A Scientific Urban Detective.

Chapter 23 Hunter’s Prey
After finishing shopping, Lin Wuming prepared to return home.

A lot of things were bought on this trip to the supermarket, but it was nothing to Lin Wuming's telekinesis. If he wasn't worried about attracting too much attention, he could even float three full shopping bags beside him and use his telekinesis to carry them and move with him.

In order to keep a low profile, Lin Wuming just held a paper bag and hung two large plastic bags on the handles behind his wheelchair, returning home with a full load.

Even so, his look attracted a lot of attention, and some kind-hearted people even came forward to ask if he needed help, but of course Lin Wuming politely declined.

"Tsk, if this keeps going on, I'll get used to this situation." Lin Wuming secretly complained, "I feel like it wouldn't be inconvenient to be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life..."

The ability to read is really useful!
After chuckling a few times in his heart, Lin Wuming left the supermarket and prepared to embark on his return journey; then he found that something was wrong.

——The scene outside the supermarket has changed!

The scene before him was so unfamiliar that Lin Wuming began to doubt his own memory.

"That's not right. I clearly saw before I came in that there was a bank opposite the supermarket door..."

But in front of him at this moment, there was a lush green park.

Soon, Lin Wuming figured it out - there was more than one entrance to the large supermarket, and he had obviously run to another exit.

Lin Wuming quickly verified this by taking out the supermarket floor plan from his mobile phone and determined his location.

"Very good. Just walk counterclockwise around the road outside the supermarket and you will soon be back to the entrance you came from. Then you can return along the planned route." Lin Wuming nodded and started moving forward in the wheelchair.

A few minutes later, the wheelchair drove into the park, and Lin Wuming got lost as expected.

"Well, I really shouldn't have been so clever..." Looking at the lush bushes around him, Lin Wuming sighed, opened the map on his phone, and started studying the route again.

Such a simple route back to the supermarket entrance was not difficult for Lin Wuming. However, when he was walking and checking the map, he suddenly found that he could save some distance by crossing the park green space and take a shortcut to reach the vicinity of the apartment faster.

So, Lin Wuming immediately changed his route and plunged into the city park.

Then I got lost in this beautiful and intricate park trail.

As a modern urban youth, even before his time travel, Lin Wuming couldn't tell east from west. It was fine when there were landmarks or road signs to guide him, but the park, filled with trees and shrubs, a natural landscape, seemed like a maze to him.

By the way, Lin Wuming couldn’t tell the different types of trees apart, so all kinds of green plants looked the same to him.

"Okay..." Lin Wuming put away his phone as if giving up. "Anyway, let's get out of this maze and return to the civilized world first."

At least in this park, there are signposts indicating the exit location. Don't be too smart, just follow them honestly.

"Next time, I must avoid places like parks..." Lin Wuming silently recorded this lesson in his mind. "Also, I need to get my electronic payment account settled as soon as possible."

The mobile phone navigation software has an automatic navigation function, but you must activate a membership and purchase the corresponding service to use it. Lin Wuming has not yet opened an electronic payment account - his mobile phone was bought with the help of Huang Quanchuan Aihui - so he cannot purchase this service, which ultimately led to his current predicament.

……

"Shopping, then visiting the park. The target seems to be enjoying himself. He's unlike those escaped experimental subjects we've encountered before."

"Don't be careless. Don't forget that we almost lost our target when we entered the park just now." "We are too few in number, and we can't get too close."

"Don't worry, the boss has already called the minions over, and the shortage in numbers has been made up."

The "hunters" who were observing in secret were communicating with each other.

At this time, the leader of the "hunters" gave an order: "Get ready and capture the target at the exit of the park."

"Understood! But Boss, none of us are near that exit."

"Just hurry over there. There's plenty of time," the hunter leader said. "Have your minions keep an eye on the target first. His wheelchair can't move very fast."

The "minions" they are talking about are the specialty of Academy City - the group of bad boys, or hooligans.

According to the organization, each Anbu organization has several subordinate organizations to cooperate with, and they are responsible for logistical support, errands and other miscellaneous tasks.

Those affiliated organizations are the main components of the so-called "Armed Disabled Group".

Of course, "Hunters" also have such an affiliated organization, which is used at times like this to fill the gap in manpower.

In Academy City, where students are the primary residents, "delinquent youth" are a fairly common phenomenon. They aren't necessarily harmful; often, they exist as a backdrop or a feature of the scenery, coexisting peacefully with the rest of the city without interfering with other citizens.

They are actually more like a non-mainstream subculture group rather than a reserve gangster group like the "bosozoku".

In broad daylight and in public, as long as you don't actively provoke others, you generally won't be targeted by bad guys on the street...

Such "common sense" was what Huang Quanchuan Aihui told Lin Wuming during a casual chat, so when he noticed the group of bad boys wandering around in the park, Lin Wuming didn't pay much attention to it. He just pretended not to see them and drove towards the exit.

However, the bad guys he left behind exchanged glances with each other, and their eager expressions became more and more intense.

As a subordinate organization, there are rewards and rewards for cooperating with the Anbu to complete tasks. In the world of the Anbu, the simple creed of "the more capable, the more rewards" is followed. If you want to earn more, you must make more contributions.

——Since this crippled man is the target of the “hunter”, if we capture him and hand him over directly to the boss and the others, we should be able to get more rewards, right?
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
Because the targets of the "hunter"'s mission are generally not characters with strong combat capabilities - the experimental subjects who escaped from the laboratory are often better at hiding and escaping; so finding them is often more difficult than capturing them.

As long as they can lock onto the target, even the "incompetent" thugs can easily take it down.

In the past, the adult "hunters" were always nearby, so the gangsters certainly didn't dare to snatch the prey from them; but this time, there happened to be no "hunters" near the target of the mission!
That’s why it’s called a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity”.

Furthermore, the target of the mission was a disabled person in a wheelchair, which further reduced the difficulty of capturing him.

...The "Hunter" did not tell these temporary workers that his target was a Level 3 person with strong abilities.

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