Jing Quan was stunned as he watched Guan Dehou disappear before his eyes. He sat there for a long time before he realized something had happened.
But when I looked around, I couldn't find Guan Dehou anywhere.
The mysterious cube in front of me flickered a few times and then returned to its original state, as if nothing had happened.
"Brother De?" Jing Quan called tentatively.
no respond.
"I'll go...what...what's going on here?" Jingquan panicked.
Lao Peng, who had just finished setting up the defenses below, heard the sound and asked, "What's wrong? What happened?"
Jing Quan swallowed hard and said, "Something happened... Brother De is missing!"
"Ah?" Lao Peng was stunned, and then hurriedly went upstairs.
When he saw Jing Quan, Jing Quan was trying to open the "mysterious cube" in front of him with a dagger, but the "mysterious cube" was so hard that no matter how hard Jing Quan tried, it failed to leave even a trace.
Lao Peng saw this scene and hurried over and asked, "What are you doing? Where is Brother De?"
Jing Quan replied without raising his head, "Brother De was sucked in by this thing! Didn't you see that I was trying to find a way to open it!"
Lao Peng frowned, "What the hell? Was he sucked in by something!?"
Jing Quan gave up. He thrust the dagger to his side and raised the "Mysterious Cube" with trembling hands to show Lao Peng, "This is it! This thing is very weird! Brother De was sucked in after touching it!"
"
Lao Peng came closer and took a closer look at the "mysterious cube".
It is completely black and full of texture. Judging from Jingquan's posture, it shouldn't be too heavy.
So Lao Peng asked, "Then why are you okay?"
Jing Quan put down the "Mysterious Cube" and said, "I don't know... I felt something was wrong with this thing before Brother De came up, but I touched it and felt that it was not threatening, but who would have thought..."
Hearing this, Lao Peng looked around and said, "Tsk...what should we do? Brother De is our backbone. Now that something happened to him, where should we go?"
Jing Quan thought for a while and then said, "Since Brother De brought me back, it means there must be a 'good show' worth watching in this town, so... I think no matter what, we must continue to carry out the tasks assigned by Brother De."
"
Lao Peng nodded when he heard this, as it should be.
but……
"But Brother De's life and death are uncertain now. If he was sucked in by this thing as you said, then we have to keep it safe. When things here are over, we have to take it back."
Peng said and pointed to the "mysterious cube".
Jing Quan looked at the "Mysterious Cube" in front of him and felt very unhappy. He said angrily, "If I hadn't been too reckless, Brother De wouldn't have..."
Lao Peng's face became serious, "Okay, let's not worry about mother-in-law and mother-in-law. Our current situation may not be much safer than Brother De. Let's get things settled quickly."
"Um……"
…
It's about 2 o'clock in the morning.
A motorcade came outside the town.
The convoy consists of ten vehicles, all of which are printed with the long sword emblem of the Special Service of the National Security Department.
After the observer discovered these convoys on a high-rise building, he ordered his subordinates: "All units must obey the order and not have contact with the National Security Department personnel. Let them pass."
"receive."
…
The motorcade stopped outside the town, and there was a muscular man sitting in the front car.
After he got off the passenger seat, he took out his walkie-talkie and said, "Confirm the marked location. It should be those people in China."
"Copy that, everyone gets off the car and walks into the town."
"clear."
As he spoke, more than 40 people got on and off ten cars.
They are all heavily armed special service personnel, and they are half male and female. This is a major feature of the special service establishment of the National Security Department.
Although there is often a serious imbalance in the gender ratio of Secret Service personnel elsewhere, within the Department of National Security's establishment, the ratio of men to women is always one to one.
It's just that Guan Dehou's team, which originally belonged to the North China Military Region, is a little special.
After the people got off the bus, the team leader began to assign tasks.
Soon the group of forty people was divided into five teams, each led by two cars entering the town from five directions.
Their advance was slow, but their investigation was very careful.
When passing the old church, Jing Quan and Lao Peng thought they were about to be exposed.
Unexpectedly, a pastor who prayed late at night appeared out of nowhere and stopped these "uninvited guests" in front of the door.
This allowed Jing Quan and Lao Peng to avoid disaster.
After the team passed through the town, they found blood stains on the other side of the town and confirmed that Guan Dehou and others had left for a long time.
So they hurriedly got in the car again.
At three o'clock in the morning, these elite National Security Department officers who came to "support" left the town.
After Jing Quan and Lao Peng took a deep breath, they also began to pay attention to the surroundings, especially the priest who suddenly appeared...
…
"You said...have we been exposed?" Jing Quan asked.
Lao Peng shook his head, "I don't know. The defenses I set up are very secretive and have independent judgment functions. Since this priest did not trigger it, it means that he is not a threat target... However, this town is indeed weird enough, and
It's almost dawn, and if the good show that Brother De mentioned doesn't start, we have to consider going back with this thing."
Jing Quan nodded, "Yes, I also feel that something is abnormal, especially when those Americans passed by the church. With their equipment, they should have discovered us, but why didn't they even enter the church door?"
"I don't know... maybe they don't want to disturb their master when the pastor is praying late at night."
"Haha, hey, forget it, we will definitely be there by the time dawn comes.
If you want to leave, who will care about these things then?"
Lao Peng: "Well, but Brother De is not here now, do we have to think about where we should go after dawn?"
Jing Quan said, "I have thought about this. Now we are in the United States after all, and the previous incident must have made the Americans very angry, so... I think we should try to keep a low profile and find another equipment supply point first.
Then contact Director Li, I believe that as long as we can contact Director Li, everything will be easy to handle."
"Well...that's all we can do now."
While the two were talking, several more cars came outside the town.
However, compared to the special vehicles of the National Security Department, these vehicles are much more ordinary.
They drove slowly into the town and stopped in front of the only bar in the south of the town.
Jing Quan and Lao Peng could clearly see the situation in front of the bar and on the second floor of the bar from the church bell tower.
After Jing Quan and Lao Peng looked at each other, Lao Peng immediately took out the infrared monitor and long-distance monitoring equipment.
Both of these items are the most sophisticated reconnaissance equipment from the military factory of the National Security Department, and are generally only licensed to be carried and assembled during special missions.
After Lao Peng set up the over-the-distance monitoring equipment and adjusted its position, he connected it to the power supply in the church bell tower.
Jing Quan observed the crowd with a telescope and briefly recorded with a voice recorder.
Jing Quan, who has received special training, is not only proficient in multiple languages, but can also recognize some simple lip readings.
However, these people all communicated in English, which greatly reduced the efficiency and accuracy of Jingquan's lip translation.
but……
"These people... seem to be here to participate in a game?" Jing Quan put down his telescope and looked back at Lao Peng.
Lao Peng is still debugging the infrared monitor.
The sophistication of this thing is far beyond that of a single soldier e-device, and its debugging is also much more complicated.
While carefully calibrating the distance, he said, "How many people do they have?"
"Let me count...one...two...tsk...eleven."
"How many men and women?"
"Seven men and four women."
"average age."
"Most of them are young people in their twenties. There are only two older students, who look to be around 50 to 60 years old."
"Well...I've done the debugging here, thank you for your hard work."
Jingquan put down the telescope, turned off the recorder and said, "Tsk... What do you think these guys are doing here in such a remote countryside after staying up so late at night?"
Lao Peng took out another box, opened it, took out two small bags, and handed one bag to Jing Quan.
"Refresh yourself."
"Thank you." Jing Quan bit open the bag and drank it all, then grinned and said with a hiss, "Why is this stuff getting worse and worse?"
Lao Peng smiled and said, "You can write a report and see if we can make it strawberry flavored for you."
"Haha, I think so too." Jing Quan smiled and sat down, then picked up the monitoring headphones and put them on his head.
Lao Peng didn't drink so fast. After he drank half of the bag, he frowned and said, "You said...if the situation gets out of control, will someone come to save us?"
While listening to the intermittent monitoring feedback, Jing Quan continued to debug the equipment and said, "Out of control? How could it be out of control? I feel that all of this is still under control."
"Huh? What do you mean?" Lao Peng asked.
"You haven't realized it yet? We are already pawns in someone else's game. We can't help ourselves anymore," Jing Quan said with a smile.
Lao Peng was stunned. He thought that someone as upright as Jing Quan wouldn't be able to see it, but he didn't expect that he could see it more clearly than anyone else.
This made Lao Peng both surprised and a little alarmed.
Jing Quan didn't think too much, he just said what was in his heart.
…
The second floor of Xiangche Bar.
After the eleven people were seated, no waiter came to serve wine.
Everyone was silent and seemed to be waiting.
After a while, a thin man with an Asian face came upstairs coughing.
When they saw this person, everyone in the room suddenly stood up.
Everyone looked a little nervous.
The thin man looked like he was only in his thirties or forties, but he was leaning on a cane and limping every step of his life, which looked like he was in his twilight years.
But no one dared to laugh at him.
The two beautiful women accompanying him did not serve him like servants. After entering the room, they stood indifferently at the window, like two door gods.
"Let's all sit down." The man said in Chinese.
The people in the room looked at each other and sat down one after another.
Jing Quanyi frowned, "Chinese?!"
The same goes for Lao Peng. When he saw the man with a telescope, he felt a little uneasy.
Seeing that Lao Peng ignored him, Jing Quan asked again, "Do we have any information about this person in our archives?"
Lao Peng is already searching, but after all, they are hundreds of meters apart and the angle is not very good, so proofreading will take some time.
"Not found yet."
"Well...seeing as these guys are so afraid of him, he might be a ruthless person."
"Stop talking and take notes."
Jingquan smiled and said no more.
…
When the middle-aged man appeared, the observer also put down his telescope and said, "Everyone is here, please sir, can we start?"
"yes."
…
Look at the eleven people in front of you.
The middle-aged man smiled and said, "You are all the best in this game, and you are all the winners who have borrowed the identity of 'Player 0' to win in the fields you are good at. How come you see me, who looks so helpless?"
Why are Asian men who have the power to bind chickens so scared?"
The eleven people looked at each other, but no one spoke.
The middle-aged man was a little disappointed. He sighed and said, "I know that the original rules are no longer challenging for you, so... I gathered you from all over the world and decided to give each of you a final
A chance to win.”
After hearing these words, the eleven people present finally responded.
One of the young girls with the same Asian face asked, "Sir, you made an agreement with us before. No matter what method we use to play the game, as long as we can get a reward of one billion US dollars in the end, then this one billion US dollars will go into the hands of us players."
Private account, and you promised us that we and our families will get a new identity and start a new life, and no organization, including the National Security Department, will be able to find us. Can this promise still be fulfilled now?"
As soon as the girl said this, everyone else in the room looked at the middle-aged man with an Asian face.
The middle-aged man smiled when he heard the words, "Since it is an agreement, then of course we must abide by it. Moreover, I can fulfill the agreement now."
The girl smiled when she heard this and said, "Thank you very much."
"But..." The middle-aged man's smile gradually turned cold.
The atmosphere in the room, which had just become lively, cooled down again.
"But?" The girl also looked unkind.
"But don't you want to know why I summoned you all here tonight?"
Everyone couldn't sit still after hearing this.
Especially the girl who was very beautiful and kind-hearted, but there was a hint of murderous intent in her eyes.
The middle-aged man coughed and then looked at the people in front of him and said with a smile, "Don't worry, this is not the Hongmen Banquet, it's just a big gamble."
"A big gamble? Haha, Mr. Z, you just said that we are all the best in the game. Since we can finally achieve the goal of one billion US dollars, we should not be like rats... However, I also believe that human desires
There are still some limits. A billion dollars and a new life are enough for me." After saying this, the girl took out a special USB flash drive from her arms and placed it on the table in front of her.
The people sitting there glanced at the thing intentionally or unintentionally, with a hint of uneasiness and surprise in their eyes.
The texture of the special USB flash drive is extraordinary, crystal clear under the light, and looks like a black diamond.
The middle-aged man called Mr. Z understood what the girl meant.
He nodded and said, "I understand, you are tired of this gamble and now you decide to stop early?"
The girl smiled and said, "If a billion dollars and a new life are not enough to make a gambler stop, then the person's desire is too terrible."
As she spoke, she looked at the other people beside her and behind her.
All I saw was indifference.
No one agreed with her, not even a look of recognition.
The girl stopped laughing. She turned back, looked at Mr. Z and said, "Anyway, my attitude is very clear. I think so far, this shouldn't be an excessive request, right?"
"No, it's not too much. It's not even a request." Mr. Z spread his hands and continued, "Leave your game ID and go downstairs. Someone will naturally arrange for you to return to China. Have a pleasant trip."
The girl was a little surprised and a little unsure when she heard this, but she still mustered up the courage to stand up.
"Thank you for the invitation. The game is very interesting and I enjoy every second." After saying that, the girl turned and went downstairs.
There are people waiting downstairs.
After seeing the girl, two men in black stood up and said, "Please follow me, the car is behind the bar."
After seeing these two people, the girl quietly put her hand into the bag she was carrying.
"OK."
…
"A car left." Jingquan reminded.
Lao Peng nodded and then launched a mini reconnaissance plane.
…
After the girl left for a while, Mr. Z asked, "Who among you wants to quit like her?"
No one responded.
Mr. Z smiled and said, "Are you worried that quitting at this time would mean seeking death?"
After the ten people left looked at each other, a young black man sitting at the back asked in fluent English, "Mr. Z, I want to ask, what is the bigger bet you mentioned?"
Mr. Z glanced at the black man and said, "Banggu, before I answer your question, I want to ask you, how much money did the winner of your last game take from you?"
Bang Gu was stunned for a moment, then frowned and said, "One million dollars."
"Well...one million dollars...that's very reasonable, but the question is, how did I hear that the loser took away his daughter at the end of the game? Huh?" Mr. Z said calmly.
But Bangu's heartbeat suddenly accelerated a lot.
After hearing this, everyone else turned to look at the black man.
From their eyes, Bang Gu saw sympathy, teasing, disgust and gloating.
They have different looks, but one thing is the same.
They were all looking at a dead man.
Bang Gu clenched his fists, then stood up suddenly and drew his weapon and pointed it at Mr. Z.
However, before Mr. Z could speak, a pink-faced man next to Banggu cut off Banggu's right hand holding the gun with a knife.
He draws the knife extremely fast.
No one present saw his movements clearly, including Jing Quan who was monitoring everyone.
"Ah!" Bang Gu was stunned for a moment and then screamed and fell down.
He held his arms and fell to the ground, blood spilled all over the floor.
Mr. Z sighed and said, "Rules are rules, not to mention that as a participant in the game, all participation intentions and bets are voluntary, but you have unnecessary sympathy. This is really regrettable."