Chapter 38: Practical Training (I)

By the next night, six special forces had completed the preparation of the Doomsday Warriors.

It's going very well, and if nothing else, in another twenty hours, all ten Doomsday Warriors will be in place, and the Doomsday Force will be officially formed.

However, there are twenty-five days left before the day of judgment.

What the Doomsday Force did during these twenty-five days became a new question.

It was not the Chief of the General Staff or the Scientific Adviser who discussed this issue, but the Commissioner, and the main thing was that the existence of the Doomsday Force required strict secrecy.

Smith thinks Doomsday should be left with Diego Garcia to conduct simulated training on an adaptive platform.

The best thing about this is that you can keep it a secret.

However, Zhang Xiaogang and others believe that even if the adaptive platform can simulate a realistic actual combat environment, it cannot replace actual combat actions. Due to the limitations of computer performance, the virtual environment generated by the adaptive platform simulation is obviously different from the natural environment. If the Doomsday Warrior adapts to the virtual environment, there is a high probability that unpredictable results will occur when carrying out tasks that affect the fate of humanity.

The question is, what kind of action is worth the Doomsday Force?

On the evening of the third day, after Long Zhijian completed the modulation of the doomsday system on the desert island, and under the insistence and promotion of Zhang Xiaogang and other special commissioners, the Security Affairs Liaison Office issued a proposal to the Joint Chiefs of General Staff to provide a suitable combat mission for the soon-to-be-established Doomsday Force.

This time, Zhang Xiaogang came prepared.

At the meeting of the chiefs of general staff convened by Stark, Zhang Xiaogang came up with four sets of task plans, including disarming India and Pakistan through military action, destroying North Korea's nuclear facilities and nuclear weapons, and overthrowing the Iranian regime, which has been creating destabilizing factors.

However, these task options have not received the attention of the Chief of the General Staff.

Clowns like Iran and North Korea are nothing compared to the looming threat of extraterrestrial civilizations, and the nuclear power of India and Pakistan has no decisive influence. Having defeated the invading extraterrestrial civilizations, nuclear weapons will be the first to be eliminated by the ten member states.

To put it bluntly, in the post-invasion era, nuclear weapons are nothing at all.

Probably as expected, Zhang Xiaogang threw out three more sets of task plans that had nothing to do with nuclear weapons, but had a huge impact on the secrecy work.

The three packages are aimed at three countries, and they are three very strong countries, namely, Italy, Brazil and India.

According to the evidence presented by Zhang Xiaogang, the three countries have become suspicious and have some secrets about the Planetary Defense Council. If left unchecked, there is a good chance that the three countries will release enough news to cause global turmoil before Judgment Day.

Obviously, this is what needs the attention of the ten chiefs of the General Staff.

Before the arrival of Judgment Day, keeping the situation in the world stable is no less significant than resisting the invasion of extraterrestrial civilizations, because in the era of extremely advanced communications, any negative news can spread all over the world in an instant, letting billions of people know that human civilization is at a critical juncture of life and death, and the resulting global turmoil will disrupt the deployment of actions to resist the invasion of extraterrestrial civilizations, and even lead to the collapse of the Planetary Defense Council.

In the case of the United States, as long as the news leaks, the president of the United States may be impeached by Congress. If the president steps down, then all defense projects in which the US side is involved will be affected. By the time politicians in the US Congress realize the seriousness of the problem, I am afraid that disaster has already struck. The main force of involvement of the United States is the Marine Corps, not the Army, Navy and Air Force. The reason is that the President of the United States can only mobilize the Marine Corps without congressional authorization. For the sake of secrecy, none of the ten member states disclosed anything related to the Planetary Defense Council to institutions outside the central government. With the American political system, as long as the news leaks, the politicians in Congress will definitely not let the president go, even if the president's actions are for all Americans, and the laws of the United States will not allow the president to have a good life. It is obviously unrealistic to convince 400 million Americans that the president has spent $1.5 trillion in the past two years to defeat an invasion of extraterrestrial civilizations that could lead to the extinction of humanity, and even U.S. military officers and soldiers will question the president's approach.

Nine other countries are facing similar problems.

The internal situation is volatile, and it is clear that the 10 member states cannot concentrate their efforts on resisting the invasion of extraterrestrial civilizations.

The first to talk about is Italy.

Although even Stark advocated the subversion of the Italian regime through actions to eliminate the Italian dignitaries and other personnel who had access to secrets, the French Chief of the General Staff Renaud and the German Chief of the General Staff Primakov firmly opposed it and promised to handle the matter properly.

The solution proposed by the two men was to make Italy a non-voting member of the Planetary Defense Council.

Of course, the statements of Renaud and Primakov were not very convincing in front of the other eight chiefs of the General Staff, and the security work would never be pinned on the promises of some. If the Chief of the General Staff's promises had been taken as a security guarantee, the Planetary Defense Council would have been known long ago.

Faced with the doubts of other chiefs of the General Staff, Renaud and Primakov presented an indisputable fact. After Britain's exit from the European Union, France and Germany used their position in the Planetary Defense Council to accelerate the integration of the European Union, of which Italy is an indispensable member. Although Italy is not a member of the Planetary Defence Council, it undertakes a large amount of work related to the Planetary Defence Council through the European Union. For example, in the European space company, the proportion of Italian companies is even higher than that of the United Kingdom.

For two years, France and Germany have been fighting for Italy's rightful rights.

Unfortunately, at the beginning of its establishment, the Planetary Defense Council made a clear allocation of voting rights, forming a more effective balancing mechanism. The addition of one more Member State would inevitably lead to unforeseen troubles. Moreover, Italy is not the only country entitled to join the Planetary Defense Council. At least ten countries are eligible for this, based on national strength. If Italy sets a precedent, it will inevitably add more members. Whether it is in terms of the distribution of rights or in terms of confidentiality, increasing the number of members would bring a lot of trouble.

At this juncture, it is also reasonable for France and Germany to propose that Italy be a non-voting member.

The lack of voting rights means that the Planetary Defense Council's power framework will not be undermined, and there will be no need to change the existing voting mechanism.

After discussion at the meeting of the Chiefs of the General Staff, the Franco-German proposal was finally adopted, with only a few articles attached.

The most important thing is that Italy can only passively participate in the work of the Planetary Defense Council, that is, it can only participate if it is invited, and France and Germany must keep it a secret.

After solving the problems of Italy, the problems of Brazil began.

Like Italy, Brazil is alert to the unusual international situation and is suspicious of the covert coordination of the United States, China and Russia.

The cause of the incident is related to the United States.

More than a year ago, American scientists found a way to produce polymer nano-carbon fibers from a very rare biotoxin. The toxin comes from an amphibian that lives only in the Amazon rainforest and is not available through industrial production in the short term.

This discovery brought the Doomsday Force project from demonstration to development.

In order to obtain this extremely unique biotoxin, the United States obtained permission to enter the Amazon rainforest from the Brazilian government in the name of scientific investigation and research, and established a scientific research camp in the habitat of this amphibian.

Half a year ago, in order to create the Doomsday Warrior system, the United States expanded the scale of the scientific research camp.

In the report, Zhang Xiaogang deliberately omitted one point, that is, the biotoxins obtained by the United States from the Amazon rainforest are enough to make hundreds of doomsday warrior systems.

It was also from this time that the activities of the US side in the Amazon rainforest were suspected by Brazilian officials.

The point is, it is impossible for a research camp to study rainforest organisms to house thousands of scientists, let alone hundreds of heavily armed guards. It is important to know that there are no permanent inhabitants within hundreds of kilometers of the research camp, and even the indigenous people of the Amazon are very rare.

Initially, Brazilian authorities suspected that the American company was secretly engaged in drug-related activities.

Although this suspicion was ruled out when the US authorities stepped in and began to allocate funds for scientific research projects, the Brazilian military took action a week ago.

A Brazilian special forces tried to enter the camp and exchanged fire with the guards.

The guards guarding the camp are all genuine special forces, and all of them are from the Navy SEALs, far superior to the Brazilian special forces.

During the battle, the Brazilian special forces suffered heavy losses.

It didn't end there. Since the ten Doomsday Warrior systems provided to the Planetary Defense Council had already been built, there was no reason for the United States to continue collecting biotoxins in Brazil, so on the third day after the incident, the United States decided to cancel the camp and evacuate all the staff stationed in Brazil.

Most of the personnel left Brazil by clandestine means, and only seven personnel who were not in the camp at the time were not heard from.

Three days ago, seven American scientists tried to appear in Rio de Janeiro under false identities to board a Pan Am flight controlled by the United States. Although the US side provided genuine passports and visas were also specially processed, the scientific researchers were not agents and had problems when they passed through customs. By the time U.S. diplomats arrived, Brazil's intelligence agencies had taken away seven researchers on suspicion of endangering Brazil's national interests, and Brazilian officials refused to release them at the request of the U.S. State Department.

If Zhang Xiaogang doesn't poke this out, Stark will definitely not tell the other chiefs of the general staff.

To illustrate the seriousness of the problem, Zhang Xiaogang also mentioned an incident that occurred at the end of June, that is, the explosion at the Cosmodrome in French Guiana, which is also likely to be related to the Brazilian special forces. At that time, European Space was preparing for the launch of a launch vehicle with a super-nuclear warhead. Although the explosion in the warehouse area did not have an impact on the launch activity, France has confirmed that seven personnel involved in Operation Courage were killed in the explosion following a comprehensive clean-up of the explosion site, as well as the loss of spare parts for some super-nuclear warhead carriers. In the aftermath of the incident, the French authorities quickly recovered the missing parts, which they believe were scattered in the nearby jungle by the explosion. Zhang Xiaogang raised a major question, namely that before the incident, a special forces unit from Brazil left the station and appeared immediately after the incident, close to the Mucumac Hill in French Guia. Brazilian authorities claim that the unit has cleared up a drug lord force in the region. The point is that the region is not suitable for the cultivation of drugs, and there are no powerful drug lords.

All of this points to a key issue, which is that Brazil is likely to be suspicious.

At the meeting, Luo Jinyong provided a strong corroboration for Zhang Xiaogang's speculation. That is, the 2014X1 asteroid ejected a large number of objects as it accelerated and crashed into the Martian atmosphere, producing a meteor shower that lasted for more than ten hours and was able to be observed by astronomy enthusiasts in the appropriate location. As 2014X1 crosses the perigee of Mars and begins to rush towards Earth at full speed, the probability of being spotted by the observatory is increasing.

Although Brazil is not a developed country, it is not poor and its national strength can be regarded as strong.

As long as the 2014X1 asteroid was discovered by Brazil's official astronomical agency, it was easy for Brazilian authorities to link the discovery to the asteroid.

In Zhang's words, it won't be long before the Brazilian authorities know what is about to happen.

Although the whole world will know that an asteroid with a diameter of 10 kilometers is rushing towards the Earth, it is likely that Brazil will be one of the first countries outside the Planetary Defense Council to figure out why. That is, seven American researchers are in the hands of Brazilian intelligence agencies.

In time, these seven researchers will definitely explain all the things about Zhilu Dao.

If Italy could be silenced by co-opting, and the influence exerted by France and Germany could make Italy give up its demand for voting rights. The only way to win over Brazil would be to give Brazil the voting rights it deserves, and that would mean making significant changes to the existing power structure of the Planetary Defense Council. If this had happened two years ago, there would have been enough time for discussion. With just over twenty days left, everyone decided that time could not be wasted for the sake of a new power structure.

"Brazil's problems are really serious, but what can we do to overthrow the Brazilian regime?" Stark sighed and said, "Time is too short, and it may not get the desired results. It is not difficult to overthrow the Brazilian regime, it is difficult to silence all those in the know. If we remain silent, it will take some time for the Brazilian intelligence agencies to figure out what happened, and by taking action, we will convince the Brazilian intelligence agencies that the clues they have discovered are related to a big secret, which will lead to the worsening of the situation. ”

"The point is, there are more than twenty days left." Yang Fanglie knew what Stark was thinking. Brazil is a Latin American country, and the United States has always treated Latin America as its backyard, not allowing other countries to interfere. "Not to mention a few scientific researchers, even intelligence personnel, may not be able to hold out for more than 20 days. The Brazilian intelligence agencies have already found out, otherwise they would not have taken action again and again, and they would definitely torture these scientists. As soon as one person speaks, the Brazilian intelligence agencies will soon figure out what is happening, and the Brazilian authorities will turn against us. ”

"Even so, we can pass on to the past."

Yang Fanglie smiled and said, "General Stark, the asteroid is approaching at a speed of 30 million kilometers per day, how long do you think you can be perfunctory?" Furthermore, if the Brazilian authorities had been shut down at the end of the day, and we had not answered positively, and the Brazilian authorities had revealed the secrets to the world a few days before the date of the trial, the results would have been unpredictable, and perhaps all our efforts in the past two years would have been in vain. ”

"What do you think should be done?"

"I think it's best to listen to the opinions of professionals."

As soon as Yang Fanglie said this, Zhang Xiaogang said: "Even with an ordinary astronomical telescope, you can find an approaching asteroid three days in advance. All of our security plans are based on this, that is, three days before the trial day, we will control public opinion and communication networks to stop the spread of information. While the news will still spread, it is manageable and at least poses a threat to Operation Courage. ”

Stark nodded, indicating that he knew the security plan mentioned by Zhang Xiaogang.

"Brazil is a country with sound astronomical institutions. With Brazil's astronomical capabilities, the 2014X1 asteroid should be discovered about a week earlier. ”

"And then?"

"I believe that for the sake of the future of human civilization, you will give up some of your interests, such as giving up some voting rights to silence the Brazilian authorities. But I doubt that the Brazilian authorities will be able to control the spread of the information. Zhang Xiaogang smiled and said, "Everyone knows the level of corruption in the Brazilian administration. Not to mention Brazil, even the clean and efficient governments of the United States and European countries may not be able to do a good job of security and confidentiality within a week to silence those in the know. Besides, if we really get to this point, there may be more people in the Brazilian government and intelligence agencies than we do in 10 countries combined. This is a catastrophe for secrecy. ”

Zhang Xiaogang's words were supported by other commissioners.