The Past and Present of the Reptile Empire Chapter 146 Silent Attack (1)

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When a first-grader at any Enlightenment school in Amiric opens a new national history textbook, he will see a portrait of a great man in a wheelchair, yes, Faulklin. Faulklin is only one of dozens of presidents in the more than 200-year history of Amerik, and if he were asked to make his own decisions, it would be difficult for him to agree to print his own face picture in primary school textbooks, and he did not rate himself so highly. This was the result of a vote passed by the National Assembly that year, and the Board of Education had to abide by the content of the resolution, provided that the Public Foundation Committee did not oppose it, of course. Faulklin is special in that he was the first person in the country's history to serve more than three consecutive terms as president, and of course, the first person to die suddenly in the presidential palace without any warning. According to the doctor's autopsy of the president's body at the time, it was found that the cause of death was a sudden blood supply disorder to the brain, in other words, the same cause of complete paralysis of the president's legs in the later period. Some people in the Public Foundation Committee doubted the results of the autopsy and could not refute any opinions, so they had no choice but to give up. The whole country thinks that the death of the president is too much of a pity, after all, after several years of fighting side by side with Europa's allies, the continent across the ocean has become closer and closer to peace, and more importantly, how can it not be regretted that the time when the United States of Amerik will rule the world is about to come, and that Faulklin has left suddenly? Based on the information gathered by the Second Bureau of Bont on the basis of independent sources and the information obtained by the army's intelligence services, the members of the Public Foundation Committee made a bold judgment that the war in Europa would be over in a few months, and that it would have to be over in a few months, or rather, that Emerik would do everything in his power to make the devilish empire of Adolphus a thing of the past in a few months.

These giants of the United States came to a consensus in the smoky rooms of the manor, first, that the Volos could not be allowed to extend their tentacles too long, which was not in the interest of the United States, and it was not in the interest of the Commission. Second, Adolphus's empire cannot be allowed to survive for a longer period of time, if the war cannot be ended as soon as possible, Adolphus, a war maniac, will definitely use the latest achievements of the German-Japanese alliance on the battlefield as soon as possible, and then the balance of the war will swing violently, which will cause a series of unnecessary troubles. Congress passed successive bills to change the age of conscripts from 20 to 18, so that the number of United States troops in Europa would be conservatively estimated to be at least five million, or more than 10 million if the potential forces of the allies who could be mobilized were included. The bill also includes a larger-scale civilian-to-military program, with more and more factories joining the action to produce weapons. Hughes Dynamics has long since terminated its cooperation with the German Union, on the one hand, because the relationship between the two countries no longer allows for more cooperation, and on the other hand, Hughes Dynamics believes that its research progress has far exceeded that of its former partners, that is, there is no need to cooperate with each other. Under the joint focus of the United States and its allies, the research work of the joint research institute of the German-Japanese Union has been interrupted from time to time, and the progress has fallen behind. On the contrary, the United States, though involved in the war, was safe at home, and Hughes's researchers, at the behest of Congress, worked day and night to begin experimenting with the results of their research.

There are two other photographs in the Enlightenment textbook that appear in the same chapter as Falklin, one called the cowboy and the other the farmer. Not people, though, but two bombs that were transported to different corners of the world and dropped by bombers. The picture suggests that it was produced by Hughes Power before the end of that war. No one knows why such a name was given to these monsters that had not yet thoroughly completed the experimental dropping process, the only reason being explained as a need for secrecy. Experiments on the ocean, thousands of kilometers from the southern tip of the continent of Emerica, had just been completed, and the cowboys and farmers were hurriedly loaded onto long-range bombers and rushed to Europa overnight, and the memo handed over to Congress by the Public Foundation Committee made it clear that the United States needed this war to end as soon as possible. The National Assembly showed no hesitation in its tacit agreement with the committee, and soon passed the bill for the final battle against German. Unlike in the past, this emergency bill has suspended the state of decisive battle that had just been mobilized. Congress did not give an explanation, and newspapers speculated that it might be because of Hughes's super-achievements. The Diet was noncommittal, and the people did not pay much attention to the matter, after all, for whatever reason, it was the idea of the majority of the people to end the war as soon as possible. Although there is a job, almost every family has relatives who are bathed in bullets on the battlefield, and there is always no reason for family affection. Faulklin did not have this honor to become the president who signed the use of super fruits, and his deputy took over the position left after his death. It doesn't look good, it's more like a depressed old man who hasn't woken up from last night's sleep and has become the new president of the United States. Obviously, history is not very fair to him, and the depressed man is the legitimate representative who signed the peace agreement on behalf of the United States at the end of this super world war, not to mention that he has been president for more than one term. The truth is that he was not even given a chance to leave his full name in the history textbooks.

President Davis had no idea that future generations would do this to him. He doesn't think very badly of himself, but he's by no means a person who cares about this kind of thing. For example, not long after taking over as president, he signed his name on a simple order when it seemed that the uncomfortable sofa in the presidential palace was not yet hot. He didn't want to look at it, because it was nothing more than something that Mr. Falklin had studied while he was alive, and there was nothing worth seeing. It will probably have to wait until these things, all these things about the war are over, that he will be able to come out of the post-Faulin period, and maybe then he will be a true president of the United States. For the rest of the year, Davis had little time to rest, even on weekends, and he didn't have time to visit his manor's nest, and he laughed at himself and said that it seemed that he was married to the state. In addition to discussing post-war issues with Breez and Frans in Europa, he also had to secretly argue with the Wallos about the post-war garrison in Europa. The issue of garrisons was a very sensitive issue, and it was a symbol of the scope of the expansion of power, and it was of great significance to the United States, so Davis did not take it lightly. He may not be a great president, but he tries to do his best to be a competent president. When he entered the work state, he was still a very serious person, and he did not have the kind of depression that seemed on the surface, and the people around him said so.

War is the biggest thing facing the United States, but it doesn't mean the whole story. Before becoming vice president, Davis served as the leader of the opposition in Congress, chairing the Congressional Special Committee of Inquiry. The scope of the committee's investigation is wide-ranging, and they need to provide a basis for Congress to make a reasonable explanation to the people. Davis has done a good job in each investigation, which has been recognized and appreciated by the members of the Public Foundation Committee. Probably because of the shrewdness and competence he showed every time, he became Faulklin's partner in the last election that year, and eventually succeeded Faulklin as the highest-ranking member of the Public Foundation Committee sent to the presidential palace. Davis no longer heads the commission of inquiry, but the committee's report is still visible. In the war, the armed forces of the United States were equipped with more and more advanced weapons, which enabled the soldiers to win victory after victory on the battlefield, but also brought some minor troubles at home and abroad, and the scientific and technological prowess displayed by the United States made many people feel uneasy. Faulin can say he doesn't care, that's his character, but Davis feels that he can't, for example, the two guys with strange names at the moment have exploded in Europa, and the situation definitely needs an explanation. This situation is becoming more and more obvious, and there are always some people at home who like to pay attention to such similar incidents, and foreign allies have also asked for information about this special bombing. The technical problem, naturally, the Ministry of Defense asked some experts to explain, the problem is that some people pointed out that Hughes's products are not independently developed, but come from the mysterious Department of Defense K Base 450 Area. Davis wanted to laugh out loud every time he saw such a statement, and the author who reported for it was very detailed, as if they had been there. Not everybody, even the president of the United States, has been there, and Davis has only been there once.

Ever since President Bont established contact with the mysterious master of the seabed, the United States has continued to receive something that can be copied directly, which can be regarded as a reward for the secret agreement. In order to bring the relevant research and linkage systems together, the Department of Defense proposed the establishment of Base K under the jurisdiction of only one district, Area 450, in a small hearing attended by core members of Congress and all members of the Public Foundation Committee. For the convenience of work, the Dofer Pharmaceutical Group has become a peripheral organization of District 450. The budget of Congress would put the necessary money into Dofuer on the grounds of national need, and Dofoer managed to transfer the secret funds to Area 450. In other words, from the point of view of the state budget, the Ministry of Defense does not have a K base at all, and there is no so-called 450 area. Since its establishment, Area 450 has established a complete system of archiving and collection, and has also researched and received many generous gifts from the Dominators. Some of these achievements became tools that could be directly used in warfare, while others became the basis for the United States to become the sole proprietor of scientific and technological development. However, the depressing part is that reception and research are always a passive process, and the Juggernaut has not allowed them to come into contact with the ocean floor since they came into contact with Bonth. Contact is always done by following a machine directly from the Juggernaut, which does not regularly select the right people who can receive the information, who receive it, and then the researchers at Area 450 conduct the research. Several top scientists in Area 450 tried to take the initiative to study why the machine chose these personnel, and did get some results, but when these results were implemented through the laboratories of the Duofoer Pharmaceutical Group, it was ridiculous, there were few success stories, and no one could explain what the monsters who succeeded or did not succeed could say.

The existence of Area 450 is not an isolated case, and the staff of the Second Bureau of Bonthe, in Zhiman, Adolfs, have found a similar agency, but they have nothing more to gain than to learn about the progress of the joint group's secret weapons research. Judging by the fact that the submarines of the Germans have been cruising the sea for so long, it is more likely that they have already achieved some results. However, the Germans have been slow to show what they have achieved, which makes it difficult for the people in Bonthe second game to judge what other cards Adolphus has. These are no longer important, with the two huge mushroom clouds rising from the land of German, the few secret targets that the Second Bureau of Bont had delineated at the beginning have become part of the smoke and dust, and the extent of the research has been zeroed. Seeing that the devastated empire was no longer capable of launching a new offensive, Adolphus, who was conceited to the extreme, gave up the supreme power of the country to a seemingly ordinary subordinate, and ended his life with fire. Adolfus could not save the land of German, which cowboys and farmers had visited, let alone a mediocre subordinate. The subordinate's only major mission was to sign the surrender agreement on behalf of Zhiman once again, ending the war. With the end of the war in Europa, Pennis, who was rambling in Esnia, also received a truce proposal from Wallos and Emerik. The armistice proposal was filled with the smell of gunpowder, and Pannis began to continue the war with great confidence, but when the two giants of the war transported the soldiers who had been idle from Europa to the perimeter of Pannis's army by all necessary means of transport, Pannis became timid. After a few months of sporadic firefighting, Pannis managed to secure the final outcome of the war by accepting an armistice. Although Pennis led the war to all of Esnia, the ultimate punishment was to withdraw his own army and promise not to start another war. The countries that were conquered by Pennis in Aisnia have been restored, and naturally they have established relations with the two giants. The United States and the Volos have secured the necessary scope for their actions.

Speaking of Volos, this is simply a mystery in the history of human development, the vast majority of the entire country is almost in the ice and snow, there is no decent agriculture on the original land, and the development is very slow in history, and even in the world history compiled by many countries, there has been no record of the Volos people for a long time. In Davis's cognition, the knowledge of Volos is also very limited. When the small-looking but stocky leader of Volos offered a face-to-face meeting, Davis felt he needed to do his homework on the Wallos. The aides, including the staff of the Bont II Bureau, obtained as much information as possible from Mr. President, even the ethnographic content. Davis noticed an asterisk on some of the materials, which his assistants had sorted out and thought needed to be a point of view. He picked up a copy of it, and interestingly, it was actually the ethnography of Volos. He didn't pay much attention to the overview part and went straight to the conclusion part. The text in the conclusion section was only a few short lines, but it was enough to make Davis's brow furrow. He pressed the secretary's phone, and it seemed necessary to propose that the members of the Public Foundation Committee meet as soon as possible.

The other members of the Public Foundation Committee shared Davis's concerns. The traditional Volos exhibits physical characteristics that are unusual for the human race that evolved in other parts of the world, and for quite some time the information on the evolutionary history of the human race was almost blank. In other words, the evolutionary process of the modern Volos people has some parts of the anomaly and serious deletions. Davis wanted to ask everyone, gentlemen, do you remember that strange visit, the experiments in Dofuer's underground laboratory, how many people were amazed at that time. I have a hunch that there is much more to the types of agents chosen by the Dominators than we have learned, and that it is necessary to study the prominent national and traditional power structures in history. The members of the committee nodded their heads, and Dofoer proposed that appropriations be pushed in Congress to allocate more funds to research at Base K, and to expand the necessary research areas on top of the existing ones. Davis agrees with everyone that the Juggernaut needs proxies, but not necessarily so many. The large number of agents means that the scope of authority of any one agent will be very small.

Before the proposal to the National Assembly had been formalized, the plane of the diplomatic delegation from Frans and Brilles had already landed at the airport in the capital. Out of respect for the visitors, Davis personally rushed to the airport to greet them. Prior to this, the Public Foundation Committee had reached a consensus with the traditional power holders in the two countries, the "stonemasons". The "stonemasons" will recognize the United States' dominance over Europa in return for Amerik providing all the necessary needs for the post-war reconstruction of the two countries. On the surface, the "stonemasons" are just some elderly members of the two parliaments who don't like to speak much, but they are the ones who have long held power in their respective countries. The complex power structure can only hide the truth of power displayed in front of ordinary citizens, but it cannot hide the threat to power that the "stonemasons" increasingly feel. The Public Foundation Committee had not had much contact with the "stonemasons" before, and even various historical signs reminded the people of the United States that the forces that tried to hinder the birth of the United States back then were very likely to come from the predecessors of these "stonemasons". Davis sighed, but still warmly received the "stonemasons", after all, the "stonemasons" were much cuter than the Wallosians.