Chapter 109 Chapter Dulles
"This is a fossil from 15,000 years ago, a human femur that was broken and then healed. It is a symbol of the birth of human civilization. 15,000 years ago, a thigh fracture was fatal because you could not avoid danger or find food. You could only wait to be eaten by wild beasts on the spot." Zhou Zhezhi's voice came through the screen. His tone was steady and powerful, and every word carried a heavy sense of history.
"But this femur healed, which means that after he was injured, someone treated his wound, someone provided him with food and water, and someone protected him from attacks by wild animals. It was this kind of mutual help and solidarity that enabled our ancestors to survive and continue the human race."
"And now another broken femur appears before us. Will we make the same choice as we did 15,000 years ago?"
Lu Mingfei watched Zhou Zhezhi's speech at the UN emergency meeting on a screen at the Gabon base.
He hasn't been back to the Gabon base for a long time. Now the sea not far from the Gabon base has completely dried up, revealing large areas of land. The United Nations government provides shelter on these exposed lands for other refugees whose homes have been destroyed by floods and earthquakes.
The space elevator not far away was constantly emitting flames, and the white cabin was continuously sending the nuclear bomb he had just escorted to the navigator space station in space.
Helicopters and trucks continue to transport nuclear warheads.
"The speech is good, but the probability of this plan succeeding is very small. Detonating all of humanity's nuclear weapons on the moon would have similar effects on the body as if a person farted, so the moon cannot be detonated." Lu Mingze appeared next to Lu Mingfei again, and he also looked at the speech on the screen and said.
"So brother, let's go back. Time doesn't seem to be running out. We will really die then. We can live a few more decades if we go back." Lu Mingze continued, even with a hint of pleading in his voice.
"Didn't you bring me here in the beginning to learn from my experience? Why are you thinking of leaving now?" Lu Mingfei said coldly, without a trace of fluctuation in his eyes.
"Alas, I didn't know at first that dealing with a solar explosion would be such a huge project. I thought my brother could handle it, but now the situation is beyond our ability to resolve. So we might as well go back and eat and drink and spend the rest of our days happily." Lu Mingze said with a sigh.
"I won't go back. I'm the commander of the ranger unit now. I will stick to my post until the last moment. In times of crisis, I have no choice but to take responsibility. Do you really think the plan will fail?" Lu Mingfei's eyes were firm.
At this moment, Xu Yanbo strode over, and his hurried footsteps broke the silence around him. He did not see Lu Mingze and walked straight towards Lu Mingfei.
"Brother Lu, all 3,750 nuclear warheads have arrived at the Gabon base." Xu Yanbo reported quickly, with urgency in his tone.
"Well, is the plane ready? Let's get ready to go back to the United Government." Lu Mingfei nodded and said. He no longer paid attention to Lu Mingze beside him. He had more important things to do.
"Ready." Xu Yanbo replied.
Not far away, the propellers of the transport plane were roaring, preparing to take them back to the United Government.
Although the nuclear bombs have been sent into space, they are all encrypted, and they still need the codes of these nuclear bombs to detonate all of them, so they also have to escort the encrypted data of global nuclear weapons to the United Government, where the world's top talents gather.
Soon after the nuclear bomb was transported, Lu Mingfei and Xu Yanbo took a transport plane to the temporary command center built by the joint government.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry!" Lu Mingfei ran into the command center carrying two boxes of information and shouted to other soldiers to take the information off the plane.
The temporary command center is located in a makeshift building, surrounded by national flags of various countries and emergency rescue signs. Dozens of computers and various complex instruments in the building emit dazzling blue and white light, and data and processes are constantly jumping on the screen.
Representatives from various countries and technical experts were rushing around, shouting at each other. The noisy noise filled the entire space and the tense atmosphere was almost suffocating.
"Vladimir!" Lu Mingfei shouted loudly, his voice almost drowning out all the noise. His eyes quickly locked onto the tall man in Russian military uniform in the crowd.
Vladimir was standing in front of a huge tactical screen, holding a thick stack of documents in his hands, with a deep gaze and a solemn expression. He is the official in charge of Russia's nuclear arsenal and has a deep understanding of nuclear weapons. He is also the person in charge of cracking the nuclear weapons codes and connecting them together this time.
"I have brought all the information here. We must crack these codes as soon as possible and connect them together." Lu Mingfei walked straight towards Vladimir and placed two heavy boxes of documents on the table in front of him.
Vladimir nodded without any extra expression on his face and said in a deep voice: "We will do our best."
"These data date from 1945 to 2045 and belong to different countries and cipher systems. Conventional decoding requires at least ten years, but now we only have half a day to decode them and string them together." Vladimir said to the other decoders while holding the data.
"Brother Lu, is there enough time?" Xu Yanbo said worriedly when he heard Vladimir's words.
"I don't know, but we can only trust them. Are the people who are going to restart the root server ready?" Lu Mingfei began to change the subject. He had to make sure that every step was carried out in an orderly manner. Time was passing by little by little, and every minute and every second became extremely precious at this moment.
"Everything is ready. I will take people to the Dulles server in person." Xu Yanbo nodded and said.
"Well, be careful on the road." Lu Mingfei patted Xu Yanbo on the shoulder and said, he had to stay in the command center to dispatch other ranger troops and monitor the activation status of other root servers, so he couldn't go there in person.
"Yeah." Xu Yanbo nodded and turned to walk out of the command center.
As Xu Yanbo left, Lu Mingfei turned around and his eyes fell on the screen of the command center again. On that huge tactical screen, the red countdown was particularly conspicuous, as if the footsteps of death were approaching little by little.
The numbers displayed on the screen kept jumping, and every change seemed to hit people's hearts, making them breathless.
"The countdown begins now! In twelve hours, the moon will break through the Earth's Roche limit. The decoding of global nuclear weapons has begun now, and the number of undecoded weapons is 3,143." Lu Mingfei shouted while looking at the countdown on the screen.
Since it was China that proposed this plan, the decoding of China’s nuclear weapons had been completed before the lunar crisis broke out.
Everyone in the command center suddenly fell into a more nervous state. The experts' hands were typing rapidly on the keyboard, their eyes were fixed on the screen, as if missing any detail might bring disaster.
The lunar response plan is divided into three steps. The first step is to distribute global nuclear weapons on the moon through the space station and deploy them on the Campanus crater through a phased array.
The second step is to connect all the nuclear weapons in series and detonate them remotely through the space station to trigger lunar nuclear fusion and cause the moon to disintegrate on its own.
The third step is to restart the root servers in Dulles, Tokyo, and BJ, restore the Internet, start the planetary engine, escape from the lunar wreckage and embark on a new journey.
"The troops to activate Tokyo, BJ, Dulles, and the root server have all set off." A communicator reported hurriedly.
"The lunar bomb deployment personnel have already set out, but the explosion of the lunar engine has ejected lunar fragments into space, forming the asteroid belt, and the bomb deployment personnel have suffered casualties!" Another technician reported anxiously, with a slight tremor in his voice.
Lu Mingfei's ears were constantly ringing with messages from various departments. His hands were clenched tightly together, and his eyes were fixed on the screen in front of him, which showed the progress of all tasks. At the same time, the red countdown was decreasing by every second.
At this time, the data on the screen representing the vital signs of the Dulles restart personnel began to fluctuate, and soon the two personnel completely lost their vital signs. Lu Mingfei was shocked, because these data showed the vital signs of the experts who restarted the root server, but did not include the vital signs of the ranger soldiers who escorted them.
The only mission of those rangers is to escort these experts to the Dursgen server safely at all costs, but now these experts have begun to die, and the situation of the rangers escorting them is obvious.
"Xu Yanbo! Xu Yanbo received, please reply! What's going on over there?" Lu Mingfei immediately started to contact Xu Yanbo.
There was a sharp sound of electricity coming from the communication equipment, followed by Xu Yanbo's voice coming intermittently. His breathing was obviously rapid, and there were fierce gunshots and explosions in the background.
"Rebels... We have encountered a large number of rebels! They have heavy weapons and have occupied the Dulles root server. Requesting support!" Xu Yanbo shouted into the communication device.
When Lu Mingfei heard this, he was instantly filled with anger. He slammed his fist hard on the table, making a dull thud.
It's not that they didn't expect to encounter obstructions when restarting the server. Since the root servers of Tokyo and BJ were submerged in sea water, the probability of being obstructed by other people was relatively low. However, the Dulegens server was on land, so Lu Mingfei specially arranged many ranger troops to escort it, and asked Xu Yanbo, his right-hand man, to go there in person.
But I didn't expect that there would be so many people causing trouble at a time when the survival of the earth was at stake. The rangers that Lu Mingfei sent to Dulles were the elite of the elite, selected from all over the world. If even these elites suffered heavy losses, then the number and quality of equipment of the rebels who occupied the root server of Dulles can be seen.
Lu Mingfei gritted his teeth, took a deep breath, and suppressed the anger in his heart. He knew that it was meaningless to be angry at the moment. Only by making a calm decision could he buy time for Dulles's personnel. "Send the second team to support immediately!" His voice was calm and powerful, covering up his inner anxiety.
The soldier on the other end of the communication device immediately replied: "Understood! We are on the way and expected to arrive within ten minutes!"
But at the moment Lu Mingfei gave the order, the vital signs of another expert representing the restart of the Dulles root server on the big screen of the command center began to fluctuate violently again, and then completely turned into a red line. Now only one expert was still alive.
"Damn it!" He cursed under his breath, turned around and shouted to the staff around him: "Where is the plane I asked you to prepare? Is it ready?"
The staff member was startled by his sudden outburst of anger and responded in a slightly panicked tone: "We're ready, but... General, do you really want to go there in person?" There was a hint of hesitation and worry in his voice.
"I have to go. Report to me if anything happens." When Lu Mingfei heard that the plane was ready, he ignored the staff member, shouted and ran out of the command center.
Outside the command center, a cold wind blew in the face, and the sky was so gloomy that it seemed to weigh on everyone's heart. Lu Mingfei's steps were hurried and firm, and his heartbeat quickened along with the sound of his footsteps. A J20C fighter was parked on the tarmac, and its black fuselage looked particularly cold under the dim light.
This was what Lu Mingfei asked them to prepare in advance, so that no matter which server had problems, he could get there as quickly as possible.
He couldn't help with the deployment of nuclear bombs or password cracking. The only thing he could do was to ensure that all root servers were successfully turned on.
Lu Mingfei walked quickly to the fighter plane, took the anti-G suit and helmet from a ground crew member, and quickly put them on. The anti-G suit fit tightly against his body, swelling slightly with the frequency of his deep breathing. As his chest rose and fell, his eyes became calmer.
"General, I wish you all the best." The ground crew stood aside with respect in his eyes.
Lu Mingfei did not answer, but just nodded at him, then swiftly got into the cockpit of the fighter jet. The door closed with a dull sound behind him, isolating the noise and chaos from the outside world. The cockpit became quiet and closed, with only the indicator lights on the dashboard flashing faintly.
After he sat down, he placed his hands lightly on the joystick, his fingertips wandering over the buttons and switches, and he skillfully completed each startup step. The roar of the engine came from the tail of the plane, and the strong vibration was transmitted to his whole body through the seat. The turbine under the wing began to accelerate slowly, and the temperature in the air seemed to rise accordingly.
"J20C, prepare for takeoff." He calmly gave the command to the control tower.
"Understood, J20C, take-off permission has been approved." The voice of the control tower came through the communication equipment with a hint of tension.
As fighter planes approached Dulles at a very high speed, the chaos on the ground of Dulles was already apparent.
Even high in the sky, Lu Mingfei could still see the faint burning of fire in the distance. That was the area occupied by the rebels.
On the fighter's radar screen, red dots of light were flashing densely. Those were the heavy weapons positions equipped by the enemy. The entire area had turned into a powder keg that was about to explode, and the battle situation was extremely critical.
Lu Mingfei frowned, his eyes quickly switching between the radar screen and the ground. The area of the Dursgen server had been completely controlled by the rebels. The enemy was well-equipped and had extremely powerful armed forces.
But there is not much time now. He must deal with the rebels as soon as possible and restart the root server.
At this time, the Dulles server has become one of the most important targets in the world. It is connected to the global network infrastructure. Only by restarting it can complete control of the planetary engine system be provided.
Lu Mingfei accelerated as he approached the ground while quickly analyzing the situation. Through the kamaweasel's spiritual perception, he had already grasped the distribution of the rebels' positions. The location of the heavy firepower, the deployed troops, and the intensity of the exchange of fire all appeared in his mind one by one.
At the same time, his fingers slid quickly across the dashboard, calling up the fighter's weapon system. The fighter's target locking system began to work, and the screen quickly locked onto multiple enemy fire points. Lu Mingfei narrowed his eyes slightly and lightly pressed the launch button with his finger.
The fighter's missile was instantly launched from under its wing, cutting through the night sky and heading straight for the enemy's firepower point on the ground with a blazing tail flame. The missile roared towards the target, drawing dazzling streaks of light in the night sky and instantly hit the enemy's position.
A series of explosions shook the earth. Huge flames rose from the ground and smoke filled the air. The chaotic situation became more intense. The rebels' firepower points in the distance quickly collapsed under the fierce bombardment of missiles.
Lu Mingfei did not stop for a moment. The fighter jet shuttled rapidly in the air like a prey, and the machine guns and missiles accurately hit the enemy's defense line.
As missiles hit their targets one after another, the rebels' firepower gradually weakened, explosions on the ground sounded one after another, and the entire area seemed to be engulfed in a sea of fire.
But the rebels' reaction was not slow either. As the firing points were destroyed one after another, their anti-aircraft weapons began to rotate, with the muzzles raised high and locked onto the fighter jets in the air. Several dazzling anti-aircraft missiles took off from the ground and quickly tracked the trajectory of the fighter jets.
But Lu Mingfei was not afraid at all. He pulled the joystick and turned it quickly. The fighter made a sharp turn in the air and dropped heat-seeking bombs, easily avoiding the first wave of missile attacks. Then, he pushed his palm downwards suddenly, and the fighter dived at an extremely fast speed, getting close to the ground.
Just as the missile was about to approach, Lu Mingfei suddenly pulled up the joystick, and the fighter suddenly rose high, narrowly avoiding the missile. The missile whizzed past the wing and finally exploded in the air, shaking the entire cockpit slightly.
The world's top fighter jet has extraordinary maneuverability.
Under the cover of fighter jets, the Ranger Force of the Second Squad has launched a full-scale attack on the Dulles server. The soldiers on the ground are fully armed, wearing black exoskeleton equipment, holding high-energy weapons, and quickly shuttled between the ruins and obstacles, advancing rapidly towards the rebels' defense line.
"Xu Yanbo, please reply if you received it!" Lu Mingfei shouted in the communication channel.
Xu Yanbo responded in the communication channel: "We are approaching the target location, but the enemy's firepower suppression is very strong, and we need more support!"
(End of this chapter)
