Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 216 Preparing for Battle
“I am the only remaining believer in Geraki. For ten years, I have spoken to the Lord about my grief countless times. Finally, the time was ripe. The supreme God, my Master, heard my call and answered me.”

"It will avenge the tribe, just like that meteorite that fell from the sky, and annihilate you."

"May you law enforcement officers be condemned to eternal damnation!"

Sansa's voice became incredibly high-pitched and shrill.

She unleashed the most vicious curses at the law enforcement officers, venting the hatred that had been building up in her heart for ten years.

……

Rebecca stormed into the upper floors of the orphanage with a cold expression, searching each room, but to no avail.

She was caught in a dilemma, because it was clear that the real culprit in the hanging corpse case was very close at hand, but on the other hand, there was definitely an even more serious crisis about to erupt, she just didn't know what it was.

Perhaps Rebecca should leave and go back to warn the people outside.

...

……

On the canal.

Milo was still staring intently at the water.

He and his group of seven had been floating on the river for almost half an hour.

During those half hour, nothing unusual happened except that the sky began to darken.

Actually, the change in weather isn't unusual, after all, this is Nanwei City.

The dark clouds completely covered the once bright sky, making it seem as if evening had arrived in an instant, even though it wasn't even lunchtime yet.

Milo looked up at the bloated, rolling clouds in the sky and muttered to himself:

"We're going to get soaked if nothing unexpected happens."

“No, it’s not us, it’s you,” Eric’s shadow gestured.

Milo shook his head helplessly.

Despite having wasted 30 minutes on the water with no results, his heartbeat never slowed down.

Milo knew that this was just the calm before the storm, and what was coming would come sooner or later.

……

Suddenly, Lao Luo's shadow jumped down from the cabin. He didn't know how to use sign language, so he pointed his sniper rifle at about 2 o'clock and kept making random gestures at Milo.

"What do you mean?"

Milo knew that the sniper must have discovered something.

However, the outdoor light was already very dim, and rain could fall at any moment. Milo squinted and couldn't see anything strange on the river ahead.

After exchanging a few words with Old Luo, Eric translated to Milo, "He said there's a strange ship over there."

"Go over and have a look."

Milo gestured to the shadows behind him, signaling Kane to steer the ship in that direction.

……

A dozen minutes later, Milo's small boat finally approached the location Lao Luo had indicated.

From several dozen meters away, Milo could see half of the boat's hull protruding from the water.

This is a cargo ship that is slowly sinking.

"It's not the same ship that went missing before."

Milo saw the numbered plating on the hull and confirmed that it did not belong to McMann Trading Company.

The ship in front of us was involved in an accident not long ago.

Strangely, the boat did not send out any distress signals, nor did it appear to have any signs of a collision. It simply floated alone in the middle of the river, with no survivors in sight.

This is very puzzling.

"Check it out."

Milo squinted.

Eric and Jones' shadows faded away, then reappeared on the overturned cargo ship.

They sneaked into the cabin and searched it.

A few minutes later, Eric's figure reappeared before Milo—"No crew, no damage to the hull, no signs of a struggle, nothing." "How strange?" Milo frowned.

“It might sound strange, but I have a feeling this isn’t an accident,” Eric added.

"Of course it wasn't an accident."

Milo looked back down the river.

"That thing in the river has started to make its move."

However, what Milo couldn't understand was why it didn't attack him, even though he had already delivered himself to its doorstep.

Eric gestured in sign language to emphasize, "You didn't understand me. The life jackets and lifeboats are all still at the bottom of the ship. There are no signs of a fight. The cargo ship's crew... seem to have willingly thrown themselves into the river. Do you understand what I mean?"

Milo stared at Eric's shadow, lost in thought.

Did he intentionally jump into the river?
Does that mean that the 20 or so people, including Hodley, disappeared in the same way before?
But why?

……

Boom! !
Wow…

As a blinding red lightning bolt streaked across the sky, huge raindrops began to fall as if they were free.

The deck of the small boat was being pounded and rattled.

Visibility on the canal instantly shrank to less than twenty meters, and the noise of the rain and the river water made Milo's eardrums hurt a little.

They stood on the deck, getting soaked in the rain, staring blankly at the cargo ship that was half submerged in water.

If those crew members chose to abandon ship voluntarily, why didn't they bring life jackets and lifeboats with them?

Milo couldn't understand it.

……

Suddenly, Milo felt someone pat him on the shoulder.

He turned his head and saw that it was sniper Lao Luo.

The other person pointed to the riverbank on the left, and then to the street on the opposite bank on the right.

Milo raised his hand to press down on the brim of his hat to shield his face from the raindrops hitting him, and squinted as he looked toward the shore.

What he saw was a horrifying scene.

Behind the gray curtain of rain, countless black figures stood on the riverside street.

They were all citizens of Nanwei City, wearing black cloaks resembling the shrouds used on the April 1st festival.

A few minutes earlier, before it started raining, Milo hadn't paid much attention to the figures of people coming and going on both sides of the river.

But now it's pouring rain.

The fact that the people on the shore weren't seeking shelter from the rain, but instead just standing there motionless, was rather odd...

...

The small boat bobbed up and down with the flow of the river, and was a dozen or twenty meters away from the riverbanks on both sides. From the center of the river, it was impossible to see the faces of the people.

Milo looked at the figures on the riverbank with a solemn expression.

He discovered that almost everyone along the riverside had stood by the river, their clothes soaked by the rain, yet they remained motionless, all facing the canal, showing no sign of communication with one another.

No, they didn't seem to be staring at the canal, but rather at the small boat Milo was in in the middle of the river.

An eerie atmosphere crept in.

At this moment, Milo's heart also began to beat faster.

...

"This wasn't part of the commemorative activities in previous years."

Milo murmured.

He now understood what Eric meant when he said those crew members "voluntarily jumped into the river."

Click.

"Prepare for battle, gentlemen."

(End of this chapter)