The first time he boarded a cruise ship, Long Yun's curiosity was very heavy.

In the afternoon and evening of the beginning of the journey, after receiving the transferred luggage and settling down in the large suite with a viewing balcony on the side of the "Ruby", Long Yun took the tablet computer that had just downloaded the navigation information, accompanied the two interested girls to familiarize themselves with the terrain on the "Ruby" about 200 meters long, and then went to participate in the carnival party of the tourists' lecture on the journey in the central hall.

On the way to get acquainted with the interior of the ship, and seeing the staff who pass by from time to time greeting tourists in various languages, Long Yun can be regarded as truly seeing the luxurious decoration and eclectic interior design of the "Ruby". Take the elevator to pass through different areas, whether it is the central pedestrian street or the amphitheater at the stern, or the casual restaurant on the upper part of the boat, the transparent dome swimming pool that is not affected by wind and rain, and even the library, miniature golf and the rare rock climbing and martial arts practice range; It seems that not to mention ten days and a half of playing on this ship, even if you live for a year and a half, you will not feel bored at all.

Of course, for Long Yun, in order to cooperate with PRSFT, several aviation simulators were temporarily set up in the small theater inside the ship, which was what he was most concerned about.

After a leisurely turn around the boat, and in the central hall to participate in the sailing carnival, and the new tourists chatted happily, by the time Long Yun led the two girls back to the guest room, it was already nine o'clock in the evening.

Opening the door of the guest room, Long Yun walked through the living room and a bedroom, opened the floor-to-ceiling window behind the curtains and came to the viewing balcony, only to see that the night of the metropolis that was clearly visible outside the ship had disappeared far away, and the steel giant ship with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons was sailing very smoothly to the east at this time. Leaning on the railing and looking into the distance. The soft glow of a crescent moon and starry sky falls on the calm sea, and a gentle breeze blows. The night is intoxicating, and it is a rare beautiful day.

"Long Yun. Are you enjoying the sea view? We...... We want to rest. ”

"Oh! Good. ”

Looking at it from the balcony, Long Yun suddenly realized that his room was next door when he heard Su Xue's voice, so he quickly checked the quick-release lock, and then retreated. When booking the cabin before, Su Xue asked him not to book two standard cabins with cramped space, but to choose a spacious suite with two bedrooms and one living room, and the price was not much more expensive than two single rooms; But then he has to live with two girls, which is a little embarrassing.

Well, to say embarrassing. It's still a top priority to ensure their safety, and as for other ambiguous ideas, it's a bit nonsense. Under the gaze of Su Xue and Shangguan Ling, Long Yun was a little embarrassed to take off his coat and trousers, took his pajamas and pants to the bathroom to take a bath, and sighed again in the face of the simple decoration and beautiful overall seamless design inside.

Looking at the decoration and design of the entire suite, it is really similar to Su Xue's family, these rich people can really enjoy it, and don't they need to live like this every day?

"Oh! Long Yun. Please don't use the bathtub! Ling and I wanted to use it for a hot bath. ”

"Oh, - okay!"

Knowing that Su Xue is a girl who loves cleanliness extraordinarily, it is estimated that Ling is the same. Long Yun took an honest shower, then returned to his bedroom with his tablet in his hand and began to study the subject he was about to face. Constantly flipping through some of the recently declassified materials, he is thinking about how to improve the speed and firepower performance of the MiG-25 interceptor with minimal modifications. Although this kind of thing should be the job of a professional engineer, since he knows a little bit about it, there is no one to ask. Just do your own research.

Unconsciously, retract your mind from the sea of information. He looked at his watch, it was almost eleven o'clock in the evening, and he heard the pleasant conversation and laughter of girls faintly in the living room across the door, and he didn't know what Su Xue and Ling were doing, were they usually like this together?

felt that the relationship between these two little girls was really good, but Long Yun didn't think much about it; Tomorrow is the preparation day for PRSFT, and there are still many things to do, so he simply pulls on the quilt and sleeps first.

……

In the darkness of the night, the "Ruby" sailed smoothly, leaving a shallow white trail in the calm East China Sea.

It seemed like another quiet night, but for some people in another part of the world, the atmosphere was quite tense.

At 2:30 p.m. Western time, as the prompt of the automatic monitoring system sounded, the "Pave Claw" long-range warning radar station deployed in Alaska sounded an alarm that had not been heard for many years, and the automatic air defense alert system under the jurisdiction of NORAD (NORth-American-aerospace-Defense-command, North American Air Defense Command) reported the discovery of a UFO at an altitude of 6,000 meters and a speed of Mach 1.4 over the North Pole.

Initially judging that the flying object was suspected of being a strong attack plane, and that its flight path was trending southeast along the extension of the Bering Strait and entering the airspace over the North American continent, NORAD immediately reported the matter to the Pentagon and ordered NATO air force units stationed in Alaska to urgently dispatch to intercept this mysterious target flying in the Arctic Circle and increasing in altitude.

The "Pave Claw" radar system, deployed on the northernmost side of the North American continent, has been vigilantly watching the cold skies in the north during the Cold War for decades, and is always on guard against Soviet long-range ballistic missiles that have crossed the sky over the Arctic Ocean in droves and spread nuclear warheads, but it has never found anything, and can only be used to monitor Soviet bombers and electronic reconnaissance planes that are coming and going. Later, after the ups and downs of the international situation and the long-term relaxation, these radar stations were once discussed by some members of Congress whether to cancel them in order to save taxpayers' money, and the military hardliners were very angry about this.

After many years of hard fighting, but there has never been any actual combat record, and now that he has caught a target from nowhere, NORAD can be said to have been stimulated up and down.

If it is really a strong attack aircraft, no matter where it takes off, the Russians or the Chinese, or the Europeans, as long as there are signs of invasion of the airspace, they must be resolutely intercepted; As for whether this will lead to an international conflict, as a soldier, I will not think about it so much!

With the issuance of the combat order, several S-15 "Unicorn" attack planes that took off urgently from Taylor Air Force Base in northwestern Alaska immediately flew north, approaching the target after accelerating their climb all the way to prepare to launch an interception; At the same time, the White House hotline has also reached the Kremlin's desk, and in the face of the suspicions of the Americans, Gennady Andreevich Zyuganov, the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party, rarely picked up the phone in person:

"Nothing! It wasn't our flying machine, I don't know where it came from. ――You're going to intercept it? Yes! But you'd better hurry, our planes are already on their way! - Yes, that's all. (To be continued......)

PS: S-15 "Unicorn" (S is the initials of Striker), Chinese translation "Unicorn", the United States McDonnell Douglas company based on the F-15 developed high-speed interception use of the attacker.