National Juggernaut

Chapter 589 Prelude
"Little people" may not be able to do big things, but they can prevent big things from being done.

No matter how complicated, cumbersome, and comprehensive the secret opportunity is, the implementation level still requires a person to do it. With the high degree of professionalization brought about by the division of labor in modern society, it is impossible for a well-trained professional agent to handle it alone.

Finance and accounting in the professional field have never been an easy job. There are still relatively few purely air-to-air financial games these days, and the flow of each fund corresponds to goods, labor services, and resources at the physical level.

And because every big city is a "local area network", cross-border electronic finance does not exist, such as money transfers, at least let the other party recognize your sovereign currency.

In this way, even if you want to buy a local employee, you still need to use the local currency. Even if you say "I prepared a house for you abroad", he must be willing to risk his life to go abroad.

In the current era of underdeveloped Internet finance, occupations such as accounting are regarded as important. No matter how powerful your intelligence organization is, you still need professionals to help you with accounts, transactions, purchasing, and purchasing services.

It can be said that by tracking the flow of funds, the corresponding people and resources can be found out.

Of course, no one is a fool these days. When "No. [-]" realized that there was a problem with the business scope of his company, and he was reluctant to bear the salary that was several times higher than the average standard, he left a heart to do it for himself. I got a book.

When necessary, this is a threat, this is a life-saving tool. Secretly making an internal black account is also an unspoken rule for financial personnel engaged in illegal industries.

But obviously, that is a conventional "illegal business", not "espionage business".

As a result, he was dealt with, and he was not even given a chance to show the ledger to intimidate him.

A huge amount of money embezzlement case fell on his head, what happened to his superiors, isn't it right?No, it's just such sensitive and important peripheral positions that will be cleaned up and replaced every once in a while.

He didn't die in an accident/due to a trip, but it was the result of the recent tense situation and the strict control of the entry and exit of civilians.

There was no communication and no communication, so he was directly thrown into prison with "conclusive evidence". As long as there is no evidence, the criminal will not take anything seriously , Those economic figures have not been verified by the investigation department one by one, and cannot be used as real evidence.

He tried to report it, but he couldn't say anything accurate. Those dry figures couldn't be found on the boss.

Of course, it also has something to do with the investigation of the case by the police rather than senior agents from the Ministry of the Interior.

If it weren't for the fact that this case was too strange, especially the huge amount of money embezzled (spiritual crystals) disappeared, it wouldn't have been dug out for further investigation.

"I didn't expect so many media and companies to be involved"

Investigating cases has always been a matter of pulling out carrots and bringing out mud. From the black accounts he kept in private, the organizations and companies with which he has economic ties are really shocking.

There are multinational companies, cross-city enterprises, those with human races, and those with the banner of the human race. What's more, are those foreign companies, those "consortia" under the banner of neutrality and harmlessness.

They are not just money collectors, but more troublesome collaborators and payers. While making money here, they have not done anything good for a long time.

These are big fish, I am afraid that in the end, they can only kill the chickens and respect the monkeys to kill two local unlucky eggs. That kind of neutral consortium and foreign powers are not good things in the first place. Maybe they are in the territory of the Ater people Also doing similar things.

These neutral financial groups and forces are wrapped in layers, and the inside is intertwined. No one knows who they really serve until the last layer is peeled off. Even if all the outer skins are peeled off, there may be nothing. It is for the benefit In a war, whoever benefits more is the temporary boss.

The cause of the case has been reported up, and Zheng Li estimated that the superiors would not be ignorant of it.

The accountant didn't have a lot of content, and he knew that several colleagues were doing similar things. Two of them have been invited to the new interrogation room, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs has specially prepared a professional team for them.

There are more busy internal affairs commissioners, police officers, and police detectives roaming around the city at high speed, arresting "human rape" and "foreign spies" one by one, although this time because the "civilian account books" were exposed, it involved mainly civilians. "Service providers", enterprises, and neutral organizations, but their harm is quite terrifying.

And Zheng Li once again served as an "investigation machine", squeezed out a little spiritual energy, and observed a few new suspects. They actually don't think it is a crime to use money to do things. Only a very small number of individuals regard it as a serious crime. , let Zheng Li's ability take effect.

Zheng Li once again realized a problem. If he used this ability in actual combat, it might be better to stay in the fortress to deal with strong enemies. Using it against ordinary miscellaneous soldiers is not only wasteful, but the effect is also a bit poor.

His spiritual energy was exhausted, so he naturally had to go back to sleep, but Zheng Li reckoned that this matter might just be the beginning.

What the hell are the Attels thinking?With the passage of time, the answer has become clearer. National-level strategies are rarely hidden until the last moment. With the strategic deployment at each level, the final implementation is still individual, with the level of participants I am afraid that in some channels, human beings have obtained first-hand "internal reference".

Now, it is nothing more than a race against time to clean up some unstable factors.

Walking on the street, Zheng Li was still at a loss.

He is not a recruit who has never experienced combat, let alone a barbarian who only knows how to slash and kill. He has already come to a rather bad conclusion among many intelligence and information.

"War, is it coming?"

If there is really a passage, or even an unknown world bordering the human world, everything can be explained for the abnormal behavior of the Atel people.

Shiqian City, the city with the shortest history, is indeed the one with the least background and the weakest comprehensive strength among the six cities, but considering its strategic weapons and surrounding resources, its upper limit is the highest.

Once the war becomes a long-term war of attrition, the weak will become weaker and the strong will become stronger. It is indeed a tempting grand strategy to remove the most "safe" hinterland cities of the six central cities in advance.

If this strategy is taken as a premise, everything that is happening now, whether it is the terrorist attack on the city, the "big pothole" that has been laid out for a century, or even this long and costly infiltration, is a part of the overall trend.

"Just take one step at a time"

Even if it is Shi Qiancheng, I am afraid that it can only seize every opportunity to prepare for the battle, and then send all the spies to find more detailed and convincing information.

But Zheng Li is not optimistic about their efforts at all. After all, even if the gap really exists, it is very likely that it is not in the main plane at all.

Every big city is a super space nail that stabilizes the surrounding space. Forcibly breaking it is not only expensive but also extremely unrealistic. Then, if you just want to achieve the goal of "bordering", it can be done in an area far away from the city.

Zheng Li even felt that this was not a good choice. Anyway, it was just for the convenience of troop projection. It would be fine to be in a different world bordering on the border of Shiqian City, such as the "Star Hunting World" and "Mushroom Man" back then. world".

There are too many small and medium-sized worlds directly bordering on Shiqian City. If the Aters plan for a long time, and now the humans rush to deal with it, Zheng Li can't see the possibility of preparing in advance.

The only thing that can be expected is that the Ministry of Internal Affairs is strong enough to find out the passage from the inside line in advance, and follow the clues to find possible breaches. Even if they find it, it may not be possible to stop it.

Pedestrians on the road are often in a hurry, students only need to worry about their studies, civil servants are discussing today's lunch, no one cares about the police cars whizzing by, all the seemingly ordinary scenery may not be seen in a few months.

Shiqian City, which has experienced wars since its establishment, seems to have never experienced a real all-out war. If it happened, everyone's fate would be rewritten.

At this moment, Zheng Li really realized what it was like to have everyone on the same boat.

The six cities have already formed an alliance, the Beastmen have been attacked, and the other big cities are more or less bordered by battle lines, but many Shiqian people always feel that they have nothing to do with them.

When foreigners try to erase your ethnic group, no one can escape or retreat. Foreign invaders will not distinguish, they will only regard you as a whole, and then pick the weakest link to fight.

Do you think it only hits beasts?Think war has nothing to do with you?When it really comes, it doesn't distinguish between beliefs, cultures, and regions. It is enough that you are human. There is always something that cannot be washed off and is extremely easy to identify.

Those "Honorary Aters" who receive money for work in the city can prevent the catastrophe of war from befalling them?If the city is destroyed, I am afraid that few people will be able to escape to the next safe area.

Just like in Pingning City back then, as long as the barrier is breached, countless foreigners are probably waiting to beat the dog in the water.

"Hey, go back and stay in Yinghuo's psionic recovery field for a while longer, accumulate a little more psionic energy, and observe a few more tomorrow."
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After a brief daze, Zheng Li wandered around the street for a while, and Zheng Li didn't find nothing.

He looked at the prices and commodity conditions in many markets, and the result of a little estimation is that the inflation rate has risen by at least 10% in two months. This inflation rate is already quite terrifying, and it is obviously in an abnormal situation.

"It seems that many people have started to hoard supplies."

From Zheng Li's point of view, he knew the current market situation in his mind, and he planned to ask Song Ying and the others to arrange a big purchase later.

This kind of response may not be useful, but there is food in hand without panic, and there is still one thing that needs to be prepared.

"The city government will interfere, tsk. Maybe the main force of procurement is the military and government agencies. The demand is so large that no matter how administrative orders are issued, it can't be controlled."

The soaring price of living is only one aspect. There is no obvious increase in the price of arms and spiritual materials. The price increase of various common raw materials (steel, wood, alloy) is more severe than that of civilian products.

Considering that fluctuations in raw materials will cause a large number of industrial product costs to rise, with the transmission of fluctuations in the price chain, it is only a matter of time before the foreseeable increase in arms prices.

".In addition to purchasing spiritual materials and munitions, basic raw materials also need to be purchased in large quantities, and a large amount of reserves will be needed to set up factories. At that time, the whole city will really be in short supply. Even if you have money, you will not be able to buy raw materials. Anyway, transportation The resource supply of the ministry and the military should give priority to our civil war regiment."

Observing the market situation, Zheng Li smoothly dealt with a thief who was eyeing him.

He also developed another ability. As long as he takes himself as the core of positioning, "hostility" will quickly expose any enemy who regards himself as the target.

He conveniently pinned the thief to a utility pole by the side of the road, and then called the familiar police officers, asking them to quickly come and collect him.

Zheng Li looked at the toy store and women's clothing store on the side of the road
When he came out, he was carrying two handbags in his hands, and there were still a lot of goods left in the store to be packed, ready to be sent directly to the firefly cart.

"Some small gifts, I hope they like it."

This time, to be able to fight to this point, Zheng Liting thanked his Spirit Race and the twelve constellations.

Inexplicably, Zheng Li suddenly felt that the Juggernaut Competition this time might be the same as the one three years ago, and it was also the result of a sudden suspension.

But holding the event itself is to divert attention to eliminate the pressure of war, and at the same time, it is also a reasonable reason to concentrate the entire city's combat power back.

I am afraid that the military department has already taken advantage of this opportunity and is busy reorganizing battle groups one by one.

Walking and thinking, Zheng Li sent a text message to Zhao Yuzhen.

There are a lot of things in the cloud, and the core is only about the "possibility" of war. The words are very euphemistic, such as nonsense such as not going out recently, it is not safe, but Zheng Li guesses that she can understand.

But suddenly, he stopped.

In his eyes, one target after another is linked by a single red thread, there is an old man who sells tea, office workers who come and go in a hurry, the most recent, and even two children who look less than 10 years old.

"Hey, hey, if it's a large gang of thieves, it's too exaggerated."

Zheng Li sighed helplessly, shook his hands, and held two rapiers in each hand, but they were still tucked into his long sleeves.

There are not many people who know themselves. It seems that the Atel people also have high-level spies in the police and even the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Is he being targeted by the other party?Is it because my ability information has been leaked, or is it that the other party has a gap of eight, and I want to cut off the clues to continue the investigation?Indiscriminately target all the investigators who came out of that interrogation area?
"Six, the lowest is almost four blades, the tallest one. The spiritual power is stronger than mine but limited. It should not be that my ability information has leaked. It may be the spies on the outside."

Zheng Li heaved a sigh of relief. If he was the local commander of the Ater people, he would definitely kill him at any cost after realizing his abilities. The killer killer is basically a one-off, and a high-risk target like Zheng Li is worth paying a few mythical combat power.

"Then let's say hi first."

(End of this chapter)