"Mr. Tang, don't be so surprised, Sergei is already dead." "Sergei" opened his mouth but said something like this, "I am the new Sergei, but we are also old acquaintances, we have fought against each other in South Korea, and you are all defeated by my men." ”

Tang Shuxing looked at "Sergei", and a strong sense of oppression struck, this sense of oppression was exuded by the "Sergei" in front of him while speaking, different from beasts, and different from human beings, a feeling that was strange and terrifying.

"Sergey" sat down in his chair and asked: "Do you know anyone else in the combined column?" There's only one person you know, and that's me. ”

Tang Shuxing instantly understood who the person in front of him was, raised his hand and pointed at the other party and said, "Are you ...... Kim Yoon-ho? ”

Kim Yoon-ho, who had Sergey's face, showed a hint of a smile: "If you like the name Kim Yoon-ho, you can call it that." ”

"How is that possible!" Tang Shuxing was very surprised, and subconsciously looked at Gu Huaiyi and Ji Kefeng, trying to find answers from them, but both of them were silent, which was equivalent to admitting this fact in disguise.

"In a combined column, there is nothing impossible to happen." Kim Yoon-ho said calmly, "One night before you found Sergei, I replaced him. As I expected, he was tired of running away and being watched, so after saying a word, let me give him a good time. After all, when he saw a person exactly like himself appear in front of him, he already knew what would happen to him. ”

"Okay, I see." Tang Shuxing stood there, "The joint column has already controlled the Asia-Europe troops?" ”

Zhan Tianya was silent. Just smoking a cigarette and not looking up at the people around you.

"Control zhì? It's ridiculous! The Asia-Europe forces originally belonged to the joint column! Kim Yun-ho grinned, "For you, this must be a surprise, because this is a surprise to Director Zhan." When I was in South Korea, I said that if you didn't cooperate at that time, you will be forced to cooperate sooner or later, but now that the facts are in front of you, you can't agree with it. ”

"The Asia-Europe forces have always thought that they are outside the Three Realms and are not in the Five Elements. The result came out. Originally, it was someone else's watchdog, and I don't understand it anymore, what kind of organization are you? With so much power? Tang Shuxing looked at Jin Yunhao and shook his head, "Can you explain?" ”

"Yes. We are allies now. And even if I sue you for a qiē. You can't do anything that gets in the way of your future plans. Kim Yun-ho motioned for Tang Shuxing to sit down, but Tang Shuxing was still standing, and Cheonheyong was also standing behind him. Listen calmly.

"The United Column originated before the First World War, much older than the legend suggests, but in the earliest days, there were only two members, and they were both people who never left any traces in history, one was a carpenter and the other was an alchemist......" Kim Yun-ho sat down and began to tell the history of the United Column.

There is no record of what kind of people the carpenters and alchemists were, what kind of appearance they had, and what country they came from, in the database of the combined column. At first, the two joined forces only to recreate a place like the Library of Alexandria.

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is known as the largest library in ancient times, and it was both a university and a home to many of the great scholars of antiquity. The destruction of this library became one of the bleakest chapters in the history of human thought, not only leading Europe into the Dark Ages, but also hindering the development and progress of science, philosophy, medicine, and literature for millennia. The destruction of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina has been described by some as "a day when history lost its memory".

It was impossible to restore the library, because legend has it that the library had burned down completely, and they had to build one by themselves, but to do so, it was like a foolish man moving a mountain, and the two of them could not do it alone, but the two pioneers of the combined column set about their own project, and by the time they started this project, which was so far away that it could never be completed, the carpenter was almost 50 years old, and the alchemist was in his 60s.

In the five years of the project, little progress has been made, and the collection of books they have collected is not very precious, but they understand that the collection that does not seem precious today will be the treasure of all mankind in a hundred or even a thousand years, and in five years they have only collected less than 20,000 books of all kinds, but in the meantime, their practice has attracted many like-minded people.

However, the alchemist understood that the library needed not people who had the enthusiasm to participate in it alone, so he carried out a rigorous selection process, and in the end only 10 people were left to assist them in their work, and some of these 10 people were powerful.

Of course, the alchemist knew that in order for this group of people to be loyal to the plan, it would take something similar to a religious idea to bind their brains, so he founded a secret sect called the Pioneers, a sect based on the philosophy of natural sciences and the beliefs of the other members of the organization.

The establishment of the "pioneers" really made this group of people even more desperate to start collecting books, and they did many things like General Ptolemy and his descendants who founded the Library of Alexandria, they borrowed books from the national library, made copies, made fakes, kept the original books in their own libraries, and returned the fakes, and in the process, continued to recruit others to join this sect called "pioneers", and their slogan was very simple, only three words - all mankind.

After a few decades, the growing Pioneer Order suffered a major blow - because of the outbreak of World War I, their collection work came to a standstill, and the only thing they were thankful for was that among the Pioneer Sect were politicians and soldiers from the Allied and Entente powers on both sides of the war, and Wilhelm II was also a secret member of the Pioneer Sect.

The alchemist had died, and he was succeeded by the mysterious carpenter, who suddenly realized that no matter how hard they tried to protect the common heritage of all mankind, they would eventually be stagnant or completely destroyed by the war of mankind, just like the Library of Alexandria at that time, so the carpenter changed his early strategy and carried out further reforms to the pioneers, the first step was to establish the most advanced medical society at that time within the pioneers, and at the same time use the medical society as the foundation, Begin to build a private army of your own pioneers.

The troubled times of the First World War, although it hindered the collection of pioneers in the early years, but also made the pioneer organization stronger, but the members they absorbed were no longer ordinary people, either gifted and capable, or dignitaries who fully agreed with the pioneer concept, by the end of the First World War, the main members of the pioneers had spread all over the Eurasian continent, and also absorbed members of some ancient organizations from various countries into it.

But these people will never be able to become the core members of the pioneers, for the simple reason that they will not be able to really call the wind and rain in their own countries, and they will only play a supporting role, and the carpenter is also aware of the commonality between knowledge and intelligence, and the role of establishing the core of the committee, but the time is not ripe, and he is still waiting.

Nearly 20 years later, the carpenter was dying, but he did not appoint any one as his successor, but only announced that henceforth there would be a symbolic leader within the herald, and that in order to prevent this leader from changing the purpose of the herald, this person must, like him and the alchemist, not enjoy any privileges within the herald, not use the pioneer's own funds, and must be self-sufficient. And named after the four major elements in ancient alchemy, qi, water, earth, and fire, four committee members were selected.

Four commissioners and a leader together form the core of the pioneers. The leaders unite the four members, and the four members completely curb the power of the leaders, and everyone cannot enjoy the privileges and funds of the organization, and has to manipulate the organization through the "pioneer core" to do anything that is contrary to human history, even if it is a small thing.

Speaking of this, Kim Yun-ho got up and said: "From that day on, the joint column had a prototype, but this prototype did not really play its own role, until the Second World War began again, after mankind experienced the most terrible era, the pioneer core decided to really intervene and manipulate, and then in the pioneer core, a member at that time for the first time proposed that the world needs to establish an organization like the pioneer core......"

When Tang Shuxing heard this, he was shocked and blurted out: "You mean the United Nations?" ”

"Yes, the United Nations." Kim Yun-ho nodded calmly, "After the end of World War II, in October 1945, the Charter of the United Nations was signed and entered into force in San Francisco, USA, announcing the establishment of the United Nations. ”

The real name of the Pioneers was changed to the United Column in the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis in the sixties, when the Pioneers realized that the world was completely out of control, and at the same time, they discovered the secret of "reincarnation" hidden in the world (this event has nothing to do with the novel, see "The Coffin Opener at Midnight"), but they did not intervene directly, but waited for things to change.

After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Pioneers changed their name to the Joint Column, and began to gradually infiltrate various countries around the world, and finally completed their planned infiltration plan before the Soviet war in Afghanistan in 1979, but in the process, they also discovered the secrets of the ancient humans hidden on the earth, and through long-term analysis and information from various parties, it was determined that these ancient humans still have descendants alive, and these descendants may be the greatest enemies of mankind in the future.

"The general history of the combined column is over." Kim Yun-ho sat down again, glanced at everyone around him, and asked, "I want to know, are you in favor of the concept of the column, or are you against?" (To be continued......)