A Scientific Urban Detective.

Chapter 234 Heavy Balloon

"...No, I'm not going back yet," the girl in the denim jacket shook her head, her Aquarius-shaped earrings swaying. "Let me play with them a little longer..."

Her eyes locked on a figure active on the street, she snorted coldly, stood up and left.

The empty can of orange soda was left on the table.

When she walked out of the store, she saw the balloons used as decoration at the door and picked one up.

Although a clerk at the door noticed it, he was a customer after all, so he didn't stop him.

"Something seems to have happened on the street," said a colleague. "The thunder just now was so scary that I almost knocked over a customer's drink..."

"Be careful, otherwise you will be scolded by the customers and the manager." As he said this, the clerk quickly cleared away the empty cans on the table by the window.

"boom!"

The girl in the denim jacket imitated the sound of an explosion, but the balloon in her hand remained safe and sound.

However, a little girl in front of her was startled and squatted down with her head in her hands.

"Haha, don't be afraid, I'm just teasing you." The girl smiled and handed the balloon to the little girl, "Here, this is for you."

"Thank you~" the girl took it and said in surprise, "This balloon is so heavy!"

"Because it's not filled with hydrogen, but heavy gas. It's a rare treasure!"

"Oh, thank you, sister!" The little girl thanked her again in a daze.

"Okay, go play." The girl waved her hand and said goodbye. "Also, good children should have public morals and not throw things around. Even if you don't want this balloon anymore, you can't throw it away."

"What should we do?"

"You can give it to others too," the girl said with a smile on her face. "For example, the big brother of the Discipline Committee, the nosy Discipline Committee member will definitely not refuse it."

Watching the little girl walk away along the sidewalk, the girl put away the kind smile on her face and sneered: "Lin Wuming, Gufa Meiwei..."

Among the five people in that group, only these two were level 3 - relatively speaking, the lowest level, making them the perfect targets.

Lin Wuming, who has repeatedly discovered key clues and solved cases, is the target that must be eliminated first.

——Otherwise, with his investigative and deductive abilities, he'd probably be able to find an "underground arena" that's truly suitable for you soon, right? You should thank me, Privet Wood Xiaoji Feng!

Just as she expected, after walking for a while with the heavy balloon in her hand, the little girl soon got bored - not only did the balloon not float, but it was also heavy, and it was very cumbersome and difficult to hold in her hand.

But there was no trash can nearby, and the big sister who had just given her the balloon also said that she couldn’t just throw it away casually, and had to give it to someone else.

Coincidentally, I saw a discipline committee member wearing an armband patrolling not far ahead.

The little girl ran over...

"I found out," Gufa Meiwei looked up at the others, "Headquarters has the latest intelligence. It seems we've discovered something about the identity of the 'Explosive Devil.'"

"—Mito Takagama, female, 15 years old, possesses the ability of a Level 4 'High Pressure Vessel,'" Gufa Meiwei read out the email from headquarters. "Formerly a second-year student at Kirigaoka Girls' Academy, she dropped out of school a year ago for personal reasons and is currently missing."

"Missing? Sounds super suspicious!" Kinuhata said. "Level 4 powerful person, 'High-Pressure Vessel'?" Lin Wuming pondered. "That fits perfectly with this case."

According to the photo in the file, Mito Takafu is a tall girl with light brown curly hair. Her eyes are half blocked by her bangs, giving her an overall gloomy look.

"What do you mean missing?" asked Misaka Mikoto.

"Literally, her classmates, teachers, and friends have no idea where she is," Gufa Meiwei explained. "They can't find her through any channels."

What she didn't explain was that, generally speaking, "missing" could be equated with "accidental death." For various reasons, similar situations were not uncommon in Academy City.

And people often don't delve too deeply into it.

In addition, Lin Wuming also knew that in addition to death, the possibility of "missing" could also include being involved in a secret experiment, or joining a secret organization like the Anbu Organization, thus hiding their whereabouts in the surface world...

It now seems that if the "explosive demon" is indeed this Mito Takami, she undoubtedly belongs to the fourth situation - her whereabouts are unknown, she faked her death to escape, and became a criminal.

"Can her ability create an explosion of this magnitude?" Lin Wuming asked, pointing to the sky.

"Yes," Gufa Meiwei replied affirmatively. "The highest record of 'high-pressure vessels' can create ultra-high pressure environments of millions of atmospheres. Its performance exceeds the bearing limits of most high-pressure vessels in the world."

Once this level of high-pressure gas explodes, its power is no less than that of high explosives.

The discipline committee members reacted very quickly. After determining that the explosion was caused by high-pressure gas rather than explosives, they identified the suspect in less than an hour.

——Half of the time is spent on running the process and applying for permission to use the library.

"In short, let's first find a way to find this Mitogafu." Lin Wuming said.

"Headquarters is taking action," Gufa Meiwei said. "In a few minutes, our support will arrive, and then we won't have to be so nervous..."

As she was speaking, she suddenly saw a little girl running towards her with a balloon in her arms.

Since the pedestrians nearby had already been evacuated by them, the girl who suddenly ran out at this time seemed very abrupt.

"Student Wuming!" Influenced by the little boys not long ago, Gufa Meiwei's nerves subconsciously tensed up.

Although she didn't kick the can, this girl was holding a bigger balloon in her arms!

"The balloon, very similar!" Gufa Meiwei said quickly - she saw through her "X-ray ability" that the inside of the balloon was very similar to the can before!

Lin Wuming took action immediately, using his telekinesis to snatch the balloon from the girl's hand and throwing it into the sky again.

But this time, the "bomb" reacted even faster. It had just left the girl's arms when it began to expand...

Lin Wuming's expression suddenly changed. His telekinesis ability was limited and he couldn't withstand the close-range explosion of the "high-pressure vessel"!
Unfortunately, Kinuhata's favorite was far away, and her powerful defense was useless at this time.

- Should I continue to raise the balloon bomb, or should I focus my Nen ability on protecting the little girl? But if I protect her, I won't be able to protect myself...

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