I created the Bureau of Anomaly Control
#289 - 284. Federal (3k/open supplement)
"What's going on?" Shu Yun asked, her face full of confusion as she looked at the middle-aged man in a suit in front of her.
This expert was staring solemnly at the mirror and candles in front of him. He slowly raised his head when he heard Shu Yun's words, his expression as if he was thinking about how to explain the situation to this young politician with a prominent background.
"Well…" he cleared his throat, "Miss Shu Yun, the situation may be a bit糟糕."
She said impatiently:
"Just get to the point."
The expert looked at the mirror and said:
"Logically speaking, a demon should appear immediately after being summoned. Even if there's a reason why it can't appear, there should be a formal refusal process, but there's no movement or response at all now…"
"Let me check in detail."
Although he didn't say it out loud, Shu Yun could see that he was quite nervous and worried.
The expert took out a contract and a few tools, and after a simple examination, his expression became even more serious:
"It's gone."
Shu Yun asked:
"What's gone?"
He raised his head and looked directly at Shu Yun, saying:
"Our connection with him is gone. This situation usually occurs because the demon is dead."
Seeing Shu Yun's increasingly ugly expression, he quickly added:
"Since he failed to complete the contract, you will receive a considerable amount of compensation from Hell."
But these words only made Shu Yun even more angry:
"Do you think I lack money? What's the use of this compensation to me? I want him to complete his work. This is the demon you recommended to me. Didn't you say he could definitely solve my problem?
"So you lied to me?"
Looking at the angry Shu Yun, the expert could only suppress the disgust in his heart and said with a flattering smile:
"He can indeed take care of those Salvation Alliance members. Mo Jiangwen definitely wouldn't have died because of tracking them. If there's evidence to show that he died because of his own stupidity and incompetence, I'm willing to personally hunt down those Salvation Alliance members.
"I can guarantee with my reputation that it wasn't those few Salvation Alliance members who are still resisting who killed him. It must be something else beyond our expectations."
They were all very clear about what the expert was saying. It wasn't the remaining members of the Salvation Alliance who killed Mo Jiangwen, but other federal members who were at odds with Shu Yun, most likely Shadow, the nominal head of the Investigation Department.
Seeing Shu Yun's expression slowly calm down, the expert felt a little relieved.
"Get out," Shu Yun said impatiently.
The expert nodded repeatedly, then tentatively took a few steps back. After realizing that she didn't intend to stop him, he immediately left the house in a flustered manner as if he were running away.
Although he could kill this weak mortal in front of him with just a blink of an eye, and casually throw her soul into Hell to suffer decades of torment—just like he usually did to those weaklings who dared to offend him—he still had to lower his voice and appease her emotions.
All of this was just because she was born into a wealthy family, which allowed her to embark on the best path these mortals could take after adulthood—she became a member of the federal politicians.
These two words meant a lot, and in a sense, they also symbolized safety. Although some federal politicians were being assassinated by members of the Salvation Alliance, those who were truly important like Shu Yun basically didn't have any accidents as long as they didn't do stupid things that exposed vulnerabilities.
Moreover, this was on the premise that they had already taken action against the Salvation Alliance. Normally speaking, no ability user would assassinate a federal member—it wasn't worth it for any ability user.
It wasn't just because of the federal government's retaliation and pursuit, nor was it entirely because the difficulty of doing so was far greater than killing a normal ability user of comparable status, although that was certainly an important factor, and there weren't many organizations that could consistently achieve that.
But the real reason was their motive for doing so. The modern federal government had only been established for a few hundred years, but historical researchers had found that this organization had existed for at least two thousand years, and the actual time of its birth was completely untraceable.
According to his demon friend, the Federation wasn't a ruling institution, but a system that could maintain world stability.
The federal government only surfaced seven hundred years ago, but the real system had been operating for countless years. What they saw now was just one of the countless faces of this system, but it could also be said to be the most suitable face.
Since its birth, the Federation had accumulated countless anomalous technologies, and they especially favored anomalous phenomena that could be replicated but wouldn't be consumed, and they used these reusable anomalous entities to exchange for phenomena.
For example, special armor that could be used to arm ordinary humans, although they often wouldn't actually give it to ordinary people, but the Federation's bottom line was that even ordinary people could use it. Those technologies with strict requirements were basically not within their collection and consideration range.
For example, ability users with self-awareness like Shenxiao weren't really valued by the Federation. Of course, this example wasn't very appropriate. The Federation was indeed thinking about how to use her power, after all, the Federation wasn't inflexible.
They did that simply because it was more in line with their goals, and reality would always bring you unexpected situations.
Except for a few special cases like Shenxiao, the Federation basically wouldn't invest resources in any non-reproducible individuals. Compared to such powerful human anomalous entities, they preferred to study things like prediction machines.
Although the prediction machine's ability was weaker than Shenxiao's, the Federation preferred to build a machine that future generations could use rather than gain her trust.
In the eyes of the Federation's founders, even the strongest anomalous ability user couldn't exist forever, and an organization relying on individuals couldn't have persisted to this point in the long river of history, so the Federation only focused on those anomalies that could stand the test of time.
And in this process, they also discovered many true scientific theories, and it could even be said that they were important promoters of modern science.
The Federation once had the largest alchemy research institute, and now it seems that nearly half of ancient alchemy had no anomalous properties at all, it was just that the ancients had no way to understand the principles contained within using their experience.
The most famous event of this kind was the Federation's "discovery" of nuclear energy two hundred years ago. They once thought it was a special anomalous phenomenon hidden in the details, and once had particularly far-reaching plans for this anomalous technology.
And it was precisely because of this that the technologies, rituals, and various countermeasures against high and low-level anomalous individuals used by the Federation continued to increase and strengthen with time and age, reaching a considerable level of terror now.
Even if all ability users within the Federation with anomalous strength greater than or equal to Level I died today, they could still guarantee their ruling position. The rituals and measures they used to maintain the world didn't require the existence of any ability users, and they also possessed a certain degree of intelligence.
Even if all the top leaders of the Federation died now, the system could quickly select the most suitable candidates to replace them. Even if these people were just low-level employees a few days ago, they could take over the important task of maintaining the world, because the Federation wouldn't require its "users" to possess any indispensable talents or technologies. Everything could be mastered quickly through acquired learning.
The Federation wasn't the group of people standing at the highest point, but the complex mechanism that placed those people in high positions. It was a more ethereal existence than the Southern Gods, and similarly didn't have any physical body that could be killed. These politicians were just one of the countless cells that made it up.
They were just the cells selected by it, and its bones and soul were intangible and untouchable, and also likely the hardest substance in the world. No one could break it with brute force, because no one could defeat this carefully designed system.
The reason why any anomalous entity and organization couldn't threaten the Federation was very simple—because they weren't strong enough.
The Federation became the world's strongest anomalous organization seven hundred years ago.
Then it unquestionably ruled the world—this was the best way to maintain world stability in its view, and the government and politicians were still just tools to maintain world stability. It paid a small amount of acceptable benefits in exchange for their service.
In fact, the world after being ruled by the Federation was far more stable and safer than anything in past known history. This was also one of the reasons why those high-level anomalous ability users wouldn't actively provoke the Federation. The Federation had also reached a subtle tacit understanding with them.
In the eyes of this system, the best way to maintain stability didn't include being hostile to these high-level ability users, so the society guided by the Federation allowed these ability users to obtain more benefits than in any other period, and they would naturally unhesitatingly maintain the existence of the Federation.
And for mid-to-low-level ability users and those mortals, although the federal government wasn't great, it was even more悲惨 that it was actually the best in history. Ensuring its destruction wouldn't benefit them in any way.
In other words, going against the Federation was something that didn't seem to have any benefits no matter how you looked at it. Not only were they so strong that they were almost impossible to defeat, but for those groups that might resist them, the existence of the Federation was, on the whole, a good thing.
This was also the scene that the Federation had created with its own hands. This was its way of achieving its goals, and it was because he understood these things that he chose to cooperate deeply with the Federation, but this time his luck was a bit bad.
Shu Yun could also be considered one of the worst types of people in the Federation.
However, although the Federation was the strongest, it wasn't without threats. It was said that the Federation's system itself had been challenged at least a dozen times, and the most recent challenger was naturally the Shenxiao Walker, but judging from the results, the Federation was slightly better.
And it was after Shenxiao's defeat that he firmly chose to get closer to the Federation, because in today's era, this was the best choice for those ambitious anomalous ability users. No one in today's world could shake its ruling position.
Shenxiao was defeated, so the Federation could prosper for at least another five hundred years.
And even Shenxiao wasn't the strongest of these challengers, but it was still the Federation that stood on the ground today, and it ruled both the anomalous and non-anomalous worlds. Maybe some would think Shenxiao's defeat was a pity, but he was a very realistic person.
The victor is the strong.
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