American Strategic Deception Bureau

　Built as a Western-style residence during the Meiji era to promote Westernization, Fuji-i boasts a history of nearly eighty years. While it may not look impressive now, it must have been quite grand in its day. The narrow, red-carpeted hallways of the inn are lined with commemorative photos of various celebrities who stayed there, including one of the Empress herself, who visited the inn with her parents during her teenage years for a summer getaway.

　The lobby manager is also an elegant gentleman wearing a black suit and a bow tie, and he looks very stylish in every move he makes.

　Upon arriving at the Fujii Ryokan, Marilyn Monroe headed straight for the hot springs. But Fieri and Dr. Kissinger had to sit down and continue working, discussing with officials from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs, who had just arrived, the general process for Ms. Monroe's wreath-laying ceremony at the Hiroshima Memorial Monument on August 6th, the anniversary of the atomic bombing, and the subsequent exhibition on radioactive wasteland culture in Nagasaki.

　After a preliminary framework was finalized, the two men, who were already exhausted from the journey, were now staggering with exhaustion.

　So, since we had no appetite to eat anything, we returned to our respective suites and went to the hot springs to relieve our fatigue.

　I have to say, this hotel is indeed quite old. In the corridor between the shower room and the open-air hot spring pool, although the waiter carefully laid a layer of straw mats, the wooden planks that are at least fifty years old still creak when you step on them.

　I came to the door of the small open-air bath belonging to the suite, pushed open the paper sliding door, and a small courtyard surrounded by a circle of wooden boards appeared before my eyes.

　Due to long-term immersion in water vapor, the surfaces of all the wooden boards around have become dark brown, which has a heavy sense of historical vicissitudes.

　The dark brown volcanic rock that paved the ground had become quite smooth from years of use. An oval pool took up almost 70% of the courtyard. Hot spring water, with a sulphurous smell, flowed from outside along an ancient stone trough into the pool.

　The turbid grayish-white pool water obstructs the view, while a layer of light smoke floating on the water surface adds a hazy feeling.

　Fortunately, it was still daytime, and Ferry immediately saw Marita's charming and graceful body through the sulfur-smelling mist.

　"Have you finished your business?" Marita asked as she stood up from the hot spring pool.

　"There's no end to it! Being around a big star, us assistants are always busy!"

　Fili sighed, took off his bathrobe and jumped into the water. "Of course, even if we do nothing, it doesn't really matter. The Japanese will arrange everything properly. At most, they might take the opportunity to slip in some smuggled goods, but they probably won't go too far.

　Anyway, everyone has always believed that Miss Monroe is not very smart, so it is understandable that she occasionally says something stupid..."

　"In that case, why do you look so worried these past few days? Are you worried about something? Or are you feeling unwell?"

　Marita swam slowly from the surface, floating like a mermaid. Fili then pulled her delicate body into his arms, kneading the plump fat balls on her chest with familiarity, causing her to cry out softly and collapse on him like a noodle.

　"Don't worry, I'm in good health! What's really worrying is Miss Monroe, the one we're serving right now!"

　He kneaded Marita's breasts roughly with his left hand, and poked into that warm, moist, tight place with his right hand, while he talked about his recent worries, "Have you noticed, dear, that Miss Monroe seems to be a little bit abnormal in the past few days?"

　——As a time traveler who came back from the downstream of history, Fili certainly couldn't tell

　Marita, according to the historical process on another timeline, the death of Marilyn Monroe, the peerless porn star and blonde beauty, will be in the next few days.

　Well, to be precise, it was August 8th this year, which was the day before the Hiroshima atomic bombing anniversary on August 6th!

　The direct cause of death was drug overdose.

　Although history has been drastically altered, and Marilyn Monroe herself has been taken from Los Angeles to Japan, Ferry still can't help but worry about whether some "historical thread" will converge, causing her life to end this summer.

　As a cultist who lacks a virtuous heart, Fili actually doesn't mind whether Marilyn Monroe dies young or dies young.

　But the problem is, if Marilyn Monroe died right now, he, as her henchman, would be held responsible.

　——It seems that because he has been with Kissinger, the "defeatist strategist" for a long time, he is now becoming more and more pessimistic about things.

　Obviously, Marita was puzzled by his unspoken worries.

　"What's wrong? Hasn't she always been fine? She's been sleeping with her ex-husband recently and has been well cared for!"

　“Uh, you’ve been with her all these days, didn’t you notice?

　Even I could see that after the US-Japan Friendship Exchange Concert at the foot of Tokyo Tower, Miss Monroe had been drowsy all day. Even after sleeping for twelve hours, she still looked exhausted when she got up.

　When others spoke to her, Miss Monroe's response was very slow and she looked like she was sleepwalking.

　Sometimes, Miss Monroe gets excited for some reason and says some strange things to us..."

　"What's so strange about that? After such a grand concert, she would feel very tired and need to rest for a while. It's normal! Don't you feel tired after finishing an important exam?"

　Marita retorted, “As for being stupid occasionally… Miss Monroe doesn’t have the image of being very smart!

　Moreover, she is currently planning to remarry Mr. DiMaggio—love makes women stupid, everyone should understand this, right?

　Fili had no choice but to ask Marita in a roundabout way whether Miss Monroe had recently been taking excessive drugs or smoking anything strange. But the answer he got was that because of Fili's repeated reminders, Monroe had not taken any drugs since the concert.

　Well, it seems that Monroe has avoided the misfortune of dying young this summer because of the change in her life course?

　In short, the two discussed for a long time, but still could not come to a conclusion. Instead, as they whispered to each other, they gradually became aroused.

　So, Fili, who was in the mood, let Marita sit on his thighs and was about to thrust his dick in...

　Unexpectedly, at this moment, DiMaggio's panicked voice suddenly rang out from another open-air bath next door: "Marilyn! Marilyn! Wake up! Marilyn! What's wrong with you? Don't scare me! Marilyn!"

　Hearing this voice, Ferry suddenly shuddered, and all the desire in his mind disappeared. He immediately jumped out of the hot spring, grabbed a towel and wrapped it around his crotch, and then quickly climbed over the wooden partition and jumped into the small bath next door where Marilyn Monroe and her ex-husband were bathing together.

　Then, he saw with a dull look that Monroe, naked, was lying limply on the cobblestone floor beside the bathtub, unconscious. Although DiMaggio scooped cold water from a small wooden basin and kept splashing it on Monroe's face, he still couldn't wake her up.

　Alas, this situation looks like the crime scene of "Detective Conan".

　Ferry shook his head vigorously, clearing his mind of chaotic thoughts. Then he took a deep breath of the moist, sulfur-smelling mist and shouted to his terrified ex-husband, "Mr. DiMaggio, please call a doctor! Marita and I are here to watch over Miss Monroe! We have received first aid training!"

　"Call a doctor? Yes, we should call a doctor right away! Marilyn is in your hands!"

　DiMaggio answered instinctively, then stood up dizzily and staggered out with his bare butt, forgetting even to put on his clothes.

　After he left, Fili quickly dragged Monroe under the eaves. He then had Marita throw the Purple Skull Holy Emblem from next door and chanted a few spells over the unconscious Monroe, allowing a ball of divine light representing healing power to flow into her body...

　In short, when DiMaggio hurried over with a Japanese doctor in a white coat and small round glasses, Marilyn Monroe had already woken up and drank half a cup of hot water under the help of Phil, Marita, Dr. Kissinger and others.

　The doctor seemed to have some experience. After a quick examination, he asked Marilyn Monroe if she had ever taken "awakening drugs" before? Or amphetamines?

　When he learned that the patient had indeed taken the drug before but had recently stopped, he immediately slapped his thigh and said, "Hey, Ms. Monroe, you can't just stop taking a drug like 'Awakening Agent'!"

　Chapter 174: Fight against cults

　As mentioned before, Japan during World War II was the country in the world most dependent on amphetamines at that time.

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　The "miracle drug" that invigorates the spirit was originally called "nekome-no-tsu ...

　Throughout World War II, Japan produced 70 percent of the world's amphetamines, essentially treating drugs as supplements.

　The so-called "Bushido spirit" displayed by Japanese soldiers on the battlefield, which shocked the Western world, was basically just the effect of crazy drug use.

　After the end of World War II, in order to boost the national spirit and rebuild the devastated country, the defeated Japanese government packaged the remaining "awakening agents" stockpiled by the army into various tablets or injections at extremely cheap prices and sold them in major pharmacies and grocery stores across the country.

　At this time, Japan was filled with a profound sense of defeat and disappointment. Unable to accept the reality of their nation's defeat and surrender, many Japanese sought to numb themselves with drugs. Much like the Chinese in the late Qing Dynasty, they began to take "awakening drugs" like crazy.

　At the same time, those Japanese who survived the war had to undertake the arduous task of postwar reconstruction. To maintain their mental and physical energy for extended periods under the intense workload, many Japanese workers began taking "awakening drugs" to relieve fatigue.

　For a time, the phenomenon of taking "awakening drugs" became rampant throughout Japan, with the number of people suffering from mental illness caused by drug use alone reaching 20.

　In addition, high blood pressure caused by taking "awakening drugs" has also caused a certain degree of national health problem in Japan.

　Therefore, after enduring the most difficult period after the defeat, the Japanese government, in view of the serious side effects of drug use among the entire population, promulgated the "Awakening Agent Prohibition Law" in 1951, and gradually banned the public production and sale of "awakening agents".

　But the problem is, how can the millions of Japanese "corporate warriors" who have become accustomed to taking drugs quit drugs instantly at the government's command?

　Thus, much like the rampant bootlegging in American society during Prohibition, despite official Japanese legislation prohibiting the production and sale of "awakening agents," illegal sales of "awakening agents" continued to flourish. While government-run "awakening agent" production companies ceased operations, many criminal gangs, capitalizing on the technological proliferation during the chaotic postwar period, mastered the production techniques and launched their own drug manufacturing industries.

　Note that amphetamines from the 1950s and 1960s couldn't be called "ice." This was because the manufacturing process during World War II was relatively backward, using sulfuric acid instead of hydrochloric acid. Consequently, they could only produce a pale yellow ointment, not a crystal-clear, high-purity solid like ice.

　As for the technology of making "ice", it was not invented by drug traffickers until the 1970s.

　In addition to producing drugs domestically, Japanese drug traffickers also try to find partners abroad to produce drugs, and then sell them back to Japan to make huge profits.

　South Korea, just across the sea, bore the brunt of the impact. This was because during World War II, North Korea had been the largest production base for the Japanese military's "awakening agent." After the drug was banned in Japan, Japanese drug traffickers immediately sought out Koreans who had worked with them in the wartime production of "awakening agents" and recruited them to resume their old trade. Lured by the profits, the two sides hit it off, and soon a large-scale amphetamine production in South Korea was underway, which was then smuggled into Japan.

　Since South Korea was extremely poor at that time, it turned a blind eye to this illegal business that could make a lot of money.

　It was not until the late 1980s that South Korea, which had become wealthy through the "Han River Miracle", established a drug department under the Supreme Prosecutor's Office and made great efforts to ban and eradicate drugs, and soon destroyed most of the country's "awakening agent" manufacturers.

　In the thirty years before that, South Korea was a notorious drug den internationally. Drug traffickers from Japan and Southeast Asia imported methamphetamine from South Korea. For a while, there was even a barter trade in drugs - exchanging opium from the Golden Triangle for methamphetamine from South Korea!

　Uh, I don't know how to comment on this. I can only say that the imagination is very open, allowing addicts to taste goods from all over the world...

　Even North Korea has gotten involved in the drug trafficking business: some of the drug factories built by the Japanese army in Korea during World War II were located in the north.

　Of course, while the Japanese government's "Law Prohibiting Arousal Drugs" has essentially eliminated them, it's not entirely ineffective. It has, at least, significantly increased the price of "awakening drugs," forcing a significant number of poor people to stop using them, unable to afford them.

　There are also many wealthy Japanese middle-class people who have stopped taking medication for the sake of their dignity or health.

　Then, problems arose when the medication was stopped!

　——As we all know, drug rehabilitation will cause withdrawal reactions!

　You know, scientific drug rehabilitation must be a gradual process. It is not something that can be accomplished in one step by simply locking someone up and not allowing them to take drugs.

　Even if such a simple and crude approach is successful, the physical pain and mental problems caused during the process will be extremely serious.

　Depression alone, which was often ignored in the past, is enough to make many people want to commit suicide.

　If a patient experiencing withdrawal symptoms does not receive proper treatment and instead takes cold medicine or supplements on his own, the condition will only worsen.

　Therefore, since the Japanese government began to ban the abuse of awakening drugs, various health problems caused by discontinuation of the drugs have been emerging one after another.

　The more relatively prosperous and developed the area around a big city, the more patients there are caused by this withdrawal reaction - amphetamine is not opium and cannot be grown from the ground. In this era of underdeveloped logistics, in remote areas far away from the city, even if the villagers want to take drugs, they have nowhere to buy them.

　Therefore, in the past, Japanese people who abused methamphetamines were mainly concentrated in cities, and Tokyo was the worst hit among the hard-hit areas.

　As a scenic tourist destination near Tokyo, Mount Hakone has become increasingly popular with Tokyo residents experiencing physical discomfort and depression due to withdrawal symptoms from "awakening drugs." Doctors at Mount Hakone have long seen these symptoms.

　——Especially if you continue to take a hot spring bath after experiencing withdrawal symptoms, the condition may become more serious.

　So, the Japanese doctor took a quick look at Miss Monroe's condition and immediately recognized what was going on.

　——My body was already on the verge of collapse due to withdrawal reactions, and then I took a hot spring bath together... I was lucky not to die on the spot!

　Well, it turns out that although amphetamines are not good things, for people who are already addicted, stopping the medication rashly is not a good thing?

　So, getting Marilyn Monroe back on amphetamines?

　Although this thing is already a banned drug in Japan, Miss Monroe used the diplomatic channel, so there was no drug sniffing dog to sniff her.

　What's more, amphetamines aren't considered drugs these days. Even drug-sniffing dogs are only trained to sniff out heroin.

　In short, Marilyn Monroe had medicine in her luggage, and if all else failed, Dr. Kissinger also had a bottle.

　Unfortunately, the doctor took Miss Monroe's blood pressure again and shook his head, saying that it had soared to 200/100 mmHg. If she continued to take amphetamines, she would be at risk of high blood pressure and sudden death from a stroke.

　——It is said that Roosevelt and Stalin in previous years both died suddenly due to high blood pressure!

　Well, taking the medication would be very risky, and stopping it would cause problems, so what should I do?

　After hearing the Japanese doctor's diagnosis through the translator, Marilyn Monroe immediately murmured that she missed Dr. Max Jacobson in New York and his sweet-tasting "vitamin injection" that even the president praised.

　She also said that if the miracle doctor recommended to her by the president could come to Japan, he would definitely cure her illness.

　Ferry couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat after hearing this - the only active ingredient in the "vitamin injection" prescribed by the quack doctor was amphetamine!

　In short, the Japanese doctor did not dare to prescribe any medicine indiscriminately. He just asked Monroe to rest, avoid fatigue, supplement nutrition, etc.

　After sending the doctor away in disappointment and seeing Dr. Kissinger also leave, Fili pondered for a moment. He looked at the haggard Marilyn Monroe, then pinched the purple skull emblem of the Prince of Lies in his pocket. After hesitating for a long time, he spoke, "Um... Miss Marilyn Monroe, for the sake of your health, could I give you a comprehensive physical examination in private? I have some drugs secretly researched and developed by the CIA that may be of some help to your current condition..."

　——When he said this, for some reason, Fili's voice revealed a convincing charm.

　At the same time, the purple skull holy emblem in his pocket also emitted a strange light...

　-

　"Alas, beneath this beautiful exterior, there are indeed wounds everywhere!"

　More than an hour later, on the tatami mat of the hot spring hotel suite, Fili wearily put away the purple skull holy emblem, shook his hands stained with an unknown liquid, and finally looked at Marilyn Monroe lying naked next to him. "Even her skin has aged terribly..."

　It has to be said that under the terrifying magic of time, Marilyn Monroe now shows signs of aging all over her body.

　The collagen in her face has been almost lost, and the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes are so numerous that they cannot be covered up even with makeup.

　If it is thirty years from now, with the help of medical beauty technologies such as Botox injections, collagen injections and chemical peels, as long as you are willing to spend millions of dollars on your body and face every year, it will not be difficult to make a fifty-year-old woman look like she is in her thirties.

　But now that medical beauty technology is just in its infancy, a woman's appearance will only fade with time, and her former beauty will never return to her face.

　Moreover, compared with the disappearance of her beauty, Marilyn Monroe's health condition, which was on the verge of collapse, was the most worrying thing.

　——She suffered from hunger and cold in her early years, and had to go hungry to save money for acting classes, which caused her to suffer from chronic stomach problems; and two consecutive miscarriages and an ectopic pregnancy left obvious surgical scars on her abdomen.

　Then, the drug dependence, or addiction, caused by the quack doctor's abuse of anesthetics caused her to develop lesions in many of her organs.

　Coupled with her chaotic private life, she also contracted a mild sexually transmitted disease - it would not be an exaggeration to say that her entire body was riddled with scars!

　However, through examination of the pelvis and uterus, Ferry was able to confirm that Miss Monroe had never given birth.

　Therefore, the rumor that she had a daughter with her first husband and abandoned her to an orphanage right after she gave birth should be true.

　It's pure rumor, either a smear campaign by a competitor, or fabricated by tabloid reporters after 20th Century Fox fell out with her...

　[However, you actually have a way to restore Marilyn Monroe to health, host!]

　Ever since the mess in Cuba was over, the portable system, which had been silent for a long time, suddenly started yelling in Fili's ear.