Villain? No, I'll catch up with the protagonist after passing the civil service exam.

The wreckage on the windowsill was still crackling.

The once tender green ivy plant has now been completely turned into a pile of twisted scrap metal, with fiber structures resembling optical fibers visible at the broken ends.

Lu Jingyan flicked the lingering arc of electricity from his fingertips, his deep black eyes showing no sign of panic.

The moment he crushed the vines.

The [Police God System] in my mind, which had just finished digesting the "system feast" and had been dormant for a long time, emitted an unprecedentedly crisp beep.

[Ding! Detected ultra-high frequency anomalous energy fluctuations emanating from deep within the Earth's crust!]

[Energy attribute determination: Not carbon-based interference, not extraterrestrial invasion.]

[Judgment: The Earth's native magnetic field has undergone an irreversible logical reset, and global spiritual energy is entering a "passive reboot" phase.]

Lu Jingyan stared at the large golden characters that only he could see, and the corner of his mouth twitched violently involuntarily.

"Passive reboot?"

He leaned against the desk, his fingertips lightly tapping the cold, solid wood surface, producing a rhythmic, crisp sound.

"Who issued the restart order to this planet? Did it go through the normal administrative reporting process?"

Lu Jingyan sneered.

He knew all too well what those words meant.

If the previous crisis was caused by "foreign hackers" attempting to take over the servers with cheats, then...

The current crisis is that the server itself is so badly infected that it has decided to completely overhaul and format the system.

This kind of biological mutation caused by environmental changes is often euphemistically referred to in online novels as: spiritual revival.

But in Lu Jingyan's eyes, there are only four words to describe it.

Illegal evolution.

"Boss! Are you still inside? That shout just now was pretty loud!"

The office door was suddenly flung open, and Zhao Tiezhu rushed in, carrying a half-eaten corncob and looking extremely nervous.

Behind him followed a special operations team with equally solemn expressions; all members were on high alert.

Lu Jingyan pointed to the pile of scrap iron and green ivy under the windowsill, his voice as calm as still water.

"Tiezhu, stop eating your corn."

"Go and inform the botanical garden and the forestry bureau that from now on, every tree and every flower in Jinghai City must be under close surveillance."

Zhao Tiezhu craned his neck to look at the pile of glowing green vine remnants, and the corn cobs fell directly to the ground.

"Holy crap! Did this plant eat fertilizer? Why is it painted with metallic paint?"

Zhao Tiezhu swallowed hard and reached out to touch it, but Lu Jingyan slapped his hand away in mid-air.

"Don't touch it, that's 360 volts of high voltage."

Lu Jingyan walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and looked down at the city that was gradually being swallowed by the thick fog.

"The situation has changed."

"In the past, we arrested 'fake protagonists' who had systems. Although they were arrogant, they were still human beings and were bound by human nature and desires."

"But now, what we are facing is probably a group of mutated creatures that have lost their basic rationality and can't even retain their species attributes."

Lu Jingyan's tone was filled with an unprecedented chill.

"This is not a matter of chance; it is a global security disaster caused by environmental pollution."

Zhao Tiezhu listened in a daze, scratching his shiny bald head.

"Boss, you mean... from now on we won't just be catching people, but also gods and monsters?"

"monster?"

Lu Jingyan turned his head, his eyes flashing with an absolutely rational and cold light.

"In my jurisdiction, there are no such feudal superstitions as gods and monsters."

"Anything with wings will be treated as an 'illegal low-altitude flying object'."

"Those who can breathe fire should be prosecuted for 'arson' or 'illegally carrying controlled flammable materials'."

"Those who can hide will be punished to the fullest extent of the law for 'peeping and breaking into a residence'."

Lu Jingyan straightened the collar of his crisp police uniform and adjusted the gleaming second-class police superintendent rank badge on his chest.

"As long as they are still breathing on this land, the law is the only guillotine hanging over their necks."

The officers in the command center looked at each other in bewilderment.

Lu Da's words brought this epic disaster down to the level of everyday life and public security.

Yes.

Whether you become a spirit or not doesn't matter.

Even if you break the law, you still have to kneel down and sing "Conquer" in front of Team Leader Lu.

Just then, the multi-band radio in the office suddenly emitted a loud interference sound.

"Zzz—Zzz—Boss! Boss, can you hear me?!"

The voice of Zhao Tiezhu's spare walkie-talkie, which he had left in the branch office's duty room, came through the communication channel.

The voice was so loud it almost cracked the speaker.

It sounds like Zhao Tiezhu is on the verge of a worldview collapsing in terror.

"Tiezhu, calm down. The sky hasn't fallen yet."

Lu Jingyan grabbed the walkie-talkie, his tone cold yet calm.

"Boss! The sky didn't fall, but I'm scared out of my wits!"

Zhao Tiezhu roared across the street, and in the background, you could even hear the screeching of tires and the roar of a huge engine.

"Didn't you just tell me to keep an eye on the zoo?!"

"Just now, the fence around the zoo's predator enclosure was shattered by the shockwave!"

"I thought those bastards would run into the mountains, but they all charged into the city!"

Lu Jingyan's pupils contracted slightly, and his voice deepened.

"Did anyone get hurt?"

"No one has been injured yet, but the situation is out of control!"

Zhao Tiezhu's voice carried a slightly absurd tone.

"Boss, can you believe it?!"

"That Siberian tiger that was on TV earlier, it just stole a food delivery guy's electric scooter from the doorway!"

"It's currently perched on that poor little electric scooter, its two front paws gripping the handlebars, riding it with incredible stability!"

"It was barking at pedestrians as it rode, telling them to move aside because it wanted to cross the traffic light!"

"It's already on the ring road, and the traffic police in their patrol cars have been chasing it for three blocks but haven't caught up!"

"That brat even turned around and gave the traffic cop the middle finger while riding his bike!"

"Boss! Come quick! Traffic on the ring road is completely paralyzed. Dozens of drivers are so scared they've abandoned their cars in the middle of the road and run away!"

Lu Jingyan listened to the explosive case report coming through the walkie-talkie.

For the first time, a look of disgust and weariness appeared on his perpetually cold face.

"Robbing public and private property, driving without a license, and openly provoking law enforcement officers."

Lu Jingyan turned off the walkie-talkie, grabbed the car keys from the table, and strode towards the door.

"I think this tiger's sentence is going to go straight from a Class I protected animal to a Class I wanted fugitive."

Without turning his head, he gave instructions to the officers behind him who were still in a daze.

"Notify the Mobile Squadron to bring the maximum dose of tranquilizer guns and animal traps, and follow me to the Ring Road to intercept them."

Lu Jingyan pushed open the heavy automatic door of the building, and the cold morning wind whipped his cloak, making it flutter loudly.

"Since it has learned to ride a bicycle, it means that it has the intelligence to independently assume legal responsibility."

"Then I'll go and teach it myself."

"What exactly is the 'Road Traffic Safety Law of the People's Republic of China'?"