Chapter 553 - Key to the world of a new biological order (1/2)

For example, if someone had escaped from the scene of a hit and run, the artificial intelligence could determine the criminal’s height and behavioral traits based on the angle of the vehicle’s turn in the surveillance footage. That was because the view in the car would be different for people of different heights.

Gradually, the public order divisions became used to the artificial intelligence replacing their investigative duties. All they needed to be responsible for was the arrest of the criminals.

After that, the criminals in the Wang Consortium’s strongholds started being arrested and sentenced for their crimes. During the time the artificial intelligence was first introduced, the Wang Consortium’s prison became so full they were unable to hold any more prisoners.

It was initially decided they would expand the size of the prison. However, the Wang Consortium’s higher-ups directly ordered the Law Division to mete out harsher punishments to the criminals. More than 2,000 prisoners were sentenced to death as a result, and over a 1,000 were sent to perform labor at purpose-built factories outside the stronghold overnight.

Once the criminals were sent to those places, they were not going to return. That eased the pressure of overpopulation in the prison.

During that time, everybody was deterred from committing more crimes. After all, those who stole anything over a 1,000 yuan or got involved in street fights would be sentenced to death, so who would still dare to commit crimes?

However, the Public Order Division at Stronghold 61 was starting to get busy again recently. There were a lot of people reporting their guard dogs had suddenly gone missing, and this was not just one or two cases but over a dozen of them. The Public Order Division immediately wondered if a dognapper had entered the stronghold?

The Wang Consortium had set a target of a 100% rate of solved crimes for the Public Order Division. As long as someone reported a case, they would have to solve it. Otherwise, there would be no year-end bonus for the Public Order Division staff.

The Public Order Division immediately dispatched some people to several dog meat shops in the stronghold to investigate the crimes and even checked the footage from the surveillance cameras outside the dog meat shops. However, they found nothing suspicious.

Moreover, it was extremely unusual as the artificial intelligence did not even provide them with any information this time.

As such, the Public Order Division activated their K9 unit. But when they were going down a street, a police dog suddenly broke free from its leash for some reason and ran away. Then that police dog went missing as well.

This irritated the Public Order Division a lot as the police chief slammed tables in the office and roared angrily at officers. The Public Order Division immediately sent more manpower to carry out a blanket search at the place where the police dog had broken free from its leash. They even went down into the sewers to search.

A Public Order Division squad was walking in the dirty and smelly water down in the sewers. Someone complained, “Why should we be the ones sent into the sewers? They should’ve just deployed the auxiliary police to check it out.”

Someone nearby said, “Quit complaining. You were the one who lost the K9, so consider this your punishment. It won’t be so bad if you can find the criminal, or else be prepared to lose your job.”

Suddenly, the person speaking noticed the person at the front of the squad had stopped in his tracks, and his body was even trembling.

Someone asked, “What’s the matter?”

The person at the front trembled and said, “Everyone… look!”

Everyone turned on their flashlights and looked ahead. They were surprised to see that the sewer in front of them was piled full of skeletal remains of animals. There were bones everywhere!

Those skeletal remains were piled into a small hill. While most of them were rat bones, there were also some cat and dog bones.

“No wonder we didn’t see a single rat while we were down here!” someone said with a tingling sensation in his scalp.

At this moment, they heard the sound of the dirty water rippling behind them. With chills running up their spines, they looked back and saw nothing at all.

“There aren’t any monsters in the sewers, right?”