ccnovels #736 - Chapter 736: A blast through the sky! The second mission, the wrath of aliens?
#736 - Chapter 736: A blast through the sky! The second mission, the wrath of aliens?
The two space fighters were tens of kilometers apart.
In the near-vacuum, the visibility was excellent, and the pilots had exceptional eyesight. Tom and Jake saw…
…the enemy fighter's belly, from which a dark cannon barrel protruded, shimmering with an intimidating, ghostly blue light.
“What’s going on? What are you…?”
“What exactly did you encounter?!”
Loud questioning blared through the communicator.
It was Albert's voice, coming from ground control.
Tom and Jake couldn't utter a single word.
Their faces were filled with terror.
“Answer your President quickly!” Less-than-fluent English echoed through the cockpit again.
“Who?!”
Ground control.
Albert and the group of people surrounding him seemed to have been struck by lightning.
Suddenly!
The huge screen in the control center displayed the shocking scene from Tom and Jake's perspective.
It was obvious.
The Uranos fighter's monitoring system had been completely taken over by the J-40.
Albert saw a very futuristic fighter.
He also saw the ghostly blue light shimmering beneath its belly, restrained and unreleased.
It was deliberate!
Just to scare you to death!
“Withdraw… withdraw quickly!” Albert screamed hoarsely.
“Withdraw…”
Tom and Jake came back to their senses.
As the primary pilot, Tom immediately controlled the fighter, pulling away at maximum speed, attempting to escape.
There was no choice!
In space combat, the Uranos fighter's main weapon was a laser.
But the enemy possessed a very futuristic light shield, capable of briefly blocking lasers.
Briefly?
That was enough!
Even if it could only block for 0.1 seconds…
He didn't give chase.
The particle cannon had long been fully charged, but he had been holding back, not firing.
Now!
Fire!
Whoosh!
With the ionized cloud attached, the ghostly blue beam, visible to the naked eye, shot out at 200,000 kilometers per second, as if the space had been cleaved open!
The Uranos fighter was very fast?
It was useless!
In front of the particle cannon, Mach 10 or even Mach 20 made no difference in essence.
The Uranos fighter was fleeing, its tail facing the J-40.
There was no time difference.
The instant the particle cannon fired, the Uranos fighter, from tail to nose, was directly pierced by the ghostly blue beam in less than a millisecond.
The shockwave surged, and the fighter disintegrated from the inside out, completely torn apart.
The kinetic energy of the particles was still not exhausted.
It continued to fly!
Flying and flying!
Until it disappeared into the endless space.
Wang Wei smiled coldly and said to his partner, “Let’s begin the second task that Commander instructed.”
“Alrighty!”
His partner was extremely excited.
…
Kennedy Space Center.
Albert and the others were already dumbfounded.
Two things were currently known.
First, a very futuristic fighter had encountered a North American fighter in space.
Second.
The Uranos fighter's system had been hacked.
Everyone in the control center had heard the other party speaking in English, and given that the other party's English was not fluent…
Suddenly!
The screen in the control center forcibly switched!
That was…
…another different perspective!
On the screen, the Uranos fighter fled, and then a ghostly blue beam directly pierced the fighter from tail to nose!
This recording only lasted a few seconds.
The screen switched again, showing the scene inside the Uranos fighter cockpit, with Tom and Jake speaking.
“Fast? Can it be faster than a laser?!”
“It hit! Haha…”
“Why did you attack us for no reason? State your identity immediately!”
“This is North America, Uranos Space Fighter 1! Who are you? How dare you…”
There were conversations between Tom and Jake.
And also conversations with the other pilot.
The screen disappeared.
Less-than-fluent English echoed in the control center: “Earth humans! Originally, we came here with goodwill, but we were met with your malicious attacks, so… we will definitely retaliate!”
Huh?!
Upon discovering the futuristic fighter.
And discovering that the other party spoke broken English.
Albert and everyone else subconsciously thought they were from China.
After all.
China's technology was developing at light speed, giving birth to countless heaven-defying products, and the military industry was the same.
As a result…
…the other party called them ‘Earth humans’?
Who exactly were they?
Aliens?
“Impossible… there can't be aliens!” Albert muttered.
Suddenly!
He seemed to have thought of something, and roared angrily, “Damn it! Last time you destroyed the North American satellite, you also blamed it on aliens, don't think I don't know, you… you're from China!”
Unfortunately, the other party had already cut off the conversation.
“Mr. President, now is not the time to say these things, they… claim they will retaliate!” Lawrence said anxiously.
“Put the entire United States on high alert!”
“Activate the early warning radar!”
“Prepare all anti-aircraft missiles!”
Albert came back to his senses, and after issuing a series of instructions, he shouted angrily, “Contact China! Contact them immediately, and issue a statement of condemnation… No! Warn them, daring to attack North America is a declaration of war!”
The Minister of Foreign Affairs didn't dare delay and immediately went to contact China.
A few minutes later.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs returned: “Mr. President, the Chinese side claims… it has nothing to do with them.”
“They also said that if North America has no evidence and arbitrarily finds a reason to start a war, then… they are not afraid of war!”
Albert was completely dumbfounded.
Did he have evidence?
No!
Did he really want to go to war with China?
He didn't want to!
Based on the current comparison of strength, unless they fought a mutually destructive nuclear war, let alone one North America in a conventional war, even ten North Americas… couldn't defeat China, okay?
“Could it be… there really are aliens?” Lawrence muttered to himself.
“Bullshit!”
Albert was going crazy: “Where did the aliens come from? Don't you understand? China is counting on the fact that we can't produce any evidence and is deliberately blaming it on aliens—they've done this kind of thing before!”
The problem was.
Did doing it before mean it was the same this time?
Besides, there was no evidence last time either!
What to do now?
As long as China stubbornly refused to admit it, North America would have no way to frame them.
The key was that the current world was not one where North America controlled the voice of public opinion.
“Mr. President, the ground radar has been activated, and no enemy has been detected…”
“Something bad has happened!”
Just as someone reported that the radar had been activated and no traces of the enemy had been found, someone hurriedly ran over.
“Outside…”
The officer's face was pale, and he pointed outside the control center: “There is… an aircraft!”
The control center had floor-to-ceiling glass.
Albert and his party quickly ran over.
The next moment.
He saw a horrifying scene.
Incredibly!
A fighter with an extremely futuristic shape was circling in the sky above the launch center.
Wouldn't the Kennedy rocket launch center have air defense radar?
Of course, it did.
But!
It hadn't sounded an alarm!
This meant that the stealth capabilities of this fighter had reached an unbelievable level.
Even if it approached within sight, the radar had no way to detect it!
“What… what should we do?” Lawrence stammered.
“…”
Albert stared blankly at that fighter.
Attack?
Once they attacked, it would be a complete declaration of war.
Not attack?
Allow the enemy aircraft to roam in North American airspace?
“Let's see…
Whoosh!
Just as Albert was about to say that they should wait and see what happened, a beam of blue light fell from the sky.