Chapter 77 Case Coordination Meeting
After Chen Yinghe finished speaking, she found that not only did no one respond to her, but the scene was unusually quiet, and even Kong Xuan's face was unusually gloomy.
It's over, I didn't say the wrong thing. Chen Yinghe thought about the myth and wondered if the Peacock God had a rough marriage and wanted to help others?
"If I said something wrong, just pretend I didn't say it." Chen Yinghe covered her mouth, fearing divine punishment.
"Ahem, well, the Peacock God puts study...career first." Tan Xiao said cryptically.
"Oh, he doesn't want to fall in love." Chen Yinghe suddenly realized.
…I’m so annoyed! Being single is annoying in the first place!!
Kong Xuan was furious, but he couldn't be too obvious. He poked Tan Xiao angrily and said, "Tell her to stop guessing."
Chen Yinghe, right? Still want to be in love? Dream on! Go sharpen your pen!!
"Yeah, let's stop here." Tan Xiao turned around and said, "I'll take you to get a taxi."
Chen Yinghe thought that maybe it wasn't a good idea to gossip about the gods behind people's backs, so she nodded and said ignorantly, "Hahaha, okay, thank you."
After sending Chen Yinghe to the taxi, Tan Xiao took the badge to 404 and found that it was quite lively today. Even at this time, there were still many mages from the responsible units.
Tan Xiao asked A Jin, and A Jin touched his head: "I don't know either. I've been out on the road a lot recently, but it seems that there was a meeting notice today, but I didn't look carefully."
Tan Xiao randomly grabbed a staff member and asked, "Hello, what day is today?"
Staff: “Don’t go too far.”
"?" Tan Xiaoxin said I didn't do anything, he looked at the other person blankly.
The staff member said unhappily: "I'm Mu Fei!"
Tan Xiao: "..."
That's a bit excessive.
Kong Xuan's previous bad mood was finally amused by Tan Xiao, "Hahaha!"
Mu Fei: “…………”
She has been busy lately and feels that she has no time to take care of it, so she simply cut her hair short. It’s fine that Tan Xiao can’t recognize her, this is an old problem, but why does the Peacock God laugh? Anyone can laugh, but you? ?
Mu Fei didn't dare to say anything, and quietly rolled her eyes and said, "There's a case coordination meeting today, and they've been arguing until now."
"Lingzi!"
Tan Xiao heard the voice of the male viper. As one of the temporary workers of Office 404, they also came to attend the meeting.
The viper swam out of the window and coiled on the beam to watch them.
"Have you finished your side?" Mu Fei asked Tan Xiao.
"Done." Tan Xiao took out the chariot card and threw it. Two sphinxes and the blond warrior jumped out together, carefully looking around at the unfamiliar environment.
"!" The male viper was shocked when he saw it!
In his opinion, Tan Xiao just threw out something similar to a rune and summoned three monsters.
"Lingzi--" The male vipers burst out with grief and indignation. They should be the first in line, and in a moment they had already composed a lot of slanders against the three weird-looking colleagues.
"It's fine if Lingzi wants to jump the queue and recruit other subordinates, but how many fairies and ghosts are there in China? Do you have to recruit these three foreign monsters first? Those who are not of our race must have different hearts. We are willing to die for this!"
Tan Xiao was annoyed when he heard this, while the three members of the Tank Team became excited: "Oh my god, I told you it's made in China, but you're not of our species, what's wrong with you?"
When Xionggui heard that they could speak dialect and cursed at him, he became even more angry, "Okay, so you are pretending to be foreign guests."
"Stop arguing, stop arguing." Mu Fei had a headache because of the noise in the meeting today. She took a closer look at the two sphinxes with painted eyebrows and eyes, "Isn't this the Sphinx? I saw it outside the pyramid tomb and the temple."
"Oh, so you are also a tomb guardian beast." Xionggui knew the other party's origin. "We are all close to the underworld. How many years of history do you have? What level of cultural relic is it?"
The White Sphinx said slowly: "You seem to be very uneducated."
Xionggui said word by word: "How dare you?!"
It took Tan Xiao two seconds to realize that it was English, and he almost blurted out, "Huh?"
Mu Fei chuckled and said, "You didn't expect it, did you? It suffered a loss in the tomb last year. In fact, in addition to history, it has also been taking language classes, but it has not yet been shown to you."
Yes, Tan Xiao thought, he has always recognized Xionggui’s enthusiasm for learning, not to mention his learning achievements.
The male viper was speaking in a foreign language, but the black sphinx was cursing, "Stop talking nonsense here..."
The two sides started to curse at each other. The chariot team relied on the fact that there were three of them and surrounded Xionggui, pointing fingers at him. Although they could not fight, their courage and competitive spirit could also be used in quarrels. Xionggui sneered at this and said, "Don't you know that I have nine heads?" The courtyard was very lively for a while.
The staff passing by turned a blind eye, and even Mu Fei and Tan Xiao who were standing next to them were having a normal conversation.
"I originally heard that there was a disturbance in the studio, but later they said there was no ghost. I was thinking maybe it was a ghost. But how did the Tarot cards come from? I thought it would be the statue of David." Mu Fei still felt a little regretful.
"Misunderstanding, Tarot belongs to Chen Yinghe." Tan Xiao briefly explained the misunderstanding. However, Xionggui and the chariot crew seemed not to hear him at all and continued to quarrel with each other. Tan Xiao felt that they might have forgotten why they were quarreling in the first place.
"Director Mu!" someone called Mu Fei.
Mu Fei was taking a break to go to the bathroom. She sighed and said, "Do you want to come and listen? There are only a few left."
Then go and listen. Tan Xiao glanced at Xionggui and entered the meeting room.
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The case coordination meetings held by the 404 Office are for cases in which various responsible units have been passing the buck, saying that it is not within their scope of responsibility. In the end, some difficult cases are brought together and a blame-shifting meeting is held to see who will be held responsible in the end.
As soon as Tan Xiao entered, he saw that the venue was like a battlefield, and there were people arguing with various regulations.
Although he was in the linkage group organized by 404, he never had to participate in the blame-shifting because he was only a part-time worker. He had watched the group several times before, but he didn't expect there would be a large offline blame-shifting activity.
Tan Xiao and Kong Xuan found two seats behind Mu Fei and sat down. Jiao Guangquan poured tea for them and also gave them a copy of the meeting materials.
"There are only a few parts left, let's finish them quickly." Mu Fei pointed at the form in his hand, "What do you think about the Demon Locking Pillar at the high-speed railway station?"
Tan Xiao also took a look at the table, where there was a simple description of the case. This type of component was different from the types of events he usually dealt with. For example, in this case, there was a demon-locking pillar near the high-speed railway station for many years. Now the runes were worn out and had lost their magic power, revealing the pillar, which was discovered by a citizen and reported.
After the 404 Office has checked it, they will notify the affiliated unit to handle it. However, because it has been so long, it is a little difficult to recognize the signature on the Demon-Locking Pillar, and it has not been possible to determine which unit or wizard it belongs to.
We have been arguing for a long time just now. One of them said that it looks like the work of your master before he passed away, and the other said that I think your company's logo can be vaguely seen on it.
"How do you hold meetings?" Tan Xiao suddenly had an idea and asked Kong Xuan.
Kong Xuan thought for a moment and said, "Almost the same, but the words are more elegant."
My goodness, how come the higher-ups are like this? Humans and gods are the same, right?
"Okay! We can't argue here and get anything done." After all, each unit has sent out its best debaters. "Why don't we use the most ancient method and ask the gods to make the decision? Whoever gets the lucky number gets it!"
That's possible, there is no one present who does not acknowledge the power of the gods.
But the problem is that everyone believes in different gods, so who should be asked to cast the divination? I am afraid that people will be biased.
After a few seconds of silence, everyone couldn't help but look at Tan Xiao.
This... Now it seems that there is a god in office 404 who has nothing to do with anyone. But they didn't dare to ask Kong Xuan to help draw lots. Tan Xiao, as the plenipotentiary representative of the Peacock God, was easier to talk to.
Tan Xiao originally came in to watch the show, but he didn't expect that he would be asked to draw lots. He would be embarrassed no matter who he drew. He had worked with people like Duan Yang and Elder Baoping before, so he was a bit embarrassed.
"Hey, hey, don't bully a high school student." Mu Fei shouted, "How dare you? It's ok to draw lots at the end, but you don't even dare to draw it yourself?"
Everyone smiled shyly, this was because the spiritual master was the most transcendent person.
"Um, do we need to reinforce the seal of the Demon-Locking Pillar?" Tan Xiao asked carefully.
"Although this is called a demon-locking pillar, it's actually used to suppress feng shui. Get rid of the old one and put up a new one. There's no rush to prepare a new one, but we can't just leave the old one there and be watched." Mu Fei said, but although dealing with the old one is a small matter, it basically means taking over the new one, and no one is willing to do it easily.
Tan Xiao suddenly had an idea: "You guys also said that the logo and runes on it are no longer clear. There is nothing on it, so it is just a large piece of construction waste. Which department should deal with it?"
Mu Fei murmured, "Usually let the sanitation department take it away."
"Then just take it away first, and then reseal it according to your rules. Just assign someone else to do it. Why do you have to argue about the previous ownership? There was nothing there before, only construction waste."
As soon as Tan Xiao finished speaking, everyone said: Damn! This doesn’t feel good!
Mu Fei patted his head and said, "Brother, you really are suitable to work in our company. That's right, this is not a demon-locking pillar, it's just a piece of construction waste."
When she said this, the mages in those units had different expressions. They quickly calculated in their minds, feeling that if they were to divide the areas, the blame would most likely fall on them in the end. "Director Mu, we should find out the whole story, right?"
"Have you all sent people to identify this Demon-Locking Pillar?" Mu Fei said after getting a positive answer, "Everyone has identified it. Every unit said it's not theirs. The inscription on it can't be seen clearly. What basis do you have to say it's a Demon-Locking Pillar? What's the whole story? Now let's put things in order. Garbage is garbage, and a seal is a seal. Done! The unit dispatched for this case is the sanitation department! Dismissed!!"
Everyone: “…”
I really wanted to refute but I couldn't find the words to say. In the end, I could only pick up my materials and go home.
Tan Xiao even heard a wizard say, "...I've learned that next time there are corpses of wild boar spirits, just report them to the agricultural department for disposal. If you ask me to do it, I'll burn them."
I don't know whether I should say that I am quite good at drawing inferences from one instance.
"Thank you, brother." Mu Fei packed up the information and asked Jiao Guangquan to call those who had not signed in before to sign in.
"It's okay, but this is the first time I've seen a parts case." Tan Xiao put his knowledge into practice and was catching ghosts and monsters, which were event-related cases. It was the first time he saw a specific parts case, although it was handled very sloppily.
"Don't tell me, before the influence of the Gengshen Sun Emperor Flow, this was the biggest problem in our unit." Mu Fei said with a smile, "Especially in China, we always leave a way out when doing things. Under the heaven, everything has a ray of hope, so many mages in the past only suppressed but did not kill."
Tan Xiao knew that when he and his colleagues caught monsters, they would just put them in a jar and bury them in the ground. The jar might break, and if it did, the seal would be invalid, but they still adhered to the principle of suppressing but not killing.
In the past, Yunmeng Lake was full of monsters and there were even rumors of dragons causing trouble, but at that time people only cast a swallow-tail iron shackle as a talisman.
"In recent years, our 404 Office has become more and more complete, with a high level of technological development and a high level of socialization of the demon race. We have also adopted the method of replacing work with town. However, as time goes by, there will still be many cases of parts left over from the past that need to be dealt with. In addition to those that are on record and expire, there are also many that were left behind by unknown wizards in the countryside in the past. We must also take the initiative to discover them."
Mu Fei said that in fact, one of the main reasons why those responsible units shirked their responsibilities was due to lack of manpower and too many things to deal with. This is even more so because they have recruited a lot of temporary workers from folk magic sects and demon tribes.
Speaking of parts, Mu Fei thought of Qiyunling, "You remember the tomb beast said that there was a senior who suppressed something in Qiyunling. Speaking of which, we have been looking through ancient books and local chronicles afterwards, trying to see if there are any clues and figure out the situation. Otherwise, it would be embarrassing if it got out that our Nanchu office didn't even know what big formations and monsters there were in the local area. But we looked through the books and investigated on the spot, but we found nothing. The senior's formation was traceless, and we couldn't even find the altar or the center of the formation, let alone what it suppressed and how long it would suppress it. It's really amazing!"
Or even the evil fighter can only dig out a suspicious formation.
"It's really amazing. We've gone there so many times before to investigate because of the evil spirits, but we never found anything wrong." Tan Xiao couldn't think of what kind of big monster could be suppressed in Qiyunling.
"So this case will be put on hold for now. I'll check it out when I have time or the ability to do so later." As Mu Fei was speaking, she received a message on her phone. After checking it, she said in surprise, "Good news, Brother Tan Xiao."
She showed the information to Tan Xiao - thanks to the efforts of the task force, the last Hutou was successfully captured in another province tonight, and now all twelve Hutou have been arrested!
Recalling that the Huo Dou first appeared in Nanchu, no one thought too much about it. Later, it was merged with the case in Qi Province, and a special task force was set up to carry out arrests across the country. In the beginning, they could only lock down the whereabouts of four or five Huo Dou, but later they became more and more skilled. In addition, the Huo Dou would inevitably reveal their whereabouts as long as they committed crimes. After more than half a year, they were finally arrested with the efforts of magicians from all over the country.
In this way, the situation where Yaoyao is in danger may become a thing of the past.
"The only one left is the sniper." Mu Fei once analyzed that this thing might be a gun that has become a spirit. Any weapon that has become a spirit must be a very dangerous thing, so the 404 Office also attaches great importance to it. "I believe this thing will not be able to escape for long. Brother Tan Xiao, the extra points you are most happy about are definitely guaranteed."
Among them, Tan Xiao alone helped to catch three. With the wide range of people involved in this case, Mu Fei judged from experience that she would definitely get extra points. Seeing Tan Xiao smiling, she asked, "You can't get too many points, right? I see that your performance is pretty stable."
Tan Xiao paused, then turned to look at Kong Xuan, "My points are enough, but I have to be prepared in case I need to rescue someone."
In their situation, naturally he has points and Kong Xuan also has points. His extra points are icing on the cake, but for Kong Xuan, they may play a very significant role.
Kong Xuan didn't care about this human contract at first, he just signed it because Tan Xiao wanted to. Now that he thought about it, Tan Xiao wasn't as enthusiastic about the extra points at first. On the sports field, he ran 3,000 meters and rushed out again without stopping - that was 3,000 meters!
"You, you are thinking about me..." Kong Xuan actually stuttered, his eyes were bright. He didn't think that Tan Xiao didn't believe him, he just felt that Tan Xiao was thinking too much about him.
After he finished speaking, he even said with a little bit of unconfidence: "The 'person' you are talking about is me, right?"
If Kong Xuan's family saw this, they would be shocked, as he was not confident at the time.
Kong Xuan had already made up his mind to study hard for Tan Xiao and work towards his goal, but all this seemed to become more meaningful when he heard that Tan Xiao also had plans for him.
"Who else can I help except you?" Tan Xiao felt a little embarrassed when he was stared at. He stared at the floor and said, "At least we have to get into the same city..."
"I'm sure they'll be admitted to the same school!" Kong Xuan felt the futility of his words and didn't know how to prove it. Suddenly, he thought of a way, "I can write a letter of guarantee."
He remembered that Ji Huiming had asked his classmates to write a letter of guarantee.
Tan Xiao was so amused by Kong Xuan's tail-wagging action that he thought no one would take the initiative to write a letter of guarantee. He lowered his head and said, "Why write a letter of guarantee? Wait until you make a mistake."
Seeing him keep looking down, Kong Xuan couldn't help but bend down and look sideways, only to find that Tan Xiao seemed to be laughing. What's there to hide from laughing? This isn't the first time he's made fun of me. Kong Xuan felt quite strange.
"Hahaha, really." Tan Xiao raised his head and rubbed his eyes, "Just work hard."
What a memorable school days! Mu Fei said with a smile, "That's right. It would be best if you two could be admitted to the same school and then share a dormitory."
Kong Xuan said proudly: "We are sleeping together now."
Who hasn't been to Tan Xiao's house? Mu Fei coughed, "Yeah, that's a student dormitory, the kind with a bed above and a desk below, and your heads touching. I remember that I was scared when I watched horror movies at night, so I always climbed onto my roommate's bed to sleep. The bed was so small that we had to squeeze in."
Kong Xuan: “…Oh.”
Tsk, I slept too, for a while.
…
The viper was still swearing at the Sphinx when they suddenly heard the office door open and Kong Xuan walked out aggressively, looking as if he was going to destroy the world. They were so scared that they all shut up and didn't dare to move, looking at Kong Xuan in horror.
What is he going to do? !
Kong Xuan looked at them steadily, walked over and kicked the male viper away very naturally, and said to the Sphinx: "You, ask me a question!"
Sphinx: “?”
Kong Xuan stared at him, his blood boiling. Hurry up, do the questions for me! !
The Sphinx thought of the kick Peacock had given him earlier, and asked in horror, "You want to use bait to enforce the law?"
Kong Xuan said impatiently: "Just ask if I ask you."
The Sphinx had no choice but to read out two questions resignedly. They were all key and difficult questions. Being known for its wisdom, it naturally had a bank of carefully selected questions.
What’s even better is that if there are questions you don’t understand, you can ask it and it will be able to answer them.
The male viper crawled back and gave Kong Xuan a sullen look. Mu Fei then told it the truth that it had been ignoring: "That thing is a tarot card, not some subordinate that Tan Xiao recruited."
The male viper was ecstatic: "Fortunately it was just a misunderstanding!"
Over there, Kong Xuan turned to Tan Xiao and said, "Borrow this thing. I think it's good for practicing questions."
Male Viper: “…………”
