Chapter 409: Distant Era (Please Give Me a Monthly Ticket, Please Subscribe, Please Recommend) Please Give Me a Monthly Ticket After Two More Chapters!!
The loud noise immediately attracted the attention of Diana and Catherine.
"No! That's a seventeenth-century oil painting!" Diana immediately covered her forehead after seeing what Kai had done.
Kai smiled awkwardly. He didn't know what artistic value that oil painting that didn't look good had, but he knew it was worth a lot of money from the age.
"I will pay for it."
"It's not about losing money at all, it's history! History, you know?" Diana knew from before that Kai had never been interested in things like art. But she really didn't expect Kai to be so ignorant. Can this thing be measured by money?
Kai still didn't care much. I know, history, who doesn't know it.
"How about I compensate you with my gold cup from the ancient Celtic period?"
Catherine, who had never cared much, had been beating up the idiot with the mechanical arm. Kai knocked Eggsy unconscious, but she didn't care. Judging from Diana's posture, the two should know each other. Since they are acquaintances, it's okay.
Eggsy: ? ? ?
There is nothing wrong with young people fighting. Catherine doesn't like Eggsy's frivolity.
But when she heard the words "ancient Celts", Catherine was immediately stunned. She turned her head and looked at Kai.
At this time, Kai saw Catherine's appearance clearly. He was also stunned.
"Catherine...?" Kai asked uncertainly. It's not that Kai forgot Catherine. After all, for him, he didn't leave for long. Counting the five years on the Lost Plateau, Kai now feels that he has only been away for more than ten years, which is not a long time. He really didn't expect Catherine to be alive until now.
"You are..."
Kai's appearance has changed a lot. Let alone Catherine, even Diana was confirmed by Kai himself. So Catherine didn't dare to confirm whether the person in front of her was the person she thought, but for some reason, she always felt that this was him!
Kai laughed and met an acquaintance again.
"It's me!" Kai opened his hands so that Catherine could see more clearly.
"Is it really you, Duke?" Catherine felt her eyes warm. She had never understood what it felt like to be touched, but now she felt that she understood.
"It's me!" Kai confirmed again.
Then Catherine rushed into Kai's arms like a swallow. Kai didn't think much and hugged Catherine. After all, Catherine was his personal maid. Although they had only been together for a few years, in those years, most of Kai's things were taken care of by Catherine. She was the closest person to him except for the butler Ah Fu.
Only Diana was curling her lips wildly over there.
They are all foxes with years of experience. Who doesn't know who? Diana didn't believe that after so many years, Catherine was still the little girl she was at the beginning. Only men would wishfully think that a woman over a hundred years old is still as innocent as a teenager.
Just when they met happily here, the man with the mechanical arm who was beaten half to death finally seized the opportunity, and his mechanical palm suddenly sprayed out a prototype ball.
Bang!
The strong light and smoke instantly obscured everyone's career. Even Kai and Catherine closed their eyes subconsciously. When they reacted, they saw that guy flicked his palm like a hook, grabbed a flying machine and ran away.
If it were Kai's character, he would not let that bastard go so easily. Don't forget that he is nominally responsible for the security of this exhibition! Don't talk about whether to punish him or not. Now the Chicago Police Department is almost going to put Kai in prison. What's the point of punishing him? The problem is that it's embarrassing.
But at this moment, Kai didn't have the intention to chase him. After all, it was a happy thing to see an old friend. Kai naturally had no interest in chasing this kind of trash.
...
Eggsy was very depressed. He felt so ashamed.
Originally, he was planning to perform well in front of his idol, but he was knocked down by a policeman in one stroke. This made Eggsy doubt whether the training he had undergone was real. He had suffered so much and experienced so many dangers, but he was still knocked down by a Chicago policeman in one stroke...
It was frustrating to think about it.
So Eggsy had made up his mind to fight that cop again when he had time!
Thinking about these things, Eggsy rubbed his neck while looking at the four people who were talking and laughing over there.
Kai, Catherine, Diana and Kelly.
Kelly's classmates were scared. Kelly was ready to help at that time, but she saw that several of her classmates were so scared that their legs were weak. She was embarrassed to leave them alone. In addition, Diana taught her not to act too strange in front of outsiders, so she could only follow the crowd and leave the venue.
As a result, she missed the good show. Kelly felt very sorry about this, so when Kai came out of the venue with a dozen masked bandits, she kept pestering Kai and Diana to tell her what happened inside.
Of course, Kelly was also very interested in Catherine's existence, because she actually felt the same kind of breath from this woman.
Catherine had the same feeling. So the two of them started chatting, and unexpectedly discovered that although the so-called same kind was an illusion, one of them belonged to the bloodline of the three-phase goddess, the bloodline of the ancient Celtic gods, and the other was a completely alien biological bloodline, but the two of them had unexpectedly compatible temperaments.
Kelly was both afraid and respectful of Diana, but he had a natural liking for Catherine.
And Catherine also liked that Kelly was immune to her damn charm.
The two chatted enthusiastically, but ignored Diana, which made Diana very unhappy, but she was embarrassed to say anything, but she was determined to train Kelly well.
As she talked, Catherine finally brought up the topic of Kingsman.
"To be honest, are you really not going back to England? After all, Kingsman was founded. If you go back, Alfu will be very happy. He always thinks that he is guarding your property for you." Catherine said so.
But Kai shook his head.
"The founding of Kingsman was an accident. You know this very well. After all, you participated in the whole process. I didn't think about establishing an organization at that time. It was too tiring. I didn't like it." Kai himself had no intention of power, otherwise he would not be a small policeman until now. When Kingsman was founded, it was just the last contribution of those noble families who lost their descendants to society. At that time, Kai didn't think that this organization would exist for a long time. "And I heard you say that they have developed well over the years without me. So what difference does it make whether I go back or not?"
"But Kingsman can grow and develop because of the Holy Grail you left behind. They all accepted the Holy Grail's gift, which is equivalent to handing over their souls to you. You are their master, and this cannot be changed." Catherine naturally knew what the Holy Grail of Life was. After all, she had the blood of the Three-phase Goddess flowing in her body, and she was of the same origin as the Holy Grail of Life. Although the Holy Grail is magical, it is essentially an instrument of equivalent exchange. It will not give anything by itself, but only trade. While gaining power, it trades souls, and then the souls will return to the Holy Grail and become part of the Holy Grail. In a sense, those who accept the Holy Grail are actually using their own things.
"And... Ah Fu has been waiting for you to go back."
For Ah Fu, Catherine also had to say that he admired him. In fact, he had never been a butler for Kai for a day. Before Kai disappeared, his butler was Ah Fu's grandfather, old Alfred. But Ah Fu took on the responsibility of housekeeper after the death of old Alfred, and managed the industries left by Kai in the UK in an orderly manner over the years.
For example, St. James's Palace, which nominally belongs to the royal family, but the title deed is actually written in Kai's name, and many companies that old Fu bought at the bottom. Those companies were originally assigned to Kingsman by Kai, but later when Kingsman got on the right track, Ah Fu divested those companies and made them Kai's private property again.
Of course, few people know about these things. Ah Fu used a fake noble family to register a company to manage these industries. Now this company has developed into an extremely large group, but not much is known about it, and it is very low-key.
"Ah Fu... that kid is still alive." Kai was very emotional. He thought that his former friends had passed away with the passage of time, but he didn't expect that there would be surprises one after another. "I still remember the first time I saw that boy, the hair on his mouth hadn't fallen off yet. I didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, he has become an old man."
Kai likes Ah Fu very much, partly because of Old Fu. Old Fu is a typical British gentleman, old-fashioned but loyal to his duties. Ah Fu has also inherited this aspect of Old Fu very well.
"Those industries, no matter what, didn't cost much anyway. As for Ah Fu... didn't you say he retired? You can let him come to the United States, whether it's retirement or vacation, he can come to me."
"Looking for you, do you think Ah Fu hasn't looked for you? Since the Holy Grail was revived, Ah Fu has mobilized all the power he can use, but in the end he still didn't find you." Catherine looked at Diana with dissatisfaction. "Humph, like some people, they obviously found you, but they didn't say a word, who knows what they are thinking."
Diana raised her eyebrows. She felt that Catherine had become more arrogant after not seeing her for these years. Did she think that Diana couldn't lift a knife?
Kai hurriedly held Diana's arm and asked her to restrain herself. We haven't seen each other for many years. There's no reason to be unhappy as soon as we meet.
Seeing Kai's actions, Catherine was very proud. After all, it seems that Kai is still on her side.
Diana became even angrier.
Fortunately, Kelly spoke up to help at this time.
"What are you talking about?" Kelly could tell something was wrong no matter how dumb she was. What does it mean that 'when I first met him, he was a child, and now he is an old man'?
Catherine turned her head and looked at Kai: "Have you never told her this?"
Kai shook his head helplessly: "There's nothing to say. In fact, I don't know many things myself. How can I say it? Should I tell him from the beginning that I am a person who has lived for tens of thousands of years?"
"What tens of thousands of years? What do you mean?" Kelly was even more confused.
Catherine looked at Kelly, then at Kai, and finally asked: "Can I say it?"
"There's nothing that can't be said. It's more appropriate for you to say it than for me to say it. "If Kai were to tell Kelly that he was a prehistoric man, I believe Kelly would not believe it, it was too far-fetched, but if a third party told her, it would be more credible.
So Catherine told her how they found Kai from the tomb, and then how they followed Kai to fight mummies in Egypt, fight vampires in Serbia, and finally fight the Germans.
Kelly did not believe it at first, it was too far-fetched, but when Catherine repeated it and Diana testified, it did not sound like nonsense.
And those stories were so interesting that Kelly listened attentively.
"Are there really mummies? Why haven't we found any in modern times?"
"How should I know?" Kelly really didn't know why modern people found mummies. Maybe... they were all hiding?
"Are there really sphinxes?"
"Yes, they should actually be considered a kind of robot." Kai explained: "They are a kind of machine made by the Egyptian gods to assist themselves, but they are very different from modern technology."
"Have you really seen the Egyptian gods?"
"Yes."
"What do they look like?"
"Much taller than humans, with an average height of about three meters, and they look much better. As for strength, how should I put it? Let's put it this way, any small Egyptian god can beat you to a pulp."
"Then the Book of the Dead and the Sun Sutra are still in your hands?"
"Yes."
"Then why have you never used them?"
"Didn't I say that after my strength was greatly damaged, many things could not be used." Before Kai's strength recovered to a certain level, many of his things could not be used, such as the artifacts in his treasury, and the King's Treasure. Even Kai now cannot use the King's Treasure at will, because that thing requires too much mental strength.
"So are you really an ancient Celt? Are you a contemporary of King Arthur?"
"Yes, Arthur should call me brother." In fact, he should call me brother-in-law, but there is no need to talk about this kind of thing.
"In other words, the prototype of the Knight King we have been talking about is also you?"
"I don't know how it was spread like this, anyway, I have never been a king."
...
In short, in the end, Kelly turned into a hundred thousand whys and kept asking questions. Kai also answered patiently, many of which were unknown to Diana and Catherine. For example, Kai had lived in prehistoric times. Kai had only told them a little bit before, but didn't mention the details.
Anyway, in the end, Kelly felt that his worldview was shaky. It turned out that thousands of years ago, the world was full of brilliant civilizations, and many civilizations were even more sci-fi than modern civilizations, such as the Egyptian civilization, where they could actually create intelligent machines to help them complete their work.
It turned out that the legend of King Arthur was true, and there really was a kingdom called Camelot.