Masha: "Change people! Chihiro, Xiao Shi, you two SSS, and the S of the League Secretary, put on your power armor and come over. Shelley, come over too. You are a member of the Shadow, so you don't need to wear armor to hide your identity."
Masha now has a total of four power armors, not counting spare parts. He drives one himself, so only three people can come at a time.
Shelley is set to be the shadow anyway, so just come over and be done with it.
After a moment, the two SSS and the two S sat in front of the sword stuck on the top of the mountain.
The league secretary complained: "Why do I feel like we are performing some strange ritual?"
"Just think of it as us trying to resurrect Jehovah," Masha said. "Okay, close your eyes, concentrate, and feel the aura as I tell you."
This time, Xiao Shi and Chihiro quickly felt the presence of spiritual energy.
Shelley and the league secretary felt nothing.
Baiquan: "So, in fact, only SSS-level can easily sense spiritual energy. Is it because I am special that I can sense it?"
Masha looked at Baiquan thoughtfully.
——I remember that at the beginning, this little girl's qualification in magic weapon was A. Later, when Shelley took a look, relying on the extraordinary ability of Shelley's 20 perception, it was discovered that she was an S, and the A was an illusion.
——Her initial attributes were also fake.
——Could it be that... this girl is actually also an SSS, but Shelley’s perception is only 20, so she can’t completely see through her disguise?
Masha was shocked.
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While Masha was shocked, Ben broke into Johnny's bedroom, who was about to go to sleep, holding a satellite photo: "Johnny! Look at this! Shadow is doing mysterious activities on the top of Mount Sinai!"
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Because I have paid off what I owe!
Of course, I just write until I feel satisfied, and then publish it all in one breath.
Chapter 592 My Jesus!
Johnny snatched the photo from Ben's hand and found it was a satellite photo. He looked at it carefully and frowned: "What are they doing?"
"I don't know." Ben was frank.
"It looks like some kind of sacrifice." Johnny quickly flipped through the other photos, "Why are there only these? Are there no photos of other things?"
"No, the satellite was in the air for a very short time. When the intelligence analysis team discovered the problem here, the satellite had already moved to another location. It is said that the reason why the problem was discovered here was because the cat raised by the analysis team randomly pushed the mouse and happened to zoom in on this area.
"Then the analysis team immediately retrieved satellite photos of Mount Sinai taken in the last 24 hours and found only these."
Spy satellites cannot monitor the entire world 24 hours a day. Current technology is basically unable to achieve the kind of uninterrupted real-time surveillance seen in Hollywood movies and American TV series.
In order to ensure the clarity of photos, spy satellites basically operate in lower orbits and can only take pictures of the areas where the satellites pass.
That is why there is the so-called satellite reconnaissance window period. Monitoring the orbits of other countries' spy satellites passing through a country's airspace, grasping the window period, and conducting military mobilization and deployment during the window period are compulsory courses for the space command of a major power.
Currently, the only countries that can achieve this level are probably the United States, Russia, France, Britain and other countries.
Perhaps in a few years, only the United States, Russia and other countries will be able to achieve this level of space surveillance.
Johnny was shocked: "So, the analysis department didn't know when Ying had been there, right?"
"To be precise, we don't know what Ying did during the 12-hour window. The analysis department can confirm that Ying was not there when the satellite was last overhead."
"In the United States, in a hotspot like the Sinai Peninsula, the satellite reconnaissance window is as long as 12 hours?"
At this time, the Egyptian director of the CIA just walked in. When he heard what Johnny said, he shrugged and said, "Congress has already cut almost all of NASA's projects that can be cut. They can only cut funding for the military's space projects. The President is going to re-launch the moon landing recently, and there is really no money."
Johnny glared at the supervisor: "You know that?"
"I am a regional director, a senior employee." The director spread his hands, "But that's not what I came here to tell you. I want to tell you that the drone has reached Mount Sinai and found no trace of the shadow."
"The Global Hawk was deployed so quickly? It seems the Air Force has sufficient funding."
"We use big ginger. In fact, our current practice is that for drone reconnaissance missions within 200 kilometers around the 'site', we use our own modified big ginger, which can effectively increase the efficiency of deployment and the risk of leakage is also very low."
At this time, the chief scientist followed in and said to Johnny, "It sounds like a profitable blue ocean. Mr. Iron Master, maybe your group can occupy this field?"
Ben immediately showed an expression that something was wrong. He glanced at Johnny, and then his face changed to an expression that everything was over, because he knew that the chief scientist's words touched Johnny's sore spot.
Johnny glared at the chief engineer and said with an expression of looking at an idiot: "I'm not an idiot. I won't do such a thing. If I want to compete with Chinese companies, I have to put my factory in China. If you have investigated, you will know that China's complete industrial system, advanced logistics and strong infrastructure give China's industrial products a huge cost advantage.
“Only a fool would believe the nonsense that economists say China has a cost advantage because of its cheap labor. The fact is that China’s labor costs have increased, but they still have a huge cost advantage over places with lower labor costs, such as Vietnam.
"If you set up a factory in China, no matter what you produce, all the parts and upstream and downstream supporting facilities you need can be found within a day's drive from your factory. Only China can do this, so the Chinese can push high-tech products to - in their words, cabbage prices."
Ben: "Johnny, you're getting off topic."
However, Johnny was clearly in high spirits, and he was not going to stop his long speech just because of Ben's reminder after being touched by the chief scientist's words:
“So now in the field of industrial products, as long as China can produce a product, no one can compete with them, and now there are fewer and fewer things that China cannot produce.
"This has happened over and over again. Previously, the media was desperately promoting wind power, ready to make a fortune by relying on the monopoly of wind turbine technology. Why is there no media promoting wind power now? Because most wind turbines are produced by Chinese. The technology giants that originally intended to hype wind power now have only a small market share in the wind power field.
"There is also solar energy. Solar power generation was very popular before, but now it is the Chinese who have started to build solar power stations on a large scale. Because more than 70% to 80% of the world's solar equipment is produced in China, the Chinese have completely occupied the market.
"Whatever advanced things we hype, the Chinese will quickly turn them into cabbages that can be mass-produced, because they are now the world's factory and have the only complete industrial system in the world. If they hadn't followed some rules and respected intellectual property rights, we would have lost everything long ago.
“There are still some fools who are clamoring that we should not respect the intellectual property rights of Chinese companies, without thinking about who will suffer if everyone does not respect intellectual property rights.
"The reason why it has become like this is that stupid financial capitalists can make a lot of money by relying on financial leverage, so everyone has become a financial capitalist. No one remembers that we have the advantages we have now, which are entirely due to industrialization. Everything we have now is the dividend of industrialization. In Chinese terms, this is called forgetting one's roots!"
Johnny slammed the satellite photo on the table and continued angrily, "Our smartest young people either want to study finance and become the wolves of Wall Street, or want to become lawyers and become partners of the wolves of Wall Street. Oh, and recently more and more people are planning to start as lawyers and eventually enter politics, just because Kevin Spacey and his House of Cards became popular!
"And those smart young people who don't want to be Wall Street wolves or lawyers all dream of joining Facebook, Twitter and Apple and becoming Silicon Valley elites. The last small minority is left. Guess what their dream is? Huh, to be an independent game developer! When I was studying in MIT, the students who liked to do scientific research were either Chinese or Chinese international students, and there were also some Indians.
"I was recruiting technicians, and it was just as hard to find a white person as it was to find a black person. All I saw were yellow-skinned Chinese or brown-skinned Indians. I finally found someone who looked like an Aryan. I thought he was German, but when he started speaking, his English sounded like curry!"
Ben: "Ah, there are indeed many people with Aryan ancestry in the upper castes of India."
The CIA director was speechless.
The chief scientist finally found the opportunity to speak. He said, "You must not let outsiders know what you said. You will immediately become the target of public criticism."
"Then let them revoke my nationality." Johnny looked unhappy. He lowered his head and glanced at the photo on the table. "Where were we just talking about?"
"Speaking of the Shadow Organization's actions during the satellite reconnaissance window period." The CIA director replied immediately.
"Okay, thank you, I remember now. So, we have no way of knowing what the Shadow Organization did before the two satellites came into the sky, right?"
The CIA regional director nodded.
The spy satellite's camera will take a photo at regular intervals, and there will be a certain area of overlap between the two photos. This is to cross-verify and eliminate interference from some accidental factors.
Now Johnny can only guess what Ying is doing based on these photos.
Johnny stared at the only photo.
"This guy," Johnny pointed at one of the photos, "is the only one not wearing power armor. Have you figured out her identity?"
"The analysis team believes that she may be the rebellious British agent Shelley," said Ben.
Chief Scientist: "Wait a minute, a British agent defected? I've never heard of this..."
"Because your clearance level is not high enough," Johnny rolled his eyes at him, "Get out now. What we are going to talk about next is something you are not allowed to know with your clearance level. For your own good, you should leave."
The chief scientist raised his hands in surrender and walked away backwards.
After watching the chief scientist close the door, Johnny glanced at Ben and said, "Are they sure it's her?"
“Basically confirmed.”
"Very good. We have four photos. Judging from the length of the shadows on the ground, the chronological order is as follows," Johnny arranged the photos. "The British traitor agent appeared once in the last photo. In the previous three photos, there were only four power armors on the top of the mountain, and one... What do the Analysis Department think this thing is?"
Johnny pointed to an object that appeared in all four photos.
Ben: "They think it's a... a person in an oversized Muppet suit, and given the size of the suit, there could be two or three people in it."
Johnny frowned, "What the hell? Why is there a puppet costume?"
Ben threw up his hands. "The analytics team obviously wants us to tell them. And I want you to tell me."
The CIA's Egypt regional director suddenly spoke up: "Regarding this, our sniper just submitted a written engagement report. He said he saw something that looked like the Disneyland mascot and the guy with King Arthur's sword retreating into the door that suddenly appeared."
Johnny: "...So, that puppet suit is a power armor? Is that what you mean?"
The CIA director spread his hands.
Johnny also spread his hands: "What do you mean by spreading your hands? Don't you want me to ask you a question and then use your hands to answer it? Don't you have a mouth? Speak!"
"I don't know." The CIA director said, "But you see, the villains in superpower comics all have some quirks, don't they? For example, the Joker's face, this... may also be the quirk of a cadre of the Shadow Organization? Master Tie, don't you also like to play music when you fight?"
"That was played by the movie's composer. I never play music when I'm fighting."
Ben: "But the original Spider-Man played music while he was fighting."
"That's because he's still a middle school student! Damn it, why hasn't he skipped a grade and gone to MIT? Is there any point in wasting his life in middle school?"
"Johnny, for many people, middle school is an integral part of youth, and we are the outliers."
"Okay, you're right, Friday, record it!"
The AI terminal next to Johnny replied, "Understood, recording, go ahead."
"Add an item to my work log: 'Develop a drone that can amp music while I'm in combat.'"
"Recording completed, added to the work log."
Johnny: "Okay, now we can ignore this weirdo in a puppet costume, because the enemies of us weird superheroes should be weird. Let's continue studying Shadow's behavior."
Johnny pointed to a blurry spot on the photo: "What is this? It looks like a tombstone. Are there tombstones on Mount Sinai?"
"No." Ben answered immediately, "The analysis team is also speculating what this thing is. It is too small, and even the photos taken by our satellite cannot easily determine it. However, the analysis team found that this thing is exactly at the highest point of Mount Sinai, with the longitude and latitude accurate to the millimeter."
"There's no monument or anything like that at the highest point of Mount Sinai?"
"Yes, but not at the actual top," Ben said.
"Is the analysis team sure that there has never been such a thing on Mount Sinai before?"
“They’re sure.”
Johnny pursed his lips and stared at the blurry dot.
"Shadow brought something and placed it on the highest physical point of Mount Sinai, and then sent five people wearing power armor to do something in front of this thing..." Johnny muttered in a low voice, summarizing what was reflected in the photo.
"Shadow would not do meaningless things. From stealing Stonehenge, to robbing King Arthur's sword, to robbing Pharaoh Jocel's mummy, this series of actions must be related to each other."
As soon as Johnny finished speaking, Ben whispered, "The Great Return?"
Johnny and Ben looked at each other.
Ben: "No, don't tell me you and I are thinking the same thing! This is ridiculous!"
"Besides this, is there any other explanation?" Johnny asked back, "No, there are indeed other explanations, but since you and I both thought of this direction at the first time, it means this is the most likely possibility, isn't it?"
"But he's been dead for two thousand years!"
"If a pharaoh who had been dead for five thousand years was resurrected, is it strange that someone who had only been dead for two thousand years was resurrected? You know, Ying resurrected Shelley, who had been shot in the back and thrown into a decomposition machine until only liquid and some residues were left! They have the ability to do this."
The CIA supervisor asked in confusion, "What are you talking about? Who is Ying going to resurrect?"
Johnny turned and glanced at his supervisor.
Ben immediately stopped him: "No, Johnny, wait a minute!"
But it was too late.
"Jesus," Johnny said, "They're going to resurrect Jesus."
The CIA director's eyes almost popped out, and he subconsciously exclaimed: "Oh my God!"
**
At this time, in faraway China, Masha sneezed three times loudly in a row.
Masha: ????
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