In the east of the city, more than ten groups of robbers wearing clown and animal masks robbed the material warehouses of more than ten different companies.
These warehouses were basically one grade lower than Superstar's warehouses, so they naturally did not hire superhumans to be security guards with high salaries. The robbers easily broke into the warehouses, and after plundering them, they left.
Even though the resources in the warehouses were not the most valuable cultivation resources, the total value of more than ten robberies added up to an astronomical figure.
In the west of the city, the criminals targeted the middle and higher management of dozens of companies and research centers. They were support-class superhumans who only had cultivation realms but lacked fighting strength.
Not all superhumans were good at fighting.
For example, Ning Shewo, the leading figure of the harvesting world, was a Heaven Realm superhuman based on his cultivation realm, but he mainly cultivated his branch meridians, harvesting skills, and natural history. Besides, he was old and weak, so he was not used to high-intensity fights.
There were also plenty of researchers and managers who worked with their brains. Their brains had been refined by spirit energy, but correspondingly, their limbs were a little weaker.
These people did not lack money, and they usually had a lot of cultivation resources at home.
Since they were backed by major companies and forces of power, no one dared to target them.
But for some reason, many of the experts' homes were robbed by fully-armed robbers.
Of course, some of the experts fought back with their lives.
But the robbers were all ruthless. When they faced the slightest bit of resistance, they lost their rationality and acted like mad demons. Some of them even decided to die together with the experts.
In just a short hour, news of more than one hundred crimes spread through the city.
Meng Chao felt as if Shen Yupeng had turned into the fire chief, and he was a firefighter who followed him around like a headless chicken.
But every time, he was half a step slower than the robbers and could only clean up the mess for them.
It was not that the robbers were really strong or cunning.
In truth, most of the robbers were like Ning Lang. They were normal people who had taken Deification Capsules and temporarily obtained supernatural abilities.
Even if the criminal plan was meticulously planned and there were still a lot of clues left at the scene, it would be easy to locate them.
But the problem was that they were all normal people. They did not know how terrifying supernatural abilities were, and they did not know how to control their strength or how to release it in a stable manner.
Once they were discovered by the secret police or heroic superhumans, they usually panicked and chose to act in desperation. In the end, they caused losses that were ten times worse than the robberies themselves.
Just like Ning Lang.
Originally, if he really wanted to rob as much as he wanted, he would only be able to fill up an entire container truck with cultivation resources at most half a warehouse.
But due to Meng Chao's arrival, he seemed to have made a prompt decision, but in truth, he had foolishly chosen to detonate a high-energy napalm bomb and destroy an entire warehouse of cultivation resources. The irrecoverable losses instantly increased by ten times.
This point would definitely be taken into consideration when sentencing him in the future, and he would be severely punished.
Of course, he had already committed murder before the robbery, so he probably didn't care anymore.
Just like him, many robbers deliberately detonated the remaining cultivation resources in the warehouse in order to distract their pursuers.
There were also people who, after burglarizing houses, threw smoke bombs and incendiary bombs in densely populated residential areas, causing all the residents to be badly battered.
There were also people who took more Deification Capsules after they were surrounded by their pursuers. They instantly released the potential in the depths of their cells and turned into demons that were even more terrifying than monsters. Before their organs dried up and their bodies spontaneously combusted, they engaged in a series of terrifying and devastating battles against their pursuers in the downtown area. Naturally, a lot of innocent people were injured.
Shen Yupeng was dumbfounded and anxious when he saw the messy crime scene and the scene of the arrest.
It must be known that it was precisely because Extraordinaires were monsters in human skin, or even super cannonballs that could walk that they were able to survive.
When it came to dealing with Extraordinaires who committed crimes, they needed to be even more careful.
If they were not completely confident, they would rather give up on the chance. And before they arrested the superhuman, they could not let the criminal sense even the slightest hint of danger.
Otherwise, the criminal would give up on everything, and the consequences would be dire.
This was why normal police departments could not handle superhuman criminals.
It was also why the adjudicator court's police officers were known as the secret police.
But there was a limit to the number of secret police officers. They had never thought about handling more than one hundred malicious cases involving superpowers at the same time.
The brave superhumans were hot-blooded, but they lacked professional skills. They fought the criminals like they were zombies and monsters. Their good intentions turned into bad things, and the losses kept increasing.
Of course, they also captured some criminals.
But most of the criminals died within a few hours due to draining their life force and their cells drying up.
The few lucky ones who did not die were incredibly weak and half-dead. For the time being, it was difficult to pry open their mouths and get any useful information.
And through facial and fingerprint identification, they found that they were all normal people. There was not a single valuable fish among them. No one knew why these normal people had the same thought and chose to take the risk that night.
The long night was finally over.
All the citizens in the city knew that hundreds of malicious crimes had happened in Dragon City last night.
The losses they caused were practically the same as a large-scale monster invasion.
But the repercussions were not just limited to that.
The greatest fear of humans was the fear of the unknown.
Regardless of whether it was the attacks of zombies, monsters, or the undead, Dragon Citizens had long since predicted and were used to it.
These monstrous and ugly monsters were "them" based on their appearances, and it was only natural for "them" to attack "us". "We" just needed to fight back.
But no matter how fierce and crazy the robbers were, they were still normal humans. In theory, they were one of "us". The fact that they fought against each other puzzled many Dragon Citizens. They were worried and filled with a bad feeling.
If they thought about it from a more practical perspective, monster attacks would indeed cause major losses to Dragon City.
But as long as they could kill the monsters, the flesh and blood they obtained could make up for the losses.
But the losses caused by the robbers were a net loss. Even if they captured all the robbers, sentenced them to death, and cut their bones to make oil, they would not be able to make up for even 1% of the losses.
Besides, the criminals they captured last night were far from one-third of the total number. Many of the criminals removed their masks and changed their clothes before reappearing among the people. A lot of manpower and resources were needed to investigate and capture them.
In fact, if they brought the cultivation resources they stole into the lair and mixed with the lost people who had been lurking in the lair for decades, they would not be able to capture them.
Then, unless the three lair cities with more than one million people were uprooted, it would be practically impossible to capture them.
'This unprecedented serial crime is definitely a new round of savage attacks by the abnormal beasts on Dragon City. Their goal isn't just to steal cultivation resources, but to throw Dragon City's social order into chaos. They want to create distrust among humans so that human civilization will return to the bloody era decades ago, when the strong preyed on the weak and lawless!'
At six in the morning, Meng Chao, who had not slept for the entire night, finally ran into Lu Siya and Ye Xiaoxing, who were just as disheveled and dirty.
Even though they had not discovered any traces of abnormal beasts controlling the crimes the previous night, it did not mean that the abnormal beast research department could rest easy.
To prevent abnormal beasts from taking advantage of Dragon City or trying to take advantage of the situation like they did during the Noble Descent Hotel ambush, all the investigators from the abnormal beast research department who could fight were sent out to defend the important facilities and strategic points in Dragon City.
There were indeed a few ignorant thieves who ended up running right into the muzzles of the abnormal beast research department.
Unfortunately, when the investigators started capturing them, the robbers displayed a cunning that far surpassed that of the monsters. At the slightest provocation, they headed to densely populated residential areas and downtown areas as if they wanted to use innocent citizens as hostages.
The investigators had to spend ten times more intelligence and energy than when they were capturing abnormal beasts before they managed to capture these people.
Captain Ye Xiaoxing of Group 9 sensed the abnormal beast's presence hidden in the depths of the serial crimes.
His thoughts were the same as Meng Chao's.
Hundreds of vicious crimes had happened at the same time overnight, and practically all the criminals were normal people who had taken Deification Capsules or low-grade superhumans who had taken large amounts of Deification Capsules. This was definitely not a coincidence.
In the One Hundred Ways to Destroy Dragon City that Meng Chao had written, it was mentioned a long time ago that compared to attacking from the outside, thinking of ways to make Dragon City implode and destroy it due to internal chaos was the most cost-effective method.
It was no wonder why the abnormal beasts had been lurking around for a long time after the Noble Descent Hotel ambush and did not do anything major for half a year.
It turned out that they wanted to finish the job in one fell swoop, so they set up a ticking time bomb in Dragon City, and it finally detonated the previous night.
Unfortunately, the investigation department did not have a lot of clues regarding the case.
Before they had concrete evidence, the jurisdiction of the case was still with the adjudicator court. Ye Xiaoxing and Lu Siya could not use their strength to investigate the case.
And Meng Chao was the first person to come into contact with the Deification Capsules.
Superstar's material warehouse suffered the greatest losses in the series of robberies the night before.
He was not an official investigator of the abnormal beast research department. In this case, he could be considered to be a victim and a reporter.
Besides, he had a pretty good relationship with Shen Yupeng, so he could get some information first.
What Ye Xiaoxing meant was that the scope of the case was huge, and the effects were pretty bad. The investigation department and the adjudicator court would definitely not be able to handle it.
At that time, they would definitely need to coordinate the resources from all sides and work together to investigate the case.
Right now, he and Lu Siya would continue investigating the White Spirit, earthquake, and Demonic Abyss Eye. And Meng Chao had a transcendent status, so he might as well use Shen Yupeng to see what the adjudicator court was thinking.
Meng Chao knew that the relationship between the adjudicator court and the investigation department was complicated. There were plenty of times when they fought for jurisdiction over cases, and minor conflicts had broken out between them. It was just like how two sophisticated machines with complicated structures had to be pieced together to form a joint force. It was not something that could be done in one go.
It would be better for him to use his personal relationship with Shen Yupeng to form a connection first.
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