A Scientific Urban Detective

Based on Lin Wuming's previous experience, under normal circumstances, his "bullet time" state could slow down his subjective time to about one two-thousandth of real-time; in other words, accelerate his thinking by two thousand times!

Therefore, he could react to the pistol bullets fired at him at close range, and even use the extra time to do other things.

Lin Wuming thought this was the limit of "bullet time," but now it seems that this guess was obviously wrong—

Misaka Mikoto, not far away, was releasing electricity, but in Lin Wuming's eyes, Misaka Mikoto was like a statue—her body suspended in mid-air, stepping on black iron sand, frozen motionless.

Several azure blue electric sparks flowed from her hair and fingertips, spreading forward at a slow speed like ants crawling...

—This is electricity! Although it doesn't reach near the speed of light in the atmosphere, it's still hundreds or thousands of meters per second.

But at this moment, in Lin Wuming's subjective impression, it was only at the level of "ants crawling" or even slower.

Without a doubt, the appearance of such a phenomenon meant that Lin Wuming's "bullet time" effect had greatly improved!

As for how much it had improved, Lin Wuming didn't know and wasn't interested in estimating.

Because at this moment, he had already seen the culprit that brought him into "bullet time"—a beam of emerald green "light" shot from a nearby building.

—Laser attack? Could it be that the "fatal crisis" I'm facing this time is a light-speed attack?

Lin Wuming was shocked, and then felt a sense of joy—if "bullet time" could even handle light-speed attacks, then it could be said to be a real divine skill!

But unfortunately, Lin Wuming guessed wrong, because what suddenly attacked him was not a "laser attack," but a Level 5 superpower—"Atom Breaker."

Or, to be precise, it was the FIVE_Over powered armor equipped with an "Atom Breaker" activation device.

As for the essence of "Atom Breaker," it was not a laser beam, but an electron beam in an ambiguous "wave-particle uncertainty" state.

In other words, "Atom Breaker" was essentially more like some kind of "high-energy particle beam weapon," whose theoretical speed reached 99.999% of the speed of light.

Of course, similar to the discharge phenomenon of lightning, in the atmospheric environment, high-energy particle beams would also be subject to severe deceleration interference, so they would be far from reaching the theoretical near-light speed level.

However, "Atom Breaker" was, after all, different from ordinary high-energy particles. "Electrons in an ambiguous state" were themselves one of the most powerful destructive forces in the physical world, because they could destroy everything in front of them at the atomic level—including air.

Therefore, "Atom Breaker" could clear obstacles for itself while advancing.

Although it still couldn't reach 99.999% of the speed of light, two-thirds of it was still no problem.

For people who basically live in the "slow" state of classical mechanics, there was actually no difference between the two.

However, Lin Wuming's "bullet time" reacted to an attack at two-thirds the speed of light!

Even for Lin Wuming, it was the first time he had experienced such an extreme desperate situation.

Heartbeat, breathing, blood flow, and even nerve reactions had stopped; even "thinking" had stagnated!

Only "consciousness" still existed—in some unscientific way, explained by mystical terms, it should be the so-called "soul," right?

Because in order to cope with this fatal attack, Lin Wuming's thinking speed, with the blessing of "bullet time," accelerated to the point where it could adapt to two-thirds the speed of light!

Limited by the physiological and physical limitations of the human body, "thinking" theoretically could not reach this speed.

To the point where Lin Wuming even thought he was dead.

After a long time... or just a moment—at this scale, human perception of "time" had no meaning—Lin Wuming suddenly came back to his senses and realized that he was not dead, but had entered the "bullet time" state.

Lin Wuming was already used to "bullet time." When he studied human anatomy and microphysics, he often used the "bullet time" state to buy himself more time.

However, the "bullet time" at this moment felt so unfamiliar to Lin Wuming!

—So slow, although it's a laser attack, it's so slow... Will I die of old age before it kills me?

The attack position was the building on the left, about forty or fifty meters away. Due to perspective issues, Lin Wuming could only catch a glimpse of the emerald green beam with the corner of his eye.

Thoughts drifted, Lin Wuming had been thinking wildly for a long time before the emerald green beam had flown less than half the distance.

—No, now is not the time to wait for death, I have to find a way to resolve the crisis!

Lin Wuming suddenly came back to his senses. Wasn't the meaning of "bullet time" to save his life?

So, Lin Wuming habitually placed a telekinetic barrier on the beam's path.

But obviously, the telekinetic barrier couldn't stop "Atom Breaker."

Lin Wuming continued to choose to stack armor as usual. He placed a hundred layers of telekinetic barriers in one breath, but the emerald green beam seemed to pass through all the telekinetic barriers as if it were passing through air without any hindrance.

Lin Wuming couldn't help but feel anxious when he saw this, but at this moment he had no other better way, so he could only continue to set up more telekinetic barriers...

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In order to resolve this attack from a third-party intrusion, Lin Wuming continuously set up thousands of layers of telekinetic barriers in less than 0.1 microseconds.

Unsurprisingly, his brain certainly couldn't withstand such a terrifying amount of calculation.

Misaka Mikoto, who was not far from him, suddenly felt obvious "brainwaves" coming from Lin Wuming's side—the unprecedentedly intense brain calculation activity suddenly increased the originally weak human bioelectric waves to the point where they could be directly observed.

—This power is enough to burn out Senior Wuming's brain, right? What is he doing...

Misaka Mikoto was surprised, but then she also noticed the emerald green beam suddenly shooting towards them from the right.

—Who is it? A third-party force is interfering in our duel! That's why Senior Wuming...

Lin Wuming, who was in the super-accelerated state of "bullet time," didn't know what kind of challenges his body was facing... because his body didn't have time to react.

In fact, when Misaka Mikoto noticed Lin Wuming's abnormal brainwaves, Lin Wuming's resistance had already ended...

Telekinetic barriers couldn't stop "Atom Breaker," but after thousands of attempts, Lin Wuming also discovered the essence of this "beam"—it was actually some kind of microscopic particle.

And in the current extreme state, in the repeated and unremitting attempts to save himself, Lin Wuming also broke through the limit of his telekinetic ability in terms of manipulation scale. Although he still couldn't reach the scale of electrons, he could already directly interfere with atomic-level particles.

At this scale, using telekinesis to block "Atom Breaker" also became a reality—just keep gathering atoms and sending them to its attack trajectory.