Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 375: The Kestrels Are Getting Impatient

A long time ago, Intelligence Bureau One was a single entity.

Although there were many groups, everyone worked together on cases, and all the arrested were held together.

Now it's different. Intelligence Bureau One hasn't had a collaborative case in a long time. Even the prisoners they each capture are held in the secret prisons of their respective task forces, and agents from other groups are prohibited from approaching.

Yang Xuyang brought Li Menglin, an official from the Exit-Entry Administration Bureau, out of the Seventh Group's secret prison.

The chubby middle-aged man followed Yang Xuyang tremblingly to the Supervisor's office door. The moment the office door opened, Li Menglin knelt down with a thud upon seeing the young man inside.

He remembered clearly that a few days ago, this young man quietly entered City 10 in the Wilderness Hunters' convoy.

When he saw the other party's pcaFederal Central Intelligence Bureau identity, he immediately went over to curry favor, but he never expected to fall into the other party's hands so quickly!

Was it because he wanted to withhold Sun Chuci's bounty at the border?

Li Menglin wasn't sure.

Previously, his impression of Intelligence Bureau One was all hearsay. Only now, kneeling here, did he understand how terrifying this place was.

At this time, Yang Xuyang, like Qing Chen's most loyal dog, looked into the office: "Boss, this is Li Menglin. He has confessed everything about the smuggling."

Qing Chen nodded, looked at Li Menglin, and smiled: "We know each other, don't we, Captain of the Seventh Branch?"

This was the first time Yang Xuyang had seen Qing Chen smile. He was surprised. Ever since Qing Chen came to Intelligence Bureau One, he hadn't smiled, as if he would never smile.

Qing Chen looked at Yang Xuyang: "Take a break, have some food, and then switch shifts with others. I'll have a chat with this branch captain."

"Okay," Yang Xuyang brought Li Menglin into the office, then turned around and closed the door tightly.

However, Yang Xuyang didn't go to eat, but guarded the door to prevent anyone from accidentally encountering Li Menglin and the Boss's private conversation when reporting work.

Qing Chen looked at Li Menglin: "Get up and talk. It's not a good thing to kneel for so long. Don't worry, the reason for bringing you here today is that someone suddenly reported you; we're not seeking revenge."

Li Menglin was trembling on the ground and still didn't dare to get up.

Qing Chen smiled: "If we wanted revenge, Intelligence Bureau One wouldn't bother to find any evidence. You were indeed accidentally injured."

This sentence seemed to have a special charm. It was a very frightening sentence, but it convinced Li Menglin immediately.

Yes, if Intelligence Bureau One wanted to deal with these petty officials, why would they need evidence?

He carefully stood up: "What are your orders?"

Qing Chen said with a smile: "However, I didn't expect you to confess so quickly."

After saying that, Li Menglin silently knelt down again: "Please, sir, spare my life!"

"Get up, get up," Qing Chen spoke frankly: "Li captain's confession and evidence, I'll temporarily keep them sealed, you don't have to be too alarmed."

Li Menglin raised his head: "Sir, what do you want?"

He wasn't stupid. As soon as he heard Qing Chen speak, he knew that there must be a reason for the other party to do this.

Qing Chen said with a smile: "From today onwards, I need the number of people and vehicles entering City 10 in the Conglomerate convoy every day, as well as vehicle information and license plates. This shouldn't be difficult for you; you just need to stand there and write it down in a small notebook. Also, sometimes I'll need to let some people in, so Captain Li will need to make it easier."

Li Menglin quickly patted his chest and assured him: "No problem! Absolutely no problem!"

Doing this could save his life—it was a great deal!

"Okay, go call Yang Xuyang outside," said Qing Chen.

After Yang Xuyang came in, Qing Chen said, "Give Captain Li an informant identity and let him go back. He's a good friend of our Seventh Group, don't scare him."

Yang Xuyang was stunned: "Okay! Don't worry!"

Qing Chen sat silently in the office.

After arriving in City 10, Kestrel was given by Shadow Master, Intelligence Bureau OneSeventh Group was Qing Family's, and Li Yunshou's was given by Li Yunshou.

At this moment in City 10, strictly speaking, Li Menglin was the first informant he had developed himself.……

……

Qing Chen asked Qing Hua to bring over all the lists of suspects. What he was going to do wasn't to find the flaws in these people and then eliminate them.

Instead, it was to have more informants with blemishes.

Once you're in Intelligence Bureau One, your life belongs to Intelligence Bureau One.

This is one of the origins of the nickname, "Living Yama."

Qing Hua sat opposite the desk, carefully watching the new Boss, while the new Boss lowered his head and seriously studied the list of suspects.

Qing Chen said, "Lin Nianan, He Jinsha, seal up the confessions and evidence of these two people, and release them. Including Li Menglin, these three people are all under your charge. Remember to tell me if they report any important intelligence."

Lin Nianan was a female investigator from the PCE Public Security Committee, and He Jinsha was a Wilderness Hunters.

Qing Hua had already realized what the new Boss was going to do. The other party was going to use the power of Intelligence Bureau One to weave a City 10 intelligence network of his own.

However, when weaving this intelligence network, he handed all those informants with blemishes to him to manage? Qing Hua wondered, was this a decision to trust him?

Trust him, the person who was still trying to show off power to him yesterday?

Qing Hua's emotions were complicated for a moment, but he was also a little grateful.

He looked at Qing Chen and said, "Boss, I will definitely manage them well and won't let you down."

Qing Chen looked at Qing Hua, made no mention of the show of power, just smiled and said, "Do a good job, the Qing Family won't treat any meritorious person badly. Also, go and arrest Chen Quan and Fan Yu from the Federation lottery center later. Their evidence is in file number 1022219; I've marked it on the electronic version."

Qing Hua was stunned: "Federation lottery center?"

Qing Chen smiled: "I found out that these two are fat sheep. They have a set operation process to steal cash from the prize pool. When you arrest them, take some brothers with you. It's almost the New Year, and everyone shouldn't work hard for nothing."

Qing Hua was shocked this time.

First, the Boss handed over the informants with blemishes to him as a sign of respect.

This move meant that he was giving him a step down, letting him know that the matter was over, and that they would cooperate in the future without making any mistakes.

Immediately afterward, Qing Chen personally caught two fat sheep to raid their homes for the New Year, which was a benefit for the brothers.

But at the same time, Qing Chen also used this matter to tell Qing Hua: I know about your little tricks of taking dirty money.

By using both rewards and punishments, he instantly controlled Qing Hua.

Qing Hua stared blankly at the new Boss, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Is this really a young man? Why are his methods so powerful? Those living Yama of Intelligence Bureau One were completely controlled by him.

Qing Hua brought a team of people and rushed to the homes of Chen Quan and Fan Yu under the cover of night.

In order to store the stolen money, he even had two empty business cars prepared.

As Qing Hua thought, two cars should be enough. All the brothers could have a good New Year.

However, when they broke into Chen Yu's home and began to search, they were astonished to find that an entire wall behind Chen Yu's home was sealed with cash!

Not only that, but in the underground garage, there were large amounts of cash sealed with concrete.

In today's digital currency era, it's probably difficult to find such a large amount of cash in a bank. Who knows how much money Chen Quan and Fan Yu had taken from the lottery prize pool!

Qing Hua only realized after seeing this scene that he had brought too few empty cars…

This was just Chen Quan's home, and there was no more room…

Qing Hua was busy from evening to late night. By the time he returned to the Intelligence Bureau One building, the building was still brightly lit.

Not only was the Seventh Group working overtime, but several other groups were also forced to work overtime to deal with the crisis created by the Seventh Group.

The agents from Shendai were sitting dryly in the office. They were trying to get the people they wanted back from the Seventh Group.

However, the Seventh Group's actions today were too ruthless, so much so that they didn't know what to do for a while.

After Qing Hua returned to the large office, the agents looked at him with tired eyes. They were really a little overwhelmed.

However, at this moment, Qing Chen walked out of the office.

Those agents, whose expressions were tired, immediately stood up when they saw the Boss walk out.

Qing Chen smiled at Qing Hua: "Tell everyone directly."

Qing Hua said: "We just arrested two more officials from the Federation lottery center. The Supervisor has prepared some overtime pay for everyone to reward you. After this overtime, everyone can go to the underground garage to find me to get it before driving home."

While speaking, Qing Hua unintentionally extended a finger. The agents knew that it meant 100,000.

Suddenly, all the agents' eyes lit up, and their previous tired expressions disappeared.

Overtime for several days means so much overtime pay, it's worth it!

Only at this moment did Qing Chen truly complete the final step of using both rewards and punishments.

If you want the horse to run, you have to feed it grass. This is the greatest truth since ancient times.

Qing Hua slumped in his seat, Qing Zhun was gnawing on the meat buns delivered by the cafeteria and smiled, "Your Face^[-] looks a little bad."

Qing Hua sighed: "Just work honestly, don't think about anything. I don't know how you feel, but I'm convinced."

"I'm convinced too. I've been convinced for a long time," Qing Zhun said with a smile.……

……

"I'm not convinced," Yan Chunmi sat in a midnight bar, holding a cocktail and sighing.

The bar was a well-known private membership bar in the upper three districts. Except for a few socialites, not everyone could enter if they wanted to.

It has been three days since her first meeting with the new Boss.

All the Kestrels were waiting to examine their new Boss, to see how capable the new Boss was.

As a result, the new Boss, upon entering Intelligence Bureau One, didn't come out again.

The Kestrels naturally knew that their new Boss wasn't idle.

During this period, Intelligence Bureau One arrested batch after batch of people, releasing batch after batch.

Qing Chen kept the whole Intelligence Bureau One working around the clock. When they were tired, they took turns sleeping in the temporary duty dormitory in the building, and when they woke up, they continued to interrogate suspects intensely.

Qing Chen also asked Yang Xuyang to help buy toiletries, sleeping bags, and spare clothes. They ate and lived in his office.

Even the Supervisor was like this, so who dared to leave?

Moreover, the Supervisor didn't give overtime pay?!

In the past two days, some people privately asked Qing Hua if the overtime pay was really 100,000.

As a result, Qing Hua said it was too little; they were thinking too small.

Only at this moment did they truly realize how generous the new Boss was!

This was the true meaning of "having a good New Year!"

But after Qing Chen lived in Intelligence Bureau One, he never contacted Yan Chunmi again.

It's as if he doesn't need Kestrel at all.

Yan Chunmi sat in the bar booth, still wearing a Bluetooth headset. She whispered, "The Boss knows that we're waiting to examine whether he's qualified enough, so he simply doesn't play with us Kestrels anymore, understand?"

Not only did the Intelligence Bureau One Seventh Group want to show off their power to the new boss, but the proud Kestrels were the same.

It's not that everyone wants to go against the new Boss, but they just want to see if the new Boss is qualified enough to lead them.

But now it's embarrassing. The new Boss is leading Intelligence Bureau One to work enthusiastically, while they, the more powerful Kestrels, are abandoned.

The other party used his ability to illustrate a fact: Kestrels are tools for spies, but spies don't necessarily need to rely on Kestrels.

This time, it was no longer the Kestrels examining the new Boss.

Instead, the Kestrels need to prove to the new Boss that they are indeed stronger than others. Only in this way will the new Boss re-use the Kestrels.

Yan Chunmi said in the Bluetooth headset: "When I joined Secret Spy Agency, in order to make the Kestrels trust me, I could only reluctantly accept the show of power they gave, and I dealt with it messily for two months before everyone trusted me. Now, the new Boss not only doesn't accept our show of power, but also gives us a show of power."

This time, Yan Chunmi was demoted to assist Qing Chen as a Kestrel. She had already thought about how to give the new Boss a show of power. The suffering she had experienced, the new Boss Qing Chen had to experience it too.

Every time she thought about this, she would secretly laugh.

Now, she couldn't laugh anymore.

Yan Chunmi's previous dissatisfaction wasn't with Qing Chen.

It's that she's thinking about one problem: Why is it always her who accepts the show of power when she's a spy, a Kestrel?!

Someone on the phone asked: "Then what should we do now? Besides you, none of us have permission to contact the new Boss. We don't have the opportunity to contact him in Intelligence Bureau One. There is no place to perform."

Others on the phone calmly said: "Kestrels will be laid off if they are idle for more than six months. Now, it seems that the new Boss can indeed do a good job without us. I have discovered that after Intelligence Bureau One arrested many people, they released a batch. This may be the intelligence network that the new Boss is weaving himself. If he finishes weaving it and we still have no role, then the Kestrels will be defunct."

Yan Chunmi thought for a while and said: "Get ready. The new Boss is just ignoring us now. He may not really abandon us. When he comes back to find us, we will just soften up."

The woman hung up the phone and thought, "What's going on?" She really didn't expect the new Boss's methods to be so strong.

It's not that the new Boss forced them to do anything, but that kind of oppressive feeling, even if they haven't met, they can feel it across the air.

She was quite happy when she passed the audition for the crew. Now, she is not happy anymore.……

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