Just as Eric and everyone gathered together, in a hidden corner of the restaurant, several CP3 intelligence officers wearing white coats, black gentleman's hats, and sunglasses were having a nervous meeting at a dining table.
"Sir, according to orders from above, our intelligence agents have spread throughout Carnival City, but there is still no report of Eric and his group being discovered."
"Damn CP0, just based on his own guess, he forced us to stop what we were doing and come to Carnival City to search for traces of the Eric Pirates."
"Keep your voice down!" An intelligence officer next to him almost covered his mouth in fear.
"Don't worry," the intelligence officer who complained just now said nonchalantly: "Those high-ranking CP0s directly affiliated with the Tianlong people, as well as those senior leaders who sit firmly in their offices and issue orders to us, will not come to the front line of work."
After taking a sip, he continued: "Do you know why? Because they are also afraid of death, so we are just cannon fodder sent here to spy on Eric and the others!"
"Pound!" He slammed the big wine glass on the table.
It immediately attracted the attention of most people in the restaurant.
Even Eric looked over and was stunned when he saw how they were dressed.
You are not good at dressing up like this to make people doubt you. Just like the winery in Conan, you are walking on the street in eye-catching black clothes and black hats in broad daylight. Your white suits are to match the gin and wine. Vodka group CP couple costume?
But it seems that there are a bit too many people and it doesn’t quite fit...
"Sorry, sorry! Our companion is drunk!" The other two intelligence officers stood up quickly and bowed and apologized to the customers present.
Logically speaking, they are not allowed to drink while on the job, and intelligence workers, especially, are not allowed to do anything too conspicuous in public.
The complaining intelligence officer apparently made countless mistakes.
"Wow, even a CP0 refused to come over, and asked us to do the most dangerous investigation work to help them." The already drunk intelligence officer continued to chatter, "Receiving the lowest salary, doing the most dangerous work Dangerous job."
Several other people around the table also fell silent because what he said was right.
Their work not only includes investigation, but sometimes they also have to work undercover for evil criminal organizations. If their identity is accidentally discovered by the enemy, they will not even be able to recover the bones.
Many colleagues had to carry out confidential undercover work, and then passed away quietly. If there were no relatives who still remembered them, it would be as if the intelligence officers who disappeared in this way had never been in this world.
These people are used to seeing this kind of thing, because they convey the news of the disappearance of their colleagues to the families of those colleagues who disappeared due to the mission, and they were even beaten and scolded by the relatives on the spot.
In order to reduce administrative expenses, the government is not even willing to pay for burial expenses. It refuses to pay compensation on the grounds that no body has been found and it is not yet known whether the person was sacrificed or not. The person has been missing for more than a fucking year. You don’t know whether he is dead or not? !
"Eric and his gang are murderous demons who brutally killed even the world's nobles, the Celestial Dragons. If we encountered them, they would be dead without any body parts."
Hearing these words, Eric curled his lips. He would not do this. At most, it would be turned into ashes.
"However, Scathach's runes are indeed very useful. Our true identity cannot be discovered even at such a close distance."
"Of course, I also added the rune power of cognitive impairment to your clothes. What we look like now is completely different in their eyes."
"No wonder people keep calling me old man..."
As a government intelligence agency, it is natural to obtain various information from the inside that others cannot see. But he saw the photos of the Tianlong people being tortured with his own eyes, which even scared him so much that he had a nightmare that night.
"No, I want to resign, I finally got married, and I want to take my new wife out of here!"
"Moss, calm down!" His friends tried to dissuade him, "We are the government's intelligence department, how could we let you leave so easily!"
"For the sake of your family, don't do anything stupid!"
"Oh, I originally thought that working in the government would be a guaranteed job, but I didn't expect that my whole life would be locked up here." Another person also sighed.
"Even the ten warships of the Demon-Slaying Order can't do anything to Eric, and Admiral Sakaski of the Navy is still lying in the hospital! What can we do to deal with them? Just send cannon fodder to our door! So that the government can Know where Eric is."
"Okay, okay," the leader of the group said with relief: "Anyway, we have no news about the Eric Pirates now, so we will report that we have not found any trace of them. As for if we really find them... we will report them. There are too many, if you accidentally lose them, wouldn’t it be fine?”
A small intelligence chief is experienced in doing things. He can not only be lazy without responsibility, but also ignore the mistakes in his work.
"Eat, eat!"
"Yes, it's public money to eat and drink anyway!"
"Waiter, some more pizza!"
"coming!"
The grassroots intelligence personnel who were supposed to be hardworking and uncomplaining suddenly spoke out a lot of complaints and began to happily eat and drink with public funds, leaving everyone in Eric who was eavesdropping speechless.
Eric also successfully witnessed that in a short period of time, a grassroots employee went from complaining about work, to wanting to leave his job and run away with his wife, to being comforted and calmed down by several colleagues, and finally to eating and drinking with public funds with his colleagues.
"That's good. At least you don't have to worry about government intelligence agents coming here in a steady stream."
"The location of the auction has also been found, and we will wait until the auction will be held four days later. In the past few days, we have sold the treasures seized in the Shampoo Islands in batches."
"Perona, send a few detective ghosts to possess those people. At least you know what they have been doing these days."
Eric glanced at Chi Tong without leaving any trace. The money he held should be enough to buy the Teigu [Eight Rooms] in the system mall.
'Chitong, the day is not far away from seeing your sister. ' Eric thought secretly,
Even if he buys eight houses now, Eric will not call immediately, but he will finally save enough money.
After these rescued people are sent to the East China Sea, they can be reunited as sisters.
Chitong sensitively sensed Eric's gaze and tilted her head in confusion: "?"
…
At the end of April, the auction began, which attracted a lot of attention.
At this time, Eric had sold all the treasures he had seized, and his capital had just exceeded 2.5 billion beli. He was in the room considering whether to buy the Teigu Eighth House.
Chiron knocked on the door outside the room, interrupting Eric's thinking, "Captain, I'm waiting for you."
"Here it comes!" Eric quickly put on his clothes and opened the door.
'I still have to attend the auction, maybe I won't have enough money after buying the devil fruit...'
'No, am I not a pirate now? Isn’t robbing an auction a “serious” job? '
Kuang San, whose heart was attached to Eric, asked curiously: "Erik-san, what's wrong? He looked like he suddenly understood."
"Nothing." Eric replied, "Let's see if there is any illegal activity in this auction. If there is, I will do justice to God." '
This is obviously an attempt to enrich one's own pockets under the guise of doing justice for heaven.
Eric walked on the road and looked at all kinds of pedestrians: "There are more 'lawless elements' on the road..."
"Well, those vicious guys over there are all pirates, but the bounties are all around 10 million. They should all be here for the Devil Fruit."
"Having a good Devil Fruit will double your combat power. These guys are not willing to be trapped in a shallow lake like Paradise for the rest of their lives."
'When the auction ends, we can catch all these wanted criminals and collect their bounties from the system. '
Those big-bodied pirates with ferocious eyes suddenly trembled all over.
