Chapter 264: Natural Transition
Zhou Chu is not good at thinking about overly complicated problems, but his intuition has always been sharp. If even he feels something is wrong, it means that there is indeed a problem.

Su Yuqing closed the door of his office and said hesitantly, "I'm not sure... but at the moment, it does look like it was instructed by the higher-ups."

Zhou Qi's eyes widened. "What do the higher-ups want to do? Like Sister Ye before, setting up a target? This fire is burning too strong!"

"It's possible..." Su Yuqing frowned, his tone uncertain, "It could be that there are some recent moves to divert attention."

Zhou Qi asked impatiently: "Can't you ask about the recent actions? You have so many clones, but none of them knows about it?"

Su Yuqing frowned and looked at him, "No matter how many clones you have, the level of your position is not high enough."

Zhou Chu was immediately discouraged after hearing this.

Although Su Yuqing's rank seems high, he is actually not a core figure in the supervisory system. On the contrary, Ye Zheng is closer to the core than him.

The evidence is that, as captains of the inspection team, Ye Zheng is in charge of the most important economic city, while Su Yuqing is only in charge of a second-tier city.

"I'll ask Director Mei about this tomorrow." Su Yuqing sighed, "But I don't think she'll open up easily. After all, she and I don't have much of a relationship."

"Are you talking about Mei Junyu?" Zhou Yu was afraid of this person and said nervously, "Let's not talk about her! She is very smart. If she guesses from your words and actions that Sister Ye is still alive, wouldn't that cause big trouble?! With Mei Junyu's iron-faced style, she will definitely send Sister Ye to the gas chamber!"

Su Yuqing also had this concern, and stopped correcting Zhou Chu's statement that the gas chamber was an observation room. She said worriedly, "If Ye Zheng and Feng Ling can come out of the maze, perhaps these troubles can be solved, and we don't have to worry so much."

"They will definitely be able to get out successfully!" Zhou Qi slammed his desk and said firmly, "If even the two of them can't conquer the maze, no one else can do it!"

There was a crack on the desk surface with a snapping sound.

Su Yuqing had a headache. "Speak nicely. You need to write an application to buy a new desk. Funds are tight right now."

Zhou Chu snorted, "At worst, I can pay for it myself. It's just a table. I can afford it."

Su Yuqing couldn't stand his careless behavior and said sarcastically, "If you lose everything, you will go bankrupt sooner or later. Do you think you are Pei Xianjue of Yuquan Branch?"

Zhou Chu showed disgust on his face, "Why mention that young lady? She paid to play, so we, the inspectors with only one life, can't compare with her."

The group of inspectors is special. Everyone in it respects strength and obeys whoever is stronger. Money cannot bring respect here, so Pei Xianjue seems out of place among them.

Although it would not embarrass people in person, when the name Pei Xianjue was mentioned in private, everyone would more or less show some contempt.

Su Yuqing was suddenly inspired at this time, "You can ask Pei Xianjue about this matter."

"Ask her?" Zhou Qi frowned. "Her position level is not high enough."

Su Yuqing smiled and said, "Her level is not up to par, but her last name is Pei. Pei's Group has an in-depth cooperative relationship with the research institute. Now Pei's Group is responsible for developing hunter-related businesses. Maybe she knows something that we don't know."

"Will she tell us?" Zhou Chu was skeptical. Su Yuqing said, "She and Feng Ling have been in the maze together, so they are friends. Feng Ling is so popular now, she should care more about it than us."

"Then ask quickly!" Zhou Chu urged immediately.

"Now?" Su Yuqing thought for a moment, turned around and walked back to his desk, tapped the keyboard lightly, and began to look through the documents.

Zhou Chu came over to take a look. The dense text in the document made him dizzy. "What is this?"

"The second personnel expansion plan for the alien monitoring team," Su Yuqing quickly glanced through it and said, "There are 55 new people in this batch, and they will be dispersed to monitoring sub-bureaus across the country."

Zhou Chu sneered when he heard this. "In the first staff expansion plan, we applied for two additional inspectors, but not only did our application fail, but Sister Ye was also transferred away. How many inspectors are you going to apply for this time?"

He raised his eyebrows again and said, "Weren't we just talking about Pei Xianjue? Why are you suddenly looking at this file? Is it related?"

Su Yuqing dragged the file to the bottom and saw that the application quota for Yuquan City was zero in the application forms of local branches. He immediately knew what was going on and picked up his phone to call Pei Xianjue's work number.

The call was answered quickly.

Pei Xianjue greeted politely: "Hello, Captain Su, what do you want to talk to me about?"

Su Yuqing smiled and said, "I just looked at the documents for this personnel expansion plan. The number of applications for Yuquan City is zero. I don't know if there is an error in the documents, so I called to ask about the situation."

"Yes, there is nothing wrong with the documents." Pei Xianjue explained to Su Yuqing in a serious manner, "The incidence of alien species in Yuquan City in the past three months has been lower than the average. Even if we apply, it will definitely fail. So I discussed with Captain Shen that it is better to leave the opportunity to cities with higher incidence rates, and..."

Pei Xianjue sighed softly and continued, "Although there are 55 newcomers in this batch, there are more than supervisory bureaus across the country. Captain Su, this is just a drop in the bucket."

Su Yuqing complimented her, "Don't worry too much. Your Pei Group's hunter plan is progressing smoothly. I believe that with the assistance of the hunters, the inspectors will be able to reduce some pressure in the future. The person who first proposed this plan was far-sighted."

Pei Xianjue laughed and said on the phone, "The potential of civilian power is huge. Even if there is no Pei Group, there will definitely be other capable people to do this."

Su Yuqing changed the subject: "Hunter has been very popular recently. Have you watched the news? Ever since Feng Ling entered the maze, many people have been talking about her on the Internet."

Zhou Chu, who was standing next to him, couldn't help but sneer, thinking that Su Yuqing was crazy. It was a waste of time to lay out so much groundwork just to ask this question.

"Yes, I saw it. The heat has indeed been high these two days." Pei Xianjue said, "In fact, as a purely personal action, Feng Ling's entry into the maze should not have caused such a high heat. I saw some official media also intervened, thinking that the higher-ups wanted to build momentum for Feng Ling, but Feng Ling hasn't come out of the maze after all, so it's a bit early to build momentum now, so I specifically asked about it. The current high-profile media promotion of Feng Ling seems to be related to the rise of Protestantism in several southwestern countries."

Su Yuqing frowned, "What new religion?"

Pei Xianjue replied after careful consideration: "I don't know the details either. This religion seems to advocate the theory of the end of humanity and the coexistence of alien species. They believe that it is impossible for humans to defeat alien species, and only coexistence is the future. So... in order to prevent the domestic people from being affected and losing their will to resist, all recent actions that can have a striking effect on alien species, whether from inspectors or hunters, will be publicized in a high-profile manner to inspire the whole nation."

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