Shifting Winds in the Old District

Beep—woo—

Beep—woo—

Security Bureau Police Cars with sirens blaring sped toward the Old District.

The traffic cones and handcarts blocking the streets were all sent flying without mercy.

The once-arrogant gang members hid like rats in the sewers, terrified.

They peeked out from the windows of abandoned buildings, their hearts pounding.

"Has the Security Bureau gone mad?"

"Do they plan to level the Old District?"

But soon enough,

they became certain that was impossible.

"At least two or three hundred thousand people live in the Old District."

"The Security Bureau alone could never handle the Old District if it truly descended into chaos."

Unless

Taiyu City's City Government had lost its mind.

Unless it disregarded civilian casualties and sent powerful martial artists to crush everything in their path.

But

that would never happen.

Otherwise,

the Betelgeuse United Council would certainly send people to investigate such an extermination-level incident.

By then,

even the City Government's higher-ups would not be able to withstand the pressure of accountability.

That was why this place, which bred violence and crime, had been able to exist for so long.

In the end,

there was simply no way to eradicate this kind of chaos completely.

Violence could suppress it for a while, but never forever.

Watching the fully armed convoy of Police Cars head toward the central district,

some people quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thank goodness, thank goodness."

"There aren't any Operations Division Troop Carriers."

"It should just be Security Bureau Peace Officers coming in."

However,

what exactly did these Peace Officers intend to do?

On their own,

they could not change the Old District's state of disorder.

"Why are we here?"

The Police Cars heavily surrounded the Blood Blade Gang Stronghold, forming a makeshift defensive line with great fanfare.

Yet

when the fully armed Peace Officers got out of the vehicles,

they stared blankly at the gang members lying all over the ground.

"Who am I?"

"Why am I here?"

The quickest to recover was a veteran Phase Two Peace Officer. He clapped his hands to snap everyone back to their senses.

"Move!"

"Get every last one of them into the vehicles."

Looking at the mess all over the ground, he laughed bitterly to himself.

"This time..."

"Everyone at the bureau is going to be worked to death."

No one had ever seen the bureau gain three hundred suspects at once in such a spectacular fashion.

He walked over to a window in the rundown building.

The tall Xu Laosan was slumped on the floor, his hands bound in electronic cuffs.

He looked utterly miserable, his smooth scalp covered in dust.

His breathing was incredibly weak.

He did not look at all like a martial artist with 21 points of Life Development Power.

Xu Laosan was considered a "regular customer" of the Taiyu City Security Bureau.

But this was the first time he had ever looked so pathetic.

Seeing someone approach, Xu Laosan struggled to raise his head, his voice frail.

"C-crazy!"

"Has your Security Bureau gone mad?"

The veteran Peace Officer approaching him immediately darkened.

Smack!

A slap landed across his face.

"Xu Laosan."

"Do you really think you're some local emperor?"

Looking down at Xu Laosan's stunned face, he said,

"Did you think..."

"you would ever come back here?"

Ridiculous.

As a veteran Phase Two Peace Officer, his Life Development Power was as high as fifty points.

Xu Laosan was nothing but trash to him.

Still,

he was extremely curious about the colleague who had subdued so many people alone and beaten Xu Laosan into this state.

"Brother Shen."

A Peace Officer walked over. After glancing at Xu Laosan, he said,

"We asked around."

"The one who acted was a very young Peace Officer."

"And..."

At that point,

his voice paused slightly. The Peace Officer who had learned the details could not help revealing a look of shock.

"With one kick and one punch, he took down Xu Laosan."

"And he defeated more than three hundred of them head-on by himself!"

Gasp!

The other Peace Officers gathered nearby all sucked in sharp breaths!

"How is that possible?"

"Since when did our Security Bureau have such a beast?"

The most troublesome thing about dealing with these gangs was their overwhelming numbers.

Even the veteran Phase Two Peace Officer here, whose Life Development Power was the highest,

under normal circumstances,

would not rashly poke this "hornet's nest."

Otherwise,

even if he could fight his way out, he would still be overwhelmed.

But clearly,

the Peace Officer who had barged in earlier had used methods so terrifying that they had frightened the gang members out of their wits!

They had not even dared to think of surrounding and attacking him.

"Decisive and fierce."

"His attacks were also absurdly efficient."

"Other than Xu Laosan, everyone here was taken down with a single punch or kick."

"And because of that,"

"the others got scared and all ran away."

Very quickly,

the Peace Officers roughly pieced together what had happened.

Yet the closer they came to the truth, the more unbelievable it felt.

"Right."

"Where's that monster?"

After loading every suspect into the vehicles, someone suddenly asked in confusion.

"He called us over here."

"So where is he now?"

So many Peace Officers had aggressively charged into the Old District and stormed the Blood Blade Gang Stronghold.

Yet they had merely come to clean up the aftermath.

Everyone felt strangely uneasy about it.

The veteran Phase Two Peace Officer took a deep breath and looked into the distance.

"I think I know."

"Where he is."

Then,

a bitter smile appeared on his face.

"Hurry up and escort these people back to the bureau in batches."

"I'm guessing it won't be long before we have to make another trip."

Huh?

Hearing that,

the surrounding Peace Officers looked at one another, all wearing stunned expressions.

"What?!"

"Could it be..."

"He's at the Azure Dragon Society right now?"

The Blood Blade Gang's leader and over three hundred core members had already been taken down.

Combined with the implication in the veteran Peace Officer's words,

they understood what he meant after only a moment's thought.

"I heard the bureau opened cases involving the Old District."

"This monster's method of solving cases is really this simple and violent?"

He did not care about any other consequences at all.

He simply used the most direct and straightforward method to arrest every suspect in the case?

"This time..."

"Forget about taking any days off this month."

"Get ready to pull all-nighters every day."

For a moment,

the Peace Officers who had stormed into the Old District so impressively all wore miserable expressions.

The Azure Dragon Society's headquarters was a nightclub.

This once bustling, lavish venue had declined long ago.

Now,

it had been occupied by the Azure Dragon Society for a long time.

"President."

"All those Peace Officers went to the Blood Blade Gang Stronghold!"

A young man with dyed yellow hair and earrings shouted excitedly into a microphone.

"Xu Laosan and his men are in trouble!"

"We can use this chance to swallow all their territory!"

"When that happens,"

"our Azure Dragon Society will become the biggest gang to rule the entire Old District!"

Smack!

The moment he finished speaking.

A glass bottle smashed over the young man's head, cheap liquor mixing with blood as it ran down his stunned face.

"Idiot."

"Use your pig brain."

"If the Blood Blade Gang goes down, we won't fare much better!"

The Azure Dragon Society chairman had barely finished speaking in his sinister voice.

Boom!

A thunderous crash came from the entrance!

"Ge Qingwang, you're under arrest."