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Chapter 298 I'll Give You This Gun
The next morning, before the sun rose, Lu Chen could not wait to get out of bed. At this moment, Dior Manor was quiet, and the servants seemed to be still immersed in sweet dreams. Lu Chen walked into the kitchen quietly, wanting to find some breakfast to fill his stomach. However, after searching around, he only found a few eggs. Although he wanted to fry eggs, he had no choice but to do so because there was no iron pan in the kitchen.
So, Lu Chen decided to simply boil a few eggs to fill his stomach. After a quick breakfast, Lu Chen felt a little bored. He began to stroll in Dior's manor, trying to kill time. As he walked, he couldn't help but sigh: "This manor is really huge!" He had been walking in the manor for half an hour, but still hadn't walked out of its scope. When he first came here yesterday, he didn't realize that this manor was so vast.
Lu Chen's curiosity was aroused. What kind of secrets were hidden in such a large manor? With doubts, he continued to explore the manor. After he walked around it, he finally understood why the manor was so large. It turned out that Dior built a huge swimming pool here, which was 50 meters long and 21 meters wide, comparable to a professional swimming pool.
Then Lu Chen actually found a golf course behind the swimming pool! The scale of this golf course was simply amazing. Lu Chen roughly estimated that its area alone was probably dozens of acres!
Lu Chen looked at the golf course in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh: The life of the rich is beyond imagination! He thought that the funds required to build such a luxurious golf course must be very high, probably at least several million dollars. Moreover, if it is placed in the future, to build such a golf course, I am afraid the price will double again!
After seeing this golf course, Lu Chen decided not to continue visiting other places. After all, just walking on this golf course would probably take more than ten or twenty minutes. And to walk through the entire manor, the time spent was even more immeasurable. Lu Chen shook his head just thinking about it.
When Lu Chen returned to the villa, Dio and the others had already gotten up and started to enjoy breakfast. Seeing Lu Chen coming back from outside, Dio immediately greeted him warmly and invited him to come over for breakfast.
However, Lu Chen shook his head and said to Dio with a smile: "You guys eat, I've already eaten."
Dio would never believe that Lu Chen would eat breakfast so early. You know, there is no place selling breakfast near his manor! And his servants just made breakfast. Where on earth could Lu Chen get breakfast? Dio just thought that Lu Chen must be embarrassed for getting up late, so he lied like this. So, he said to Lu Chen with a smile on his face:
"I specifically asked the servants to prepare more breakfast. If you don't come and enjoy it, wouldn't it be a waste? Come and have a taste."
Lu Chen waved his hand and explained, "Really, no need. I've already had breakfast. I got up and went to the kitchen to cook a few eggs. Now I'm too full to eat anything else."
Dio stared at Lu Chen with suspicion, muttering to himself: A grown man can cook for himself? What a joke! Dio didn't believe Lu Chen had this ability. He pondered for a while, thinking that since Lu Chen didn't want to eat, he couldn't force him. So he raised the corner of his mouth slightly, revealing a smile, and said softly:
"Since you have already eaten, Lu Chen, you might as well walk around this manor and stay for a while. The other guests will arrive around ten o'clock. I will send someone to notify you when they arrive."
Time passed, and in a blink of an eye it was already close to ten o'clock. Dior's manor gradually became lively, and guests came in one after another. At half past ten, a polite servant in a neat uniform came to Lu Chen, bowed slightly, and said to Lu Chen respectfully:
"Mr. Lu, Mr. Dior invites you to the hall. At the same time, he hopes you will bring the new type of gun you made with you. In addition, he asked me to convey to you that friends from the military have arrived."
Upon hearing that the military personnel had arrived, Lu Chen responded without hesitation:
"Please go back and tell Dio. I'll be there soon."
After saying that, Lu Chen quickly took action, eagerly looking for Hans.
"Hans, take your rifle and come with me."
After saying this, Lu Chen kept urging Hans to speed up.
Not long after, Lu Chen led Hans to the spacious hall of Villa Dior. At this moment, there were already five or six strangers sitting in the hall. Among these people, Lu Chen recognized the person from the military at a glance. There was no special reason why he recognized the other person so quickly, just because Lu Chen happened to know this person - it was Mai Paopao, who he had only met once.
Seeing Lu Chen coming, Dio stood up without hesitation and began to introduce Lu Chen to everyone present one by one.
He pointed at Lu Chen and said to everyone, "Everyone, this is my close friend Lu Chen. He will be joining us in the hunting activity this time."
Hearing this, the others all nodded to Lu Chen in a friendly manner to express their welcome. However, when Mai Paopao's eyes fell on Lu Chen, he first frowned slightly, as if he had seen the person in front of him somewhere before. After Dio introduced him further, he immediately recalled Lu Chen's true identity.
He stood up slowly and said to Lu Chen with a smile: "Lu Chen, long time no see! You haven't come to my house to visit Grandpa for a long time."
Go visit Old Mike? Lu Chen doesn't have the leisure and free time. The last time he visited Old Mike, Green sent him to the army and forced him to train a special forces team. If he visits again this time, won't he be completely trapped by the military? Absolutely not, he can't go even if he is beaten to death.
Although Lu Chen was very reluctant to visit Old Mike in his heart, he would never reveal his true thoughts in front of Mai Paopao. After all, he still needed to maintain a good cooperative relationship with the military. Therefore, he politely responded: "Oh, it turns out to be General Arthur! It's been a long time since we last met." (At this moment, Mai Paopao had been promoted to general.)
After greeting Mai Paopao, Lu Chen immediately began to explain:
"I've been busy recently, so I didn't go to visit old General Mike. But General Arthur, how come you have time to come here to hunt today? You just took office as the Army Chief of Staff some time ago, shouldn't you be very busy?"
At this point, Mai Paopao looked frustrated. The first thing he did when he took office was to suppress the veterans who were asking for their wages. The matter was done, but the president was replaced. The now elected Franklin looked down on him and was ready to transfer him out. He smiled self-deprecatingly and said:
"There is nothing I can do right now! Everyone is busy preparing for the presidential transition, and no one cares about a small army staff officer like me."
Then, he lay back, looking very helpless, and continued:
"So I just came out to relax. No one cares what I do anyway." There was a hint of loss and self-mockery in his voice, as if he felt helpless about his current situation.
Lu Chen was very surprised. He originally thought that the presidential handover ceremony would be held after the current president's term ended, but now it seems to have started ahead of time. I remember that during the previous US election, there was news that the handover would have to wait until the current president stepped down. Has the situation changed? It seems that during this period of time, in order to successfully acquire the shares of Lieqi Shipyard, he really missed a lot of important information. Lu Chen couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Lu Chen expressed his understanding of Mai Paopao's current situation. After all, being transferred to the Philippines as the base commander is not an easy thing for anyone, and Mai Paopao must find it difficult to accept. However, Lu Chen believes that this is also an important turning point for Mai Paopao. If there had not been this transfer, when the United States launched a counterattack against Xiao Rizi, he would probably have no chance to propose the leapfrog strategy, and naturally there would be no talk of being awarded the honor of a five-star general in the future.
So Lu Chen consoled him with a smile: "General Arthur, no one is managing you, which means there is no one above you to restrain you! You will most likely govern a region next. By then, you will have the final say over which region to govern. Isn't that great?"
Mai Paopao waved his hand and responded, "It's true that I would have more power if I were transferred abroad, but look at what places the United States controls abroad. Take the Philippines for example, it's full of uncivilized barbarians, and there's not even a place to watch a movie there. Tell me, even if I have more power, what's the use of it?"
However, Dio interrupted at this time: "Although there are no places for entertainment and recreation there, there are mountains of US dollars in that land! When you go to the Philippines, even if you do nothing, there will be groups of people lining up to give you a lot of US dollars."
Then Dio winked at Lu Chen and motioned him to take out the rifle. Lu Chen immediately smiled and said to Mai Paopao:
"General Arthur, you are going to the Philippines. With your qualifications, you will be the base commander in the Philippines, in charge of tens of thousands of troops. I happen to have a new weapon here. I can let you take it to equip the troops."
Lu Chen asked Hans to pass the rifle to Mai Paopao. Although Mai Paopao was not good at fighting, he had been the principal of West Point Military Academy for several years. So when he got the rifle, he had a special feeling. He felt that this gun would shine in the future. So he carefully observed the rifle in his hand.
Mai Paopao carefully observed the rifle for a long time, and finally figured out the trick. He smiled and said to Lu Chen:
"Mr. Lu Chen, why don't you tell me about the performance of this gun?"
Hearing Mai Paopao's request, Lu Chen explained the performance of the gun and also explained how to operate it. When Lu Chen finished speaking, Dio smiled and said to Mai Paopao:
"Arthur, I tried this gun yesterday and it felt great. I have ordered 500 of these rifles from Lu Chen."
Mai Paopao looked at Dio in confusion and asked:
"Why did you buy so many weapons? Are you preparing to go to war?"
Dio explained with a smile: "I found a gold mine in the Middle East."
Gold mine, Lu Chen immediately became interested when he heard this. Damn, a gold mine, how much money would it be worth? Lu Chen quickly asked:
"Dio, did you use my dividends to buy a gold mine?"
Dio looked bitter, wondering how he could have forgotten about Lu Chen. He quickly explained:
"I didn't use your share of the dividends from this gold mine. I used your share of the dividends for other places."
Lu Chen didn't believe Dio's nonsense. He must have used his share of the dividend to buy the gold mine. But he knew that this was not the time to argue with Dio. He planned to wait for Evelin to come back and let Evelin talk to him about this matter. So he just glanced at Dio and didn't question him.
Seeing that Lu Chen didn't bother him about this matter, Dio quickly brought the topic back to the rifle. He said to Mai Paopao:
"I tried this gun yesterday. It has a very strong firepower. And the accuracy is also good. I plan to give it to the guards in my mine."
Hearing Dio's high regard for the gun, Mai Paopao trusted his feelings even more. However, he still needed to feel the gun himself before he could be assured. So he said:
"Then I'll go outside and try this gun out. If it's really good, I'll consider recommending the purchase of this rifle to the military."
Then Mai Paopao took the rifle and went outside. The other people in the hall were also curious about the rifle, so they followed Mai Paopao out.
After a while, the few people who had followed him out came back in. They said to Lu Chen a little embarrassedly:
"Mr. Lu Chen, do you still have the rifle that General Arthur has? We also want to try it out."
Hearing what they said, Lu Chen was overjoyed and quickly said to Hans:
"Hans, go get a few more rifles and bring some more magazines. Let these gentlemen try our guns."
Hans nodded, turned around and walked towards the room he lived in. When Mai Pao took out his gun and ran back to the hall excitedly, Hans also returned to the hall with four or five rifles on his back.
When several middle-aged men saw Hans bringing the rifle, they immediately stepped forward to ask Hans for the rifle.
Hans handed the rifles to several people, and took out more than ten magazines and handed them to several people. After getting the guns and magazines, several people hurriedly ran outside.
Mai Paopao reluctantly handed the rifle to Lu Chen. Seeing Mai Paopao's expression, Lu Chen smiled and said:
"General Arthur, you don't have to return the gun to me. I'm giving it to you."