New Gods of North America.

Chapter 466 Surveillance
The relationship between the American Confederation and the Franks is actually difficult to describe in detail.

For example, everyone knows that the reason why America was able to successfully break away from the rule of the Kingdom of Windsor and establish a federation was due to the participation of the Frankish coalition.
But the Frankish coalition did not come for nothing. They took on debts, contributed manpower and equipment, and came together with the Americans to face a powerful country of the time. It seemed only natural that they should receive some political and economic rewards after winning.

Even after independence, America was extremely poor. The Franks, for the sake of the founding fathers, gave the new federation a relatively long payment period, giving it the opportunity to slowly repay the debt with tax revenues, so as not to bear too much pressure.

At that time, it was considered a model of "happy cooperation".

But reality is always exciting.

The Frankish king at that time was burdened with debts due to his heavy aid to America, which led to an economic crisis in the Frankish country. As a result, a revolution broke out, the king was beheaded, and the Franks changed from a "kingdom" to a "republic".
The Americans saw that the creditor was dead, so why should they continue to pay the money back? Or should they pay it back to you who killed the creditor?

In addition, the Windsor people's ruling power in the New World was considered to be "expelled" rather than "completely liquidated", so after the situation in America was settled, it quickly chose to continue trading with the Kingdom of Windsor.

Now even the Frankish people were completely enraged. We provided manpower and weapons to help you drive out the rulers, but you started trading with the Kingdom of Windsor that blockaded us?

As a result, the general perception of America by the Franks, from the official to the private sector, quickly dropped to a freezing point.

Now, several decades later, relations between the two countries have been "normalized," but this is not because the Franks chose to "forgive," but because they had to gradually accept the reality and "let it go."

Of course there are more complicated reasons.

The simplest example is that due to the tug of war between various forces, the Franks repeatedly jumped between the "kingdom" and the "republic". Some of the nobles and descendants who were implicated, or the organizers of the failed resistance, often had to run to countries that were relatively "unfriendly" to the Frankish authorities to seek refuge or spend the rest of their lives.
As the domestic situation in Frankish territory changes, some people who were originally treated with courtesy as "refugees" may become "enemies" that everyone wants to settle accounts with in a few years, while some people who may not be welcomed at the beginning may become spokesmen for the new Frankish authorities who are sought after in a few years.

However, these people were divided into several groups and came one after another. Some of them had hatred against each other, while some did not. Some had hatred when they were in Frankish country, but no longer had hatred after they went abroad, and vice versa.
Then some people "invest", some people "are invested", some people succeed in their investments, some people fail in their investments, and some people "succeed first and fail later" or "failed before and are now considered successful".

After repeating this several times, people have become a little numb.

The script that Lina chose temporarily was a classic role in this situation - a descendant of a refugee noble who had been away from his country for many years and had no power or influence, but still had money and longed to "go home".

Wayne was shocked. To deal with the Franks, who were always considered "romantic", beauty alone was not enough?

Lina rolled her eyes at Wayne:
"He's not the real target of our operation. I don't have that much time to play with him. In order to get the information as quickly as possible, of course I have to add some seasoning. Believe me, this trick is very effective against Frank men."

Then Lina took several agents pretending to be her bodyguards, servants, and coachmen and went there in the detective agency's best carriage. The following plot was naturally about "the daughter of a fleeing noble who accidentally met her compatriots in a foreign land", and the scene of the first act was chosen to be in the restaurant that the other party had just walked into.

Of course, the rest of the people couldn't waste time watching Lina's performance. Ryan was responsible for chatting with the other party's coachman who was left alone, while Wayne and Inissa continued to check out other suspicious key order customers, looking for targets that were also worth following up.
The detectives guarding the house at the temporary base were even worse off. They had to continue scanning fingerprints from evidence. A large number of fingerprints were waiting to be sorted and archived. They then had to carefully compare them to eliminate the normal fingerprints left by the police when searching the murderer's home.

The recent "fingerprint sweep" has left a shadow on many agents, and now they prefer to wear gloves when doing anything.
When not wearing gloves, some agents began to habitually wipe the cups after drinking water outside, as if others would also locate individuals based on fingerprints in this way.

It was evening soon.
After Wayne came back, he had dinner made with the "chef's pre-made gift package" sent from the detective agency's base. Then he took a break from his busy schedule, while it was not yet time to continue investigating the bar. He was thinking about how the fast food restaurant should keep the core formula secret, while feeding the birds in the small yard of the temporary base.

After the detective agency temporarily moved in, the bird ecology around this neighborhood underwent a dramatic change.

Not only can you often see pigeons flying around, but the peregrine falcon also fights with the local corvids all day long. It must have suffered a loss before, otherwise it wouldn't be so crazy.

A bunch of crows are no match for the occasional peregrine falcon and Peter, and from time to time they collectively curse at each other on the street lights near their temporary base, making so much noise that the neighbors are now starting to support the detective agency in releasing hawks to drive them away.

As for the owl whose wing injury hasn't healed yet, it has been walking around like a Buddhist chicken recently, turning around with its hands behind its back like an old man.

Wayne had just fed the peregrine falcon until it was about 70% full when Doug came over and lowered his voice:

"Sir, based on our observations, someone seems to be monitoring the actions of our detective agency."

Wayne's address in the detective agency has changed again and again. After being led astray by Lina, most people call Wayne "Boss". Doug and Ryan, who just returned, also followed the trend and changed their address, but soon changed back to "Sir".
Now it's like a nesting doll. Outsiders call Wayne "Sir", the agents call him "Boss", and those who are more familiar call him "Sir" again, as if one is pretending to be the other.

But that's not the point. Wayne was slightly surprised. "Who is it?"

Doug used a stick to scratch the lawn in the mini yard briefly:
"There weren't many of them, and they were quite far away. The nearest surveillance point seemed to only record our entry and exit in the neighborhood, so even Connor didn't notice it when he checked it earlier.

"But the pigeons have been flying more recently and have discovered that there have always been people at these two locations. Pigeons are not a species with a strong sense of reconnaissance, and they noticed it, which means that the other party may have been there for the past few days. The agents who stayed behind also tried to check twice and confirmed that it must be the surveillance."

Since we are free now anyway, Wayne thought for a moment and said, "Then let's go over and take a look and ask who sent them here."

(End of this chapter)