A Scientific Urban Detective.

Chapter 475: Investigation into Director Sherbin
Since Huang Quanchuan Aihui suddenly had to work overtime tonight, she called Lin Wuming to tell him that she would not be back for dinner.

So, the house naturally became a place for Lin Wuming and other young people to have dinner together.

Shokuhou Misaki and the others, who had been out gathering intelligence, also returned home.

"The latest news," Shokuhou Misaki said, "is that the security forces have obtained solid evidence regarding the connection between the juvenile reformatory and the illegal experimental facility."

"I heard about this from Teacher Huang Quanchuan," Lin Wuming nodded, "It is said that someone reported it anonymously and provided her with information."

"I just went and looked directly at the document," Shokuhou Misaki continued. "The person who released the information was very cautious and used a thorough disguise. Even through 'memory recall', I couldn't obtain any more valuable clues."

"The security forces suspect that it was reported by someone inside the juvenile reformatory." Lin Wuming recalled what Huang Quanchuan Aihui mentioned on the phone. "Only insiders can get that information."

"So, what's next~" Shokuhou Misaki looked over, "What are you going to do, Mumei-senpai? Are you going to search the scene?"

"Don't worry about that for now." Lin Wuming shook his head and asked, "Did you get anything else about Director Sherbin?"

"Wuming-senpai, haven't you seen the news yet?" Shokuhou Misaki asked. "That Director Sherbin finally showed up today. It seems like he's under pressure from all sides and has been forced to respond positively to the strike and demonstration."

"Really? That's rare." Lin Wuming said sarcastically, "You have to wait until this moment to respond..."

As he spoke, Lin Wuming took out his mobile phone to check the relevant news.

Sure enough, at noon today, Director Sherbin held talks with representatives of the demonstration and achieved some results - at least that's what the news reports said.

"This..." Misaka Mikoto came over to watch the news report, "The conditions seem pretty good."

It turned out that Director Sherbin had proposed a compensation plan for the workers - providing them with similar jobs in large companies outside of Academy City and ensuring that their salaries were at the same level as they were now.

To be honest, as a concession measure, this plan is actually not bad. At least it will not cause workers to lose their jobs directly.

But Lin Wuming didn't believe the promises made by this unscrupulous capitalist from the bottom of his heart. It wasn't that he had any evidence to prove that Director Sherbin was lying, but he simply didn't trust him.

After all, Lin Wuming has been on the side of the demonstrators from the very beginning.

"Mumaki-senpai's guess was correct," Shokuhou Misaki suddenly said, "What that guy said is totally unbelievable."

In the process of collecting intelligence, Shokuhou Misaki specifically asked members of her own faction. Because many students at Tokiwadai Junior High School had families whose businesses had business dealings with Academy City, they had all dealt with the directors to some extent. The one they came into contact with most frequently was undoubtedly Director Sherbin.

Based on the feedback from faction members, it can be judged that Director Sherbin is a thoroughgoing pragmatist and egoist, and has an extremely arrogant and conceited personality.

The people he respects are limited to those who are of the same level or higher than him; he will never show any mercy to those who are of the "lower level".

The blue-collar workers who had launched the strike and demonstration were undoubtedly what Director Sherbin considered "the lower class." Given his character and temperament, he simply didn't care about the opinions of these "lower class."

In fact, this can be seen from the fact that he openly attended the launching ceremony of the "Unmanned Subway Project" on the day of the parade.

Now, perhaps due to pressure from the Unified Council or Chairman Aleister, he was forced to compromise and meet with the workers' representatives.

But it goes without saying that the promises he made to the workers' representatives are unlikely to be implemented.

"Speaking of which," Shokuhou Misaki continued, "the outside world isn't prepared to accept a hundred thousand highly skilled personnel—in fact, due to news censorship, people outside Academy City are completely unaware of the protests that have taken place these past few days."

"Tsk, it's really not surprising at all." Lin Wuming shook his head and said, "Besides this, do you have any other information?"

Lin Wuming decided to end this topic because this was not the information they needed.

Apart from proving that Director Sherbin is indeed an unscrupulous capitalist, it is of little help to Lin Wuming's next actions.

Shokuhou Misaki also knew this. The reason why she told this information first was mainly to build ideological awareness for several "innocent and kind" girls such as Misaka Mikoto and Hokaze Junko.

——As long as we determine that Director Sherbin is an undisputed bad guy, then there will be no psychological burden no matter how we deal with him next.

"I got the information from an 'insider,'" Shokuhou Misaki said in a serious tone, lowering her voice. "Director Sherbin is indeed the one who's pushing the FIVE_Over project."

Lin Wuming's guess came true!
"To be precise, Director Sherbin's main area of ​​focus is 'technology for the mechanization and generalization of superpowers,'" Shokuhou Misaki continued. "As for FIVE_Over, it's simply the highest-level project he's been invited to participate in based on that."

"So, he's not the only one leading the FIVE_Over project?" asked Misaka Mikoto.

"Yes," Shokuhou Misaki nodded. "With such an exaggerated research project, it's obvious that the Kihara clan is involved. However, due to their extensive prior technological accumulation and the ability to provide ample research resources, Director Sherbin has become the de facto leader of the FIVE_Over project."

Just like starting a company, the more you invest, the more shares you own.

"The leader." Lin Wuming nodded. "That's easy. The FIVE_Over project has been giving us trouble time and time again. It seems Director Sherbin can't escape responsibility no matter what, right?"

"That's right," Shokuhou Misaki said. "In fact, it's confirmed that Director Sherbin attaches great importance to the FIVE_Over project. It's not surprising that he would take action against us in order to improve its technical capabilities."

"In order to develop a machine capable of harnessing superpowers, he's even willing to attack a genuine superpower user." Lin Wuming exclaimed in astonishment. "Should I say he's truly worthy of being a director? He truly has ambitions befitting his position."

"Oh, ambition?" Shokuhou Misaki sneered disdainfully, "He has some, right? But I think he's nothing more than a coward when it comes to death!"

"Coward Director? What does that mean?" asked Misaka Mikoto.

(End of this chapter)