Chapter 0515: Shivering
I'm so scared!
Lorraine's sentence was stared at by everyone in the office. She was the shortest, the smallest, the most pitiful, and wore a maid's outfit, the black and white one with an apron.
It's really not like it can be fought and killed.
In the city of cold winds, as long as you see a girl wearing a black and white apron with flowers tied on her head on the street, everyone knows that it is Hugo's personal maid who has arrived.
God knows that for Mao to wear this dress for Lorraine, the entire 'Rich and Strong Collar' and even Coldwind City are unique, and there is no other semicolon. It's too identifiable.
Lorraine is indeed weak, she has been imbued with knowledge by Her Excellency, but she is not very friendly with magic. There were a lot of potions used, but at most she could meditate on her own, and she couldn't perform a single trick.
The guards sent by the lord were either rough orcs or stocky dwarves, as well as two wizards who didn't look easy to mess with.
The little girl stood timidly, crying and clutching her hands full of gems, as if she would be stunned at any moment. When the abominable lord said that the jewel she had given her would save her life, she clutched it in the palm of her hand and refused to put it in her pocket.
Wilson didn't know what the lord had sent his valet for. This one can neither be beaten nor touched, and he has to take care of him, and it is a sin to lose a hair, which is really a headache.
"Miss Lorraine, be a clerk in your office. Your Excellency may want you to help with some of the paperwork. ”
Wilson could not return the delicate maid, guessing that it might be a whim of His Excellency Hugo, or maybe it might be a sent overseer who finally found Lorraine a position.
The affairs of the inspection office are complicated, not only to manage the stealing of chickens and dogs in the city, but also to be responsible for urban planning and construction, and even sanitation toilets and street sweeping.
Wilson was only able to sleep three or four hours a day after taking office. The civil servants under him were also supported by physical drugs, and they were all working at full capacity.
Because the bureaucratic system in Coldwind City has been out of operation for half a year, there are a lot of accumulated affairs.
The tasks assigned by Lord Hugo are even more bizarre and demanding. Grassroots civil servants lack capacity and can only break their legs every day to strengthen enforcement.
If it weren't for the high wages and fierce competition, everyone would have rebelled a long time ago.
In short, the 'weak' Eve. Lorraine was in the Inspectorate. Wilson couldn't slack off on her and added an extra desk in his office.
As for Lorraine's work, Wilson didn't dare to assign it indiscriminately. The personal maid sent by His Excellency the lord can do whatever she wants, as long as she doesn't set fire to the house, and everything else is free.
The day after Lorraine moved into the Inspectorate, Johnson the illusionist appeared alone on the streets west of the city. He walked slowly, looking left and right from time to time, paying particular attention to the uniformed people on the streets.
Population registration in the city is slowly but inexorably moving, and more and more areas are being checked by Deputy Speaker Hugo. There are a lot of fish that have slipped through the net in the past.
Some are local villains, some are foreign thieves, and some are hidden evil cults. Powell's prediction was not wrong at all, the simple household registration management has brought the underground forces to the surface one after another, like stranded fish and shrimp, to be slaughtered.
In the past two days, there have been tragic battles in the city, and the inspection office has occupied an absolute advantage in manpower and material resources, and each time it is more and less fighting.
Adrian's law enforcement hunt team has repeatedly appeared, and it has also exposed many armed forces of the 'rich and powerful leaders'.
The atmosphere in the city is getting tense.
Roads in the west of the city are being repaired, and a road construction team of about a dozen people is filling in the ravines and clearing the drainage ditches. Johnson stared at one of the men in a dark uniform, remembering his appearance before leaving.
When the illusionist reappeared through an alley, he used 'camouflage' to change his appearance and clothing, becoming a squadron leader of the Inspection Department.
Illusion is just that, creating illusions, confusing and misleading opponents.
With the identity of squadron leader, passers-by looked at Johnson very differently, respecting and fearing. His clothes, armbands, name tags on his chest, these all represent status.
But Mr. Johnson hated the costume-based approach to identifying oneself. Because it's too rigid and can be easily debunked.
For example, there are more than a dozen squadron leaders in the inspection department, and many residents on the road know 'this squadron leader' himself. As long as someone casually comes to say hello, Johnson is exposed.
But if you don't disguise yourself as a 'squadron leader', it's hard to infiltrate the inspection office, and you can't find out the information you want.
"Damn Victor. Hugo, try to make some nasty rules. When Johnson arrived at the door of the inspection office, he had to pull out a document to get in.
There is a magic portrait on the certificate, along with the name, age, position, etc.
The ability to 'forge documents' is not difficult, but Johnson suffered this loss the last time he wanted to break into the inspection office. He used to enter the city lord's mansion by relying on his face, but he didn't expect that he would have to check his documents when he crossed an intersection in the city now.
The 'doglegs' are tired of checking documents, which makes people who want to make trouble feel that they are bound everywhere.
The inspection office covers a large area, and there are many ancillary buildings in addition to the main building. It took more than 1,000 laborers and more than half a year to build this place, and it was the largest project in the city in the past ten years.
Just this construction speed, many powerful people in the city are envious and jealous. No one can understand how to manage so many people without making a mess at work.
This includes, but is not limited to, how to feed the coolies, how to make the coolies work without mistakes, and what is the purpose of building such a large area?
The puzzle can only be solved by entering the inside of the Inspection Department, where Johnson walks along a gravel road with a large playground next to it.
The armed chengguan are being trained.
Could this be the reason why the inspection office is repairing so much?
As for how to train a group of illiterate, Zhou Qingfeng has rich experience in Harmony Village. He set up a training course for instructors, and appropriated the same set of British training for colonial military police.
To put it simply, don't expect to polish the boulder into beautiful jade in a short time, but you can pick a few glass beads from the boulder to focus on cultivating. Let those 'glass beads' drive the 'stubborn stones'.
This will save a lot of effort and tongue, and it will not be pissed off by too many fools.
"Ah......, Victor. Hugo did hide the secret. He secretly trained infantry in the city. There are at least a few hundred of them, what does he want to do? ”
Johnson saw a phalanx of chengguan walking in unison.
It's just a (three times ten) queue, which is probably a model platoon. 'Soldiers' in grey uniforms lined up side by side, marching twenty metres at the same pace.
From start to stop, the three queues remain the same. Even the standing and stomping feet are neatly aligned, and the dust that is stepped on is fluttering, moving freely, and it looks sonorous and powerful.
Shock!
Johnson just glanced at the passing side, and was caught by the advancing queue. If these three rows of 'soldiers' are equipped with armor and spears, they can block a squad of knights.
After all, no knight would be stupid enough to crash into the gun.
Johnson was a bit silly, he put himself in his shoes and thought about what he would do if he faced such an infantry group. You must know that the illusion department is not good at fighting.
"I'm probably going to use a fireball blast."
It's just that......
There are more than a dozen 'infantry platoons' on the playground of the inspection office, and Johnson doesn't have a dozen fireball skills.
"I'll crush a squad of infantry, and the rest of the infantry will turn around and flee." Johnson thought for a moment, "It's just that these infantry can't go it alone. If they have the help of knights, wizards, and archers......"
Johnson shuddered.
Victor. Hugo probably wants to take over the entire Coldwind City!