Chapter 35: Hello, Mr. President (Kneel and beg for a reward)
At 2:54 a.m., when there was a sharp knock on the door outside the bedroom, U.S. President Richard Bruce Cheney, who had been woken up from his sweet sleep, was in a state of fire.
He was just about to scold a few words, when suddenly a voice from outside the door suddenly made him sleepy, "Mr. President, two of our local military bases have been attacked and a few nuclear warheads have been dropped!" ”
Hurriedly rinsed his face with cold water, and Cheney soon met several senior defense and intelligence officials in his office, including Secretary of Defense Jon Voight, CIA Director Michael Hayden, and FBI Director Robert Miller.
"Rice buckets, all rice buckets! The CIA has increased its funding every year, and the FBI has asked me for money. What now? Gentlemen, can you tell me? Why was the heavily guarded military base in the United States attacked, or were both attacked? ”
No wonder Cheney was so angry that the slogan of 'keep war out of the country,' which Americans have been proud of since the end of World War II, will come to naught during his tenure.
A few years ago, just a self-directed and self-staged '911 incident' was able to make the angry American people have money to donate money and not money to give their lives, and fight two wars according to the plan designed by politicians like them.
Not to mention that the United States has digested the dividends and consequences of those two wars for the time being, and now the United States has suffered its first military attack carefully prepared by hostile forces since World War II, not only destroying two US military bases, but even plundering four nuclear warheads.
If this matter spreads, it will be repaid, and not only the United States will be shocked, but it is estimated that the whole world will be shocked.
Thinking of this, Cheney had made no secret of the anger in his heart, his finger tapped on the table, and his tone was extremely cold: "Do you want me to be the first president of the United States to be removed by the people?" ”
Voight, Hayden, Miller and others looked at each other, and finally Secretary of Defense Voight took the initiative to stand up and explained to him with the same ugly face: "Mr. President, things are not as simple as you think. I've already talked to the CIA and the FBI, and I can make sure that no hostile country's military can infiltrate the United States and cause sabotage! ”
When Cheney heard this, he immediately became angry, "Then you want to tell me that it was an alien calling?" ”
"I'm afraid that's true!"
Voight replied with a blushing face.
"Ridiculous!" Cheney snorted coldly, as the president of the United States, how could he not have paid attention to the legendary Area 51, and it was only because of this that he knew that it was just an advanced aircraft research base of the US military, but because of the very high level of secrecy, coupled with the deliberate guidance of some well-intentioned people, it finally became a world-renowned alien research base.
Voight didn't say anything more, and took out a dozen pictures from the file bag he was tucking under his ribs and placed them in front of Cheney.
Cheney glanced at them casually and then his face changed dramatically, and he quickly picked up the pictures and looked back at them a few times before asking with a calm face, "Where did these pictures come from?" ”
"Some of them were taken from high altitude by military satellites, and these blurry images show the attackers at Davis Monthill Air Force Base. The last few relatively clear photos were taken by the aviation at the Remfland base. We tried to analyze the strength of the armor of these mechanical warriors, which is much stronger than all the alloys in the United States that are currently in the stage of technical verification! ”
Voight sighed, "So we think these attackers might be aliens!" ”
"Aliens!" Cheney stood up irritably, and walked back and forth for a while before he looked at his subordinates and said angrily, "And then? Where exactly do these robots come from? Why the attack on the United States? What are they going to do to snatch our nuclear warheads? Is the war going to start again? Most importantly, how do I answer the media, and our citizens? Is it just a phrase 'aliens hit us'? I just want to ask you first, do you believe it? ”
There was silence in the office!
CIA Director Hayden hesitated for a moment before breaking the deadlock and saying, "Your Excellency, it's not like we're not ignorant of this kind of mechanical warrior. I took over the CIA just last year, because there were too many classified documents sealed in the CIA headquarters data room, and I had just finished sorting it out. If I'm not mistaken, in the CIA's archives, there is a research plan for the mechanical warrior. It's just that I don't have the authority to read that document, and I need to get the authorization of you, Your Excellency the President, and the Secretary of Defense at the same time before I can apply for access......"
"And such a plan?"
Cheney was stunned, and when Hayden said this, some vague memories suddenly popped up in his mind, and he vaguely felt as if he had seen a similar document.
But after all, he is the president of the United States, and the country is too powerful and there are so many things that need to be kept secret, so that even a two-term president like him, there are still many classified presidential documents left by his predecessors that have not been read.
Voight obviously knew the best, and when he saw that the president had set his eyes on himself, he had to answer truthfully, "There are only a few classified documents left in the history of the United States, and they need the authorization of the president and the secretary of defense at the same time to apply for access." If the CIA headquarters is also preserved, then the only thing Director Hayden mentioned is the Seventh District! ”
Arrondissement 7, this is a more obscure term than the 51st arrondissement that is now known all over the world.
So after Voight finished speaking, not only Hayden and Miller, the two heads of the CIA and the FBI, were dumbfounded.
Even Cheney, the president of the United States, had a confused expression.
Seeing that everyone turned their eyes to himself, Voight could only smile wryly and shake his head, "Don't look at me, even if I need the authorization of the president to be eligible for access to that document, the word I know is still from the office records left by the first Minister of Defense!" ”
"In other words, we can only see this document now if we authorize each other?"
Cheney thought thoughtfully.
"I'm afraid that's all it can be, Mr. President!" Wojter nodded.
"Alright then!"
Cheney immediately got up and beckoned several of his subordinates into the underground mansion that had been built underground to defend against nuclear strikes and decapitation attacks.
It was not until they reached a room with only a drawerless desk and chair that Cheney and the others stopped, a room specially set up for the president to read high-level classified documents after the digitization of information in the United States.
Originally, officials other than the president were not allowed to enter this room, but today is a special situation, and Cheney has temporarily thrown the rules aside.
Several people walked into the room together, and Cheney sat down in front of the computer.
After turning on the computer, a password input box appeared after a little buffering, and after everyone tacitly turned around to avoid it, Cheney entered the password.
Soon after logging into the operation interface, he could only think about the operation of the computer, and it took him more than ten minutes to find the authorization for the seventh district mentioned by Voight.
After Cheney clicked in, he didn't expect a special operation interface to automatically pop up in the computer, and at the same time, a mechanical voice also sounded, "Flipping through this classified document requires the authorization of the incumbent President and Secretary of Defense, do you want to proceed to the next step?" ”
After he hurriedly clicked continue, the operation interface changed again, "Capturing images, confirming that the visitor is the current President of the United States, Richard Bruce Cheney, please follow the prompts below for voice authorization!" ”
"In my capacity as President of the United States, I authorize the release of this document!"
"Authorization established, please switch to the authorization of the Minister of Defense within 60 seconds!"
Cheney had no choice but to stand up and let Voight sit on the bench, and then he followed the instructions to complete the authorization, and after the operation interface suddenly disappeared, the telephone next to the computer that looked like an old-fashioned landline phone from the nineties suddenly rang.
Cheney was stunned, and only then did he react when he saw that everyone was looking at him, and stepped forward to pick up the phone.
In an instant, a middle-aged male voice came from the other side of the phone, "This is the seventh district, hello, Mr. President......"
ps:
1. Taking into account the possible cross-plane harmony strike, the author replaced the grove with Vice President Cheney.
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