"Director, we currently have several tasks. City Hall has asked us to cooperate with publicity efforts, roughly... We also need to arrange dedicated staff to be on duty, answer emergency calls promptly, and then... transfer them to the Public Security Bureau."
After listening to his subordinate's report, Bax was dumbfounded.
He knew the situation at the grassroots level was bad, but he had never imagined it was this bad.
In the entire city, only the Municipal Bureau had a mobile Evolutionary combat unit with any fighting power. It was the absolute force for cracking down on Mutated.
However, this unit had long been stationed in the officials' residential compound. Whenever anything unexpected happened—including but not limited to Mutated, public fights, serious crimes, and the like—they would be dispatched immediately to ensure social stability. At the very least, they could not let the officials with the power to rant at City Hall fly into a rage.
As for Mutated incidents elsewhere, all of them were handed over to the Public Security Bureau. Don't ask... the answer was always insufficient manpower.
Although the provisional regulations granted the Management Bureau the authority to respond to incidents and even provided it with a fully stocked armory, those had never been used.
Bax suppressed the urge to complain and asked, "How are Evolutionaries discovered in the district handled? What about the district's Combat Squads?"
"Whenever an Evolutionary is discovered, the Municipal Bureau usually comes directly to handle it. I heard those with strong abilities all went to the major cities, while the rest stayed with the Municipal Bureau.
"As for our bureau's Combat Squads... we can't even scrape together enough people!"
According to the roster, the District Bureau's Combat Squads should have had five members per team, for a total of six teams. Yet the