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After we returned, life settled back into its usual calm.
Chen Mu contacted the police. When they hurried back to the factory, it was already completely empty.
The policewoman even gave us a stern lecture, asking why we had not notified the police sooner about something so dangerous.
Chen Mu and I were speechless. In that situation, it had clearly been too late to notify the police. Who could have expected the walking corpses to run more than a hundred kilometers overnight to reach that godforsaken place?
Besides, Dragon Crone herself had been there. With so many walking corpses, the police would only have suffered needless casualties if they came.
This matter should have ended quickly, but in truth, it did not.
Aside from the paranormal aspects of the case, the police were even more concerned about the walking corpses smuggling drugs.
For this reason, the task force specially hired Chen Mu as an expert consultant.
The drug-running walking corpses were captured in less than three days, and the police seized over a hundred kilograms of heroin.
The only information released to the public concerned the drugs. As for the walking corpses, probably only Chen Mu and a handful of veteran officers at the police station knew the truth.
When that female walking corpse was discovered, she was extremely weak. An ordinary male officer had been able to subdue her.
Chen Mu told me that, according to his deductions, the walking corpses were controlled by Dragon Crone. As their master, Dragon Crone's own strength determined their abilities. The walking corpses caught now were clearly much weaker than they had been a few days earlier, undoubtedly proving that Dragon Crone herself had weakened.
In the end, Chen Mu reached a conclusion: Dragon Crone herself had been seriously injured,