《The Final Story》D. F. Lau

14、Chapter 5

　　Gemini was a famous building locating in the east of the city. At this moment, its outstanding vitreous cover was shining brightly under the sun in the high noon which reflects harsh light making people hard to face up. It is headquarter of East US Crime Administration ---- Center of State Police Staion.
　　1:50 PM, Anton and his new colleagues were waiting in the meeting room of 17th floor for the arrival of delegations from headquarter to announce the establishment of the special group.
　　This time guys like Anton were transferred here as to fill in an independent department. Anton remembered the words of leaders of internal affairs bureau and laughed.
　　It was said that headquarter valued greatly on the special group. The chief had directly clinched the establishment and all the leadership of the special group were designated personally by superiors.
　　In the final analysis, there was no organizational system, no organization or sole duty leaders in this special group so it was may be a testing apparatus. The so called aim was said to focus on the grand cases and urgent cases, but except gathering a crowd of bureaucrats they the middle- leveled talents transferred were the ones who took the response.
　　The only advantage was that there’s chance to see some invisible men who could not be seen everyday that could be profitable to get promoted. But to Anton, he never paid too much attention on this. His smooth career life he never had an eminence to help him out, on the opposite on every grade there were mounts of fops to eye with hostility and never expected to fall on his head.
　　There was Tower A and Tower B in Gemini, where upper than 18th floor belonged to those superiors or so-called invisibles that even took another elevator and hardly can be seen in common days.
　　Anton could imagine those bureaucrats were walking forward to this side of the corridor all through the Gemini in a long row after coming out of the very elevator.
　　2:00 PM, the gate of the meeting room was opened on time, a long row of crowds moved in single file then finally stood on the front of the stage.
　　While someone began to give a statement, all the colleagues of Anton’s stood up and clapping hands.
　　Anton followed to clap hands and causally looked those guys up and down: on the front were several paunchy ones, in the middle a tall bald guy showing some sort of mighty followed by a shorter gray-haired man. At this moment, he found at the last of this row a familiar face: but shorter hair, a little elder than yesterday night but looked more energetic in the daylight.
　　Anton was in a shock, was he the one? One second he fell in to doubt, he had never thought he would met that boy—Jimmy.
　　People in the meeting room were all in uniform no matter police officers like Anton or those bureaucrats except Jimmy who wore a dark blue suit with ID card hanging on the chest hearing leaders’ statement while watching over the crowd with a smile.
　　However that pair of profitless eyes were turning on him without any avoidance, and just smiled to him without any special meaning but made him know that he had recognized him too.
　　The hosting officer was introducing one by one, what was his name? Rene? What his title? Anton didn’t hear it clearly only enthusiastic clapping.
　　After two officers’ statement, it’s Jimmy’s turn to be the second, no, Rene’s turn. His voice was light but the tone was soft while always right to the point even into everyone’s deep heart.
　　Rene’s statement was simple, only several sentences, nothing more than that he would offer service from administration related view and any problem could let him know at anytime.
　　This time Anton got the idea that Rene was the executing manager associating one of the paunchy superiors in charge of all the cases.