In the mid-to-late forties, the great divisions and conflicts of interest between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies were becoming increasingly intense, and almost all of them were preparing for a war that should be called "World War III." Even President Chiang was looking forward to the outbreak of World War III, so that it would be possible for him to counterattack somewhere with the help of the Americans' direct troops......

But this war was poured with cold water by someone and cooled down. Who this "person" is, I'll talk about it later. First of all, let's talk about the three wars after being cooled down, which was transformed into a tug-of-war that lasted for more than 40 years - the "Cold War".

The process must be well known to everyone, mainly because the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, are engaged in confrontation and contest between the two superpowers, such as science and technology, armaments, economy, politics, and so on. The competition even developed into the literary and artistic circles, recall...... In the past 007 films, Bond's imaginary enemies were always Soviets, and it wasn't until the 21st century that they decided to switch things up and bring terrorists from European and Middle Eastern countries to the big screen. Was it because Harrison Ford killed the last handful of Russian terrorists on Air Force One in '97? And then they were exterminated from the American blockbuster? Well, this question can be studied slowly in the future, and let's take a look at the next thing......

By the time the Cold War was coming to an end, it was the nineties of the twentieth century.

Energy security, the Gulf War, the credit crisis, the recession, oh yes, and the release of Back to the Future 3 and the discontinuation of the Atari console...... A lot happened in the United States in the early nineties, and it also faced many problems.

In the eighties, everything was golden (the color of the women's hair, the outfits of heavy metal bands, well...... There are also prizes for sword hunting games). And the nineties...... In the last decade of the twentieth century, everything was undoubtedly moving towards darkness (except for Jackson), like climbing a mountain and immediately approaching a cliff......

25 December 1991.

For American politicians, this Christmas is definitely a day to celebrate, because on the same day, ********** announced his resignation from the presidency, an event that means the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the victory or defeat of the "Cold War" is undoubtedly revealed at this moment.

There was no foreign invasion, no natural disasters such as meteorite impacts, and ********** was not an incompetent politician; However, the remnants of the Stalinist system could not be eliminated in a short time, and the contradictions between the monopoly groups and the common people in the Soviet Union, which held politics and economics together, intensified, and the centralization of power and bureaucracy constrained the development of the country, and everything was irreparable. Of course...... Personally, I think that the collapse of the Soviet Union can be summed up by the words "full of evil", and it has little to do with who the leaders at that time were, just like Chongzhen, who was not the king of the dead country, but when the fortune of the dead country happened, the ancestors did evil, and finally retribution was retributed to the children and grandchildren.

All in all, a new era has dawned, the pattern of the world has undergone major changes, and the victory in the Cold War has made the United States the world's number one superpower, and its national strength is unparalleled for a while, and they are trying to prove to the world that they are invincible.

But...... Pushing aside the layers of clouds and fog, through the dense clouds, but a few people saw clearly that the "end" and even the "beginning" of everything had already been manipulated......

Now we are going to start talking about what that "man" did, and I guess everyone can guess, yes, it is Vincent......

Vincent, Woody and Simon, who were involved in almost the entire Second World War.

The great retreat of Dunkirk, they followed the retreat; de Gaulle fled France, and they flew planes; the Battle of Britain, where they were miscellaneous at the airport; defending Stalingrad, where they fought guerrillas; Normandy landings, they also go to landing; Armed uprising inside the Buchenwald concentration camp, guess who lit the fire; Atomic bomb ...... Well, they didn't drop the bomb, but Woody had something to do with the Manhattan Project.

After six years of the anti-fascist war, these three guys were in desperate need of leave. But at this time, the flames of the third war gradually rose. For them, it's like going to work continuously on the eve of the National Day, only to be suddenly told that they have to work overtime during the long holiday the day before the holiday.

So Vincent made a plan......

He came to the United States alone, got a fake identity, and used his extraordinary ability, personality charm, and authentic Italian mafia to quickly break into the top of a criminal organization, which is a mysterious organization that has existed for hundreds of years and plays a heavyweight role in the shadows of human history - Midnight.

Only a few months had passed, and the position of leader was in front of him, within reach. The exact process will not be detailed, and I am afraid that only Al Capone can guess what Vincent did. In short, after an operation known as "Bloody Back Garden", a new generation of bosses in midnight has taken the position.

Many things are really immediate, Vincent has been in power for less than half a year, and the **** among the political leaders of various countries has gained more say for some reason, and a very strange concept came into being and was tacitly acquiesced and implemented by both camps - "all hostile actions except direct armed attack".

What is this? The second half of this sentence is in the service of the first half, right? Is this a paradox or a sick sentence?!

But things just magically went on......

In 1946, Churchill (his father really wasn't Jack the Ripper) visited the United States and indirectly announced the beginning of the Cold War with the famous "Iron Curtain Speech". If you want to say that the British people are really unkind, just because of this speech, the old man stepped down not long after, and was accused of being a "warmonger" at home, and I don't know which warmonger led your grandson to win World War II......

A year later, the Soviet-American Cold War officially began.

On the one hand, it is engaged in missile threats, and on the other hand, it is engaged in gold-yuan diplomacy; You are the ultimate fighter for the liberation of all mankind, and I am the vanguard of hegemonism.

Nuclear warheads, everyone builds them together, and the amount of production is enough to blow the earth into a black hole, but I don't throw any of them, I'm happy, what? After Lao Tzu finished building and put it in the warehouse, it will be put in the warehouse for 50 years, and the maintenance fee will be paid, can you afford it?

Spy, send to the sea, you send two reinforced divisions, and I will form a group army. Confess leniently, and sit through the prison. Resist strictness and go home for the New Year. The evaporation of the world is not strange. If it is caught, it will be killed, and it will be a state secret.

It is worth mentioning that the space race between these two countries has finally promoted the rapid development of human space technology.

After saying so much, I suddenly thought again...... What about World War III?

The process of cooking raw rice from raw rice to mature rice in the third war, with the intervention of a grotesque thought, finally cooked a pot of raw rice...... Perhaps, in a few years, the 50 years of making this pot of raw rice will be regarded by historians as another leap forward in human science since the Industrial Revolution.

So, that's the end of the history lesson, back to the story.

After Vincent used Midnight to achieve his goal, he immediately found a successor, making himself the shortest-serving boss in Midnight's history, but the next boss he picked did a good job, and he did it for thirty years. If you had brought it up to Vincent today, he would have felt a little guilty about the revival of the gangs in New York in the 50s and 80s.

But even Vincent himself didn't expect that his actions would change the fate of Midnight's organization. He's gone, but the historical traditions of an organization will still be passed on.

Midnight has been around for many years, and at different historical times, the organization has been called by different names, and its roots can be traced all the way back to the Renaissance and even the First Crusade. This organization has always been adept at using religious, political, and other means to influence the powerful and even the king, so as to achieve the goal of legalizing their crimes.

Midnight has been like a country without its own territory since ancient times, constantly sending spies to the top of other countries, so that they can manipulate wars and influence policies, so that they can take advantage of it. For many years, the hierarchy has never been interrupted, and the clear hierarchy has kept their core members in the safety zone at the top of society, and the law seems ridiculous to them, because it does not deal with them at all.

But Vincent's appearance broke this pattern, and they learned that there are martial arts in this world that can't be defeated with guns, and there are strategies that can't be stopped by any means.

Therefore, starting from the generation of Vincent's successors, Midnight has further refined his internal mafia-like hierarchy, divided three special war groups according to their combat strength, and began to consciously recruit some people with "special talents" into his upper echelons......