Chapter 373: Restlessness asking for a monthly ticket) 4800 words asking for the month
Ah Fu explained the matter in a concise and concise manner, and Catherine just listened quietly. Until the end, she concluded: "So, you guessed the Duke's return from beginning to end?"
Catherine was very disappointed. Over the years, she had received such specious information. The most egregious one was during World War II. She didn’t know where she got the information, so she found a man who was talking to Kai.
A very similar person pretends to be Kay, intending to use this trick to control Kingsman and Catherine.
Although Catherine who received the news and Kingsman of that generation also had doubts, they really went to Germany for a one in ten thousand chance. As soon as they saw the real person, they knew it was a fake. When I saw the fake
His secret was exposed from the beginning, so he skipped the recruitment process and directly let others attack him.
That time Catherine was seriously injured, and the Kingsman agents who went with her were almost wiped out.
Having been disappointed many times, she naturally became suspicious of the news. If Ah Fu hadn't just said the news about Kai, she wouldn't even be so excited.
"No, the return of the master is undisputed. You are not a Knight of the Holy Grail. You cannot understand the connection between us and the Holy Grail, nor the connection between us and the master. We can clearly feel that the master is somewhere in this world.
Corner. It's just... we don't know the exact location."
After Kai gave the Holy Grail to Lao Fu, those who received the Holy Grail's gifts kept the Holy Grail as their biggest secret. Catherine had only seen it once or twice and knew very little about the secret of the Holy Grail.
"you sure?"
"I'm sure!" Afu nodded seriously.
This made Catherine smile. For her, as long as Kai came back, it would be fine. As for where he is now, there was no rush. She had plenty of time, so she would just find it slowly. She believed that as long as Kai was still in this world,
Then he won't really never show up.
At this time, Catherine remembered what Ah Fu had said before.
"By the way, you just said that besides looking for the Duke, do you have anything else to do with me?"
"That's right, and they all have something to do with the master." Ah Fu said.
"Something related to the Duke?"
"It's not about the matter, it's about the people." Ah Fu corrected. "Speaking of which, you know both of these people."
"Who?" Catherine asked curiously. At her age, almost all her previous acquaintances were dead. The Ah Fu in front of her was one of the very few acquaintances who were still alive.
"Vampire Queen Mina and Wonder Woman Diana!"
"Them?!!" This really surprised Catherine. Mina has been in England, but because of their incompatibility, the two would not meet easily. This is nonsense, how could a nun be friends with a vampire?
They are really just acquaintances, but they have known each other for too long before they are called acquaintances. As for Diana, there are even fewer opportunities to meet. She has nothing against Diana, but the problem is
Since Kai disappeared, Diana left the human world and never came back. Even during World War II, Diana never appeared again.
So these two names are really the most familiar strangers to Catherine.
"What did they do?" Catherine asked curiously.
"This..." Ah Fu seemed to be thinking about where to start. After pondering for a moment, Ah Fu said: "Ms. Mina suddenly disappeared a few months ago, including some of her heirs. Due to the loss of Mina's
Control, the vampires under her command have gradually begun to lose control. In the past few months, vampire attacks have occurred across the UK. We and the Holy Church want to find Mina to understand what happened and why the vampires broke our agreement.
It was then that we learned that Mina and her direct descendants were missing. We used the intelligence network to find out that she had gone to the United States, but no one knew exactly what she was doing in the United States."
Mina is a relatively well-behaved vampire. In many cases, she would side with the British government. For example, during World War I and World War II, she and her heirs all contributed to the British cause. It was also because of this that the Holy Church and Kingsman
She also signed a series of treaties with Mina, allowing her vampires and humans to live peacefully in Britain.
It is also because of this that the UK is estimated to be the country with the fewest cases of vampire attacks in the world.
But Mina's sudden disappearance made Kingsman and the Church of the Holy Church feel worried. Not only because without Mina as a vampire ruler, the previous treaty with the vampires would have changes, but also because Mina's disappearance was so strange.
Well, no one knows what will happen next.
The unknown is the most worrying thing.
So Afu decided to ask Catherine, the patriarch of the Holy Church, to come out. Once Catherine and Mina got to know each other, if possible, Kingsman and the Holy Church did not really want to fall out with a vampire who got along well with Mina. After all, Mina
Na can ensure the harmonious coexistence of vampires and humans. Changing the vampire leader will bring too many variables.
Secondly, if the most unwanted situation does arise, then Catherine is the best choice to deal with Mina. Kingsman and the Holy Church are not afraid of Mina, but the cost is too high, so Catherine can deal with it.
Much better.
"What about Diana? I remember she hasn't returned to the human world for decades. What could happen to her?" Catherine could understand what Ah Fu meant, so she didn't say much. Instead, she asked about Diana.
"No, Ms. Diana returned to the human world a few years ago." Afu said with a wry smile. For these legendary figures, both Kingsman and the Holy Church feel powerless. These people are too elusive, but they are
They want to monitor them, but the problem is that they simply can't do it. Let's take Diana. She has been missing for almost a hundred years. How can they monitor them? Go to Paradise Island to monitor them? They don't even know which way the door of Paradise Island opens.
Therefore, when Diana appears in the human world, as long as she is quiet and does not cause trouble, it is really difficult to be discovered. No matter how strong Kingsman’s intelligence capabilities are, it is impossible to monitor everyone in the world all the time. Diana can be changed at will
She doesn't even need to change her appearance. It's been a hundred years, and no one knows who she is.
Even the reason why they got the news about Diana now was an accident. Wonder Woman had been in Paris before, quietly working on the Louvre Museum. She was an expert in ancient cultural relics examination, especially the history of ancient Greece.
and cultural relics, she is about to become an authority.
"Remember Ares, the God of War?"
"Wasn't he sealed? He was turned into a sculpture." Catherine naturally remembered that after Kai defeated Ares, he did not kill him, but sealed him and turned him into a marble sculpture.
"That's the problem. The sculpture is missing. To be precise, the sculpture has been swapped!"
After Ares, the god of war, was defeated and turned into a statue, it was placed in the National Museum in Athens, under the care of the Bedouins who followed Kai and the mages of Kamathaj. It was also left in Athens to punish him.
Let him repent before the destruction of Athens.
At that time, Kai did not expect that he would disappear, so he did not think there was anything wrong with this arrangement.
But as a result, Kay disappeared, and then World War II broke out. In World War II, Greece was swept by Germany. In order to prevent problems with the statue of the God of War, Kingsman and the Bedouins who stayed as guards planned to move the statue to North Africa.
He hid it, but unfortunately he was discovered by the notorious Hydra, and the statue was snatched away by the Germans.
Later, the Germans were defeated, and the statue somehow fell into the hands of the French. It was then placed in the Louvre.
At that time, both the British government and the Athens government thought about bringing the statue back, but the French refused, and even reminded the French of the importance of the statue. Since then, the French have regarded it as a treasure and kept it locked in the Louvre.
Secret treasures hidden deep in the vault.
Diana probably went to work at the Louvre because of this statue, but the statue was well-collected and could not be accessed by ordinary people. For this reason, it took Diana several years of work to gain the trust of the Louvre, allowing her to see it up close.
Observe the statue.
As a result, after looking at it, I immediately saw the problem, this thing is fake!
At that time, the staff of the Louvre were dumbfounded and thought it was Diana who was talking nonsense. However, Diana told them that this statue must not have been carved more than thirty years ago!
The Louvre was in a panic for a while, and finally confirmed that this thing was really from thirty years ago... Now the problem is big. The Louvre's collection is actually a fake!
The public did not know about this matter, but the intelligence agencies of various countries were not idle. Soon the matter was known to Kingsman. At the same time, Diana was also discovered. Kingsman had seen it with his own eyes through Ah Fu.
After Diana's own people confirmed it, it was confirmed that Wonder Woman would come to the human world again.
At the same time, Kingsman also began to go all out to find the whereabouts of the statue of Ares, the god of war. At this time, Diana suddenly participated in an exchange event with the United States at the Louvre, and she left France for the United States!
Diana's behavior was very strange. It was completely unreasonable to go to the United States to participate in some academic exchange at this time. The only possibility is that Diana thought the statue was in the United States!
"You want me to bring back the statue?"
"That's right! We hope you can bring the statue back, and if possible we also hope you can let Ms. Diana help us find the whereabouts of the owner."
"I understand. Where are the two of them now?" Catherine didn't say anything more and directly asked about the whereabouts of the two of them.
"We don't know the whereabouts of Ms. Mina yet, but we have found traces of one of her descendants, and we believe she will be found soon. We now hope that you can deal with the matter of the God of War statue and Ms. Diana."
Catherine didn't care which thing she dealt with first.
"Then where is Diana's destination on this trip to the United States?"
"Chicago!"
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Trident is the headquarters of the Strategic Homeland Defense Attack and Logistics Agency, at least on the surface. This headquarters is also the heart of SHIELD on the surface. The entire Trident building is located on the Potomac River in Washington, DC.
The small central island. The island covers an area of about one square kilometer, and all of it belongs to SHIELD. As the public headquarters of SHIELD, the number of people working in Trident Headquarters accounts for almost three of SHIELD's employees.
One part!
However, this does not mean that those who work here are all field agents. In fact, the people working in this building are some civilian personnel, scientific researchers, logistics personnel, and even ordinary electricians and cleaners, who truly perform confidential work.
Field agents, by contrast, rarely appear here.
However, the top executives of SHIELD will appear here from time to time. For example, today, Nick Fury, the director who has always been invisible, actually appeared in the headquarters building very rarely. To be honest, as the director of SHIELD, Nick Fury
Fury’s public appearances in the headquarters building are very rare. This is because he is drunk. No one knows where their director is and what he is doing every day. He is like a mist, always hiding himself in the shadows.
Invisible and intangible.
But the more this happens, the higher Nick Fury's prestige in S.H.I.E.L.D. is. The title of King of Agents is no joke. He rarely stays at the headquarters, but he knows the entire S.H.I.E.L.D. well. People can't see it.
When I saw him, I felt that every move I made was under the surveillance of this non-mainstream director.
Who is not afraid of this kind of leadership?
Taking his adjutant and secretary Maria Hill with him, Nick walked into his office. But when he opened the door, he found that someone was already inside.
Everything about Nick Fury is top secret in S.H.I.E.L.D., even the office he rarely uses. Except for himself, only people with level 10 permissions in S.H.I.E.L.D. can open it. And now, the entire S.H.I.E.L.D. has
Nick Fury is the only one with level 10 clearance.
However, Nick Fury is not surprised that someone shows up in his office, because there is another person outside SHIELD who has the same authority as him.
"Pierce, I don't think you need to block me in my office."
Alexander Pierce, the former director of SHIELD and one of the most senior agents of SHIELD, when Peggy Carter, the widow of Captain America, and Howard Stark founded the Strategic Science Corps, the predecessor of SHIELD,
He is already there.
Later, after Peggy Carter retired, Alexander Pierce took over as director, and Nick Fury was his subordinate, and they had a very good personal relationship. Later, after Pierce was promoted to the minister of the World Security Council, he recommended
Nick Fury became the new director. In the Security Council, Pierce has always played the role of mediating the relationship between SHIELD and the Security Council. If it were not for Pierce's mediation, Nick Fury's dictatorial, unscrupulous, and mysterious acting style would have
It was boycotted and suppressed by the Security Council.
Nick Fury often says that Pierce is the only person he trusts.
As for whether it is true or false, only Nick Fury himself knows.
"Nick, Nick, Nick." Pierce turned around and looked at his old friend, chanting Nick's name three times in a row. He said with a helpless face: "You are always like a kite that is out of line. If I don't pull it,
Hold the line, then only God knows where you will fly to. I know you don't like those politicians on the Security Council, and I don't like them either. But that's not why you always shirk meetings. I have left SHIELD, and I can't
I always stand on SHIELD's side when dealing with the Security Council. Those politicians don't like me doing this. Remember, I left SHIELD, and they had a hard time getting me to leave SHIELD. It's you who reports to the Security Council.
Do you remember your obligations as the director?"
Pierce is the longest-serving director of S.H.I.E.L.D., and he deserves the most credit for S.H.I.E.L.D. being able to develop to what it is today. But that’s also the case. Politicians don’t want him to stay in this position forever. It’s just a check and balance of power. It’s nothing new.
.It exists in any authority, and S.H.I.E.L.D. is no exception.
"Come on, those politicians now want you to continue to exert influence in SHIELD, right?" Nick Fury didn't care about this. His acting style is very different from Pierce, who is more like a politician than an agent. Maybe they were originally
The purpose of letting Pierce leave S.H.I.E.L.D. was to weaken Pierce's influence, but after Nick Fury became the director, they discovered that Nick Fury was more difficult to control than Pierce, so now they have changed their minds.
They have to make sure that Nick Fury doesn't control SHIELD alone.
So to this day, Pierce still has level ten authority.
"You can deal with those masters. You have always done a very good job. This is not enough for you to block me. Tell me, what do you want from me?" Just like Pierce understands Nick Fury, Nick Fury also understands it extremely well.
My old friend. The trivial matter of meeting with the Security Council is nothing at all. Pierce can do a great job.
"Okay, okay, I know I can't hide it from you." Pierce didn't deny it. He took out a piece of information from the table. "The Security Council has noticed the vampire's abnormal behavior, and they want you to handle this matter. The Security Council doesn't want to deal with it.
There's a conflict between vampires, and they don't want the public to know that vampires exist. You know, that would be a disaster. You've got to talk to those old guys in the coffins."
