The suburbs of Watertown are not part of the New York Watertown, which was once a corner of the city center (Newark District), which was once one of the most prosperous downtown areas in New York, but now because of its sparse population, Newark is gradually being called the Red Zone (non-tourist area).

There are solid asphalt floors and skyscrapers soaring into the sky. Pan Yilong came to the energy castle not far from the look, the energy castle according to the information is about 1350 meters high, backed by the 280 highway, the east side is close to the Pasik Canal, there are sixteen mechanical "fence gates" surrounded by the surrounding area, the gate is 27 meters high, there is a ring of electrified automatic defense fence outside the door to protect the outer area of the central castle, along the wall every ten meters, there are two more than one meter high automatic defense towers are fixed on the concrete floor, as soon as someone approaches, it will automatically poke out its head to check with infrared sensors, Four Combine Watch Force guards in heavy bulletproof uniforms stood guard in front of the four main gates of the castle, and it seemed that this was the case, but Pan Yilong knew that this place was not simple, so he began to circle around the steel building along the street.

The armored core of the Combine Army has three regiments near the castle, of which the most elite and closest 18th Corps is stationed next to the Newark Museum, a total of about 5,800 people, 120mm biological fully automated self-propelled guns and gunships are stationed here, there are more than 30 notorious hunting helicopters alone, 16 armed attack aircraft of the combat power report are stationed at nearby military airfields, it is said that one can easily annihilate an entire squadron of F16 aircraft group, and the ground attack is even more terrifying. There are also a staggering number of Combined Gunboats inside the fortress, and the number of helicopter fighters modified from biotechnology is about 30-50, and the combat power is fierce (once the Combined Army in City 17 could be supported by about 100 standing combat power, not counting the portal). The Street Patrol is fully equipped with APC armored vehicles, each fully loaded with 5 people including a driver, which can carry out rapid response support at key points of the city's defense, and can also build temporary defensive positions, which is the nearest force of the energy castle.

The 201st Armored Regiment is stationed in Harrison, next to the Passerik River, in Red Bull Stadium, and the 390th Brigade is stationed further away on Staten Island, where there are mainly naval and air defense forces, and even if something happens here, both armies are unlikely to be able to rush here to support the castle within ten minutes, so the 18th Corps is the biggest threat on this trip, but there are more elite forces in the tower, and the core unit leader in white protective clothing is paired with an amazing number of elite armored core troops with AR2 pulse rifles ( Watch troops), rushing into the tower will usher in a nightmare...

Pan Yilong touched a dozen coins in his pocket, walked to a phone booth on the side of the road, took out a new phone card and inserted it, threw a coin and dialed the phone that Brand gave him, and after a while, the sweet voice of the female operator sounded on the other end of the phone, and he said to the operator to transfer to the office of the Ministry of Global Health, and then waited for more than ten seconds before the balance was insufficient The prompt sounded, and he threw another coin into it to connect with the other end.

"Hey, I'm Cole from the Ministry of Health. Brand... Oh, it's you, are you in New York? ”

"In general, the journey was not smooth..."Pan Yilong smiled: "But I still want to thank you for booking a ticket for me, I will find a chance to return this favor to you." ”

"No, I haven't flown in Japan yet, Citrus is going to land in Japan, hey, you don't want to come back when we're not around, mission!" Brand was a little anxious, and Pan Yilong laughed, "You're afraid of a bird, don't worry, since we're here, it's impossible to retreat again, hey, by the way, what are you in the Ministry of Health?" Do you have a job again? ”

"This is the official work of the United ZF Agency!" Brand glanced at the computer, "The leftists represent the civil forces, the rightists represent the surrender faction and the pro-foreign forces, the two sides are incompatible, the rightists rely on the support of the empire, and they are naturally arrogant and domineering, and it is even more difficult for the leftists to enter politics. So the job is grabbed by myself, and it is better to rely on no one than on myself, and I am responsible for a... Global epidemic prevention, just a name, if you have nothing to do, you have to go around the world, and it also saves you from staying in the department all day and being looked down upon..."

"Oh, doing intelligence work behind the scenes, that's not bad, it's quite suitable for your underground work." Pan Yilong glanced at the balance of the phone and couldn't help muttering: "Your public phone in New York is for money?" Damn, Lao Tzu has a total of ten yuan in the ocean, and he has worked hard for half a day to get in for four yuan, and a dollar for 30 seconds? ”

"This is a bonus brought by a high quality of life, and the bullshit United Army ZF is going to collect the poll tax by the second!" Brand teased, "So at this moment I want to ask you, are you happy?" ”

"I'm happy, I'm happy Nimal Gobi! Not happy! Do it for me! Pan Yilong scolded: "Don't talk nonsense, tell Lao Tzu where your organization lives, I'll hang up quickly, it's dark."

"Go and take a car to the old port area of Watertown, which is Newark Harbor, transfer to a bus to Hillside, and then No. 225 Maple Grove Street, if you feel sorry for the money, you can hang it up quickly, I may not be able to go, the typhoon has landed, this will be raging, I have to find a place to hide first."

"225 Maplewood Street, Hillside?" He repeated it and hung up, then glanced up at the hundred-story energy tower, and in the distance, raised two middle fingers at it in the backlight.

When he came to Fenglin Street by car, Pan Yilong was stunned for a moment, this is actually a Chinatown? Since there is not much business all year round, most of the shops on the street are closed. This was the case with No. 225, an old mansion built in the last century, standing alone near a main block flooded by the sea, with few pedestrians and no Combine patrols nearby, he walked up to see a red-painted guard tower popping out of a bird house at the door, and the red detector kept an eye on him. He stood there and waited for a while, but a Chinese guy with a mustache came out of a nearby Chinese restaurant that was almost closed, and staggered towards Pan Yilong, the first thing he did was to go up and pat him on the shoulder, and then said to Pan Yilong in a low voice:

"Do you want to stay in the hotel? 9.9 a night, there are also special services. ”

"it!" Pan Yilong turned his head and couldn't help but open his mouth wide, the latter frowned, "Don't live in the store?" Did you eat that? Don't run around as a student, it's not safe around here! ”

"I... Alas, forget it. Pan Yilong took out the Sassanid gold coin from his pocket, and the old brother took it in his hand and looked at it carefully for a moment, and asked, "Are you here to listen or to participate?"

"Nonsense, come get involved! What the hell is an auditor? Is this team still engaged in pyramid schemes? ”

"You haven't eaten yet, have you? How about a piece with me? It's just across the street, so if you want to get in, you'll have to wait a while. ”

...

"Mutton steamed buns!" Big Brother Hu came to Pan Yilong with a bowl of hot mutton steamed buns, and the latter couldn't help frowning when he looked at the sea bowl bigger than a basin, and looked up at this old brother with a confused face...

"Let's eat, I heard that we are going to do it tonight, this meal may be the last bite of food, let... I haven't been back since I came out of Huaguo, thinking that I can eat a bite of mutton steamed buns and oily noodles in my lifetime, but now I can only do it through my own memory... Woo~"

"Big brother... Where did you come from, you all eat like this... Is it such a big pot? ”

"What's wrong??" He wiped his mouth dissatisfiedly, "Let's go through the loess high slopes of northern Shaanxi... Is this still called a basin? I'm afraid you've seen the basin of the foreheads! ”

"Gotta ~ change a small bowl for me..."Pan Yilong muttered, he moved his chopsticks, and before he ate two bites, he heard the phone ring, the eldest brother on the opposite side took out the phone, and the corner of his eye swept to the old villa No. 225 across the street, a familiar figure was standing there waving at himself, the eldest brother in northern Shaanxi put down the phone, got up and walked to him and patted his arm, "Let's go, it is estimated that the meeting is over, tell us to go over and get something!" ”

The two walked out the door and walked towards the fellow, and the bald Huson opened the iron door and led the two inside, and just as they were about to close the door, a distant running sound caught their attention

"Wait! And me! The young Detective Chris Penn ran over out of breath, Husson glared at him dissatisfiedly and let him in, Chris was cheeky as if he didn't see his face, went up to say hello to Pan Yilong, and before he could say a few words, Husson urged him into the house.

As soon as they entered the door, everyone was stunned by the scale of nearly 100 people gathered here, "There are a lot of people!" Pan Yilong exclaimed, but he didn't know any of the people here, Chris also froze, and secretly lowered his voice and said to Pan Yilong: "The suspicions are good, this night attack is really not on the verge of disbanding, their leader is still capable of convening such a gathering, they are deceiving us, look at these people, wait, when they finish this vote for ZF, none of them will be able to escape, they will all be caught and judged!" ”

"Does that include you and me?" Pan Yilong asked him like this, Chris just smiled covertly and did not answer his words, and then squeezed to the middle position with the crowd, a large table made of five or six tables was full of all kinds of equipment and weapons, Huson said in stiff English to the people present: "Operate at four o'clock tonight, and rest here after receiving the equipment!" Leave all your mobile phones, communication terminals, pagers and other communication equipment on you, no one is allowed to leave here, leave me in the lobby! After that, the operation will be divided into four groups, one team to attract the attention of the 18th Corps near the castle, one team is responsible for setting up ambushes in major blocks to intercept the rapid reaction forces of the Combine Army, so as to continue to block, one team is responsible for evacuating personnel and aftermath after the mission, and the last team remains, needless to say, this is the most critical group! ”

Everyone immediately fell into a commotion, everyone had their own small groups, no one wanted to separate and go to other strangers to report, they all thought about whether their own benefits could be realized instead of stupidly following the force, and the guys with their own ghost thoughts were a lot quieter after Huson took out his gun and lit it up a few times, which finally deterred these restless guys.

"Now let's start grouping, first pick the peripheral action group, and finally organize the treasure hunt group!" After Huson finished speaking, a few old qualifications came behind him, all of them were energetic and carrying submachine guns, and a few of them went down to lead the team and began to distribute manpower, and the big brother in northern Shaanxi who was standing next to him took the opportunity to pat the back of Pan Yilong's hand and motioned for him to follow him, Pan Yilong followed the big brother to the corner with few people on the other side, Chris Payne originally followed them, but on the way, a middle-aged white-faced man who was sitting at the table drinking coffee and fishing suddenly stood up from the chair and directly blocked his way, With a sharp look, he forced the weak, unlucky and helpless Agent Chris to go to the outside team, and the latter glanced at Pan Yilong a few times with a resentful look, and then turned around and walked towards the outer team unwillingly.

"Lin!" The white-faced man walked near the two, and glanced at the big brother in northern Shaanxi who was standing next to him and was about to smoke, the two understood, Pan Yilong looked at them and turned around and left the hall together, it seemed that he went to the side hall next to him to discuss things, Pan Yilong stood here helplessly, waiting and waiting, the Middle Eastern holy warrior Hussoon, who was not very good-tempered, finished his work, and walked towards him with a USP pistol, and handed the gun directly to Pan Yilong without looking, and said:

"Hold, this operation requires everyone to have a certain means of resistance! I don't see that you took the M4 ghost on the table, and I personally suggest that you take a self-defense, after all, no one knows if the next road will be smooth sailing. ”

"I hate guns..."Pan Yilong said truthfully, "not afraid of it, but... I was disgusted with the thrill of taking the life and death of others into my own hands, and I was afraid that this feeling would make me addicted, and I gradually liked the thrill of killing..."

"The Combine in the castle is the scum of humanity that has been completely corrupted!" Huson said to him in a stiff tone: "There is no need to show mercy to them, even if you shoot them!" ”

Pan Yilong hesitated for a few seconds, and finally took the USP, and then Huson handed over a small suitcase, he didn't know what it was, he whispered to himself: "This is a high-frequency anti-jamming decoder, I bought it for 150,000 US dollars, didn't you say before that you need a better hacking device?" It's the same as last time, you can use this thing, right? ”

"I'm in charge of picking the lock, right?" Pan Yilong muttered, and suddenly raised his head to look at Huson with a calm face, "It seems that the team to enter the castle has been decided." ”

"You guessed it?" Huson barely squeezed out a smile, this smile was really frightening on this face, Pan Yilong also smiled and stopped squeaking, Huson simply brought all the equipment needed to enter the castle to Pan Yilong, and then explained their purpose to the latter one by one;

"This is a hydraulically assisted climbing arm, built-in recyclable rope gun, 60 meters range, the device is fixed in this mechanical arm, using a 5 mm thick strong bionic material cable, which can withstand about 3 tons of impact and continuously, there is a bump-type mechanism hook at the top, which is launched and recovered by hydraulic assistance, the mechanism is not very stable at present, but it can still be used together, but it is very uncomfortable to wear such a 7-kilogram mechanical arm on the body."

Huson handed the bulky metal skeleton to Pan Yilong, he took it and looked it up and down in his hand, it looked like it was just a simple exoskeleton arm, a very simple climbing device was fixed on the shoulder, and there were some hydraulic boosters at the joints of the skeleton, so it could be used to lift some heavy objects that ordinary people could not lift, and the bionic spider silk rope transformed by biotechnology was an indispensable treasure...

"Soviet-made level 3 body armor with some anti-pulse rifle capabilities, but don't expect it to be able to block the dark energy balls fired by the AR2 rifle, you will be molecular on the spot."

"So heavy? Are we going to war or robbing the Combine in clothes? Pan Yilong couldn't help but complain, "I was discovered by the combined forces inside, there is only one way to die, the pulse rifle is no longer a threat, when we meet the triangle mecha, the 20mm pulse cannon of that thing is enough for us to drink a pot." ”

"Do you think these things are not good? Do you want to fight the Combine shirtless? ”

Pan Yilong and Huxun continued to be busy trying out the equipment here, and the big brother in northern Shaanxi rushed back with the white-faced man at this time, and the white-faced man was holding an architectural drawing full of drawings in his hand, and the four of them got together, and the white-faced man said to the three of them:

"Campbell. Eston is a world-renowned architectural engineer who presided over the restoration of the Bamiyan Buddha, which was blown up by the Taliban, and the all-steel central tower was built here in a small replica of the Combine Super Castle, so New York is also known as Colony 19. Saying this, the white-faced man unfolded the drawing, which was densely painted with a sectional view of a huge tower, on which the various defensive points and some blind spots of the entire central castle were drawn in detail, and the four of them came to the front and carefully looked at the red marks drawn in the later period on this map, Pan Yilong pointed to them, and the big brother in northern Shaanxi on the side said to him:

"This drawing was originally going to be destroyed by the Combine Army, but the resistance organization within the Combine Army was responsible for stealing the relevant core map, this one is one of them, their Resistance Army has already planned a route for us, so we only need to follow the route when the time comes, and the destination we are going to is on the other side of the core area, where there is a fully enclosed hemispherical dark room, heavily guarded."

"Hemispherical chamber?" Pan Yilong glanced at the drawings, and followed the red line of the mapper, and sure enough, he saw a deliberately marked semicircular space at two-fifths of the height of the inside of the castle, with a dense network of pipes similar to ventilation pipes in the upper part, and several red lines outlined on it that led to the outside of the castle. And then follow these prefabricated lines to escape from the castle's exhaust hole somewhere? Only... That's it?

"The Resistance says there is not a Combine garrison here, the dark room is empty, and there is not a single defender!" The white-faced man said to them;

", huh? How could there be no defense? Pan Yilong finally couldn't help but start questioning these suspicious points: "Is there really an artifact of the Combine Army there?" The castle's defense is absolutely impossible to be rigid on the outside and soft on the inside, and it must be like an iron barrel underneath that is impermeable! If it's that easy to get in, then why don't they take it themselves and let us go in and get this stubble? What are they trying to do to make such trouble? ”

"You may not know how embarrassing the current situation of the Resistance is..."The white-faced man was not angry with him, and explained to him calmly: "They are now all monitored by the Combine Army, I contacted one of the guys before this operation, and I heard him say that the reason why the Combine Army does not move them seems to be because the Empire has some plan, thinking of using their hands to carry out a wave of annihilation against the Resistance, and they still don't know how many spies have been discovered by the Combine Army, If they do anything unusual now, can you guarantee that the Combine won't do it right now and uproot all the Resistance strongholds on Earth in one fell swoop? ”

"But..."Pan Yilong opened his mouth, and the resistance to this plan in his heart grew to the highest point again, he always felt that this was a big hole, the United Army dug it and was waiting for them to jump in, but he couldn't say what was wrong, everything was so natural, the empire must have some trap waiting for them, but they couldn't find the weakness of this trap at all now, so they comforted themselves over and over again that this time it must be okay, This kind of Ah Q spirit Pan Yilong really didn't dare to compliment half a point, and he also retreated in his heart at the moment...

"We are now making sacrifices for the cause of the liberation of humanity! Success is not allowed to fail! The white-faced man let out a long sigh, Pan Yilong stood aside and looked at him, secretly suppressing the strong uneasiness that emerged in his heart, he put things back in front of his eyes, this may be the only chance for mankind to hit the United Army hard, if you can't get it or the last chance, he didn't think about these conspiracies and tricks at all when he came, he only thought about how to take revenge on the United Empire, but now that he is here, he wants to regret it? Pan Yilong couldn't wait to slap his two mouths, his indecision back then caused him a huge psychological pain, so that he still doesn't dare to recall those days, and when he came back, he found that he had nothing, and he couldn't even go home, what was the point of living like this? It's better to fight now, whether you die or live is left to fate, anyway, you have nothing to lose now.

Everyone glanced at the wall clock hanging on the wall, and adjusted the time one after another, and the white-faced man walked to the quaint window, looked at the darkness outside, and said with words in his mouth:

"We are fighting for humanity and for the future, and we need no repentance, the Lord has forgiven our sins and blessed us all the way... Don't be afraid, the wind and waves will stop our pace, but they can't stop our iron will, after the storm, there is light! May we always stay in the light and bathe in the holy light with the world! ”