CHAPTER 5 THE SECRETARY OF INTELLIGENCE OF THE UNITED STATES IN LIFE
The blue sky is inlaid with a brilliant sun, and the large floating white clouds are like white sails sailing on the blue sea.
However, the Minister of Intelligence of the United States of America was not in as good a mood as the weather at this time.
The completely closed office was filled with smoke. Minister Manolo was smoking cigarettes one after another, his brows were furrowed, and the black eye bags caused by staying up late made him look older.
What was displayed on the projection screen in front of Manolo was the picture of "Ye Ji" with dull eyes.
"Who are you... worthy of such a big move by destiny..."
Manolo browsed the collected information and frowned more and more.
Bang bang bang~
"Come in."
A bald, middle-aged lean man wearing black round glasses walked in.
Seeing the man holding paper documents, Manolo rarely cheered up and said, "Aveden, I hope you can bring me some good news."
The man named Avedon had a smile on his face, but there was some bitterness in his expression.
"Minister, these are the two latest pieces of information compiled."
Manolo put out his cigarette butt and picked up a document to look through. Such documents that were not sent directly through the intranet were generally kept highly confidential in order to prevent the intelligent AI developed by certain organizations from causing trouble.
"The news about Tianming's mission is about a strange shop and the person who looks after the shop. We temporarily call her the 'shopkeeper' internally. This shop will appear all over the world from time to time. According to them, they are looking for destiny.
Man. It sounds like a novel." Avedon pushed up his glasses and continued:
"If Tianming hadn't mobilized too many people for this mission and the scope of the operation was too large, we wouldn't have been able to obtain such detailed mission information. In addition to investigating the shop, most of our intelligence officers were investigating the 'shop owner'. As long as
She lives in modern times and it is impossible not to leave traces of her life behind."
"However..." Avedon smiled bitterly: "The documents you are holding are what our intelligence personnel have tried their best to investigate..."
"Just investigated this?" Manolo rubbed his eyebrows, raised the information, and said loudly: "Just investigated such a ridiculous thing?!"
Avedon nodded heavily, "Minister, don't worry, she is most likely a descendant of that person, such as his great-great-great-granddaughter... After all, no one can live for more than five hundred years.
"
Manolo gathered his energy again and looked at the information in his hand.
This is an investigation report on the first-generation patriarch of the "Eighth Level" family, one of the four major families of Destiny.
"Eight Layers" is also the most mysterious family in the history of Tianming. In the outside world, you can't see any guy claiming to be from the Eight Layers...
"In terms of portrait matching, the person in the photo is at least 80-90% similar to the first head of the Yae Family." Avedon affirmed.
"You compare it with historical pictures from more than five hundred years ago?" Manolo looked like he hated iron. "Do you think those medieval portraits would be as realistic as criminal investigation?"
"Uh... Minister, it is rumored that the first generation head of the Yae family paid more attention to the realistic style. Most of the pictures he left were of this type. Some of the well-preserved paintings are almost comparable to today's photos.
"
"Really?" Manolo muttered, this involves a blind spot in his knowledge. Who knows, the realism style appeared five hundred years ago, and this painting is the same as the artistic photo taken last week...
Manolo put down the investigation report on the legendary figure, "What do you mean, the owner of this weird shop is probably from the Yae family?
Since he is from the Yae family, why not contact Tianming directly?"
"There may be many factors involved..." Avedon said: "Those big families' affairs have always been complicated."
"Ye..." Manolo leaned back in his chair, "Do we still need to investigate?"
Avedon looked at the minister who had always been fearless, wondering what he was afraid of.
"Minister, on the territory of the United States, we don't need to be afraid of any powerful organization!"
"What if someone else is a member of the United States?" Manolo said with ridicule, "Destiny is an organization that can be traced back to before the Christian era. It started the era of great expansion in the 15th century, and the first patriarch of the Yae family even served as the governor of France.
Although I don’t know what art those historical figures liked, I know very well the power they left behind!”
Avedon frowned, showing just the right amount of confusion.
"The Destiny was still called the Destiny Holy See at that time. At that time, the major families controlled the Destiny. In addition to the taxation of the fixed business areas, only the major families had the strength to open up transnational business routes. At that time, the Yae Chamber of Commerce accumulated a large amount of wealth.
The modern Yae Chamber of Commerce has long been a thing of the past, but Vera Pharmaceuticals, which was established based on it, is definitely a giant among giants."
Avedon nodded secretly, "Minister, although the power of the pharmaceutical giants is terrifying, it cannot interfere with our decision-making. Destiny has almost no place for survival in the United States."
"Ha~ You can't tell much from the stock price of Vera Pharmaceuticals, but it provides some special medicines to the top group of people every year. Over a hundred years of operation, in the United States, Vera Pharmaceuticals has long been successful.
A piece of iron." Manolo said: "It is rumored that they have manipulated the election."
"this..."
Manolo: "The name of Vera Pharmaceutical comes from Yae Vera, the second generation of the Yae family, who is also the only Yae clan member registered at the official level. In fact, the entire Vera Pharmaceutical belongs to the Yae family. Do you understand?
If they wanted to, both of us would step down today."
"Then..." As a staff officer, this is the first time that Avedon has heard that Vera Pharmaceuticals has such great power in the United States.
Manolo glanced at the subdued Avedon and flipped through the second document. When he first became the head of the intelligence department, he was as shocked as Aveden when he heard the news.
It's not that I haven't thought about resisting in the name of justice, but the previous predecessors with this kind of mentality will almost spend their remaining years in prison, and the others... So instead of holding high the banner of justice, it is better to lie down and enjoy it, with his
In terms of status and treatment, Vera Pharmaceutical gives him good things every year.
"Mr. Minister," Avedon came back to his senses and said seriously: "If this is really the case, there is no need to read this second document."
"What?" Manolo opened the information absentmindedly.
"This is a case of thirty-two years of records," Avedon said. "We dug through the archives to find it."
Manolo has been immersed in it. This information is exactly the transaction process of a mysterious store!
"Why did you find out such an important thing now?!" Manolo stared straight at Avedon after reading the information.
"Didn't you say you don't have to ask?"
"You know nothing! It is our unshirkable responsibility to protect the sacred interests of the United States from being infringed!"