Umbrella, The Light of Humanity

"Boom! Boom!"

The car wreaks havoc in the restaurant.

"Hey...!"

In the end, the front of the car was stuck at the entrance of the back kitchen next to the front desk, which prevented the car from colliding and destroying unscrupulously.

Wait for the movement to stop.

Pedestrians outside stopped to watch, while the guests who were originally dining in the restaurant were gasping for breath with lingering fear.

Beside the gap that was knocked down.

The male customer who was lying on the ground slowly got up, and at the same time helped the waitress, and asked her:

"Is there anything uncomfortable? Or something doesn't feel right? Trish."

"No...it's okay." The waiter with a flushed face shook his head slightly.

"It's fine."

The male customer with normal complexion breathed a sigh of relief, looked around and confirmed that no one in the restaurant was injured by the car, and finally he was completely relieved.

Blondes, split heads, car accidents and rich women.

The combination of several factors pointed the true identity of this secretly fortunate male customer to Umbrella's former legendary intelligence agent, Leon S. Kennedy.

It's called once, not because he was "fired and fired" by Umbrella...

Although Lyon directly caused Umbrella to lose countless transport vehicles such as a Mammoth, twelve Warthogs, and two Yuou during the mission, the company was not stingy enough to send this The legend of outstanding meritorious service was expelled unilaterally. .

In fact, as early as 30 years ago, that is, in 2056, according to the transfer order of Sui Bian, Leon was transferred from the Ministry of Intelligence to the Supervision Department of Different Spaces and Demons, and served as one of the directors of field agents.

He is on vacation for the past few days, so he stays at home in New York, sleeps until after nine o'clock and wakes up naturally, and then always has breakfast in this restaurant.

What Leon didn't expect was that after only a few days, he encountered a rare traffic accident in which a vehicle lost control and ran into the restaurant from the street.

I don't know if it was caused by his special physique, or just a coincidence...

"By the way, the boss is still behind, boss? Are you okay!"

At this time, the waitress suddenly thought of the owner of the restaurant, and immediately ran towards the back kitchen.

However, the boss with a bald "hairstyle" and wearing a chef's uniform stepped on the hood of the car and climbed out of the back kitchen to the right side of the car.

shook his head.

The boss looked into the car with the airbag inflated, frowned at the bewildered driver, and said, "Young man, why are you in such a hurry this early in the morning? Look, this foot stepped on..."

talking.

Seeing that the guests were only frightened and no one was injured, the bald boss immediately raised his voice and said:

"Today, our store suffered a sudden accident. I'm really sorry. I will waive the order for everyone out of compensation."

Then he looked at the approaching waiter and said, "Tracey, I'll give you five days off to rest well, and I'll give you a raise after the renovation of the store is completed, ha...cough cough, the police are here, so I won't tell you for now."

After finishing speaking, the bald boss walked out of the shop through the gap made by the car.

On the street outside the store, many onlookers had already gathered.

The airships of emergency agencies such as the New York Police Department, trauma teams, and fire departments have also arrived.

Police officers wearing simple armor and mechanical skeletons began to evacuate the crowd, and blocked both sides of the one-way street, temporarily prohibiting the entry of ground vehicles to avoid traffic jams.

Firefighters and trauma teams entered the restaurant, extracted the car's liquid hydrogen fuel, and rescued the driver.

At this time, two more police officers walked into the restaurant and guided Lyon, the waiter and everyone to leave the scene in an orderly manner.

Come outside the store.

Lyon leaned against the seaside guardrail, watching the driver who was not seriously injured being sent into the flying boat by the trauma team on a stretcher of some kind of suspension technology.

See here.

Leon also couldn't help saying to himself: "Boy, I hope your insurance limit is enough."

If it is a problem with the quality of the car, the driver can feel more at ease. If it is a problem with his own operation, there Ang can only ask for good luck in his heart.

But no matter what, the restaurant owner can get a lot of compensation, which is why the bald boss will suppress his laughter, free the bill, and give the waiter a raise.

Just as Lyon was about to find a fast food place to make a living for brunch, a waiter named Tracy approached him and asked bluntly:

"Mr. Kennedy... Do you have time in the evening? I heard that there is a steak restaurant with a very good review at the Metropolitan Museum. Would you like to come together..."

"Di-! Di-!"

However, the rapid ringtone of the mobile phone interrupted the waiter's invitation.

Leon took out his flaky crystal-shaped mobile phone, glanced at the screen, took advantage of the opportunity to show a "pity", and declined:

"I'm sorry, the company has an urgent matter and needs to go on a business trip. Let's talk about it when we come back."

"That's it..." The waiter said regretfully, "Then go ahead, Mr. Kennedy."

"You are also enjoying the holiday, see you another day."

Leon said as he walked forward, then turned left and completely left the one-way street, and began to carefully read the text messages from the company.

But the content is simple and clear:

Director Kennedy, please rush to the New York branch before 14:00, the colony needs an investigation from the Ministry of Supervision

— 2086/08/14/10:37.

"Ah..." Seeing the content, Leon, who put the phone lock screen back into his pocket, couldn't help but sigh with emotion:

"Holidays are always so short... Forget it, eating is the main goal now."

He quickly adjusted his mentality and said to himself, ready to deal with the problem of hunger.

After finishing brunch at a fried chicken fast food restaurant, Lyon took the sky rail train to the East Side of Manhattan and returned to his home in the giant apartment.

Unlock and enter the house.

Put on slippers.

Leon first went to the cloakroom and changed into a brown loose waterproof long-sleeved shirt and black multi-pocket overalls.

Immediately afterwards, he took a black travel bag containing clothes to the west side of the living room, entered the password on the terminal, and performed biometric sensing before entering the "utility room" with the door closed.

Turn on the lights.

In the well-organized "utility room", on the left and right sides and on the wall facing the door, there are a dizzying array of firearms, grenades, portable armor, and all kinds of Umbrella's cutting-edge weapons and equipment.

Take off the belt with the quick-draw holster, pistol magazine bag and small tactical bag, fasten it, choose a customized laser pistol and put it into the holster, put the battery magazine and corresponding tools into the magazine bag and In the tactical bag, cover these with a shirt.

Then I took some grenades, magazines and other equipment into the travel bag, packed it up, and went out on time at 1:30 in the afternoon.

Take the pre-booked air taxi, fly in the bustling urban area full of high-rise buildings, within ten minutes, you will arrive at the Empire State Building, which has long been purchased by Umbrella and converted into a New York branch.

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…

The middle floor of the New York branch building.

Leon, who handed the travel bag to the staff, came to the end of the corridor and entered a combat meeting room.

The automatic door just opened.

While discussing with colleagues, or sitting on folding chairs, the agents in their respective casual clothes stood up and saluted Leon:

"Director Kennedy."

"En." Leon raised his hand in return, put his hand down and said, "You don't have to be restrained."

"Yes, Director."

After receiving the order, the agents continued as usual, but the volume of conversations with each other was obviously much lower than before.

After all, no matter how young and "unreliable" Lyon seems, he is still a senior executive, and his corresponding military rank is equivalent to the existence of brigadier general and major general.

Leon didn't care what the group of young people thought, and went straight to the front of the conference room, sat down and waited.

Soon, the meeting room fell silent.

As soon as two o'clock arrives, the holographic device installed in the meeting room will generate real-time imaging of the red queen at the front end.

She glanced at Leon and all the agents, and said with a cold face: "Everyone, this urgent gathering is due to the shortage of intelligence agents and supervision agents in the border fortress sector, and we need your support to carry out investigation operations."

heard the words.

Leon frowned slightly and asked, "Investigation operations? Is it an investigation about different spaces and demons?"

The Red Queen shook her head lightly and said, "Insufficient data, it is impossible to confirm whether it is a different space."

Then she swung her left hand, forming a holographic star map of the existing human territory on her side.

Compared with more than ten years ago, its territory has actually not changed much, but the galaxies developed and colonized by humans within the scope are much denser.

Moreover, the territory is divided into seven star regions, and the solar system at the very center is particularly conspicuous.

At this time, the Red Queen debugged and enlarged the star map, and locked on to the "Boundary Fortress" star area that contains a total of 32 colonized planets, as well as a large number of asteroid colonies and mines, including Harvest Star.

The chart edges are brief data profiles such as;

Population: about 22.3 billion.

Diameter: about 98 light-years.

Star District Headquarters: Epson VIII Galaxy, Harvest Star.

Garrison Legion: Umbrella Second Army, Spartan Army.

UNSC: 5th, 9th, 017th, 026th fleets.

For example, the reserves of the Spartan Legion, or related data such as Krieger and UNSC ground defense forces, the Red Queen did not list them for everyone.

Showing the Frontier Fort sector.

The Red Queen continued: "This star area was harassed by a large number of remnants of the Covenant Empire half a month ago, and the specific information will be sent to your personal mobile phones.

At the same time, when a few Jilahani tribes were killed, they responded with suspected psychic powers.

In order to find out whether it is related to a different space, it is necessary for everyone here to go to the border fortress star area and conduct a secret investigation.

If necessary, I will notify local staff and defense forces to assist you as much as possible. If necessary, the Spartan Legion and Gray Knights will respond to your request for support.

Any questions? "

After the words fell, Lyon and all the agents remained silent, indicating that they had no problem.

So the Red Queen set her sights on Leon, and conveyed: "According to the order of the chairman, Director Kennedy will be responsible for the specific distribution."

"Understood." Leon nodded.

"Then good luck to all of you."

After the red queen finished speaking, she took the initiative to dissipate her holographic imaging, but left behind the star map that appeared.

Leon got up immediately, used the star map to call up the brief information of all the colonies in the star area, browsed it for a while, and based on his understanding of his subordinates, he ordered the agents present:

"Hoyt, Gerson, and Lin Jieyu, the three of you are responsible for investigating Harvest Star.

Ai Jia, I will leave Callisto to you, Li Ran, you will be in charge of Haiyanxing, Zeldo..."

next.

Agents are distributed evenly by Lyons in pairs, groups of three, or solo to colonize planets and asteroid colonies in Frontier Fortresses.

Lyon chose the most marginal city, Bulton, which once belonged to the Covenant Empire and has now become the "territory" of human beings, as the investigation target.

Assign their tasks.

Leon uttered his final advice: "Remember to carry the water of the full moon with you to avoid being eroded and corrupted by demons.

I don't want to wait until the mission is over, and when I'm about to enjoy the vacation, I hear that one of you lost your life due to carelessness, is it clear? "

"Listen clearly!" All the agents responded in unison.

"Very well, time does not wait, let's go."

"yes."

meeting dismiss.

Everyone left the combat conference room, received their temporary luggage, took company vehicles or flying boats, went to the Starport on the south side of Manhattan, and then used the special authority to board the company ships and headed for their respective mission targets.

This time, Lyon was not as "thrifty and frugal" as the intelligence agents and agents circulated, and he also took the transportation provided by the company.

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…

Fourteen hours later.

A cargo ship similar in shape to a pioneer engineering ship, with a specification length of about 800 meters, is sailing rapidly in the fault space.

The red and white umbrella logo and the words "Silent Mary" are printed on both sides of the cargo ship.

In a sleeping cabin in the upper living area of ​​the cargo ship, Leon, who took off his shirt and was wearing a black sleeveless vest and overalls, was lying on the fixed single bed in a daze with the palms of his hands on the back of his head.

It seemed that he had squinted, and had just woken up not long ago.

Leon's appearance is almost the same as that of the Arcadia incident in 2042, and he is still twenty-eight or nine years old.

Injecting delaying medicine is one aspect. The nanotechnology led by Birken and Ziegler is actually still being perfected and improved.

Even for the general public who have no access to blood mangosteen and delay medicine, the average life expectancy has been increased to 205 to 225 years due to nanomedicine.

The age groups of "young and mature" and "old" have undergone tremendous changes, and the death rate has dropped significantly. The total population has reached 174.5 billion.

There are seven star sectors, with an average of 24.9 billion people in each star sector, but there are nearly 42 billion people in the solar system as the parent galaxy, and the border fortress star sector is below the average line.

As for the social "happiness index", it has not declined due to population growth.

Since human beings are no longer bound by gravity and bound to the "little" blue earth, people no longer need to worry and worry about buying a residence.

On the basis of the original technology, the technology of the Covenant Empire has been absorbed, so that the cost of civilian and even private interstellar navigation has been reduced year by year.

Reclamation of unexplored galaxies, mining of mineral resources, and countless jobs.

Of course, most things have two sides.

The reduction in the cost of interstellar travel has also allowed the "robbery business" that could only take place on the earth and sea to develop into space.

asteroid colonies in remote starfields,

smaller space stations,

There is a certain probability that a ship that has just sailed out of the fault space will encounter "pirates" composed of opportunists.