Subtitle of this chapter: Do you want Lady Lex to sink if you say?

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The SCP Foundation's twenty-two large Arcana cards correspond to most of them have been satisfactorily answered.

The author is very sure of the following:

The No. 0 fool is Yuan Yanqian himself.

Magic No. 1 is Mr. Howard Phillips Lovecraft.

Priestess No. 2 is Ms. Emma Pulitzer.

Queen No. 3 is Ms. Helen Brown.

King No. 4 is Mr. John McCall.

Pope No. 5 is Mr. Louis Baker.

Love No. 6 is Ms. Lillian Gish.

Hermit No. 9 is Mr. Edgar Hoover.

The number 10 fate is Ms. Ainyuca Rocher.

Justice No. 11 is Mr. Julian Herman Chandler.

Tower 16 is Mr. Nikola Tesla.

The author is generally certain, but the lack of conclusive evidence is:

The number 12 upside-down man is suspected to be Benito Mussolini.

Temperance No. 14 is suspected to be Adolf Hitler.

The moon on the 18th and the sun on the 19th were mentioned earlier, so I won't go into details.

In addition, the cards of Chariot 7, Power 8, Death 13, Demon 15, Star 17, Trial 20, and World 21 do have their own corresponding suspects, but the suspects of these cards are all plural, and the author is still not sure which one it is.

For example, the number 7 chariot plate. There is a theory that Guderian and another is Patton, and these two chariot commanders did have some degree of contact with Yuan Yanqi. However, there is also a theory that the chariot was a warlord who was very active in the Central Plains of China in the twenties and thirties - Li Jie and Li Ziyi.

There is also the power card of No. 8, which obviously corresponds to a big banker, because Yuan Yanqian has a mantra that money is power. But there are so many big bankers with whom he knows, some say it's Andrew Mellon, some say it's Joseph Kennedy, some say it's George Baker Sr...... Some even say it's J.P. Morgan.

But there is another suspect, and that is Heinche Siegfried Chandler. He was once a prominent senior officer in the U.S. Navy, and he was also the youngest son of Mr. Yurian Chandler, Yuen Yan's teacher. His eldest brother is Justice 11, and his sister Eva Chandler is a movie actress who is rumored to be Hitler's mistress.

The U.S. Navy officer is suspected of having swallowed up Japan's vast wealth in Southeast Asia at the end of World War II along with his men, and it is likely that this staggering wealth found its way into the SCP Foundation's coffers. As a result, this secret organization really began to stir up trouble all over the world.

Therefore, it can be said that he is the one who provides the SCP Foundation with real "power".

Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1904, he entered the U.S. Naval Academy in 1921, graduated in 1925 and was assigned to the Philippine Fleet, where he was promoted to second lieutenant in 1927 as boatswain on the fast transport ship Chaumon. From 1929 to 1932 he was a staff officer of the transport formation of the Asian Fleet.

It's just that since Heinche returned to the Philippines from China, a good officer who was originally "very professional" in his graduation comments and even considered "to have the temperament of a Prussian soldier" has become a living treasure and a heart disease for his superiors.

He was originally extremely strict with his subordinates, and he had little interest in social activities, but was keen on literary creation, and was still a well-known writer.

However, at that time, Second Lieutenant Heinche not only relaxed the discipline of his department, but also became the defender and protector of other offending soldiers. So his popularity in his own unit is quite good.

It's just that his popularity is not only good in the army, but also even better among the ladies and ladies outside the army. Later, there was a scandal in which the daughter of the deputy commander of the fleet and the wife of a certain captain were jealous of him and caused a brawl, and he was almost expelled from the army.

However, Heinche had a little connection in Washington, and in the end his superiors had to send him to the ship out of sight and out of mind.

As for why he has changed so much, it is probably because he had too frequent contact with another famous "playboy" Yuan Yanqi during his time in Shanghai, so he was infected by the "flower heart virus". Some people also say that it was because of a failed relationship that caused his temperament to change drastically.

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After the election of President Roosevelt in 1932, he was transferred back to Washington to serve as a civilian at the Admiralty. It is worth noting that Heinche's recommendation for admission that year was the deputy secretary of the Navy who was both surnamed Roosevelt, so he should have known FDR before that.

During his tenure in Washington, he learned to fly at his own expense and became a member of the U.S. Navy's aircraft carrier faction. The author believes that he must have been influenced by Yuan Yanqi's "Air Force Cost Performance Theory".

However, the second lieutenant's remarks were very radical at the time, and he often published articles in the newspapers, declaring that all battleships and heavy cruisers should be decommissioned or converted into aircraft carriers, and that the navy only needed aircraft carriers, destroyers, and submarines.

Of course, he also had a lot of affairs in Washington.

So even though he had some personal relationship with President Roosevelt, he was kicked out by the old men of the Admiralty in the end. From 1934 onwards, he became a lieutenant attaché and served in British Singapore, Dutch Malaya, and French Annam, where he was mainly responsible for the dispatch of personnel and materials between embassies and military bases.

Because of this position, coupled with his hobby of flying, and perhaps for some other reason, during this period he flew almost all over Southeast Asia, becoming a rare Southeast Asian expert in the U.S. Navy.

It was not until 1937 that he was promoted to captain and went to Japan. There he did get acquainted with a group of like-minded naval "aircraft carrier factions". It's a pity that those who are "like-minded" with him are Japanese.

When he was in Japan, Japanese naval officers often entertained him to places of sensuality, and the unmarried captain was especially popular with Japanese geisha because of his handsome appearance and generosity, so he was nicknamed "Captain Pinkerton".

Well, this is borrowed from the surname of the male protagonist in "Madama Butterfly" by the Italian playwright Puccini. This opera is too famous to be introduced, as long as you know that the male protagonist in the opera, Pinkerton, is also a captain in the United States Navy.

After entering the forties of the last century, the clouds of war over the Pacific Ocean are getting closer and closer. Perhaps because of President Roosevelt's attention, or perhaps because of the increasing role of aircraft carriers, Heinche-Chandler finally became a major, finally returned to the naval force, and finally got his wish aboard the USS Lexington (CV-2).

On the day of the Japanese Navy's attack on Pearl Harbor, the USS Lexington escaped by transporting planes from Pearl Harbor to Midway, becoming the only surviving aircraft carrier of the Pacific Fleet. (note 1)

— Excerpt from Dan Brown's SCP Code

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Note 1: The other two "Langley (CV1)" and "Saratoga (CV3)" that originally survived were not so lucky in this timeline. Of course, the rest of history is also messed up.