Most people who could join the Public Security Bureau had co into contact with the Law, and many of them were victims of non-Law-related incidents.
Take the sister of the pair of siblings behind him, for example.
Anlina.
Due to an accident, she had unexpectedly acquired the Law Mark of "Thug."
This was a Law Mark belonging to the Law of [Corruption].
It was basically a Law Mark that the Public Security Bureau explicitly forbade inscribing.
Law Marks were not without tendencies. On the contrary, every Law had six Law Marks, and each Law Mark necessarily belonged to a specific Law.
A Law Mark had a huge influence on a person, especially their first Law Mark.
It was like teaching a baby who hadn't yet ford their worldview. If you wanted to reverse it later, the effort required would be hundreds or thousands of tis greater, or even ten or nine tis greater.
The Public Security Bureau had machines specifically designed to asure Law tendencies.
According to convention, a person's Law tendency was either their first Law Mark or the Law with the highest number of Law Marks they possessed.
Not everyone could be like their Chief, whose first Law Mark was "Thug" under the Law of [Corruption], and then take the path of [Restraint] while bearing two Corruption Law Marks and one "Savage."
Although the Chief was usually unreliable, the subordinates respected him as Chief.
Even though he smoked, drank, had a bad temper, never handled affairs, and always dumped all the big and small matters onto him, the Deputy Chief, making him worry about the entire bureau without having the Chief's title...
Thinking about this, Calvin's face suddenly turned expressionless.
This old relic from the old era should just retire already.
Did he not know that occupying a shitter without shitting was immoral?
I really did secretly report you to my superiors!
Shoving those unnecessary thoughts out of his mind, Calvin cald himself through ditation.
Just maintaining the extraordinary item in his hand had already caused his mind to wander off track multiple tis.
That was the price of using a superior's extraordinary item.
Just then, the pair of siblings had already circled around from the side as instructed, heading toward the strange tree.
Suddenly, one eye opened.
Then a second, a third, a fourth.
The tree sprouted eyes one after another, so wide open, others half-lidded, facing in all directions.
The next mont, the pupils of these eyes suddenly shifted, all turning to face the sibling pair at the sa ti.
This sight made both of them freeze in their tracks. The sister, Anlina, imdiately stepped back half a pace and raised both hands, ready to deal with a sudden attack.
Although she was handcuffed, it was clear that the handcuffs were never ant to restrict her personal freedom.
As she stepped back, the chain of the handcuffs lengthened, not hindering her movents at all.
Anlina's eyes suddenly beca deep and pitch-black. She clenched her hands into fists, the muscles bulging in ridges, veins popping out. A malevolence radiated from her that could strike deep terror into ordinary people.
Soon, veins bulged all over her body. The most obvious was her face—what had been a decent-looking visage suddenly beca covered in bulging veins and blood vessels. Combined with her expression, it was as if she had instantly put on a ferocious, ghost-like mask.
But the next mont, the handcuffs suddenly beca heavy, forcing the malevolence that surrounded her to be imprisoned within her own body.
Her violent emotions were quickly suppressed, and the sudden urges to indulge every desire that had popped into her mind gradually subsided.
However, only the malevolence was sealed away. The physical enhancent brought by her extraordinary ability was not suppressed.
Her brother Wood, who was handcuffed to her, didn't make such a big commotion. He just silently drew a pistol from his underarm holster.
As the handcuffs grew heavy, sweat broke out on Wood's forehead.
His stamina was being drained rapidly.
This was precisely the extraordinary effect of this Law Object.
A very simple "give and take."
Use one side's stamina to suppress the other side's malevolence.
For this reason, Wood had even gone so far as to beco a "Savage," just to make his stamina a bit better.
The strange tree opened its eyes one after another, silently staring at the two public security officers before it.
Samuel's consciousness descended upon this tree, which had been ford from his avatar.
He had already left so contingency here; the mont anyone approached, he would imdiately sense it.
The range was wide, covering this entire area.
Therefore, Samuel had heard everything the public security officers had just discussed.
Including how they planned to divvy up the rits.
Although he could tell that the leading squad leader and the sunglasses guy behind him were intentionally passing the rits to the sibling pair...
But...
Was I also part of your roleplay?!
This made Samuel feel like he wasn't getting the respect he deserved.
I'm an anomaly, okay? I'm a strange big tree covered in organs.
Am I a dangerous anomaly or not? Am I even an anomaly at all?
Can I get so respect as an anomaly that looks like it could "kill without blinking"?
Even though I haven't done anything, this look of mine would at least be a mini-boss in a horror movie, alright?
I'm the kind of big boss who would make at least five or six cannon-fodder side characters die, one or two important side characters sacrifice themselves, the protagonist shed a tear or two, and then only be defeated after shouting about love, friendship, and bonds, okay?
Even though I haven't done anything, aren't you guys being a bit too casual?
An extraordinary incident just ends like this? Does that even make sense?
Of course, it doesn't make sense.
So Samuel, who had originally planned to play dead, chose to open a dozen or so eyes to scare the two officers walking toward him.
But unfortunately, the expected jump-scare scene didn't happen.
Although the two officers were on high alert, they didn't make any further moves.
That was boring.
Samuel, who had already planned to sneak into the Public Security Bureau as a containnt object, had no intention of picking a fight with them.
So, with nothing fun to watch, he silently stared at the two people before him, not moving a muscle, occasionally blinking one of his random eyes.
And so, the two sides remained in a stalemate, neither making a move.
Calvin lowered his gaze, glanced at the chess piece in his hand, and didn't notice his spirituality being consud faster, so he had no intention of intervening.
The divination result was that this operation was without danger, so he wasn't worried.
After waiting for a while, seeing that this strange tree only opened its eyes and didn't do anything else, the handcuffed siblings chose to continue forward.
However, they deliberately avoided the eyes that Samuel had grown.
After all, judging by appearances, this tree's ability was likely related to its eyes, which easily brought illusions and Illusion Magic to mind. And this kind of ability was often "cast through eye contact" in various folk novels.
Soon, the two arrived in front of the tree.
Without a word, the sister took a red object from her pocket and pressed it against the trunk of the strange tree before her.
Ah, sealed (dryly reads).
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