Chapter 266: Blood Ties with Shae

"How Murderous Psychopaths Truly Come to Be"

"Shocking News! The Serial Child Killer Lurking in Area 45!"

"Coward or Vicious Killer?"

"Entire Law Enforcement Process Breakdown From a Special Psychic Police Officer"

"The Purpose of Special Psychic Police Officers"

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Not long after Adam sent Shivani the edited footage, she uploaded it onto the internet.

Unsurprisingly, the footage immediately created a massive stir on the internet.

After the footage was uploaded by Shivani, many major media outlets quickly contacted her and made requests for partial broadcast rights. Shortly thereafter, snippets of the footage began to be reuploaded on the internet with all types of different headlines attached to them.

There were even some game companies who had contacted her to try and purchase the rights to the footage so that they could adapt it into a game. A village serial murderer case cracked by an adapter police officer was going to be a very good subject matter for a game, and given the well-known the case currently was, a game adaptation would undoubtedly sell like hotcakes.

The clout generated from this story quickly outstripped that of the story regarding the first case that Adam had investigated as a special psychic police officer, and it wasn't even close.

Compared with a case involving a supervisor in a medical company selling illegal drugs, the general public was naturally far more drawn to a case involving a serial killer, particularly when all of the victims were minors.

In the Metaverse, on the internet, in a whole host of chatrooms, and even in real life, everyone was discussing the case of the serial child killer from Area 45.

On this day, the Tor chatrooms were extremely peaceful.

There were no conflicts in opinion as no one dared to side with the killer, so no altercations arose.

Furthermore, the chatrooms had been a little too violent recently. There were people picking fights every day, and the pain from those fights was still fresh in the memories of those involved. Hence, even the most prolific rabble-rousers had settled down a little to avoid further punishment.

Everyone was still primarily discussing Adam, as well as Shaun.

"Why has the suspect only chosen minors as his targets?"

"Did you not see the video? He's always been killing minors. As a child, he didn't have the strength to subdue an adult, and after becoming an adult, he continued to kill minors out of habit."

"No, I don't think we can explain this purely as a case of habit."

"I agree. I've studied some psychology in the past, and it's clear that the suspect is an extremely cowardly person. He enjoys tormenting those who are weaker than him, and he regards adults as a threat. Only vulnerable people like minors and that retard, Alan, can fully satisfy his control freak tendencies."

"That makes sense. Now that I look at it, that police officer doesn't seem like a bad person. I was convinced that he was a terrible person after seeing what he did before."

"Are you talking about the Shadow City battle royale? Have you seen the full version of the footage? In a situation as perilous as the one he was in, he wouldn't have been able to survive if he didn't resort to some extreme measures. Setting aside the fact that he was in Shadow City, even in the civilized world, everyone has the right to self-defense under dangerous circumstances."

"I don't really care what he did in Shadow City. I don't really even care whether Adam is a bad person or not. All I know is that I'm a fan of what he's doing. This is what the world is like, bad people need to be brought down by other bad people. We need people like Adam to deal with bastards like Shaun. Otherwise, what else are we gonna do? Get a saint to pass judgment over him? Or get the Psychic Church involved?"

"I agree. I like the fact that he's so willing to take action. As long as he doesn't stir up any trouble in Sandrise City, he has my support."

"There are far too many criminals lurking in the shadows in Sandrise City. Mechguard can police crimes on the surface extremely well, but they can't carry out any in-depth investigations. That's where special psychic police officers like Adam come in."

"In my opinion, he was too gentle. He should've done to Shaun what he did to those people in the battle royale!"

....

Countless people were discussing the case in chatrooms all over the internet, and Adam's reputation was slowly recovering. It was no surprise that he would win favor from the general public, considering he had just arrested a heinous criminal like Shaun.

"Public opinion about you on the internet has been very favorable lately. There are still occasionally some critics, but they quickly get drowned out by your supporters," Shae remarked as she scrolled through a bunch of comments on a computer in the Four Brother Veterinarian Hospital. "Looks like you've achieved your objective."

"I'm only safe for now. People love placing others on a pedestal before watching them fall."

Adam was resting on a chair with his eyes closed, and there was a huge cat sitting on his chest.

This cat was Rabbit's pet, and its name was Gray Tiger.

Gray Tiger used to be a stray cat, but in contrast with normal stray cats, it wasn't struggling to get by at all. It was the king of all cats in the area, and Rabbit had adopted it for the sake of the other animals in the area as they were regularly being bullied by Gray Tiger. historical

Thankfully, it was quite friendly toward humans, and it was very obedient as long as it was well-fed.

"What are you going to do from here? Continue to play the hero and solve more cases?"

"That's definitely on the agenda, but it's not that urgent. I'll continue solving these cases while conducting my investigation into the Compassion Company, but before that, I want to pay a maximum security prison a visit."

Adam was doing some research on his communicator as he spoke, scrolling through a list of the most severe criminals that were locked up in Sandrise City, the majority of whom were extremely mentally disturbed individuals.

Having evolved Sludge into a level four anomaly from hunting down Shaun's anomaly, Adam was eager to find more targets.

Back in Shadow City, he had tried to enhance his own powers by searching for mentally ill targets, but that hadn't amounted to much.

Shadow City only had a population of several million, so there weren't that many people to choose from, and his choices were whittled down even further by the fact that the director periodically combed through the population for the mentally ill.

However, things were different in Sandrise City, which had a population of several hundred million, and there were all types of sinister individuals lurking in the shadows.

As a special psychic police officer, he was privy to a lot of information that wasn't available to the average person, and he also had many special rights and privileges.

All he had to do now was visit the prison under the guise of investigating a case, and he would have access to all of the mentally disturbed prisoners that he could ask for.

These people had been selected for him by the law, making them essentially a feast offered up on a silver platter, and it really would've been a terrible waste not to make use of this resource.

"Now that we're safe for now, we should focus on getting more powerful. Haven't you always wanted to get stronger as well? Next time, I'll prioritize Hellhound's development so you'll be able to come on missions with me as well. At the moment, you're too weak for me to take you anywhere."

"That's true," Shae replied in a slightly dejected manner.

During the competency examination, it was revealed that not only was there an enormous power gap between her and the rest of the team, she was only roughly on par with the average examination participant.

Even though she had also endured her fair share of battles and grown to a certain extent, she was still only roughly comparable in power to a level two anomaly.

If it weren't for her high marks in the written examination and the fact that the interview results could be manipulated, she wouldn't even have been able to qualify for the job of a special psychic police officer.

For the average adapter, making progress was extremely difficult.

"If only you could give me Hellhound. You should learn some psychic deposit methods."

"That's very difficult. I'll need to be a lot more advanced in my adapter abilities to accomplish that," Adam replied as he stroked Gray Tiger. "Having said that, your psychic body is decently strong, and it gets enhanced even further after you fuse with Hellhound."

"Why is it that you have the ability to absorb anomalic power, but I don't?"

Shae had already been made aware of the fact that Adam was a clone, and the two of them had undergone DNA analysis to find that there was a very high similarity rate, but still not that close to 100%, which meant that the two of them were related by blood, but Shae wasn't a clone of the director.

"I don't know. I don't even know how we're related. Are you the director's daughter? That doesn't make sense. If you were his daughter, how did you end up in a human farm and being sold to the Kim Family?"

Adam wanted to ask the director these questions, but he knew that it would be impossible to be granted an audience with the director, so he would have to uncover these mysteries on his own.