The Public Order Division in Stronghold 61 had been very troubled recently. The Wang Clan's strongholds had always been very safe, and the Public Order Division only needed to follow the instructions of the artificial intelligence to arrest criminals. Therefore, the Public Order Division had always been a relatively free office.
At first, they did not really trust this so-called artificial intelligence. But later on, everyone realized the artificial intelligence could deduce who the suspect was based on the surveillance footage alone. This was a very powerful ability.
For example, in a traffic accident where a hit-and-run hit someone, the artificial intelligence could determine their height and behavior based on the angle at which the other party was driving and turning. That was because a person's field of vision in a car would be different depending on their height.
Gradually, the Public Order Division got used to having the artificial intelligence replace their investigative duties. They were only responsible for arresting criminals.
After that, the criminals in the Wang Clan's stronghold were either arrested or sentenced. During the period when the artificial intelligence first came online, the Wang Clan's stronghold's prison was almost full to the brim.
Originally, they wanted to expand the prison to a larger one, but the Wang Clan's higher-ups ordered the Public Order Division to impose heavier sentences. Overnight, more than 2,000 prisoners were sentenced to death, and more than 1,000 were sent to a special factory outside the stronghold.
Once they were sent to a place like that, they would basically not be able to return for the rest of their lives.
With that, the pressure on the prison was alleviated.
During that period, everyone felt insecure. After all, anyone who stole an item worth more than 1,000 yuan would be sentenced to death. Street fighting was also a death sentence, so who would dare to commit a crime?
However, the Public Order Division got busy again during this period. Many people came to report that their watchdogs had suddenly gone missing. This was not just a matter of one or two families, but more than a dozen families. The Public Order Division immediately thought, Could dog thieves have entered the stronghold?
The target set by the Wang Clan for the Public Order Division was a 100% success rate. If someone reported a crime, they would have to solve it. Otherwise, they would lose their year-end bonus.
The Public Order Division immediately sent people to several dog meat shops in the stronghold and checked the surveillance footage outside the dog meat shops. However, they found nothing.
Moreover, the artificial intelligence did not even give them any information this time, which was very unusual.
The Public Order Division deployed their police dogs. But when they passed by a street, the police dogs somehow broke free from their ropes and ran off. After that, the police dogs were also lost.
This made the Public Order Division very angry. The director slammed the table in his office and roared. The Public Order Division immediately sent out more manpower. First, they launched a carpet search of the place where the police dog broke free from the rope, even the sewers were not spared.
In the sewers, a team from the Public Order Division was walking on the stinking, dirty water. Someone complained, "Why did they send us down here? Wouldn't it be better if they just let the assistant police come down here and do an inspection?"
"Don't talk. You lost the police dog. This is a punishment in disguise. If you find the criminal, it's okay. If you can't, I'm afraid you'll lose your job," someone next to him said.
Suddenly, the person who spoke realized that the person at the front of the group had stopped, and his body had begun to tremble.
"What's wrong?" someone asked.
The person at the front also said with a trembling voice, "You … look!"
Everyone turned on their flashlights and looked in front of them. They were shocked to see that the sewers in front of them were filled with animal carcasses and bones!
The corpses were piled up like a small hill. Most of them were the skeletons of rats, while some belonged to cats and dogs.
"No wonder we didn't see a single rat in the sewers!" someone said as his scalp tingled.
At this moment, the sound of the dirty water rippling came from behind them. But when they looked back in horror, they did not see anything.
"There can't be monsters in the sewers, right?"
With that, the members of the Public Order Division's team all ran out of the sewers.
There were no monsters that would try to capture and devour them as they had imagined. This group of people returned to the surface safely.
That afternoon, the Public Order Division sent out more manpower to investigate the entire sewers. In the end, they discovered there were as many as nine piles of bones in the sewers. They even found a police dog in one of them. However, the police dog had only been strangled to death and had not turned into a pile of bones yet.
For a moment, the entire stronghold was spreading rumors that some kind of monster had entered the stronghold and was hiding in the sewers.
This matter made everyone in the stronghold anxious. They would avoid manhole covers as they walked, afraid they would be pulled down by something.
As this was a major incident, it even alarmed the Wang Clan's higher-ups. Wang Shengzhi even specially sent a supernatural being over, but he also found nothing.
At this moment, the Public Order Division was having a meeting to discuss the matter. Putting aside the matter of the arrest, they had to first determine what had done this, right?
"We've already checked all the skeletons. There are no human skeletons, which means the other party doesn't eat humans." A man wearing gold-rimmed glasses said, "I think it might be a mutated creature from the sewers. But we don't have to be too afraid. The other party doesn't eat humans. It's probably because it's smaller in size that it's more afraid of humans."
But at this moment, someone suddenly barged in from outside and said, "This is bad! Someone from our Public Order Division has gone missing right after we searched the sewers!"
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At the bottom of East Lake, a school of fish were swimming in the darkness where the tunnel had collapsed. They were greedily sucking on the smell of blood seeping out of the rubble.
No one could have expected that the several hundred people who had died in the tunnel would become nourishment for the fish in East Lake. In particular, the smell of the supernatural being's blood made the fish go crazy.
Near the rubble at the bottom of the lake, there was a dense school of fish, turtles, water snakes, frogs, crabs, and shrimp.
A human tragedy had become a feast for the creatures at the bottom of the lake. However, it was very difficult for them to come into contact with the human corpses under the rubble.
At this moment, the school of fish suddenly scattered in panic. It seemed like a huge creature had arrived in the darkness. It opened its mouth and sucked in a large number of fish. The fish in East Lake were so frightened by this newcomer that they did not dare to approach it. However, they were reluctant to leave as well.
The huge creature swam to the bottom of the lake and used its body to dig open a tunnel ruin, revealing the human corpses inside.
The bottom of the lake became murky, and a huge cloud of dust surged in the lake.
However, the school of fish pounced on it like they had gone crazy. Meanwhile, the huge creature calmly picked out its food. It seemed like it only ate supernatural beings.
The people from Stronghold 73's Public Order Division had set up a blockade on the shore of East Lake to prevent the stronghold residents from approaching. Therefore, no one saw the water in the lake surging like it was boiling.
After the huge black shadow had its fill, it stayed quietly at the bottom of the lake and waited for its next foraging session.
No one knew that the flesh and blood of human supernatural beings had quietly become the key to opening the door to a new world of biological order.
It was an even more dangerous and mysterious world.
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