A Scientific Urban Detective.

Chapter 249 Insurmountable Barrier

In fact, as early as when he rescued Dolly, Lin Wuming had been thinking about the other Misaka sisters and wanted to do something. After all, at this point in time, the tragedy had not yet officially begun, and everything could be salvaged.

However, when he thought about what to do specifically, Lin Wuming would be instantly awakened by reality.

Because he has no way to defeat Accelerator, even with the "bullet time" cheat.

If he couldn't defeat Accelerator, it would mean that he couldn't replicate Kamijou Touma's solution in the original story - to stop the experiment by challenging Accelerator.

Unless you go directly to Kamijou Touma and ask him to take action.

But this plan is totally unrealistic. Regardless of whether Chairman Aleister would allow Kamijou Touma to fight Accelerator, even if he tried his best to create a situation where the two of them could fight one-on-one, it is still unknown whether Kamijou Touma could still win like in the original work.

After all, this duel had been moved up two years. Without those two years of experience, it was unclear whether Kamijou Touma had developed the "premonition sense" that he relied on to survive.

On the other hand, although Accelerator has not yet massacred 10,000 Misaka sisters, it is difficult to say whether he is stronger now or in the original plot.

If he is not careful, Kamijou Touma will be killed or enter the second state... These are not the situations that Lin Wuming wants to see.

Therefore, apart from those indescribable monsters in the later period, the only person who can defeat Accelerator can no longer be relied upon.

Faced with this situation, Lin Wuming was naturally at a loss. He couldn't really say, "I'm going to fight Accelerator, right?" There was no chance of winning.

"Mumaki-senpai, don't be so discouraged," Shokuhou Misaki encouraged, "You've also had experience fighting against level 5s, even Accelerator..."

Although she said this, Shokuhou Misaki soon shut up and stopped talking.

Indeed, Accelerator is different. Even though they are both level 5, he is unique among them.

The reason why Accelerator is at the same level as the other six people is simply because there is no new level between level 5 and level 6.

Loosely speaking, Accelerator should be the only level 5.5 or even level 5.9.

Compared with Lin Wuming and Accelerator, there is objectively a huge gap in strength.

In this situation, if we continue to encourage them blindly, it would seem to have ill intentions.

"Hey, let me say..." Toumi Toumi on the side was already impatient. If this wasn't the "in-brain conference room" built by Shokuhou Misaki using her superpowers, she would definitely jump up and run away, right?

Unfortunately, in this "space", her "body" is not under her control, and she has no way to activate "absolute penetration" to do anything.

"Since you've dragged me in, why don't you just say something I can understand?" said Tiger Bee Toumi. "This is already an encrypted conversation, right? Why are you still acting like a riddle teller?"

There were three people participating in the conversation, but only two of them truly understood its content. This feeling made Tiger Bee Toumi very unhappy.

"Sorry, sorry, I was negligent~" Shokuhou Misaki said quickly, "I was so engrossed in what I was saying that I forgot about Tiger Bee-san."

Actually, Shokuhou Misaki did it on purpose. She knew Tiger Bee Toumi's strength and destructive power, so she was worried about leaving her alone "out there"—this girl had always been mentally unstable. If she got impatient waiting, or simply because she had "occupied" Wuming Senior for too long, she would get excited and draw her sword to stab her, which would be troublesome!

But even if she let Tomi Touma participate in the discussion, Shokuhou Misaki was still worried about her, so she didn't tell her the whole truth directly.

What Tiger Bee Toumi heard was all processed information, so she was completely confused and could only guess. She only roughly understood one thing - Lin Wuming, Shokuhou Misaki and others were planning to deal with Accelerator!

After witnessing the strength of many level 5s with his own eyes, Tiger Bee Toumi no longer had the confidence he had at the beginning. He felt that with his "absolute penetration", he could at least fight them one-on-one to the extreme.

Just as Lin Wuming said at the beginning, when really facing level 5, there is probably no chance to get close or attack.

"I don't understand the whole story," Tiger Bee Toumi asked, "but do we really have to fight that Accelerator? Isn't there... a more peaceful way?"

After hearing this, Lin Wuming and Shokuhou Misaki looked over in surprise.

"I didn't expect to hear such words from Tiger Bee-san..." Shokuhou Misaki murmured.

Although he knew she was teasing him, Tiger Bee Toumi explained seriously, "Although I'm not afraid of fighting, I'm not a bloodthirsty or warmongering person either... Well, let's put that aside. After all, even in war, there are times when there's a ceasefire and peace talks, right?"

Shokuhou Misaki said, "Tigerfinch-san has a point. But why should we be so obsessed with defeating Accelerator?"

Now the "Absolute Ability User Evolution" plan has not officially started, and Accelerator has not started to slaughter the Misaka sisters - it is precisely because of this that Lin Wuming and Shokuhou Misaki have the ambition to "perfectly resolve" this incident - similarly, from another perspective, it can be understood that at this point in time, the relationship between them and Accelerator has not yet become "hostile".

At best, they are just strangers with no relationship.

Taking the initiative to provoke and try to defeat Accelerator is really a bit strange and incomprehensible to those who don't know the inside story.

"Indeed, there is a bit of path dependence." Lin Wuming also readily admitted the limitations of his thinking.

After all, confronting Accelerator head-on and ending the "Absolute Ability User Evolution" plan by defeating him is the "standard answer" given in the original work.

Although the conditions for achieving it are very harsh, they can ensure success.

As for finding another way out and looking for other solutions... there is too much uncertainty, and the possibility of realization is even lower than "defeating Accelerator".

To be honest, Lin Wuming had thought of other methods, but he still couldn't find a good one, so he deceived himself and pretended that he didn't know about the "mass production of ability users" plan.

At this moment, Lin Wuming essentially admitted his powerlessness and sighed with a heavy heart.

"Wuming-senpai, don't sigh..." Shokuhou Misaki said, "I came to you to seek confidence. If you yourself are like this, what should I do!"

"Looking to me for confidence?" Lin Wuming was a little surprised—he hadn't expected Shokuhou Misaki to think so highly of him. But then he realized it. Rather than looking for him, it would be more accurate to say she was looking for the original storyline.

Lin Wuming shook his head and said, "This time it's different... Even if you know the plot, there's no solution."

(End of this chapter)