Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 591: 373, Swarm out of Intelligence Department One Chapter 591: 373, Swarm out of Intelligence Department One The detectives and trainee inspectors of Intelligence Department One, Group Seven, might still be in the dark.

At the time they wanted to show the new boss who’s boss, Group Two, controlled by the Li Family in the same building, had already received a phone call from Li Yunshou himself, instructing them to fully cooperate with Qing Chen’s work during this period.

If there was a conflict between their regular duties and Qing Chen’s arrangements, Qing Chen’s tasks could be given priority.

Once this was said, Li Yunqu realized the importance of the situation, which is why he met with Qing Chen as soon as he reported for duty.

Thus, for Qing Chen, he may not need to assert his authority; if detectives and trainee inspectors don’t comply, naturally, there will be others who will.

If he really wanted to get something done, he could bypass Group Seven altogether.

He just didn’t want to do that.

By now, Qing Chen had a rough understanding of what kind of place Intelligence Department One was.

Its existence was simply a means for the conglomerates to suppress their opponents with legitimacy.

During election campaigns, the favorite phrase of the senators is, “The Federation belongs to all federal citizens.”

But what the citizens love to say is that the Federation belongs to the Li Family, Qing’s Family, Chen Clan, Jindai, and Deer Island.

On this vast land there’s only one unified nation, even though Jindai and Deer Island are newcomers from hundreds of years ago, they also have the status of federal citizens.

Under the vast starry sky, it seems like everyone is equal, and yet different.

A scholar from Qinghe University once said that the current form of democracy had become the biggest joke within the Federation.

The majority of senators needed the support of conglomerates to be elected, but the conglomerates, while balancing each other, still supported the position of the President. Those who desperately wanted to run for President appeared like pathetic figures in the long river of history.

Many thought this scholar would be silenced by the conglomerates, but in fact, he wasn’t.

However, he never spoke out about such matters again. This incident was handled by the PCA Central Intelligence Agency, with detectives showing up to kill the scholar’s cat and, on behalf of the conglomerates, making certain promises before leaving conspicuously.

The fact proved that scholars aren’t always so principled.

But it also proved that the PCA Federal Central Intelligence Bureau was not just a simple intelligence agency, nor was everything it did appropriate for one.

They wore the guise of official status, becoming the knife in the conglomerates’ hand used to cut down others.

Qing Chen returned to the third floor. The detectives were surprised that Qing Chen hadn’t gone home after work, and they also wondered where the young inspector had just gone.

Qing Hua looked at Qing Chen, “Boss, it’s getting late. Why don’t we continue looking through the information database tomorrow?”

Qing Chen shook his head, “You all go back. I’ll take another look.”

Qing Hua was somewhat surprised. He exchanged glances with the detectives and then left the Intelligence Department One building one after another.

What he didn’t know was that having the new boss tediously go over the information database was a form of initiation.

However, for Qing Chen, it was an excellent opportunity to learn the Federation’s secrets.

After all, he had agreed to become a spy for Qing’s shadow and report to the PCA Central Intelligence Agency just to gain more intelligence.

At this moment, the entire information database was open to him, an opportunity too good to pass up.

Although the intelligence database the PCA Central Intelligence Agency could access wasn’t exactly the deep secrets of the Federation, it was still significant; these were things an ordinary Time Traveler couldn’t hope to grasp.

Most crucially, the PCA Central Intelligence Agency had vast connections; the 10th City was just the headquarters, with each detective even linked to various PCA Central Intelligence Agency branches around the place.

So, in the latest information database, it shockingly recorded an event where a Mechanicus branch was abducted in the 10th City.

This intelligence was still fresh…

The third floor was now empty. During the late hours, the lights in the large office outside of Qing Chen’s inspector’s office were all off, leaving only his lit up.

He was particularly alone.

Qing Chen looked at the data, which showed that the PCA Branch still hadn’t uncovered why an entire Mechanicus branch had defected, only knowing that the followers no longer had faith and started calling each other family members.

It seemed like the work of an intentional perpetrator, but the culprit’s identity wasn’t found, nor the meaning behind calling each other family members.

The PCA Branch indicated that a new type of organization might emerge and further observation of the Mechanicus’s reaction to the incident was needed.

Qing Chen then picked out another event of interest: the assassination of the fourth President after stepping down, where the culprit was a B-Class Expert named ‘Liang Liang’, who had served in the Federal First Group Army, had no faction, and wasn’t recruited by any conglomerate.

Liang Liang’s son suffered from congenital heart disease and had long been unable to receive a matching heart due to his rare blood type.

Yet before the assassination, Liang Liang’s son received a heart donation.

After the assassination, Liang Liang’s body was found by a river outside 10th City, mostly eaten by fish.

The case seemed to have become an unsolved one at this point.

Qing Chen furrowed his brows; was the trail to find Huan Yu really cut short like this?

He searched the internal information database using keywords like ‘Devil’s Stamp’ and ‘Taboo Item ACE-017’ and discovered that the Devil’s Stamp had reappeared after that, 49 years ago, when someone had used it to write a love letter to a star, scaring them almost out of the entertainment industry.

Qing Chen thought to himself, what a mess this all is…