"A paradise on earth! Have you seen Spirited Away? The unreal world where Aburaya is located. A little girl and her family came to this fantasy world from the real world through a tunnel, and then her family was turned into pigs."
Ben: "I've seen the movie, no need to explain the plot to me. Are you saying that the vigilantes live in a world like that?"
"Yes! Because it's a fantasy world, anything can happen. Trains can run on tracks that are submerged by seawater, there are black balls that walk in the coal, and there are bloated, smelly, and disgusting monsters that are washed clean and turned into faceless men who are obviously scary creatures but are not scary at all."
"I've seen that movie, I remember the plot, you don't need to tell me." Ben complained for the second time, and then got back to the point, "Indeed, this grass is not strange anymore."
"Correct!"
Ben continued, "And a lot of ideas suddenly became clear. Ever since Shadow appeared, the whole world has been frantically searching for it, but after searching for so long, there is no trace at all. In theory, such an organization should have a base of considerable size. If a base of that size is on Earth, there shouldn't be no trace left."
Johnny took over the conversation: "Yes, their entire base is in Arcadia, not in the real world. And whether it is Shadow or the vigilante, they are elusive. If they can choose the 'exit' of Arcadia in the real world, then it can be explained."
Ben also changed his usual honest and steady image and said excitedly: "Remember the door that disappeared in Wallachia? The KGB thought it was a decoration and left it at the scene where Ding was found, but Ying stole it. That door might be a device that connects to the Utopia!"
"Yes! Didn't we come to a conclusion about Yellowstone Park before? The tripod will not appear until a certain stage. Then the question of where the tripod is before this stage arrives is also solved. It is in the Utopia! And this Utopia is probably not connected to the Utopia that Ying and the Vigilante use as their base."
Ben: "And the door is the key to this new paradise!"
"Correct!"
"Very good, very good, then we should notify the CIA and NSA..."
Johnny shook his head. "Are you stupid? Will they believe what we say? Moreover, all of the above are just the product of our brainstorming. There is no evidence at all. No, they will not pay attention to us, and they may pay less attention to our opinions because of our series of 'absurd' conclusions. We have to gather our own strength and explore the Utopia."
Johnny turned and shouted into the high-powered microphone on the wall, "Friday, do you have Mr. Pinkerton's number?"
"Of course, it's a personal cell phone."
"Put me through."
"clear."
Johnny picked up his cell phone and just put it to his ear, a steady middle-aged man's voice rang out from the other end: "Hello, Master Iron, this is Pinkerton."
"Look, I want to hire one of your private military contractors. How many mercenaries can you send out immediately?"
"Pinkerton Detective Agency and Black Harbor International both have manpower available. How many do you need?"
"How many mercenaries would it take to carry out a large-scale archaeological excavation in a high-intensity conflict zone?"
"I can hire brigade units directly from Cuba, no worries, when do I need them?"
"The most recent one..."
Johnny glanced at Ben.
Ben immediately switched the display on the large screen in the room and called up the time when each tripod would appear that he and Johnny had previously calculated.
"In a month, probably."
"Understood. I'll be ready. But, do you people with super powers really need to hire conventional armed forces?"
"It's better to be prepared." Johnny shrugged. "Well, I'll contact you in a month."
Johnny hung up the phone.
Ben: “Won’t the information leak out?”
"Yes, of course." Johnny laughed, "Then the CIA and NSA will come to us and ask us what we are going to do. After they come to us three times, we will reluctantly tell them."
Ben was dumbfounded, and after a long while he managed to utter, "It seems that you have been studying Chinese traditional culture crazily recently, and the results are quite fruitful."
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Vote for the wise Master Tie~
Well, good afternoon, and see you at twelve o'clock tonight.
Chapter 496: Glowing Lake (Part )
On the third day after completing Josephine's revenge commission, Masha and his gang returned from military training. As soon as they returned to Wonderland, Chihiro suddenly asked, "Is it really okay for us not to look for Comrade Josephine? Just leave it like this?"
"What else? She must be in solitary confinement now. Do we have to rush to the solitary confinement room to see her?" Masha shrugged. "So we should just do our job well and kill more bad guys to replenish the spiritual energy concentration as soon as possible."
Chihiro: "Do we really need to catch 1000 of them?"
"Of course, scientific research must be rigorous. In order to eliminate the errors caused by accidental factors, the sample size must be large enough. You have to know that what we are doing now may be the foundation of the entire spiritual science."
The league secretary was shocked: "Reiki science..."
"How about it, punk? We call this spiritual energy punk, immortality punk. In the future, all cultivators will have a device on their arms like the Pip-Boy in Fallout. When they arrive at a place, they will first measure the concentration of spiritual energy, and say, 'Hmm, this place is suitable for meditation,' 'This place is suitable for alchemy,' 'Oh my god, there is purple spiritual energy here, which is ten times stronger than ordinary spiritual energy.'"
Chihiro teased, "Are you still planning to have the Pip-Boy use the clicking sound of a Geiger counter to represent the measured spiritual energy concentration?"
"Your suggestion is good. This will make it more punk." Masha gave Chihiro a thumbs up, and then changed the subject, "However, if we don't complete the measurement and establish the most basic unit system, all this cannot begin. So our work is very important. As for Comrade Josephine, we will wait until she comes out and comes to us herself."
According to Marsha, Josephine would be released from the confinement room soon.
The Stasi and the KGB would definitely want to use Josephine to further their contact with the vigilantes, so she would be fine and there was nothing to worry about.
Chihiro: "Speaking of which, we are going to pass through a war zone today, right?"
"Yes, in the chaotic battle zone, you can see the Merkava beating up the T72. Or being beaten up by the T72."
Now, in the Bedouin area, the Soviet Union has directly joined the war, and the two armies belonging to the World Government's Joint Security Maintenance Force have started fighting.
And Masha and his men will cross the battlefield today.
Not only did he want to cross the battlefield, Masha also wanted to see one of the famous ancient sites in the Bedouin area: the ancient city of Petra.
Shelley: "Do you really want to see Petra? If we stole Stonehenge, it would make the World Government think that we will continue to attack ancient monuments in areas where the Nine Cauldrons may be? Petra may have become a key area of contention between the two warring parties."
Masha shrugged. "What's the big deal? I'm not going back to reality. I'm just staying in the shadow of the earth and taking a walk around Petra. However, I think the Nine Cauldrons in the Bedouin area may not be in Petra, but may also be in Mount Sinai.
"That's the holy mountain of Christianity. All the myths and legends are likely mixed with our ancestors' memories of the mythological era. Maybe Mount Sinai became a holy mountain because of the tripods and our ancestors saw the divine light when Nuwa placed the nine tripods there."
That’s right, we can no longer look at myths and legends with the eyes of the past, as the “real history” may be hidden in myths and legends.
When he thought of this, Masha couldn't help but think that many myths in the world mentioned a "natural disaster" that was bound to come, such as the Twilight of the Gods in Norse mythology and the "Last Judgment Day" in Christian mythology.
Of course, both of these can be interpreted as predictions of the revival of spiritual energy.
The spiritual energy revived, and the "Gods" - that is, those with super powers - returned again, starting the "War of the Gods".
The spiritual energy revived, and the "angels" - of course, those with super powers - descended to the earth and began to judge.
This makes perfect sense. After all, even if myths contain memories of the ancients about the mythological era, those memories have been passed down through hundreds of generations and have probably long since been deformed and distorted.
But Masha always worries, what if it’s not the case?
What if there really is Ragnarok?
In Norse mythology, in order to deal with Ragnarok, the gods constantly summoned human heroes to Valhalla.
According to Masha's speculation, Nuwa sealed the spiritual energy and created human beings in order to improve the efficiency of condensing the spiritual energy into powerful souls. If you think about it carefully, if Nuwa's method can really speed up the birth of "God", it would be similar to the use of Valhalla in Norse mythology to gather powerful heroes.
These two actions have increased the fighting power of the gods!
So Masha thought he had to make all preparations as soon as possible.
If Nuwa sealed the spiritual energy, created humans and made the List of Gods all in order to prepare for the final battle that would be like the twilight of the gods, then the man with the "Jedi Tiantong" was just causing trouble for Nuwa and directly wasted tens of thousands of years.
——I have to find more tripods to further understand spiritual energy and the system designed by Nuwa.
——However, there is no point in being anxious about these things. We have to take it step by step. Sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood.
——It won’t interfere with my business if I visit Petra, and maybe I can make some unexpected discoveries.
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Loch Ness, England.
Both the Browns are Loch Ness Monster enthusiasts, and they spend their spare time collecting and studying the legend of the Loch Ness Monster.
Today, their work on the Loch Ness Monster goes unnoticed, but they have become Scotland's foremost folklorists.
After all, in order to study the water monster, they collected and studied so many manuscripts related to Scottish folklore scattered among the people.
But for both of them, the water monster was the point.
In order to study the monster, the two of them resigned from their jobs after receiving funding from the Scottish Folklore Foundation, moved to the vicinity of Loch Ness, bought a manor and settled down there.
That day, the couple came to the shore of Loch Ness again and began to use a new device - a Dajiang Industrial drone, to take pictures of Loch Ness, hoping to catch any clues about the monster.
But, as usual, the couple got nothing.
Mr. Brown replaced the last battery in the drone and prepared to fly it again, while Mrs. Brown was already packing up and putting the picnic basket and other things back into the trunk of the car.
At this time, Mr. Brown suddenly exclaimed: "Hey honey, come and see! Is the lake glowing?"
Mrs. Brown immediately dropped her picnic basket, ran to her husband, and watched the images sent back by the drone with him.
"Isn't this... the effect caused by the change in sunlight?"
"No, how many times do you think I've taken photos of Loch Ness at this time of year?" Mr. Brown was a little incoherent. "Believe me, you can't be wrong. The lake is glowing, a faint light. We can't see it during the day, and it's almost sunset now. I think it will be more obvious at night. What day is it today?"
Mrs. Brown gave the date.
Mr. Brown shook his head: "With the moonlight tonight, we may not be able to take pictures to prove that the lake is glowing."
He looked at the sky and saw that it was a clear day, which made the disappointment on his face obvious.
"Dear, we have to wait for a moonless night, or a night when dark clouds completely cover the sky, before we come to the lake. Believe me, the lake is really glowing now!"
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That’s right, with the revival of spiritual energy, the world will usher in more changes.
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Chapter 497: Passing Through the Battlefield (Part )
Masha entered the war zone and ran for a long time but did not see the passionate artillery battle between Merkava and T72. There were only tank wreckages everywhere, and he did not know who won and who lost.
Looking at the wreckage, it looks like half Merkava and half T72.
As Masha walked along the highway, looking at the debris left by the warring parties fighting for control of the highway, he could not help but think of the words: "War, war never changes."
"I don't know where the battle line is now." Masha muttered.
——But after walking for so long, I didn’t see any damage that looked like it was caused by superpowers. Could it be that both sides of the war only used conventional forces?
——If you think about it carefully, if both sides use people with super powers, the nature of the matter will be different.
——The World Government is an organization established to deal with the revival of spiritual energy. It should be more sensitive to the fighting between people with super powers?
Of course, it is also possible that both sides are more concerned about the fragile physical body of those with super powers, so they are still cautious about using super powers in actual combat.
After all, there are very few people with super powers like Chihiro who have both offensive and defensive capabilities, and Chihiro also has weaknesses. Her defense against directed energy weapons is relatively low.
——Speaking of which, my Kamen Princess Knight, and the point-adding system, have they solved the problem of the psychic's body being relatively fragile to a certain extent?
While thinking about these unimportant things, Masha continued along the road. He planned to find a safe place to enter reality, leave a fast travel point, and use the stolen GPS locator to determine his current location and see how to get to Petra.
At this time, Chihiro's voice came from the headset: "We have another guy who is wreaking havoc. The door is open to the fast travel point XXXX."
"Understood," Masha replied as he typed in the number of the fast travel point. He found a photo of the fast travel point through a simple database index he made, and imagined the travel point based on the photo. "Open the door and count down. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!"
Then Shelley, who was guarding in the wonderland, reported: "Successfully retrieved two people, closing the door."
Masha closed the door and redirected himself to the world inside the car.
But he didn't stop driving the car.
Now, Masha no longer needs to do this kind of thing himself. Shelley will operate the instrument to record the brightness changes of the banyan tree, and Xue Jianmei will organize the recorded data. Masha just needs to be a happy driver.
A moment later, the League Secretary and Chihiro entered the world in the car, and Masha removed their Kamen Princess Rider equipment.
League Secretary: "Take a break. As soon as we show up, the planes will soon be above our heads. Fortunately, all countries seem to have made the judgment that we will not cause sabotage, so they have adopted an attitude of turning a blind eye."
"Someone else is trying to contact us," Chihiro said. "Remember the Rafale fighter that flew in front of us with its tail lights flashing? I think it was talking to us in Morse code by flashing its tail lights, but unfortunately neither of us could read Morse code."
The League Secretary shrugged: "Even if we memorized the Morse code table, it flashes so fast that only people with professional training can interpret it in time, and we are not professionals."
Chihiro: "Yeah, we're just two ordinary freshmen."
Masha couldn't help but look back at the two of them.
Baiquan yelled: "I'm just an ordinary 10-year-old kid!"
