Lorelai chose a sapphire blue evening gown to match her beautiful long crimson hair. This color combination is extremely classic, but no one knew that Lorelai wasn't referencing many people with crimson hair on the planet.
The red carpet looks of Hollywood female stars - such as Isla Fisher and Jessica Chastain - are paired with extremely conspicuous and sexy flaming red lips and snow-white skin.
Lelai was sure that with this simple evening dress, she would become the center of attention at this dinner, besides the emperor.
In contrast, Countess Katarina Karkov did not spend too much time on makeup.
She carefully selected a black backless evening gown. This open-front evening gown had no fabric covering from the back to the left leg, only intertwined black ties, and the hem of the long skirt was made of translucent black tulle.
and tassels. She also used a pearl necklace to embellish her neck with a strong contrast in color, and wore long thin black swan-head gloves that reached to her elbows, and several large gemstone rings on the outside of the gloves to express her expression.
She must look like a sexy and elegant lady.
Anyone can see that Countess Katarina Karkov is more experienced in choosing clothes, perhaps partly because Lorelai's wardrobe is not that big. Katarina Karkov
The countess knows very well how she can indirectly gain power from male power holders. This is a skill she has practiced and learned since she entered adolescence. Matching clothing and jewelry is just one of the skills.
She knows very well that the field of power is a battlefield, and sometimes it is necessary to give male people in power a chance to get close to her and to her competitors. Only in this way can she gain more chips in the competition. In contrast, Lorelai, who has always used magic,
It seems naive, or much more direct. Due to the straight-line thinking in Asgardian genes and the convenience of witchcraft, Lorelai's concept only exists in the order of "meeting, charm, and surrender", and there is no Kata at all.
Countess Lina Karkov's complex and sophisticated tactics of provoking competition, prevaricating, lying, provoking competition, etc. can only be the most straightforward temptation.
This is destined that Countess Katarina Karkov will have higher power than Lorelei, but Lorelei can be closer to the emperor. The lady of the Rhine may mind it for a while, but soon she will
She knew that the emperor's arrangement for her was much better than that of Countess Katarina Karkov. After all, the two different qualities of ability and loyalty were priorities for the emperor who had very few available people today. At present,
It is said that Lorelai's qualities are far more important than Countess Katarina Karkov's abilities, especially when she has just completed a difficult task, the emperor will naturally give her a better future.
But the emperor did not pay attention to this dinner.
Stephanie Malik has conducted advance negotiations through various parts of her management, and a total of 16 negotiations took more than 50 hours to finalize all contract details. However, due to Stephanie Malik's special status, she cannot make it public
Appearance - until now, the people of the Yugoslav Federation still do not know who the Chief Minister of the Interior is - so the emperor attended the dinner just to express to the other party that the final contract was signed, that the Yugoslav Federation was willing to stamp that piece of paper, nothing more. For
To the emperor, this dinner was just a formality, but to the Yugoslav Federation, it was a representative event that showed the government's willingness to open up foreign investment after the Balkan Peninsula Unification War.
However, since there is already a large amount of foreign capital in this land, this contract only changes the cooperative relationship. In addition, many transactions are conducted privately, and the competition between multiple chaebols also needs to be kept secret. The Wallenberg family is not
The first plutocrat to surrender privately under the leadership of the conservative Hydra family, so there is no need to make a grand statement. Some superficial tacit understandings are better to be abided by when the Yugoslav Federation is too weak.
After the dinner, Lorelai and Countess Katarina Karkov returned to their respective residences in the castle. Compared to the strict house arrest that Countess Katarina Karkov suffered, Lorelai
The environment was much freer. The mechanical servants in the castle would not enter her personal space when unnecessary, nor would they point heavy explosive bombs at her when she walked out of the residence. The emperor built a for her as promised.
The cloakroom was then filled with the clothes she checked on the data pad, and a high-end custom tailor was specially hired to serve her.
Lorelei's mission was worthy of this reward. It can even be said that she drove the final nail in the Emperor's many plans and laid the foundation for all subsequent victories. The loyalty she still maintained during her time in Asgard is what makes her the final nail in the emperor's plans.
The qualities that the Emperor valued most. The Emperor did not leave Lorelei or Countess Katarina Karkov in his office bedroom as the regent joked, even though he knew Countess Katarina Karkov
She was wearing nothing under the skirt of her dress.
For some reason, Countess Katarina Karkov became bolder in more formal occasions. She even deliberately rubbed the emperor's calf with her high heels at the dinner party. She seemed to want to see the change in the emperor's expression. But she
Completely disappointed, her body could not make the emperor sway in any way. Although the emperor behaved quite gently, with a smile on his face, he did not have the aggressiveness and sacredness that others saw in the video. Instead, he seemed to be an amiable person who was willing to listen to others.
priest, but Countess Katarina Karkov could still see his attitude towards the two female companions tonight.
That look made her completely quiet after the dinner.
The emperor's eyes were like icebergs floating in the dark ocean under the eternal night. Even the colorful aurora could not illuminate the ice surface. They only exuded low temperature and lacked any excess warmth. She tried to find anything in those eyes.
Emotions, but she failed. Maybe there was emotion left in those eyes, but they were definitely not for her. She was like a passenger on a passenger ship traveling in the polar regions. When she found the iceberg, it was too late to turn, so she could only watch.
Those eyes faced fear. In contrast, Lorelai's performance at the dinner was much better. She seemed to really enjoy the attentive service and delicious food in the high-end restaurant (while being dissatisfied with the small portions of food provided by the kitchen)
. She showed due arrogance towards the Wallenberg family, making people confused about her background. Just like the Wallenberg family's initial attitude when facing the emperor, they simply could not find the emperor and Luo in this world.
Any information about Lelei.
The unknown enemy is the most terrifying, and the Wallenberg family has already realized the meaning of this sentence in their fight with the emperor. Countess Katarina Karkov also did not know Lorelei, but she still noticed that the emperor was leading
The reason for falling in love with the red-haired woman. Even though she lived in the center of power of the Yugoslav Federation, Countess Katarina Karkov still believed that the emperor was full of mystery. Every day, she could see people and things she had never seen before.
.
For example, she had never heard of Lorelai, whom the emperor called the Lady of the Rhine.
Whenever Lorelai raises a question, even if she maintains a casual attitude, even if the other party does not relax her vigilance, the other party will simply tell the truth. This is a situation that Countess Katarina Karkov cannot understand. The information is clearly
It takes many rounds of games or even the transfer of benefits to obtain it, but the Wallenberg family business representative who attended the dinner spoke out without reservation, and his companions did not even have time to stop him - every time Lorelai raised a question,
Katarina felt like her temples were like a small flame of a candle. Although it didn't hurt, the burning sensation was quite obvious. This made her subconsciously believe that Lorelei, like her, had unknown abilities that the emperor must use.
.
A certain competitive fire ignited in Countess Katarina Karkov's heart, and just as she had provoked competition in the past, an invisible rivalry broke out between her and Lorelai. No other means were needed.
, and he was not worried that whether she realized this was a trap, or that she would fall for it because of her desire for power. Therefore, the emperor returned to his manor with great relief. He still had a lot of work to complete and had no time to waste on Catalina.
On Countess Karkov.
At the same time, a Quinjet landed in Montana.
Alfonso Mackenzie stood in the cargo hold, pressing the switch and waiting for the ramp plate to be slowly lowered by the hydraulic device. It was already early in the morning, and the brilliance of the winter stars was still struggling under the horizon, threatening to pierce the curtain of darkness at any time.
Towards the sky, however, Alfonso Mackenzie and his team did not feel relaxed because of the fresh air. On the contrary, they were all very nervous. Alfonso Mackenzie himself was holding a shotgun with an ax and a handle.
gun, looking warily at the grass outside the ramp.
Daisy Johnson and Elena Rodriguez, nicknamed "Yo-Yo", stood beside him. When the ramp opened to allow one person to pass, Elena Rodriguez ran quickly
She walked out. The speed was so fast that everything around her was like a slow-motion movie in her eyes. When she reappeared with a storm and a loud noise, Alphonso Mackenzie could even smell the sweat on her body.
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"The neighborhood is safe," Elena Rodriguez said in a thick Latin accent, "I didn't see anyone."
"Maybe Colson has solved the problem." Daisy Johnson said optimistically.
"Maybe, but I won't let my guard down just like that." Alphonso Mackenzie frowned and loaded his shotgun. He couldn't tell his companions about his inner concerns because he knew that others would definitely oppose his idea -
—The contact from the lighthouse base did not proceed according to the established rules. It may be considered that it was the trouble caused by the invaders, but Alfonso Mackenzie still noticed this small detail.
During the Hydra rebellion, he survived by relying on the clues he discovered. At that time, there was Victoria Hand on the S.H.I.E.L.D. aircraft carrier, but it was he who actually organized the resistance of the loyal agents. What he faces now
The situation was similar to that during the Hydra rebellion, so Alfonso Mackenzie's nerves were extremely tense. "Yoyou" did not see the SHIELD armed personnel coming to greet him, which made him feel an ominous warning. Of course, if
If the armed men arrived at the landing site, Alfonso Mackenzie would not be able to judge the relationship between friend and foe. The current situation gave him less time to hesitate.
The landing site is empty, and they only need to go through the secret passage to return to the lighthouse base and figure out what is going on.
"Tell me, how did they defeat the genetically modified warriors?" Elena Rodriguez tied her hair tightly into a ponytail. "Agent Coulson must have some secret weapon that we don't know about. Do you know?
?”
"No, I don't know." Alfonso Mackenzie shook his head and looked at the dense bushes outside the ramp, "I don't know anything."
Perhaps Agent Phil Coulson still had some hesitation in his heart at this moment, but Melinda May killed this hesitation.
When the Quinjets landed one after another, the atmosphere in the lighthouse base became a little wrong. The list of alien robots and genetically modified warriors was leaked by someone unknown, and many agents were silently praying to get rid of the Quinjets.
It was not Alfonso Mackenzie and his team who came down. When the last Quinjet landed outside the base, Gemma Simmons, who was on duty in the control room, quietly breathed a sigh of relief - she thought Alfonso
·Mackenzie realized something was wrong with the lighthouse base - and then the sudden communication request extinguished the last hope.
A soldier from the First Secret Regiment was standing next to the computer.
The soldier motioned for Gemma Simmons to pick up the communication and pointed at her with the flashing explosion-proof concussion staff. Gemma Simmons had seen people hit by this thing. Although the explosion-proof concussion staff had a non-lethal mode switch,
But the so-called non-lethal mode is aimed at fully armed soldiers rather than ordinary people without any protective equipment. The force that even bulletproof ceramic inserts cannot resist is still too powerful for human bones. Many agents who intended to riot were killed.
After being hit, all of them, without exception, lay in the infirmary and underwent surgery for comminuted fractures. Some of the unlucky ones even suffered sequelae as a result.
"Mike?" Gemma Simmons glanced at the soldiers of the First Secret Regiment and pressed the call button, "Agent Coulson is in the base... No, we won... I don't know, Mike, we haven't
We know the purpose of the genetically modified warriors, we only know that they took a lot of 0-84 items from the warehouse. Agent Coulson is counting the lost items... Yes, I will open the channel for you, please be careful not to be caught by the local police
Found it. When the genetically modified warriors attacked here before, local residents reported the sighting of UFOs."