Chapter 178
After accompanying Mutel on a general tour of the house and arranging the uses of each room, Rongyuan reported to the Supervisory Department ten minutes early.
The headquarters of the Supervision Department is a seven-story building covering a large area. This floor is the tallest building and can be seen from afar. Rong Yuan sent a message to the Sijian who notified him to report downstairs. Not long after, he saw a young man walking out of the building, looking around, and then walking straight towards him.
"Hello. You must be the newcomer Muzhe, right? I'm Leslie."
The young man who was speaking had short silver hair with slightly curled ends, emerald green eyes with slightly drooping corners, and a smile on the corners of his lips. Although he was wearing a black uniform of the Supervisory Department, he gave people a very gentle feeling.
Rong Yuan looked at him and said with certainty: "My message should not be sent to you, right?"
The person in front of him was obviously not the same person who emphasized to him that he should say "yes" or "understand".
"Yes, you have a keen sense of observation." The young man smiled and led Rong Yuan into the building and said, "That is Senior Ao Hengchuan, the first-level inspector. He had to leave for something, so he gave the task of receiving you to me."
Under the leadership of Leslie, Rong Yuan successfully entered the headquarters of the Supervisory Department. This place, which many people imagined to be like hell, also revealed its true appearance before him.
The image of everyone in the Supervisory Department to the outside world is almost the same - black and red uniforms and armor, dark and dull visors, cold and ruthless eyes, cold and low voices coming through the visors, and even their body shapes are similar. Even if ordinary people meet them more than a dozen times, they cannot be sure whether they are seeing the same person.
But in the headquarters of the Supervision Department, people don't need to deliberately hide their identities, so almost no one wears a mask here. They are like ordinary people, either playing games together, or leaning on the table to drink tea and chat, or wearing eye masks and lazily sleeping on the sofa. If it weren't for the iconic uniforms, this place looks like a group of lazy employees in an ordinary company who are only concerned with fishing.
Rong Yuan noticed that the Supervisory Department did not recruit any intelligent alien races, such as the octopus clan or the crocodile dragon clan, which were obviously different from humans in appearance. All people had a human-like appearance. Although there were differences in skin color, hair color, or some small details of the limbs, they were not much different overall.
Moreover, there are almost no people working seriously here. Everyone seems to be playing, resting, chatting, and some are even sleeping openly. The whole building is filled with a lazy atmosphere.
I have to say, this place is completely different from what Rong Yuan had expected.
What's more, there isn't even a front desk or doorman here. Rong Yuan followed Leslie in unimpeded. No one stopped him to question his identity, and no one checked if he was carrying any weapons. No one even showed any curiosity. He felt like a bunch of salted fish without any vigilance at all.
Although Rong Yuan's expression did not change much, Leslie seemed to have heard his thoughts and smiled, "Do you think it is very different from what you thought before?"
"Indeed... it's surprising." Rong Yuan admitted, "Is the work here very easy?"
"Most of the time, that's right." Leslie said, "You've already joined the Supervisory Department. You'll naturally understand it slowly when you have the chance."
Leslie smiled, took Rong Yuan to an office on the top floor and knocked on the door.
"Come in." Rong Yuan heard Todd's voice say this.
Leslie pushed the door open and took a step forward, then stepped aside to let Rong Yuan behind him pass, and said, "Master General, the newcomer Mu Zhe is here to report."
Todd, who was standing at the window with his back to them, said, "Okay, you go back first."
"yes."
Leslie blinked at Rong Yuan, gave him a reassuring smile, then turned and left.
Todd turned around, still with the same face that looked like it was smeared on the ground and picked up casually. If he was outside, not only children, but even adults would be scared to tears. But Todd never thought that he needed to cover his face. He was the only person in the Supervision Department who didn't wear a mask when working outside. He always held his head high and faced anyone's gaze.
Perhaps it is because the other people in the Supervisory Department are like tools without characteristics, and only Todd is a clear benchmark, so all the resentment and fear of the Supervisory Department have been focused on him. In the past, there was a saying on Earth that "those who are pointed at by thousands of people will die without any disease", but the hatred of the people not only failed to kill Todd, but made him stronger.
However, Rong Yuan noticed that he would be careful to avoid his subordinates, as if he didn't want to scare them.
This is a very contradictory person, Rong Yuan thought.
He was born in poverty, but he did not covet power, and he has never lost his way even in his current prominent position.
He can mercilessly massacre dozens or hundreds of innocent people at a time, or he can sacrifice his life to protect a little girl he doesn't even know.
He can be loyal to Liuka because of his help when he was young, but he can also choose to betray him without hesitation because of the death of his childhood playmate, abandoning decades of hard work and loyalty.
He is cold-blooded, cruel, cunning, and capable of doing all kinds of evil to others, but he is unusually gentle and tolerant to his own people, which can be seen in the layout and decoration of the family area and the behavior of everyone in the headquarters.
After Leslie closed the door and left, Todd seemed to relax a little, and his majestic expression became a little gloomy.
"Please take a seat."
Tao De said, poured a cup of tea for Rong Yuan, sat down himself, and asked: "How do you feel when you see my Supervision Department?"
"It's a surprise." Rong Yuan said. He sat opposite Todd and pushed the box with simple packaging in his hand in front of Todd, saying, "This is for you. I hope you like it."
Todd raised his eyebrows in surprise. Although many people had given him gifts in the past, Rong Yuan's doing this still surprised him: "What is this?"
"It is said to be native tea from the primitive planet of Lille, something that many big shots like. I have checked it and there is no problem. You can use it with confidence." Rong Yuan said.
"Well...thank you very much." Tao De looked at Rong Yuan hesitantly and said, "Actually...we don't have the habit of giving expensive gifts to our superiors in the Supervision Department. Last year, on my 70th birthday, they just came together to order a cake for me."
"My former captain asked me to bring this to you. He hopes that I can work hard to build a good relationship with you." Rong Yuan said truthfully, "It's a gift from others, so I have to give it to you."
"I see." Todd breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Your captain is a good guy. I thought..."
He stopped awkwardly in the middle of his words. Seeing Rong Yuan looking at him inquiringly, he laughed and changed the subject, saying, "I'm sure you've noticed that the Supervision Department is usually very idle. But I'll arrange for you to have more tasks that are easy to show up in the next few days, so that I can take you to the General Administration meeting in a few days."
"Okay." Rong Yuan asked, "Then what should I pay attention to in my daily work?"
Todd shook his head and said, "I don't have any work on weekdays." His face suddenly became a little gloomy. After a pause, he said, "Although we are the Supervision Department, in fact, we neither supervise officials nor civilians, nor adventurers. The [Supervision Department] is just a nice name. In private, we prefer to call ourselves scavengers."
"Scavenger?"
"Yes, or you could say - an officially designated professional killer." Todd said, "When the central intelligence Ochi monitors and analyzes someone and believes that someone is a threat, or when Ryuka and the political department chief Sima Pu need to eliminate certain people but have no reason to do it directly, they will give me a list, and then I will send the Supervision Department to take action, and randomly accuse the target person of some crime such as espionage, and eliminate all the target people and those who are closely related to them - this is what I have been doing."
"Any rule that wants to be maintained for a long time cannot be separated from violent institutions." Rong Yuan said: "It seems that the Armed Struggle Department is the open force of Liukasao, and your Supervision Department is the knife in the shadows."
"That's right. But our Supervisory Department, which is not responsible for supervision but only for killing, has always had a small number of people. Excluding those who have died in the line of duty, there are only 281 people in office now, including you and me. The Fighting Department has a total of more than 8,000 people, which is the largest department in Ryokasao. So even though all the people in the Supervisory Department are loyal to me and well-trained, even if they all risk their lives, they are not enough to shake Ryoka."
Rong Yuan's eyes flickered, and he frowned slightly. After a moment, he nodded and said, "Don't worry about the problem of force. You just need to help me find the mastermind behind the extinction of seven asteroids. The rest will be left to me."
He never worried about crowds, the only thing that made him wary was the person or group of people who silently took away all life on one planet after another across light years. But as long as he could confirm the other party's true identity and location before the other party noticed him, Rong Yuan believed that he could deal with the other party in a very short time.
"Okay, I will find out as soon as possible." Todd pinched his fingers, hesitated for a moment, and said, "But if... I mean if... if it turns out that those things have nothing to do with Liu Ka and the others, then you..."
"Everyone must pay for what he has done, no matter how big or small." Rong Yuan knew what he was going to ask, and looked at Todd and said meaningfully, "Even if Liuka and others did not commit those genocidal massacres, I think you know how much they did during their rule over Liukasao."
"Yes, I know very well." Todd showed a gloomy smile and said, "They must pay the price." The murderous intent in his eyes almost condensed into substance, and his hands clenched unconsciously, as if he wanted to twist someone's neck, and his purple face looked even more terrifying.
Rong Yuan glanced at him, sighed secretly, and said nothing more.
As early as on the second-floor rooftop, Rong Yuan had said that it was not only Liu Ka and the others who had to pay the price, but also Todd himself. But at this moment, he either forgot or did not care at all, and did not think about this at all. He was only thinking about how to retaliate against Liu Ka and the others, and he also regarded the people in the Supervisory Department who had been protected by him and were loyal to him as chips that could be sacrificed, and he did not hesitate to put them on the table of life and death.
Before completing his revenge, this person will burn like white phosphorus until he burns himself out. His emotion is always single and persistent, and his whole life is driven by this emotion, so that his previous life is like a puppet, and his remaining life is like the fire of revenge, but there is no more room for other things in life.
How sad.
