Chapter 240 The whereabouts of the golden apple (6,000 words, please subscribe in full!)
Although Perkins didn't know what Bai Jue was, let alone what kind of power Bai Jue had, her intuition as a woman told her that the Bai Jue that Russell mentioned was definitely not weak in strength.
In addition to Bai Jue, she is also very interested in the strengthening serum Russell mentioned.
Although the enhanced serum produced by Octopus Monster is currently only sold to the military, Perkins has heard of the enhanced serum produced by Octopus Monster Laboratory.
The strengthening serum, which costs up to five million US dollars, can definitely bring considerable strengthening to people even if you think about it with your toes.
Although the military spends money lavishly, its bosses are not fools.
"Since you have no objection, let's start now."
After saying that, Russell used the "Categorical Command" of the King's Serum and called a White Zetsu possessed by a North American gray wolf to the office.
When the North American gray wolf came to the office, Perkins had a puzzled expression on his face.
But soon, she knew why the North American gray wolf came to the office.
After arriving at the office, the North American gray wolf first nodded to Russell, then turned to look at Perkins.
While looking at Perkins, white tentacles like octopus tentacles emerged from the body of the North American gray wolf.
This isn't the first time Perkins has seen these white tentacles.
She had already seen him once when Russell was healing her in the interrogation room yesterday.
These white tentacles of different thicknesses emerged from the North American gray wolf and immediately rushed towards Perkins.
Then, it possessed Perkins.
In just two or three seconds, this Bai Jue completed its possession.
After being no longer possessed by Bai Jue, the North American gray wolf in the office instantly returned to its wild nature, baring its teeth, making low sounds, and looking at Perkins and Russell with sharp eyes.
Neither Russell nor Perkins paid attention to the North American gray wolf now.
For ordinary people, a wild North American gray wolf is fatally dangerous.
But to them, this not-so-small North American gray wolf is no different from a husky.
"Wait a minute and go to the unmanned factory controlled by No. 3. He will help you arrange for the injection of enhanced serum."
Russell said to Perkins.
"good!"
Perkins replied quickly.
"You can leave now and take this North American gray wolf down with you."
Although he is just an ordinary North American gray wolf, Russell does not waste anything.
This was something he bought from the black market specifically for Bai Jue to possess.
Even if you can't use it now, you will definitely be able to use it in the future.
"Um!"
Perkins nodded, raised his right hand, and a white tentacle emerged, binding the North American gray wolf in front of him.
Then, he left the office with the North American gray wolf, which had no resistance at all.
After Perkins left the office, Russell came to the open-air balcony of the office, lay down on the sofa without saying a word, and began to receive the nourishment of the sun.
While receiving the nourishment of the sun, he thought for a moment about what he needed to deal with next.
The Assassin Brotherhood and the Pieces of Eden, Winston's seat at the high table, Karma Taj's magic learning, and Peter's press conference to join Zhenglian.
By the way, there is also the Chitauri invasion that will happen at some point.
Although there seem to be quite a lot of things, none of them are truly urgent.
Whether it's the Assassin Brotherhood and the Pieces of Eden, or helping Winston get a seat at the high table, it's not a particularly urgent matter.
Dealing with these things is more to add some fun to your ordinary life.
Relatively speaking, Peter's joining Zhenglian is more serious.
But this is also the easiest thing to deal with. Just ask to arrange a press conference on the 3rd.
After lying on the sofa on the open balcony for more than an hour, he got up and stood up.
Then, it flew towards the octopus monster headquarters.
After returning to the office, he first ordered No. 3 to contact major news media to prepare for the press conference for Peter to join Zhenglian.
Then, he called in the female secretary Ai Li, who had blond hair and twin tails.
After half a day's rest, his worldly desires finally returned to normal levels.
While Ai Li hasn't gotten off work yet, he plans to play flying chess with Ai Li, whose hairstyle has been changed into twin ponytails.
Although it's just a matter of changing the big waves into twin ponytails, I have to say that the change in hairstyle will bring a completely different feeling.
You are still the same person, but this time playing Ludo with Ellie is obviously more exciting than yesterday.
More than an hour later, after finishing playing Ludo, Russell and Ally went to the bathroom next to the office to take a mandarin duck bath together.
Just like yesterday, Ellie, who was originally wearing black stockings, left the office with bare legs again.
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An ordinary residential building in Queens, New York.
Callum came here alone wearing casual clothes.
Then, he took the elevator to the top floor and pressed the doorbell of one of the houses.
After waiting for a few seconds, the door opened.
A black male opened the door.
After taking a look at Callum, the male black man turned around and returned to the house without saying anything.
Callum followed the male black man in, closed the door, and came to the living room.
In the not-so-spacious living room, there are three computers, running three Assassin's Creed games that have been released.
"Have you cleared these three Assassin's Creed games now?"
Callum asked the three people in the living room.
"We have already passed the level, and the result is even worse than we imagined."
The black man named Musa was the first to answer.
In addition to Musa, Nathan and Ling in the living room also nodded.
Musa, Nathan, Ling, like Callum, are all descendants of Roman Assassins who escaped from Abstergo Industries' Project Sophia laboratory.
Although they finally regained the Golden Apple from Sophia's father, Allen, the owner of Abstergo Industrial Pharmaceuticals, they are still facing an extremely embarrassing problem.
There are only four of them in the Roman Assassin Brotherhood.
The Assassin Brotherhood, which was once comparable to the Knights Templar, split into dozens or twenty different branches.
The orthodox Roman Assassins of the Assassin Brotherhood are now in such dire straits that there are only four of them.
Although Callum now has a golden apple in his hand, their current power is too small to compete with the Templars.
Therefore, Callum took up the idea of becoming a famous killer such as Perkins.
Although famous killers like Perkins did not comply with the recruitment rules of the Assassin Brotherhood, at this time, Callum could only make do with them.
It is better to brainwash killers who already have superb killing skills into assassins who meet the Brotherhood's standards than to recruit ordinary people and train them again.
Let’s not talk about Callum, they don’t have that much time now.
Even if they had it, the various resources needed to train assassins from scratch are not something they can handle now.
Therefore, they can only use some unconventional methods.
"Although the information revealed in the game is not completely accurate, it is basically certain that the person who provided this information to the game manufacturer is definitely an insider."
Musa said seriously.
"Find a way to find the person who provides information to the game manufacturer, and put other things aside first."
"In addition, when looking for this person, be careful of the Knights Templar. They may have discovered this earlier than us."
Callum said to the three Musas.
"What are you going to do with Russell? Although he is not the manager of the Continental Hotel in New York, if he wants to intervene, even if we have the golden apple, we will never be able to stop him."
Nathan, the white male standing next to Musa, said slowly.
"Russell, I will find a way to solve it. You first find the person who provides information to the game manufacturer. I will also handle the high table."
Although Callum is the last descendant of the four Roman Assassins to be caught in the Sophia Project laboratory, because his ancestor is Aguilla, all three Musa instinctively regard him as their leader.
"Then Russell and the high table will be left to you. Moussa and I will leave for France tonight, and Ling will stay to help you."
Nathan continued.
"No, Ling will go with you. The Knights Templar's power in Europe is obviously stronger than here. It will be safer for you to act together."
Callum rejected Nathan's suggestion and said slowly.
Although one more person means more strength, Callum knew very well that in front of the monster-like Russell, even if they had hundreds more people, it might not be useful.
In this case, it is better to let Ling and Nathan Moussa act together.
"Okay, then you should pay more attention to your own safety." Nathan said slowly.
After dealing with traces in the room that might reveal their whereabouts and identities, Callum and his group left the room.
This is their temporary rental residence, and they rent it under false identities.
However, due to the caution of the assassins, they still dealt with traces in the room that might reveal their identity and actions.
Caution is the boat!
Especially when you are against an organization like the Knights Templar.
When Callum and others decided to split into two teams, Russell, who was located in the octopus headquarters office, also received the report from No. 3.
What No. 3 is reporting now is not about the investigation of the Assassin’s Creed game publisher, but about the invasion of the New York branch of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Although SHIELD has trained many professionals, it even has its own agent academy.
But in the field of network security, the professionals recruited and trained by SHIELD are obviously no match for No. 3.
It only took half a day for Number 3 to forcefully break through the firewall of SHIELD's New York branch, invade their core database, and find some information about the Pieces of Eden.
In SHIELD's database, No. 3 found information about Golden Apple No. 3 and Golden Apple No. 5.
Of course, in SHIELD's records, these two golden apples are No. 1 and No. 2, because they only know about the existence of these two golden apples now.
However, Russell still followed his own habits and called them Golden Apple No. 3 and Golden Apple No. 5.
SHIELD named these two golden apples No. 1 and No. 2. That is SHIELD's business.
He would not call the two golden apples No. 1 and No. 2 like SHIELD did.
Golden Apple No. 3 is now kept in the White House.
SHIELD doesn't know the specific location of the White House.
As for Golden Apple 5, it is now stored in NSNA, which is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States.
Just like Golden Apple 3, SHIELD also doesn't know where Golden Apple 5 is located in NSNA.
Although I don’t know the specific locations of Golden Apple 3 and Golden Apple 5.
However, S.H.I.E.L.D. has gathered some information about the Golden Apple's abilities.
For example, Golden Apple No. 3 in the White House has the effect of creating illusions and controlling human minds.
In addition to the abilities possessed by Golden Apple 3, Golden Apple 5 can also bring mankind technology that surpasses the current era.
Although these two golden apples are in the hands of American officials, judging from the intelligence collected by SHIELD, they are very interested in these two golden apples.
Judging from the internal information obtained on the 3rd, SHIELD has sent agents to sneak into the White House and NSNA more than once, trying to find these two golden apples.
However, so far, SHIELD has still not been able to find the exact location of these two golden apples.
In addition to the information about Golden Apple No. 3 and Golden Apple No. 5, No. 3 also found some information about the Assassin Brotherhood and the Knights Templar from SHIELD's database.
Abstergo Industrial Pharmaceuticals!
Although SHIELD has not taken action against the Knights Templar, it is obvious that they have done a lot of research on the Knights Templar and know that Abstergo Industrial Pharmaceuticals is a shadow company formed by the Knights Templar.
Not only that, SHIELD also investigated the internal structure of the Knights Templar.
Grand Master, Inner Sanctum, Outer Templars, Guardians and Lords of the Cross, Council of Elders, Black Cross...
While Russell browsed the SHIELD investigation materials, he compared them with the memories in his mind.
Although he has not yet come into contact with the Knights Templar, judging from the information investigated by SHIELD, the Knights Templar in this world are not much different from the one in his memory.
Now that the Knights Templar have been investigated, SHIELD will certainly not let go of the investigation into the Assassin Brotherhood.
But compared with the information about the Knights Templar, the information about the Assassin Brotherhood is obviously much less.
S.H.I.E.L.D. only found out that the Assassin Brotherhood had existed at least in more than 400 BC, and had operations in the Roman era, the Middle Ages, the Italian Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution and other periods.
Not only that, S.H.I.E.L.D. also found out that the Assassin Brotherhood now has many branches all over the world.
For example, the Paris Assassin Brotherhood, the Egyptian Assassin Brotherhood, the Persian Assassin Brotherhood, the Greek Assassin Brotherhood, the British Assassin Brotherhood and other branches.
Although SHIELD found a lot of information about the Assassin Brotherhood, it was limited to this.
SHIELD has not investigated any of the more confidential information.
In fact, you can't blame SHIELD for this.
Compared with the Templars, the Assassin Brotherhood is not only more secretive, but also has fewer personnel, and there are no shadow companies like Abstergo Industrial Pharmaceuticals.
Even if SHIELD wanted to conduct a detailed investigation into the Assassin Brotherhood, it could not find a suitable target.
Through investigations into the Knights Templar and the Assassin Brotherhood, S.H.I.E.L.D. learned of the existence of the Pieces of Eden and also knew that the Golden Apple was one of the Pieces of Eden.
SHIELD seems to have done a lot of research on the Assassin Brotherhood and the Templars, but there is absolutely no information Russell wants.
Golden Apple No. 3 and Golden Apple No. 5 are in the White House and NSNA respectively, and he also knows this information.
However, like SHIELD, he does not know the specific locations of Golden Apple 3 and Golden Apple 5.
He originally thought that SHIELD, which had a mysterious collection of all kinds of magical items, would know the specific whereabouts of one or two Pieces of Eden.
However, it turns out that he overestimated S.H.I.E.L.D.
In terms of intelligence, SHIELD doesn't know as much as he does.
At least he knew Callum had a golden apple in his hand.
Although this golden apple is not any of the golden apples 1 to 6, there is no doubt that the golden apple in Callum's hand is also one of the Pieces of Eden.
If he remembered correctly, the golden apple in Callum's hand was called "Aguilar's Apple of Eden", and its previous owners included Mohammed XII, Thomas de Torquemada, Aguilar
Lal de Neja, Christopher Columbus, Alan Rikin, Callum Lynch.
Among them, Alan Riggin, the boss of Abstergo Industrial Pharmaceuticals, should be the one with the shortest ownership time.
Alan Riggin only owned it for a few days before he was killed by Callum in full public view. He lost the golden apple and his own life at the same time.
After browsing the information obtained from the SHIELD New York branch's internal database on the 3rd, Russell turned off the holographic screen in front of him and thought seriously.
First of all, there is no need to consider Golden Apple No. 1 and Golden Apple No. 4.
Golden Apple No. 1 has been destroyed. As for Golden Apple No. 4, its current whereabouts are unknown. No one knows where it is.
The last owner of Golden Apple No. 4 was the famous head of state.
After the death of the Führer, Golden Apple 4 disappeared.
Then, although Golden Apple 3 and Golden Apple 5 know their approximate locations, it is not easy to find them.
If it were easy, SHIELD would have found these two golden apples in the White House and NSNA.
The four golden apples No. 1, No. 3, No. 4, and No. 5 are either missing, damaged, or their specific locations are not known, so they are not suitable targets.
After excluding these four golden apples, the only ones that are easier to attack are the "Aguilar's Apple of Eden" in Callum's hand, and Golden Apple No. 2 in the hands of the Knights Templar.
Of course, in addition to these two golden apples, Cassandra, known as one of the pioneers of the "Assassin Brotherhood", also has eight golden apples in her hands.
Cassandra, born in 458 BC, was nicknamed Falcon and Zephyr.
She was the granddaughter of King Leonidas of Sparta, the daughter of Myrrine and the sister of Alexios.
His adoptive father was the Spartan general Nikolaos, and his biological father was the ancient Greek scholar Pythagoras.
With the blessing of the Scepter of Hermes given by her father Pythagoras, she was able to overcome the laws of nature and survive for more than two thousand years without changing her appearance.
Russell recalled Cassandra's information in his mind, and then decisively gave up the idea of looking for Cassandra.
The eight golden apples in Cassandra's hand have most likely been destroyed.
Russell did not intend to waste time looking for Cassandra before he was sure whether Cassandra still had the golden apple.
Unless he wants the Scepter of Hermes in Cassandra's hand, he will go looking for Cassandra hidden in the lost city of Atlantis.
But now, he is not particularly eager for the Scepter of Hermes.
So instead of spending time looking for Cassandra, it would be better to snatch it directly from Callum or the Templars.
After all, Callum and the Templars are much easier to find.
After thinking for a while, Russell decisively gave up thinking.
forget about it!
It’s useless to think so much!
Since it is now certain that Callum has a golden apple in his hand, let’s just start with Callum.
As for the other Pieces of Eden, we’ll talk about them when we have the chance.
"No. 3, check Callum's current whereabouts."
Russell ordered No. 3.
"Okay, sir!"
No. 3 replied immediately.
Although Callum has mastered the "invisibility technique" that can reduce his own presence, the Brotherhood's invisibility technique has little effect on No. 3 who has no real perception.
The artificial intelligence doesn't care whether you cast invisibility or not.
As long as you are captured by surveillance equipment, it will be useless even if you are truly invisible.
After all, in addition to ordinary monitoring equipment, there are also infrared monitoring equipment.
After giving instructions to No. 3, Russell had no intention of staying in the office.
This day's work is almost over here.
As for the rest, we’ll talk about it tomorrow!
After confirming that there was no smell or trace of Ally's perfume on his body, Russell flew out of the window and began to return to the apartment.
the next day.
After having a loving breakfast made by Diana in the apartment, he came to the office.
The first thing to solve today is the press conference for Peter to join Zhenglian.
wrong!
To be precise, it was the press conference for Spider-Man to join Zhenglian.
Yesterday, on the 3rd, I had already contacted major media outlets in New York City and sent invitations to the press conference.
Ten o'clock in the morning.
Peter and Gwen, wearing Spider-Man suits and Spider-Woman suits, swung their webs to the Octopus Headquarters and arrived at the conference room where the press conference was held.
Under the auspices of Russell, the press conference for Peter to join Zhenglian officially began.
Although this is not the first time he has hosted a press conference, the reporters at the scene still showed puzzled expressions after seeing that the new member of Zhenglian was a child.
Although Peter was wearing a hood now, his childish voice betrayed him.
Just by listening to his voice, you can tell that he is not old at all and is most likely underage.
Russell was certainly prepared for this early on.
Otherwise, he wouldn't let Peter introduce himself in a normal voice.
After a eloquent explanation, Spider-Man's underage matter was perfectly resolved by him.
Of course, the reporters at the scene were not idiots either.
It is impossible for them to believe whatever he says.
However, after he brought out the ever-conquering political correctness banner of anti-discrimination, the reporters at the scene tacitly chose to shut up.
No one has ever said that minors can't become superheroes.
In fact, the most recognized superheroes are those underage.
After settling the issue of Spider-Man being a minor, the rest fell into place smoothly.
Spider-Man officially joined Zhenglian and became the seventh registered member of Zhenglian.
Russell, Hulk, Gwen, Kara, Godzilla, Grendel, Peter, although there are not many members in the Zhenglian, the members are not generally complex.
Compared with the Fantastic Four, a superhero team also based in New York, Zheng Lian appears to be even more abnormal in terms of its members.
Hulk won't talk about it, after all, the stone man doesn't look like a normal person.
But in addition to Hulk, Zhenglian also has Godzilla and Grendel, two undoubted non-human beings.