A Scientific Urban Detective

After learning that Lin Wuming had exchanged ideas about his esper ability with Kaihara Gakkou and had indeed made significant progress, Yomikawa Aiho, who had always regarded Lin Wuming as her number one rival, couldn't sit still.

She also urgently wanted to improve her strength—not necessarily to ensure that she could surpass Lin Wuming, but at least not lose to him, right?

However, as one of the de facto "strongest espers" in Academy City, Yomikawa Aiho had already reached the ceiling of her strength—she couldn't find a way to become stronger.

At her wit's end, the only method she could think of was to imitate Lin Wuming and find a powerful esper to exchange and learn from.

Unfortunately, the number of people who met this requirement was very limited.

Although there were many espers in Academy City, there weren't as many who could reach the level of a Level 4 Great Ability User as one might imagine.

Moreover, precisely because esper abilities were so versatile, almost all Level 4 espers had long been snatched up by various schools and research institutes, and there were very few "wild" espers left.

Espers who had signed contracts with research institutes couldn't casually exchange ability information with others; and those in schools were all top students, mainly from the five prestigious schools, and these people were unlikely to deal with Yomikawa Aiho, who came from the dark side.

For example, Kaihara Gakkou was a proper nobleman, so Yomikawa Aiho couldn't ask him to exchange and learn.

So, after searching for information online with high intensity, she found some ambiguous candidates—that is, unconfirmed, but "rumored" to be high-level espers.

One of them was Kihara Ringo—according to a certain research report, this girl had the potential to grow into a Level 4, or even reach Level 5.

Yomikawa Aiho tried to contact her, and then there was the farce of yesterday...

Thinking of this, Yomikawa Aiho couldn't help but feel a myriad of emotions. Although the exchange of ideas had fallen through, she was able to see the gossip of the leader, Kakine Teitoku, so it wasn't a wasted trip.

Because Kakine Teitoku was overly patient when dealing with those two girls.

Even his iconic wings were treated as toys by them, being touched and hugged.

Before that, Yomikawa Aiho and Gokusaikai Bi didn't expect that Kakine Teitoku had some "lolicon" tendencies.

But thinking about it later, it didn't seem strange.

Wasn't the sniper, Yumiya Rakko, who was shrinking in the corner all alone, a living example?

On closer inspection, if it weren't for Kakine Teitoku's patience and tolerance, how could he have allowed this problem girl to join "School"?

In short, facing the suspicious invitation to "advance to Level 6," Kakine Teitoku almost didn't think about it and directly rejected the other party, even almost fighting...

So, Tenjou Yaho and the others had to go to Mugino Shizuri.

This time, they learned their lesson and didn't directly propose the experimental condition of "slaughtering girls," nor did they say that Mugino Shizuri was a "backup" for Accelerator.

Coupled with a suitable reward, they quickly persuaded Mugino Shizuri.

The dark side organization that worked for money was very efficient. On the day the contract was signed, Mugino Shizuri immediately began to cooperate with the research institute to carry out the preliminary preparations for the experiment.

However, after a week of data collection, and after Tenjou Yaho and the others had revised the experimental plan, Mugino Shizuri suddenly announced that she was terminating the cooperation—she wasn't doing it anymore!

"As long as I get paid, I don't mind killing people, no matter how many," Mugino Shizuri said after learning the truth of the experiment. "If it's the real 'Railgun,' I might be interested in killing her; but... what's the point of you guys getting a batch of inferior replicas? My dignity and 'Meltdown' aren't that cheap!"

Relying on the sharpness of "Meltdown's" attack, Mugino Shizuri directly broke out of the research institute, and no one dared to stop her.

Moreover, the reward she had already received could not be returned, of course.

The "Absolute Power Evolution Project" suffered another heavy blow, not only losing a large sum of money, but also wasting all the preparations made in the early stage to adjust the experimental plan.

Tenjou Yaho was almost driven mad. He was the actual operator of the entire project, and he had worked hard on many things himself, but now everything was wasted...

In contrast, Kihara Gensei wasn't just angry.

Everything was going wrong, making him eager to rush out and beat Accelerator up himself, and then bring him back for experiments.

Unfortunately, he didn't have the latest data on "Vector Transformation"!

At the height of his anger, Kihara Gensei appeared extremely calm instead.

"The data on 'Meltdown' has been collected, right?" Kihara Gensei asked.

This could be said to be their only gain from their cooperation with Mugino Shizuri.

In fact, strictly speaking, they didn't lose money. The latest ability data of a Level 5 was definitely worth the reward they paid to Mugino Shizuri.

—Precisely because she knew this, Mugino Shizuri naturally didn't return the reward.

However, for Kihara Gensei and their entire project team, they had failed and suffered huge losses.

This was not a loss that could be compensated by the ability data of "Meltdown."

"Kihara Gensei-sama, are you planning to attack 'Meltdown'?" Tenjou Yaho asked quickly.

He also knew that "Hound Dog" had the strength to subjugate a Level 5—as long as they could get accurate and sufficient information, and make preparations in advance.

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Fortunately, at this point in time, both of the above conditions were met.

In the early stages of preparation, the research institute tested and recorded the various data of "Meltdown" in detail, and established a new ability model.

In fact, in addition to the needs of the "Absolute Power Evolution Project," these data had another important use, which was to develop FIVE_Over—machine equipment that artificially imitated Level 5 super powers.

Earlier, Tsumaduji Shunsen's mission had a similar requirement... except that he was responsible for the corresponding FIVE_Over of the fifth-ranked "Mental Out."

And the data collected by Kihara Gensei this time could be used to develop a machine corresponding to "Meltdown."

For Kihara Gensei, since he was already able to imitate "Meltdown," then it was only natural to create equipment and props to specifically restrain "Meltdown," and formulate tactical strategies against "Meltdown."

"Attack Mugino Shizuri?" Hearing Tenjou Yaho's words, Kihara Gensei shook his head. "Why would I do such a troublesome thing? Even we, the Kihara family, wouldn't be foolish enough to easily start a war with a Level 5."

—Are there still things you lunatics don't dare to do?

Tenjou Yaho muttered in his heart.

"However, the FIVE_Over prototype of 'Meltdown' has already been built, so it's not a complete loss," Kihara Gensei said. "It's time to find an opportunity to test the machine's performance."

"Master, you plan to..." Tenjou Yaho suddenly had a flash of inspiration and felt that he had caught up with Kihara Gensei's train of thought, "Lin Wuming?"

"The speed of 'Meltdown' is close to the speed of light," Kihara Gensei said. "Lin Wuming's reaction speed is very fast, so can he be faster than the speed of light?"

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