A Scientific Urban Detective.

Chapter 698 Wuming is dead
Lin Wuming felt that he was already dead.

Well, this was just his self-mockery - after all, Lin Wuming had never died, so he was not very clear about what real "death" felt like.

But Lin Wuming knew that his condition at this moment was definitely not normal!
If I had to describe it, it would probably be like sinking into the dark depths of the ocean, or falling into the vastness of space...there is only nothingness around.

In the previous moment, he was busy in the kitchen, with a group of hungry girls behind him...

But no one knew what had happened. Suddenly, without any warning, I arrived at this place.

It took Lin Wuming a while to confirm that he was not experiencing "space movement", or to be more precise - Lin Wuming could not even feel his own "body".

So Lin Wuming knew that this was probably the "space of consciousness". He had a similar experience before in the "Fantasy Hand" incident.

After grasping the current situation, Lin Wuming suddenly felt a lot more at ease.

——I thought my nightmare had come true, and I suddenly "woke up" and traveled back in time.

Lin Wuming thought, after all, the wicked fun of life is that whatever you fear will come true. Lin Wuming's biggest fear was suddenly "leaving" this world, and now that something like this had happened so suddenly and without warning, it was hard not to make some associations...

After breathing a sigh of relief, Lin Wuming's spirit became tense again - the worst case scenario could be ruled out, but what exactly did I encounter?
—By the way, have I offended anyone recently? In the original story, who could do such a thing?
Lin Wuming was very familiar with his physical condition, so he knew very well that it was absolutely impossible for him to faint and lose consciousness for no reason.

There must be someone...it must be the enemy who attacked me!

Fortunately, Lin Wuming's "telepathy" did not disappear.

Superpowers are powers that rely on the computing power of the brain of the person with superpowers. In theory, as long as the brain does not stop thinking, the power can continue to be activated.

So even though Lin Wuming now has no physical body and is just a pure consciousness... or a "soul", it does not prevent him from continuing to control his telekinesis as usual.

But what made Lin Wuming feel desperate was that no matter how he drove his own mental ability, he could not reach the boundary of this space - if this ghost place really had such a thing as a "boundary".

Lin Wuming is a level 5 telekinetic user. Even if the factor of "bullet time" is excluded, he is actually the strongest telekinetic user today.

If we simply compare the "amount of telekinesis", perhaps only Sogiita Gunba, the unreasonable raw stone ability user, can surpass Lin Wuming, right?

But even such a huge mental power, after being released to the surroundings, was like a drop in the ocean, without any reaction!

Not only that, in addition to not finding the "boundary", Lin Wuming's mental power did not even touch any other existence.

——This is the true meaning of "nothingness". Apart from one's own lonely consciousness, there is no other existence.

After a long silence, Lin Wuming began to doubt whether "he" really existed.

Everything is relative. Without "external objects" and "others", the concept of "self" will have no meaning.

——So, where exactly is this time?
Originally, Lin Wuming thought it was another special area like the "Ocean of Consciousness", which was similar to the collective consciousness ocean he entered during the "Fantasy Hand" before.

But now it seems that these are two completely different concepts! There is no other existence, so the "self" no longer exists; this is not real space, and the concept of "time" has lost its meaning...

In a trance, "Lin Wuming" suddenly remembered a key... no, perhaps it should be said that it was an unimportant question?

——Time, how long has passed?
——How long has it been since "Lin Wuming"...I came to this damn place?
—Did I just "fall asleep"? It feels like a long time has passed in a trance... Speaking of which, how should "time" be defined?
Lin Wuming was horrified, and he suddenly realized that he might really be "dead".

As long as I continue to sink into this chaos, the final result is self-evident.

Because he has never really died, Lin Wuming is not very clear about what "death" really looks like.

But from another perspective, he couldn't be sure that he was "not dead".

No matter what, what is certain is that if I continue to sink into this hellish place, even if I am not really dead, I am probably close to it.

"I!" Lin Wuming said, "I have to do something!"

He still has an obsession with "living" and has a deep bond with that world and the people in that world. How could he die like this?
"I can't fall asleep, I can't lose consciousness!" Lin Wuming muttered to himself, "Oh, right, find something to do to keep my mind active..."

In order to stimulate his consciousness and keep his mind active, Lin Wuming consciously and proactively thought about and processed some complex intelligence information.

Coincidentally, within his memory, there was a sufficiently complex database that could be used to pass the time...

The "Superpower Catalog" was a database that was intercepted for personal gain during the "Fantasy Hand" incident.

However, because the amount of data is too large and difficult to understand, Lin Wuming can only seal it. He must use the "collar electrode" and the auxiliary calculations of the "Misaka Network" and "Tree Diagram Designer" to interpret the data.

Because theoretically, no one with special abilities can master a second superpower. The brain function of "humans" predestines them to be unable to do such a thing.

But now, Lin Wuming doesn't even have an organ like a "brain". All he has is a pure consciousness. Adding on the fact that he is extremely bored, he can naturally try to forcibly interpret the data in the "Superpower Catalog".

It doesn't matter even if it turns out that I still can't use the second superpower directly.

After all, this is just a "thinking game" to kill time...

In a sense, Lin Wuming's feeling was not wrong - he was indeed about to "die", and he had indeed lost the concept of "time".

Because of "bullet time", when facing a fatal crisis, his subjective time is infinitely stretched until the crisis is resolved...

This creates a paradox - even though he is "already dead", Lin Wuming also gains "infinite" time.

Therefore, Lin Wuming now has enough time to process and understand the data in the "Superpower Catalog" without worrying about any side effects.

After all, he is dead.

(End of this chapter)