Chapter 197 03.0196: "Administrative Affairs Department is here to help"

Originally, he planned to go back to comfort Farida after meeting the Inquisitor, as she had gone through a night of battle.

But Horatio found helplessly that he couldn't even find time to go back and forth.

Now, as unknown dangers and dark hands in the shadows are getting closer and closer to the Gothic Fleet, the formal organization of the Hell's Vanguard has begun to accelerate.

After wrangling with the Munitions Department and avoiding the Guilliman Codex.

The Gothic Admiralty established a dedicated Naval Special Warfare Command under the Military Intelligence Command and the Fleet Security Board.

Abbreviated as Naval Special Warfare Division, it is a pilot program that only exists in the Gothic Fleet.

The department is under the dual leadership of the Gothic Fleet Military Intelligence Command and the Fleet Security Committee.

Although in theory the chief and deputy chief officers of the Navy Special Warfare Command must conform to the Navy Department's standard "one colonel and two lieutenants" system template.

However, considering the urgent needs of the current situation, the Navy Department temporarily broke this rule in the first candidate with the starting point of quickly forming combat effectiveness and engaging in mission execution.

Captain Lord Sterling was appointed as the chief officer, and the second in command and the captain were selected as acting lieutenant Horatio. The third in command was temporarily vacant and could be decided by Horatio's nomination.

This is because Horatio is the captain of the Hell's Vanguard, the first batch of experimental officers to train the corps.

Having grown together with it since its inception, they understand and are familiar with the combat style, strengths and weaknesses of this special operations force better than ordinary people. They do not need to waste time and energy on running-in and can immediately form combat effectiveness.

It is also a recognition of his ability and a reward for his achievements.

The appointment was also a test of his administrative abilities.

He is actually the backbone that promotes the formalization and institutionalization of this department.

Brigadier General Peru arranged an administrative office for him in the office area of ​​the Military Intelligence Command of the Navy Department, and then had a large number of previous investigation files moved in to facilitate his screening of useful clues.

These leather scrolls, piled up like mountains, some of which are already moldy and worm-eaten, exude the smell of new and old inks.

There was also the smell of the paper preservative used uniformly by the Ministry of the Interior, mixed with the air purifier sprayed during the expedited renovation process, making his new office smell like a disaster.

He was probably the youngest officer with an office in the Sector Admiralty.

Although he had the power to appoint lieutenants, Horatio was actually still an officer cadet at the Officer Candidate School.

He also had to go to school and receive advanced knowledge on ship and fleet command.

But fortunately, because naval officers are very busy, the Naval School arranges for the officers to go to the school for teaching whenever they are free.

Therefore, Horatio's student life schedule is relatively relaxed and free, without any time constraints.

He also knew that with the help of "Golden Finger", he would learn very quickly and was almost graduated. He did not worry that the work of the Navy Department would delay his studies, but would only enhance his future.

After a while, Sterling led the captain in.

Even he, who doesn’t really care about the office environment, couldn’t help but complain: “This is definitely the most messy office I’ve ever seen in the shortest time.”

After complaining about the terrible office environment, he quickly got to the point.

“The current head of the Military Intelligence Command is Lord Peru, and the Fleet Security Committee is headed by Captain Lord Elphinstone.

You and I were also included in the "Investigation Team on the Assassination of Lieutenant General Hood" established by Mr. Peru.

My office is next door, if you need anything, just tell me and I'll have the Admiralty send it to you."

"I want to transfer some people from Hell's Edge.

It's an emergency now, and I don't trust other people very much. At least the Hell Snipers have gone through a strict background check, and the military academy environment is relatively closed, with little contact with the outside world. Right now, they are one of our most reliable forces."

"No problem, you can make your own decisions on this matter and don't have to report to me.

It seems that the office opposite needs to be cleaned and tidied up for them to use."

"That's right." Horatio personally moved a large stack of moldy confidential documents to the balcony to dry:

"This 350-square-meter office is already quite a stretch."

He patted his dusty hands and looked at the clerical attendants who were still carrying in piles of documents that were like mountains.

He instantly understood what the Imperial-style paper-stuffed code was, the kind that even Guilliman would get worried about.

The number of these volumes in front of them is so great that it is despairing. Although there is an array of thinkers, the empire's preference for handwritten notes has been a historical inertia that has been difficult to change for thousands of years.

Even the coding machine has a mechanical structure that drives a feather pen to write a corresponding letter on paper after pressing a letter button.

The final product is that the documents of a star field navy department alone can fill a space as large as the moon.

This is also one of the reasons why the Gothic Ministry of the Interior is the largest and most spacious of all the imperial department buildings here.

Although it does not allow it to be taller or larger than the tallest Anglican cathedral on the planet, it is truly enormously wide.

It is as bottomless as Tyranid's belly, with billions of parchment documents piled up inside.

“This is a copy of the suspect’s paperwork compiled by Lieutenant General Hood.

Just received from Mr. Peru, each page is numbered, to prevent loss, it must be stored in a fine gold safe after reading."

Horatio took it from the captain, which was the copy he proposed to print to prevent loss, and to use it to investigate the case with Inquisitor Ravenno.

"I'm going back to my office first. I'm going to be very busy next." The captain sighed in pain and helplessness.

"To be honest, I'd rather switch places with you. PR work makes me sick."

Horatio smiled but said nothing.

He would not want to touch public relations, let alone the public relations of the Empire. Commodore Peru asked Horatio to take charge of the investigation, while Lieutenant Sterling helped the Admiralty to do its best to overcome the difficulties in the public relations of this matter.

Everyone's task and work is not easy, but at least Horatio's work is more comfortable to do.

Horatio understood the weight of the matter on his hands.

He was given power far beyond his rank.

This urgent incident put the Gothic Fleet into high alert mode.

All prison areas, military ports and jurisdictions related to the navy began to be under comprehensive martial law, which is a rare occurrence.

In principle, this level of alert will only be activated when the sector fleet is under a fatal threat.

The last time there was such a big battle was during the Gothic War.

Horatio, who is an attendant of the Inquisition, serves as the investigator of the task force.

At the request of Inquisitor Ravenno to the Gothic Fleet, he was given the enormous autocratic power to capture suspects and bring them to the "Sky Cage" for interrogation and forced confessions without the approval of higher authorities.

Arrest first, try later, special permission granted by the throne.

Sitting in his large office, with all the power in his hands, Horatio experienced a kind of pleasure that made him flustered.

The instinctive part of his mind was subconsciously thinking about what benefits this power could bring him and how he could quickly rise to prominence.

His unrealistic fantasies became more and more exaggerated, and he even fantasized about relying on this power.

Under the white terror, the governor and the commander-in-chief of the fleet were arrested, then tortured and killed during interrogation and replaced.

The scene where he sat on the top position of Governor of Abyss Port and even Commander-in-Chief of the Gothic Fleet.

In order to stop these terrible thoughts that emerged unconsciously, Horatio shook his head and forced his thoughts away.

He understood that this vanity and hunger for power would easily attract the attention of the Slaanesh demons, who would then use his inner desires to seduce him step by step into the abyss of depravity.

He might even think that maybe Slaanesh was setting a trap for him, luring him in until he was corrupted and degenerated into his supporter.

He adjusted his mood, silently recited a few lines of the Emperor's "Holy Words" to purify his mind, forcibly suppressed his wandering thoughts, and spread the copy of the document on the table.

Ignoring the busy clerical attendants, he began to perform his duties.

The situation was so urgent that he had no extra time to waste except for meeting his basic physiological needs.

In the afternoon, he would accompany the Inquisitor to the Church of the Goddess to investigate yesterday's attack. He planned to work overtime in the evening.

He first screened out a portion of the files that did not involve sensitive and confidential matters, and assigned them to the 'Black Wing Society', an intelligence agency he reorganized from the 'Labor Gang', for investigation and processing, and then assigned Youyou an investigation mission.

In order to protect themselves, the enemies in the darkness might be even more desperate than him.

If you want to catch up with them, you must keep up with their progress so that you can stop them in time before a bigger conspiracy happens.

At the same time, they have to race against time with other Inquisitors from the Empire to prevent the Gothic Fleet from becoming the protagonist of a Greek tragedy.

[What an abstract and ridiculous contest.] Horatio shook his head.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.

The person knocking on the door was a middle-aged man in his thirties or forties.

His hairline was quite high, his short brown hair was neatly combed and shiny, he was wearing the uniform of a senior civilian assistant of the Ministry of the Interior, under his slightly thick eyebrows, his eyes showed professional humility.

The man looked a bit like Mr. Bean. Horatio casually raised his head from the pile of files and looked at this honest middle-aged man who walked in with a pile of documents after the door opened.

"Uh...sir." He looked at the naval officer who buried his head again and called respectfully.

Horatio looked up again.

"Please say."

"I'm Bernard Woolley from the Home Office, Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor, from the Department of Administrative Services."

Horatio nodded and gave a perfunctory welcome, but his hands kept moving and he remained focused on his work. He had already identified several suspects and three suspected gathering places, one third of which could be handed over to the Blackwing Society to investigate with the fleet's intelligence and security departments so that they could sort out the network of contacts behind these suspects.

"Does the Ministry of the Interior have any instructions?" he asked. After all, the Ministry of the Interior is the direct superior department of the Ministry of the Navy, and even if there is work at hand, it cannot be neglected.

"No instructions at all."

The man's words were a little too reserved, like a timid and honest clerk nervously delivering a message to an important person, which was consistent with the first impression he gave.

“The Ministry of the Interior has always had great confidence in the professionalism of the Ministry of the Navy and believes that the Ministry of the Navy can properly handle all its affairs.

However, the impact of this incident is too great, so we have been notified that the Ministry of Administrative Affairs will handle this incident together with the Imperial Navy Department as a representative of the Ministry of the Interior."

"Is it public relations or investigation?" Horatio raised his eyebrows and asked directly to the point.

As a civil servant in his previous life, he knew a little about how to deal with civil servants.

"To be precise, it's a collaborative public relations, sir. Jim Hank, Minister of Administration of Abyss Port, and Sir Humphrey, Permanent Secretary, are meeting with Captain Stirling next door.

In addition, as the chief private secretary of Minister Hank, I was sent here by the order of my superiors to meet with you and assist you in your work. It seems that there are too many documents here, Mr. Horatio, do I have the honor to provide you with some assistance? "

The honest man bent slightly with a humble smile on his face, like a humble social instrument, waiting to hold the fruits of Horatio's careful consideration.

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(End of this chapter)