U.S. Marine Geological Exploration Administration.

Lauren held the fax report in front of him, and he hadn't moved for three minutes, three minutes and fifty-four seconds to be exact.

As a world-renowned geo-hydrodynamicist and the top head of the U.S. Marine Geological Exploration Agency, he has endless things to deal with at every moment, and it can be traced back to three years ago, when he received the news of his wife's death.

Catherine, the secretary, glanced at Dr. Lauren with some concern.

She called softly.

"Doctor's ......"

Lauren seemed to be awakened by the secretary's call, and her sloppy gaze gradually condensed, then closed her eyes, took off her glasses, rubbed her eyebrows and temples, and opened her eyes for ten seconds, her face changed to her usual seriousness and calmness.

He asked softly:

"What time is it?"

"15:25." Catherine replied.

"Help me contact the Minister of Defense, and in 20 minutes, I hope to see him in the minister's office."

After saying that, he buried his head and got busy.

Catherine's heart swooped, what happened, to see the Minister of Defense! You must know that only when the danger level is above the orange level can you meet the Minister of Defense! It is impossible for Dr. Lauren not to know, so there is only one possibility, is it ......

Catherine's gaze shifted to the fax papers on the table, most of which had been obscured by file bags, an extremely striking picture of the wreckage of the plane, surrounded by blue waters.

Catherine couldn't help but tilt her head slightly, wanting to see more clearly, but she didn't think that Professor Lauren gave the eviction order without hesitation.

"Anything else?"

Catherine shook her head regretfully and pushed the door open.

Twenty minutes later.

Dr. Lauren solemnly pushed open the door to the Department of Defense conference room, and in front of a small brown conference table, three dignified-looking people sat looking at him.

In fact, Lauren does not like the current secretary of defense, not because he discriminates against blacks, but because Dean's arrogant face is disgusting because of his skin color.

Just like it is now.

"Aha, our Dr. Jew, you called us here, and without giving a satisfactory explanation, I wouldn't mind letting our taxpayers see clearly that some people are squandering their money just for a pointless party chat."

The black man sitting in the middle spoke in a relaxed tone, like the conversation between friends, but the content of the words was extremely arrogant.

Dr. Lauren didn't answer, but walked straight to the conference table, took out the papers in his file bag, distributed them to the three of them, and sat quietly aside.

Minister Dean was a little surprised by Lauren's abnormal behavior, he had known Dr. Lauren for more than 30 years, what kind of temper he had, Dean couldn't understand it anymore, basically belonged to the kind of hot temper that exploded at a point, in the past, Lauren must have cursed loudly such as "nigger, dog offal" and other extremely vulgar words, which is also one of the few pleasures for Dean in the past thirty years, but now, Lauren is surprisingly silent, sitting on the sidelines, sullen and speechless.

Something is wrong. Secretary Dean's years of political experience suddenly smelled a hint of danger.

He quickly picked up the papers, sat up straight, and watched intently, his face becoming more and more solemn, and by the end his whole face was so gloomy that he could almost drip water.

Not only him, but the other two had the same expression.

"Dr. Lauren, won't you explain this to us?"

Minister Dean leaned forward, his oppressive gaze fixed on Lauren, using honorifics for the first time.

Lauren slowly sat up straight, with a strange emotion brewing in his eyes, picked up the world's ocean geological hydrodynamic map from the table, pointed to an area full of red signals, and said in a deep voice:

"As you can see, from the data we have monitored, the crustal activity in this area is violent, there have been more than 40 earthquakes below the third level in 76 hours, the island has sunk, the water temperature around the island has risen, and according to the data, there is still an active volcano here, which is in the active period, if there is no accident, this area is expected to erupt in 18 hours!"

After listening to Dr. Lauren's explanation, the doubts in the hearts of the three of them did not dispel a star, and Minister Dean patted the table and said impatiently:

"So what are you going to tell us? Earthquakes, tsunamis?! No! I don't want to hear that, which part of China is a full Pacific Ocean away from America, and I don't think a small volcanic eruption can threaten the great America! So,"

Minister Dean's eyes suddenly sharpened, and he pointed to another photo file of the wreckage of the plane on the table, and said sharply:

"Can you tell me, what's going on with these drones?!"

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have always been an important tool for all aspects of American detection, and they are the crystallization of the most high-end scientific research in the United States. Not only the military, but also many scientific research and observations use drones.

The crashed drone is exactly the regular configuration of the U.S. Marine Geological Exploration Agency, and if it is a mechanical failure, it is fine, but if it is destroyed by a missile, it is difficult not to make people have some bad associations.

Like, provocation, war!

Politicians have always been based on their purpose, and Secretary Dean is no exception. How he wanted to hear Dr. Lauren tell him that the wrecked drone was sabotaged and destroyed, and that would have an immeasurably huge impact on his political future.

What a wonderful provocation, Minister Dean felt his soul tremble.

How could Lauren not understand the thoughts of the old adversary, and glanced at the black minister with a sneer, how can things be as simple as you think.

Then, in a deep voice, he explained:

"Twenty minutes ago, the salvage team had transported the wreckage of the drone to the nearest research room and sent me a fax of the results of the investigation. The results of the investigation showed that the drone was about 100 kilometers away from the eruption site, suddenly lost contact with the central control room, and then fell into the sea, and no missile attack was seen in the black box, and it could not have crashed with human electronic interference! ”

"How do you know that it wasn't the terrorists who used electronic jamming to cause the drone to crash?"

Minister Dean stood up abruptly, propped his hands on the table, stared at Lauren viciously, and said word by word: "I see, this is what the terrorists do!" ”

Lauren looked at Dean like an idiot and sneered, "If the technology of terrorists could change the band structure of matter, the world would have been doomed a long time ago." ”

Dean was stunned for a moment, a little unintelligible, and subconsciously asked:

"What did you say?"

Lauren ignored Dean, and changed his calm just now, and his face became extremely fanatical.

"The electronic components of the drone were all destroyed in an instant, and the investigators sent a report that the material energy band of the silicon element of the electronic components had completely changed, and there was only one possibility." Dr. Lauren's eyes burned with a strange light, and his voice trembled slightly.

"There must be some unknown radioactive element in the volcanic eruption, which is interfering with and changing the band structure of silicon!! Make it non-conductive! ”

"This substance will surely be the greatest discovery in the history of mankind!"

Dr. Lauren trembled with excitement, as a scientist, there is nothing more exciting than discovering the unknown, and if things turn out as Lauren expected, then his name will be immortalized in the history books of mankind.

Just as Lauren was very excited, she heard Minister Dean say coldly:

"And then? What are you trying to express? ”

Without waiting for Lauren to speak, Dean replied to himself, "You don't want the great America to send troops to search for the non-existent substance you are talking about. ”

The tone was extremely sarcastic.

"Why not?" Dr. Lauren spread his hands.

"Why not," Minister Dean slammed his hands on the table and roared abruptly, "being provoked and actively provoking others are two different things, not to mention whether the fat-brained and hypocritical guys in the Senate can pass your proposal to send troops, even if you barely approve it, but have you thought about it, it is the territory of Huaxia, and we have successfully landed on the shore, what does it mean?!" Do you want to provoke a third world war?! Buddy! ”

Dean's words poured cold water on his head, and Lauren never thought about it, because in his opinion, science knows no borders. But he was not a fool, and he was equally aware of what the consequences would be if American troops landed on the territory of China.

"Is there no other way?" Lauren muttered to herself. The opportunity was right in front of him, and he didn't want to lose it.

"Wait, my old fellow," said Minister Dean as he patted Lauren on the shoulder, reassuring him, and then seemed to remember something, and picked up the table of geological flows of the world's oceans and compared it to the world map on the wall.

"Hmm, the outbreak area turned out to be the Zhonghu Islands, I remember that the intelligence department came with news that the high school in Huaxia was going to hold a summer camp here recently, hmm......"

The black minister thought for a moment, then asked the secretary to bring his mobile phone and dialed a transatlantic call, but he didn't see it, and Lauren's eyes flashed with some kind of inexplicable light......