Unable to expand their sphere of influence through large-scale wars, elite players who were "born" in the territory of the new federal government took a different route.

Through the advantages of their own identity and background, they have established their own companies and chambers of commerce, and began to fully expand their own financial power.

As the world war intensified, the companies and banks controlled by these players joined the ranks of supporting the major wars.

On the one hand, they made a lot of war money, and on the other hand, they influenced the trend of the world war in another way by manipulating the prices of all kinds of war-related commodities and goods.

As for the local politics of the new federal government, players basically control the political trend through elections and sponsorships, and not many players directly participate in politics.

In the area of supernatural power, many players sponsor a lot of so-called "adventurers", and take a large number of alien xenomorph technology into their own hands, trying to develop and apply it to themselves.

They even recruited a lot of other players who had awakened their superpowers, forming various teams of civilian superpower players.

Explore and exploit the supernatural resources in the entire territory of the New Federation, and even in the entire territory of the countries of the Earth.

Although in terms of overall size, the player team is not comparable to the soul force formed by the new federal government.

But they don't need to follow all kinds of cumbersome regulations and are not affected by bureaucracy, so they are very actionable.

These teams of players are free and unrestricted, and they are backed by the financial backing of elite players, so whether they are old players in the closed beta or new players in the open beta, their results and rankings are constantly improving.

Now Yang Lingling is a little hesitant, and she is considering whether to give up the official identity of soul power and join the player force.

However, when she thought that she had gained such a strong strength because of cheating, she felt that it was better to keep a low profile, and Yang Lingling had always kept it in mind what Yang Wuji warned her:

Think of this "game world" as a "parallel universe".

Those unrestricted players behave perversely, don't treat the "NPCs" in the Philit universe as human beings at all, and often kill people at every turn, which also makes Yang Lingling very disliked.

So she decided to wait and see.

On this day, Jackman was sitting in the office of the new FBI headquarters, looking through the information about "superpower crimes" that had been sent in the recent past.

Since the betrayal of the Transcendental in Juventugin, the new federal government's control over the Soul Force has been further strengthened, which has also led to the departure of many members of the Soul Force.

Although there are many new people joining in, because the private consortium is also digging into the wall, the overall quality of the new recruits is very serious.

The only ones that haven't changed much are the transcendents.

As the top of the pyramid, they still enjoy a lot of freedom, especially those like Jennifer, who are easy to control and less dangerous.

As long as she can complete the basic patrol missions, as well as special dispatch missions, she is completely free for the rest of the time.

On the contrary, Yang Lingling herself, as a newly promoted "officiant-level" soul power member, she will also be assigned to some cases every month, and she will also report to the new FBI regularly.

If you want to be free, you can only ask for leave.

"Recently, the world has really become more and more restless."

Jackman saw Yang Lingling, who had just finished the investigation of the case and returned to the headquarters to report, put away the newspaper and complained to her.

Because of his previous excellent performance at Juventus, Jackman has been promoted two levels in a row, and now he no longer needs to do dangerous expatriate assignments.

He is now the Deputy Head of the Communications Service, where he is primarily responsible for maintaining communications and intelligence aggregation among general investigators.

Yang Lingling also did not apply to transfer him back to the soul power, because Jackman was on the side of the communications office, which was more conducive to her gathering intelligence.

Don't underestimate the intelligence of these ordinary investigators, they are scattered throughout the territory of the new Federation, like countless pairs of eyes, and anything slightly important cannot escape their investigation.

"In the past, our enemies were mainly cultists and superpower criminals, but now, even civilian superpower organizations have to let us supervise them."

Jackman sighed and continued to complain. Yang Lingling smiled, sat on the sofa in his office, took out a piece of information marked "confidential" and looked at it, and at the same time comforted him:

"Don't worry, more tasks mean more authority, and with it, there will definitely be more resources, maybe your salary will increase again this year."

Jackman smiled when he heard this, and nodded:

"That's right."

After speaking, he took out a lollipop from the drawer and stuffed it into Jennifer's hand, who was now a normal little girl, which immediately made her smile.

Jennifer tore open the lollipop's wrapper and politely thanked Jackman.

In this year in the Philip universe, Yang Lingling's biggest gain is to successfully persuade Jennifer to put away her "giant form" when she is outside and maintain the appearance of an ordinary little girl.

This is also the result of her own words and deeds.

Jennifer saw that Yang Lingling was indeed suppressing her strength all the time, and after suppressing her strength, Yang Lingling took her to various places to play, or to various restaurants to enjoy food as a reward.

Over time, she also adapted to a life of suppressive power.

This has brought a lot of convenience to Yang Lingling when she goes out on a mission, and she no longer needs to be the most beautiful boy in the crowd wherever she goes.

And after a year of education and travel, Jennifer's mind has matured a little.

Although she was still a little slow to react due to her intellectual disability, she became much quieter and more polite on the whole, which also made Yang Lingling quite pleased.

After flipping through the so-called "confidential documents" in her hand, Yang Lingling didn't find any useful information from them, so she threw it aside.

Jackman stopped writing, looked up and continued chatting with her:

"How's the case going this time? I see you're coming back pretty quickly. ”

Yang Lingling shrugged:

"What else can it be, it's just an ordinary supernatural case, the rich don't know where to buy the music box where you can make a wish, as long as you pay for the body organs of the person who made the wish, the evil god thoughts left in the music box will make people hallucinate and mistakenly think that their wishes have come true. However, there was only a trace of the evil god's intent, and its strength was very weak, and it couldn't even catch up with the cult level. However, the victim has a very strong background, so the bureau must send an officiant-level person over to show his attention, in fact, the cultian-level one is enough to solve it. ”

Yang Lingling told Jackman about her experience two days ago, and Jackman listened to it and nodded in surprise:

"This is also something that can't be helped, now there are more and more folk psionic groups, and there are more and more rich people to hire folk teams."

Jackman said as he opened the drawer, took out a thick stack of papers, and threw it on the table.

"In just this month, there have been more than 100 supernatural incidents solved by non-governmental organizations, so the bureau is also in a hurry, after all, less than one-third of the funds for soul power are allocated by the treasury, and the rest are basically relied on private sponsorship, if you lose the support of these financiers, I am afraid that the entire soul power will fall apart."

Yang Lingling casually took out a few copies from the stack of documents, looked at them, and found that there was already a civil power that could solve the supernatural events at the officiating priesthood.

The development of this civil power is a bit fast......

No wonder the new federal government is in a hurry.

Although the new federal government nominally advocates democracy and freedom, it has no desire to control the people in its bones.

The new FBI is the embodiment of this desire.

No matter how the president changes, no matter how the regime is divided, the new FBI, an intelligence organization, will always be the core of the ruling class.

Therefore, those in power will never allow the existence of forces in the private sector that cannot be controlled and regulated.

This also leads to the existence of the soul power, which is directly controlled by the government.

"Huh?"

Yang Lingling was about to ask Jackman to see if there was any noteworthy information related to the evil god, when suddenly out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of a familiar name from the stack of documents:

“…… Akrama Howard ......"

She immediately pulled out the document and looked at it carefully.

This document is the closing report of an ordinary investigator.

The case took place in the city of Sanda in the state of Zunnik, where a professor of art at a local university called the police for help, saying that he had been cursed.

For a month, he dreamed about it every night. He inexplicably appeared in a dark temple, and was also chased by a group of people with white and slippery skin with knives.

During this month, the professor sought various doctors and psychiatrists, but there was no cure for the strange illness of nightmares.

Instead, a colleague who studies religious portraits told him that he was most likely cursed by the cult and told him to go to the police for help.

Later, the matter was solved by a folk psychic who, after receiving a sum of money from the professor, cast a spirit spell that made him forget the memory of the day before his first nightmare.

The nightmare is gone.

The federal investigator who followed the matter found out that he had visited a museum owned by a charity a month earlier by checking the professor's travel history.

So the investigators approached the director of the museum, explained the matter, and found an oil painting signed "Akrama Howard" from the museum's storage room.

The content of this oil painting is a dark temple sunk at the bottom of the sea!

Although it is tempting to repossess the painting, according to the law, even the government has no right to forcibly seize the artwork donated to charity unless it is auctioned.

The investigator had no choice but to apply for the bureau to send an appraiser.

It has been determined that although the painting has some supernatural features, it will only affect people with high mental sensitivity, such as artists and writers.

Even the director of the museum did not show any discomfort when he saw it.

Therefore, the power level of this painting cannot even reach the cult level, and the bureau is unwilling to use too much authority to forcibly seal it.

In the end, I can only advise the museum director to keep this painting properly and not let others see it easily.

The curator has no opinion on this, because this painting was originally donated by a wealthy man when he donated money.

According to the tycoon, he thought that the young painter who painted the painting had great potential, and that the painting was likely to be worth a lot in the future.

He donated to the museum so that one day, more people can appreciate his vision.

To this end, after receiving the painting, the curator invited his friend, the university professor who was haunted by nightmares, to come and appreciate a batch of donations, including this painting.

However, the conclusion is that the painting is barely qualified, and even if it is placed in the works of ordinary art university students, it can only be regarded as medium at best, and it is nonsense to say that it is a masterpiece of art.

And because the painting was so inconspicuous, the university professor couldn't even remember the fact that he had seen it.

On the contrary, it was the investigator who restored the whole thing through the investigation.

At the end of the closing report, the investigator added that by tracing the source of the painting, he discovered that the author of the painting, that is, the "Aklama Howard", had died a few months earlier.

The cause of death was suicide by slitting his wrists.

And this "Akrama Howard" is none other than the painter that Yang Lingling has searched for several months in Remanda City and has not found!

"There's something big wrong with this painting!"

The clue, which had been interrupted for a long time, suddenly appeared under her nose, which made Yang Lingling a little excited.

She glanced at the bottom of the closing report and remembered the name of the author of the detailed closing report, "Vito Klein".

Then Yang Lingling immediately decided to take a leave of absence and go to that museum to investigate the painting that would give people nightmares!

Jackman was accustomed to Yang Lingling's resoluteness, so he hurriedly arranged for his younger brother to book a train ticket for Yang Lingling early tomorrow morning.

After listening to Yang Lingling say that this painting was actually related to the previous Juventus Tujin City incident, Jackman also realized the seriousness of the matter.

He immediately made a few phone calls and contacted the detectives and police station in Sanda City, where the museum was located, to tell them about Yang Lingling's itinerary and ask them to fully cooperate with Yang Lingling's investigation.

"Do you want me to apply for a few cultist-level people to help you?"

After arranging the docking person on the Sanda City side, Jackman looked up and asked Yang Lingling.

"No, other people will only get in the way," Yang Lingling shook her head, now Jennifer is not conspicuous, and it is convenient for fewer people to act:

"By the way, what about McCarthy?"

Yang Lingling thought about it, and still planned to find someone to help on the road, so she planned to find Jackman's old partner McCarthy.

Jackman laughed:

"Don't think about it, since the Juventus Tujin incident, that kid has learned to be smart, and he won't get involved in anything that has anything to do with you."

Yang Lingling was a little speechless, but it was true that it seemed that every time McCarthy acted with her, he would be injured, especially his legs, which were very easy to break.

She rolled her eyes, and suddenly remembered the name she had just remembered:

"Then replace him!"