Xia Xiu held the silver cane in his hand and sat quietly on the seat in the passenger pick-up area, while chatting in his mind.

Surrounded by hurried travelers and farewells, he seemed to be cut off from it all and had his own piece of tranquility.

Beside him, a white-haired dog and a green-haired cat crawled quietly, occasionally wagging their tails, as if enjoying the rare moment of calm.

Doodoooooo –

Just as the silence was about to be completely swallowed up by the hustle and bustle around it, a faint sound of car engines was heard in the distance, shattering the brief peace.

The sound got closer and closer, until a Chrysler Crossfire Roadster slowly drove into Xia Xiu's line of sight with its unique elegance.

The sports car's design lines are sleek and exude an understated yet luxurious aesthetic, with silver bodywork that shimmers softly in the setting sun.

Xia Xiu raised his head, his gaze passed through the crowded passenger pick-up area, and landed on the driver's seat of the Chrysler Crossfire Roadster.

There, a boy who appeared to be thirteen or fourteen years old sat in the driver's seat, with unusual features on his body - the boy's ears and tail, two distinctly inhuman features that seemed unusually natural to him, as if they were part of his birth.

The Fox-Eared Boy's outfit is equally striking, as he is not wearing regular clothing, but a vest similar to that of a tactical fieldmate, with pockets and details. On top of this vest, he also wears a black coat, and the overall outfit makes him look a little weird.

Doodoooooo –

At this moment, the fox-eared boy pressed the horn on the car, and his clear voice drew a special note in the hustle and bustle of the airport, obviously signaling Xia Xiu to get in the car.

His fox-like eyes were also frantically motioning for the blonde youth to hurry up and get into the car.

"Long time no see, Tours."

Xia Xiu got up from his seat, the silver cane he was holding in his hand streaked a silver light in the air, and then lightly opened the passenger door of the Chrysler Crossfire Roadster.

He sat in the car smoothly, gently placed his cane on his lap, and his posture was free, and the cat and dog behind him seemed to be a little embarrassed in the face of this two-seater sports car. But they quickly found their place and chose to stand directly on the rear wing of the car, standing firmly against the body.

Turce couldn't help but glance at the cat and dog standing on the tail wing behind him wagging their tails.

The corners of his eyes twitched unconsciously, and the expression at that moment seemed to say, "It's good that you're happy." ”

He didn't say much.

The fox-eared boy skillfully operated the sports car, and with a light step on the accelerator, the Chrysler Crossfire Roadster slowly drove out of the parking space.

With the soft groan of the engine and the slight grinding of tires against the ground, the Chrysler Crossfire Roadster slowly pulled out of the pick-up area at LaGuardia Airport and began its journey in the direction of Manhattan Island.

Sports cars weave through the evening city traffic, and the afterglow of the setting sun turns the sky orange-red, giving this busy city a warm hue.

The fox-eared boy drove a sports car, his fox ears fluttering slightly in the soft light, and his tail wagging slightly; Next to him, Xia Xiu held a silver cane and sat in the co-pilot's seat. His blonde hair seemed to be gilded with a golden glow in the setting sun, and his golden eyes were deep and calm.

The scene coexisted in harmony to some extent.

But when the blonde boy spoke, the warmth was gone.

"Are the relevant laws of the Addison Federation so open? The little kids are able to get a driver's license, and they are still allowed to go on the streets? ”

The breeze was blowing the blonde hair, and he asked Tours with a curious expression.

It's coming, it's coming, and the familiar feeling of cerebral hemorrhage is coming again.

The fox-eared boy holding the steering wheel jumped up unconsciously, "My age can completely take any form of driver's license, any!" ”

"It seems that the Addison Federation does not judge people by their appearance." Xia Xiu nodded clearly.

"Huh." A smirk crossed Turs' face. This golden retriever is still the same as it used to be.

"How's the Authority's work progressing on the federal?" After teasing a few words about the old staff, Xia Xiu began to ask about the matter, "I came to the Addison Federation this time with a mission, Adam has already delegated the relevant work itinerary to all levels of units in the peripheral pedigree of the Authority, and the first step for me to come to Addison this time is to implement the construction work of the Authority's headquarters in the Addison Federation and expand the Authority's influence in the Addison Federation." ”

Hearing the greeting from his boss, Tours's expression became serious.

Hugh Abraham was stationed in the Addison Federation as the decision-maker and the top commander of the Authority, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that the Fourth Sword Bearer of Heaven was sent to accumulate political capital for the sake of candidate competition, and it was also the first attempt for the other party to actually begin to take full control of the Authority.

"It's troublesome."

Tours succinctly told the Golden Retriever's boss about the Authority's position in Addison.

"The first is the construction of the headquarters, and the Authority is really short of manpower at the moment. Here, except for me, Pansy Jane, and the brain in the vat you brought with you a while ago, the rest of the decision-makers are angels from various departments and factions in the Kingdom of Titian.

To be honest, our run-in with them is not very good, although the angels are quite high-quality and have strong execution ability, but they still have a certain psychological gap with the local personnel of the Authority.

Moreover, the financial law is too restrictive on angels, coupled with the malicious and targeted corruption of the believers of the Four Sovereigns and Chaos, so that the [prosecutor] as the command system frequently mismanipulates. I have a very important news here, the followers of the Four Sovereigns seem to have begun to issue hunting orders to the angels of the Addison Federation, and the Authority has already lost eight Authority teams and three Heavenly Kingdom teams in their hands, and two of the Heavenly teams have been damaged by the [Messiah].

In addition, the system of [executives] and [prosecutors] has seriously hindered the development of the organization, and if the Authority wants to completely establish itself in Addison and expand its influence to the 50 states, and even the borderlands and the Golden Tree ......, then the necessary organizational changes must be implemented, and the current organizational relationship structure can no longer keep up with the changes in the current situation. ”

There is a shortage of talents, there are too few internal political forces of their own, the initial talent system of the Authority cannot keep up with the changes in the new world, the command system is targeted by chaos, and the messiah is a-stirring stick......

Xia Xiu's index finger tapped the silver cane in his hand, summing up Tours' report in his heart.

In the early days of the Authority, the two-official system was that [executives] were not members of the heavenly kingdom, [prosecutors] were members of the heavenly lineage, and the inspection teams of [executives] and [prosecutors] were made up of three to five [executives] and one [prosecutor], and the policy of restitution was allowed, that is, [executives] had the opportunity to become members of the heavenly lineage.

This system is the most robust and can be applied to the countries of the Central Alliance, even the Broken Ring of the Oretin Empire, and the border areas of the Daevite Empire.

But in the current version of the Addison Federation, it seems very backward.

The relevant financial laws of [Financial Street] interfered with and targeted ordinary angels, plus the siege and hunting of the Four Sovereigns, other outer god believers, and the Messiah......

"It really has to be changed." Xia Xiu said with a slight squint.

Hearing this, Tours's heart breathed a sigh of relief.

However, his question is not over, and there is a lot of mess in the Authority.

He works in the Addison Federation, and he has accumulated a lot of political problems for a while, and now that someone has finally arrived, he must finish it in one breath.

"Another is the location of the Authority's headquarters. The Addison Federation has given us a very bad strategic cooperation area, and the most important thing is that the Authority itself has been completely hollowed out by the local agencies of Addison. ”

Tours began to recite with a gloomy face the "Strategic Joint Agreement," which had already been made public.

"According to part of the content of the Strategic Joint Agreement announced now, the new York State has officially become the official state of the two sides (the Kingdom of Heaven and the Addison government) in the Addison Strategic Identification Area, and the list of city personnel and members to be included in the two organizations will be made public in real time, and the deployment will be arranged in a unified manner, and all the infrastructure of the two sides will be assisted by the members of the list for two-way convenience.

The formation of a joint task force and grass-roots administrative forces, share strategic intelligence between the two sides, coordinate actions, balance and complement each other, give full play to superior forces, responsible for clearing the imperial forces (Daevite and Oretin) in the Addisi region, cracking down on the destruction of their strategic intentions, as well as local information security, and safeguarding the common rights and interests of both sides, the supreme command is owned by the "Addison and the Kingdom of Heaven Collaborative Command Center", the two sides have three commanders and leaders, and the same level will discuss the deployment of operations, and the specific administrative management measures will be finalized by the non-exhaustive public opinion on behalf of the people. ”

After Turce finished reciting the treaty, he began to vent his bitterness at Xia Xiu.

"According to the agreement, the Authority, the Addison Government, and the Mayflower Foundation will jointly create a peace organization, led by the tripartite forces, and invite other forces to join the organization to jointly defend the New World.

The organization is simply known as the 'New Alliance', and the current structure of the New Alliance has a number of internal departments.

The first is the nominal supreme authority, the [Council of the New Alliance Paranormal Organization], which consists of the Supreme Council, the Department Director, and the Rigolets/Ministers (representatives of alien or anomalous paranormal organizations) who oversee the policy of local paranormal relations, and the Council meets regularly to discuss various issues in the New World.

However, he actually has no substantive powers, and will only recognize the content of the lower committees regarding sanctions. Therefore, the position of the supreme councillor has been vacant, and they say that it is reserved for the kingdom of heaven to show their sincerity, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that it is a vacant position.

Next is the real authority, the Defense Planning Committee: a committee that deals with matters such as armed sanctions, monitoring, dispute prevention, and defense cooperation between member organizations. In order to deal with security-related cases in a comprehensive manner, the department has the largest authority of any department.

The Authority is unable to support the Defense Commission alone, and the other armed forces units are not willing to listen to the Authority's orders, and the current Addison government and the Mayflower Foundation basically monopolize the control of the Defense Commission.

The same is true of other departments, such as the Economic Adjustment Commission, the Court of Conciliation, and the Local Cultural Administration, which is now the nominal triumvirate of the New Alliance, which has now been completely hollowed out by the mainland. ”

It's a little worse than you think.

After Xia Xiu listened, he quietly turned the silver cane in his hand.

Expertly crafted, this silver cane is made entirely of a sparkling silver material that is hard and smooth, reflecting the light from the outside world and shimmering with a soft and unassuming glow.

He didn't have the habit of carrying a cane before, but now he has.

Because, this cane is the trophy he brought back from Callisto, the embodiment of a quarter miracle fragment.

"You just said that the location of the headquarters arranged by the New Alliance for the Authority is a very bad strategic cooperation area?" The blonde youth turned the miracle fragment in his hand and continued to ask curiously.

"Yes, very bad."

Tours drove some distance west along Grand Central Parkway, one of the main thoroughfares from the airport to Manhattan.

Vehicles weave through the expressway, lined with New World landscapes – dense buildings, lush parks, and the waters of the Hudson River, which flash from time to time.

As vehicles move closer to the city center, high-rise buildings begin to become denser and traffic becomes busier.

"Have you heard of the Hell's Kitchen of the Addison Federation?" Turce asked rhetorically at Xia Xiu.

"Hell's Kitchen?"

Xia Xiu's eyebrows raised slightly.

He had read reports from Addison's government, and a reporter from the New York Times had traveled to West 30th Street with a police guide, where he wanted to investigate multiple murders. He called a particularly notorious property on 39th Street and Tenth Avenue "Hell's Kitchen" and said the entire neighborhood "is probably the lowest and dirtiest place in the city." ”

This area gets its name from its past poverty, high crime rate, and history associated with gangster activities.

"You seem to know that place, the area that stretches south to 34th Street, north to 59th Street, east to Eighth Avenue, and west to the Hudson River. This area supports the business district of Midtown Manhattan with transportation, medical care, and warehouse infrastructure – and the entire Hell's Kitchen. ”

Speaking of Hell's Kitchen, there is a lingering shadow on Tours' face.

"Since the fall of New York into the city of the New World, that place has completely become a piece of shit, gangsters, occults, cultists, cultists, believers of the Four Sovereigns, families of the stars, monsters from other worlds, scum, killers, perverted murderers, naked neurosis......"

"None of them are normal."

As he spoke, Tours expertly steered at the entrance to the Queens Midtown Tunnel, crossing the East River, one of the most important passages into Manhattan Island.

The lights in the tunnel flowed above the sports car's open canopy, as if slicing through time, and after passing through the tunnel, they entered the streets of Manhattan and turned westward, following the busy road, gradually approaching the location of Hell's Kitchen.

(End of chapter)