American Strategic Deception Bureau

　In response, the White House, Capitol Hill and the Pentagon were all attacking and sabotaging each other, while continuing to frantically arrange retreat and defense.

　After all, Vietnam is still in the dry season suitable for fighting, and the Viet Cong's offensive is still one wave after another, with no sign of abating.

　Under normal circumstances, the US military, with its overwhelming firepower advantage, should have no trouble holding its position, at least unless the enemy resorted to nuclear weapons. However, given a disorganized army with a paralyzed headquarters, it's hard to say whether the US military can still fight.

　Not to mention, the Viet Cong guerrillas' suicide nuclear attacks were still continuous at this time, without stopping for a moment!

　To make matters worse, just as the Pentagon was scrambling to deploy its withdrawal, a biochemical crisis broke out among the remaining US troops stationed in Vietnam!

　——The biological warfare agents dropped by the U.S. military on the battlefield in Vietnam unfortunately harmed their own people in the chaos of their retreat!

　Moreover, as the US military retreated, various plagues spread throughout the Western Pacific...

　But Taylor still felt that it was too extreme for her to move into a nudist camp.

　So, she was confused: Marilyn Monroe had already retired and no longer needed to attract attention, so why did she choose such an exciting life?

　Elizabeth Taylor was surprised to see her smooth hair, delicate skin, round breasts and plump buttocks. Even without makeup, Monroe still looked radiant. Under Monroe's promotion, she tried the "magic herbal (magic potion) enema beauty package".

　So, after enduring the pain in her buttocks and rectum and taking a hot shower, Elizabeth Taylor climbed up from the massage bed and saw a brand new self in the mirror.

　——Although she is slightly younger than Monroe, the most famous Cleopatra in film history is already 38 years old this year. Obvious crow's feet are beginning to appear at the corners of her eyes. Although she has always tried her best to maintain her skin, it is inevitable that it will become loose and have spots.

　But after being personally processed by Marilyn Monroe for a long time, all these problems of hers have now disappeared!

　The skin becomes white and delicate, smooth and elastic, the breasts are plump, firm and huge, and the whole body is full of the temptation of a mature woman!

　How could this make Elizabeth Taylor ecstatic?

　You know, after turning 35, Elizabeth Taylor's film contracts became increasingly difficult to find. Because of her high profile and high price, many crews wanted her for cameo appearances and supporting roles, but fewer and fewer were willing to hire her as the leading actress.

　Major film companies were more willing to support newcomers rather than spend a lot of money on Elizabeth Taylor, who was becoming increasingly "old and faded".

　If her popularity continues to decline like this, she will probably soon have to act in TV dramas and eventually only be able to appear occasionally in variety shows.

　Some directors and producers even openly mocked her, saying that she should do the work appropriate for her age. She couldn't possibly be so shameless as to continue playing roles like naive college students, innocent princesses, and interns when she was almost 40, right?

　These are roles your daughter should play—if you have one!

　Besides, you've already won an Oscar and starred in world-famous classics. What else could you possibly want in your life? Now, you, a washed-up old woman, should stop pretending to be young. It's time to wisely step aside and make way for the new generation of young actresses!

　If you still don't want to be lonely, you can play some supporting roles in the movies, such as the protagonist's mother, a senior in the company, or an old-fashioned female teacher and a middle-aged nun in a convent, and guide the newcomers in the play. This is in line with the normal law of alternation between the old and the new!

　Well, I have to say, although it is hard to hear, from the perspective of the audience and the film industry, it is indeed true.

　But the problem is, although this is the truth, Elizabeth Taylor would definitely not accept it.

　Not to mention the issue of fame, the income of being the protagonist and the supporting role is completely different!

　However, looking at her aging face in the mirror, Elizabeth Taylor really did not have the confidence to insist on playing the role of a young girl.

　It's generally not a big deal for a 28-year-old star to play an 18-year-old role. But if a 38-year-old star still plays an 18-year-old role, that's a bit outrageous.

　Of course you can throw a tantrum and make unreasonable demands, but the director and producer are not your brainless fans. How can they possibly agree to everything you say?

　Now she suddenly discovered that there was a way to restore her youth and prolong her star years. How could she not be overjoyed when she was at the peak of her career?

　Elizabeth Taylor, in a good mood, reached out and grabbed a handful of the fat balls on Marilyn Monroe's chest, and flicked her nipple with her fingers, "Marilyn, you are such a bad friend. You have such a good thing, but you kept it from me for so long!"

　"

　I have never hidden or concealed anything, it is you who have not come to see me for such a long time."

　Monroe touched her breasts that were hurt by the rebound, breathed on her swollen buds, and said with grievance, while stuffing the remaining half bottle of herbal essential oil into Elizabeth Taylor's hand, "

　Yes, the rest is yours, take it back and use it yourself!"

　"That's all you give me? This is only enough for me to use once or twice, right? You're so stingy."

　Looking at the half-used "miracle medicine" in her hand, Elizabeth Taylor pouted in dissatisfaction and shook the glass bottle. "Where did you buy this? What brand? How much is each bottle? I'll go buy a whole case right now!"

　"This miracle drug for rejuvenation isn't available on the market right now. It was hand-concocted by Mrs. Jin, who lives across the street. She's quite knowledgeable about the occult. She traveled with me to Japan and the Philippines for almost a year, and later opened a spa with me."

　Monroe pointed towards the four-story apartment across the street and said, "Now, she lives in the apartment across the street..."

　"Mrs. King? You actually have such a remarkable person here? Dear Marilyn, could you take me over to visit her?" Elizabeth Taylor leaned over to the window and looked at the four-story apartment across the street. "Or could you arrange a time so I can prepare some gifts before visiting?"

　"I'm sorry, she hasn't been home lately—her husband is an officer.

　I just received a temporary transfer to Vietnam. Marita has also been assigned to the post with her husband. It will take several months at the earliest for her to return."

　Monroe shrugged. "So, if you want to get the youth potion she made, you'll just have to wait patiently."

　"She actually went to Vietnam? That's not a good place! I hope she and her husband can return safely."

　Elizabeth Taylor exclaimed, "After all, everyone in this country knows that things are always so bad in Vietnam..."

　"Yeah, things in Vietnam are always so bad..."

　Thinking of the two Kennedy presidents she knew, both of whom died in Vietnam, Monroe couldn't help but nod and agree, "However, I really don't have any extra of Mrs. King's handmade high-quality stuff. But I can also make a similar medicated oil at the nude spa on Malibu Beach. Although the beauty effect may not be as good, at least the quantity is large enough. Do you want to try it?"

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　“Hey, why are things in Vietnam always so bad?

　I thought a nuclear explosion was the most troublesome disaster, but I didn’t expect there would be an even more troublesome plague?

　The Marines in Nha Trang surrendered unconditionally to the enemy without approval from home? And the Viet Cong refused to accept it?

　On the way from Los Angeles to the San Diego Naval Base, Firi was driving and complaining to Dr. Kissinger in the back seat.

　"The Vietcong's refusal to accept the surrender of the Nha Trang defenders is perfectly reasonable, sir. The entire world now knows that what's stationed there isn't an army, but a group of walking biological weapons, a biochemical matrix unleashing a plague."

　Before Dr. Kissinger could speak, George, the black intern sitting next to him, interrupted cheerfully. Compared with another intern that Phiri had met before, Dr. Kissinger's new follower was obviously much more talkative and lively, and often interrupted Kissinger.

　Kissinger had secretly complained to Fieri several times in private, but George's recommendation was too important for him to refuse.

　So, as long as George, this highly educated black guy with a simple brain, doesn't make any serious mistakes, let him fill up his internship resume!

　"In other words, the White House is asking you two to clean up the mess again this time?

　So, they broke through party lines and appointed Dr. Kissinger and you as the head and deputy head of the Presidential Field Investigation Team, respectively?"

　Marita, sitting in the passenger seat, smiled sweetly and asked Fili, "In that case, dear, why doesn't President Nixon just appoint you as the commander of the US forces in Vietnam? Didn't you do a good job the last time you held this position?"

　Even if your rank isn't high enough, it shouldn't be a problem now. There aren't many American troops left in Vietnam anyway..."

　"Commander of US Forces in Vietnam? No, no, no, absolutely not. This position is a real fire pit right now."

　Fili shuddered at this and almost drove onto the green belt. "Even this investigation team, I was actually reluctant to join. It was only because President Nixon had given the final order that Dr. Kissinger and I had no choice but to go ahead and do it."

　"Yes, the mess in Vietnam is so bad now that we don't know how to clean it up."

　Dr. Kissinger echoed this sentiment with a sigh: "Anyone who became the commander of the US forces in Vietnam at this time would be tempted to commit suicide!"

　Following the Phu Quoc mutiny, the fall of Saigon, and the disastrous defeat at Bien Hoa, the US military presence in Vietnam, which at its peak numbered over 500,000, now numbered fewer than 100,000. Most of them were holed up in the port cities of Vung Tau and Nha Trang, with a smaller number of remnants scattered across the islands along the South Vietnamese coast. Much like the completely defeated remnants of the Communist Party-state on the Chinese battlefield in the second half of 1949, they hid on their islands and kept calling for help on the radio.

　Among them, there are about 40,000 US troops gathered in Vung Tau Port, who are currently boarding ships and going out to sea in an endless stream to retreat to Malaysia across the Gulf of Thailand.

　The US military, numbering approximately 30,000, retreated to Nha Trang. They had originally been preparing to evacuate by sea, but due to the leakage of biological weapons in the chaos, they created a self-inflicted biochemical crisis and were trapped in Nha Trang, facing a dilemma...

　How did this Nha Trang biochemical crisis break out?

　Well, after the Vietnam War evolved into a nuclear war and the US military began to decline, in order to save the impending defeat, the Pentagon dug out all kinds of powerful weapons from the warehouse and transported them to the Vietnam front, including a large number of poison gas bombs and biological weapons.

　——Contrary to popular belief, mankind has never stopped developing destructive strategic weapons.

　Both the Soviet Union and the United States conducted extensive research on viral and bacterial warfare during the Cold War and produced huge amounts of biological warfare agents.

　Among them, the most effective biological warfare weapons in actual combat in Vietnam were the deforestation agents that destroyed forests and the rice blast fungus that destroyed rice fields.

　The former can cause the dense tropical jungle to die, leaving the Viet Cong guerrillas without a hiding place; the latter can cause large areas of rice to die, plunging the Vietnamese into famine.

　However, although the US Air Force dropped large amounts of rice blast spray across Vietnam, the plan to create famine was not very successful.

　Because North Vietnam's rice production this year has been devastated by a series of devastating events.

　After the attack, the population was indeed only 30% of previous years. However, the population of North Vietnam had also plummeted to about half of the previous year. Coupled with the large amount of food aid from China and the Soviet Union, in the end, North Vietnam... unexpectedly did not suffer from famine!

　——Because too many people were killed too quickly, the food-cutting tactic failed... This sounds like hell.

　In addition to biological weapons targeting plants, the US military also shipped smallpox, plague and anthrax weapons targeting humans to Vietnam.

　However, the smallpox virus wasn't very effective against the enemy. Under the UN World Health Organization's "Eradication of Smallpox" campaign, most people worldwide, even the Vietnamese, were vaccinated. This made it impossible for Americans to easily wipe out a Native American tribe with a blanket infected with smallpox, as they had done during the Westward Expansion Movement.

　The plague and anthrax attacks weren't very effective either. The US military manufactured large quantities of "anthrax cans" and "anthrax biscuits" in an attempt to trick the Viet Cong into eating them. However, the US Air Force had already dropped tens of thousands of "canned bombs" in Vietnam. These mini-bombs, disguised as cans of Spam, fruit, and biscuit boxes, were dropped over North Vietnamese and Laotian territory, luring unsuspecting locals to pick them up. Opening the cans triggered a mechanism that exploded with a "boom," severely injuring or killing the Viet Cong and the Vietnamese poor. This inflicted considerable suffering on the Viet Cong and the Vietnamese people.

　Therefore, the Vietnamese remained highly vigilant about any cans discarded by the US military, and it was always difficult to poison them in this way.

　So, until the end of last year, most of the biological warfare agents shipped by the Pentagon to the Vietnam War front were still piled up in warehouses and not used.

　Later, the US biological weapons stockpiled in Saigon were gradually removed or destroyed. However, in Nha Trang, which had been attacked by Viet Cong guerrillas using "self-destructing micro-nuclear bombs," a serious biological and chemical weapons leak occurred!

　——Under the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion, even the most sturdy houses would be flattened by the shock wave, or at least toppled over...

　The result was that germ spray poured out from the collapsed warehouses, forming a disease-causing miasma in Nha Trang. In addition, poisoned food disguised as canned goods and biscuits was scattered on the ruins, and the hungry survivors picked up and ate a lot of it, and then died collectively.

　Then, due to the leakage of biological weapons, the local tap water and groundwater in Nha Trang were also contaminated with dysentery bacteria, causing vomiting and diarrhea in the city and the US soldiers and civilians. In addition, the plague, or the Black Death, broke out among the US troops retreating to Nha Trang...

　Faced with the stench that permeated the entire city, a wide variety of epidemics, and patients and corpses lying on the streets, the 30,000 U.S. Marines who fled back to Nha Trang from various surrounding strongholds had the first reaction of fleeing this plague-stricken city as quickly as possible to stay away from these invisible threats.

　But at this time Nha Trang was surrounded by the Viet Cong on three sides, and the US military could only retreat by sea.

　It just so happened that the U.S. Navy also knew that Nha Trang was suffering from an epidemic at this time, and was unwilling to rashly pick up people without taking any protective measures - to cram patients who had been contaminated with military biological and chemical weapons and infected with highly contagious diseases onto a crowded ship. Was it because they were afraid that they would not be able to kill them and would capsize the entire ship?

　As for the merchant sailors employed by the US military, they avoided Nha Trang, this plague-ridden hell, like the plague itself - because those American soldiers who escaped from Nha Trang earlier had already spread the plague to neighboring places such as Hong Kong, Manila and Singapore. They were like living plague gods!

　Unless someone can pay a high price for their life, who would be willing to risk their life and head towards this plague-stricken area?

　Finally, the desperate American fourth-class soldier Ma Run, after looting all the local ships in Nha Trang and escaping a group of people by sailing out to sea on his own, the remaining sick and poor people simply gave up and directly surrendered to the Viet Cong by telegram in plain text, and also sent envoys to contact them with a white flag.

　Unexpectedly, after learning of the epidemic in Nha Trang, the Viet Cong refused to enter the city to surrender. Instead, they continued to surround and tightly blockade the plague-ridden Nha Trang, as if they wanted to watch all the Americans die of the plague in the city, and then step on their corpses to retake the city...

　Fortunately, although even the Viet Cong refused to take over Nha Trang and surrender the 30,000 American soldiers suffering from the plague there, and the Pentagon seemed to be lying down and letting them fend for themselves, the international community still did not give up on Nha Trang. The United Nations quickly sent a commissioner with supplies and medicines to express condolences, and the Red Cross medical team also arrived soon after to provide treatment services for the sick American soldiers and civilians in Nha Trang.

　In comparison, the Pentagon and the White House, which are doing nothing, are so hateful and have become the targets of public criticism.

　So, in order to deal with this overwhelming public outcry and the various domestic and international criticisms, President Nixon quickly mobilized the "expert duo" of Fieri and Kissinger to clean up the mess and sent them to Vietnam to see if they could do anything else...

　It's a field hospital at sea, primarily designed to treat traumatic injuries, especially gunshot wounds and burns sustained during large-scale warfare. But it's less effective at treating infectious diseases. None of our existing hospital ships have quarantine facilities to prevent the spread of the plague..."

　In an office at the San Diego Naval Base, a Pacific Fleet captain explained to Kissinger and Fili why the Pacific Fleet did not quickly dispatch all of its naval hospital ships to rescue people in Nha Trang where the plague had broken out: on the one hand, there were simply not enough hospital ships; on the other hand, the US Navy's hospital ships were not designed to fight the plague - ordinary field hospitals and infectious disease hospitals are two different things. Asking surgeons who are good at treating gunshot wounds and burns to treat infectious diseases is as unsuitable as asking a truck driver to fly a plane.

　In addition, in order to save space, the hospital ship's wards are all large cabins for multiple people. Of course, it's okay for wartime wounded, but for infectious patients...

　Isn't this allowing germs or viruses to spread through the air and droplets and cause cross-infection throughout the ship?

　Furthermore, due to the lack of communication between the various military services and intelligence agencies, as well as the chaotic management on the war front, the Pentagon still cannot fully determine the exact number and types of biological weapons, or the poorly stored pathogens and virus samples, that have been leaked from Nha Trang...

　——In order to conduct illegal human experiments nearby, the US military and the CIA had previously established secret laboratories in the military hospital in Nha Trang.

　Well, it's not the dreaded battlefield kidney-slicing of the 21st century—in those days, organ transplant technology wasn't mature enough. Even if the diabolical doctors infiltrating the US military captured a large number of healthy people, they couldn't remove their organs and sell them halfway around the world for a huge profit. They could only use living people as guinea pigs, just like Japan's Unit 731 did thirty years ago.

　Although this sounds just as horrific—perhaps even more horrifying than cutting off one's kidneys...

　So, to summarize, after Nha Trang was struck by a nuclear attack and then attacked by Vietcong guerrillas, which turned the city into a battlefield, Nha Trang, now littered with ruins, had become a "city of Nurgle," plagued by multiple diseases, including smallpox, dysentery, anthrax, and plague.

　The plague that raged here, including the bubonic plague, also known as the "Black Death", was enough to make all Europeans shudder!

　And as local US troops continue to withdraw, the plague continues to spread throughout Southeast Asia!

　In their efforts to rescue people from Nha Trang, several US Navy ships have been contaminated with viruses and pathogens. Now unable to continue sailing, they have been forced to dock at remote berths at various overseas bases, undergo full ship disinfection, and all sailors, even dock workers, have been forced into quarantine camps.

　Even so, starting in January 1970, Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore, Taipei and other places were hit by terrible epidemics due to the influx of fleeing American soldiers and the participation of local ships in the American withdrawal. Hospitals were overcrowded, people were in panic, and citizens complained.

　Dysentery and plague are treatable now thanks to antibiotics, and smallpox is largely ineffective against those vaccinated against cowpox. Anthrax, however, remains a terrifying weapon even in the 21st century, let alone today when medical technology is relatively backward.

　—In theory, there's an anthrax vaccine. But its effectiveness is uncertain. It might even hasten your death...

　"Currently, the death toll in Nha Trang has exceeded 10,000, the number of infected people with obvious symptoms has exceeded 30,000, and more than 100,000 healthy people or those in the incubation period are trapped in the epidemic area and cannot leave Nha Trang.

　Not only do they lack medical care and medicine, but they also lack food and clothing. Even the most basic security is not guaranteed, and their situation is extremely dangerous.

　After sending personnel into the Nha Trang epidemic area for a risky on-site investigation, the Red Cross has just announced a preliminary solution: A large number of field hospitals must be established and medical teams dispatched to Nha Trang, while the entire city undergoes extensive disinfection. To prevent animal-to-human transmission, all pigs, cattle, sheep, stray cats, and dogs in the city must be culled, and the city's plants and trees must also be thoroughly disinfected.

　But the problem is that any large-scale health and epidemic prevention measures cannot be implemented as long as the war has not stopped.

　Although the Vietcong and North Vietnamese regular army remained in place, surrounding Nha Trang, they continued to fire artillery and rockets from the outskirts, disrupting the city's epidemic prevention efforts and supply chains. The city was now practically anarchic.

　Although the Red Cross and the United Nations issued repeated appeals to the Viet Cong to cease fire and lift the blockade, they were all deliberately ignored by the Viet Cong.

　At the same time, the US military in Nha Trang has also collapsed and no longer obeys the Pentagon's orders. They are almost regarded as rebels by the Ministry of Defense..."

　Dr. Kissinger made seven or eight long-distance calls to the White House from San Diego, and then shared the latest news he had just learned with Fieri.

　"Well, outside the city there's Viet Cong artillery fire, inside the city there's a raging plague, plus desperate soldiers who are rebelling en masse, a Ministry of Defense with broken credit, and a pathetic situation where nothing is available. And the Viet Cong won't even accept surrender! This mess is truly hopeless."

　Fili shrugged. "What are President Nixon's latest instructions on the Nha Trang issue? Is it really necessary for us to do it?"