"Thanks."
Medea took the tea and thanked her, but suddenly she seemed to think of something, so she asked the girl.
"Grey, has your New Social Weather Observation Section discovered any social problems recently?"
Hearing this, Gray was stunned for a moment, then reacted and replied: "Question? No, it's still the same situation as when I reported it to Miss Medea last time."
After ordinary people accept that the world has mysterious powers, except for the positive and negative emotions of panic or surprise in the first half a year, the next six months are basically "Oh, mysterious, I know, but that is not new", and weird things like this Not weird attitude.
There are social problems, and the most common ones are some unsolved cases, which will be regarded by the public as crimes committed by the owners of mysterious powers.
However, after many magicians who are good at identifying traces and traces joined institutions to maintain the order and stability of public society, such as police stations and detective agencies, this not-so-good labeling behavior was suppressed.
Facts have proved that most of the criminals are ordinary people, and the original investigation methods could not find evidence of the crimes committed by the headless murderers. Now, after the investigation methods of science and magic are combined, most of the original headless murderers have been found. All the unsolved cases were solved.
A famous case that was solved recently was the Tengu murder case that occurred in a remote area. A magician who was good at necromancy magic directly summoned the victim's soul. The murderer was scared to death on the spot. The fact of his murder was directly exposed.
"Hey, Gray, this should be a department that is in line with the forensics department and criminal institutions of the public society. It handles criminal cases that have not been announced to the public. Is it really okay for you to just bring it up as a talking point?"
"Hey, Teacher Weber, can't we talk about these things?"
Gray was startled, and looked at Weber with wide eyes, who looked haggard and tired, and whose hairline had improved significantly in the past year.
"But, Sakura-senpai and Shiki-san sometimes have dinner together to talk about these things."
Gray asked with some confusion.
"They are all members of the Magic Criminal Investigation Department. Of course there is nothing wrong with talking about these topics, but you are from the Social Observation Department and you also cooperate with certain social media organizations.
Therefore, for some sensitive matters involving criminal cases, it is best to wait until the required procedures are completed before you can speak out.
Otherwise, if some junk media people know about it, they may come up with some exclusive insider information to attract attention, randomly edit some of the things you said casually, and then publish them to arouse public and mysterious circles. contradiction. "
"But how dare they? Isn't this a crime of spreading rumors?"
"So, Gray, you are still young. Those people only need to mark [It is said] at the front of the article, or add a note like [This news has not been officially verified] at the end, but they can still get away with it.
Even if your department really causes trouble by then, you can delete the article and sincerely apologize, but by then, the attention it deserves will already be there, and the negative impact it will have on society will already be there. Appear. "
"It's never too late to make amends, but the sheep that was eaten won't survive. That's the truth."
Medea drank strong tea and summarized Weber's words.
"Gray, your teacher is teaching you a serious and rigorous work attitude and a working habit of trying not to make mistakes."
"I see."
Gray was a little enlightened and looked like he had been taught something.
"By the way, Teacher Weber, Miss Medea."
"What?"
"It suddenly occurred to me that recently, the social information collected by the Observation Section really has something worthy of attention."
Gray said.
"Have you heard of the catastrophe of 1999?"
"what is that?"
"That was a prophecy, saying that in the year 1999, a terrifying king would come to the world and bring huge disasters to mankind."
Gray explained.
"Hey, is this true?"
Medea looked at Weber and asked.
"In 1555, a man named Nostradamus, who was not a magician, wrote a book, but it contained imaginary doomsday predictions about the future world."
Weber knew this.
"Yes, but since Lord SB vigorously promoted the mysterious manifestation in 1998, many ordinary people are now willing to believe in the authenticity of this somewhat absurd doomsday prophecy, and believe that it should be an event that is about to happen in the world. Mysterious catastrophic event.”
Gray continued.
"Are you going to tell me that the situation in society is a little bad just because of this nonsense prophecy?"
"It hasn't reached that point yet, but there are already some clues. In some areas of some countries, some people have held up flags and stood up to express their opposition to mystery, and clearly asked magicians to stop exploring mysterious things, so as to avoid making the mystery big. Disaster has befallen mankind."
Gray was a little helpless.
"Especially now that the manager of the mysterious bureau, Mr. SB's name as the Messenger of Justice, has been known to those people for some reason, and those who oppose it are holding a banner against Mr. SB."
Hearing this, Weber and Medea were also speechless.
Indeed, SB is the creator of the current situation in the new mysterious world, but except for the initial period when the other party helped formulate the rules and provided a platform to stabilize the new rules, in the following days, the other party left a lot of work behind. people.
Whether it was the heroic spirits pulled out of the Hall of Valor, or the magicians, priests, or dead disciples of the True Ancestor who came to work for him in this world, they were all treated as tools, and he himself became Hands off the shopkeeper.
grass!
If it weren't for the huge difference in strength, many administrative staff who didn't want to live the daily life of 996 would be tempted to form a group and kill each other.
“If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight.
If you want to hold a rose, you must bear its wounds.
Since you sit in the highest position, you have to endure the possibility of being opposed by others.
Well, Gray, is it hard to hear what those opponents are saying? "
Weber asked, raising his spirits.
"It's not that I'm scolding, it's just that I'm opposed to the mystery, and it's showing signs of expanding."
Gray thought for a moment and replied.
"Oh, I didn't scold you.
Hey, it turns out that’s just the way it is…”
Weber was a little disappointed, but he was just disappointed as to why no one complained about the righteous capitalist who was so evil in squeezing his own labor force.
"Such things need to be dealt with, so that the public cannot suddenly feel unnecessary panic about the mystery after they have accepted the existence of the mystery."
Medea said seriously.
"Hey, what should I do?"
Gray was puzzled.
"Let the magicians from the Spiritual Science Department try to contact the person who made the prediction of the catastrophe in 1999, and ask the other person to come forward in person to clarify that the prediction was just a prophecy with no basis.
In addition, let the Publicity Department contact some experts and call on the public through reports to believe in science and magic, and not to believe in superstitious remarks that are not based on divination predictions, so as to achieve the effect of stabilizing society. "
Weber casually mentioned a rough solution to the problem, and after finishing speaking, he slapped his forehead: "Damn it, why do I feel less and less like a magician?"
"This is not good. Anyway, you said you would serve as a military advisor to others after your death, and you have seen and experienced the life of a military advisor yourself. The busy life of working hard and sleeping hard, 997 or even 607, is completely normal."
Medea said this and suddenly paused: "Hey, if you put it this way, you should actually like this extremely busy overtime life now. After all, your dream is to die after death. , becoming a military advisor who works overtime."
Weber: "..."
He showed an expression of despair, and after a while, he patted his thigh and stood up.
"I have decided that next time the performance rewards are settled, I will summon Iskandar.
I want to say sorry to him, I will kneel down and apologize to him, saying that I am going to break my promise.
Human beings are creatures that must sleep for eternity after death.
I will definitely resist the idea of having to work overtime after death.
I want a vacation, a long vacation where I don’t do any work..."
Weber's voice was loud and his voice spread out from the room.
By chance, a heroic spirit passed by outside, and when he heard these words, he shook his head.
Sleeping after death is possible for ordinary people, but for a capable person like Weber, it is probably just a daydream.
It is estimated that even if the other party does die suddenly, he will be resurrected by the devil and continue to work like an undead heroic spirit.
The heroic spirit, who has completely transformed into a social elite, walked towards his work station with a tired look on his face, holding a box of documents to be processed today.
. . . .
"Damn it, do the people in the administrative department really think that our spirit seance department can summon the ghosts of any historical figures?"
When the Spiritual Soul Division received an administrative task, the director of the Spiritual Soul Division, who was in charge of external affairs, immediately started to curse, but after he finished cursing, he still had to do what needed to be done.
Spiritualists began to search for many relics of the prophets who predicted the disaster in 1999, hoping to gain spiritual possibilities from them.
In the end, they even found the location of the other party's grave, but unfortunately, even if they found this point, they couldn't find anything that could summon the other party's soul.
"How can the soul of an ordinary person remain for so long? It should have dissipated long ago."
"But maybe, the person who made the prophecy has become a heroic spirit?"
A magician mentioned a possibility.
“Is Nostradamus a hero?”
Other psychic magicians questioned.
"No, but don't forget that in the Social Observation Department, isn't there a person who is not a hero, but has become a heroic spirit?"
"You mean Shakespeare?"
"In this way, it is not impossible, but Shakespeare is a world-famous writer, and the Nostradamus we investigated is just an unknown prophet.
If it hadn't been for 1999, when some publishing houses continued to promote doomsday rhetoric in order to sell each other's books, most people wouldn't even know who the other party was. "
"Try it. It doesn't cost any money anyway, and you can legitimately ask for some spiritual resources from the administrative department."
The proposal to try it was directly approved by many magicians in the Spiritual Soul Division, and Weber soon received a request from the Spiritual Soul Division for the supplies and magic power needed to summon heroic spirits. The document transmitted read: It is clear that heroic spirits are not summoned casually, but are summoned for administrative tasks.
Therefore, this is office work, and all consumption must be approved by the administrative department, and can only be carried out after confirmation that it can be reimbursed.
Weber was a little achy, but he felt that Medea was right. The doomsday prophecies were becoming more and more serious in society, but they needed to be dealt with in a reasonable manner. However, he quickly stamped his approval seal.
After receiving the acknowledgment, the Soul Advocating Department began to arrange the scene for the summoning ceremony of heroic spirits. Now the highest management organization in the mysterious world - the Mystic Administration Bureau, which has inhibitory participation, has the acknowledgment document with a special seal. You only need to burn it in the process of summoning heroic spirits to get the support of suppressive power, but it is invincible in summoning heroic spirits...
But the person who seduces the spirit is still a little nervous. Summoning people by name may not necessarily become heroic spirits, just like fishing. There is a possibility of an air force situation. After putting the fragmentary pages of the original author's manuscript of "Century" as a holy relic, , all the magicians participating in the summoning looked nervously at the lit summoning array.
And when a man with a book in his hand and a writer's temperament appeared, some people exclaimed: "Have you really become a heroic spirit?!"
The man with an elegant temperament showed a wry smile: "Nostradamus, a prophet who became a heroic spirit because his prophecies were circulated, may I ask, why do you summon me for something that requires my prophetic ability? ?"
"It's not that you need your prophetic ability, but that you need to clarify the past and predict the doomsday of the human catastrophe in 1999."
The bitter smile on Nostradamus's face was even worse. When he was alive, he was just a prophet as an ordinary person, but now that he was summoned as a heroic spirit, he gained real prophetic ability. Because he had real prophecy, he realized that his prediction of the catastrophe in 1999 was actually wrong...
"Yes, I understand."
. . . .
As the 1999 catastrophe prophecy in "Century" approaches, the day when the King of Terror arrives, a global program launched by the Mysterious Administration begins to appear on people's TV channels, with overwhelming advertisements filling the world.
"Believe in science, believe in magic, get closer to history, and move towards the truth. This program sincerely invites historical figures from the past era to explore the most authentic historical truth from the past on behalf of modern times..."
"The first guest is the most legendary king in ancient Britain. Yes, he is the Knight King known as the Red Dragon of Britain.
As we all know, the King of Knights is a male, but in real history, the other party is a female, and she remains in the form of a girl..."
"Pa~"
The host's head was hit directly by the blade of a holy sword.
"Shakespeare, are you discriminating against me as a female king?
If so, I don't mind using my sword to send you back to the Hall of Valor. "
Arturia, who was on the show, said to Shakespeare who was knocked to the ground without any courtesy at all.
"Uh, no, I definitely don't mean to discriminate. Isn't this just stimulating the effect of the show?"
“This program invited me to be the first guest. Isn’t it just to use the reputation of King Arthur for marketing to expand its influence and viewership?
I agree to this, but please don’t use weird words to describe me. If you have any questions, just ask directly. I will tell you what I experienced in that time. As for mobilizing the effect of the program, it has nothing to do with me. Now, I hope you can do less. "
Arturia looked at Shakespeare warningly and said in a cold voice under the camera: "Please remember, I am not the protagonist of your tragic story. If you touch my bottom line, I will not hesitate to let you go." Your blood splattered on the spot!”
"Pfft~"
When the program about magic and historical facts was broadcast, countless people in the world who watched TV and drank water immediately squirted out the water in their mouths.
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