Chapter 535 Double Agent (Second Change)
The people Natasha Romanoff saw most often in the Immortal City, aside from Stephanie and her team who handled financial and administrative paperwork, were the artificial humans. Especially among the androids, the team commander, the tactical commander, and the coaches of various training courses. Whether it was Catherine or Ola, Agent Romanov could chat with them a few words—except for Tita, the wheat-colored android. Her indifferent expression was enough to freeze the orange-red flame burning in the fireplace, and Agent Romanov had rarely seen her smile. Even at the side of her creator Salomon, Tita would try to be fully armed, wearing a helmet, her left hand was always carried on the hilt of the gorgeous golden long sword at her waist, and the index finger and thumb of her right hand, wrapped in a delicate, black-painted steel glove, would not be too far from the bolter.
Tita was in charge of the Sisterhood's military force, and Salomon must have sent Tita out to perform a critical mission. Otherwise, he would have sent Agent Victoria Hand, and she would have used the lives of those Hydra agents to the extreme, draining the value of every drop of their blood—Salomon and Romanov said when they watched Agent Hand’s action report, if Agent Hand had magnetic superpowers, she would definitely suck the iron out of the blood of those Hydra agents and sell them for money.
"Are you hiding something from me?"
"Of course." Salomon said confidently, "I still have many secrets that you don't know."
"Then can you tell me, where did Tita go?" Agent Romanov slowed down his tone.
Salomon refused. "You can't know about it," he said. "It's a secret. A secret is a secret because no one else knows."
"Is it about Nick Fury?"
"Less than one percent." Salomon said, "What Tita did has very little disturbance to Nick Fury's plan, unless he has collided with Tita right now. But do you remember Tita's equipment? She wore steel wings." Natasha recalled the wing-like pendant on the back of the Sisterhood's power armor. According to the information she obtained, the wings had gone through many iterations, and finally formed the steel wings that are now distributed on a large scale. Although the specific parameters were not available, Natasha also knew that it was a piece of high-tech equipment, which might allow the user to fly at the speed of sound. Generally speaking, only cyborgs in charge of close quarters combat will be issued steel wings, but now there are not many members of the sisterhood, and everyone can be equipped with one set to increase battlefield mobility.
Her recording equipment is always online, but at the moment she cannot gather much information. Salomon also knew the purpose of Agent Romanov, but he pretended not to know—after all, she had already built a communication bridge between him and Nick Fury, so there was no need to demand more from her, as she had too many tasks. Natasha also knew that Salomon knew about her mission, but never disclosed it. This made her feel that Salomon was very considerate—it was also because of this that she was willing to help Salomon contact Nick Fury, and she became a double agent between the two.
"Okay." Natasha shrugged, "It seems to be something about magic."
"Bingo!" Suddenly a bright light appeared on Salomon's head. "A troublesome person has come to the earth. My teacher just told me today." Salomon opened the drawer and showed what looked like a 19th century seismograph inside. A silver thread hooked a specially polished ruby into a spindle shape, and underneath the ruby was a long paper tape, which was pressed on a brass scale. "This is a device that can accept telepathic calls on my behalf." He pointed to the small string of Latin words engraved on the ruby. "It can replace me to receive some telephonic messages—this thing is very popular in the magic world, and there is no need to pay phone bills. It's just that the price of this thing is too expensive. It is necessary to specially select magical gems, find craftsmen who are willing to cut gems, and even magicians themselves must have certain hands-on skills, because the parchment used to record messages also needs to be soaked in potions."
"You magicians don't know how to use mobile phones?"
"There are always times when you are not in the service area, my dear." Salomon said, "Mobile phones need operators, and spiritual calls need the etheric plane and the outer plane. If the distance is too far, the spiritual call may not be dialed, and the message cannot be sent. In fact, there are spells specially invented for long-distance calls, as well as video call spells, but they are not very useful at ordinary times."
"I didn't expect magic to develop to such an extent." Wanda tilted her head and said, "Could magic be combined with science?"
"Yes. Magic itself is a discipline mixed with rationality, sensibility, and emotion. Except for warlocks who are born or accidentally acquired magic power, they don't need to learn. Generally, spellcasters have basic scientific concepts and rational thinking." Salomon used illusions to show Wanda the modernization of the magic world. Although some of this modernization is still in the Renaissance or Victorian period, full of slow Baroque and steampunk styles, the functions of those magic devices are not inferior to modern technological products.
Among the items he displayed was a device that could replace telepathic communication.
Just like a phone number is needed to make a call, a real name is a person's phone number, open Bluetooth and WIFI, and only people with a password or phone number can access it. Today's class was not serious, so Salomon took advantage of the recess to gossip with Pietro and Wanda, including astronomy, which Wanda had never been exposed to.
"We magicians can't keep looking down at the ground, and astrology is also an important subject in magic." Salomon said, "The greatest use of astrology is to predict. But the stars and the universe are more than that to magicians. In the process of occult development, especially in the pre-enlightenment period, mystics and philosophers have three views on the universe-the first view is to view the universe as a magnificent harmonious organism, in which all parts are connected. The idea that the whole universe is in a state of sympathy, like a living being. Things that are far apart are near.... Similar things are not near each other, but are separated by different things, but are similarly affected by their similarity; the theory behind this statement is that inner similarities, even the remotest parts of the universe, can be related to each other by a mysterious sympathy."
Salomon pointed to Pietro and Wanda, indicating that the example he gave was right in front of him.
"The second point of view is hidden causality. The third point of view is more common, that is, instrumental causality, or a mechanical model, that is, one thing affects another thing through a verifiable and predictable material causal chain. With the development of science, this model has become more complex and sophisticated, but the basic assumption has always existed—it must be explained that everything is caused by matter according to strict natural laws, and the laws and principles must be discovered and understood by the human mind in principle." Salomon said, "Maybe this sounds too much. It is too scientific to have nothing to do with magic, but in fact the third point of view has a lot to do with magic. We have to learn magic with positivist ideas, and the traditional occult model is only applicable to ancient theology. Why do you say that? You haven’t learned that part yet, don’t rush to take notes, this is just chatting—we can’t learn from idealistic psychologists who blindly believe in occultism and agnosticism. Magicians should be representatives of rationality, spokespersons of wisdom, not charlatans who pick letters from old papers to form words , or a junkie talking gibberish after taking hallucinogenic drugs."
"We should regard ether as an objectively existing energy rather than a hidden mystical concept."
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