A Scientific Urban Detective

After hearing Final Signal's "big adventure" experience, Shokuhou Misaki and Misaka Mikoto exchanged glances and nodded silently.

Out of caution, before rushing to meet Final Signal, they had first gone to see Yomikawa Aiho-sensei and investigated the "Disciplinary Action" members she had arrested.

With "Mental Out" and "Railgun" working together, it was difficult for any conspiracy or secret to escape them.

In other words, they already knew about Final Signal's experiences during these days.

The part that Final Signal was now recounting in person also matched their investigation results.

"Although it was just a precautionary measure, it's good that there were no problems," Shokuhou Misaki said, sounding relieved.

Influenced by the plot information from Lin Wuming's original work, Shokuhou Misaki also subconsciously raised the danger level of Chairman Aleister and the Kihara family.

She felt that they would secretly engage in even more troublesome schemes.

Today, Final Signal, who had been missing for a long time, suddenly took the initiative to contact the Misaka sisters, and then ignored the rescue plan formulated by Shokuhou Misaki and Dolly, acting on her own and running away, saying she was going to seek refuge with Lin Wuming...

This abnormal behavior made it hard not to suspect something.

But now it seems, it was probably just this little girl's wilfulness?

In short, Final Signal's "disappearance" during this period was indeed unrelated to Chairman Aleister and Kihara Amata—or rather, there was no direct relationship.

When Lin Wuming and the others launched a general offensive against the "Level 6 Shift Project," Kihara Amata simply abandoned the project and decisively withdrew, cutting off all ties between himself and the project.

Final Signal, as part of the project, was naturally abandoned as well.

However, Kihara Amata, the actual leader, ran away, and Tenson Ayao, the superficial person in charge, was pushed out to take the blame, which was considered the end of the matter; but there were still a large number of middle and lower-level related personnel who became "three-no-one-cares" grey existences as a result.

Researchers like Yoshikawa Kikyo and Fuyukawa Misaka naturally scattered like birds and beasts, accepted the Security Force's investigation, and then sought their own way out.

However, many members of "affiliated organizations" would not be so sensible and well-behaved.

Due to the experimental nature, it was only natural that there were many "affiliated organizations" recruited from "armed skill-less groups" in the "Level 6 Shift Project," specifically used to do some not-so-legal work.

Usually responsible for "guarding" Final Signal was such an "affiliated organization."

Because of the job requirements, this organization had somewhat mastered the method of containing Final Signal—so they were able to isolate Final Signal from the Misaka Network for a considerable period, creating the phenomenon of her "disappearing out of thin air."

The people in this organization didn't have any special ambitions or conspiracies. They only knew that the one they were responsible for guarding was a very important experimental subject—a very valuable one.

Since the employer and boss had suddenly disappeared and the experimental project seemed to have failed, they naturally wanted to make one last profit.

The specific method was to kidnap the experimental subject and then resell it...

Lin Wuming was speechless when he learned that it was the greed of a few petty thieves that caused so many people on his side, including Chairman Aleister, to be unable to find Final Signal.

"So? Where are those bastards?" Lin Wuming felt his fists hardening.

"They're already in jail," Misaka Mikoto said, "Well, that's why Final Signal fell into the hands of those security guards."

As Misaka Mikoto said, the organization that kidnapped and hijacked Final Signal had been actively seeking a buyer in order to quickly turn the experimental subject into cash.

Of course, this behavior was essentially a form of "human trafficking," so it was unsurprisingly targeted by the Security Force.

"It's just a group of rather special security guards," Shokuhou Misaki concluded, "Fortunately, the 'Disciplinary Action' security guards were not aware of this child's special ability, so they ignored sealing her electromagnetic power..."

It was precisely because of this that Final Signal finally had the opportunity to connect to the network and ask the Misaka sisters for help.

If it were a normal Security Force, there wouldn't have been a need to ask for help, but the problem was that Final Signal encountered "Disciplinary Action"—this group of extremists who uphold "absolute justice."

After discovering that Final Signal was an "unregistered person" without identity verification information, "Disciplinary Action" immediately conducted a detailed investigation.

Then they found out about her being a "clone" and an "experimental subject."

In order to carry out their "justice," "Disciplinary Action" determined that Final Signal was something that should not exist. Whether from an ethical or moral point of view, or from the perspective of maintaining Academy City's image, "no Final Signal" was the only correct choice.

Although they wouldn't immediately "destroy" Final Signal, in order to prevent the existence of clones from being exposed, they still made the judgment to "detain her in a juvenile reformatory."

Sensing that something was wrong, Final Signal immediately connected to the Internet for help.

Because the Misaka sisters had gained freedom and began to be active everywhere, with their senses, the Misaka Network was equivalent to having a monitoring network covering the entire Academy City.

With the information provided by this network, Final Signal quickly determined her location and also obtained the information that "Lin Wuming was nearby."

Final Signal refused to passively wait for rescue, so, taking advantage of the police car passing through the district where Lin Wuming was located, she suddenly broke out!

Using a discharge phenomenon that looked scary but actually had no power to attract the security guards' attention, Final Signal took the opportunity to jump out of the car and escape.

As the supreme command tower, Final Signal theoretically possessed all the knowledge and skills of all the Misaka sisters, and therefore had considerable experience in emergency escape and evasion of pursuit.

However, what she didn't expect was that because her legs were short, by the time she ran over, Lin Wuming had already left...

Fortunately, Accelerator was still at the scene and hadn't left, otherwise, Final Signal's great escape could have been declared a failure.

"As long as the final result is good! Misaka is satisfied with her actions," Final Signal herself nodded with a look of accomplishment.

"What's good about it? The best way is to obediently wait for rescue!" Misaka Mikoto couldn't help but walk over and knock her on the head.

"Misaka was about to be sent to that juvenile reformatory! In such a critical situation, how can she sit still and wait for death! Misaka earnestly retorted."