A Scientific Urban Detective.

Chapter 16: The Threat in the Shadows
"I think what Mr. Huang Quanchuan said is right." This time, Tiger Bee Toumi nodded in agreement, "We can't underestimate human malice."

"One more thing," Huang Quanchuan Aihui said, "In order to help you with various procedures these days, I have been registered as your guardian."

This is more convenient - explained Aiho Yomigawa.

Although this decision was somewhat coincidental, since she has become the "guardian", Aiho Yomikawa has decided to do this task well.

"After all, this is a case I'm personally in charge of," Yomikawa Aiho said seriously. "It's okay if I didn't catch the real culprit, but at least I can't fail to protect Wuming-kun's safety."

"In that case..." Lin Wuming no longer hesitated and extended his hand. "Thank you very much for your help, teacher. Please take care of me in the future!"

"Uh..." Looking at the plaster cylinder in front of her, Huang Quanchuan Aihui carefully reached out and shook it. "You're welcome. It's the same for me. Please take care of me..."

For some reason, she always had a feeling that when communicating with Lin Wuming, it was not like facing a teenager, but more like dealing with a person of the same age.

Having solved the problem of where to stay for the next period of time and also solved the problem of personal safety, Lin Wuming felt much more relaxed and was able to rest and recuperate.

While Lin Wuming was actively cooperating with his treatment in the hospital and striving for a quick recovery, a secret meeting concerning him was taking place in the basement of a certain building...

"Let's take the final vote now on the disposal plan for subject numbered '007'." The middle-aged man presiding over the meeting spoke first.

"Now that he has the name Lin Wuming, he's gained a valid identity and is under the protection of the security forces," someone immediately said. "Besides, it's already been confirmed that his amnesia is true, so why bother making such a fuss over him?"

"You mean, we're just going to let the lab's defectors go? What will the other subjects think?" Someone immediately retorted, "The security forces have been tightening their checks lately. If another subject escapes, we're doomed!"

"That idiotic assassin you hired messed up everything!" The man who had spoken earlier immediately slammed the table and stood up. "If you hadn't rashly hired an amateur to carry out the assassination... If you had chosen to entrust the operation to a more professional ANBU, we wouldn't be in such a difficult position!"

The middle-aged man who presided over the meeting stopped the quarrel: "Okay, now is not the time to quarrel. The most important thing is to make a decision."

"Then we can only give up, right?" The participants finally reached a consensus. "After all, he's just an insignificant experimental subject. Without his memories, he won't pose any threat to us anymore. There's no need to waste time and resources on him."

After the incident, they urgently transferred all personnel and institutions related to the project overnight, and it would be of no avail even if Lin Wuming recovered his memory later.

The middle-aged man frowned and said, "You... haven't paid any attention to that young man's situation at all?"

He was already certain that the dozens of researchers sitting in the audience did not take the once insignificant "007" experimental subject seriously.

In fact, if that boy hadn't attracted the investigation of the security forces, no one present would have cared about the life or death of an experimental subject.

——Including myself.

The middle-aged man suddenly sighed. The leader of his team would casually hire a killer on an anonymous website to silence someone. In the final analysis, it was because he did not take Lin Wuming seriously, so he just did it perfunctorily.

He opened the document: "Everyone take a look at this."

"What's this?" someone asked immediately, perhaps growing impatient with the meeting. "The library's recently updated archives," the middle-aged man said. "The file on '007'—Lin Wuming."

"Tsk, what's so good about this...Huh!" The researchers who were originally careless suddenly widened their eyes.

Behind the "Superpowers" column on the file was written something like - Level 3 "Telekinesis".

"Level 3, powerful..." a female researcher muttered, "How could that be? Isn't he a level 0 with no abilities?"

The middle-aged man narrowed his eyes. "I don't know what happened, but one thing is certain—the library's information cannot be falsified."

The information in the "library" may be missing, or there may be parts that are blacked out due to confidentiality levels, but there will never be false information.

As long as it appears in the library, it is an indisputable fact!
"Could it be..." someone finally said, "that our experiment... was successful?"

To be honest, almost everyone present had thought of this possibility, but no one said it so decisively.

After all, this experimental project is the goal that all of them are working hard for; when it comes to their own interests, people will always become cautious.

The "Dark May" project aims to analyze and replicate the supernatural power "Vector Operation" of Accelerator, the currently ranked number one level 5 supernatural power user.

- Analyzing Accelerator's thought patterns and forcibly implanting a portion of them into the subjects, strengthening their "personal reality" and causing their superpowers to grow dramatically.

However, the plan also has risks that match the benefits. Since it is a human experiment, casualties are inevitable.

Therefore, the project's participants are all from the "elite" group—in layman's terms, abandoned orphans. Even if a few people are missing from this group, it won't attract attention.

Lin Wuming, the experimental subject numbered "007", is one of them. Because he is the oldest, he is regarded as the one with the least potential and has never received any attention.

As a result, he suddenly became a level 3 powerful ability user!
How could this not surprise and excite the researchers?
You have to know that according to "attainment assessment," the upper limit of each person's superpower level is predetermined from the outset; raising the ability level through acquired effort and ability development is nearly impossible...

This is especially true for the children in the "eliminate the coarse and retain the fine" group - if they really have talent, they would have been picked up by schools or professional and formal research institutions long ago, and would never have fallen to the point of becoming "guinea pigs".

But from another perspective, it is precisely because the children in these "eliminating the dross and retaining the essence" groups are all at level 0 or level 1 that they can better demonstrate the effectiveness of the "Dark May" plan.

So far, among the hundreds of experimental subjects in the entire project team, only one girl has successfully broken through the "literacy assessment" and was promoted from level 0 to level 2; there are also several others who have been promoted from level 0 to level 1.

There were results, but they were very small and did not meet the researchers' expectations.

If Lin Wuming's superpower level was really improved because of their experiment, then it would undoubtedly be the biggest achievement since the establishment of the "Dark May" plan!

(End of this chapter)