Chapter 433, Subversive Action
Pushing open the door to the innermost room on the ground floor of the tavern, Arno Chenko saw a small table inside, a man and a woman, standing next to it.
Hearing the sound of pushing the door, the two of them looked at each other at the same time, and their hands quietly touched their weapons.
Arnault used his left hand to make three complex gestures in front of his lower abdomen.
The two of them soothed their emotions a little, and they also made different gestures.
The three of them gestured with each other for half a minute, and then they completed the complicated but necessary identification of each other.
"Hello comrade, I'm Martin from the MIA."
"I'm Amanda from the CIA."
After the two of them told their origins one after another, Arnault also said: "I'm Benteke from the Bureau of Investigation. β
He reported a pseudonym, and I believe the other two were too.
The name will definitely not be real, even after confirming the identity of each other, there is no need to say the real name, it is enough to have a fake name as a codename.
As long as the origin is okay.
This 'gathering' was originally a meeting between the three major foreign intelligence agencies of the alliance.
The action that the alliance attaches importance to cannot be accomplished by any one company alone. The three agencies, which usually have little communication and only have information exchange at a high level, rarely cooperate directly with front-line agents.
No more pleasantries, and they quickly got to the point.
Amanda spoke first: "Two days later, at noon, Zelos will come to the 'hotel', which is an invitation from several wealthy businessmen and dignitaries from the native planet, and he has already agreed. β
Arno said cautiously: "Rich businessmen and dignitaries, are they reliable?" Will it leak our actions? β
"No, they don't know what we're going to do."
Arnault nodded slightly, and then took the initiative to talk about the situation on his side: "The situation of strikes and riots is ready, and it is estimated that at least 30,000 people will take to the streets to protest in two days." The weapons and equipment have also been distributed, and at that time, the palace of the planetary government and the star district government will be impacted. The procession will pass by the 'restaurant'. β
Then, his eyes turned to Martin and Amanda.
"The local police department might do it, and that's a challenge," Amanda said. β
"A few of our comrades will lurk in the crowd of marchers, and they will help deal with the threat of the local police force; If necessary, the soldiers of the special operations brigade that we have infiltrated into the team will also take action, but that kind of movement will not be small, and I hope it will not be used unless it is absolutely necessary. β
Arno asked: "What if it is the army?" β
"I can make sure that the army will be slow when they get the order to suppress it, very, very slowly," Martin said confidently. β
Arnault didn't know how Martin would fulfill his promises. It is possible that he has rebelled against the commander of the army guarding the capital, or it is possible that the number of special agents infiltrated by the Military Intelligence Bureau through various means is so large that it can stop the movement of the army.
But no matter what the specific means were, Arnault didn't care, and he didn't ask too much.
As long as you can reach your goal, you can do it.
The three of them got together and reconfirmed the details and process of the operation, and the secret gathering was over.
With different identities and different images, they left the tavern one after another.
And when they left, they never noticed that there was a woman on the balcony of the third floor of a small building opposite the tavern, who was always watching them.
She is Miria de Jong, the Witcher of the Alliance.
The coalition has eight intelligence organizations on the right side, but in reality, there are nine.
There's also a demon hunter organization.
The Witchers were earlier established under the Alliance's Legal Center, led by Lambert, and led the Alliance's first wave of anti-corruption.
Later, the Witcher was spun off from the Legal Center and no longer under the leadership of the Chancellor, but became a direct agency of the Governor's Office.
They are both internal and external, responsible for both intelligence and direct action, and even have the authority to handle tasks directly without trial.
Governor's Charter, first cut and then play!
This is the Witcher!
This operation is so important that the witchers are coming.
Miria de Jong is the oldest member of the Witchers, and she was the one who started the wave in the earliest anti-corruption campaigns; She was also involved in Koroga's War on the Plague. Although she is not in charge of front-line battles, she and her team of witchers have played a very important role in controlling the political situation in Mingyan City.
He has a lot of seniority and great credit, and now he is a leader in several independent squads in the Witcher Organization.
And this time, the action on Baishuo Star is an action directly requested by the leader of the alliance, and it is full of importance. The three major foreign intelligence agencies of the alliance have all gone out with all their might, and of course, the witchers are indispensable.
However, the Witcher still acts independently. The Witchers know a little bit about the information of the Three Bureaus, and they know about what they are doing, but the three agencies don't know anything about what the Witchers are going to do - unless the Witchers take the initiative to share their own information.
With more intelligence support, more resource mobilization authority, and even the agent members are all at least trained as witchers, not only mastering various agent skills, but also blessed with psionic powers......
After they came to Baishuo Star, the degree of penetration was even deeper than that of the three rounds of the alliance, and they also had their own set of action plans.
However, after learning about the power of Arnault Chenko's linkage with the three rounds and the action that was prepared two days later, Milia was really interested.
The overall plan looks like that, and it looks like it has a higher probability of success, and it does achieve what the league wants.
In that case, it would be better to help.
It's done, and it saves you the effort to spend later.
If it doesn't work out, the witchers have their own plan.
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Two days later.
Arno Chenko, dressed as a waiter, is doing his job in a luxurious hotel.
Clearing the table, serving, serving dishes, pushing the food cart...... That's it.
He's been doing this for two months.
If nothing else, this should be the last day.
The luxury hotel where he works is also the location of the mission codenamed 'Hotel'.
At the moment, the hotel is somewhat empty. Today, they have only arranged a wave of guests.
A number of dignitaries and representatives of wealthy businessmen hosted a banquet here for Ms. Zeros, the head of the Star District.
Such a grand guest, of course, needs to be treated separately.
In fact, two days ago, the 'hotel' had closed for business and was fully preparing for today's banquet. At the same time, the security team of the head of the star sector was also stationed in the 'hotel' at that time to investigate the potential safety hazards of the hotel, and was stationed here to avoid any hidden dangers.
As the head of the sector, the security around Zelos is very strong.
And these are also things that Arnault and others have long expected.
He concentrated on what he had to do, just as his 'foreman' had been told in the past two days that this time the guest was a grand guest, and no mistakes were allowed.
He couldn't see or hear what was going on outside, but he thought about it, the first step of the plan should have begun.
β¦β¦
In the 'hotel', the banquet had already begun, and Ms. Zeros, who was stepping on the order of the big shots, had just had a staggered round with others and chatted about some less critical topics, when security personnel came to her side.
"Summit......
Hearing a soft call, Zelos smiled perfectly at the interlocutor in front of him, then retracted his expression and walked to the side to listen to the report.
The content is brief: demonstrations broke out in the city of Shuoguo.
The protests are mainly demanding the release of journalists, critics, and academics who have been arrested in the past month.
Those people were arrested on trumped-up charges of 'espionage'.
This statement makes people laugh out loud!
Isn't it just that the planetary government and the star government don't want to join the Seven Horse Covenant, and those media people do some core reasons and analysis for the government's reluctance to join the Seven Horse Covenant?
If you don't like what you hear, you have to arrest someone?
That's outrageous!
This is a set of sayings that arose in various parts of Baishuo Star a few months ago, and some newspapers, radio, TV programs, magazines, ...... It has been mentioned in various media, and some experts have jumped out to say that it is good to join the Seven Horse Entente, and there will be alliance protection to completely solve the security problem. Watching and helping each other is also the responsibility of different human beings.
Moreover, it is clear that the connection with the star field has been severed, and the imperial tax cannot be paid, and the planetary government continues to collect the imperial tax; Even if the imperial tax was levied, in addition to the imperial tax, there was also a war tax; Normal taxes have not stopped being paid either.
The high taxes are unbearable, and after many arguments to tease, there is naturally a call to join the Seven Horses, thinking that in this way, it will be safer and life will be better.
Moreover, some conspiracy theories believe that the refusal to join the Seven Horse Entente is definitely not because of the argument that they are free, independent, and that the Baishuo people decide their own destiny, but because the high-ranking officials at the top do not want to give up their rights and do not care about the overall situation at all.
This statement is not without merit, and a considerable number of people think that it makes sense.
It would be too hasty to think that those media people who speak are spies on that basis.
Dictatorship! Tyranny!
What's more, the statement of espionage is also ridiculous!
Even if they receive money from the alliance, why are they spies? Is the Human Alliance an Imperial Power? It is said that there is still authorization from the Star Domain Government to form this Seven Horse Agreement, do you say that people are spies?
Is Baishuo Star an Imperial World? Could it be that the government does not consider itself an imperial power, so the people sent on behalf of the Empire's coalition are spies?
Doesn't make sense!
Hence this protest march.
Knowing that a parade was going to break out, Zelos certainly wasn't in a good mood.
She has at least three concerns.
The first is to anger the people.
Secondly, it was the dissatisfaction with the Governor of Baishuo.
can trigger such a march of tens of thousands of people, how can it be regarded as a boiling of public resentment. Governor Baishuo's methods of dealing with those media people are too crude and unclever, which is the direct cause.
And the root cause behind it lies in the corruption of the planetary government.
Over the past many years, Baishuo Star has had some problems: excessive tax collection, failure to solve the high unemployment rate, and long-term stagnation of people's living standards.
These accumulated problems have recently erupted due to tax hikes and arrests of media personnel.
It was Governor Baishuo's bad work that led to these reasons!
And the third point is that she is vigilant.
Although the people's resentment is boiling, although there is a fuse and a reason for the detonation, it came so quickly and fiercely, which makes her wonder if there are some hostile forces doing something inside.
Otherwise, the people's grievances will really come to this point?
Not really, right?
Still, even at this point, Zelos didn't think it was a big deal.
It's just a demonstration.
The police have been dispatched, and the Planetary Defense Force has been ordered to start guarding. As soon as there is any sign that the situation continues to expand or spiral out of control, the Defence Forces will be mobilized.
In fact, there is a high probability that the situation will not develop to that point, and the capital police department should be able to solve the problem.
But the next news made her feel that something was starting to be more and more wrong.
First of all, the mob and the police started shooting at each other in the street, and they had a lot of weapons in their hands!
This almost confirmed that Zelos must be behind the matter!
What is the purpose?
Who could it be? What is the goal? Overthrow the current government?
She didn't have the heart to pay attention to the current banquet, and after finding a room so that people should not disturb, she called the Governor of Baishuo and asked him to immediately mobilize the defense forces to suppress the situation.
Governor Baishuo was sweating profusely, and said that it should not come to that point, and the police force had already mobilized reinforcements.
Zelos was furious and rebuked, "It's never going to be that simple! Mobilize the defense forces now! No matter what the plans of those guys who are hiding behind their backs are, they must be suppressed as quickly as possible, and there is no time for things to continue to ferment, do you understand?! β
"Ming...... I see! β
After hanging up, Zelos felt a little relieved.
But soon, she heard some noisy sounds.
"What's going on?"
The security guard asked a few questions over the intercom and then responded: "There are civilians fleeing because of the riots, and they are trying to enter the hotel to take shelter. They were stopped by hotel security and our people. β
Hearing this, Zelos was just about to speak, but he heard explosions and gunshots, and it was very close!
"Someone is hiding in a civilian and storming the hotel!"
"They're strong!"
"Ah!!h
There were some screams during the call.
And now, Zelos is really nervous!
Is it coming for me?
She stared sharply at her bodyguard.
He also quickly said: "Your Excellency, please come with me, we are leaving this place." Rest assured, the security team is full of psionic masters and elite teams, and we're here to keep you safe! β
"Hmm."
Zelos knew that now was not the time to panic.
And things are not in a desperate situation.
It would be naΓ―ve to want to assassinate her in this way.
Her security team consisted of three brilliant psionics, and thirty of her bodyguards were elite in feedback power armor.
It was not easy to break through the protection of these people and threaten her.
What's more, with a slight delay, the army will arrive. She can also take the initiative to find the army to join her, accompanied by security.
Security should be assured.
At this moment, Zeloth's heart is full of anger!
She swore that she must make the instigator behind her pay a heavy price!
No matter who is behind it!
In fact, she already has a certain conjecture about it......
(End of chapter)