Johnny clapped his hands. "Okay, I like this answer. Efficiency is paramount. Then I have to ask, are you also a loser who got promoted by trading time for qualifications?"
The Japanese shook his head: "Of course not."
"Good, I'm surprised." Johnny held out his hand to the Japanese.
After shaking hands, Johnny asked, "What did you want to say?"
"No, I don't think I need to say anything more." The Japanese bowed to Johnny.
"Okay, very good. Then Mr. Johnson, let's talk about the key things in the car."
Johnson nodded. "Okay, this way, please. The car is already waiting in the airport's internal parking lot."
A moment later, Johnny and Ben piled into the welcoming SUV.
As soon as the car door closed, Johnny asked, "How's the situation in Egypt?"
Johnson handed Johnny a memory card.
Johnny inserted the card into the tablet and began to read the status briefing for this morning.
"Oh my god," he muttered, "A pharaoh has been resurrected? I was on a plane when this happened. And those guys didn't even notify me through satellite communication!"
Ben: "I think they'd love to have an excuse to get rid of you for a while."
Johnny was shocked.
"Let's not talk about this anymore. I have to call Hoover and tell him that this pharaoh's mummy is likely to become Ying's next target."
Ben: “Why?”
Johnny looked at him and asked, "Do you want to rush to Egypt to find out what's going on? Do you want to study the resurrected and dead mummy from head to toe?"
Ben nodded.
Johnny: "The same is true for Shadow. I always feel that the leader of Shadow should be a scholar, or at least a jerk with a scholarly temperament, so we can use the common characteristics of scholars to infer his code of conduct. Shadow will definitely take action on this mummy. Even if they know that we may set a trap, they will definitely try to take it away. I think this mummy has this degree of attraction!"
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Chapter 553: Reading Gift Pack (Update )
Masha and his men came out of the car world and went to the kitchen to look for Xiao Shi. However, they found no one there. Then they saw Xiao Shi in the store, serving tea to Chen Zhongwu who was sitting near the door.
Masha heard Chen Zhongwu say, "It's only been a short time, and Xiao Shi is already acting like a mistress."
"No, I'm just used to doing these things at home, so I just do it out of the blue. I've been learning and practicing entertaining guests since I was a child." Xiao Shi smiled, and her hands were very steady when she poured tea for Chen Zhongwu.
"Have you learned the tea ceremony?" Chen Zhongwu asked again.
"Yes, I have a rank. But the tea ceremony is too complicated. Even in Japan, they don't use tea ceremony techniques when entertaining guests. This is ordinary black tea."
Masha pushed open the door from the kitchen to the store and greeted Chen Zhongwu: "Good morning, Mr. Chen, have you used cosmetics to arrest criminals today?"
Chen Zhongwu was stunned for a moment, then he smiled awkwardly and said, "Is this a reference to that very popular mobile game? What's it called..."
"Arknights, Mr. Chen." Masha spread his hands, "You also need to learn some pop culture. It may be useful when you are investigating a case."
"If foreign spies play Arknights, I will definitely play it to get to know them better." Chen Zhongwu paused and said seriously, "The two American superpowers have landed. Because they are both SSS-level, they have been specially approved for special care and the procedures are simplified. They are now on the bus to the university town."
Masha: “Really?”
He glanced at the time displayed on his phone.
"The airport is on the other side of the city, right? If we cross Yuezhou at this time, we will be stuck in traffic until noon, right?"
"They can use their abilities to fly over here. We have a lot of people who want to see the prototypes of Iron Man and the Hulk, so this just happens to meet everyone's needs."
Chen Zhongwu said nonchalantly.
"If you want to see these two earlier, you can arrange the traffic flow and make a way for them. It's not difficult."
Masha shrugged: "Then let them enjoy the beautiful city scenery of Yuezhou."
Chen Zhongwu smiled.
Then he changed the subject: "Something big happened in Egypt yesterday. This has nothing to do with you, right?"
"No." Masha shook his head. "What big thing could happen in Egypt? Could it be that the Pharaoh has been resurrected?"
When mentioning Egypt, one would think of the resurrection of the pharaoh. There are also plots of the resurrection of the pharaoh in countless movies, so it is reasonable for Masha to make fun of this at this time.
As for how to interpret it, that is other people’s business.
Masha's goal is to put himself in a "Schrödinger state" so that others are unsure whether he has anything to do with these things. This is the best thing for him.
The goal is to ensure that the world's major intelligence agencies do not ignore us, but also do not overemphasize us.
In this way, when Masha wanted to use the identity of the Yellow King, he had enough influence and did not need to attract the attention of the intelligence agencies from scratch.
When Masha does not want to use this identity, he can continue to play the role of Mr. Wolong, who works as a farmer in Nanyang, survives in troubled times and does not seek fame and fortune among the princes.
Chen Zhongwu stared at Masha, as if he wanted to say something but hesitated. Masha knew from his expression that his plan as Schrödinger's King in Yellow had been successful.
I guess analysts from various intelligence agencies will be busy for a while.
——I am such a kind-hearted person. Just by acting a little, I can support countless analysts.
Chen Zhongwu suddenly said, "If you stand by the river often, you will get your shoes wet. Be careful not to get wet."
It seems that Chen Zhongwu belongs to the group that believes that the incident is related to Masha.
Masha was not panicked either. All the evidence proved that when the Pharaoh was resurrected, he, Masha, was sleeping at home. Chen Zhongwu and a group of foreigners monitored Masha all day long, and they must have confirmed this through reliable technical means.
Who could have thought that Masha's soul left his body and ran to Egypt, devoured the Pharaoh's soul, controlled the Pharaoh's mummy, and fought with the CIA mercenaries.
No one would believe this if I told them.
Therefore, Chen Zhongwu could only kindly remind Masha here that it was impossible to include the opinion that "Masha was related to that incident" in the formal report.
Intelligence agencies emphasize logic and evidence.
Masha knew this very well.
After all, there is Shelley, the poor guy who was killed by his old boss and then came back to life.
Chen Zhongwu stared at Masha for a few seconds, as if he decided not to dwell on the matter anymore and brought the topic back to the two American SSS-level superpowers who were crossing the city center.
"Are you going to entertain them in your own maid shop, or go to the surveillance center to meet them?"
"I originally thought that I should ask them to go to the office and meet me there," Masha told the truth.
"Regarding this, we mainly took into consideration that you may have some special arrangements in this maid shop. In case you have a disagreement and a fight with the Americans, you may be at an advantage here." Chen Zhongwu shrugged.
"Also, those two Americans are both human nuclear bomb-level guys. The population is not that dense in the urban-rural fringe area next to this university town. If you have a little quarrel and then have a friendly match or something, there will be fewer casualties."
Masha looked at Chen Zhongwu with a look of "Is it really just like that?"
Chen Zhongwu continued, "Of course, not wanting 'Master Tie' to see too much information is also a more important reason. In addition, he came here for the orchard, so letting him see the orchard directly seems more practical. After all, he is in a hurry to get on the plane to Egypt, so the itinerary arrangement is as 'one-stop' as possible."
Masha: "I see, that's very thoughtful. I think I'll wait for them at the orchard gate, how about that?"
Before Masha could finish his words, he saw the pedestrians outside looking in the same direction.
Masha pushed the door and walked out of the maid shop in confusion, then turned to look in the direction everyone was looking.
He saw a large truck with the X-Bird Station logo painted on it driving towards his maid shop - it looked like there was more than one truck, but a whole fleet.
——Wait, I seem to have some impression of this matter...
——Oh, right! I remember now! This is the super reading gift package that I got from Mr. Ma Yu, which contains one copy of every book on sale on Taobao!
——I had completely forgotten about this!
Masha looked at the convoy that stopped in front of his house and asked the driver of the first car: "These are all books, right?"
"Yes! They are all books." The driver replied, and then took out a fortune stick from an unknown Taoist temple and said to Masha, "Master, the Taoist priest said that I have to find a powerful person to resolve this bad fortune stick. Can you..."
"Okay, give it to me. I'll solve it for you." Masha took the signature without hesitation. "Xiao Shi, instruct them to move all the books into the world in the car."
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Chapter 554 Nothing More to Say (Part )
After handing over the task of moving the books to Xiao Shi, Masha asked Chen Zhongwu: "I haven't seen that East German girl for a few days. How is she doing?"
Chen Zhongwu and his men must have been monitoring the KGB's movements, and they probably knew about Comrade Josephine's situation.
"Why, did someone ask you to find her?" Chen Zhongwu obviously had something else in his words.
Masha also said something that could be over-interpreted, but on the surface there was nothing wrong with it: "No, I'm the one who wants to find him."
Chen Zhongwu smiled.
"Is that so? It's you who want to look for her. Okay." Chen Zhongwu nodded. "The intelligence we got before was that she was sent to the solitary confinement room. She should still be locked up there. We have been monitoring the supplies consumed and garbage produced by intelligence agencies of various countries. We believe that she is still alive and in the solitary confinement room."
"Thanks for the information."
Chen Zhongwu: "If that girl disappears from the detention room later, I will definitely think it was you who did it."
Masha frowned slightly, thinking, is Chen Zhongwu reminding me not to act rashly?
——But, I originally planned to play a character who has a close yet distant relationship with the vigilante.
——The KGB should also be expecting the vigilante to contact Comrade Josephine.
Masha thought about it and felt that Chen Zhongwu's opinion should be taken seriously, so he decided to change the plan.
Originally, Masha planned to approach Comrade Josephine as a vigilante and try to get her to join. But now he plans to visit Josephine as the King in Yellow and is not in a rush to trick Josephine into joining.
——Can the KGB stop me from seeing her?
- No, they had no reason to stop me from meeting Comrade Josephine. They might even regard me as a special envoy of the vigilantes, ordered to convey some message to Comrade Josephine.
So Masha said to Chen Zhongwu, "I want to meet Comrade Josephine. Can you arrange it?"
"Of course." Chen Zhongwu agreed immediately. "Spies are not diplomats. They don't have extraterritoriality. To put it bluntly, if you want to get that girl out, I can even bring people to break into their floor and get her out. However, doing so will cause headaches for the higher-ups. After all, we are now nominally an ally of the Soviet Union again."
Masha shook her head: "No, don't bother you. I just want to see her and ask her how she is doing these days."
In fact, Masha really wanted to try the new entry as soon as possible, but as the saying goes, haste makes waste, and what needs to be done step by step must be done step by step.
Contact Comrade Josephine first - no matter if it's as the King in Yellow or as a vigilante - anyway, contact her first, then find a way to get Josephine's real name, and use magic weapons to confirm whether she has the qualifications to awaken.
Then you can decide what to do next.
Don't go through all the trouble to get Josephine out, only to find out in the end that she has no talent, that would be funny.
If Josephine has good qualifications and has accumulated a high level of favorability, then Masha will definitely bring her out and let Chen Zhongwu become suspicious.
If Josephine is not qualified, or has no qualifications at all, or has good qualifications but no favorability and cannot guarantee loyalty, then of course Josephine will continue to be put in solitary confinement.
Masha made the decision happily.
"Since you can arrange a meeting between me and Josephine, take me to see her now."
Chen Zhongwu: "So urgent?"
"Yes, speed is of the essence in war. This is true whether it's fighting a war or picking up girls," Masha said with a smile.
Chen Zhongwu stared at him for a few seconds without saying anything. He drank the tea that Xiao Shi had brewed in the cup in one gulp, stood up, and made a gesture of "follow me".
Masha turned around and said to Chihiro, "I'm going to go see Comrade Josephine, you stay at home."
"Okay." Qianxun agreed immediately, "But aren't the Americans on their way? Is it okay for you to meet the KGB female agent at this time? Won't the CIA misinterpret it?"
"It's up to them to interpret. After I meet Comrade Josephine, I might just meet our American friends when I go downstairs."
As Masha spoke, he followed Chen Zhongwu, who was already at the door and waiting for him.
Cai Shi followed him closely: "I'll be the guard."
