Old classmates met again, only for it to turn into a criminal case.
Though it was rather strange, considering that Lu Mouren was involved, it somehow seemed perfectly normal.
After this happened, Lu PingAn had no interest in taking the cat for a walk. Cat Cat, on the other hand, remained as carefree as ever, completely unaffected.
In the end, the cat took him for a walk instead. They made a full round of the night market eating their way through it, and his mood improved considerably. Like Cat Cat, food meant little to Lu Mouren now—it was purely a pleasure for the tongue.
And if one did not need to consider the consequences, binge eating truly was an excellent way to relieve stress.
"...I see. All right, I understand."
After hanging up, Lu PingAn received a follow-up notification from the police station.
The investigation had gone smoothly. Just as that woman had been practically transparent before Lu PingAn, this world had many methods of solving cases. Once a criminal's identity was confirmed, any secret could be dug up.
She was a Bronze Member of the Demonic Monster Resistance Organization. It sounded like a perfectly normal name, but if "demons and monsters" referred to all transcendent beings and Outland Visitors, then the nature of this organization became rather questionable.
It was an extremist organization through and through. Yet to fight the demons and monsters in their eyes, technology alone was not enough. Those "demons and monsters" utterly surpassed ordinary people of the old era on the technological tree.
Only the transcendent could truly oppose the transcendent. Some existences had quite happily fulfilled that need.
"Poisons and daggers that can kill Professionals... Those people actually think they're technological products?"
"I bet they know, meow. They're just pretending they don't, meow!"
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