In the Shanghai Theater Operations General Headquarters, two red landlines were quietly placed on the desk of Liu Yuanzhou, commander-in-chief of the three armed forces.

The red landline on the left is a military confidential telephone, in addition to the numeric dial keypad, there are two buttons, used to switch between the two modes of clear communication and encrypted communication, this phone uses the military confidential communication line, the content of the call in the encrypted communication state, even if it is intercepted, it is difficult to decipher, just a meaningless current noise. In addition, all confidential phones are strictly physically isolated from the local communication network, and there is basically no possibility of eavesdropping or leakage. However, due to the large number of networks connected to it, the security of this confidential phone is actually not as secure as its counterpart.

The old-fashioned red landline on the right is the famous Military Commission No. 1 machine, which is commonly known as the red machine, in order to avoid leakage, even the dial is not set, and any original circuit is intervened by foreign objects or the shell is damaged, which will make the protector inside the fuselage sound an alarm.

This is not only a telephone, but also a status symbol, usually only cadres at the level of deputy senior officials are qualified to put such a red phone in their offices, and having it means that they have obtained the status of "party celebrity" and the qualification to manage the country. The Wall Street Journal once wrote: "The circle of people who can own red phones is about 300 people, mostly men, who dominate one-fifth of the world's population." If someone can be equipped with such a telephone, it means that he has the decisive symbol of supreme power and influence in China."

This statement is not entirely correct, in fact, there are far more people who have the qualifications to use the No. 1 machine than the Wall Street Journal estimates, not only the political (peace) bureau standing committee (harmonious) and senior officials and officials and cadres at or above the military level can use the No. 1 machine, but also many large central enterprises will be equipped with a No. 1 machine, and all retired cadres at or above the deputy national level will also put a No. 1 machine at home to facilitate direct communication with the current leaders.

However, the error in the numerical estimates does not affect the Wall Street Journal's definition of the No. 1 machine, nor does it make the No. 1 machine a little less prestigious. At least, Yang Xiaoqian, as the leader of the education reform team, has even more energy than most high-ranking officials, but he is still not qualified to put a No. 1 machine in his office.

This shows how precious the No. 1 phone is, and all the owners of the No. 1 phone, including Chairman Moon, will place the red landline in the most accessible position on the desk, so that they can pick up the phone handset faster when the bell rings.

As long as the red landline rings, the vast majority of people will pick up the microphone as quickly as possible, and it is no exaggeration to say that the person in charge of some central enterprises will jump up to answer the phone.

But in Liu Yuanzhou's office, the situation was different, the military confidential telephone used to communicate with the Nandu Military Region and the General Staff Department, and the No. 1 machine used to communicate directly with the chairman and prime minister were placed on a long table 10 meters away from Liu Yuanzhou, and when the bell rang to break the silence, no one paid any attention.

Commander Gao of the Nandu Military Region was obviously not a person who gave up lightly, so the phone rang non-stop, but Liu Yuanzhou, who was sitting in a wheelchair, stared intently at the screen in front of him, didn't look at it, and didn't mean to answer the phone.

Finally, a little boy unplugged the telephone cord and silenced the wide, empty room again.

A cylindrical machine has a green light overhead, and a very human voice comes from the output of the sound source: "Why don't you tell them?" It doesn't waste much time explaining to them. ”

"It's good that you've been asking more and more questions lately, but not all questions are answered after they're asked, you have to learn to think for yourself and find answers." Liu Yuanzhou did not answer Zero One's question directly, he slowly stood up, stood up straight, and a silhouette was reflected on the high wall composed of countless electronic screens in front of him.

"Let's get started."

As the command came out, Zero One stopped making any sound, and a red light lit up above its head and flashed at a very fast frequency, as it looked like it was struggling, apparently taking up all of its computing power from what it was currently working on.

At the same time, in the Shangjing Zero 1 Base, the staff who had been on standby for a long time all took action, shuttling through the base in an orderly manner like worker ants. One after another, the indicator lights were lit up one after another, and all the supercomputers in the base entered the overclocking state, and the cooling facilities were turned on synchronously.

"The first phase of preparation is complete."

Zero One's voice became a little monotonous at this time, Liu Yuanzhou nodded slightly, and the strange machine with many instruments and various lines behind him slowly drove to Liu Yuanzhou's side, Liu Zhongqian walked quickly, holding a huge helmet equipped with electrodes, lines, pipes and antennas.

Liu Yuanzhou took the helmet and placed it on top of his head, and in the zero one base, one hundred and seventy-four "guests" with different skin colors and the same expression put on strange-looking helmets under the command of the internal staff of the base.

"The second stage of preparation is complete, everything is ready, Commander Liu, please instruct."

Liu Yuanzhou's eyes lost focus, only the starlight flowed, he didn't speak, but there were countless orders that crossed the long distance in an almost negligible amount of time and were transmitted everywhere in an instant.

In human perception, the time at which each unit receives the command is exactly the same, in no particular order, but in the perception of the machine, even a microsecond delay cannot be ignored, so Zero One can detect that the first to receive the command and carry out action is the micro-UAV stored in the special warehouse of the theater command, they are closest to the command output, and the procedures required for them to implement the order are the simplest.

Thousands of drones take off in batches, carrying video and audio recording and transmission equipment and modified weapon systems, and these micro-drones roam nimbly in the night sky, flashing tiny traffic lights. From a distance, it seems that a large number of fireflies have become dancers, and under the incomparably clever command, they present a chorus.

As their wings began to rotate at the same speed, the resonance of the humming sound shattered the glass in the buildings on the ground.

In China's major air bases, many facilities equipped with intelligent systems began to operate on their own without the use of personnel, and all large UAVs began to leave the control of the air bases and automatically drive to the runway.

In a secret military base on the outskirts of Shanghai, which few people know, unmanned transport planes began to take off one after another, and unmanned tanks and unmanned combat vehicles lined up and drove out of the base.

After the fire control system receives the firing command, the artillery network, which is composed of sharp weapons of war and is best at causing destruction, goes into action.

Hundreds of cannons turned their muzzles, blasting missile shells one after another at a rate of fire that was indiscernible to the naked eye, and the brilliantly blazing tail flames of destruction rushed upwards with the killing order, turning into a flash of light hanging in the air in an instant.

There are so many flashes of light, that the first to come has not yet fallen, and the latecomers have already chased after them, so that the audience has a strange visual effect, as if a curtain of light has appeared over the city.

The light curtain is paired with the dark night curtain without moonlight and starlight, like a galaxy in the silent universe.

The next moment, the brilliant galaxy fell!