“Just 30 short. From past experience, after the analysis it should add at least forty or fifty.”

The picture froze and could not keep playing.

Knowing Yu Zhou was probably about to score another big merit and soon gather enough points for promotion, the researchers’ attitude became a little warmer again.

Of course, that attitude was not only due to Yu Zhou’s ability. More of it was because the structure inside the Inspectorate differed so sharply from ordinary management departments.

A new recruit to the Inspectorate, for instance, could not start out as field staff in the usual sense.

Instead, they would be assigned to underground bases like this one, and only after working for more than two years would they earn the right to go out and investigate cases.

And after they began investigating, there were still grades of status.

Ordinary investigators were only slightly better than the researchers in treatment and authority, so little that it could basically be ignored.

Only from deputy captain and captain upward did the difference become striking!

Take Yu Zhou, a captain, for example.

In terms of life,

Yu Zhou’s monthly salary was a full twelve hundred and some survival points, entirely enough for him and even his family to live extremely comfortably.

Every year he could have as many as thirty days of leave, the right to spend a whole month with his family,

with no need at all to trade off between life and work.

In terms of authority,

Yu Zhou’s powers were enormous. As long as he could seize evidence, he could announce an arrest on the spot for anyone below the rank of deputy mayor.

And when facing the guards of a city, he also outranked them by a grade on meeting.

In an emergency, he could temporarily call up a force of fighters numbering no more than five hundred and no fewer than three hundred to assist.

Those two points alone meant that even in the Inspectorate, where talent was plentiful, Yu Zhou counted as someone of consequence.

And if he could take one more step up, from captain to director of an Inspectorate branch...

Leaving aside other conditions, the ability to meet the Lord face to face alone was enough to keep everyone from daring to take him lightly.

After some boasting, the waiting time finally drew toward its end.

Watching the analysis system begin its countdown, everyone held their breath, anxious and eager as if waiting for a lottery draw.

“Give me a red one!”

“Catch two more reds and I’ll have enough points to rise, and finally leave this damned grassroots post!”

At ten seconds from the end, Yu Zhou could not help getting excited too, his whole body trembling slightly.

Staring at the screen, he was already imagining that Su Youzong’s identity would be just like those of the people he had caught before,

a foundation stone for him to climb on.

“How can that be? How did his threat level go back to green?”

“Damn, strange. I’ve been here more than a year and this is the first time I’ve seen a yellow suspect’s threat level fall to green after an intelligent review.”

“That’s not right, how did it become green 0? That makes no sense at all!”

“What, green 0? Let me see. How is that possible!”

“Gray, it’s gray now! Holy crap, it’s the first time I’ve seen gray!”

“It’s black, it’s black, it really is black!”

The progress bar, which had already warmed up to the middle of yellow, at the moment the review ended, before everyone’s intensely expectant eyes,

actually plunged in reverse as if riding a rocket!

In less than half a second, the bar fell completely below the yellow mark and headed straight for the pleasant green.

And the drop through green was not affected at all by having broken through yellow. Before anyone could react, it neatly returned to zero, catching everyone off guard.

And that was not even the most astonishing part.

After green dropped to zero, the progress bar suddenly changed color again, showing a grayish black that no one had ever seen.

Five seconds after the grayish black appeared, the entire interface also turned completely black and no longer changed at all.

“Threat analysis complete. Su Youzong’s threat level has been locked by the Northern Military Region and is directly restricted under Northern Military Region Commander Feng Tianmin.”

“If you wish to continue querying Su Youzong’s analysis data, please report according to procedure and continue the query after obtaining authorization.”

“The specific reporting route is: members at captain level or above submit an application report, senior administrators submit an application report, and the Bureau Chief of the Inspectorate reviews the application report. After unified approval, the analysis data can be unlocked accordingly.”

As the prompts popped up on the screen one after another, a pale gray chain also flew out and sealed away all information about Su Youzong.

With Northern Military Region Commander Feng Tianmin taking action, even if the Inspectorate wanted to investigate, it would have to wait for the Bureau Chief to coordinate in person before obtaining authorization.

That restriction left the once fairly rich personal information on the interface with only a simple name.

Not one of the several dozen people present made a sound to egg anyone on, and not one clicked his tongue in wonder. All that remained was deathly silence, and the surveillance footage that began playing again.

At first, seeing the two of them walking with arms around each other’s shoulders,

the people there were still thinking of two things at once, their minds racing about how this Su Youzong had come to be connected to the Northern Military Region,

or rather, why the Northern Military Region would send such a person to Mulberry Field Town to work as an ordinary electrician.

But before long, when they saw the figure on screen carrying two bags of grain and still walking briskly, everyone’s attention gradually shifted.

True, many people there could lift one hundred and twenty jin, but to do it as lightly as the figure on screen, probably only Yu Zhou, who had once taken treasure water, could manage.

But at the moment, seeing Yu Zhou’s rather ugly expression, no one dared to suggest a comparison.

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