Chapter 473 - A Capture Squad With A Grand Lineup (1/2)

The day ended in chaos.

When the starless night arrived once more, scattered gunshots and explosions rose again inside and outside Dragon City.

Numerous crimes happened again.

The main characters were robbers who had gained supernatural abilities for the time being by eating Deification Capsules but were a little off in the head.

The Dragon Citizens were warier than last night.

The robbers’ plans were also clearly not as sophisticated as the previous night.

Many of the robbers were discovered immediately.

But they did not intend to stay around and just be captured. Instead, they acted desperately and fought against the secret police as well as the righteous citizens.

The robbers, secret police, and righteous people all possessed supernatural abilities. When they clashed fists with each other, it was basically the same as main battle tanks clashing viciously in the city.

Even if the robbers were captured or killed in the end, they had resisted fiercely and caused major collateral damage.

The initial statistics showed that with every captured or killed robber, Dragon City suffered millions or tens of millions worth of yuan of direct economic loss.

And that was if they did not consider the innocent citizens who died or were injured in the scuffle, the large number of buildings that collapsed during the capture, leading to the citizens losing their homes, and the subsequent effects it brought.

The secret police were constantly at work and often lost sight of one thing while attending to another.

The Red Dragon Army was stationed in the city to defend the citizens’ lives, property, and safety.

But trying to use the army to handle the robbers hiding in the city was the typical case of using anti-aircraft machine guns to kill mosquitoes. Not only would they use up a lot of resources, the effects might not be entirely satisfactory either. If the robbers hid themselves in residential buildings, the army could not just bring out their artillery guns and shoot them, right?

The armed investigators from the abnormal beast research department made preparations for the battle. They defended the power plants, water treatment plants, crystal refinement factories, synthesized food factories, and other important places, worried that the monsters would enter while they were weak, so they did not dare to slack off.

But no monsters appeared.

Yet Meng Chao, Lu Siya, Ye Xiaoxing, and all the investigators were even more tense.

Everyone knew that if the Deification Capsules were really created by the abnormal beasts as a secret weapon to fight against Dragon City, the monsters would definitely not miss this God-given chance.

The monsters did not appear because the defenses in Dragon City had not been forced to their limits yet.

But if the abnormal beasts used the resources they stole to create ten times the number of Deification Capsules and sent them to the robbers so they would gain the destructive abilities of superhumans and then provided them with professional guidance on how to commit crimes, in less than half a month, Dragon City would become a paradise for crime, and societal order would be completely gone.

And the secret, armed investigators, and the Red Dragon Army would be wrung dry by the countless crimes. They would not have the energy to take care of the abnormal beasts invading them.

At that time, the abnormal beasts could secretly spread the zombie viruses and Blood Flower spores again to create an offense that was ten times stronger in terms of scale and power compared to the ambush on Noble Descent Hotel.

There was a high possibility that Dragon City would really sink into an abyss that they could never escape at that time.

The only way to handle this was to have the whole city be on guard and execute the strictest curfews and military control.

Dragon City had gone through periods of time when all citizens were treated as soldiers and everything adhered to a militarized management, but the result of having every citizen become a soldier was that the speed of economic development plummeted. They could not maintain the vigor required of a society, and they could not create enough effective jobs. In the long run, this would just drain their potential and was the same as drinking poison to quench one’s thirst.

Now, Dragon City was going through its second Great Construction Era. They were building more than ten new city areas and had more than one hundred projects going on at the same time.

If they executed a full militarized management at this point, it would be the same as hitting the emergency brakes for their economic development.

Unless it was absolutely necessary, the Survival Committee would have a hard time making this decision.

Fortunately, when on the second half of the night, good news came from Golden Tooth Lair.

Shen Yupeng told Meng Chao that ever since they sent the information regarding the large-scale robberies and Deification Capsures to Golden Tooth Lair, all the gangs in the lair became tense.

They were different from robbers.

The gangs required a certain degree of order in gray areas to gain profit for themselves.

The robbers, though, did not distinguish right from wrong and just wanted to destroy all forms of order.

After having learned that Golden Tooth Lair might have ended up as the robbers’ nest and that abnormal beasts were actually employing petty tricks under his nose, Saber Jin Wanhao became livid, just as they expected.

Gangs had their own ways to investigate the truth, and to a certain degree, they were even more effective than the secret police.

They started investigating from the ten illegal finance companies in Golden Tooth Lair and managed to find clues about a leak of name lists regarding people who took loans from them.

Then, through these clues, they found a few of the robbers’ hiding places.

However, these robbers were all the Vortex’s bewitched puppets. Capturing or suppressing them would not be very meaningful.

The key was still the mastermind hiding behind the robbers and the illegal lab that created the Deification Capsules.

Shen Yupeng was greedy. He wanted to capture the robbers and mastermind in one go.