Enforcer Manual
Chapter 59: Stay Out of the Mayor’s Business_1

Chapter 59: Chapter 59: Stay Out of the Mayor’s Business_1

Song Lan admired Elmon’s ability to always say something astounding, a simple sentece from him had chilled him to the bone in the broad daylight.

The mayoral mansion was filled with corpses?

And, what Elmon had implied wasn’t that they had hidden a pile of bodies somewhere in the mansion, but rather the security personnel that were patrolling the mansion were themselves corpses.

Their state was different from Elmon’s, and it was clear that everyone else could see the security staff too, so Song Lan could almost certainly rule out the possibility that the mansion was filled with ghosts.

Taking into account what the mayor’s secretary had said in the car...

The mayor’s recent mental state had not been good.

But it did not seem to be due to the upcoming election, but rather the mayor believed that his original security personnel had been quietly replaced.

Are you trying to tell me ghost tales?

"There were a lot of bodies like that in the lab before."

Elmon continued to explain, "They peeled open the back of the dead’s necks, stuffed something inside, and then those bodies came back to life. I could smell the difference."

It was the lab again.

Song Lan had not asked about Elmon’s past in detail, but he had roughly inferred that this child had been locked up in some research facility since childhood. Considering the actions of Phine Arnhem, it was highly likely that the researchers had used Elmon as an experimental subject, using inhuman methods to stimulate his spiritual energy.

This extremely inhumane act also coincided perfectly with what Lu Xiang had mentioned about the path to enhancing spiritual energy.

The existence of the lab could not be disconnected from the Foster family. In other words, had the Foster family already begun using the same methods to infiltrate the mayor’s home?

Having understood the methods of the Foster family, it was actually not difficult to deduce their conspiracy. Song Lan had thought of this, but he always didn’t want to face it.

Because, in his view, in this unfamiliar year of 2166, the Foster family wasn’t necessarily the biggest villain. What they have seen and heard recently might just be a projection of a deeper world. The more they knew, the closer they were to the boundary that terrified him profoundly.

On the question of blue and red pills, he had always been on the blue side.

So, Song Lan, who was walking at the end of the line, gestured in response to Elmon.

"Shush."

It’s best if you meddle less with the mayor’s business.

In the blink of an eye, the secretary had led them into the guest room, "The mayor has specifically told me to bring you here. The statements and information about his illness have all been prepared."

A stack of thick documents was piled on the guest room’s coffee table.

"Alright, please wait."

Roger looked around the room with a meaningful glance, then said to the secretary, "Concerning the mayor’s symptoms, we may need to have some discussions. Could you leave us alone for a moment?"

"Okay, I’ll be outside. You can find me at any time."

The secretary nodded, closed the door behind her as she went out.

As for the T bodyguard sent by Ophir to protect them, he showed his professionalism right from the start — he never intended to enter the room in the first place, instead, guarding the entrance like a door god.

"Chief, something’s not right."

Instead of rushing to read the documents prepared for them, Roger started to analyze, "In the car, the secretary mentioned that the mayor’s mental disorder has recently become so severe that he needs to convene all security personnel every day to verify their identities. It was under this condition that he privately sought help from Ophir."

My god, stop analyzing and issue a certificate quickly so we can leave.

Song Lan felt that Roger obviously did not realize the severity of the problem — they were now surrounded by corpses stuffed with stuff in their necks. Rather than saying this place was the mayor’s home, it more resembled a graveyard.

No wonder the Mayor has been mentally unwell lately, it’s hard not to notice something wrong when he is surrounded by corpses all day.

But as the chief, Song Lan can’t express how he feels straightforwardly. After all, this is their first real job, which involves the current mayor. If mishandled, it could be a devastating blow to the enthusiasm of Roger and Valerian.

The biggest headache for Song Lan now was that, in the worst-case scenario — where the corpses outside the door suddenly got their guns and tried to shoot them dead...

Ultimately, he’d be left with the two witnesses and survivors: Valerian and Roger.

This made Song Lan feel very troubled.

While he was worrying about how to handle the worst-case scenario, Roger directly pointed out the biggest loophole in the entire event, "This also indicates that the mayor himself wants to resolve the abnormal phenomenon here as quickly as possible. However, his secretary gave us completely opposite instructions."

This was obviously illogical.

Why would a secretary be so sure that everything was a psychological effect of the mayor’s, even going against the mayor’s intentions?

He even suspected that the mayor’s absence from their meeting due to a meeting today was deliberately arranged by the secretary.

"Moreover, the secretary’s words revealed some hidden information."

Roger’s face was serious, "Convening all security personnel to verify their identities is the responsibility of the chief of security. The mayor is not supposed to do this himself. His doing so indirectly indicates that he has lost trust in the current chief of security."

The situation now seemed... as though the mayor was under house arrest.

Upon arriving at this conclusion, Roger found it extremely inconceivable.

They were discussing the Mayor of District 17, a real decision-maker whose status and power were above those of the Law Enforcers and the Inspection Department. How could such a powerful figure be in such a predicament?

"Thud thud thud—"

Valerian tapped her tablet to attract their attention.

Looking at the sound, a full screen of text had appeared on the tablet:

"The secretary said that the mayor specifically instructed to bring us here, which means there’s a message he wanted to leave for us in this room."

"If he doesn’t trust the people in his house, he won’t leave the message in a conspicuous place. Otherwise, not only could it be replaced by others, but it may also alarm the enemy and lead to people wanting to harm him."

"But it also can’t be hidden in an extremely secret place. If we rummage through this room, it will certainly arouse suspicion."

"So, the most likely place has to be noticeable enough for us to definitely find it but will not arouse suspicion. I’ve thought about it, and only this set of information that the mayor has personally collated fits all the conditions."

"I took a glance, it’s just some simple living records, the contents are disorganized, yet they seem to be carefully arranged. The contents that really relate to his mental state appear on the third page, fifth page, seventh page, eighth page, ninth page, thirteenth page, and seventeenth page."

"The page numbers in between break off abruptly, for example, the third page was talking about his symptoms but the fourth page abruptly turned somewhere else, seems incoherent."

"Expressing these page numbers in digits is: 357891317."

"I tried entering this series of passwords, and the tablet connected to a private file storage."

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