Chapter 2057

No one knows what happened in the corpse cave.

The Gauls also sent people down... but no one could come out again!

This place is not actually a mysterious area. The Paris Catacombs were opened a long time ago.

Although the Paris Catacombs are an eerie place, they also have a unique charm that attracts some curious and adventurous people to explore. The first people to enter the catacombs were professionals such as architects, engineers, doctors, archaeologists, etc., who had an academic or professional interest in the place. For example, on November 16, 1787, King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette of Austria visited the catacombs in person and expressed their appreciation. Later, on April 7, 1792, French revolutionary leader Maximilian Robespierre also visited the catacombs and delivered a passionate speech there.

In addition to these celebrities, there are also some ordinary people who want to have a look at the catacombs. In order to meet the needs of the people, the Paris government decided in 1809 to partially open the catacombs to the public as a place of education and entertainment. Since then, thousands of tourists have come to the Catacombs every year to see this place filled with death and history. They went down a narrow staircase to a depth of twenty meters underground, then passed through a two-kilometer-long tunnel, and finally arrived at an area called the "Bone Pile", which is the core part of the underground tomb and the most fascinating. Shocking part. Here, visitors can see a variety of bone decorations, some are simple stacks, some have complex patterns, some are signs with words or symbols, and some are crosses or hearts made of skulls and tibias. etc. Although these bones have lost the color of life, they reveal a strange beauty that makes people lament the fragility of life and the eternity of death.

Although part of the Paris Catacombs has been opened to the public, there are still many unknown and unexplored areas. These areas are often referred to as "illegal zones" because they are not groomed or security checked, and are often locked or enclosed, prohibiting anyone from entering. However, these restrictions have not stopped some brave and curious people from exploring these areas. Known as "Cats and Mouse," they are a group of explorers and enthusiasts who love catacombs. They usually enter the catacombs through some secret and illegal entrances, and then conduct various activities there, such as tours, photography, painting, parties, performances, etc. They will also leave their own marks or messages on the walls to express their emotions and attitudes towards the place.

Cats and mice have a deep enthusiasm and awe for the catacombs. They believe that it is a mysterious and beautiful world with its own rules and culture. They will also respect and protect the place and not destroy or contaminate anything. However, their activities also bring some risks and dangers, such as getting lost, getting injured, getting arrested, etc. Therefore, they usually form small groups to help and protect each other, and they will carry some necessary equipment and items with them, such as maps, compasses, flashlights, water, food, etc. They also avoid entering the catacombs during the day or on holidays so as not to attract attention or disturb other visitors.

The streets of the Champs Elysees are the most prosperous and lively places on the ground in Paris. They are full of beautiful scenery and bustling citizens and tourists. But who would have thought that about 20 meters deep underground, there would be a very large tomb. How big is it? The total length exceeds more than 300 kilometers!

Although this tomb is more than 300 kilometers long, the area open to the public is only about 2 kilometers. Because of the complexity of the tunnel, some people once got lost in it, so for safety reasons, only 2 kilometers were opened to the public.

Because too many places are too dangerous, even people who know a lot about underground corpse caves can easily get lost when entering them.

Of course, there are many people seeking death, and every year there are still many people who sneak into unopened areas for exploration.

Therefore, there are countless disappearances every year.

As a result, the Paris police had to cordon off part of the area.

This alone cannot stop those seeking death.

But this time, the Paris government directly offered a large price to send people there, but no one dared to go.

The sky is so green... Who the hell dares?

Fortunately, there have been no large-scale casualties in Paris so far, and only a few people affected by ghosts have had accidents.

However, no one knows whether these ghosts are really harmless.

Now, Diana could not leave Gaul. She could only stay in Paris, hoping to find out what happened.

That's right, Wonder Woman is in Paris now.

She is an employee of the Louvre Museum and is a senior appraiser and restorer of ancient Mediterranean cultural relics. Going to Chicago is also a joint project between the Art Institute of Chicago and the Louvre Museum. She happened to come back to report on her work recently, and she is planning to resign.

She plans to move to Chicago altogether.

As a result, before the resignation report could be typed, something like this happened, and she couldn't leave even if she wanted to.

At this time, the French National Intelligence Coordination Committee found her.

The French Inter-Ministerial Intelligence Committee was founded in April 1989. It is the highest intelligence coordination agency in France and is directly controlled by the Prime Minister. Its main task is to determine the main goals and tasks of each intelligence agency and coordinate the actions of each intelligence agency. The committee consists of 6 members: Director of the Presidential Office, Intelligence Coordinator of the Prime Minister, Director of the External Security Bureau, Director of the Territorial Guardianship Bureau, Secretary General of the National Defense Secretariat, Director of the Intelligence Bureau of the Ministry of Defense, etc.

Although the intelligence agencies in Gaul are not as famous as Mossad, CIA and KGB, for those countries in North Africa, this agency is also a big devil-level existence!

After the end of World War II, Asian, African and Latin American countries launched a national independence and liberation movement, and the colonial system of Western countries in the world collapsed and disintegrated. Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal and other countries have almost lost their overseas colonial territories. In particular, Britain, known as the empire on which the sun never sets, lost the most important land in South Asia, which can be said to be a heavy loss. When the overseas territories of the old Western colonial empires collapsed, only France suffered the least loss. It can be said that "a centipede will not die, but it will not die", and it can still exert influence on its former colonies today.

Historically, half of the African continent was a French colony. According to a report by the International Organization of la Francophonie, it is estimated that there are 200 million Africans in 31 French-speaking countries, and it can be said that French is their first or second language. Due to the increase in the number of French-speaking people in Africa, it is expected that 700 million people will speak French by 2050. To this day, France's influence in Africa is greater than that of the United Kingdom, the United States, and China. It controls the economies of too many African countries and has the largest number of troops stationed in Africa. In the past few decades, when most African countries were in turmoil, it was not the United Nations peacekeeping force that was sent to mediate the situation, but the French legion wearing a red hat. Therefore, France is also nicknamed "African Grandma". In recent years, although France has abolished its military bases in Africa, this is only a superficial phenomenon, and the French will not really withdraw from Africa. If France weakens its military forces in Africa too much, it means giving up the space for action it has occupied. From the military actions that have taken place in Chad, Mali and other countries in the past few years, it can be seen that no matter which political faction comes to power, the French government's "new interventionist" strategy towards Africa will not change in the slightest. What's more, today Africa has become an important partner for Western countries and emerging economies to seek energy and cooperation.

French media once published an article saying that France has economic interests in Africa that cannot be ignored, and the most "strategically valuable" one is the axial mine invested and developed by the French nuclear power giant Areva Group in Niger. As we all know, nuclear power accounts for the highest proportion of power generation in France, reaching 70%. Uranium ore is needed to operate nuclear power plants, and uranium ore from Mali, Niger, Chad and other African countries meets one-third of the raw material supply for French nuclear power. In order to ensure its own energy security and interests from being damaged, France will certainly not and cannot give up its influence in Africa. France believes that there is a crisis arc from Mauritania in Africa through West Asia to Central Asia. On the one hand, natural resources on this arc It is rich, but also contains potential factors of instability. The French prepared for a rainy day and made preparations very early, creating a defense line of Abu Dhabi-Djibouti-Reunion Island-Crosse Islands-Kerguelen Island, and French military bases were built in these areas. Not only did it drive a "wedge" into the oil-rich Gulf region, but it also echoed with the French garrisons deployed in the hinterland of the African continent, enabling it to take military actions in multiple directions such as the Mediterranean, West Africa, East Africa and the Indian Ocean.

So the Gauls' intelligence system is still quite powerful, but France has never been very prominent in this regard.

The fact that Diana is Wonder Woman... In fact, many Similar organizations all know about it.

This is not a particularly secret secret.

She doesn't wear a mask. Is it true that someone can change clothes and not be recognized? (I remember when I was very young, when I watched Superman cartoons and TV series, Superman changed clothes and wore glasses, and people could not recognize him. We kids complained about this... How could anyone be so stupid? I guess DC also thought this was too stupid, so they came up with a new setting, that is, Superman's glasses have special abilities)

So after sending several groups of people into the underground corpse cave and none of them returned, the Gauls decisively sought external help! Apart from anything else, the Gauls have always been flexible!

Gaul People have a complicated view of Wonder Woman.

Because according to the nationality on her passport, Wonder Woman should be considered French... After the end of World War I, Wonder Woman actually lived in seclusion on Paradise Island. She came out of Paradise Island after World War II.

At that time, she settled in France.

Because in terms of the social atmosphere at that time, France was the most developed.

Many people don’t know that France was the first country to support black-white marriage. Although dividing people into different species does make people question the advantages and survival ability of some mixed-race populations, French pluralists are not like their American counterparts. Under certain conditions, they still support black-white marriage.

The consensus that whites are naturally superior to blacks and mulattos seems to be based on the conclusion that intermarriage should be prohibited, and in the United States, it is generally prohibited or at least strongly condemned by society. However, a considerable number of French believers in scientific racism in the mid-19th century supported black-white marriage, believing that such marriage was appropriate and necessary in a colonial environment where whites were always a minority. They insisted that intermarriage would help improve the overall quality of the population.

Americans believed that mulattos combined the worst of both races, with bad blood far outnumbering good blood, while French scientific racists believed that the superior white blood would inevitably win the competition, making mulattos closer to whites than blacks in temperament and ability. In the 19th century, ethnologists and racial theorists in both countries believed in biological genetic determinism and the inherent differences between "different species of human beings." However, only American scientific racists generally believed that their beliefs required the maintenance of racial purity through the degradation of blood and the absolute prohibition of racial marriage. The belief that racial traits were permanent and unchangeable as characteristics of different species of people was challenged by the rise of evolutionary theory in the late 19th century. Different species evolved through a long process of natural selection; in the United States, this Darwinian conception proved compatible with the naturalistic idea of ​​a racial hierarchy. Even if humans had a common origin a million years ago, the evolutionary process would eventually produce huge differences, resulting in species with hierarchical characteristics, according to the new scientific racists. Racial Darwinism could criticize racial marriage as well as the old-school polygenetic racial theory, claiming that racial marriage weakened a population in its "struggle for survival", but it also had more convincing scientific evidence.

In France, Darwin's mechanical theory of evolution by natural selection was not accepted until the 20th century. However, France had a native evolutionary theory - Lamarckian evolution, which held that acquired traits could be inherited. People can also use it to speak in favor of racial hierarchy, even if they may not be able to speak in favor all the time, at least it can help racial hierarchy for a long time in the future. However, although the opposition to racial marriage in French ethnological thought is getting stronger and stronger, it has not prevented or hindered many French men who left their homeland for the colonies to marry indigenous women and give birth to mixed-race children. During the same period, French colonies were much more tolerant of interracial concubinage than British colonies, not only tolerant, but even encouraging.

The French have always done a good job in this regard.

So Diana had always lived in France before.

But life is life, Diana basically never acted as Wonder Woman in France, but when she went to the United States, she immediately became Wonder Woman.

This made the French very unhappy...