A Scientific Urban Detective

Scanning the email, Lin Wuming skillfully extracted a few keywords.

Although he was used to this kind of email format, he couldn't help but sigh: "Here it comes again. I knew it was coming… but it happens almost every week. Aren't they afraid of the trouble?"

"This time, this kind of email, so you're going to duel again?" Accelerator had reappeared behind Lin Wuming at some point.

"It's not really a duel, just a friendly exchange of skills, right?" Lin Wuming said, "Because both Shokuhou Misaki and I know how to stop before things get out of hand!"

It was also an explanation of why he was unwilling to duel Accelerator.

Regardless of the reason, any battle with Accelerator could easily turn into a life-or-death situation.

"Perhaps Shokuhou Misaki would be willing to fight you again?" Lin Wuming said.

"Forget it, that guy is inexplicable—his ability and him himself are—there's no point in fighting him." Accelerator frowned, looking disgusted.

"Is that so? What a pity." Lin Wuming showed a genuine expression of regret.

Honestly, he really wanted to see the clash between the first and seventh ranked again.

But as Accelerator said, they had fought once last month, but the whole battle was filled with a strange sense of weirdness.

Mainly on Shokuhou Misaki's side, after all, even Lin Wuming, who also used "telekinesis," didn't understand what he was doing.

Accelerator also couldn't figure out why his "vector manipulation" worked sometimes and not others, highlighting a randomness. In the end, Accelerator got bored and主动 ended the inexplicable duel.

"Speaking of which, are you going to watch the duel tonight?" Lin Wuming asked.

Accelerator said disdainfully: "Even that Kakine Teitoku is too lazy to watch your childish juggling act, do you think this great one would be interested?"

With that, he swaggered away.

Lin Wuming shook his head, wondering why he would bother talking if he wasn't interested.

But it didn't matter. Anyway, his "duel" with Shokuhou Misaki had become a routine event, and there would definitely be a live broadcast. He could watch it online.

It was said that Kakine Teitoku watched every single episode without fail.

Regardless of how much strength Lin Wuming and Shokuhou Misaki showed, it was still a real duel between two Level 5s—even in Academy City, duels of this caliber weren't easy to see.

In the past half year, there had been no shortage of people and forces paying attention to the duel between Lin Wuming and Shokuhou Misaki. This was a major reason why their duel couldn't be ended—the audience wouldn't allow it.

After school, Lin Wuming prepared dinner first, and after eating, he strolled towards District 10.

"Anti-Skill has already set up a security line around the area," Yomikawa Aiho instructed, "Be careful and don't make too much of a scene."

"Don't worry, Shokuhou Misaki and I know our limits," Lin Wuming said.

"That's true." Yomikawa Aiho nodded, actually agreeing with this statement.

Because Lin Wuming was right. Among all the Level 5s, Lin Wuming and Shokuhou Misaki were the most mature and helpful.

Their duel as "telekinesis users" had been going on for almost twenty times, but they hadn't accidentally injured anyone. Instead, they had saved many people during the duels—from various accidents.

This was one of the reasons why Academy City didn't object, and even actively promoted their periodic duels.

To be honest, Lin Wuming felt that his duel with Shokuhou Misaki was becoming a kind of showpiece for Academy City to display to the outside world.

In the recent duel audience, Lin Wuming noticed the figures of official staff members of the Board of Directors accompanying foreign representatives to watch.

Even without considering the aspect of demonstrating strength to the outside world, the duel itself was fully utilized.

For example, the battlefield located in District 10 this time was actually an abandoned building scheduled for demolition.

In addition to dueling, Lin Wuming and Shokuhou Misaki also had the mission of completely demolishing this building.

Perhaps it was because it contained too many complex elements that Accelerator and Kakine Teitoku, two proud Level 5s, looked down on this kind of duel.

However, Lin Wuming himself had no complaints and didn't mind being observed and having his combat intelligence collected.

After all, neither he nor Shokuhou Misaki were using their full strength, and their abilities were of the type that weren't afraid of having their data collected.

Apart from making researchers more confused, the data collected through duels had almost no other more practical value.

Of course, the most important thing was—Lin Wuming needed actual combat.

It didn't have to be intense, but it had to be sufficient actual combat to allow him to gain enough "experience points."

And Shokuhou Misaki was the perfect opponent.

Because Shokuhou Misaki was a "Gemstone", his ability "Mental Out" was sufficiently idealistic and unreasonable… similar to "magic" in a sense.

In the absence of a magician as an opponent, Shokuhou Misaki was undoubtedly the most suitable sparring partner.

Moreover, Shokuhou Misaki belonged to the type of "the stronger the opponent, the stronger he becomes". His upper limit was very high, but his lower limit was low enough; he was the kind who could fight two moves with anyone from a quasi-magic god to an ordinary thug.

This was conducive to Lin Wuming mastering the intensity and rhythm of the battle.

He didn't know if Shokuhou Misaki was deliberately cooperating, or simply hadn't noticed these twists and turns, but in any case, he was able to cooperate well with Lin Wuming to achieve his goals every time.

"Please give me your guidance again today, Shokuhou Misaki-san." Arriving at the duel site, Lin Wuming greeted his opponent who had already arrived.

"Let us show our guts today as well, Lin Wuming!" Shokuhou Misaki tightened the headband on his forehead and said with high fighting spirit.

Then, Lin Wuming also greeted the surrounding "audience" with a very "idol" consciousness.

"Everyone, I'll leave the order of the scene and the other viewers to you!"

"Leave it to us, Wuming." Haimura Kiyotaka was the first to respond, "Don't worry, it's not the first time, everyone is used to it."

"That's right, Wuming-sama, don't worry!" The audience closest to the duel site said one after another.

These were all members of the "Telekinesis Club", which was the inter-school exchange organization composed of telekinesis users that Haimura Kiyotaka had mentioned.

Since "telekinesis" was the most widespread category of abilities in Academy City, the "Telekinesis Club" also had a large number of members.

Even if only one-tenth of the members could happen to make it on time, there would always be a stable forty to fifty people attending each duel.