A Scientific Urban Detective

#548 - Unknown shot

"Spatial Ability user, in this situation, can you still activate your ability normally?" the robber sneered, tightening his fingers as if to break the girl's neck, but he knew that he only needed to prevent her from concentrating on calculations to stop her from 'spatial movement'.

"And once I throw this small steel ball, you're dead!" the robber threatened, aiming the small steel ball in his hand at the girl's temple.

The robber's ability is 'absolute constant speed'. When he activates his ability, the object he throws will fly at a constant initial speed until it completes its entire trajectory and falls to the ground.

The trajectory of the projectile is the parabola of an object flying under normal circumstances, with no special features in this regard.

However, the object will never stop before completing its entire trajectory—that is, it will penetrate all obstacles in front of it, and the speed will not decrease at all. Unless the projectile itself is destroyed.

Because of this, the small steel ball that the robber 'casually' threw earlier was able to penetrate three layers of bulletproof glass.

The fragile human body is of course even more unable to block such an attack.

The robber's words were not alarmist, because once the small steel ball was thrown, even he himself could not stop it.

Shirai Kuroko did not know what the enemy's ability was, but she also knew that her situation was very dangerous.

However, she was not lying either—the robber she directly touched was also on the verge of death.

That's right, activating 'spatial movement' requires precise calculations, otherwise it can easily cause ability accidents.

But that is the limitation of 'normal ability activation'.

To deal with the enemy, you don't actually need to be so serious.

Simply use ability accidents to randomly move the enemy to some place, which may be a more efficient way to fight.

If you're not careful, you might even really kill the other party!

The reason why Shirai Kuroko didn't do this was purely because she didn't want to kill people.

—But now, I'm afraid I can't worry about that anymore…

Due to suffocation, Shirai Kuroko's consciousness gradually blurred.

She realized that if she didn't want to die here, she couldn't worry so much.

—I can only… let this robber fend for himself!

Suddenly widening her eyes, Shirai Kuroko was about to activate her ability.

But then she saw Lin Wuming's figure, appearing behind the robber at some point.

Shirai Kuroko's eyes widened even more, even thinking she was hallucinating due to lack of oxygen.

"Senior Wuming?" Shirai Kuroko opened her mouth, but couldn't make a sound.

The robber thought she was still struggling, so he tightened his grip a little more, preparing to knock her unconscious in one breath.

Just then, he heard someone say beside him, "Robbing a bank and threatening a Spatial Ability user in person… are you really not afraid of death?"

Because he was too surprised, the robber turned his head sharply to look: "Who are you! When did you…"

Lin Wuming's arrival was so silent, as if he had appeared out of thin air.

In fact, even Shirai Kuroko thought he had used 'spatial movement' to enter the bank.

Lin Wuming pointed back to the bank door, and smiled: "Just now, I came in through the front door."

He saw that the explosion-proof board at the door had been cut open with a square hole at some point!

When Lin Wuming arrived at the bank door, he saw Chu Chun Shili anxiously guarding outside, looking at a loss.

Seeing that the bank door and windows were all covered by explosion-proof boards, he roughly knew how the situation had developed.

Without wasting time, Lin Wuming manipulated the emery to cut open the explosion-proof board, and without almost any pause, he rushed into the bank.

Lin Wuming's movements were too fast, although he was driving a wheelchair, he was like a phantom.

Even the many depositors in the bank lobby did not react, let alone the robber who had his back to him.

"Because my wheelchair is a silent model," Lin Wuming explained with a smile.

The robber subconsciously looked back at the door, revealing a surprised expression.

Just then, Lin Wuming reached out and pinched the robber's left arm.

The robber cried out in pain, and couldn't help but loosen his hand that was strangling Shirai Kuroko's neck.

But also because he was frightened, his right hand subconsciously threw the small steel ball.

"Absolute constant speed" ability activated!

—Damn it!

Realizing this, the most nervous person on the scene was actually the robber himself.

Robbing a bank is one thing, but killing someone with his own hands is another.

But then, he saw Lin Wuming take action again, pinching the small steel ball between two fingers with a seemingly slow but actually fast movement.

One second, two seconds… the small steel ball was indeed firmly pinched between Lin Wuming's fingers.

The robber then realized that his attack had indeed been blocked.

"No… impossible!"

His brain, which was already in chaos due to a series of sudden events, completely shut down.

The robber stood there blankly.

In that brief moment just now, Lin Wuming used hundreds of layers of telekinetic barriers to easily resolve the kinetic energy on the small steel ball.

"'Absolute constant speed'?" Lin Wuming nodded, carefully observing the small steel ball in front of him—it was the one he usually used. "Not bad ability, good taste too, but the ability development is too poor."

If this small steel ball could have flown faster just now, Lin Wuming would not have been able to handle it so easily.

"Senior Wuming… cough cough cough…" Shirai Kuroko took the opportunity to use a 'spatial movement' to adjust her posture and get up from the ground. "Thank you for your support!"

Lin Wuming comforted her with his eyes, then turned to look at the robber and said, "So-called ability, is used like this…"

As he said, Lin Wuming raised his hand and bent his finger, extending it towards the robber's forehead.

The latter quickly raised his hands to block his head.

After hesitating for a moment, Lin Wuming pressed his arm down again, and finally aimed at his chest.

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He flicked his finger.

The robber flew out with a bang, as if he had been hit head-on by a train, screaming and flying backwards, smashing the window glass, and even smashing a big hole in the explosion-proof board.

Exclamations from passers-by came from outside the window.

This robber was actually flicked out of the bank by Lin Wuming with one finger, landing on the road outside.

The people inside the bank also belatedly exclaimed, and the other three robbers looked at each other, then put their hands on their heads together and slowly squatted down.

"Senior… Senior Wuming?" Shirai Kuroko was also stunned by the scene in front of her, and released the steel needle in her hand. "He… that person… shouldn't be dead, right?"

Generally speaking, normal humans would definitely die if they crashed like that! What landed on the ground outside would probably be just a pile of minced meat.

This is the explosion-proof board used by the bank, which was originally used to resist explosions.

Looking up, she saw Lin Wuming also showing a "bad" expression.

Shirai Kuroko thought to herself, "As expected," she had long heard of Senior Wuming's outstanding achievements, and now she finally saw it with her own eyes…

"Oh, that robber is fine," but Lin Wuming shook his head and said, "He's probably just got a scare, right?"

"Ah?"

Lin Wuming explained: "I didn't really want to kill him, I just wanted to teach him a lesson, so when I flicked him away just now, I specially used telekinesis to protect him."

So, strictly speaking, it was not the robber's body that broke through the explosion-proof board, but Lin Wuming's telekinetic impact.

Apart from being a little scared, that robber would at most have a few broken ribs, right.

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