Chapter 24 The War That Came as Scheduled
The street shook again, and the magnitude was a little bigger than before. Because of this shaking, many people woke up one after another.
At the same time, all the lights in the shopping street were turned on again.
Then, there was a loud noise, and a large gap was made in the northwest of the underground shopping street by a giant pangolin shaped beast with iron scales and a single horn on its head.
Jill recognized it at a glance as the one that had carried him from the Rhombus Lab to the underground base deep beneath the former Union Government Building. It wasn't in great shape, its back and neck were plugged with electricity and what looked like rivets, and blood was running from the wounds. Like a frightened but tethered horse, it jerked twice in place because of the pain, throwing off several members of the Blade Team who were standing on it trying to stick the thing deeper and more solidly, before turning and slipping away through the gap.
Subsequently, a large number of subhumans scurried in through the gap and dispersed, hunting and killing those who fled in panic.
Twenty or so mech-clad members of the Blade Team rushed in, cooperating with each other to intercept and kill the subhumans with larger plasma guns. Their leader is Caroline. She didn't cooperate with anyone, she waved the sword and rushed to the front, and saved a newlywed couple in a flash.
The sound of battle inside and outside the gap was endless.
Five minutes before the beast crashed through the gap, the second shaking occurred, the doors at the north and south entrances of the commercial street were reopened. More than a dozen members of the Blade Squad, including Nodia, entered from the South Exit and traveled everywhere, reminding people to flee.
Jill followed the flow of people up the main road that runs north and south of the shopping street, walked forward for about 5 minutes, and bumped into Nordia in a hurry.
"You see, I'm very busy right now. Take care of yourself. The wind was blowing at Nodia's feet, and in just a few words he had walked past Gil and ran many meters ahead. He was worried about Caroline's injury, so he seemed a little anxious, and he was eager to fly over with a "whoosh".
Jill could only swallow the words back into his stomach, and continued to follow the flow of people, leaving the third floor of the Tenjin underground shopping street from the south exit. According to the arrangement, he and those who escaped safely were secretly escorted by prepared vehicles to the sixth shelter, JA's base, if they volunteered. Of course, this is something they only found out after they arrived.
By the time they had packed up, another half an hour had passed, and another group of people had been sent to JA.
At this time, the underground shopping street gradually calmed down.
In the early morning of the 19th, two completely different news items made JA the center of public opinion in the whole of New York, one was reported by the New Frontier newspaper, and the other was pushed in real time by the time briefing. In the eyes of the coalition government, most of the U.S. national departments, and the New York State Department of Defense, the JA is an organization that can't get on the table, so it secretly stumbles and pours dirt on it with some bad information.
However, now, these two news have made JA gain a lot of hearts and minds, and they have also gained the upper hand in public opinion.
Such a state of affairs was not expected by Boakye. According to the information obtained, from the 14th, the coalition government will secretly take over New York's affairs, which means that JA will be revoked of all operational powers. On a whim, he used the fifth batch of subhumans to raid two shelters in the middle of the night, but in the end, he was disrupted by JA and stole the limelight.
He was indignant, so he pushed a freshly assembled six-inch-tall robot into the grinder and crushed it into powder.
There are parties to the incident, and naturally there will be no shortage of people to watch the excitement.
Jacob was the most conspicuous of them all. He felt it was a good time, so he used the broadcast satellite to lock onto Agria's spacecraft, which was broadcast live on more than half of New York City's curtain walls and media, so that people could see what Agria's spacecraft would look like anytime and anywhere if they were interested. It will last until the end of the War of Tomorrow.
After flying for more than 10 minutes, the Aglia spacecraft hovered over the Hudson River, retracted its high tail, and bowed slightly downward. In the middle of the top of the hull rises a long flat platform called the "three-phase falcon"; The hull as a whole unfolds up and down with sleek three closed-loop lines, revealing a blue and cold light; A pedestal stretched down from the bottom of the ship, looking from afar like two fitter's hammers side by side, the hole in front of it was terrifyingly deep.
Many people felt that the Aglia ship had changed its appearance, as if it was trying to cooperate with Jacob, or that it had sworn to the world that it was ready to go to war at any time. More people are biased towards the latter.
"Previously at Sturet, I thought your inferences were exaggerated, but now you have been proven right. Isn't that what happened in two shelters during the day be the best proof of this? In the third R&D department, Fernando said to Jill on the side while looking at the Aglia spacecraft in the projected live broadcast screen.
"This is still what Nodia reminded me of in passing." Jill said. The inference that Fernando is referring to is that he thinks that the large and small destruction that Boacchiye has wreaked all over New York is not, as some have claimed, with a clear purpose, but just a kind of fun: Boacchier intends to paint a huge hourglass-shaped symbol of two isosceles triangles in New York City in a destructive way, and it is inscribed on the Aglia spaceship, symbolizing Aglia, as if to say, "Aglia is here."
"Two Enlightenment Mirrors" is also a kind of fun.
"Beckett is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and he will definitely give it back to you. Tell me what you're going to do next. Fernando asked.
"yes, not to mention that I sent a bullet into his body where he cared about it most." Jill shifted her body back, leaning her back against the back of her chair, "I'm going to take Ina to China." As for JA Company, if it can achieve its goal, I am willing to give most of my shares to those minority shareholders. ”
"Wound the enemy for a thousand and lose yourself for eight hundred. If I could, I would like to see you in harmony. Fernando sighed.
Jill didn't make a sound.
The 20th is quietly coming. On the streets of New York in the early morning, several cars were moving as fast as they could, in the direction of several shelters. After another hour, there were no more cars on the streets, and there was no longer a single passenger in the self-running subway or upside-down train. New York has never been so quiet, with the wind blowing from the Atlantic Ocean into the city, weaving from building to building, carrying the sound of the curtain wall advertising for some distance before dissipating with it.
Minutes and seconds passed calmly.
"It's so boring here. If my sister is here, she can play chess with me. Candace said. She came to JA with the children in the blue mandala, and happened to be in the same group as Jill, and when they met, they sat down and ate together. After the meal, they continued to sit and chatted while watching the live broadcast.
"I can accompany you if you want." Jill said. In general, Ina is also his chess teacher.
Hearing Jill's words, Candace's eyes lit up, but soon dimmed again, "Forget it, suddenly I'm not in the mood." Let's watch the live broadcast. ”
In the huge dining room, there were all kinds of people sitting, and the elderly ones left to go back to their rooms to rest after eating.
There are less than 10 minutes left until 12 o'clock. More than half of the people in the world, whether passive or instigated by others, began to look at the screen one after another, and in the live broadcast screen, the Aglia spaceship is still the same as yesterday, but the difference is that the sky is darker today than yesterday.
At 12 o'clock and 10 seconds, a total of 20 X-wing, K-wing and other fighter jets sent by Britain, China, Russia, country G and the United States flew into the sky over New York City at the same time. As the live camera zooms back, fighter jets enter the frame. In the picture, they surround the Aglia spaceship, and the moment the hour hand jumps to 12, dozens of missiles roar out of the fuselage in unison.
These missiles have different names and models, representing the highest standard of military equipment of various countries, and the moment they fly out at a gallop, they attract the attention and expectation of thousands of people. But in an instant, they exploded in the air between the fighter and the Aglia spacecraft, and the shock wave and heat radiation generated immediately swept the entire sky, and it was red.
The UX bounced off most of the shock waves and heat radiation, making the otherwise fiery sky burn even brighter. On the other hand, the UX gradually weakened under its violent impact, and the metal shelves of many of the buildings below quickly turned like red-hot coal, and the branches and foliage of the lush trees began to wither.
When the picture became clearer again, people could see the huge Aglia spaceship hovering alone in the sky.
More than ninety percent of the audience was surprised by what happened in those seconds, and they couldn't think of a single reason. However, a very small number of people, including Jacob, knew through military analyzers that it was caused by the "three-phase falcon" on the top of the Aglia spacecraft firing dozens of hollow gamma rays that hit the missiles one by one in an instant.
Just when everyone thought the battle was over, the two fighters re-entered the live broadcast screen. The American plane rushed up from between the buildings from the bottom up, aiming its neutron cannon at the base at the bottom of the spacecraft, and the Chinese plane swooped down from a high altitude from the top down to project a photon missile at the "three-phase falcon."
In the next second, the bright light filled the whole world with red light, like an incomparably poignant red rose blooming sprinkled with silver pink.
Under its impact, the UX becomes fragile until it disintegrates. New York City lost its protection, the top half of countless high-rise buildings turned to powder in an instant, and if small trees were uprooted by the heat wave and carried far away, the Hudson River began to swell, making it a fierce river.
After 10 minutes, the picture became clear.
The camera deliberately pulls down a bit. In the picture, the prosperity of New York City no longer exists, and what remains is only a dilapidated and depressed scene, which makes countless audiences sigh in their hearts. At the same time, all the spectators noticed that the Aglia spaceship had disappeared! Such a huge spaceship, even if it is severely destroyed, will not leave a single wreckage behind.
Just when everyone was surprised, the spacecraft suddenly emerged from the original hovering position, except for a large hole on the right side of the "three-phase falcon" at the top, the rest of the hull was unharmed. It turned out that a second before the neutron cannon was about to hit the hull, Boakye used the prepared super-warp fixed-point teleportation to transfer the hull to the Atlantic Ocean thousands of kilometers away, and then teleported the hull back again, like a little trick.
"We failed." Staring at the screen, Candace said earnestly, with a subtle hint of frustration in her tone.
"No, I think there should be action to come." Jill sensed Candace's mood and said things that were both comforting and what he really thought at this time.
As Jill had speculated, Jacob, who was far away in the Washington D.C. Office of Supreme International Military Cooperation, raised his right hand and was about to compare his handprints with U.S. Leader K, who was standing to his left. As long as the handprints of the two are matched at the same time, the "Doros" military satellite will lock onto the Aglia spacecraft and launch a laser cannon.
But just before the hands of the two were about to fall, the entire office suddenly shook violently, shaking everyone in the office to the ground. At the same time, the same situation is happening in New York, in the US states, and throughout North and South America.
"Hurry up and find out!" Leader K struggled to hold his body in place with his palms and toes, while shouting at Taylor, the head of the Secret Service Department, who was climbing up the wall in the distance.
This man in his early forties is a person with sensitive ears, so he can naturally hear the voice of the head of state, K, so he hurriedly grabbed the wall with both hands and dragged his hundred-pound body off the ground. He walked over to the touchscreen table, opened a military software with his handprint, and then entered a secret order, and the real image of the entire American plate immediately popped up.
In the image, the land of each country is divided irregularly, some in the unit of a city, some in the unit of an entire state, some in the unit of a mountain range, and some in the unit of a strait. Among them, the land divided by mountains and straits crosses national borders, and in the future, it will inevitably involve the issue of sovereignty between countries, which is an international dispute.
It is switched to another mode. Centered around a city, a forest park, or a canyon, there are densely drawn lines that resemble contour lines with strange values. Among them, New York is the most conspicuous, because it is constantly flashing red, like a kind of warning.
Taylor closed the software and walked towards the head K, holding on to the table. Because of the violent shaking, he struggled to walk. He had to go from one end of the table to the other, and it took him two minutes halfway through. At the same time, the shaking stopped, and he no longer needed to move forward, as long as the waiting leader K stood up on his own.
"How's it going?" Leader K asked Taylor.
Taylor looked at the others who were standing up one after another, and looked hesitant.
"Say it out loud. Nowadays, there are no secrets to hide anymore. Leader K said in a commanding tone. He could already sense from Taylor's expression what was going to happen.