Chapter 68: UFOs
Breakfast, as Lynn expected, was as plentiful as usual, except that most of the technicians looked tired and apparently hadn't slept well since 2 o'clock last night. Everyone yawned and whispered. Lynn heard someone say that it was a Soviet reconnaissance plane last night, some said it was an unidentified airship, others said that a strange lightning ball appeared, and in short, something special caused the heavy shelling of the base guards.
Breakfast went on in general, and the unwilling silence of the radio sounded, and a familiar male voice held a calm tone: "All attention, I am Colonel MK, the commander of the test base, you don't need to be alarmed by last night's gunfire, this is just a military exercise held in response to emergencies." In order to achieve the real surname of the exercise, we did not notify everyone in advance, and last night everyone strictly followed the management regulations of the base, and performed very well! ”
Well, exercises, can't you find some fresh reason? Lynn said with disdain in his heart that during the atomic bomb test, fierce explosions were heard within 200 kilometers, and the windows of many residents were shattered, and the US side announced to the people on the same day that the explosion was caused by an accidental fire in an arms warehouse, and because there were chemical shells in the warehouse, the nearby residents were asked to temporarily evacuate. As a result, technicians who later returned from leave said that many residents in the surrounding area did not believe this explanation at all, because some of them had seen a light that was more dazzling than the sunlight in the early hours of the morning, and the strange clouds produced by the explosion were thicker and thicker than ordinary explosives, and dissipated much more slowly.
On the way from the cafeteria to the work area, Lynn saw that the officers and soldiers guarding the base were moving again, and most of the faces that could be seen were grim and gloomy. At the beginning of the working hours, some of the technicians next to them were still whispering about the shelling of the previous night, and those who were fortunate enough to witness the first half of the process said that they saw the fast-moving bright spots, silvery-white colors close to the moon, and the anti-aircraft guns of the guards were not able to reach the height at which they were.
"I think it's an unknown technology." The technician who witnessed the spectacle because of the night booing said mysteriously.
A person next to him immediately speculated: "Could it be the secret weapon of the Germans!" ”
"You're crazy! Germany has surrendered, and our and Allied armies are occupying Germany! Several people around retorted almost simultaneously.
"Super high-altitude airship!" Another middle-aged man with thick-bottomed glasses said, "A foreign ultra-high-altitude airship, any country that wants to spy on atomic bomb technology." ”
Since Britain and France both sent physicists and technicians to the US atomic test sites during the "Manhattan Project" and were close allies with the United States, they did not need to acquire nuclear technology in such a confrontational way, so some people continued the topic and said: "It must be a Soviet Russian aircraft!" ”
Lynn sat quietly on the sidelines, listening rather than participating in the discussion. Based on the accounts of others, he was almost certain that it was the high-tech UFO of the Third Reich that caused the US bombardment last night. In fact, as long as their own intelligence can be smoothly delivered to the "shelter", and the fact that Ben had already eaten two atomic bombs some time ago, the top echelons of the empire will inevitably realize the power and significance of this superweapon of the Americans, so they will dispatch reconnaissance forces in a targeted manner. It's just that what puzzled him was that, according to what Colonel Andriy had said earlier, the Empire's saucer aircraft did not have real manned and attack capabilities, and could only fly at high speeds and interfere with Allied pilots through radio control, and in the absence of satellite technology, long-range remote control could not be realized, and even if the radio controller was nearby, the base of the flying saucer was either a "refuge" in Northern Europe or a secret base in South America, thousands of kilometers apart, You won't have to change the remote controller in the middle of the flight!
It is precisely because of these technical "impossibilities" that Lynn is once again confused: how many secrets do he not know in this era that has been studied by future generations in the following decades?
It was night, and everyone was gearing up, ready to open their eyes to see if the mysterious flying machine would reappear, but to everyone's great disappointment, the night was uneventful, not to mention the glowing bright body, not even a bird. However, early the next morning, some attentive technicians discovered that several additional air defense guard positions had been set up around the base, and then several convoys arrived one after another, towing in which vehicle-mounted radars and many heavy antiaircraft guns with thick barrels were towed, and the number of US officers and men around the base seemed to have increased.
After several days of this, the interest finally eroded with the passage of time, and there was a growing willingness to believe that the night had either been dazzled or that some natural phenomenon resembling lightning had occurred, and that the overtension of the guards had resulted in a sustained and intense bombardment of the air -- a waste of taxpayers' money.
Just when life gradually returned to the original track, at 12 o'clock in the morning, sirens and fierce artillery sounds sounded around the base again, due to the increase in air defense units, this time the roar of artillery fire was particularly loud, and the personnel of the base, whether they were soldiers who were resting in shifts, experts in technology, and research institutes, completely ignored the safety regulations of the base, and rushed out of the dormitory in a swarm, and even the guards who had always been dedicated were completely attracted by the vision in the sky. More than a dozen high-powered searchlights illuminate the night, and hundreds of anti-aircraft guns fire at the same time, making the atomic bomb test site look as if it was shrouded in a sea of fire. Countless crimson points of light flew up from the ground, exploding in the sky into monotonous but dazzling fireworks, and the sky was already covered with gray smoke left by the explosion of the cannonballs, which looked like a clean cloth had been mischievously splashed with dirty ink.
This time, Lynn, who followed the crowd out of the dormitory, also saw the "perpetrator" who triggered the American shelling, a seemingly distant and ephemeral point of light, it was roughly circular, brighter than any star in the sky at this time, it was a silvery-white light with slightly yellowed edges, but because of the influence of searchlights and artillery fire, the naked eye could not determine whether this belonged to its true color.
The US artillery group, composed of more than 100 anti-aircraft guns, is inferior in scale and quality to the original anti-aircraft interception force around Berlin, but the area of the atomic bomb test base is less than one-twentieth of Berlin's, so the density of these artillery pieces is relatively high, and the scene is not inferior. Amazingly, despite the countless shells rising into the air and forming a tight net of fire, the silvery-white bright spot seemed to be completely unaffected, and it continued to fly westward in a straight line, only to disappear completely after a few minutes. The ground anti-aircraft fire of the US troops was like a pack of hunting dogs that had lost their targets, roaring and roaring in annoyance, and it took several more minutes before they gradually subsided. After that, there was a roar of engines in the sky, which people thought was from a flying object, but they soon saw a large herd of wild horses chasing them towards the west.
In the crowd looking up, Lynn should be the only one with tears in her eyes. What I saw with my own eyes, it must be the saucer-shaped flying machine that the empire is most proud of, he has not been forgotten, he has not been abandoned, the eyes of the imperial high-level have finally come here, the ambition of the imperial high-level has not sunk after all, and the brothers will come back sooner or later to meet him. Yes, it must be so!
Although true freedom and victory have not yet come, and even the rational surname is not sure whether the imperial top brass has the determination and courage to take strong military measures, he now prefers to believe that his position is the center of the historical whirlpool, and the majestic historical trajectory will also change from here!
A night of excitement, a sleepless night, and a smile on the corner of his mouth at dawn.
At breakfast, the middle-aged man in the U.S. Army uniform at the back of the radio finally stopped talking nonsense, and the restaurant became a vegetable market, and no one could stay out of the heated discussion. These physicists, senior researchers, and excellent technicians (please automatically exclude Lynn, Mr. Nanguo) have just knocked on the door of the nuclear world, and the unprecedented and astonishing power of the atomic bomb has opened their eyes, and this time they saw the mysterious aircraft that the US Army was helpless, and their curiosity suddenly erupted like a volcano -- how big is its real volume, whether its three-dimensional appearance is round, oval or saucer-shaped, what kind of power system it uses, and what extent can its real surname reach, Which country does it belong to, or is it a mysterious existence of a superhuman civilization?
Lynn, who was immersed in breakfast, completely regarded himself as a bystander, no matter how ridiculous the statements of others were, he would not stand up to refute them, and no matter how close to the truth of others' speculations, he would not take a second look. This unusual posture should have attracted the attention of the base guards, but most of them had already become part of the lively vegetable market, and even if a small number of officers were interested in maintaining order, they were simply powerless in the face of such a situation.
Twice provoked, twice humiliated, because the successful development of the atomic bomb was also the biggest winner of World War II, and the confidence and self-esteem of the American political axe and military are at an all-time high, how can they tolerate such a thing happening on their own soil. Within a few days, a large number of radar and antiaircraft artillery units were stationed in the base defense area, and engineering units also began to build combat airfields dozens of kilometers away. Although the safety of experts and technicians has not been threatened for the time being, it is obviously no longer suitable for high-end physics research, and the relocation order was issued, and Oppenheim hurriedly returned to the base to organize it himself. It was not until he left the base with most of the personnel and sat in the truck looking at the barren desert that he suddenly thought in his heart: it is difficult to enter the heavily guarded base, but if it is a halfway sneak attack, the situation will not be the same at all!
However, would the high-level of the empire, who was still intriguing in the nest before, have such wisdom and courage?
Lynn was once again in a daze.
(To be continued)