After several days of inquiries from various sources, although there is still no concrete evidence... after all, there were no witnesses at the time.
But according to Qiao Xi's judgment, there is a high probability that Captain America was really teleported away by the Cosmic Cube.
As for where it was transported, there is no way to tell.
Although in the original plot, the Red Skull was sent to the planet Vormir to act as a guide for another Infinity Stone, the Soul Stone, Josie thought that this Infinity Stone would not require two guides to deal with it.
Therefore, even if the two of them were teleported away together, the possibility of appearing together on Vormir is very low.
Regarding the matter of Captain America being teleported away, Josie's personal attitude was one of regret and happiness.
It’s a pity because although I and Captain America are not good friends, we are more or less acquaintances.
Fortunately, it is very simple. Although he has not yet been recognized by the Nine-Headed Council, he has actually become the leader of a Hydra branch and has become the hidden enemy of Captain America.
Although you are not afraid of the other party, it still feels a bit uncomfortable to suddenly change from a familiar person to a mortal enemy.
That's fine now.
After feeling sorry for it for a while, Qiao Xi no longer paid too much attention to this matter.
As for the Cosmic Rubik's Cube... when he truly occupies the Nine-member Council, nothing will matter.
The next day, in the valley west of Innsbruck, a city in western Austria, a luxury motorcade slowly drove into a small town called Obsteiger.
People in the town looked at the convoy with some curiosity.
Because this town is located in a remote place, the war has hardly disturbed it, and there are rarely troops or big figures coming here, so it will naturally feel very strange to see a luxury motorcade suddenly appear here.
strangeness.
Although it is only a small town, because Austria was the most elite part of the once world-class power, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the roads here are also well built, and the motorcade can easily travel through the town.
After many twists and turns, the convoy finally arrived in front of a small building with a courtyard on the northern edge of the town.
The arrival of the motorcade attracted the attention of a large dog in the yard, which immediately roared twice as a warning.
As the motorcade stopped, Josie, wearing a coat, got out of one of the cars, and following him out of the car was Ophelia, who was dressed in classical attire.
As soon as Josie got out of the car, he saw the big dog in the yard, and his eyes suddenly lit up. It was a very strong Alpine elf - the Swiss national dog, a Saint Bernard dog.
Known for guarding travelers traveling through the Alps, this large dog is loved not only in Switzerland but also in countries and regions surrounding the Alps.
Since it is a very docile dog breed, it did not make any aggressive moves when facing the uninvited guests like Qiao Xi, except barking a few times as a warning and staring at them warily.
"Is this your childhood home? It seems like it has a new owner!" Ophelia didn't pay attention to the roar of the St. Bernard dog, and asked Josie after looking up and down the small building.
"It's normal. My father sold this place before he left. As for who it was sold to, I don't know exactly." Josie replied.
Yes, this small town, this small building, is the hometown of Josie's body.
About twenty kilometers north of this town is the Bavarian town of Schwangau.
There, there are two castles facing each other across the mountain.
These are the old and new Schwann Castle where the famous King Ludwig II of Bavaria once lived.
This is why before coming to Europe, Josie suddenly had a desire for Neuschwanstein Castle.
Because when this body lived here as a child, he often rode horses to hunt in the mountains and forests on the border under the leadership of his father, and also visited the two beautiful castles.
And now, Josie is here to take over these two castles... The ownership of these two castles was originally in the hands of the Bavarian state government, but in the late World War II, Bavaria was first annexed by the Hydra Legion, and now
It was occupied by Austria, so its ownership naturally fell into Austrian hands.
During his time in Austria, Josie used a series of means to obtain the ownership of these two castles with almost no money.
But don’t think that Josie really took advantage.
It's okay to say that Hohenschwangau Castle is a completed building and can be lived in with just a little repair.
But Neuschwanstein Castle... is still an unfinished building.
At the end of the 19th century, the Bavarian king spent a full 6.2 million marks to build Neuschwanstein Castle.
That was the silver mark from the time of Frederick III (the marks at that time were divided into gold and silver), not the mark that has almost become useless paper now.
In Germany, the mark is not only a monetary unit, but also a mass unit.
1 Prussian mark is equivalent to 223 grams.
In other words, 1 mark = 223 grams of silver, which is almost four taels. If we follow the Qing Dynasty taels, it would be six taels.
So 6.2 million marks is equivalent to 37.2 million taels of silver.
At the same time, how much money did the old witch Cixi next door spend on building the Summer Palace? More than 10 million taels of silver!
In other words, Ludwig II, the king of Bavaria, was even more foolish and extravagant than Cixi.
Because of this, he was deposed by the royal family on the grounds of mental illness and died mysteriously a few days later.
When he died, due to his extravagant behavior, not only was the treasury of the entire Bavarian royal family depleted, but he also left a deficit of fifteen million marks.
It’s no wonder that until the 1960s, when Bavarians mentioned the king, they still called him crazy and mentally ill, and regarded the construction of Neuschwanstein Castle as stupidity.
However, what happened to Ludwig actually had nothing to do with Josie. What did matter was that when Ludwig died, the construction of the damn Neuschwanstein Castle had not been completed, only the outer body had been completed.
Of the 360 rooms in Neuschwanstein Castle, only 14 are actually completed.
It was not until the 1990s that the Bavarian state government began to gradually repair and improve it. However, at that time, Neuschwanstein Castle brought tens of millions of marks or euros in revenue to Bavaria every year.
And if Josie wants to complete the construction of Neuschwanstein Castle, it would not be that easy under normal circumstances without spending 18 million U.S. dollars.
Fortunately, we just received tens of thousands of free labor from General McGinnis. Wouldn't it be put to use now?
Thanks to the excellent basic education in the German region, there are many talents who know engineering, and even the most junior can be a coolie, right?
For these prisoners of war, Qiao Xi only needed to provide food and clothing, which immediately reduced the labor cost to the minimum.
However, these people are still being screened and rehabilitated in the prisoner of war camp, and it will take some time before they are sent here.
So Josie was not in a hurry to take over the castle immediately, but first came to Obsteiger, his "home", to have a look.
While Josie and Ophelia were talking, the current owner of the small building had been alarmed by the noise caused by the motorcade and the barking of the dog, and walked out of the house.