A Scientific Urban Detective

"Huh? Broke into an ATM?" Hearing Huangquanchuan Aisui's words, Lin Wuming was stunned, and for a moment he couldn't react to what she was saying.

"In other words," Hubachi Tomitsu still maintained a calm and clear state, "they stole an ATM machine?"

"That's right, with a multifunctional excavator." Huangquanchuan Aisui emphasized, "They forcibly dug up an ATM from a self-service bank."

Lin Wuming finally recognized the reality and confirmed that the thieves in the car in front had literally stolen an ATM machine.

"What...were they thinking?" He couldn't help but feel speechless.

Academy City, as a high-tech future city, actually has a very low proportion of cash usage...compared to Tokyo outside.

There are electronic wallets, mobile payments, credit cards and other payment methods. In the gray area, there are also anonymous cash cards, which are convenient and easy to use.

For criminals, cash is actually the worst choice, because large amounts of currency circulating within Academy City have built-in chips, which can track their circulation paths, and it is not difficult to even use them to track the information of their users.

Therefore, Lin Wuming completely couldn't understand the act of breaking into an ATM machine in broad daylight...

"Wait, I seem to have heard of such idiots somewhere..." Lin Wuming suddenly thought of something.

At this moment, the van in front suddenly demonstrated superb skills and courage, and unexpectedly made a near ninety-degree sharp turn onto the sidewalk.

Immediately afterwards, it plunged into a narrow alley between two buildings.

The rearview mirror on the left side of the car was directly scraped off by the wall, but other than that, the wide van body did not collide with the walls on both sides any further!

"Wow! Great driving skills!" Huangquanchuan Aisui couldn't help but click her tongue in admiration, while patting the roof of the car, "Tetsu-zhuang, hurry up and chase after them!"

"Don't make things difficult for me, Teacher Huangquanchuan!" Tetsu-zhuang Tsuzuri's voice came from inside the car, "I don't have your great driving skills!"

"Tsk! Stop the car, let me drive!" Huangquanchuan Aisui said quickly.

This car was originally Huangquanchuan Aisui's vehicle. Letting her drive herself would allow her to unleash its full speed.

However, she had gone to the bank to handle some business just now, and Tetsu-zhuang Tsuzuri, as her partner, stayed in the car to stand by. Then she received an emergency alert saying that someone was robbing a self-service bank.

Because it was an emergency operation, in order to save time, Tetsu-zhuang Tsuzuri, who was in the car, directly took the driver's seat; this led to the current situation of Tetsu-zhuang Tsuzuri driving.

To be fair, Tetsu-zhuang Tsuzuri's driving skills as a security guard are also excellent—otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to chase so closely all the way.

However, compared to the driver of that van and Huangquanchuan Aisui, she was still a bit lacking. Or rather, because of her personality, Tetsu-zhuang Tsuzuri didn't have the courage to recklessly control the vehicle.

In addition, this car was Huangquanchuan Aisui's own private property, and Tetsu-zhuang Tsuzuri didn't dare to operate it too roughly, fearing that she would damage her friend's car.

The two exchanged seats, and Huangquanchuan Aisui took over the steering wheel. Just as she was about to start at full speed, she heard a roar coming from the alley where the criminals had fled.

Looking up, it turned out to be the sound of various objects falling from the outer walls of the two buildings.

—Air conditioner outdoor units, billboards and other miscellaneous things were attacked by unknown forces and fell one after another.

Although there weren't many, they still created troublesome obstacles in this limited space alley.

At least, if an ordinary car wanted to break through, it would probably take some effort.

"Damn it, they really have some skills when it comes to escaping!" Huangquanchuan Aisui's face was uncertain.

But she obviously didn't intend to let those criminals go, whether it was out of her duty as a security guard teacher and a sense of justice, or whether she was angered by the criminals' provocation; in short, Huangquanchuan Aisui slammed the door and got out of the car.

"Even if I have to run, I will catch those bastards today!"

At this time, Lin Wuming had already stuffed the shopping bags into the car, and he and Hubachi Tomitsu took the lead in chasing after the direction the criminals had fled.

—The speed of flying with mind power is not slower than a four-wheeled car at all.

"Hey..." Huangquanchuan Aisui, who got out of the car again, was a step late and failed to catch Lin Wuming's "mind power express."

Lin Wuming and Hubachi Tomitsu cooperated tacitly, but they obviously overlooked Huangquanchuan Aisui.

"Tetsu-zhuang, you drive around to the front!" Huangquanchuan Aisui said, but she turned and ran in another direction.

"Huangquanchuan...teacher," Tetsu-zhuang Tsuzuri reached out, but only managed to see her partner's quickly disappearing back, "Don't mess around..."

She knew very well that her partner and friend was also a person who easily acted impulsively and recklessly; in order to arrest criminals, she could easily do things that were jaw-dropping.

On the other hand, Lin Wuming led Hubachi Tomitsu into the alley, rushing forward in a near ground-hugging flight.

Fortunately, the back of the alley was full of equally narrow paths. There weren't many routes for the van to choose from. By distinguishing the engine sound slightly, it wouldn't be difficult to catch up with the van that had run away earlier.

After a few consecutive turns, Lin Wuming finally saw the van in front.

In order to escape in such bad road conditions, this van had also suffered a lot of bumps and scrapes, but the main body of the car had not been severely damaged, and its performance was still intact.

Once again proving that among the gang of thieves in the car in front, there was a good driver.

"Although it's just the most common skill, you really can't underestimate it," Lin Wuming said with emotion, and shouted loudly, "Don't you think so, Hamazura Shiage?"

That's right, at this time, Lin Wuming could almost be 100% sure of the identities of these three thieves.

The three leaders of the armed powerless group "SKILL OUT", Komaba Ritoku, Hattori Hanzō, and Hamazura Shiage, one of the three main protagonists of the original story.

Among them, although Hamazura Shiage is level 0 and does not have special abilities such as "Imagine Breaker", he has considerable experience in stealing and operating vehicles. He can even skillfully master other professional engineering vehicles.

—Including professional multifunctional excavators.

The one driving the van now is undoubtedly Hamazura Shiage! Only he can drive a van that can be seen everywhere to this extent.

I remember that in a side story of the original work, there was a plot of this trio stealing an ATM from a bank.

Because this plot was too nonsensical, Lin Wuming didn't believe that anyone would actually do this in reality, so when he first learned about the case, he didn't think of this plot at all.

But sure enough, reality doesn't need to be logical, and anything outrageous can happen.

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