Chapter 467 Airport
When the heavy cabin door opened, Gao Liquan heard the neat and majestic music.
This is the base city in Nevada, and it is also the seat of the new government that the Americans were forced to relocate after the loss of the Capitol Hill base.
Gao Liquan stepped out of the cabin door, and the music became more cheerful and loud, mixed with short exclamations and the sound of gasping cold, which was obviously suppressed.
He was so young. The gaze is deep and clear, and the facial contours are as hard and rough as rocks. The black standing uniform imbues the whole person with majesty, and the epaulettes are inlaid with a shining golden star. This shows that he is not an ordinary soldier, but a high-ranking general.
Gao Liquan stood at the door of the cabin, letting the blowing wind blow the hem of his coat back and forth, and the whole person was sharp, like a sharp sword out of the sheath.
He was only twenty-five years old at most. It is extremely difficult to become a general at this age, let alone a general who is strong enough to command an entire military region and has tens of millions of soldiers in his hands.
If it weren't for the persuasion of Wang Qinian and Lao Song, Gao Liquan would not have appeared here at all.
He has never liked Americans. What's more, his wife Lily has been pregnant for more than five months. Over the past hundred years, she has given birth to eleven children to herself. Unfortunately, every time he gave birth, Gao Liquan was either in charge of the war, or he encountered something like a large-scale flow of mutated creatures. Although Lily never complained, Gao Liquan felt guilty, thinking that he owed this woman too much, and always wanted to find a time for the whole family to reunite and have a relaxing long vacation.
Damn the Americans, they want to convene the UN General Assembly at this time. Even a fool understands that the damned institution has long since existed in name only. More than 60 years ago, the Chinese side had no interest in the UN General Assembly. In order to maintain a semblance of politeness, the military department sent only two inconsequential junior officers to be in charge of the agency's liaison with the country. Despite this, the Americans always make various demands on the Chinese side, but the military department always ignores them.
The dispute between the military headquarters and the Southwest Military Region is in the eyes of many people. In order to seek support and help, more than 10 years ago, the Americans began to contact the new Kunming base, proposing: The Southwest Military Region represents the Chinese side and is internationally recognized.
Gao Liquan scoffed at this naked demand for separatism. He never paid any attention to the rhetoric of the United States, a country that was far away from him, too far away from him. Moreover, the trend of biological warfare has become increasingly obvious. It no longer matters whether other countries have other intentions.
Looking at the burly Gao Liquan standing at the door of the cabin, Admiral Cecil cursed secretly in his heart, but his face was full of almost sweet smiles, very reluctantly, but he had to raise his head and make a gesture of looking up.
In the eyes of the Americans, Gao Liquan's agreement to attend the meeting this time is definitely an important beginning of the improvement of relations between the two countries. Its significance is no less than that of Nixon's visit to China in history.
The United States has too many problems. The breaching of the Capitol Hill base was just one of them. The core group of countries has long since existed in name only, the Russians and Germans have long since taken care of themselves, and the French are indifferent to the so-called help. In contrast, only the Chinese can help.
The welcoming ceremony is arranged in accordance with the highest courtesy of a head of State. The logistics department worked hard to get a batch of related equipment for reception. For example, on this red carpet with hundreds of people, the Navy dispatched a Marine Division to get raw materials for production from the area occupied by mutated creatures. In order to make the dishes at the banquet look more sumptuous, the army launched a massive attack in the direction of New Orleans. Because only lobsters in the Gulf of Mexico are the most delicious. They have been unfished for hundreds of years, and there are large numbers of giant shrimp growing in shallow waters. It's always been a colony of mutated creatures. For this reason, the army suffered thousands of casualties before it could get enough seafood.
Personally, Admiral Cecil was not optimistic about the meeting. At least for now, he didn't see a smile on Gao Liquan's face, only the stereotypical and strict coldness that soldiers are used to.
He finally took a step and slowly walked down the gangway.
Admiral Cecil let out a long exhale. He had been nervous, for fear that Gao Liquan would turn around and walk into the cabin and give the order to leave. Such an unruly move is entirely possible, and it is impossible for the United States to launch missiles to shoot down its plane. After all, it was not an ordinary passenger plane or a military transport aircraft, but a flying battleship with powerful firepower and heavy armor.
Earth technology has made great progress in the past 100 years, and various models of high power are widely used in military and civilian fields. Thirty-two years after the outbreak of the virus, the Chinese took the lead in building the world's first flying ship. It was a war-type aircraft named "Tarzan". With a total length of 237 meters and a maximum flight load of more than 200,000 tons, it uses six large nuclear engines as the power source, and is equipped with the most advanced large-caliber electromagnetic cannon and heavy laser launcher at that time, as well as more than 80 fighters of different types.
The appearance of flying ships shocked all countries. Since then, in addition to researching strengthening agents, various countries have concentrated some of their efforts and invested special funds in flying weapons. Despite the continuous progress and achievements in high-power engines, no country has been able to build a flying ship with a volume and weight similar to that of China.
From the time he held the post of Chief of the Joint Staff, Cecil was already not interested in aircraft carriers. That thing is obviously outdated, and the USS Ford, which was once the pride of the US Navy, is a joke in front of a flying battleship. The Americans could not tolerate such an insult, and in the second year after the "Tarzan" was put into service, the Minnesota base conducted a test flight of the newly developed flying ship "Lincoln." Although this type of aircraft is called a "flying battleship" on the US military's weapons list, its actual combat effectiveness cannot be compared with that of the "Taishan" at all. There are even good people who joke in private: "The Chinese make things very big, they call that spaceship a battleship, and ours can only be regarded as gunboats at most." ”
Gao Liquan's seat ship was named "Huangshan", and it was also the third flying warship of more than 200,000 tons. In addition, the Southwest Military Region also has more than 40 other light ships. They have one common feature: they can only fly inside the atmosphere and cannot enter the universe.
Gao Liquan, who walked down the gangway, still didn't have a smile on his face. He stopped in front of Cecil, who was smiling, his face sank, and said coldly, "I don't like this piece, change it immediately." ”
A smile froze on Admiral Cecil's face.
This is a march based on "The Star-Spangled Banner Never Falls". The rhythm is bright and upbeat, which is perfect for playing on this occasion. However, this is probably the first time in the history of human civilization that a guest has asked for a change in the repertoire.
Admiral Cecil's body trembled slightly uncontrollably. After a brief moment of surprise, his mind was filled with unspeakable humiliation.
It is indeed humiliating.
Only the most powerful personalities are qualified to make such a claim. But he didn't want to think, where is this? This is the territory of the United States of America.
Who would dare to do that in peacetime before the outbreak of the virus? No head of state would make such an impudent request. Even if you think this song is not good, at most you will send someone to ask for it in private, and it will never be possible to say it in public.
He suddenly felt that he couldn't understand Gao Liquan at all. That cold and hard face is probably not much older than his son, but he has an old spicy and ruthless face that he can't match, and he doesn't give the other party any face, and he doesn't think about any room for doing things.
The music was soon changed to a Chinese-style repertoire. It was also a fresh and cheerful rhythm, but Admiral Cecil was not in the least interested in the rhythm. He only felt deaf, only the incomparably majestic figure of Gao Liquan in his eyes, the smile on his face had long since turned into an emotionless appearance, and he walked slowly in the middle of the welcoming crowd with mechanical and heavy steps.
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The airport itself is part of the Nevada base. In order to make room for the huge flying battleship "Huangshan," all the US fighters entered the underground engine room. In order to show the respect and importance for Gao Liquan's "visit", the red carpet hundreds of meters long has been rolled out to the door of the central lifting cabin of the base. Led by Cecil and many administrative officials, the expressionless Gao Liquan and his members of the guard quickly entered the elevator.
The elevator with an area of hundreds of square meters has obviously just been cleaned, and there is a faint fragrance everywhere, and the metal handrails are smooth and shiny, and melodious music echoes everywhere.
Gao Liquan's eyes scanned the surroundings, and an imperceptible sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.
He found that the red carpet that was supposed to connect the landing point of the flying battleship and the elevator had actually disappeared by nearly three-quarters of the way to the position. In the final stretch leading to the elevator, a soft foam-like material is used as a mat, and the surface is painted with a large red pigment of the same color as the carpet. This subtle difference may be difficult for ordinary people to notice, but for Gao Liquan, who has the ability to strengthen the fifth order, the difference between the delicacy of the fabric carpet and the foam material is actually very easy to distinguish.
Not even a few hundred meters of carpet could be pieced together, and life for Americans looked much worse than expected.
However, it is no wonder that since the outbreak of the virus, the US military has successively abandoned dozens of base cities along the Atlantic coast. New Baltimore, New Pittsburgh, New Charlotte, New Nashville...... Over the past 100 years, there have been hundreds of "moon tides" that have had a huge impact on the US defense line. Every time a mutated creature goes berserk, it sweeps through all the surrounding areas. There is no exact number of Americans who died from the "moon tides." According to official figures released by the United States, at least 13 million to 18 million military personnel or members of the National Guard were killed in the "moon tide." As for the dead civilians, it is simply impossible to count.
At present, the U.S. military line has been compressed into a narrow area north of Minneapolis, Denver, and Phoenix. It belongs to the western United States, which has historically been a sparsely populated, barren undeveloped area. In order to reorganize the situation, the Americans had to relocate the location of the head of state again and again, and again and again to move the command center to the west. Now, they have less than thirty base cities left. Including the Nevada base at the foot, there are only six medium-sized bases in total, and the rest are all small bases with poor production capacity and even in the construction period and have not yet been completed.
It's so sad. You must know that in the year that Su Hao left the earth, the Americans still had more than 400 base cities. Among them, the large base occupies more than 80%. Although the overall defense line is not so stable, it also has the ability to attack the Atlantic coast in stages. Now, however, the total number of U.S. troops may be only 1.5 million to 1.8 million. They can't do anything other than rely on the defense of various base cities.
This situation is really dramatic. The importance of the Capitol Hill base is equal to that of the Beijing No. 1 base, and its scale and production capacity are even larger and higher than that of the Beijing No. 1 base. Half a year before the Chinese side decided to build the base city, the Capitol Hill base project was already in full swing. At its peak, there were even three Marine Divisions, 16 Infantry Divisions, two Heavy Armored Divisions, and as many as 21 National Guard Infantry Divisions.
After Su Hao left the earth, the number of episodes of "moon tides" became more and more frequent. In fact, in his original plane, the "Moon Tide" erupted almost the same number of times as this world experienced. However, in another time and space, the outbreak of "moon tides" is evenly distributed around the world. China, the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom...... Every country may encounter the impact of a frenzy of mutant creatures, and at this time, it means a severe test of the overall defense capability of the base city.
If Su Hao was still on Earth at this time, he would definitely remember clearly: until he left on the time shuttle, the number of "moon tide" attacks officially announced by the United States was only thirty-one in total, instead of the terrifying more than 700 as now. This means that for more than 100 years, almost every full moon night, as many as 10,000 humans have been killed by mutated creatures on the North American continent.
Su Hao consciously or unconsciously changed the course of the earth's history.
The "Swarm" is currently the largest and most powerful military armed group on the planet. This toughness is not only reflected in the number of "worker bees" and the number of dependent civilians. What's more, all the "worker bees" are fifth-order strengthened people, and even have a considerable number of evolutionary "worker bees". In any battle, the "swarm" has the absolute upper hand against the mutated creatures. The pace of full advancement from the southwest corner is not too fast, nor is it too slow. At present, the "central bee colony" with the new Kunming base and the old Kunming city as the core has occupied a large area including the whole territory of India. The entire Southeast Asian region was marked as a "bee colony", breaking through the border between Mongolia and Russia in the north, and finally building a base city in the middle of the Yenisei River. More than half of the territory of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan has been brought under control, and the Aral Sea has become an inland lake after the expansion of the "bee colony".
In addition to these most direct "absolute" spheres of influence, there are tens of thousands of large and small "bee colonies" scattered around the world. Every country can see the shadow of the "worker bee". They may be Chinese who have infiltrated the past, or they may be locals who have been successfully converted. Compared to those "worker bees" far away in China, these small "bee colonies" infiltrators are difficult to detect. They appear to be like local refugees, but they are always secretly using unknown methods to win over more worthy objects, and they are constantly killing every civilian they encounter in foreign territory.
Yes, kill them. Whether European, Asian or African. As long as they are not civilians with Chinese nationality, anyone will be targeted.
There are simply too many humans on Earth. The old model of peace cannot last forever. The differences between Eastern and Western cultural philosophies are so great that it is never possible to achieve a balance in mutual understanding. Sooner or later, war will break out, maybe fifty years, or a century. The end is nothing more than the conquest of one civilization over another, and peaceful coexistence is just a fairy tale. Aside from war, the only possible way to "coexist" is to find a new habitable planet for an adversary with an alternative civilization.
The extermination order was issued by Lao Song. But the root cause is still Su Hao. In this matter, Wang Qinian also acquiesced.
Europe's technology and military power are far more advanced than Southeast Asia's. The "worker bees" have switched to a more gentle form of infiltration, using a variety of methods such as assassination, creating chaos, and attracting mutated creatures. The brutal massacres were only applied to areas such as densely populated India. Once it is rolled out around the world, it is bound to be met with strong backlash.
Almost all the inhabitants of the whole of India were killed. This means that more than a decade after the outbreak of the virus, the number of survivors on the planet has plummeted by hundreds of millions. And that's just India.
It wasn't just the local natives who were killed in India, all the abandoned cities the army passed through were cleansed. In front of the powerful fifth-order strengthened soldiers, the mutated creatures that have not yet fully evolved are powerless to fight back.
The widespread spread has led to the constant purging of the area around the "bee colony", and the brutal massacres have made it difficult for mutated creatures who have left the abandoned city to obtain food.
In Su Hao's original time and space, the Academy of Sciences had already studied several necessary conditions to meet the outbreak of the "Moon Tide".
First, there must be more than 100,000 mutated creatures in the abandoned city.
Second, with the abandoned city as the core, a certain number of refugee groups must exist within the radius. At a minimum, it cannot be less than five thousand people.
Thirdly, there must be abundant water in the area. Mutant creatures, like humans, will die of thirst if they don't drink water for a long time. India didn't just take out the local natives, all the abandoned cities that the army passed along the way were cleansed. In front of the powerful fifth-order strengthened soldiers, the mutated creatures that have not yet fully evolved are powerless to fight back.
The widespread spread has led to the constant purging of the area around the "bee colony", and the brutal massacres have made it difficult for mutated creatures who have left the abandoned city to obtain food.
In Su Hao's original time and space, the Academy of Sciences had already studied several necessary conditions to meet the outbreak of the "Moon Tide".
First, there must be more than 100,000 mutated creatures in the abandoned city.
Second, with the abandoned city as the core, a certain number of refugee groups must exist within the radius. At a minimum, it cannot be less than five thousand people.
Thirdly, there must be abundant water in the area. Mutant creatures, like humans, will die of thirst if they don't drink water for a long time.