A Scientific Urban Detective

After rounding a corner, Accelerator, whom he had been thinking about, suddenly appeared in front of him. The fact that Lin Wuming wasn't startled was already a testament to his recent improvement in acting, allowing him to perfectly control his facial expressions.

Fortunately, Accelerator wasn't a "Mental Out," so he couldn't see Lin Wuming's true thoughts and didn't know that this small "telekinesis user" was planning a rebellion, a snake swallowing an elephant.

Accelerator carefully sized up Lin Wuming, then took the initiative to speak, "Your injury… hasn't healed yet?"

Seeing that the other party seemed to be just casually starting a conversation, Lin Wuming relaxed. He reaffirmed that Accelerator at this stage could still be considered someone who could communicate normally, unlike the monster in the original storyline who had become psychologically twisted and semi-demented due to the "Absolute Power Evolution" project.

"Something happened. It had already healed, but I accidentally got injured again today," Lin Wuming said, following the topic.

Lin Wuming knew that he was now a public figure of sorts, so it wasn't strange that Accelerator recognized him.

He even felt a sense of relief—his decision to publicly share his phone number and become a "hero" was proving useful in unexpected situations.

In any case, being able to engage in conversation with Accelerator was better than starting a fight without a word…

"Injured again?" Accelerator showed a strange expression. "You, fell from the stairs again?"

"No, no," Lin Wuming shook his head repeatedly, then suddenly froze. "Huh? Fell from the stairs—how did you know I was…"

Since his first public appearance, Lin Wuming had been in a wheelchair, a classic image. As for why he was injured and in a wheelchair, no public reports had mentioned it.

Why did Accelerator know about this?

Moreover, Accelerator didn't seem like a hardcore fan who would meticulously investigate his past…

Lin Wuming looked at the pale figure in front of him again, then suddenly noticed the exceptionally clean, spotless sneakers on his feet.

—Are you an idiot?

—Why are you dodging? If you hadn't suddenly changed your trajectory, you wouldn't have ended up like this, right?

—Heh, are you looking down on me? Do you think I care about a mere forty-odd kilograms of matter? I was originally going to save you, but who knew you'd be so clever…

Carefully recalling, Accelerator's voice seemed somewhat familiar; once, in the very beginning, when he had just fallen from the stairs…

"Ah, it was you back then!" Lin Wuming couldn't hide his surprise.

He hadn't expected that the first person he truly interacted with after transmigrating would be Accelerator!

"So you didn't recognize me…" Accelerator clicked his tongue, also wearing a speechless expression.

"After all, I didn't see your face that day," Lin Wuming said with emotion. "No wonder you said that back then…"

Lin Wuming was filled with emotions.

Thinking about how he had forcibly activated his newly awakened telekinesis to avoid involving innocent bystanders, changing the original perfect landing trajectory, resulting in fractures in both legs and arms, and forcing him to sit in a wheelchair for almost two months, he felt it was even more unworthy.

If he had known that the person below was Accelerator, why would he have dodged?

With Accelerator's abilities, he wouldn't have been hurt by a few dozen kilograms of falling objects, and even helping him would have been effortless.

"Alright," Lin Wuming spread his hands, saying helplessly, "At that time, I had just escaped from an illegal research institution and wasn't familiar with the people and things outside, so I couldn't recognize you then. Otherwise, I wouldn't have…"

Lin Wuming patted his thigh.

Accelerator walked over, "If it wasn't a fall, then it was from a battle? You seem to be very active recently."

In fact, Accelerator didn't have much interest in external affairs. The reason he knew about Lin Wuming was only because of that brief interaction when they first met.

After that, he occasionally heard news about Lin Wuming on TV reports, learning that Lin Wuming now had the title of "hero."

But he knew nothing about things like Lin Wuming becoming a member of Judgment and temporarily retiring from the "hero" profession, nor was he interested in knowing.

Therefore, Accelerator still thought that Lin Wuming was injured while destroying an illegal research institution.

"That's right," Lin Wuming nodded. "I encountered a tricky Level 4 today."

"Level 4…" Accelerator scoffed, not hiding his disdain. "You're a Level 3?"

"That's right, a Level 3 telekinesis user."

"A Level 3 defeating a Level 4, although you were injured, it's not bad," Accelerator nodded, feeling that he had given a very high evaluation.

Although in his eyes, Level 3 or Level 4 didn't matter, they were all weak chickens, he still affirmed and praised Lin Wuming's "heroic act."

—Although his strength is still very weak, compared to those fools who only use their superpowers to do whatever they want and cause trouble for me, Lin Wuming can indeed be considered a normal human being to interact with.

Accelerator is Academy City's number one Level 5, the strongest esper.

But he didn't feel any joy in obtaining this title, only feeling that it was the source of endless trouble.

Since the day the ranking was announced, so-called "challengers" from all directions had emerged one after another.

At any time, in any place, there would be inexplicable guys jumping out, trying to challenge Accelerator in order to seize the title of "number one."

He had also tried to communicate, using words to persuade those "challengers" to give up this reckless attempt.

But what to say? Among those challengers, even Level 3s were few and far between, and most of them were so-called "Level 0s"—being able to ignore such a huge level difference objectively and come to challenge the "strongest Level 5" was already abnormal in itself.

Anyone who could be persuaded with words could never have done such a thing in the first place.

As one can imagine, the "challengers" Accelerator encountered were essentially a group of madmen or fools.

Dealing with such objects who couldn't communicate rationally every day, after encountering them many times, Accelerator almost developed autism.

So he simply "isolated" himself—using "vector manipulation" to reflect everything around him, isolating all the noise from the outside world…

Even so, he had to be careful not to actually "kill" those foolish "challengers."

In the end, Accelerator was annoyed to the point of developing the habit of going out at night and taking the most remote paths.

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