Click"

A black SUV with the S.H.I.E.L.D. logo quickly turned the corner and stopped in a small alley in the Bronx, where Lincoln, wearing sunglasses, opened the door and jumped out.

He walked down the street with two agents to carry out his mission.

There was a little chaos in the streets at this time, and people may not know about the Cybertrons' landing on Earth, but there was no doubt that the network crash that had erupted a few hours earlier had caught their attention.

The inexplicable disappearance of bank deposits, the collapse of stock market data like a waterfall, and the complete disruption of work plans, etc., this kind of chaos from the online world has spread to the real world before dawn.

Aware of these chaotic people, they were gathering on the street with blank faces, and some people were blocking the door of the bank that had not yet opened, and they angrily questioned the staff who stayed behind, regardless of letting them return their deposits.

As shown in Gotham City's Lex. As Mr. Luthor predicted, the collapse at the cyber level is affecting the real world, and with the passage of time, a new shock to the world order is inevitable at dawn the next day.

Fortunately, there is still time to recover from the outbreak of panic...

"In the words of data experts, we have not yet entered the real online age, and the Decepticons are wreaking havoc in the online world and have not affected everyone in the real world."

Lincoln looked at the people who had gathered together, looking chaotic and shouting, and he whispered to the agents behind him:

"We should probably be glad for that..."

"But things are already in trouble."

The agent behind Lincoln whispered:

"On Wall Street, several people are said to have jumped off the building. Luckily, I'm more traditional and only have a little money in the bank, otherwise I would have collapsed by now. ”

"If you don't solve the immediate trouble as soon as possible, the money you put at home will soon be worthless."

Lincoln pushed his sunglasses and said:

"Let's go, find that guy."

Lincoln continued his way through the noisy crowd and down the street, a miniature version of a block with green dotted lines on his phone, clearly outlining Lincoln's destination.

Ten seconds later, S.H.I.E.L.D. agents stood in front of a small deli at the corner of the street.

He looked up at the store's sign.

"Simmons Deli... Well, here it is. ”

Lincoln straightened his clothes, gestured to the two agents beside him, and told them to stand guard at the door, then he pushed open the door of the deli and stepped into the little-known shop.

The 24-hour shop is deserted, and it's almost early in the morning, and no one is coming to buy anything at this time.

"Ding, Ding"

The strange brother reached out and pressed the bell on the counter, the crisp sound echoed in the delicatessen, and a moment later, a middle-aged man in an undershirt and an apron looked a little raunchy walked out of the back kitchen.

He yawned, looked at Lincoln, was a little cynical, and said with a feeble:

"Welcome to Simmons Deli, we have freshly made flavored bacon here, as well as a variety of..."

"I'm not here to buy something."

Lincoln put something in front of the middle-aged man's eyes, and he whispered:

"And, hello... Agent Simon Ster. ”

"Who are you?"

As early as 1 year ago, the former field agent of the 7th District of the Ministry of Defense, who lost his job, was killed. Simmons was stunned for a moment, he looked at the agent ID that Lincoln had placed in front of him, then took a vigilant step back, reached out and quietly grasped the pistol that was placed under the counter.

This down-and-out guy had a suspicion in his eyes, and although he was a little blessed compared to a few years ago, he was still agile in holding a gun.

"How do you know about me?"

Simmons raised his hand and pointed a gun at Lincoln, and he asked loudly:

"They sent you? Hah, you're finally going to do it to me, right? ”

The guy called out sarcastically:

"You are afraid that I will reveal your ugly secrets! You alien scum! Don't you want to scare me! ”

"Calm down."

Lincoln looked at the pistol pointed at him, waved his hand, and explained softly:

"I'm not from the Ministry of Defense, and I'm not interested in your life, I just want to talk to you."

"I'm not going to compromise with you!"

Simmons had a hint of unconcealed fear in his eyes, but he gritted his teeth and said:

"I've written a memoir about the events of the Seventh District, and I'm going to store them in another place, and if I die, those things will be revealed! You can't cover up those mistakes. ”

"I said, I just wanted to talk to you."

Lincoln frowned, and he felt that the down-and-out guy in front of him seemed to have some persecution paranoia.

"No, there's nothing to talk about!"

Agent Simon stubbornly said:

"I am a man of conscience, don't try to buy me!"

"It's up to you!"

Lincoln's hand moved, and before Simmons could shoot, a pulsing arc landed on Simmons' wrist.

His inhuman abilities were sharp to ordinary people, and the moment the blue arc touched Simmons' skin, the destitute agent's eyes widened with the sudden electric shock, and after 1 second, his face trembled with gray, and then Lincoln grabbed his wrist and dragged him out of the counter.

"See clearly!"

Lincoln put his agent ID in front of Simmons' eyes and said:

"I'm a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, and I'm here for the affairs of District Seven, Reggie. Simmons, if you are really a person with a conscience, as you say, then at this moment, you should help me. ”

Lincoln's words used the Axifa Seal, although he was not as good at releasing the Seal as Coulson, but for Simmons, who was paralyzed by electric shock at this time, such a strong Axifah Seal was enough to calm him down.

"Mission accomplished."

Lincoln waved his hand to the agent at the door, saying:

"Send this guy back as fast as you can! The chief is waiting for him. ”

Ten minutes later, Reggie, who was covered with a black bag. Simmons was dragged into a room by two agents, he was thrown in a chair, and in a slightly suffocating fear, the black bag on his face was pulled down.

Agent Simon's breathing was a little short, and this series of treatments couldn't help but remind him of some bad things, which made his face a little pale.

But unexpectedly, what appeared in front of Simmons was not an interrogation room full of torture instruments.

It was a spacious, brightly lit house, which looked like a living room, and on the couch in front of him, a calm, slightly cold man in a black trench coat and rimless glasses was staring at him with a falcon-like gaze.

In the chair next to Agent Simon, there was also a drunken guy, although the guy had a scruffy beard and a decadent face, Simmons recognized him immediately.

That's George. Colonel Burns... Uh, former colonel, his former colleague.

A few years earlier, the two of them had served together in the Department of Defense's secret project "Seventh District" and had also worked together on a mission to capture the Cybertrons in California, but that mission failed.

Because of the defection of the Decepticons who cooperated with them, the squad commanded by Colonel Burns suffered heavy casualties, which left Colonel Burns with serious psychological problems, and he became extremely disgusted with the Cybertrons, so he could only transfer from command to logistics, and before Simmons and a group of others were dismissed by the Ministry of Defense, Colonel Burns retired almost at the same time.

Merlin, who was sitting on the couch, was also watching Simmons and the drunken Colonel Burns.

In '98, when he was dealing with the Bumblebee incident, he had contact with these two guys, and he found something he needed from Simmons and Burns' memories, and it was from their memories that Merlin first learned about the existence of Tinder and Magtron.

But the two guys certainly didn't know Merlin, who had washed away their memories at the time.

"Smack"

After a few seconds, Merlin reached out and snapped his fingers, drawing Agent Simon's gaze to him.

Merlin looked at the former field agent in front of him, who had been dismissed by the Ministry of Defense and was so depressed that he could only go back to his mother's deli to help, and said:

"Mr. Simmons, we're both in the same industry, so I'm not going to talk nonsense... I need you to take me into the base of the Defense Region VII project in the Sahara Desert, where something of strategic importance is stored, and we have to get it back. ”

"I don't know what you're talking about."

Agent Simon said stiffly:

"I don't know what else I have in the Sahara Desert."

"Oh, it looks like you still haven't figured out what's going on."

Merlin leaned back on the couch in disappointment, and said:

"I thought you were a smart person, but I didn't expect you to be a fool like everyone else. Lincoln, let Agent Simon see how bad the situation is right now. ”

Lincoln, who was standing next to Merlin, took out a tablet and threw it to Simmons, who took it in his hand, looked at the screen, and saw that it was a footage taken from above.

In the picture is a sand dune in the vast night, under the rolling sand dunes of the desert, a giant like a scorpion can be faintly seen, and under the reflection of the moonlight, the scorpion shell under the sand dune has a cold metallic light, indicating that it is not a flesh and blood creature.

Then the screen turned, and Simmons saw two piles of wreckage being cleaned up, and among the twisted steel, some of the steel giant's broken limbs could still be vaguely seen, like human bodies that had been blown apart.

"Here they are, Agent Simon."

Merlin looked at Simmons' rapidly changing expression, and he said slowly:

"Those Cybertrons, the Cybertrons you've worked with, they're no longer pretending to be your friends, they're starting to make a big deal of preparations to invade Earth, and there's some boneless bastards helping them, speaking of which, Simmons, you're not stupid enough to think that today's network crash was really due to technology, right?"

"I knew..."

Agent Simon didn't answer Merlin's question, he grabbed the tablet in his hand, and he gritted his teeth and said:

"Those lunatics are sure to get into big trouble, they didn't listen to my warnings and kicked me out."

"They made me lose my job, slandered my reputation, made me laugh at my family and friends, made me lose everything, I wanted to tell others that there are alien robots in this world, but no one believed me... Ha, now the trouble is really coming. ”

He looked up at Merlin, and he said:

"You're going to fight those sneaky Decepticons? Very good... Count me in! ”

"Count me in... Belch. ”

The drunken Colonel Burns burped and snatched the tablet from Simmons' hand, he looked at the mechanical giant scorpion on the screen, and there was undisguised hatred on his face, the former commander scratched at his loose hair and said to Merlin:

"They killed my companions, and I want revenge!"

"There is no rush to war."

Merlin reached out and calmed down the two guys who had lost everything because of the Decepticons, and he asked:

"I have a question, back in 1998, the two Decepticons you worked with, codenamed Smash and Bounce Ball, one was killed and the other was missing. The cooperation between Sector 7 and the Decepticons has come to an end, and how did you get in touch with the other Decepticons? ”

"It's technology!"

George. Colonel Burns, rubbing his forehead, explained:

"When we were working with the Decepticons, they asked the Department of Defense to use military satellites to help them search for other robots on Earth, and after they connected with the military satellites, the scientists in Region 7 secretly copied a signal between the Decepticons, and after the operation in Los Angeles failed, District 7 began to secretly search for other Decepticon robots hidden on Earth."

"It took us 1 year to finally find the Decepticon lurking in a mountainous area in South America, it calls itself 'Sonic Wave', it is willing to continue to 'help' us, that robot has a 'tape army', which is full of some small size, good at transforming and camouflage, gathering intelligence reconnaissance robots."

"That sonic isn't a good thing, it's a cunning bastard robot."

Agent Simon also replied with a look of disgust:

"It teaches, and lures the mad scientists, to use the power of the Tinder Source, which can give true life to any machine, and it is clear that it intends to create an army of machines on Earth."

"Many of us were aware of the danger of this operation, but after the departure of General Ross, who had been wary of the Decepticons, and the damn, stupid Major General Stryker took over the project, the Decepticons were soon given higher authority and began to use our resources to find more of their kind. And worst of all, they found it. ”

"Stryker?"

Merlin frowned, and he asked:

"It's William. Stryker? ”

"yes, that pervert!"

Agent Simon said hatefully:

"I've heard that bastard has been in charge of some disgusting human experiments, killing a lot of innocent mutants, only to fail several times and bring himself into disrepute, and I don't know what the bastards at the Department of Defense think about letting such a madman take the place of General Ross in the Seventh District."

"Oh, it really sounds like Lord Stryker is being remembered by a lot of people, how lucky."

Merlin had a strange smile on his face, and he said:

"It seems that Logan and Wade can take revenge this time."