Chapter 277: Situation

"Is Mercury experiencing intense surface geological activity?"

"Yes, Director. According to the data sent back by MESSENGER 2, this activity is suspected to be caused from within. However, according to the current theoretical model, Mercury should not be able to cause such intense activity. The geological activity has temporarily subsided. However, according to our analysis, the activity should not be completely over yet, and there will be more changes in the future."

"Collate the data and analyze it to see if it is caused by solar activity and whether it has any impact on the Earth."

"clear."

"But don't lose sight of the main goal. Our most important task right now is to assist the space agency in restarting the moon landing program. You have to keep this in mind."

The changes in Mercury have caused quite a stir in the astronomical community, but that's all. Currently, the focus of the astronomical community has always been on the moon, but after years of efforts, not only can the real and fake moons be distinguished, but even the probes sent up will lose response within a certain period of time, which is far shorter than their designed lifespan.

If this is the case for one thing, it could be an accident. If it is the case for everyone, we can only say that the moon has indeed undergone changes that are beyond the reach of ordinary people, and it may also be related to the extraordinary.

The problem is that they have no way of getting answers from Chaofan and can only try to analyze based on the existing clues.

Restarting the moon landing is a helpless move made amid heavy disappointment.

"what happened?"

On the plane, Hasam woken up from meditation and found Naimai still looking at the sky outside the window.

He looked around a few times, but there was nothing special in the night sky, just the same stars.

"I just saw something special. It was a bit outrageous, so I couldn't help but look at it a few more times." Naima explained, but did not specify what it was.

"Stop being a riddle teller. I find that since you started following your teacher, you've become more and more fond of speaking in riddles." Hasamu complained helplessly.

"There's really not much to say about those things." When she said the word "those", she pointed upwards, "But, brother, can you imagine how interesting it would be if Mercury became an ocean planet?"

"Mercury? Ocean planet?" Hasamu opened his mouth. How could these two things be connected? Although in their culture, Mercury is somewhat confused with Sirius, the star that controls rain, but according to modern common sense, how could a planet so close to the sun be an ocean planet? Do you really think the sun has no temper?

Naimai also shook her head in confusion.

She did see a picture.

A planet that is almost close to the sun has an ocean covering the entire planet, and in the ocean, there seems to be something disturbing the water flow.

"By the way, has the teacher contacted you in the past few years?" Hasamu gave up such an unreliable imagination, even though he knew that Naimai had the ability to predict.

"No." Naimai looked a little lonely, "But many of the things I have seen in the past few years have the shadow of the teacher."

"After all, he is the supreme being who guides us into the void. If you say he is God, I believe him." Hasam sighed.

Naimai's eyes flickered a little, but she said nothing.

The sky gradually brightened and the plane landed at Haneda International Airport.

"Hello, I'm Guan Junyan from the Special Affairs Bureau, and this is my teammate, Kasahara Chiba, welcome to Tokyo."

Guan Junyan and Kasahara Chiba greeted them at the airport.

Everything was agreed upon in advance. As the other party was a non-evil supernatural being who came through normal procedures and had a special status in the land of conflict, the Special Affairs Bureau had to show a welcoming attitude.

In the past few years, Hasamu, Carlos and a group of people, although nominally belong to the Paradise Node and occasionally teach classes, but in fact their focus is on the construction of the Sword of Damocles organization, adopting orphans left behind by various unjust wars, training them, taking root in Africa, mediating wars and deterring imperialist capital plunder.

If you are a ruler who wants to build a country and encounter difficulties that are difficult to solve, you can seek help from Hasam.

In just a few years, his status in Africa soared, and people's livelihood issues such as war, malaria, education, and infrastructure have improved.

Naima has always stayed in the conflict zone and rarely left, intimidating the Davidic people who still have spare power in various parts of the world, uniting all Palestinians to build their homeland and preventing the Davidic people from infiltrating.

Therefore, she was revered as a saint and a saint in the country of Pakistan and had a high status. Even people from other countries with the same religion came to her in the hope of receiving some blessings.

At the same time, it is also responsible for providing a dialogue window to assist like-minded countries in mediating disputes, maintaining peace in the region, and, by the way, eliminating a few extremists to serve as a warning to others.

Therefore, the status of these two people are not simple, and it is worth it for the Special Affairs Bureau to send Guan Junyan's team to welcome them. At least they should be sent to meet the Supreme Saint, arrange accommodation for them, and have a meal.

They did not refuse. Having someone to accompany them could avoid a lot of trouble, and they also had some questions they wanted to ask the Special Affairs Bureau.

"Ah, Chief!" Guan Junyan, who was about to leave with two people, saw Noguchi Takeshi in casual clothes at the airport and quickly saluted.

Noguchi nodded and said, "I'm on vacation today. Take good care of these two guests and don't worry about me."

Guan Junyan's eyes suddenly widened. What the hell, did he hear it wrong? Director Noguchi actually said that he was on vacation? !
Thinking about these years, whenever he arrived at the police station, the director would always arrive before him. If he was not there, it meant that he had gone to perform a mission. And when he left, even when he was working overtime the most, he would look back and see that the light in Director Noguchi's office was still on.

He even suspected that Takeshi Noguchi had settled his family in the Special Affairs Bureau, and he could be seen even on holidays.

Such a workaholic, now you tell me you're taking a vacation?!

Seeing his strange expression, Noguchi added, "I'm using my annual leave, and you have some too."

"Uh, then Chief, I'm leaving first."

"Well, let's go. Be careful, some people are restless." Noguchi Takeshi nodded to Hasamu and Naimai as a greeting.

They had been to the Second Anti-Demon Joint Conference before, and Noguchi had also met them.

But his visit to the airport today had nothing to do with them, he was mainly here to pick up an old friend.

Phew, we should be considered old friends.

Although they were foreigners, they fought side by side for quite some time.

Not long after, a foreigner wearing sunglasses and with blond hair came with a suitcase and saw Takeshi Noguchi at a glance.

"Noguchi-san! Long time no see."

He pretended to want a hug.

Noguchi ignored his hug, but stretched out his hand and said solemnly: "It's been a long time, William."

"Oh, you are still so unpleasant. Then I feel relieved." William had to change from hugging to shaking hands and said with a smile.

"Let's go, do you want to eat first?" Noguchi's expression didn't change as he pointed to the parking lot.

"No hurry, no hurry." William smiled and opened his arms. He didn't care about the people coming and going. He looked up to the sky and shouted, "Tokyo, I'm back!" Even Noguchi was embarrassed by his behavior.

"It seems that you are having a hard time in Amei."

"Not only that, we'll talk on the way." William didn't care about the strange looks from all around. He put his arm around Noguchi's shoulders and walked towards the parking space.

It was not until he got in the car that William regained some of his original appearance. With a gentle smile on his face, he adjusted his seat and half-lying on the passenger seat.

"You know, nominally, I'm Lieutenant General Ricky. Oh no, according to my position, I should be called Ricky the Thief."

"My life has been getting worse and worse since he took control of California and then joined forces with the Waltons in Texas."

"But after all, I am a member of the Holy Infant Society in name only, and I have taken the Holy Infant Pill. Old Bush doesn't dare to do anything to me openly, and he just arranged some unimportant things for me to do."

"Later, I became the nominal ambassador of the Kingdom of Nature. It goes without saying that this was to make it easier for them to accuse me of colluding with werewolves if anything went wrong in the future."

"If it weren't for the family honor, I would have run away long ago."

"But, I don't know who attacked me some time ago, causing me to awaken my abilities between life and death. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to see me."

Noguchi listened to him without changing his expression: "You directed and acted in it yourself?"

William was a little surprised and said with a smile: "It's so easy to see. It seems I should tell a better lie."

"No matter which faction it is, it doesn't make much sense for them to attack you. They have already negotiated peace, so there is no need to argue over you. I think your ability has been awakened a long time ago, but you may feel that it would be dangerous to continue staying in Amei, so you staged this act yourself to show your ability and get a chance to be sent abroad."

"But I still don't understand. Ricky still has a deep control over Japan. How dare Bush let you come back here alone? Isn't he afraid that you will go directly into the enemy camp?"

William nodded, agreeing with Noguchi's reasoning: "This is the secret between me and the President."

"In fact, I can probably guess that you are not the type of person who will sit still and wait for death. You must have found some leverage over Bush from the Natural Kingdom in the past few years." Noguchi continued to analyze, and William was really a little surprised.

"You are worthy of being a hero in solving cases. It turns out you have been pretending in front of me for a long time." William praised.

"You were an outsider after all."

"Isn't it now?"

"Right now, we need every bit of strength we can get. No matter what other tasks you have, you have to help the Supreme Saint."

"It's okay if you say so. This is also my nominal mission, so I have to help out."

William looked at the scene outside the car window. This place was Shinagawa. The damage caused by the lizard monster landing here could still be seen today. Fortunately, the airport was lucky and the damage was not serious, so it could continue to operate.

"Compared to the damage caused by extraordinary monsters, ambition is more destructive to the country." William sighed.

"You mean Ricky? How is Amy doing now?"

"Chaos." William pointed to his heart, "People's hearts are in chaos."

"First, the emergence of the extraordinary threatened our leading position in the world, and then the ambitious people provoked division. The current Amei is no longer the Amei of the past. The gap between groups is getting worse. Unless you tell me that there are aliens who want to exterminate humans, the rift will never heal."

"Relying on the foundation left behind, we can still maintain the face of the overlord even after the split, but in reality, haha."

After William finished speaking, he shook his head.

Noguchi fell silent and said nothing more, then started talking about some lighter topics.

After some pauses in the conversation, Noguchi drove him to the north of the Imperial Palace. The Soul-Calling Society was nearby, and most of the foreign supernatural beings were accommodated in a special hotel.

"Actually, I have some personal matters to check this time. Can you show me some related sightings of fox supernatural creatures in Japan?" William asked openly.

"Give me a reason." Noguchi said in a businesslike manner.

"Have you heard the rumors about the fox people?" William had no choice but to tell this little-known news.

“Fox man?” Noguchi frowned, his brain quickly searched his memory, and slowly shook his head, “These are all insignificant legends, there are no actual eyewitnesses.”

"I heard about it in the Natural Kingdom. It shouldn't be fake. I also heard about the legend of the fox-eared girl in Japan before. I suspect that extraordinary animals, especially foxes, have a growth path disguised as humans. I think you don't want the things in the Natural Kingdom to happen in your homeland, right?"

".Are you sure the fox-eared girl you mentioned is not some crazy 2D nonsense?"

"I will make the final decision on this. I promise to share the results of the investigation with your Special Affairs Bureau no matter what. How about that? Anyway, you don't even have to send any personnel and can just sit back and reap the benefits. You just need to give me some help when necessary."

"Okay, but I'll go over the information first."

"No problem, it's not worth hiding anyway." William looked indifferent.

However, Noguchi looked at him deeply. This guy's purpose might not be simple. He talked about sharing the results, but the problem was that he didn't even know what William's ability was. How could he know whether the other party had concealed the results of the investigation?

"We're here. You should eat first."

"Okay, I'll follow your arrangements. I'll go meet the Supreme Saint on behalf of the American Federation later."

Noguchi had lunch with William, found a place to have a cup of coffee, and was about to leave.

"Leaving now? I thought you had changed your personality, but you're still a workaholic. Our place is better in this regard. Even if it's busy, you still have to take a holiday. If you work overtime every day, it will put a lot of pressure on your subordinates." William commented.

Noguchi did not respond: "You know where the Supreme Saint is. I also told her in advance that she is free at four o'clock. Don't be late."

"I am always punctual with ladies."

Noguchi left, and William watched his car disappear from sight.

William didn't stay long. He finished his coffee and returned to his hotel room.

He took out his equipment and checked it, making sure there were no listening devices. Then he sat down on a chair, pulled out a laptop, and inserted a USB drive.

"The back door is still there. Very good."

William smiled lightly and began to secretly search for the information he really wanted.

【Sightings of cat-like supernatural creatures】

(End of this chapter)