Everyone filed in. The restaurant was really not small. There were several people sitting inside, and it didn't seem crowded even with Yun Ming and others.
The person sitting closest to the cabin door was a short white man wearing a tailor-made burgundy suit. He was only about 1.6 meters tall. Compared to his height, his facial features were featureless. This man had his arms folded and his body sunk deeply into the soft sofa, as if he was in a slumber. Even the noise from the arrival of everyone did not disturb him.
Although Zhong Yi had only met this man once, his appearance and characteristics were deeply rooted in people's hearts, and Zhong Yi easily identified him: he was the ghost-level guard officer nicknamed "The Mechanic", Wade Fast.
Two old acquaintances, Xu Xi and Jiang Yao, sat opposite each other at the long dining table. There was a pile of melon seed shells in front of them. Judging from the size, they had been consuming it for a while.
Yun Ming gave a thumbs up: "On a luxury private jet worth hundreds of millions, eating melon seeds that cost a few yuan a pack, you two are so rich that you cannot give in."
"Stop talking nonsense." Xu Xi said tit for tat, looking at the glasses with some residual wine in the hands of Yun Ming and Pu Che Shi: "Melon seeds are one of the few foods on this plane that are difficult to poison. Only you, who lack experience in fighting, are so happy to drink the enemy's champagne."
Not to mention that Yun Ming and Pu Cha Shi were counterattacked by Xu Xi's Ci Feng, but the first person to stand up and "support" Yun Ming was actually Xiao Qi:
"This guy's trash talk is not meaningless. A few witticisms can not only establish a sharp-tongued but harmless persona, but also increase his sense of presence and gain some voice. He is obviously the lowest level and the most powerful here. You are weak, but you still managed to gain some attention with this move. Yun Ming, you are quite clever."
"Tsk, this woman can do it." Yun Ming was full of praise in his heart: "Obviously this is the first time we have met, but she can see through my intentions so quickly. Either she has read countless people, or she is extremely defensive."
"Although Zhong Yi is strong, he is not good at words. The Pu Chai Shi has excellent abilities but his IQ is always weak. He often fails to see the ideas when looking at problems. The external negotiations in the trio rely entirely on me, a person with human-level abilities. My strength cannot convince the public, so I can only resort to crooked ways."
"It is indeed worthy of praise to see through my erratic behavior, but I would never point it out just for the sake of quick words. Besides, my biggest purpose is actually to test the weight of the "colleagues" mentioned by Jin. Through Jin Xiao Qi didn't expect this level of tolerance for me to test my value in Gordon's mind... Well, this girl is teachable." Yun Ming's evaluation was quite objective, but he was already wary of Xiao Qi in his heart. On.
"Xu Xi's words are also interesting. The confrontation with me was for other people to see, to show that she and Jiang Yao are not the same as the three of us; the deliberate mention of poisoning was to show that she felt sorry for Gordon. Dena and his subordinates still don't trust them. The signal this move sends is...the team will still get paid as a casualty, but they will protect themselves wisely and will not stand in line if they don't stick together."
"This position is the most beneficial to the two of them who are unlikely to return to Long County in a short time. If they don't work under Gordon, they probably won't be able to find a decent place to stay. In contrast, Xu Xi You can't act too warm to us, the combination of five ability users is too threatening. Understand, whether it's the verbal abuse at this moment, or the two cats who stayed away from us after they woke up, it's all for the sake of gold. Varariello, a close associate of Gordon’s, saw this as a way to avoid suspicion.”
"You have already settled the many pros and cons considerations when Gordon recruited us on the fishing boat, right? Xu Xi, you really have a way of doing things."
Yun Ming is not a person who can master multi-tasking skills very well, especially when his thoughts and clues are complicated. He has to allocate most of his attention to brainstorming, and naturally he fails to manage his expressions. Therefore, in the eyes of others, Yun Ming became discouraged after being scolded by Xu Xi and Xiao Qi, dumbfounded, and his mind wandered to nowhere.
After everyone casually sat down at the table, Yun Ming discovered that there were two other people in the restaurant that he had just ignored: one was a blond woman wearing a black combat uniform. She had hidden herself in an inconspicuous corner before, but now she Walking out; the other man was a man about thirty years old, with a handsome appearance, but he was very depressed and could hardly open his eyelids. This guy had been lying on the sofa until he was woken up by the sound of talking and sat up leisurely.
Two more people came in at the cabin door, a man and a woman. The woman Yun Ming had just met was the Indian flight attendant who served drinks not long ago. Although he didn't recognize the man following behind, Yun Ming judged that he was the man from the look of his body shape. Maehara Douyang, who had met Zhong Yi from afar near the Golden Palm Hotel before.
"Okay, everyone is here." Jin sat on the chair at the top and looked around: "Let me introduce you to each other and get to know each other."
Next is Jin's brief introduction to everyone present, which is concise and neat in four steps: nickname, name, ability, and ability user level. Of course, Yun Ming and others had no nicknames. Jin only reported the other three items, and also described Yun Ming's superpower as "air flash".
What made Yun Ming more shocked was that the man who was still dozing on the sofa at this moment, and whose image was infinitely close to that of a hippie who had just flown over the leaves, was actually a dragon-level ability user, Elliot Edwards, nicknamed "Swamp Demon". , and is also the leader of this team.
Jin Zhengjin sat in danger: "Everyone, the composition of our team is very complicated. We might have been hostile a few hours ago, but now, at least most of us no longer have conflicts. Everyone can put aside their past grudges and turn to God. Work for the beloved Gordon Gardner, or cooperate as equals to seek a win-win situation."
"That's good."
"What needs to be explained is that Mr. Edward, as the only dragon-level ability user here, will undoubtedly lead us. However, his current physical condition is not very good, so I have to do it for him."
Everyone looked at Elliot suspiciously. It was hard for everyone to imagine that a dragon-level person could still be sick.
"I'm airsick." Feeling the attention of everyone, Elliot endured the discomfort and reluctantly explained: "First we flew from Kuala Lumpur to Bandar Seri Begawan, and not long after we landed, we took the same plane to Manila. It took several hours!"
"That's it." Jin spread his hands helplessly: "Okay, I know that almost everyone doesn't know much about this operation that mobilized half of the high-level ability users in Southeast Asia, so I will explain to you the ins and outs next."
Jin pressed the fingerprint of his right hand on the smooth tabletop, and the multifunctional conference table was immediately awakened and activated.
"Maehara-kun, how long will it take before we reach the target?"
A highly simulated holographic projection appeared on the desktop, presenting the sea and islands in front of everyone in 3D. At the same time, a tablet-sized touch screen rose on the desktop in front of everyone.
"The remaining flight is estimated to be twenty-six minutes." Douyang Maehara clicked on the touch screen and set the language of his device to Japanese: "I have already planned the route, and the autopilot will let us land at the marked location."
"Mark the location? Isn't our destination Manila?" Zhong Yi still remembered Jin's full-machine broadcast not long ago. At that time, Jin's destination was Manila.
"Ah, that's not wrong." Jin Hua pulled up the screen, changed the scale, and narrowed the projection range to a few square kilometers of sea. A virtual image of a medium-sized cruise ship appeared on the table: "To be precise, we are going to Manila. Bay, rendezvous with the men on this ship.”
Cavelin Alice asked softly: "Are the enemies on the ship any dangerous people? If we need to dispatch so many ability users to mobilize an army... dragon level?"
"It is true that there is a person with dragon-level abilities, but he is not an enemy but a teammate. After we reunited, we reorganized into two groups to perform the mission. One group is still responsible for the rescue, while the second group has to fight against..." Jin Ling felt empty. :"This guy."
A giant monster that looks like a cephalopod is projected on the table. It has a huge body as vast as a mountain and has multiple tentacles covered with suckers. It looks like a distant relative of the octopus; the position of its facial features cannot be determined because A huge carapace covered its head.
"How big...is this thing?" Yun Ming swallowed at this Cthulhu-style monster. Of course, it wasn't because he was greedy. It was because Yun Ming suddenly discovered that various existences in this parallel universe were still challenging his imagination, and the natives in this world performed well. They were surprised and did not show more complicated emotions.
"Although more than 80% of its body is hidden underwater and cannot be visually inspected, according to the results of the undersea sonar map deployed, the main part of this thing is about 200 meters long and 150 meters high. More than 1 meter tall, the tips of the tentacles seem to be elongated like molluscs, but at the same time they are very hard. You see, the dozen tentacles exposed above the sea have almost dismantled the Second Fleet of the Southeast Asian Navy."
Jin showed several videos. The camera was extremely shaky, and it was so dark late at night that nothing could be seen clearly. The only illumination was the tail flames of rockets, the flames of naval guns, and the ship's searchlights. If I didn’t listen to Jin’s explanation, I wouldn’t have known what was being photographed.
"This is the combat record of the Southeast Asian Navy's Second Fleet and this monster two hours ago. It was said to be a battle, but in fact it was a one-sided massacre. Within two and a half hours of the monster's appearance, the Second Fleet lost all nuclear submarines and conventional submarines. Submarine; the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier New Element, the first ship of the Second Fleet, was dragged into the sea by the monster's tentacles and sank; the main ships Barça, Magsaysay Fort, Lumbia, Mactan-Benito-Eben, four All cruisers were ripped into two pieces by the tentacles."
"The incident happened suddenly, and it happened to coincide with Mr. Gordon's uprising. The senior naval admirals in the Manila Bay area could not contact Joseph Chapman, and the upper-level command completely failed. Fortunately, Governor Palmer Barcelo of Ten Thousand Islands County Miao took over the command in a timely manner, remotely controlled from Bandar Seri Begawan, and issued military and administrative orders."
"The Second Fleet has almost lost the ability to continue fighting, so the remaining forces were transferred out of the war zone by Palmer, and together with the support fleet that rushed to the waters of Manila Bay, they retreated to the east of Corregidor Island, blocking the North and South Channel waterways and cutting off monsters. The possibility of entering the South China Sea or even the Pacific Ocean.”
"The three air force bases closest to Manila Bay, Fernando, Atienza, and Villamore, have all mobilized pilots and fighter planes on the battlefield. According to the observed results, although aerial bombs are less lethal to monsters, But the scope of its activities can be limited.”
"The evacuation order for Manila Port personnel has been issued, but Manila has a population of 16 million. It is impossible to organize an orderly and rapid evacuation of the entire city in a short period of time. Once the giant monster lands on the west coast of the city, the number of civilian casualties and various types of The economic losses will be astronomical. Whether Manila can be saved this time depends on everyone here."
