Spy-x-War Showdown
Chapter 739 - 745 This is Strategy

Chapter 739: Chapter 745 This is Strategy

Emerging from his hiding spot, Brian walked steadily forward, utterly unconcerned about the possibility of a lethal bullet, until he stood in the middle of the road.

He aimed the rocket launcher at the house and took a deep breath, his voice grave, "Let’s start with a greeting."

He had already called out a greeting before, but Brian couldn’t resist the urge to send another.

Hanging the loudspeaker around his neck, Brian aimed the rocket launcher at the house and then fired the rocket.

The rocket hit the outer wall of the house.

The walls of that house were really thick, made entirely of stone, and were not only thick but also very sturdy.

And the rocket that Brian fired was just an RPG-26 high-explosive round, 72 millimeters, which wasn’t very powerful to begin with.

Just as Brian said, this rocket was merely a way to send a greeting.

Tossing the empty rocket launcher aside, Brian picked up the loudspeaker, took another deep breath, and then suddenly shouted, "Antoine..."

Brian suddenly stopped calling out; he bent down to turn on a switch on the loudspeaker and inhaled deeply again.

"Listen up, you mutts inside! I know who you are, Antoine! You son of a bitch, get out here!"

Brian had remained calm until that moment, but when he finally had the chance to let loose the insults he’d been holding back for decades, he couldn’t pretend to be calm anymore.

Brian was now both angry and satisfied, feeling the thrill of having finally cornered his arch-enemy after decades.

Yang Yi exclaimed in surprise, "He’s gone mad! Fuck!"

Yang Yi certainly knew that Brian had brought a loudspeaker, but he really thought Brian intended to shout from hiding, not that he would brazenly walk to the enemy’s door to do so.

It was too late to stop Brian now.

Brian placed the loudspeaker aside and waited; hearing no response, he put the loudspeaker to his mouth again and bellowed, "Antoine, if you’re still a man, come out! If you don’t, I’ll throw in a big bomb, you cur, come out!"

Yang Yi knew Brian couldn’t stay calm now, but he didn’t expect him to be this agitated.

Those who got to know Brian would realize that he didn’t speak in a stop-start manner, but he was doing so now because he couldn’t organize his words quickly enough—his mouth was moving faster than his brain.

Yang Yi couldn’t help but move toward Brian, not to stand by his side and join in the madness, but to pull him back.

However, as soon as Yang Yi made a move, Anton sternly commanded, "Don’t move!"

Yang Yi and the others were lying down because they were afraid of being hit by the man in the black hood.

Francois was the only one squatting.

Brian once again put the loudspeaker to his mouth and roared, "You mongrel! Antoine, get out here! Come out! Last ten seconds, or I’m going to open fire, the final ten seconds!"

Yang Yi gritted his teeth and muttered softly, "Fuck! What do we do now?"

Just then, Yang Yi heard a voice.

"Brian, I’m coming out!"

The voice wasn’t very loud, but it was clear enough to hear, and it sounded somewhat aged.

Yang Yi was stunned because the speaker called Brian by his name.

The enemy knew who Brian was; he actually knew.

Could it be that Brian’s greatest enemy was really inside?

Yang Yi’s heartbeat suddenly sped up; just as he began to move, Anton pressed him down to the ground.

"Don’t move!"

After Anton whispered those words, he just focused intently on Brian.

No one fired, and Brian was still standing there just fine.

Then, suddenly, a person appeared at the house’s doorway, an old man, looking to be in his late seventies or eighties and leaning on a cane.

"Hey, Brian, remember me? We’ve met before."

The old man was smiling, smiling as he greeted Brian.

Brian looked at the old man, then waved his hand and said, "I guessed it was you guys, indeed it’s you damned old dogs, Black Devil, haha, Black Devil! Seeing your damned shadows, I knew it was you. Listen here, old man, I’m not interested in you, I want Antoine! If you tell me he’s not here, haha, then you all can go to hell!"

Brian had already begun his performance.

Not a single truth, although every word sounded like the truth, Brian really hadn’t spoken a single true word.

Brian was misleading the Black Devil, just a start, but he indeed had begun to mislead the enemy.

The old man sighed slightly, a look of regret on his face as he said, "Brian, I know what you want, so you have to be interested in me, because Antoine is already dead, and I am the last person who can give you the answer you seek."

Brian fell silent.

That Antoine, Yang Yi knew about him; he was the Black Devil who had turned Brian, and the person Brian hated the most in his life.

Brian was silent for a long time, then he finally said in a deep voice, "How did Antoine die?"

"A discharge of firearms, he was killed by his own gun, that was back in 1988."

Brian, lost in thought, said, "A discharge of firearms, and he just died like that?"

"Yes, just like that."

Bullshit, all of it bullshit, Yang Yi felt his intelligence insulted.

The Black Devil, reputed as the strongest in the world, to die from his own gun discharging? What a joke, but then again, if the Black Devil were to lie, surely he wouldn’t spin a tale that not even an idiot would believe, right?

Yang Yi remembered something Brian had once said to him.

Not a single word the Black Devil says can be believed, not a single letter.

This was the idea Brian had repeatedly drilled into Yang Yi.

So Yang Yi felt Brian should be fine; after being deceived by the Black Devil and losing everything, he couldn’t possibly believe the devil’s lies again.

"People who are good at swimming are more likely to drown, the best gunman usually dies by the gun. I thought Antoine would die at the hands of someone he had deceived, never expected he would die by his own gun."

Brian seemed somewhat emotional, the old man smiled and said, "Enough, let’s not talk about Antoine now, I know what you truly care about is not Antoine, and what you want is not that two million US Dollars, I know what you want."

He had found the right person, the old man knew what Brian truly wanted was Kate’s whereabouts, and Yang Yi’s heart pounded even more fiercely, all their efforts finally made sense, the greatest sense.

Brian didn’t appear overly excited, he said calmly, "Alright, then tell me."

The old man smiled, lifting up something in his hand and shook it, then he laughed, "How can I tell you like this?"

Yang Yi saw it very clearly, the old man was holding a detonator, an absolute detonator.

Brian took a deep breath, then said earnestly, "Tell me, and I’ll let you go."

The old man smiled and said, "Let us go, and I’ll tell you."

Francois was very puzzled, looking at Yang Yi with some confusion, and Yang Yi whispered, "Strategy, they knew each other before, maybe the old man can directly tell us Big Ivan’s whereabouts, so don’t make a sound, don’t ruin the situation at hand."