A Scientific Urban Detective

“Tsk, Tokiwadai…” Captain Haiya frowned. “A miscalculation. I didn’t notice Lin Wuming’s companions just now—‘Railgun’ Misaka Mikoto, ‘Mental Out’ Shokuhou Misaki, plus Lin Wuming himself, who is already a ‘suspected Level 5’… All three of them went in together. Are they trying to tear down the Juvenile Reformatory?”

“No,” another guard immediately said, “There’s eyewitness information that Misaka Mikoto and Shokuhou Misaki are having a gathering with the main members of the Shokuhou Faction. Those two shouldn’t be among the four who just went in.”

Captain Haiya was slightly relieved. The Shokuhou Faction is full of talented people, and there are many excellent girls familiar with Lin Wuming. It would be easy to pick four people to help.

For Captain Haiya, as long as there were no Level 5s, it was enough to put him at ease.

Back on Lin Wuming’s side, somewhat unexpectedly, his investigation was proceeding very smoothly, without any obstacles.

The staff of the Juvenile Reformatory could be said to be quite cooperative, even proactively submitting a large internal self-inspection report before he even asked, exposing a large number of the Juvenile Reformatory’s wrongdoings in a self-destructive manner.

The director was not at home, and the prison guards and the “old employees” of the Juvenile Reformatory were leaderless and unable to attend to themselves.

The “new employees,” on the other hand, were unwilling to pay the price for the Juvenile Reformatory’s past sins. Whether for justice or self-preservation, they chose to confess and seek leniency, trying to distance themselves from the past crimes as much as possible.

Thus, it turned into the current situation.

Lin Wuming and his group were somewhat speechless about this.

It felt like all the preparations Lin Wuming had made before the operation were meaningless.

Moreover, their excessive cooperation made it impossible for Lin Wuming to make an issue of it, which was a bit difficult.

You must know that the purpose of Lin Wuming’s trip was not just to investigate the crimes of the Juvenile Reformatory.

That was just the superficial reason. Their real target was the “big shot” behind the Juvenile Reformatory, Board Member Sherbin!

After all, the identity of “Board Member” was a bit tricky, so they thought of finding a suitable reason to bring him down reasonably and legally.

For Lin Wuming, the thing he feared the least was the Juvenile Reformatory refusing to cooperate with the investigation. He would have preferred them to violently resist.

As long as the situation on the scene became chaotic, Lin Wuming would have a way to find enough clues to pull out Board Member Sherbin.

After all, he was looking for problems with the answer in hand, which greatly reduced the difficulty.

But now, Lin Wuming, a middle school student, still in a “vulnerable” image moving around in a wheelchair, was surrounded by adult staff, forming a scene of everyone fawning over him.

It felt like they were enthusiastically welcoming a big leader to inspect the work.

One doesn’t hit a smiling face, and since the staff around him dared to get close to Lin Wuming, they were obviously innocent and had not participated in illegal experiments.

Lin Wuming had no choice but to continue touring the Juvenile Reformatory under their escort…

They came all the way to the prison building where serious offenders were held, which was the building that Shadan Ogi had focused on infiltrating early yesterday morning.

The wreckage of the explosion-proof door that had been blasted open by the “Telekinetic Acceleration Cannon” was still piled up next to it, and had not been cleaned up in time.

“So it seems, it really looks like Wuming-senpai’s ‘Telekinetic Acceleration Cannon’,” one of the girls in the white hoodie, Misaka Mikoto, muttered softly.

Because she had heavily researched and referenced Lin Wuming’s “Telekinetic Acceleration Cannon,” Misaka Mikoto’s understanding of this move was second only to her own “Railgun.”

If she didn’t know the truth in advance, she would probably really think this was Lin Wuming’s handiwork.

While marveling in admiration, Misaka Mikoto secretly raised Shadan Ogi’s threat level in her heart.

Continuing forward, after entering the prison building, the staff around Lin Wuming obviously became nervous—because this was the territory of the “old employees.”

Because they were leaderless and lacked leadership, the prison guards and “old employees” did not dare to confront the security forces and Lin Wuming head-on.

So they chose to retreat and hide.

Strictly speaking, these “old employees” were the local snakes of the Juvenile Reformatory. They had been operating here for a long time and were familiar with the various secret rooms and passages in the prison building.

Unless they went to war and demolished this building, it would be difficult for outsiders to find their hiding places.

Even the “new employees” who also worked here could not say where their colleagues had gone…

Seeing Lin Wuming and his group wandering around the building without gaining anything, Tsurigane Saryou, who had been secretly observing, couldn’t sit still any longer.

In order to find an opportunity to rescue Haruaki Umi, Tsurigane Saryou had infiltrated the Juvenile Reformatory early this morning to scout.

Although she had induced Lin Wuming to investigate the Juvenile Reformatory yesterday, she didn’t expect Lin Wuming and his group to act so quickly.

In fact, Tsurigane Saryou hadn’t made complete preparations when she saw Lin Wuming and the others had already arrived here.

However, as a professional ninja, Tsurigane Saryou was already accustomed to similar emergencies.

Accidents are the norm in missions. Therefore, Tsurigane Saryou quickly adjusted her plan, preparing to seize the opportunity and try to rescue Haruaki Umi and the others today!

Of course, the premise for doing so was to have Lin Wuming and the others cooperate.

But the current development was absolutely unacceptable.

Lin Wuming and the others seemed to be about to return empty-handed, and Tsurigane Saryou became more and more anxious—if you don’t fight, how can I take advantage of the chaos to break into the prison?

“I have to do something…”

Tsurigane Saryou knew that the “fuse” to break the current deadlock existed—it was the hidden prison guards and “old employees.”

Unlike the “new employees,” the “old employees” had witnessed the past sins of the Juvenile Reformatory, and some had even directly committed crimes. As long as they were exposed to Shokuhou Misaki…

“Perfect, I’ll borrow you.” Tsurigane Saryou looked down at her feet.

There, a man and a woman were unconscious on the ground.

Among them, the somewhat balding middle-aged man was the president of Alpha Space Research Institute, and the woman next to him was the chief researcher of the same institute.

And they were the ones who discovered Haruaki Umi’s true identity and tried to force Haruaki Umi to cooperate with their experiments.

You must know that if it weren’t for the exposure of Haruaki Umi’s identity, Tsurigane Saryou wouldn’t have been in such a hurry to rescue her.

These two people lying on the ground were undoubtedly the culprits.

Coincidentally, Tsurigane Saryou happened to run into them when she infiltrated to scout today.

Naturally, there was nothing to say. In order to prevent Haruaki Umi’s identity from being further exposed, Tsurigane Saryou unceremoniously took action and knocked down the two people.

Then, Lin Wuming and his group arrived.

Tsurigane Saryou, who had been racking her brains about how to deal with these two people, suddenly had an idea.