Volume III, Chapter 23, Fourth Replenishment, September 2117

The USS Swain aircraft carrier battle group received orders that in the early morning of 9 September, it would sail to the western Pacific and, after about 10 days of sailing, reach the waters east of North Khan, where it would join forces with the "Cratton" and "Mileta" carrier battle groups to form a triad, larger maritime city and military fortress.

After the departure of the "Swain" aircraft carrier battle group, its post in the waters off the west coast of country A's mainland will be replaced by a silver fleet to fill the vacancy, and continue to carry out the task of sea blockade here, so as to prevent the H7N9 epidemic from spreading to areas outside country A's mainland through sea routes.

Later in the morning on September 9, at 4:22 a.m., a Virginia-class nuclear submarine, the USS Garrison, temporarily joined the USS Swain aircraft carrier battle group. In the USS Swain aircraft carrier battle group, only high-ranking officials knew about this classified information: the Garrison carried 50 tactical missiles of different types, as well as 10 strategic missiles, all of which were configured as fifth-generation nuclear warheads.

Before the departure of the "Swain" aircraft carrier battle group, the supply ships in the group had to make the last replenishment of the "Clark" amphibious landing ship. This was a previous agreement between the military and Fatman, in which Mr. Fatman helped the fleet to do some routine sea patrols, and the fleet provided Fatman with a small amount of supplies, as well as some preferential tax exemptions in the future, after the economic recovery of country A.

The first three resupply went well, but the fourth resupply, the last one, seemed to have gotten out of control, and it failed to dock with the supply ship, and after passing the supply ship that had come to dock, it slowly slid from the edge of the fleet into the interior of the fleet array. On board the Clark, Medivan, who was at the helm, immediately reported a mechanical malfunction to the fleet. As a retired warship, mechanical failures are common, so at the beginning, the commander of the "Sven" ship group did not have doubts, but did not hesitate, according to the daily operation process, arranged a large power cruiser as a towing ship, approached the "Clark", projectile towed steel chains, towed and fixed them.

After the cruiser threw and dragged the steel chain at the "Clark", the crew of the "Clark" moved slowly and could not fix the steel chain in the designated position.

Ten minutes passed, and the "Clark" was still slowly, silently but swaggeringly sliding into the center of the "Swain" fleet formation.

"How did you do it, didn't you get it right!" On the cruiser in charge of towing operations, the liaison was losing patience, and he was unhappy with the untrained stragglers on the Clarke, who needed so long to fix the towing chain.

Finally, on the other cruiser of the group, the sensitivity of the profession and the experience of the past awakened a captain, who became vigilant, and he saw that the direction in which the Clark was gliding was facing the aircraft carrier "Swain" and the core of the fleet, and he immediately dialed the special line of the fleet commander. However, just as the captain dialed the fleet commander's line, he suddenly felt that in the direction where he had seen the Clark just now, a white light lit up, engulfing heaven and earth...... This was his last memory.

Some people living on the west coast of country A were lucky enough to use their mobile phones to take pictures of the white light in the sky, a huge, white-hot fireball, like a white sun, rising from the west, illuminating the night sky. In areas closer to the White Sun, there was a sudden and even interruption of daily communication and television signals.

Some people think it's an earthquake, others think it's a tsunami, but still, less than 1 in 10,000 people, subconsciously, people who are alert to recent current events and news, they realize it, it's a nuclear explosion!

In the eastern Pacific Ocean, 200 nautical miles away from the west coast of country A, at 128 degrees 9 minutes west longitude and 32 degrees 42 minutes north latitude, a small particle of light suddenly lit up, and the brightness of the light particle was extremely high, far above the outer space synchronous orbit of the Tran Star, in the International Space Station, which can be observed with the naked eye. The clouds above this small particle of light were washed open into a huge hole, and the pure white of the clouds surrounded the pure black of the giant hole, which was particularly eye-catching. It was as if a meteorite flying from the sky had knocked the atmosphere into a black crater, and the clouds that spread out in a circular shape in waves, layer by layer, just outlined the existence of this black crater.

Soon, in the field of view of the astronauts on the ISS, the particles of light disappeared. Satellites orbiting the Earth, the same as in international space, recorded the duration of the light particles: 37.22 seconds. This duration is 17 seconds longer than the duration of the strongest "Tsar Hydrogen Bomb" nuclear fireball in history.

The particles of light disappeared, but the shock wave from the nuclear explosion did not. The shock wave is advancing in all directions from the center of a nuclear explosion at 1.3 times the speed of sound. Within a geographical radius of 800 kilometers with the center of the explosion as the center, all robots, vehicles, ships, roads, bridges and buildings were destroyed or seriously damaged by the shock wave, and some towns on the west coast of country A were turned into ruins in the violent shock wave and tsunami.

High-resolution spy satellites even filmed a giant whale being thrown into the sky by a tsunami. This sea beast weighing more than ten tons fell from a height of dozens of meters and smashed heavily on a reef by the sea, which was peeled off from the waist and torn apart by the reef, and the huge body was broken into two, and the internal organs fell everywhere. In later analysis, most people believed that the whale did not suffer any pain when its body was torn apart by the reef. Because, within 37.22 seconds of the nuclear fireball burning, this huge body experienced the ma-ray radiation, burning, and hellish torment of trillions of electron volt energy. In contrast, the pain of hitting the reef is more of a relief than a pain......

Ten minutes after the nuclear explosion, calm finally returned to the eastern Pacific Ocean where the explosion was located, at 128 degrees 9 minutes west longitude and 32 degrees 42 minutes north latitude, but the "Kewen" aircraft carrier battle group, a sea fortress consisting of 21 warships and one nuclear submarine, had ceased to exist. Some warships have sunk, some warships are stuck diagonally in the sea, and they are sinking...... the huge 100,000-ton hull of the "Swain" aircraft carrier has been twisted and deformed, burned into black charcoal, and torn in half by the explosion and high temperature melting, just like the giant whale.

In the early morning, in the gradually brightening skylight, the "Sven" was slowly sinking. Sea water continued to pour into the interior of the ship, but no one was busy escaping, not a single one. In the 37.22 seconds that the nuclear fireball burned, the maximum diameter of the fireball flickering once engulfed the entire fleet, and in the heat of hundreds of millions of degrees, the battleship's hull was once in a red-hot state for a long time, like red-hot metal magma...... The entire fleet, more than 21,000 officers and men in 21 warships, did not survive. The oxygen inside the hull was instantly depleted, and many people's bodies were instantly trapped in the metal magma formed when the ship's cabin melted, and it was scorched along with the ship's hull, and soon after, it cooled and adhered together, and from then on, it was impossible to distinguish which part was the human body and which part was the hull. But there is also a human hand that can be distinguished, a withered hand that stretches out into the air, as if praying to God for help and deliverance, but the human body and head corresponding to this hand have long been nowhere to be found. For this part of the officers and soldiers, they finally fulfilled the promise they had made at the beginning, and lived and died together with the warship and became one with it.

Inside the ship's hull, these strange "black human sculptures" that have been carbonized in high temperatures will sink into the depths of the sea that cannot be reached by sunlight, and will be displayed forever in the "museum" of the broken hull structure......