Chapter 44: Old Friends Reunion
If the normal course of history continued, the white young man who came in would not meet him until at least twenty years later, and then the two became inseparable friends and helped each other.
The Strauss family was a great European nobleman at the time of the Great Voyage, but was exiled to South America because they angered the French emperor at the time.
However, for this family, this kind of exile is not so much a frontier as a complete release from the shackles of this family, and without the rules and regulations of the nobility, no one will care what they do.
For hundreds of years, the family has been engaged in various criminal activities around the world, such as slavery, trade, drug smuggling, casinos, arms trade, etc., anyway, as long as it is a violent business that makes money quickly, you will see the members of the Strauss family.
And the reason why Chen Xu was able to get to know Allen and become good friends. Thanks to the Beretsky who was cut yesterday.
When the Military Intelligence Bureau rounded up Beria, Beretski, who Chen Xu was responsible for arresting, took advantage of the chaos to escape, and Chen Xu was also shot by Beria in the melee, and the whole operation ended in a fiasco.
After Chen Xu recovered from his injury, he began to search and capture Beretssky all over the world, and after following the track to Hawaii, he met with Allen, who was chasing the same target!
At that time, Allen was already a fifty-year-old man, and he had already succeeded his uncle as the head of the Strauss family.
At first, both of them thought that the other party was Beretski's man, and they couldn't help but say that it was a shootout, and Beretsky took advantage of the chaos to flee again.
It's also a shame that Chen Xu was still young at that time, and his marksmanship had not yet been completed, otherwise Alan would definitely be shot in the head and become his gun's ghost.
After the scuffle, both of them realized that something was wrong, and as soon as the ceasefire was exchanged, they realized that there was a misunderstanding.
After shaking hands and making peace, because both sides had a common enemy, it happened that Chen Xu was acting without authorization, and it was very difficult to hunt down Beretsky alone, and he wanted to use Allen's strength.
And Allen just wanted to win over Chen Xu, an intelligence officer of the Military Intelligence Agency, and get closer to China.
The two of them have their own goals, so they hit it off and decided to work together!
After a period of cooperation, Chen Xu learned that the tragic life of this half-blind old man is like that of Batman......
Because the Strauss family had great influence in South America, the KGB led by Beria came to the door and wanted to cooperate.
At that time, the Strauss family was presided over by Allen's father, a wise middle-aged man, who knew very well that if he was involved in the struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviets, his family would not end well, and would definitely become a pawn played by the Soviets, so he decisively refused!
In this way, the Strauss family offended Beria.
Two years ago, on the way to the United States with his father to discuss business, Allen was attacked by Beria in the villa where he was temporarily staying, and his father was killed on the spot, and Allen was shot and passed out.
Before leaving, Beria set fire to the house, trying to turn a qiē into ashes.
Fortunately, the old housekeeper went out to buy barbecue, and when he came back and saw that the villa was on fire, he immediately rushed in and carried Alan out, but unfortunately his right eye was burned by the flames, and he has been blind ever since.
The head of the family was assassinated, the Strauss family lost its most talented leader in a century, and Allen's uncle, a rich boy who only liked to eat, drink, and gamble, was forced to take over as the head of the family from his brother.
Compared to his uncle, who was brought back from the world of flowers to be the head of the family, Allen's life was not good, he was just a rookie who had just debuted, and while he inherited a huge fortune after his father's death, he had to shoulder the burden of running the family arms business.
There was a blood feud between the Strauss family and Beria, whom he did not stop taking revenge on him for decades to come.
It's a pity that Beria, the head of the agent, is not only cunning, but also has rich intelligence experience, Allen's family is not strong enough, and the confrontation with the fierce KGB is obviously a mantis arm blocking the car, so Allen has never been able to get close to Belia in the real sense.
Chen Xu and Allen's first cooperation successfully caught Beretski, and after torture to extract a confession, Allen threw the cowardice into the shark pond......
The two also formed a friendship because of this, and after that, Chen Xu went on missions around the world, often assisted by Allen. Especially going to South America is more like coming home, and Alan will always entertain him with the best things.
Chen Xu also used his position in the Military Intelligence Agency to give Allen convenience around the world.
But that's all in the past, and now both of them are young people of the same age, and they are both strangers.
Allen's appearance means that he doesn't have to worry about money, this guy is rich and has villas and palaces all over the world, and his subordinates are responsible for entertaining him wherever he goes.
"Big man! I'll take you to meet someone. Chen Xu snuffed out the cigarette in the ashtray, drank the last bit of whiskey in the wine glass, got up and said.
"Who?"
"Like you, I can't wait to eat Beria raw!"
"Your face is a little fierce, don't give me a smile, I can't control people!" Chen Xu turned his head and saw Zhong Siyang with an honest and honest face, squinted his eyes and said.
Chen Xu knows Alan too well, this guy looks invincible on the surface, but he is actually a coward. When you go to the toilet at night, you have to let the housekeeper stand outside, otherwise you won't be able to pull it out for as long as you squat.
This guy looks like that when he is old, he is estimated to be even inferior when he is young, so he decided to let Zhong Siyang scare this kid.
Alan found an open box with a round table in the corner of the tavern, and the arms dealer who was sitting in it saw Alan coming, and took the initiative to walk away very wisely, and the merchants at the next table also lowered their voices, for fear of causing Allen's displeasure.
When Chen Xu walked over with Zhong Siyang, he once again attracted the attention of the entire tavern, one was a Chinese arms dealer who rose overnight, and the other was an arms tycoon from South America.
Everyone is curious about what kind of fierce sparks will be produced when the two strong meet.
Before Chen Xu could reach the table, he was stopped by Allen's bodyguards, after all, Allen's identity was there, and not everyone could approach the past casually.
"Let them come!" Behind the bodyguard came Alan's coaxing voice.
The bodyguard dodged his body, Chen Xu swaggered over, and reached the opposite side of Allen, and then very skillfully lifted the cigar box on the table, took out a thumb-thick cigar, cut off the head and tail with the cigar, and lit the fire. He didn't speak, he just put his arms on the back of the sofa and smoked his cigar generously while staring at the master opposite.
Zhong Siyang listened to Chen Xu's words, stood behind the sofa condescendingly, staring at his eyes with a sinister face, majestic.
"Only friends can sit across from me in this position!" Alan's voice trembled a little, though he was doing his best to maintain his elegant gentlemanly bearing.
Even with so many bodyguards protecting him, after seeing Zhong Siyang's terrifying face, he still couldn't stop the fear in his heart.
"I want to show you a person, you bring pen and paper, and I'll draw it for you." Chen Xu exhaled a puff of smoke and said indifferently.
Allen's face was full of confusion, he didn't understand what Chen Xu meant at all, this person smoked his cigar as soon as he came up, and he had to draw character paintings in front of him, and his style was quite weird. However, he still instructed the bodyguard behind him to bring the pen and paper, and then watched Chen Xu lying on the round table, "rustling" and sketching.
As the appearance of the characters on the paper became more and more detailed, Allen's face began to become grim, and his eyes became devouring.
"Do you know this person?" Alan asked, almost gritting his teeth.
"Of course, this person's name is Mikhail Nikolayevich Beria, secretary of the counterintelligence and reconnaissance department of the Second Directorate of the KGB of the Soviet Union, and his external code name is 'Ivan', and I personally met him not long ago." After Chen Xu finished painting the portrait of Belial, he pushed the paper to the opposite side and continued to smoke his cigar.
What Chen Xu didn't notice was that Zhong Siyang, who was standing behind him, was also staring at the portrait on the table, although he couldn't understand Chen Xu's English, he could also deduce that this person was his father's killer.
"What is your relationship with this Ivan? Knowing him so well, are they friends? Alan looked at Chen Xu indifferently, and several bodyguards behind him had already pressed their hands on the handle of the gun on his waist.
"Haha, who would be friends with this kind of demon, I am an enemy with this person!" Chen Xu straightened his body, looked directly into Allen's eyes, and replied in an unquestioning tone.
"How did he mess with you?" Alan obviously won't believe Chen Xu's words, after all, he was born in an underworld family, and he still has this basic defense.
Chen Xu didn't speak, put the burning cigar in his mouth and stood up, pulled out the pistol at his waist and put it on the table, then unbuttoned his suit and took it off, and finally took off the shirt inside, and opened his arms to show his naked upper body completely.
"Hiss......"
"Oh my God! What did this man go through? ”
The people in the entire tavern were all amazed in disbelief when they saw the centipede patterns of the wounds all over Chen Xu's body after being stitched up, as well as the sunken skin after the rotten flesh was removed.
Especially Zhong Siyang, who was standing behind him, saw the scars on Chen Xu's body for the first time, and felt that the whole person suddenly relaxed, as if he had unloaded a heavy burden.
Zhong Siyang has always been immersed in his father's hatred, saying that he doesn't hate Chen Xu is false, after all, his father died because of Chen Xu, although he is not a murderer, but he has the responsibility of indirectly killing his father.
There have been countless times when Zhong Siyang wanted to stretch out his hand and strangle Chen Xu to vent his inner anger.
Now that he saw the terrifying and hideous wounds on this person's body, he understood what kind of torture Chen Xu had suffered at that time, although his father's killing was related to Chen Xu, it was not what Chen Xu wanted to see, but he would not sit idly by and watch his father die if he had the ability.
"All of this was done by Beria?" Alan swallowed, these scars on Chen Xu's body were too convincing, very similar to what Beria and his subordinates would do.
"Of course, at last year's Tokyo Industrial Fair, I was kidnapped by Beria's men, locked up in the basement and tortured for a whole month, and in order to dig up information from my mouth, Beria grabbed my friend, the father of the companion behind me, and shot him in front of me." Although he only recounted what happened at the beginning, Chen Xu still couldn't forget the pain, and his voice unconsciously became cold as he spoke.
"Then we can indeed be friends!"
Allen's remaining eye looked calmly at Chen Xu, who was wearing clothes on the opposite side, and stretched out his hand and said earnestly.