Ah Fu explained the matter briefly and concisely, and Catherine just listened quietly. It wasn't until the end that she concluded: "So, you guys guessed the Duke's return from beginning to end?"
Catherine was very disappointed. Over the years, she had received such specious news. The most egregious one was during World War II. She didn’t know where she got the news, so she found a man who was talking to Kai. A very similar person pretends to be Kay, intending to use this trick to control Kingsman and Catherine.
Although Catherine 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 a result, once you see the real person, you will know it is 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 Catherine 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. Catherine had only seen it once or twice and knew very little about the secret of the Holy Grail. few.
"you sure?"
"I'm sure!" Ah Fu nodded seriously.
This made Catherine smile. For her, 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, Catherine remembered 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?" Catherine 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 Catherine. Mina has been in the UK, but because of the compatibility between them, the two rarely meet. 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 Catherine.
"What did they do?" Catherine 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 The vampires under her command gradually began to lose control. In the past few months, vampire attacks have occurred across the UK. We and the Holy Church want to find Mina to understand what happened and why the vampires broke our agreement. It was then that we learned that Mina and her direct descendants were missing. We used the intelligence network to find out that she had gone to the United States, but no one knew exactly what she was doing in the United States."
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 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 Catherine 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 ensure the harmonious coexistence of vampires and humans. Changing the vampire leader would change the situation. too big.
Secondly, if the most unwanted situation does arise, then Catherine is the best choice to deal with Mina. Kingsman and the Holy Church are not afraid of Mina, but the price is too high, and it would be much better for Catherine to take action.
"What about Diana? I remember she hasn't returned to the human world for decades. What could happen to her?" Catherine understood what Ah Fu meant, so she didn't say much. Instead, he asked about Diana.
"No, Ms. Diana returned to the human world a few years ago." Afu said with a wry smile. Both Kingsman and the Church of the Holy Church feel powerless against these legendary figures. These people are so elusive that they want to monitor them, but the problem is that they simply can't do it. Take Diana, she has been missing for almost a hundred years. Years later, how can they monitor this? Go to Paradise Island for surveillance? They don't even know which way the door to Paradise Island opens.
So when Diana appears in the human world, as long as she stays quiet and doesn't cause trouble, it's really hard to be discovered. No matter how strong Kingsman's intelligence capabilities are, it is impossible to monitor everyone in the world all the time. Diana could change her identity at will, without even changing her appearance. After a hundred years, no one would know who she was.
Even the reason why they got the news about Diana now was an accident. Wonder Woman had been in Paris before, quietly working on the Louvre Museum. She was an expert in the examination of ancient cultural relics, especially the history of ancient Greece. and cultural relics, she was about to become an authority.
"Remember Ares, the God of War?"
"Wasn't he sealed? He was 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 missing. To be precise, the sculpture has been stolen!"
After Ares, the god of war, was defeated and turned into a statue, he was placed in the National Museum in Athens, under the care of the Bedouins who followed Kai and the mages of Kamathaj. Keeping it in Athens was also to punish him and make him repent before the destroyed Athens.
Kai didn't expect that he would disappear at the time, so he didn't think there was anything wrong with this arrangement.
But then Kai disappeared, and then World War II happened. During World War II, Greece was swept by Germany. In order to prevent problems with the statue of the God of War, Kingsman and the Bedouins who stayed as guards prepared to move the statue to North Africa and hide it. Unfortunately, it was destroyed by the notorious Nine-Headed God. Snake discovered that the statue had been snatched away by the Germans.
Later, the Germans were defeated and the statue fell into the hands of the French inexplicably. Then it was placed in the Louvre.
At that time, both the British government and the Athens government thought about bringing the statue back, but the French refused, and even reminded the French of the importance of the statue. Since then, the French have regarded it as a treasure and kept it secretly locked in the vaults of the Louvre.
Diana probably went to work at the Louvre because of this statue, but the statue was well-collected and couldn't be accessed by ordinary people. For this reason, it took Diana several years of work to gain the trust of the Louvre, allowing her to see it up close. Observe the statue.
As a result, after looking at it, I immediately saw the problem, this thing is fake!
At that time, the staff of the Louvre were dumbfounded and thought it was Diana who was talking nonsense. However, Diana told them that this statue must not have been carved more than thirty years ago!
The Louvre was in a panic for a while, and finally confirmed that this thing was really from thirty years ago... Now there was a big problem. The collection in the Louvre is actually fake!
The public did not know about this matter, but the intelligence agencies of various countries were not idle, and Kingsman soon found out about it. Diana was also discovered. It was only after Kingsman confirmed it through Afu, a person who had seen Diana in person, that Wonder Woman returned to the human world again.
At the same time, Kingsman also began to go all out to find the whereabouts of the statue of Ares, the god of war. At this time, Diana suddenly participated in an exchange event with the United States at the Louvre Museum, and she left France for the United States!
Diana's behavior was very strange. It was completely unreasonable for her to go to the United States to participate in some academic exchange at this time. The only possibility was that Diana thought the statue was in the United States!
"You want me to bring back the statue?"
"That's right! We hope you can bring the statue back, and if possible we also hope 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 anything more and directly asked about their whereabouts.
"We don't know the whereabouts of Ms. Mina yet, but we have found traces of one of her descendants, and we believe she will be found soon. We now hope that you can deal with the matter of the God of War statue and Ms. Diana."
Catherine didn't care which thing she tackled first.
"Then where is Diana's destination on this trip to the United States?"
"Chicago!"
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Trident (Triskelion) is the headquarters of the Homeland Strategic Defense Attack and Logistics Support Agency, at least on the surface. This headquarters is also the apparent heart of SHIELD. The entire Trident Building is located on an island in the middle of the Potomac River in Washington, DC. The island covers an area of about one square kilometer, and all of it belongs to S.H.I.E.L.D. As the public headquarters of SHIELD, the number of people working in Trident Headquarters accounts for almost one-third of the entire SHIELD!
However, this does not mean that those who work here are all field agents. In fact, the people working in this building are some civilian personnel, scientific researchers, logistics personnel, and even ordinary electricians and cleaners, who truly carry out confidential work. Field agents, by contrast, 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 with 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 is not the reason why you always shirk meetings. I have left SHIELD. I can't always stand in SHIELD's position to deal with the Security Council. Those politicians don't like what I do. Remember, I left SHIELD. It's over, they finally let me leave SHIELD. Reporting to the Security Council is your obligation as the 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. It exists 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 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 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.”
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