Page 15 of The Guest

Chapter 15

  The journey of an evidence (2)

  The civilization of the human beings, no matter in which time period, in which space, whether having the history record, as long as once after the social structure was taken shape initially, would inevitably fall into surround ring upon ring of the bureaucratic breath. The having more than ten inhabitant planets and more vast resource planets Federation was no exceptional. Even because of the numerous population, the territory expanded to the outer space, let this kind of bureaucratic breath appear a bit thicker.

  An official business mail package sent from the second police station of the West River state capital of the East Forest Region, just surrounded by this kind of bureaucratic breath, was on its long journey. Right, before it set out, it went through the stamps of three departments in the West River state, had two rounds between the aviation department and the back office, and then got on the spaceship to the Capital Planet Circle.

  Three months later, this official mail package came to the administrative planet of the Capital Planet Circle, which was also the place called the Upper Forest by the federal people. It lied in the clean storage case quietly, sat on the corner of the car silently, left the airport, all the way went by the express elevated road between the green woods and the beautiful buildings, lasted four hours, and came to a governmental agency outside of the capital.

  The transmit-receive department of the federal Seventeenth Research Institute signed on the receipt, and then classified this package, put it onto the document auto-transmission bell, with the slight noise of the machine, the package got through the tunnel in the interlayer of the walls numbly, and entered into an office with plenty of light.

  A deputy director of the department saw this package on the table, he pushed his glasses curiously, looked at that strange address on it, wrinkled his eyebrows and thought for a long time, and then he thought of these somewhat familiar handwritings were written from one of his faraway comrade-in-arms.

  “That old Paul have been in that damn place for more than ten years, I am afraid that he have stayed there to be muddled.” The deputy director thought like this in his heart, he received the E-mail from the deputy director Paul Long three months ago, only he had already almost forgotten the seriousness which the other party entrusted this thing.

  “How come the evidence of the police station needs the institute to identify? How much money would it be cost to mail from the East Forest? This boy is not afraid of when the committee audited, said that we waste the fortune of the taxpayers…” The deputy director shook his head with some headaches, and pressed on the calling device on the office table.

  A wearing silver glasses researcher came in, he had the grey hair, it looked like that he had been in the Seventeenth Research Institute for long enough. This middle-aged researcher looked at the deputy director fawningly, he asked, “director, what do you want me to do?”

  “Well… Here’s an evidence sent from the East Forest Police Headquarter, the identification request is also in the package, you take it to the lab to take a look.” The deputy director said the words casually.

  The middle-aged researcher had a glance at the official mail package, found out the inscriber on it was not the East Forest Police Headquarter, but the second police station of the West River state, he understood in his heart immediately. According to the level of the state police station, it’s hard to have the qualification to request the identification of the Seventeenth Research Institute, it looked like that the deputy director accepted the private request. But since the other party went through the official channel, of course he would be not convenient to ask anything else.

  “What aspects do you want me to identify?” The middle-aged researcher took down the glasses from his nose bridge, had a look at the mail package earnestly, and asked for instructions, “is there a time limit?”

  “No.” the deputy director waved his hand, thought of the content in that Email, he said, “the main point is to compare the workmanship, see whether it has any connection with the Secret Service or the military… The country folk of the East Forest there quite worried about that this thing was out-flowed from the military.”

  The middle-aged researcher had a smile, didn’t say anything, and turned around to walk out of the room.

  The next day, he returned to the office, reported to the director about the identification result for yesterday, “there are no coding for the core materials, it shouldn’t be out-flowed from the military, but the workmanship really has some relationship with the military, we estimated that it is the replica from the Bermuda there.”

  “Well.” The director asked, “anything strange about it?”

  “No.”

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  Just like this, the deputy director Paul Long’s not reconciled identification request process went through. After he had the formal reply of the Seventeenth Research Institute, this deputy director still couldn’t confirm whether that figure in that night was the federal agent.

  And that identified metal electric shock stick, was repackaged with the package box and the identification request report together, and put into that extremely large underground storeroom of the Seventeenth Research Institute. Its historical mission seemed to be ended in this moment, in accordance with the relevant regulations of the federal evidence, if there was no anything big unexpected happened, its this life was bound to stay in this gigantic gloomy dark and secluded storeroom quietly, couldn’t have the way to get out anymore, and until being forgotten gradually.

  One day, two days. One month, two months. It watched lonely those partners with the similar fates as its around it, it didn’t know how long it would be staying over there, fortunately the condition of the federal departments were not bad, the work of the dust removal was done very well, it didn’t need to worry about that it would be covered with the dust of the history and the annoying cobweb.

  The long river of the time took two steps forward silently, it was the spring of Constitution Calendar’s sixty-fifth year, it had been two years since this electric shock stick came to the Seventeenth Research Institute of the Capital Planet Circle, a thin hand picked it up again suddenly.

  Chandler, a student just graduated from the National Upper Forest University, passed through the federal recruitment difficultly, got into the Seventeenth Research Institute, and then was sent to the storeroom to have the management by project. This still having passion new staff, obviously, was not eroded by the trite bureaucratic breath, he still maintained the curiosity to the things.

  He had already been in this storeroom for forty days, he was having the reediting work for all the evidences, and then he saw that transparent vacuum bag and that metal shaft inside of the bag.

  “The crystal screen could hide an electric shock stick inside, it’s somewhat significance.” Chandler had a smile, then began to have the registration work. But after he had finished the registration, he didn’t put the evidence back to where it was, because he liked to make some small things out by himself in the school, right now he thought that this evidence was very interesting, so he had the interest to have the research on it.

  With the development of the research, the federal agency had the identification on the evidences once again, it’s a very common thing, just nobody would be willing to do this kind of extra work without the overtime pay.

  Three days later, the eyes full of fun Chandler completed a thesis, and he put this thesis on the website of the Research Institute. The title of this thesis was , of course, such a boring thesis would be sunk to the bottom instantly and didn’t draw any attentions.

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  The federal administrative capital had an especially quiet area; there was a highest safety level department of the federation. On the balcony of this department, you could see the buildings of the Capital Central Management Committee and the President administrative office from distance. But those dressed in black su
its and walked in a hurry employees, nobody would ever cast the envious sights on that side.

  Because they were the staffs of the Charter Bureau, they were responsible for the most glorious mission of the federal society.

  In the core area of this building, in the spacious room, a two dimensional information display screen kept flashing in the midair, the most advanced search ability of the human civilization, let the frames to flash across on the screen with a kind of terrifying speed, nobody could see the contents on it with the naked eye, except for the performing calculation and search central control computer itself.

  The countless data of the federal society flowed to here and were sorted and analyzed, whether the fights among all the political parties, or the offensive trend of the rebels, all kinds of information would crowd in. Of course, now the most key intelligence was on the West Forest Region there, nobody knew whether the Empire people would start the war again.

  Suddenly, the frames on the screen became to slow down, it stopped at a picture, it’s a snapshot of the picture, it’s a thesis written by a researcher. And then the screen showed the storage location of that number AW3278 evidence.

  The alarm began to sound in the strictest Charter Bureau of the federal society.