A Scientific Urban Detective.

Chapter 1058 The Space Envoy Shows His True Skills

“I see, so it was a scam after all. But…” After hearing Lin Wuming’s explanation, Shirai Kuroko said, “Isn’t Senior being a bit too arrogant? You didn’t disarm me.”

As she spoke, the space made the girl shake the steel needle in her hand.

"Moreover, my senior is now in direct skin-to-skin contact with me."

Shirai Kuroko twisted her wrists hard, and she could indeed feel the slightly rough texture of a boy's palm on her skin.

—The condition for Shirai Kuroko to activate her "spatial teleportation" is to make direct contact with her own body.

“Senpai’s level of restraint is not enough to trap a space user,” Shirai Kuroko said, while simultaneously activating spatial teleportation.

It's not an escape, it's an attack!

Space-based attacks are never confined to one's own movements and postures.

Superpowered individuals are not martial artists; their battles rely more on superpowers and imagination.

The two sides switched positions again and appeared hundreds of meters in the air, falling together from the sky.

Seemingly seeking revenge for being deceived earlier, Shirai Kuroko repeatedly used spatial teleportation, constantly changing direction in mid-air, attempting to disrupt Lin Wuming's sense of direction.

At the same time, Shirai Kuroko also accepted the advice Lin Wuming had given her earlier—she could not relax for a moment in the battle, and she could not be presumptuous and show mercy.

At least... the nameless senior at level 5 is not an opponent I have the right to show mercy to.

Gravity is the best weapon for spatial manipulation. Shirai Kuroko tightly grasped Lin Wuming's left hand to ensure skin-to-skin contact, and activated her ability again to return to the ground.

Through a series of precise maneuvers, Shirai Kuroko neutralized her own gravitational acceleration, but slammed Lin Wuming hard onto the ground.

The last remaining smooth section of the road surface instantly cracked, revealing a spiderweb-like pattern.

Shirai Kuroko was genuinely startled. She had carefully calculated that the nameless senior was at most equivalent to falling from the height of a three-story building—a fall from that height shouldn't be considered too serious for a Level 5, and it shouldn't have caused such an effect!

At that moment, Shirai Kuroko suddenly felt her left hand being gripped tightly by Lin Wuming, who pulled her towards the ground again.

—The senior is indeed alright!
Without hesitation, Shirai Kuroko activated "spatial teleportation" again, determined not to give the nameless senior any more chances.

—Is it really true that small-scale tinkering is meaningless, and in the end we still have to come to this final step?

Shirai Kuroko gripped the steel needle in her right hand tightly—without showing proper resolve, this duel would just be a game.

"Eh?"

He was trying to repeat his previous attack, to throw Lin Wuming down again, in order to find an opportunity to launch the steel needles... and was also preparing for the launch of the steel needles.

Shirai Kuroko suddenly felt her left hand go empty.

The nameless senior has disappeared!
No, to be precise, he didn't disappear. Lin Wuming simply stayed where he was and didn't move with Shirai Kuroko.

"What's going on?" Shirai Kuroko was shocked and confused, unable to understand how Lin Wuming had broken free from her spatial teleportation.

Looking down, Lin Wuming was still lying in the same spot, face up, his eyes meeting Shirai Kuroko's.

Seeing the amused smile on Lin Wuming's face, Shirai Kuroko felt a surge of anger—what tricks has the senior played this time?
Lin Wuming calmly stood up and waved to the air. Shirai Kuroko reluctantly landed back on the ground.

Lin Wuming seemed to have no intention of continuing the fight, but instead reached out his hand to the girl: "Heizi, your 'spatial teleportation' has a unique feature, which is that it can only move objects that you are in direct contact with."

Shirai Kuroko didn't speak, but simply raised her palm and placed it against Lin Wuming's palm.

Two hands, one large and one small, overlapped each other, seemingly touching, but Shirai Kuroko felt no skin-to-skin contact—there was an "air wall" separating her hands.

“Psychic barrier,” Lin Wuming stated directly, “So you can’t touch me. Abandon this tactical approach, Blackie.”

Shirai Kuroko looked down and saw the steel needle clutched in her right hand.

For some reason, she suddenly had a feeling that the nameless senior seemed to be intentionally urging her to use this move.

Unlike ordinary skirmishes, this move is the ultimate technique of a space manipulator—the kind that can truly kill in one blow!

“Nameless senior,” Shirai Kuroko questioned sternly, “are you joking, or are you underestimating me?”

Lin Wuming pointed to his heart: "Don't worry, with my current strength and abilities, even if I were stabbed in the heart, I wouldn't be seriously injured. So don't hold back, just attack with all your might!"

After careful consideration, Shirai Kuroko also felt that Lin Wuming's words made sense.

“Come on, Kuroko,” Lin Wuming said, opening his arms. “How will you know the outcome if you don’t try? You won’t be satisfied, will you? Besides, this is the last move you can use, since you can’t directly touch me; if it’s Kihara Ayashi’s ‘coordinate movement,’ perhaps there are other possibilities…”

Hearing the nameless senior mention other "space users" in front of her, Shirai Kuroko's last shred of hesitation crumbled.

"I'm sorry, senior. You can do whatever you want with me from now on."

Having said that, Shirai Kuroko activated "spatial teleportation"—the steel needle in her right hand moved directly to Lin Wuming's heart...

As the saying goes, "He who possesses a powerful weapon will naturally have the will to kill." Among the many superpowers, spatial manipulation is arguably one of the most convenient abilities for killing.

Those who possess the ability of "spatial teleportation" have far too many ways to kill others.

The reason they didn't do so, besides moral and legal constraints, was mainly because they feared that once they started killing, they would be unable to stop, ultimately leading to their own mental breakdown.

After all, no one is born wanting to be a serial killer.

However, the ability to kill objectively exists, subtly exuding a deadly allure; as soon as the ability user's mind falters, it will seize the opportunity...

Shirai Kuroko perfectly handled this temptation with her strong self-control and sense of justice, but she never expected that she would fail at the last moment because of the nameless senior.

However, as Lin Wuming himself said, a pierced heart is not a fatal wound of this degree.

Ultimately, what prompted Shirai Kuroko to make up her mind was Lin Wuming's own attitude.

It was neither an illusion nor a misunderstanding; Shirai Kuroko knew Lin Wuming very well, so she couldn't have misjudged him.

—The nameless senior was genuinely encouraging me to launch an attack!

It sounds absurd, but it's not impossible. The Nameless Senior is already a Level 5 superpowered being at the pinnacle, so it's not surprising that he has a way to deal with his own "spatial teleportation." Or rather, the Nameless Senior wants to take this opportunity to test whether he can deal with attacks from spatial superpowers.

(End of this chapter)