Era of Breakdown

The blue sky is inlaid with a brilliant sun, and the large white clouds are like white sails sailing on the blue sea.

However, the Minister of Intelligence of the United States of America is not in such a good mood at this time as the weather.

The completely closed office was filled with smog. Minister Manolo was smoking cigarettes one after another, his brows were tightly locked, and the dark bags under his eyes caused by staying up late made him look even older.

On the projection screen in front of Manolo, what was shown was the photo of "Yaeji" with dull eyes.

"Who the hell are you... worthy of such a big fight..."

Manolo frowns more and more as he browses the collected information.

bang bang bang~

"Come in."

A bald, middle-aged lean man with black round glasses walked in.

Seeing the man holding a paper document, Manolo rarely lifted his spirits, "Avedon, I hope you can bring me some good news."

The man named Avedon had a smile on his face, but there was some bitterness in his expression.

"Minister, these are the two latest documents."

Manolo stubbed out his cigarette butt, picked up a document and looked through it. This kind of document that is not sent directly through the internal area network is generally extremely confidential, in order to prevent the intelligent AI developed by some organizations from causing trouble.

"The news of the task over the Destiny is just a strange shop, and the person who takes care of the shop, we temporarily call her 'the owner' internally, this shop will appear all over the world from time to time. According to them, it is to find a predestined relationship. People. Sounds like the same." Avedon pushed his glasses and continued:

"If it weren't for the fact that Destiny has mobilized too many people for this mission and the scope of action is too large, we would not have been able to obtain such detailed mission information. In addition to investigating the shop, our intelligence personnel are mostly investigating the 'shop owner', as long as She lives in modern times, and it is impossible not to leave traces of her life."

"However..." Avedon said with a wry smile: "The document you are holding is what our intelligence personnel have tried their best to investigate..."

"Just investigate this?" Manolo rubbed his brows, raised the document, and said loudly: "Just investigate such absurd things?!"

Avedon nodded heavily, "Minister, don't worry, she is most likely a descendant of that person, for example, his great-great-great-great-granddaughter... After all, no one can live for more than five hundred years. "

Manolo gathered his spirit again and looked at the information in his hand.

This is a survey report on the first patriarch of the "Yae" family, one of the four major families of destiny.

"Eightfold" is also the most mysterious family in the history of Destiny. In the outside world, you can't see any guy claiming to be from the Eightfold clan...

"In terms of portrait matching, the person in the photo is at least 80% or 90% similar to the first head of the Yae family." Avedon affirmed.

"Are you comparing historical pictures from more than 500 years ago?" Manolo looked resentful, "Do you think those medieval portraits will be as realistic as criminal investigations?"

"Uh...Minister, it is rumored that the first Patriarch of the Yae family paid more attention to the realistic style, and most of the pictures he left behind are of this type. Some of the well-preserved paintings are almost comparable to the current photos. "

"Really?" Manolo muttered, this involves his blind spot of knowledge, the ghost knows that the realistic style appeared five hundred years ago, this painting is the same as the artistic photo taken last week...

Manolo put down the legendary investigation report, "Then what do you mean, the owner of this weird shop is probably from the Yae family?

Since it is from the Yae family, why not contact Tianming directly? "

"Many factors may be involved..." Avedon said: "The affairs of those big families have always been complicated."

"Yae..." Manolo leaned back in his chair, "Do we still need to investigate?"

Avedon looked suspiciously at this minister who had always been fearless, not knowing what he was afraid of.

"Minister, on the territory of the United States, we don't need to fear any organization!"

"What if someone else is a member of the United States?" Manolo sneered, "The Mandate of Heaven organization can be traced back to before the Christian era. Since the beginning of the era of great expansion in the fifteenth century, the first patriarch of the Yae family even served as the governor of France.

Although I don't know what kind of art those historical figures like, but I know the influence they left behind! "

Avedon frowned in just the right amount of confusion.

"Destiny was still called the Holy See of Destiny at that time. At that time, the major families controlled the Destiny. In addition to the taxation of the fixed place of business, only the major families had the strength to open up transnational business channels. At that time, the Yae Chamber of Commerce accumulated a large amount of wealth.

The modern Yae Chamber of Commerce has long since become a thing of the past, but Vera Pharmaceuticals, which was established by relying on it, is definitely a giant among giants. "

Avedon nodded secretly, "Minister, although the power of the pharmaceutical giant is terrifying, it can't interfere with our decision. Destiny has almost no soil for survival in the United States."

"Heh~ You can't see anything from the stock price of Vera Pharmaceuticals, but it provides some special medicines to the top group of people every year. After more than a hundred years of operation, in the United States, Vera Pharmaceuticals has long been successful. A piece of iron bucket." Manolo said: "It is rumored that they have manipulated the general election."

"this..."

Manolo: "The name of Vera Pharmaceuticals comes from Yae Vera in the second generation of the Yae family, and it is also the only Yae family member registered at the official level. In fact, the entire Vera Pharmaceuticals,

It belongs to the Yae family. got it? If they wanted to, the two of us would have stepped down today. "

"Then..." As a staff officer, Avedon was the first to hear that Vera Pharmaceuticals had such great power in the United States.

Manolo glanced at the stupefied Avedon, and flipped through the second file. When he first became the head of the intelligence department, he was as shocked by the news as Avedon was.

It's not that he didn't think about rebelling in the name of justice, but the previous ones who had this kind of thinking will almost spend their old age in prison. Others...so instead of holding up the banner of justice, it's better to lie down and enjoy it. In terms of status treatment, Vera Pharmaceuticals gave him good things every year.

"Mr. Minister," Avedon came back to his senses and said seriously: "If this is really the case, there is no need to read this second document."

"What?" Manolo opened the file absently.

"This is a case recorded for thirty-two years," Avedon said. "We searched the archives to find it."

Manolo has been immersed in it, and this information is just the transaction process of a mysterious shop!

"Why did you find out such an important matter now?!" Manolo, who had read the documents, stared straight at Avedon.

"Didn't you say you don't need to ask?"

"You know what! It is our unshirkable responsibility to protect the sacred interests of the United States from being violated!"

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