At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, a phone call came, Pan Yilong was sitting at the head of the bed, holding the gold coin in his hand, and after hearing the movement, he slowly got up and came to the phone, looked at the unfamiliar number on it, and then picked up the microphone...

"New Fifth Street, the back door of Yukang Distillery, don't delay!"

The phone hung up, Pan Yilong also put down the microphone, staring at the gold coin with an expressionless face, the huge wealth and political pardon had aroused the deep thoughts in his heart, he didn't want to continue to hide like this, the United Army can always find himself, he doesn't want to live this life of hunger and hunger for the rest of his life, maybe this will be a turning point? He couldn't calm down anymore, Pan Yilong took out the only 500 yuan of change left from his body, gritted his teeth, rushed out of the house and got into a taxi, and went straight to the newly built commercial street in the city, without stopping for a moment, he also thought for a long time along the way, hesitating whether the advantages outweighed the disadvantages or the disadvantages outweighed the advantages, and what consequences would he bring after he did this? As a result, when he arrived at the back door of Yukang Distillery, he shook his head, "It's all here, and if you don't die, do you still care about this?" ”

Yukang Distillery is a hundred-year-old wine cellar, which was acquired by a large winery three years ago, and it has become a warehouse for storing raw materials, Pan Yilong stood outside the door, reached out and knocked on the door, but no one answered, and then knocked for a long time before someone came out of the house, with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks, and his dry yellow hair was deliberately pulled into a point, he looked at himself sideways at the door, Pan Yilong took out the gold coin and lit it up, and the latter relaxed his vigilance and let him in

"Come with me, they're all resting underneath." This person led Pan Yilong along the damp corridor towards the depths of the house, and when he passed near an oak barrel full of beer, he stopped, got into the gap at the bottom of the barrel half a person high, and pulled some kind of mechanism, and then the wall next to him suddenly cracked inward, and a hidden secret door appeared, he pointed down, needless to say, this must be the basement he said before, Pan Yilong looked back at this guy, he didn't say a word like a stuffy gourd, just looked at himself lightly, Pan Yilong felt that he must be a 2B, so he simply ignored him and walked straight down.

"Hahaha, I knew that you were here, I agreed to their proposal earlier, and you had to send me a letter to find me, I really didn't expect it!"

In the dim basement, there were more than a dozen guys of unknown origin standing vaguely, Pan Yilong walked down from the staircase, as soon as he met, several men sitting on a square table inside immediately looked back at him, one of the bald men had some slight burns on half of his head, at this moment he was looking at the little man in front of him with a cloudy eye and other companions, and he felt that some familiar faces made the tension of the group gradually relaxed, and one couldn't help but lower his voice and asked, "This kid was actually called too?" ”

"Mostly." The bald man replied to the man while touching the poker: "He is a talent found by the former boss in Los Angeles, who is in the security business, and after following us to do that big ticket, he was fired by the company, and then he was arrested by the Combine Army, it is said that this is the case."

"It's not like that!" Pan Yilong heard them talking about himself, "Why don't you know anything and just talk nonsense here?" Isn't it a good habit to talk about others behind your back? Well, I said, where did you come from? And who gave this summoning order? Is the purpose of the gathering here to listen to a few of the calves who are here to talk about? In that case, I'm going back! ”

"Husson, this kid is going to make you deflated, isn't he? It's said that the people under the former boss are not easy to mess with. A lewd middle-aged man sitting across the table smiled, reached out and touched his mustache, picked up a glass of draft beer and shouted at the guy: "Hey, don't be ashamed, hurry up and play cards, deal cards!" Whose turn was it just now? ”

"I, 3 with 2! Does anyone want it? No? Bomb! Got something you wanted? Not yet? Not even two kings? Damn, a bunch of garbage, it's really boring to play cards with you! ”

"Hello..."A man wearing black-rimmed glasses came out of the corner next to him, his polite appearance looked like those gentlemen in the early eighties of the last century, he stretched out his hand to Pan Yilong, who also reached out with some reluctance to shake his hand awkwardly, "My name is Chris Payne, I am a new joiner, a member of the Abnormal Investigation Section of the 18th Institute of the CIA, in charge... The official contact channel for the operation, I heard some interesting stories from you before I came, and I feel that there are some similarities between the two of us. ”

"Similar?" Pan Yilong scratched his head and laughed, "Hey, you just said that you are from what department of the CIA?" What kind of institution is that, it sounds so lofty? ”

"The Abilities Investigation Section..."Chris Payne lowered his head and said to him in a low voice: "Actually, my identity is not suitable here, you have also found out, these guys are particularly xenophobic, especially people from the ZF department like us, I have repeatedly stated that I am not a member of the right wing of the Empire, I am an agent loyal to the ZF of the former Federation of M countries... It's half now, but they still don't believe me, thinking that I'm a member of the United ZF, a spy planted by the United Army, but I'm not! ”

"Do you usually talk to people like that? First of all, let's introduce yourself? Pan Yilong looked at him and couldn't help laughing: "Then why do you think I will believe you?"

"NONO, YOU'RE DIFFERENT, YOU'RE DIFFERENT FROM THEM, YOU'VE BEEN ISOLATED FOR A WHILE, AND I THINK WE MUST HAVE A LOT TO SAY."

"Do you know that I was isolated by them for a while? Haha is different, let me tell you that we are actually not the same, there is no similarity between us, you see, you are from country M, I am from Chinese, and the nationalities are different, so don't mess up the relationship. Pan Yilong didn't want to continue to talk to him, and turned around to leave, Chris Payne saw this and hurriedly said: "The Abnormal Investigation Department is a branch established in 2036 in the underground 18th Research Institute in New York, New York, Country M, do you know? ”

Pan Yilong glanced back at him impatiently, and then shook his head, "It's an agency of the CIA that specializes in researching and cracking the languages and civilizations of alien civilizations..."Chris continued: "Most of the agencies are scattered around the world to avoid the search of the United Empire, and our current focus research project is to investigate the supernatural substances left in space after the United Fleet's interstellar migration, A few years ago, the radio telescope of mankind found that the Combine Army left some special energy bodies of unknown shape in many star fields after each external expansion, and after calculation, even if these abilities are only the size of a speck of dust, the energy released by them is enough to supply the entire earth for 40 years, but because we have not been able to get the physical object, we can not investigate its source and composition, until a year ago we also found some similar energy bodies at the bottom of the Atlantic, and our Ability Investigation Department really discovered these miracles... ”

"Oh, too, 40 years ago, the first batch of Combined Army Migration Corps seems to have emerged from the bottom of the sea..."Pan Yilong made a joke at the right time: "And then?" That energy was made into the most expensive military battery in history by some arsenals, the positive energy battery? Pan Yilong couldn't help laughing, he seemed to know these secrets very well, and most people rarely knew about them, which surprised Chris Payne, and at the same time he was gagged, unable to refute his words for a while, because what he said was indeed the truth "This thing... After all, we are not qualified to call on the CIA manpower to salvage, and the Combine Empire will take care of human finances and military movements, so it is cheap to give them these guys who have a good relationship with the Empire, alas, what's the matter with you? Looks like wanted again? ”

"Don't mention it..."Pan Yilong rubbed his head, "It's a mess, don't mention it... Hey, it seems that you came early, and I only arrived yesterday, so didn't you send me one? ”

"I heard that there will be a relevant ZF personnel in a while, who is in charge of this operation, and he will explain to us the objectives of this operation... To be honest, this is the first time I've been a thief. This guy lowered his voice and leaned into Pan Yilong's ear and said with a little excitement: "Except for yourself, everyone here is not trustworthy, you have to distinguish the difference between yourself and a thief... I'm an agent, I volunteered to be an undercover agent, I used to think that being an undercover agent was so heroic and sassy in the movie, how admirable and admirable, but now I know that it only took me a month to understand the difficulty of this job, and when this matter has passed, I will no longer be a bullshit undercover agent, what Infernal Affairs, the reality here is far more dangerous than the movie..."

"Tsk... You are not an undercover agent, at most you are a connector who liaises with the relevant departments, but it is rare that you can recognize the reality..."Pan Yilong smiled, "Lao Tzu used to want to join the underground party, but the situation outside has been changing, when I was in prison, I heard that the United Army had slaughtered a liaison station of the liberation organization hidden in the Southern Capital University, and I instantly dispelled these thoughts of mine, I heard that more than 30 people had their hands and feet chopped off and hung on the wall of the old city like a human being, and I was thinking at that time, The Empire is so much more advanced than us humans, even if they are not on Earth now, these traitors are still desperate to serve the United Empire, why? They are so loyal to the foreigners, and we are confined by the empire everywhere, how can we talk about rebellion? A nightmare that will never end in sight, a nightmare for generations or even dozens of generations, I don't know how long these resistance groups can last in the end, I only know that as long as the Combine Army exists for a day and a moment, then these traitors and human traitors will always be loyal to this alien empire, forever! Human resistance will never work..."

"Maybe... It's a pity that the leader of the Resistance Gordon Freeman is no longer there, 20 years ago he disappeared into another dimension with the Combine agents, and the resistance organizations around the human race have gradually disappeared for a long time, it seems that the human race has gone away, the earth, the human race, heh, and then we will gradually die out in this long galactic history? ”

"Then let's live in peace, and we have to live our lives." Pan Yilong said, an electric bell rang, and then, the bearded man who was playing cards and drank beer took out a Nokia button machine from his pocket, connected it and chatted with the other end, and after a while, he hung up the phone and turned back to shout to everyone:

"The boss is here, let's get ready to take the job."