Then she tilted her head slightly and looked out the window.
——In order to prevent some idiots in the cabinet from doing bad things, it seems that I need some unconventional means.
——And no matter what the film wants, obtaining it through formal channels will definitely arouse the suspicion of the CIA and KGB.
——It’s time to put those terrorists we have nurtured for so long into action.
Ms. M, who has made up her mind, will not be confused.
She will use all means to fight for the interests of MI6 and Britain.
Even if these methods are not so just or glorious, it doesn’t matter.
Rather, most of Ms. M's achievements in her life were achieved through dirty means and dirty deals.
Ms. M continued to work out the details of the plan while waiting for the analysts to finish sharing their findings.
Just when she thought things were almost done, the operator in charge of confidential communications suddenly said, "The Americans are asking what happened on Fleet Street."
Ms. M remained calm.
Of course, Americans would notice the actions of Fleet Street. In fact, their reaction was much slower than Ms. M expected.
The Soviets have probably hurriedly awakened all the moles to collect intelligence.
That was why Ms. M went into the room alone and listened to Ying's terms of the deal over the phone - she never repeated the terms of the deal when she spoke to the synthesized voice.
Of course, she didn't do any recording.
During the conversation, Ying's synthesized voice said, "You must have recorded it," but it was wrong. Ms. M did not record it, not at all.
——Shadow can also make mistakes, its leader is not omniscient and omnipotent.
Ms. M didn't know that the leader of the Shadow was not able to speak to him in person for various reasons when he was carrying out his plan.
The one who miscalculated was the harem member of the leader of the shadow who was in charge of the call.
"How to respond to the Americans?" someone asked.
“We don’t have the obligation to tell the Americans everything we know, do we?” Ms. M asked. “Tell them we have no comment. Let them explore it themselves.”
"Yes."
Ms. M paused and added another order: "From now on, upgrade the security level of the Green Door system and closely monitor anyone who has access to the Green Door system! This system may be the only way for us to communicate with the Shadow."
——The next thing to do is to get what Ying wants.
Ms. M recalled the list being read by the synthesized voice.
Although there was no recording, she was fully confident that she could memorize everything needed for the film.
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After updating this chapter, I will board the plane. Tomorrow I will have a dinner with online writers in Hangzhou, and the day after tomorrow I will go to Nanjing to fence with Du Kang...
I hope Du Kang doesn't break my hand...
Update as usual, I have mastered the skill of typing on my laptop in airports and hotels!
Chapter 635 Happy New Year
A few hours later, the CIA shared with Johnny the summary of MI6's movements in the form of a report.
"I was wondering why Hoover was so concerned about sharing the report all of a sudden," Johnny seemed in a good mood, and his tone of voice rose slightly when he spoke to Ben, "It turns out that the British were in cahoots with Ying."
"Indeed, this movement is very suspicious, and it seems that it has made some kind of deal with Ying." Ben also used his tablet to read the report from the CIA. "But Ying is so powerful, does it need to make a deal with MI6? In the past, it has fooled MI6 and the CIA, and maybe the KGB as well."
"Yes! But the Shadow who doesn't care about what he can't do now has to cooperate with the British because of the actions of the Yellow King." Johnny looked excited. "This means that for the Shadow, the actions of the Yellow King have threatened their foundation. They must go all out to deal with the Yellow King, and can only leave some low-priority tasks to the British.
“If I’m not mistaken, Shadow will continue to attack the Yellow King, and all their plans will be delayed because of this series of actions taken by the Yellow King.
"The King in Yellow is so powerful. He easily did what we couldn't do! He hit Shadow hard!"
Ben smiled and said, "I'm wondering now, did the King in Yellow make his research public because he anticipated that what he did would have such a big impact on Ying?"
"It's very likely!" Johnny said, and then changed the subject, "But now what we need to care about is what kind of deal Ying reached with the British."
"Can't Hoover figure this out through the intelligence exchange mechanism between the British and us?" Ben asked.
Johnny shook his head. "No, it's impossible. How could the British tell us the details of the deal? They would just play dumb. But I guess Ying can't offer powerful spiritual energy technology in exchange.
"After all, think about it, what the Yellow King did was just to reveal part of the secrets of spiritual energy, but it already made Ying so embarrassed. If Ying himself revealed more secrets about spiritual energy, wouldn't that be counterproductive? No, I don't think Ying would use this to make a deal.
"But the film had to come up with something attractive enough to make the British determined to conceal the content of the deal from the CIA."
Johnny stroked his chin and looked at Ben.
Ben obviously thought of something as well and smiled at Johnny.
They both said together: "Potential awakening list!"
"But, does Ying really have that kind of thing?" Ben immediately said in a skeptical tone.
"The key is not whether the Shadow really has that kind of thing, but to make the British believe that they do." Johnny said, "As long as the British believe in the list, at least one transaction can be made. After the British find out that the list is fake, the transaction has been completed."
Ben took over the conversation and continued, "And if a few of the people on that list really awaken, the British might believe the authenticity of the list and trade with Ying again."
"Yes! So the thing Ying took out to trade with the British was most likely this list.
"In addition to this list, Ying may also use the location of the cave paradise to trade with the British. After all, the British have not found any cave paradises on their own land. Maybe Ying will tell them some cave paradises that are difficult to find using current methods. For example, cave paradises deep underground or something like that."
"And what are they going to get?" Ben asked.
Johnny shrugged. "That's a little harder to guess, but it's probably something that MI6 can get hold of easily."
"Like the antiquities in the British Museum?" Ben speculated.
"That's very likely. It could be something else. After all, Ying would be interested in ancient monuments like Stonehenge, and he even stole the entire Stonehenge. Maybe Ying would target ancient British buildings like Whitechapel."
Johnny said this before shaking his head.
“However, apart from Stonehenge, there doesn’t seem to be any ancient buildings in the UK that were built in the Dharma Ending Age as speculated by the King in Yellow.
“The areas controlled by the British don’t seem to have many of these things—India should have quite a few relics from the Dharma Ending Age, but the South Asian subcontinent is not under British administration now.”
Johnny paused, and then said, "We don't need to spend too much energy guessing the deal between Shadow and MI6. We can just let the CIA's moles spy on these things. It costs a lot of money to keep them.
"We just need to toast to Shadow's embarrassment."
Ben agreed. "You're right. Shadow was first tricked by the discovery announced by the Yellow King, and then failed in their raid on the Yellow King. Now they are even forced to cooperate with the British. This is the rare time they have been defeated since they appeared in public, right?"
"No, no, Ying has already been defeated by Masha once before. This Masha is indeed a character!"
At this time, Johnny's computer manager Friday said: "Received an email from CIA headquarters."
"Turn on the projection to the screen."
The next moment, the email was projected onto the wall of the room where Johnny and Ben were.
When Johnny saw the content of the email, he clapped his hands vigorously: "Well done!"
In the email, there were many photos, and the explanatory document said that these were photos of MI6's contact with the shadow obtained from a "reliable source".
Before Johnny could say anything, Friday enlarged the pictures in the attachment one by one.
"Two Shelleys?" Johnny exclaimed when he saw the first photo. "What does that mean?"
Ben: "Copy?"
Friday: "My logic engine determines that the most likely possibility is a disguise."
Ben: "Yeah, yeah, the normal thought is that this is a disguise, but that's Shadow. I feel like it wouldn't be a strange thing even if Shadow really took out a clone."
"What the shadow does is not meaningless. This must be to send us some kind of information. It is indeed very likely that they copied people, because this can deter us."
Johnny said, "Next one."
The next picture made Johnny gasp, "This... skeleton, could it be the same skeleton that attacked the King in Yellow before?"
"That's possible," Ben said. "I can't understand why it's a skeleton? Is this a personal hobby of the superpower person?"
"No, I think it may be related to the mummy that Ying took from Egypt. At that time, we speculated that Ying could revive the esper of the Dharma Ending Age. This skeleton may be one of the esper of the Dharma Ending Age who was resurrected."
Ben: “So it could be Jesus?”
Masha could never have imagined that Ben would mistake him for Jesus in the form of a skeleton.
Johnny nodded, "It's possible. After all, the Pharaoh is a mummy. If a mummy comes back to life, it might look like a mummy. Ying even deliberately stole the Pharaoh's cabinet of internal organs."
It seems that when it comes to screenwriting skills, Ben and Johnny are better.
The next photo shows an elderly lady being led by a skeleton through a gate that appears out of nowhere on the street.
In the next photo the street is empty.
"Wait a minute!" Johnny yelled, "Friday, is this photo in chronological order?"
"Yes, at least according to the timestamps attached to the photos, they are arranged in chronological order."
“See if there are any scenes in the photo that are not on this street.”
As soon as Johnny finished speaking, Ben spoke up, "This street, I think it's Fleet Street. I went there several times when I was studying in England."
Friday: "My analysis and comparison showed that it was Fleet Street. I retrieved three photos that were not taken on Fleet Street."
"Release it!"
The next moment, Johnny and Ben saw a huge inverted pyramid and the city buildings that appeared together with the pyramid.
Johnny and Ben were silent.
After about a minute, Ben said, "It looks like the view outside the window is an underground city?"
"Friday, no photos from other angles?" Johnny asked.
"No, all the photos with this background were taken from the same angle." Friday placed three photos of the inverted pyramid side by side on the wall.
Johnny was amazed: "Ying is indeed very powerful! Considering that after Masha made his research results public, the whole world has been looking for a paradise like crazy. The underground city of Ying may be tens or even hundreds of kilometers underground. At this depth, we should not be able to feel spiritual energy from the ground!"
"Building an underground city hundreds of kilometers underground, relying on a huge cavity? Why does it sound like Evangelion?"
Ben said.
Johnny: "Maybe Hideaki Anno, who directed Evangelion, got wind of this from somewhere. A large portion of Japanese animation film artists are left-wing, and many of them have pro-China tendencies.
"In any case, if Ying has such a large underground fortress, it means that their organization is extremely large and may have many helpers. Maybe our large American companies are also providing them with products."
As Johnny was speaking, he suddenly realized that his fingers were shaking slightly with excitement.
He suppressed his excitement and continued, "Such a large organization was not exposed at all in the joint investigation of intelligence agencies around the world! Ben, do you know what this means?"
Ben: "It means there's a mole!"
"Yes, there are spy agencies all over the world who have spy secrets inside the Shadow! And they are high-ranking spy secrets that can help hide the Shadow!"
Johnny suddenly stopped and glared at Ben.
"So that's it!" he shouted.
Ben was surprised: "What happened?"
"Haven't we analyzed before why Ying wanted to attack Langley? We thought at the time that Ying wanted to put the blame on the King in Yellow. But we were wrong! I'm afraid the real reason for attacking Langley is - think about the first movie of Infernal Affairs!"
Ben gasped, "So that's what happened! Someone discovered Shadow's helper!"
"Yes, so Ying attacked Langley and killed the person who discovered the mole and all the evidence pointing to the mole at once!"
"This makes the action seem very reasonable," Ben nodded repeatedly. "I originally thought that Ying was overdoing it by making such a big fuss just to frame someone."
"Shadow's attacks have left many positions vacant at the CIA, and those who have taken their place are likely to have supporters of Shadow. The entire CIA is no longer trustworthy!
"Think carefully, the process of the Yellow King and his men being attacked also gave people the feeling that Shadow had a strong internal support! No mistake, Shadow has been everywhere! From this point of view, the British will never be the first to trade with Shadow. As long as the British gain benefits from the trade with Shadow, other countries will follow suit."
Johnny's expression was very serious.
"I'm afraid that the worst-case scenario is that we will be fighting the Shadow alone with the Yellow King!"
Ben: "Perhaps the Yellow King had foreseen this possibility, and that's why he was so eager to make his discovery public, to build a school, and to prepare for the fight against the Kage."
Johnny: "Shadow is a very powerful opponent. I still don't understand what happened to the guy whose power armor suddenly turned white when Shadow attacked the King in Yellow."
Johnny was referring to Xiao Di, of course he didn't know that it was Xiao Di inside the power armor.
In his opinion, an enemy wearing power armor suddenly glowed and then could launch a powerful super-power attack, and the entire attack method was changed.
Obviously Johnny was shocked by Xiao Shi's explosiveness and regarded it as Ying's trump card.
