Chapter 843: The Herd Effect
North Yorkshire.
Bordered by the North Sea to the east and the Cleveland metro area to the north, Blake is one of its sub-towns.
Blake is located in a moorland, and most of the town's people are sheep farmers.
In the afternoon.
On the side of Blake's street, Mark, who rarely changed into casual clothes, was sitting on the side of the street with Kate, who was dressed up and attracting attention, leisurely drinking the special drinks of the coffee shop behind him.
Mark took a sip, silently put down the glass, looked at Kate and said, "I still prefer my suit and bourbon." ”
Kate gave it a straight look.
Half ringing.
Kate's gaze casually glanced at a typical white building across the street, and then said, "This preservation power is a bit exaggerated." ”
Mark smiled as if chatting and said, "How many do you see?" ”
"Five." "Two from the tailor shop and bakery opposite, two with their dogs walking over there and a patrol car just past," Kate said. ”
Mark nodded.
Kate looked at Mark who didn't speak, and said suspiciously, "What about you?" ”
Mark casually glanced at the hanging bell tower in the center of the town, and said lightly: "You forgot to look at the commanding heights." ”
Kate frowned slightly.
Mark looked at Kate with a smile, and half-loudly, Kate shrugged her shoulders and said, "Okay, I did forget the commanding heights, it's all your fault." ”
The smile on Mark's face froze.
What the heck?
Why did it suddenly become his pot inexplicably?
Women are really unreasonable.
Kate was angry and said, "If I hadn't become a Kryptonian, my alertness would never have been so bad." ”
Mark is too lazy to argue, or is it that sentence, what to argue with a woman, you don't get any benefit if you win, lose? That's even more of a shame.
Kate just said that, and after seeing that Mark didn't react, she immediately said, "Are these people here before, or recently?" ”
"No more than three days at most," Mark said. ”
It's obvious.
As a small sheep herding town, most of the town's residents can tell who you are just by listening to the sound with their eyes closed.
When Mark and Kate came over for coffee, they were obviously new faces, but the waiter at the coffee shop was not surprised at all, which showed that a group of unfamiliar faces had come in before them.
The most important point.
Mark smiled and said to Kate, "When I first came in, I heard people gossiping about why someone would want to take over a tailor shop that couldn't be opened. ”
Kate glanced at the white house and said, "How are you going to get in?" ”
Mark laughed, "Simple. ”
It's easy to get in, it's just a matter of walking around and knocking on the door, but the hard thing is that Mark doesn't want S.H.I.E.L.D. to know that he's here.
Obviously, the level of these operations is different, and even the disguise is a template, and the six people carved out of it are all agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Why?
First of all, it is definitely not from the gentleman's college, as long as the elite of the gentleman's college, quality is not quantity.
Later, it was not Langley's, although Langley's also liked the large-scale wholesale of this kind of assembly line agents, but this camouflage style was honestly far worse than Langley's.
After excluding faces, then there is only one option left for S.H.I.E.L.D.
Only the low-key but high-profile S.H.I.E.L.D. with deep pockets will cultivate agents on a large scale who look like they are carved out of a mold.
Mark narrowed his eyes.
S.H.I.E.L.D. may know that Mark and Kate have arrived in London, but they will never know that he has found Hurley Carter, who has changed his name.
So why are people sent here?
Mark became interested.
That's right, if S.H.I.E.L.D. can't guess that Mark won't follow their pace, it will make Mark even more disappointed in S.H.I.E.L.D.
Half ringing.
Mark glanced down at his unpalatable drink and asked, "What day of the week is tomorrow?" ”
"Planet Six."
Mark nodded and smiled at Kate, "Honey, when I first came over, I saw a large flock of sheep grazing there, we'll take a look later." ”
Kate "......"
The next day.
Saturday.
Early in the morning, the townspeople got up early and chatted and walked to the church on the edge of Blaketown.
Mark and Kate, holding each other's hands as if they were on vacation, blended in perfectly with the crowd, and next to them was the rancher who had raised 2,000 sheep yesterday.
Kate asked in a low voice, "How did you know that Hurley Carter was back in church?" ”
Mark shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's easy, because there's a church in town. ”
Kate looked at Mark with a dangerous look.
Mark laughed and explained, "If you were born in a town like this, you would understand what kind of stares a young man can endure if he doesn't go to church." ”
This is also the herd effect.
Mark had suffered a lot from it, and it was clear that he didn't believe in any God, but on his weekly days off, in order not to bear the surprise of others, he was stunned by a litter of ordinary people, werewolves, and vampires, and listened to the priest preach over there.
This is mostly the case in Western towns.
If you want to know if the townspeople have any regular activities, look at the church.
Not much.
The townspeople entered in twos and threes.
Mark and Kate, under the direction of the rancher, sat next to the Angodos and his wife, who had moved here twenty years earlier.
A woman was slightly stunned when she saw Mark and Kate with unfamiliar faces occupying the place where she often lived.
Mark smiled slightly.
The woman smiled kindly and sat down in a different position.
Kate smiled and said, "Is your smile also your weapon?" ”
Mark shrugged.
Why don't you laugh when you can solve troublesome things with laughter?
Mark is a refined pragmatist.
Soon.
Mr. and Mrs. Angodaus came in, and Mark looked at him as if he were in the photo.
"Huh?" Hurley Carter, who had changed her name to Hurley Sherman, looked at the young man sitting in the seat of their neighbor, Mrs. Bedo, with some surprise.
Mark looked at Hurley and shook Kate's right hand and smiled, "We came here yesterday, and my wife and I are both Catholics, so we ......"
Mark said and shrugged.
Hurley Sherman nodded, looking at the handsome and beautiful Mark and Kate, and said loudly, "There are very few young people who believe in religion now. ”
Mark laughed, "It also shows our piety, doesn't it?" ”
Hurley Sherman smiled slightly, and then sat down with a handsome old guy next to her, who could vaguely see a little handsome when she was young.
Listening to Mark's serious summer nonsense just now, Kate whispered: "You are not afraid that old Louis and Angelis will be angry like this?" ”
Mark shrugged his shoulders and smiled, "It's okay, I'm a notoriously heathen in Fox anyway." ”
The whole town of Fox who doesn't know if you want Mark to swear that if you want Marka out of God that must be a lie.
Heretics or something?
Mark is not under any psychological pressure.
……
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