Zhou Lin - Chapter 220 The Eve of “Meeting”

Star County, Ocean City.

More than a century ago… to be precise, 118 years ago, this city was destroyed in a major disaster; however, time quickly erased these scars, and less than fifteen years later, it It restored its former prosperity and once again became a pearl on the east coast of Xing County.

However, in today’s war-torn and troubled times, this city with gambling and tourism as its main source of income has inevitably… declined again.

The powerful people who once spent a lot of money here have now hid in Crystal County and dare not come out even half a step.

And none of the middle-class people who used to come here year-round for vacations are gone – the wealthier ones among them are busy exchanging their various properties into jewelry or gold bars. With such hard currency, their families fled to areas of power they considered safe; among other people who are not so politically sensitive or do not have that much property, there are basically no people who would leave during the war. A wonderful family vacation.

In short, with the source of tourists almost cut off, all the entertainment and service industries in the city, such as hotels, scenic spots, casinos, bars, etc., have experienced large-scale depression, followed by a series of bankruptcies and layoffs. The wave… And most of those employees who lost their jobs had no choice but to leave the city.

Here, unconsciously, it became a deserted city.

The only residents are gathered in the southwest suburbs, far away from the city center.

Those luxury hotels, large casinos, luxury shops, docks with docked yachts…the places where people lived in the past were now occupied by vagrants, drunkards, thugs, and robbers.

Valuable things in the city, from luxury cars and furniture to wine glasses and vases, were either destroyed or moved away and sold. Those who were left there and couldn’t be moved were all occupied by the kings of the mountains.

The federal police have long lost control of this place. In fact, it is already good that they can manage the suburbs and prevent the surrounding people from being harassed by the thugs in the city.

For these police officers who are still in Ocean City, what they are looking forward to most now is that the resistance organization will quickly take over the city, so that they will be less stressed.

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2219, October 31, late at night.

On the narrow beach on the east coast of Absecon Island, three figures in diving suits emerged from the sea and quietly came ashore.

It can be seen from their figures that they are two men and one woman.

Haaah… After the leading man took off his diving mask, he took a breath of the sea-scented air. At the same time, he used his excellent eyesight that could see through the darkness to quickly check the surrounding situation, and then raised his left wrist. He spoke to a wristwatch-style communication device, Team 2, this is the Pioneer. We have logged in and have found no abnormalities for the time being. OVER.

When he said this, the man who landed with him also took off his diving mask, and the woman… although she was also wearing a diving suit, she did not wear a diving mask or carry oxygen on her back. The equipment, even her short, sleek hair, was dry after landing, with no water at all.

This is the second team. The micro-drone shows that there are life forms in the building complex in front of you. Please confirm and eliminate it. OVER. A few seconds later, the three of them heard this from the communicator hidden in their ears. Sentence response.

Understood, execute immediately, contact you later. As the man replied, he had already removed the oxygen bottle from his back and threw it back into the sea.

The other man silently did the same thing, and then the three of them took advantage of the darkness and slowly approached a building just across the street from the beach.

Their movements were very fast and quiet, and of course this is what they should be… because these three are Ross, the captain of the EAS elite combat unit Tassel, and deputy captains Brother Man and Ge Ning; let the three of them handle such an investigation. The task was undoubtedly overqualified.

However, if you consider the lineup of today’s operation, there is actually nothing inappropriate.

At this moment, in a submarine a few kilometers away from the coastline, the Second Team preparing to land included not only the Tasseled members transferred from EAS, but also combat elites and federal military ability users from FCPS. Strong men in the combat force, as well as high-level combatants from the EF and Oversight organizations.

All of them are ability users, mutants, or modified people…

There are three people who are responsible for the command and combat strength of this team: the first is Gusa Westem, who is known as the most powerful general of the Federal Army; the second is EF Factory Chief, Alex Burgess; the third is the number one combatant of the Oversight Organization, the King of Agents – N.

The above-mentioned masters are almost all the trump cards of the Federation except the regular army and escort officers. Of course, tonight’s mission is indeed worthy of bringing them all together.

According to Longjing, this is an operation that can end the war overnight; as long as they can take advantage of the opportunity of the meeting held by the reverse cross to kill all the heads of the resistance organizations, they can The Federation turned defeat into victory.

This statement… seems to make some sense, but most of the really smart people don’t believe it.

Although history sometimes does change due to the actions or life and death of one or two people, or even one or two small figures, the current Federation may not be preserved in this way.

However, these people still came after all.

Some of them really want to be loyal to the Federation, and some of them just follow the trend and have no other choice…

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At the same time, the Harry W. Kelly Memorial Bridge.

Dozens of black luxury cars were driving eastward on the bridge.

This convoy is composed of the strongest group of capable people in the Iron-Blooded Alliance and the Cossack Rangers; and sitting in the middle car is the current leader of these two resistance organizations.

The current commander-in-chief of the Iron Alliance is named Boris Sidor Morozov. He was originally just a lieutenant colonel in the rebel army. On the day of the Iron Curtain, he happened to be away from the place where the incident occurred, so he survived. Later, during the period when the federal government vigorously purged the rebel organizations, he had been hiding in North Africa. Living under the protection of the Berber Soul, he did not even dare to contact his old headquarters.

But as the Last Dinner of the Federation directed by Counter Cross was staged, Boris realized that his opportunity had come. He suddenly returned to Double Eagle County and made an extremely high-profile speech in the name of the current Supreme Commander of the Iron-Blooded Alliance. Begin to tidy up old troops, expand power, win over people’s hearts…

He knew very well that their former deputy commander Zaitsev, or former federal agent Mahomes Prato, could not compete with him politically; even if Prato has now He rebelled and came forward to accuse the Federation…but his work as an undercover agent for the Federation for many years would not change.

Compared with a general like Boris, who was born at the grassroots level of the Iron-Blooded Alliance and climbed up step by step, Prato’s desire to be the leader of the Iron-Blooded Alliance is neither justified nor smooth.

As a result, Boris successfully became the commander-in-chief of the Iron-Blooded Alliance, while Prato… was not even recognized for his position, and became a marginalized person that only the Inverse Cross was willing to take in.

On the other side, let’s talk about the leader of the Cossack Rangers.

This person is no stranger to us, she is the aunt Hanna Medvedeva who served as the temporary commander of the Cossack Rangers during the Battle of Narvik.

Now, she has successfully ascended to the position and has become the official commander of the organization.

Since the Cossack Rangers had taken action as early as the Nine Prison Incident and were the first organization to stand up to confront the Federation in the early days of the war, they were also one of the organizations that suffered the most serious damage during the Iron Curtain, so they The support received from the public is also very high.

Since June, the Rangers have developed and expanded rapidly based in Blue Shield County. Up to now, they have occupied a large amount of territory in the central and western parts of Eurasia. Not only do they have strong military strength, but they also have many supporters. It can be said that the current balance sheet is The most powerful resistance organization; compared with the size of the past when they could only serve as subordinates to other organizations…the current Rangers actually surpass the Iron-Blooded Alliance in terms of strength.

And Hannah, the Commander-in-Chief of the Rangers, now…naturally has her own ideas and ambitions.

Although she and Boris both obeyed the Anti-Cross on the surface, they already felt in their hearts that an organization that relies on a small number of elites to operate cannot always ride on our heads.

At present, the Federation has become a thing of the past, and each organization is making its own little calculations; Hannah and Boris both understand that the meeting that the Anti-Cross invites them to participate in will most likely turn into a discussion about how the various forces will fight. Negotiations to carve up the world.

Therefore, they accidentally contacted each other secretly before the meeting; after some bargaining, the two hit it off and formed an alliance.

In their view, the alliance between the Iron Blood Alliance and the Cossack Rangers was a feat that established the general trend of the world.

First, the combat capabilities of the two organizations can be combined in one place to ensure their safety when attending this meeting.

Secondly, when the time comes at the negotiation table, the two of them can help each other and gain more benefits for each other.

Thirdly, if we have to rely on force to solve problems that cannot be solved at the negotiation table in the future, the two organizations can also advance and retreat together; by then, the Rangers will go west to engulf Europe and south to North Africa, while the Iron-Blooded Alliance will march to East Asia and point its sword at the Americas… Both sides Wouldn’t it be beautiful to divide the world into two parts?

Of course, whether and how these steps can be implemented depends on how well the meeting goes, but one thing is certain – they will no longer let the reverse cross act as the overlord over their heads.

Neither of them is afraid of being discovered that they are in an alliance, and they are even happy to let others know about it because it is also a way of applying pressure.

So, they met in Baltimore yesterday, took the land route directly, and drove to Ocean City.

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On the other hand, it was also this night.

Over the Atlantic Ocean, an aircraft with optical camouflage and anti-detection systems turned on was approaching Ocean City in stealth mode.

Uwi Tunma, the current commander of the Berber Soul, was on board.

Uvi Tunma is not the commander’s full name. His full name…if he wanted to pronounce it completely, it would take nearly twenty seconds; even he himself had no idea how many generations of ancestors had passed down this kind of name. I feel powerless to complain about the naming method, but thinking about how it has been passed down for many generations, it seems a pity to end it here, so I just endure it… But in fact, he has always used Uvi Swallowing Horses on weekdays. This simplified name (that is, the first few syllables of his full name), no one can recite his full name except himself.

It’s a bit of a tangent, let’s get back to the point…

Uvitunma was also the leader of the resistance army who came to power after the Iron Curtain. His predecessor, Commander Gasili, only disappeared during the Iron Curtain and was not dead. However, due to the unpopularity of Gasili, Uvitunma Ma took advantage of his absence and easily took over.

On the night of the Battle of Narvik, Gasili was killed by Sophie Clermont, the former deputy warden of the Ninth Prison who had defected to the Anti-Cross, or… committed suicide… This matter naturally spread to Ukraine later. Viton Ma’s ears (Hannah deliberately let the news out).

It stands to reason that Uwi Tunma should be grateful to the Anti-Cross for helping him get rid of this trouble, but for his own political interests, he finally put on a posture of indignation that even his cronies around him did not believe… A scathing rebuke was issued publicly against the Inverse Cross.

After that, he issued a series of public relations words, which roughly means: Gassili is our leader. When he is away, I will only temporarily take charge of the organization, but I still recognize his status in my heart; you reverse crosses dare to kill at will. The commander who killed our Berber soul, I will definitely settle this debt with you! However, before the collapse of the Federation, we are both a resistance organization, so we still have to focus on the overall situation and should not fight among ourselves, so we will wait until later to divide the benefits. When the time comes, I will settle accounts with you again, and then don’t forget what you owe us.”

In short, Uwi Tunma felt that this meeting was when he asked the reverse cross to demand an account and used the death of a former commander who he had originally planned to kill to blackmail the reverse cross. It’s not a loss no matter what.

But he is not a fool. He knows that things are not that easy. After all, he is not the only one who resists the organization, Berber Soul, and they are not the strongest… So, this time he is also ready to break up and bring down the members of the organization. All the strongest ability users were brought on the plane as his bodyguards.

In addition, Uvi Tunma himself is also a powerful ability user, so he is quite confident that he can gain something from this career.

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Night, 11 o’clock, Ocean City Beach Plaza Hotel, rooftop.

Ziqi leaned on the guardrail on the edge of the rooftop, looking at the night sky and sea.

Behind him, a well-dressed and distinguished-looking middle-aged man stood with his hands behind his back, saying something.

The man didn’t speak for too long. After a while, he finished speaking.

After hearing this, Ziqi turned around, leaned against the railing, and said, So… Mr. Xiahou means… ‘Yashan’ is willing to bow to us, right?

The man he called Mr. Xiahou was named Xiahouyan.

Yes. Xia Houyan answered quickly, obviously having thought about it carefully.

Well… Ziqi nodded, The leader of Yashan came alone without any guards or weapons, and said these words to me personally… This sincerity is indeed convincing.

Then…can I take it that, Lord Zilin, you have accepted my surrender from Yashan? Xia Houyan then asked.

I…just have one question. Ziqi continued.

Excuse me. Xia Houyan said.

Why are you still standing? Ziqi asked.

Xia Houyan didn’t know how to answer.

But he soon understood the meaning of this sentence.

No need.

The next second, Xia Houyan was about to kneel down, but Zi Qi’s words stopped him.

It’s too late, it’s useless. After a breath, Ziqi said this again.

When Xia Houyan heard this, he stopped kneeling.

Not only did he stop kneeling, but the expression on his face also changed… becoming cold and harsh.

Besides not kneeling down, what else did I reveal? Xia Houyan asked.

No. Ziqi replied, By the way… neither are your subordinates who are ambushing around.

The second half of Ziqi’s sentence was intended to tell the other party that my sentence of coming alone without any guards or weapons just now was just to cooperate with your performance and to be polite to you.

Just because I didn’t kneel down, you saw through me? Xia Houyan asked again.

Ziqi smiled: A person’s body language is much more honest than what comes out of his mouth.

Xia Houyan also nodded: I understand you just said ‘it’s too late’, but what does the word ‘ye’ in ‘it’s useless’ mean? Could it be that…even if I really surrender, you don’t intend to accept it?

You…are just asking useless questions. Ziqi said, shrugging and spreading his hands, Whether you really surrender or pretend to surrender, it’s not up to me to decide how to deal with you. He paused. After a pause, he added, Actually, everything was doomed long before I came here.

Oh? Xia Houyan thought he heard something from his words and sneered, Huh… So, in the reverse cross, you, Zi Lin, are not the number one person?

Well, no. Ziqi replied, However, my brother has already made up his mind on your matter…

When the word brother came out of Ziqi’s mouth, Xiahouyan’s expression changed. He immediately realized the true meaning of Ziqi’s last sentence, but he did not interrupt him.

Ziqi also continued: From the beginning, there was no negotiation, and things like ‘divide the world’ have always existed only in the fantasies of you people.

The reality is… you, and all the resistance leaders who come to attend the ‘meeting’ tomorrow morning, must die…

“In the new era, there is no place for you.

“However, your names will be included in the history books of the Sixth Empire.

Because after tonight, you will all live in ‘another form’…