Chapter 13 Household Registration Files
Yan Shi wanted to browse the forum a little longer when there was a knock on the office door.
"Knock knock".
She was startled and immediately turned off her phone screen, pulled a report from the pile of documents next to her, and pretended to be working hard.
"Go in." Yan Shi's smile faded.
"Director," Sheng Chunqiu pushed open the door and came in, "I'm sorry to disturb your work. There's an urgent issue regarding the black market in Zhuri City that the Bureau of Extraordinary Management seized yesterday."
"you say."
"Most of the creatures trafficked in the black market have had their identities verified, and we plan to contact their families today to send them back. However, there are two wood elves," Sheng Chunqiu said, handing Yan Shi a stack of reports. "They refuse to cooperate with the information department's inquiries and won't say anything."
The report that Sheng Chunqiu handed over contained the names and basic personal information of all living beings involved in the black market, and Yan Shi saw Lin Cai's.
It is estimated that although Lin Cai has transferred to Zhanzhou School, in order to facilitate later management, and although she is still a resident of the outer world, the Bureau of Alien Management has transferred her official files from the outer world to the inner world for simultaneous filing.
Yan Shi silently pulled out Lin Cai's report and placed it at the bottom, then continued flipping through the pages.
The Wood Elves' report office only contained photos they took last night and their race information; everything else was blank.
"Can't the photo be recognized?" Yan Shi asked.
The Bureau of Otherworldly Affairs has electronic archives containing information on all living beings in the Otherworld. Theoretically, as long as they are not unregistered individuals in the Otherworld like Lin Cai, their identities can be identified from their photos.
“That’s the problem,” Sheng Chunqiu said with a wry smile. “The photo can’t be recognized. The information department went through all the records of the Wood Elf clan and found that the youngest Wood Elf currently registered is already an adult. But the two elves from yesterday, according to the medical department’s examination results, have only recently passed their infancy and are not yet adults.”
"The Information Department didn't notice this oversight before?" Yan Shi looked up at Sheng Chunqiu. "I remember that the elven race has a very long infancy period. I can understand that the Wood Elf race hasn't been documented for at least twenty years. You're telling me the Bureau of Alien Management has no idea about it?"
Yan Shi tapped the table lightly with his index finger: "Can you give me a reasonable explanation, Director Sheng?"
What kind of troublesome historical problem is this?
It's not in the work manual!
Yan Shi wept inwardly.
Moreover, finding the parents of trafficked children is like finding a needle in a haystack in the real world, and it's the same in the underworld.
Wood elves have many territories in the underworld, and each territories has different families, totaling countless elves.
Not to mention that these two wood elves are unwilling to speak. Even knowing their territory, it's not easy to find their parents, let alone knowing nothing at all.
The office was completely silent.
Wood elves are scattered throughout the underworld, and there is not much connection between the different races.
If an entire clan hasn't registered its information with the Bureau of Alien Affairs for at least twenty years, it's enough to raise suspicions that they've been wiped out or are planning to start a war in the underworld.
Sheng Chunqiu lowered his head.
Before Yan Shi took office, she had always been the acting director of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs, but in name only. According to regulations, she should be suspended from her duties and investigated for such a big problem.
This also includes other relevant personnel from the information department.
"Director," she said thoughtfully.
"The Executive Office will—no, I will immediately lead a team to the Forest of Life and the Elf Temple to confirm the current status of the Wood Elf race."
The Forest of Life is the location of the Mother Tree of Elves and a sacred place for all elves.
In most cases, the Elven Temple has far greater control over the Elven race than the Bureau of Heterodox Affairs.
"Are you sure it's only the Wood Elves who have existed for over twenty years without being documented, and the other Elf groups aren't documented either?" Yan Shi thought for a moment, his expression turning grim.
Sheng Chunqiu: "After discovering the flaw in the Wood Elf race, the Information Department immediately checked the files of other elven races, and so far no problems have been found." She used her words very carefully.
"Okay, I hope you can give me a detailed explanation within three days. Should I review the list of relevant personnel in the Information Department myself, one by one?" Yan Shi lowered his head to continue reading the report.
"Director..." Sheng Chunqiu wanted to plead for his colleague, but he opened his mouth and couldn't say anything.
The registration and filing of personal information of beings in the Otherworld has always been handled by the Information Department's Household Registration Division. The branch offices are responsible for reviewing the information of children of various races and reminding them to register door-to-door every year. The headquarters simply analyzes and summarizes the data transmitted from each branch office.
In other words, the fact that the Wood Elf hadn't been documented for over twenty years should have been discovered during data analysis long ago.
But no.
The Household Registration Division of the Information Department of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television has become a department where capable but incompetent children can get their resumes gilded.
This involves nepotism from the previous director's tenure, a long-standing issue that Sheng Chunqiu has neither the authority nor the means to address.
So Yan Shi simply asked her to investigate thoroughly, which would be considered as her making amends for her crime.
At the same time, it also extricates Sheng Chunqiu from this matter.
It had nothing to do with her.
Yan Shi will definitely have to thoroughly investigate the Household Registration Department of the General Administration.
If all the subordinates had the same work attitude as the Household Registration Department, the Bureau of Foreign Affairs would be out of business and might as well go bankrupt.
"Never mind, you can go out now," Yan Shi said.
Sheng Chunqiu walked to the office door and was about to open it when Yan Shi's voice came from behind him.
“Chunqiu, this matter concerning the Household Registration Department is none of your concern now. If you interfere…”
"You are the perfect scapegoat."
Sheng Chunqiu gripped the doorknob tightly, and as he closed the door and left, Yan Shi heard a very soft voice say...
"I understand. Thank you, Director."
Sheng Chunqiu went to investigate the Forest of Life.
But what about the two wood elves still in the bureau?
Yan Shi suddenly thought of this question not long after Sheng Chunqiu left.
"There are so many things to do, and they're so difficult," she said, slumping onto her desk with a mournful face. "I don't want to do this anymore, sob sob sob, when can I retire..."
Yan Shi slumped at his desk for a while, then sat up again.
"Let me see Lin Cai's basic profile." She had always been curious about what kind of family could raise someone with Lin Cai's naive and innocent personality.
Yan Shi paused for a moment, thinking that Lin Cai in the comic was just a naive and innocent girl who only cared about her.
Okay, let her see what kind of family raised Lin Cai to have such a personality that makes her so open and honest with her neighbors.
The records show that Lin Cai's mother is a professional agent and her father is a painter who independently runs a gallery.
Below is her basic personal background.
“He was raised by his grandparents in his childhood, attended Ruomu Kindergarten, and Rongsang No. 2 Primary School.”
The school name looks so familiar.
Yan Shi frowned. Where had he heard of this before?
Wait a minute, her eyes suddenly widened.
Isn't the elementary school that Lin Cai attends the same one where she was in first and second grade?
Yan Shi also lived with his grandparents when he was young, until he was ten years old when his mother took him away.
At that time, her school registration and household registration were also transferred by her mother. If Yan Shi hadn't seen Lin Cai's file today, she would never have remembered her childhood spent in the small town.
A note from the author:
I won't finish with 3,000 codes, I'll add another 1,000 tomorrow.
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