Chapter 564: Chapter 499: Morning Glory
Is the Gemini Bureau still operating normally?
Upon hearing the middle-aged flower man’s words, Leon couldn’t help but be slightly taken aback.
Leon and Nicole had imagined many outcos for the Gemini Bureau, such as partial escape, complete capture, or even total annihilation, but they never considered that the Gemini Bureau could still operate normally.
After all, Atifei-01 had directly "attacked" the Gemini Bureau and seemingly taken control of the Crolock Kingdom’s royal family, almost openly opposing the Clean-up Bureau. Why keep those Cleaners around?
"Are the people at the Gemini Bureau being controlled?"
After pondering for a while, Leon could only co up with this one possibility and tentatively asked:
"For example, did they have sothing strange implanted in their brains, or were they influenced by so abnormal object? Or maybe the relatives they care about are residents of the Crolock Kingdom and were directly captured?"
"I’m not sure."
The two flower n shook their heads in unison, and then the older flower man spoke:
"Director Edward thought about capturing soone from the Gemini Bureau for questioning, but none of us are good at that, nor do we have the ability to erase mories afterward. Doing so would definitely alert the other side.
Considering that the situation with the royal family is still unclear, Director Edward temporarily abandoned this plan and decided to first determine the royal family’s situation and the location of Atifei-01’s main body."
"Do you have any results? Have you determined the situation with the royal family?"
"Um... not yet..."
The two flower n exchanged a helpless glance and said:
"The geography of the Crolock Kingdom is too complicated, with over eight hundred districts that frequently change. Mona’s ability consus a lot, and the director and the team spent several days but only investigated about thirty districts.
And the worst part is, the Crolock Kingdom will hold a celebration in a few days, at which ti most of the districts will rearrange and reposition. The districts we’ve investigated will likely be all for nothing once they move."
"..."
So you basically did a pointless investigation?
Leon shook his head in extre frustration, then carefully inquired about the progress made by the Scorpio Director and frowned:
"Senior, with Director Edward’s current thod, it’s taking too long, and whether it’ll succeed largely depends on luck. If unlucky, you might keep being stalled indefinitely."
"Director Edward has ntioned similar concerns."
The middle-aged flower man nodded and said helplessly:
"However, after discussing, we truly couldn’t co up with a better approach. Considering the royal family mbers of the Crolock Kingdom may already be controlled by Atifei-01, we opted for a more gradual approach to avoid provoking it and risking the royal family getting hurt."
Co on, with an investigation relying solely on luck, you’ll be probing until the Watcher’s Palace is in ruins if you want to find anything.
"Seniors, my words might sound harsh."
In response to the slightly tense expressions of the two flower n, Leon frowned and said:
"But your thod definitely won’t work. I even suspect the other side has already noticed you and is stalling for ti.
So, I hope you can help
contact Director Edward so I can discuss and see if we can try my thod first."
"Well... that could work."
After exchanging a look, the middle-aged flower man propped himself up on the petals on both sides, climbed out of the green plant onion-sized bulb, dug a small hole in the flowerpot, and placed a tiny seed inside.
He then covered the soil back and took out a miniature watering can from sowhere, sprinkling so water over the seed.
"Puff"
With a barely audible sound, a plant with short, soft hairs on its stems sprouted, gently poking through the soil. In Leon’s surprised gaze, it coiled around the edge of the flowerpot, unfurling a bud toward him.
Is this... a morning glory?
Watching the plant, which completed its entire growth and sprouted nurous pink, red, and purple trumpet-shaped flowers in less than two seconds, Leon blinked in amazent. Then, at the middle-aged flower man’s gesture, he bent down and tentatively spoke:
"Sir Edward?"
"..."
After a "delay" of several seconds, the closest morning glory to Leon actually emitted the surprised voice of the Scorpio Director.
"Leon?"
Wow, not only can they shrink and hide in a flower, but they can also use a morning glory as a speaker. This is quite an interesting ability.
Taken aback, Leon glanced at the middle-aged flower man in his leafy attire and responded:
"It’s ."
"Of course I know it’s you."
The Scorpio Director’s voice, sounding a bit puzzled, ca from the other side of the morning glory:
"But aren’t you supposed to be just off the Sky Clipper, dealing with the Foreign Minister? Why suddenly contact ?"
"I managed to send the Foreign Minister away, and after exchanging with..."
Glancing at the two flower n, Leon continued:
"After exchanging with the seniors, I sensed sothing was off, so I wanted to discuss whether we could change our investigation thod."
Want to change the investigation thod?
After listening to Leon, the Scorpio Director across the morning glory went silent for a few seconds before speaking:
"Give
a reason."
"The reason is... we might have already been exposed."
Recalling the common knowledge about the Crolock Kingdom learned from the female journalist, Leon frowned slightly and said:
"The seniors just told
that the investigation was abnormally slow due to frequent district changes in the Crolock Kingdom. However, while it’s true these districts move frequently, it shouldn’t be this excessive."
"Explain in detail."
"In detail, among the six types of districts in the Crolock Kingdom, the areas for living, residential, administrative, and research have relatively stable personnel flow, so there’s usually little need for them to move.
Only the production and military areas frequently change positions due to significant raw material and goods movent, requiring frequent realignnt with areas like the spaceport."
Other than the production and military areas, the other districts shouldn’t move frequently?
After listening to Leon, the Scorpio Director on the other side of the morning glory briefly recalled the condition of the investigated districts over the past few days, his brows instantly furrowing.
Districts that usually don’t move were suddenly shifting positions frequently, which could only an one thing: to slow down their investigation process. The initially covert investigation was very likely already being observed.
"I understand your point."
Judging that their actions were likely exposed based on Leon’s information, the Scorpio Director paused briefly and then said decisively:
"What’s your plan?"
"I plan to secure a ’safety net’ first."
After pondering for a mont, Leon said:
"The worst-case scenario for the bureau would be if the Crolock Kingdom’s royal family were wiped out, reducing the effectiveness of the Watcher’s Palace.
Since we now have the status of a diplomatic mission, allowing us lawful contact with the royal family of the Crolock Kingdom, we might as well avoid the worst outco and seize the opportunity to catch a few royal family mbers first!"
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