Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 356 Verification
Looking at the various major cases that have occurred in Nanwei City over the past hundred years, regardless of the nature of the cases, the unchanging core is always human beings. Human emotions dominate everything: greed, love, hate, jealousy. Most people do not really consider what to do after killing someone or how to dispose of the body when committing crimes. In the real world, there are not that many meticulously planned crimes. Most of them are cruel things done in a moment of impulse.

The story of the struggle between good and evil will never be out of style.

But as the old law enforcement officers often say, people's hearts are no longer what they used to be. The concepts of good and evil are no longer as clear and distinct as described in traditional stories. There are always some people who walk on the edge of confusion and chaos, and these people are often difficult to define.

Perhaps there has never been a dividing line between justice and evil; it is only in literary works created by later generations based on historical stories that such a setting has been given.

Because humans are the most complex creatures, even the most upright and reliable person will always have some unspeakable things hidden in the dark depths of their heart.

The difference is that some people delve so deeply into those things that they believe they never existed, while others enjoy it and gradually drift away from it.

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The Sherman family recently had a special shipment that needed to be transported to the capital by rail.

This matter is very important to Sherman at this stage, because it not only involves the quality of nightlife of a certain lord in the House of Lords, but also directly relates to the Sherman family's vacant seat in the House of Lords.

First of all, this shipment must be transported in secret. The royal city is a place with many people and a lot of eyes and ears. The city is home to a group of people who stand at the top of the ruling class. These people have one thing in common: they value their reputation more than their lives, especially those old-fashioned people who are still living in the age of knights.

But, whether they are nobles or chivalrous, no matter how much they pride themselves on being noble and upright, they will always have moments when their hormones take over. Those who know, know.

Some people prefer the fiery passion of exotic cultures, while others prefer the dignified elegance of traditional styles. Everyone has their own preferences, and the Sherman family, as one of the few families that still possesses the legal right to operate a particular industry, can satisfy the diverse needs of these gentlemen with a chivalrous spirit to the greatest extent possible. Whether it's riding or being ridden, it's all fine.

Coincidentally, many ambitious girls in the pleasure house harbored a vague longing and yearning for the capital city in the far north, so everything naturally fell into place.

In order to protect the reputation of that lord in the House of Lords, the deal had to be done quietly, as if it had never happened.

Such an important matter could only be entrusted to her most trusted confidant, Mr. Jonathan, whom we know well.

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The train, filled with carriages of young and beautiful girls, departed from Innsmouth Station for the Royal City.

That evening, the train would stop in the suburbs, about twenty miles from the capital, where the Lord of the Upper House would arrive by car to wait for him.

Yes, this banquet will not take place within the capital city, but will be held directly on a train in the suburbs.

The carriage had been decorated in advance to match the status and position of the senator, including everything needed for the banquet: red wine, dishes, and beautiful women.

That gentleman will bring his friends here to drink to their hearts' content for several days, the duration depending on their health.

Jonathan had done similar tasks countless times before. It was all very familiar to him. All he needed to do was send the right people to the right places, then fade out of the big shots' sight and do his security work from a distance where they wouldn't find him an eyesore. That was all.

If one of those girls manages to win the senator's favor and be chosen to stay by his side long-term, then the deal will be a success for the Sherman family.

……

After nightfall, the train stopped on the outskirts of the city.

Several cars have been waiting here for a long time.

Jonathan quickly issued security orders based on the terrain, and then watched the adults board the train.

There was no verbal exchange between the two sides. The councilors were all seasoned veterans and knew exactly what to do.

Some of the middle-aged men had even taken special drugs that made them feel alive again before getting on the bus.

Music, fine wine, beautiful women—everything had been waiting in the carriage for a long time. Even through the sheer curtains of the windows, one could see the graceful bodies dancing...

……

The moonlight is hazy.

The sounds of singing and dancing could be faintly heard from the railway.

Jonathan and his entourage patrolled the surrounding mountain streams to ensure that no unrelated individuals disturbed the banquet in the back.

The surrounding jungle was peaceful and serene. Compared to Nanwei City, the air here was drier, and there was hardly a cloud in the sky. The sky was clear and the air was crisp.

When the surrounding environment appears exceptionally peaceful and serene, something unexpected is bound to happen.

……

Jonathan only realized something was wrong the next day.

He was holding a hunting rifle and keeping watch on the nearby hillside when he suddenly saw a black and white domestic pig grazing on weeds at the foot of the hill.

Logically speaking, there shouldn't be any livestock in such a remote and desolate place far from the city.

Jonathan felt something was off...

When he returned to the train to check the situation, he witnessed an incredibly foul stench.

The door to that banquet carriage was now open, and several pigs were calmly munching on the mess on the ground.

As for the few lords from the House of Lords, they were already lying exhausted in the pile of pig manure left behind after the banquet.

The wine, the food, and the music are still there.

The only thing that's no longer visible are the young girls carefully selected from the pleasure house.

But it wasn't like that for the lawmakers. The special medication they took before boarding the train was clearly too strong, causing them to mistake a whole carriage full of domestic pigs for beautiful women from the south...

cough cough...

Moreover, the food of these "piggy girls" was mixed with a certain aphrodisiac drug specifically used on animals, which is the main reason why the senators were paralyzed and unconscious on the floor of the carriage.

It's hard to say whether what has unfolded over the past ten hours is a story of knights or a story of being knighted.

Most importantly, a line of large characters was written on the inner wall of the carriage full of pigs:
"With this humble gift, I thank you members of parliament for all your contributions to the country. —The Ripper"

……

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"The damn thing."

Staring at the line of text in the carriage, Jonathan's entire face turned bronze.

……

…Meanwhile, in the distant city of Nanwei.

A young man with gray hair squatted on the street, a cigarette dangling from his lips, a short baton used by the city guards tucked under his arm, a small notebook in one hand, and a pencil in the other, intently writing something down.

The notebook was filled with a large amount of messy, crooked handwriting—

"Hate is directly proportional to power. Those who unleash their hatred do not need to know my true identity to gain increased power—The Ripper."

"The increase in power is not permanent; as hatred diminishes, the power will also fade."

"The power amplification brought by different creatures: mysterious creatures are greater than humans, adults are greater than the elderly, children are greater than livestock..."

……

He muttered to himself as he watched the black smoke swirling around the hand holding the pen.

"Judging from the train's speed, everything that should have happened by now should have happened. Hmm, the power I've been waiting for has appeared."

He took a pen and wrote it down in his notebook—

"Distance ≠ Variable".

……

During this period of time, he has been constantly verifying and familiarizing himself with the rules of that dark crystal through many tedious and complicated methods.

He has basically tried every possible method.

From initially snatching lollipops from unruly children on the street, to later tearing down the flowers planted by an elderly person, and then to causing trouble for adults from different social classes.

He figured out a hierarchical concept.

In total, he slept with 13 prostitutes for free during this period and dumped 5 girlfriends. This repeated cycle proved that the hatred from adult women is the most powerful and enduring.

Of course, as a rigorous researcher, he set up a control group for the experiment.

The method involved cheating on six men through various means, and then finding out the truth about their wives' infidelity and the men they were cheating with.

As it turns out, even when faced with such humiliation, the level of hatred generated is still not as high as that from female friends.

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But as he intensified his efforts, he began to feel the danger, because if he could run into several enemies just by going out to buy a pack of cigarettes, he wouldn't be able to stay in this city any longer.

So there was this anonymous troublemaker, the Ripper.

He initially just tried it out, using the identity of the Ripper to cause varying degrees of damage to the gray industries of the aristocracy.

But the nobles did not know who the perpetrator was, so their negative emotions were directed at the Ripper.

In fact, it turns out that the power of hatred only needs to exist; the haters don't need to know who the Ripper is.

As a result, he became increasingly daring in his behavior.

Today, they even dare to take action against certain sneaky creatures of the night.

Because he believed he had tested the limits of the power of hatred that humans could unleash.

The vampires who happened to arrive in Nanwei City at this time were in big trouble.

This time, the power released by the bloodthirsty non-human creature brought him to the brink of losing control, and he felt an unprecedented power.

The shadows that surrounded him seemed to transform him into some kind of terrifying new being.

……

But even vampires will gradually lose their hatred, slowly returning to their normal state.

While feeling somewhat lost, he also longed to experience that power again.

Those wings beneath the darkness, everything within sight that could not be hidden...

……

The young man with gray hair squatted by the roadside and began a series of soliloquies, constantly contradicting himself and pondering.

...

"So, how can hatred be made to last forever?"

"If the object of the choice is not the problem, then the problem may lie in the method."

"It shouldn't stop at causing destruction, right? A tattoo on the face is just an insult; the real, indelible hatred is a blood feud..."

"Wait, wait, am I supposed to go and kill someone? No, no, absolutely not..."

"Shh... Calm down, what am I thinking? If killing someone isn't an option, then killing a dog shouldn't be a problem, right? Killing a dog that its owner loves deeply, its owner should hate me for a long time, right?"

"Wait a minute, didn't we try this method before? The dogs in Glenn are terrifying. We really shouldn't do experiments there; I almost lost my life there."

"Huh? What if it's the other way around?"

"like……"

"If I didn't kill the dog, but instead killed its owner, the dog would hate me even more purely and firmly, right?"

"Yeah, and I don't even need to worry about retaliation. What kind of trouble can a dog cause? I can even keep it and constantly remind myself that I killed its owner, keeping that hatred alive. That way, my power can be maintained indefinitely, hehehe..."

"Wait a minute, how did we get back to murder? Ugh, I'm out of my mind, really."

"Think again, think again, a clever mind can surely come up with a perfect solution."

"..."

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(End of this chapter)