Chapter 126: Time To Act
Above the Joint Fleet.
The eight fighter jets that had previously detached from the formation were now slowly flying back.
In the intercom system, all these team members were completely silent.
After firing off all the missiles in one go just now, they certainly ensured their own safety. But at the same time, the order privately issued by President Wells had completely failed.
After the captain silently led everyone to join the circling formation, looking at the situation, he also knew that the GP4 positioning system on this side was probably disabled too.
The reason all combat units hadn’t descended into chaos yet was entirely because civilian satellites were still providing positioning support.
In the entire fleet’s communication system, aside from the command to land coming from the aircraft carrier’s island, it was terrifyingly quiet.
And those two South Australia warships that had been destroyed seemed to have been forgotten by everyone at this moment.
Auro looked up at the horizon. After those 8 fighter jets merged into the formation, his face was frighteningly grim.
“Officer, we’ve detected an ultra-high-speed aircraft rapidly approaching! Speed 20 Mach!”
Damn adjutant, this guy hadn’t shouted out any good news from his mouth during this entire time.
At this moment, Auro decided that upon returning, he would transfer this crow-mouthed adjutant away from his side.
Although he was thinking this, he didn’t dare delay under his feet. He quickly walked to the radar, staring intently at the two light spots rapidly flying toward them on the screen.
“Turn on all anti-air radars. No other actions. Departments continue commanding the airplanes to land.”
There was a hint of fatigue in Auro’s voice. For some reason, he could feel that these two aircraft shouldn’t be missiles.
After giving these instructions, he walked out of the command room on his own, looking up toward the horizon.
In the endless deep blue sky, aside from the fighter jet formation circling above his head, it was empty.
How fast is 20 Mach?
30 seconds to cover 200 kilometers!
In Auro’s line of sight, two black dots suddenly appeared at the end of the horizon. He focused and looked; behind these two black dots, a straight line had already been pulled through the atmosphere.
Good, altitude unchanged. At least it could be confirmed that the opponent’s aircraft posed no immediate huge threat to the fleet.
“Activate the high-speed camera, capture their images!”
Auro breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and quickly returned to the command room to issue the order.
After a series of operations by the technician in charge, soon the high-speed camera projected the image onto the central big screen.
Auro already had a vague guess in his heart, but when the real image transmitted matched exactly what Roy had shown him, seeing it still felt somewhat unreal.
“Report, all 44 of our fighter jets in the sky have been locked by its fire control radar!”
The adjutant didn’t know that his existence had already annoyed the officer to no end, even giving rise to the idea of replacing him. He continued to diligently report the current situation.
“Turn off all anti-air radars, or tell me, right now, what anti-air weapons do we have that can catch up to an aircraft at 20 Mach? None, right? Then do as I ordered. And from now on, shut your stinking mouth. I’ll see for myself!”
Auro angrily said all this, then coldly glanced at the adjutant before turning his gaze to the two spaceships on the display screen.
He murmured to himself in a voice no one else could hear: “So beautiful. If the United States had these, how great that would be!”
In the sky, the fighter jet pilots circling and waiting to land were all scared shitless by the continuous lock-on warning voices in their cockpits.
And at that moment, the vibration from space made these pilots all look up simultaneously.
The two Young Dragons knew their mission. After detecting the formation’s anti-air radars shutting down, they both began to decelerate.
Intimidation? If they didn’t let the opponent get a good look at the terrifying form of their own Young Dragon, could it even be called intimidation?
Unfortunately, in the atmosphere, the Young Dragon needed to maintain at least 3 Mach to keep the spaceship from falling.
Although even if it stalled, it could temporarily increase power output to recover.
But in just these short dozen seconds of “slow” flight, the Young Dragon’s ferocious body had already left an indelible mark in these pilots’ hearts.
Space Hub Command Headquarters.
Fan Ren alternated between looking at the Young Dragon’s perspective on the big screen and at Liu Shengzhan’s uncontrollable upturned mouth, finding the scene extremely amusing.
Especially upon hearing that carrier-based aircraft wingman pilot become incoherent with excitement upon seeing the Young Dragon.
He felt secretly proud inside as well.
Xinghai had been established for nearly seven years.
He had transformed from that penniless graduate back then into the current Xinghai Chairman holding countless resources.
Over the seven years, from the initial high-voltage radio technology born in a rental apartment, to later, through the efforts of Xinghai’s group of technicians, producing the solid-state battery.
Then to the graphene chip that followed, which brought in massive funds for Xinghai’s development.
The journey so far hadn’t been particularly arduous.
But if he wanted to stop and enjoy, Fan Ren could have long been living a luxurious life beyond ordinary imagination.
Yet the tri-titanium alloy technology that followed brought an industrial upgrade that left him no time to stop.
This thing basically didn’t exist on Earth!
To continue, they had no choice but to go to the Moon for mining.
Step by step to today, the space ore refinery was now entering the construction process under the Ministry of Industry’s lead.
And next, after the refinery was completed, Xinghai would continue investing in constructing a space tri-titanium alloy processing factory, as well as the final space dock construction plant.
Hearing that young pilot’s excited words at this moment was undoubtedly the best affirmation of his relentless persistence all along.
Fan Ren quietly exited the command room and returned to his own office via the connecting passage.
“What happened?”
“Shot down two South Australia fighter jets. They didn’t know any better, trying to sabotage the joint military exercise to make Great Xia and the United States go to full-scale war.”
Zeng Yingying stepped forward to take Fan Ren’s pressure suit, hung it aside, and casually asked. Hearing what Fan Ren said, she smiled too.
In Fan Ren’s office, there was also inertial gravity from the rotating centrifugal force. Though limited, it was enough to ensure normal walking and standing.
Zeng Yingying poured him a cup of tea, then sat beside him continuing to pick up a tablet display screen, browsing newly released film and television dramas with space content.
Fan Ren quietly drank tea beside her, his gaze falling on the hair pinned up at the top of her head, warmth in his eyes.
Not long ago, this girl who had been by his side since Xinghai’s founding had formally married him.
Their marriage had no grand ceremony.
It was merely Fan Ren piloting the passenger-carrying transport spaceship Gale, bringing along the couple Liu Jun and Su Yu Rou, as well as the rarely seen old fourth Lin Chang and his wife.
The six crossed 300,000 kilometers.
And called over the boss Li Jian stationed at Guanghan Palace Base.
Under that night sky, embracing and swearing oaths beneath the massive blue Blue Star, receiving everyone’s best blessings.
