Stellaris: Earth Alliance

Chapter 152 The Predator Empire

In the Sirius prison cell, the suspect who robbed toys in broad daylight is being detained here.

After Hou Dexun escorted the prisoner back, he uploaded the contents of the law enforcement recorder to 550C's conscious clone at the Sirius Research Center.

Assisted by a whole array of computer computing power, 550C completed the entire process from arrest and trial to detention.

The information recorded by the law enforcement recorder was normal, and the crime of robbery was established. Based on the impact of the incident, 550C's first-instance judgment was civil detention for 15 days.

The skinny prisoner couldn't stop being locked up in the detention center. One moment he banged his head against the wall rhythmically, and the other moment he kept scratching the wall with his nails, making a harsh and unpleasant sound.

It seems that only by making myself uncomfortable with this harsh sound can I feel better.

In the monitoring room, Hou Dexun and the police officers on duty looked at the prisoner's monitoring screen.

The police officer on duty was eating bread in his mouth and pointed to Hou Dexun next to him at the extra bread on the monitoring table.

"No, I just came over to take a look."

Hou Dexun smiled and rejected the other party's kindness. The other party held the bread in his mouth, took a bite, and then said with a strange look on his face.

"Why do you suddenly want to watch the video of the prisoner? There is nothing interesting, just a bed and some toiletries. At first, it might be interesting to look at these dozens of large screens, but then I was just fishing for fish."

Late at night, the policeman on duty said while chewing bread.

"I always feel that there is something wrong with that person. Who would snatch a child's toys when they have nothing to do?"

Hou Dexun found a seat and sat down, looking at the screen and chatting.

"There's nothing strange about that. Do you know how much the toy he stole cost?"

Zhou Qihua said with an expression that said you don't understand.

"How much can it sell for just a model toy?"

Hou Dexun was stunned for a moment, he really hadn't considered this issue.

Zhou Qihua spread his five fingers.

"500 yuan?"

Hou Dexun was slightly surprised.

Zhou Qihua shook his head.

"5000?"

Hou Dexun was really surprised now.

Zhou Qihua still shook his head.

"I think you're bluffing me."

"Five energy coins, converted to about 5 yuan. It is normal for such an expensive thing to be robbed."

Zhou Qihua said with an expression that should be so expensive.

"Isn't it just a broken piece of iron? It's so expensive after being styled? Who will buy it?"

"I bought it...but I didn't want to part with it."

Zhou Qihua's volume turned from high to low, and then he said.

"This is imported from the giant company Negus World, and the model is based on their fleet flagship, a space battleship. As for the battleship, we don't have one now. We can buy it sooner."

"Tariffs, intellectual property rights, brand premiums, manufacturing of special substances, and publicity are only so expensive. And even if they are novel, they still want alien things."

Zhou Qihua explained it very naturally.

"Do you think his spirit is not normal?"

Although he was chatting with the other party, Hou Dexun's attention was actually always on the person on the screen.

Seeing the other party keep banging his head against the wall, and the strength is not felt in the video, it can be understood as annoyance.

But what does scratching the wall with your fingernails mean now?
Zhou Qihua, who had been eating his late-night snack nonchalantly, looked over when he heard this.

This time the prisoner's expression of pain was obvious, and his hands were tightly grasped on the wall, as if he was acting in a horror movie.As two traces of blood fell on the wall, the two of them saw clearly that the other party had directly broken his nails.

How painful it must be to do such self-harming behavior.

"Is he taking drugs? I have read about this situation in history books. Is there a doctor? Let the doctor come and check it out!"

More than 450 years have passed since the United Nations of the Earth declared Total Anti-drug Day.

So much so that those who are not engaged in research in this area have forgotten the existence of drugs and can only read about drugs from old history books.

With the era of interstellar colonization, the era of artificial intelligence monitoring and the increasingly perfect market supervision system, the word drug has faded out of the public's vision.

Let alone smoking, many people don’t even know what this is.

Those who know are unable to start because of the era of national surveillance by artificial intelligence and the perfect control of raw materials. It has been more than 400 years since the last drug crime incident.

Even the police had forgotten that there was such a thing.

Zhou Qihua didn't dare to neglect. Even if it wasn't to check for drugs, he still had to call a doctor to treat the other party.

Zhou Qihua opened the cell door, and Hou Dexun immediately went up to stop the other party's self-harm.

At this moment, when they looked up at the wall and the ground, the two of them discovered that this man with a weak body was already bleeding all over the floor, and most of it was caused by his self-inflicted wounds.

The doctor arrived and asked the police to tie him up, then put him in a cart and took him to the nearest hospital.

On the one hand, he was given a blood transfusion, and on the other hand, drug crimes had not appeared for so long that the police station did not even have the conditions for testing.

Hou Dexun drove the police car to take the prisoner to the hospital, and waited in the corridor for a while. After a few injections of sedatives, the prisoner who was struggling fiercely calmed down a bit.

The nurse came out with the drug test report and handed it to Hou Dexun.

"Officer, this is his test report. According to the analysis of the test results, he has not taken any drugs."

"how is this possible?"

Hou Dexun took the test report and found that the content of several common and many uncommon drug ingredients was zero.

"No, there must be something wrong here. What you have listed here is too few. If you have never seen it..."

Hou Dexun said excitedly.

"Officer, since you said this is a drug that has never been seen before, we have no way to detect it. We can only say that his current reaction is similar to the withdrawal reaction after taking drugs, but is it true? We have no way to prove it now. . It is not ruled out that the patient originally had a mental illness, and some mental illnesses can also have similar reactions."

The nurse walked away, leaving Hou Dexun pacing back and forth in front of the ward.

For a moment, Hou Dexun remembered the incident when the prisoner went to snatch the little girl's toys.

That toy is very expensive, so there is no problem in robbing it and selling it.

But the more Hou Dexun recalls now, the more he feels that the prisoner probably just wanted that thing at that time.

And after all, it was so expensive, Hou Dexun couldn't believe it when he first heard about it.

Why would a mentally disturbed person be able to measure its value.

After Hou Dexun finished handling the prisoner's follow-up matters, he drove to the Nicholas Global Merchandise Store.

The car passed the other party's headquarters building. The security outside was extremely strict, and many alien soldiers with live ammunition were patrolling the surrounding area.

It is said that they are elite soldiers hired from the brave and capable predator empire, one can beat a group of them.

Of course, the rumors are just rumors, and maybe they are just used by the other party to scare people.

But the stricter the opponent's defense, the more Hou Dexun wanted to break in directly.

But now we still need to collect evidence first. Once we have the evidence, we can go in directly after getting the official search warrant.

The vehicle passed by the headquarters building and went to the Nicoise product store building in a busy neighborhood next to it.

　月票加更：浅洛晨（2/2），殇璃茉hhh（0/1），94号观测站（0/1），咸鱼钦（0/1），螺旋宇宙（0/1），秋夜之魂（0/1）

　　
　
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