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The phone on his desk rang, interrupting Barack's thoughts, and he looked at his watch and wondered if it was time to remind me of a wonderful dinner.

Picking up the phone, it was the voice of Panetta, the former Secretary of Defense and now a member of the Intelligence Council who is almost part-time, "Mr. President, I'm sorry to disturb your dinner time, now I need to report something to you." ”

Barack didn't say anything, and when he replaced Panetta, considering his "great achievements" as director of the CIA, he still didn't let him go home to retire after all, but put him in an important position to continue to play his spare time. Now that I think about it, I'm still a little sorry and regretful, but politics is like that, when it doesn't work, you can just get out.

Bellak's brow furrowed as he listened, and he interrupted Panetta's words and asked, "So, how long do we have left?" ”

"26 hours, tomorrow night at 20 o'clock, the signal source will arrive on Earth."

"So, what do I know now?"

"I'm sorry, Mr. President, we don't have the means to do anything about it at the moment, but I think we should first bring the missile forces in the Atlantic to a level of combat readiness."

Barack shook his head, Level 1 combat readiness, is this a joke? Panetta's bad habits are always like this, self-righteous, unable to see what he needs, "Listen, I need the most detailed report on every briefing at dawn. ”

He hung up the phone and began to tidy up his appearance. Since the United States cannot do anything with its scientific and technological strength now, it is useless to be in a hurry, and it is better to maintain a good spirit to cope with the next events. This calm power is also the reason why he was able to maintain a smile in front of the camera despite the adverse situation of losing in the early stage of the second election.

Tidying up, he walked out of the office, confident that the first lady and her children couldn't wait to have a nice dinner with him.

The evenings are beautiful, and with so many Americans enjoying a busy day at work, it's time to relax and unwind. But in unknown places, there are thousands of special workers who can't sleep, especially tonight, and many more will only struggle to support their tired eyes under the strong effect of coffee.

Time gradually passed, the sky sank into darkness and was about to break, and the pale blue sky was inlaid with a few remnant stars, twinkling and shimmering, setting off the silver-gray light veil between heaven and earth. The night rain washed away all the dirt and even the fragrance of the White House lawn garden.

It was a dark night before dawn, and outside the White House, three heavily armed multi-purpose black sports vehicles stopped on the side of the road, the doors opened, and seven or eight American federal agents came down to take their positions, looking around vigilantly.

In the middle of their circle, an agent solemnly handed the lockbox to the intelligence officer in the White House Emergency Room who came to pick it up, and said, "This is the box, this is the key." ”

The intelligence officer nodded, took the box and keys, and walked into the White House escorted by White House security personnel, and went straight to the Oval Office without delay.

In this small Oval Office, there was already a group of people waiting for a long time, and President Barack was among them. The intelligence officer, apparently familiar with the process, ignored the sandwich in the mouth of Mr. President Barack, inserted the key into the lockbox and twisted it, opening the box, which contained a brown leather binder with a golden seal on it, "Top Secret".

Respectfully handing the binder to Barack, the intelligence officer bowed back.

While eating a sandwich, Barack flipped through the confidential documents in the binder, his casual style had long been familiar to his high-ranking officials, and no one was surprised, but their faces all had a solemn expression, as if they had already understood what was stated in the documents.

"Well, well, so we can't tell what the hell that is?"

With a "snap", Barack threw the binder in his hand on the table.

"Mr. President, I think we should be vigilant and be ready for anything, for now, it will not be our Sputnik or spacecraft." Panetta said.

"What's your preparation?" Hagel looked at him, "Could it be that a video conference was held to tell the people, I'm sorry, the political axe has found an unknown object that is suspected to be an extraterrestrial visitor is about to arrive on Earth, please get ready, stay in the house and don't move?" ”

A hint of disgust flashed in Panetta's eyes, did this politician think that sitting in his position was a real Minister of Defense? Politically, he may have been able to give Berak some help, but in terms of defense, it seems that his early experience in the Vietnamese army made him a peacemaker, and he can only keep calling for peace. Other than that, nothing has been accomplished.

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet interjected, "This thing, I mean, can determine if it's hostile?" Where is its landing route? Will it be burned up by the atmosphere? ”

Barack nodded, and sure enough, he was a veteran under his command, and immediately asked three important key points as soon as he spoke. The first question is whether or not there is hostility or not that will depend on the next measures and means to be taken by the United States. The second problem is that if the landing route is not in the United States, then they will also take different ways and actions. As for the third question, if it burns out in the atmosphere, then neither of the above two questions will be true.

Panetta nodded to Jensen, who was sitting on the side, and the doctor understood, took out the prepared materials and handed them to the president, "Gentlemen, first of all, I want to tell you that this is a photo taken at 5:15 a.m. today using an asteroid hunting sensor, and here is a comparison of photos taken by a group of Canadian NEOSSAT near-earth target surveillance satellites, it can be seen that this thing is about 12 meters in diameter, with a speed of more than Mach 8, and the estimated landing time is between 20 and 21 o'clock, and the location is about the central and eastern United States." ”

The crowd took the information, and looking at the photograph the size of a book, it was impossible to see the diameter of a bright spot in the dark background.

"Judging by the faint radiation signal reflected off the surface of this thing, well, it seems to be just an asteroid." Seeing that the high-ranking officials did not speak, the doctor continued to elaborate.

Just an asteroid? What is this, is it that what they have been arguing about for a long time is just an ordinary asteroid?

"An asteroid that actively emits regular electromagnetic signals." Panetta added on the side.

Everyone looked at each other.

It was the president who broke the silence and said, "Well, an asteroid that emits electromagnetic waves, that's funny." ”

"In this case, this is obviously a man-made thing, maybe the asteroid is just its appearance."

"Well, gentlemen, since things have come to this point, it seems useless to speculate now." "Ms. Janet and Mr. Hagel will be on the lookout from now on, and if anything happens, they will report to me at any time, and the military will be prepared to prevent the unexpected." ”

Everyone stood up, understood that today's "Briefing" meeting was over, and walked out of the oval room.

And to the west of the Pacific Ocean, in the interior of a large eastern country, Luo Xu, who had been busy all night, looked very tired, "Bob, how is the calculation?" ”

"Landing site, within 50 kilometers of the Charlottesville area, 20:37-20:43."

"The Charlottesville area?"

Luo Xu had a little impression in his mind, it seemed to be a small city of tens of thousands of people, and the environment was very beautiful, but this was not where it was famous, it was because of a famous local school that was noticed by the world.

"Damn, how did the third cube end up in the United States?"

Luo Xu grabbed his hair annoyedly, if the third cube appeared in China, he would be able to quickly find the place with the map, and then get the cube back without anyone finding it at the first time, but how could he expect the third cube to appear directly in the United States, how could he be good? Do you really want him to go to the United States? But even if you leave now, and the troubles such as visas and air tickets are completed, maybe the cubes will be placed in the museum.

So, do you want him to give up? How is this possible, not to mention the mystery of the cube, just its teleportation surname, think about it If it falls into the hands of others, Luo Xu shuddered. He was able to achieve what he is doing now by relying on the portal of the cube, and if someone else got the cube, it would make him sleepless.

In this way, it seems that there is only one choice left.

Unmanned fighters were dispatched to the continental United States to recapture the third cube at the first time and on the spot, and strive not to attract anyone's attention under the fast and accurate policy.

Is it a good idea to send military aircraft into the continental United States? Now it seems that no country or region in the world has such courage and technology, and this is simply provoking the United States. And to provoke the United States, the fate of the world's number one power, think of the tragic bin Laden, Luo Xu touched a cold sweat.

Fortunately, it is not impossible to realize this plan, with the unmanned fighters in the base that surpass modern technology, it is really not a difficult thing to enter the United States, as long as Luo Xu does not go crazy and drive the fighter plane around the White House, no one will find him. "I'm afraid of a fart, isn't it just beauty [***] fire here for me."

Luo Xu patted his head and scolded secretly, an ordinary person would be numb when he thought of going against the police, if he thought of going against the political axe, he would definitely be stupid, if he was going against the American political axe, then he would have a calm face, why? What are you afraid of when you die? Luo Xu can quickly calm down, but it's really hard for him to be an ordinary person now, thoughts, surnames, and courage, according to ancient sayings, this is a rebellion.

"But then again." Luo Xu pinched his chin, "How many cubes are there?" If a few hundred suddenly appear for me in a few days, won't I be tired? ”

There is no need to worry about this problem, and he can only roll his eyes helplessly at that time.

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