The knight in the big world of American TV series

Chapter 380 See you again (ask for a monthly pass, please recommend, ask for a subscription) 4700 words ask for a monthly pass at the end of the month!

S.H.I.E.L.D. decided to let Chicago clear the field, leaving only the Chicago police and the demon hunters and vampires in line, so things are not in a hurry.Kay first asked Bobby and the Wen family brothers to contact all the witchers, telling them to be careful, and it is best to gather around the various branches of the Chicago Police Department. In those places, vampires must also keep a low profile.

Then Kai asked Matthew to check the people of the Department of Homeland Security to see how the vampires made the DHS appear in Chicago and forcibly cleaned the place for the vampires.In fact, this is not important, Kai just wants to see who is actually working for a vampire, such a person is not a pity to rape and die.

As for Kay himself, of course to the Art Institute of Chicago.When old friends came, he had to go and see them, and he hadn't done anything immoral, so there was no reason to be afraid of seeing old friends.

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Since the Louvre will hold a joint exhibition at the Chicago Museum, this period of time has indeed made the Art Institute of Chicago popular. Taking advantage of this hot spot, many art exhibitions have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. For a while, the Art Institute of Chicago relied solely on rental exhibitions. The restaurant has made a lot of money.You must know that it costs money to lend exhibits to the Louvre, otherwise how do you think the Louvre is maintained?
Tickets alone?Don't be ridiculous, the entrance fee is nothing compared to the maintenance costs of those antique artworks.Lending exhibits like this is the big deal. Of course, it is impossible to speak so bluntly about cultural people, which will hurt the self-esteem of the Gallic chicken. Now the Gallic chicken is only left with a strong self-esteem.It would be much better if we communicated in the name of art.Gallic chicken can proudly say that this is the spread of French culture and cultural export.

Is it taller?

But it is undeniable that in terms of antique works of art, it is impossible for the United States to lead the world. Even if it is a superpower, it is useless. Who said that the United States has only a history of more than 200 years?And since ancient times, the United States has never surpassed Europe in terms of art.

Therefore, with the name of the Louvre, the Art Institute of Chicago has indeed made a name for itself, and by the way, the hand cramps earned by renting out the exhibition hall, otherwise you think the Art Institute of Chicago is really willing to spend so much money to hire the Louvre Palace exhibits?

When Kay arrived at 111 South Michigan Avenue in Chicago, preparations for an exhibition had already begun.This is a modernist painter's art exhibition. Anyway, when Kai entered the art exhibition, those who watched the art exhibition were all well-dressed, focused on each painting, and even pointed and made some inexplicable comments. Kay listened to it, and what he was talking about was cloudy and misty, all kinds of line tension, and the use of colors in blah blah. The author of the expression, blah blah, was very mysterious.

It reminded Kai of the scene of doing reading comprehension when he was a child.

"Why are the curtains blue?"

Answer: Blue represents melancholy, and the curtains cover the sun to insinuate that the people under the feudal government lived in darkness. In this way, the author expresses his dissatisfaction with the society at that time.

Author: The curtains are fucking blue.

The same is true for this group of people, looking at the things on the painting and saying that the author is a silent accusation of the injustice of the world, accuse your sister!Others may just be trembling!
Also, Kai still can't understand what the hell these things are drawn... Some are messy lines, some are just painted with ink, and some paintings can be seen to be what they want to draw, but they are all distorted , It makes people's brains hurt... How can this look so good?It's so expensive as hell.What do people who pay for it think?

Thinking of this, Kai suddenly remembered that I heard before that many people like to use artworks to launder money, especially this kind of abstract and difficult modernist paintings, which are deeply loved by criminals, not the current criminals. Molecule's artistic accomplishment is so high, and he can appreciate this kind of messy painting, but it is really easy to fool people and realize it.

In the art market, especially the modern painting market, hype is everywhere. As long as you are willing to spend money on speculation, it is easy to make a painter popular.The key is that it is easy to speculate. Find some art connoisseurs, spend money to buy reviews, and then spend money to buy paintings yourself. As long as it is not too outrageous, it is easy to raise the price.

Those speculators dared to fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars for a painting that originally cost only a few hundred dollars on the street!

As long as the price goes up, the painter's paintings will not worry about selling. When the time comes to sell the goods in hand, the money will be laundered.

Anyway, it is to unite to fool people. In fact, the people who are fooled don’t really understand everything. The key is that this kind of thing is difficult to talk about. Do you tell others that you don’t understand at all?In fact, there are not many people who can really understand those modern painting styles. This profession is the kind of "the truth is in the hands of a few people". Whether the painting is good or not is determined by a small group of people.Other farts know what a fart, and they can't overturn their definition at all, so this kind of business lasts for a long time.

Thinking of this, Kai curled his lips, thinking whether to ask the bureau to check the organizer and sponsor of this art exhibition.See what's tricky.

Fortunately, Kay still remembers his main purpose. Kay had contacted the head of security at the Louvre before. The person in charge of the French side of this art exchange exhibition is Diana, Diana Prince, This was Diana's pseudonym during World War I.

When Kai proposed to chat with the person in charge of this art exhibition, the other party told Kai that Diana was visiting this art exhibition.

Looking around, I finally found Diana in front of a statue.

It is said to be a statue, but it is actually a square thing made of a pile of scrap iron wire hoops, and then combined together, it is a work of art. This bunch of gangsters has also been selected as the best work of art in this art exhibition. A piece of art that reminds people to be environmentally friendly, well, they say yes.Anyway, this thing is given to Kai, and Kai thinks it is dirty.

Kay wasn't sure if Diana really understood this thing, but seeing her staring at the scrap metal so intently, Kay figured... she probably did.

Diana wore a very neat OL dress, stylish yet steady.It does look like a strong urban woman.

Diana seemed to be immersed in the artistic atmosphere, and didn't feel that anyone was approaching at all. Maybe she knew it, but she thought she was a boring strike-up, so she didn't want to bother.Kay waited patiently, but after 10 minutes, Diana still did not move.

It's a little embarrassing now.

"Ahem...then what, is this thing really that good?"

Diana didn't turn her head, but said coldly: "It might be better without your interruption."

"Eh..." Kai looked at the thing carefully, but he really couldn't see how good it was.Then he said helplessly, "Diana, there's no need to be so indifferent. Anyway, we haven't seen each other for decades."

Diana's body shook suddenly, she turned her head and finally looked at Kai, and found that this person was familiar, but felt very strange.She is sure that she has never seen him, and she is extremely confident in her memory.

Seeing Diana's bewildered expression, Kay suddenly felt that this was very funny, with a sense of mischief.

"Who are you?" Diana asked sullenly.

Kay saw a sudden flash of gold on Diana's wrist. He knew that thing, the lasso of mantras.Seeing that Diana was going to do something, Kai immediately revealed his identity.I saw traces of flames igniting in his eyes—the flames of the desert!
Seeing this familiar flame, Diana was immediately stunned.

"You...you are..."

"That's right, long time no see, the little girl from Amazon." To Kai, Diana was indeed only a little girl, and when Kai was active, whether her mother was born or not was another matter.

"It's really you! Kai!" Diana screamed like a little girl, and rushed to Kai, hugging Kai.Fortunately, the girl was wearing a one-step skirt, otherwise she would have clung to Kai's body like a koala.

This shocked everyone else. Art exhibitions, of course, have to look like dogs, so no noise is allowed. Diana's actions caused many people to frown, but seeing a pair of handsome men and beautiful women hugging, many people showed everyone He smiled knowingly, and then looked away very gracefully.

Good-looking people are always a little bit privileged, if you see two ugly men and women hugging here, someone has already hired security, it's an eyesore.

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It took a long time before Diana stabilized her mood and came to her temporary office with Kay.

Her office is inside the museum. When she saw Diana dragging a handsome guy into her office, all the staff along the way cast envious and jealous eyes.With Diana's appearance and figure, there is naturally no shortage of suitors during this period.In fact, when she was in France, she had many suitors. After all, she was a Gallic chicken. Like Italy, she regarded a handsome rascal as a romance.

It was even more so when she came to Chicago. Some time ago, Tony Stark asked her out for dinner.It's a pity that this iceberg beauty is extremely disgusted with Tony's playboy style.

No way, as an Amazonian woman, she couldn't accept Tony's arrogance. After all, in Diana's education, they were the stronger side. Even if she wanted to spend, she would spend on Tony, not the other way around.

Because it is a temporary office, the conditions are limited and very simple.So there is nothing to entertain, but Diana is still very happy.

Diana had a crush on Kay, which she never denied herself, but it was just a crush.What really made Diana happy was that the world still had friends of its own.

All the comrades and friends who fought together in the past passed away with the passage of time. Coupled with the ever-changing new century, she felt very strange to this society. Now she can understand why whether it is Kai or her own family members He told himself again and again not to have feelings with mortals.But she was too young then to understand.After knowing that Steve died, she realized that those were good words.

Steve didn't die of the war, but he did die of disease, cancer.This may be the sequelae of exposure to German poison gas.Well, a good girl is afraid of being entangled by a man. In the end, Steve and Diana are still together, but the time together is too short.

Don't say that love is the greatest. When those people she loved passed away one by one due to the ravages of time, and she couldn't do anything, Diana understood that she was always different from human beings.

If you don't have it, you won't lose it.

So Diana returned to Paradise Island.She chose to stay away from human society and repair her wounds.But human beings let her down again. With the outbreak of World War II, she no longer has any reason to excuse human beings. She used to regard the killing of human beings as a masterpiece of Ares, the god of war, even though Kay kept telling her, Ares, the god of war, can't control people's hearts.But she still didn't believe it.But what about World War II?
Ares, the god of war, has been sealed, but the cannibalism of human beings is even more tragic.

If it weren't for Diana's kind nature, she might have turned black directly as Ares expected.There is no way, at this point, even Kai, who is a human being, doesn't have to wash.

It is also because of this that Diana has been hiding in Paradise Island and has never come out again.This time, if it weren't for the Amazon priest telling her that the world would be tested, she probably wouldn't appear in the human world.

Diana didn't know much about that prophecy. After all, it was too abstract. The world was going to be tested. Who would test it?

Diana immediately thought of Ares. After all, Ares was not killed, but sealed.So Diana came to the human world to look for the statue of Ares, and only then did Diana Prince work in the Louvre in France.

Although Diana saw people coming and going in this world, which was extremely prosperous, but when it came to her, she still felt very lonely.

That's why Diana was so happy to see Kay.

"You suddenly disappeared, which shocked me. I went to the South American rainforest with Cottman and Captain Nemo, trying to find your trace, but found nothing. Where did you go?" Dai Anna asked impatiently as soon as she sat down.

Kay seems a bit like a world away, Cottman, Captain Nemo...they are really familiar names.From Kai's point of view, they drank and chatted with him a few years ago, but in a blink of an eye, they all passed away.

Things are impermanent, nothing more than this.

Kai briefly talked about his original experience, the lost world, the power of creation and so on.

Even Diana was fascinated by what she heard. She never thought that the world would be so wonderful.

As they talked, they turned the topic to Diana again.

"Wait a minute? You mean... Ares is missing?" Kay never knew about it.In his opinion, only a few people present at the time knew what happened to Ares, and even among the Atlanteans, only their king and princess knew about it.So he always thought that no one would know about Ares being sealed, but now someone told him that Ares was gone!

Kay certainly wouldn't think that someone would steal the statue simply for its artistic value!
That's ridiculous.

That statue is indeed considered an antique now, but where can the sculptures from the First World War be antiques?And Qu that sculpture is not the work of a famous artist, and its value is not high at all.Whoever eats too much will steal it.

Then those who steal the sculpture must know the true value of the sculpture!
This is a bit fatal, is this the rhythm to release Ares?
Back then, they worked so hard to seal Ares. Unexpectedly, after less than 100 years, someone would release him?And there is a very high probability that humans released him by themselves!

Even as a human being, Kai gritted his teeth with hatred for the death-loving character of human beings.

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Just when Kay was worried that Ares would come back, a group of researchers were experimenting with a statue in a secret base of S.H.I.E.L.D.It is the statue of Ares!
One-eyed Chief Nick Fury was there too.

"This is one and one experiment. You must produce results, or your funding will be cut. Dr. Edgar Sisko."

Nick Fury said coldly to a born dwarf with an ugly appearance.

Edgar Sisko, the dwarf, wiped the sweat from his brow.A little embarrassed, he said: "We can't blame us, because you gave us too little information. You only let us study the special features of this statue, but you never told us what this statue is, and you still don't let us We destroy statues. What do you want us to do?"

Edgar Sisko, a top scientist, has both physics and medicine.But he didn't know what S.H.I.E.L.D. was going to do. They just asked him to study this broken statue, but they didn't give any information, just let him study hard...

"Your job is to tell me what's so weird about this statue!" The origin of the statue is one of the top secrets of S.H.I.E.L.D.Naturally, it is impossible for others to know. Besides, they did not want to release Ares, but wanted to study the ancient protoss through statues.

(End of this chapter)