A Scientific Urban Detective.

Chapter 413 Bullet Time!

According to Lin Wuming's own past experience, under normal circumstances, his "bullet time" state can roughly slow down his subjective time to one two thousandth of the real time; in other words, his thinking is accelerated by two thousand times!
Therefore, he was able to react to the pistol bullets fired at him at close range, and even use the extra time to do other things.

Lin Wuming originally thought that this was the limit of "Bullet Time", but now it seems that this conjecture is obviously wrong——

Misaka Mikoto, who was not far away, was emitting electricity, but in Lin Wuming's eyes, Misaka Mikoto was like a statue - her body was suspended in the air, stepping on the black iron sand and frozen in mid-air, motionless.

Several azure electric beams streamed out from the tips of her hair and fingertips, spreading forward bit by bit at a speed as slow as an ant crawling...

——This is an electric shock! Although it can't reach the speed of light in the atmosphere, it is still hundreds or even thousands of meters per second.

But at this moment, in Lin Wuming's subjective impression, it was only as slow as "ants crawling" or even slower.

There is no doubt that the occurrence of such a phenomenon means that Lin Wuming's "bullet time" effect has been greatly improved!
As for how much it has improved, Lin Wuming is not sure and has no interest in estimating it.

Because at this time he had already seen the culprit that brought him into "bullet time" - a green "beam" shooting from the building next to him.

—Laser attack? Could it be that the "fatal crisis" I'm facing this time is a light-speed attack?
Lin Wuming was shocked, but then he felt a little happy - if "Bullet Time" can even deal with light-speed attacks, then it can be said that this is a real magical skill!
But unfortunately, Lin Wuming guessed wrong, because what suddenly attacked him at this time was not a "laser attack", but a level 5 superpower - "atomic collapse".

Or to be more precise, it is the FIVE_Over powered armor equipped with an "atomic collapse" activation device.

As for the essence of "atomic collapse", it is not a laser beam, but an electron beam in an ambiguous state of "wave-particle uncertainty".

In other words, "atomic collapse" is essentially more like a "high-energy particle beam weapon," whose theoretical speed also reaches 99.999% of the speed of light.

Of course, similar to the discharge phenomenon of lightning, in the atmospheric environment, high-energy particle beams will also be severely decelerated and interfered with, so they are far from reaching the theoretical near-light speed level.

However, "atomic collapse" is different from ordinary high-energy particles after all. "Electrons in an ambiguous state" themselves are one of the most powerful destructive forces in the physical world, because they can destroy everything in their way at the atomic level - the same goes for the air.

Therefore, "Atomic Collapse" can move forward while clearing obstacles for itself.

Although it still cannot reach 99.999% of the speed of light, it is still no problem to reach about two-thirds of it.

For people who basically live in the "slow" state of classical mechanics, there is actually no difference between the two.

However, Lin Wuming's "Bullet Time" responded to the attack at two-thirds the speed of light!
Even Lin Wuming was experiencing such an extreme desperate situation for the first time.

Heartbeat, breathing, blood flow, and even nerve reactions have stopped; even "thinking" has stagnated!

Only "consciousness" still exists - in some unscientific way, explained using the terminology of mysticism, it should be the so-called "soul", right?

In order to deal with this fatal attack, Lin Wuming's thinking speed, with the help of "bullet time", was accelerated to a level that was enough to adapt to two-thirds of the speed of light!

Due to the limitations of human physiology and physics, theoretically, "thinking" cannot reach this speed.

To the point that Lin Wuming even thought he was dead for a while.

After an eternity... or perhaps just a moment—at this scale, the human perception of "time" has lost all meaning—Lin Wuming suddenly came to his senses and realized he wasn't dead, but had entered a state of "bullet time." Lin Wuming had long been accustomed to "bullet time," having often used it to buy himself more time when studying human anatomy and microphysics.

However, the "bullet time" at this moment made Lin Wuming feel so unfamiliar!

——It’s so slow. Even though it’s a laser attack, it’s so slow… Will I die of old age before it kills me?

The attack location was the building on the left, about forty or fifty meters away. Due to the problem of perspective, Lin Wuming could only catch a glimpse of the emerald green beam of light out of the corner of his eye.

Lin Wuming's thoughts were flying, and he was lost in thought for a long time, but the emerald green beam had only flown less than half the distance.

——No, now is not the time to wait for death, we should find a way to resolve the crisis!

Lin Wuming suddenly came to his senses. Isn’t the purpose of “bullet time” to save his life?
So, Lin Wuming habitually set up a telekinetic barrier on the path that the light beam must pass through.

But it is obvious that the telekinetic barrier cannot prevent "atomic collapse".

Lin Wuming continued to choose to stack armor as usual. He set up a hundred layers of mental barriers in one breath, but the green beam seemed to have no obstruction and passed through all the mental barriers as if it were passing through the air.

Lin Wuming couldn't help but feel anxious when he saw this, but at this moment he had no better solution, so he could only continue to set up more mind barriers...

People with super powers rely on the computing power of their brains to activate their abilities.

In order to neutralize the intrusive attack from a third party, Lin Wuming set up thousands of layers of telekinesis barriers in less than 0.1 microseconds.

Not surprisingly, his brain couldn't handle the sheer volume of calculations.

Misaka Mikoto, who was not far from him, suddenly felt that there were obvious "brain waves" coming from Lin Wuming's side - the unprecedented intense brain computing activity made the originally weak human bio-waves suddenly increase to a level that could be directly observed.

——This kind of power is enough to burn Wuming Senior's brain, right? What is he doing...

Misaka Mikoto was surprised, but then she noticed a beam of emerald green light suddenly shooting towards them from the right.

——Who is it? A third party is interfering in our duel! That's why Wuming Senior...

Lin Wuming, who was in the super-accelerated state of "bullet time", had no idea what challenges his body was facing... because his body had no time to respond.

In fact, when Misaka Mikoto noticed Lin Wuming's abnormal brain waves, Lin Wuming's resistance was already over...

The telekinetic barrier could not stop the "atomic collapse", but after thousands of attempts, Lin Wuming also discovered the essence of this "beam of light" - it was actually some kind of microscopic particle.

In this extreme state, through repeated and unremitting attempts to save himself, Lin Wuming has also broken through the limit of his telekinesis in the scale of manipulation. Although it has not reached the scale of electrons, it can already directly interfere with atomic-level particles.

At this scale, using telekinesis to block "atomic collapse" has become a reality - just keep gathering atoms and sending them to its attack trajectory.

(End of this chapter)