Chapter 563: The Night of Turning Point (1)
"You have 1 hour to go, Adama. After that, my agent will take over the investigation. Good luck! Gibbs, the director of the NCI, said to Adama after stepping off the shuttle. He had been a very capable investigator until he was appointed director of the NCI and had participated in many important assignments as an interrogator prior to the expedition.
During the period of his occupation of the Elysium plane, Gibbs led the interrogation of thousands of people, including Max, the protagonist of the film. Observant and responsible, he was already a legendary crime buster long before the expedition recruited him.
After many interrogation and investigative operations, and helping expeditions solve many difficult cases, Gibbs was transferred to the NCI due to his excellent work, and was soon appointed head of the entire department.
As the head of an entire powerful investigative department, and one of the few people in the power system who had direct access to the expedition's inner circle, he was well aware of the origins of the opposition and its role in the resettlement operation.
More importantly, he knew what the expedition had to do with these oppositionists. Contrary to what many opposition believes, the expedition was not ignorant of the orchestrated harassment and seizure of power by their men.
Although it is true that the expedition team ignored the preliminary preparations of the opposition for a large extent, it was only because they wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to lure out all the hidden members of the opposition and catch them all.
Members of the opposition are also human beings, and their social circles are so wide that it is difficult to distinguish ordinary friends in their social circles from political allies when investigating from afar, and only by giving them a chance to jump around can they all take the initiative to jump out and identify themselves.
Adama's pit father son is a typical example, he usually looks very normal. But when members of the opposition organization instigated the riots, he did not hesitate to join in, and after realizing the true face of his comrades-in-arms of the Dish Cooking Front, he tried to turn back.
However, before he could put the idea of anti-water into practice, he and his accomplices were all arrested by the NCI agents who fished for law enforcement. Not so much Lee. Adama (Adama's pit son) is an opposition member, so it is better to say that he is too good to be protected by his father. An idealist who is too shallow in the world.
As a young man who has been brainwashed for many years by concepts such as boiled and capital, he is emotionally unable to accept the current centralized rule model of the Space-Time Council, and even if his reason tells him that such an organization and power model work very well under the current conditions, he cannot restrain his emotional urge to overthrow them.
Long before he joined the opposition, he knew that its members had a complex background. But after actually working with these people, and discovering that many of them had started to engage in robbery after the operation began, his sanity forced him to accept that he could not accept to continue to be in the company of these people.
He has a strong "sense of self-justice", and he feels aggrieved after being arrested, but he pretends to be arrogant and puts on a stinky face that is unwilling to cooperate. Even so. He still couldn't survive Gibbs's high-pressure interrogation, and passively confessed to Lola Rosling.
Gibbs only gave Adama an hour because other clues were being followed up quickly, and they already knew that there would be regular daily contact within the opposition according to the leadership hierarchy, and if too much time was wasted on interrogations, the information would be meaningless to ask at the end.
"Thank you! After getting the time limit given by Gibbs, Adama expressed his gratitude, knowing that it was a function of his own face, if it were not for his personal fame. Gibbs most likely won't give himself and Lola that chance at all.
For his fiancée, this is the last chance to "turn herself in". This one-hour limit has passed. She would be treated like an ordinary member of the opposition and end up in a long prison cell.
At the same time that Adama was given the opportunity to persuade his fiancée to "abandon the darkness and follow the light", Situ Ka, who had been taken to the police station before, also completed his own records. It was different from the usual transcripts he remembered, and the transcripts he had made at this strange police station were made together with polygraphs.
The policeman who made the transcript was very surprised that he could kill a group of robbers by himself, and he didn't believe it until he looked at the number given by the polygraph. After asking about the incident, the other party also asked him very bluntly whether he had falsified in his resume.
In the presence of a polygraph, Stuart no longer lies. revealed his true identity and expressed his desire to get out of the war. To his surprise, the other party was amused by his statement and introduced him to the laws and regulations related to military service in this new world.
Although the space-time fleet has been recruiting people for a long time, there is never a shortage of applicants. Under the current system of the Council of Time and Space, there are no compulsory soldiers, and all those who join the army are volunteers.
Not to mention a member of the Hell Paratroopers like Stuka, even if the Spartan warriors were rescued by the expedition, as long as they were unwilling, no one would force them to pick up their guns and go to the battlefield again. After figuring out his origin, the police officer who was responsible for making a record for him just updated his information and rested, and after making the record, he directly let Situ Ka go!
Before Situ Ka came, he really didn't expect that he would be let go so smoothly. In his opinion, outsiders like himself who falsely report identity information, especially "dangerous people" with military experience, should be paid attention to.
Any authoritarian government he imagined would have at least some symbolic punishment to make sense, but the other side seemed to have no idea who he was. After taking the transcript, he not only got the news that his place had been arranged, but also received what appeared to be a considerable bonus.
For similar acts of "righteousness and courage", government departments are presupposed to have bonuses. Although the amount is not particularly large, it will not make Situ Ka rich overnight, but if these bonuses are spent according to his normal life needs, he can also live in the high-consumption area of the parliamentary district for a few years without any problem.
There is no systematic trading market in New Sydney at the moment, and getting bonuses is not very useful, but every man knows that the feeling of having money and not having money is completely different.
Although he didn't know what the purchasing power of the bonus he received was, the sudden bonus still made Situ Ka think carefully, and he also had a lot of expectations for his future life.
After awarding him an award and taking notes, the police arranged for him to return to his temporary settlement. However, due to the chaotic situation in the city, the police officer in charge of taking him home was suddenly summoned by the headquarters to perform other official duties on the way, and Stuka was eventually left behind halfway and had to find the resettlement area on the map by himself.
Fortunately, the police who gave him a ride gave him a tablet with automatic navigation, so he didn't need to worry about getting lost. And after a few hours of tossing and turning in the police station, even though it was already late at night, he no longer had the feeling of sleep.
He was no longer in the same hurry to find a place to stay as he was during the day, but wanted to take the opportunity to take a closer look at the city. In the darkness of night, he first spent a few minutes walking out of the central city with less traffic and into the resettlement area closest to the city center.
This is the first resettlement area in the whole city to start accepting people, with a large number of people and traffic congestion. It's full of people who, like Stuka, are from Reach. People were in a hurry, and they all seemed to be rushing in one direction, so Situ Ka followed with a little curiosity.
On the way, Tong Guò listens to the conversations of other passers-by, and he knows where people are going. It turned out that due to the deliberate operation of some speculative merchants, a temporary grocery market has formed in the vicinity, and this grocery market is huge, open 24 hours a day, and various types of barter transactions are carried out.
Although the Council of Time and Space has provided free services to the newcomers, it can meet the necessities and basic life services of all the newcomers. Newcomers can now be considered to have food and clothing without worry, and their medical needs are also uniformly arranged.
However, like all the newcomers who came before them, as newcomers, they still have great doubts about how long this arrangement will last, and many still retain their habit of hoarding supplies formed during the war, and want to stock up on a pile of food, medicine, and so on in their new homes.
After all, it's better to rely on others than on yourself. The UNSC, which has been exhausted by the long war, has not set a good example of government credibility in their hearts. There are still many newcomers who want to receive certain types of goods that are not planned.
And if they want to get any non-"necessities" of life, they can only go through these foreign merchants. The Council of Time and Space does not pay for their desires beyond the needs of survival and life, but the market demand created by this unreasonable demand is objectively existent, so this grocery market and many other similar markets have spontaneously appeared one after another, and began to try to meet this market demand.
Of course, most newcomers don't have any money on them, at least not the credit points that prevail in the parliament-controlled districts. But this small obstacle will not prevent smart businessmen from exploiting the potential profits of the newcomers. It does not affect the hot trading of this market in the slightest.
The reason is simple: there are many new immigrants, and many of them carry with them valuables, some of which are quite rare works of art. The profits of buying and selling these things between resettlement areas and other areas are very substantial. (To be continued......)
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