Hunter of Immortals

Chapter 236: Inside the Police Station

The train was traveling quite slowly, but Shadow City wasn\'t exactly a massive place, so it didn\'t take long before the train reached the city\'s entrance.

After undergoing an examination conducted by some recycled Mechguard units, everyone finally returned to the surface.

At this point, night was only just beginning to transition into day, and Shae took a deep breath as she looked up at the first rays of sunlight shining down from the sky.

"It\'s been so long since I\'ve seen true sunlight... I feel like my bone density has gotten worse from being out of the sun for so long."

Shae stretched lazily as she spoke, and a string of cracks rang out from her joints.

In contrast, Adam was in no mood to savor his return to the surface. As soon as he emerged from Shadow City, he immediately began to look around, and it didn\'t take long for him to spot the contact from the northern congress.

"You must be Mr. Adam, right?" There was a medium-sized bus parked nearby with a maximum capacity of close to 20 passengers. "We\'ve been sent here to pick you up."

The person who had approached Adam appeared to just be an ordinary middle-aged man, and Adam couldn\'t sense any danger with his telegnosis.

However, as a safety precaution, he still walked a lap around the bus to examine it for bombs.

At the same time, he took the liberty of invading the man\'s psychic world.

In his psychic world, Adam saw a boring and uneventful life. The man wasn\'t particularly academically gifted, nor did he have a propensity for hard work. His most prominent trait seemed to be his love for sweet foods.

It was obviously quite unethical to invade one\'s privacy like this, but Adam no longer had any morals or ethics.

After examining the man\'s life, a disdainful sneer appeared on Adam\'s face.

I can\'t believe this idiot ate 15 donuts before coming here! He\'s definitely not been sent by the southern congress. qhweotiqwhetwietqeoihtiwheitohhtqe

Adam exited the man\'s psychic world before asking, "Shadow City has a large number of exits, how did you know we were going to come out of this one?"

"There are drivers waiting at every exit, I just so happened to have been sent to this one. By the way, what happened just now?"

"Nothing, don\'t worry about it."

Adam gestured for everyone to enter the bus, while the driver also got into the driver\'s seat, and he began to hum a cheerful tune as the bus began moving.

"Why are you so happy?" Shae asked. "You don\'t seem like you\'re from Sandrise City."

"Why can\'t I be happy?"

"I just feel like it\'s very difficult for people to be happy in Sandrise City." Shae sat down beside the driver as she thought back to her recent experiences. "Everyone\'s constantly racking their brains, trying to live a bit longer, or to enjoy more resources. Don\'t you get the same feeling?"

"I don\'t know what you\'re talking about, but it doesn\'t take much to make me happy. If I can get a discount on the cakes at the dessert shop, I\'ll be over the moon!"

On the way to Sandrise City, Adam was constantly surveying the barren plains on either side of the bus for fear that they were going to be ambushed by the southern congress.

His telegnosis was activated to its maximal extent the entire time, but he didn\'t detect any danger throughout the entire duration of the trip.

By the time he arrived on the outskirts of Sandrise City and caught sight of all of the journalists and cameras present, he knew that he was safe.

"That\'s quite a bit of fanfare." As soon as the bus entered the city, it was immediately forced to a halt, and the driver turned to Adam and the others with a curious expression as he asked, "Are you guys celebrities?"

"We\'re not celebrities, we\'re fugitives."

"Fugitives?" the driver exclaimed. "I have to get paid extra for transporting fugitives!"

Adam ignored the driver as he got out of the bus, upon which he was immediately surrounded by a wave of journalists.

"Hello, I am a reporter from the Sandrise Times. We\'ve received information that suggests that the terrorist attack you were involved in wasn\'t as simple and clear cut as it appeared on the surface."

"Hi there, I\'m from the Fokker Television Station. May I ask where you\'ve been since the terrorist attack?"

"Are you able to provide evidence to support your claim?"

"At the moment, you\'re still a fugitive on the run. May I ask..."

Adam provided a response to all of the journalists\' questions, then played Hook\'s footage in front of everyone, while also inviting the experts among the journalists to assess whether the footage had been artificially generated.

One piece of information after another was quickly released, and all of the media outlets and even independent media publishers were eagerly latching onto this story.

Even though some time had already passed since the attack, it was an extremely horrific terrorist attack that was still constantly being mentioned.

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Even the trolls on the internet liked to spin stories based on the attacks, and a new revelation would immediately bring an enormous amount of attention back to the event.

While the reporters were busy at work, several Mechguard units had appeared in the distance. As soon as Adam caught sight of them, he immediately knew what he needed to do, and he hurriedly raised his arms high up into the air, displaying no intention to resist arrest.

The Mechguard quickly forced their way through the throngs of reporters, and after verifying their identities, Adam, Shae, and Shota were detained.

Regardless of whether they had secured concrete evidence or not, the fact of the matter was that they were still fugitives.

Mechguard officers only knew how to do things according to official procedure, so before a fugitive was acquitted, they would continue to be treated as a fugitive by Mechguard.

Adam put on a pained expression as he was apprehended by the Mechguard units. He knew that the more painful and indignant a display he put on here, the more sympathy he would garner from the general public.

Thus, he was doing his best to put on a convincing performance in order to sway public opinion in his favor as much as possible.

"Why does he look like that?" The three psychic mutants were sitting at the back of the bus, hiding from the cameras while making fun of Adam. "He looks like an idiot!"

"He does! I thought he was smart, but I\'m having second thoughts now."

……

After Adam\'s trio was placed into electronic handcuffs by the Mechguard units, they were taken to the nearest police stations. The reporters followed them the entire way there, so Adam wasn\'t worried about any shady business taking place along the way.

After arriving at the police station, he was locked into a cell that was guarded by Mechguard units, which were armed to the teeth.

Aside from the suspects, there wasn\'t a single living person in the entire police station, and apparently, this was for the sake of legal transparency.

"What\'re you in here for?" Adam was approached by another inmate as soon as he was locked into the cell. "Do you have any electronic drugs on you? I can\'t hold out much longer."

Adam paid no heed to him.

A short while later, a burly man made his way over to Adam before patting him on the shoulder. He was just about to rough Adam up a little in order to show him who the boss of the cell was when his expression suddenly stiffened at the sight of Adam\'s face.

"I\'ve seen you on the news before! You\'re wanted for that terrorist attack on the primary school! You\'re an adapter!"

"An adapter? Wow, this is my first time seeing one. Did you really kill all those kids?"

Adapters were a dime a dozen in Shadow City\'s arenas, but they were extremely rare in normal cities. Looking at all of the suspects who were gathered around and watching him like he was some type of exotic zoo animal, Adam felt as if he had finally returned to the normal world, a world with no artificial adapters or artificial anomalies.

……

Adam was only in detainment for three days before the story of his return completely blew up, and all of the media outlets were clambering to report the story.

As a result, the footage that Adam had brought back was also shown to the public.

Everyone was a fan of a good comeback story, especially when such a massive conspiracy was involved.

The footage that Adam provided quickly caused the image of the southern congress to plummet drastically, and with immense public pressure from the general public calling for Adam\'s release, he was quickly taken to court to be judged.