Du Lin returned home with an unhappy look on his face. When he knew that Catalina had not left yet, he asked Dove to inform her and talked with her in the study for a while. Through a brief exchange, Du Lin learned that Catalina was an agent directly under the Imperial Military Intelligence Department. After moving from the imperial capital to the local area, her military rank would be temporarily raised by one level, and she would have the power to expropriate and mobilize local public resources. This time she was assigned to the west. I just wanted to find a way to attend the gathering of the Earth God Cult with Du Lin and simply do some preliminary intelligence gathering.
The Military Intelligence Office, including the Security Committee, has always been very careful in handling domestic security issues. Each mission will have a detailed process. What everyone is responsible for and how to execute it are planned and outlined. Catalina was responsible for the early intelligence search work. She needed to sneak into the base of the Tushen Cult with Dulin, and record the names of some celebrities as much as possible to facilitate the military intelligence's evidence collection in the subsequent investigation. To this end, the Military Intelligence Department specially sent an excellent and beautiful agent to Dulin.
At the beginning, Dulin felt that Mags might not be too concerned about the Tushen Cult, because almost a month had passed since he reported the Tushen Cult until today, and there had been no news feedback, which even made him suspicious of the Tushen Cult. Could there be official people behind the divine religion? But the arrival of Catalina made him realize that he might have guessed wrong.
In fact, Du Lin didn't know that Mags was very concerned about the Tushen Cult he reported, because before Du Lin reported it, no news came out from bottom to top. What does it mean? This shows that if there is no major malfeasance problem in the local intelligence network, it is already rotten. Magus even suspects that some high-level officials in the Western Military Region have been corrupted. This is very frightening. Only last year did an extremist religious organization commit suicide on a huge scale, which had a very bad impact.
If the Earth God Sect causes something big, it will most likely cause the empire to be in turmoil again, and it will also lose face internationally. Thinking that people in the military might be corrupted by infiltration, the cabinet, after several rounds of deliberations, decided to first carry out the rotation of the Western Military Region, transferring the current two major generals, about fifteen colonels and about forty officers from the Western Military Region. The famous officers were dispersed and transferred to other military regions, and some officers with special status among them were put on the watch list.
After all the officers in the Western Military Region were transferred, the Imperial Military Intelligence Department dispatched Catalina to the west and began to investigate the affairs of the Tushen Cult.
"I think I already understand. Someone will notify me before the next gathering of the Earth God Sect. I will take you with me then, but I will not take the initiative to contact anyone before that." Du Lin refused. Catalina made the request to contact the Tushen Cult to deepen the relationship. Who knows if the Military Intelligence Agency can wipe out all the people from the Tushen Sect? If some harm is left behind in the future and cannot be caught, the unlucky one will be himself in the end.
At this point, Dulin didn't want to take any risks at all. This was not his business and there was no need for him to take too much risk.
Catalina frowned, "Mr. Dulin, I hope you won't reject my proposal so arbitrarily. This is not for my personal benefit, nor for your or a certain department's benefit. This is for the entire west, the entire The empire, the collective interests of all citizens of the empire. From the description you submitted, I can already predict that the Earth God Cult must have a huge conspiracy, and time is running out for us.”
"If you say this, there is indeed nothing wrong with it in theory, but... what does it have to do with me?" Dulin shook his head and stood up, "You can rest in the guest room, or you can find a place to rest by yourself. I will I have to go to the imperial capital. If you have anything to do, wait until I get back." After saying that, Du Lin nodded slightly, "See you later!" and then walked out the door. Catalina pursed her lips and did not chase after him, because she knew very well that there was no point in chasing after him.
Just when Du Lin had already boarded the train and started heading to the Imperial Capital, a man was smoking a cigarette impatiently. Around him, many security committee agents in military uniforms were asking him questions repeatedly. He answered them over and over again. Keep answering until there is no more hesitation.
This guy was one of the undercover agents chosen by the Security Committee to infiltrate Du Lin. If they couldn't find a suitable person and place him next to Du Lin, they wouldn't be able to collect any direct and strong evidence to accuse Du Lin of organizing a conspiracy. criminal gang.
Xiu En answered various questions boredly. He didn't want to cooperate, but it was impossible not to cooperate.
After the Tenel Gold Robbery, some people were sent to prison as scapegoats for public display. Prondo was originally the best scapegoat, but this guy died in the gunfight at the dock, so Sean was became the second most suitable target. First of all, as a member of the new party, he must be hated by everyone in the territory of the old party. If he is thrown out, no one will intercede for him. Secondly, Xiu En was also involved in the whole thing, which inevitably makes people think about whether he has any special relationship with the Golden Robbery.
At the same time, as the director of the Contraband Investigation Bureau of Turnel City, he did not implement the highest instructions from the cabinet and put an end to the contraband trade in Turnell City during his tenure. To some extent, he could even be said to be indulgent. Criminals in the city are committing crimes. Especially during certain periods of time, the fact that the Dulin gang colluded with Xiu En and directly sold the contraband seized in the contraband warehouse was known throughout the city. Everyone who ran the bar and took the goods from Dulin Everyone knows that Du Lin's wine comes from Xiu En, and Xiu En's wine was confiscated by others.
Driven by a variety of comprehensive factors, after Xiuen's gunshot wound was healed, he was directly sentenced for many job-related crimes such as dereliction of duty, destruction of evidence, and participation in gang behavior, and was imprisoned in Turnell Regional Prison.
Xiu En was released from prison some time ago. After he was released from prison, he saw the news about Du Lin in the newspaper and wanted to go to the west to find Du Lin. After being imprisoned, Xiu En finally understood that whoever has power and money in this world is right. He dared to pat his chest and touch his conscience and swear to everyone that everything he did was to ban Tenel's contraband market and to catch more criminals, without any selfish motives.
But so what? One after another, his colleagues stood up in court as prosecution witnesses to testify against things he had never done. He was heartbroken. He just wanted to make some money and live a good life. However, contrary to expectations, as soon as he came out of the station, he was controlled by two people and sent to the imperial capital.
As an important "helper" during Dulin's rise, Xiu En played a very key role in the eyes of the joint investigation team. Even the investigation team believes that Xiu En gave Du Lin a lot of help when Du Lin started his career. It can also be seen from Xiu En's decisive trip to the West after being released from prison that Xiu En and Du Lin have a good relationship and may have secret contacts. . So the Security Committee decided to control Xiu En, turn him into an undercover agent, and then put him next to Du Lin.
The reason for such a choice is actually not wishful thinking, but has practical reasons.
First, Xiuen is not a Guart, and he cannot become a core member of Dulin's interest group. Dulin's exclusivity towards race still exists to this day. Except for "excellent" lawyers like Kevin, he can hardly accommodate other people into his inner circle. So Xiu En may not necessarily be on the same page as Du Lin, and may be instigated to rebel.
Second, Xiu En had always been a good person before he started committing crimes on duty. Because he investigated some things that he should not have contact with at his level, he had conflicts with his superiors and was eventually demoted to Tener. The investigation team believed that he actually had good intentions, but that the environment in Turnell forced him to choose to cooperate with a force. This was his last resort.
Third, the investigation team consulted with senior officials and told Xiu En that if he could help the investigation team obtain important evidence that Du Lin was directly involved in the crime, after the Du Lin criminal group was destroyed, 1% of Du Lin's private property would be It will be given to Xiu En as a reward, and he is also promised a position as the director of the Security Investigation Bureau, so that he can continue to contribute to the empire.
If he didn't agree, the investigation team would suspect him of being involved in several murders...
Therefore, there are always some things that are irresistible and helpless.
"You can prepare. Dulin will arrive here at the latest tomorrow afternoon." The deputy leader of the investigation team interrupted the "training" of Xiu En, and then began to select the most suitable one from several plans. As a result, Xiu En and Du Lin met by chance, and returned to Du Lin's side.
The next afternoon, as soon as Du Lin came out of the station, he saw a group of people beating a homeless man. From the miserable screams of the homeless man, he could tell that he must be in pain. Originally, this had nothing to do with Du Lin, but somehow the tramp got up and ran away. During the chase and beating, the tramp ran past Du Lin, and when the two passed by At that moment, each other saw each other's face.
In that brief moment, which probably lasted less than a second, both Du Lin and Xiu En became surprised, and even their facial expressions changed slightly.
Du Lin slightly stepped aside from the crowd chasing the homeless man, and looked sideways as the group of people blocked the homeless man into an alley. Then he withdrew his gaze and got into a long-awaited luxury car with his briefcase in hand. The moment he closed the car door, he said, "Go and check on the homeless man who was chased just now. Don't disturb him. Investigate his situation in the past six months."
At the same time, the group of pursuers came out of the alley cursing, each with a defiant look on their face, and quickly disappeared into the dense flow of people outside the station. The deputy team leader, who had been hiding at the high observation point, frowned and looked at Xiu En, who had been lying in the alley humming, and murmured to himself, "Did it fail?"
(End of chapter)