Enforcer's Handbook

The law enforcement department in District 17 has accumulated a large amount of information about the Red Lotus Gang, much of which was compiled during the previous director's tenure. It is not difficult to see that this gang has always been the focus of the former director.

A group of gang members who have undergone advanced prosthetic transplants. More than 70% of the gang members can no longer look human.

Even Chai Ke was not willing to deal easily with this group of potential cyber lunatics before.

But the strange thing is that everyone thinks that the Red Lotus Gang is the gathering point of a group of cyber lunatics, but the few cyber lunatic attacks in District 17 have nothing to do with them. For some unknown reason, these people He modifies his body unscrupulously, but never seems to be affected by cyberpsychosis.

And compared with the notorious Chai Ke Group, the Red Lotus Gang rarely engages in murder and robbery. If they are forced to be convicted, they can only illegally smuggle military-grade prosthetics.

"How about, how about letting Lao Sa and the others sneak into the Honglian Gang to take a look?"

Lu Xiang asked.

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

In District 17, no one has ever seriously evaluated the degree of prosthetic transplantation for the people of the Red Lotus Gang.

Only Lao Sa and the Shadow Guard probably meet the recruitment standards of the Red Lotus Gang.

"No need, I suggest arresting people directly."

They currently know nothing about this mechanical plague, but judging from the experience in the first area, if this plague is caused by the mother whose authority is higher than that of the "King", then rashly letting Lao Sa sneak in The Red Lotus Gang could only put them in danger.

Their understanding of prosthetics is not even as good as the people of the Red Lotus Gang.

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

However, the arrest went surprisingly smoothly.

When Captain Doug led his men into the premises of the Red Lotus Gang, the people of the Red Lotus Gang hardly put up any resistance.

Their stronghold was an abandoned car modification factory, and the armaments they found inside were shocking. In addition to a large number of abandoned military-grade prosthetics, they also found a large number of laser trip mines, automatic turrets, and even a Old school military grade exoskeleton armor.

If the people of the Red Lotus Gang use these weapons, they may trigger a small-scale war in District 17 at any time.

The main target of this operation is called Krieger Ender, and everyone in the gang calls him "The Prophet".

According to the information investigated by the Internet surveillance department, Krieger almost never goes out and stays on his own property every day. His face has been modified beyond recognition. Under the cracked skin is a dark metal frame. In the center is a rotating 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 an old robot from more than ten years ago. Today’s robots are almost the same as humans in appearance.

Lu Xiang personally conducted the interrogation work.

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

Krieger's glowing red prosthetic eye looked at Lu Xiang. His behavior was much calmer than rumored. He sat calmly in the interrogation room and seemed not at all anxious about his situation.

"Smuggling military-grade prosthetics."

There was a thick pile of information piled up in front of Lu Xiang, which contained evidence that the Red Lotus Gang had smuggled military-grade prosthetics in recent years. This evidence was enough to keep him in a suburban prison for the rest of his life.

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

Krieger believed that Lu Xiang must know the secret to this.

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

The adaptability to the human body determines that prosthetic bodies are destined not to become goods that circulate at high prices on the black market.

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

"You know what I want to ask?"

"My boys told me that three people died in the alley near the Plaza Theater yesterday, and their hearts were ripped out. What's more important is that they have been on our territory."

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

"As you think, they wanted to join us and said some unintelligible things... Of course I rejected them." Krieger shook his head, "Because they have no faith."

He saw through the hearts of the three of them when he first met them. "They were just looking for status and status, hoping that someone would protect them when they made trouble outside."

"Aren't you?"

What Krieger said was the thoughts of almost all the gang members in District 17. Before this, she had never heard any gang member talk about their faith in front of her.

But any case becomes extremely complicated once it involves issues of faith.

She would have preferred a serial murder to have occurred near the Plaza Theater rather than a religious dispute.

"We believe in the path forward shown by the God of Machinery."

Even though Krieger's voice has been completely replaced by mechanical synthesis, Lu Xiang still heard incomparable piety from it, "We believe that doing this can bring us happiness. Only people who have the same belief as us can Only then can we become our companions.”

"With all due respect, your pursuit of happiness means transforming yourself into a machine?"

"This is the path to happiness, the process of opening your heart to the God of Machinery. 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 seemed happy to share his belief in the God of Machinery, and Lu Xiang had no doubt that he would continue to talk like this if he wasn't stopped.

But they didn't bring Krieger here to listen to his sermons. At this moment, a similar case is probably happening somewhere in District 17.

Therefore, 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 know nothing about the identity of the killer, but the war between faiths never stops, and maybe they will find us soon."

…

This is the difficulty in communicating with clergy.

Although they have different beliefs, the way Krieger and Father Bruno speak seems to be printed from the same mold. You will never get a direct and clear answer from them.

Just like after this interrogation lasted for nearly forty minutes, Lu Xiang got the potentially useful term "Mechanicus".

"According to my understanding, the Red Lotus Gang is just one of the branches of the Mechanicus. There are similar organizations 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 obtained, "One of their teachings is to throw away the weak flesh and blood body and return to the embrace of machinery... This concept is the same as the slogan of many military technologies. It’s the same, and ‘Desolate Bones’ is the product of this concept.”

She gradually realized that although those in the coalition government who had a fanatical pursuit of prosthetic bodies did not claim to be followers of the Mechanicus, they had actually been pursuing the teachings of the Mechanicus, and people performed justice on themselves. The trend of body transformation has become more and more obvious.

At first it was only used on frontline battlefields, but now even daily life and work require prosthetic implants.

If an indicator was set for the degree of transformation of non-military-grade prosthetics, then the degree of transformation of those workers in the first area would reach a rather astonishing number.

"As for the war that Krieger mentioned..."

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

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

Song Lan must clarify this point again. He is not anyone's "father god" and does not like this identity. But on the other hand, he has to agree with Lu Xiang's view.

This case can actually be simply summed up as a murder between different sects.

"Whether you acknowledge them or not, they are faithfully doing their job of eradicating another sect."

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

"How to stop it?"

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

Lu Xiang thought thoughtfully. According to δ's dictation, those unknown beings once communicated with them in a "whispering" way. This may be another ability that Song Lan has become unfamiliar with after being put aside for a long time. "You Can you try to contact them by 'whispering'?"

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

It came out around the same time as "The Children."

Thousands of miles away, he witnessed everything that happened in Silver Moon Harbor through the eyes of a "child", and he did teach the orphans in Silver Moon Harbor his experience in making fish bone porridge through practical actions...

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

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

Lu Xiang was already prepared to go to the garbage dump.

Because not long ago, Dr. Bai Zhu found out some history about the Mechanicus.

It has existed much longer than she imagined - in 2023, it was the world before the outbreak of the Third War. A group of people who longed for eternal life gathered together, giving birth to the prototype of the Mechanicus.

Coincidentally, Emmanuel Theater Company is also a product of almost the same period.

Not long after the two were formed, the world ushered in an unprecedented war. With the destruction of the old network, those records about the Mechanicum and the Emmanuel Troupe disappeared completely.

It was not until a century later that these believers appeared again in people's sight.

No.

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

As the coalition's rule wanes, she once again smells the smoke in the air.

Everything seems to have returned to that turbulent and chaotic era.

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