In the dense forests of southern California, the redwoods that reached into the sky seemed to cover the gray sky, and a half-large white-tailed deer jumped through the thatch and low thorns, stopped next to a hickory, and turned its neck to scan the surroundings with a pair of yellowed eyes, and it felt a little different.

One hundred and thirty meters away, on the leeward slope, a "short" middle-aged man was lying on a camouflage blanket, his bearded face was attached to the butt of a Remington 700PSS gun, and his left eye was open and one was closed, a centipede-shaped scar replaced the position of his eyebrows, and the round pupils below were the same color as those in the sixteenfold mirror.

The half-sized white-tailed deer looked around and found nothing unusual, so he lowered his head and began to eat grass, but soon there was a muffled sound in the distance, and he immediately jumped into the bushes in fright and disappeared.

"Huh?"

The middle-aged man on the camouflage blanket on the hillside looked at the sky behind him, and a picture of red smoke was spreading in the air, so he quickly stood up and covered the lid of the telescope, put away the camouflage blanket and put it in his backpack after carrying it on his back, turned around and hung it on the handlebar of the motorcycle behind the boulder on the hillside, picked up the helmet and put it on after getting on the seat, unscrewed the key and hit the accelerator twice.

The roar of the motorcycle did not last long, and after walking along the rugged path for less than two hundred meters, he rode on a much wider gravel road, and after more than ten minutes, the speed slowed down, and the middle-aged man glanced at the brand-new motorcycle parked in front of his house, and raised his eyebrows: "Kidd, you only borrowed me two hundred yuan last time and haven't paid it back, and today you scared away my rations for the coming week - this can't be stolen by you, right?"

"Arthur, isn't it two hundred dollars, you're right, I'm here to pay it back, how about it, my car is good, right?"

The man who spoke smiled exaggeratedly, took out a wallet from his pocket, opened it, took out two hundred-dollar bills and put them in front of Arthur, turned around and looked at the Toyota motorcycle under his ass next to him, shrugged his shoulders, and took out the key from his pocket: "Seriously, your car is a bicycle, come and try the FXWG Wide Glide." ”

"Where did you get the money? You're going to work again?"

Arthur's eyes shrank under the centipede-shaped scar, and then he looked around and turned his head around, with a solemn face: "I won't make that kind of money, you know, back then, we fired at the "enemy" because we accepted the order to protect our comrades-in-arms and national property from being violated, but now that we have been discharged from the army, you are doing this now, it is a crime to break the law!"

A smile appeared on Kidd's broad face, and Arthur scolded with a straight face, still shaking the key in his hand: "I can assure you that these are not earned by me by "working", I have now found a proper job, but now my work clothes are not finished, so you can't see my work clothes!"

"Really, this car is not cheap, Harley-Davidson's FXWG Wide Glide 1980 version, the lowest price is also $4999, the top configuration is $12999, what kind of company is you, how long have you been working to pay you so much?!"

Seeing that this former subordinate did not look like a fake, Arthur still did not take the key, but nailed a pair of eyes to Kidd's big face, as a motorcycle enthusiast, he recognized it at first sight, but he couldn't believe that except for Kidd, who was stronger than his brain, what technology was favored by others: "You can type with Wang An WPS?"

"Ahem—Arthur, you're kidding. ”

Kidd almost choked on his own saliva, and a trace of embarrassment finally flashed on his broad face, he had learned to type for a period of time since he was discharged from the army a few years ago, and the result was to smash someone's typewriter, blinked and put away the key and put it in his pocket, crossed his arms and looked down at Arthur and said: "This, I came to invite you to join this time, well, the Rubik's Cube is safe." ”

"Rubik's Cube - Safety?"

Arthur subconsciously frowned slightly, not wanting the scars on his eye sockets to be more hideous, and then the Rubik's Cube Media and the Magic Cube flashed in his mind, and he turned around and walked towards the door of the house, his house was the same as most Americans at this time, but it was a bare house with no yard, and no gate: "This Rubik's Cube - Security, and Rubik's Cube Media, is that MTV and 24-hour news station a company?"

"It's not a company, it's a boss, well, so to speak. ”

Kidd wasn't curious about Arthur's ability to know about the Rubik's Cube and the Magic Cube, although the old superior lived next to the most remote forest in Florida in the middle of nowhere, but he had a special mailbox to receive newspapers and mail, and occasionally he could see radio programs when the signal was good, and then he swept the room that was not much better than his own, took out the latest New York Times yesterday from his pocket, and said: " After I left from you last time, I was thinking about how to find a job that suits me, and then I saw this - I also asked someone, the Rubik's Cube is a large enterprise, a multinational enterprise, although it is not as good as IBM and Wang An Computer, but according to the culture of this enterprise, it is amazingly young, in 1978 the establishment of the Rubik's Cube Limited, in 1979 the establishment of the Rubik's Cube Industry and Rubik's Cube Media, and now the former has invested 100 million US dollars in that eastern country.

Rubik's Cube Media doesn't need me to say more, their TV station is now the hottest TV station in China, everyone likes MTV's songs, and the news station that broadcasts global news 24 hours a day, you can see the world's news without leaving home, and last year established Rubik's Cube Airlines, a medium-sized airline headquartered in England, with three intercontinental routes and dozens of short and medium-haul routes, which is said to be the most profitable airline last year.

Now, the Rubik's Cube Limited has decided to establish Rubik's Cube Security, and the direction of personnel recruitment is veterans who have previously participated in the Vietnam War, especially the leader of the chief officer who has served in the UDT, so I think of you, Arthur, you are now in such a bad physical condition that you can no longer return to the UDT, and because of your testimony in the court-martial, you know how much those officers hate you-"

"But they are foreigners, at least British. ”

Arthur picked up the empty kettle, shook it and picked up the water bottle again, found that it was also empty, and finally threw the cup on the messy table, pointed at the sofa stuffed with sundries next to him, and said: "I won't pour water for you, I can hear from you that the company's prospects are good, and now the company is big and focuses on safety, which shows that the boss is also ambitious, but the company's recruitment direction is ours, don't you suspect anything?"

"Suspect what?"

Looking at a cockroach crawling through the messy packaging room on the sofa, Kidd decided to stand still and said: "The headquarters of Rubik's Cube Security will be located in New York, how dare do you think they will recruit us to engage in espionage in China? Not to mention that the direction of recruitment is our UDT, not Buckley's SEAL!"

A cockroach probed out of the sofa, and crawled forward as if there was no danger, not wanting Arthur's eyes to droop slightly out of his feet like electricity, a faint "pop" sounded, raised his eyes and nodded slowly: "What you said is also true." ”

The three letters UDT are an abbreviation for Underwater Demolition Teams, which translates into Chinese as Underwater Demolition Teams — the forerunner of the Navy SEALs, which were not renamed the United States Navy SEALs two decades ago and subsequently served as reconnaissance missions in the U.S.-Vietnam War.

At the same time, SEAL, that is, the Navy SEAL special forces composed of the meaning of Sea (sea), Air (air) and Land (land), specialized in attack missions, and the Rubik's Cube security recruitment direction was not these people, indicating that they only wanted to improve their own security, compared with UDT's confidentiality requirements were greatly reduced.

Arthur's heart was moved, when the bald eagle withdrew from the Vietnam War, he could have had a good ending - he could even be promoted to the next level in the army, so that he could become a middle and high-level commander and go to West Point or other units as a training instructor, so as to pass on the experience he had explored with his life, so that more people could grasp more chances of surviving on the battlefield, until he later testified in court, these were all in vain.

Kicked out of the army, bonuses, salaries, pensions and nothing have passed eight years, Arthur has also entered the threshold of old age from energetic middle age, he is forty-nine this year, and the things in this house are all his net worth - since he was kicked out of the army eight years ago, his wife divorced and his son no longer recognized him, and since then he has become a loner, living like a dog.

However, Arthur never regretted the choice he made, picked up the wine bottle next to him that he didn't know how many years he had been sitting and shook it, raised his neck and poured it, a spicy explode from his throat, and then turned into a hot stream and rolled down the esophageal tube, and soon he felt a warm sea between his chest and lungs, wiped the corners of his mouth and said: "Okay, your proposal is not bad, let's talk about your treatment-"

"A basic salary of two thousand dollars per month, there will be a subsidy when you are dispatched, and all travel expenses will be reimbursed, to be exact, it should be responsible for the Rubik's Cube Airlines, well, this salary is an after-tax salary, and then one day off a month, five days of paid vacation throughout the year, and there is a year-end dividend, which is not necessarily much, because the company has just been established, and if you join now, you will be a veteran employee, of course, Arthur, you don't know how much, because in terms of your qualifications, you can apply for the position of executive general manager. ”

Kidd said with a big smile on his face, and his back molars were exposed: "I will feel honored if you become the general manager, as far as I know, the recruits over there are now recruits-"

Arthur's face changed, and his head was full of question marks: "Executive General Manager, what does this do?"

"The executive general manager is the unique position of Rubik's Cube Security, mainly to cooperate with the general manager Miss Lin Zhi'e to formulate and improve the company's security system, internally and externally, this does not mean that our company alone, including Rubik's Cube Co., Ltd., including all enterprises including Rubik's Cube Industry, Media, Aviation, etc., if other companies are established in the future, they will also be included in the management of the security side, and will not be restricted by the rights structure of each company, and will be solely responsible for Miss Lin Zhi'e. ”

Located in the rented building of the North American headquarters of Rubik's Cube Media, the former seal commander whose full name is Alfonso Arthur is being interviewed by the Rubik's Cube security interviewer, and after listening to this somewhat familiar person in charge, he has figured out the nature of this position, and his original self-confident curiosity is beating faster - this company is obviously recruiting a security consultant who has retired from the top management of the FBI and CIA, which is a position that Alfonso Arthur never dreamed of!

In order to win the market in the United States, large international companies, especially large European companies, often add the position of security consultant to the administrative structure of the enterprise, and the purpose of recruitment for this position is not as written in the job profile, but only to be responsible for the supervision and implementation of the company's security, but to focus on the personal relationship of the person holding this position, which is not used in normal times, but when there is some kind of crisis that affects the company, it will come in handy.

According to the way of thinking of the Chinese people, it can be summarized as the concept of good man stocks, usually this group of people seems to have little work, and it is likely to be late for work and leave early.

The fast-moving ox will do more work than the slower-walking ox, and then the person who drives the ox will hold a whip to make it go faster, and the usually diligent person will be entrusted with the most work every time, and the honest person will often be sent to the hardest and most tiring place to take root, and the brave will be sent to the front line at the moment of crisis, and the hard-working person will get more workload, and the most important thing is that everyone gets the same benefit.

The consequence of the lack of clear rewards and punishments is that the leaders want to use some unseemly means to solve the problems they may encounter, but none of these possible problems can be solved by Alfonso Arthur, who was kicked out of the seal: "However, I don't have much connections in Washington, and——"

"Mr. Alfonso, please. ”

For the general manager-level interview, it is naturally impossible for someone from the administration department to be responsible, not to mention that the current selection is the safety person in charge of the future company under the three people and above the ten thousand people, so after reading Alfonso Arthur's resume, Zhou Weilin and Meng Nanaqiqi appeared in the interview office and accompanied Lin Zhi'e to interview the only person who applied for this position.

Arthur was a little nervous, pinching the job responsibilities of the executive general manager in his hands, he was very anxious, because under the job responsibilities in hand, it was the salary of this job responsibility: "The basic salary is 8,000, the position subsidy is 1,000, the monthly rest is four days, the annual paid leave is ten days, and the annual safety award is 10,000——"

The subsidy and safety award alone is 96,000 dollars, which is a figure that Arthur never dreamed of, an annual salary of 100,000 dollars, just beckoning to himself, as long as he nods his head, he can mix at least a few months' salary, and there are tens of thousands, and when the time comes, use this money to do some small business - but if you do this, it will be similar to the benefits promised above, right?

After a short hesitation, Alfonso Arthur raised his head, a slightly hideous look on his face was relaxed, he had already remembered who the two familiar people were, and now he was just like the general manager of Rubik's Cube Media: "Ms. Zhou Weilin, Miss Meng Nana, after my consideration, I found that you should be recruiting security consultants, they are usually senior FBI and CIA personnel, and I am just a chief officer in the army, which is not suitable for your company's recruitment requirements——"

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