As soon as the words fell, an extremely dull footstep came from the stairs, and an old man in a black suit, carrying a document bag in his right hand, walked down with vigorous steps and saluted the group of them, and then walked to the table where they were playing cards just now and took a look, and said, "It looks like I've been late for a long time, and you're all in a hurry, right?"

"No, no, please sit down..."Everyone greeted each other, seeing him shaking his head, he walked to the hanger, put his hat on it, suddenly saw that it was covered with dust, grinned a few times, and took back his hand and patted it and refused to put it down, at this time there was movement down the stairs again, and it was actually the head of the Abnormal Investigation Department, Brand, as soon as they met, he grinned at these people, and then said to them: "It's all here, right, even Husson is here, Didn't I remember that you were cut off half of your head by a bullet? What's wrong with the face? And shaved your head, is your head okay? ”

"To Allah, the skin is but a vessel for the soul to bear the suffering of the world, to temper the soul, and if necessary, to abandon it." He said humbly, and did not forget to fold his hands on his chest to make a gesture, the boss nodded with satisfaction, his eyes swept around these people's bodies, and said:

"You all have your own strengths, don't you?" The old man said to them bluntly: "Night attack, the third place in the world's criminal syndicate network, what I have done in the past night raids, I am very surprised, that's why I have the opportunity to gather here today, no matter what you used to do, squatting in a prison cell, driving a truck, being a slave to people or hiding underground and fighting black boxing with people, now it doesn't matter, my name is Bill Crown, the director of the 18th CIA Institute of Country M, from now on you are all ZF employees, and you can each get 100,000 US dollars after this operation, I vouch for you to work, from now on there will be no more night raids, you can return to normal life, or you can continue to work for me and obey our orders. ”

Pan Yilong glanced back at Chris Payne, who didn't seem to care about the way he looked at him and his old boss, and was slightly raising his gaze to squint at him and the people present, which couldn't help but arouse Pan Yilong's alarm.

"That's... What do you do? Why have I never heard that the CIA has such a special unit in action? Someone couldn't help but ask questions, Crawn laughed, and said: "Full-time survey of alien civilizations, imitation of their technology and social systems, in order to strengthen the degree of scientific and technological development of human beings is no longer controlled by others, under the jurisdiction of a special ability investigation department AIS and weapons research and development department ARD, everything is carried out in secret, not to mention that ordinary people do not know, even the high-level of the empire is estimated to not know our existence." ”

"It sounds so lofty, but since the Empire doesn't know about your existence, you tell us now, and you don't worry about us... Leak? ”

"Hahaha..."Cloun laughed, "The Empire doesn't know about our existence, in fact, we are not worried about the so-called leaks, because the Empire and the rightists can't catch us at all, even if they do, they are helpless against us, and we are not a resistance organization, just stealing their backward technology, is it possible that the Empire is still worried that we will steal their zenith technology?" Hahaha, if you can learn to walk, what is Zenith Technology? So, if we are afraid, how dare we ask you to do things? Afraid of this and afraid of that, how can it be done? ”

"Self-confidence is a good start," said Husson suddenly, "which often means that the person who says this is either ready to be punished for failure, or is just a clown who will sensationalize."

"And what kind of person do you think I belong to?" Clouen and the Middle Eastern man named Huson looked at each other, Huson's sturdy physique obviously overwhelmed the momentum of the old Crown, Brand stepped forward to block Hason when he saw this, and Pan Yilong said on the side: "I think it's better to talk about the task first, rather than wasting time on this nonsense, don't worry about staying here for a long time and being found by the Combine Army?"

Pan Yilong is not the type who likes to watch the fire from the other side, he likes to get straight to the point, so he doesn't like to listen to this group of guys rambling and talking about a bunch of tasteless nonsense, Crawn glanced at him with great appreciation, and said immediately: "Okay, I summoned you here today for an ancient artifact that is currently controlled by the Coalition Army, I guess some of you have heard of this thing, it is a product of ancient civilization, but it does not belong to this world, who made it, no one knows, Theoretically... Due to the complexity of its origin, I won't go into detail about its identity at this gathering, but the Combine attaches great importance to this thing, as if the super shield on which the castle depends is to rely on it to continue to operate, and they wish to send some elite heavy troops from the elite troops on the front line to stay on Earth to protect it..."

"Blah blah blah bla Are you saying that now there is a Combine baby bump on Earth? Stored on Earth?? ”

Clone was a little dissatisfied by this person's sudden interruption, but he didn't show it, just nodded and replied: "There are still many civilization forces in the universe that are fighting against the Empire, so to speak, now all the super-heavyweight civilizations in the entire universe that have the strength to wrestle with the Empire are now retreating to a certain high-latitude or low-latitude world to engage in an endless and transcendent peak duel with the Empire, we call it the Battle of the Extradimensional Realm, of course, we can't observe these world-destroying scenes, Of course, if it is really observed, then the earth will not be destroyed for a few seconds; However, the combined army with the blessing of the artifact does not even pay attention to the civilizations in the previous heyday, so it is conceivable that these surviving civilizations will definitely not last long, they need support, even if it is just a modest contribution from the lowest life in the universe, the combined army can't think of a civilization that is the most humble in their eyes at this time, it can surprise them! ”

"Uh... You mean, we're going next... Drill into the heavily guarded central castle of the Combine, and then go inside... Get this thing away? ”

"You can understand that!" Crawn nodded in agreement, Pan Yilong looked at this guy dumbfounded, this sounds like an impossible dream, and it is like picking up something in their mouths so lightly? Combine Castle! Back then, even the five permanent nuclear bombs couldn't be smashed and couldn't be blown up, and the place where the combined forces were heavily guarded, this guy casually said to go in and get something out? It's the same as entering your own home, do you really just open your mouth and come? There was the guy named Brand standing next to him, looking at himself with a smile at this moment, the more he looked at it, the more angry he became, and Pan Yilong simply didn't look at him.

"Tell me about the location!" Clounn took a map from Brand's hand, and it was neatly spelled with foreign yards: Map of New York City, drawn on March 7, 2029, this fortress is located in the central area of the city on the map, and the Paceic River next to it is clearly visible, and it belongs to the highest-level security communication tower of the Combine Army, yes, it is no different from the Combine colonial castle in City 17 that once stood high in a country in Eastern Europe, except that the one on the map is four or five times smaller than that castle, and the appearance is the same, And with all the functions, the Combine has stored a super artifact that is enough to change the face of the entire starry sky in such a place? There is only a human puppet army around to defend it? Just by looking at the map, you can feel that it is full of traps for the Combine to ambush.

"This is the purpose of your trip! The time of the operation will not be announced for the time being, and we will talk about it after all the operation personnel have arrived. He knocked on the table, and Brand stepped forward and put the map away again, and before everyone could see it all, Brand explained that when they got to New York, there would be a new connector to give them a new one, which was already old, and many new landmarks had been added to the map, and if there was an accident with the old map, I am afraid that there would be no chance to snatch it from the Combine.

"The Combine Army is lacking in skills at this time, the Empire has staked all its forces into those spaces to gamble on a final battle, this thing is nothing special, it is nothing more than that it can make their army ignore any spatial dimensions and distances, forcibly transfer from one area to another, without the help of wormholes or other technologies to fly over space, stable and reliable, well, I think several of you who are born in the 90s should have seen the great uprising in 2019 when they were young, right? And their energy shield that they now have no spear to attack is also connected through the generator made by this thing, they have been fighting with the artifact for many years, and they just arrived in New York 5 months ago to provide support for their front-line troops, and it is also because the human race is too weak, so they dare to place it here for half a year without defense, you must know that the Combine Army does not dare to be careless in other worlds, for fear that someone will take this thing..."

"TMD, these guys are looking down on us!" The bald Huson couldn't help but shout: "! Not for the sake of money, for the sake of the universe, we also did it! Grab it! ”

"That's right, it's over! What a lot of! Do him! ”

Clounn watched the atmosphere of this group of people gradually ignited, and what he said seemed to be as simple as digging for things, but he saw that the young man next to him was looking at a bunch of messy cards on the table without saying a word, always frowning, and incompatible with the people around him, Clouen felt very strange and planned to ask about the origin of this guy, but when he just spoke out to ask Pan Yilong, a crisp gunshot suddenly sounded outside the door, and they instantly quieted down, and then, the secret door opened, Listening to a metal bullet casing tumbling down from the wooden floor on the roof, everyone stared at a black shadow emerging from the secret door, and then this sturdy figure fell from above, slammed on the ground and died there without a snort, and a touch of red liquid slowly bloomed from the man's chest...

"Huh? Isn't this the janitor Zhou Fat Man? Everyone was shocked to see that the hole on his body as thick as a finger was constantly gushing out, which was a wound caused by the 9mm pistol bullets commonly used by the Civil Guard, and then several black ovoid projectiles rolled down from the exit, and everyone was shocked, and immediately they were in chaos...

“CTM！ It's the police! The police have come to the door! ”

"Bang bang bang!" The stun bomb made four deafening loud sounds, the dazzling white light exploded instantly under the feet, and everyone scattered in confusion to find cover, the bald head found a short-barreled M870 shotgun out of nowhere, closed his eyes and clicked on the load, raised his hand at the door that had just dropped the stun bomb and shot out, Pan Yilong was pulled by Chris and hid behind the wine barrel, listening to the gunshots in his ears, the bullets whistled through the wall, and the screams made them terrified, and they didn't know who pulled off the power supply, The whole room was plunged into darkness, and only Brand could be heard shouting to them in the dark: "Let's all go to Vietnam to meet!" Go to Vietnam! Someone will contact you when you get there! ”

"Vietnam?" Pan Yilong was confused, "Isn't it New York?" ”

"It's New York..."Chris groped around in a panic, Pan Yilong suddenly thought that there were so many policemen at the scene, and directly said that the destination was not to make trouble for himself, and he knew where his ultimate goal was before, so as long as he was not a fool and knew that this was to make some trouble for the Combine Army, he would have nothing to ask.

"You can walk here! This way! One person knocked down a wine barrel in the dark, and then got into a narrow dark passage, the two hesitated, and then Chris disappeared from his side, and got into the dark passage, the gunfire outside was now gradually covered by dense footsteps, a large number of combined forces rushed down, countless pairs of blue eyes made people's hearts tight, Pan Yilong didn't care about anything, he burrowed into the darkness, stretched out his hand and kept patting at the junction of the wet ground and the wall, and then fell into this dark passage, Get up and hurriedly crawl forward with your hands and feet...

The small space, the extremely oppressive atmosphere, and the shouting and scolding of the Combine Army from time to time behind him, all of this almost drove him crazy, he yelled, punched and kicked at the narrow cement passage, and then, an iron screen under his body could not bear his weight, and Pan Yilong fell down with a bang, and when he came back to his senses, he found that the person had left the winery, and he was sitting under the overpass, next to the backyard of a rotten building, and the nearby was full of garbage and sewage... The typhoon swept everything in front of him in a torrential rain, and once again, he escaped from the hands of the Combine, I wonder if he would be so lucky to run away if there was a next time?

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