Law Enforcer's Handbook

Chapter 764 Mechanic God 2023
The Law Enforcement Department of the [-]th District hoarded a lot of information about the Red Lotus Gang, many of which were sorted out during the previous supervisor's tenure. It is not difficult to see that this gang has always been the focus of the former supervisor.

A group of gang members who have been transplanted with highly advanced prosthetic bodies, more than [-]% of them can no longer see the human form.

Before that, even Chai Ke was unwilling to easily deal with this group of potential cyber lunatics.

But the strange thing is that everyone thinks that the Red Lotus Gang is a gathering point for a group of cyber lunatics, but the few attacks by cyber lunatics in District [-] have nothing to do with them. For some reason, these people Unscrupulously transforming his body, but never seems to be affected by cyber mental illness.

Moreover, compared with the notorious Chai Ke Group, the Red Lotus Gang seldom engage in murder and robbery. If they are forced to convict them, they can only illegally smuggle military-grade prosthetic bodies.

"How about it, do you want Lao Sa and the others to sneak into the Red Lotus Gang first?"

Lu Xiang asked.

She and Song Lan are definitely dead. If they want to break into the organization, the degree of prosthetic body transplantation must not be lower than 20%.

In the Seventeenth District, no one has ever seriously evaluated the degree of prosthetic body transplantation for members of the Red Lotus Gang.

Only Lao Sa and the Shadow Guard may meet the recruitment criteria of the Red Lotus Gang.

"No, I suggest arresting people directly."

They don't know anything about this mechanical plague at present, but from the experience of the first district, if this plague is brought by the mother whose authority is above the "king", then rashly let Lao Sa sneak in The Red Lotus Gang can only put them in danger.

Their understanding of prosthetic bodies is not even as good as that of the Red Lotus Gang.

Lu Xiang listened to Song Lan's suggestion, and mobilized all the special operations teams and dispatched all the armored hover vehicles that afternoon. In order to ensure the safety of the operation, Song Lan also hid in the dark as a warlord.

However, the arrest was unexpectedly smooth.

When Captain Doug led his men into the site of the Red Lotus Gang, the members of the Red Lotus Gang hardly resisted.

Their stronghold is an abandoned car modification factory, and the armaments found in it are shocking. In addition to a large number of abandoned military-grade prosthetic bodies, they also found a large number of laser trip mines, automatic turrets, and even a Old fashioned military grade exoskeleton armor.

If the members of the Red Lotus Gang use these munitions, they may trigger a small-scale war in District [-] at any time.

The main target of this operation was Krieger Ender, who was called "The Prophet" by the gang.

According to the information investigated by the Internet monitoring department, Krieger hardly ever goes out and stays on his own site every day. His face has been modified beyond recognition. Under the cracked skin is a dark metal frame. In the center is a spinning prosthetic eye.

Song Lan felt that anyone who met Krieger would treat him as a robot rather than a human being.

And it's still the kind of old robot more than ten years ago. Today's robots are almost indistinguishable from humans in appearance.

Lu Xiang personally conducted the interrogation work.

"Director Lu, what charges are you planning to arrest me this time?"

Krieger looked at Lu Xiang with his prosthetic eye glowing red. His expression was much calmer than the rumors. He sat calmly in the interrogation room, as if not worried about his situation at all.

"Smuggling military-grade prosthetics."

In front of Lu Xiang was a thick stack of materials, which contained evidence of the Red Lotus Gang's smuggling of military-grade prosthetic bodies in recent years. These evidences were enough for him to spend the rest of his life in a prison in the outer suburbs.

"I admit it, but our behavior is more like recycling, we only take what they don't want."

Krieger believes that Lu Xiang must know the way.

Even military-grade prosthetic bodies are only expensive when they are sold for the first time. As for the parts removed from corpses, most of them will be discarded as garbage.

The adaptability to the human body determines that the prosthetic body is doomed not to become a high-priced commodity on the black market.

After a pause, Krieger continued, "You can send me to prison for this, but then you are doomed not to get the answer you want."

"Do you know what I want to ask?"

"My boys told me that three people died in the alley near the Plaza Theater yesterday, their hearts were gouged out, and more importantly, they had come to our site."

"Let's start with them going to your territory."

"Just like you think, they want to join us and say something that doesn't make sense... Of course I rejected them." Krieger shook his head, "Because they have no faith."

When he saw the three of them for the first time, he saw through their hearts, "They are just for status and status, hoping that someone will cover them when they are making trouble outside."

"Aren't you?"

What Krieger said was the thoughts of almost all the gangsters in District [-]. Before that, she had never heard any gangster talk about her faith in front of her.

But any case, once the issue of belief is involved, will become extremely complicated.

She'd rather have a serial murder near the Plaza than a dispute of faith.

"We believe in the way forward that the Mechanic God has shown us."

Even though Krieger's voice has been completely replaced by mechanically synthesized voices, Lu Xiang can still hear the incomparable piety, "We believe that doing this will bring us happiness, only people who share the same beliefs as us, to be our companions.”

"With all due respect, your path to happiness refers to transforming yourself into a machine?"

"This is the way to happiness, and it is the process of opening our hearts to the God of Mechanics. In the end, all of our minds will be connected together, knowing each other's true inner thoughts, and there will be no more misunderstandings and suspicions..."

Krieger seems happy to share his belief in the God of Mechanics, and Lu Xiang has no doubt that if he doesn't stop him, he will keep talking like this.

But they hadn't brought Krieger here to hear his sermons, and something similar was probably going on somewhere in the [-]th arrondissement right now.

So Lu Xiang had to interrupt Krieger, "Let's go back to the case itself, I want to hear your opinion on the death of those three people."

"We don't know anything about the identity of the murderer, but the war between faiths has never stopped, maybe they will find us soon."

……

This is the difficulty of communicating with the clergy.

Although they have different beliefs, the way Krieger and Father Bruno speak is like a mirror image, and you can never get a straightforward answer from them.

It's like after the interrogation lasted for nearly four or ten minutes, Lu Xiang got the potentially useful term "Mechanic God".

"According to my understanding, the Red Lotus Gang is just one of the branches of the "Mechanic God". Similar organizations exist in various cities of the coalition government."

Lu Xiang leaned on the sofa in the small conference room, and told Song Lan the information he had received, "One of their teachings is to throw away the weak flesh and blood and return to the embrace of machinery... This concept and many slogans for military technology It's the same, "Desolate Bone" is the product formed under this concept."

She gradually realized that although those in the coalition government who had a fanatical pursuit of prosthetic bodies did not advertise themselves as followers of the Mechanicus, they had in fact been practicing the teachings of the Mechanicus, and people carried out righteousness on themselves. The trend of body transformation has become more and more obvious.

At first, it was only used on the frontline battlefield, and now even daily life and work need to be implanted with prosthetic body.

If an indicator is set for the degree of modification of non-military prosthetic bodies, then the degree of modification of those workers in the first district will reach a rather alarming number.

"As for the war Krieger mentioned..."

Lu Xiang suddenly raised her head and stared at Song Lan. She had a reasonable doubt, "Your 'children' have been fighting against the Mechanicus."

"First of all, I don't have children, that's what they screamed about."

Song Lan had to clarify this point again, he was not anyone's "Godfather" and he didn't like this identity, but on the other hand, he had to agree with Lu Xiang's opinion.

This case can actually be simply summed up as the killing of each other between different sects.

"Whether you admit them or not, they are faithfully completing the work of destroying another sect."

Lu Xiang always felt that he seemed to be getting closer to the truth of the world, "Maybe you can easily stop them."

"How to stop it?"

"Maybe... hold an emergency meeting to educate them that in a society ruled by law, killing people is a crime?"

Lu Xiang was thoughtful. According to δ's dictation, those unknown beings used to communicate with them in the way of "whispering". This may be another ability for Song Lan that has become unfamiliar due to long-term shelving. "You Can you try to reach them by 'whispering'?"

If you look at Song Lan's recent weird dream from another angle, you will find that it may not be accidental.

It appeared almost at the same time as "The Children".

Let him be thousands of miles away, and witness everything that happened in Silvermoon Port through the eyes of "children", and he did teach the orphans in Silvermoon Port his experience in making fishbone porridge through practical actions...

Of course, for those believers who believed in the spiritual path, Song Lan might not be the god they expected.

"As for the Mechanicus, leave it to me to investigate. Medell and the others may know some secrets about Mechanicus."

Lu Xiang is ready to go to the garbage dump.

Because not long ago, Dr. Baizhu found some history about Mechanicus.

It existed much longer than she imagined—in 2023, that was the world before the outbreak of the third war, a group of people who longed for immortality gathered together and gave birth to the prototype of Mechanicus.

Coincidentally, the Lingguang Theater Company was also a product of almost the same period.

Not long after the formation of the two, the world ushered in an unprecedented war. With the destruction of the old network, those records about the Mechanicus and the Aura Troupe disappeared completely.

Until a century later, these believers appeared in people's sight again.

No.

In addition to them, there are also aggregates of flesh and blood that come from nowhere.

The coalition government's rule was declining day by day, and she once again smelled the smoke of gunpowder in the air.

Everything seems to have returned to that turbulent era.

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