Just as the anti-terrorism exercise codenamed "Mission" is going on, the land of China is late at night.

In contrast to North America on the other side of the globe, it is noon at the moment.

If it is normal, at this most difficult time, the Pentagon employees will choose to have a cup of coffee at this time, sitting in an air-conditioned office, chatting with colleagues in the same office for a few international events. , or which game of the game yesterday...

However, today's situation seems to be somewhat different.

From 8:00 in the morning to the present, the entire Pentagon is like a music box with a winding spring. Everyone's footsteps are unconsciously accelerating, and every gear is running at high speed.

The reason for all this is nothing else. It is precisely at this moment that the "anti-terrorism exercise" that is taking place tens of thousands of kilometers away is at least nominally like this.

In a conference room in the core area of ​​the Pentagon, the screen of the entire wall is showing the picture taken by the satellite aerial Okinawa base. Although several airborne cabins across the sky are just a distant glimpse of the sky, they are printed in the landing area. The mess is clearly visible...

Facing the picture on the landing screen, the entire conference room was silent, and everyone held their breath.

At the end of the screening, it took about 5 minutes, and the president said with a hoarse voice.

"Play it again..."

I saw the Minister of Defense and saw him nod. The staff responsible for playing the film took a deep breath and pressed the button.

The screen on the screen starts playback.

Breaking through the atmosphere from the airborne cabin, a smog bursting close to the ground, and the mess on the ground when the smoke dissipated, once again appeared in front of everyone sitting in the conference room at this moment.

Even if it is as far apart as a hundred thousand miles, even though a screen is separated, many people still smell the faint, threatening smoke...

The mouth opened and closed for a long time, Nasca’s director Carson said with a sigh.

"Shet! Anti-terrorism exercise... What kind of terrorists use this equipment to fight?"

This sentence is of course spoken in a roaring tone.

But I don't know why, when this sentence was said, the whole conference room was suddenly silenced. Several senior officials, including the president, looked at each other and looked at each other without any words.

I noticed this unnatural silence. Director Carson first stunned and immediately realized that his sentence seemed to be a problem, and he quickly closed his mouth.

The silence lasted for a long time, and it was finally broken because of a cough from the chief of staff, Kevin.

"The people inside have not been boiled into meat sauce, which is too unscientific..."

The Pentagon's aerospace experts pushed the glasses on the bridge of the nose and said: "The speed of the airborne capsule breaking through the low-altitude area is very fast, but the speed of the end near the surface is not fast. The explosion effect is not caused by the impact. It is estimated that the airborne cabin is close to the surface area. The active release of the suppressive weapon...similar to the set / bundle bomb and the like, and the smoke"

Interrupted the speech of the space expert, the president said.

“Is the detailed analysis report coming out? About equipment identification.”

The Pentagon’s defense chief and the intelligence chief exchanged their sights and then nodded.

"Just came out..."

Not waiting for a long time, a report was sent to the conference room soon.

The report was taken from the secretary's hand and the president carefully watched it line by line.

Time passes by one minute.

Everyone is waiting for him to read the report.

Sitting next to Kevin secretly observed his president, do not know if it is his illusion, he always feels that the president's index finger is being trembling uncontrollably.

In fact, he did not read it wrong.

Even the president himself does not know how to express his shock at the moment.

Half an hour in the sky, landing less than twenty minutes.

In theory, this unit can ignore any obstacles in geographical conditions and deploy any corner of the world within an hour, whether it is the snow-covered Arctic, the jungle rainforest, or the White House and the Pentagon surrounded by steel jungle. ......

In this world, no corner is really safe. Maybe one day he is in the office and the ceiling is smashed into several big holes. These are all possible.

And the most important thing is that these paratroopers can easily bypass the legal airspace of all countries!

This is a little scary...

Because the president has not spoken for a long time, I do not know when to start, the conference room has been in a quarrel.

"It is time to enact strict international conventions to limit this evil weapon. We should change the height of the airspace to a synchronous orbital height! And expand the international treaty prohibiting the entry of unconventional weapons into the outer space orbit to the scope of conventional weapons! A bullet is not allowed!"

"Are you crazy? We admit that the height of the airspace is only 35km! Who is this limiting? And even if we continue to raise the airspace, can our missiles threaten their spacecraft? If not, this convention What makes us embarrassed, what is the difference between the paper and the paper?

The height of airspace is not strictly defined by international law. It is only a customary habit. Generally speaking, countries regard the 110 km of the lowermost boundary of the satellite as the height of the airspace of recognition. The United States has a special situation, with the upper limit of the aircraft being 35 kilometers as the airspace. After all, they have mastered some technologies that can break through the upper limit of the aircraft's theoretical maximum flight of 35 kilometers. Naturally, they hope to be able to "legally" fly some special aircraft to other countries' airspace for investigation.

However, beyond 110 kilometers, even if there are restrictions on the development of international conventions, it does not make much sense.

Even if advanced air defense radars can detect aircraft operating in this area, the restrictions on this area are already quite limited.

Don't even talk about spacecraft.

In such a high airspace, you want to hit a "relatively fixed" satellite, which requires a certain amount of luck and timing.

Stop the orbital airborne parachuting?

In such a high airspace, it is easier to dream.

"...Do we just watch them hang this sword of Damocles on our heads? This is the provocation of the Chinese people against us. I suggest that you should respond strongly!"

“This does not help ease regional tensions and only exacerbates the crisis!”

“Increased the crisis? Is it so calm? I think it’s always too weak to be the root of the problem!”

There was a quarrel in the conference room, and the hawks and doves also had a middle school sandwiched between the two sides.

"enough!"

An angry roar interrupted the argument in the conference room.

The reporter in the hand was photographed on the desk, the president with a violent chest and chest, looked around at the conference room, and finally looked at his chief of staff, and said.

"Kevin, I want to hear your opinion."

In the face of the president's question, Kevin was silent for a while.

"...their military exercises are not necessarily aimed at us."

"According to the information collected by cia, this military exercise is likely to be a crisis rehearsal for Professor Lu's visit to St. Petersburg in August. Imagine that the Air Force can make the fastest response in the first time. ”

The Minister of Defense frowned.

"Visit Russia?"

Kevin nodded.

"Well, it is said to go to St. Petersburg to attend the imu conference."

Minister of Defense: "..."

Pentagon officials: "..."

Although he can understand why the Chinese nation attaches so much importance to the scholar, he uses military exercises to **** the visit of an academic conference...

With such a big handwriting, he doesn't know what to say.

Looking at the silent president, Kevin continued to present his views.

"According to the report from the cia side, this is indeed a good opportunity. Not only can you get rid of one trouble, but it can also worsen the relationship between the two countries... But my suggestion is to find out more detailed information about their orbital airborne system. Before, it is better to stay restrained and cautious."

"I don't need you to say that I know." Impatiently said, the president who sat in a position, noticed that everyone was watching himself, suddenly thought of something, and then added a sentence after this sentence. .

"Of course, just in case, I will call our cia director later."

At least half of the people in the conference room were relieved to hear this.

Although one of the people who were relieved, Kevin’s face did not show a relief expression, but it was full of powerlessness.

After the Cold War era, a super-strong pattern has been laid, and other countries have been watching their faces, and when they actually need to turn them to avoid the edge.

He smiled bitterly, and he took a heavy position.

"So much the better……"-