The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

A large-scale search that spread to the entire Tapu City was suddenly launched in the early morning. The entrances and exits of the entire city were all blocked, and no one was allowed to enter or come out. The last batch of reserve soldiers who were supposed to be transported to the front line, The gendarmerie and police station in the United City conducted a bottom-up sweep of the entire city.

During this investigation, many wanted criminals were found out one by one, and the high-ranking officials in the city who were implicated in them were also affected, and they were all taken to the military camp for interrogation.

The officials and dignitaries in the city were all confused by the sudden investigation. They were almost as unclear as the people at the bottom as to what the military's sudden move was for, until they found out that the military had captured several members of the Mist Guide Church last night. Senior spies, and a lot of information was interrogated from the spies, which showed that many local spies were lurking in the city, and even many officials were involved.

After understanding the situation, some people who had ghosts in their hearts began to panic, trying to use various methods to provoke conflicts between the city government and the military, create chaos, and look for opportunities to escape in chaos, but when the mayor led When the guards of the City Council went to organize the military to inspect a government facility, after being shot and killed by the military, all the hearts of resistance were suppressed by fear. Obviously this time the military is serious and will not care about anyone's identity.

Josburg also received news from Tap City almost on the same day, and the Provincial Council of Josburg immediately dispatched an investigation team to take a train to Tap City overnight.

The people in Tapu City originally thought that this investigation team was here for the military's unscrupulous search behavior, but what they never expected was that this investigation team was not aimed at the military at all, but to assist The military came to investigate spies, that is to say, they were helping the military.

This approach of the provincial council undoubtedly showed the attitude of the province, which was undoubtedly a blow to the dignitaries in Tapu City, and wiped out their last hope of resistance.

Due to the cooperation of all parties and the military's tough methods, if there is anything wrong, they will be arrested first, sent to the barracks for interrogation, and then confirmed to be true or false, so the speed of the search is very fast, and the search of the entire city has been completed in just one day and one night. .

As for the interrogation, a part has also been completed. There are only a dozen real spies in this part, and most of the rest are implicated, but eight of the dozen are officials at various levels.

Although these officials are all outside the core of the federal official system, their positions are very subtle. They are all senior assistants who have more or less access to important documents, or who can do some practical affairs, and low-level real power officials. Wait, the status is not big, the role is key.

Relevant interrogation results were also sent to the capital immediately through special channels. As a result, in the afternoon of the same day, the federal capital passed the public security inspection bill, starting from the three major border towns, industrial towns, and grain-producing towns. System-wide inspections Inspections, and inspectors are dispatched from other places, and local officials are not allowed to intervene in the inspection process.

In Tapu City, the military specially set up a temporary barracks for interrogating and detaining prisoners in a scrapped carriage next to the train station. Those scrapped carriages were converted into cages and interrogation rooms, guarded by a large number of soldiers. , and there are some special people covered in black robes shuttling among them. The surrounding soldiers seem to be very afraid of these special people, and they can't help avoiding them when they pass by.

Among these people in black robes, the black robes on three of them are slightly different from those of other people in black robes. The black robes on their bodies have more patterns woven with gold thread. Other people in black robes have to take the initiative to meet them. Bowing their heads and saluting, it can be seen that their status is superior to others.

The three people walked out of the temporary interrogation archives, asked the officer in charge of guarding this area, and walked towards the carriage where Leo and Sylvia were.

Due to the sudden accident, the last military train was forced to stop, and all the soldiers on the military train joined the search that sealed off the whole city, so other trains that were scheduled to continue on the road were also stuck. At the station, the train belonging to Leo and Sylvia was naturally among them.

However, even without a large-scale search, Leo and Sylvia might not be able to go on the road. After all, the person who caught those church spies was the secret service security responsible for their safety, and some necessary inquiries must be indispensable.

Since Kadi led his subordinates to tie up the three suspicious people who were unconscious around the carriage and hand them over to the army guarding the train station, three groups of people have come to inquire about what happened to them at that time.

At the beginning, Kadi and the others didn't know the identities of the three people they caught. They just judged from the martial law-enforced train station and the identities of the military officials who passed by to inquire that this matter must not be simple.

It wasn't until later, when they asked when the train could leave, that they learned about the martial law search in the city from the military officer in charge of surrounding security, and also knew that the three suspicious persons they had caught were of extraordinary identities. It turned out to be a very high-ranking church spy in the Mist Guide Church.

As the secret service security guard of the Prime Minister's Office, Kadi is naturally no stranger to the spy forces of surrounding countries. He is very aware of how important the three church spies he caught are to the Church of the Mist Guide.

This kind of church spies were not recruited temporarily, they were cultivated from an early age. From the very beginning of selecting the training objects, there were extremely strict conditions, and then there were various rigorous trainings and some mysterious trials, and finally they were able to walk away alive. The church spies who come out are definitely one in a million.

The number of such church spies is very rare, and their personal strength is extremely strong, and they have mastered some mysterious powers. They have always been the most troublesome enemy of the federal national security department.

Kadi remembered that in order to capture a spy of the Church of the Ancient Breath, the Ministry of Education, the Police Department, and the military touched more than a thousand people, and finally killed more than a hundred people instead of capturing him alive.

Although the spies of the Church of the Mist Guide are not as completely dehumanized as the spies of the Church of the Ancient Breath, their strength should not be much worse, and the difficulty of training should be similar, but now three spies of the Church have been captured alive. It is not difficult to understand that things will cause the current impact.

As the person who caught the three church spies, even if Kadi was the head of the secret service security team of the prime minister's office, he had to accept repeated questioning. I am puzzled by the easy capture like picking up a corpse.

"That is to say, you saw a green light before you fell into a coma, and when you woke up, everyone around you was still in a coma." The black-robed man revealed half of his face under the hood, reconfirmed Cady's explanation, and said.

Although Kadi suppressed his curiosity as much as possible, he still couldn't help but look at the beard growing from half of the face exposed by the man in black robe. However, his gaze didn't stay for too long, and he quickly moved He opened it, nodded and said: "Yes, I should be the first to wake up..." He hesitated for a while before adding: "However, Your Excellency Leo and Ms. Silvia were in the room at the time. , so I don’t know if they woke up before me, but when I went to knock on the door, they responded quickly.”

At other times, Kadi, who is only under the jurisdiction of the Prime Minister's Office, might have acted a little more arrogant and a little more imposing, but facing the man in black in front of him, he knew very well what was the most correct thing to do.

He knew that the black-robed man in front of him belonged to the Ministry of Education and Culture, but the department where the black-robed man was located was not public and was extremely mysterious. It is said that every black-robed man in this department has some mysterious power, which is equivalent to those secret priests of the church Same.

Although this department has a small number of people, it has great power. The federal government, the Federal Congress and the Federal Court have all given this department the greatest authority. It is no exaggeration to say that if people in this department think that the prime minister has a problem and must be arrested and interrogated, Then the prime minister can only be taken away obediently.

Cardi was not surprised that he would be questioned by the man in black robe, but what puzzled him was that the content of the other party's inquiry was somewhat different from what he thought. The other party seemed to be concerned about how he caught the church spy. I am not interested at all, but I am very concerned about the fact that I saw the green light before coma, and asked several related questions repeatedly, such as the body's reaction after seeing the green light, such as whether the body is different before and after coma, and also asked Some of his more inexplicable questions, such as whether he has seen something strange before and so on.

This also made Kadi realize that the three men in black robes probably did not come to investigate the spies of the church, and it was probably related to himself. His answer, originally he just nodded and said yes, but after a few words, his protected object was involved. This is a taboo in secret service security, and he can already foresee that he will return to the secret service department Afterwards, you may face a conduct review.

After hearing Kadi's answer, the three men in black looked at each other, and then one of them took out an ordinary-looking stone from his waist pocket, handed it to Kadi, and said, "You See what you can see up there."

Kadi hesitated for a moment, then took the stone and looked at it in front of his eyes, and then showed a dazed face, because in his eyes, it was an ordinary piece, and he couldn't see anything abnormal at all.

The man in black seemed to know what Kadi was thinking, so he reminded: "Concentrate and don't think too much."

Hearing what the man in black robe said, Kadi curled his lips disapprovingly, but he still copied it seriously, concentrating on observing the ordinary stone.

As he concentrated his attention, some symbols and patterns appeared on the very ordinary stone in his eyes, and these symbols and patterns suddenly awakened some dusty memories in his past.

He remembered that when he was still a mountain dweller, the great elder of the tribe came to select students, and he also took out some wood for the children of the tribe to see. He could also see some patterns and characters on the wood at that time, but his father forbade it. He said it, and when he went back, he put something like a salve on his head, and he couldn't see anything after that.

Now he was able to see such symbols and patterns again, which made him think that the ointment that was put on his head back then might have lost its effect.

Kadi hesitated for a moment, thinking about whether to muddle through like when he was a child, but the black-robed man no longer waited for his answer, and saw the black-robed man take back the stone in his hand, and then said kindly: " You have seen the symbols and patterns above, which is very good, it means that you have some talents that ordinary people don't have, and these talents are the basic conditions for joining us."

"Join you? Become a man in black robe?" Kadi asked in a daze.

"Yes." The leader in black robe nodded without hesitation, raised his hand to stop Kadi when he was about to say something, quickly wrote an address on a piece of paper and handed it over, saying: "You don't need to Make a decision, wait until you return to the capital, and then decide, you can learn about the situation of our department during this period, if you think clearly, go to the above address, and someone will receive you when the time comes..." As he said, he Standing up, he ordered: "Now take us to meet Leo Dodd and Sylvia Belmont."

Kadi hesitated for a moment, stood up, blocked the way of the three men in black robes, and said with a serious expression: "Sorry, Mr. Leo and Ms. Silvia are the objects of our special security protection. To meet outsiders, if the three want to see them, I can inform them on their behalf, as for whether they want to see the three or not, that is a decision that Ms. Leo and Ms. Silvia need to make."

As Kadi's voice fell, the secret service security guards in charge of the security work in the car moved to some key positions, and put their hands on their weapons, ready to follow Kadi's order to attack the three of them at any time.

The three men in black were obviously very dissatisfied with Kadi's actions. Even though they recognized Kadi's professional ethics in their hearts, it was definitely not a happy thing for them to become the opposite object.

However, the men in black robes did not show a tough attitude to make things difficult for the secret service security. They sat back on their chairs under the sign of the leader, and then asked Kadi to ask Leo and Silvia if they would like to meet them .

Cardi walked outside the temporary study room where Leo and Sylvia were in the carriage, knocked on the door, and then opened the door to enter.

At this moment, Sylvia was reading a book with relish, while Leo was writing and drawing on the table.

"What's the matter?" Although what happened outside and even the entire train station was within the range of his spiritual network, he still pretended not to know anything and asked.

Kadi explained the purpose of coming, and also briefly introduced the identities of some black-robed people.

After listening, Leo and Sylvia glanced at each other, smiled, and said, "Let them in! I also want to take a look at this famous man in black."