Z4061 was Sophia's code name. Anyone who had done similar work knew the benefits of code names.
Sophia had been tormenting these people badly lately. Logically speaking, a charge like "apostasy" had basically become a joke in a society governed by law—hadn't even the Inquisition changed its name?
But... elections were important. In order to win over voters with religious beliefs, the relevant pressure had still been passed down.
Given Mairui Country's social character, lower levels did not necessarily have to obey every improper demand from above. However, no matter the era, there were always some especially fanatical believers.
There were such people in the relevant agencies too, and they never hid it—because having Faith meant one was trustworthy.
So their surveillance of Sophia had been fairly serious, but the arrest itself had been rather perfunctory.
The perfunctoriness generally appeared at the operational level—when the police officers carrying out the work asked what crime that person had committed, what were they supposed to say?
And Z4061 had considerable counter-surveillance awareness. She never carried a phone with her, using only payphones and borrowed phones to make calls. She was also highly sensitive to surveillance. Twice, she had used tablets to access public WiFi, then quickly discarded them afterward.
They had dispatched police three times while she was on the phone, but unfortunately, she usually ended the call within a minute and left quickly afterward. But what could they do in one minute?
Even stopping the dispatched officers from cursing would take at least half a minute, wouldn't it?
Later, another instruction came down from above, saying that Z4601 might know some processing techniques for special materials and that they were to make every effort to capture her. The people below had long since become numb—Damn it, they made up another excuse.