A Scientific Urban Detective.

Chapter 801 Memories of Death

Should we give up the resistance?
Faced with a hail of bullets aimed at her, such thoughts would occasionally pop into her mind, but Ellie ultimately suppressed this tempting idea.

—There's still a mission to complete, and dying before that seems a bit irresponsible.

And... could a mere pistol bullet really kill her? Ellie had her doubts.

“It’s not like I haven’t been shot before,” Ellie muttered to herself. “With the medical technology in this city, gunshot wounds aren’t considered fatal.”

Because she had no fear in her heart, Ellie acted with great composure from beginning to end.

From God's perspective, this girl was simply playing hide-and-seek with the gunman across a shelf, with a straight-line distance of less than half a meter between her and the enemy!
...38, 39, 40!

Ellie played hide-and-seek while silently counting down the seconds.

Because she was calm enough, she was careful to maintain a specific distance from one of the gunmen while playing "hide-and-seek".

—Within one meter for forty seconds, the condition is met.

—"Remembering the Past" activated!

The man in the suit opposite the shelf suddenly cried out in alarm, then vomited blood from all seven orifices, as if he had crashed into an invisible wall, and finally collapsed with his whole body limp.

"Is he still alive? No, he's finished."

Ellie ignored the fallen enemy and quickly moved toward her next target.

Theoretically speaking, as long as one's will is strong enough, one will not die.

However, in reality, very few of those infected survive.

—That's how Ellie earned her reputation as the "ace assassin".

"Next one, let's use poison." The girl quietly approached a man in a suit from behind and patted him on the shoulder.

The man in the suit collapsed to the ground, retching painfully, and then quickly stopped moving...

Like playing a ghost-hunting game, the girl nimbly moved through the convenience store, quietly approaching each prey before making a quick move and leaving.

wrist-cutting, hanging, poisoning, drowning, electrocution, falling from a building...

Ellie tried all sorts of methods to commit suicide—and she never lied about that.

Although it's unclear whether it was good luck or bad luck, she survived each time without any particularly serious aftereffects.

However, those near-death experiences are genuinely etched into her memory.

Then, it was transformed into nutrients, becoming her most powerful weapon when she worked part-time as an "assassin".

The library does not have a registered ability – “Remembering Image”.

The ability's effect is to forcibly impose the user's own personal experiences and insights onto the target, causing the target's body to be affected by specific "thought information" and produce corresponding changes.

For example, if Ellie packages and sends the memory of cutting her wrists to a target, the target's body will also show signs of wrist-cutting damage after receiving this memory.

Other memories, such as falling from a building, drowning, or taking poison, are based on the same principle.

Human imagination is powerful, and this is a manifestation of "individual reality interfering with the real world".

Therefore, it's no wonder that the agent suspected that Ellie's repeated attempts at "suicide" were actually a way of gathering material.

The agent even suspected that Ellie deliberately endured the bullying in order to collect some "non-lethal material".

The final result is that, excluding superpowers, Ellie, who is just an ordinary middle school girl in every way, used all sorts of fancy methods to brutally kill the gunmen who came to kill her.

No, there was one survivor—the one who was knocked down by the memory of "taking poison." Memory information ultimately cannot produce real poison; this man had no toxins in his body, so he recovered.

"A devil...this is a devil..." The man who had just woken up was terrified and struggled to crawl out of the shop.

Ellie caught up with him in a few steps and reached out to stroke the man's cheek: "You look tired, so... go to sleep."

—There are also cases of people taking an overdose of sleeping pills.

After everything calmed down, Ellie stood up and looked around.

She was the only one left standing in the convenience store.

The shop assistants had already fled when they sensed something was wrong—just as these men in suits entered.

"Breakfast, breakfast." Ellie remembered why she came to the store and quickly went back inside.

While choosing her preferred breakfast, she took out her phone and called her agent back.

The agent acted quickly and found out that the men in suits were gunmen hired by the intelligence provider, and their trip seemed to be to avenge a colleague who was assassinated a few days ago.

"We've been retaliated against, and the reaction was so swift," the agent said, still shaken. "It seems we've gotten ourselves into some pretty troublesome things this time!"

"Troublesome..." Ellie was at the checkout counter, scanning her own code to pay, when she suddenly heard the bell ringing at the convenience store entrance.

"This is really troublesome—I haven't had breakfast yet."

A man in a wheelchair and two girls in Tokiwadai Middle School uniforms appeared at the door.

"It seems there's no need to ask any more questions." Lin Wuming said, seeing the horrific scene of "corpses strewn everywhere" in the convenience store.

He was quite adept at dealing with hornets and was very knowledgeable; he was already used to things like "corpses."

However, Misaka Mikoto couldn't stand it. As a Level 5, she was just an ordinary girl in this respect.

Even if you've mentally prepared yourself, you'll still feel physically uncomfortable when you actually see the horrific scene.

Misaka Mikoto covered her mouth and couldn't help but take a step back.

It's not that Misaka Mikoto is too delicate; it's just that the man in the suit lying at the store entrance died in a rather gruesome manner.

He died from "jumping off a building," his entire body splattering everywhere like a smashed tomato.

It can only be said that Lin Wuming, Hu Feng Toumi, and Ellie, who remained unfazed by this scene, were the abnormal ones.

Looking at the thin girl in front of him, Lin Wuming became even more serious.

She couldn't help but feel relieved—it was the right decision for Misaki Shokuhou to leave earlier. This Ellie was really strange, and she couldn't let Misaki Shokuhou, who had no direct combat ability, come into direct contact with her!
“Lin Wuming,” Ellie broke the silence first.

“It’s me,” Lin Wuming nodded, then asked, “Are you Ellie, the assassin?”

“It’s me.” Ellie walked towards Lin Wuming with the breakfast she had just bought. “I’ve been assigned a mission. The target is you, Lin Wuming.”

Bilibili!

Before Lin Wuming and Hufeng Toumi could react, Misaka Mikoto had already taken the initiative.

She couldn't tolerate it anymore in any way!

—Quickly defeat this assassin and leave this hellhole immediately!
Misaka Mikoto didn't care about anything else and manipulated the store's shelves to surround Ellie.

(End of this chapter)