Academy City Temperature Control

If you want to carry it around, an alarm will sound when the bicycle leaves the ground, basically there is no risk of being stolen.

But if it is the bicycle's own behavior, then everything can be explained.

"In other words, the culprit is the bicycle itself? Natsume-san's bicycle is actually a biological weapon?" Uiharu-san guessed unreliably, but then a sneer appeared on his face. Maybe even he didn't think it was credible.

Natsume Sonoko thought for a while, and finally looked at Uiharu-san and said seriously, "I suspect this is a crime committed by an ability user, and the other party must have electromagnetic interference or other props on him."

As a member of the scientific side, Natsume Sonoko subconsciously moved closer to a more scientific perspective.

"Uiharu-san, quickly call some other monitors to see where the bicycle is going?" Natsume Sonoko said hurriedly.

"It passed two commercial streets, a traffic light, and finally turned into a small alley. This small alley was followed by some abandoned buildings, and the cameras in that area were either removed or vandalized. ”

Uiharu's classmate continued to activate the surveillance system and followed the bicycle's trajectory, but he soon lost track of it.

I checked several nearby cameras and found no trace of the bicycle again.

"Are the abandoned buildings the experimental facilities that were abandoned before?" Natsume Sonoko asked in surprise.

"Well, I heard that there was a large-scale riot before, which caused a large area to almost collapse, but it was only a year or two ago." Uiharu said.

"Natsume-san, please don't act alone. Wait until Shirai-san arrives..." Before Uiharu-san could finish her words, Natsume Sonoko walked out of the door in a hurry.

"I understand, I won't act alone." Natsume Sonoko waved her hand and rushed towards the crime scene without stopping.

About ten seconds later, I saw Natsume Sonoko coming back in a hurry again. She opened the door and stuck her head in and said to Uiharu-san, "Sorry, I was in such a hurry and forgot something."

"Thank you very much, Uiharu-san and Shirai-san on the other side of the headset." Natsume Sonoko thanked her seriously, and then hurried to her destination.

"Really, Natsume-san is always like this." Uiharu-san said helplessly.

"Don't worry about her. If things don't work out, she will contact me soon." Shirai's resentful voice seemed to come from the earphones.

The sun dropped a little to the west from high altitude. Natsume Sonoko, who was reluctant to take a taxi, took a long time to get to the scene of the crime, near the ATM machine.

At this time, a tall figure was already sitting near the ATM machine, fiddling with his mobile phone boredly. He raised his head slightly, revealing a pretty face.

"Maeda-senpai, you came so quickly." Natsume Sonoko said embarrassedly. She obviously asked others for help, but she came even later.

"It's okay, I'm very happy to be able to help Natsume-senpai." Maeda Kana-senpai raised her head and said with a smile, straightened her hair slightly, then stood up and walked towards Natsume Sonoko.

Maeda Kana-senpai has a camera hanging on her chest and a beret on her head. She is tall, about 1.6 meters and a half, a little taller than Misaka-senpai.

There is always a trace of scrutiny in her eyes, like a hawk, as if she is always following the clues of urban legends. She can be said to be the main ace in the urban legend investigation agency.

As a salted fish, Natsume Sonoko has a strange feeling, as if she is a redundant member of the Urban Legend Investigation Club, and this intuition is quite strong.

"I recently took a look at your investigation results Sonoko. Although all parts are well completed, I always feel that something is not right." Senior Kana Maeda squinted her eyes and looked up and down at Natsume Sonoko, who looked a little evasive.

"...I'm kidding, why are you so nervous? To be honest, I've wanted to investigate something with you, Sonoko, especially with the recent weather. I'm almost tanned. Sonoko, hurry up. I'll cool down, and I promise to work hard."

Maeda-senpai fanned herself with her hands and looked like she was exhausted from the heat. Then she looked at Natsume Sonoko expectantly and said with assurance.

Looking at the fair skin on Maeda-senpai's face, Natsume Sonoko guessed that it was Maeda-senpai who made random remarks again. She looked similar to the one on the Internet. She always likes to follow her own temper and is another troublesome young lady.

"No problem, but you can't be too far away from me, otherwise I won't be able to control the temperature." Natsume Sonoko still needs to strengthen her long-distance control.

The error in my own ability is a bit large around 100 meters, and a difference of seven or eight degrees Celsius is not uncommon, but the error is smaller within 30 meters.

"How's it going? Is it done?" Maeda-senpai looked around curiously. Suddenly, she felt that the temperature around her dropped sharply, and she suddenly had the comfortable and pleasant feeling of spring.

It's neither cold nor hot, so you won't have to worry about catching a cold even if you're wearing summer clothes. This is the temperature range that Natsume Sonoko has always used around her skin.

"-----Ah, that's great." She couldn't help but let out a breath of comfort, and then Maeda-senpai showed a pleasant smile.

"Let's go, let's start investigating. What kind of secrets are hidden behind this mysterious disappearance of bicycles in Academy City?" Maeda-senpai is indeed a long-time headliner, and her casual words are so thought-provoking. .

The two people met at the ATM machine, and then, led by Natsume Sonoko, they rushed to the alley where the bicycle last disappeared in the surveillance video.

And just as Uiharu's classmate promised, Natsume Sonoko did not act alone. After Natsume Sonoko thought carefully and carefully, she finally decided to call someone to help.

"It's to help find my bicycle, not an investigation." Natsume Sonoko followed behind and wanted to correct her.

"That's it. Natsume-san has no imagination. Isn't this a mysterious legendary event?" Maeda-senpai turned her head and looked at Natsume Sonoko, with a strange light in her eyes, deep and firm.

"Okay, what you said makes sense." Natsume Sonoko nodded silently, as if she saw another kind of burning flame, corresponding to the soul of the maid, the legendary soul of investigation.

Chapter 31 Ability is Scene Retrospection (200 recommendation votes plus more updates)

"The time was around eight o'clock in the morning. This is where the bicycle was last seen in the surveillance cameras."

Natsume Sonoko and Maeda-senpai came to the entrance of the alley captured by the surveillance camera. Natsume Sonoko looked at the not-so-long alleyway in front of her and said.

There are high-rise buildings on both sides, but once you walk out of this alley, it becomes desolate. The first thing you see is a few abandoned buildings. They used to be the properties of several research institutes. There are fences in the middle to separate the buildings on both sides.

However, many of the fences are damaged, making it easy to enter these abandoned buildings.

"Maeda-senpai, can you find any clues?" Natsume Sonoko asked, looking at Maeda-senpai who was holding a camera and observing.

"It's almost here, it's almost here. I can almost see what it looks like around nine o'clock in the morning, and I can almost observe the scene earlier."

Maeda-senpai held the camera and leaned forward slightly, concentrating on observing the scene in front of the camera.

Maeda-senpai can see past scenes through the lens, and can also press the shutter button to take photos so that others can see part of them. This is her ability - scene recall.

"Then I'll beg you." Natsume Sonoko also felt that she couldn't help much, so she observed the surroundings with some boredom.

It's so desolate. I didn't expect there to be a place like this in the Seventh School District. I heard that this place used to be a protected research institute.

Natsume Sonoko has also spent some time in the research institute before, and she also knows how strict the security in the research institute is.

There have been at least four or five research institutes in this area. To cause such damage and completely destroy the security measures of these institutes, one must be a level 5 guy in terms of destructive power.

It's just that it's not clear whether the original turmoil was caused by ability users.

Stepping on the scattered concrete fragments on the ground, Natsume Sonoko knelt down and picked up some concrete residue.The concrete was covered with moss, and it looked like no one had been here for a while.

"Special Mineral Research Institute? So this is the place where meteorites are studied." Natsume Sonoko looked at the remaining writing on the building and suddenly remembered something.

When Natsume Sonoko was in elementary school, she heard the news that a meteorite as big as a washbasin had fallen in the northern part of Neon Country. Later, for unknown reasons, the meteorite was transported to Academy City for research, and an organization was established for this purpose. A research institute, its name is the Research Institute of Special Minerals.

Among the most widely circulated gossip, the mysterious lines carved on the meteorite are suspected to be alien artifacts.

Of course, Natsume Sonoko didn't quite believe this kind of gossip, and if she had encountered such a level of turmoil, the meteorite might have been destroyed long ago.

"Come on Sonoko, I think I saw something." Natsume Sonoko heard Maeda-senpai's call, and someone hurriedly dropped the residue in his hand and rushed towards the senior.

"Did you find my bicycle?" Natsume Sonoko asked immediately. It seemed that Natsume Sonoko was really interested in her bicycle.

"I found it, I found it, the two wheels are rolling, but the pedals are silent. This is very abnormal, Sonoko-san." Maeda Kana said, her tone becoming excited.Since it didn't happen for a long time, the scene that the senior sister saw was relatively clear.

Being able to see scenes from the past with a camera, this ability involving time is really unreasonable.

It's very unscientific, but it is one of the scientific achievements in Academy City.

In fact, Natsume Sonoko is also very interested in the brain circuits of other people with abilities.

Due to their different abilities, their personal realities are also all kinds of strange. The difference in thinking between people is greater than the difference between people and dogs.

Natsume Sonoko simply couldn't understand what kind of formula Maeda Kana-senpai needed to develop in order for a camera to capture images of the past.

Natsume Sonoko couldn't even think about Shirai-san's ability to cross into the 11th dimension and move in space.

What is the No.11 dimension?Why can we go from three dimensions to eleven dimensions and then back again?

It's like people without the same ability cannot understand how Natsume Sonoko can control the temperature with her head.Where does the heat go when it cools down?Where does the heating heat come from?Have the laws of thermodynamics been broken?How do people with fire abilities create fireballs out of thin air?

"I don't understand. It's too troublesome so I don't want to do it."

Silently pushing aside the troublesome questions in her head, Natsume Sonoko's main job now is to find a bicycle, and Maeda-senpai has gone far away.

After running a few steps to catch up with Maeda-senpai, Natsume Sonoko stared curiously at the camera in Maeda-senpai's hand. Although it was close at hand, Natsume Sonoko always felt that she was redundant.

"Maeda-senpai, how are you now?" Natsume Sonoko felt inexplicably that she was following a bicycle that ran away privately a few hours ago. No matter how she thought about it, she felt a little desperate.

"It's still moving, but the speed has slowed down. Run faster. I found it heading into the building." Maeda-senpai, who was holding the camera, didn't seem to need to look at the road. She stepped over the raised stones on the ground in one step and walked. Enter the abandoned research institute.

It seems that the abandoned building at eight o'clock in the morning is not much different from what it is now. Otherwise, Maeda-senpai would have turned somersaults on such a difficult road.

After stepping on a piece of gravel filled with sand and sand, and passing through a large hole in the wall, Natsume Sonoko jumped into a very old hall.

"The bicycle stopped, right here." As soon as Maeda-senpai finished speaking, she pointed with her finger to the position at Natsume Sonoko's feet.

Even though the incident happened six hours ago, Natsume Sonoko was still a little flustered for no reason. She couldn't help but become nervous and hurriedly took a few steps back.

After some water evaporated from the ground and came up, some ice picks were placed around and hung on the roof, and ice fences were placed on the nearby window holes. Only then did Natsume Sonoko feel a little safer.

"What's going on? What happens next?" Natsume Sonoko asked, seeming to be breathing heavily.

"Two people came later and took a closer look at your bicycle. Although they didn't know what they were talking about, they looked very happy. Oh, they were still checking their mobile phones, probably to determine the price of this bicycle. ."

Maeda-senpai also pressed the camera shutter at this time and took a photo.Sometimes, Maeda-senpai also has the idea of ​​​​learning lip reading on her own, but for now it is just an idea.

Maeda-senpai took the photo and handed it to Natsume-san. The photo was a bit blurry, but the faces of the two people could still be clearly distinguished.

"If you come to me tomorrow, you may not be able to see the face clearly, because the longer the interval, the blurry the scene I see. I was quite looking forward to it before, but it turned out to be just a thief incident."

Maeda-senpai said, putting the camera back on her chest, as if she felt a little uninterested in solving a mysterious incident so quickly.

Although it was just an innocuous photo, Natsume Sonoko still used her ultimate trick and glared fiercely at the two people in the photo.

"As for this incident of self-walking bicycles, I guess one of them may have magnet ability and can control the bicycle forward from a distance, and can even open the wheel that is locked when the bicycle is unlocked without a fingerprint, and the other person is his accomplice , may be responsible for selling the stolen goods."

Maeda-senpai touched her chin and said thoughtfully. She wore a beret and looked like a famous detective. Natsume Sonoko unconsciously glanced at Maeda-senpai a few more times, as if she saw the arrival of Sherlock Holmes.

Natsume Sonoko was already very satisfied if she could find the culprit behind her bicycle's strange disappearance.Maeda-senpai also spent a lot of money. The investigation alone, which lasted less than 10 minutes, consumed less than half of her energy.

"There are indeed a lot of gangsters and gangs around here, maybe it's their work. But what's going on around here, and where did these ice picks come from?" Maeda-senpai pointed to a few ice picks on the ceiling, a little confused, and looked at Natsume Sonoko-san said.

"Don't worry about those details." Natsume Sonoko said.

I looked around the building of the abandoned research institute and didn't see anyone. It seemed that the bad guys who stole the car had already left.

The idea of ​​​​waiting and waiting has only passed through Natsume Sonoko's head once, but it has not been adopted by anyone. After all, they don't know if their hometown is here.

At present, it seems that the best way is to hand over the photos to the disciplinary committee members and security guards.

Chapter 32 Purify social atmosphere

"How should I put it? Natsume-kun, your movements are really fast. Is this photo reliable? It's really rare for people to be able to capture images of the past."

Shirai-san had some skin tissue scratches on his arm, and Uiharu-san on the side was applying ointment to the wound.

"It's the credit of Maeda-senpai, who is a second-year student in the school. Since not too long time has passed, her abilities are still relatively effective. Only in the end can we know the appearance of the prisoner."

Natsume Sonoko sat on a stool nearby and replied, looking at the scars on Shirai-san's body with some concern.

"Shirai-san, is there nothing wrong with your wound? It looks like it hurts."

Natsume Sonoko asked with concern. In fact, the danger of the Disciplinary Committee is not very high, but it is not necessarily the case for guys like Shirai-san who are always fighting crime outside the school.

"Natsume-san, I have received professional training. No matter how painful it is, I can endure it. This is just a small wound." Shirai-san emphasized with a finger raised.

Sometimes Natsume Sonoko also really admires Shirai Kuroko-san. It can be said that Shirai-san has achieved a level beyond the reach of ordinary people in many aspects.

Not only does she have a sense of responsibility and justice that is different from ordinary people, but even Misaka-senpai, who is a railgun, is becoming increasingly haggard under her strong pressure, and the frequency of discharges unconsciously increases significantly.

Natsume Sonoko is different. She eats and drinks three meals a day, studies hard in class, occasionally plays video games in the arcade after school, and surfs the Internet in the dormitory at night. Her daily life is a bit nonsense, but it is also great to be an ordinary student driven by interests. things.

Although she is an ordinary student who can be seen everywhere, Natsume Sonoko also has a temper. No matter who does something that makes her angry, Natsume Sonoko said that she will definitely make them experience the feeling of ice and fire.

"Natsume-san, can you introduce this senior to us? Her ability is very useful for our current investigation. With this senior's ability, we should be able to find the guy who dropped the bomb."

Uiharu's classmates curiously looked at this photo that was said to have been taken from the past. No matter how they thought about it, this ability was very helpful to them.

If this ability can really recreate the past, then will it be possible to find the murderer near the explosion?

"Okay, but it's up to the senior sister whether she wants to help or not. The most I can do is give you her contact information." Natsume Sonoko moved closer to Uiharu and glanced at Shirai-san who had folded his sleeves and was applying ointment. Said with a glance.

I helped Shirai-san apply the ointment and put on a white bandage.Then Uiharu-san scanned the portraits in the photos and began to help search the library for people with abilities that matched their appearance.

Although the library claims to have recorded almost all ability users in Academy City and their various information, after all the searches by Uiharu's classmates were completed, the corresponding candidate was still not found.

"I couldn't find it again. The library in Academy City has been out of order recently." Natsume Sonoko said somewhat unhappily. During the recent period, the effectiveness of the library has been greatly reduced.

"In fact, recently we often find some ability users who are not in the library records, or those whose abilities have suddenly increased significantly and the information in the library cannot match them."

Shirai-san put down his folded cuffs and moved his arms.In addition to this unsolved bombing, the number of other recent cases is also gradually increasing.

Even the wound on Shirai-san's arm was left behind when he went to the crime scene of another ability user after the investigation of the explosion failed. The other person seemed to be a wind ability user with level 3, but the record in the library was only level 1. of low ability people.

"So, is Academy City very chaotic now?" Natsume Sonoko couldn't help but become a little nervous.

Natsume Sonoko knew a little about the joint behind the chaos. When she thought of the various experiments and plans hidden behind Academy City, Natsume Sonoko only felt tremendous pressure.