New Gods of North America.

Chapter 453 Cleaning up housekeeping
The leave that Tom Hagen applied for from the college on behalf of Wayne was "indefinite". He first returned to Richmond with a report, but has not yet returned with a conclusion. It is hard to say whether the matter is officially "over" now.
So Wayne didn't rush back to class. He planned to take two more days off and continue school next Monday.

As for Luke Matthew, who had previously lived in the detective agency to ensure safety,
Since Pastor Pycelle was gone anyway, Wayne just let him do as he pleased and let him go back to the academy to continue preparing for graduation.

A barbecue party was held for the agents who returned from the "First Office". The next day after the big meal, in theory they were still in a state of rest without having to perform any tasks, but in fact, some work had already begun to move forward.

For example, the partners and Doug need to ask Ryan and the agents for their wishes and evaluations respectively, evaluate the current working status and working atmosphere of the first office, as well as the abilities and performance of specific individuals, and then consider the rotation personnel of the first office and the creation team of the second office.

The agents who returned from the first office were quite impressed with Ryan, and after Ryan declined twice and realized that Wayne had made up his mind, he had no choice but to continue to take up his post.

The preparation of materials was relatively simple. Ryan already had some preliminary experience. He made some modifications to the last shopping list, removing what he thought was redundant and adding what he thought was necessary. That was basically it.
Personnel preparations were not actually that difficult. After all, there was already a precedent of the first office, and the agents had also seen this rotation. So compared to the "unknowns" and "fears of gain and loss" of the last time, the agents now took going to the office more calmly. It was equivalent to a not-too-long business trip to another place, during which the salary was calculated based on the tasks performed, and there was no boss to manage them.

But what surprised Wayne was that when Doug finally brought over the list of rotation suggestions for the first office, Willy's name was among the candidates for the person in charge.

In terms of ability, experience and age, is it appropriate to let Willy take charge?

Doug's reason sounds reasonable:
"This is a suggestion that Ryan and I came up with after a preliminary discussion. Willy himself wants to maintain law and order in a place. Compared to investigating cases, he still thinks it is more interesting to fight robbers. I think people with strong motivation may be more competent for the job.

"And the agents who are going to rotate over are basically selected from the group that went to Georgia before. Willy has a good relationship with them and has a good reputation among them, so he should be able to avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble. It may be easier for them to accept Willy's command than letting other agents do it."

Wayne thought about the wooden police badge he had seen at Willy's house a long time ago, and thought that since Willy had an idea, he might as well give it a try.

Just in case, they also plan to send one of Conor or Shock over.

The two guys from the Hunter Association were still strong. They mainly wanted to learn from veteran hunters like Inissa. Since the detective agency paid their salaries, they also had to pay "tuition fees", such as obeying work arrangements.
Liam's "flexible" former prisoner is already on the rotation list to go to the First Office, so there has to be one or two relatively strong guys to keep the prisoner in check to prevent him from "jumping ship" again.

By the way, Wayne suddenly had an idea. When he had more staff, he planned to set up a "rule" in the detective agency. For example, if you want to be promoted to a senior agent, you must have at least "worked in the office for many years".

But this seems a bit far-fetched, so for now I can just write down the idea.

The preliminary list of personnel for the two offices was drawn up. After all of them were sent out, only a few people would be left at the detective agency's headquarters.
It's not impossible to live like this, but after seeing the pastor's private strength, Wayne can't help but feel a little anxious about manpower.

However, the office was a relatively stable business, and it would be a pity to miss it. So, taking advantage of the crowds in the courtyard, Wayne mobilized everyone again and asked them to try to contact relatives and friends they thought were suitable. Last time, Inessa and Connor had contacted the Hunter Association in Kansas City again, and Lina and Damon McQuidy also tried to contact their friends, but unfortunately they had no reply yet. But no matter what, Wayne wrote a letter himself this time to try to urge them to do so.

In addition to "employee referrals", now that Ryan is back, according to convention, Wayne should also report the recent situation to Mr. Russell, the financial sponsor of the first office.
Wayne thought that when Mr. Russell was selecting people before, he found a lot of random bounty hunters. He could take advantage of this time to ask for those people's contact information and see if there was any chance to poach some people.

If it is really difficult to find extraordinary people, Wayne thinks the office can also gradually consider recruiting some ordinary people.

In this way, the number of personnel and average combat effectiveness of the "base camp" will not be diluted too much. If something happens to the office, the agents will have stronger backing.

After roughly arranging the affairs of the two offices and thinking about the short- and medium-term follow-up, Wayne's affairs returned to their previous state. He continued to wait for the result from Tom Hagen. After that, he had to go back to school.

Take a break from your busy schedule and play with your pets.

Emma has been in a unilateral cold war with Wayne these past two days. She doesn't mind being sent as a hostage before, and she even thinks it's quite fun.
The main reason why she was angry was that when the "bunch of grapes" exploded, everyone at the scene was splashed with "black juice". Wayne had watched a lot of horror movies and felt that such things were "unlucky" no matter how he thought about them, so he suggested that everyone use holy water to cleanse to avoid accidental "contamination".

It just so happened that the holy water provided by Tom Hagen was of good quality, so half of Emma's face was still red.

It seemed that she probably didn't plan to talk to Wayne until her skin recovered.

The peregrine falcon was still trained and hand-fed normally. When it landed on my hand, its claws still pricked my skin.
However, the Peregrine Falcon seems to be very happy recently. Because the owl's wings are not healed yet, the Peregrine Falcon deliberately lands on its cage to cause trouble during the day. The owl can only close its eyes and put on an "out of sight, out of mind" attitude, and its temper is forced to be as good as a capybara.

The more troublesome one is the "big-eyed octopus". This thing doesn't look like a normal creature at all. Its intelligence is not up to par. There are blood vessels and nerves behind its eyeballs. The way it eats is quite curious.
Wayne had to treat it like a fish at other times except for the daily routine of getting information from it when it was awake. If he wanted to report it to the church, it would be considered a meritorious deed. Before, it had kept nothing secret from Wayne on the condition that Wayne promised to guarantee its safety.
But it always felt weird to keep it as a pet. Every time Wayne fed it bloody meat, he always felt like a weirdo in a horror story.

After two days of relatively leisurely time, the cathedral finally came to call for help.
Halfway through the journey, Wayne realized that the route was wrong, so he let Conor overtake him, and then asked the other driver, "Isn't this the way to Georgeburg Church?"

The monk sitting in the carriage seemed very humble, "The Bishop is here in person, and we are going to the harbor pier now."

(End of this chapter)