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The newcomers from Bloody Coral Harbor disembarked and walked for more than ten miles along a makeshift road paved with thick planks wide enough for four wagons to reach the settlement of Wake Reef in the hinterland of Wake Reef. (Please search, or enter directly to see the latest chapter)

Along the way, the newcomers were all depressed by the scorching sun and hot wind and sand overhead, and as soon as they arrived here, they were busy queuing up at the overflow by the water spring to drink, letting the cool and sweet water splash their heads, faces and clothes, it is estimated that many people have never drunk such a luscious and delicious drink in their lives. Although to put it bluntly, it is just a handful of water, but extreme thirst is the best catalyst, and today's handful of water is probably a memory that many people will never forget.

"Are there tailors, blacksmiths, stonemasons, or other craftsmen among you? Artisans are to be treated better, and the Earl promises you the opportunity to work and be paid more than the average man. ”

The first step was to screen out the new immigrants such as weavers, blacksmiths, cooks, and other craftsmen, and then lend them a sum of money in the name of the Earl of Fulu to help them reopen their businesses in the Wake Reef settlement. Trying to maintain the natural economic cycle of the settlement, which he now hopes to achieve, is a measure that has not shown much success at the moment, but has taken the Wake Reef settlement from a purely military state to a normal urban lifestyle.

The exiles who escaped from Qiongzhou Island to follow Luo Zhengdao were many die-hard elements who had previously held various administrative and judicial positions in the Earldom of Fulu, and thanks to these people who took over the daily management of the work in time and shared most of the trivial official duties for Luo Zhengdao, he was able to withdraw from the daily affairs management of Wenshan Huihai.

During these days, he really realized what it means to be tired like a dead dog, and Luo Zhengdao finally got rid of the heavy and boring case work, and the more he became clearer about the established policy of not being greedy for perfection. Don't look at Wake Reef is just a small city-state colony with a population of less than 30,000, and countless trivial things have already stirred him up, if he occupies more cities, what will Luo Zhengdao do to manage these places? What's more, things messed up in the end, and it was he who was scolded and affected, who could understand how many difficulties there were?

didn't wait for Luo Zhengdao to be happy for a few days, and when he turned around, he received bad news that seemed like a thunderbolt from the sky, which shocked him so much that he couldn't help but touch his ears, and couldn't help but suspect that he had heard it wrong, and asked rhetorically:

"What? You say there are spies from other forces on the island? ”

Captain Fort Chopin was the captain of the old earl's security before he was ordered to follow Luo Zhengdao to sea, and it was also his job to clear out spies and assassins.

At this time, in the face of Luo Zhengdao's unbelievable surprised expression, Faure Chopin still had an old face and said in a deep voice:

"Yes, Lord Count. Last night our patrol boat intercepted a couple of drifting bottles, please see. ”

As he spoke, Faure Chopin put the seized items on the table of his desk, which were a few ordinary clay jars and some small wooden blocks with intricate symbols, and after taking out the conclusive physical evidence, Faure continued:

"The outside of the clay vase is coated with a layer of beeswax to make it waterproof, and it will not get soaked after being soaked in seawater for a long time."

Luo Zhengdao picked up a piece of wood with a solemn face, looked at the complex symbols carved with a knife and painted on it, and said in a low voice:

“…… It's not words, it's information written in some kind of cipher? These people are not small! ”

Although the New World is set in a fantasy world of magic and swords, it still has an illiteracy rate of nearly eighty percent, which can barely be reached in incomplete statistics, and most of it is due to the blessings of those middle-born and immortal species. The excessively long life span gives them ample time and energy to learn about culture and education, and it is not surprising that short-lived species such as humans and goblins have an illiteracy rate of nearly 99%. It is conceivable that in such a tragic era of illiteracy, there is a group of professional spies who use passwords to transmit messages, and it is too much of an understatement to describe them as well-trained, which also means that this kind of organized espionage is not something that ordinary intelligence organizations and a few individuals are capable of doing.

"Yes, Lord Count. I've mobilized people to decipher the code, but nothing has come of it yet. ”

Hearing this, Luo Zhengdao put down the wooden block with a cold face, and said stupidly:

"Well, these spies must be dug up, no matter what the cost, we can't let them sabotage anymore."

As the saying goes: when the water is clear, there is no fish, and when people are observed, there are no relatives. With tens of thousands of new immigrants6 moving into Wake Reef, the originally small settlement suddenly flooded with so many people, and if it were not mixed with a few spies sent by other forces, the probability of this kind of thing was no less than that of a funny driver driving with his eyes closed, and actually not hitting himself on the road.

Trying to go through a sieve of all new immigrants is a very unrealistic hare brain, and censorship such as everyone passes the border, not to mention that it is too big and inappropriate, and the administrative cost is already too high. Therefore, Luo Zhengdao just thought about it a little and put this idiotic idea behind him, he was not crazy enough to do so.

Since the fall of the Bright Dynasty, most of the surviving human nobles have fled overseas, and one by one they have become frightened birds, and under the bloody butcher's knives of goblins, they are left to flee for their lives. Still, professional conspirators like Najaf and pretentious heroes like Gaud Needham are never absent from the hot news. Even if Luo Zhengdao can't guess who the mastermind behind this mysterious spy is, it is also a necessary security measure to eradicate the root cause as soon as possible and maintain the normal social order of Wake Reef.

Compared with the spies who were almost deified by movies and other cultural and artistic works in the Old World, the intelligence gathering work in the New World is still in a rather primitive and backward pioneering stage.

In the post-industrial world, it is said that more than 95 percent of the information obtained was obtained by statistical analysis of publicly available information, similar to newspapers, radio, television, the Internet, and even intercepted telephone and mobile phone communications, which were all excellent targets for intelligence officers to gather information. Because of this, the bald eagle's prism plan or something is not even a news event for military fans with a little common sense. You must know that more than 10 years ago, many people on military forums on the Internet ridiculed: "If you say a few more sensitive words when you make a phone call, such as the Taiwan Strait, missiles, combat readiness, etc., after a few years, the mobile phone communication records of your sweet words with your girlfriend can be found out from the CIA's database."

For an intelligence analyst, carefully analyzing the boring news programs with official articles and discerning the contents from the countless recordings of cell phone communications is a more powerful source of intelligence than a thousand wanderlust James Bond.

The scenes of prying into the safe in the middle of the night to steal the codebook, or killing a traitor with a silent pistol from behind, are actually the work of non-mainstream spies who are responsible for doing the dirty work full-time, and their numbers are pitifully low compared to their counterparts who are engaged in intelligence analysis and statistics.

At the moment, Wake Reef, which is in its infancy, is as clean as a blank sheet of paper, and there are no public information channels to use at all, and if the news bulletin board that has just been established under Luo Zhengdao's initiative counts, then the spies have a less than ideal source of information. In the face of such a closed social environment, no matter what information the spies lurking on Wake Reef want to hear, they can only adopt the most primitive way of working, that is, they take the initiative to go to the crowd to inquire about rumors and gossip. If they dare to come and steal the pirates' confidential documents, it is a big question whether they can succeed, and their deeds will be revealed early on. Therefore, it is not very difficult to track down people with such gossip habits, and within a few days of Luo Zhengdao's order to investigate, a list of suspected espionage was placed on his desk.

"What! These people can't all be spies! That's too much. ”

Staring at this list of suspects with more than 100 people, Luo Zhengdao was really taken aback, and then he raised his own questions suspiciously. In this regard, the one-eyed dragon Fort Chopin's attitude can be called frank, and he spread his hands and said:

"Specific suspects cannot be targeted, but they should be included in this list."

Hearing this, Luo Zhengdao was really ridiculous, pointed to the lengthy list dissatisfied, and said:

"You don't want me to drag these people out and hang them, do you? This is also an exaggeration. ”

Faul Chopin is quite good in terms of execution, not to mention loyalty, but when it comes to using his brains to analyze problems, he is not very good at it. Seeing this, he lowered his head and remained silent, clearly knowing that he had not done a good job. Luo Zhengdao sighed with a smile, knowing that he didn't have any decent candidates under his hands, and he couldn't ask for too much if he was a big one. Immediately, Luo Zhengdao waved his hand and continued to look down at the list, he had to come up with an idea to solve this problem.

"What are you going to do with this, Lord Earl?"

Hearing Fuer's inquiry, Luo Zhengdao, who was immersed in contemplation, frowned and said:

"Alas, I'll talk about this later, you go and tell the two mage advisors, let the mage tower demarcate the suspect's daily activities in the past few days, and then use the elimination method to find out the spy."

"Yes, I'll do it."

Before Faul Chopin stepped out of the threshold of the office, Luo Zhengdao added another sentence later, telling him:

"Remember to tell them, don't delay the serious business, the spy can investigate slowly, and the water supply must not be leaked."

Catching a few moles and protecting the people's livelihood, which of the two things is more important, Faul Chopin has not followed the old count for so many years in vain, he still has a number in his heart, and immediately stopped and admitted:

"Yes, Lord Earl, do as you wish."

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