Chapter 55
Sitting on the plane, John looked over and over at his passport and identification. Speaking of which, Einzberger still has a lot of influence in society, even a "black household" like John who has no identity at all, it only took a few days to whitewash John and get his legal passport.
It still takes some time to fly from Germany to Dongying Fuyuki City, and during this time John can't study summoning and can't check summoning books on the plane, so he seems to have nothing to do. Seeing that the people around him had put on blindfolds and were ready to rest, John did not feel a trace of sleep. After picking up a few magazines from the flight attendants and slowly flipping through them, John began to understand the Dongying society of this era.
The time is 1990. If there is nothing wrong with the original stone world, Dongying, which received aid from the United States after the war, became a bridgehead against the Israeli Soviets and China, and thanks to the heavy investment of Western countries, Dongying quickly recovered its vitality and became a great power in economic, political, cultural and other aspects. Unfortunately, when the dog owner feels that the leash he is holding is not strong enough, he will start to increase the restraint on the dog. When Dongying's economy and industry had grown enough to threaten the Western countries, led by the United States, they waved the big stick in their hands and beat the big dog that was about to get out of control. In 1985, the finance ministers of the United States, Britain, Japan, Germany, and France signed the "Plaza Accord" at the Plaza Hotel in New York, with the aim of allowing the dollar to depreciate "controllably" against other major currencies. Since then, a large amount of money has poured into Toei's stock market and real estate, and three years later, Toei's stock market has grown by 300% in three years, and housing prices have soared to the sky, and the housing prices in Tokyo alone are enough to rival the whole of the United States. And just last year, in 1989, the United States raised a butcher's knife to the pig that had been fattened, and a large amount of Western capital poured in, impacting Dongying's economy, so that the country's stock market could not support it at all, and it began to plummet last year, reaching its lowest point in April 2003, with a cumulative decline of 63.24%, and housing prices fell for 14 consecutive years, and the entire country's assets shrank by half.
John touched his chin, and he had to observe whether this world was similar to the rough stone world, and this square agreement was a good place to start. If there really is such a pact, then John doesn't mind revealing this information to Emiya Kiritsugu, although this magician killer may not be able to understand the mystery, but John believes that in the case of knowing the future, eating a little leakage under the hands of the international giants will be able to make Emiya Kiritsugu eat.
Putting this aside for now, the question is why I was summoned to this world. John believed that Ter and Ann must have known, but he felt the breath of the equipment he had been and left in a hurry, not thinking about the secret hidden in it. But forget it, at least it's a good result that I'm able to retrieve the You'er Sika Bell now, and after that, let's do what I can.
It takes 12-13 hours to fly from Germany to Dongying, which is exactly half a day. John and Emiya Kiritsugu were ranked in the evening, and it was exactly morning when Toei arrived. According to Emiya Kiritsugu, he had already asked his assistant to go to Fuyuki City in Toei first to do a good job of investigating the environment and collecting preliminary information, and he didn't know what news he could get.
In a small hidden inn, Emiya Kiritsugu meets with his assistant Maiya Kuyu. This petite woman who came first had gathered a lot of useful information through her magic tricks, such as the video that John and Emiya Kiritsugu were watching on CCTV now.
The battle that took place last night at the Tosaka family, one of the three families that originally held the Holy Grail War, was shown on the TV. In the video, the Assassin is cleanly killed by Archer's weapon, a powerful force that seems to destroy everything, which makes Emiya Kiritsugu feel tricky even if he just watches it through the video.
The video was played over and over again, and finally Emiya Kiritsugu spoke, "What do you think of this situation?" "I think I've gone too far. The time lag between the Assassin's invasion and Archer's counterattack is too short, and I don't think Assassins with the Breath Blocking skill will be detected in advance. ”
Emiya Kiritsugu took out the hand that was supporting his chin and said, "It is an iron rule to hide the identity of one's servant in the Holy Grail War, and the Tosaka family, who is the Gosan family, will reveal the identity of the servant so easily for the sake of aesthetics?" After thinking for a while, Emiya Kiritsugu asked, "Maiya, what is the movement of the Assassin's master?" "I took refuge in the church last night and was to be protected by the Witnesses. The Assassin's master is Yan Feng Qili. ”
Hearing the name, Emiya Kiritsugu paused: "Maiya, send an envoy to monitor the church." Although it is forbidden to spy on neutral churches, it is fine as long as they are not detected on the periphery. Kuyu Maiya nodded: "Yes, I'll do it right away." ”
When Maiya Hisayu went out, Emiya Kiritsugu asked John, who hadn't spoken since he entered the door, "Caster, what do you think of a battle from your point of view?"
John looked at the CCTV that was still playing and said, "I think it's interesting, Holy Grail War." Enomiya Kiritsugu was stunned for a moment when he didn't expect it to be this answer, and asked, "Interesting?
John looked at the Assassin who had been impaled by numerous weapons and said, "If I'm not mistaken, the Assassin is a co-starring play with Archer, right?" "And what is their purpose? If they are allies, then one faction has two servants, and you know this huge advantage. Why sacrifice a servant to play a play that I don't know?" A smile escaped from the corner of Emiya's mouth, "Looks like you can see it too, Caster." The relationship between these two servants must be unusual. ”
"The most taboo thing for an Assassin is to be aware of his existence, so he needs to hide himself as best as he can. John thought of what he had done in the past to get a backstab and said, "If everybody knew about the existence of an Assassin, even if they didn't know where the Assassin would be, they would be on guard." But what if the assassin died under the watchful eyes of everyone? ”
Hearing this, Emiya Kiritsugu remembered something: "The Templar Church has a spiritual base plate, which shows the number of surviving servants, if it is true that you said that the Assassin is not dead, then the Templar Church must also know about it, but it still accepted Yanfeng Qili's application for refuge...... Could it be that the Templar Church, which has always claimed to be neutral, is also standing in the Tosaka family this time?"
"In other words, this operation has exposed the ability of one of its own servants, the attack method of an important servant, and the identity of their allies, what can the Tosaka family gain from this action?"