Pan Yilong lay at the bottom of the bridge, the sound of the speeding traffic above muffled the roar, he couldn't help roaring loudly anymore, the bruises on his face burst out, and a wave of anger burned into his heart, burning the boiling blood all over his body. Suddenly, he felt a sour throat, coughed up a mouthful of blood from his mouth, he suddenly felt that he was difficult to breathe, his throat was also terrible pain, his voice was hoarse for most of the time, he was scared, curled up in a corner and trembled as he watched the afterglow sink into the horizon, the anger and fear in his heart deepened a little, and he squeezed a handful of coins in his hand and cut his palm. The Combine flew all over the city, hovering and circling like flies, lying on the damp reef, the sea gradually submerging the bottom of the bridge, and it was not long before it was also submerged.

"You're my little apple... Feed? Pan Yilong took out the phone, and the voice of the other party made him stunned, it turned out to be Brand calling, he answered a few words with a few words, Brand frowned at the other end and asked, "Are you sick?" Why is your voice so dumb? ”

"I'm fine..."Pan Yilong eased his breath, and Brand didn't continue to ask, and said, "Do you have a way to leave Huangzhou?" ”

"I know some... Friend, you can smuggle it out, maybe two months..."

"Stowaway?" Brand smiled, "It took you two months to swim from one side of the ocean to this side?" After such a long time, I guess you will have to be caught by the Combined Navy before you enter the Sea of Japan! ”

"What can you do?" Pan Yilong asked: "For the sake of your salvation plan, I am forced to leave here now, the pie is really big, if I can't defeat the United Army by then, then I don't want to come back to see my family again in my life, you know?" I'm very... It's uncomfortable! ”

"Don't mess around! Don't panic boy. Brand comforted: "You don't need to do anything now, are you safe now?" Come, go to the pier, there's an A25 seaplane, I'll send you away! ”

"You're not leaving?" Pan Yilong got up and walked towards the shore, and at the same time did not forget to say to him: "If it's okay, let's go together... By the way, if you can, can you help me take care of my family? I don't have any friends or relatives to help me anymore, I can't leave my family in the care of the Empire, right? ”

"Come over first, be careful." Brand Road, Pan Yilong climbed over the breakwater, walked along the coast towards the port, and he walked along the seawall to the northeast for more than an hour before he successfully came to the harbor.

Because this year is a year of many disasters and difficulties, the empire began to issue a ban on fishing in the Mid-Autumn Festival this year, and the date of lifting the lockdown has not yet been set, and it will be lifted depending on the situation, so the current port is more like a scrap shipyard, and countless ships and fishing boats are chained together by the imperial navy, and there is no end in sight;

Pan Yilong looked at the lifeless fishing port, except for those who live on fishing still live on these boats, those dim lights made him seem to see the childhood memories of his father's generation, Pan Yilong scratched his head, and then the phone rang, he took out his mobile phone and picked it up, the other end Brand said to him go straight and then turn right, he was a little curious, looking around to see if there were any suspicious ships nearby to monitor him, but Brand laughed at the other end and said: "Look up, 300 meters above your head!" ”

"Huh? No way! Pan Yilong saw a small drone, and two small green light bulbs were looking down at him in the dark night sky, "You TM spy on me?" ”

"I'm sorry, there have been a lot of things going on in the last few hours, two stupid people have been reported by the police and arrested, most of them can't be released, I'm worried that you will come and take a look."

"Then you're still spying on me? It's nice to say. What about the others? Pan Yilong continued to follow in the direction of the drone's flight, and sure enough, he saw an ultra-small seaplane more than three meters high and seven meters long in the gap between two 051C destroyers that had been decommissioned for decades. When he hesitated, the plane door suddenly opened, Brand came out and looked at himself, stretched out his hand to straighten the collar of his suit, and then said to Pan Yilong: "Don't come up yet?" The United Army and the police will come over in a while, and I am just about to leave here, there is no way, there is a key monitoring network of the United Army in China, and if strangers stay in one area for a long time, they will be like maggots on the tarsal bones, and they will all come to the door. ”

"This plane... How far can you fly? Pan Yilong stepped on a wooden sampan next to him, jumped over the plane's pontoon, and almost shook into the water, but Brand grabbed his arm quickly and pulled him up.

"What? Don't believe it? This is a special plane that I asked for from the base, with an altitude of 5,300 meters, a maximum range of 1,000 kilometers, and a maximum range of 600 kilometers per hour, which is enough to fly to Japan. ”

"Why did you want to go to Japan?" Pan Yilong followed him into the plane, watched him turn on the engine, the propellers on both sides of the wing began to rotate, rolling up a lot of waves and flying into the cabin, he hurriedly closed the cabin door, Brand did not rush to answer his question, pulled the flying stick, the bird glided out in the silent bay, and left a series of splashes in the air, Brand pulled the bird into the sky, and only told Pan Yilong the truth;

"In order to avoid those suspicious people, it is unreliable to attack that group of people at night, I tell you that it is best to stay away from them, except for the mission, try not to communicate with them, otherwise you don't know how you died, flying to Japan is also for the sake of insurance, if there is a special plane to send you, don't ask."

"There's a Combine spies among them, right?" Pan Yilong looked at Brand calmly, the latter showed a surprised expression (some exaggerated suspicions were pretended), turned his head and glanced at him, "It's not impossible for you to doubt them like this, anyway, I don't believe them, there are too many things going on today, first our contact point in China was attacked, I and a few colleagues who came on a temporary business trip had to evacuate first, and then two logistics personnel who attacked at night were arrested, and even a large group of underground activity organizations were raided by the Combine Army. Intercepted intelligence shows that your royal family in China sent an agent named Gray Rao to sabotage our meeting, I wondered at the beginning if this meeting was too smooth, and then sure enough, of course, it may just be that we are not familiar with the environment and have been tricked... Oh, remember the guy who opened the door at the brewery? That kid is a mole! The guy who was killed and rolled down the stairs was the gatekeeper there, and it was all found out. ”

"Other organizations? Have you found any other forces? ”

"Otherwise, do you think they are reliable by night raids alone? Although the guys who attack at night are unreliable, they are always professional. Brand explained, and Pan Yilong sighed, "Then I don't have anything to say!" Do your best, anyway, for me, things are already like this, as long as it is related to the Combine Army, I will do everything I can to destroy them, and fight them to the death! ”

"Why?" Brand was a little strange, the young man in front of him, who was less than 23 years old, looked a little childish, but he said such a creepy remark, he didn't know what kind of hatred Pan Yilong had between him and the United Empire, and the inexplicable little outburst of emotions made Brand very uncomfortable with this, Pan Yilong immediately shook his head and said to him: "It's nothing, it's just that I can't get used to them for too long, why do we have to respect them as the master and rely on them in everything?" Can't the earthlings be their own masters? I just see that they are unhappy, I don't accept it, I just have a small heart and a small belly, I just hold a grudge, expecting me to bow my head to the empire, hehe! the TM calves. ”

Brand smiled bitterly and nodded, "Okay, I hope you can stick to your original intention, I think you are a very interesting person, at first looking for the underworld... When she was looking for that immortal, she still didn't believe it, hehe, our leader strongly recommended you to take the position, saying that you are young and promising, and human beings determine the fate of the universe in the future, this kind of thing feels incredible when you think about it, and in the end, it is too crazy to be on your group of young people. ”

"Hey, brother, how old are you?" Pan Yilong was dissatisfied, "There are 30? ”

"Don't ask about someone's age! Impolite! ”

"Damn! Then what are you putting on the old man's shelf to educate me? Pan Yilong shook his hand, twisted his head and lay on the seat, and said to Brand without raising his head: "I'll squint for a while, and wake me up when I get to the ground." ”

"Hey!" Brand took a plastic box out of his pocket and handed it over, "What's this?" Pan Yilong opened his eyes and took it, broke the lid and took a look, but Brand said, "Are you tired of dragging your throat so much?" I'm tired of you! Be careful to become dumb if you drag it out for a long time. ”

"Yo ho ho ho, mint slices, so kind? Didn't get drugged, did you? He smiled, poured two and threw them into his mouth, Brand put on the pilot's helmet and quietly looked at the night sky in front of him, and finally only the dripping sound of the instrument and the roar of the propeller reminded him of the current situation of the plane, Pan Yilong dozed off and fell on the chair, and soon there was a snoring sound, and Brand sighed slowly.

"I hate them too, the Empire has taken everything from me, and if I can't change the status quo this time, I will be disappointed, and I will be disappointed in all of humanity."

...

Two days later. Gowanas Canal, New York, Country M (Brooklyn)

After the nuclear war, the total area of the city shrank to less than half of that year, half of which was caused by the tsunami and plate collapse caused by the nuclear bomb before sinking to the bottom of the sea, 1.2 million people were directly suffocated in this dead sea of corpses, until today, the sea level dropped slightly, only to expose Newark, Manhattan and Brooklyn, and then survived to return New York was able to rebuild the coastal city, and in these high-rise buildings that were soaked in the sea water to build a strange floating city, that is, the current water city, From afar, it looks like a huge coral reef that glows with a mesmerizing multicolor, across the sea from Woodbridge, the largest land on the West Coast, and the two sides of New York are connected by an 11-kilometer steel suspension bridge and fragmented urban areas, and in fact the people of the Bay Area have to rely on a large number of ships or airships to get around.

The Manhattan subsidence area is since the Harlem River and the banks of the disconnected, away from the land city of Midtown Manhattan, it is still uninhabited, the reason is that there are some anomalies there to prevent people from developing, some people have seen dead relatives there, some people can still hear the cry from there from afar, and even suicide in the depths of the subsidence area, the soul is not gone, the resentment is overwhelming, and there is a mysterious fog here all day long, over time, Manhattan Island is also called a ghost town, Two years ago, the New York City Hall decided to completely seal off the ghost town, closing all the bridges and tunnels connecting the city, leaving it completely abandoned at sea, and from here to the west, there is the 11-kilometer-long bridge across New York...

Not far from the ghost town, in the location that once belonged to the Brooklyn Heights, 40 years ago there was a 1.2 million tons of TNT equivalent Minuteman missile exploded here, blowing up a huge crater on the spot, now it is filled with seawater, but on the seabed is stranded a pre-war Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier, it was not sunk by a nuclear bomb, but it was involved in the battle 20 years ago, after being interfered with by electromagnetic pulse weapons, the crew abandoned the ship and fled, and has been abandoned here ever since. It is only 10 kilometers away from the water city, and people approached the city and rebuilt the huge ship, built the current water city airport on it, and artificially widened and lengthened the runway to make it possible to land large planes, making it a real airport. A mid-size airliner from Asia with 115 passengers slowly descended from the sky, and the airport was empty, except for the occasional small plane or two taking off from the adjacent side runway, and it was as lifeless as a ghost town.

After getting off the plane, Pan Yilong followed the crowd to the ship, and found that this airport was not as he thought, there were not many people on the deck of the aircraft carrier, and there were still many people moving inside the cabin.

"Is there a taxi to the water city area?" Pan Yilong, who was in the commercial area at the bottom of the boat, patted the window of a taxi parked on the side of the road, and a greasy uncle from country M rolled down the window and poked his head out of the car and said to him with a smile: "Yes, they are all going to New York, except for the opposite side, as long as we give enough money, we will leave, where are you going?" ”

"Go..."Pan Yilong scratched his head, the driver smiled and took out a tourist map from the car and handed it to him, "You just came to New York?" This is a tourist mecca, I recommend it to you, for example, there is a newly built financial street in the northeast of the city, half of the bigwigs on Wall Street now live there and work, there is also a polytechnic university, a central park, a bust of the Statue of Liberty from France... But now she's still soaking in the water and taking a sea bath. ”

Pan Yilong ignored him, looked down at the map in his hand, and found that it was very similar to the map of the water city that he saw during the secret gathering that day, but this map was larger and more detailed, and there were many places where the routes were clearly marked, and there were special notes, he looked curiously at the very center of the map, located on the west bank of the Paseik River in Newark District, about a kilometer or so near the 280 Essex Highway, there was a mysterious shadow that covered an area comparable to a football field, and it seemed to have been deliberately blurred from the map, It should have been covered by the Imperial Printing Agency, and it happened that the old map was marked with the central castle of the Combine Army, which is also the main energy supply center of the city, his face suddenly became gloomy, he folded the map into his backpack, and then said to the driver: "Can I go to the energy tower?" ”