Chapter 21: Collision



A scientific research team composed of three academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences finally came to a conclusion about the metal box and the virus that may be stored inside.

The metal box did originate from the Nagoya Arsenal during World War II, but the virus inside was definitely not a product of decades ago.

The reason is very simple, the virus in the metal box, unless it is stored at minus 70 degrees Celsius ultra-low temperature, can only survive for a maximum of 18 months!

"I think everyone here should be familiar with this virus."

The leader of the scientific research team is an old professor who has been studying infectious diseases for 40 years, and it can be said that the result of his mouth is the final conclusion: "It is smallpox!" ”

Even if everyone here is an elite figure who has been weathered for a long time and can not change his color in the face of Mount Tai, there is still a small stirring in this temporary command center.

You must know that the smallpox virus and anthrax germs, if they are used as biological weapons, can be called "biochemical atomic bombs" with their powerful lethality!

This kind of "biochemical atomic bomb" was rampant in Europe in the 18th century, because it killed more than 150 million people!

"The smallpox virus has the highest contagious surname, and it is a highly infected group regardless of gender, age and children. The virus can be infected through the air, or through direct contact with the body. It only takes 10 days of incubation for the virus to flare up, and eventually 30 percent of people will die, and those who survive will also have severe scars on their faces. ”

Listening to the old professor's words, the corners of everyone's eyes were jumping. These people, of course, were born before the 80s, when every six years, they had to go to the health center or hospital and get a smallpox vaccination, because of the Chinese political axe's full control, smallpox has hardly spread in a large area in China, even from a military point of view, they know that smallpox is called a "biochemical atomic bomb", but they don't know very much about how powerful this thing is.

"Let me give you a simple analogy, if we let the 186 virus carriers on the island return to the city today, the virus will use them as a bridge to carry out a secondary fission, and it will only take about 21 days, and the smallpox virus will cover the whole of China, and at least 15 million people will be infected with smallpox, and according to the proportion of 30 percent, there will be 4.5 million people, so it will be fatal. Because of the large-scale outbreak of 'smallpox' in our country, the countries of the world will inevitably cut off all channels of communication with our country in the shortest possible time, until the World Red Cross Organization determines that smallpox has been completely controlled, and announces to the whole world that the alarm has been lifted, and then it will be possible to slowly recover. ”

Listening to such a heart-wrenching number, everyone present looked at each other.

As soon as they received the news, they put down all their work and rushed to the Guangzhou Military Region by helicopter as fast as possible, and finally gathered at the temporary crisis handling center.

In the temporary command headquarters, it can be said that the stars are gathered, among them, there is no shortage of the kind of protection to the peak, in order to protect the subordinates, even in the face of the direct boss, they dare to pull out their pistols and shoot directly at the thorny figure on the table, but on the one hand, they are the super elite of the special brigade that they like the most, and on the other hand, there are 4.5 million sick and dead people, in the face of such a comparison, these officers present really don't know what to say more.

Li Xiangshang was the first to react, "The smallpox virus has a history of more than 1,000 years, and it was even extinct in the world in 79 years, so there should have been a cure for it a long time ago, right?" ”

"Nope!"

The old professor said categorically: "The reason why humans can defeat smallpox is because humans invented 'immune' medicine. As long as the 'cowpox' vaccine is implanted in the body in advance, smallpox can be combated. However, after the World Red Cross finally determined that smallpox had been completely eradicated in 79, countries around the world have stopped giving smallpox vaccines to newborns. In other words, people born after the 80s have no defenses against the smallpox virus. Once infected, there must be a 30 percent mortality rate, and it all depends on their own fate, and modern medicine will not help them much. ”

Li Xiangshang was silent.

The smallpox virus has long been controlled by human "immune" medicine, but for various reasons, Atlanta in the United States and Moscow in Russia still have samples of this virus in two laboratories. As early as 93, the World Health Organization formulated a plan for the complete destruction of the smallpox virus, but the American political axe rejected this plan. Their reasoning was that the United States must be prepared for a chemical and biological weapons attack, and that in order to continue research on means of dealing with smallpox, samples of the virus must be retained.

If the smallpox virus is eradicated, why worry about terrorists using the smallpox virus as a weapon to attack their country? And why do you have to keep samples of the virus in order to protect your "safety"?!

This question is as unclear as whether the world came first with chickens or eggs. But what people didn't expect was that the first sovereign country to be hit by the "smallpox" virus turned out to be China!

"We arrived here, in addition to reporting the results of the identification to you, we must also remind you of some details to completely eliminate the transmission channel!"

Another academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences stood up, he nodded slightly, and an assistant staff member immediately turned on the laser projector in the temporary command center. A satellite photograph then appears on the screen.

"Now there are 186 possible carriers of the virus, concentrated on islands off the coast of China. Although the military has sealed off the island, it is not enough to completely control the virus channel with this method alone. You know, there are tens of thousands of seabirds on that island, and if there are seabirds who have been in contact with people on the island, although seabirds will not be infected by smallpox, they can use their own feathers to carry the virus inland or to nearby fishing boats! ”

"And," the academician continued, "if those who could be carriers of the virus, pick up a few bottles on the shore, be bored, or even resentful, and deliberately take revenge, write a letter, or simply tear off a piece of cloth from their clothes, put it in a bottle, and throw it back into the sea. Who can guarantee that such a drifting bottle, in eighteen months, will not be picked up, opened and unknowingly, become a carrier of the second wave of the virus?! ”

The words of the second academician are too sharp, and they are even more with scientific research workers, and there is no one in the eyes of the "Newton". Finally, someone couldn't help but ask, "Then what do you say is foolproof?" Directly send bombers and turn the entire island into a sea of fire with incendiary bombs? ”

"Burning with fire is indeed effective in destroying the smallpox virus. In the 18th century, when smallpox was rampant in Europe, the locals also used this method. ”

The second academician told the truth, "I am a researcher in the field of infectious diseases, and my duty is to find the channels through which diseases may circulate and submit my opinions." As for how decisions are made, that's your business. By the way, I would like to remind you that there are 1.3 billion people in China, and even if all the pharmaceutical factories in the country work overtime to produce smallpox vaccines, and all health centers and hospitals are open 24 hours a day for free injections, it will never be able to match the speed of smallpox's spread! ”

In a silence, the third academician stepped onto the podium, she was the psychology tutor of the Wind Shadow Building when she was trained in "ghost thorns"!

"I'm not an expert in infectious diseases, I'm not an expert in chemical or biological weapons, my main research is the psychology of human behavior."

She said in a deep voice: "Before I arrived, I specifically read the relevant cases of smallpox virus outbreaks. On that kind of closed island, I watched the people around me, because of the outbreak of the virus, a large area of the skin of the whole body appeared red macules, until it became a thick scab; There are also some seriously ill patients, blind in both eyes and deaf in both ears, until they die of sepsis, and it is very likely that some people, obviously not infected by the virus, will become irritable and irritable because they cannot bear the constant psychological pressure, and even make violent reactions that none of us want to see because of excessive fear. ”

Speaking of this, a voice came from the audience: "They are all the best soldiers, they are not afraid of death!" ”

The female teacher didn't say a word, grabbed a white pottery cup on the rostrum, and smashed it in the direction from which the voice came.

"Smack!"

The water cup slammed down on the wall, and in the light and crisp cracking sound, more than a dozen pieces of broken porcelain splashed out in a radial shape, and the water in the teacup left a puddle of abstract water stains on the snow-white wall.

"You are also a good soldier, and you should not be afraid of death, but when I hit you with a water cup, you were afraid. You don't even have your brain to react, your body reacts instinctively. ”

The female teacher glared at the officer who subconsciously lowered her head and avoided the attack of the water glass, but her face had already raised an angry look, and she raised her voice: "You remember, it is impossible to be a human being without fear of death." If human beings hadn't avoided danger and preserved their instincts, they would have self-destructed in tens of millions of years of evolution! ”

The scientific research team composed of three academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has left the temporary command center for half an hour, but the audience is still silent, and everyone is quietly thinking about something.

With so many people, only Li Xiangshang really understood that a battle between him and Jin Zexi was launched with that desert island as a platform.

"Kim Ze-hee, I know. You deliberately used a metal box with the logo of Unit 731 to spread the virus, which itself is a warning to us to act immediately to minimize the damage of the virus, in the final analysis, you are still worried about the country in your heart, and you are not willing to hurt everyone because of personal grievances. ”

The two of them used to fight openly and secretly in the school because of the position of the principal, and they were really familiar with each other, so familiar that they didn't need to communicate at all to understand what the other party was thinking.

But Li Xiangshang found that now he really can't understand Jin Zexi: "Compared with me, the biggest advantage of you and me, and it can also be said to be the most fatal shortcoming, is that you pay too much attention to personal feelings, you look stern, but you are too soft-hearted to the person you like." You fled the country with you for the sake of an apprentice who was eliminated from school, even at the cost of becoming a traitor to the army. What I don't understand is, isn't the Wind Shadow Building also your favorite apprentice? The palms and backs of your hands are full of meat, even if Fengying Lou rejects your 'Zhao'an', you are already destined to be an enemy, how can you immediately kill the killer and have to force him into a desperate situation of endless death? ”

"It has been said that time changes a person." Li Xiangshang sighed in his heart, "Eleven years have passed, Jin Zexi, my former strongest rival, the one who is cold on the outside and hot on the inside, has it really changed?" ”

There was silence all around, and of course no one answered the question.

Li Xiangshang stood up, and under the gaze of everyone, he said in a deep voice: "We must not allow a virus that has been eliminated by mankind for more than 20 years to resurge, otherwise, we will be sinners of history!" ”

Speaking of this, Li Xiangshang only felt a throbbing pain in his heart. Kim Ze-hee's attack is not a conspiracy, but an upright conspiracy!

Jin Zexi has put everything on the table in a dignified manner. But Li Xiangshang found that Jin Zexi's attack was fundamentally ...... No solution!

Just using a metal box and a virus that has been wiped out by humans for more than 20 years, Jin Zexi kidnapped all the 1.3 billion people in China and became hostages in his hands! He just wants to look at the Chinese [***] side and kill the special forces he has carefully cultivated, he just wants to see Li Xiangshang, push the fourth fang in the school, advance the situation of no return, and completely break up Fengyinglou and Zhanxia Song, these two have not yet fought side by side, but once united, they will inevitably become the best students of the dream combination.

It is because everyone knows that at this time, the rational choice is to directly send bombers to carpet bomb the entire island with incendiary bombs, and incinerate all the people on it, along with the smallpox virus, so no one is willing to be the first to speak.

Their superiors did not directly give orders, but sent a working group composed of three academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, not just to use the mouths of these experts to tell them the seriousness of the matter. Do you want them, important members of the military circles, to take the initiative to make decisions that focus on the overall situation?

In fact, as soon as the second academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences opened his mouth, Li Xiangshang understood that his superiors had made up their minds to wipe out the 186 soldiers and the entire island.

In full view of everyone, Li Xiangshang slowly untied his epaulettes and took off the golden Flying Eagle Medal on his collar, which represented the current supreme commander of the Fifth Special Force.

When Li Xiangshang put all the identity and honor of a soldier on the table in front of him, a painful pleasure suddenly rose in his heart.

He has worked hard in the army all his life, obviously likes Yajie'er, and in order to reach a higher level in his career, he gave up the opportunity to pursue the girl he likes, and watched her finally throw herself into the arms of the war song; He has been strict with himself all his life, as long as he puts on a military uniform and walks out of his single dormitory, what he shows to outsiders must be his most energetic, confident and strong side. He has been arming himself all his life, constantly performing himself, constantly competing with one competitor after another, stepping on the shoulders of losers, and walking up step by step.

Now Li Xiangshang has finally climbed to the pinnacle of his career, in the position of the principal of the Fifth Special Army, he will be full of peach and plum in the future, no matter which land he goes to in China, there will be people rushing to welcome him, as long as he has any needs, an order, there will be grateful students to Dade, for him to solve the problem thoroughly. As long as he can work in the position of principal for ten years and train a qualified successor, he can even leave the school and enter the political world with his strong network advantage and rigorous and meticulous style of doing things, and create a new sky.

Li Xiangshang has made countless plans for his future life, but he really didn't expect that today, in the present, he would take the initiative to let out the achievements that he had spent half his life and exhausted all his efforts. But when these honors and responsibilities were all put on the table, an unprecedented ease, even presumptuousness, suddenly filled every cell in Li Xiangshang's body.

"When I first entered the barracks, I heard people say the phrase 'iron camps, flowing soldiers'."

Li Xiangshang narrowed his eyes and shouted, "What I want to say is, don't fuck shit!" When we, the officers, do not cover the soldiers below at a critical time, and run to the battlefield, who do we expect to obey our orders and fight the enemy to the death?! ”

After saying these words, Li Xiangshang did not hesitate any longer, and actually strode out of the temporary command center in public. Facing the blazing sun at noon, Li Xiangshang couldn't help but squint his eyes slightly, and after determining the direction, he walked straight to the training ground where the helicopter was parked.

Li Xiangshang boarded the helicopter of the Fifth Special Force, he did not call his pilot, but took out the ID card, and swiped lightly in front of the on-board identification device.

Without the approval of his superiors and without a passcode, whether he would be shot down directly by the warships around him before he approached the island, Li Xiangshang did not know; landed on that desert island, added a principal like him, and a bomber carrying incendiary bombs, whether it would fly above their heads and completely turn the entire island into a sea of fire, Li Xiangshang didn't know; He just needs to know that as a soldier, he can't ask for 4.5 million lives to risk for his subordinates, but as a principal and a master, he must not abandon his own soldiers, and he must not abandon his apprentices, and that is enough!

At this time, almost everyone walked out of the temporary command center, and under the silent gaze of everyone, the helicopter, carrying a principal of the elite training school of China's fifth special force, flew in the direction where they were in the Fengying Building.

Li Xiangshang gently picked his finger and turned on the cockpit voice recorder on the helicopter, from now on, every word he said would be recorded in the black box, even if the helicopter crashed, as long as the salvage team was dispatched, his words could still be played.

"If I'm dead, Warrior Song, I hope you'll be alive and hear what I'm saying here."

Speaking of this, the corners of Li Xiangshang's lips gently lifted upward, and on his face, a smile that mixed seriousness and ease, stereotype and untamed. If at this time, a camera captured his current expression and sent this scene to everyone through the Internet, who would know how many young girls in the flower season would sigh intoxicated?

"It's not that I'm suddenly hot-headed, I have to go my own way and be the first bird."

Li Xiangshang smiled and said: "The reason why the Fifth Special Force dares to claim to be the most elite special force in the world is because we have the tiger spirit left by the first principal!" Whoever dares to drop a nuclear bomb on our heads, we will dare to concentrate the forces of the whole army and directly raid his lair. It is precisely because of this kind of wild surname that is almost hooligan, coupled with the absolutely good identity background of every student, that our army is destined to be an unruly force, never playing cards according to the rules, and will cause some big trouble if nothing happens. Every principal, knowing that the school has such shortcomings, will still deliberately ignore it, because we all clearly understand that it is better to let the tiger return to the mountain than to damage the tiger's prestige! ”

Speaking of this, the smile on Li Xiangshang's face became even stronger, and he probably remembered the scene when the two children, Zhan Xia Ge and Fengying Lou, first entered the school: "Remember, don't be naughty, don't be flexible, and never cause trouble and fight." If you can find any students who dare to hold a gasoline drum when they are minors and want to die with the instructor of the school, or if they are beaten badly and grab a grenade in a combat training class, they dare to hug the instructor alive, you must pay attention, it may be the fifth fang of our school in the future! ”

"Huh?!"

Li Xiangshang raised his eyebrows slightly, because in this seemingly impossible situation, someone on the encrypted channel on the helicopter was trying to communicate with him.

"Ah, it seems that even the old man was alarmed, and he was really fast."

Li Xiangshang hesitated slightly, but still sighed, and reached out to open the communicator.

At this time, as soon as he opened his mouth, he pointed at Li Xiangshang and scolded him, and probably only the old principal Zheng Xun was left. "Li Xiangshang, what are you crazy about? Get the hell out of here! ”

Facing the old principal Zheng Xun, who brought him up by hand, Li Xiangshang maintained absolute respect at all times, "Teacher, I still clearly remember what you said when you taught us...... An army, its soul, its temperament, comes from the will and deeds of the Supreme Commander. ”

At the other end of the communicator, the old principal Zheng Xun, who had already passed the age of six, was sighing softly, but on his face covered with the vicissitudes of time, a big, proud smile had bloomed from his face undisguisedly.

The Fifth Special Forces Elite Training School requires every cadet to pass the test of the "Gate of the Soul". Frankly speaking, this threshold is almost harsh, but only through this kind of training can the cadets who go out of the Fifth Special Unit still firmly remember the concept of "never leaving and sharing life and death" even if they become a regiment, a division, or even the supreme commander of an army in the future.

One day in the future, once a large-scale war breaks out, when friendly forces are besieged on the battlefield and need help, even if they have had fierce conflicts with the commander of the opposing side, or even have the hatred of taking their wives, the soldiers who came out of the elite training school of the fifth special force will still desperately rescue them.

Some people may say that such a commander is a big fool, but don't forget, such a fool saves not a person, but an army, thousands or even tens of thousands, families that are about to be shattered! It is more likely to be the victory of a battle, the victory of a nation!

If even Li Xiangshang, the principal, chooses to give up his students when he is in danger, then the Fifth Special Force, with its unyielding spirit and blood that is strong when it encounters a strong, and the amazing cohesion of never giving up life and death will disappear with it. Once there are no such things, the Fifth Special Force Elite Training School will be nothing more than a junior military academy with relatively strict training!

"Okay, there you go."

Speaking of this, faint tears were already flashing in the eyes of the old principal Zheng Xun, "Xiang Shang, do you know, watching you grow up day by day is the happiest experience of my life." I took in a total of eight apprentices, three died during the Vietnam War, and later, Mo Tian died of illness, Jin Zexi rebelled, Zhu Jianjun and Long Jianhui died on the battlefield of anti-terrorism, and now all my apprentices, only you are left. Do you know that every time you are missing, my heart will hurt for a long time......"

Communication, suddenly interrupted.

Thousands of miles away, it was the old principal Zheng Xun who reached out and cut off the power supply. At this time, he was already in tears, and he couldn't cry anymore.

China has really experienced peace for too long, too long, and I don't know when it began, and the theory of "no fault is meritorious" has penetrated into the army, and I don't know how many people regard the army as a springboard for their careers, and I don't know how many people regard the army as an iron rice bowl to ensure harvest in drought and flood, and I don't know how many people regard the green body of national defense as their capital to show off their military might in society.

People who are talented, but because they are too sharp, are squeezed out in the army and have nowhere to go. I don't know how many people are good at nothing, but because they have been mixed in the army for a long time and have a wide range of contacts, they even shouted the slogan "On Lao Tzu's territory, you have to coil on the dragon, and you have to lie down on the tiger".

The question is, once the dragon is coiled up, the tiger lies down, the edges and corners of the surname are rounded, and the sharpness of dealing with people is frustrated, once the war breaks out, when they need to fly the dragon and the tiger leap over the mountain stream, can they still fly and jump?!

The Fifth Special Force Elite Training School is the old principal Zheng Xun and Li Xiangshang, and they are desperately trying to hold the position!

Jin Zexi attacked Fengying Building, and at the same time, it was Li Xiangshang and the glorious traditional fighting will of the Fifth Special Army. Only a person like him, who has served as a heavyweight instructor in school, can see so accurately and attack so ruthlessly.

This is already a decisive battle that seems to be able to retreat, but as long as it retreats, it is destined to make the entire school fall together, it is because he sees this clearly, because he wants to protect the school that he cherishes and values the most, and has dedicated his life to it, and also to protect Fengyinglou, a student who has a teacher-student friendship with him, Li Xiangshang chose to fight!

With a desert island as a platform and Fengying Building as an intermediary, the two personal disciples that the old principal Zheng Xun had painstakingly cultivated with more than 20 years of hard work launched the most direct collision without any possibility of tricks!

"Jin Zexi, in addition to declaring war on me, you also want me to understand how you gave up school and chose Liu Wei, right?"

Li Xiangshang piloted the helicopter, slowly sank, watched the sea water, and finally poured into the cabin through the cabin door, he said in a low voice: "I just found out now that in our lives, it is impossible to throw away the marks carved on us by the same teacher." Aside from the reasons for the sake of the school and the dignity of the soldiers, just for the apprentice of Fengyinglou and the students around him, I will make the same choice. ”

Putting on a diving suit and picking up the underwater power thruster prepared in advance in the cabin, before the entire helicopter officially crashed into the sea, Li Xiangshang was like a swimming fish, with pleasing smoothness and ease, cutting through the sea surface and burrowing into the seawater.

The warships surrounding the island were still swaying gently with the fluctuations of the sea, and the people above had been faithfully monitoring everything on the island, but they did not expect that their communication with the command had been monitored by the military advisor Jin Zexi in the island country of Florida, and they would never have dreamed that Li Xiangshang, a professional soldier who had reached the rank of major general, would single-handedly and with the help of underwater power propulsion equipment, directly diving through their blockade circle from under the sea.

When Li Xiangshang finally surfaced and landed on the desert island that was completely blocked, far away on the other side of the ocean, Jin Zexi of the "Angry Lion" Organizational Operations Staff showed an expression on his face that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, and he sighed: "Senior brother is worthy of being a senior brother, knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, and preferring the atmosphere of the tiger mountain, I admire the senior brother!" ”

At the same time, such a picture, of course, was also transmitted to the temporary command center of the Guangzhou Military Region, watching Li Xiangshang take off his diving suit and stride onto the island, watching him open his arms and hug the surprise Fengyinglou into his arms, looking at the members of the Fifth Special Force standing beside Li Xiangshang jubilant, all the fear, all the uneasiness were swept away with the arrival of him, the principal, and the professional soldiers present who were above the top of the eyes were not only respect, but also respect!

(To be continued)