After several months of integration and training, the multinational volunteers recruited from all over the country boarded the steamer bound for the European continent at the military port of Great Antilles, hundreds of warships of all kinds and temporarily recruited civilian ships gathered outside the harbor, one after another sailed in and out, and when it was Pan Yilong's unit to board the ship, the sky was already dawn, and it took more than 100,000 troops a whole day and night to leave the Caribbean Sea in batches and sail all the way in the direction of the North Atlantic, of course, this is only the number of the American expeditionary force, In addition, a coalition of Middle East and Africa, which had been conscripted from near Egypt, was also on its way to France, and in the face of the former European hegemon, the huge expeditionary force assembled by various countries and its own colonies was actually just over 300,000 in number, and these 300,000 troops had to face a powerful opponent on the European continent that was second only to the combined German army; 660,000 French United Nations Defence Forces, and 110,000 Civil Guard...

"Why did the French high command decide to land on the mainland from the heavily fortified west coast?" After boarding the ship, the group sat bored in the cabin, and Bob suddenly raised the question, which caused a lot of discussion among the idle soldiers nearby

"Maybe the French in the command are all brainless pigs, and it is faster and safer to land on the European continent from the Mediterranean, so why bother to attack from the sea?"

"The command must have a reason for this decision, don't guess!" One said.

"Maybe the decision-making level we can think of has also thought about it, but because of some irresistible factor, they finally forced them to abandon this plan." Someone put it this way: "What can force them to make this decision can only mean that there must be something more dangerous in the Mediterranean than the bunkers on the beach, otherwise the Red Sea coalition forces will not take such a close Mediterranean route, and will have to go in a big circle from the coast of Africa?" Sick in the brain? ”

"So what? I can't say that I will have to take people's lives to smash those beach defenses in the future! Bob lay on the table with a toothpick in his mouth, spreading out a map of the whole of Europe, the west coast of Europe was intermittently drawn a long line of red shadows, and the entire west coast was deployed a sea-based defense of 713 kilometers from north to south, and handed over to the Spanish and French armies to defend.

Needless to say, this civil war has nothing to do with them, and the fleet is far away, and a total of 150,000 people are scattered on the French defense line, because the coastline is too long, and the number of combined forces to hold the defense line is actually not up to standard, 150,000 people are just a scary gimmick, and most of the defense lines can be dominated by scattered corps, so when landing, the target of the attack must be aimed at any of these defense lines, and concentrate all efforts to attack, Only in this way can you minimize your own casualties and speed up the progress of the campaign.

"There's no news from the Supreme War Department asking us to make targeted preparations..."Nock said duly, "So no one knows where we're going to fight in the end, and how many of us are people who have participated in the real war?"

Pan Yilong leaned his hand on the table, propped his head and said casually: "I heard that there are two armies of leftists on the coast who have succeeded in flickering... They might come over to help us after we landed, maybe... Well, I just don't think it's reliable anyway. ”

"It's right to be worried." Battalion Commander Nock nodded, "It's me, before your expeditionary force landed on the mainland and didn't take the slightest advantage, you rashly rose up to follow us to resist the United ZF, and you can't get any support in the hinterland of the European continent, it's just a fool's dream, people have selfish intentions, no one wants to let the people under their hands lose their lives in vain, it's too easy to die, but you can save your life?" To put it mildly, if we do not make good progress, they may at any time revert to the right and join the right in encircling and suppressing us. ”

"Alas~ This is the headache..."Pan Yilong patted his head, "If you want to fight the first battle, you have to land on the beach and establish a beachhead, and with this you can be regarded as the first step, however, it is easy to say, in fact, our targeted training during this period of time, just the few fake gun nests built on our beach, how many have been pulled out in half a month?" I didn't have a single one, so I rushed into the war, I didn't learn the fart, and I took my life to fill it? Just kidding, once the casualty rate of the troops exceeds the red line of 10 percent, the immediate landing will turn into a rout, one takes two away, two takes four, and one squad can take away a company, and when the time comes, the rout will be thousands of miles away, and you can't block it if you want to, this is still the top army in the platoon, and if you replace us recruits, it is estimated that 3 percent will not be able to bear it! ”

"What nonsense!" Bob shouted, "Are we so unbearable? Three percent will be defeated, and there must be some credentials for nonsense, right? ”

Pan Yilong glanced at him, got up and stretched his waist and walked towards the door, "Okay, then you continue, Lao Tzu went out to cool off, and there were suffocating people underneath!" ”

Pan Yilong stood on the deck of the transport ship, looking at the dark Atlantic Ocean, according to the current speed of the fleet, it would probably be two weeks before he successfully arrived in France, he looked at the round hole in the palm of his hand, a figure shook behind him, and when he looked back, Bob also followed, holding a high-grade cigarette without a filter and handed him one, he waved his hand no, explaining that he was not addicted to smoking, Bob took a puff, walked to him and leaned on the railing, and leisurely told his past experience.

"My grandparents were in the pork processing business, and they transported pork to China all year round... Don't laugh, seriously, at least our family was doing well until the Empire enacted the new tax, until 5 years ago. ”

"What's going on?" Jason looked at Bob, Bob looked sadly at the moonlit sea, and said: "My mother had a car accident that year and was paralyzed, and my father was arrested and imprisoned by the coast guard for speeding in a speedboat, and was sentenced to 9 years, and then my mother also left, and now my relatives are only my grandmother and grandfather, and Aunt Hysa who lives in San Francisco..."

There is a problem with the capital chain of the United Empire, not only the earth, but also the colonies of other worlds under the rule of the Empire have begun to be forced to raise taxes, and some races have also resisted like humans, but they are more threatening to the United Empire than the humans at that time, because most of those are real first-level civilizations, and they are an integrated collective that is not as divided as human beings, so most of their resistance forces will be completely wiped out, and human beings are due to the factors of technology and their own defects, Instead, he escaped the murderous intent of the United Empire at that time, and after handing over the mess caused by the rebels to the puppet authorities, he continued to maintain the tax collection for half a year, and that year, Bob's family had a miserable life.

"In order to repay the huge debt owed to ZF and the bank, my grandfather's family sold the farm and was forced to follow a group of poachers to the west, and was almost killed by the combined army, but the money in exchange for poaching still can't fill this snowball-like debt, this is ZF's debt, I once thought it was a private usury, these years, United ZF does not think about the people, and treats us people as machines to exploit wildly, every day is that kind of precarious life, until I met a Chinese person, He was the one who saved our family from starving to death on the streets... I've always wanted to repay him, but... During that time, the Chinese rightists and Schwarter. Those contradictions broke out again between the rightists of country M led by Mills, and a large number of Chinese and international students were driven out of here by them for various reasons, so long has passed, Jason, you are the only Chinese I have ever met now. ”

"So... Do you want to take care of us Chinese who are facing difficulties on his behalf? Pan Yilong glanced at him and muttered, "I can understand how you want to repay him, but why didn't you immediately cash in when you met him?" Pan Yilong looked at Bob, but he shook his head, "No, he's dead, only his family is there, maybe... You killed him because you helped me, right? Since then, I've been kind to people around me who have good intentions for you, and luckily, now I've met one, maybe God made me meet him, and he told me in my heart that I should be kind to this person. ”

"Who is it?" Pan Yilong asked curiously, but Bob threw away the cigarette butt and walked towards the cabin with a curse, "It's cold, aren't you cold?" I'm going back to sleep, and it's dawn in three hours, so let's go to sleep quickly! ”

...

"The scenery here in Italy is really nice!" The three people sitting in the car were wearing casual shirts, Coster was wearing a casual hat on his head, wearing sunglasses and looking around at the scenic Italian fields, Ikai was chewing gum and driving the car, Joey was drinking the chilled mango juice bought on the road, Coster couldn't help but poke his head out and yelled at the field, and then returned to the car and couldn't help but sigh: "I didn't expect that old ghost to give us a plane to escape, hahaha, this work is a bit interesting, guess whether we drive fast or the children who run from the sea by boat are faster?"

"Is it okay to travel to Italy this time?" Ikai said: "Don't mention the mission, it's annoying, it's fun to be chased all over the world?"

"Of course, don't you miss when you were in the Sixth Company?" Coster stretched, "But, when it comes to vacations, it's true that we haven't come out to relax in fourteen or fifteen years, have we?" The three of us stay in this place for a few days before leaving? Anyway, there's no hurry, maybe that kid was drowned in the water when he landed on the beach with the troops, just so we went to find his dog tag, and then took a photo and sent it back to get a reward, tsk, it's perfect! ”

"Hehehe~ 300,000 troops, you pick a child from it? Do you have that time? ”

"Ikai!" Coster glared at him, "I don't have anything right now, I just have time!" I'll have to wait! But now, I'm going to find Miss, to do something! Hurry up and drive into town! ”

Chen Ninghai, who was sitting at the table, crossed his hands on his chest, stared at the file he had just sent, and couldn't help but raise his hand and knock on the table...

"What's wrong, Master Chen?" Jonad happened to walk in with coffee, Chen Ninghai is now back at the police station, sitting at Jonad's desk with the title of criminal consultant, Jonad handed him a cup of coffee, Chen Ninghai took it in his hand, suddenly raised his head to look at him, and asked, "Where are you from the New York Police Department?"

"31 years, September 12, 31 years, have you forgotten master, or you picked me up, eight years have passed in a blink of an eye, and time flies so fast." Jonard sighed

"yes, it's going by so fast." Chen Ninghai suddenly changed the topic and asked him, "What do you think is the motive for committing the crime?"

"That's the same old question you asked me back then..."Jonad laughed, it is nothing more than three kinds, one is triggered by material needs, one is caused by spiritual needs, and the other is the need for rights, crime is nothing more than revolving around one of these three, the first two are the most common, the third is the least but also the most difficult to deal with, if you want to subdivide it, it can be divided into..."

"After all these years here, have you ever thought about being promoted?" Chen Ninghai interrupted him, "For example... Chief of Police? ”

Jonad was stunned when he heard this, and then smiled: "Now the position of senior police detective is quite suitable for me, not to mention... Soon the police station will be dismissed, and in the future, as a member of the National Guard, he will be promoted... It means that from scratch, maybe I can't bear to leave here and return to Florida with my wife and son to live there in seclusion, isn't this how people today escape from reality and predicament? When the individual's power is too small to control the environment, all the things around him will force people to live a normal life, and people can only escape..."

Chen Ninghai didn't say anything, just nodded vigorously, and Jonad sighed at the end, "If all this didn't happen, maybe I would have thought about completing every day's work, giving me hope that I would see if the road I was going to take next was worth persevering and sitting in the position of police chief, I am a workaholic You know, I like this way, not... It is too embarrassing to have an incompetent choice to escape from all reality! ”

Chen Ninghai looked at the report on the table, took out the lighter from his pocket casually, lit a corner and silently watched it burn into a big flame, and casually threw it into the stainless steel trash can, Chen Ninghai raised his head and said to him leisurely: "You think like this, I am very relieved, I know that you are not the kind of guy who is not firm in self-defeat, you are very good, so I will be responsible for your future."

"Chen... Master Chen? Jonad looked at Chen Ninghai in astonishment, who straightened up and said in a deep voice: "For the sake of your future, I order you to close this case."

"Knot... Closed? Jonad looked confused, "Haven't you caught the three of them yet?" Why close the case? You'll have to catch them first! ”

"Listen to me, close the case!" Chen Ninghai didn't want to explain too much, so he could only hint at him vigorously, but Jonad still couldn't understand, so he had to turn around and close the office door and come to Chen Ninghai, Chen Ninghai sighed helplessly, and then began to explain his thoughts to him;

"Let me ask you, have the police found the mastermind behind this case?"

"No, just three mercenaries who killed and fled, and didn't find the instigators behind them."

"Do you know why you can't find it?"

Jonad shook his head again, and Chen Ninghai said again: "That's because the other party doesn't want you to know who he is at all, how can you check him?"

"Won't you know everything if you catch the three of them?" Jonad didn't want to believe this excuse, "I don't believe that there is anyone in this world who can hide this sky full of surveillance and listening networks, as long as there are traces, it will definitely find out the mastermind behind the scenes, and may even reveal the secret behind the artifact case!" ”

"But you can't catch them!" Chen Ninghai said to him coldly; "Why?"

Chen Ninghai looked at Jonad with a puzzled face, couldn't help but sigh again, and patiently continued to explain to him: "Didn't you find out how much resistance there was behind this case? From the beginning to the present, what have you found out? Three insignificant mercenaries? And then what? What about the details? There is nothing worth speculating into, they used a murder case to divert the attention of the New York police and the National Guard, dragged the real target away from the traps we had so painstakingly set up, and left the case with a bang, and we didn't have the slightest clue, why? Are we the ones who don't work hard enough? On the contrary, I saw the explosive power generated when you twisted into a rope, and it took less than a day to find out the three murderers who attacked the drug dealers without knowing anything, isn't that enough to show your ability? ”

"If it's not because of our ability, then why do you insist that I close the case? Closing the case means the end! Jonad's face turned red, he didn't understand Chen Ninghai's painstaking efforts, Chen Ninghai just smiled faintly, and then said to him:

"Then let's make an assumption, if the other party is ZF's person, what do you think will happen if you continue to check like this? 80% of the resistance we have received so far has come from the officials above our heads, we have been locked in a small place by all kinds of bizarre conditions and rules, the artifact case is said to be handled by the police and the Civil Guard, but it turns out that there is a bizarre murder case here, directly trapping us in the three mercenaries who have fled the country, do you see how many people in the police station are still paying attention to the progress of the artifact case? I'm afraid that I will completely forget about the loss of the artifact of the Combine after a while, right? ”

Chen Ninghai's words immediately calmed down Jonad, and he carefully recalled the various things that had happened in recent months, since taking over the artifact case, the National Guard, which was originally equal to the strength of the police department, suddenly emerged overnight and overwhelmed the police, and it was rumored that the National Guard will completely replace the police agency, and in the future, this armed force that is directly subordinate to the empire will completely replace the police agencies of all countries in the world except for several countries in Asia. These undisciplined Imperial Allies will completely replace the sacred profession of the police, and this is exactly what is happening now!

"The speed of the police station has exceeded the bottom line of some people, otherwise, there would be no idea of abolishing the police station, I told you so bluntly, don't you understand?"

"You mean... Is our immediate boss aware of this? ”

"Otherwise, can you explain why they suddenly want to get rid of the police? Because the police are more efficient in investigating cases than the Civil Guard? Or is it because we're more effective at fighting crime than their Civil Guard? Aroused the dissatisfaction and exclusion of the top brass of the Civil Guard? It's all an excuse! They can check it themselves, but they just don't check it, haven't you seen this? They have enough time and resources to investigate the case, but they just don't take the credit, is this in line with Femirek's usual style? ”

"Why? What is the reason for all this? Why? Jonad calmed down and realized that things were not as simple as he thought at the beginning, Chen Ninghai looked out the window, looked at the deserted corner of the port, and sighed.

"If you think so, let's put aside all the details now and return our eyes to the beginning of this event; The night attack stole the Combine Artifact Cosmic Heart, and the Combine deliberately waterproof the Combine to let thieves break into the tower and take away the artifact... Let's imagine that if this is an unknown plan of the United Empire against humanity, and humanity itself has launched a similar counterattack plan without the Empire, and I have suddenly figured out something recently, and if the Empire knows that this will happen in the end, and that they cannot stop it even if they combine forces in time, then I think that, according to the usual cautious style of the United Empire, "they" are very likely to set a huge trap on our world, and they will use their nets to trap the whole world. And then take the time to peel back the intrigues hidden under the dead branches and leaves, and finally quickly attack to eliminate these exposed targets, and then the Empire's troubles will be solved? ”

"It's terrible to think like this, master..."Jonad shuddered, Chen Ninghai didn't care about his gaze, and continued: "The police investigation is blocked, no matter how troublesome the case is, it can be passed in the morning, and it doesn't take much approval to arrest the three fugitives, but that day without exception all became our own trouble, and the mobilization of the SWAT team actually had to say hello to the special operations team of the National Guard?" Scold! The donkey's lips are not the horse's mouth, and they should not have made mistakes, and now they have been on the run for a month, and it is estimated that they have already fled back to their own homes. Did you apply for entry and arrest with the Soviet Union? Maybe before they can do it, the police station let them be dismissed again, the pressure from the official is far beyond your and my expectations, we can only think like this, this is an operation with the participation of a top-level organization, they have planned all this a long time ago, and they will not give up all this because of our police investigation, this is not a crime, you must remember this clearly! ”

"What do you mean? The left and right factions of our country... Joined hands to deceive... Agents of the United Empire? Oh my God, now they're worried that we're going to dig out their hidden plans from the bottom of the ocean because we're going to mess with everything they've laid out, so they're knocking us off? ”

"Now it's a threat... Let's close the case! Chen Ninghai said categorically: "The case is closed and shows weakness, showing that he can only find this step, unable to continue to go deeper, all the secrets found before have been destroyed, and only three fugitives have fled into the Soviet Union, and they are trying to contact Moscow for help, and they are still waiting for the order of the highest operations department of the empire in detail, and I guess that those people above will try their best to prevent the empire from issuing a pursuit warrant, and then the case will really be closed, only in this way can the police station be kept for a while, otherwise continue to investigate, Dead or maimed! ”

Jonad nodded slowly, as if he had figured out the whole thing;

"You remember, when the other party's behavior is stupid enough to be just right, you can't even tell if he's really stupid or acting, you're not from the Civil Guard, they have the support of the Empire, so no matter what NET does, as long as Femiric doesn't die, the Civil Guard won't be finished, you're different, you're behind the whole human world, if you want to keep this position, you have to learn to take care of the overall situation, save the head of your boss, and then how to save your own life and all these efforts now, Only then will you have the opportunity to move on to your next step, ascending! ”

"But that's too..."

"Jonad I'm going to tell you a truth now, you listen to me well..."Chen Ninghai pointed at Jonad, and said to him with an unchanged face: "People, they are animals that seek advantage and avoid harm, knowing that danger is coming, they can avoid danger in time, this is called thinking about danger, hiding in a place where everyone doesn't notice you, this is called thinking back; Don't rush to run when you retreat, learn to look slowly, think slowly, think about what you did wrong before, why did you do it wrong? What to do in the future is good, this is called thinking change, thinking about danger, thinking about retreat, thinking about change, today I am here, I give you advice to avoid an impending crisis, but this does not mean that you will really be relaxed and stable in the future, you must learn these three words, really understand what they mean, I always have a time when I am not by your side to remind you, I don't want you to be easily knocked down by those cold guns in the dark, and this, can help you learn to think about problems. ”

"Thinking of danger... Thinking back... Thinking about change..."Jonad chewed these unfamiliar words repeatedly in his mouth, and some things seemed to become more chaotic in him, but this did not affect his trust in Chen Ninghai, he said that it would help him, then it would help, he didn't believe that this middle-aged man who had experienced many years of wind and rain would take him on a detour, and then the facts proved that he was right.

"This is the trap of the United Empire, you can't afford to lose! And there's only one chance. ”