Chapter 476: The Fierce Battle Begins (Part II)
Give [Police Car] an important mission, and send him away.
[Optimus Prime] also had to face a headache for him, he had to communicate and explain about his own private dispatch of Autobots to the Mariana Trench side, the same nest or the United States.
This is obviously not something that can be easily fooled!
As a result, as [Optimus Prime] feared, when Lieutenant Colonel William, who was in charge of the daily training and tasks of the Sound Nest troops, learned about this from his mouth, the smile that was still on his face suddenly disappeared.
He was silent for a long time before replying with great solemnity: "...... As much as I would love to help you, my fellow, this is no longer something I can ask about, and I need to report to the Joint Chiefs of Staff immediately...... Your Excellency Optimus Prime, I'm afraid you've stabbed a big basket this time! ”
After the failure of Operation Daybreak, the last incursion of the Severodvinsk military port orchestrated by the Sound Nest to annihilate the Decepticons who might be cooperating with Russia, a rift appeared in the alliance between the Autobots and the U.S. government.
The U.S. government, especially the military and major arms manufacturers, have been coveting the advanced technology mastered by the Autobots for a day or two, and the voices in Washington calling for the Autobots to drive them out of the earth if they do not cooperate have never stopped.
After the failure of Operation Daybreak, facing its traditional rival, Russia, is likely to have gained a lot of alien technology, although Washington temporarily suppressed those voices of non-cooperation, but the hostility of the US military-industrial complex towards the Autobots began to transform into malice at a speed visible to the naked eye.
A special military plan to deal with the Autobots and Decepticons, the 'Tomb Wind', has been approved in the new year's special supplement to the US military's military spending, a special force that is different from the 'Sound Nest Force' and will be composed entirely of US soldiers, aiming to take the first step in the covert construction of a special force that the United States has enough strength to counteract when the Autobots and Decepticons threaten the 'US interests'.
The thousands of top military and scientific and technological researchers in the United States who have flowed out of the seventh district have been packed by the research institutes and top weapons laboratories under the military-industrial complex, and the remains of more than a dozen Decepticons killed by the Autobots have been secretly excavated from the original cemetery and sent to several top weapons laboratories and companies in the United States for internal research.
In the process, a new material development company called 'KSI' was favored by the U.S. military, and the remains of a Decepticon were also assigned for study.
Washington's attitude toward the Autobots has changed so dramatically that when the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who are directly in charge of the Sound Nest, relay Major William's report to Washington, U.S. President Dick Cheney, who is about to change his term, was furious.
“…… Damn, what the hell are these aliens trying to do? Is the cooperation agreement we signed a toilet paper? ”
Although it was late at night when the news reached the United States, with one encrypted phone call after another from the White House, the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies were in chaos, and countless employees who had already been off work were recalled to the headquarters for overtime.
They were also urgently summoned to the White House for a meeting, including the secretary of defense and several senior cabinet members.
In the oval conference room, Cheney, who had completely lost his sleepiness, sat with his secretary of defense, cabinet members, and several staff members and think tanks, and the whole conference room was now cloudy and cloudy, and almost all of them had a gloomy face, or frowned at all, or closed their eyes and pondered, or whispered their thoughts with two or three people on the left and right.
"Those alien machines, what the hell are they trying to do?"
After a long time, Cheney was the first to speak, but his tone was so unkind that he no longer treated the Autobots as equal beings to humans.
Defense Secretary Voight wears a pair of reading glasses, and like Cheney, he has unsurprisingly the final months of his term.
Chinese After every US presidential election, the first thing a new president has to do is to purge the White House, the Cabinet, and the intelligence agencies, and replace them with his own henchmen to hold important government posts.
Rubbing his temples, Voight looked down at the document in front of him, he didn't want to respond to some gaze, "...... Information from the Sound Nest says that the Autobots accidentally got a piece of information that the Decepticons were trying to use to resurrect Megatron while tracking down the stolen shard of the Tinder source in Area B-14 not long ago. ”
Secretary of Defense Voight should be regarded as one of the leading voices in the United States advocating an alliance with the Autobots.
It's a pity that he also knows the strength and influence of the U.S. military-industrial complex, so in the face of the current change in domestic attitudes towards Autobots, Voight has never tried to stop it.
Secretary of State Gabriel, the spokesperson of the U.S. military-industrial complex, immediately snorted coldly when he heard this: "These damn foreign invaders are getting more and more excessive, refusing to share technology with us before, and even the Decepticons they killed refused to let us study ...... Now, they're even going to ignore the agreement, and I don't think it can be left at that! ”
Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, did not answer his words, and after reading a document in his hand, he looked at the director of national intelligence who was a few seats away from him with some frowns: "...... Is it confirmed that the stolen fragments in Area B-14 were stolen by the Decepticons? ”
There are more than a dozen intelligence agencies in the United States, and the director of national intelligence is the top person in charge of managing and coordinating many intelligence agencies, and is directly nominated and dismissed by the president.
The director of national intelligence is a deputy secretary of state, who has served as U.S. ambassador to Iraq and has the skills to coordinate more than a dozen intelligence agencies.
Some time ago, the stolen fragments of the [Tinder Source] kept and researched in the B-14 area of the United States were tracked by seven intelligence agencies, including the FBI, the National Security Agency, the National Investigation Bureau, and the National Geographic Intelligence Agency, and the information obtained was finally concentrated in John, the director of intelligence.
Seeing that all eyes were focused on himself, Director of National Intelligence John nodded slightly.
"The fragment was stolen by a mechanical monster resembling a cougar, and the information provided by the Autobots we tracked down, the mechanical monster named Robot Dog, a member of the Decepticons' intelligence agency, the Tape Legion, is the same as the confusion that attacked us before!"
Gabriel's face darkened suddenly, "Your Excellency, what about the results of your own investigation?" ”
His hostile attitude towards the Autobots is well known in Washington.
Therefore, although John was unhappy, the good city government made him not show the slightest impatience: "...... Our intelligence agents, radar, and spy satellites can't identify a mechanical monster that can fly and dive at speeds of over 600 mph on the ground, so we can't verify the authenticity of the information provided by the Autobots! ”
After speaking, he gently placed the document in his hand on the desk in front of him, and reached out and tapped lightly on it.
Voight couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, he was glad that he had exchanged their views and opinions on Autobots and Decepticons in advance when he was dealing with Director of National Intelligence John.
Otherwise, if they really let Gabriel and the others almost mess around, once they force the Autobots away, they will be the only ones left to face the threat of the Decepticons.
Obviously, the current United States does not have that capability.
Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, clearly understood the meaning of John's words, and lifted his glasses, "I propose to send a commissioner to Diego Garcia to negotiate with the Autobots, but please don't forget the tragedy in Las Vegas...... Megatron's corpse cannot be missed, and I propose that the original patrol formation be temporarily restored on the Guam side, and the cost will be temporarily covered by the special military expenditure of the Navy! ”
Gabriel was clearly unwilling to let the Autobots go so easily, and was about to continue fanning the flames.
President Cheney abruptly interrupted him, "...... Las Vegas...... Okay, but there will definitely be opinions on the Navy's side, and this requires your Joint Chiefs of Staff to do a good job! ”
The Las Vegas tragedy that Pace just mentioned immediately woke Cheney up from his anger.
A war between the Autobots and the Decepticons in Las Vegas cost the U.S. military thousands of soldiers, dozens of warplanes, and countless other equipment.
Although the matter will be kept secret forever because of the extraterrestrial life involved, it has become a big stain on Cheney's tenure, and he can't get rid of it if he wants to.
And this stain also reminded Cheney again, the difference in strength between the United States and the Autobots and the Decepticons.
With three or four months to go before his term of office was over, he finally relented and decided to leave the Autobot trouble to the first black president in the history of the United States.