Six hours after the Yuezhou incident.
Johnny followed an agent into the CIA's temporary headquarters in Bunker Hill Fortress.
"Finally, you remembered to borrow my intelligence?" Johnny glanced at the CIA analysts who were busy in the huge room that used to be a hangar.
Hoover shouted to him from a distance: "Johnny, this way."
Johnny hummed the melody of "Don't Cry" by Guns N' Roses - he usually prefers songs with faster and more explosive rhythms, but today he just wanted to change the taste.
After entering the conference room, Johnny glanced at everyone and shrugged: "It looks like no one is playing games. I want to recreate a classic scene from the Avengers."
"Johnny, we asked you to come here because you are an expert in power armor..."
"I am an expert in many fields, why do you only emphasize power armor? You can just tell me that you want to know my superpower is that I can summon personal armor at any time and equip it. Isn't that my opinion on the Yuezhou incident?"
"So, in your opinion, 'Gundam' and 'Robocopter'..."
Before Hoover finished speaking, Johnny interrupted, "If their power armor is a superpower like mine, then they will probably survive, but will be injured. For example, their spirit will be oppressed too much for a moment, leading to a short coma. At this time, the armor will disappear, and the exposed person will be burned by the high-temperature steam. This kind of burn is terrible and even fatal."
Hoover: "Very good, you heard it, this is the expert's opinion..."
"But!" Johnny interrupted Hoover again, "Let me remind you idiots, I can only use my armor. Although my armor has many functions, making me look like a superpower with multiple abilities, my ability is really just to summon my armor. I may have other abilities in the future, but it is obvious that awakening the second ability requires a long period of experience in using superpowers. Because the rare people in the world who have awakened the second ability have a lot of experience in using their original abilities."
Then Johnny snatched the gesture ring used to control the electronic whiteboard from the operator next to him, put it on himself, let the computer recognize the gesture ring, and called out the first photo with gestures.
Photos of the "Gundam" and "Robocoy" when they first appeared, taken by the Chinese using a low-light night vision device.
"This is a photo of these two guys when they were first discovered. Pay attention to the timestamp."
Johnny then operated the electronic whiteboard and brought up two photos taken by a CIA agent in Yuezhou using a drone.
"Look at these two. On the left, RoboCop uses telekinesis to catch the car thrown by the enemy because there are people inside. Damn, this guy must have a lot in common with the number one American butt. On the right, the Gundam kills the terrorist and uses gravity to send the hostage back to the ground.
"These two guys are superheroes. However, if this is all you think after seeing these two photos, then you can get out of here. You are not smart enough to be a spy."
Johnny paused, and seeing that no one wanted to interrupt, he continued, "These two people, one is a gravity-based psychic, and the other is a telekinetic psychic. Their armor is a pure technological creation. By the way, they can fly into the sky, and they are simply using their original abilities. How could you not even see this, and then come to me to ask about the situation? I can't believe that you actually thought these two were SSS-level with similar abilities to me?"
The agents looked at each other in bewilderment. At this time, Hoover asked, "Is it possible that someone else lent them the armor..."
"Listen," Johnny interrupted Hoover for the third time, "I know you guys always thought it was me who refused to lend my armor to others. You even created some superhero characters in the movie who wore armors that I made—or even armors that I didn't make—in an attempt to convince me to lend my armor to others. But unfortunately, I've said from the beginning that only I can wear my armor, do you understand, idiot? It's not that I don't want to lend it to others, it's that I simply can't lend it to others."
Johnny stopped, stared at Hoover for several seconds, and shook his head: "No, you don't understand. You and those congressmen who came from stupid politician families will always think that I refuse to lend armor in order to maintain my uniqueness. The United States was once great, and the reason why it is no longer great is that it has been led by a group of pigs who can't even do mental arithmetic correctly for nearly half a century. If we can establish a committee of scientists to lead the United States, the situation will definitely be much better."
When Hoover heard this, his expression instantly became as if he was facing a great enemy.
Johnny saw this and sighed, "I'm kidding."
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Staying up late is too harmful. I have to go to bed at 12 o'clock today no matter what.
Chapter 320: Detective Johnny's famous reasoning (Part )
Johnny pointed to the door and said, "Can I go now? Or do you need me to continue sharing my wisdom? The amiable Buddhist guy and I are working on a new invention that will completely destroy Tim Cook and Apple. We are very busy."
"Johnny," the tall and fat man next to Hoover spoke up, "We need your complete view of this matter."
Johnny looked at the tall fat man and asked, "Huayou?"
"NSA (National Security Agency) Senior Director Bill, I am in charge of all NSA's superpower-related operations."
"I can't believe that the NSA actually sent a smart guy here. For the sake of smart guys, I'll share my opinion." Johnny shook the hand with the identification ring, "After all, I haven't returned this yet. If you speak later, I will really leave."
Then Johnny operated the electronic whiteboard and called up a series of pictures and documents.
"Based on the reasons I just mentioned, it is very likely that the power armor on Gundam and Robocop is a technological product, but we cannot rule out the possibility that they are psychics with abilities similar to mine. After all, no one knows whether their armor has black technology such as gravity engines. In other words, we cannot rule out the possibility that the phenomenon we observed is a function of the armor itself. But this is not important."
Johnny paused.
"Because I said, even if it was my armor, I would definitely faint after such an attack. When the human body is exposed to water vapor that has just evaporated at super high temperatures, the condensation of water vapor will release a lot of heat. This is the infrared photo taken by our drone. Judging from the estimated temperature, direct exposure to this water vapor has the same effect as being burned by fire. In fact, the local medical department has already received some burn patients.
"The burn victims were mostly pedestrians on the bridge near the impact point, and passengers in vehicles who unfortunately opened their windows. They were at least a hundred meters away from the impact point, and the wind direction at the time was blowing from upstream of the bridge, while the impact point was downstream. If this was the case on the bridge, imagine the situation of the two people who were right near the impact point.
"They fainted instantly, their armor lost its function, and the steam burned them to third-degree burns. Their skin carbonized and pus flowed out. Even if they survived, they would die in endless infections and pain in the future - because the human epidermis is the strongest line of defense against bacteria."
Johnny paused and sighed, "Okay, I just exaggerated a little. In fact, I think the attacker limited the power of this attack, otherwise there wouldn't be so few burn victims. The Gundam and Robocop are probably not that badly injured, but I think at least the exposed mouth of Robocop would be severely burned."
As he spoke, he operated the electronic whiteboard to enlarge the photo of RoboCop and turn it into a bust.
Johnny stared at half of RoboCop's face and continued, "Based on the data of their first battle with the Awakened Form, they should have some kind of defense against energy. However, the nature of the water vapor contacting the skin and then condensing and releasing heat is different from the attack they took last time. Moreover, the scale of this attack is incomparable to the attack they faced last time."
The tall and fat man from the NSA nodded: "I understand. I agree with you. These two people will be injured to some extent."
"After all, I was also injured when Langley was attacked. We were still so deep underground, and we were hit directly. My injury was treated by a super-powered person, but it took three days to heal." Johnny continued, "Look at the 'Masha family' that we actually confirmed today, and it turned out that they were fine. By the way, Lin Qianxun appeared in front of the British spy immediately after the attack. In such a short time, even the most powerful healer in the world cannot completely heal the burns on the surface."
Johnny didn't know that the armor was provided by Masha to Chihiro and the league secretary. He also didn't know that Masha, who had endured the double mental pressure of two masked princesses being hit, not only did he not faint, but he also pretended to be cool - maybe it was because of his high intelligence that his mental resistance became very high?
Of course, at this time, everyone, including Masha, did not know that increasing intelligence could also increase the "upper limit" of the mental pressure brought by using abilities.
The lack of intelligence will inevitably affect the accuracy of judgment, and this principle is true everywhere.
Johnny continued his thoughts, "Then the conclusion is very simple. Regardless of whether the power armor of the Gundam and Robocop is equipment given by super powers or ordinary technological equipment, they cannot be people around Masha.
"So, it is certain that 'Gundam' and 'Robocoy' belong to another organization. This organization is in opposition to Shadow. Shadow attacked them when they were retreating and injured two of them. This is the most reasonable judgment at the moment."
At this time, an operator asked, "What about Masha? What do you think of the situation on the Yellow King's side? Previously, you speculated that the Yellow King had a biological ability user under his command, who created a corpse and faked the death of the military horse. In fact, he recruited the military horse. But today it seems that this speculation has been overturned."
Johnny looked at the operator who was asking the question and asked, "Are you from the NSA or the CIA?"
"I am a senior intelligence analyst at the NSA..."
"Fire him." Johnny pointed at the man and said to the tall and fat man.
Big Fat Man: "Jack, you've been transferred. Now take your things, get amnesticized, and go back to your previous department."
Then the tall and fat man looked at Johnny and said, "Okay, I fired him, but can you please let me know why you asked me to fire him?"
"Isn't it obvious? Masha just opened the sliding door of the car in her garage, led the two spy girls into the car, and let them take a look at the wonderful little world in the car. That was it. Even an ordinary person can do this. It doesn't prove that Masha is the actual controller of this car. Junma is likely still hiding somewhere in the maid shop."
Johnny raised his index finger. "My conclusion remains the same. Masha, the Yellow King, has the power of memetic contamination. He has gained the loyalty of the warhorses and magical girls, and most likely the 'Pharaoh'. He is gathering his army. However, I have updated my conclusion a little bit now, because this incident has given me some new intelligence and information, which I am happy to share with you.
"Let's look at them one by one. First, why is Junma's car just placed in the garage of the maid shop? Of course, it's because as long as Junma is alive, his equipment will not be destroyed. We have now confirmed that Junma's props can replace the boarding vehicle. In other words, even if the maid shop is bombed and the car is completely destroyed, as long as Junma is alive, he can change the car and continue to use his magical props.
"Secondly, the organization that 'Gundam' and 'Robocoy' belong to is likely many times more powerful than we expected. In this incident, they attacked from this place," Johnny called up the map and tapped a red dot on it, "but after the mission was completed, they did not return to the attack point, but moved along the Yuejiang River? Why? Of course it is because their organization has prepared many different attack points and recovery points. And this organization is likely to have a highly qualified person with abilities similar to Frey who can teleport people away, as well as technical means to block wave detection."
Johnny spread his hands and said, "It seems that in addition to the World Government, there are other people who are preparing for the arrival of the era of superpowers - or the resurrection of spiritual energy, or the twilight of the gods, it doesn't matter. It seems that there are other people who have been preparing for the arrival of this new era for years."
Chapter 321: The wind blows through the bamboo forest, and the sound of bamboo is like the tide (fourth update)
Hoover said: "This is impossible..."
"Why not? Since we in the West can have secret societies such as the Freemasons and the Priory of Sion, why do you think that the civilization that has continued from ancient times to today does not have similar secret societies?" Johnny spread his hands, "I have always hated the Western-centrism. I insist on the smart-man-centrism. Since there are smart people in the West and the East, why do you think there are no secret societies in the East?"
Hoover said: "If they had such secret societies, they would not have suffered the so-called humiliation of modern history, where the Freemasons and the Priory of Sion tried their best to prevent the Ottoman invasion of the West..."
"You're saying it as if China didn't try to get rid of Western aggression. Or do you think their efforts to get rid of Western aggression have failed? They used the Korean War to force their way into the core of the world government and won the same military quota as the other four countries. Now they have more warships being built on their slipways than the entire British Navy combined with the French Navy."
Hoover was speechless for a moment, opening and closing his mouth in vain, like a goldfish thrown ashore and deprived of oxygen.
"A civilization that has basically continued from ancient times to the present day, although it has been conquered several times, but in the end it absorbed new blood while maintaining its own culture. Hegel, that idiot, actually said that such a civilization has no history, 'only one dynasty overthrowing another dynasty.'" Johnny spread his hands, "Ignorance is terrible. Now I think that China also has a secret society, just like the Freemasons. Is that the all-seeing eye on your ring?"
The tall and fat man crossed his hands calmly and covered the ring on his right hand with his left hand.
"Gundam and RoboCop are likely to be the operatives of this secret society. Apparently, the number of awakenings has increased significantly recently, and those who have been dormant feel that it is time for them to take action. They can no longer sit back and watch the awakened ones mess around and cause great suffering to the people."
Big Fat asked, "What about Ying?"
"Just like where there are Templars, there are Assassins." Johnny said as he operated the electronic whiteboard and called up two pictures. "This is very interesting. The left is the bombed Langley, and the right is the bombed Yuezhou Bridge. It is obvious that the railgun reduced its output when attacking the Yuezhou Bridge. Of course, this may be because the attackers thought that this power was enough. After all, this was a direct attack, and the attack on Langley was not. But maybe Ying didn't want to hurt innocent people?"
Johnny moved his hands again and called up the shadow words on the desert: "Look, after they attacked Langley, why didn't they just write next to it? Why did they choose the desert? It can be understood that they want to demonstrate their global strike capability, but... when they are enemies of the World Government, isn't it better to reveal as few of their cards as possible?"
Johnny paused.
"What does this mean?" he asked.
"It shows that the film industry is a Chinese organization, and most of them are probably from Guangdong. Chinese people have a strong sense of hometown and will not hurt their hometown elders."
Johnny looked at the person who answered: "Huayou?"
"White House China adviser..."
"Fire him!" Johnny said.
Big Fat Man shook his head: "I'm afraid you can only make this request to the Commander-in-Chief."
Johnny: "Then let him get out of here. When I see him, I want to scold him very much, which affects my thinking."
Hoover: "Mr. Counselor, I'm sorry, could you please..."
"It's okay." The consultant left the room, but his expression was very gloomy and he didn't look like it was okay.
Johnny went on to say, "I look down on terrorists because they say high-sounding words but in the end they express their ideas by killing unarmed civilians. This is very, very tasteless. This shadow organization is different. They chose strong enemies twice and took the initiative to avoid killing innocent people. I want to apologize to them. I thought they were terrorists."
Big Fat: “Aren’t they?”
"Of course not. This kind of targeted attack, every move is fatal, this is not the style of a terrorist organization. This is Hydra."
Johnny looked at the crowd, enjoying the drama of his words.
"Long live Hydra!"
He waited for a while, but no one responded, so he shrugged and said, "Didn't you guys watch Avengers 4?"
"We're very busy," Big Fat said, "and it's been out for a long time, so most theaters have already taken it off the screen."
"Okay. Anyway, I think we are facing two extremely threatening organizations. One is a secret society that has been preparing for many years and may have terrible technical capabilities and productivity as a backing. The other is a group of superpowers who are closely united by a certain ideal. They are completely different from those terrorist organizations and may have their own program and code of conduct. This kind of thing is ten thousand times more difficult to deal with than terrorists.
"The good news is that Greater China is likely to cooperate with us to jointly deal with the Shadow Organization. The bad news is that the former organization may have many connections with Greater China. Our investigation into them will be blocked by Greater China. There is also some good news, that is, Masha currently seems to have nothing to do with these two organizations, but he is indeed gathering his own troops.
"By the way, I think the reason why the Shadow Organization used the attack on Langley to disrupt Masha's progress, but did not directly attack Masha's maid shop, was not simply because they did not want to hurt innocent people. I think this shows that the King in Yellow may have some way to deal with their orbital attacks."
Big Fat Man: "Do you have any evidence to support your inference?"
"The car," Johnny answered immediately. "Even if his car wouldn't be destroyed as long as Junma survived, it would still take time to move to a new car. The King in Yellow asked Junma to park the car in the garage. Doesn't that show that his maid shop has some kind of defense? In addition, his family usually lives in the shop. I don't believe you when you say that this shop has no defense measures."
Big Fatty thought about it and nodded: "That makes sense."
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At the same time, in a bamboo forest, seven old men with long beards and white robes were chatting.
"Things are getting interesting."
"404, was all this done by the kid you're interested in?"
"To be honest, I'm not sure. If so, it means that his strength and intelligence are growing faster than we expected. If not, isn't it good to regard this as a test for him?"
"If he did all this, then he has a lot of people under his command now. How did he do it?"
"Who knows? Among mortals, we can barely be considered wise based on our old life experience, but these children are the new generation that has received the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. They are destined to be smarter than us and beyond our expectations. Isn't this the most normal thing?"
"If they don't exceed the expectations of us old bones, I will start to worry about the future of mankind."
"It's just that this was unexpected and happened a little too quickly."
"Children always grow faster than their parents imagine. It has always been like this."
"Don't worry. If he goes the wrong way, we are still able to correct him. However, judging from the current situation, we just need to let him grow on his own."
"We should be the last generation of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, right?"
"I'm afraid so. My long-standing duties are finally coming to an end."
"When the day comes that it ends, how about lifting the ban on alcohol to celebrate the fact that we have been fulfilling our mission for thousands of years?"
"Dei!"
The wind blows through the bamboo forest, and the sound of the bamboo is like the tide.
Chapter 322 "What a Powerful Force" (Part )
On Masha's side, nothing major happened until the maid shop closed that day.
Comrade Shelley and Josephine hurried back shortly after they left the maid shop in a hurry in the morning.
It is obvious that they want to keep a close eye on Masha.
So when the two of them came back, Masha joked: "My bed is still vacant, do you want to stay here tonight?"
Both of them refused decisively.
Masha was quite puzzled. Why? In the current situation, shouldn't I be under round-the-clock surveillance?
