Chapter 360 Clues
The Special Management Bureau's annual holiday will end in three days, but today, members of the Special Management Bureau's intelligence department, executive department, and contraband management department were urgently recalled for a meeting. In addition to conveying the spirit of the meeting chaired by Shuo Bai, the main content of the meeting also revolved around several incidents of selling Lin Yue powder that occurred in Pingjing City today.
At this moment in the conference room, Yan Jue was presiding over the meeting. The screen behind him showed a masked man and a masked girl.
"These two individuals openly sold Lingyue powder in Binhe Park, at the entrance of Zhongshan Commercial Plaza, and at a public restroom in the South District within a single day. Their target audience was ordinary people. This incident is extremely egregious. The higher-ups have issued an order requiring their arrest within three days."
"We detected a faint trace of the Realm Decree at the location where these two people were selling the Rinyue Powder. Following this trace, we discovered the Rinyue Church's base, captured a large number of injured church members, and seized a large amount of Rinyue Powder."
While Yan Jue was recounting the story, a staff member asked, "Minister Yan, the Lingyue powder is supposed to come from a cult called the Lingyue Church. But from what you just said, it seems like the two people selling the Lingyue powder don't seem to be church members. Instead, they seem to be guiding us to wipe out those church strongholds."
"That's still unknown, but this matter is closely related to the Lingyue Church."
"This is a very strange thing," the intelligence chief said after adjusting his glasses. "We've been tracking the Lingyue Church for several years. This church has only risen in recent years, relying on this harmful powder that can cause aliens to become addicted. However, they have always been very low-key and would never show up in such a high-profile manner."
Yan Jue looked at the man and asked, "Minister Zou, if you have any ideas, please share them so we can discuss them."
Zou Cheng, the Minister of Intelligence, nodded, stood up and walked onto the stage, then used the remote control to operate the screen, and the screen quickly switched to a woman in prison clothes.
"To understand the Linyue Church, we must start with this anomaly. File number 2463, codenamed 'Ning', is a hyena anomaly that has lived for over a thousand years. It is brutal by nature and enjoys eating offal. Its past is notorious, and it has injured countless people. After being taken into custody by the Bazhou City Special Management Bureau, it has repeatedly attacked and killed members of the Bureau. Five years ago, the director of the Bazhou City Special Management Bureau, Sun Chuanfu, reported its file to the Special Management Bureau, and the Adjudication Department ultimately sentenced the anomaly to death."
People in the audience began to whisper to each other. The fierce-looking woman was wearing prison clothes, with shackles on her hands, feet and neck, but she still looked unruly.
"Although this hyena demon doesn't possess great power, she's brave and fierce, and extremely skilled at ambushes. Ahem... she even uses her own body as bait to lure others into complacency, thus devouring several more powerful creatures."
Yan Jue took over the conversation and added, "The execution was indeed carried out five years ago. I personally supervised it. You could say I watched this alien being annihilated."
The atmosphere in the audience suddenly became tense and subtle, and the whispers in the crowd spread like ripples.
Confusion and shock flickered in their eyes. Obviously, the existence of this alien that was supposed to have disappeared from the world was closely related to the topic the two ministers were about to discuss and could not be ignored.
"Let's look at this photo again," Zou Cheng's voice was firm and powerful. He skillfully operated the remote control in his hand, and the image on the big screen changed accordingly.
The new picture freezes on a woman in a white robe. Her face is peaceful and filled with a warm smile. She is taking a photo with a group of innocent children. The picture is full of harmony and love.
This scene caused an even greater commotion in the audience. Although the scenes were completely different, people could not deny that this woman was strikingly similar to the alien named Ning who was rumored to have been executed. No, it was basically the same person!
Expressions of disbelief appeared on everyone's face, as if they were witnessing an impossible miracle.
"This is a photo we took of the headmaster of the Rinyue Church four years ago. It's the only photo we've ever taken that actually captures her face. I'm sure everyone is very puzzled, because this woman is the very outlier who should have been sentenced to death. Since then, our intelligence department has never stopped searching the Rinyue Church. But the strange thing is, every time our clues are about to touch the lifeblood of this church, these people from the church always manage to cut off all the clues before we can."
After hearing Zou Cheng's words, a man stood up and said, "Minister Zou, your words... are you hinting at something?"
This man was the head of the Contraband Management Section. He was staring into Zou Cheng's eyes, as if trying to see what this experienced intelligence minister was thinking from his eyes.
Zou Cheng sneered. "Let me be frank. I suspect someone within our Special Management Bureau is secretly colluding with the Linyue Church. That's why every one of our actions ends in failure. Section Chief Yuan jumped in so hastily to interrupt me. Is he also hinting at something? Or is he worried about something?"
"Minister Zou! Isn't that a bit too much?!" Section Chief Yuan's eyes gradually turned cold.
"Section Chief Yuan took over the position of Chief of the Contraband Management Section four years ago, and it was also four years ago that the Rinyue Powder began to appear on the black market. It's hard not to be suspicious. I guess you, the Chief of the Contraband Management Section, must be quite comfortable."
Bang--
Section Chief Yuan slammed his hand on the table and roared, "Zou Cheng! If you suspect me, feel free to report me to the enforcement unit and the adjudication office! Minister Yan from the enforcement unit is here too! Why not let's talk it out!"
The meeting turned into a quarrel, and Yan Jue took a lot of effort to calm the two people down.
You can't blame them. Although these two people are the director and section chief of the General Administration, they are actually very young. It would be fine if the Lin Yue powder incident did not expose the truth. If it really comes to light, these two departments will definitely suffer.
The meeting ultimately did not produce any results, and they could only conduct a large-scale net-casting operation to crack down on the underground black market in the entire Pingjing City, hoping to find some clues about the Linyue Church.
Then the photo of the masked man and woman was also sent to Shuo Bai and Lu Shan's offices.
At this time, in the senior conference room of the China Special Management Bureau, the two most powerful leaders were discussing this matter.
Lu Shan, the head of the General Administration, frowned at the moment and glanced at the screen in front of him with dissatisfaction. On it was a photo of a girl wearing a fox mask. Since this morning, his phone calls had not stopped, and they were all from people with higher positions than him asking him what was going on.
Pingjing City is the capital of China. How could it allow alien contraband to be sold openly in the human world? This matter is a slap in the face of the entire Special Management Bureau.
"You're asking me about such a trivial matter?" He said with obvious displeasure, his gaze fixed on Yan Jue. He then extended his finger and pointed directly at the girl's eyes in the photo. "The mask is missing a corner, revealing only one of her eyes. You've been the captain of the enforcement unit for so many years, and you can't recognize this is a vampire. What on earth are your enforcement unit and Zou Cheng's useless intelligence department for?"
Lu Shan couldn't suppress his anger, especially when he heard that the two departments were arguing over this matter in the meeting and even throwing dirty water at each other. He was so angry that his face turned blue. This is the Special Management Bureau. It's okay that the department heads are incompetent, but now they are actually suspicious of each other.
It seems that this year there must be a major reshuffle in the department's job performance assessment. Lu Shan is old, but not dead. He hasn't retired yet, but his subordinates are as stupid as pigs. If he really retires and travels around, this Special Management Bureau will be disbanded on the spot.
Sometimes he really felt that although Chang Yue looked unpleasant, at least he managed the Tianhai City Special Management Bureau in an orderly manner, and none of his subordinates were useless.
Of course, this is also thanks to the... thing beside him.
Finally, he angrily threw the photo at Yan Jue's chest. The photo drew an arc in the air, carrying strong dissatisfaction and questioning.
"You are not as good as your daughter, Yan Jue."
Yan Jue looked embarrassed, but remained calm. "Director Lu, we did identify her as a vampire, but as you know, the treatment of vampires has its own particularities. While China doesn't explicitly ban vampire activities, each city is only allowed to have one vampire reside. The vampire in Pingjing City hasn't behaved abnormally recently. We've tracked her movements over the past few days and haven't found any signs of misconduct, so..."
His words tried to explain, but they could not calm Lu Shan's anger.
"Do you want me to catch the person and send him to you?" Lu Shan said as he stood up from the chair. Although he was old, his tall figure still made Yan Jue feel more pressured.
"You are old, why are you angry with young people?"
Shuo Bai said to Lu Shan while drinking tea.
Lu Shan glanced at Shuo Bai and snorted coldly: "It's because you, an old woman, are too kind that you have turned these kids into useless people!"
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