"It must be cleaned, it must be cleaned!" Yoshioka shouted angrily in the conference room, "Someone can actually drive away the test machine under our noses. This time it is a test machine, what if it is a super weapon next time? ? Everyone who has been close to the experimental machine must be strictly investigated. I will ask people from the police station to arrest them all. No one from your science bureau can escape the relationship."
"Asshole, Mizuno discovered the threat of lightning people. This should have been the job of your police station." The director of the Science Bureau faced Yoshioka without giving in. "Our Science Bureau did appear in this matter. There are some insiders, but they approached the experimental machine to determine whether it was dangerous. Except for a few people who fish in troubled waters, the others approached the experimental machine out of a sense of responsibility as scientists."
"On the contrary, your police station and even Mizuno are able to break through your security. What on earth are you doing all day long!"
Kashiwamura, the director of the Science Bureau, and Yoshioka, the police chief, looked at each other without taking a step back.
Both of them knew that they could not retreat. In this matter, there were huge flaws in both the Science Bureau and the Police Bureau. Once one party gave in, the other party would throw all the responsibilities on the other party.
"The test machine matter really shouldn't continue to make a big fuss now. I have asked people from the Intelligence Bureau to come forward. Everyone who knows about this matter will sign a confidentiality agreement, including us." Staff Officer Nanyuan waved a fan with his left hand and put his right hand behind his back. , walked in from the door of the conference room, "This matter cannot be spread to other branches. No one is allowed to leave the headquarters without authorization until the investigation is clear."
"However, you still have to have the proper attitude. Yoshioka, ask your people to bring all the people on the list to the Great Hall. People from the staff are already waiting there."
"In addition, Hui, the people from the victory team will go together, and Castor will go too!"
Hui Jianjian looked at Staff Officer Nanyuan in astonishment. Seeing that the other party had no intention of changing the order, she slammed the table, "Our victory team not only made no mistakes in this incident, but also successfully prevented the problem from amplifying. Why do you want our people to go to the Great Hall!"
"Just because you didn't find out that the Lightning Man has mutated!" The door opened again, but this time walking in was Director Sawai, who had just returned from abroad. "According to Masaki Keigo, Casto and Mizuno, According to the statement, the lightning people have undergone irreversible mutation, and this mutation is inseparable from us humans, and they have begun to become aggressive towards humans."
"Things have reached this point. I don't want to know who the problem is." Sawai glanced at the people around him, including the police station, staff department, victory team, science bureau, and the intelligence bureau that had been dispatched, as well as the people who had been dispatched before. On the contrary to the Bron incident, this time the Space Development Agency was not involved. Instead, various agencies at the headquarters had more or less problems. "But I hope that you can come up with a solution quickly. I don't care if it is the Science Bureau." , Police Department, Victory Team or others, we need to carry out internal reforms, human society has begun to have a crisis, if anyone continues to shirk responsibility, get out of TPC."
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Ten minutes later, members of the victory team entered the assembly hall together with Casto.
Horii is still a little absent-minded. His teacher, Dr. Mizuno, is still uncertain about his life or death.
Dagu looked around and saw that the assembly hall had been cleared out and accommodated a large number of people. All the people formed small groups according to departments. After Dagu looked carefully for a long time, he came to Castor's side with some worry, " Where is Brother Masaki? Didn't he come? Besides, what happened this time will not affect TPC."
Dagu feels that something is wrong with Masaki Keigo recently, and logically speaking, he would not let go of this opportunity.
Although Masaki Keigo looks down on many people, he usually takes the initiative to mock them when it comes to science-related matters.
Dagu tried to contact Masaki Keigo using PDI, but was surprised to find that there was no signal.
It's not that he doesn't have a signal, it's that Masaki Keigo doesn't have a signal.
"Find a place to sleep. Masaki Keigo doesn't need you to worry. He has reached a critical moment now." Castor took out a folding bed from somewhere. "As for the distribution of responsibilities, the leaders will handle it. Yes, you need to take a good rest now."
Castor gave a slap in the face. This incident is just a microcosm of the changes in the times. Rapid changes in the times will bring about problems of one kind or another. Indeed, some of those scientists have experienced rapid corruption in just a few years. It's broken, but this is normal. Throughout the dynasties, whenever there is a 'change of dynasties', such moths will appear. Some of their behaviors are completely different from what they used to be. For such people, Casto feels that there is no problem in getting rid of some of them. .
"This time, a group of people may be purged within the TPC."
"Is there really such a big problem within the TPC?" Dagu thought about the last time everyone made a fuss, but the result was just to set up a scientific review team. He asked with some expectation, "Will it be the same as last time? This time it’s also everyone’s plan.”
"No, there is really a problem this time." Casto shook his head, "As you know, TPC actually established various institutions first and then combined them, so it is inevitable that everyone is not deeply connected with each other. ."
"The people in the police station are lax in their security, the people in the science bureau are acting recklessly, the people in the intelligence bureau are not supervising well, and even your victory team is involved. The staff department did not make any mistakes this time. The problem is to formulate an internal plan next planning, it’s their turn to take responsibility.”
"Why does TPC have so many problems?!" Dagu was dumbfounded when Castor mentioned so many problems in one go.
"You don't think there will never be problems within the TPC, do you?" Casto looked at Dagu, and he decided to tell Dagu some of the history he had witnessed, "TPC, to be precise, is under the current TPC framework. Each agency has actually experienced two shifts in work focus.”
"The first change in work focus was actually completed unconsciously. If we want to distinguish it, it should be counted when Sawai was the Secretary-General of the United Nations, which is when the predecessors of these institutions were first established.
With the appointment of Director Sawai as the Secretary-General of the United Nations as a sign, and various reports of supernatural phenomena and cosmic beings as opportunities, mankind began to abandon some disputes and tried to shift the focus of work to cosmic and supernatural events. It was during this period that the predecessors of various agencies began to be established. ,
Everyone at the time believed that in order to deal with issues such as climate change and extraterrestrial intelligent life, it was necessary for countries to cooperate beyond national borders. "
"With Director Sawai taking office as the Secretary-General of the United Nations as the starting point and the establishment of the Earth Defense Force as the end point, mankind has completed the reform without knowing it. For the first time, mankind's eyes have collectively looked at the universe."
Dagu nodded. Although he was still studying during this period, he also experienced a large number of supernatural events. The society at that time did indeed quickly change from competition between countries to various cooperations.
“However, although various cooperations targeting the universe have been launched, they are still unable to face more frequent and larger-scale natural disasters and supernatural phenomena around the world.
Everyone, including me, has discovered that mankind will not be able to face possible crises in the future by relying only on reforms based on the current situation. There must be a brand new model that can allow mankind to better face the universe. , during this period, the focus of everyone's work began to shift to the earth and the interior of human society, and everyone was striving to establish a brand new institution. "
“Surprisingly, this institution is building faster than we thought.”
"Starting from the proposal of the TPC concept, marked by the emergence of the slogan "The Earth should be a more peaceful and beautiful planet", and ending with the complete disbandment of the National Defense Force system and the establishment of the TPC, we quickly completed the second All the goals set when the focus of work was changed, yes, in fact, we have already completed the goals set when Director Sawai proposed the TPC idea, and exceeded the goals."
"What about the third time?" Dagu asked.
"Aren't you experiencing it for the third time now?" Casto smiled.
. . . . . .
In a high-rise conference room.
As time passed, everyone finally calmed down.
"So, who wants to talk first?" Sawai knocked on the table, "No one can leave here unless there is a result from the discussion today."
"Everyone can no longer have sectarian views." Hui Jian couldn't help but said, "Obviously when I was still in the SET Interpretation Team, everyone could work together, but why did everyone start fighting with each other when the TPC was established?"
"There seems to be a problem with our thinking." Surprisingly, Yoshioka, who followed Megumi's words, lit a cigarette and took a deep breath. When the flame of the cigarette butt was about to burn his hands, When, he finally spoke, "In order to establish the TPC, we focused all our work on human society. For this reason, we went through a lot of struggles, some with careerists, some with war maniacs, and some Some are enemies and some are friends, but after the TPC was established, we still did not change our minds and continued to use the same fighting methods we used when the TPC was established."
"Now, the targets of our struggle should be the enemies of mankind, those who are eyeing the earth."
"In preparation for the TPC peace conference, we must admit our mistakes to the outside world and regard people from other branches as our companions, not our enemies." Nan Yuan opened the fan and then closed it again, practicing opening and closing it a few times. After that, he tapped his neck with a fan, thought for a while, and said with some difficulty, "For the officials of the Bureau of Space Science and Technology who were affected by the Eblon incident, and the scientists who were affected by this experimental machine incident, We should give them a chance to prove themselves again.”
"Let's affirm Masaki Keigo within the TPC." Kashiwamura, director of the Science Bureau, breathed out. "The previous negative remarks against Masaki Keigo should have come from our Science Bureau."
The meeting lasted from early morning to dawn.
While the person in charge of the canteen was debating whether to cook less breakfast, everyone in the hall was released.
Along with the people in the General Assembly Hall, there was also a very long meeting minutes.
Dagu had a headache. He didn't sleep all night, but he felt that he was in good spirits.
He had already read the minutes of the meeting. In fact, he still didn't understand some of the things on it, but the final decision of the meeting made him a little excited.
'After discussion at the meeting, we agreed that the establishment of TPC marks that mankind is ready. Next, mankind will move towards a new era. The focus of TPC's work will once again shift from the interior of the earth to the direction of the universe. For this reason, a A new plan was proposed at the meeting - the 'New Territory Plan'. '
Dagu decided to see how Dr. Mizuno was doing. He felt that Dr. Mizuno would be very happy if he knew the news.
At the same time, Castor was not in as good a mood as Dagu. He went directly to the underground ruins where Masaki Keigo was.
"Masaki Keigo! You haven't changed at all. If you keep switching between light and people, sooner or later the dark ruler at the bottom of the sea will be 'awakened' by you!"
Masaki Keigo was exhausted at this moment and was lying on the ground. However, when faced with Castor's questioning, he showed no shame at all. On the contrary, his face was full of smiles, "It's almost there. It's still a little bit close."
Castor didn't understand what Masaki Keigo meant. He followed Masaki Keigo's gaze and looked up. Suddenly, he froze.
Who is this stone statue? Where is Xie Di?
(End of chapter)
