Chapter 762: 759, In-depth investigation_1
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The first and second floors of this small building are a rather ordinary restaurant.
As soon as Zhong Feng walked in, a beautiful waitress hurried over to him, asking with a smile, “Sir, how may I assist you?”
It wasn’t meal time, so there were very few customers in the hall, and no one else near Zhong Feng.
So he whispered to the waitress, “Yunwen Zun Zuxun.”
Zhong Feng didn’t pronounce these four words in Skru language, but in ancient Chinese. Not even the people of China from Blue Star might understand it, let alone the Skru, who can only remember the pronunciation.
The waitress initially appeared stunned, but she quickly recovered and whispered back, “Please wait a moment, I’ll call the manager for you.”
Having said that, she quickly made her way deeper into the restaurant with small, brisk steps.
Zhong Feng found a seat in the dining hall like any other diner and patiently waited.
About three minutes later, a plainly-dressed Skru woman emerged from the restaurant.
The Skru woman was extraordinarily commonplace, the type one wouldn’t notice in a crowd.
“That appearance suits the field of intelligence work!” Zhong Feng admired silently.
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“Sir, let’s discuss this upstairs.” Once she reached Zhong Feng, the Skru female restaurant manager gestured for him to follow.
Zhong Feng didn’t refuse, following her into the elevator leading upstairs.
In the office on the rooftop of the female manager.
Zhong Feng had just entered the room when the woman carefully locked the door.
She looked toward Zhong Feng and said, “Qin Wu Da Jun Sheng.”
This sentence was also said in ancient Chinese, and she could only approximate the pronunciation.
“Shundao Yifeng Ji, Shi Liangshan Yong Cheng.” Zhong Feng finished the passphrase.
“Phew, it seems we are comrades.” The female owner revealed a relieved smile and extended her hand towards Zhong Feng.
Zhong Feng shook her hand, and thus, they were acquainted.
The woman invited Zhong Feng to sit down while she stood and explained, “The higher-ups have only notified me that you’ll be coming and left this passphrase, they didn’t let me in on what you’re supposed to do. They just said that we must support your work in every possible way.”
Upper Envoy Sir, may I ask in what ways we need to assist you?”
Zhong Feng leaned back in the soft leather sofa.
After a moment of thought, he asked, “How should I address you?”
“Okay, Lisa, you’re aware of the recent betrayal of the Dragon Race to the United Government, right?”
“Of course.” The restaurant owner, Lisa, responded sincerely, “This incident has been the talk of the town on Skru’s internet recently, one could say it’s one of the hottest topics. Due to the nature of our work, it’s impossible for us not to know.”
“Very good.” Zhong Feng nodded, “The higher-ups are extremely interested in the situation related to the Dragon Race and want to understand things on a deeper level. Do you know where I can find detailed information about the Dragon Race?”
“Well…” After listening to Zhong Feng’s words, restaurant owner Lisa stood in place, tapping her chin with her right index finger as she fell into deep thought.
About ten seconds later, she looked at Zhong Feng and replied, “There’s plenty of Internet-based information about the Dragons. The major libraries in the Raging Sun Empire also possess relevant collections…”
Zhong Feng interrupted her, “I was referring to in-depth data, strictly confidential material that is not easily accessible to the public. Do you know where I might obtain these?”
“Well…” The restaurant owner Lisa paused for a moment, then answered, “If it’s confidential material about the Dragon Race, there are three places that might have it — 1, The Royal Palace of Raging Sun; 2, the headquarters of the ‘Glare’ organization; 3, the ‘Lin Long’ Dragon Race Research Institute, which is the biggest Dragon Race research institute in the Raging Sun Empire.”
“Those three places…”
A visit to the Raging Sun Royal Palace is currently out of the question.
With two Divine Rank powerhouses in the palace, he would surely perish going there!
The other two places, however, might be worth a visit, especially the “Lin Long” Dragon Race Research Institute, in which he was quite interested.
But it’s too early to visit now, he must first understand some of the basics before he can take targeted action.
The Dragon Race is also a massive tribe, and he can’t blindly look for a needle in a haystack. Rather, he must selectively sift through the information he wants.
“Here’s what we’ll do, Lisa.” Zhong Feng instructed, “Have your people collect some historical data and information for me, both online and from major libraries, according to the direction I’ll specify.”
“Understood.” Lisa immediately replied.
Following this, Zhong Feng temporarily stayed at this intelligence-gathering site.
Lisa had ten intelligence operatives under her command, all skilled in gathering and filtering information. Among them, two even had minor fame as hackers.
Under Zhong Feng’s supervision, Lisa’s ten intelligence operatives began searching online for his desired information.
As time was pressing, Zhong Feng didn’t waste it, directly asking them to look into the cause of the Dragon Race’s fertility issues.
After searching online for a full two hours, the operatives couldn’t find the answers Zhong Feng sought. Even the two hackers, who hacked into several government officials’ mailboxes, could not satisfy Zhong Feng with their findings.
The internet information was almost uniformly the same — the fertility issue of the Dragon Race was natural. That such powerful individuals must have fertility issues was part of the natural order.
Direct investigation yielded no results, so Zhong Feng changed his approach.
He had Lisa and the ten operatives investigate the Dragon Race’s ancient reproduction conditions, to see if the dragons of old also had such fertility suppression.
At the same time, he had Lisa send people to the Raging Sun National Library to find related materials.
The relevant efforts continued from noon until late at night, and a steady stream of materials were delivered to Zhong Feng’s desk.
After the unrelenting efforts of the entire team, Zhong Feng felt himself getting closer and closer to the truth.
At midnight, in the office of restaurant owner Lisa.
Lisa looked at the gathered materials and seriously commented, “It appears that indeed, there was a significant decrease in the fertility abilities of the Dragon Race.
According to ancient texts, one hundred thousand years ago at least a quarter of the Skru Star was Dragon territory, with human tribes still being quite primitive at the time.
Ten thousand years ago, the Dragon Race still occupied a considerable portion of land, even more so than a hundred thousand years ago. They certainly wouldn’t have such poor reproductive abilities with such a large territory.
About three thousand years ago, there were detailed historic records of the Skru people, in which the Dragon Tribe was often mentioned. There were also sub-dragon breeds, such as Dragon Men, Dragon Horses, Dragon Elephants, etc., which are indeed quite different from what we know today.”
“Mhm.” Zhong Feng nodded his head, “It seems our efforts were in the right direction. We’ve indeed found a lot of valuable intelligence!”
“But what is the use of investigating this?” Lisa asked, puzzled, “What do the fertility issues of the Dragon Race have to do with our Makadun?”
“You’ll understand in time.” Zhong Feng shrugged off and stood up, “You continue to find relevant materials, I am off to the Dragon Race Research Institute to see if there’s something to gain.”
“It’s so late, don’t you intend to do something else?” As restaurant owner Lisa spoke, she suddenly extended her arm and slapped Zhong Feng’s face.