The second volume is full of glory and splendor in the capital, and the spirit is full of vitality in the foggy city. Chapter 160: Choose One of Two
This chapter's subtitle: Pictures reveal the truth
"Arnaldo... Arnaldo, where are you?"
A middle-aged man with a rather unhealthy face emerged from a small office not far away. He bore a resemblance to the Hanged Man. He was Arnaldo Mussolini, Mussolini's younger brother, who was eighteen months younger than him.
Unlike the upper echelons of Temperance and other poisonous vegetable society, the Hanged Man has always had a "normal" family life throughout his life.
He had a very harmonious relationship with his family and was a very humane dictator, if he could be considered a "dictator."
Mussolini loved his mother very much and respected his father very much. Influenced by his father, he became a "firm" socialist.
His younger brother, Arnaldo, is the person he trusts most in his life. He also takes good care of his younger sister, Edelweijer. His siblings, in turn, love their eldest brother. The Hanged Man trusts his younger brother even more than his eldest son, Vittorio.
Unfortunately, Arnaldo was in poor health and died in his forties. That's why Lord Justice told the Hanged Man to take care of his brother.
While it's inevitable that a man like Mussolini would have had some romantic affairs, and his relationship with his first wife was a bit complicated, this was pretty normal for Latin Americans.
But he always cherished his young wife, Rachel, and regarded her as his connection to the "real world" and "the people". They also had five children.
"Brother, I'm here. What's going on?"
"Arnaldo. I have an important guest here. Please help me cancel all my work today."
"Understood."
“Click!”
Mussolini locked the door, turned around and looked at Mr. Chandler Jr. and said coldly, "Mr. Investigator, let's have a good chat."
"It's all up to you." Lord Justice, feeling relieved, smiled and nodded.
The Hanged Man picked up the photo again and looked at it. He sighed and said, "I didn't expect Sir Hall was also a Freemason."
As smart as he was, he naturally understood that others should have known about his relationship with the British intelligence agency for a long time, so he simply admitted that he knew Baronet Samuel Hall.
Mr. Chandler interjected calmly, "He's not only a Freemason, but also a Senior Warden of the North American Freemasonry..."
Well, like the Hongmen, there are many levels in Freemasonry, and the levels in each region are different.
However, perhaps because the Freemasons' literary skills were limited, these names were completely unoriginal and sounded like company positions. They were nowhere near as contrived as the "Thirty-six and a Half" of the Hongmen.
The so-called senior supervisor is a big man second only to the Worshipful Master.
All I heard was Lord Justice talking eloquently: "Benito, in fact, the Anglo-Saxon people have long fallen into the control of the Freemasons. England and America are just disguises put on the surface by the Freemasons..."
"Just think about the last war. So many people died in Europe, but what benefits did the people of your continent gain? Not to mention the dismemberment of the two defeated countries, Germany and Austria-Hungary. France ruined an entire generation of young people and half of the country was reduced to ruins. Russia became a communist country with Jews in the upper echelons..."
"You Italians have made such great sacrifices, and you are only getting scraps. You are even going to throw away Fiume."
Upon hearing this, the hanged man couldn't help but frown.
Fiume, also known as Rijeka, is an important port on the Adriatic Sea. It originally belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and later became the largest port in Croatia.
After the war, both Italy and the Kingdom of Serbia (the predecessor of Yugoslavia) claimed control of the port.
In 1919, Gabriele D'Annunzio (also translated as Danunzio), a famous Italian poet, representative writer of the decadent school and an important early supporter of Mussolini, occupied the place with a group of Aldite volunteers with the support of the fighting fascists and the Hanged Man.
They occupied Fiume for 15 months, but under international pressure, the Italian government and Yugoslavia signed the Treaty of Rapallo and eventually gave up Fiume.
"On the other hand, England used this war to restore the balance of power on the continent and crush Germany, their greatest challenger. America, on the other hand, reaped countless benefits from this war, becoming the largest industrial nation today."
"Benito, you were once a socialist, so you should know that workers have no country. But how can capitalists have a country? The Freemasons who have infiltrated the capitalist circles of various countries have no concept of a country at all. They only want to control the human world with the power of capital. And the last war brought their ambitions one step closer to reality."
"So that's why Baron Hall paid you to urge Italy to join the last war. Of course, you can't be blamed for this. Even I didn't go to the battlefield without thinking and work for those capitalists and the Freemasons behind them, right?"
"But precisely because we are all participants in that war, we have a greater need and right to know the truth. And the truth is..."
Mr. Little Chandler pointed to the pictures and said passionately, "As you can see, they're all in the same gang!"
"Samuel Hall, Herbert Henry Asquith (British Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916), David Lloyd George (who succeeded him as Prime Minister in 1916), Woodrow Wilson, Venustiano Carranza..."
The people he was talking about were all in the photos. These celebrities were in strange surroundings, wearing strange clothes, holding strange sacrificial vessels... It was obvious that they were performing some kind of pagan sacrificial ritual.
No need to ask, these "evidences" were naturally made up by our Master Yuan specifically to fool people.
Lord Justice sighed and said, "But I must be honest. Their power is too great now. Even our SCP Foundation has to temporarily avoid them, and sometimes even use their power..."
"But as the Freemasons' evil ambitions gradually become exposed, more and more people of insight around the world are realizing their true colors. We at the SCP Foundation believe that our comrades will also grow in number!"
He stood up, stepped forward and said seriously, "Mr. Benito Amical Andrea Mussolini, although you were temporarily bewitched by them, my comrades and I believe that as long as you understand the truth, you will definitely stand on our side!"
"Then... " Mr. Little Chandler took out another photo and a parchment card and placed them solemnly in front of the Hanged Man.
The photo shows him and Sir Hall sitting together and having a friendly conversation, with a stack of pounds on the table in front of them.
"Benito, you have chosen to collude with the high-ranking Freemason..."
Lord Justice first pointed at the photo, then at the mysterious card that exuded a mysterious aura and said:
"Or will you choose to become our SCP Foundation investigator, 'Mr. Hanged Man'?"
