American Strategic Deception Bureau

　"Yes, a healing spell can solve the problem. Even if you want to turn back time on her face, you can use magic to reshape it."

　Fili muttered softly, "But the problem is, how am I going to explain this to everyone afterwards? I can't tell her ex-husband and Dr. Kissinger that I just used a spell to rejuvenate Miss Monroe? Then I'll be used as a guinea pig and locked up in a dark cell for experiments!"

　As he muttered this, he subconsciously looked up at the door - Mr. DiMaggio, who was under the suggestion, was guarding the door there!

　So, with Marilyn Monroe lying naked in front of you, and someone watching from the door, wouldn't you want to take advantage of the opportunity to have sex?

　"Have sex? With her? Forget it! After removing the celebrity filter, she is just a middle-aged woman now."

　Fili looked down at Marilyn Monroe's sagging skin, swollen face, and the remaining needle marks on her arms, and felt nothing but boredom. "I'm no longer a twelve or thirteen-year-old mother-loving teenager. How could I possibly want to sleep with a slut who's more than ten years older than me?"

　What's more, Mr. DiMaggio, who was planning to remarry her, is now waiting outside the door! Do you want me to be the leader of the cult that my husband is committing?

　"But you just pulled your hand out of her body. Isn't that a case of marital infidelity? Furthermore, you used suggestion to confuse Mr. DiMaggio, and used hypnosis and somnolence to put Miss Monroe into a deep coma! This is clearly the work of a cult, isn't it?"

　"Yes, that's right. As the favored one of the Prince of Lies, Xirik, I am originally a priest of the cult!"

　Fili stroked his chin and pondered, "If that's the case, let's add a little more cult flair!"

　He turned around, opened his suitcase, and pulled out a tightly sealed oil-paper bag from the secret compartment. Inside was some dried mushrooms that gave off a strange smell. "Other cults use drugs to disguise their magic, so I'll disguise my magic as drugs..."

　Author's Note: PS: Korean food culture is truly bizarre. Fried toothpicks are all the rage lately. Also, Koreans' long-standing love for instant noodles is bizarre. Even the heroine in a Korean time-travel drama, after traveling back in time, tries to replicate the instant noodles by frying them.

　Even more bizarre is that South Korea, which has long held the top spot in per capita instant noodle consumption worldwide, with each person eating 70 to 80 bowls annually, has recently been overtaken by Vietnam. Don't Vietnamese people eat pho? Why are they consuming instant noodles so heavily lately? Or are the statisticians confusing vermicelli with noodles?

　Chapter 175: Eastern Fantasy Township? No, Eastern Mushroom Township!

　"This is... your CIA's special medicine? Magic mushrooms from Cuba and Mexico?"

　The awakened American sweetheart Marilyn Monroe, wearing a bathrobe, curiously looked at the dried mushroom in her hand.

　Hmm, a yellow umbrella with a white shaft, blue and purple stripes in the folds on the back of the umbrella, and a strange smell...

　"Is this the thing you used on me just now? It doesn't look very reliable!" She poked the cap with her finger and muttered.

　——These days, environmental protection ideas have just begun to emerge in the Western world, and people’s abnormal superstition about industrial products has not yet ended.

　Therefore, compared to green, pollution-free, simple, natural herbs, Miss Monroe still trusts those seemingly high-end and classy electronic devices and strange potions in colorful glass bottles, and regards herbs as unreliable things tinkered with by witches or barbarian witch doctors.

　"Ah, just tell me how you feel now, Miss Monroe. Even if medicine can deceive people, your body can't deceive you, can it?"

　Ferry reached out and poked Monroe's shoulder without any hesitation. Marilyn Monroe was a little suspicious at first, but her face froze when she heard that.

　How should I put it? She really couldn't be feeling any better.

　It was as if I was back in my mother's belly, and I felt unprecedented relaxation and comfort from mind to body.

　The bad mood that was still very depressed even with the nourishment of love seemed to be blown away by the strong wind, and became lively and cheerful again.

　Obviously, Miss Monroe couldn't have known that this was all due to divine magic, and could only be attributed to the small mushroom that Ferry took out and showed.

　"Well, I have to admit, it feels pretty good!" she nodded slightly embarrassedly.

　Seeing this, DiMaggio, the ex-husband next to him, also came over and picked up a dried Psilocybe mushroom, examining it carefully in the sunlight. "Indian magic mushrooms? I've heard of them, but I don't know much about them. How should they be taken? Do you just chew and swallow them?"

　"Ah, eating a whole mushroom at once might be a bit excessive and not very good for your health. To be safe, mushrooms are usually dried and ground into powder, then mixed into chocolate or candy. They can also be soaked in an extract and made into an ointment for use in medicine."

　Fili replied, "But the most traditional and correct way to take it is actually to use it as an enema!"

　"Enema?!" Marilyn

　Both Monroe and her ex-husband, DiMaggio, could not help but scream.

　"Yes! This stuff wasn't originally meant to be eaten. The ancient Mayan priests of Central America dried and ground this magical mushroom or squeezed fresh juice, then mixed it with cocoa powder, honey, and vanilla juice to make an enema solution, which they then poured into the user's body through the buttocks..."

　Fili said seriously, trying to justify his extraordinary treatment, "I just used this stuff to mix a potion to give you an enema, combined with hypnosis and psychological suggestion, it has such a good effect..."

　"Ah, did I just eat a mushroom with my butt?" Marilyn Monroe giggled and subconsciously reached into her bathrobe and touched her buttocks, but she didn't feel shy at all, just felt a little excited and curious.

　After all, throughout the millennia-long Middle Ages, traditional European medicine essentially relied on these three methods: bloodletting, enema, and vomiting. The primary goal was to expel harmful substances from the body and restore health.

　Even in the 21st century, "water therapy" is still popular among the middle class in Europe and the United States, and they rely on enemas to detoxify and maintain health.

　Regardless of the effectiveness, at least in the eyes of Europeans, enema, a seemingly shameful treatment method, is actually very normal and common, probably similar to cupping and acupuncture in the eyes of Orientals - since you are going to see a doctor anyway, how can you oppose enema because of shame?

　So, regarding the fact that Fieri was talking to himself and giving himself an enema, not only did Miss Monroe have no opinion, but even her ex-husband, who was a dog licker, did not say anything.

　Seeing that the patient and his family had no objections and even expressed their gratitude to him, Fili breathed a sigh of relief.

　——By relying on the psychedelic effects of psilocybin mushrooms as a cover, he could conceal the fact that he had previously knocked Monroe unconscious.

　Then, right next to Ferry's ear, the portable system rang out a mysterious voice that only he could hear:

　"Host, your lie is quite bold! Are you trying to trick people into believing drugs are a miracle cure? You even tricked Marilyn Monroe into taking poisonous mushrooms!"

　"I didn't harm her. At most, I was fighting poison with poison. Psilocybin mushrooms are a potent treatment for depression. Although the side effects are a bit severe, they really work—they can quickly rebuild connections between neurons and truly repair nerve damage."

　Fili curled his lips and complained silently, "What's more, just based on the miraculous rejuvenation I gave her, combined with the promotion of poisonous mushrooms, it's more than worth it."

　Although Ferry hadn't rejuvenated Monroe's face or erased the surgical scars on her abdomen, he had managed to remove the accumulated disease and toxins from her body and infuse her with life energy. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been so energetic after a deep sleep.

　If the health of this "American sweetheart" deteriorates again in the future and she needs treatment to stay alive, Fili will first give her a psilocybin enema to make her hallucinate, then use a sleeping spell to make her lose consciousness - and then he can do whatever he wants.

　Of course, being addicted to mushrooms is not a good thing and will still cause problems over time, but Firi doesn't care about it at all.

　He just wanted the blonde beauty Marilyn Monroe to live as long as possible this year and live well until his service mission was completed.

　As for whether she will die suddenly next year, that has nothing to do with the cold-blooded CIA agent Major Ferry King.

　-

　However, although Ferry's words made sense, after all, it concerned Monroe's health. DiMaggio, her ex-husband and the biggest bootlicker, was not completely reassured.

　So, the next day, DiMaggio found a local Japanese doctor from Mount Hakone, the old man with glasses who had easily diagnosed Monroe's condition as a withdrawal reaction from the "awakening drug", to give Marilyn Monroe a follow-up examination.

　As a result, the Japanese doctor was immediately surprised: not to mention how the blonde beauty who was still sick yesterday suddenly became full of energy, the fact that her blood pressure dropped so much overnight was a medical miracle that he could not understand.

　In response to the Japanese doctor's questions, Mr. DiMaggio quietly took out the "dried magic mushrooms" wrapped in oil paper...

　So, the doctor named "Nekoyashiki", whose surname is rare even in Japan, immediately came to Firi excitedly and asked him in pidgin English about the price and efficacy of this "magic mushroom", as well as the method of use and procurement channels.

　Even when Ferry told him that the most suitable use of this mushroom was for enema, Dr. Nekoyashiki nodded in agreement without any objection.

　Oh, yes, now I remember that Japanese samurai have a long tradition of raising concubines, practicing zodiac arts, and appreciating chrysanthemums, and they consider it elegant behavior. So their acceptance of enema might be higher than that of white people in Europe and America!

　So, I actually helped the CIA in Japan and Castro on the island of Cuba to open up sales channels for psilocybin mushrooms?

　Wow, I never thought that there would be a day when I would dump drugs into Japan!

　However, after Fili gave the other party his contact number and address and asked him to find the CIA's white glove agent in Japan to import and order dried psilocybin mushrooms from Central America, Dr. Nekoyashiki pestered Fili again, wanting to learn how to cultivate these magical mushrooms.

　Uh, does this old Japanese guy want to grow psilocybin mushrooms at home, achieving "body and soil as one" and "import substitution"?

　Ferry wants

　He thought to himself that he did have Psilocybe mushrooms nearby. Furthermore, the Pentagon-style "Personal Doomsday Survival Kit" he had brought to Japan for display and promotion also included simple equipment for cultivating mushrooms.

　——In the underground shelter after the outbreak of nuclear war, survivors can hardly grow any other crops except mushrooms that do not require sunlight.

　So, he sold a bag of mushroom seeds and a set of mushroom cultivation equipment to Dr. Nekoyashiki at a high price, and asked him to grow them for fun.

　What? Will this affect the bureau's sales of poisonous mushrooms? Or even create a new competitor?

　That would require the Japanese to be able to grow it in large quantities at low cost!

　You should know that unlike edible mushrooms that can grow as long as the temperature is kept above 5℃, Psilocybe mushrooms grow in the tropical rainforest areas of Cuba and central and southern Mexico. They have never been bred for cold resistance and it is difficult for them to adapt to environments outside the tropics.

　Compared to Mexico and Cuba, the climate of Mount Hakone is too cold and is not suitable for the cultivation of Psilocybe mushrooms.

　However, Firi, ever so cautious, overlooked one thing: while the climate on Mount Hakone was indeed a bit colder than the Central American home of this "magic mushroom," there were hot springs there!

　Even in the backward ancient times, the ancients would use the residual heat from hot springs to grow off-season vegetables in winter, let alone the 20th century?

　So, twenty years later, when the slow-reacting Japanese government finally listed Psilocybin mushrooms as "banned drugs", the "fantasy mushrooms" grown in a dark room next to the hot springs had already become a local specialty of Mount Hakone.

　It has long been a popular trend among Tokyo residents to go to Hakone to soak in hot springs, drink "Fantasy Mushroom Tea", enjoy enema spa services with "Magic Mushroom Soup", and then take home a bag of local specialties such as "Mushroom Wagashi" or "Mushroom Chocolate" as souvenirs.

　——The Hakone mountain area, which was the prototype of "Oriental Fantasy Village", has since become almost "Oriental Mushroom Village"

　Well, perhaps, an unknown writer was also on vacation in Mount Hakone, munching on the local specialty fantasy mushrooms and fruits while daydreaming about the stories of Princess Kaguya, the Inaba White Rabbit, the Asthmatic Lolita Magician, and the Naked Sky Fox?

　Author's words: PS: In the battle of northern Myanmar, the Burmese military government really went crazy: of the total ten army divisions in the country, five division commanders were killed or captured, and of the twenty-one garrison brigades in the country, six brigade commanders were captured or killed.

　Hundreds of the most elite airborne troops were killed (there were only 300 in total), and several of the few air force fighter planes that could still fly were shot down.

　The war has become such a mess, but you still insist on fighting, are you crazy?

　Chapter 176: From Hiroshima to Nagasaki

　August 6, 1962, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Japan

　Seventeen years ago today, a U.S. Air Force B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, sounding the death knell for the Japanese Empire.

　At this time, under the scorching sun of midsummer, Marilyn Monroe, wearing a pure white dress, held a yellow and white paper wreath in her hand. She walked through a banner fluttering in the wind that read "Commemorating the 17th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima" and placed the wreath in front of the memorial to the victims of the atomic bomb explosion in the park.

　Reporters who had already posed around pressed the shutters of their cameras, and the frequent flashes of light were dazzling.

　Well, so far, everything is normal.

　What was rather unusual was that... Fili turned his head to look at the crowd of onlookers in the distance. There were flags with the UN emblem painted on them, as well as banners with slogans such as "Oppose nuclear weapons", "Don't be enemies of world peace", "No more atomic bombs", and "The perpetrators of the nuclear disaster should apologize".

　There were even "representatives of the atomic bomb victims" who were clamoring and shouting at the top of their lungs, demanding that Monroe kneel before the memorial on behalf of the United States...

　This left Firi speechless for a moment.

　Please, do you realize that Japan is not only a defeated country in World War II, but also the culprit who started the war?

　How come I end up looking like a victim?

　Since the defeat in the war, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has always loved to spend a lot of money on remote animal husbandry, pressing the heads of foreigners and forcing them to "reflect quickly". How come when it is your turn to reflect, you suddenly change your tune, and instead of reflecting, you just wash your hands of the matter?

　In short, after Monroe presented the flowers, many unexpected things inevitably happened during the subsequent communication.

　-- Concerned about both Marilyn Monroe's health and her supposedly "stupid yet lucid" intelligence, Dr. Kissinger did not arrange any activities for her during his trips to Hiroshima and Nagasaki other than laying flowers. Instead, he wrote a speech himself at the memorial.

　As a result, when Dr. Kissinger was spitting at the podium and talking about "peace and freedom are the consistent ideals of the United States" and "maintaining world peace requires the joint efforts of everyone", the Hiroshima citizens in the audience could not help but boo. Some cursed the United States for being a "nuclear maniac", some said that the United States was the biggest threat to world peace, and some cursed Kissinger as a "warmonger who is the enemy of peace."

　There were also several Hiroshima atomic bomb survivors with horrific scars on their faces who sang "No More Atomic Bombs" - a song created by the Japanese at the "World Conference for the Prohibition of Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs". To Americans, it had a sense of humor, like a mouse trying to bell the cat.

　Alas, it is a good thing that General LeMay did not come to Hiroshima, otherwise if he had encountered this scene, who knows whether

　Add a few more "acquaintances" on the spot.

　Later, while visiting the Hiroshima atomic bomb ruins and exhibition hall, Firi saw many headless Buddha statues, melted plaques, broken monuments... as well as large photos of towering broken walls, twisted steel bars, charred trees, rubble everywhere, and human bones that were burned to pieces.

　Since it is not that long since the Hiroshima bombing, many survivors, even those with broken bodies, paralyzed disabilities, and horrific scars all over their bodies, come to the memorial park to speak out and denounce the horrors of war and nuclear bombings on every anniversary of the bombing.

　In addition, there are many foreign celebrities who watched the Hiroshima atomic bomb explosion commemoration activities. Their thoughts or articles are also displayed here to show that the catastrophe of the Hiroshima atomic bomb explosion has won sympathy and compassion from all over the world.

　After a quick glance, Feri had very complicated feelings.

　If it is simply out of sympathy for the casualties of Hiroshima civilians and the suffering of radiation-sickness victims, and if we say some polite words about love and peace, then that is all that should be done.

　but……

　Because you witnessed the tragic scenes after the Hiroshima nuclear explosion, you angrily denounce the brutal, bloody and anti-human behavior of American imperialism during World War II?

　Do you really not know what the Japanese did before this, and why the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima?

　Well, if they were countries that had not been harmed by the Japanese army, or countries that relied on the Japanese invasion to drive out the Western colonizers, their impression of the Japanese army might not be so bad - mainly because the Western colonizers who had tormented them for hundreds of years were even more inhumane than the Japanese army that came and went in a hurry.

　For example, in the eyes of the Javanese in Indonesia, the harm caused to them by the Japanese army was certainly far less than the great harm done by the Dutch.

　Therefore, it is somewhat understandable that they say some things from the perspective of the Japanese due to their natural aversion to Western whites.

　But, no matter what, as the Chinese who have suffered the most from Japan in modern times, when we saw the Hiroshima nuclear explosion, even if we cannot openly gloat over it out of courtesy and politeness, we should at least feel that it was our own fault and that we deserved it, right?

　As a result, Ferry actually saw a masterpiece by Ms. Bing Xin here - "Travels in Japan", which she wrote in 1955 when she went to Japan to attend the "World Conference for the Prohibition of Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs" and visited the atomic bomb explosion sites in Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

　What's in it... how can I put it? Every word exhorts the "Japanese people who are struggling for peace amidst hardship," adding: "This extremely barbaric method of warfare, which violates international law, is a challenge to all of humanity! We must never tolerate such wanton brutality. The time has come for the peace-loving people of the world to join hands, hold high their chests, and resolutely ban atomic and hydrogen bombs. It is time for us to do so without delay!"

　Looking at the entire text, every word is anti-American and anti-nuclear, and there is basically no mention of the crimes of Japanese militarism.

　Fili was filled with emotion. "Ms. Bing Xin, it's only been so many years since the end of World War II, and the eyewitnesses of the Nanjing Massacre are still alive. Have you already forgotten the blood feud? Isn't there something wrong with this stance?"

　However, judging from the fact that her article was able to be published publicly in domestic newspapers, it should not have violated China's political correctness at that time - this shows that the three views of the Chinese people in this era are very different from those in the 21st century.

　When it comes to the views and ways of explaining the historical contradictions and conflicts between China and Japan, the old revolutionaries today and the little pinks in the future do not have the same ideas.

　Well, that's right. Now is the time when class struggle is the guiding principle. In order to unite the proletariat of the world and resist "American imperialism" and "Soviet revisionism", we must naturally downplay past hatreds and carry out united front work among the Japanese working people.

　Moreover, China did not have an atomic bomb at that time, but was threatened and intimidated by the United States with atomic bombs again and again during the Korean War.

　In this case, official propaganda will inevitably try its best to discredit this weapon of mass destruction and attempt to create an international public opinion that resists the use of nuclear weapons.

　As for "Never forget national humiliation" and so on... of course it has not been denied, otherwise there would not be so many classic old anti-Japanese films emerging.

　But the problem is that, according to current Chinese propaganda, the bloody 14-year war of resistance was the fault of "a handful of Japanese militarists," while the vast majority of the Japanese people were good. The vast majority of the Japanese people were also victims of the war of aggression and should not be held accountable.