A Scientific Urban Detective

"Why don't I imitate Senior Lin Wuming and directly destroy that underground arena?" Misaka Mikoto's eyes lit up, feeling that she had come up with a good idea.

In any case, as a dignified Level 5 esper, it shouldn't be difficult for me to be a "hero" for once, right?

There's no need to bother thinking about how to "report to the police" anymore. With my strength, I can completely solve this case myself!

Having made up her mind, Misaka Mikoto felt much better and immediately decided to return to her dormitory to recharge her batteries, ready to show off her skills tomorrow night!

At the same time, at the Disciplinary Committee headquarters building.

A Disciplinary Committee member hurriedly knocked on the door of the chairman's office.

"Good news, Chairman!"

The chairman, who was dealing with a mountain of documents, looked up and rubbed her forehead, saying, "Calm down, don't be so jumpy, you'll scare me."

In the past two days, due to the series of bombing attacks targeting the Disciplinary Committee, every time someone hurriedly knocked on the door, it brought bad news, making the chairman a little neurasthenic.

"I'm sorry, I'll pay attention next time! But this time it's good news, really!" the girl who came to report said quickly, "We've found the location and time of this season's matches for the underground arena!"

The chairman suddenly looked up and put down the pen in her hand: "Are you sure? Where? When? How did you get this information?"

"It was discovered by a child who is undergoing training. She cracked the firewall of the secret website and found this information from their server."

"A hacker? When did we have such a powerful child?" the chairman asked in surprise, "Why haven't I heard of her before?"

"That child is severely unbalanced in her subjects and failed to pass the first round of assessment, so she is still receiving basic training."

Basic training mainly focuses on physical fitness and athletic ability. The chairman knew what the so-called "unbalanced subjects" meant as soon as she heard it.

"What's the child's name? Tell her not to waste her time on basic training," the chairman said, "Handle this as a special case, and let such talents give full play to their strengths as soon as possible."

"Kazari Uiharu, she's still a fifth-grade elementary school student. It's just right to arrange for her to start her internship and officially become a Disciplinary Committee member next academic year."

Kazari Uiharu also heard snippets of conversation about "underground arena" and "secret website" from others while receiving training at the headquarters.

Because there were parts of the conversation that interested her—keywords like "website" and "firewall"—Kazari Uiharu paid a little attention and took the initiative to ask a couple of questions.

Although she didn't get any particularly valuable information, for Kazari Uiharu, confirming the existence of a few keywords was enough. She could find the rest herself.

It's not bragging, but Kazari Uiharu felt that she was quite good at searching the Internet for this kind of work.

And the facts also proved her judgment. Breaking through the firewall and entering the "underground arena's" secret website was not difficult at all. For Kazari Uiharu, it was no different from logging into and browsing the official Disciplinary Committee website.

It is worth mentioning that Kazari Uiharu noticed that she was not the first person to invade the secret website—before her, another mysterious hacker had already taken the lead.

A considerable part of the reason why Kazari Uiharu felt that the intrusion process was not difficult was that someone had already helped her remove most of the trouble in advance.

However, that "colleague" seemed to be a little impatient and careless. After getting the information they wanted, they left in a hurry.

Kazari Uiharu kindly helped to cover up and repair the damage to prevent the organizers of the underground arena from discovering that their website had been invaded.

—In case they became alert and changed the schedule and location of the matches, that would be troublesome.

In this way, under the careful cover of Kazari Uiharu, the secret website returned to its usual calm. No matter who came to check, they would not find any traces of strangers having been there.

Despite making a feat that was enough to alarm the chairman to personally meet her, Kazari Uiharu herself didn't have any special feelings.

For her, it was just a piece of cake, not worth mentioning at all.

Of course, being able to be exempted from a lot of assessments—especially physical fitness assessments—as a "special technical talent" and directly selected to become a Disciplinary Committee member did make Kazari Uiharu overjoyed.

Watching the girl with the flower wreath on her head leave the office with a smile, the chairman put her hands together and pressed her forehead with her index fingers, worried, "So, what should we do next?"

Because the Disciplinary Committee has various types of special talents, they often encounter this situation—they sometimes get key information earlier than the security forces.

However, since the Disciplinary Committee does not have off-campus law enforcement powers, according to convention, they usually share the information with the security forces as soon as possible, so that the security forces can take action as soon as possible after obtaining the information to arrest criminal suspects or solve the case.

But this time...

"I'm a little unwilling to just hand over the information to the security forces..." the chairman muttered to herself.

According to the existing information, it can be determined that the "Bomber" case that appeared last night is directly related to the "underground arena."

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And in the "Bomber" case, their Disciplinary Committee suffered significant losses and pressure.

In order to avoid an attack by a "Bomber," the Disciplinary Committee was even forced to make a concession that could be described as a disgrace—"hiding their identity."

The members of the Disciplinary Committee are selected from students who have undergone layers of screening and are excellent in all aspects.

While being excellent, they are also at a young and vigorous age, and value "honor" and "dignity" the most... How easy is it to make such a group swallow such a breath?

To be honest, the chairman is really under a lot of pressure now. Even if the "Bomber" has been arrested and brought to justice, the emotions from the vast number of Disciplinary Committee members have still not been appeased.

To say something that doesn't quite conform to the "Disciplinary Committee Code," most Disciplinary Committee members are not satisfied with the move to hand over the "Bomber" to the security forces.

They all know that security teachers have always been lenient towards minors, even minor offenders.

Absolute tolerance towards students, as long as they don't commit major mistakes, everything can be understood and tolerated—this is also the characteristic of Academy City as a whole.

Although overall, this unspoken rule is beneficial to the vast number of students and citizens; especially for high-level ability users, it is even more so.

The Disciplinary Committee itself is actually one of the biggest beneficiaries of this unspoken rule.

But on the other hand, this unspoken rule is sometimes very annoying, like now!

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