But at this time, no one will be serious about this issue, time waits for no one, no one on this ship knows what the gray battleship wants to do with so much energy, and no one dares to pack a ticket This battleship will not launch some kind of weapon unknown to mankind like the earth. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The creak of metal twisting came from the info channel, and the first mate gritted his teeth and turned the battleship at the limit speed, but the battleship will automatically turn on the hull protection system when driving manually, preventing the battleship from disintegrating due to excessive changes in movement. However, the speed of the rotation was more than doubled, and the attitude adjustment that would have taken 45 seconds was completed in just 15 seconds, and then the center of the circle represented by the observation window of the large landing was aimed at the tail of the battleship outside the window, and the three-dimensional image of the bridge colored the target point in bright red.

"No problem, sir." The first mate put his hand down, like a captain's report.

"The MAC Super Shot is ready, the capacitors are 100% powered, the two capacitor banks are starting to melt, we don't have much time, we have to fire in twenty seconds, sir." The third officer reported loudly.

"There are no unidentified warships nearby, and the closest thing to us is the International Space Station, two hundred kilometers away." The second mate looked at the spherical space map that wrapped him, and reported loudly.

"Calculate the impact time, design the countdown." The captain commanded to the lieutenant.

"The calculation has been completed, and the estimated collision time is still twelve seconds, ten seconds countdown, two, one, start." The adjutant pushed forward a three-dimensional screen on the right, and the screen gradually enlarged and pasted it on the floor-to-ceiling observation window, which showed "00:00:09", and the setup process took a second.

"Prepare the escape pod and prepare to abandon the ship!" The captain shouted, "You guys go first, I'll do the rest of the debugging." ”

"Sir." The adjutant grinned, "You know we can't go." ”

The crew looked at the captain with smiles on their faces, not like a group of soldiers who were about to die, but like classmates at a birthday party. The captain sighed, a helpless smile on his face.

"It's been an honor to work with you for 12 years, and I'm so grateful to all of you." The captain sat back in the captain's seat.

The scene was as quiet as if it were 20,000 meters under the sea.

However, the pilgrim is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and when the countdown shows "00:00:03", the extremely high energy of photon energy suddenly bursts, and the black hollow cylinder, which has not been noticed before, does not know when it aims at the "Wraith". I saw a beam of light erupt from the black barrel in an instant, accurately passing through the connecting bracket of the two MAC launchers in the bow of the "Wraith" destroyer, and the whole ship was hit to the right by the high-energy light, and there was no time to report or launch, this blow destroyed all the connections between the central control system and the electromagnetic railgun, and the two twelve groups of capacitors that had accumulated overload energy exploded instantly, and within five seconds, the violent explosion swept the entire "Wraith" destroyer.

At the same time, the night sky of the city, Japan, Tokyo.

The citizens of Tokyo have not seen the moon in the sky for nearly three weeks because of the lingering rain, but at this time, the blinding firelight reflects the entire sky, like fireworks set off on the night of the New Year, and like a sad song for heroes. The five-year-old looked up at the orange flame tugging at his mother's skirt and said, "Mom, look, there are fireworks in the sky." The old man sat on his balcony smoking his old pipe, opened his squinted eyes, and muttered, "Is this, the tengu eats the moon?" ”。

The whole of Tokyo watched the fireworks set off in honor of the heroes.

Fourteen minutes later, the fireworks in the sky gradually disappeared, replaced by dazzling fires produced by countless metal fragments rubbing against the atmosphere, just like a meteor shower in the night sky on the top of a mountain in summer. Then there were falling metal fragments, but when a sharded titanium combat board smashed a Toyota parked on the side of the road to smithereens, people realized that this was not a meteor shower, and that wishing at him would not end well, and that it was best to go back to their house and spend tonight's meteor shower night under the protection of reinforced concrete.

Xia Lu, who came out of the 24-hour convenience store, looked up at the metal fragments that kept falling in the sky in confusion, and instantly understood what was happening, and immediately hid back in the store, a piece of rapidly rotating titanium alloy anti-collision net fragments accurately cut the elevated wires outside into two sections, the tube lights in the convenience store flashed twice and then all went out, and the convenience store fell into darkness, and after a few seconds, the emergency lighting system was activated, and the dim warm yellow light flashed and shone on this small area, as if it was going to be extinguished soon.

"What's going on?" Xia Lu gritted her teeth, put a bag of purchased cans and bread in the corner of the convenience store, took out her mobile phone from her pocket, clicked the unlock button, and the mobile phone screen made of transparent plexiglass lit up and became a translucent screen. Xia Lu clicked an icon, which showed the emergency contact, but before Xia Lu clicked the call button, a call came in, and Xia Lu couldn't help but pick up the phone.

"I need an explanation, I just almost got smashed into a photo by a blast door that fell from the sky!" Xia Lu shouted into the mobile phone, this shout caused the surrounding customers to watch, although everyone was terrified, but in the case of half a meter thick reinforced concrete above his head to protect himself from falling iron pieces from the sky, human curiosity will always outweigh fear. All eyes were on Xia Lu. It seems that some of the customers can understand Chinese, which is explaining to the people on the side the meaning of Xia Lu's words just now

"The news that has just been confirmed in the fleet, you are the first wave to know." Ruhl's voice came, "There is a ship that has been destroyed in a 400-kilometer orbit, the name of the string has been confirmed, the destroyer G-1012A 'Wraith', it is my people who died, the two wingmen did not find a distress signal, and it will be confirmed in another thirty seconds that the destroyer 'Wraith' is all dead." ”

G, that is, "guards", the Praetorian Guard, responsible for all defense within a radius of 60,000 kilometers with the earth as the center, 1012 represents the 12th destroyer squad of the 10th fleet, and A represents the destroyer that serves as the lead ship in the destroyer squadron.

Ambition dies before it is rewarded.

Xia Lu was silent, leaned against the wall behind him and sat down, he didn't speak for a long time, Ruhl was also patient, Xia Lu didn't speak, he didn't just talk on the phone, and the two were silent like this. After a while, Xia Lu broke the silence.

"Have you confirmed who the enemy is?"

"It has been confirmed, nearly ten minutes into the start of the battle, the Fifth Fleet reported to me, saying that the operation under the direct command of the Laurel Base had failed, and the target battleship disappeared again, and as a result, it was encountered by the 'Wraith' team, because the previous operation was classified, and no other captains were notified except for the participating fleet." Ruhl's voice was low, and there was a palpable guilt in his tone.

"I see." Xia Lu frowned and said in a deep voice, she realized the seriousness of the situation. However, Xia Lu didn't have time to calm down and think, the sound of breaking the air sounded outside the glass door of the convenience store, Xia Lu looked up at the window, and a bright light pierced the sky. It was a Patriot-2 surface-to-air missile being launched, with the obvious purpose of intercepting a large piece of hull debris that was about to smash into the ground.

Tens of thousands of dollars each fired of surface-to-air missiles accurately hit pieces of hull debris, pushing them into the harbor and falling into the Pacific Ocean.

This night was later called "the twilight of the Admiralty".

"The Japanese Self-Defense Forces have activated an emergency plan and started to intercept the fragments of the battleship, but this interception will not last too long, and don't expect the 'Patriot-2' to intercept all the large fragments." Ruhr warned Xia Lu on the phone, "The research has been invaded by unknown people, and it is impossible to predict that the outside world will be contacted in the next forty-eight hours, so we can't make the research do a precise calculation, but someone has calculated the total time it took to fall." ”

"For how long?" Xia Lu asked eagerly.

"In about fifty seconds, 75 percent of the debris will fall into the city of Tokyo, except for the part intercepted by the missile. The Admiralty Security Council is on standby to activate the self-defense system at the first opportunity, but a word of caution, that system is designed to deal with medium-sized space warships of five million tons and above, and even small-caliber anti-aircraft cannons can easily tear apart a Roosevelt-class nuclear submarine. Ruhl's tone was serious, not sounding like a bluff, "If you have to use it, only you have the authority to give orders, and now you are the highest authority on the ground." ”

"No, isn't my sister here too? His authority should be higher than mine. Xia Lu was a little puzzled.

Xia Lu's authority is two gold S and one bronze S, and Ye Kexin's authority is two gold S and one silver S, Ye Kexin is one-third of the level higher than Xia Lu, it stands to reason that the title of the supreme officer should not fall on Xia Lu's head.

"You know, Ye Kexin's little girl went to Bermuda, I said it before, Bermuda can't get in touch with the outside world within forty-eight hours, and Ye Kexin can't give an order." Ruhl's voice began to seem a little hurried, and on the other side of the phone, it was as if someone had found Ruhl, and a cacophony of speech was coming through the microphone. Xia Lu heard Luer leave the microphone and deal with it casually twice, and then put the phone on her face again, "Go and evacuate, it's important to save your life." ”

After saying this, Ruer hung up the phone, a hurried busy sound came out of the microphone, Xia Lu took the phone away from her ear, and the translucent screen lit up with a blue light, showing the information of the callee during the call. Xia Lu frowned slightly, and returned the picture to the home page, Ye Zifeng's big head sticker appeared on the screen, with slightly messy short black hair and a big grin, and a "V" gesture in his right hand, next to Xia Lu, who was wearing a red dress. This is a photo of the two standing in front of the Empire Building in New York and asking Naoto Sakurai to help take it, that is Ye Zifeng is still studying at Newcastle College, Ye Zifeng is a sophomore, Xia Lu is a freshman, this is the summer vacation before going to school, and the three of them have known each other for half a year and took advantage of this leisure two-month holiday to come to New York and play for a week. This summer, the three of them traveled all over the United States, these are the two months that Xia Lu remembers the most, and this photo is the only photo of Ye Zifeng with Xia Lu, Xia Lu is very treasured.

Looking at the men and women side by side in the photo, a sour feeling came to Xia Lu's mind, the tip of her nose was slightly sour, and a tear slipped quietly down the corner of Xia Lu's eyes. I couldn't bear to look at it anymore, Xia Lu clicked the lock screen button, the screen dimmed, and it turned into transparent organic superconducting glass embedded in the frame of an ultra-thin metal sheet, Xia Lu stared at the glass for two seconds, and then put the phone in the pocket of her jeans.

Glancing at the watch on her wrist, it was now 1:19 in the morning, and there were nearly thirty seconds left before the end of the fall, Xia Lu looked a little uneasy. As the commander of the fleet, she naturally has a very thorough understanding of the structure of the warships in the Admiralty fleet, and it is natural to know what kind of situation will occur when the explosion inside the battleship causes the battleship to disintegrate, because the internal structure of the battleship is extremely compact in order to adapt to the high-speed navigation in the vacuum weightless environment, which also leads to the production of no less than 100 large fragments with a diameter of more than 10 meters, which is enough to destroy the circular area within a radius of 500 meters with Tokyo Tower as the center, and in addition, The spare ammunition carried on the battleship will also explode when it falls to the ground to cause secondary damage, and secondly, a large number of metal boxes will also survive the burning of the atmosphere, so that once an object of mass falls to the ground, it can already penetrate the top armor of the M1A1 main battle tank, even if the top armor is the thinnest armor of the entire tank, it can reach a thickness of one centimeter, and it is made of hard alloy, which can penetrate in one hit except for self-propelled howitzers is tank destroyers. In normal times, if someone says that a hollow metal box with a size of less than two cubic meters can penetrate the top armor of a tank in one blow, then he must be a psycho who escaped after the bankruptcy of a mental hospital.

――Zifeng will definitely be fine.

Xia Lu thought silently in her heart, and at the same time looked forward to the end of this metal meteor shower as soon as possible, but there were always sudden situations that happened at such an extraordinary time, a violent explosion sounded in the distance, and finally there was a violent vibration, which was a shock wave from an underground explosion, and it could also be an earthquake of magnitude 5 or higher. Although earthquakes are frequent in Japan, it is not easy to have an earthquake with a destructive power of 5 or higher, and the distant fire is the best proof that this is not an earthquake, but an explosion.

"Where is that?" Natsuro yells at the convenience store, hoping that someone who can speak Chinese and is familiar with Tokyo will answer her question.

"There, the hospital, and the Admiralty's headquarters in Tokyo." A person answered in non-standard English, and his voice was full of tremors, and when he heard it, he could tell that this person was already extremely frightened.

"Thank you." Xia Lu immediately got up, pulled out the pistol on her waist, pulled the sleeve bullet to load, looked around left and right, picked up the plastic bag containing canned bread oolong tea drinks next to her, and left the convenience store.

The parking lot outside the store was already in shambles, and metal fragments no more than five centimeters in diameter were like bullets that had smashed the ground into the mud and made potholes, and the ground was full of splashed concrete stones, which was not the most dangerous, but the danger was that there were twenty-one seconds left before the fall was over.

Regardless of the surrounding metal pieces like bullets, Xia Lu ran on the road, and from time to time shot live bullets with the pistol in his hand, knocking away the metal pieces that were about to hit him, but Xia Lu's marksmanship was not very good, although he had mastered the basics of flying high-speed moving objects, but some of the tricks were not mastered, Xia Lu could not knock all the fragments away, a sharp titanium alloy fragment hanging and falling at high speed plowed a two-centimeter-long wound on the back of Xia Lu's right shoulder, and the blood instantly soaked the casual clothes around the wound, The short-sleeved shirt, which had been white, immediately turned bright red.

"Damn, I love this outfit." Xia Lu gritted her teeth, this dress was bought by Ye Zifeng when he was shopping with Ye Zifeng, and he has been wearing it for nearly three years now.

However, this did not make Xia Lu stop, the metal scratched wound continued to convey a strong pain to Xia Lu's brain, but Xia Lu still gritted her teeth and ran forward quickly, shooting constantly in her hands, trying her best to avoid the metal fragments, but even so, at a distance of less than a hundred meters, Xia Lu had three more wounds on her body. The shards of metal that had been burned black were extremely difficult to distinguish in the night sky, and even Xia Lu was only asking if the constant smell of burning in the air was the only way to determine the line of defense that the debris was attacking and shoot.

The first magazine was empty in a short time, and Xia Lu had to go to the shade of a tree in the roadside park. However, when Xia Lu just ran here, he found that an injured man with his wife and children was also hiding in the shade of a tree, and it seemed that there was no extra space left for Xia Lu, and he wanted to treat the wound and change the magazine by the way, but when he saw a metal fragment about ten centimeters long pierced into the man's abdomen, Xia Lu changed his mind. Putting the plastic bag in his hand under the bench, he looked left and right, and then Xia Lu opened the door of the red fire box on the side, and took out a few self-healing foam and disposable bandages, as well as a few tetanus needles, of course, there were fire appliances and an MG-1986 in the box, but that thing didn't help much to the current situation.

Xia Lu ran to the shade of the tree with her things, took off the long tube stuck to the body of the self-healing foam bottle, and inserted it into the nozzle of the aluminum bottle, and then grabbed the metal fragment inserted in the man's abdomen, regardless of whether the other party understood it or not, after saying "Hold back", her arm was forceful, and the metal fragment was pulled out. The wife on the side covered the child's eyes and turned around, as if she knew that Xia Lu was treating her husband, and did not come forward to disturb.

Xia Lu shook it, self-healing foam, and then aimed the long tube at the man's wound, spraying out the self-healing foam inside, the anesthetic in the self-healing foam eased the severe pain, and the man began to grit his teeth and endure it, and Xia Lu, who sprayed a whole bottle of self-healing foam, handed the disposable bandage to the man's wife, signaling him to bandage the man and prevent the self-healing foam that had not yet solidified from flowing out. Pulling out the tetanus needle, Xia Lu pierced the needle into the vein of the man's right arm, pushed the piston, and the medicine in the needle tube was injected into the blood, and with the flow of blood all over the body. The wife wrapped the bandage around her husband, and kept saying Japanese that Xia Lu couldn't understand.

There are still five seconds left before the end, Xia Lu only ran out less than one hundred and fifty meters, and the impulse made Xia Lu have a few more wounds on her body, but it was not fatal, but Ye Zifeng, who received brain rehabilitation treatment in the Tokyo headquarters building of the Admiralty, really made Xia Lu worry to death, before meeting Ye Zifeng, Xia Lu burned every love letter she received in front of the sender, and then said threateningly, "If you dare to send me this kind of thing again, I will castrate you." But Ye Zifeng didn't know what magic there was, just because he was immersed in writing papers, and at noon the cafeteria was overcrowded, and the last Ye Zifeng who finished eating found a vacant seat next to Xia Lu after looking around, although the table was full of girls, but Ye Zifeng's cheekiness was indestructible, and after buying two Cokes on the vending machine, he sat next to Xia Lu, handed one of them to Xia Lu, and said in his mouth, "This is my reward for you, just when I spend money to buy this seat." Just when the people around were waiting to see Ye Zifeng's joke, Xia Lu looked at the Coke on the table in a daze, and then her brain didn't know which tendon suddenly burst, grabbed the Coke on the table, and under the surprised eyes of the people around her, she pulled open the ring and took a big sip.

After that, no matter what Ye Zifeng sent, he was not afraid of coming, and for what other boys gave him, his subordinates changed hands to Ye Zifeng, and then he said "Thank you Coke" to Ye Zifeng every time. This situation caused Ye Zifeng to become the public enemy of the boys in the school in just eight hours, and Ye Zifeng, who didn't know it, just bought Xia Lu two packs of potato chips and a bottle of oolong tea drink within these eight hours, and then kept writing papers in the room, constantly being disturbed by Xia Lu.

After silently counting down to the five seconds in my mind, the metal fragments in the sky began to become sparse, and after a while, they became sparse. Xia Lu left the shade of the tree, took out a plastic bag from under the bench, and drained the dust stuck on it, Xia Lu began to walk in the direction of the Admiralty Security Council Tokyo Headquarters, the white high-heeled sandals under her feet stepped on the potholed ground is really not safe, if it were normal, Xia Lu would choose to take off her shoes, but at this time the ground is covered with prickly gravel and sharp metal pieces, and taking off her shoes now is tantamount to self-harm.

Carrying a bag of food worth 2,000 yen, Xia Lu staggered towards Ye Zifeng step by step, but at an altitude of 400 kilometers, the tragedy continued.

(To be continued)