Chapter 145: An Angel Descends
In the headquarters of the Third Fleet at Point Loma, the commander, Vice Admiral Floyd, was about to cry at this time, he imagined that he would lead the fleet against the Chinese, against the Lucians, against the Atlanteans, and even against the dragon king, but he never imagined that he would still need to lead his subordinates to fight a heavy rain.
It was a steel aircraft carrier cruiser nuclear submarine, not a sand castle built by a child on the beach, which could be washed away by a burst of rain.
But if the concentration of nitric acid is more than 30 percent, then these steely battleships are really no different from children's sand castles.
Especially on the expensive flight decks of those aircraft carriers, the corrosive rain is flowing freely, and wherever the rain touches, it immediately rises a scorching white smoke, as if there is a red-hot iron plate underneath.
Nimitz, Karl. The Vincennes, the Stennis and three amphibious assault ships, the six battleships that formed the core of the fleet were completely enveloped in the poisonous smoke at this time.
"Quick, quick, find a way to block the rain!" His Excellency the Commander roared helplessly, and the generals beside him looked at each other one by one.
Still blocking, with what block? That's nitric acid, even if there are materials that can block corrosion, but where to collect them at this time? It is impossible for the base to prepare these things, not to mention who would dare to run out in the current situation? What's more, even if the flight deck can be blocked, what can the dozens of meters high ship island be used to cover it?
"Drive out, hurry up and get out of the acid rain range!" A general looked at the nuclear submarines that were urgently diving, and suddenly shouted with a sense of enlightenment.
Well, this is indeed a way, Boss Wang's acid rain is not large, only the south part of the Colorado Bridge, as long as these warships are moving, a few minutes are enough to escape, in fact, before the command order. The commanders on those battleships had already given the order to lift anchor. But the problem is that those cruiser destroyers that use gas turbines are better to say, their start-up time is not long, and those dock landing ships that use diesel engines are also okay, although the start-up time is slower, but it is not unacceptably slow, but what about those aircraft carriers, amphibious assault ships?
They are steam turbines, and the three Wasp-class amphibious assault ships are still oil-fired boilers, and the boilers have cooled down early after a few months of stopping, and it is fast to go from a cooling state to a few hours of full steam burning, even if the Nimitz trio is nuclear-powered. That's also using a nuclear reactor as a boiler to burn steam, and the starting speed of this thing is slower than that of a boiler, even if it is a hot start reactor, it will take several hours, if the cold start reactor can be opened out tomorrow morning.
"Drag, drag must also drag them out!" Lieutenant General Freud roared indignantly.
Well, then tow, fortunately there is no shortage of tugboats in the port, and those heroic American imperialist sailors have temporary aluminum and even glass plates on their heads, in short, everything can be blocked. Even if you temporarily block the nitric acid corrosive material, and then, like the daredevils who participated in the Fukushima rescue, brave the nitric acid poured on their heads to hang a cable between the tug and the aircraft carrier, of course, these small tugs are also covered with aluminum as much as possible. Even if there is no aluminum plate, the aluminum alloy plate can hold it up, in short, try to save their aircraft carrier.
At this time, Boss Wang also comfortably completed the last job in Betty's body.
"You're scared me to death, look at my face." Betty said sheepishly.
"Your face? What's on your face? Boss Wang said inexplicably.
Betty was stunned for a moment. I hurriedly ran to look in the mirror, but found that there was not a trace of burns on my face, could it be that I was dreaming just now. However, the burn marks on her fingers made her confirm that it was not a dream, and the poor child was really at a loss, of course, her dazed boss Wang was not interested, because at this time, he was busy making a new god appear, and it was a god who did not belong to the Atlanteans.
It is said that Boss Wang is no longer satisfied that there is only one mythological system in this world that has been confirmed, he also needs a mythological system, one that is opposed to the kind Atlanteans who are full of friendship for the human world, xie evil, and is intent on destroying the mythological system of the human world.
Of course, there must be a scapegoat for this heinous atrocity, and it cannot be counted on the Atlanteans, who are part of the earth, and even if there is a war with the US imperialists, it is an internal affair of the earthlings, so such a large-scale attack on civilians can only be done by foreign invaders.
For example...
On a small tugboat that was busy towing an aircraft carrier, a U.S. imperialist soldier accidentally exposed his arm to the aluminum plate, and then the falling acid rain burned him screaming, and he hurriedly withdrew his arm, at this moment, he was suddenly stunned for a moment, and then seemed to forget the sharp pain in his arm and the fatal acid rain outside, and even stepped out to get out of the aluminum plate cover.
"Will, you don't want to die!" An officer quickly dragged him back under the aluminum plate.
"God, angel!" But at this time, Will muttered to himself.
"What angel, you're dizzy!" The officer scolded.
That's when Will came to his senses.
"Angels, there really must be angels!"
As he spoke, he took a glass plate that was sucked by a leather hammer and held it above his head, and then leaned out from under the aluminum plate and pointed to the top of his head, and the officer and several other soldiers looked at each other, and then leaned out as he did, and looked in the direction of his finger, and at this time, a lightning bolt happened to pass across the night, and in the light of the lightning against the cloudy night, a huge figure with open wings was particularly eye-catching.
At the same time, hundreds of thousands of San Diego residents, whether they were hiding in their homes or those hiding from the acid rain on viaducts, shopping malls, or even under the eaves, saw this sudden figure in the sky.
Dressed in a white robe, with huge white wings spread out behind his back, and a figure similar to a giant sword held high in both hands, it hung high in the night sky like a huge cross, and his body was dozens of meters high, looking down on all beings majestically.
Well, this is really an angel, it is the god they believe in, their angel who destroyed their homes with acid rain and killed countless innocent people, and at this moment the people who survived the catastrophe are all confused in their hearts.
Well, they just don't know that this angel is nothing more than a thin sheet of ice.
The sight of the angel appearing only lasted for a moment, and when the light of the lightning disappeared, the figure of the angel also disappeared, and when another lightning bolt exploded, there was nothing left in the sky.
But then, the acid rain became more intense.
The disaster lasted a full hour in the end, and the civilian deaths in San Diego were not too many, only a few hundred, after all, acid rain was ineffective against cement and glass, and there were not many people outside in the middle of the night, just find a building to hide, but the number of injured was large, even light and heavy more than 10,000, as for the property damage, it can be said that it is immeasurable.
In addition, the U.S. military suffered more than 2,000 casualties, more than half of which were killed or injured while rescuing their aircraft carriers.
These are just small things, for the US imperialist government, what really makes them vomit blood are the three aircraft carriers, the three amphibious assault ships are all scrapped, by the time the acid rain stops, not a single battleship has been dragged out of the acid rain area, a full hour of nitric acid corrosion, the flight deck on those aircraft carriers is the same as the undulating Arizona Grand Canyon National Park, such a flight deck, not to mention the catapult F35, is the vertical take-off and landing type is very mysterious.
This is just the flight deck, and the damage to the ship island is also severe, and the rain flowing down from above is like a rotating grinding wheel, which has been carved on the ship island for an hour, and the steel ridge lines have been flattened in many places. The more terrifying damage is under the waterline, the acid rain that fell from the sky did not just fall on the battleship, the seawater was also injected with a large amount of nitric acid, although there was a dilution of seawater, the concentration has been relatively reduced, but the concentration of the uppermost part is still powerful enough, these nitric acid in the waterline of the battleship, are about to corrode through the steel plate, and it continues to corrode.
Such ships are no longer usable.
Even if there is no way to repair it, the flight deck and the ship island can be repaired, which is nothing more than a waste of money and time to replace them all, because the sealing performance is very good, and the interior of these aircraft carriers has not suffered much damage, that is, the elevator and catapult slipway are damaged, these are also within the scope of repair, but how to repair the groove that surrounds the whole ship on the waterline? You can't just make up for it with electric welding, right?
Unless you enter the dry dock, and then cut off the entire circle of steel plates and weld a new one, but in this way it is difficult to ensure the structural strength, nearly 100,000 tons of behemoths, need to face the resistance of seawater at 30 knots and the impact of wartime explosions, at this point there is no room for any sloppiness.
The three amphibious assault ships were even more seriously injured than aircraft carriers, two of them had even been corroded and penetrated in some places along the waterline, and there were nuclear submarines, although they dived early to avoid acid rain, but they could not avoid the acidic seawater, and all the silencing tiles of the shell had to be replaced. There are also those cruiser destroyers, although they run fast, their superstructure is also damaged in different ways, all in all, the entire main force of the Third Fleet will have to enter the dock next, and the three aircraft carriers and three amphibious assault ships will most likely be decommissioned directly, and this acid rain can be said to have destroyed a quarter of the main forces of the US imperialist navy almost at once.
Of course, these are not what ordinary people need to care about, and now the whole country of US imperialism is only concerned about one thing, what is the matter with that angel?
Also, who did it, because the captured Atlantean monster also died. (To be continued......)
PS: Maybe I've been reading too much dark text lately, and the taste is a bit heavy, so I'll pay attention to it in the future