"You are working with traitors, but you know nothing about it; the secrets of the Strategy Bureau are meaningless to outsiders, but you are unaware of it."
"That's the first thing I'd do, Anne. Now, open your eyes and ears and take a good look at who the black sheep is."
"Pei Zhengchang, stand up."
Lin Yun shouted calmly, looking at a middle-aged man in the crowd: "Now, tell your colleagues, tell everyone present: In the past few days since the establishment of the Bureau of Strategy, you have been in and out of the archives four times, including this morning. What exactly were you looking for?"
Among the crowd, the man whose name was called looked up in astonishment and sat where he was, not knowing what to do for a moment.
He wanted to continue hiding in the crowd, but suddenly he realized that everyone around him was looking at him. He had nowhere to hide, so he could only stand up nervously and stammered, "I'm looking into... the previous beast attacks."
"The files of past beast incidents are all placed in cabinets 11 to 39. What do you want to do in cabinet 4?"
Lin Yun looked indifferent: "Are you trying to find the remaining beast from the old magical girl connection records?"
"I didn't!"
The man suddenly became excited: "You are slandering me!"
"slander?"
Lin Yun had a blank expression on his face: "So, where were you at 10:27 this morning? Did any of your colleagues know?"
There was total silence among the crowd.
"...I'm going to the bathroom." The man avoided his gaze.
"To the bathroom, huh?"
Lin Yun repeated the words he had said and tapped his fingers under the podium. The large screen behind him suddenly lit up, and a surveillance video with a special angle of view appeared.
In the video, it was the man named Pei Zhengchang who was sneaking around the archive room. He found the filing cabinet No. 4 that Lin Yun mentioned and started searching inside it.
When the man in the audience saw this video, his face turned pale.
"How can it be……"
He muttered to himself, "I have clearly checked and prepared. All the surveillance cameras in the archives room should have been replaced. They are all fake. This is impossible..."
However, his behavior will obviously not be forgiven by anyone.
If the looks from those around him were initially filled with suspicion and questioning, then at this moment, they were filled with hatred and disgust.
"I'm not your old director. She might turn a blind eye to your actions, but I won't."
Lin Yun pointedly said, "Security Department, send two people to take him to the interrogation room."
As soon as the words fell, several young men suddenly emerged from the crowd that was already ready to make a move, and walked towards the middle-aged man with angry faces.
"Don't think about it!"
The middle-aged man who was exposed finally stopped looking for excuses. He shouted and raised his hand suddenly. In his hand, a medium that had been prepared long ago was revealed. At this time, it was shining with magical light. He pointed his palm at the podium and his face flushed: "You forced me to do this!"
After saying that, he activated his magic power, and several magic bullets shot out at once, shooting towards Lin Yun on the rostrum at a speed no less than that of firearms.
"Stop him!" "Protect the director!"
The crowd around exclaimed, and some of the quick-reacting ones subconsciously wanted to run to the podium. But what no one expected was that the magic bullet released by the man was dissipated by some unknown force before it even got close to the podium.
The man's attack failed.
In a direction that no one could see, behind the rostrum, Lin Yun was holding a hand on the Heart Gem. Several thin magic threads extended from the Heart Gem to the surroundings, and the threads turned into sharp blades that stretched across the rostrum, easily defusing the man's attack.
Almost no one noticed what he did. Even the employees closest to the podium could only sense faint fluctuations of magical power.
On the other side, the man whose sneak attack failed had a dejected look on his face, and was taken away by the security department.
Lin Yun calmly watched the man leave, but he did not intend to stop there. He glanced at the audience and spoke again without mercy, this time mentioning another name:
"Lv Yan, can you explain to me why, as an employee of the Finance Department, you have been running to the Special Operations Department repeatedly in the past week? You don't seem to have been assigned any tasks to connect with their department, and you have entered the operations meeting room privately many times. What did you do?"
He was pointing at a female employee in the front row under the podium. This time, before the female employee could even open her mouth to speak, several young men from the security department stepped out of the crowd and approached the female employee aggressively.
The female employee named Lu Yan looked around and saw that everyone around her was suspicious and distanced themselves from her. She could only sigh in amazement. Then, without even bothering to find an excuse, she activated the medium of the technique hidden in her hand.
But unlike the man, she used a flying spell to take off into the air on the spot and flew rapidly towards the door of the conference hall.
"She's running away!" "Catch her!"
The employees around her immediately started clamoring for action. Some grabbed her ankles, some threw things at her, some used magic... The interference from all directions made it impossible for the woman to move forward. She was only halfway through her flight when she was pulled directly from the air by a tall employee.
Then, the security staff who were chasing behind rushed forward and took the female employee away as well.
Lin Yun didn't say much, and just opened his mouth to point out another name. This time, he didn't even list the crimes or raise questions. The employee whose name was called turned around and tried to escape. Then, he was also subdued by the angry colleagues around him.
In this way, Lin Yun pointed out six people in a row, and the employees below the stage went from suspicion at the beginning to unconditional trust later, and their actions became faster and faster. These traitors from Black Dawn were arrested one after another and escorted to the interrogation room.
After all the traitors were taken away, Lin Yun released his hand that was pressing on the Heart Gem behind the podium and spoke slowly:
"I don't know if there are other traitors in the Strategy Bureau. After all, I have only been here for a short time, so I cannot check them all. However, I believe it is only a matter of time."
"If there are still such people in the audience, then you only have two choices: the first is to leave after get off work today and never return to the Yi Policy Bureau; the second is to take the initiative to find me, give up your accomplices, and try to get leniency."
"Well, let's move on to the next question, which is about resisting foreign aggression, or the ability to cause harm to others."
"The Strategy Bureau has suffered heavy losses at the hands of Black Ember Dawn more than once. I'm sure you have not forgotten the humiliation two weeks ago. I believe you also want to find them and avenge your previous humiliation."
"It's just that Black Cinder Dawn has mastered the beast transformation technique. The beastmen among them have strength close to that of crippled beasts, which is far beyond the ability of ordinary people to deal with."
"For this purpose, I brought a batch of equipment specially."
"Provided by headquarters, it is the latest research result from the magic kingdom - magic weapon. After a single person is equipped with it, a magician at the master level can really hurt the crippled beast."
This sentence caused a burst of doubts and exclamations from the originally silent audience.
Fighting against brutal beasts as a human being is considered impossible by most people. However, for the employees of the Strategy Bureau, most of whom are magicians, this perception is almost common sense.
Just like everyone knows that magical girls can only be girls, everyone also knows that even a magician at the controller level is powerless in the face of a crippled beast.
And now, someone actually dared to tell them so confidently that humans could rely on equipment to fight the brutal beasts head-on?
"Although the current killing power is still limited to the egg stage, it is still powerless against higher-level beasts. But I think it is enough to deal with ordinary beastmen."
Ignoring the commotion in the audience, Lin Yun continued his narration calmly:
"In the next few days, please ask the General Management Department to conduct a qualification review of all controllers of the Special Operations Department. Confirm that there are no abnormalities in their identities and actions, and equip them with the latest magical weapons."
"When all combat teams have completed the deployment of magical weapons, the Strategy Bureau's campaign to eliminate Black Cinder Dawn will officially begin."
"Before, because of those traitors, the Strategy Bureau couldn't even find their beastmen. Now, when some of the traitors have been eliminated, our actions should be more effective."
"I won't force you to put yourself in danger, but I hope you will do what you can. If you encounter an enemy group that can be annihilated, annihilate it. If you can't fight it, contact the bureau. Whether it's recruiting more people or allocating resources, or even if you need the support of magical girls, you can all propose it."
"I only have one request, and I hope you can clarify this goal."
At this point, Lin Yun slowly raised his head, his eyes flashing coldly:
"——Catch all the Black Dawn gangs hiding in Fangting City. No one will be left alive. I don't want to see this group of scum wreaking havoc in our city next year."
"Meeting dismissed."
……
……
The speech was a great success.
Just as Lin Yun himself said, he wanted to maintain domestic stability and resist foreign aggression. In just one short speech, he captured several traitors from the Yi Ce Bureau, demonstrating his ability. He also provided equipment sufficient to fight against the remnant beasts, demonstrating the resources he could mobilize.
Humans always admire the strong, and this is especially true in a special organization like the Strategy Bureau. Lin Yun's actions gave the employees at the meeting a shot of adrenaline, and their recognition of the new director naturally increased.
When Lin Yun announced the adjournment of the meeting and left the meeting site, the originally lifeless crowd in the audience became much more excited, especially the employees of the Special Operations Department. Li Yingwei from the third team was excitedly grabbing Tian Sheng's shoulders and shaking him, shouting "Always support the new director", which was in sharp contrast to the attitude at lunch.
Tian Shengze, who was caught by him, could only smile helplessly, while looking towards the podium not far away, with more doubts hidden in his expression.
The noisy meeting scene did not affect Lin Yun who had already left. He walked quickly into the elevator with the manuscript, strode back to the door of the office, and then pushed the door open with a frown.
Just now, he felt an extremely powerful magical fluctuation suddenly appear, and the location was in the Strategy Bureau, or even in the director's office.
He pushed the door with one hand and put the other hand in his pocket, ready to activate the Heart Gem at any time. But when he really saw the scene in the door, he completely forgot what he wanted to do.
——A stuffed toy, or a puppet, was sitting in his seat.
It was a cute looking fairy doll, covered with emerald green fur and wearing a white coat, which made it look even more cute. The reason why it was identified as a doll rather than a living thing was that it had very obvious movable joints.
At this moment, the doll's furry face had a lazy smile on it, and it was half lying behind the desk, looking at him.
"Hello, young man."
As if synthesized by a machine, an indistinguishable male or female voice came out of the doll's mouth.
Although it was sitting in someone else's seat, it seemed very comfortable and relaxed. On its plush face, a pair of clear and shining eyes were staring at Lin Yun. Those eyes were lush and green, yet transparent and magnificent, with a mysterious magic.
It's like a pair of luxurious emeralds.
Chapter 150 Emerald
2023-05-18
"What does 'hello' mean? If I remember correctly, this should be my office."
Lin Yun closed the swing door behind him and frowned as he looked at the fairy doll behind the desk: "You trespassed into someone else's territory without permission. Shouldn't you prove to me that you have no hostility?"
"Don't be impulsive, young man. You don't need to waste your remaining magic power on this weak puppet. We have many common interests. We can sit down and have a good talk."
The expression on the fairy doll's face was very vivid, and combined with the slow tone and lazy look, it gave people a subtle sense of relaxation: "Although it may be a bit sudden to say this now, I came here with good intentions."
"bona fide?"
Lin Yun did not let go of the heart gem in his hand because of the other party's words: "I think the premise of goodwill is to be open and honest with each other, rather than hiding behind a doll."
He was certain that the puppet in front of him was not its real body. Although he was talking to the puppet, the person he was actually communicating with was someone else.
"I agree with your point of view. But before you continue to show hostility to me, can we explore another possibility: you actually know me?"
The doll leaned lazily in the office chair: "We have met before, young man. And I believe you have no reason to forget my identity."
When she said this, she deliberately dragged out the title of "young man", obviously wanting to emphasize that this word was an important piece of information to judge her identity. This undoubtedly reminded Lin Yun, and he quickly locked on the target after a brief thought. After all, in his memory, not many people would use such a title for themselves.
Combining the appearance of the doll in front of us and its behavior, the identity of the person hiding behind the doll is obvious:
"...Mr. Chief? Why are you here?"
The so-called "Chief" is the title of one of the jewel scepters of the magic kingdom, the emerald scepter that is in charge of the research institute, the emerald position.
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