Masha nodded.
Then the group left the maid shop.
**
Josephine heard the door open and immediately got up from the bed.
As an agent, her sleep was always light and she could wake up at any time.
Being ambushed while sleeping is a disgrace for an agent.
She simply tied her hair up, and the door opened as soon as she finished.
After the KGB agent who had been in charge of guarding the detention room and delivering meals to Josephine opened the door, he only took a look inside and then stepped aside to make way.
Then Masha walked in.
"Hey, long time no see."
Josephine looked at Marsha. "I thought the vigilantes would come directly to me."
"I see. In the end, it was the vigilantes who avenged you." Masha improvised. "Come to think of it, they hate people who think they can do whatever they want just because they have awakened superpowers."
Josephine looked at Marsha.
——This guy definitely has a very deep connection with the vigilantes.
Josephine firmly believed this.
But she couldn't guess what the connection was.
——This man is unfathomable.
Josephine thought so.
——However, I have long felt his unfathomable depth.
Josephine said to Martha, "Thank the vigilante for me if you can."
Masha: "I don't think they're interested in hearing thanks from a woman who won't even tell us her real name."
Josephine: "I thought that knowing where I was born would give you a way to find my real name."
"Maybe the vigilantes have this ability," Masha shrugged, "but there is a difference between telling your identity and finding out your real name."
After saying this, Marsha looked at Josephine with enthusiastic eyes, as if he was expecting something.
Josephine hesitated.
In the profession of a spy, hesitation will lead to failure. When a decision is needed during an action, a decisive decision may not necessarily lead to a good result, but hesitation will definitely lead to the worst outcome.
Josephine rarely hesitated. Even when she decided to use Shadow's hand to complete her revenge, she did not hesitate at all - of course, repeatedly pondering her plans before taking action is not called hesitation, but caution.
Now Josephine hesitated.
——If I tell you my real name here, will the KGB think that it is hinting to the vigilantes that I want to surrender?
——Although the KGB probably expects me to become a double agent for the vigilantes, they must also be worried that I will really become a member of the vigilantes and serve the vigilantes.
——Should I tell you my real name here?
Josephine keenly felt that whether or not to reveal her real name would definitely lead her destiny into two completely different paths.
She hesitated.
She didn't want to be a traitor to East Germany.
But she was indeed grateful to the vigilante who had avenged her, and she knew that deep down in her heart, she wanted to learn more about the vigilante organization and their code of conduct.
Josephine saw Martha looking down at her watch.
At this moment, she made her choice.
"Claudia," she said. "Claudia von Steiermark."
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Something happened at home today, so they called me back home during the day.
Annoyed to death.
Then I turned on my phone and found that Kyoto Animation had been hit hard.
Although I am not a Kyoto fan, I still have deep feelings for many of Kyoto Animation's works.
Some of Kyoto Animation's works have had a great influence on me, such as Lucky Star. I can see a lot of Lucky Star's influence in my daily interactions.
I'm really depressed today.
I am an emotional writer, so I can only postpone the outburst. There is still one chapter at 0:, and I have to drink some alcohol to relieve my sorrow after I finish writing.
In order to cheer myself up as soon as possible, I make a vow to update ten times tomorrow!
Chapter 555: The Straight Man's Time to Pick Up Girls (Update )
Masha teased, "You also said that Jeanne's last name 'Caroline' is a symbol of the decadent aristocracy. Aren't you also a noble? Styria is a place name. I know that in Austria, it is a large territory at the level of an earldom. Your ancestor was at least a count!"
Josephine - no, Claudia rolled her eyes: "My family has already drawn a clear line with our sinful ancestors."
"Really?" Masha drawled.
This kind of boundary cannot be drawn easily.
Masha knew this very well.
One summer, Masha worked as a volunteer, and the person she was helping was the son of a serious criminal. To be honest, he was a good young man who tried hard to behave well and prove to everyone that he was different from his father.
However, people around him still judged him with "traditional wisdom" like "a dragon gives birth to a dragon, a phoenix gives birth to a phoenix, and a mouse's child will dig holes", which caused him to encounter quite serious psychological problems.
If that person hadn't met Masha, he might have collapsed under the pressure.
Masha is a unique person, and this uniqueness is also reflected in the way he evaluates others.
He really doesn't look at people through tinted glasses.
In other words, he basically only looks at whether the person is compatible with his own taste and temperament, and whether he has the ability. People who are incompetent or whose tempers don't match his taste can't actually enter Masha's field of vision. He doesn't care about these people's evaluation of him at all, and he won't evaluate these people in turn.
So Masha can treat everyone equally, but this is the way humans treat ants equally - in other words, it's called arrogance.
So Masha, who was arrogant, helped the son of the felon. When Masha's volunteer activity ended, the man held Masha's hand and said with tears in his eyes: "You let me know that there are still good people in this world who don't judge people by their background."
Masha responded with a smile: "I think all people are born equal. No one is inferior to others from the moment they are born."
Now, facing Josephine with a complicated expression, he thought of his son who was a serious criminal again.
——Josephine, no, Claudia must be facing the same problem.
——You can tell from her expression.
At this time, Josephine-Claudia spoke up: "I admit that my background did cause some trouble for me and my family, but I still became a senior agent of the Stasi..."
"And yet you're in detention now," Masha pointed out.
"That's because I violated the discipline! If I hadn't violated the discipline, I would have been able to get promoted like an ordinary East German and realize my own life value, thus proving that I have completely gotten rid of my corrupt ancestors..."
Masha coughed, interrupting what Jo-Claudia was saying.
"Claudia, our Chinese civilization is an ancestral temple civilization. Here, cursing your ancestors is a very disrespectful act." Masha paused and continued before Claudia could speak:
“Generally, the way we Chinese think is: our ancestors may indeed have limited abilities, not much knowledge, and not enough ability. I am better than our ancestors, so I want to do something to bring honor to our family, to comfort the spirits of our ancestors in heaven, and to leave something for future generations to brag about.
"That's how we think. So, I think you shouldn't resist your last name so much. You have to accept it. Think about it, you are a noble, so your family must have received a good education for generations. The fact that you can become an excellent agent and master so many languages must be related to this.
"And you have good physical fitness, this must be..."
"That's enough!" Claudia interrupted Masha loudly, "Everything I have is the result of my own hard work! And if you talk like this, do you still want to seduce me?"
Masha: "Wow, do you German girls speak so directly?"
Claudia didn't answer.
Masha put on a serious expression and said, "I do want to seduce you. I won't deny it. I am now increasing my manpower. The addition of an experienced and well-trained spy will be of great help to me."
Masha knew that once he said this, intelligence analysts from various countries would be busy again. They had to analyze what Masha was going to do by increasing the number of staff.
However, as long as the intelligence agencies of various countries do not have the most critical information, such as the door to anywhere, the fairyland, and Masha’s magical weapon, without these key information, no matter how they analyze, they will only get further and further away from the truth.
This is Masha's strategy now: talking nonsense, improvising, saying things here and there that seem to have other meanings, leaving you to guess.
Claudia looked at Masha and suddenly said, "How much of what you just said is true?"
"The part about wanting to woo you is true," Masha replied.
“No, I think it’s true that you want to increase your manpower.” Claudia leaned forward and looked at Masha. “I’ve fought you once before.”
"Have it?"
Claudia ignored Masha's joke and continued, "I know that you are a resourceful person with strong initiative and determination. You are acting like a hermit who wants to retreat to the mountains, but I know that you must be planning something big - because you are the kind of person who wants to do big things."
"Really? So this is how the KGB evaluates me..."
"No, this is my assessment of you. No one would be stupid enough to write something like this into a report based on 'feelings'."
Claudia looked at Masha.
"I've already told you my real name. If you want to pick me up, please face me with your true self."
"Is the you in front of me now," Masha immediately asked, "really real?"
Claudia didn't answer.
Masha also leaned forward, approached her, smiled and said, "Trust is mutual. If you want others to be sincere to you, you have to be sincere too. I really hope that one day I can see the real you."
Leaving these words, Masha turned and walked towards the door of the confinement room.
He was anxious to go back and check Claudia's qualifications.
Claudia said to his back, "Tell the vigilantes that I'm interested in them."
——Oh, a straight ball.
——However, this straight ball is not easy to handle. It is not right to agree, nor is it right to refuse.
So Masha turned around decisively and gave Claudia a meaningful smile.
——This smile, whatever you say it means, that’s what it means. Anyway, I just want to give it a wicked smile, it doesn’t have any special meaning.
**
At the same time, Loch Ness, England.
The submersible ended several hours of deep-sea exploration and surfaced.
Then a man dressed as a diver, holding a long object wrapped in cloth, came out of the submersible and walked towards the archaeologists and antiquities experts who had been waiting on the shore.
He placed the object on the table and unwrapped the cloth that wrapped it.
The light instantly captured everyone's vision, and it took several seconds for everyone's eyes to adjust to the sudden strong light.
Then, the gorgeous sword that was not at all in line with the sword-making level of ancient Britain came into everyone's eyes.
"Oh my God," someone exclaimed, "the carving on the sword guard! That's the symbol of King Arthur!"
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Ten updates tomorrow.
I won't say any more, I'm going to drink alone, RIP Kyoto Animation
Chapter 556 Listen, it is the pine and cypress that are telling the story (Part )
Masha left Claudia's confinement room with a smile.
As soon as he got down to the main control floor of Chen Zhongwu's team, Chen Zhongwu came up to him and said, "I have some news that might interest you. Just a few minutes ago, the British pulled out a sword from the water of Loch Ness."
As he spoke, Chen Zhongwu handed the tablet computer in his hand to Masha.
Masha originally thought that he would see the famous Sword of Covenant Victory, but in fact, the photo displayed on the tablet looked like a fairly ordinary European longsword - except for two points: first, as a sword dug out from the lake, it was too smooth and looked like new; second, its hilt was extremely gorgeous.
Just by looking at the sword guard, you can tell that this sword belongs to a person of prominent status.
Masha swiped the screen slightly and switched to the text briefing. Only then did he realize that it was a British cultural relic expert who recognized the King Arthur symbol on the sword guard.
——It glows, it was found in the lake, and then it was confirmed to be King Arthur’s sword, it’s you, the Sword of Contract and Victory!
