When Meng Chao arrived at the Supernatural Tower, it was seven in the morning.
The square in front of the Supernatural Tower was already filled with normal citizens and superhumans who had come to report cases.
The law enforcers of the adjudicator court might be known as secret police, but they only did so in order to avoid alerting superpowered criminals and causing them to become desperate and cause even greater destruction. That was why they did not wear uniforms and carried out investigations and punishments in secret.
The existence of the adjudicator court itself was not a secret.
Its headquarters was set up in the Supernatural Tower.
In truth, when the Superhuman Association was first formed, its goal was to arbitrate the conflicts between normal people and superhumans, as well as the conflicts between superhumans.
Up to this date, the Supernatural Tower still had a reporting center and a reporting box for the adjudicator court. If normal citizens were bullied by superhumans, they could report the case directly or anonymously.
It had been nearly thirty years since the Supernatural Tower was built, and Dragon City had never faced a night where order was broken.
It was no wonder then why the reporting center of the adjudicator court was so crowded!
Before Meng Chao could contact Shen Yupeng, he looked around and noticed a lot of Broken Star Club members in the crowd.
The broken-star superhumans also saw him. They narrowed their eyes and tried to identify him for a long time before they dared to go up and greet him. While they asked him about his training in the wild, they told him about what happened the night before.
Once he listened to the broken-star superhumans' descriptions, Meng Chao realized that Superstar was not the only one who suffered major losses the night before. Many of the broken-star superhumans' homes and the small and medium-sized enterprises they opened were robbed.
The reason was simple. The middle-grade and high-grade superhumans who came from cultivation families and reached Heaven Realm usually lived in high-end houses with tight security.
Ever since the new zombie virus and Blood Flower spores rampaged through the area, the high-end houses had their defense systems completely upgraded. The neighbors around them were all powerful people who were above average.
As normal robbers, even if they ate ten Deification Capsules in one go, it was impossible for them to break through the defense lines of the high-end houses and rob the powerful people's houses.
Most of the old residential areas that normal people lived in had not been upgraded yet, so it was easy for them to rob them.
The problem was, most of the normal people lived in empty houses, and they could not get much out of them!
Only the broken-star superhumans had regained hope in cultivating over the past year with the help of the Broken Star Club and the Ultimate Style. They worked hard and lived prosperous lives. Their families and businesses accumulated a lot of cultivation resources.
And it was impossible for them to increase their fighting strength as crazily as Meng Chao, who was a robber who had taken a few Deification Capsules and had his head pinned to his belt.
Naturally, he became a fat sheep in the eyes of the bandits.
On the other hand, Broken Star Club already had more than two hundred thousand members.
This was an organization that allowed people to come and go as they pleased. There were no restrictions on them, and the system was very loose. To put it bluntly, it was just a large clubhouse. There was no difference in essence between the Broken Star Club members, the supermarket members, or the bathhouse members. Naturally, it was difficult to distinguish between the good and the bad.
Last night, a small group of ill-intentioned broken-star superhumans managed to get Deification Capsules from somewhere and temporarily activated their one-star or even two-star fighting power. They turned into robbers and extended their claws to the innocent.
It angered the law-abiding broken-star superhumans so much that they started cursing. You might know a person for a long time, but you wouldn't know their true nature. One rat's poop spoiled the whole pot of porridge. The Broken Star Club had been doing fine, but now, it had turned into a foul atmosphere because of those scum.
Aside from that, Meng Chao also saw a lot of normal people covered in wounds and looking worried.
When he asked around, he learned that while they were not the robbers' direct targets, they were either affected by the bombs the robbers set off, their homes were attacked by napalm bombs, or the robbers fought fiercely with the captors, which reduced their homes to a mess.
They did not even know who they should look for to settle this mess!
Just like that, the place was chaotic and noisy. Meng Chao waited until noon before he saw Shen Yupeng, who looked tired and swaying.
"Big Brother Peng, are you okay?"
Meng Chao was shocked. "Your face is glowing. You look like your organs are going to fail at any moment or you're going to spontaneously combust. Should we look for a place and meditate for a while?"
"Help me out. Help me to the cultivation room."
Shen Yupeng gestured with his hands and said weakly, "That boy confessed. He can finally rest for a while."
Meng Chao quickly helped Shen Yupeng to the cultivation room in the Supernatural Tower.
When Meng Chao saw that Shen Yupeng was submerged in the dark green gene medicine and groaning in exhaustion, some color returned to his face, and his vitality magnetic field spun slowly, Meng Chao sighed in relief.
"Ning Lang confessed?"
Meng Chao pulled open the ring of a high-calorie nutritional fluid and handed it to Shen Yupeng. "There were so many robberies last night, so they should be connected, right? Could it be that Ning Lang and the robbers belong to the same large criminal organization?"
"If we're talking about connections, there's one, but Ning Lang doesn't have any connection with the other robbers. He doesn't belong to any large criminal organization with a tight structure either." Shen Yupeng looked tired, and he closed his eyes to think.
"That's impossible," Meng Chao blurted out.
"The robbers are just chess pieces. There's definitely an incredibly sinister chess player hiding behind them!"
"There's a chess player, but there's no horizontal connection between the chess pieces," Shen Yupeng said.
"In truth, based on Ning Lang's confession, he was remotely controlled by the chess player through the internet."
"The internet?"
Meng Chao's mind raced. "How is he remotely controlled? The Deification Capsules, the weapons, the meticulous investigation of the criminal targets, and the strange and unfathomable criminal plans all came from the internet?"
"That's right. All of them came from the internet. More accurately speaking, they came from the deep web."
Shen Yupeng drank the high-calorie nutritional fluid in one go, and his expression became a little livelier. "You know that the substances in the Other World are really unstable. Our computers and internet systems are different from those on Earth. We have a lot of biochemical plug-ins that are fused with monster brain cells and bionic neurons. You can say that it's the amalgamation of computers and living brains, which is why it's called a superbrain.
"This new data terminal and internet system might ensure that we can transmit information over a large area in real time even in the Other World where there's plenty of spirit energy and substances are really unstable, but it also brings a brand new challenge to the technology of information preservation, investigation, and locating the coordinates of the terminal.
"There are more than one hundred ways to perfectly hide your identity and address in the deep web, send emails anonymously, control others, and commit all sorts of dangerous and evil crimes."
Meng Chao naturally knew this.
In truth, he had been active in the deep web as the Old Fire Relayer, and no one had seen through him.
But …
"He used an anonymous email to tempt Ning Lang into robbing Superstar's warehouse?"
Meng Chao still found it hard to believe. "That's impossible. Based on what I know, Ning Lang is just a hooligan who walks in the gray area. This sort of person knows where the bottom line of the law is. Would he risk everything and take a risk just because of an anonymous email?"
"Perhaps not in the beginning, but after he used up all his money and even took a large loan with really high interest from an underground finance company. He also lost all his money in the wild, so it's hard to say," Shen Yupeng said.
"Ning Lang told me that his business failed, and when he returned to Dragon City, he had to face the debt collectors from the underground finance companies. He also had to face the families of his deceased friends. He gradually lost himself in the abyss of despair. At that moment, even if there was a burning straw that could save his life, he would hold it in his hands regardless of the cost.
"Coincidentally, someone sent him an invitation through the anonymous email system in the deep web and asked him whether he was interested in participating in a major business.
"In the beginning, Ning Lang naturally didn't believe it.
"Even if he believed it, it was useless, because regardless of whether the major businesses in Dragon City were legal or illegal, they all required people to awaken to supernatural abilities before they had the right to participate.
"In the end, the other party didn't say anything. They only gave him an address, and they didn't give any further explanations about the address.
"Ning Lang was conflicted for three days. When he heard that the creditor had sent someone to his house to force him to pay the debt, he finally made up his mind and rushed to the address on the email to check it.
"He discovered that the address was an abandoned factory that was about to be demolished in the suburbs.
"Then, he received a series of directions from the factory. In the end, he found a Deification Capsule in an abandoned blender.
"Eat it. There was a note stuck to the capsule. That was what was written on it.
"There was a creepy, evil air to the entire thing.
"But Ning Lang didn't have much of a choice.
"He ran into an insect horde in the wild and watched his friend, who had grown up with him, get eaten by the abnormal insects until he was reduced to a skeleton.
"From then on, his mental strength index became unstable, and his understanding toward life and death started to deviate. Not only was he no longer afraid of death, he even longed for it like a moth flying into a flame.
"He swallowed the Deification Capsule without hesitation, and for the first time in his life, he experienced supernatural abilities.
"Meng Chao, we're both in Heaven Realm, and we're already used to the power of one-star superhumans. But I believe that even if we reach Deity Realm one day, we'll never forget the feeling of awakening to supernatural abilities and using them for the first time. It's an incomparable excitement, and it's a pleasure that can't be described with words.
"Ning Lang was completely conquered by the pleasure. He said that he blasted the entire blender into scrap metal, and he felt like he was an omnipotent god.
"Unfortunately, the Deification Capsule the other party gave him wasn't strong enough. It should be a trial version with a low density.
"Soon, when the medicinal strength ran out, he returned to his original form. Since he was exhausted, he was even weaker than usual.
"Ning Lang said that at that moment, he was drenched in sweat and gasped for breath as he lay on the ground. He couldn't even lift his pinky. The pleasure of charging into the clouds a moment ago was devoured by helpless despair.
"What's that saying again? If I had never seen the light, I could have endured the darkness forever.
"To Ning Lang, if he had never tasted the strength of supernatural abilities, perhaps he could have endured being mediocre and normal.
"But now, he longed to become stronger, as if he had gone mad. He wanted to eat more Deification Capsules and obtain unparalleled power. Even if he had to trample on all laws and morals, he didn't care!"
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