A Scientific Urban Detective

Kiyama Haruue was not the same as before; she had now completely completed the "Level Upper" system and naturally possessed the highest authority over the entire system.

Therefore, Kiyama Haruue not only became a "Multi-Ability User," but she could also directly revoke Saten Ruiko's qualification as a "Multi-Ability User" with her highest authority, reverting her to her original ordinary Level 4 esper status.

Thus, Kiyama Haruue herself was now the only "Multi-Ability User."

Catching her opponent off guard, she easily defeated Saten Ruiko with a surprise attack and used hypnotism to put her to sleep...

"You've been very tired lately, so get some rest..."

Before losing consciousness, Saten Ruiko vaguely heard Kiyama Haruue's last words.

"...Leave the rest to your teacher. Adults should take responsibility..."

Looking at the sleeping Saten Ruiko, Kiyama Haruue showed a gentle smile.

Then, she took out a pen and paper and left her a note.

"In an hour, things will probably be over. I'll leave the rest to you." Kiyama Haruue placed the note in Saten Ruiko's hand. "I've taught you all the following operations. If nothing goes wrong, Uiharu Kazari should be able to regain consciousness. Then... please take care of my students."

At the same time, the "Level Upper" system, which already had more than 20,000 users, was finally running at full power.

The AIM diffusion field waveform of 20,000 people uniformly converged towards Kiyama Haruue's brainwave waveform.

True "Multi-Ability" was born.

Feeling her consciousness become infinitely broad and vast, as if she were omnipotent, Kiyama Haruue remained very calm.

She left her laboratory and actively greeted the enemies who came to defeat her.

--What she had to do now was just buy time, waiting for the "Level Upper" system to separate the children's AIM diffusion field waveforms; waiting for this system to reconstruct Uiharu Kazari's AIM diffusion field...

"I need to buy at least an hour." Kiyama Haruue clenched her fist. "Can I, who am not good at fighting, do it? After all, my opponent is a genuine Level 5."

Looking up, "Meltdowner" Mugino Shizuri had already unleashed her ability, and the emerald green "beams" were coming straight at her!

...

After an unknown amount of time, Lin Wuming finally regained his self-awareness.

Although he couldn't feel the passage of time in this chaotic "sea of consciousness," Lin Wuming knew that he had entered "bullet time."

Otherwise, there was no way he could have regained consciousness.

After all, this was an ocean formed by the convergence of the AIM diffusion fields of more than 20,000 espers!

By type, almost all ability types in Academy City were included in this "sea of consciousness," except for a very few rare ones.

As everyone knows, espers in Academy City cannot master more than one superpower at the same time; therefore, the AIM diffusion field waveforms of other abilities were no different from incomprehensible heavenly scriptures to a telekinetic. If one were to force-feed them into the brain, the effect would undoubtedly be equivalent to a powerful form of mental pollution!

It was for this reason that all 20,000 users of "Level Upper" were now in a coma—because their consciousnesses, in this "sea of consciousness," were forced to directly face a massive amount of information about the AIM diffusion fields of other abilities.

Unless one became the controller of the "Level Upper" system, like Kiyama Haruue, one could use system privileges to shield against "mental pollution" and directly call upon different types of abilities, becoming a "Multi-Ability User."

Lin Wuming was the exceptional third case—the drowning of self-awareness also constituted a "fatal crisis," triggering "bullet time."

Time was the ultimate answer to all problems.

With ample time, Lin Wuming was able to awaken from the chaos and regain his consciousness.

Just as Lin Wuming had initially anticipated, his proactive embrace of the side effects of "Level Upper" was for this purpose.

Of course, even if he did nothing, waiting for the incident to end, for Kiyama Haruue to hand over the "antidote" program, and for everyone to be awakened, Lin Wuming's ability would still improve to some extent.

But clearly, Lin Wuming was not satisfied with this.

Having encountered such a brilliant design as "Level Upper," Lin Wuming wanted to seek more.

So he restrained himself and wholeheartedly felt and recorded everything in this "sea of consciousness."

--The AIM diffusion field waveforms of more than 20,000 espers, covering almost all types of ability information.

This was a priceless treasure trove of knowledge.

It was also the resource that Lin Wuming had prepared for himself to advance further.

Nen was originally a "universal ability," and with sufficient development and utilization, it could even imitate most other types of ability applications.

Even if it was impossible to reproduce through Nen imitation, knowing the ability information would make it much easier to face them...

Moreover, this "sea of consciousness" not only contained ability information, but also a lot of ordinary knowledge and skills.

As the owner of the entire system's highest authority, Kiyama Haruue's consciousness was almost omnipresent in this ocean.

Lin Wuming obtained the relevant knowledge for analyzing AIM diffusion field waveforms from her consciousness information, which made his work proceed more smoothly...

In order to gain enough time to record the massive amount of information here, Lin Wuming proactively released all defenses of his consciousness, suicide-like embracing the entire "sea of consciousness."

Thus, Lin Wuming was immersed in infinitely extended subjective time and had lost his sense of time...

After an unknown amount of time, finally at a certain moment, the huge waves stirred up by the "sea of consciousness" awakened Lin Wuming, causing him to break free from the "bullet time" state.

In fact, the "sea of consciousness" could no longer pose a "fatal threat" to Lin Wuming at this time.

After he regained consciousness, Lin Wuming naturally could no longer interpret the information in the "sea of consciousness" as he pleased.

However, what he lost in the gooseberries, he gained in the garden; Lin Wuming's "vision" had also become much broader as a result.

And because he was already familiar with the environment here, Lin Wuming could even distinguish certain special "individuals" from this "sea of consciousness."

Just like Lin Wuming himself, being able to preserve a relatively complete "self" in this chaos was an extremely rare situation.

Lin Wuming found one and a half such "individuals."

Or rather, "one" and "one group"—the latter seemed to be a small group formed by the convergence of more than a dozen ordinary individuals, but in the "sea of consciousness," it seemed very small and special.

Out of curiosity, Lin Wuming approached those two "kindred spirits".