Chapter 156: Once is a coincidence, but twice is something's not right.
USA.
Inside the command center, all the high-ranking officials fell into silence at this moment!
President Biden had changed his pants and was scanning them with a cold gaze.
Especially Secretary of State Jack!
"Mr. Secretary of State Jack, do you have anything to say?"
"If you hadn't provoked the Dragon Kingdom, we wouldn't have lost an entire naval base!"
"And we certainly wouldn't have lost face in front of the entire world!"
"Now the entire Blue Planet knows the fact that we were beaten like dogs by the Dragon Kingdom and fled in disgrace!"
"Tomorrow, at the latest by tomorrow, we will be cursed and pointed at by those damn taxpayers again!"
"When that time comes, you go and deal with them!"
The US Secretary of State was also very helpless!
It was indeed his suggestion to trip up the Dragon Kingdom initially, but President Biden had agreed to it as well!
Why was he being made to take the blame all by himself?
In fact, compared to helplessness, he felt more regret now!
Especially that naval base, which had cost an unknown amount of funds and effort to build.
It made his heart ache terribly.
If he had known earlier, he would have admitted it was their naval base back then!
As long as they had just admitted defeat back then!
It wouldn't have led to today's tragedy!
As a result, almost the whole world knew that naval base was theirs, yet they couldn't admit it!
Admitting it before it was destroyed would have just been a simple loss of face. Now that it had already been destroyed, if they admitted it, they would be true butchers who, due to stupidity and arrogance, had sent everyone at the naval base to their deaths!
Even hanging them all wouldn't be enough to quell the public's anger!
A high-ranking official said at this moment: "Mr. President, the most urgent task right now is probably not to assign blame!"
"We must completely distance ourselves from the naval base in the White Sea!"
"Otherwise, the consequences will definitely be more than just being cursed by the citizens..."
Everyone fell into silence again!
It felt as if a storm was brewing.
...
The USA Intelligence Headquarters.
In a spacious office currently shrouded in gloom, the atmosphere was as oppressive as thick, suffocating clouds before a storm.
The pale light on the ceiling emitted a weak glow, but it couldn't dispel the tension filling the room at all.
CIA person in charge Smith was clutching his head with both hands, his eyes filled with panic and bewilderment.
Like an ant on a hot pan, he paced back and forth in the room constantly.
He was frantically urging his subordinate intelligence agents to gather information.
"Quick! Find out everything about that Electromagnetic Railgun from the Dragon Kingdom for me!"
"I need to know what exactly is going on!"
His voice was somewhat hoarse and sharp, as if trying to tear through the stifling air.
He knew deep down that he bore an inescapable responsibility for this matter.
Once, he had been high-spirited, stirring up trouble in the intelligence community, believing that everything was under his control.
But now, reality had dealt him a heavy slap in the face.
The Dragon Kingdom's Electromagnetic Naval Gun seemed to have appeared out of thin air.
There wasn't even a trace of it!
He threw himself into the investigation, constantly flipping through the mountain of documents in front of him, his hands trembling slightly from nervousness.
The papers made a rustling sound in his hands, as if mocking him mercilessly.
His eyes scanned rapidly between the lines, and from time to time, he looked up at the video, trying to find a clue from the blurry footage and complex text.
A clue that could explain why the Dragon Kingdom suddenly possessed such a powerful weapon.
However, after half a day, there was absolutely no clue to be found!
Smith locked his gaze on the Electromagnetic Railgun again; the huge gun barrel in the footage and the shocking scene when it fired made his heartbeat suddenly accelerate.
His brows were tightly knitted together, and a feeling of familiarity suddenly flashed through his mind.
"Wait, why does this thing look a bit familiar!" he muttered to himself.
Subsequently, his whole body shuddered violently, as if he had been electrocuted!
He widened his eyes, full of terror!
Then, like a madman, he rushed to the archives room and frantically searched through the mountainous, dusty pile of old documents.
Time passed second by second, and sweat rolled down his forehead, dripping onto those yellowed papers.
Finally, he found what he was looking for in a corner.
When he opened that document, his hands stiffened abruptly, and he was struck as if by lightning.
"Isn't this the Electromagnetic Railgun data we deliberately released over a decade ago to mislead other countries?"
He widened his eyes, his face full of disbelief.
The images and data in that document had an astonishing similarity to the Electromagnetic Railgun demonstrated by the Dragon Kingdom this time.
"So what exactly is the situation? Could it be that the Dragon Kingdom researched it based on this data?"
He asked himself repeatedly in his heart, feeling as if he had fallen into a nightmare from which he could not wake up.
He knew well that the data contained many errors and misleading information, but the Dragon Kingdom seemed to have found the key to a breakthrough from it.
Turning this nonsense data into reality!!!
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
His lips trembled slightly as he whispered.
At this moment, another document happened to be lying by his hand!
The mecha model presented in the document drawings made his whole body tremble.
He was completely stunned!
Mecha...
The mechas previously manufactured by the Dragon Kingdom also seemed to have been made according to the drawings they had released!
Those mechas that flew flexibly in the sky and executed various high-difficulty missions had also greatly shocked them at the time.
At the time, they also thought it was a coincidence!
But once is a coincidence!
Could it be that twice is also a coincidence?
Once is a coincidence, twice is suspicious.
His eyes revealed a trace of fear.
He began to reflect on his various past decisions and actions, feeling that his approach seemed like that of an idiot.
In the repeated intelligence games and technological competitions, he had originally thought he was playing his opponent in the palm of his hand, but he hadn't expected that he was pushing himself into the abyss step by step.
And the next moment, his pupils dilated instantly!
So much so that he stood up from the pile of documents with a jolt!
The look of terror in his eyes was about to overflow!
Just because he suddenly thought of—the Aerospace Carrier.
"Oh no!" he exclaimed inwardly, and hurriedly ran towards the communication room, wanting to stop everyone from leaking the Aerospace Carrier data.
His steps were unsteady, and he almost fell in the hallway.
However, when he rushed into the communication room, he heard his subordinate's desperate report:
"BOSS! It's too late, the data has already been cleverly... sent to the Dragon Kingdom."
Boom!!!!!
In an instant, Smith only felt a thunderclap resound in his mind!
It made him feel as if he had instantly fallen into an ice cave!
His body couldn't help but tremble uncontrollably.
"The Dragon Kingdom..."
"They couldn't possibly even be able to build the Aerospace Carrier..."
"...Right?!!!!"