"Ignorance" was bliss.
The next day, Shencheng News made a token mention of the drainage problems that had plagued the city during recent rainy seasons. To prevent the streets from turning into an "urban seaside" again, the Municipal Government planned to inspect and clean the city's sewers, laying the groundwork for a permanent solution.
Similar cleaning vehicles could be seen moving through many parts of Shencheng. Great care was taken to avoid disturbing public life, with portable barriers set up wherever workers had to enter the sewers.
The inspections were progressing reasonably well, and the results so far were encouraging. Not only were there no giant rats, but there were also very few ordinary rats in the sewers. In some places, heaps of dead rats were a common sight.
If conditions continued to improve over the coming week, the alert level for this mutation incident could be lowered.
Compared with the orderly sewer cleanup, Cui Ying and the others were having a far less pleasant time.
Everyone from The Oriole's Pursuit was now gathered at Shencheng Public Security Headquarters.
After discovering the rat infestation, they had chosen to call the police immediately rather than report it in the news. At least they had not lost their heads.
As the people who had called it in, they had been brought to the Public Security Bureau for "protection." At first, they had been confused and resistant. Even if a rat had mutated after consuming too many chemicals, surely that did not warrant putting them under house arrest?
Once they had time to think it over, though, the more they considered it, the more complicated it seemed.
It also indirectly confirmed their earlier suspicions: the government definitely knew something.
Perhaps that rat was not even an isolated mutation. The thought alone sent