Chapter 197: Dust Settles
Ignorance is a great sorrow.
After ballistic nuclear missiles equipped with starlight guidance one after another rise from their deeply buried underground silos.
The 2000 Young Dragon sorties over Great Xia immediately scatter in all directions like celestial maidens scattering flowers, with thrust instantly maxed out.
“Young Dragon B-type No. 1527, arriving over 118°38′ West longitude, 43°45′ North latitude in 8 minutes, prepare for manual operation of two medium-range combat missiles for interception.”
“Young Dragon B-type No. 1528, arriving in 7 minutes”
At this moment, A’dai fully demonstrated its ability.
It used its super powerful photonic computer to immediately take over the piloting systems of all Young Dragon after receiving the warning from the monitoring satellite in that instant, autonomously operating the Young Dragon now equipped with buffer cockpits, rushing toward the target locations at super high speed without a second thought.
Out of 2000 spaceships, it only deployed 1000, with the remaining 1000 still patrolling over Great Xia, responsible for responding to any other potential threats.
Under its route budgeting, in just ten minutes, all one thousand Young Dragon B-types arrived over their respective interception zones.
In this situation, A’dai could actually continue to control the spaceships’ weapon systems for autonomous targeting, attack, and interception.
But to cultivate the combat technical proficiency of the combat personnel, the subsequent manual target tracking and interception operations needed to be handed over to the 4 combat personnel in the cockpit.
“Distance 30 kilometers, two medium-range combat missiles ready, tracking and positioning in progress”
At 100 kilometers altitude on the periphery of the atmosphere, these nuclear bombs will separate from their boost rockets at this height.
Immediately after, they will fly toward the predetermined coordinates using starlight guidance.
“Lock achieved, fire!”
The four crew members consist of 1 pilot, 2 weapon operators, and 1 with certain maintenance and repair capabilities.
Following the weapon operator’s report, two medium-range combat missiles pop out from the missile launch port directly ahead of this Young Dragon B-type No. 1527.
At 30 kilometers distance, in front of these combat missiles that reach instantaneous speeds of 20 Mach, it only takes 5 seconds to arrive.
Ahead, two extremely dazzling white lights instantly flash before them.
Dense bombs are used in the combat warheads!
Immediately after, an even brighter glow lights up ahead.
Under the influence of the massive explosion kinetic effect, this nuclear bomb is detonated.
This scene plays out at nearly a thousand coordinate points at 100 kilometers altitude over the United States.
On this day, countless unreacted nuclear fuel with radioactive contamination falls from over the United States.
An unprecedented disaster erupts instantly.
Space, Space Force chief command center.
“Commander Liu, all nuclear missiles have been successfully intercepted. Currently, aside from a few strategic nuclear submarines still unaware in the ocean depths, the United States has lost all nuclear strike capabilities.”
Hearing A’dai’s report, Liu Shengzhan feels slightly relieved.
Even though A’dai had previously assured him that even if the combat personnel missed, it could take over for a second interception.
But these are nuclear bombs; what if one lands.
Just thinking about it makes his whole body shiver, followed by a surge of anger in his heart.
“Does Elder Ye know?”
“Yes, Elder Ye orders the Space Force to leave part of the Young Dragon over the United States for routine defensive patrols after completing interception. The follow-up matters will be handled by the Foreign Affairs Department.”
Hearing this, Liu Shengzhan nods.
“Order, all Fourth Brigade’s 50 Young Dragon B-types to designated areas for combat readiness patrols. Any suspicious factors detected can be handled autonomously. Fifth Brigade and Sixth Brigade, you two units handle shifts after 24 hours.”
“Order, all fleets except the Fourth Brigade return to base.”
After issuing the final two orders, Liu Shengzhan rubs his temples. Even in a sure-win, dimensionally superior operation, he still devoted all his energy to the response.
This is an unprecedented man-made natural disaster.
After that massive missile interception, countless nuclear fuel pours down from the sky onto most land areas of the United States.
This nation, established for centuries, once dominated the world and led human civilization’s top scientific research frontlines for nearly a century.
On this day, it completely falls apart.
After that day, the president Laxim, whom they themselves elected, vanishes without a trace.
Several days later, a provisional government established by an elected continental representative officially announces to the world that this once-great nation has completely lost its homeland.
On the North American continent under nuclear pollution threat, with radiation spreading, countless people flee northward and southward.
The southeast coastline is directly sealed off by several armies declaring independence, who use seized ports and ships to conduct transportation business.
Once, Spitz Company’s Mars quotas were between 1 million and 2 million.
But now, they directly raise the departure price to the terrifying figure of 5 million.
No way around it; the entire airspace over the United States is completely sealed by the ‘angry’ Eastern Great. After several warnings prove useless, the Young Dragon B-types circling overhead directly destroy all airport runways capable of airplane takeoff and landing within the country.
Under A’dai’s global monitoring, no airplane has another chance to take off and escape.
Chief Zhao Bo of the Foreign Affairs Department, in his previous statement, used one word to describe the current situation.
“Self-inflicted.”
Several months later, Eastern Great proposed:
In order to stabilize the situation among all parties and avoid the factors of war caused by the refugee issue in the United States, super-large refugee resettlement areas will be established on Mars and Ganymede.
Moreover, Eastern Great welcomes people from all countries who are forced by livelihood issues; they can all go to these two bases for work.
This proposal was highly supported by the North and South countries afterward.
The causes and consequences of the previous conflict were all publicly announced by Eastern Great. At the same time, Eastern Great’s space battleships, which are over two thousand meters long in body size, were also captured in their true form by various telescopes.
Facing Eastern Great’s strength that seems like aliens today, all forces around the world at this moment became as obedient as rabbits.
They maintained high approval for any suggestions proposed by Eastern Great without exception and supported them unconditionally.
As for those refugees who are now living like homeless dogs in other North and South countries, relatively few opposed this proposal.
Although they had no choice.
Inside the Conqueror, disguised as a laboratory in space.
Fan Ren actually prefers conducting various research work here because of the spaceship’s anti-gravity system; living here is actually more similar to being in a land building.
He can walk and sit normally. No need to rely on partial centrifugal rotation to provide inertial gravity like in the external hub to simulate ground environment living.
“That’s the arrangement. Once these personnel arrive at Utopia City and Pioneer Base, the massive amounts of various ores needed for our next plan will no longer be a problem.”
After listening to A’dai’s report, Fan Ren nodded and then sighed.
Pressure inevitably came from his shoulders.
The United States of today, when facing their Punisher, showed no resistance at all. It is unknown whether 20 years later, the same thing will happen to them.
