When the call for emergency contact came, the head of the Severodvinsk naval base of the North Sea Fleet, Rear Admiral Ivanov, stared blankly at the faint light outside the window, and his head did not seem to have woken up from the contents of the explosion of the phone call.

"What do you say? Our naval base was invaded? The invaders, with our ocean-going tugs, towed the Arkhangelsk from inside the Severodvinsk shipyard? And then escaped with it? ”

If it weren't clear that he had only drunk half a bottle of vodka last night, which would not have been possible for him to get drunk in terms of his own drinking, Major General Ivanov would have suspected that he was having auditory hallucinations!

"Yes, General. You heard it right, someone invaded the naval base, we lost a ballistic missile nuclear submarine......"

On the other side of the phone, the deep voice of Lieutenant Colonel Bunoevsky, who had been on duty last night, came from the phone, and even though it was through the phone, Ivanov could hear that he was trying to control his emotions and not make his voice sound panicked.

Ivanov shook his body and almost collapsed on the bed, he struggled to support his body so as not to let himself fall, and shouted to the other side of the phone: "Lieutenant colonel, I want to know what happened?" Do you have to deal with your nightly vigilance and patrols? ”

There was silence on the other side of the phone, and Bunoevsky listened to his roar in silence before a deep voice came from the other side of the phone again.

"General, it's not convenient to talk in detail on the phone, please come to the command headquarters as soon as possible, and please be mentally prepared, the situation is much more serious and complicated than you imagined."

The phone was quickly hung up, and Ivanov looked at the microphone in his hand for a long time with dull eyes, and suddenly came to his senses, hurriedly walked out of the bedroom, and after a hurried wash, he changed into a military uniform, called the driver, and ordered him to drive himself to the command.

More than an hour later, what happened in Severodvinsk was truthfully reported to the main base of the Russian Navy's Northern Fleet in Murmansk, which soon shook the entire Northern Fleet's top brass.

No one dares to hide the fact that a ballistic missile nuclear submarine has been lost, even if it is a submarine waiting to be decommissioned.

What's more, behind the loss of the Arkhangelsk, there is an indescribable weirdness.

As a result, the situation was finally summarized and uploaded to the Ministry of Defense building in Moscow before dawn, and once again shocked the Ministry of Defense insiders.

Defense Minister Konashenkov had to rush to the presidential palace after hearing the news and learning about what was happening in Severodvinsk, and he urgently informed the presidential palace that such a big event had happened, and even he did not dare to make any decisions.

When the news reached the Kremlin, Russia's second president, political strongman President Vladimir, was doing his morning swimming training as usual.

When the secretary whispered to him the urgent call from the Ministry of Defense, this political strongman who had never frowned in the face of the pressure of the NATO bloc changed dramatically!

One of the bases of the Severodvinsk naval base was invaded, and the Arkhangelsk nuclear submarine disappeared!

How is this possible? Has Russia's vaunted North Sea Fleet now decayed to such a point?

At the moment, where can he still take care of the morning swim that insists on every day, Vladimir hurriedly climbed up from the pool, took the cashmere bath towel handed over by the security personnel and draped it on his body, and asked with a blue face: "Has the news been verified?" ”

The Kremlin secretary whispered: "The news was reported to the North Sea Fleet by the General Severodvinsk Naval Base, and then passed on to the Ministry of Defense. Minister Konashenkov has just called, and he has sent an investigator on a military plane to the Severodvinsk naval base to verify the situation. However, judging from the materials and images that have been transmitted, the message should be true! ”

"Send someone to the Ministry of Defense to get all the materials and images, and I'm going to see them myself."

President Vladimir's face was unusually ugly, and the secretary was instructed to respond respectfully and was just about to make arrangements.

Suddenly, he stopped his secretary again and ordered: "Wait, you personally go to the White House (the building of the Government of the Russian Federation) and pick up Dmitry to meet me!" ”

Dmitry was Vladimir's confidant, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia began to implement a system of democratically elected presidents, which stipulated that each president could serve a four-year term and be re-elected once.

The short eight-year term clearly does not satisfy President Vladimir's political ambitions.

From the very beginning of his presidency, he sought to extend the presidential term to six years through constitutional amendments, and did his best to erase the unspoken rule that the president could only serve one consecutive term.

And the promotion of Dmitry to the throne of the first deputy prime minister of Russia is a trick that Vladimir has prepared for himself.

Seeing that eight years have passed, and his political opponents have stubbornly suppressed the constitutional amendment bill, not wanting him to prolong his political life by amending the constitution, Vladimir has to consider another plan.

He will withdraw from the presidential election at the end of next year's term to paralyze his political opponents, and at the same time nominate Dmitry to run for president, believing that Dmitry will definitely be able to run for election with his own support.

When the time comes, Vladimir will let Dmitry appoint himself prime minister of Russia.

He would be able to renew his political life and continue to steer the reforms of this great country.

In order to prevent Dmitry from having some unnecessary ideas, after pushing him to the position of first deputy prime minister, Vladimir, although he still entrusted him with important responsibilities on weekdays, did not take advantage of various opportunities to beat him, so that Dmitry knew that he was at the helm of the country.

Now that such a good opportunity, in addition to relying on the wisdom of the other party, he will naturally not let go of such an opportunity.

He didn't let Vladimir wait long, he just changed his clothes and ate a simple Russian breakfast by the way.

About forty minutes later, Dmitry had already hurried to the Kremlin.

"Your Excellency the President, is the news of the loss of a nuclear submarine at the Severodvinsk naval base true?"

"It has basically been confirmed, and the Ministry of Defense has sent a special plane to Severodvinsk for verification."

With a gloomy face, President Vladimir pointed to the side, invited him to take a seat, and then slowly looked at him and said: "Dmitry, the situation is more serious than you think!" ”

"What's the situation?" Dmitry only heard a few words from the Kremlin secretary, and even his secretary and prime minister did not dare to talk nonsense about the situation without receiving orders from the president.

Vladimir sighed with a heavy expression, picked up a thick document bag and handed it to him, "You better read it for yourself!" ”

Dmitry took the bag suspiciously, took it out, looked at it only a few times, and immediately looked up at him in surprise.

Vladimir nodded slightly, then lowered his head again and continued to look.

Because most of the documents in the bag were pictures, Dmitry read them in just a few minutes.

After reading it, his eyes were full of disbelief.

"Suspected intruder from a battle mech? An unknown number of invading units? Bullets can't damage it? The Arkhangelsk was stolen, and at the speed of the Navy's anti-submarine reconnaissance aircraft tracking, its whereabouts are unknown? This ......"

He didn't know what to say for a moment!

Vladimir saw his reaction in his eyes and felt a slight relief in his heart.

As he has long done with Dmitry, the other party has a good ability to govern, but lacks the means and psychological quality, such a person can enter the cabinet, but he is by no means an iron-fisted ruler who can lead Russia back to the top of the world.

A slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and the gloom on Vladimir's face dissipated a lot.

Looking at Dmitry, he said slowly: "The Severodvinsk Naval Base mentioned in the report that in the past period, a lot of equipment and materials have been lost from the Severodvinsk shipyard where the Arkhangelsk is berthed, and they suspect that it may be used for the transformation of submarines. The Ministry of Defense also believes that these battle mechs may not be invaders from other countries, but unknown creatures from outside the sky. I'll have the Security Service send elite personnel to Murmansk and Severodvinsk to investigate the situation. ”

"Unknown creatures?"

Dmitry shook his head, this claim is not even more credible than the battle mechs of other countries that invaded Russia.

It's just that he didn't notice that there was a twinkle in Vladimir's eyes.

He considered getting the FSB involved because he suddenly remembered the intelligence that the FSB had sent back from the United States a few months earlier.

Las Vegas once saw large-scale battles between U.S. troops on one side and unknown creatures of unknown origin on the other.

Despite the timely intervention of the U.S. government and the active efforts of the intelligence agencies to clean up and block news after the war, many photos and content were posted on the Internet and attracted the attention of some agents of the Security Service in the United States.

"Is the intelligence true?"

Over the past few months, the Security Service has lost a number of good players in order to get closer to the secrets of the battle for Las Vegas.

It was for this reason that Vladimir agreed to the Security Service to temporarily abandon the investigation of the matter.

Now, Severodvinsk also has the figure of a mechanical giant, which reminds him of this incident.

At the moment, after thinking about it for a while, Vladimir said: "Fortunately, there are no missiles on the submarine, although I am very worried that our typhoon falling into the hands of unknown forces will lead to the leakage of secrets and cause unnecessary trouble, but I personally think that this matter is not suitable for public announcement." The Ministry of Defense has ordered the Northern Fleet, as well as anti-submarine aircraft, to leave the port and thoroughly investigate the disappeared submarines. Also, Dmitry. I hope that you will immediately visit the US Embassy in Moscow as a special envoy and explain the situation to the US ambassador on this matter, so as not to arouse unnecessary suspicion. ”

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