Chapter 373: Agitation (Please Collect, Recommend, and Vote for Me) 4800 Words, Please Vote for Me!!

Ah Fu explained the matter in a concise and concise manner, and Kathleen just listened quietly. It wasn't until the end that she concluded: "So, you guys guessed the Duke's return from beginning to end?"

Katherine was very disappointed. Over the years, she didn’t know how many specious messages she had received. The most egregious one was during World War II. She didn’t know where she got the message, so she found a friend and Kai looks very much like a human and pretends to be Kai, intending to use this trick to control Kingsman and Kathleen.

Although Kathleen and Kingsman of that generation had doubts when they received the news, they really went to Germany for the one in ten thousand chance. As soon as I saw the real person, I knew it was a fake. The fake saw that he had been exposed from the beginning, so he omitted the recruitment process and directly let people attack him.

That time Kathleen 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 (Afu's grandfather), those who received the Holy Grail's gifts kept the Holy Grail as their biggest secret. Katherine had only seen it once or twice, so she had no idea about the secret of the Holy Grail. Little is known.

"Are you sure?"

"I'm sure!" Ah Fu nodded seriously.

This made Kathleen smile. As far as she was concerned, as long as Kai came back, it would be fine. As for where he was now, she was not in a hurry. She has plenty of time, so she just needs to find it slowly. She believed that as long as Kai was still in this world, he would never really show up.

At this time, Kathleen thought of 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." Afu said.

"Something related to the Duke?"

"It's not about the matter, it's about the person." Ah Fu corrected. "Speaking of which, you know both of these people."

"Who?" Kathleen asked curiously. At her age, almost all her previous acquaintances were dead. The Ah Fu in front of me is one of the very few acquaintances who are still alive.

"Vampire Queen Mina and Wonder Woman Diana!"

"Them?!!" This really surprised Kathleen. Mina has been in the UK, but because of the compatibility between them, the two will not meet easily. This is bullshit, how could a nun be friends with a vampire? They are really just acquaintances, but they have known each other for too long, so they are called acquaintances. As for Diana, there are even fewer opportunities to meet. She has nothing against Diana, but the problem is that since Kai disappeared, Diana left the human world and never came back. Even during World War II, Diana The figure did not appear again.

So these two names are really the most familiar strangers to Kathleen.

"What did they do?" Kathleen 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 Under control, the vampires under her command gradually began to lose control. In the past few months, vampire attacks have occurred across the UK. case, we and the Holy Church wanted to find Mina to find out what happened and why the vampire broke our agreement. Only then did we know that Mina and her direct descendants were missing, and we used the intelligence network to find out. , she went to the United States, but no one knew exactly what she went to the United States for.”

Mina is a relatively well-behaved vampire. In many cases, she will side with the British government, such as World War I and World War II. She and her heirs have contributed to the British. It is 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 (except China).

But Mina's sudden disappearance made both Kingsman and the Church of the Holy Church worried. Not only because without Mina as the vampire ruler, the previous treaty with the vampires would have changes, but also because Mina's disappearance was so strange. , 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 forward. Once Katherine and Mina got to know each other, if possible, Kingsman and the Templar Church didn't really want to fall out with a vampire like Mina who got along so well. After all, Mina could guarantee the harmonious coexistence of vampires and humans. It would be better to change to another vampire. The leader is too variable.

Secondly, if the most unwanted situation does arise, then Kathleen is the best choice to deal with Mina. Kingsman and the Holy Church are not afraid of Mina, but the price is too high, so it would be much better for Kathleen to take action.

"What about Diana? I remember she hasn't returned to the human world for decades. What could happen to her?" Kathleen understood what Ah Fu meant, so she didn't say much. Instead, he asked about Diana.

"No, Lady Diana returned to the human world a few years ago." Ah Fu said with a wry smile. For these legendary figures, both Kingsman and the Church of the Holy Land felt powerless. These people were too elusive. They wanted to monitor them, but the problem was that they couldn't do it at all. For example, Diana had been missing for almost a hundred years. How could they monitor her? Go to Paradise Island to monitor? They didn't even know which way the door of Paradise Island opened.

So Diana appeared in the human world. As long as she was quiet and didn't make trouble, it would be really difficult to be discovered. No matter how strong Kingsman's intelligence ability was, it was impossible to monitor everyone in the world all the time. Diana changed her identity casually, without even changing her appearance. It had been a hundred years. No one knew who she was.

Even now, the reason why they got the news about Diana was an accident. Wonder Woman had been in Paris before, quietly working in the Louvre. She was an expert in the identification of ancient cultural relics, especially the history and cultural relics of ancient Greece. She was about to become an authority.

"Remember the God of War Ares?"

"Wasn't he sealed? He 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 gone. To be more precise, the sculpture was replaced!"

After the God of War Ares was defeated and turned into a statue, it was placed in the National Museum in Athens, guarded by the Bedouins who followed Kai and the magicians of Kamar-Taj. Leaving it in Athens was also to punish him and make him face the destruction of Athens to repent.

At that time, Kai did not expect that he would disappear, so he did not think there was anything wrong with this arrangement.

But Kai disappeared, and then World War II happened. In World War II, Greece was swept by Germany. In order to prevent the statue of the God of War from having problems, Kingsman and the Bedouins who were left as guards at the time planned to move the statue to North Africa to hide it. Unfortunately, it was discovered by the infamous Hydra and the statue was taken away by the Germans.

Later, when the Germans were defeated, the statue fell into the hands of the French. Then it was placed in the Louvre.

At that time, both the British government and the Athens government wanted to take the statue back, but the French refused, and even reminded the French of the importance of the statue. After that, the French always regarded it as a treasure and kept it in the deep vault of the Louvre for secret collection.

Diana went to work at the Louvre for this statue, but the statue was well preserved and ordinary people could not touch it at all. For this reason, Diana worked for several years before gaining the trust of the Louvre and allowing her to observe the statue up close.

As a result, the problem was immediately seen at this glance, this thing was fake!

At that time, the staff of the Louvre were dumbfounded and thought that Diana was talking nonsense. As a result, Diana told them that this statue would never be carved for more than 30 years!

The Louvre was in a hurry and finally confirmed that this thing was really something from 30 years ago... This is a big problem. The collection of the Louvre is actually fake!

The public didn't know about this, but the intelligence agencies of various countries were not idle, and soon Kingsman knew about it. Diana was also discovered. After Kingsman confirmed it through Afu, who had seen Diana in person, Wonder Woman's return to the human world was confirmed.

At the same time, Kingsman also began to search for the whereabouts of the statue of Ares, the god of war. And at this time, Diana suddenly participated in an exchange activity between the Louvre and the United States, and she left France for the United States!

Diana's behavior was very strange. It was not reasonable to go to the United States to participate in academic exchanges at this time. The only possibility was that Diana thought the statue was in the United States!

"Do you want me to bring back the statue?"

"Yes! We hope you can bring the statue back, and if possible, we also hope that 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 much, and directly asked about the whereabouts of the two.

"We don't know the whereabouts of Ms. Mina yet, but we have found traces of one of her offspring, and we believe she will be found soon. We now hope that you can deal with the statue of the God of War and Ms. Diana."

Catherine doesn't care which one to deal with first.

"Then where is Diana's destination for this trip to the United States?"

"Chicago!"

...

Triskelion is the headquarters of the Strategic Defense Attack and Logistics Support Agency, at least on the surface. This headquarters is also the heart of SHIELD. The entire Trident building is located on a small island in the middle of the Potomac River in Washington, DC. The island covers an area of ​​about one square kilometer, all of which belongs to SHIELD. As the public headquarters of SHIELD, the number of people working in the Trident headquarters accounts for almost one-third of the entire SHIELD!

However, this does not mean that all the people working here are field agents. In fact, the people working in this building are some civilian staff, scientific researchers, logistics personnel, and even ordinary electricians and cleaners. On the contrary, field agents who really carry out confidential work rarely appear here.

However, SHIELD senior officials will appear here from time to time. For example, today, Director Nick Fury, who has always been invisible, actually appeared in the headquarters building very rarely. To be honest, as the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury’s public appearances in the headquarters building are very rare. This is also drunk. No one knows where their director is and what he is doing every day. He is like a mist, forever 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. The name 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 him, but they feel that his every move is under the surveillance of this unconventional director. Down.

Who is not afraid of this kind of leadership?

Nick walked into his office with his aide-de-camp and secretary Maria Hill. But after opening the door, I found that there were already people inside.

Everything about Nick Fury is top secret in SHIELD, even the office he rarely uses. Except for himself, only people with level 10 clearance in SHIELD can open it. As of now, only Nick Fury has level ten authority in SHIELD.

However, Nick Fury was not surprised that someone would appear in his office, because outside of SHIELD, there was another person who had the same authority as him.

"Pierce, I don't think you need to stop me in my office specifically."

Alexander Pierce, the former director of S.H.I.E.L.D. and one of the most senior agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., was founded by Captain America's widow Peggy Carter and Howard Stark (Tony Stark's father). He was already with the Strategic Science Corps, the predecessor of SHIELD.

Later, after Peggy Carter retired, Alexander Pierce took over as the director, and Nick Fury was his subordinate, and they had a very good personal relationship. Later, after Pierce was promoted to Minister of the World Security Council, he recommended Nick Fury to become 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 weren't for Pierce's mediation, Nick Fury's authoritarian, unscrupulous, and mysterious style of acting would have been resisted and suppressed by the Security Council long ago.

Nick Fury often said that Pierce was the only person he trusted.

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 helplessly: "You are always like a kite that is out of line. If I don't hold the line, then only God knows where you will fly. I know you don't like the politicians on the Security Council, and I don't like them either. But This isn't why you always skip meetings, I've left S.H.I.E.L.D. Now, I can't always stand on the side of SHIELD to deal with the Security Council. Those politicians don't like what I do. Remember, I left SHIELD, and they had a hard time getting me to leave SHIELD. Reporting to the Security Council is your obligation as director, remember?”

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 true. Politicians don't want him to stay in this position forever. It's just a check and balance of power. It's nothing new. They exist in any authority, and SHIELD 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 far different from Pierce, who is more like a politician than an agent. Perhaps they asked Pierce to leave S.H.I.E.L.D. in order 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 their thoughts have changed. Changed, they had to ensure that SHIELD was not controlled by Nick Fury 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 good 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 strange behavior of vampires, and they want you to take care of it. The Security Council doesn't want to conflict with vampires, and they don't want the public to know about the existence of vampires. You know, that would be a disaster. You have to deal with those lying down. Chatting with the old guy in the coffin."