A Scientific Urban Detective.

Chapter 802 Dispersion
—Not enough distance, not enough time to reach the target!

Ellie's heart tightened. If she couldn't touch Lin Wuming's body, she wouldn't be able to activate her abilities and complete the assassination.

At that moment, Misaka Mikoto, manipulating the convenience store's metal shelves, surrounded Ellie from all sides, leaving her completely defenseless.

Just as Ellie was filled with despair, she saw Misaka Mikoto suddenly turn around and simultaneously redirect all the electromagnetic forces she was manipulating to her back.

The metal shelf crashed to the ground with a loud clatter.

Just outside the convenience store, a heavy truck was rumbling toward them, making no attempt to conceal its purpose.

Lin Wuming had already taken out the small steel ball.

"Leave it to me!" Misaka Mikoto shouted. "Nameless-senpai, be careful with that girl!"

Compared to the heavy truck that was charging recklessly, Misaka Mikoto genuinely felt that the girl behind her was much scarier.

It was just a truck weighing a few dozen tons; Misaka Mikoto easily forced it to stop by manipulating electromagnetic force.

The cargo loaded in the truck bed continued to fly forward due to its enormous inertia.

It turned out to be large bags of cement, non-metallic, and electromagnetic force was ineffective!

"This trick..." Misaka Mikoto sneered inwardly. Under the powerful electromagnetic force, the truck bed was violently dismantled, and the metal components were reassembled to form a wall, blocking the flying cement bags.

Before Misaka Mikoto could even breathe a sigh of relief, she suddenly noticed a figure jumping out of the truck's cab.

Judging from her figure, she should be a woman. She used some means to cut open the cement bag above her head.

The next moment, large swaths of cement dust fell down, rushing towards the convenience store entrance like a sandstorm.

"Nameless senior, leave her to me!" Misaka Mikoto said hastily before rushing forward.

Or rather, Misaka Mikoto was actually "dragged" there by the enemy.

Using the cement dust as cover, the enemy manipulated the cement to form tentacles, which wrapped around Misaka Mikoto's waist and dragged her away.

As for the other "tentacle," it was blocked by Lin Wuming's psychic barrier and thus failed to succeed.

As expected of the legendary "hero"—the clone looked towards Lin Wuming.

"Capturing Misaka Mikoto is enough." Kihara Shizuku's voice rang in my ears. "Take her away and separate her from Lin Wuming!"

Without hesitation, the clone quickly led Misaka Mikoto away from the battlefield.

"Nameless senior, don't worry, I'll be right back!" Misaka Mikoto shouted, as lightning crackled and countless iron pellets converged into a beam, slicing towards the enemy in the opposite direction.

"As expected, we guessed right." Seeing this, Lin Wuming nodded slightly, as if he had anticipated this.

In fact, Lin Wuming and his group were already mentally prepared from the moment Misaki Shokuhou left the group and acted alone.

The enemy—assuming the mastermind is indeed that old man Kihara Gensei—is deliberately diverting their strength.

The lineup of three Level 5s is too impressive; even the Kihara clan would probably be unwilling to face an opponent of this caliber.

However, if there is only "a mere level 5", that's a different story.

Twenty minutes ago, "Mental Control" left first, and now "Railgun" has been lured away by a new enemy that suddenly appeared.

Thus, all that remained in front of the assassin Ellie was her original target, Lin Wuming, the "Not-Complete Mind Movement"!

“There’s only one person here, what a great opportunity!” Ellie whispered.

Prior to this, Ellie was unaware that she had an "assistant," but that didn't stop her from seizing the opportunity. After all, she was an "assistant," and this was a professional instinct.

Ellie walked straight ahead, reaching out as if to touch Lin Wuming's face.

Seeing this, Hu Feng Toumi, who had been standing silently behind Lin Wuming, raised his eyebrows.

……

"So that's how it is. Misaka was lured away too?" Misaki Shokuhou fiddled with the remote control in her hand.

“Yes, Your Majesty.” Junko Hokkaido nodded. “Misaka-san has sent the signal as planned.”

Junko Homikaze showed the "signal" in her phone's email inbox—a frog-shaped avatar.

“Now we can confirm that the girl named Ellie is indeed the assassin.” Misaki Shokuhou rested her chin on the remote control. “The enemy went to such lengths to create a situation where she would be one-on-one with the nameless senior.”

"One-on-one?" Junko Hokkaido exclaimed in surprise. "But..."

“But…” Misaki Shokuhou interjected, “Ignoring Tiger Bee will definitely lead to a big loss.”

“That’s right,” Junko Hokkaido wholeheartedly agreed. “If we underestimate Tiger Bee, it won’t just be a matter of suffering a loss—it could even cost us our lives!”

……

"Do you really think I don't exist?" Tiger Bee Honey retracted the blood-stained ribbon expressionlessly, letting the girl in front of him fall to the ground.

Ellie couldn't hide her astonishment, but then a relieved smile appeared on her face. Her body lost all strength, and she collapsed, falling at Lin Wuming's feet.

He was stabbed in the chest, and blood gushed out, quickly soaking the wheels of his wheelchair.

Lin Wuming looked down at the girl lying on the ground, then turned to look at Hu Feng Toumi.

“I warned her, but she ignored me and kept coming closer, didn’t she?” Tiger Bee Honey quickly explained.

To be honest, Tiger Bee Honey didn't think this girl could really threaten Lin Wuming—she even doubted whether this assassin could break through Lin Wuming's mental barrier!

In other words, there was no need to make the scene so bloody and ugly.

Tiger Bee also knew that Lin Wuming had never liked her killing indiscriminately.

“However, this assassin is too mysterious. We can’t take the risk, so…” Tiger Bee Honey added.

Judging from the gruesome deaths of the men in suits in the store, this girl was definitely not as harmless as she appeared. Moreover, no one knew what methods she used or what kind of bizarre abilities she possessed...

In this situation, the safest approach is, of course, to deny her any opportunity to act and simply kill her.

“I don’t mean to blame you,” Lin Wuming said. “I just find it a bit unbelievable.”

“Unbelievable?”

“It feels a bit unreal,” Lin Wuming said. “The enemy—this assassin—fell too quickly and too decisively.”

You should know that Lin Wuming was prepared for a great battle, but before he could even make a move, the enemy had already fallen...

The enemy went to great lengths to lure Misaki Shokuhou and Misaka Mikoto away, but this is the result in the end, which feels like a case of starting strong but ending weakly.

“Nameless, she’s actually still alive.” Tiger Bee glanced at the girl in the pool of blood. “Just now, this guy ignored my warning and was focused on moving forward, which allowed her to avoid a fatal blow.”

(End of this chapter)