Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 350 Found it

The battle on the night of the hunt shattered most of the law enforcement headquarters.

The entire rooftop was blasted into pieces. Of course, a large part of the credit goes to Monquia's old Thunder Seal. The first few lightning strikes failed to break through the fog wall, but they did smash through several floors and even caused a fire.

The confrontation between Milo and Sothos took place entirely within the Fog Wall, and outsiders had no idea what exactly happened. Then there was the saliva of the Tindaros hounds, which nearly destroyed the entire floor below.

However, the Nanwei City Enforcement Team also received an additional grant outside of the fiscal plan to renovate its enforcement headquarters.

After all, the new Nanwei law enforcement inspector appointed by the county council would be working in this building, and for his own sake, he had to secure this money for Nanwei City.

And so everything went smoothly.

Funds were allocated, the project was approved, and construction was carried out. Just a few months later, the brand-new law enforcement headquarters building was erected again.

Although the style still retains the cruel aesthetic of the Scythe of Judgment, this time many new windows have been added to the upper floors, significantly improving the interior lighting, and the atrium is no longer as gloomy as before.

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"I reiterate, the injuries sustained by the suspects were all caused during the arrest of the aforementioned suspects by patrol officers. This was legal and compliant, and there is no objection or questioning whatsoever. If the media continues to publish similar inflammatory statements..."

Milo paused, glancing at the newly appointed law enforcement inspector in the chairman's seat.

The latter remained expressionless, but nodded very slightly.

Milo continued, "If it is considered a slander and defamation of the law enforcement team, I will visit them one by one until the misunderstanding is cleared up."

"Meeting dismissed."

……

The above is a summary of the hearing regarding the case of law enforcement officers beating a minor.

Surrounded by representatives from various sectors of society and media personnel from both local and county governments, Milo clearly conveyed the enforcement team's message: if you continue to cause trouble, we'll shut you down.

Such a style might be considered too forceful in a prefecture or other cities where law enforcement is not strong enough, but it is just right for Nanwei City.

We occasionally have to slap some media outlets that take advantage of our kindness to bring them back to their senses.

Overall, the outcome of the hearing barely met everyone's expectations. For the law enforcement team, they acted according to regulations and conveyed their position and attitude. For the media personnel, the goal of attracting attention was achieved from the moment the hearing began, and the outcome of the hearing was actually not important to them at all.

For representatives from all sectors, especially city councilors, this is simply a self-promotion ceremony. As long as their full names are published on the front page of the newspaper tomorrow, that's enough.

The only thing nobody cared about was how many teeth the kid Enid beat up had lost.

……

After the hearing, Milo greeted the leaders at all levels and then led Enid away from the troublesome law enforcement headquarters.

Enid followed Milo up the newly paved steps in front of the gate.

Today was probably the biggest scene she had encountered since joining the enforcement team. It wasn't that she felt guilty or timid; she was just very curious about how Milo and his group could righteously utter such a series of nonsense that had nothing to do with the facts, and at the end, they even made no attempt to hide their threats and warnings to all the newspapers and media present.

Milo knew Enid so well that he didn't even need her to say anything; he could guess what she was thinking just by looking at her puzzled little expression.

"The number of people who die, go missing, or retire in the enforcement team each year is several times that of the new recruits, especially in your term, the situation is even worse."

He walked ahead without stopping or looking back, muttering, "From the perspective of the law enforcement system, if an officer is fired for beating up a petty thug, then no one will be able to do this job."

"This is definitely not what you imagine a law enforcement team to be like, but that's how we do things. In fact, this system wasn't originally established to handle these murders and fights. The fact is, each department has its own rules. First, you have to know these rules by heart, and then learn how to use them to get things done. In the process, you also have to make sure you don't get hurt by these rules..."

Milo stopped talking midway through his speech.

Enid blinked. "I'm listening."

But Milo stopped.

He suddenly realized that his tone of voice was becoming more and more like Nero's, just like when Nero spoke to him in the graveyard at the beginning.

"Go back, go back, we still have work to do."

Milo rubbed his forehead and led Enid back to the law enforcement office.

……

It was already evening.

Just as he said, after dealing with Enid's matter, Milo had other things to do.

While at the law enforcement headquarters, he recalled his first conversation with Nero in the cemetery. He had to admit that he had been keeping himself very busy lately, so busy that he hadn't had time to think about what had happened before, especially Nero.

Milo was once very certain and convinced that Nero was the most deserving of the title of Enforcer in the entire city of Nanvi, because of his justice, experience, and composure, as well as his iron will and wisdom, and even more so because of the "serious crime" he committed in Galid twenty-four years ago, and because he pointed out a way out for Milo when he was least known and powerless.

But once the truth is laid out on the table and laid bare, these past views begin to seem unreal.

Because it cannot be denied that the Nero that Milo knew had always harbored an evil Outer God projection in his mind.

Now that they are both dead, Milo can no longer verify how much of Nero's past decisions were influenced by Sothos.

The things he said to Milo.

He assigned Milo a mission to Icam, and gave him the order to bring Kai back to Nanwei from Icam.

Whether these were Sothos's or Nero's wishes, Milo dared not say for sure. What was unsettling was that Milo had hardly questioned Nero's series of choices until the very last moment when he became aware of them.

Could it be argued that Milo was once under Sothos's control, and that he simply lacked the discernment to distinguish right from wrong...?

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"That's being dramatic."

Coming to his senses, Milo slapped his forehead hard and stood in the hallway muttering to himself, "The whispers of the Old Gods, they must all be the whispers of the Old Gods, damn it..."

It wasn't his sanity level that caused him to fall into self-doubt; he was simply overthinking things.

"Still not busy enough."

Milo shook his head.

But suddenly, a blurry image flashed through his mind, which could also be described as a flash of inspiration.

He suddenly looked up, a look of realization on his face, then quickly went back downstairs and went straight into the underground morgue.

After pushing open the morgue door, Milo spoke very quickly:

"Finally, I remembered! I knew that familiar feeling wasn't just a figment of my imagination. I found it, I found it."

Rick was engrossed in his classical music, swirling the wine in his glass.

"Turn off that damn stereo." Milo ordered Rick to put away the record, then grabbed a piece of white paper from the table and quickly jotted down a series of fragmented sentences.

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In all similar cases, the berserk animals killed those closest to them—their owners.

A plague virus that spreads among animals;
It could also be due to a weakening of sanity, leading to berserk behavior.

Calamity;

The viewpoint was incomplete;

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The last sentence I wrote was: The Robben incident.

After writing all this, Milo stared at the last sentence on the paper and fell into deep thought.

The Robben case, the first case in which he was involved in a mysterious incident, involved a man who, after being bewitched by the raven, went mad and slaughtered innocent people to steal their eyeballs to carry out an evil ritual. He had long since died, and his grave stood on a hilltop on the outskirts of the city.

That case is now completely closed.

Because of his own extremely careless mistake in that case, which led to Daisy having her eyes gouged out just a wall away, Milo has always been reluctant to think about the case.

But just now, as he recalled Nero, some details of the Robben case also surfaced in Milo's mind.

Milo had glimpsed Robben's ghostly perspective and witnessed Robben's tragic fate.

Looking at the whole case, the truth has already come to light.

There is only one question that remains unanswered: what exactly happened to Robben's daughter?

Milo always thought it was the raven's doing.

But now it seems not.

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"They will kill their closest loved ones."

Milo's eyes grew clearer.

This was the source of the sense of familiarity that had been lingering in his mind.

He finally found it.

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"Boss, to be honest, you're a little scary." Rick stood in the corner of the room, holding a glass of red wine, hesitant to approach Milo.

Because at this moment, the cracks on Milo's hands and forearms were glowing with intense heat, and his expression and condition were not quite right.

Rick was taken aback.

Or rather, a sense of oppression originating from the depths of his bloodline had him under control.

However, Milo didn't care about any of that. He snatched the wine glass from Rick's hand, drank it all in one gulp, tossed the empty glass back to Rick, and said:

"Didn't you ask whether the corpse in Glenn town was a beast turned into a human or a human turned into a beast? Now I can tell you with certainty that it was a human turned into a beast."

(End of this chapter)