"Minister's approval? Sorry, we are here on behalf of the Inspection Bureau and the Anti-Suppression Department. If it is Minister William..."
At first, Victor thought the minister the other party was talking about was William, but soon he realized that he was wrong.
The director the guard refers to is the director of their White Crown Security Department, named Stanford Vandersel.
It was another middle-aged man with a bald head, and Victor had seen him before.
When handling Glenn's case before, he had briefly dealt with the other party. After contacting him, he only felt that the man had some kind of prejudice against the Anti-Suppression Department.
"If we need the cooperation of the Inspection Bureau, we must at least let us understand the ins and outs of the matter and check the stolen room... If you make things difficult like this, if something happens to the President, who will be responsible?"
Tony warned the other party verbally.
The guard frowned, his expression full of embarrassment.
He finally relented and told the two of them a secret about the Brass Tower.
"The place you want to go to...the so-called...room where the most important files are stored actually requires two keys to open..."
Two keys?
Victor was slightly surprised.
The guard continued to explain: "One key is placed with our boss, uh... Mr. Stanford, I am used to calling him boss, and the other one is with the President..."
President George is currently on a lecture tour and cannot come back to open the door for them, and Stanford...
etc!
Victor discovered the loophole.
"If the room requires two keys to open...how did you find out that the things were stolen? Is there any other way to get in?"
The guard's expression became serious: "Only that door. In fact, we don't know what has been stolen inside. Even Mr. Stanford himself can't open the door with just a key, but that door has been opened.
There are traces of passing, I don’t believe who sneaked in just to write ‘I visited here’…”
"What do you mean?" Victor asked curiously.
The guard answered: "It is said that the lock on the door is made in a special way. Every time it is opened, different traces will appear. I am not particularly clear about the specific situation. You have to talk to Mr. Stanford."
"Isn't he here at Stanford?" Tony covered his forehead helplessly.
"That's right, he left Sanfran to find the President, just to get another key. When he came back, he opened this door for inspection to ensure that the lecture tour could proceed smoothly." The guard told the truth.
Victor was even more incomprehensible after hearing this.
"I heard that it contains the President's itinerary plan. Since it has been seen that the door has been opened, even if it is not confirmed whether the plan has been leaked, for the sake of safety, we should change the original plan or simply terminate the lecture tour, etc.
Let’s catch the culprit behind this before we continue... But after listening to you, it seems that the Presidential Palace has no intention of changing the plan.”
After the president set off, he found that his things had been stolen. The head of security went to find him personally, but not to warn him. He just took back the president's key to open the door and check...
This series of actions seemed very unreasonable to Victor.
The guard didn't know much about this, so he could only explain the plans of the top brass of the presidential palace according to his own ideas.
"I don't understand why the President did not terminate the speech. Maybe it is because the election is approaching and there is no extra time to prepare a second plan."
After hearing this, Victor continued to ask: "When was it stolen?"
"Before going on a speaking tour, but when we found out, His Excellency the President had already left and he was not in White Crown."
After hearing this, Victor began to count the time.
In other words, after the discussion of the White Gold Tower's speech schedule is completed, a paper document needs to be typed by a typist for the Brass Tower's record.
Before the president left, the thief stole their two keys and entered the room where state secrets were stored.
Not only that, the reason why the White Crown was discovered so late was because the thief returned the key, which made the guys from the Security Department and the Platinum Tower relax their vigilance...
This is too difficult to do. If you just steal a key to open the door, you might still have a chance.
But those were two keys. Not only did they have to steal them, but they also had to return them. The time was very tight, which meant that the thief faced the risk of being caught four times...
Victor couldn't remember whether the president had set out when they were dealing with the Glenn case, but now that the Liberal Party's speech was in full swing across the country, it probably wouldn't give up halfway. Stanford could only take that speech while protecting the president's safety.
Catch the thief who stole the goods.
No one knew which state he went to find President George, so the Police Bureau could only wait for Stanford to come back before proceeding with the next work.
Victor continued to wait in Sanfran, waiting for the notification from White Crown, and waiting for the ship he arranged to deliver the goods.
During this period, he followed the address left by Mr. Question to find Sanfran's letter club, but on the way there, he felt a strong sense of familiarity.
When he finally arrived at his location, he found himself standing outside the door of the pet store.
"This...isn't this the entrance to the Clown Club?"
Victor was extremely surprised. Now this place has been sealed off by the government. The doors of the pet shop are all sealed. The only way to get in is to pry them open.
"Mr. I wonder if he wrote it wrong..."
Victor became suspicious of him.
But after calming down, he guessed that the club might actually have something to do with letters!
However, this place was sealed, and Mr. Questioning in Renekton was unable to get the news immediately. He might have thought that the club was still operating normally...
"Damn...the clue is broken again!"
Victor cursed and left the street, but he didn't notice that someone in the building next to him was quietly looking at him...
…
One day after that, Victor learned the resume of Stanford Vandersel from Tony.
It turns out that he was actually a member of the Anti-Suppression Department in the past! And he and William were seers of the same tower nature!
"I usually don't talk about them behind their backs, because there are a lot of gossips that I don't know are true or false, but... everything I tell you is true..."
The two of them were riding in a carriage from the Inspection Bureau. Outside the black carriage were crowds of people holding signs and canvassing for votes. The road was tightly blocked, causing them to move very slowly.
Although His Excellency the President is not in the capital, the partisan campaign for votes in the capital is still extremely intense.
There are also women's organizations criticizing both parties. They also gather on the streets to promote and call for women to be given the right to vote.
Tony closed the car window, picked his forehead and continued to say to Victor: "I don't understand you seers, but I heard that seers of the same sex are often hostile to each other. It is said that Stanford also had the opportunity to become the minister of the Department of Defense and Suppression, but
I don’t know what happened, but he chose to quit and came to White Crown to serve as the head of the security department.”
His words really aroused Victor's curiosity about that past event.
"What happened between the two of you?"
"Didn't I say that? I don't know! But since then, Stanford has been very repulsive to the Anti-Suppression Department and the Inspection Bureau, especially William Marshall. If you meet him in the future, don't mention William." Close the window.
You could also hear the noise outside, which made Tony a little anxious.
Victor was not greatly affected.
As an experienced seer, he certainly knew why seers of the same sex and appearance were hostile to each other.
Because of the existence of secret promotion and synthesis rituals...
However, there are exceptions, such as magical places like churches, which can bring people with the same belief together. The seers inside also belong to the same nature. They are connected to each other by faith. They rely entirely on self-consciousness. There is no large-scale occurrence.
They fought and robbed each other, allocating the secret transmissions they deserved based on their positions in the church.
Of course, there are also situations like Sullivan who murders his colleagues in order to be promoted to Secret Agent III.
As for people like William and Stanford, they are not fanatical believers, nor are they bound by various rules and regulations... When the two of them first worked together, they did not fight each other, and everything was in a life-and-death situation.