"You rember Renqin? The group leader that beca a bus driver?" Yezi spoke up.
"Renqin? Yeah I rember him, he was the one that drove out once." Xiaoyun thought back to the day where he and Renqin drove to the gas station once.
"So of the militia confessed that Chen Gang tried to get Renqin on board with the plan."
"Okay and? He's just a bus driver no?" Xiaoyun got a little confused.
"Well, I went over to ask him about it. And he told Chen Gang asked him if they can use the bus to transport so concrete to the armory to strengthen the building.
But he saw through Chen Gang's plan and realized they were planning to use the bus for sothing else. He noticed reinforcing the armory wouldn't be done by the militia.
So if it wasn't for him refusing them, they could of had guns already in hand during the coup. He got a sharp mind and know how to use his connections."
Yezi paused for a second, then added an important detail.
"Also he told he tipped them off to Yuqi, you can ask her if she got an anonymous letter."
"Really? Do you have his number? I want to et him in person." Xiaoyun was fully intrigued by how Yezi was portraying him.
Yezi told Xiaoyun his number and the two ended the call.
"Yueyue and Renqin..." Xiaoyun stared at the two docunt on the table with the police reform crossed out and replaced with dostic intelligence, and the foreign intelligence on the other side.
Xiaoyun pulled out his phone to call Yuqi.
"Hey babe what's wrong?"
"Nothing's wrong, Yezi just told that soone sent you a letter informing you about the coup?"
"Yeah soone did tipped them off... do you know who that person is? I need to thank them."
"I'll thank them for you, don't worry about it."
"Okay... also we're heading back right soon, our lunch break is ending." As soon as Yuqi finished speaking, she hung up the phone.
Xiaoyun hesitated for a second, but finally typed the number Yezi gave.
"Hello, who's this?" Renqin's voice ca out of the phone.
"This is Xiaoyun, I just want to give a personal thank you to the contribution for the town, and I was wondering if you can co to the administrative office."
"Of course, I'm coming right now." Renqin hung up the phone.
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It was almost two o'clock.
When Renqin arrived in the office, Xiaoyun was editing a few things on the foreign intelligence docunt.
"Mr.Mayor?" Renqin stood in the office nervously as Xiaoyun didn't look at Renqin at all.
"Oh sorry, I just got a little to focus on work. Have a seat." Xiaoyun gestured for Renqin to seat down.
After Renqin was fully seated, Xiaoyun handed the docunt to Renqin.
"I was wondering if you can lead the foreign intelligent departnt." Xiaoyun asked as directly as possible.
Renqin looked a little shock by Xiaoyun's offer out of nowhere, but didn't accept or rejected it.
"Can I ask why did you want to do this job?" Renqin curiously asked.
"Yezi told you are qualified for this job. Not to ntion the way you were able to tell there was a coup happening against Yuqi." Xiaoyun explained.
"Just part of my job Mr.Mayor... please give so ti to read this."
"No problem, take as much ti as you want." Xiaoyun laid back on the chair as Renqin started reading the docunt.
Just as Renqin was halfway through the reading, the office door opened.
"Hey babe! I brought you lunch... who's this?" Yuqi noticed a person was sitting across from Xiaoyun as she took out the lunch container.
"He's Renqin. You rember the person that tipped you about the coup? He's the one." Xiaoyun explained.
"Oh really! Thank you so much! If it wasn't for you, I would of been completely caught off guard." Yuqi bowed down in gratitude.
"No problem Mrs.Yuqi. I'm just doing my duty as a citizen of the town." Renqin replied back.
As the three sat down in their seats, Renqin was almost finished reading.
"Mr.Mayor, can I borrow a pen to edit this?" Renqin asked.
"No problem. Here." Xiaoyun handed Renqin a pen on the desk.
Renqin started writing rapidly and crossing out multiple parts in the docunt as Xiaoyun waited.
After a while, Renqin was finally finished reading as he closed the docunts.
"So what do you think? Do you want to lead a departnt?" Xiaoyun asked.
"I don't see much flaw in this... but are you sure you want a bus driver to lead this?" Renqin asked again just to make sure.
"Of course, I don't see why a bus driver have to do with anything." Xiaoyun reassured Renqin's worried.
"I accept the job offer. But I wrote a few small condition I wanted and edit I want to happen." Renqin handed the docunt back to Xiaoyun.
Xiaoyun started reading the docunt Renqin edited and it was mostly the sa thing.
The foreign departnt edited from the fifty people down to twenty five, with the extra funding still being the sa amount.
"Can I ask why did you reduce the people?" Xiaoyun was a little focused by the choice.
"Um..." Renqin hesitated to answer as he looked over to the Shuli and Nami.
"Don't worry about them, they won't leak it out." Xiaoyun reassured Renqin again.
"Okay. The reason for this change... Well I believe we don't need to have such a big intelligence departnt this early.
My dad used to be a soldier and he told that more people doesn't an its better. So I believe this apply to the this as well.
Also I had never done this before, so it wouldn't make sense for to expand into such massive numbers at once. I need so experience with smaller group first." Renqin explained his reasoning.
"Valid point... but who are these two people?" Xiaoyun noticed the nas near the end of the docunt.
"It's two of my friends... they are currently in prison right now." Renqin stopped as he wasn't sure how to say it.
"In prison? Why?" Xiaoyun looked a little confused.
"They joined in the militia coup... I know this isn't right for to ask for them, but they had been my friends since the zombie apocalypse happened. If it wasn't for them, I would of died when I was back in my apartnt...
Also, they were the one that told about this after Chen Gang invited and these two. If it wasn't for them telling about the insider info, I would of never guess that there was a coup." Renqin finally spilled the beans.
A long silent between the two, with the only noise coming from the three writing with their pens.
"Fine, I can give them a special pardon. But you have to make sure they don't do anything stupid." Xiaoyun wrote his signature on the docunt and handed it back to Renqin.
"I swear they wouldn't dare to betray the governnt again... What do I do with this docunt?" Renqin looked a little lost.
"You can get the funding from Yuqi over there. With the signature you can go to the police station and get those two out of prison." Xiaoyun explained for Renqin.
Thank you Mr.May—— boss." Renqin bowed down in gratitude.
"No problem." Xiaoyun gesture him to leave.
After Renqin left the office with the docunt, the three got up from their seat and surrounded Xiaoyun.
"Foreign intelligence departnt? Is this so sort of Arican CIA in those movies?" Nami curiously asked.
"Which departnt would this fall under?" Shuli asked imdiately after Nami finished asking.
"Okay okay, it's just a brand new departnt, it's not going to be the next CIA. And for the foreign intelligence departnt, it's going to fall under the Civilian branch, so they still report to Yuqi, not just ." Xiaoyun explained.
"Foreign intelligence? So is there a dostic one that focus the town?" Yuqi noticed Xiaoyun purposely putting the 'foreign' implying the outside.
"Yeah, I separated the two since I felt like it would be too much power for one person to have both internal and external spying...
I was originally thinking putting the internal one to the police departnt. But Li Zhen convinced not to since it militarizes them and ruin their trust with the population." Xiaoyun explained the reasoning.
"Seem about right, that doesn't seem fitting for a police departnt at all." Nami supported Li Zhen's side.
"Yeah... do we really have to do this? This whole secret police?" Shuli seem to dislike the idea.
"We have to do it Shuli. How else is Xiaoyun suppose to stop this from happening again?" Yuqi responded back before Xiaoyun could.
"Shuli, its the apocalypse, not so normal everyday people. Also the demostic intelligence isn't just in case of insurgent, they are also ant to combat corruption and abuse of power on the higher up levels."
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