Within a day of the crisis, the authorities had already taken action and launched a full-scale investigation into the incident.

Dick (Richard Cheney's nickname), anyway, that's probably the case. As for the Intelligence Agency, I have already contacted the person in charge, and the Pentagon is fully involved, and the only thing we should do now is to hold our ground and wait patiently for the news from the front line. ”

"Yes, I personally can't come up with a better plan for your arrangements. - Then again, this incident is really bizarre and completely a slander, but they have a lot of evidence to prove all these speculations? ”

In the face of President Wilson's explanation, Richard Cheney, who sat in a soft leather seat and held a glass of lemonade in his hand, the slightly bald, shrewd and capable vice president of the federal government still spoke appropriately, but he still expressed his surprise in words, as a veteran politician who has been in politics for many years, Cheney fully understood the president's confusion, and to be honest, he himself thought that this thing was simply incredible, and what reason did the United States Congress have to do this?

"'Guess,' well, I'd rather hear that.

But Dick, as things stand, I'm going to have a tough battle on Capitol Hill in the future, and how can the media, or all the people in the world, change their minds? Neither I, nor you, nor perhaps the majority of the citizens of the United States, would think that such a thing would be logical in their interests, but the question now is how we can convince the whole world of it. ”

"But. Woodrow, now it's all about the investigation. All you need to do is find enough solid evidence, isn't it? ”

It's not the same as Mr. President, who is thoughtful and has an overall view. Richard Cheney, who is in his sixties, still has a hint of the old view that Americans of their age find it difficult to accept the reality of being questioned in the United States, and that the United States, as the leader of the free world, does not need to explain any of its actions and motives to anyone.

President Wilson, who had worked with Cheney, was well aware of Cheney's views at times, but when he thought of his own experience in dealing with it over the past day, he felt that it was a hasty but necessary move.

After all, times have changed dramatically, and the most important thing now is to investigate the truth and respond to the crisis. But not to ensure the absolute security of the United States of America, or to make any false appearance, but to clear suspicion as much as possible, or to conceal a single piece of evidence, if it were to be true, the results of the investigation proved all suspicions......

President Woodrow Wilson has not been idle since receiving the report, dealing with this improvised trouble all night, and now having to deal with the policy inquiries of members of Congress in a hasty preparation and with insufficient evidence, which makes him anxious and annoyed; Now, however, these negative feelings are useless for the time being, and the "citizen representatives" who are usually bombastic and entangled in a decree only know how to jump to their feet and shout whenever something happens. But do they really understand what this means and what it means for the United States?

Thinking of this, the president in his seat twitched the corners of his mouth, shook his head slightly, and snorted, he felt that he had indeed dealt with this incident decisively enough, which was not something that those lawmakers who would only look for trouble could do.

Just yesterday afternoon. Upon learning of the "scandal" that broke out in the Security Council, the scheming Wilson chewed through the whole thing and quickly sorted out an idea, and he did not panic or go into a thunderous storm in his office. Rather, it is a well-thought-out routine that guides all actions.

First, find the head of the CIA, Catherine Grant. Wilson criticized the C.I.A. for its inefficiency, which exposed the inefficiency of U.S. intelligence agents. There are so many suspected YF-23 "ghosts" in the hands of the Syrian rebels, why the people involved do not know anything; Second, the Pentagon was contacted by telephone, and the president asked the Department of Defense to immediately search for information, assess the threat, and try to find out what kind of impact the appearance of "ghost" fighters in the Middle East might have on the war situation. Finally, the president's duty has made Wilson pay special attention to the current diplomatic environment, and no matter what the real situation is, there must be no propaganda flaws, and he can report at will until the facts are clarified, but there must be no inappropriate remarks by any government personnel, and there is no room for "the truth of the matter" to catch the wind, and to this end there is some coordination with various independent media and websites.

From the point of view of his own feelings, Wilson actually did not want this matter to spread that was likely to be a scandal, but this kind of thought is a luxury when the press is completely free and many media outlets are not controlled, and he can only use all the available manpower to get to the bottom of the matter before he can have time to think about the next step.

With the president's unified deployment, while the eastern seaboard of North America is bathed in the light of the setting sun, a few time zones away, the still sunny western state of California has seen more than a group of unfamiliar faces with low-key demeanor and some unnatural behavior.

In the California city of Hawthorne, the Western Museum of Flight on the outskirts of the city welcomed a special group of visitors, and cold-faced, sunglasses-wearing CIA agents jumped out of their station wagons, found the curator, and went to the aircraft display site together, surrounding the long-parked prototype of the PAV-2 YF-23 project, dispersed the few visitors, pulled up a cordon and launched an investigation in a nearby museum.

On the disturbed and chaotic side of the Western Flight Museum, at Edwards Air Force Base in the desert interior of California, agents from the same Central Intelligence Agency arrived at the periphery of the base in a black vehicle, and after passing through the sentry post, they entered the base with an extremely large area and sensitive facilities, and under the leadership of an Air Force lieutenant colonel who came to contact him temporarily, they went to the flight test research area, and saw the PAV-1 prototype that had been parked for a long time and the engine was still on the side in the brightly lit hangar. The person in charge paced back and forth on the concrete floor outside the hangar, dialing out the phone to report the situation to his superiors.

Just as the search for the prototype of the YF-23 project was in place and providing the latest information, the Third Raider had also arrived in San Diego, an important city in the southernmost part of California and only a few dozen kilometers from the Mexican border.

After receiving instructions from headquarters, when investigators arrived in the city and outside Northrop Grumman's headquarters, local CIA officials were already on standby, and unknown state police were already blocking roads and blocking unrelated vehicles, and a tense atmosphere was in the air.

The CIA, which was directly authorized by the president, did not have much concern when it searched the headquarters of the world's third-largest defense supplier, as long as the investigation methods that would not affect the company's core business operations were all approved. The person in charge showed up in the office of the president of Northrop Grumman at this time, and politely but clearly non-negotiable, asked the company's chief executive officer and board of directors to "immediately convene and hold a special meeting to discuss how to cooperate with the federal government's full inspection."

Northrop, the U.S. arms supplier that has been established for more than 100 years, put forward the YF-23 "ghost" plan in the U.S. military ATF project, but finally failed, the old aviation military industrial enterprise, after the failure of the competition, once fell into the sink, even if it later merged with the same long-established Grumman company, but has never set foot in the field of military fighters again, and even the aircraft department has not been preserved to this day, but it is still subject to a large-scale investigation by the CIA.

Catherine Grant, who had been instructed to fly in the afternoon before, was in a makeshift office in the CIA branch of Sacramento, California.

As a team of people moved around, the feedback information flew like snowflakes, and several subordinates had been busy in front of the computer, or answering the phone and recording, but the middle-aged lady with a somewhat indifferent expression and a trace of doubt and uncertainty in her eyes looked out of the sunlit office window, using the garden scenery outside the window to calm down and stabilize her feelings, but from time to time she looked back to ask about the latest progress of the investigation:

"Now that the prototype has been confirmed in its place, what is the progress of Northrop in the future, has it been controlled by all the servers, the personnel who handled it, and the evidence on the spot?

Dirk, contact the headquarters immediately, I need to know the latest developments in the investigation of Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and -- also, McMillan, send the list of all the people of the company sent from the front to the headquarters, and let them investigate everyone on it, and screen out all the people who might be involved in the matter. ”

“Yes_sir，――shall_we_give_them_some_suggestion_about_filtering_conditions？ (Understood, sir!) ――Are we going to give them some suggestions on filtering? (To be continued......)