For many people, yesterday was an extremely unsettling day. The fate of their and their families' lives changed drastically yesterday. After some people just disappeared, no one talked about them, and no one would remember them.

Although there are still some people who still remember them, no one dares to mention them, as if those people have become taboos overnight.

Although most of these changed and disappeared people are only at the middle and lower levels of the government, there are also some high-ranking dignitaries, such as members of Congress, certain ministers, and even judges of the Supreme Court, etc., no matter how high their status is

, how much power they have in their hands. Facing the fully functioning state machine, each one of them is as fragile as a bubble, which can burst with a prick.

During the entire arrest process, some people did try to resist, but the various departments responsible for the arrest had already prepared corresponding measures. If they encountered resistance, they could use corresponding measures in a timely manner to completely suppress the resistance.

Except for a few people who escaped from the captors because they had acquired unexpected extra abilities, all the other arrest targets recorded on the lists distributed to various departments have been caught.

However, because the spy list appeared suddenly, the verification time was very short, and the verification could only be carried out based on the evidence attached to the list. There was a high possibility of arresting the wrong person. For example, Finance Minister Kaimen might have arrested

Wrong, because he was not found to have done anything harmful to the federation. It was only because he was on the list and there were several people in his family who were confirmed to be spies that he was arrested together.

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It is not that the federal government has not thought about conducting secret investigations for a period of time, and then arresting these people after their identities as spies are fully confirmed. This can avoid some unjust cases.

However, time, manpower, financial resources, situation, etc. are all pressing for the federal government to take action. Although those on the list only account for a small part of the number of civil servants in the entire federal government, they are almost all in the

Once these people try to sabotage key parts of the federal economy, people's livelihood, military and other functional departments, the entire Ott federal government will enter a state of disorder in a short period of time, and may even collapse completely.

The more important point is that they don't know whether the list in their hands is unique. If this list is distributed and discovered by the people on the list, will those people take risks and do something in advance?

Various concerns forced the federal government to confirm the existence of the evidence recorded on the list as quickly as possible. Without further careful review, it began to make arrangements to arrest the people on the list.

Fortunately, the results of the arrest operation in Myrtaros were satisfactory. This incident did not affect the order of the city. Many people did not even know what happened, and the federal government also blocked all news newspapers.

The whole thing was completely covered.

This is not only done to avoid public dissatisfaction, but more importantly, the arrest of Myrtaros is only the beginning of the entire arrest operation. The clean-up work in other cities in the federation has just begun. It would be a mistake to alert the snake. In the past two days,

The federal government even used military mobilization as an excuse to block the entry and exit roads of the entire Myrtaros, stopped all non-essential trains, and no one was allowed to enter but not to exit.

However, at this moment, the busiest thing in Myrtaros is not the relevant departments responsible for catching spies, but the departments responsible for the transfer of personnel. They are having a headache on how to fill the vacancies that arise.

If it is just a general position, they can transfer someone from other places or from the subordinate positions of that position to fill the vacancy. But the problem is that the positions that are now vacant are very critical positions in various ministries. The people in these positions

Civil servants need a long period of inspection and weighing the interests of many parties before someone can take the position. Generally, the person who takes that position will not be transferred for a long period of time to ensure the stability of the entire department's operation.

But now, dozens or nearly a hundred such positions have become vacant overnight, and there are only a few candidates who are qualified and can make compromises for all parties, which is a drop in the bucket and not enough.

Some small departments that are usually inconspicuous think that their department is not a key department and no one will have any opinions on the change of a key position here, so they try to directly transfer a capable employee from a subordinate department.

Temporarily fill the currently vacant position.

But not long after the transfer order was issued, before the person could report to the new position, letters of censure from the heads of higher-level departments had already been placed on the desks of the supervisors of those small departments along with the transfer order.

, it is obvious that those small positions that are inconspicuous in the eyes of others are actually very important positions to some people.

Gray income has always been the default hidden income of federal civil servants. Everyone in the federal government knows about this kind of income. They also turn a blind eye to it. As long as it doesn't go too far, they won't go there.

The main reason for limiting this part of income is that the income of federal civil servants is too low and has not been adjusted for more than 50 years.

In some small cities, civil servants are pretty good and can barely support their families with their civil servant income. But if it is placed in a big city like Myrtaros, then this income is not enough to meet daily expenses. If there are no additional gray

If the income is enough to support it, not to mention the small clerks working in office buildings, even the patrol officers who patrol the streets every day will probably change their careers to other jobs.

In the past, some people did see the disadvantages of gray income and the unreasonable salary of civil servants. They thought about canceling gray income and directly increasing the salary of civil servants. However, if they did so, the federal government's finances would increase by a huge amount out of thin air.

The huge expenditure that staggered everyone would only result in the federal government declaring bankruptcy on the day of the reform, so the reform was scrapped just during the discussion stage.

Someone once proposed to nationalize gray income and then use these gray income to increase the salary of civil servants. As a result, the day that person proposed this proposal, his supervisor threw him to a small town in a remote suburb.

The reason why the income is called gray income is that it is income that cannot be seen in the light. The civil servants at the bottom are responsible for it. The federal government still has a way to turn around. If the federal government takes action personally, the final result will only trigger waves of chaos in the near future.

Civil riots.

Therefore, all key positions related to gray income are very important and cannot be filled by ordinary civil servants. And among these positions that happen to be vacant, nearly 10% are closely related to gray income. These positions are definitely not suitable for sending a capable person.

Who can be elected, and it also affects business and political groups outside the government. The selection issue requires discussion and compromise between all parties before it can be decided.

What is even more troublesome for the federal government is that the current arrangements for these positions are only in Myrtaros. When the follow-up cleanup operation is completed, the vacancies of relevant key positions across the country will increase tens of times.

At that time, they did not dare to imagine whether the government could still operate smoothly after these positions were vacant.

However, now that the cleanup operation has been promoted, it is impossible to suspend it. Moreover, if it is suspended, those positions will be in the hands of spies from other countries, and the threat to the Otter Federation's own security will only be greater.

Just as various departments of the Ott federal government were busy with plans to fill a large number of key positions, an application document for Leo Dodd and Sylvia Belmont to participate in the research of Relic Zero was placed

on the desks of several relevant department heads.

If it were before the emotional work, this document would definitely need to be reviewed repeatedly, and it would most likely not be passed in the end, but now the situation is a little different.

During this arrest operation, some high-level government officials were arrested, and their homes were also carefully searched, and contact information that had not been destroyed in time was found, including some instructions related to the couple.

, and it is not difficult to see from these instructions that the surrounding church countries are very worried about the new weapon developed by the couple, so they have the spies they control to prevent the federal government from cooperating with the couple at all costs.

Soon someone connected these instructions with the suspicion they had about the identity of the couple at the meeting, and also discovered that the person who caused this suspicion was the spy who was captured this time, so they knew they had been fooled.

, was thinking about how to repair the relationship with Leo and his wife, and the appearance of the application documents at this time just solved this problem.

"Your application has been approved. Here are the relevant research materials you need. You have two days to prepare. After two days, I will personally bring someone to pick you up. At that time, you two will be taken to No. 0

The relic depository, this time the two applicants have five days to conduct research. The research time will end after five days. If you want to study again, you need to apply again." A soldier wearing a military-like uniform and a special badge held a

A document that needs to be signed, and while instructing his subordinates to move in boxes of sealed research materials, he introduced the situation.

"These information are..." Leo took the document and read it hastily, signed his name, then pointed to the dust-covered information next to him and asked.

"These are the information left by some previous researchers," the soldier hesitated and said, "These researchers are all dead, and the information of those who are still alive cannot be taken over. Mr. Longenus said that these information are also useful to you.

, so we collected them and sent them over. You can look through these materials at will in the past two days. I will send them back to the archives in two days. If you want to see them again, you will need to apply separately."

After saying that, he put the documents signed by Leo and Sylvia into the briefcase in his hand, then asked the two of them if they had any other requests, then turned and left. However, the soldiers he brought over did not

He just left and replaced the special security guards who were originally guarding here to guard the surroundings of this small apartment.

After the soldiers left, Leo was not in a hurry to open the documents in the box. Instead, he smiled at Sylvia and said, "It seems that the effect of the list has already been produced, but I don't know how long it will last."

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"It should be long enough for us to leave." Sylvia smiled and said, "And I'm afraid they were still busy chasing the escaped spies at that time, and they wouldn't even realize we were leaving."

, she pointed to the boxes filled with information and said, "Do you need me to organize these information together?"

Leo shook his head and said: "It's not necessary. Most of these materials should be in the wrong research direction. Apart from allowing us to understand in advance what the so-called Relic Zero is, it does not have much reference value.

, it will be faster if you let me sort it out by myself. When I finish sorting it, you can look at the information I have sorted out."

After saying that, he grabbed a box next to him, opened it, and took out a stack of documents with a mild musty smell. He placed them one by one on the table and began to read quickly.

Although there was an extremely large amount of research information on Relic Zero in the past, and it would take more than thirty large boxes to pack it all, there was not much content in it that really caught Leo's attention. The content he mainly paid attention to and sorted out was not those people who were targeting the relic.

Various research plans, but focused on the various descriptions of Relic Zero in the data, as well as the various disorderly and chaotic notes left behind by the researchers when they fell into an inexplicable state of madness.

Not to mention whether the research directions and methods of those previous researchers were correct, even if they were correct, they could not be applied to Leo. Leo had his own research style, and his abilities were far superior to the tools those researchers had on hand.

More powerful. Reading too many research reports from those researchers will only affect your own thinking. Sometimes the failed research plans recorded by those researchers may become successful under the influence of Leo's ability.

As for the notes left by the researchers after they fell into madness, they were of no research value to Leo. Just as other people who had studied these notes said, the confusing words and symbols in the notes were of no use to normal people.

It's meaningless to people. Unless someone is as crazy as them, studying those things will only make people crazy.

What is said here about making people fall into madness is really falling into madness, not a description. According to some records that Leo found in the box, it seems that someone has tried to decipher the meaning of the confusing words on these notes, but in the end there was no one.

The exceptions all fell into madness before they died, just like the owner of the note.

This is not because the contents recorded in the notes will cause the reader to fall into madness, but because the power contained in the notes will subtly affect the reader's mental state when ordinary people read these notes, eventually leading them to madness.

of abyss.

When Leo got a crazy notebook, he sensed the crazy power in it that had the same origin as the human sacrifice pillar and twisted power, but had different energy fluctuations, and just like the power of the human sacrifice pillar, he
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