A Scientific Urban Detective.

Chapter 674 Strange Rumors
"Huh? Defeat me?" After hearing Kamijou Touma's words, Lin Wuming was even more confused. "What does this mean?"

"Please just answer me 'yes' or 'no'." Kamijou Touma said seriously.

"Have you ever won anything..." Lin Wuming said helplessly, "Rather, have you and I ever fought?"

"So there isn't any?"

"Nonsense," Lin Wuming rolled his eyes, "Or do you want to compete with me?"

Kamijou Touma ignored Lin Wuming's next words and stood up excitedly, saying loudly, "That's right! When have I ever defeated Lin Wuming? And how could I possibly win?"

"So can you tell me what exactly happened?" Lin Wuming couldn't help but ask.

In fact, if he really wanted to go to war with Kamijou Touma, Lin Wuming really had no good way to deal with his "Fantasy Breaker".

After venting his emotions for a while, Kamijou Touma finally calmed down and sat back in his wheelchair, rubbing his aching ankle while speaking.

"Right now, the rumors are all over the place—rumors like I defeated Wuming."

"Huh?" Lin Wuming was also stunned when he heard this.

According to Kamijou Touma's explanation, this seems to be an "urban legend" that has suddenly become popular recently - the lowest level 0 defeated the highest level 5.

The protagonists of this topic are Kamijou Touma and Lin Wuming!

"I don't understand this either!" Kamijou Touma couldn't help but complain. "I was just walking down the street, and suddenly a few delinquent boys picked on me. They seemed to think that defeating me would be equivalent to indirectly defeating you, Wuming. Their enthusiasm was incredibly high!"

“…” Lin Wuming became more speechless.

He was very familiar with this development. Wasn't this the same situation that Kamijou Touma faced in the original story - after he defeated Accelerator.

But the difference is that in the original work, Kamijou Touma did defeat Accelerator with his own hands and ended the "Absolute Ability User Evolution Plan".

But the reality now is that he did not defeat Lin Wuming; in fact, there has never been a real battle between the two.

In this case, the related urban legend is very problematic.

Lin Wuming knew that the "urban legends" of Academy City were, to a certain extent, actually something deliberately manipulated by humans.

So, Lin Wuming picked up his mobile phone and logged into the urban legend forum, and found that just as Kamijou Touma said, the urban legend about himself and Kamijou Touma occupied almost the entire page, and there were more than ten different versions.

But the only thing they have in common is the core point that "Kamijo Touma defeated Lin Wuming."

"Could it be that someone is deliberately slandering me?" Lin Wuming muttered.

After all, only a very small number of people know about "Fantasy Breaker". In the eyes of most people, it is the greatest shame for a level 5 to be defeated by a level 0!

“Who says it’s not?” Kamijou Touma said with a wry smile, “It’s not just those delinquent boys, but also your supporters, Wuming. In fact, in order to protect the reputation of a ‘hero’, your fans are even more terrifying…”

No wonder Kamijou Touma was left with nowhere else to go and had to hide beside Lin Wuming.

After all, outsiders, whether they supported Lin Wuming or hated him, would not let Kamijou Touma go. Lin Wuming pondered for a moment and asked, "Kamijou, have you... offended anyone recently?"

Lin Wuming didn't care about the rumors that he was "defeated". As a bystander, he saw clearly that the current situation was that Kamijou Touma was at an overwhelming disadvantage.

Things like information and rumors can be manipulated, especially the urban legends of Academy City.

So Lin Wuming’s first reaction was that someone was trying to trick Kamijou Touma!
"No?" Kamijou Touma said indignantly, looking innocent. "Who could I possibly offend, an ordinary high school student with bad luck?"

Kamijou Touma's resentment was justified. He knew very well that although he often had some minor conflicts with bad boys, such minor conflicts would not lead to such a "prank" as the current one, right?

What's more, those bad boys are not capable of causing a riot of such a scale.

"Forget it, let me ask about the specific situation first." Lin Wuming did not stand idly by.

In fact, after listening to Kamijou Touma's story, a name immediately popped up in Lin Wuming's mind - Aleister!
In Academy City, the only person capable and interested in pulling this kind of "prank" on Kamijou Touma is probably Chairman Aleister.

Lin Wuming didn't have any evidence, but now he had formed a conditioned reflex - whenever he encountered something incredible, he would first suspect Aleister, and his accuracy rate was very high!

"Yes, yes, let's ask what happened!" Kamijou Touma nodded repeatedly and looked at Lin Wuming with hope.

He believed that with Lin Wuming's connections, he would be able to find out the real reason.

Lin Wuming shook his head and said casually: "Don't hold your hopes too high. I'm really just asking, not investigating."

As he spoke, Lin Wuming dialed Saten Ruiko's number.

As for urban legends, the first thing that comes to mind when it comes to this is that girl named Saten Ruiko, right?

"Senior Wuming! Good morning!" The call was answered quickly, and Saten Ruiko's energetic voice came through the radio signal.

"Good morning, Saten-san." Lin Wuming greeted while looking at Kamijou Touma in front of him, "Sorry to bother you, I have something I want to consult you about."

"Consultation - is it really a topic of urban legend?" Saten Ruiko was very self-aware and guessed the purpose of Lin Wuming's visit at once.

——After all, apart from matters related to “urban legends”, there is nothing else I can do to help Senior Wuming, right?
"Looks like Wuming-senpai has heard the rumors about you too!" Saten Ruiko spoke as if a switch had been turned on, and she began to talk non-stop. "The topic that's suddenly been spreading these past two days is that you, senpai, were defeated by Kamijou-senpai!"

"That's it!" Lin Wuming said quickly, "Do you know where this topic started?"

"Ha, in the end, doesn't Lin Wuming also care about this matter?" Another girl's voice was faintly heard from the other end of the phone.

"Okay, okay, don't disturb me while I'm on the phone!" Riri Saten seemed to be expelling the person who had just spoken.

There was a small commotion in the microphone, and then it quieted down again after a while.

"Sorry, Senior Wuming, it was just my friend messing around. Don't worry about it, don't worry about it..." Saten Ruiko continued, "I may disappoint you, Senior, but I don't know much about this rumor..."

(End of this chapter)