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Chapter 847 For Justice
The voice on the other end of the phone urged Xue Se to go back; the truth couldn't be hidden forever, and what happened last night was eventually exposed.

If Xue Se didn't want to lose her job, she had to shift the blame onto someone else, and the missing Dr. Bu was obviously a good choice. Besides, the police and the ethics watchdog group were already at odds.

"Officer Xue, regardless of whether Dr. Bu's plan succeeds or not, the Moral Oversight Group has reached a point where it must be stopped. Your real enemy is them; they are a group of madmen who are trying to define the rules of the new Shanghai with new morality. They are using any means to gain power. Once they truly control the forest, you will no longer be able to touch them." Dr. Gao pleaded earnestly, but Officer Xue had his own considerations.

"You stay here and wait for my notification." Xue Se left the dilapidated building and walked through the dirty living and management area, scrolling through the messages on her phone.

He is not a good cop in the purest sense, nor is he a completely bad person. He insists on doing things according to the rules he approves of, and he can do anything to uphold what he believes in justice and will stop at nothing to achieve his goals.

Xue Se's past memories are somewhat hazy. He only vaguely remembers that when he was young, he lived in a place a hundred times worse than the residential area. In order to survive, they devoured each other. Even the faintest candlelight would cause a fight. In the end, only thirteen households remained. They made up rules, and that's how the incense was passed down.

"Even if they are all descendants of cannibals, as long as they follow the rules, they can put on the cloak of civilization and have a brand new beginning before dawn."

"But if anyone wants to subvert them, they must pay a painful price."

Xue Se remembered that of the thirteen families who remained, one family was wiped out by the other residents for breaking the rules. Heads rolled in the river of blood, a crimson stain that even the roadside flowers and butterflies were stained crimson.

Back at the police station entrance, Xue Se hadn't even gotten out of the car when she saw reporters crowding the road. This was a common tactic used by the ethics monitoring group, as if whoever shouted the loudest was right.

After exchanging coats with the driver, Xue Se slipped into the police station through a side door. As soon as he got back, he saw the leader in a rage, and several captains were also affected.

"Hey, our great hero is back! Come on! Take a seat!" The director was dressed in a neat uniform. He had burn scars on his neck, his right arm had been replaced with a mechanical one from the forearm down, and his left arm was a bionic prosthesis. The skin below his chest was different colors, and various wounds could be seen on the exposed skin.

The branch chief of Xinhu is painless and never feels mental anguish. No matter how dangerous the situation, he is always the first to rush in. At only forty years old, he has participated in countless major operations, been shot four times, and was once captured and tortured by bandits while saving his comrades, but he never leaked any secrets. The wound on his neck was from rushing into a fire to save people, and his hands were lost while defusing bombs. He is covered in wounds, but every wound is a silent medal.

"Chief, why did you come in person?"

"The ghosts of my brothers keep calling in my ears, begging me to come and collect their bodies!" The chief was furious. He grabbed Xue Se's shoulder and forced him into his seat. "Speak! Why didn't you find out what happened before letting the brothers into the forest!"

With several police officers missing, the ethics oversight group is using this as an excuse to blame everything on the police. If Xue Se backs down, not only will he be held accountable, but he will definitely lose his job.

While investigating the gardener's case, Xue Se discovered many illogical points, and his doubts about this world gradually deepened. Now, at a critical moment, he was unwilling to lose his identity and be imprisoned.

After careful consideration, Xue Se did not tell the whole truth and decided to direct the blame at the Moral Supervision Group: "I sent people to investigate and found out that Bu Zaicun, the instructor of the Moral Supervision Group, attempted to use a brain-swapping device to swap brains with the core patients in the forest, hoping to control the entire forest! You should understand the consequences of a forest being controlled by a madman. It will continue to grow and spread until it completely engulfs the city, leaving no one alive in Xinhu, and turning everyone into trees!"

Xue Se's words surprised the officers. Forest was a highly sensitive topic in Shanghai, involving far too many issues. "Chief, Forest is extremely dangerous. Last night it devoured so many of our brothers in the blink of an eye. Doesn't that demonstrate the seriousness of the situation?"

"How did you know about the Bu Existence Plan?"

“I have an informant.” Xue Se hesitated for a moment, then gestured to the chief. The officers around him left in perfect unison, closing the office door behind them, leaving only a few captains behind.

"Go ahead."

"Dr. Gao, a witness in the Gardener case, and Bu Cuncun were colleagues at the same hospital. He was the one who took over Bu Cuncun's treatment of the Gardener. I asked him to secretly contact Bu Cuncun, send him to the Institute of Ethics for an exchange, and encourage him to join the ethics supervision group..."

"Wait!" A team leader interrupted Xue Se: "As far as I know, Dr. Gao is not a member of the ethics supervision group."

"The process is already underway. We went to great lengths to gain Bu's trust, and it was he who found out about this from Bu." Xue Se was very certain, as if everything was going according to plan.

"Sharing a brain with the core patient in the forest—that certainly seems like something those people on the ethics watchdog group would do." The director also had no liking for the ethics watchdog group: "Hasn't Dr. Bu been found yet?"

“No.” A captain shook his head, holding the documents in his hand but showing no intention of opening them. “Director, it doesn’t really matter where Bu Cun is now. What’s important is that we firmly believe he has shared a brain with the core patients of the forest, and has even become the new brain of the forest’s collective consciousness. Only in this way can we reverse the public’s impression of them and make the citizens realize that these guys are all demons, and they are not worthy of supervising the citizens’ morality and ethics.”

Shanghai police never resort to framing or false accusations; they only investigate to obtain appropriate results as needed.

"Yes, the ethics watchdogs have overstepped their bounds too much and they need to be restricted."

"This matter must not become a weapon for them to attack us."

"We have already lost so many brothers; their deaths cannot have been in vain."

Everyone chimed in with their own comments, but the bureau chief remained silent, staring at the chaotic office and Dr. Gao's files on the table, lost in thought.

"Director, why don't we go with the flow and get my informant into the ethics oversight group? Even if the ethics oversight group didn't do anything, we can still use Dr. Gao to solidify their crimes."

Driven by a sense of justice, Xue Se wanted Dr. Gao to make a sacrifice.

(End of this chapter)