A Scientific Urban Detective

“……”

Faced with Shokuhou Misaki's mockery, Misaka Mikoto simply rolled her eyes. Considering that they were discussing her own affairs, she endured it and didn't argue with the queen bee.

“So, from the beginning, we've been considering preventing the experiment from starting,” Lin Wuming said. “As long as Accelerator isn't drawn into the experiment, we naturally won't have to be enemies with him.”

“Mm-hmm, that makes sense, it's a good idea,” Misaka Mikoto nodded repeatedly.

After all, she hadn't fought Accelerator yet, so she didn't have a direct understanding of just how powerful the world's number one 'vector manipulation' was.

In Misaka Mikoto's view, being enemies with Accelerator was just a possibility that Lin Wuming and Shokuhou Misaki were considering.

In comparison, she was more concerned about: “Wuming-senpai, so what was the agreement you finally reached with the chairman?”

“In short, it's like working for him,” Lin Wuming said.

Recalling that time, Chairman Aleister projected a map and highlighted several buildings.

“It is said that those are all institutions and facilities related to the experiment,” Lin Wuming had Shokuhou Misaki convert the map from his memory to the electronic map in front of them. “The chairman wants me to destroy these places.”

“Using a borrowed knife to kill?” Even Misaka Mikoto immediately realized, “Is what the chairman gave you really facilities related to the experiment?”

“It'll be somewhat related,” Lin Wuming didn't care. “After all, the chairman originally wanted to expose this experiment and the existence of the Misaka sisters—at least to let those who should know, know, and then be able to 'reasonably' distribute people to cooperative institutions around the world.”

Thinking that her clones would still be used as tools, Misaka Mikoto wasn't very happy, but she also knew that the top priority now was to find the 20,000 sisters as soon as possible and ensure their safety.

As for whether they were being exploited or not, it wasn't as important as life.

Or rather, that was something to consider after all the Misaka sisters were safely rescued.

“Okay!” Misaka Mikoto clenched her fist. “I'll help too! Tell me the places that need to be attacked!”

“You already have a share,” Shokuhou Misaki said. “Don't think about staying out of it.”

Misaka Mikoto endured it again. Since learning the truth, she finally understood why Shokuhou Misaki was inexplicably hostile towards her.

After all, it was because she was young and ignorant that someone tricked her into giving away her gene map, which led to this series of tragedies.

Shokuhou Misaki and Dolly and Tolly were close friends, and that was why she was increasingly disgusted with Misaka Mikoto.

Although Misaka Mikoto felt that she was also quite innocent, she still felt a sense of guilt when she saw Shokuhou Misaki and the "twin sisters" beside her.

—In fact, even now, Misaka Mikoto couldn't have a good conversation with Dolly and Tolly.

Shokuhou Misaki didn't pursue Misaka Mikoto relentlessly, but focused on marking the map.

“Wuming-senpai~” After a while, Shokuhou Misaki looked up at the boy in front of her with a helpless expression. “Why do you get lost even when just recording a map?”

Based on Lin Wuming's memory information, Shokuhou Misaki had already marked sixteen coordinates on the map.

However, the chairman Aleister only gave twelve targets to attack…

Because he was not good at recognizing and remembering roads, Lin Wuming used "image association" when memorizing map information, mainly memorizing the shapes on the map.

In other words, because the surrounding environments were similar, Lin Wuming misremembered many places.

Coincidentally, these extra locations were also research institutions, and they were all suspects that Shokuhou Misaki had found in her private investigation.

Because of this, Shokuhou Misaki didn't suspect anything when marking the map until she noticed that the numbers didn't match…

Lin Wuming scratched his head: “I didn't expect there to be so many places with similar terrain…”

“Do you want to ask the chairman again?” Misaka Mikoto suggested.

“That's not necessary,” Shokuhou Misaki said. “I'll mark all the similar places first, and then screen them.”

Lin Wuming also said, “Now we and Chairman Aleister are in a relationship of mutual exchange, so we must not let him underestimate us—we can't lose points because of this kind of trivial matter.”

“Then don't misremember!” Misaka Mikoto retorted.

“All marked,” Shokuhou Misaki said, and had Dolly help operate the projection of the map onto the table. “There are a total of forty similar targets.”

“More than three times as many…” Misaka Mikoto couldn't help but sigh.

——Wuming-senpai~

Without saying it out loud, Shokuhou Misaki reactivated the "brain conference room".

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——Is Wuming-senpai really a bad road learner, or is he doing it on purpose? All forty of these locations are enemy strongholds that we found, right?

Lin Wuming then said, “Isn't this perfect?”

Misaka Mikoto asked, “What's perfect?”

“Don't worry about so much, wouldn't it be fine if we just destroyed all forty of these targets?” Lin Wuming said. “Over-completing the task, I believe the chairman will be satisfied.”

“No way…” The two Level 5 girls retorted in unison.

Although they verbally complained about Lin Wuming's proposal, they finally unanimously agreed to clear all forty targets.

Shokuhou Misaki knew best that there were no innocent victims among these targets, and it wouldn't be wrong to eliminate them all; even Misaka Mikoto, who was still unaware of the relevant experimental plan, chose to "rather kill by mistake than let go" because of her disgust for the related experimental plan.

Of course, in Misaka Mikoto's mind, they were just going to destroy research facilities and would not harm the researchers, let alone "kill" people.

Therefore, she had no psychological burden.

“Time is of the essence, let's start then.” Seeing that everyone had reached a consensus, Lin Wuming finally decided.

“Eh? It's starting already?” Misaka Mikoto was very surprised, but seeing that Shokuhou Misaki and the others looked like it was a matter of course, she showed a firm expression without showing any weakness. “Okay, these targets are mine!”

Saying that, she directly marked half of the target points on the map as her own.

Shokuhou Misaki silently adjusted the target distribution, giving her only ten targets, and targets that were expected to have less resistance.

As for those targets that clearly indicated the presence of armed forces, they would be handled by herself and Lin Wuming—they had experience with this.

In the next two days and one night, all forty target facilities were destroyed.

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