Chapter 467 - Robbers’ Logic (1/2)

But even the insurance company under Universe Insurance did not dare to insure losses caused by monsters.

Monster invasions were like earthquakes, tornadoes, and floods. They belonged under the category of “cannot be fended against”. No one could predict it and bear responsibility for it.

The same logic went to the fighting-class superhumans who often went to fight in the wild. There were very few insurance companies who would dare to be held accountable for their lives.

But the series of robberies the night before had been conducted by human robbers.

Quite a number of superhumans who were injured or killed during the break-ins were also support-class superhumans, so they lived rather safe lives. They were experts from various lives, and many of them had personal accident insurance from the insurance companies.

If the Universe Insurance had to insure all of these cases, forget about the fact that they would definitely go bankrupt, all the insurance and finance companies in Dragon City would experience a tidal wave and might collapse because of it.

That was why the insurance companies were more impatient than anyone else to find traces of abnormal beasts hidden in the series of robberies.

If they could really figure out the mastermind, then even if they could not completely avoid compensating the people, the money they needed to compensate would still go down by a huge margin, and there would still be hope for them to maintain the stability of the entire business market.

Meng Chao thought about it. When it came to this matter, the insurance companies stood on the same side as the abnormal beast research department and himself.

“Can the insurance companies get the newest data and clues?” Meng Chao asked.

“The data from the insurance companies in Dragon City is connected with the data of the adjudicator court and the research department,” Shen Yupeng explained. “In truth, the adjudicator court and research department are very willing to see the insurance companies use some methods that the government can’t use to obtain first-hand information. Of course, we might have to rely on your instincts to find crucial evidence from all that disorderly information.”

“Last time, I managed to predict all that happened due to sheer luck. How can you call it instincts?” Meng Chao said readily. “But if we have more people with us, we’ll be stronger. We’ll brainstorm together, and we’ll definitely be able to spot those elusive clues. Big Brother Peng, let’s go now!”

Universe Insurance was located at the central commercial area in New Riverside Town.

It was a mighty building filled with anti-air machine guns, which made it look like a steel porcupine. It created a sense of strength and safety.

Shen Yupeng was an outstanding leader of the third generation in the Shen family.

His status was higher than Lu Siya’s in the Lu family.

In the future, he would need to take over at least half of Universe Corporation.

When he came to Universe Insurance, it was only par for the course that his words carried weight and he could get whatever he wanted.

He brought Meng Chao to the emergency crisis response department and asked for the manager there. A middle-aged man who had a fierce look in his eyes, could not seem to shave his chin clean, and gave off a murderous air from every single pore came up to them.

“Man-eating Shark Zhou Chong?”

Meng Chao recognized the manager immediately.

Man-eating Shark Zhou Chong was the same as Soul Breaking Saber Luo Wu. They were both seniors famous in the hunter circle.

More than ten years ago, when Meng Chao and the rest of the Golden Era were still learning how to speak, Zhou Chong was running all over the fog while slaughtering monsters left and right.

The depths of the fog in the past were different from the present.

The hunters did not have the support from the Red Dragon Army, and there were not that many forward operating bases and developing lands either, much less the support from automatic machines and heavy firepower. Fighting alone was the norm, and they could end up being surrounded by a monster horde at any moment. The mortality rate of hunters was ten times higher than in the present.

The ones who managed to survive in such a brutal battlefield and were famous because of it were all ruthless people with a set of valuable skills.

Luo Wu was ruthless, but Zhou Chong was even more ruthless. He seemed to have been born with a sense of smell that made him sensitive to prey. The moment he smelled blood, he would charge over like a hungry shark. He would devour his prey whole, even its bones, which gave him the name Man-eating Shark.

Meng Chao remembered liking to watch Man-eating Shark Zhou Chong’s battle videos while he was in high school.

He also had a deep impression of Zhou Chong’s Sand Tiger Shark Saber, whose blade, he claimed, was created by imitating the sharp teeth of sharks with the principles of bionics.

Over the last two years, Man-eating Shark Zhou Chong had seldom released his battle videos online and his name seldom appeared on the hunter achievement rank released by the government. Meng Chao had thought that he had accumulated too many hidden injuries and was forced to retire from the hunter circle.

He did not expect that he had joined Universe Corporation as the superintendent of Universe Insurance’s crisis management department.

Meng Chao looked at the staff members of the crisis management department behind Zhou Chong.

All of them were built and sturdy. They gave off a sharp, murderous aura. They also had all sorts of weapons at their waists. When they communicated with the other departments, they slammed their fingers on the tabs fiercely while they used their daggers to scratch their beards. They were… really fierce people.

After three months of training in the wild, Meng Chao was very sensitive to the presence of the wild.

With just one glance, he could tell that these staff members in the insurance company had stayed for a few years in the wild and killed more than one thousand monsters. If it was necessary, they would cut off their limbs without flinching. They were all veteran hunters.

‘As expected of an insurance company. The killing intent here is much stronger than in the research department or adjudicator court!’ Meng Chao gasped in amazement.

While he was observing them, the group was also sizing him up.