Chapter 244: A Super Earthquake
After watching the videos and pictures sent back by the US fighter planes from the scene, they actually found a huge black python in the videos and pictures, and on the videos and pictures after the restoration, Xiao Hei's body appeared unusually clear and huge, and it was quickly shuttling in the sea to attack its own aircraft carrier battle group, and its destructive power was very amazing, which made them extremely surprised.
In the video and pictures, Xiao Hei very ferociously destroyed the US military's "Stennis Nissi" aircraft carrier battle group, and Xiao Hei's destruction of the "Stennis Nissi" aircraft carrier battle group was very simple and fast, the whole process was only ten minutes, but the US fighter planes in the sky did not have any way to Xiao Hei's sabotage action.
The faces of those generals began to turn pale, if calculated according to the destructive power of this black python, no active warship of the US military would be its opponent at sea. The sudden appearance of this black python in the Arabian Sea dealt these generals a heavy blow and officially announced the end of the era of global hegemony of the US Navy. In the future, as long as there is a place where this black python exists, the warships of the US Navy must be far away, otherwise they will not have any sense of security in front of the black python, and they will sink as long as they are hit by it.
Gates said with a heavy face: "Everyone, today is our saddest day. Today, not only have we lost the war in the Gulf region, but our USS Stennis aircraft carrier battle group has once again been completely wiped out, and the most crucial thing is that the natural enemies of our US Navy have appeared, and from now on, the sea is no longer our territory. ”
The President of the United States asked, "Mr. Gates, what is this thing, that it can actually sink our aircraft carrier battle group, and is there no way for us to deal with it?" ”
Gates replied: "Mr. President, according to our computer analysis, the unknown object that sank our USS Stennis aircraft carrier battle group should be a huge black python with a length of two hundred and thirty meters and an average diameter of more than eight meters. And it is infinitely powerful, moves like the wind, and is invulnerable. As long as it exists, our American warships will not be its opponents. ”
The President of the United States frowned and said, "Then how did this black python appear?" You know, the python we've seen before is only more than 20 meters long, and why would it attack our warship? Are these great sea serpents at our enmity? ”
The US president was very depressed, two years ago when a US "Sea Wolf" class attack nuclear submarine was carrying out a special mission in Hong Kong waters, it was attacked by a sea snake more than 20 meters long, resulting in the last "Sea Wolf" nuclear submarine being captured by the Chinese Navy, and he paid a great price to get them all back, but he did not expect that this time it was even more exaggerated, and the entire aircraft carrier formation was killed by a more huge black python.
But what the US president didn't expect was that the sea snake that was more than 20 meters long before and the giant python that was more than 200 meters long were actually the same one, but the difference in size between them was too big, so he didn't connect the two together for a while.
Gates stretched out his hands and said, "Dear Mr. President, I don't know what you're asking. But I think the appearance of such a large giant creature must have something to do with the nuclear weapons tests carried out by humans. Generally speaking, it is only in the case of radiation contamination that the genes of such organisms mutate and become enormous. I remember that there was a movie in the United States called "Godzilla", which was the story of a little lizard that was contaminated by nuclear radiation and then became huge. As for why this black python came to attack our warship, I think it may be that our aircraft carrier battle group is in the area where it is active, and the noise from the aircraft carrier battle group disturbs it, otherwise it would not have attacked us twice near the Strait of Hormuz, you must know that the concept of animal domain is very strong. ”
Smith, who was next to the President of the United States, suddenly said loudly: "I think I understand, there was a nuclear explosion in the Indian Ocean last year, when a large area of the sea was polluted by the nuclear radiation produced by the nuclear explosion, could this black python be contaminated by nuclear radiation at that time, and as a result, there was a genetic mutation, and then it became like this?" ”
Only then did everyone remember the nuclear explosion in the Indian Ocean last year, and they also felt that there was some truth in what Smith said.
However, whether it is the President of the United States, Gates, or Director Smith, who is in charge of intelligence gathering, they never thought that Xiao Hei would be a monster created by humans on the earth, but thought that Xiao Hei was naturally generated, and they were just unlucky, and they didn't know that they had provoked Xiao Hei, so they were attacked by it twice in a row.
They didn't think that there was such an organization or individual who could create such a behemoth, not only because the current gene technology could not reach such a height, but also because such a behemoth had no way to control it in their imagination, and they did not associate the Xiaohei incident with the Star Group. The timing of Xiao Hei's appearance, they thought it was just a coincidence.
The President of the United States said: "Ladies and gentlemen, this black python has seriously threatened our national security, so how should we deal with it?" We can't just shy away from every place it appears, right? ”
"Mr. President, studies have shown that organisms that have undergone a sudden genetic mutation that causes a drastic change in size will overdraw their vitality in large quantities," Smith said. So we can wait until this big black snake dies naturally, and then the sea will still be our world. And the lifespan of a black python like this is generally about five or six years, and now its lifespan has been overdrawn, and it is estimated that it can live for a year or two at most! ”
The US president said dissatisfiedly: "This big black snake will not die until a year or two later, so how can we protect our maritime interests now?" ”
Smith was a little speechless, not knowing how to answer a topic that was obviously outside of his knowledge.
Just when a room full of generals had no way to solve the threat of the black python, Gates's secretary suddenly sent him the latest news, and after Gates read the news, his two eyebrows were twisted together, and his face became gloomy.
"Mr. Gates, what's going on again?" The President of the United States asked.
"Dear Mr. President, our seizure of the Star Group cargo ship near Guam failed, our old warship was destroyed by unknown weapons, and then all the people on board were captured," Gates said. ”
The President of the United States exclaimed: "How is this possible, Guam is our sphere of influence, and we are all familiar with every plant and tree there, how could they be destroyed by unknown weapons?" And the people we sent out are all elite soldiers, how could they be captured by those seafarers casually, didn't they say some more detailed information? ”
Gates shook his head and said, "Our personnel just had time to send such a message, and then they lost contact with us, and we don't know their specific situation now." ”
The President of the United States has suffered too many blows today, and now he was stimulated by this news, and finally began to go berserk, he swept the things on the table to the ground at once, and shouted loudly: "This must be the Star Group playing tricks, it must be them, it must be them, it is they who destroyed our warship, we must retaliate against them, we will send a strong army to directly attack their headquarters Hong Kong." ”
Gates and the generals in the room ignored the president's rants. An attack on Hong Kong would be tantamount to an attack on China, and a war would soon break out between the United States and China, and at that time, it would not be as simple as a local conflict.
Just as the president of the United States lost his mind and shouted that he was going to attack Hong Kong, a C.I.A. intelligence officer walked in, and he handed Smith a piece of information with an anxious face.
After Smith read this information, his face also changed greatly, and he said to Mr. President: "Mr. President, something big has happened in our country, and we have no ability to take care of the affairs of the Star Group now. With that, he handed the piece of information to the President of the United States.
When the president of the United States read clearly what was written on the information, he was so shocked that he couldn't even hold the small piece of paper steadily, causing the love newspaper to fall to the ground.
The generals were shocked, looked over, and found that the note simply had a few big words written on it: "At 2:23 p.m. Western time on August 9, 2014, a magnitude 10 earthquake struck downtown Los Angeles. ”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Los Angeles is the second largest urban belt in the United States, one of the most economically prosperous areas in the United States, and the location of Hollywood, the world-famous movie city.
At the same time, Los Angeles is located in the world's largest seismic zone, the Pacific Rim Seismic Zone, and is an earthquake-prone area. In Hollywood movies, Los Angeles has been destroyed by sudden earthquakes countless times, and those scenes of destruction are very shocking, but after all, it is what happened in the movie, but the citizens of Los Angeles do not have the slightest intuitive feeling of the earthquake, they still live their healthy and orderly leisurely life.
Although there was a major earthquake in the northwest of Los Angeles in 1994, 20 years have passed, and as the older generation of Angelenos has grown older, the new generation of Angelenos has long forgotten the strong shock brought to them by the earthquake that year.
Late at night on August 9, 2014, the bustling Los Angeles has quieted down, most of the people are resting in their own homes, so that they can go to work and make money tomorrow, only a part of the boring people wander in the city, the whole city seems quiet and peaceful, no one thought that a super catastrophe is quietly approaching them.
There is a large active crustal fault at a depth of about 20,000 meters below the city of Los Angeles, and a large amount of crustal lava has been tumbling upwards at a depth of about 20,000 meters below the crustal fault, thus generating huge amounts of energy, which can not be effectively relieved, so they slowly accumulate together, but because these huge energies have not exceeded the bearing limit of the crustal fault, the crustal fault has not moved, and the observation station on the ground has not found anything abnormal.
Until this evening, the energy of the underground lava finally accumulated to an incomparably huge peak, and after reaching this peak, the quantitative change finally produced a qualitative change, which suddenly made this crustal fault that had existed for countless years begin to move laterally, and this lateral movement triggered a series of chain reactions, and finally caused a strong earthquake to occur under Los Angeles, and the huge energy began to emit out.
As soon as a strong earthquake occurs, various seismic waves quickly spread in all directions. The first seismic wave to reach the ground was a longitudinal wave, and almost instantly, the entire city of Los Angeles began to shake up and down as if a spring had been installed. The up-and-down tremor lasted for five seconds, and the buildings in the city began to collapse, and a large number of people were buried under the rubble in their sleep.
Then the seismic wave that spread to the ground was a transverse wave, so the whole city of Los Angeles began to shake violently, this time the damage of the transverse wave was very strong, under its destruction, in less than five seconds, more buildings in the city of Los Angeles began to collapse, and more people were buried under the rubble.
Then these two seismic waves that reach the ground begin to meet, so they excite each other to produce a mixed wave, and after the mixed wave is generated, it begins to move forward rapidly along the surface, and it is the most destructive. On the way of the rapid advance of the mixed wave, a large number of buildings on the surface collapsed, leaving more people buried under the rubble.
The earthquake lasted for a total of 30 seconds, and by the time it was 30 seconds, the entire city of Los Angeles was in ruins, the sky was full of dust, the fires caused by the earthquake were everywhere, and all the iconic buildings in the city had been destroyed. Everywhere are the citizens of Los Angeles who are at a loss, some of them are yelling at the bewilderment, some are picking at the rubble around them, trying to save their loved ones from the rubble, and many more are looking blank and have not yet recovered from their previous fears.
And just after the super earthquake in Los Angeles, the seismic network on the west coast of the United States immediately detected the huge earthquake in Los Angeles. During their testing, they found that the magnitude of the earthquake reached an unprecedented magnitude of 10 on the Richter scale, and the epicenter was actually located 20 kilometers below the center of Los Angeles. At first, the monitor thought that the equipment was malfunctioning, and immediately checked the equipment, and the conclusion was that there was still a magnitude 10 earthquake in Los Angeles. Only then did he wake up and immediately reported this conclusion to his superiors, who did not dare to slack off and immediately reported to his superiors.
So the news of the 10 magnitude earthquake on the west coast of the United States was reported to the White House office in a very short time, just because the president of the United States was watching their military operation at the Pentagon, so the news was sent to Smith by the intelligence officers of the CIA, and then passed on to the president of the United States by Smith.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ the President of the United States stood up, his face turned pale, and he said in a trembling voice: "Gentlemen, there has been a magnitude 10 earthquake in Los Angeles, all our military operations have been suspended, and all the planes and troops of our overseas bases have been transferred back to the United States, except for those that must be retained, and at the same time a national mobilization order has begun. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the most difficult time for the United States, and I hope you can help me save more American lives in this catastrophe. ”
The mega earthquake occurred in the downtown area of Los Angeles, the most prosperous city on the west coast, and its magnitude reached the strongest magnitude ever recorded in the United States, and it was still late at night, and the vast majority of the citizens of Los Angeles were resting at home.
The generals immediately stood up, and they showed their loyalty to the president with serious expressions. Regardless of what they think about the president of the United States, it is true that the United States has reached the most dangerous time, and these American generals have decided to put aside their contradictions and work together to help the United States through this difficult time.
Director Smith reminded: "Mr. President, but what about the Star Group, we are still in a state of war with them!" ”
The President of the United States said: "A state of war? Have we declared war on them? ”
Smith shook his head and said, "Not really, it's just our ......." ”
"Since there is no declaration of war, then the matter between us and them is a minor issue, and it has not yet reached the point of life or death," the US president said. Send some people to negotiate with them immediately, and our focus now is not on the war, but on the lives of our compatriots at home. ”
Compared with this mega earthquake in the United States, the trouble of the Star Group is a minor problem, and it is not worth mentioning at all. The US president is now worried that a magnitude 10 earthquake has struck downtown Los Angeles, and he does not know how many casualties will occur. And before that, the citizens had not received any earthquake forecasts and warnings, so that these Los Angeles citizens were prepared for any earthquake prevention, and how long could they sit in the presidency under such circumstances?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2:30 p.m. Western time and 5:30 p.m. Hong Kong time, Liu Hui has been paying close attention to the incident of the hijacking of a cargo ship by pirates in the waters of Guam, and then he finally waited for the good news that Wu Yuanjia brought him, "Star No. 1" has successfully rescued two cargo ships of Star Logistics Company in the waters of Guam, and sank the dilapidated warships of the "pirates", and also captured 30 armed personnel of the other side.
In this scuffle, the "Star No. 1" first used electromagnetic cannons to destroy the dilapidated warships on the sea surface at the bottom of the sea, and then took the opportunity to float up and capture the "pirates" who jumped into the sea and those who were still on the cargo ship.
But in this firefight, the security personnel of the Star Group were killed and three were injured, and the crew of the cargo ship was also killed and injured. This result made Liu Hui depressed, in the previous battles with the US army in the Persian Gulf, no one died on his side, but he did not expect that after meeting some "pirates", there would be three dead and four wounded. However, what made Liu Hui feel a little comforted was that those "pirates" were five dead and ten wounded, at least in terms of casualties, their side still took advantage.
Fortunately, the cargo ship had been rescued, so Liu Hui ordered the "Star No. 1" to officially return to Hong Kong and escorted the two cargo ships back to Hong Kong. In the war in the Middle East, the losses of the US military are extremely heavy, and their two aircraft carrier battle groups have been killed by Xiao Hei, so they will not have the strength to continue attacking the desalination ship for the time being. Therefore, the actions of the US military in other areas to harass the surname will also be stopped, after all, these people who are harassing the surname are only serving the main battlefield in the Middle East, and the Middle East battlefield will not be able to fight in a short time, so they will naturally stop.
The reason why the Star Group was able to restrain the US military's high-tech weapons in a head-on confrontation this time was entirely because of several high-tech weapons developed by the Star Science Research Institute. For example, laser weapons that can attack from a distance, electromagnetic guns that can be used for close defense, such as "aura fluctuation radar" that can scan enemy targets without interference, such as "starry sky" observers that can temporarily act as satellites to observe the battlefield situation in a large area, such as the super submarine "Starry Sky II" that can quietly and quickly transport a large number of supplies, and such as high-speed aircraft that can levitate. It was with the existence of these things that Ah Huo was able to repel the attack of the American army in the Persian Gulf and make the American army suffer a big loss.
Of course, there are still reasons for the complete retreat of the US military, but the credit of these new weapons of the Star Group is also very large, so Liu Hui decided to go to the Star Science Research Institute to comfort the scientists there when things calmed down temporarily.
When Liu Hui came to Chen Changsheng's office, he found that Chen Changsheng was not there, and then Liu Hui inquired and learned that Chen Changsheng had gone to Anqi's research room. So Liu Hui had no choice but to find Anqi's research room.
When Liu Hui pushed the door in, he found that An Qi was doing a strange experiment in his laboratory, while Chen Changsheng next to him was looking at An Qi's various tricks with interest on his face, and he was fighting for her, he saw Liu Hui coming in, so he called out, "Hello boss!" ”
An Qi also found that Liu Hui had come in, she temporarily stopped the experiment, and looked at Liu Hui like this.
Liu Hui found that a dark circle appeared next to An Qi's eyes, and he suddenly felt a little distressed in his heart for some reason, so he said: "Anqi, have you not rested for a long time, you have black circles, you must know that your body is ......"
An Qi smiled: "Liu Hui, you must know that scientific research is my way of survival, without scientific research, I am nothing." But I also know the truth of the combination of work and rest, I took a nap at noon before rushing to work from home, so my spirit is very good, and there is no physical problem. The dark circles you see under my eyes, it's not actually dark circles, it's a kind of smoky makeup that I painted, don't you think this kind of makeup is very trendy? ”
Liu Hui's face was full of black lines, he didn't expect An Qi to paint such strange makeup, but when she painted such makeup, why did she suddenly feel very pitiful and wanted to take her into her arms?
"Ahem, didn't your parents come to Hong Kong to see you, why don't you spend more time with them?" Liu Hui began to say without words.
Just as An Qi was about to answer Liu Hui's question, the door of An Qi's research room was opened, and a researcher hurriedly walked in and said to Liu Hui: "Boss, something big has happened in the United States, and it is being broadcast live on TV, take a look!" ”
Liu Hui was very curious, he didn't know what was happening in the United States, so he hurriedly asked people to turn on the TV in Anqi's room, and then he learned the news of the 10 magnitude earthquake in Los Angeles, USA, from the news on TV.
(To be continued)