as before.

On the road ahead of Lin Wuming and his group, several elementary school-aged children ran over laughing and playing, kicking a soda can under their feet as they ran.

"It seems that even in Academy City, there are such games." Misaka Mikoto said with emotion.

The simple, even rudimentary, game of "kicking the can" could be quite fun if the atmosphere was right.

It could be said that these were just children playing games normally. If Misaka Mikoto hadn't suddenly said something, it probably wouldn't have attracted people's attention, but Lin Wuming keenly noticed a trace of disharmony.

Kicking the can was the most common game. Although playing this game on a crowded road was not recommended, generally no one would say much.

At most, they would think that the noise made by the empty can was a bit annoying...

"There is no noise." Lin Wuming finally realized where the disharmony was.

Although the boys were kicking the can, there was no clanging sound that was characteristic of empty cans. Moreover, what they were doing was more accurately described as "pushing" the can with their feet.

Although the boys were running and jumping, the can on the ground was rolling very steadily.

It was as if... no matter how hard the boys kicked it, they couldn't change its direction of movement.

Hearing Lin Wuming's words, Hufeng Toumi also noticed the situation over there: "That can seems to be very heavy."

That's right, as Hufeng Toumi said, the can gave people the feeling of being "heavy," as if it were filled with liquid... no, not just liquid, it might as well be a solid iron bar.

Kofuku Meiwei pushed up her glasses: "There is something in the can, but that kind of structure... I haven't seen it before."

Her "clairvoyance ability" was limited by her own knowledge and experience. There were many things that she could see, but she couldn't identify them.

"But that can has already been opened. The pull tab is open," Kinuhata Saiai also said.

The conversation between the few people was quick, and the children playing the can-kicking game were also running fast. Although the "solid" can never left the ground, the speed at which it rolled was beyond imagination, and it had a kind of unstoppable feeling, just like a heavy truck, once it started, it was difficult to stop easily.

In the blink of an eye, it had come in front of them.

Misaka Mikoto's bangs suddenly flashed with electricity: "You said..."

Before she could finish speaking, she saw the boys suddenly flying backward as if they had been hit by something.

At the same time, Kinuhata Saiai stepped forward and stood in front of everyone with her arms open.

Seeing that everyone was alert, Misaka Mikoto stopped talking and immediately took action.

Under the impetus of electromagnetic force, the can braked instantly and stopped approaching.

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Then, it exploded.

Lin Wuming saw the power of the "Bomber's" attack for the first time, and it was at such a close distance.

However, this time it did not trigger the "bullet time" under the deadly crisis—because he had noticed something was wrong in advance, Lin Wuming had already taken the lead in using his Nen ability to push away the children who were "kicking the bomb" before entering "bullet time."

Similarly, after the can approached, Kinuhata Saiai discovered the obviously abnormal density of nitrogen inside, and immediately thought of this "high-pressure gas explosion," and decisively stepped forward to deploy defense.

Misaka Mikoto planned to repeat the old trick and try to restrain and limit the power of the explosion again, but unfortunately, there were no metal materials available around her this time, and she could no longer create a large container to seal the explosives like in the park.

So, Misaka Mikoto also saw the terrifying power of a high-pressure gas explosion for the first time.

Not to mention the power of the explosion, the thunderous roar alone was enough to scare a person with a weak heart to death.

After the explosion occurred, Lin Wuming entered "bullet time" as expected. He saw with his own eyes the highly compressed gas, like a substance, breaking through the metal soda can and expanding into a white sphere with a diameter of about half a meter out of thin air.

Then, the sphere expanded again, engulfing and tearing everything along the way, forming an unprecedentedly fierce shock wave.

Even in the "bullet time" state, Lin Wuming felt as if it was only a blink of an eye before the shock wave approached.

Kinuhata Saiai, who was at the front, couldn't resist and had already left the ground, about to be blown away.

—How much gas is compressed in this small can!

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