Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 435

Chapter 434, Subversive Action

Pushing open the door of the innermost room on the bottom floor of the tavern, under the dim light, Arno Chenko saw a small table inside, with a man and a woman standing next to it.

Hearing the sound of the door being pushed open, the two looked over at the same time, and their hands quietly touched their weapons.

Arno used his left hand to make three complex gestures in front of his lower abdomen.

The two people’s emotions eased a little, and they also made different gestures.

The three people gestured to each other for half a minute, and then they completed the complex but necessary mutual identity confirmation.

“Hello, comrade, I am Martin from the Military Intelligence Bureau.”

“I am Amanda from the Foreign Intelligence Bureau.”

After the two people successively told their origins, Arno also said: “I am Benteke from the Investigation Bureau.”

He reported a pseudonym, and I believe the other two did the same.

The name is definitely not real. Even after confirming each other’s identities, there is no need to say the real name. A pseudonym can be regarded as a code name.

As long as the origin is no problem, it’s fine.

This “party” was originally a meeting of the three major foreign intelligence agencies of the alliance.

The action that the Alliance values is not something that any one of them can accomplish independently. The three organizations, which seldom interact with each other and only exchange intelligence at a high level, have rarely cooperated directly on frontline agents.

Without more pleasantries, they quickly got to the point.

Amanda spoke first: “Two days later, at noon, Zelos will come to the ‘hotel’. It is an invitation from several wealthy businessmen and politicians from the native planets, and he has already accepted it.”

Arno said cautiously: “Are wealthy businessmen and politicians reliable? Will they leak our actions?”

“No, they don’t know what we are going to do.”

Arno nodded slightly, and then took the initiative to talk about the situation on his side: “Strikes and riots have been prepared. It is estimated that at least 30,000 people will take to the streets to protest in two days. Weapons and equipment have also been distributed. At that time, the palaces of the planetary government and the star district government will be impacted. The parade will pass by the ‘hotel’.”

Then, his eyes turned to Martin and Amanda.

Amanda said, “The local police department may take action, which is a challenge.”

Martin said, “Several of our comrades will lurk in the crowd of marchers, and they will help to solve the threat of the local police force; if necessary, the special operations brigade soldiers who have lurked in the team will also take action, but that will cause a lot of noise. I hope they will not be used unless it is absolutely necessary.”

Arno asked, “What if it is the army?”

Martin said confidently, “I can ensure that the army will act very slowly after receiving the suppression order, very, very slowly.”

Arno didn’t know how Martin would fulfill his promise. It is possible that he has already instigated the commander of the army guarding the capital, or it is possible that the number of special forces lurking in by the Military Intelligence Agency through various means is so large that they can stop the army’s actions.

But no matter what the specific means are, Arno doesn’t care and doesn’t ask more.

As long as the goal can be achieved.

The three of them got together and confirmed the details and process of the action again, and then this secret party ended.

With different identities and different images, they left the tavern one after another.

When they left, they never noticed that on the third-floor balcony of a small building opposite the tavern, there was a woman watching them all the time.

She was Miria de Jong, a demon hunter from the Alliance.

The Alliance had eight intelligence organizations on the surface, but in fact, there were nine.

There was also a demon hunter organization.

The demon hunters were previously established under the Alliance Legal Center, led by Lambert, and led the first anti-corruption wave in the Alliance.

Later, the demon hunters were separated from the Legal Center and were no longer led by the Grand Justice, but became an agency directly under the Governor’s Office.

They were both internal and external, responsible for both intelligence and direct action, and even had the authority to handle tasks directly without trial.

The Governor’s special permission, to kill first and report later!

This is the demon hunter!

This operation is so important that the demon hunters are here.

Miria de Jong is considered the oldest member of the demon hunters. In the earliest anti-corruption operation, she was the one who set off the wave; she also participated in Koroja’s plague war. Although she was not in charge of the front-line battles, she and her demon hunter team played a very important role in controlling the political situation in Mingyan City.

With her seniority and great contributions, she is now a leader of multiple independent teams in the demon hunter organization.

This time, the action on Baishuo Star was directly requested by the leader of the alliance, and it was of great importance. The three major foreign intelligence agencies of the alliance have all gone all out, and of course the demon hunters are indispensable.

However, the demon hunters still act independently. The demon hunters know some of the intelligence of the three bureaus and roughly know what they are doing, but the three major agencies know nothing about what the demon hunters are going to do – unless the demon hunters take the initiative to share their intelligence.

With more intelligence support, more resource mobilization authority, and even all the agents have at least been trained by demon hunters, not only mastering various agent skills, but also with the blessing of psychic power…

After they came to Baishuo Star, the degree of infiltration is even deeper than the three bureaus of the alliance, and they also have their own set of action plans.

However, after learning that Arno Chenko had linked up the forces of the three bureaus to prepare for the operation two days later, Milia was really interested.

The overall plan seemed to be reasonable, and it seemed that the probability of success was relatively high, and it could indeed achieve the goals that the alliance wanted.

In that case, why not give it a hand?

If it succeeds, it will save us from spending more effort later.

If it fails, the demon hunters also have their backup plan.

…

Two days later.

Arno Chenko, dressed as a waiter, was in a luxurious hotel, doing his job.

Clearing tables, serving dishes, carrying plates, pushing food carts… nothing more than that.

He has been doing these jobs for two months.

If nothing unexpected happens, this should be the last day.

The luxurious hotel where he works is also the location of the mission code-named “restaurant”.

At this moment, the hotel is a little empty. Today, they only arranged a wave of guests.

Several politicians and wealthy business representatives are here to entertain the head of the star zone, Ms. Zelos.

Such a grand guest, of course, needs to be treated separately.

In fact, two days ago, the ‘hotel’ had already stopped operating to the public and was fully preparing for today’s banquet. At the same time, the security team of the sector leader also entered the ‘hotel’ at that time to check for potential safety hazards in the hotel and stay here to avoid any hidden dangers.

As the head of the sector, the security around Zelos is very strong.

And these are also what Arno and others had expected.

He concentrated on doing what he should do, just like his ‘foreman’ had told him in the past two days that the status of the guests this time was solemn and no mistakes were allowed.

He couldn’t see or hear what was happening outside, but he thought that the first step of the plan should have begun.

…

In the ‘hotel’, the banquet had already begun. Ms. Zelos, who was a big shot and arrived on time, had just chatted with others and talked about some not-so-critical topics when a security officer came to her side.

“Head…”

Hearing the soft call, Zelos smiled perfectly and gestured to the person in front of him, then restrained his expression and walked to the side to listen to the report.

The content was very brief: a demonstration broke out in Shuoguo City.

The content of the protest was mainly to demand that the government release the journalists, critics, and scholars who had been arrested in the past month.

The crime those people were arrested for was the unfounded “espionage crime”.

This statement is simply laughable!

Isn’t it that the planetary government and the star district government don’t want to join the Seven Horses Agreement, and those media people have made some core reasons and analyses for the government’s unwillingness to join the Seven Horses Agreement?

Arresting people just because the content they heard is not to their liking?

That’s too outrageous!

This is a set of sayings that emerged in various places on Baishuo Star a few months ago. Some newspapers, radio, TV programs, magazines… have mentioned it in various media. Some experts have come out to say that joining the Seven Horses Pact is a good thing. There will be alliance protection and security problems will be completely solved. Mutual assistance is also the responsibility of different human worlds.

Moreover, even though the connection with the star field has been cut off and the imperial tax cannot be paid, the planetary government continues to collect imperial taxes; collecting imperial taxes is fine, but in addition to the imperial taxes, a war tax has been added; normal taxes have not stopped being paid.

The high taxes are unbearable. After being provoked by many statements, there are naturally calls to join the Seven Horses, believing that this will be safer and life will be better.

Moreover, some conspiracy theories believe that not wanting to join the Seven Horses Pact is definitely not because of freedom, independence, and the Baishuo people deciding their own destiny, but because the upper-level officials do not want to give up their power and are selfish and do not care about the overall situation.

This statement is not without reason. Quite a lot of people think it makes sense.

Just based on this, it is too hasty to think that those media people who spoke are spies.

Dictatorship! Tyranny!

What’s more, the term “espionage” is also ridiculous!

Even if they received money from the Alliance, how can they be spies? Is the Human Alliance an imperial force? It is said that they have the authorization of the star domain government to form the Seven Horses Pact. You say they are spies?

Is Baishuo Star an imperial world? Does the government think that it is not an imperial force, so the people sent by the Alliance representing the Empire are spies?

It doesn’t make sense!

So, there was such a protest march.

When Zelos knew that the march had broken out, she was certainly not in a good mood.

She had at least three concerns.

The first was the anger of the people.

Secondly, it was dissatisfaction with Governor Baishuo.

It can trigger such a march of tens of thousands of people, which can be regarded as a boiling public outcry. The direct reason is that Governor Baishuo’s methods of dealing with those media people were too rough and unskillful.

The fundamental reason behind it is the corruption of the planetary government.

Over the past many years, Baishuo has had some problems: excessive taxation, failure to solve the high unemployment rate, and long-term stagnation in people’s living standards.

These accumulated problems have a tendency to explode due to the recent tax increase due to the greenskin problem and the arrest of media people.

It is the poor performance of Governor Baishuo that has led to these reasons!

The third point is that she is vigilant.

Although the public resentment is boiling, although there is a fuse and a reason for the explosion, it came so quickly and fiercely that she had to wonder if there was any hostile force causing trouble.

Otherwise, has the public resentment really reached this point?

Not really, right?

However, even at this point, Zelos still felt that it was no big deal.

It was just a demonstration.

The police have been dispatched, and the planetary defense force has also received orders and began to be on guard. As long as there is a sign that the situation continues to expand or get out of control, the defense force will be dispatched.

In fact, the situation is unlikely to develop to that point, and the Capital Police Department should be able to solve the problem.

But the following news made her feel that something was getting wrong.

First, the mob and the police started shooting at each other in the street. They actually had a lot of weapons in their hands!

This almost confirmed to Zelos that there must be a mastermind behind the incident!

What is the purpose?

Who could it be? What is the goal? Overthrow the current government?

She no longer had the heart to attend the banquet at the moment. After finding a room and asking people not to disturb her, she called Governor Baishuo and asked him to mobilize the defense force immediately to suppress the situation.

Governor Baishuo was sweating profusely and hesitantly said that it shouldn’t come to that. The police force has already mobilized reinforcements.

Zelos was furious and reprimanded: “Things will never be that simple! Mobilize the defense force immediately! No matter what those guys hiding behind the scenes have planned, they must be suppressed as quickly as possible. We can’t let things continue to ferment. Do you understand?!”

“Understood!”

After hanging up the phone, Zelos felt a little relieved.

But soon, she heard some noisy sounds.

“What’s going on?”

The security guard asked a few questions into the intercom, and then responded: “There are civilians who are fleeing because of the riots. They tried to enter the hotel to hide. The hotel security and our people stopped them.”

Hearing this, Zelos was about to speak, but heard explosions and gunshots, and they were very close!

“Someone is hiding among the civilians and attacking the hotel!”

“They are very strong!”

“Ah!!!”

Some screams came during the call.

And now, Zelos was really nervous!

So they are coming for me?

She suddenly looked at her personal bodyguard.

He also quickly said: “Please follow me, Mr. Leader, we are going to leave this place. Don’t worry, the psychic masters and elite teams in the security team are all here, and we will definitely ensure your safety!”

“Yeah.”

Zelos knew that this was not the time to panic.

And things were not desperate.

It was naive to want to assassinate her in this way.

There are three skilled psychics in her security team, and thirty elite bodyguards wearing feedback power armor.

It is not easy to break through their protection and threaten her.

What’s more, as long as she delays a little, the army will arrive. She can also take the initiative to find the army to join up with the security.

The safety should be guaranteed.

At this moment, Zelos is full of anger!

She swears that she must make the mastermind behind the scenes pay a heavy price!

No matter who is behind it!

In fact, she already has some guesses about this…

(End of this chapter)