The U.S. Secret Service has a well-known mission, which is to provide security for national leaders and visiting foreign guests, but at the same time, the main task of the Secret Service is not only that, any crime that violates the financial order of the United States is the main target of the Secret Service. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As a financial police under the Ministry of Finance, the Secret Service obviously has much higher enforcement powers in the field of financial crime than other types of law enforcement agencies, but relatively speaking, commercial crime is not necessarily under their control.

With the development of Internet technology, credit card and other credit payment models have sprung up, and the consequent credit fraud and theft have gradually increased, so the Secret Service's business scope has also expanded to the field of combating Internet crime, as before, the Secret Service focuses on different from the FBI, DHS, Langley and other agencies, even if sometimes they will encounter the same target.

The Secret Service pays no less attention to hackers than other great intelligence or law enforcement agencies, but unless these hackers' activities involve crimes such as credit card fraud, fraud, etc., which will cause financial chaos and the public distrust the financial order, the Secret Service will start to crack down on hackers. It is also worth mentioning that the Secret Service does not need to explain to the judge in advance and obtain permission to use investigative methods such as wiretapping and surveillance, as other law enforcement agencies do, and in this regard, the Secret Service, like Langley, can launch an investigation based on suspicion alone.

After all, it's not the U.S. government that's behind the Treasury Department......

This is also a means for the Treasury Department and others to prevent other US intelligence agencies from overstepping their authority......

The vast majority of judges will also turn a blind eye to whether the evidence submitted by the Secret Service complies with the requirements of the evidence collection procedure......

The magic painting virus that Phoebe once released has long been in the sight of various security agencies, and with the complete disappearance of the electronic version of the painting, the magic painting virus has never appeared again, as if it never existed.

All Internet security personnel know that the creator of the magic painting virus is a very dangerous guy, and the programming methods he uses are different from any hacker he has encountered before, and that person's technology is more like using a completely positional underlying language for programming, which is like throwing a racing car pilot into the cockpit of an airplane and letting him fly the plane, which is completely clueless, so I am afraid that it is impossible to find the hacker with technical means.

Although Internet security personnel around the world tried to find the creator of the magic painting virus, he never appeared again, which led many to suspect that the person had an accident or accident.

For the security agencies of the United States, at first because of the painting, it was suspected that the author of the virus was a fan of Girls' Generation, and even discovered the programming technology used by the Knowles Light was not seen, but soon the Knowles Light was because of an "accident" After analysis, many people feel that its technology is not the same thing as the technology of the creator of the magic painting virus, at least, they can still see how the makers of Knowles Light built the website, so for a while, the only clue is that the author is a fan of Phoebe, which is also the reason why Phoebe can let go of the investigation of Phoebe when she first arrived in the United States.

Several organizations wanted to find out the hacker, and even Langley had this plan, but fortunately, Phoebe made up his mind to get close to Langley from the beginning, so that Langley had no intention of persecuting Phoebe at all. As the vanguard of the investigation, the FBI could not organize Langley except for infiltrating and framing the Boston branch at that time, after all, no matter how powerful Langley was, it couldn't withstand everyone's desire to investigate, especially with the support of more wealthy and powerful organizations such as the Treasury Department, the NSA and the Pentagon.

However, no matter how much you check, no evidence of Phoebe having contact with hackers was found, and Phoebe sold the lost system in a timely manner, so that most organizations chose vested interests, and all departments thought that as Langley said, although Titan's organizational form is somewhat different from that of ordinary companies, their interests are still tied to the interests of the United States. After all, except for the dispensable bracelet watch business, all of Titan's business can only be done with large institutions in the United States.

Bundling interests is always the best way to cooperate, and it is quite feasible to use this sentence in reverse.

Therefore, after experiencing the last unsuccessful framing of the FBI, the development of Titan has been smooth, and in many ways there will be people who will take the initiative to help, in the eyes of outsiders, Titan is pure luck, but Titan knows internally, Phoebe said at the beginning, Titan is not to seize other people's existing resources and markets, not to grab things from others, but to find a new development route, and develop together with the existing systems in the world.

Therefore, the adoration and trust that the people of Titan have in Phoebe is difficult to understand to outsiders.

But the Secret Service, or the Treasury Department's trust in Phoebe, is even more inexplicable.

Phoebe, her sisters and members of AKB48 flew to Beijing after receiving war-wounded children from the Middle East in Shanghai, where the hustle and bustle of the Beijing Olympics had passed, but the city's focus on sports had not diminished, after all, the Paralympic Games were about to be held here.

As soon as Phoebe was in Beijing and had not yet arrived at her residence, Barbara told her that someone from the embassy wanted to see her, much to Phoebe's surprise, but Phoebe decided to meet her anyway, as Barbara said that the person's actual identity was a special agent of the Secret Service.

The two got out of the car halfway through and arrived at a designated café, where the other party was already waiting, a white woman about forty years old, with a very common name, Teresa.

After seeing Phoebe, Theresa was at first interested, but then looked at Phoebe very rudely.

Seeing Theresa's behavior, Barbara couldn't help but despise the Secret Service, obviously this kind of means of gaining the initiative before negotiation is very pediatric.

Phoebe was really like Barbara thought, waiting for the other party to speak, but she pretended to be a little uncomfortable, which made Barbara find it very interesting.

Theresa saw that Phoebe showed the look she wanted, but she didn't mean to be angry, so she accepted it, first handed over a document bag, and then said: "This is the tax declaration materials of Enceladus and you this year, after the review of the Ministry of Finance, there are many items that can apply for tax refund or tax exemption." ”

Phoebe pretended to be happy and took the file bag, then asked with a confused expression, "Aren't you from the Secret Service?"

Theresa glanced at Barbara next to her, and knew that Barbara had told Phoebe, so she wasn't too surprised, after all, she also knew that Phoebe's level of secrecy was quite high, and the Finance Bureau just wanted Phoebe to provide some convenience in some things.

Therefore, Theresa nodded and said: "Titan's last year has made outstanding contributions to domestic policing, anti-terrorism and foreign military support operations, to the United States' finances, and also in some philanthropic causes, to maintain the international image of the United States has made a very big sacrifice, you have been in South Korea before, so you didn't receive information in time, just last month when the president went to China to participate in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the Ministry of Finance asked the Secret Service to help hand over this document to you." ”

Well, this high-sounding reason is very good, Barbara and Phoebe are nodding secretly in their hearts, in fact, if you continue to dig along the data of the Ministry of Finance, you will find that Titan's Detroit factory has swept the global agricultural product market on a large scale, adding a new upward impetus to the international food prices that have risen due to the food crisis......

However, on the other hand, Titan's sweeping behavior in the agricultural product market has brought a lot of impetus to the domestic agriculture of the United States, such as transportation, pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural machinery, etc., so the Treasury Department has encouraged Titan, which can also be said to be in the past.

However, even if it is good for the American economy, such a reward is a bit excessive, at least neither Phoebe nor Barbara believes that the other party is not asking for it.

So Phoebe pretended to be grateful and nodded with a smile: "I thought there was some tax problem, since that's the case, then thank you, I will reorganize people to file taxes." There's something else on my side, so ......"

Theresa looked at Phoebe pretending to leave, and felt that although Phoebe's company was indeed unique in R&D and technology application, it had the style of a businessman who only took benefits, so she hurriedly stabilized Phoebe and said: "Titan's head office has always been in Germany, and you have to pay taxes in two countries after a year of hard work, especially the tax rate in Germany is very high, so why don't you simply move back to the United States, which can save a lot of costs." ”

Barbara thinks that this should be the real idea of the Ministry of Finance, after all, Titan's customers are mainly the American military, police agencies, big banks and airports, so it can be said that lying on the US government to suck blood, but then turning back to give the money to the German government, and the owner of Titan is an American, which must make the Treasury feel very hurt.

Phoebe feels that things are not so simple, after all, the United States has always wanted to break up the European Union, from the construction of the Atlantic Floaters, to the Atlantic Floaters and then to the help of the United Kingdom to build a Floaters, it can be seen that the United States is increasingly unable to tolerate the European Union, which seems to be one, but is left and right everywhere.

For the EU to break up, Phoebe thinks it's better not to, after all, there is an EU with a holy grace agreement, which can allow her people to wander around the Schengen area, where they want to go, how they want to go, which makes it relatively simple for her to increase the popularity of Girls' Generation, so the EU still has a need to exist, and the EU has a need to further expand......

That's right, for Phoebe, the meaning of the EU's existence is to facilitate the popularity of Girls' Generation, and it is best to include Russia in the scope of the EU, so no matter who wants to attack Russia now, she is very supportive.

Who told Russia not to let other neighbors join the EU, it's too unreasonable. Therefore, the United States is a bit out of the way to try to break up the EU.

Of course, Phoebe's thinking is also temporary.

So Phoebe shook her head and said: "Most of Titan's technology was developed by German employees, which is the foundation of the company, and if the company is suddenly replaced by an American company, it is difficult to say whether patriotic Germans will think that it is another betrayal of Germany by Jewish capital power - you should also know that most of my employees were members of neo-Nazi organizations before, and it took me a lot of effort to reduce their participation in neo-Nazi activities." ”

Theresa actually knew that this request was unreliable, and when she saw Phoebe refusing so formally, she just nodded, and then finally threw out what she really wanted to say: "It's true, there is still freedom in the operation of enterprises, and it doesn't matter where the company headquarters is, this is the iron law of the free world." But what about the floating island that Titan-9 and the Ministry of Defense are building? In the future, will it be American?"

Barbara suddenly felt awe-inspired, although the entire floating island was funded and built by Titan, but if the Ministry of Finance submits an investigation motion against the Pentagon in Congress, I am afraid that the construction of the Atlantic floaters will also have twists and turns, after all, it is she who led the negotiations with the Pentagon, and the original was to use the deployment of strategic-level military forces on the floating islands after the completion of the floating islands to tempt the Pentagon, if the Ministry of Finance has to intervene, although there is not much loss for Titan because of the agreement, but the Pentagon will definitely suffer, as for whether it will cause the deployment of military forces and deal with the inspection of the Ministry of Finance This matter will cause greater twists and turns, I'm afraid it's really a little unclear.

Phoebe nodded slowly, and said, "Well, Atlantic floaters can fly the Star-Spangled Banner." ”

Theresa shook her head and smiled: "That's not enough, I've also seen the encrypted floating island frame photos, it looks like it's at least five thousand square kilometers, and I'm afraid there will be a lot of future benefits on it." ”

Barbara secretly poked Phoebe above her thighs and below her waist.

Phoebe ignored her and said to Theresa: "The main purpose of the floating islands is to form a strategic support in the Mid-Atlantic, and there is no commercial plan, which I promised the Pentagon at the beginning." ”

Theresa shook her head again and said, "That's a bit too wasteful, by the way, have you ever heard of seabed mining?"

Phoebe nodded.

Theresa added: "We also know that the Atlantic Floaters also have a complete entrance to a large submarine about two kilometers underwater, as well as special maintenance operation equipment, which can almost be used as an underwater base for deep-sea mining, haven't you thought about finding a few more collaborators? There are also many precious mineral deposits in the depths of the Indian Ocean, and there are many resource enterprises in the Arab region, which have always wanted to mine those minerals." ”

Phoebe nodded on the surface, but immediately thought in her heart: After China's Jiaolong reached a depth of eight thousand meters, the United Nations immediately gave the prospecting and mining rights in the deep sea of the Indian Ocean to the Chinese, and let Theresa come to find her own people, which force is it?

So Phoebe glanced back at Barbara, who had been poking at herself, and pretended to ask, and sure enough, Barbara said in Theresa's words: "Our company has not yet set foot in the field of resource extraction technology, although we have a project that is an orbital garbage recycling project in cooperation with the Space Committee, so all the company's resources are tilted in this direction, as for the plan that the Pentagon promised to let them sell a medium-sized floating island, it will not be completed in at least three years." ”

Phoebe sensed pity and discouragement in Theresa's mood, and immediately wondered even more, who was this person, and how did Barbara seem to know her appearance?

Although she thought so, Phoebe echoed Barbara and said, " Well, it's true, the Chinese are making too fast progress in space technology, so NASA and AFRL feel that to a certain extent, let the Chinese converge a little, the orbital garbage recycling project and anti-satellite technology are more meaningful, so almost from next year, all our energy will be invested in this project, the construction of floating islands is also very related to this project, as for the access of large underwater submarines, if you have this demand, we can provide an underwater supply base, but to build an additional floating island, it is too difficult, since you have a relationship with the Ministry of FinanceYou should know that we have purchased a lot of agricultural products this year, and if the price of food is still so high next year, there will be global turmoil, so from any point of view, the construction of additional floating islands cannot be carried out. ”

Theresa nodded with a wry smile at this time: "Well, okay, I know, in fact, I knew before I came that it would probably not be successful, and I also vaguely knew about your recent negotiations with NASA." ”

Phoebe smiled and said: "Thank you for your understanding, of course, if there are other things, we can still help, after November this year, if there is a deep-sea submarine asking for help to provide you with supplies and rest, it is no problem at all." ”

Theresa was very simple, and when she saw that there was nothing more to say, she got up and took her leave.

After the people left, Phoebe looked at Barbara strangely, and Barbara said with a wry smile: "I just remembered that she is actually only in the Secret Service, she is Rice's person, and if you want to achieve your goal, it is not good to have a relationship with them." ”

Saying this, it suddenly made Phoebe realize, indeed, Rice is a representative of the hawks in this government, and at the same time, because of Barbara's words, Phoebe is a little relieved, at least at the critical moment, Barbara will still support her goal of promoting Girls' Generation, just as she supports Sister Sun.

In fact, Phoebe is different, Barbara thinks that Phoebe's idea is to be like the real controller behind Las Vegas, and Titan will also become a nameless but real ruling class with the construction of floating islands. Even if this fulfills what Phoebe promised to the employees of Titan, if she is tied up by Rice inexplicably, it is really not in the interests of Titan, so it is better to hide or dodge.

And now she and Phoebe's secrecy level is there, unless their brains are not good, Rice really can't help it, as for moving Congress to investigate the Department of Defense or something, hum, if you really want to mobilize the political power of the diplomatic bloc, it will definitely not be Titan who will lose in a quarrel on Capitol Hill.

As Theresa left, Phoebe suddenly said to Barbara: "Opinions within the Republican Party are getting bigger and bigger, and Rice doesn't seem to be from the military, right?"

Barbara nodded, shook her head again, and smiled, "Well, but someone once joked that if she was a spy from the Democratic Party, then a lot of things would make sense." ”

"To separate the Republican Party? huh...... Note in the future, I don't want to meet with Rice, no matter from which point of view, it's better for Titan to hide behind the scenes, by the way, the previous plan was to let the ground rapid reaction force equipped with the lost system test when the siege and bandit strategy entered the combat phase, and now it seems that some things have to be changed, like a way, in the near future, only the troops will be sent to participate in a medium-sized armed conflict, and at that time, all the organizations that use the lost system will pay more and more attention to us, and some people's selfishness will not be able to interfere with us。 ”

Barbara nodded, and at the same time wondered in her heart that there seemed to be no targets for the US ground forces to fight now, but I heard that as soon as Omaba came to power, he would form the Fourth Fleet, which had been disbanded for 25 years, to deal with the strategic cooperation between Russia and Venezuela. ”

Phoebe said to Barbara: "Don't worry, although ****** will definitely be in power, but whether it is Iraq or Afghanistan, the withdrawal will not be so fast, it is not difficult to find a fighter that meets the requirements, it is rare that once something happens, the predator is the first to dispatch, then the plane and helicopter, and finally the turn of the ground troops, how to change this battle dispatch sequence is the most troublesome." ”

Barbara nodded, Phoebe made sense, but there was a way to get the ground troops to move before the others, so Barbara said, "Why don't you get some Western journalists and deliberately let the enemy kidnap them?"

Phoebe nodded slowly: "Well, hostage rescue is indeed the best fighter, so let's do it, but don't lose it." ”

Barbara smiled and nodded, Langley is actually very familiar with this matter, and there is no resistance to selling reporters to make fighter planes, the only thing that is a little troublesome is that the arrested reporters are often hidden in a hole in the ground, so if you react quickly at the beginning, it is not a big problem......