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#638 - Chapter 13 The Man Behind the Scenes

Pecos, Texas, one of the major agricultural and pastoral areas in Texas, Paris is a typical small Western town.

Many local residents were gathered outside the town's abandoned movie theater, watching them pull an old truck out of it.

Someone commented, "What the hell? How did they get such a big truck in there?"

A scruffy blond man complained, "Cade, why did we buy such a piece of junk? Getting it out and the shipping costs more than the truck itself. And most importantly, it's all my money being spent."

"Hey, Lucas, don't complain. Didn't I say I'd share the profits with you?" Cade said, playing with a shell casing in his hand, looking at the rusty flatbed truck in front of him.

Lucas: "Are you kidding me? You said that last time, and the time before that, and the time before that."

Cade: "Enough, don't worry about the small stuff. You know I have a daughter to raise, and I need to buy her a pretty dress for her graduation dance."

Lucas: "Come on! What girl would want to dance with her dad at the graduation dance?"

The two of them bickered all the way back to their farm. As soon as they returned, they saw a heavy-set black woman bringing a middle-aged couple to look at the house.

Cade immediately got upset. He pulled a crowbar out of the trunk and pointed it at the middle-aged couple, saying, "Hey, what are you doing in my house? If you don't leave, I swear I'll smash your heads in with this!"

The middle-aged man shielded his wife behind him: "Hey, calm down, buddy, don't do this. We're just here to buy the house."

Cade: "This house is mine, I'm not selling it. Get out of here now."

The black woman said, "Mr. Yeager, you haven't paid your mortgage in six months. Not only that, but I also saw you stealing electricity from your neighbor."

Cade: "Get out now, I don't want to say it a second time. Otherwise, I'll smash your brains out."

The black woman: "Okay, you just wait, I'm calling the police."

Watching the three people flee in panic, Lucas said, "Cade, I don't think this is a good idea. She might actually call the police."

Cade: "So what? You go to town and buy me some parts. If you can figure out how to take the engine off that truck and fix it, I'll have money to pay you and pay off the mortgage."

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Alaska, a helicopter with the FBI logo flew over a snow-capped mountain. On the other side of the mountain was a massive spaceship, shaped like an inverted claw, a Cybertronian explorer ship from the Golden Age.

The helicopter landed above the ship without any obstruction, and the ship's hatch opened. A tall Transformer led several troopers onto the platform on top of the ship.

An old man in black walked out of the helicopter alone, fearlessly approaching the tall robots. This man was Harold Attinger, the second-in-command of the CIA, and also the one secretly trading with Joshua.

The leading Transformer came in front of him and said very humanely, "Earth's messenger, Mr. Attinger, I feel obligated to remind you that alliances are contracts, and our contracts, like yours, have time limits."

Harold Attinger smoothed his ruffled hair: "Mr. Lockdown, on our Earth, the enemy of my enemy is my friend!"

Lockdown: "What does your Earth's custom have to do with me?"

Seeing that the other party was so uncooperative, Harold had to change the subject: "What exactly happened in Mexico City? Why did Optimus Prime get away? Such a thorough plan failed to kill him."

Lockdown pointed at him and said unhappily, "I hit him three times directly, and with a fatal wound. But your people failed to intercept him, allowing Optimus Prime to escape. It's been so long, can some people still provide accurate information? If this continues, our cooperation will end."

Harold: "At least you have to tell me why you're capturing Optimus Prime, and who you're working for?"

Lockdown: "I've been to many galaxies, and your species is all the same, thinking you're the center of the universe. You have a curiosity that far exceeds your strength. You don't understand true greatness at all. Just do your job! My patience is limited."

After he finished speaking, he turned and went back to the ship, leaving Harold standing alone in the cold wind.

After Harold returned to the CIA branch in Illinois, his subordinates reported to him: "Director Attinger, Special Operations just received a report from Texas. According to the photo comparison, it's the truck that left Mexico City. We've locked onto the target, and the TRF team is ready to move at any time."

Harold picked up the photos and looked at them: "Great, we finally found it. Let's go to the command center." On the way, Harold picked up his phone and entered a string of information. Lockdown, who was operating in the United States, received the message and immediately changed direction to Texas.

Silicon Valley, the underground of Xinghuan Company, Liu Yuan was sitting in the control center. The screens in front of him showed many pictures, including the alien spaceship in Alaska, Lockdown driving on the highway, and the Cemetery Wind forces entering the farm.

In fact, when Lockdown came to Earth, he was discovered by Liu Yuan's reconnaissance satellites. During this time, Lockdown has been under his remote monitoring, including his transactions with Attinger and their pursuit of the Autobots.

Alice didn't quite understand: "Master, with our ability, it should be easy to take down Lockdown and his ship. Why did you choose such a troublesome surveillance operation?"

Liu Yuan: "It's easy to deal with Lockdown, but the person behind him is a bit tricky. It's troublesome to bring him over too early."

Alice: "The person behind him? Master, I don't understand."

Liu Yuan recalled and said, "That's an ancient being, and also your creator. Whether it's your race or the planet Cybertron, they all came from its hand."

"Our Creator—Quintessa! That is a great being. It was it who gave us enlightenment in the dark ages. That is why there was the great uprising of the Cybertronians, overthrowing the rule of the Quintessons." A Transformer of about five meters walked out and bowed deeply to Liu Yuan, "Greetings, great master!"

Liu Yuan: "Fallen, how much do you know about the creator, Quintessa?"

Fallen: "I'm sorry, master. I don't know much about it. It rarely contacted us. Moreover, Quintessa only provided us with technology to remove the shackles set in our bodies by the Quintessons, so that we could transform freely. In the millions of years after the Great Uprising, we did not have any news of it."