On the same day, at 8 a.m. EST, at the White House of the United States of America, it was 9 p.m. on July 17, Elta time.

The Oval Office is the White House and the symbol of power of the North American Federation. Although the president had not yet arrived, the head of the C.I.A. was waiting here early – with a bag of documents in his hand.

Did he come all the way from Langley? Or maybe the Pentagon is coming by car? However, judging by the level of exhaustion on his face, it should be the former.

"I'm sorry to keep you waiting." The president of the Union of North America, dressed in civilian clothes, pushes the door open and enters the Oval Office. He didn't have anything important this morning, the CIA director and what he had in his hands were pure cutting in line.

"Nothing, only a few minutes. Good morning Mr. President. The director, who had his eyes closed, hurriedly gestured to greet the president, who was seated at the desk in front of him. Although Langley is not far from the Washington Special Administrative Region, and can even be said to be only a satellite city of the latter, it is really tiring to analyze intelligence all night and arrive in Washington Special Administrative Region by helicopter.

As soon as the president of the North American Union sat down, someone brought a cup of coffee and pulled the chair next to his desk to his desk. "Well, long story short, let's get started, Chief John."

"Hmm, the analysis report?" The president seemed to be still a little hot as he touched the pages of the submission—there were a lot of small notes pasted to them, and some of the page numbers were crossed out with long horizontal lines. The person in front of him naturally couldn't wait for him to finish reading, or that he needed to listen directly to the summary of this intelligence leader. "It seems to be related to the Chinese's portal to another world, what's wrong? What's new? ”

"You can look at the summary on page nineteen." John shifted his chair. "The Chinese transported all the heavy jet fighters that they had brought to the other world, and there were three brigades, that is, squadrons formed by our army."

"Shipped out? Are they going to withdraw their troops? The president unconsciously put down his glass, but he reacted in an instant. If it was because of the defeat and retreat, then the man in front of him should be the first thing that happened when he sat here - where there was a chance to drag it slowly until he got up and washed.

"The three squadrons were unscathed, at least judging by the photos of the airfield." The resolution is not very sufficient, and the keyhole did not pass through this area yesterday, but commercial satellites passed by - and the call for satellite images of commercial companies is naturally commonplace for the CIA. "And the Chinese also stuffed four big guys into the door."

With that, he stood up and motioned for the president to look down. "It's a 'copy' of the gunboat -- the kind of howitzer bottle that we're fighting in the fight against terrorism."

"Oh?" It's kind of interesting, the president thought. "There is no threat to advanced fighters, but gunboats must be used to clear them, John, what are you talking about is the ability and strategy of the enemy in another world?"

"Exactly, Mr. President. Don't you think this is a good quagmire that can drag China into? It's much easier than if we were to run it ourselves. ”

Isn't this an excuse for one's own people not being able to infiltrate the other world. But how can the president of the North American Federation, who is nominally the king of a country, not see it?

"That means then, Director John, none of your people have yet - even one of them - to enter the other world and bring back useful information?"

"I'm sorry, I can't do that." The towns and villages around the forbidden area have gathered a lot of good deeds, along with intelligence agents from various countries. The New European, who was busy with the war in the Eastern Europe-Balkans, also photographed some people living nearby. However, due to attention problems, they all eat pork.

The exclusion zone has been sealed off by high walls, and there are detectors underneath to monitor it in real time - unless you ask an engineering team to dig from a depth of 100 meters, don't try to escape. Of course, intelligence agents from various countries will also find a way, and if they can't do it underground, they will be in the air -- but every day, there will be neighborhood committee aunts holding guns that are also produced by the North American federation to stop random hunting, and if they dare to fly into the restricted area, within five minutes, police officers with loaded guns and dogs will crash into the rental house and send you to eat the whole family bucket -- and within a few days, this situation will be over.

Take the extraordinary route...... Could it be that you are going to fight against the regular army? Veto.

Seeing that he was at a loss, the rent of the rental houses around the forbidden area became more and more expensive - at the beginning of the period, it was only two or three thousand a month, with a three-month deposit - and then to deal with these black-skinned, white-skinned, blonde and blue-eyed freckled masters, the landlord threw out a sentence "10,000 a month, half a year's deposit, double if you don't sign the contract." It's still in English, and the latter sentence is even more shocking.

“loverentrent,norentroll.”

At the beginning, there was still the Holy Mother of the court who was far away from everyone who took the right to shout to defend the rights of the Elta people, but the people rented it for a month, and even the deposit ran away quickly, leaving a sentence -

“howterrible！”

Naturally, the president had heard of these anecdotes. He also joked with the intelligence boss in front of him about this - why more than half of the activity funds were explicitly written "rent", after all, anyone who wanted to cause trouble must first know - no matter where this portal leads, it stands first on the territory of China.

"Hey, man, no need to apologize. I also know how difficult this kind of thing is. The president took a sip of coffee. What is meant to be a dispensable thing is to ask - to what extent will it be able to slow down the dragon's incursion into Europe? ”

"That's what I'm trying to say." It was great that the confidence had returned to John's face - the president did not shout like the people to break into the Chinese mainland and take the portal - it was so good. "The last time the Chinese exchanged short-legged single-engine fighters for long-range twin-engine fighters, our understanding is that the enemy has expanded beyond the original range of Chinese forces."

John looked up at the president.

"So this time, they took away all the twin-engine fighters in exchange for gunboat planes suitable for the war on terror, and we can understand that the war in another world has reached the end stage. There is no need for faster reflexes, and more ferocious instantaneous firepower. They now need something that can sustain the ground for long endurances - and as for the air threat, that's pretty much negligible. ”

"From the perspective of Chinese history, we can understand it as 'suppressing bandits'. Just as they had done in the Western Regions a few years ago, and in various places seventy years ago. ”

"And what about after the bandits?" The president's coffee cup and plate had already been taken away, and John was handed a new bottle of soda.

"After the bandits, judging from the amount of large machinery they have purchased in various provinces in recent months, it is at least the scale of the construction of urban agglomerations, mines and industrial complexes. It is certainly no secret that the Chinese are accustomed to infrastructure construction. As for the list of public bidding and procurement of the Egyptian Investment Bank, it is also in the report, so you can take a look at it, President. ”

"Still no immigrants?" The president flipped the page. "On page eight, that little yellow note." John reminded. "In terms of public policy, Chinese professes to adopt a non-immigration attitude towards the Otherworld, and at the same time the staff rotates every five years, and it is forbidden to marry with the Otherworld...... At this stage, the restrictions are already fully open to the outside world. Moreover, the examination of the personnel dispatched by 'Elta' is still extremely strict, whether it is political, physical, senior, and competent. Although there are many dissatisfied voices on the Internet, they have not become mainstream. ”

"Oh, shit. It would be better if they could emigrate. The president looked at the list of industrial machinery and was a little annoyed. Don't forget to fan the flames on their networks. ”

"I think so too. If this is done, within a few years there will be two countries on either side of the portal. This would be very beneficial for us to regain control of the European continent, the Near East, the Middle East! John laughed heartily.

The president put down the report, "Think of the Mexican-American War, think of Mexico and New Mexico -- it's just a pity that our opponents are not fools." ”

"No, you should say it's a pity that this gate is not on our land." John added. "Then we don't need to be so preoccupied with European affairs."

"Is it going to be a Chinese proverb again? Is it really 'blessings and misfortunes lurk, and misfortunes and blessings rely on'? If there is no portal in Chinese mainland, then they should be the ones who will compete with us for the European continent. Although we have an absolute advantage in terms of troop projection, our young men have pulled down a lot in the post-war reconstruction. ”

"It's really just right to use the construction of another world to hold the dragon's claws now. After all, it is rumored that the level of society on the other side of the portal has only reached the eve of the industrial revolution. I sometimes wonder if there was an interstellar civilization -- as science fiction often says, oh, like Independence Day, it would be fun. ”

"The miserable Chinese won't get anything out of the portal - maybe we'll have to get them, but as the most righteous 'world policeman'." Of course, before that, of course, Eurofins will have to accept it all. ”

"Lafayette, here we are! ~~" The president teased in a low voice with funny expressions and movements. provoked the director of the CIA to cover his mouth and snicker. The scene suddenly relaxed a lot.

"Although your main attack is still on the European side, remember not to forget to woo the personnel sent from other worlds...... Perhaps every sentence is a key piece of information that will give our country a head start in the future competition. The president, who was not joking, immediately returned to the topic, but there was also a hint of a reminder to John, who was in charge of intelligence, not to go astray.

"This is mainly an appetizer, and the main thing I have come to discuss with you today is the European question......" John pulled another report from his file bag. Now that we have a portal that can hold down the dragon and those two-and-five-boys, then our plan to attack the continent back can be in order......"