A Scientific Urban Detective.

Chapter 347 Escort Mission

"Huh?" Upon hearing Lin Wuming's request, Saten Ruiko was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, "So, Senior Wuming wants to continue being an undercover agent and destroy those fraudulent organizations under the guise of improving abilities?"

Although she found out that Lin Wuming was not a person who shared the same interests as her, Saten Ruiko did not feel disappointed. Instead, she pinched her chin and thought seriously.

"Sure enough, no," Lin Wuming had already prepared himself mentally, so he wasn't disappointed. "The situation last time was quite accidental."

"No, that's not the case." Saten Ruiko shook her head. "It's not that there aren't any. Quite the opposite. After all, this is Academy City, and urban legends about superpowers are the most numerous."

"Huh? Is that so?"

"Yes," Saten Ruiko nodded seriously. "On urban legend websites, you can see different stories about power-up almost every day... Of course, everyone knows that kind of news isn't really urban legends so much as it is bragging and lies, so no one takes it seriously."

As for the last "excellent student" training class, what really attracted students to sign up was actually the intensive training in ordinary courses, rather than the development of super powers.

Hatsuharu Shikiri very tacitly found the urban legend website that Saten Ruiko mentioned. Lin Wuming took a few glances over and found that it was all fake information and not even worth taking another look at.

Lin Wuming wrote down the URL and decided to visit this website from time to time in the future, maybe he could find something.

After sending the two girls away, Lin Wuming looked at Gufa Meiwei who stayed behind and asked, "Are there any other tasks today? By the way, don't you need to go with Chuchun?"

"Not really." Gufa Meiwei shook his head. "I'm just helping to lead them. I'm still a newcomer."

It seemed that leading a group of younger newcomers in the past few days had made Gufa Meiwei feel physically and mentally exhausted. At this moment, she took a break from her busy schedule and hid in this information room, enjoying the rare afternoon tea time.

But before Gufa Meiwei could finish the tea in her cup, a broadcast interrupted her leisure time.

"Student Gufa, Student Wuming, there is a new task, please immediately..." The chairman's voice came from the broadcasting system.

Following the sound, I saw a surveillance camera in the corner of the wall, next to the speaker of the broadcasting system.

The headquarters building is the chairman's domain, her sight and will are everywhere... sometimes, this is annoying.

"Forget it, you don't have to come." As if seeing Gufa Meiwei's resentful expression through the camera, the chairman quickly changed his tone, "Let me be frank. I have a new mission for you. Hufeng will also be participating. Remember to pick her up from the hospital later."

"What mission? Is it urgent?"

"No, the mission isn't difficult," the chairman said. "I chose your team simply because you have a good relationship with the mission target, which makes it more convenient."

"So, what exactly do you want us to do?" Lin Wuming asked.

"Go to this address," the chairman emailed a location coordinate, "and escort the two young ladies home."

Lin Wuming glanced at the coordinate information and didn't feel anything special. However, Gufa Meiwei seemed to suddenly understand: "Are you going to pick up Misaka-san and Shokuhou-san?"

"Yes, those two future Tokiwadai Middle School ladies."

Lin Wuming then remembered that Shokuhou Misaki had indeed mentioned to him that she would be attending a charity event today. As Academy City's two new Level 5s, both confirmed to attend Tokiwadai Junior High, Misaka Mikoto and Shokuhou Misaki were the perfect ambassadors for the city's image.

Therefore, naturally, they are invited to participate in various activities.

Various interviews, lectures, charity events, and even variety shows produced by Academy City will try their best to invite these two current top stars to participate.

It seems that these two level 5s are being packaged as top idols in Academy City.

Fortunately, both Misaka Mikoto and Shokuhou Misaki are the type who don't have to worry about their academic performance, so they can devote a lot of time to participating in these activities.

On the other hand, whether it is the program organizers, the school, or even the Academy City officials, they are all happy to see this happen.

Tokiwadai Junior High School, in order to enhance its own influence, even sent school uniforms to them in advance. Putting aside the fact that Misaka Mikoto is currently attending school, Shokuhou Misaki has already appeared in the Tokiwadai Junior High School uniform.

In reality, the two of them could have easily declined this kind of public service. After all, they were Level 5s, and even if they were in charge of the board of directors, they wouldn't get on with Level 5s over such a trivial matter.

However, when it comes to "popularity", Shokuhou Misaki, who knows the plot of the original work, has always been resentful. She cannot accept that she is not as good as Misaka Mikoto.

——No matter how you think about it, I, who have "psychological control", must be more popular than that little girl who can only discharge electricity and fire cannons.

Therefore, Shokuhou Misaki was unwilling to miss any opportunity to increase her influence. Not to mention, increasing her influence would also help her recruit members when she formed the Shokuhou faction in the future, which was a win-win situation.

As for Misaka Mikoto, she was simply aroused by her competitive spirit and was unwilling to show weakness in front of Shokuhou Misaki.

After all, for some unknown reason, Shokuhou Misaki naturally has some hostility towards Misaka Mikoto, and whenever the two meet, they always can't help but say a few sarcastic words.

This made Misaka Mikoto feel very uncomfortable, and her character of becoming stronger when facing a stronger opponent meant that she would not be the first to withdraw in this game of cowardice.

The result is the current situation...

On the way to the mission destination, as an insider, Lin Wuming gave a brief introduction to the situation of the two level 5s.

Logically speaking, these two Level 5 espers should be the strongest humans in Academy City, and even in the world, and they should not need protection.

But nothing is absolute. Shokuhou Misaki is one of those people with very biased superpowers. As a master in the psychological and spiritual fields, she is a weakling in terms of physical fitness and frontal combat ability.

In addition, the whereabouts of Shunzo Tōnō, the culprit behind the original incident in the artificial room, is unknown, which poses a threat to Shokuhou Misaki that cannot be ignored.

Therefore, every time there is an outdoor activity, the organizers and Tokiwadai Junior High School will pay special attention to the protection of Shokuhou Misaki, and will specially hire guards or discipline committee members to serve as bodyguards.

Today, it happened to be the Discipline Committee's turn to perform the task, so the chairman immediately thought of Lin Wuming and Hufeng Toumi—since they lived in the same building as Shokuhou Misaki, they could just about escort her all the way home.

As for Gufa Meiwei, he was actually just the one who came along by chance... Of course, there was no need to say such things out loud.

(End of this chapter)