What followed was a barrage of condemnation from everyone towards Zones Two and Five, but this was merely a way to vent their anger.
The two officers recorded what the other person had just said on their phones, then stood up and said to the people from Sector Three, "Thank you. We will thoroughly investigate Sector Two and Sector Five!"
After speaking, with the help of the crowd, the seven robbers were put into the car. However, before leaving, a police officer quietly called Lu Yuan aside.
"Where's the stuff? Bring it here!"
Lu Yuan feigned ignorance and asked, "Officer, what do you need? What should I take over?"
"Director Lu, stop pretending. I saw it all. You took that pistol! You're not going to say it's gone, are you?" A sly glint flashed in the other person's eyes.
"Ahem! That's right, we accidentally lost it while we were catching those bandits."
The other person's lips curled slightly, and then he whispered in Lu Yuan's ear, "Be careful with the bullets, we don't have many!"
Lu Yuan was startled. Looking over again, he saw the police had already boarded the truck, waving at him and shouting, "Thank you for returning the handgun!"
As the car sped away, Lu Yuan clutched the bulging pistol in his pocket and fell into deep thought.
Back home, the people in the group were still talking about what happened today. A group of robbers hadn't been caught, and they wondered if they would come back for revenge.
However, these idle people were clearly overthinking things. Early the next morning, more than a dozen police cars sped through the roads of Zone 3 and headed straight for Zone 2.
Some curious onlookers followed along and saw forty or fifty police officers with guns surrounding Zone Two. In the distance, sirens could be heard, clearly heading towards Zone Five.
This vicious attack has drawn great attention from higher authorities. In order to wipe out this gang of criminals in one fell swoop, the police force deployed this time can be described as a very impressive lineup.
With seven arrested robbers by their side, the police went door-to-door pointing out the criminal gang. They then arrested all the robbers involved, wiping out the entire gang in the new district.
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Lu Yuan continued to go to work at the rat trap manufacturing plant as always. His daily work was quite monotonous. Apart from occasionally going into the factory to check on the production progress, he would contact the steel mill to deliver steel or deal with orders from people who no longer intended to buy rat traps.
The nationwide rat-catching campaign is still ongoing, but the number of rats is decreasing rapidly. Although Da Huang goes to work at the supermarket with Lu Ma every day, he hasn't caught a single rat in the past week.
Every household said that rats are now extremely difficult to catch. If they happen to find a rat, it is usually the non-mutated kind, and catching it doesn't do much good.
The reason why there are fewer rats in Zone 3 is mainly because they own a rat trap manufacturing plant. Every household has at least one rat trap. The number of rats in other areas has also decreased, and many people who were planning to engage in the rat trapping industry have gradually disappeared.
Song Heng pushed open the door to the factory manager's office with several order forms in hand, threw them directly onto the table, and wore an angry expression on his face.
"Director Lu, these people are absolutely despicable! We've already bought the steel and processed a batch of rat traps, and they just say they don't want it anymore! What are we going to do with the steel? We can't just let them suffer this loss!"
Lu Yuan looked at the thick stack of orders with a helpless expression.
"Sigh! Never mind, I've already called the steel mill. Let's just leave this batch of steel at the mill for now! We'll see if we need it later!"
"That's all we can do. Alright, I'll let everyone at the factory go home! We've been busy all day dealing with returns and order cancellations, it's infuriating!"
With that, Song Heng stormed out of the office.
After tidying up, Lu Yuan prepared to take inventory of the remaining steel in the factory area. However, he had a new idea in mind. Although the robbers in Zones 2 and 5 had all been wiped out, these robbers had close ties with the robbers in the city. They might just be lying low now, waiting for the right moment to settle accounts with the people in Zone 3. That would be troublesome.
Although Lu Yuan's house was very sturdy, there was no guarantee that he wouldn't be attacked by a large number of people at once. He didn't have the ability to kill dozens or even hundreds of thugs at once.
The inspection records showed the remaining steel and the already-made rat traps. Seeing the wastewater flowing freely from the machines throughout the factory, Lu Yuan immediately wanted to call Chen Gang over.
Suddenly, he spotted a patch of green in a pile of iron filings; it was the leaf of a plant.
It's quite difficult to see green plants at this time of year. Of course, apart from the plants in his own home, those are all plants cultivated in a dimensional space, naturally possessing the ability to defend against high temperatures. Outside plants, however, cannot do that. So Lu Yuan quickly put on gloves.
Slowly, he parted the pile of iron filings and found a mulberry tree, half a meter tall, hidden among them. As for why it was still alive, Lu Yuan immediately understood: the processed iron filings contained water, and that was why the mulberry tree had survived.
Looking at the half-meter-tall mulberry tree, Lu Yuan suddenly thought of a creature: a silkworm.
That's right, the main food of silkworms is mulberry leaves. With mulberry leaves, you can raise silkworms. And for silkworms to become moths, they need to spin silk and form cocoons. This is the material for silk clothes. Although Lu Yuan had bought a lot of clothes before, he always felt that these clothes would not last until the Ice Age. But when he saw these mulberry leaves, Lu Yuan was so happy that he almost jumped up.
Moreover, the mulberries that grow on mulberry trees are an absolutely delicious fruit. Although eating too many will turn your mouth purple, the taste is incomparable to other fruits.
So he found a shovel and a spade and cleaned up all the iron filings, then dug out the mulberry tree roots along with the soil.
To prevent the mulberry tree from dying after transplanting, Lu Yuan specially made a plastic bag to wrap all the roots of the mulberry tree, then put it on his bicycle and rode home.
Seeing Lu Yuan's excited expression, Grandma couldn't help but grumble a few words.
"Why is this kid so excited every now and then? Could it be that the factory's problems have been solved?"
Lu Yuan took the fruit tree back to his room and immediately went into his dimensional space to plant it. However, after searching for a long time, he couldn't find any trace of silkworms on the tree, which made him feel a little regretful.
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