The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

For many people, yesterday was a very uneasy day. The fate of their lives and their families changed dramatically yesterday. Some people just disappeared. No one talks about them, and no one remembers them. There are some people who are still remembered, but no one dared to mention them, as if those people had become taboo overnight.

Although most of the people who have changed and disappeared are only in the middle and lower levels of the government, there are also some high-ranking dignitaries, such as members of parliament, a certain minister, and even judges of the Supreme Court, no matter how high their status is. , How powerful is in their hands, they are all fragile like a bubble in the face of the state apparatus that has been fully functioning, and they will burst in one poke.

During the entire arrest process, there were indeed people who tried to resist, but the various departments responsible for arrest had already prepared corresponding measures. When confronted with resistance, they were able to use corresponding measures in time to completely suppress these resistances. With the exception of a few people who escaped from the arresters because they mastered extra abilities that were not expected, all other arrested targets recorded on the lists distributed to various departments have been arrested.

However, because the spy list appeared suddenly and the verification time was very short, it could only be verified based on the evidence attached to the list. It is very likely that the wrong person might be caught. For example, the Minister of Finance Kaimen might be caught. Wrong, because he did not find out what he did to endanger the Federation, only because he was on the list, and there are several people in his family who have been identified as spies, so he was also arrested. .

　　 It’s not that the federal government has thought about investigating secretly for a period of time, and after the identity of these people is fully confirmed as a spy, arrests can be carried out, so as to avoid some unjust cases.

However, time, manpower, financial resources, and the situation are all pressing the federal government's actions all the time. Although the people on the list account for only a small part of the total number of civil servants in the federal government, they are almost all in Once the key parts of the federal economy, people's livelihood, military, and other functional departments, if these people try to make any damage, then the entire Otter federal government will enter a state of disorder in a short period of time, and even complete collapse may be possible.

　　 The more important point is that they don’t know if the list in their hands is a unique one. If the list is distributed and discovered by the people on the list, will those people take the risk and do something in advance.

　　All kinds of worries forced the federal government to confirm the existence of the evidence on the list as quickly as possible. Without a more careful review of the next step, it began to lay out the arrests of the people on the list.

Fortunately, the results of the arrest in Mirtaros were satisfactory. This incident did not affect the order of the city. Many people did not even know what happened. Moreover, the federal government also blocked all news and newspapers. The whole thing is completely covered.

This is not just to avoid the floating of popular among the people. More importantly, the arrest of Mirtaros is only the beginning of the entire arrest. The clean-up work in other federal cities has just begun. The federal government even blocked the entire access roads of Mirtaros on the grounds of military mobilization, stopped all non-essential trains, and everyone was only allowed in and not out.

　　 However, at this moment, the busiest department in Mirtaros is not the department responsible for arresting spies, but the department responsible for personnel transfer. They are having a headache about how to fill the vacancies that appear.

If it’s just a general position, they can completely fill the vacancy by transferring someone from other places or from the subordinate positions of that position, but the problem is that the vacant positions are all the positions of very key parts of each department. These positions are Civil servants need a long period of investigation and weighing the interests of multiple parties before someone can sit. Generally, those who sit in that position will not be transferred for a long period of time to ensure the stability of the entire department.

　　 But now, dozens or nearly a hundred such positions are vacant overnight, and there are only a few candidates who are qualified and can allow all parties to compromise. They are just a drop in the bucket, and they are not enough.

There are some usually humble small departments who think that their department is not a key department, and there shouldn't be any comments on the change of a key position here, so they try to directly transfer a competent employee from the subordinate department. Temporarily replace the currently vacant position.

But shortly after the transfer order was issued, before the person could report to the new position, the letter of inquiries from the heads of the higher-level departments was placed on the desks of the supervisors of those small departments along with the transfer order. , Obviously those small positions that are inconspicuous in the eyes of others are actually very important positions for some people.

Gray income has always been the default hidden income of federal civil servants. The federal government also knows this income. They also open one eye and close one eye to this. As long as they don't make too much noise, they will not go. This part of the income is restricted, mainly because the income of federal civil servants is too low, and it has not been adjusted for more than 50 years.

In some small cities, civil servants are pretty good, and they can barely make ends meet with the income of civil servants, but if they are in a big city like Miltalos, then this income is simply not enough to meet daily expenses, if there is no extra gray If it is supported by income, let alone the small staff working in the office building, even the patrol officers who patrol the streets on a daily basis will probably switch to other jobs.

In the past, some people have indeed seen all the drawbacks of gray income and the unreasonable salary of civil servants. They thought about eliminating gray income and directly increasing the salary of civil servants. However, in doing so, the federal government's finances would have increased out of thin air and it was huge enough. The huge expenditure that stunned everyone, the final result would only make the federal government declared bankrupt on the day of the reform, so this reform was only abolished during the discussion stage.

Someone once proposed to nationalize the gray income and then use the gray income to increase the salaries of civil servants. As a result, the day the person just proposed this proposal, he was thrown away by his supervisor to a small town in a remote suburb. Gray The reason why income is called gray income is income that is not visible. The civil servants underneath do it. The federal government still has a way to turn around. If the federal government personally ends up, the final result will only trigger waves in the near future. Civil riots.

Therefore, all key positions related to gray income are very important, and they are not available to ordinary civil servants. Among the positions that happen to be vacant, almost generally are closely related to gray income. These positions are definitely not dispatched. The person can do it right, and it is also related to commercial and political organizations outside the government. The choice of candidates needs to be negotiated and compromised by all parties before they can be decided.

And what makes the federal government even more headache is that the arrangement of these positions is only in Mirtaros. When the follow-up clean-up operation is completed, the vacancies of relevant key positions across the country will increase tenfold. At that time, they did not dare to imagine whether the government could still operate smoothly after these vacancies.

　　It’s just that, now that the clean-up operation has been promoted, it is impossible to suspend it at all, and if it is suspended, those positions are in the hands of spies from other countries, then the threat to the Otter Federation’s own security will only be greater.

Just as the various departments of the Haute federal government were busy with the filling program of a large number of key positions, an application document for Leo Dodd and Sylvia Belmont to participate in the research of Relic Zero was placed On the desks of several relevant department heads.

　　 If it was before the reasonable work, this document would definitely need to be reviewed repeatedly, and it is very likely to fail in the end, but now the situation is a little different.

During this arrest, some high-level government officials were arrested and their homes were carefully searched, and contact information that had not had time to be destroyed was found. These information contained some instructions related to the couple. , And from these instructions, it is not difficult to see that the surrounding church countries are very worried about the new weapon developed by the couple, so they let the spies under their control prevent the federal government from cooperating with the couple at all costs.

Soon someone linked these instructions to their previous suspicion about the identity of the couple at the meeting, and it was also discovered that the person who caused this suspicion was the spy arrested this time, so they knew they had been fooled. , Is considering how to repair the relationship with Leo and his wife, and the emergence of the application documents at this time also just solved this problem.

"Your application has been approved. This is the relevant research information you need. You have two days to prepare. After two days, I will personally bring someone to pick you up. Then the two will be taken to number zero. For the relic deposit, the two applicants have five days for research this time. After five days, the research time is over. If you want to research again, you need to apply again." A soldier wearing a military uniform and a special badge held a A document that needs to be signed, while instructing to carry in boxes of sealed research materials, while introducing the situation.

　　 "These documents are..." Leo took the documents and read it hastily, signed the name, and then pointed to the dusty documents next to him and asked.

"These are the materials left by some previous researchers," the soldier hesitated for a while, said: "These researchers are dead, and the materials of those researchers who are still alive cannot be brought over. Mr. Langenus said these materials are also useful to you. , So let us collect it and send it over. You can read these materials at will in these two days. I will send them back to the archives in two days. You will need to apply for it if you want to see it again."

After speaking, he put the documents signed by Leo and Sylvia into the briefcase in his hand, and then after asking what they wanted, he turned and left, but the soldiers he brought over did not He left, but replaced the special security guards who had guarded here, guarding around this small apartment.

After the soldiers left, Leo did not rush to open the files in the box, but smiled at Sylvia who was on the side: "It seems that the effect of that list has been produced, but I don’t know how long it will last. ."

"The time should be long enough for us to leave." Sylvia smiled and said: "And they were probably still busy chasing the escaped spies at that time, and would not even realize our departure." , She pointed to the boxes full of materials and said: "Do you need me to sort these materials together?"

Leo shook his head and said: "It is not necessary. Most of these materials should be materials with the wrong research direction. Apart from allowing us to know in advance what the so-called No. 0 Relic is, there is not much reference value. , Let me sort it out by myself, it will be faster. When I finish sorting it out, you can look at the information I sorted out."

After 　　, he grabbed a box next to him, opened it, and took out a stack of documents with a tinge of musty smell from it, and started flipping through them one by one on the table.

Although the amount of research data on Relic Zero in the past is extremely large, and more than 30 large boxes can be filled, there is not much content that really attracts Leo’s attention. His main concern and sorting content are not those people targeting the relics. Instead of focusing on the various descriptions of Relic Zero in the materials, as well as the various chaotic and chaotic notes left by the researcher behind the materials when they fell into a state of inexplicable madness.

Not to mention whether the research directions and methods of the previous researchers are correct. Even if they are correct, they cannot be applied to Leo. Leo has his own research style and his abilities are far better than those researchers have. More powerful, too much reading of the research reports of those researchers will only affect one's own thinking. Sometimes the failed research programs recorded by those researchers may become successful under the effect of Leo's ability.

As for the notes left by the researchers after falling into madness, Leo has no research value. As other people who have studied these notes have said, the cluttered words and symbols in the notes are normal. It is meaningless to people. Unless someone is as crazy as them, studying those things will only make people crazy.

What I said here to make people fall into madness is really falling into madness, not a description. According to some data records that Leo found in the box, it seems that someone has tried to decipher the meaning of the chaotic words on these notes, and ultimately none All the exceptions fell into madness before they died, just like the master of the notes.

This is not because the content recorded in the notes will cause the reader to fall into madness, but the power contained in the notes will affect the mental state of the reader subtly when ordinary people read these notes, and eventually bring them into madness. The abyss.

And when Leo got a crazy notebook, he felt the crazy power that is the same as the human sacrifice pillar and the twisting power, but has different energy fluctuations, and it is just like the power of the human sacrifice pillar. Like the power that can be influenced and controlled by the Stone Throne, this crazy power can also be controlled by him.

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