Within a certain room in the research facility, Lin Luo sat back in a chair, eyes closed in deep contemplation. Not far from him were two cylindrical incubation tanks—housing Last Order and the First Prototype.

Ever since successfully persuading Yoshikawa, this room had become a restricted zone. Apart from her, Somasu, and Lin Luo himself, no other researchers in the facility were permitted entry.

For the sake of easier access to the Misaka Network and for reasons that couldn't be disclosed to outsiders, Lin Luo generally remained here whenever he was at the institute... At this moment, he was pondering the feasibility of defeating Accelerator.

Accelerator's ability—Vector Manipulation!

Theoretically, he could control all vectors in the world, and in reality, this was precisely the case. Aside from certain mysterious powers, Accelerator could arbitrarily command every known vector on Earth, and combined with a calculation capacity nearly comparable to the Tree Diagram Supercomputer, it seemed he could even accomplish world-altering feats like stopping the Earth’s rotation...

To fight such a near-bugged entity without any preparation, recklessly charging in, would be a one-thousand-percent suicide mission!

Lin Luo himself possessed no mysterious powers... Well, if the Contract Book counted as a mysterious power, he hadn't even tapped one percent of its potential yet, making reliance on it clearly impossible.

Before arriving in this world, he had conceived hundreds of ways to deal with Accelerator: poisoning, assassination, psychic attack, suffocation, spatial manipulation, verbal assault, tsundere maneuvers, cute acts... (The last three could be ignored.)

However, none of these methods held any sure possibility of success. If this were a game, Lin Luo might be able to verify them one by one using the L-Method, but reality was different. In reality, there was only one life, and he only had one chance. Failure meant permanent defeat.

No one dared to stake their life on such vague possibilities; at least Lin Luo didn't dare. Even if staking his life, he needed at least a sliver of a chance for success, even just one percent!

...Accelerator usually sets his ability to reflect, meaning any attack directed at him with malice will be reflected, with the force of the reflection matching the force of the attack. This reflection is automatically active even when he is asleep or unconscious, making sneak attacks or assassinations impossible.

Of course, this reflection must have a limit—the maximum extent Accelerator could reflect. But considering he could emerge unscathed even from a nuclear self-detonation, no one knew where his limit truly lay; at least Lin Luo didn't possess the power of a nuclear bomb... Conversely, what if Accelerator’s reflection mechanism could be suppressed?

This idea sounded absurd. Accelerator's strength lay in controlling all vectors; suppressing his reflection would be incredibly difficult. If the natives of this world knew someone dared to think this, they would surely deem them insane, but Lin Luo, as a Transmigrator, knew this method was viable!

At least one person could completely suppress Accelerator’s reflection... Kihara Noukan!

...Also known as Kihara Shinken, he had achieved countless glorious feats in the 2D world, his legend so vast that he was more legendary than the Legend Guy. Most famous was his creation of the peerless martial art, the "Accelerator-Punching Fist"... causing countless 3D otaku to bow down in reverence, hailing him as the legendary Fist Master! (Alright, this paragraph is purely malicious cuteness.)

The essence of Accelerator’s ability is direction alteration; any attack bearing a vector can be nullified and reflected. According to Kihara’s theory, if the attack's direction is reversed the instant of contact, then under Accelerator’s reflection, the attacker wouldn't only avoid harm but would cause Accelerator to injure himself with the reflection.

This method was theoretically feasible, but few people could execute it successfully because the requirements were too stringent. How could one guarantee the timely reversal of the vector direction at the precise moment of contact?

Let alone ordinary people, even Espers might not precisely grasp that timing, especially against the strongest Superpower user. To maintain composure in combat was already remarkable; achieving anything more could be termed the God of Serenity!

However, this alone wouldn't solve Lin Luo's problem; his LV3 electricity might not be considered powerful, but if used to adjust the bio-electricity within his own body, setting it to "reverse direction upon contact," he could accurately seize that critical moment... Master Kihara's personal verification was highly instructive.

But even with this, the success rate of defeating Accelerator remained too low. After all, the current Accelerator wasn't an idiot. If he chose not to engage in close combat and instead manipulated the wind to crush him... he needed a double insurance policy!

When Espers use their powers, they manifest their unique reality through mental calculation. Even low-level abilities require a certain calculation formula, and the more powerful the ability, the more complex the required computation. If one could disrupt the enemy's calculation formula during combat, it could interfere with, or even seal, their power.

Accelerator's ability was the strongest in Academy City, and consequently, his calculation formula was the most complex. Any slight error in his computation would throw his power into disarray... As far as Lin Luo knew, devices capable of causing such computational interference to Accelerator definitely existed within Academy City, and, coincidentally, they were in the hands of Kihara Noukan!

Obtaining that would undoubtedly significantly boost his chances of success... But the problem was how to acquire it? Firstly, Kihara certainly wouldn't hand it over willingly, and secondly, Lin Luo had absolutely no idea where Kihara was!

As the leader of Hound Dog, the direct subordinate unit of the No Collar Man, Kihara, that old fox, would be difficult to deal with, and his hiding place would surely be extremely concealed. Finding him in a short period would be quite a challenge.

"How can I find him..." Lin Luo scratched his head, looking rather troubled. The normal routes were essentially impossible. But for abnormal routes... Kihara was probably more adept at those. Even a cunning rabbit has three burrows, let alone a legendary Master.

Lin Luo frowned, his eyes subconsciously scanning the surroundings. When his gaze fell upon a signal transmitter on the laboratory bench, a flash of inspiration suddenly struck him, and he sharply slapped his thigh and stood up!

"Good heavens! Isn't this simple enough!"

...Unlike himself, Kihara was a resident of Academy City. Within "The Index," the database managing all information in Academy City, he surely had an ID and records. By hacking into "The Index" via the network, he could probably find his data, like a cell phone number...

And from there, by tracking his mobile signal via an artificial satellite, in that case, forget three burrows; even if Kihara had eighteen, his location would be completely exposed... Of course, achieving this level of tracking was beyond ordinary people; only an exceptionally skilled hacker could manage it.

In Lin Luo's memory, two people possessed this level of skill. One was naturally Mikoto; with her ability, nothing existing in the network could escape her search... However, since he had already decided not to drag her into this experiment again, this task naturally couldn't be assigned to her.

That meant this matter would have to be entrusted to the other person...

The person known in urban legend as the "Guardian Angel"!

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