Chapter 635 Oddities of the World


    Now, all that mattered was whether or not LAPD could suppress the riots before they got out of hand.


    If they seeded, then everything would be fine.


    If they didn’t... then it was inevitable for Luke to make a killing in experience and credit points.


    But he wasn’t hoping that things would go bad.


    He had a lot of ways to earn experience and credit. He wasn’t insane enough to want to umte points at the cost of ordinary people encountering disaster.


    Luke and Selina drove to In-N-Out for a takeout of burgers.


    Looking at Gold Nugget’s doubtful expression, Luke said helplessly, “We have to work today. We can’t sit down to eat in a restaurant when everybody else is busy, can we?”


    As a tagalong, what could Gold Nugget say? It simply opened its own bag of two burgers and ate them.


    After finishing the two burgers, it raised its head and whined.


    Luke knew it wasining about how lousy the burgers were. He said with a smile, “It’s five dors each. How can theypare to the top burgers that cost fifty dors each? Just deal with it.”


    Although they were served by the same restaurant, the fifty dor burgers were specially made for Tony, the great magnate.


    Gold Nugget whined pitifully.


    Luke looked at Selina.


    Selina’s voice was muffled by the burger in her mouth. “It’s onlymenting on the burgers, notining about you.”


    Luke: “Gold Nugget, good boy!”


    Gold Nugget mumbled to itself, It’s not like I’ll be able to eat any top quality burgers today, no matter how much Iin. I don’t want you to hold a grudge against me. Right at that moment, Luke happened to see an image on the TV in the fast food restaurant. A female anchor seemed to be asking something, and a bearded middle-aged man was answering her.


    Luke’s eyes swept past, but he was suddenly stunned and immediately looked back.


    He had already learned to read lips, which was a useful ability.


    Just now, the middle-aged man had clearly said “earthquake.”


    Staring at the TV screen for a moment, he frowned hard. Selina found that odd. “What happened?”


    Looking at the TV which had switched to another channel, Luke had a bad feeling. “There was an interview with some sort of seismologist just now. He said that this earthquake is the beginning of the tes slipping in the San Andreas Fault.”


    Selina was stunned for a moment. “The San Andreas Fault? Wait, the beginning? Does that mean... there’ll be even bigger earthquakester?”


    Luke: “Yes. He said that what happened in Los Angeles is just the beginning. The subsequent earthquake that will take ce in San Francisco will be even stronger.” Selina was surprised. “The official measurement for the earthquake this morning was a magnitude of 5.3. Won’t it be a magnitude of six or seven if it’s stronger?” Luke nodded. “We need to look at the seismic intensity of an earthquake. The one in the morning was probably a five too; it won’t be a small one if it hits a seven.”


    What he didn’t say was that if what the middle-aged man said spread, even bigger problems awaited LAPD.


    Of course, it was the San Francisco Police Department that would suffer the most, since arge-scale exodus would take ce over there.


    But Luke had no time to worry for the San Francisco police. He had a minor problem himself.


    He had initially been nning to clean up the gang members on the east side of Los Angeles and harvest the lives of the desperadoes who hade here from around the world for the hundred million dors.


    Now that this earthquake had happened, he wouldn’t earn any less experience and credit points, but he might not have time to carry out his n.


    Butw and order in Los Angeles was still somewhat under control today. Perhaps he could get it done at night?


    With that in mind, Luke still wasn’t free in the afternoon.


    The assignments came in non-stop as there was a constant stream of lootings and shootings. As long as they drove out, it didn’t take long for them to receive calls for help from nearby patrol officers.


    Like startled loachesing out after the tremors, the people who lived on the bottom rungs of society crawled out of the corners and mud and searched for targets.


    The bizarre lootings in the morning were just the appetizer; Luke and Selina were deluged by more oddities in the afternoon.


    Some women broke into convenience stores and looted baby diapers and milk form. They had children but no ie.


    Robbery was a crime, but could these people be sent to jail?


    After Luke escorted them home and confirmed that they had babies at home, he could only let them go.


    He dealt with them exactly like how he dealt with the kids who looted beers: He wrote down their names and addresses and said that they were all on the cklist. Then, he left.


    Selina simply looked at him without saying anything


    Everybody had different views.


    Some people might believe that it was best to send them to prison, otherwise they might think they were lucky andmit a crime again.


    Luke, however, felt that it was enough to teach one or two of them a lesson.


    If a person didn’t change their ways even after their names were recorded by a detective of the Major Crimes Division, the chances of pulling them back onto the right path weren’t high.


    Luke just wanted peace of mind.


    He didn’t want to make a few children orphans after an afternoon of work.


    There was also a group who stole a car, and in passing helped the house owner “move house” free of charge.


    When the house owner got home and realized something was wrong, he called the police right away and reported the robbery. Luke and Selina, who happened to be in the area, went to stop the “movingpany.” The three men from the movingpany even imed that the house owner had asked them to help with moving, but when Luke asked them for the house owner’s name and number as well as their own identities, they couldn’t answer him at all.


    As the movingpany team was collectively escorted to the police car, Luke agreed with the house owner’s request to have the stuff moved back to his house.


    These three guys had taken the house owner’s microwave and fridge.


    Without these items, it was basically impossible for regr people to eat. After all, most locals ate takeout – they took it out of the fridge and heated it in the microwave.


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    It was pretty heartless of this “free movingpany” to go after the house owner’s food, as if they wanted him to starve to death.


    Incidents like these could be considered the normal ones.


    On a Hispanic block, a mother called the police and imed that her son had threatened her with a gun and robbed her of her money.


    After they came over, they found that the son was only ten years old and was holding a water gun as he argued with his mother.


    His mother didn’t give him money to buy toys, so he took out the water gun and said that he would kill his stingy mother.


    Then what? Then nothing.


    Luke confiscated the “murder weapon” and told the mother that he could send her son to the custody center, and the juvenile detention center after that, for him to be reeducated.


    However, he wasn’t clear on the terms of bail and the fees at these ces, so she could wait to be notifiedter.


    The mother and son immediately stopped fighting