Even if those bizarre bandits had stolen nothing, the police would still have to put out a warrant for their arrest.
One resident had died, another had been taken hostage, and both had vanished without a trace. They had even toyed with the police. They could not rest until they were caught.
Since all the surveillance footage was gone, the police could only learn what had happened inside the building from the residents at the scene.
The security guard told them that the victim had not been killed by the bandits, but bitten to death by his own dog. Then the victim had gotten back up and launched a frenzied attack on him.
While he was calling for help and resisting, one of the bandits—a man—had arrived and even saved him. But the guard had been too panicked. After seeing the man kick someone away and bite the dog to death, he had been unable to stop himself from shooting at him. He had missed, and the newcomer had knocked him unconscious as well.
One after another, the other residents on the first floor who had witnessed the "Mantis Shrimp rebellion" helped the police reconstruct what had happened.
The inexplicable riot by the Ingredients, along with the resurrection of the dead, left the police utterly baffled.
The bandits had not only refrained from killing anyone; in fact, they had saved the residents who had been attacked by mad dogs, mad chickens, mad fish, and mad shrimp.
"Wait a second... You're saying you're absolutely sure that person was dead, but then he got back up and bit you?" the officer asked suspiciously.
"I'm sure. His heart had stopped, there was a huge pool of blood on the floor, and his neck had been bitten through, with only the skin left," the