A Scientific Urban Detective

Lin Wuming stared at the alley, pondered for a moment, and steered his wheelchair into it.

Actually, Lin Wuming wasn't thinking too much. His main focus was on devising strategies to counter Accelerator. This was just a whim, wanting to see where this alley led. Besides, he still remembered the way he came, so he didn't have to worry about getting lost.

He came out this time to relax, and if it was to relax, then of course he could go wherever he wanted, without a specific destination or restraint, just following his heart. As long as he didn't get lost, Lin Wuming wasn't worried about anything.

Lin Wuming was also confident that even if this kind of alley was hiding armed ability users or members of an ANBU-like organization, he was confident he could retreat unscathed.

Unless they had level 4 or higher-level super-powered individuals, there was nothing to fear.

However, to Lin Wuming's relief... or perhaps disappointment, the alley was indeed empty, and not even a piece of trash could be seen on the ground – indicating that people rarely passed through here.

"I didn't expect there to be such a remote and desolate place in the downtown area..." Lin Wuming muttered to himself.

Seeing no "surprises", Lin Wuming lost interest in the remaining journey and prepared to turn back.

"Hmm... why are there forks in the road?"

But after turning around, Lin Wuming was immediately stunned.

He hadn't paid attention when he came, but now looking back, he found that there were two almost parallel forks in the direction he came from.

"So, which way did I come from?" Lin Wuming murmured to himself, "This is unscientific. There are only two buildings in total, there should only be one straight road!"

But when he looked up again, he found that the area above him was already full of high-rise buildings – he had unknowingly arrived in the middle of a building complex.

"Okay, anyway, I'm lost again." Lin Wuming, who had long accepted reality, was naturally no longer surprised by the normal phenomenon of getting lost.

It wasn't a big problem, just a little troublesome, requiring the use of navigation software...

"The phone is dead... tsk!" Lin Wuming tried a few times but couldn't light up the phone screen. When he tried to restart it, he realized it had automatically shut down due to power failure.

Lin Wuming had actually been paying attention to the phone's battery level, so this shouldn't have happened.

But he didn't know if it was because he had suffered some impact during the battle today that caused something to go wrong. In short, the result was like this: without warning, the phone lost power, shut down, and couldn't be turned on again.

"How troublesome..." Lin Wuming sighed, holding his forehead, "Forget it, I'll just choose a road at random and find a passerby or a barrel-shaped robot to ask for directions."

Lin Wuming cheered himself up a bit and didn't dare to let himself wander around aimlessly according to his instincts like before.

The empty alley was now like a maze, and Lin Wuming found with some despair that he seemed unable to get out of this "maze" constructed by the walls of high-rise buildings.

"What's with this circuit layout? They're all high-rise buildings, can't they be arranged neatly according to a chessboard pattern?" Lin Wuming couldn't help but complain.

Because the buildings in this area had different floor areas, outer shapes, and orientations, without a unified standard, the alleys they formed were also crisscrossed, with many small roads and forks.

For Lin Wuming, this was undoubtedly a maze, and he couldn't get out in a short time!

"Damn it, can I only fly into the sky and leave this damn place directly?" Lin Wuming had no choice but to think of the ultimate solution.

Mazes are ultimately just two-dimensional plane routes. As long as you fly to a high place, you can simply skip the maze and return home directly along a straight line.

However, doing so was troublesome – not only was it troublesome to actually operate, but it was also easy to be reported to the police and complained about, and then be lectured by the security guard...

Just as Lin Wuming was walking and looking at the airspace above his head, preparing to "take off", he suddenly felt someone approaching nearby.

Lin Wuming's spirits lifted. No matter who was coming, as long as he could ask for directions!

--Using Nen to act as "radar" in an unfamiliar environment is really a convenient and easy-to-use application of ability!

Lin Wuming drove his wheelchair forward, and there was a fork in the road not far ahead, where his target for help was...

Arriving at the fork in the road, a pale figure happened to walk out.

Turning his head, a pair of scarlet eyes looked over, and directly met Lin Wuming's gaze.

An ordinary exchange of glances, and then both sides widened their vision and sized each other up.

"It's you!" In unison, Lin Wuming heard the other party say the same line.

"Lin Wuming." The voice was not loud, but the other party accurately called out his name.

Coincidentally, Lin Wuming also recognized this pale young man: "Accelerator!"

The strongest esper in Academy City, ranked first, the "Vector Transformation" Accelerator!

You should know that the character image between the second and third dimensions will have obvious differences, especially for Lin Wuming, who suffers from face blindness. It is somewhat difficult to recognize a character image in the real world through a manga avatar...

Among the vast number of characters in the original plot, Lin Wuming felt that he was confident that he could recognize no more than five at a glance, and they were all those with obvious appearance characteristics that could be recognized at a glance—

Misaki Shokuhou with the starry eyes; Frog-faced Doctor Heavenhealer; and also Shirai Kuroko, who he hadn't encountered yet, but should be able to recognize as long as she was wearing a flower ring...

Finally, there was Accelerator, who was comparable to having albinism—except for his pupils, his whole body seemed to be uncolored, a pale humanoid.

That's right, it was this suddenly appearing young man!

Lin Wuming felt that the image in his mind had suddenly materialized and appeared directly in front of him.

Stopping his wheelchair, Lin Wuming subconsciously gathered his Nen, surrounding himself to form a thick Nen barrier.

Although for Accelerator, such a Nen barrier was probably no different from air.

Lin Wuming was of course very clear about this, but he could only continue to silently strengthen the "fortress" around him to seek a sense of security...

It couldn't be blamed on Lin Wuming for being nervous, after all, until just now, he was still constantly thinking about how to defeat Accelerator. How could he expect that in the blink of an eye, the person would directly appear in front of him!