Chapter 806: Two Kinds of Poison
“Shiokishi.”
Seeming to have already seen through Shokuhou Misaki’s thoughts, Kihara Gensei continued, “By borrowing my vision, you should be able to see some clues, right? To personally observe this experiment, this old man made targeted adjustments to this body’s observation system.”
Shokuhou Misaki felt a chilling physiological discomfort.
Should she say, as expected of a mad scientist from the Kihara? He was just as ruthless to himself.
“However, even doing this much, I’m afraid you still won’t be able to see it, that most crucial moment? After all, the biological limit of humans is there; no matter how much you modify it, you can’t break through the limit.”
Kihara Gensei spoke with a tone of Feelings.
“What crucial moment?”
Shokuhou Misaki seized on the keyword and quickly asked.
“Why ask? Of course, it’s the moment Lin Wuming breaks through the limit, the birth of Absolute Power.”
Kihara Gensei explained with a smile.
“According to this old man’s calculations, in another ten seconds, the ‘poison’ in Lin Wuming’s body will reach its peak. At that moment…”
“Poison? You actually poisoned Unnamed-kun?”
Shokuhou Misaki immediately became alert and questioned him sharply.
“Of course. Besides using ‘poison,’ this old man couldn’t think of any other method to harm the current Lin Wuming, let alone force him into a special state of life and death.”
Kihara Gensei responded with a matter-of-fact tone.
His goal had always been very clear—he wanted to push Lin Wuming into the Bullet Time state, in other words, a near-death state that could cause fatal danger.
To reiterate, Kihara Gensei had never regarded Lin Wuming as an enemy, nor did he intend to “kill” Lin Wuming.
In fact, Lin Wuming was one of the most important experimental subjects in Kihara Gensei’s mind, so Kihara Gensei was the last person who wanted him to die… before the experiment was completed.
Kihara Gensei was a pure researcher and the most stereotypical “mad scientist” in urban legends. All his efforts and schemes, in the end, were only for the sake of conducting experiments.
Specifically for this experiment, Kihara Gensei wanted to push Lin Wuming to a higher realm, to create an unprecedented Level 6 Absolute Power!
During two years of observation, Kihara Gensei collected enough information, even being able to deduce the specific effects and activation conditions of Lin Wuming’s Bullet Time trump card.
In addition, this experiment was launched somewhat hastily—because Terestina and Lin Wuming made the first move, Kihara Gensei was passively responding.
So Kihara Gensei temporarily changed his plan, intending to push Lin Wuming to Level 6 with Bullet Time as the foundation, instead of adopting the original plan of using the Telekinetic User as a pathway to make Lin Wuming an “omniscient and omnipotent universal ability.”
According to Kihara Gensei’s vision, to complete the experiment, Lin Wuming must be drawn into a special state of being on the verge of death but not quite dead—a kind of sustainable near-death state, thereby “infinitely extending Bullet Time,” and ultimately achieving some kind of “eternity.”
In the existing theoretical research on Level 6 Absolute Power, concepts such as “eternity” and “infinity” are undoubtedly categorized into the so-called “realm of God.”
In scientific terms, they are ideal concepts that cannot be realized in the real world and only exist in theory.
Conversely, as long as an esper ability touches upon such an “ideal concept,” it can be equated to entering the realm of “comprehending the will of heaven with a non-divine body,” meaning it can be promoted to Level 6.
Lin Wuming, who in some sense wields a “time” type esper ability, theoretically possesses the qualification to explore “eternity.”
Moreover, due to the special nature of Bullet Time, the “eternity” that Lin Wuming can achieve is a relative concept, an “eternity” within subjective time.
Compared to true “eternal life,” this subjective “eternal life” has lower costs and is more feasible.
The risk lies in the fact that since Lin Wuming is a Telekinetic User, his Nen is theoretically dominated by “thought.”
Therefore, under the superposition of “infinite time,” Lin Wuming’s Nen will also exhibit an “infinite superposition” effect in the real world, thus accumulating terrifying power in an instant that is sufficient to destroy the entire Academy City, or even the world.
Of course, it is more likely that Lin Wuming’s own subjective consciousness will be worn away in infinite time, ultimately dying in an instant in the real world from exhaustion.
If Lin Wuming or Shokuhou Misaki were to choose between these two outcomes, they would definitely choose neither and would not participate in such a reckless experiment.
But Kihara Gensei didn’t care; to fulfill his long-cherished wish—to create a Level 6 Absolute Power—he didn’t care about the destruction of the city or the world, nor did he care if he would die as a result.
As for the lives of the experimental subjects, they were even less on his mind.
Thus, in a short period of two weeks, Kihara Gensei refined the experimental plan and gathered the necessary resources and technology.
Kihara Gensei’s data analysis and flexible application abilities; Kihara Pathology’s specially formulated neuro-hallucinogenic agents; Kihara Kagun’s remaining “near-death experience” experimental data.
And Kihara Similar’s expertise in integration, used to mediate and forcibly unify all the above “raw materials.”
Piece by piece, Kihara Gensei finally produced the experimental plan that is now being perfectly executed.
The core point is “poisoning,” using toxins to force Lin Wuming into a desperate situation.
The “poison” Kihara Gensei prepared consisted of two parts—biological toxins directly applied to Lin Wuming himself, and “esper ability viruses” targeting his Nen.
The latter is essentially a special virus that induces the AIM Diffusion Field to lose control and run wild.
To explain it using a concept Lin Wuming is most familiar with, it is actually “Imaginary Beast.”
Therefore, this morning, Kiyama Harumi suddenly realized that someone had restarted the “Imaginary Hand” system—that was the commotion caused when Kihara Gensei recreated the “Imaginary Beast.”
…
Time rewound a few minutes. In the convenience store, Lin Wuming had just been ambushed by Killer Ellie, suffering the same injuries as Ellie.
Because his heart was not injured, for Lin Wuming, this was not a “fatal wound,” and he quickly repaired it almost completely with his Nen.
Immediately after, several individuals, suspected to be delinquents, broke into the convenience store through the back door. After being killed by Hu Feng Toumi, it was discovered that they were all products of some esper ability, not actual humans.
As these bodies burst like balloons, a chaotic AIM Diffusion Field swept through the convenience store, finally condensing into—a new Imaginary Beast!
