A Scientific Urban Detective

“I know I was wrong, and I promise to be more careful in the future! So, let's forget about the mechanical prosthetics!” Lin Wuming certainly wouldn't let the doctor have his way, even if he knew he was probably just trying to scare him.

But the scariest thing was that with Yomikawa Aiho's medical skills, combined with Academy City's high technology, it might actually be possible to implement that outrageous treatment plan.

That's why Lin Wuming refused so earnestly.

Lin Wuming obediently returned to the hospital bed and underwent an examination.

After the examination, the assisting head nurse also left the ward, leaving only Lin Wuming and Yomikawa Aiho in the room.

“Well, actually, it's not a big problem,” Yomikawa Aiho said, looking up from his tablet. “And with your level of mental ability, even if you were discharged directly, it wouldn't affect your daily life or studies, would it?”

“I know, but…?” Lin Wuming nodded calmly and waited for the inevitable 'but'.

Everyone knows that doctors like to pause dramatically when they speak.

“But what? Do you still want to stay in the hospital?” Yomikawa Aiho retorted. “My hospital is busy, and I don't have time to waste on a 'repeat offender' like you.”

“Re… repeat offender?”

“As long as you can rest quietly for a month or two to recover, it's not a big deal,” Yomikawa Aiho said. “Your recovery ability is strong; otherwise, your injuries wouldn't be so light this time.”

“So, my injuries are really light?” Lin Wuming asked.

Because he really couldn't objectively assess his injuries. Although his whole body ached, it didn't seem particularly serious. Apart from his fractured calf, which hadn't fully healed, he could still function normally if he gritted his teeth.

Lin Wuming wasn't a doctor and didn't have the professional knowledge to diagnose himself, so he could only listen to the doctor.

“Your injuries this time…” Yomikawa Aiho said, “were caused by forcibly moving your body with your mental ability, right?”

“I guess?” Lin Wuming said. “The situation was urgent at the time, so I might have been a little hasty.”

“Lack of coordination is a problem,” Yomikawa Aiho said. “Your superpower is too strong, far exceeding your level of control over your body—this is a very rare situation among espers.”

“Is there a solution?” Lin Wuming asked quickly.

“Even if you start exercising now to strengthen your control over your body, it won't be enough,” Yomikawa Aiho shook his head.

Lin Wuming was greatly disappointed.

“However,” the doctor said, changing the subject, “precisely because you are an excellent mental ability user, there is another way…”

“Although I've only seen related research reports and haven't met anyone who can actually do it,” Yomikawa Aiho said, “it is said that some mental ability users can use their mental ability to perform precise manipulation at the molecular level, and can even fix the molecular arrangement of the skin surface, turning the skin into solid armor… to that extent.”

Lin Wuming raised an eyebrow; he seemed to know who Yomikawa Aiho was talking about.

Based on confidentiality principles, Yomikawa Aiho didn't reveal the specific information of that powerful mental ability user, but continued, “Assuming that you, Lin Wuming, can also do something similar, using mental ability to precisely manipulate and synchronize the acceleration of all the tissues in your body, it would be equivalent to putting on an anti-G suit—at that time, your overload resistance limit could probably be increased to 20 or even 30 Gs.”

What Yomikawa Aiho didn't continue to say was that if Lin Wuming could also perform precise manipulation at the “cellular” level, accelerating every cell in his body simultaneously, he could even ignore the basic physical property of “inertia” to a certain extent!

Of course, considering that Lin Wuming was only a level 3 esper, being able to manipulate at the level of body tissues was probably his limit.

The speaker didn't mean much by it, but the listener took it to heart. Lin Wuming silently noted the doctor's suggestion, planning to find Haihara Mitsuki to ask for advice when he had the chance.

In the original work, Haihara Mitsuki was the mental ability user who “froze” the skin of his entire body, entering a “petrified” state to seek self-preservation.

Even Aihana Etsu, who wielded the obsidian dagger “Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli's Spear,” couldn't do anything about him at the time; his defense was top-notch!

Haihara Mitsuki was also another famous level 4 mental ability user in the original work besides Yobou Banka, but because he had such a good background, he basically never encountered any situations that required him to fight, so he wasn't regarded as a candidate for the “strongest mental ability user”.

But in terms of the precision of manipulating mental ability, perhaps Haihara Mitsuki was the strongest in Academy City.

– Speaking of which, Haihara Mitsuki is the grandson of the chairman of Tokiwadai Middle School. Although he can't enter the all-girls dorm because he's a boy, he must frequent that area.

At least, before finding the detailed address of the “Haihara family,” the area around the all-girls dorm is the most likely place to meet Haihara Mitsuki.

– Once Shokuhou Misaki and the others enroll in Tokiwadai Middle School, I'll also have a reason to be active around the all-girls dorm.

Lin Wuming calculated silently in his heart.

– Or, I could simply inquire within Judgment; Haihara Mitsuki is such a famous grandson that many people must know him, right?

After a day of observation in the hospital, Lin Wuming was discharged again.

Shokuhou Misaki and the others held another celebration party at home.

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But it wasn't to celebrate Lin Wuming's discharge—that reason was too frequent and had lost its novelty.

What they were really celebrating was the discharge of Kazakiri Hyouka and Yuuri Chiya, as well as the victory party for the “Escape from Artificial Habitat” operation.

As the benefactors who rescued them, Lin Wuming and Kohachi Mitsuki were also invited to participate in the celebration.

A day later, Kihara Kaganzaku and Dolly, who had escaped from the Artificial Habitat earlier, also left the hospital ward and came to the apartment on the fourteenth floor of Family Side, where they reunited with Shokuhou Misaki.

Also coming to join her was another silent and low-key girl, who, like Dolly, had long brown hair and covered the upper half of her face with bangs, seeming somewhat gloomy and not good at communicating with people.

This girl was Dolly—the first “Misaka clone” born together with Dolly, who had only recently been found.

“It feels like the apartment upstairs has become a girls' dormitory,” Yomikawa Aiho said, lying on the sofa and looking up at the ceiling. “Speaking of which, are all the survivors who escaped from the Artificial Habitat in that apartment upstairs?”

“Probably… right?” Lin Wuming thought for a moment and nodded. “At least, the people who have recovered and been discharged are all here.”

Like those who were unfortunately affected by the side effects of the experiments, turning into black smoke monsters, or the unconscious staff members, they are still lying in hospital beds receiving treatment and have not recovered and been discharged.

“Ten people living in one apartment, even if nine of them are little girls, isn't it too crowded?” Yomikawa Aiho counted on her fingers.

Besides Yomikawa Aiho, the guardian, there are also Shokuhou Misaki, Mitou Aiyu, and the Yumiya sisters, the four original residents; Kazakiri Hyouka and Yuuri Chiya joined yesterday; and today there are the Dolly and the Kihara Kaganzaku sisters… a total of ten people.