Chapter 249: New Identity (Please Collect, Recommend, and Vote for Me) 6800 Words Combined Chapter, Please Vote for Me!

When the thirteen Kingsman agents arrived, the soul fire of the Holy Grail had begun to shrink gradually, but even so, they could still feel that the Holy Grail was different. This Holy Grail had been in Kingsman's secret base for decades, and it was it that created generations of Kingsman's "Round Table Knights" agents.

So the agents all have a very mysterious connection with the Holy Grail. These agents are very clear that before today, the Holy Grail was inevitably weakening, or in other words, the power given to the agents by the Holy Grail was getting weaker and weaker. Compared with the first generation of "Round Table Knights", the current agents are much weaker.

This is also one of the reasons why Alfred is anxious. He knows very well that the Holy Grail has been away from its owner for too long. When Kai left the Holy Grail, he never thought that he would be missing for so many years, so there was not much power left in the Holy Grail.

It is very difficult for the Holy Grail to persist until now without Kai's manipulation.

Alfred is almost desperate for Kai's return, and it is because of this that Alfred agreed to Valentine to participate in that crazy plan.

But now, everything is different.

Alfred looked at the Holy Grail excitedly. He could clearly feel that the Holy Grail was beginning to revive. A powerful soul power was surging in the Holy Grail.

The other agents also breathed a sigh of relief. Nowadays, it has become increasingly difficult for Kingsman agents to recruit new members. Kingsman used to recruit new members only from the aristocracy, but as the Holy Grail became weaker and weaker, they could only expand the scope of recruitment so that they could recruit more suitable personnel. After all, the power of the Holy Grail was getting weaker and weaker, and the number of people who could be transformed was getting smaller and smaller, and their tolerance rate would also become lower.

So the selection of new members became extremely cautious.

More than a decade ago, Harry Hart, codenamed Galahad, began to develop new selection criteria and tried to select qualified candidates for agents from the common people. Although that attempt ended in failure, Galahad still did not give up. This time, after the death of the agent codenamed "Lancelot", Galahad's candidate was still a commoner-Eggsy.

Eggsy was originally a street gangster. Eggsy's father was the first commoner candidate selected by Harry Hart. Later, in another operation, Eggsy's father died to save Harry. In order to compensate, Harry recommended Eggsy.

Eggsy was recommended by Harry Hart and had a chance to turn from a sparrow into a phoenix, but he needed to go through the most dangerous test in history to truly join this modern knight organization that saves the world. Before that, Alfred and Harry had been arguing over whether to accept Eggsy.

Alfred is like his grandfather, Old Alfred. They are both firm supporters of aristocratic superiority. Alfred always believed that a gangster like Eggsy could never understand and inherit the great spirit of chivalry, and his entry into Kingsman would only deviate Kingsman from its original intended track.

But today, Alfred no longer has the position to question Eggsy.

He himself did not expect that he would betray Kingsman one day...

Today, these top agents gathered not only because of the mutation of the Holy Grail, but also because of Alfred's treatment.

As the leader of Kingsman, Alfred actually betrayed his rightful position and planned to cleanse the entire world with that black madman!

Originally, according to Kingsman's style, Alfred's betrayal could not have a second outcome, only death!

But now things are not that simple.

First, Alfred did not cause any substantial harm. He just agreed to participate in Valentine's plan, but the substantive action has not yet begun. Killing Harry was originally their first cooperation, but at the last minute, Alfred recalled Harry. Even his betrayal was discovered because Alfred surrendered himself, otherwise other people would never know.

Second, Alfred's identity is too special. He is one of the founders of Kingsman, and he also has an extraordinary relationship with the adult Kingsman serves.

That's right, in addition to maintaining world peace, Kingsman's other purpose is to serve the King of Knights - Kai! In a sense, the King of Knights Kai is Kingsman's master, and they all exist only to serve Kai.

Although this has never been achieved in Kingsman for decades. But this is indeed Kingsman's purpose.

Even relying on this point in the early years, Kingsman avoided being annexed and controlled by the British government. →Later, when Kingsman grew stronger, the British government had no choice but to let Kingsman do whatever he wanted for various reasons. This also made Kingsman the world's largest independent private intelligence agency.

In the past, Kingsman could indeed ignore Kai and deal with Alfred directly, but now it is no longer possible. Because the changes in the Holy Grail show that Kai, who had been missing, has returned.

So the treatment of Alfred needs to be cautious.

Before coming, the existing eleven top Kingsman agents had held a meeting to discuss the treatment of Alfred. (Kingsman's top agents, including Alfred, codenamed "Arthur", total thirteen. Because the agent codenamed Lancelot died, the successor has not officially taken office, and Alfred, codenamed Arthur, is the person involved, so there are only eleven agents now)

After urgent consultations, a group of people finally came to the conclusion that Alfred's status should be revoked, but no substantial punishment should be imposed on him.

Because there is no way to punish him at all.

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Now that all the top personnel of Kingsman are concentrated here, in addition to dealing with Alfred, there is another thing to deal with, which is to determine the route after Kingsman.

Looking at the glittering Holy Grail, Galahad Harry, who officially became the leader of Kingsman, asked Alfred on the side with a complicated expression: "Alfred... what should we do next?"

Although Alfred's status was nominally abolished, Alfred has led Kingsman for decades. Even if he made wrong actions before, his status within Kingsman is still irreplaceable.

"First... deal with Valentine! I know all his plans and hiding places. You just need to lead people to deal with them. I don't need to arrange this." Naturally, Alfred can't mess with Valentine anymore. Together, he has more important things. So I sold Valentine very simply.

"What we have to do next is to find the Duke! No matter what the cost!"

Harry was not Alfred, and he would not understand Alfred's admiration for Kay.

So he didn't quite agree with Alfred asking Kingsman to go all out to find Kai. Kingsman's power should be used to protect the world, rather than wasting power to find people. Besides, with Kingsman’s intelligence capabilities, it’s easy to find someone, so why bother doing anything at all costs?

However, he did not speak out against Alfred because it was not necessary. Now it's not like Alfred said anything, they must really do it. Don’t forget, he’s now the leader of Kingsman.

"So what about Lancelot's replacement?" This is what everyone present is most concerned about.

According to Kingsman tradition, when a vacancy occurs for a top Kingsman agent, other Kingsman agents are required to provide a candidate, and the vacancy is created among these candidates. This is not just a new problem for Kingsmen, it also involves a bit of a power struggle. The recommended candidate is elected, which also means that the recommender has greater power within Kingsman.

This is inevitable, as long as it is an organization composed of people, it cannot avoid this kind of thing.

Now that Galahad is the leader, both publicly and privately, he hopes that Eggsy, whom he recommends, can become the new Kingsman. But the power of tradition is still very strong within Kingsman, at least others are not very in favor of Eggsy taking over as 'Lancelot'.

And Eggsy had already failed in previous tests. ;The candidate for ‘Lancelot’ has been decided. Now that Galahad once again proposed to let Eggsy take over, it is naturally impossible for others to agree.

It is also because of this that Galahad hopes Alfred can support him.

"It should be two... Galahad, after all, I am retired." This was Alfred's answer, and his attitude was already obvious. He did not agree with Galahad overturning the original arrangement, which would make others dissatisfied. At the same time, he also gave Alfred a chance. His retirement left a position vacant in Kingsman, and Galahad could let Eggsy inherit the position.

Galahad was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "I understand. I will arrange it."

He understood that this was Eggsy's last chance, so he decided to slow down and wait for Eggsy to train for a few years before fighting for the final position.

No one else objected to this. This was something recognized by the two previous leaders, and there was no need for them to forcefully oppose it.

"Okay, it's all said and done. I still say the same thing, we need to find Mr. Kai as soon as possible!"

Kingsman never expected that although the Holy Grail showed that Kai had returned, they still did not receive any news from Kai in the next few years.

So where did Kai go?

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The time came to 2008.

Puerto Rico, San Juan City, at the U.S. Army Fort Buchanan Army Base. Kai is leading his team to repair in the base.

This is the fifth year since Kai returned from the lost world. Back then, Kai followed Professor George's expedition team to South America to find the legendary prehistoric world. Not to mention the result, let them find it. This prehistoric world existed on a plateau in the Amazon rainforest of South America.

When Kai saw this plateau, he was completely confused. What the hell, there is a huge highland in the Amazon rainforest?

Although he is not a geography expert, he has attended high school and knows that the Amazon rainforest is in the Amazon Basin! Where did the high ground come from?

Not to mention this, there were even more bizarre things waiting for them after entering the plateau.

First of all, the diary that Professor George brought back is true. There really is a prehistoric world on the plateau. No, it should be said that it is more bizarre than the prehistoric world. There, they can discover creatures from all periods of the earth, from the trilobites of the Ordovician, the Dunkleosteus of the Silurian, the Orgydons of the Permian, the pterosaurs of the Triassic, and the pterosaurs of the Jurassic. Dinosaurs, Cretaceous Tyrannosaurus rex, birds, and more!

Almost all creatures that have appeared in every geological period on the earth can be found on that plateau, including humans.

Well, yes, just normal human beings. From apes to Homo sapiens to modern humans, everyone can be found on that plateau. It is simply a museum of the earth!

This is not the most terrible thing.

The real problem is that once they enter the Lost Highlands, they can't get out! In all senses, they can't get out. Kai can guarantee that they can't get out not because of any geographical reasons. Instead, the Highlands seem to have consciousness and spontaneously prevent them from leaving the Highlands.

For example, several times, they found an exit from the Highlands, but when they really planned to leave. They would encounter various accidents.

Once is still a coincidence, but it can't be called a coincidence if it happens too many times. You know, Kai is not an ordinary person, even he can't escape from this ghost place. No matter all kinds of spells or other methods are useless, even Kai wants to contact Kamar-Taj to help him open a portal, but he can't do it.

After several years of bizarre adventures, Kai and his friends finally discovered that this Highland is not really an Earth Museum. On the contrary, it is the source of everything. It has a strong creativity. The Highland will be updated every once in a while. To put it simply, all creatures on Earth are created by the Lost Plateau and then flow to the outside world!

This is the origin of the Earth!

After a creation cycle arrives, the plateau will spontaneously generate a force that erases all creation. Then the next creation cycle will begin again.

Scientists outside have always been curious about why life can be produced on Earth. Now the question has been answered. Everything comes from the Lost Highlands. So where did the Lost Highlands come from? No one knows this. Only a nation called the Guardians on the Lost Highlands knows a little bit.

They call those creators - the Celestial Group!

Legend has it that the Celestial Group came to the Lost Plateau and created all life on Earth. Unfortunately, for some unknown reasons, the Celestial Group never came again.

The Guardians are left by the Celestial Group to maintain the balance of creation and destruction on the plateau. Before the creation cycle reaches its end, they will control the power of the plateau to retain and protect everything in the past until the next cycle arrives. This is why there are lives from all periods of the Earth on the plateau.

This balance of destruction and creation has been maintained for countless generations, but before Kai and his team entered the plateau, the balance was in danger of being broken.

In fact, the reason why the outside world discovered the Lost Highlands is because the guardians hope to get help from the outside world to help them overcome the difficulties. In other words, Kai and the others were consciously attracted by the guardians.

As for the final ending, it goes without saying. Kai killed the Destroyer lineage who tried to break the balance-those lunatics who tried to use the power of the plateau to rule the world. Let the guardian maintain the balance.

But here, the pitfalls appeared.

Because the balance has been maintained, the plateau will disappear from the world as before. In other words, the plateau will disappear. At the same time, the destruction cycle of the plateau is also coming. When the destruction cycle is over, everything will be restored to balance, but the things in the plateau will stay in the plateau forever and cannot leave.

In other words, Kai must break the power of destruction and forcibly return to the real world!

Kai was cheated. He almost went crazy. If it weren't for his good relationship with the descendant of the guardian lineage-Veronica, he really wanted to teach those so-called guardians a profound lesson. It's okay for him to help maintain the world, but he can't be so pitfall!

In the end, Veronica was kind enough to use the power of the guardian to forcibly send Kai back to the outside world. As for the others, they can only stay in the Lost Highlands forever.

But for this, the others are very generous. They have experienced too much here and have too much, which makes them unable to give up there. So without the opportunity to go back, they calmly accepted the fate of staying there.

As for Kai who left, his fate was not very good.

First of all, because of the special nature of the Lost Highlands, he directly crossed time and space. He only stayed in the Lost Highlands for five years, and after coming to the outside world, the time was 2003 AD!

Secondly, the destructive power of the Lost Highlands is much stronger than imagined. Although Kai was protected by the creative power of the Guardian clan, he was still severely injured!

Because of the power of creation and destruction, his body changed into a very strange state, and his body was broken into a special ionic state. This made it impossible for him to exist in the real world for a long time. He needed a "petri dish" to reorganize his body.

Adam, the American soldier who was dying in the jungle, became the "petri dish" that Kai needed. Kai's body resided in him, and he reorganized his own body with Adam's body as the medium.

There are disadvantages to doing this, that is, Kai's strength was completely abolished, that is, Kai was equivalent to deleting his account and starting over. As for the advantages, there are also, at least most of Kai's abilities were retained. For example, the desert flame and the second form were retained.

At the same time, he inherited Adam's identity and became a US soldier.

Adam's original name was Adam Wayne Milligan, from Windham, Minnesota. He was a single-parent family. His mother, Kate Milligan, was a doctor and died before he joined the army. The death was extremely strange, and the internal organs of the body were hollowed out. The police said it was done by a beast.

As for his father, anyway, in Adam's mind, his father John was a mysterious person, always elusive, and rarely accompanied him and his mother. Sometimes he might not appear once a year. In Adam's mind, his father was equivalent to no one.

When his mother died, Adam was studying pre-med at the University of Wisconsin. After receiving the news of his mother's death, this young man who had a bright future could not bear the blow and left his hometown. In the end, he chose to join the army and was successfully admitted to the Marine Corps with his excellent physical fitness.

Half a year after joining the army, he was attacked by a terrorist organization during a special mission in South America, and was finally picked up by Kai.

From that time on, Kai replaced Adam. These situations were all learned by Kai from Adam's remaining memories. To the outside world, Kai also claimed that he had lost a lot of memories. This statement was recognized by the doctor because Adam's head was indeed traumatized at the time. Although the probability of losing some memories was not high, it also existed.

This also helped Kai avoid many internal inspections of the US military. An entire US military team was killed, and the military must investigate it clearly. After Kai was isolated for two months, the military did not give a decent explanation, as if there was something unspeakable about the attack. However, Kai was not implicated and could still stay in the US military.

After recovering from his injuries at the US military base, Kai did not choose to leave the army because Kai had nowhere to go for a while. He was not in a good condition at the time, at most he was just an ordinary person. So it was better to stay in the US military.

Because of his life and death experience, Kai was quickly selected by a US special team and became a member of the US special reaction force. His main responsibility was to attack some high-threat targets, in simple terms, to fight with people.

This is also the reason why Kai was reluctant to leave. In modern society, there are not many professions that can reasonably kill people. Kai did not want to be a murderer, so if he wanted to restore his strength, staying in the US military was undoubtedly the best choice.

In the next five years, Kai quickly adapted to another military career and was promoted rapidly in these five years. From a Marine Corps soldier to a second lieutenant commander of a special reaction force.

This is the benefit of a first-level combat unit. As long as you can fight, you will be promoted like diabetes insipidus. Of course, this is only limited to lieutenants. If you want to be promoted to colonels, you need luck, connections and qualifications. Don't think that the United States is really a beacon of freedom and democracy. The unspoken rules there are no less than those in other parts of the world.

In short, after five years of fighting, Kai now leads a combat team alone to carry out various combat missions.

During this period, his team was also a well-known team within the US military. During the five years, Kai carried out more than 100 missions, all of which were completed without exception. The mission completion rate was amazingly high. After he led the team alone, the mission success rate not only did not decrease, but because the team had a 100% mission completion rate in two years, there were no casualties in the team within two years, which became a legend!

This time, the reason why Kai and his team appeared at the Fort Buchanan Army Base was because they had just completed a mission. After raiding the lair of a Colombian drug lord, they returned to repair.

But before Kai and his combat team members could rest, an urgent mission came to them.

"Secret Service?" Kai returned the certificate in his hand to the black woman in front of him, and asked with a puzzled look: "Why did the Secret Service find us?"

The Secret Service, referred to as USSS, is a law enforcement agency of the US federal government and is affiliated with the US Department of Homeland Security. It is specifically responsible for preventing and investigating the counterfeiting of US dollars and bonds, as well as protecting the president, vice president, president-elect and vice president-elect, former presidents and their spouses and other dignitaries.

But whether it was checking counterfeit money or protecting politicians, Kai couldn't think of any connection with them.

Kai and his special combat team dealt with drug lords, warlords, terrorists and some guerrillas. The Secret Service was always hanging around in places like Washington DC, and it was impossible for them to have any connection.

The black woman named Lynn Jobs didn't say much, but just pointed to a general officer beside her.

That was Kai's direct superior, Major General Hawke. Real name: Abernathy Clayton. However, due to the rules of the special response team, no one here would use their real names.

Hawke coughed a few times and signaled all the members of the team who were watching the excitement to disappear. A group of people saw Hawke so serious and knew in their hearts that this must be another private job. This type of private job is not uncommon in their army. Generally speaking, most of those private jobs are outsourced tasks of the CIA.

That's right, outsourcing. The CIA is an intelligence agency. It is certain that the field staff are elite, but it is impossible for them to take on everything. Many killing tasks will be outsourced. For example, many American overseas security companies will accept orders from the CIA and serve as thugs for them.

But the CIA is even less likely to ignore the super thug of the US military, so many highly confidential tasks will find the US military for cooperation.

And all this cooperation costs money!

As a sharp knife of the military, the special response force gets a lot of funding from this.

But this is the first time that the Secret Service has outsourced tasks.

After that, only Kai, General Hawke and Lin Jobs were left in the room.

"Lieutenant Kai!" Lin Jobs waited until everyone left before speaking.

Kai changed his name back a long time ago, which is not difficult, especially in a special force like theirs. Changing the name can avoid a lot of trouble. Even if Kai does not take the initiative to change it, the military will help to forge a new identity. Anyway, the name on Kai's ID card is now "Kai Wayne".

"This time we need you to save a person, or to be more precise, a family. Benjamin Asher and his family, you should have heard of him."

"Benjamin Asher? Who is that? Why should I have heard of him?"

Lin Jobs looked at Kai in surprise, he didn't even know who Benjamin Asher was...

"He is the Democratic presidential candidate!"

At this time, Kai remembered that 2008 was the year of the US presidential election!