Chapter 214 The Drama of "The Mandarin"
Afghanistan, this is a magical place, known as the "Graveyard of the Empire".
Since the "9·11" incident, the multinational coalition led by Laos and the United States launched a war in Afghanistan that lasted for twenty years.
At the turn of the spring and summer of 2010, the war was far from over. The land was still filled with armed personnel from both warring parties.
Two years ago, Tony Stark came all the way to sell weapons, but was tricked by his partner and fell into the hands of the Ten Rings Gang.
Alderazi Killian was very concerned about Tony's kidnapping at the time, and specifically paid an intelligence organization to investigate the cause and effect. In addition to Obadiah, who had been killed by Tony, another major role in the incident entered his mind. sight.
Through this, Killian learned about the existence of the Ten Rings Gang.
After some investigation, he discovered that the Ten Rings Gang was actually an ancient organization with a long history, and was said to be related to many famous assassinations in history.
Two years ago, in order to take revenge, Killian had the idea of using a chicken to lay eggs.
He tried to contact the Ten Rings Gang and proposed cooperation intentions.
But Killian didn't understand the real Ten Rings Gang at all. He thought that if he had money, he could make the people of the Ten Rings Gang obedient and become his followers, just like mercenaries.
The members of the Ten Rings Gang were only willing to work for money and were too lazy to pay attention to this idiot's intention of recruiting.
Although Xu Wenwu has been idle for a long time and has not even shown up, everyone in the Ten Ring Gang's various halls knows the real power of his boss and the power of immortality.
These gangs were originally branches opened by the orphans adopted by Xu Wenwu when they grew up, and most of them were passed down from generation to generation. The power of the gang leader was engraved in the memory of each generation of talkers from their childhood. Here, there have been almost no betrayers for thousands of years.
The only betrayers were the gang leader’s sons and daughters.
Killian, a silly old man, thought that he could recruit them with just a few small coins. He simply didn't know how high the sky was.
Finding that the Ten Rings Gang could not be incorporated, Killian came up with the idea of "setting up his own business". He could act under the banner of the Ten Rings Gang.
It can only be said that the ignorant are fearless. Fortunately, he died early in the original plot. Killian was already dead when Xu Wenwu returned to the world, so he could only capture the clown who played the role of "The Mandarin" and bring him back to perform for fun.
Currently, Killian is not dead yet, and has already raised a group of mercenaries under the banner of the Ten Rings Gang.
It’s just that this team lacks a soul figure, a symbol that can impress people.
After selection, Killian found a down-and-out young actor and planned to let him play the symbol representing the Ten Rings Gang.
“Trevor, I don’t think I need to remind you how bad the past days were.”
Killian, wearing a decent suit, stood in front of the bald man and looked at him with disgust. surrounding environment.
This is a small town in the interior of Afghanistan, and it is also the location where Kilian shot a terrorist propaganda film.
“Damn, my shoes!” Killian looked around for a clean cloth, trying to wipe off the dust on the brand new leather shoes.
The bald man named Trevor Slattery quickly lay down and wiped Killian's leather shoes with his sleeves. For fear that they would not be clean, he put his forehead to his and took a few breaths.
Killian was very satisfied with his attitude and ordered his men with a smile: "Help him decorate it and make our protagonist's life more comfortable."
"Find some women over here , don’t forget his favorite medicinal powder.”
Trevor is a has-been actor whose career has come to an end and is addicted to drugs, but he is spotted by Killian because of his unique temperament.
After the makeup artist arrived, he glued a small braid on Trevor’s head and coiled it around his head, like a pigtail.
In order to cover his big eyes so that Western viewers would automatically think of them as squinting, Trevor was also given a pair of black sunglasses. They also put him in a windbreaker that they thought had oriental elements, imitating the "Fu Manchu" that the Western world has always believed to be a real existence, and creating a brand new "Mandarin" image.
"Fu Manchu" is one of the most famous characters written by the British writer Sachs Romer. He first appeared in the book "The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu" in 1913 and is widely known. It is believed that this is an anthropomorphic image of the "Yellow Peril" theory in the Western world.
Wearing the uniform of a Manchu eunuch, with a tall, thin bald head, thin eyebrows and long eyes, his sinister appearance completely embodied the fear and prejudice of the Western world towards the mysterious East at that time.
Killian tried to take advantage of this fear in the Western world and launched his "Mandarin".
The promotional video includes not only indoor footage, but also exterior footage filmed in a Middle Eastern town.
Queue to kill, explosions and smoke, women and children crying...
"Some people say I am a terrorist, but in fact I am more like a teacher."
In the video Trevor has a good accent and uses his script skills developed over many years as an actor.
"America, are you ready to learn a lesson?"
"In 1864, in the town of Sand Creek, Colorado, the U.S. Army waited until the friendly Cheyenne warriors went out hunting, then attacked and massacred the families they left behind."
"Then, they occupied their land. "
"Thirty-nine hours ago, the U.S. Army's Ario Salim Air Force Base was attacked..."
"Yes, that's right, it was me."
"The soldiers were out exercising at that time, and the warriors were not there..."
"Cool!" After the shot ended, Trevor couldn't wait to praise the amateur photographers around him: "This line is so cool!"
Then he turned around and saw that the mercenary who had just fired was moving The corpse couldn't help but praise: "Awesome, they are so dedicated!"
The play was over and they still didn't stand up.
With such dedicated extras, chicken drumsticks must be added to the lunch box!
Thinking about his slackness back then, Trevor felt a little bit ashamed.
If he had worked so hard, he might have broken into Hollywood.
Trevor thought they were all filming, but he didn’t expect that Killian’s mercenaries used real guns and live ammunition, and the extras he thought were actually dead.
As a producer and investor, Killian stayed in a comfortable air-conditioned car and nodded with satisfaction after watching the finished film.
“Cut it and give me the master copy.”
If Killian, who tried to find the Ten Rings Gang two years ago, simply wanted to get revenge on Tony Stark and repay him The humiliation of ten years ago.
Now he has greater ambitions.
This ambition comes from the increasingly stable Extremis virus, from the many injured American soldiers he has controlled, from the vice president who has been drawn to the same front by him, and also from the fact that he has just It didn’t take long for him to gain the power of “eyes”.
As the saying goes, Killian is no longer satisfied with being a simple scientific researcher, he wants more things - power and wealth.
The "Mandarin" is one of the tools he uses to realize his plan.
But he didn’t know that Li Gui would most likely meet Li Kui, and Kang Shuaifu would most likely be slapped in the face by Master Kang.
(End of this chapter)