In the early hours of the morning, it rained heavily.

The weather in the Merriken Washington Special Zone today is very bad, it has been raining for a day, and it is already early in the morning, and it is still falling, which makes the whole Special Zone feel a sense of depression.

A group of high-skinned tattooed young people do not wear umbrellas, and one wears a transparent raincoat and walks on the sidewalk.

They had cans of beer in their hands and drank and roared as they walked.

At this time, three black sedans sped past them.

"Boom-"

The stagnant water next to the road was not wasted at all, and it continued to splash on them.

"Fack! You hear me, Fack! ”

"Shet! Shit! ”

The young men immediately scolded and threw the beer cans in their hands.

However, their movements were meaningless, and the three cars had no intention of stopping at all, turning a corner in front of them and disappearing from their sight.

"Any of you just saw the license plate, let's check where they were, I'll find someone to get their car."

"That's it, who sees, I have friends in the gang in this block, and I can work together!"

A crowd shouted, only one thoughtful, because he had the impression that this was not the first wave of similar convoys in the past, they were all in one configuration.

For example, in a black sedan of the same model, the front and rear cars flashed police lights, but the sirens did not sound, and as for the license plate, he had seen one clearly, which was not the common one at all.

This kind of situation seems to be only available for certain big operations, because there must be some big people in the car.

Thinking of this, he didn't wander around the street anymore, no matter what the news was, he had to prepare in advance, no matter if he guessed right or wrong, he had to be ready for the time to run.

As the undercover leader of a gang, he didn't want to be left with nothing.

The congressman sitting in the car in front of him didn't know that his car had affected a small gang leader, and what he was thinking about was a matter of life and death for the country.

Originally, I was called up in the early morning, and everyone was going to lose my temper, but as soon as I heard that it was a special presidential order, I had to quickly get dressed and get in the car.

The fact that such a presidential decree can be issued is enough to show that the country is in a very dangerous situation.

As for what the situation was, he didn't know, and neither did the staff who came to pick him up.

"Trouble."

This was happening throughout the SAR, with dozens of convoys heading out from various places and heading for the Capitol in the rain.

At the same time, all over the country, those members of the National Assembly who could not arrive in a short time were also called out, although they could not be there at the scene, they had to show their faces, and they had to see the whole meeting.

Fortunately, in the age of the Internet, you can participate in the web conference through a confidential channel.

After racing all the way, the black car finally reached Capitol Hill, and under the black night, the white building also became a black building, and only where the lights shined, did you know that it was originally white.

At this point, the convoy of escorts came to a halt, and only the vehicles carrying the councillors entered, and even then, the steps at the entrance to the building were full of cars.

There's no way, it's all pulled out of the bed, and the time to arrive is about the same.

The black sedan stopped, and the field staff in black suits opened the door with black umbrellas and let the lawmaker, who was also in a black suit, get out of the car.

A bunch of black suits walked into the Capitol, and it always felt like they didn't look like good people, and the meeting they were going to have was not a serious meeting.

"This damn weather, damn time, why are we here."

Some of the parliamentarians walked in and cursed.

"Do you know what's going on? Why did he sign a special presidential decree? ”

Some lawmakers asked.

"I don't know, but it seems to be for the sake of national security, and it has something to do with the other side of the ocean."

Some parliamentarians know something, but they don't know much.

"What, could it be that Maozi started the war? No, I need to get home and pack up and get out of here! ”

Uh, well, in Merriken "anyone" can be a member of parliament, and that's really not nonsense.

"I heard that it seems to be related to Tianxia, not Maozi, they don't even have money now, what can they do?"

The solitary councillors were a little depressed when they were on the road, and at most they would call the other councillors in the car to try to find out what was going on, but when a group of councillors gathered together and found their own small group, they became much more lively.

Even if they were still worried about national security a moment ago.

Entering the semi-circular conference hall, many people have already arrived, and many avatars have also been lit up on the large screens in various directions, indicating that this meeting is very urgent and important, and all members must be "present".

It is so rare for lawmakers to sit in their seats and chat with each other, and there are not so many "people present" in normal times, and they only need to meet the minimum number of people to meet.

As the number grew, so did the buzz until the last councillor arrived, and the gendarmes outside locked the door.

"Bang Bang Bang~"

The Speaker struck the wooden hammer hard.

"Quiet! This meeting was not conducted in accordance with the normal process because Mr. President signed an urgent special presidential decree, so please give the floor directly to Mr. President. ”

At the beginning of the meeting, he went directly to the topic, and he didn't talk nonsense, he sat in his place and turned on the microphone and said: "This meeting involves our national security, Tianxia's space fighter has been lifted off and is always loitering in our sky, so the Space Force and the national space program can no longer be the same as before, we must have new changes to deal with this new situation." ”

Understanding Wang's words really frightened the congressmen, but it was not enough, they only knew that there was danger, but they didn't know how dangerous it was, so they needed professional people to talk about it.

That's what the Merriken Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency does.

This time they came a lot of people, and the person in charge of science popularization was a senior researcher, whose name was Cromwell, a handsome man with glasses in his thirties, with a lot of hair wax on his hair, and he looked oily and slippery.

He gave the lawmakers present a science popularization of the Navigator company's "Dart X" single-stage orbit spacecraft, and then used the "X-37B" that Mericon is testing as an analogy, compared with the two, the gap is not ordinarily large.

The former is the aerospace vehicle in Merriken's imagination, and the latter is the aerospace vehicle they have achieved in reality, and the difference is ...... The distance between dreams and reality.

“…… You may not know what the waverider configuration and swept delta wing of the 'Dart X' mean, so let's put it this way, the waverider is the common shape of hypersonic missiles, and the large delta wing is the wing shape commonly used on fighter jets. ”

Hearing Cromwell say this, the parliamentarians suddenly realized.

Wouldn't it be clear if you said that earlier, you have to talk about a lot of professional data in front of you, who knows what you're talking about.

When it comes to missiles and fighter jets, everyone knows that they are weapons and weapon vehicles, and the positioning of the "Dart X" has not run away, and it is a space fighter that poses a great threat to Merriken.

John, the commander of the Understanding King and the Space Force, nodded frequently when he listened now, this Cromwell could, unconsciously led people's minds to the right track.

It's a talent.

The threat is determined, and after that, it is easy to say, since there is already a Space Force, then the threat from space is naturally under their control.

Then John rises again, realistically saying that his work is inadequate, and then brings the topic to the current state of the Space Force.

"The other branches of the military have their own proprietary weapons, but the Space Force only has control over satellite cameras, which have proven to be incapable of shooting down enemy space fighters!"

John said.

"We need real space weapons, even if we can't have a new one in the short term, and we need to quickly arm the X-37B and turn it into a makeshift orbital bomber."

"And I propose to restart the 'Adventure Star' program, it is the real overlord of Earth orbit, its technology demonstrator 'X-33' alone can compete with 'Dart X', not to mention that we have a lot of pre-technology of 'X-33', 20 years have passed, I think we can achieve it in a few months!" (Recommended reading: Reading Files 2013)