Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 373: Intelligence Bureau One’s Swarm

The agents of Team Seven of Intelligence Bureau One and the trainee Supervisors might not know yet.

Just as they wanted to give this new Boss a Show of Power, Team Two, controlled by the Li Clan in the same building, had already received a call from Li Yunshou himself, asking them to fully cooperate with Qing Chen’s work during this period.

If there is a conflict between their regular work and Qing Chen’s arrangements, they can prioritize Qing Chen’s arrangements.

As soon as these words came out, Li Yunqu understood the importance of the matter, so he met with Qing Chen immediately after Qing Chen reported for duty.

Therefore, for Qing Chen, he doesn’t necessarily need to win over everyone; if the agents and trainee Supervisors under him disobey, naturally there will be people who obey.

If he really wants to do something, he can bypass Team Seven.

It’s just that he doesn’t want to do that.

At this time, Qing Chen already had a general understanding of what Intelligence Bureau One is like.

Its existence is a place used by the Conglomerate to legitimately suppress its opponents.

When many congressmen participate in elections to canvass for votes, the favorite thing they say is: The Federation is the Federation of all Federation citizens.

But the favorite thing citizens say is that the Federation is the Federation of the Li Clan, Qing Family, Chen Family, Shendai, and Koshima.

On this vast land, there is only one unified country. Although Shendai and Koshima, as outsiders from hundreds of years ago, also have Federation citizenship.

Under the vast and boundless starry sky, everyone seems to be equal, and yet seems to be different.

A scholar who taught at Qing He University once said that today’s democracy has become the biggest joke within the Federation.

Most congressmen need the support of the Conglomerate to be elected, but the Conglomerate still maintains the position of the president in the midst of mutual checks and balances. Those who desperately want to run for president look like pitiful worms in the long river of history.

Many people thought that this scholar would be suppressed by the Conglomerate, but in fact, he wasn’t.

But he never spoke out about this matter again. This matter was handled by the pca Federal Central Intelligence Bureau. Agents came to the scholar’s home and killed his cat, and on behalf of the Conglomerate, they made certain promises, then swaggered away.

Facts have proved that intellectuals are not always so principled.

But it also proves that the pca Federal Central Intelligence Bureau is not a purely intelligence department, and the things it does are not all the things an intelligence department should do.

They wear official identities and become knives in the hands of the Conglomerate used to kill others.

Qing Chen returned to the third floor. The agents were surprised that Qing Chen hadn’t gone home from work, and they were also curious where this young Supervisor had just been.

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

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

Qing Hua was a little surprised. He exchanged glances with the agents, and then they all left the Intelligence Bureau One building.

He didn’t know that, for them, letting the newly appointed superior dryly flip through the database was a Show of Power.

However, for Qing Chen, this was a great opportunity for him to understand the secrets of the Federation.

When he agreed to come to the pca Federal Central Intelligence Bureau as a secret agent for the Qing FamilyShadow, wasn’t it to obtain more intelligence?

At this moment, an entire information database was open to him. This was something he desperately wanted.

Although the database that the pca Federal Central Intelligence Bureau could access was not yet the true secrets of the Federation, it was important enough. This is something that ordinary Time Travelers would absolutely not be able to obtain.

The most crucial thing is that the pca Federal Central Intelligence Bureau’s network is also very large. City 10 is only the headquarters; even under each agent, there are connections to local branches of the pca Federal Central Intelligence Bureau.

Therefore, in the latest database, there is even a record of the Mechanical God Sect having a branch abducted in City 10.

This intelligence is still hot…

The third floor was already empty. Outside Qing Chen’s Supervisor’s office, the lights in the large office were all dark, only his was still on.

Extraordinarily lonely.

Qing Chen looked at the data. It showed that the pca Federal Central Intelligence Bureau has not yet investigated the reason for the defection of an entire branch of the Mechanical God Sect, only knowing that the believers of this branch no longer have faith and have begun to call each other family.

This incident seems to have been deliberately done by someone, but the culprit has not been found, nor is it known what the meaning of family represents.

The pca branch said that a new organization may emerge, and further observation of the Mechanical God Sect’s reaction to this matter is needed.

Qing Chen picked out another incident he was concerned about: In the case of the assassination of the fourth president after his resignation, the killer was a B-level expert named ‘Gao Liang’. This person had served in the Federation’s First Army, had no faction, and was not recruited by the Conglomerate.

Gao Liang’s son suffered from congenital heart disease. Due to his rare blood type, he had been unable to get a matching heart.

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

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

At this point, it really seemed to have become an unsolved case.

Qing Chen frowned. Could the clues he was looking for about Huan Yu be cut off like this?

He searched the internal information database for keywords like ‘Demon Stamp’ and “Forbidden Artifactace-017”, and found that the Demon Stamp actually appeared again later. 49 years ago, someone actually used it to write a love letter to a certain star, scaring the star almost out of the entertainment industry.

Qing Chen thought to himself, what kind of nonsense is this…

If this kind of thing happened in the Outer World with obsessive fans, it would probably scare a lot of people.

But this star seems to still be alive. Should he visit the person and ask if they can guess who the holder of the Demon Stamp is?

Next, Qing Chen saw that the pca Federal Central Intelligence Bureau Intelligence Bureau One had even listed the pursuit and escape of Shendai Kongyin as one of the cases.

In the case file, Shendai Kongyin’s last public appearance was in City 19 in the north, after which he disappeared, and it seemed that someone was helping him escape, suspected to be the Outer World Time Traveler organization Nine Provinces.

Finally, Qing Chen looked at the cases that the agents were investigating. The supplementary database was huge, and there were even some surveillance video recordings related to the suspects. Qing Chen watched them all at four times the speed.

At this time, footsteps came from outside the office.

Qing Chen looked up. He knew that no one in Intelligence Bureau One would try to assassinate him. Even if they really wanted to kill him, they wouldn’t do it here.

Therefore, he wasn’t worried about anything.

The next second, Qing Zhun, who was in his early thirties, came to the office door and said with a smile: “Supervisor, you’re still looking at the information database. Actually, you don’t have to. You can directly order Qing Hua in the name of Shadow Master. They dare to disobey? Why bother?”

Qing Chen thought for a moment and said, “You may not believe this, but I’m very interested in the past case files.”

He looked at Qing Zhun, but found that the other party was carrying two plastic bags.

Qing Zhun took out a few disposable biodegradable lunch boxes from inside: “I think Supervisor, you might be staying up all night, so I bought some late-night snacks.”

Qing Chen thought for a moment and said, “Thank you.”

The disposable lunch boxes were light yellow, containing several exquisite small dishes.

These lunch boxes are all made of sugarcane bagasse. After extracting sugar from sugarcane, the factory crushes and settles the bagasse and then presses it into boxes.

After eating, they only need to be buried in the ground for a while, and they will decompose into soil.

It has to be said that the Inner World pays more attention to environmental protection than imagined.

Qing Zhun thought for a moment and asked, “Has Shadow Master mentioned me to you?”

Qing Chen shook his head: “No.”

“It’s good that he mentioned it. I am someone you can trust…” Qing Zhun’s voice paused: “Ah, is that so?”

He originally wanted to quickly get closer to each other by using Shadow’s words, but he didn’t expect Qing Chen to refuse to acknowledge it at all. It seemed that he planned to observe slowly?

Qing Chen lowered his head to eat, but Qing Zhun didn’t give up, and continued: “By the way, why didn’t you go to a gilded place like Intelligence Bureau Three, but came to Intelligence Bureau One instead?”

Qing Chen glanced at him: “Don’t ask what you shouldn’t ask. Maybe you have a good relationship with Shadow, but here, this is not capital that you can casually inquire about.”

Qing Zhun didn’t get angry, but smiled and said: “Today, Qing Yi, Qing Shi, Qing Yuan, Qing Wu, Qing Wen, and Qing Xing have all joined Intelligence Bureau Three. I have some understanding of these Shadow Candidates. For example, Qing Shi’s father is a powerful figure in the Patriarch’s household who manages energy projects, and he seems to have decided to personally help his daughter win the Shadow Succession. For example, Qing Xing is very lucky. From the age of 7, he could pick up money every day he went out, and things he wanted to do would always be done, and people he disliked would always stay away.”

“He could pick up money every day?” Qing Chen looked up.

“Yes,” Qing Zhun smiled, “but picking up money is a small matter. There are other things.”

“He was always second in the Qing Family academy. Qing Wen’s academic performance was always better than his. When Qing Xing was 12 years old, his father promised him that if he got first place, he would reward him with a sniper rifle. As a result… Qing Wen happened to be sick that time and missed the exam.”

Qing Chen fell into deep thought.

Qing Zhun continued: “There are many, many similar things. For example, he liked a girl at Qing He University, but the girl already had someone she liked. As you know, students at Qing He University come from all over the Federation, and they go home during holidays. So, his rival happened to be in a car accident on his way home. The driving recorder showed that the rival’s vehicle, while driving, had a goat rush out from the roadside, and it was his own mistake in handling it, violently turning the steering wheel, causing the vehicle to overturn.”

“More than one person has died under Qing Xing’s ‘lucky aura’. A tutor at Qing He University gave him a failing grade in one subject, requiring him to retake the subject at Qing He University for a year. As a result, this tutor, on his way home, had two club members quarrel and slash at each other with knives, accidentally cutting a young man who was watching the commotion. The young man stumbled and broke the glass in the shop window. The broken glass fell down and cut the tutor’s neck.”

The more Qing Chen listened, the more he frowned.

Qing Zhun smiled and asked, “Do you think it’s amazing? There is such a lucky person in this world. So everyone thinks that Qing Wen can become Shadow, but I think Qing Wen cannot defeat this lucky person. After all, Qing Wen had already lost to luck once when he was 12 years old.”

Qing Chen looked at this Qing Zhun.

Perhaps the other party is really a confidant of Shadow Master, otherwise, why would the other party suddenly talk to him about Shadow Succession?

Of course, it’s also possible that it’s a test. Qing Zhun may suspect that he is also one of the Shadow Candidates.

Qing Chen looked at Qing Zhun but didn’t say anything.

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Qing Zhun left.

But Qing Chen didn’t leave. He sat in his office and seriously looked at the information, relying on his own brain to memorize the Federation’s secrets one by one.

Qing Hua thought he would need to look for several months, but in fact, Qing Chen only took 9 hours to browse through everything.

After reading all this, Qing Chen also discovered that the pca Federal Central Intelligence Bureau had the authority to access Federation household registration information, so he also memorized the 931 search results of familiar names such as ‘He Xiaoxiao’ in his mind.

During this time, he didn’t feel bored at all, but felt a surge of excitement.

In the morning, the agents arrived at the office one after another.

When they found that Qing Chen was still here, and that he seemed to have not slept all night, they were all inexplicably surprised.

They didn’t expect this new Boss to be so dedicated!

Qing Hua came. He silently looked at Qing Chen in the office through the window.

A certain agent said: “This new Boss is a ruthless person. Could he be harboring resentment and preparing to rectify us?”

Another agent said: “Could he have discovered that there are many omissions in the case files we wrote? After all, sometimes we lack evidence but still secretly arrest people.”

The reason why Intelligence Bureau One is called the living Yama King is because they act without scruples and are very ruthless.

Since they are the Conglomerate’s knives, they must be sharper to be valued by the Conglomerate.

The agents looked at Qing Hua: “Deputy team leader, what do you think about this?”

Qing Hua looked at everyone: “What I fear most is that he can’t do anything to us, but he’s unwilling to seriously look at the case files, and finally uses the name of Shadow Master to suppress us. Now, whether he is really looking at the case files or not, at least he’s not a fool. Everyone, we will eventually have to work for the Qing Family. He has shown a humble attitude; this Show of Power can almost end.”

“Is that all?”

Qing Hua looked at them: “The information database, even if ordinary people look at it for months, they may not be able to finish it. You don’t really think that this new Boss will patiently read it, right? He has shown his attitude, and there is a step down, you know? Otherwise, do you think he can’t directly rectify us?”

At this time, Qing Zhun walked in from outside, carrying a breakfast in his hand, and swaggered into Qing Chen’s office, placing the breakfast on the table.

But Qing Chen didn’t eat but walked out of the office and calmly said, “Who is Yang Xuyang?”

A certain agent hesitated for a moment and stood up: “Supervisor, I am Yang Xuyang.”

Qing Chen calmly said: “I’ve seen the military leak case in your hands. The evidence against the secretly arrested defense official is insufficient, right? Go and check again near number 36, Xingye Street, District Three. This official is clearly very rich but always insists on walking home. In the surveillance recording of his whereabouts, he passes by number 36 every day, and nine out of ten times he looks up at the window on the upper right. There may be some signals between spies there. Arrest the owner of that household for me and send them to the secret prison for surprise interrogation. Li Li and Wang Bo, you two keep an eye on Shendai and Koshima upstairs. If there are any unusual movements, let me know. Do not allow them to contact the suspect in the secret prison.”

A moment of silence fell in the large office, and everyone stared blankly at Qing Chen.

Qing Chen said, “Didn’t you hear me?”

“Yes!” Yang Xuyang hurriedly got up and ran out.

Qing Chen continued, “Who is Xu Wen?”

A certain agent silently stood up.

Qing Chen said, “Go one kilometer away and bring back Zhou Chenyi from Intelligence Bureau Six for investigation. There are contradictions in his statements in the 6.12 smuggling case. I suspect he is one of the culprits. Bring him back for surprise interrogation. I want to know what the smuggled goods that haven’t been found are.”

Qing Hua was stunned. Intelligence Bureau Six is Shendai’s territory. This new Boss actually directly attacked Shendai’s faction on his second day in office?!

He reminded him, “Supervisor, Intelligence Bureau Six is Shendai’s…”

Qing Chen looked at Qing Hua, “Can’t Shendai’s people be brought back?”

Qing Hua lowered his head, “Yes.”

After speaking, he lowered his head and opened his computer to check the case file of the 6.12 smuggling case. Zhou Chenyi’s statement was indeed contradictory.

Qing Hua immediately got up and called six agents and personally went to Intelligence Bureau Six to arrest people.

After Qing Hua left, Qing Chen continued to point out more than a dozen people, and the number of suspects to be re-arrested for surprise interrogation reached 37.

In just over ten minutes, Qing Zhun watched as the large office, which had just become lively, became quiet again.

Qing Chen looked at Qing Zhun, “Go and help Qing Hua. I’m worried that there will be conflicts there.”

Qing Zhun smiled, “Intelligence Bureau One is going to investigate Intelligence Bureau Six. As long as there is solid evidence, no one there will dare to make trouble. The title of ‘living Yama King’ for Intelligence Bureau One is not for nothing. In fact, one-third of the cases handled by Intelligence Bureau One are from other intelligence bureaus. Eliminating dissidents is like this.”

Qing Zhun thought to himself, now Qing Hua’s people should be convinced.

At this moment, Qing Hua was sitting in the vehicle, speeding towards Intelligence Bureau Six.

An agent who was driving hesitated for a long time and suddenly said, “Deputy team leader, do you think how many case files this new Boss looked at overnight?”

Qing Hua sighed, “Even if someone tells me now that he has already finished reading all the case files, I won’t be surprised. Did you notice that when he was assigning tasks, he assigned 17 in a row, and he didn’t look at any information in between. He clearly pointed out who was in charge of the case, and clearly stated what the doubts in the case were. It would take me five minutes to give a speech even with notes, and he said so much information in one breath without changing his expression.”

Qing Hua continued, “And I just confirmed that he didn’t deliberately use us, making us blindly run around. Take the military leak case, for example. I watched six surveillance videos from that Xingye Street location in a row. That official did indeed look up at the upper right corner every time he passed by.”

Everyone in the car was silent.

Qing Hua said, “This new Boss is likely to make the pca Federal Central Intelligence Bureau restless. Get ready for overtime; we’re probably going to be busy for a long time.”

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