A Scientific Urban Detective

Lin Wuming's injuries had indeed healed—Huangquanchuan Aihui was the first to breathe a sigh of relief upon hearing this diagnosis.

Or rather, it was the security teachers represented by her.

Several security teachers gathered and whispered amongst themselves. After a while, Huangquanchuan Aihui came to Lin Wuming as their representative.

“Wuming-kun,” Huangquanchuan Aihui said with a smile, “Congratulations on your recovery! Since that's the case, why not report to Judgment tomorrow!”

“Judgment? Tomorrow?” Lin Wuming asked in surprise.

Lin Wuming and Hōzuki Tōmi had previously accepted invitations to join Judgment.

However, due to his unhealed injuries, Lin Wuming had not yet participated in any training or assessments involving physical fitness and exercise.

Logically, one could only officially become a Judgment member after passing all the assessment items and completing a four-month training period.

But according to Huangquanchuan Aihui, it seemed possible to skip the training and assessment and directly make Lin Wuming a Judgment member!

“In short, the higher-ups mean,” Huangquanchuan Aihui explained, “you’ve been in the limelight recently, so don’t cause any more trouble outside. Quickly return to the organization and work hard!”

Institutions like the security forces and Judgment were also frightened by Lin Wuming’s efficiency. In less than two months, three large research institutions had become his 'spoils of war'.

This 'achievement' was nothing short of brilliant, even excessively brilliant.

Even the security forces, the largest violent law enforcement agency in the entire city, was now somewhat overwhelmed.

It should be known that large research institutions like 'Black Moon Technology' have deep backgrounds and backers. Even with solid evidence and moral high ground, it is extremely difficult for the security forces to investigate them.

Even though these research institutions had been destroyed by Lin Wuming, investigating them was still a very difficult task.

The security forces’ investigation progress was not fast.

In fact, even the investigation into 'Black Moon Technology' is still ongoing and occupies a significant portion of police force.

Then, the subsequent 'Exploration Frontier' Research Institute incident made matters worse.

Today, the 'Artificial Atelier', which was even larger than the previous two research institutions, also fell into Lin Wuming's hands, finally becoming the last barbell to break the camel's back.

Moreover, the 'Artificial Atelier' involved too many interested parties, including some that even the security forces found troublesome. It was destined to be impossible to thoroughly investigate the issues from the beginning—so this was more like cooperating with others to handle the aftermath rather than an investigation.

Although unwilling, this was a reality of this city.

If Misaki Shokuhou hadn't suddenly revealed herself as a Level 5, attracting most of the attention, further investigation into the 'Artificial Atelier' case might have led to unfavorable accusations against Lin Wuming.

Therefore, to protect Lin Wuming and prevent him from continuing to be active and accidentally uncovering even bigger cases, the security forces decided to let this 'hero' they had created retire.

However, saying this felt like slapping their own face, so they finally decided to have his guardian, Huangquanchuan Aihui, speak.

“The specific arrangement is this,” Huangquanchuan Aihui explained their plan, “Your current mobile phone number—the one that represents the 'hero' image—we plan to upgrade it to a public official help hotline for Judgment. In the future, we and Judgment will arrange the nearest personnel to handle all calls for help. This will be more efficient, and…”

Huangquanchuan Aihui bluntly said: “This can disperse the 'hero' reputation on Wuming's head.”

This was actually weakening Lin Wuming's influence, a measure to restrain him.

But Lin Wuming didn't care about this. He had almost completed everything he wanted to do, and there was no point in continuing to retain titles like 'hero' and 'nemesis of illegal experimental institutions'.

Because according to the original plot Lin Wuming knew, almost all incidents involving 'illegal experiments' had ended at this stage.

Furthermore, without the support of the original plot, Lin Wuming didn't know which direction to continue investigating.

Not to mention, he didn't want to bother investigating.

Academy City was never short of various illegal experimental institutions, which a so-called 'hero' could not handle alone.

Therefore, handing over the title of 'hero' to the entire Judgment organization and fully utilizing its scale and numerical advantage was the optimal solution to this type of problem.

Having spent a long time together, Huangquanchuan Aihui had roughly figured out Lin Wuming's personality and thoughts, so she asked so directly.

After receiving a satisfactory answer, the security teachers also showed relaxed expressions, as if they had solved a thorny problem.

“Okay, remember to report to Judgment headquarters tomorrow.” Huangquanchuan Aihui instructed, then hurriedly left, seemingly to deal with other matters.

“By the way,” she stopped at the door and turned back to say, “Wuming, Hōzuki, have Tiezu-sensei send you home later. I might be late getting off work today, remember to save me a portion of dinner.”

After saying that, Huangquanchuan Aihui left in a hurry.

Leaving Lin Wuming and Hōzuki Tōmi looking at each other.

“Huangquanchuan-sensei… hasn’t changed at all.” One of the security teachers remaining here said with emotion.

Taking this opportunity, Heaven Canceller completed the physical examinations of the other girls.

Thanks to the attentive care of Yōmine Eri-sensei at the 'Artificial Atelier', the girls were in good health and there was nothing to worry about.

Except for Yunokaze Runko, who had a headache due to the side effects of her esper ability, and Yuri Chiya, who had a congenital physical illness, everyone else had no problems and could be discharged directly.

Yumiba Irimi only had some muscle strain caused by overexertion, far from needing hospitalization.

“Shokuhou,” Lin Wuming suddenly remembered something, “Do you guys have a place to live now?”

Because they weren't injured, they didn't need to be hospitalized, but now they obviously couldn't return to the 'Artificial Atelier'.

Could it be… Lin Wuming looked at the security teacher.

But he found that the latter also had a look of just noticing it and was frantically contacting his superiors.

“There’s no need to worry about this,” Mikari Ayu suddenly said, “Although we don’t have a place to live, we still have money for the time being.”

She was right. Even though they were locked up in the 'Artificial Atelier', their stipends as espers were regularly deposited into their accounts without fail.

Because they had almost no opportunities to spend money, each of them had accumulated a considerable amount of money in their accounts.

It would be easy to find a place to live with that.

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