[Chapter 381 Strengthening the Intelligence Department]

The equipment of the Tilan Knights will have to wait until next year; the external components of Megatron will also have to wait until next year.

In addition to the development of the eastern coast, the transportation connection projects in several important areas, and the continuous construction of new factories, all kinds of plans in Winter City are already full, and a lot of projects are slowly moving forward.

If it is a game, David can also click fast forward or something to skip the waiting time.

Now he can only wait for the project to move forward gradually, and at the same time contact more important people in the territory to deepen the relationship.

For example, the Kryptonians, after coming to Winter City for a few months, they have improved their strength quickly by shining the sun.

David was a little worried that the rapid improvement of strength would give the Kryptonians headed by General Zod some ideas, so in the past few months, David did not rush to arrange any work and positions for the Kryptonians headed by General Zod, and focused on observing the reactions of these people.

At this time, he has determined that the Kryptonians led by General Zod should not do anything.

Although General Zod found that his strength had become very strong, he still “obeyed” the previous agreement and was willing to continue to abide by the agreement reached with David.

It was not that General Zod was of noble character, but after careful observation and calculation, General Zod found that even if their strength was greatly improved, they still had no chance of winning and could successfully seize Winter City from David.

David and Superman were enough to suppress Zod and Fiora, but even if the remaining Kryptonian warriors became stronger, they still could not guarantee that they could suppress the other combatants in Winter City.

In the final analysis, there were too few Kryptonians.

In addition, after David proved that Winter City really connected many universes, General Zod recognized David’s words that he was capable of finding a suitable home for Krypton.

As long as David kept his promise and could get a new planet to build a new Krypton, what was the big deal about working for Winter City for decades? Then what reason did he have to go against David?

Zod was at ease working for Winter City, and his men naturally would not have any objections.

The Kryptonians began to work hard to learn all kinds of knowledge in Winter City. They had already mastered the common language of Brunnia, but the situation of the Kryptonians was special, which led to these soldiers getting used to collective life and lacking the common sense needed to live alone.

Zod wanted to gather the Kryptonians together and live in a camp in the Winter Camp: go on missions when there are missions, and stand by in the camp when there are no missions.

But David disagreed with Zod’s idea. He also expected the Kryptonian genes to remain in Winter City. If these Kryptonians had no daily life at all, this goal would not be achieved.

You can’t just pull Fiora out and give birth to dozens of babies, right? This approach is too evil. Even the big hairy people who were black and thick in American movies would not do this after catching Kara!

Therefore, after David determined that the Kryptonians were able to master and control their own power well, he assigned them one by one to ordinary residences.

There are many warm and friendly neighbors around them, and they can feel a relatively “ordinary” life in Winter City.

Although they would gather regularly for training and carry out the tasks assigned by David, apart from these times, they had enough free time to do their own things.

Even though Kryptonians were trained as professionals from a young age, some concepts were deeply imprinted in their genes.

But once humans, even Kryptonians, start to think, they are prone to some tricks, especially the ideas imprinted into the genes of Kryptonians, which are not so strong that they cannot be changed. This also provides a basis for David.

If it is a particularly strong and unchangeable “ideological stamp”, then David will definitely not think about changing the ideas of Kryptonians.

In that case, he would find a way to get rid of Zod. Even if Zod’s men were recruited by him, he would only use them as tools, and then focus on training the “next generation”, that is, the hybrid of Winter and Kryptonians.

Now he doesn’t have to use such extreme means, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Whenever this happened, he would secretly mock himself in his heart: “I’m really not a person who can accomplish great things!”

However, David never thought of correcting himself, and after roughly dealing with the Kryptonians, he began to care about the mutants again.

Unlike the Kryptonians, the mutants integrated into Winter City very quickly, and they also liked Winter City very much. Although compared to the Kryptonians who were deliberately dispersed by David, the mutants lived in a relatively concentrated area, but David was not worried that this group of mutants would create a separate mutant community in Winter City.

Because mutants are more willing to contact other people than Kryptonians, as long as the people in Winter City do not hate them, they are happy to make new friends.

Even because of the special nature of Winter City, these mutants will take the initiative to “get to know” specific people.

For example, the two men who have been harassed for no reason recently, so they came to him to hide in peace.

“The purchasing business is about to fail.” Ethan took a sip of tea. The strong tea aroma and bitter taste made him a little uncomfortable, but after a while, he took a second sip: “Is this a new variety? It tastes different from what I had here before.”

“The Spartan Kingdom has newly developed a variety with a stronger taste.” David likes this new variety very much: “How is your business recently?”

“My purchasing business is about to fail.”

As Winter City began to build various factories, many nobles also saw business opportunities and opened factories of all sizes, all targeting various needs in Winter City.

For example, Ethan’s previous work as a purchasing agent for paper, pens, ink, and desk lamps can no longer be done: these inconspicuous daily necessities are now produced by Winter City itself.

As for some rare items that Winter City has not started to produce yet, they are basically saturated because of the low demand: the ones they want have been bought from Ethan, and the rest don’t want that kind of things, so they won’t ask Ethan to buy them for them.

Therefore, Ethan’s purchasing business has basically come to an end. Fortunately, he has completed his original plan: buying a house in Winter City.

He mainly lives in his own world, so it doesn’t matter if the business doesn’t go on.

“If possible, I still want to find something to do, otherwise I won’t even have money to pay the water and electricity bills in the future.” Ethan is considering renting out his house? Or opening a store or something?

He doesn’t have to make a lot of money, but it is still necessary to ensure that there is enough liquidity in Winter City.

This is a habit brought about by his many years of career, and he doesn’t think there is any harm in doing so.

“You can consider being a part-time instructor in Winter City.”

“Instructor? Me? What can I teach?” Ethan thought David was joking. He looked at the instructors in Winter City:

high elf priests from the Holy Light Sect;

paladins from the Knights of the Silver Hand;

mages from Dalaran;

high elf ranger generals from Quel’Thalas.

Compared with these monsters, he was just an ordinary person!

“Winter City also has an intelligence department.”

“Those intelligence officers who can use the power of shadow to make themselves invisible? I don’t think I can teach these people.” “

Of course, you just haven’t learned that knowledge… In fact, I think if you learn, you will definitely learn faster than most people.”

Winter City’s intelligence department has been expanding its staff, and the price of rapid expansion is that the quality of this batch of intelligence officers is uneven.

As the director, Edwin Van Cleef didn’t have a good solution for this. As Winter City’s stalls grew bigger and bigger, he had to take on more and more work. Even his daughter Vanessa was so busy that she was not seen all day.

In this case, there was no time to properly train these newly recruited men.

Relying on the old to lead the new? In fact, the original old people were also half-baked. In Van Cleef’s eyes, these people themselves have not yet completed their apprenticeship. Now they have to be the mentors of the newcomers. You can imagine what level the newcomers are at.

The intelligence department of Winter City can ensure that there are no problems in the city, largely because of the geographical location, but it will definitely not work if it continues like this.

David is aware of this situation. Even if Ethan didn’t come to him today, he would have to find Ethan. As a result, the other party took the initiative to deliver himself to the door.

“If you accept this position, from now on you will be the deputy director of the Winter Intelligence Department, responsible for the training and ability review of intelligence personnel.”

In fact, in David’s opinion, Ethan is more suitable to be the head of the intelligence department than Van Cleef.

Although Van Cleef has good personal abilities, his leadership and organizational abilities are too flawed.

Of course, Ethan is not an excellent head of the intelligence department. After all, he is stubborn and has a strong gambling nature, but there are only two choices at the moment. Among them, Ethan still has a lot of concerns in his own world. It is already a good situation to be able to pull the chariot of Winter City first.

In fact, David wanted Soundwave to take the position of Minister of Intelligence, but it would take some time.

“I only need to train new people?”

“Yes.”

“It doesn’t sound too troublesome.” Ethan didn’t think too long and quickly agreed. After all, such a risk-free job was very much in line with his needs: “I accept it.”

“Welcome aboard.”

David raised his teacup to salute Ethan, then turned to look at the man who had been sitting quietly in another position.

“What about Clark? Not planning to take a position in Winter City?”

Clark shook his head decisively. He didn’t want to be an official in Winter City. In fact, he was satisfied to be a leisurely farmer in Winter City.

If there weren’t a lot of people who came to watch him recently, he would rather stay in his own farmland to work… although he could finish that little work in a short while.

“However, if you need any help, you know where to find me.”

(End of this chapter)