Pentagon.

On the large screen on the floor, the footage captured by the high-altitude drone is played.

In a cloud of smoke, the group of soldiers wearing mechanical exoskeletons used vigorous tactics to clear all the militants on the deck, without the slightest drag of mud and water.

By the time the British special forces arrived by helicopter from the nearest military base, they had not only finished cleaning up the aftermath, but had even cleaned up the blood stains on the deck.

End of video screening.

The entire conference room was silent.

With a slight cough, the senior military adviser of the Ministry of Defense broke the silence in the conference room and tapped twice on the large screen with the laser pointer in his hand.

"Thirty-seven minutes."

Shet...... They cleaned the deck faster than I washed the car. ”

"Thirty ...... to be exact," put his hands still on his chest on the table, and the Pentagon Defense Chief, who was sitting at the conference table, had a gloomy face as if he was about to drip water, "It only took thirty minutes from the time they learned that the cargo ship had been hijacked by militants to the time they sent the orbital airborne troops above their heads." ”

"One hour of global deployment, I'm afraid it's just the most conservative estimate."

"Their strategic projection power is even stronger than we imagined!"

There was silence in the conference room again.

And this time, the silence was somewhat terrifying.

"Damn," said the tired president, who took off his glasses from the bridge of his nose and pinched the bridge of his nose with his index finger, in a difficult tone, "how did they do it so quickly......"

No one can answer this question.

For this orbital airborne brigade, their intelligence is almost a blank.

What kind of delivery method can deliver a pair of steel divisions armed to the teeth from Jinling, which is tens of thousands of kilometers away, to the middle of the Baltic Sea?

I'm afraid that the secret of this is only clear to the Chinese themselves.

At this time, NASA Administrator Carson, who had not spoken, suddenly said, "It's possible that they didn't completely leave the atmosphere." ”

In an instant, a pair of eyes in the conference room looked at him in unison.

Looking a little flustered with a pair of eyes behind his back, Director Carson swallowed and continued with a hard head.

"Directly through Russian airspace from the lowest satellite orbit, and then drop an airborne capsule on the easternmost side of the Baltic Sea...... Thirty minutes is theoretically possible. ”

"But even then, time is of the essence."

"From departure to landing, there is no delay for a minute, maybe it is enough."

Director Carson's speech made the expressions on everyone's faces more and more heavy.

In the face of such an unstoppable force, do they have any sense of victory?

There used to be a lot of controversy in this conference room about the combat effectiveness of this orbital airborne force.

Now, however, not only have all the voices of controversy disappeared, but even the eyes exchanged between everyone present have changed from their original looks to the same worry.

It wasn't until this moment that they really realized what kind of opponent they were facing.

"I wonder who got the idea of that cruise ship," the president added, with a grim face as he tapped his index finger on the conference table, "and it's better that it has nothing to do with us." ”

The Minister of Defense saw him.

"Isn't it the CIA?"

The president shook his head with an ugly face.

"I have never authorized such a stupid operation! I'm sure our CIA director wouldn't be so stupid to do such a stupid act behind my back. ”

If it had been five years ago, it might have been profitable.

But now, their only gain is to take out a respected physicist.

As for his legacy of Advanced Studies and a vast legacy of scientific research, both visible and invisible, none of them could be erased by bombs or a few killers.

On the contrary, it can get them into big trouble.

"Find out who hired those pirates."

"If necessary, we can still betray the favor of the Chinese."

……

It's not just the Pentagon that's messing around.

The Iron Division that fell from the sky can be said to have shocked the attention of intelligence agencies around the world.

No one imagined that this crisis would be resolved in such a form.

No one thought that the Iron Division, armed to the teeth, would look the same as their sci-fi appearance, and their performance in actual combat was not ambiguous at all.

At present, the three airborne capsules are on the cabin of the "Osaiberg," and although the intelligence personnel of various countries are drooling greedily, not a single one dares to attack them rashly.

There is no other reason.

At the moment, the cargo ship is under the control of the orbital airborne brigade, and is slowly sailing through a large area of the open sea, towards East Asia.

After seeing the might of this orbital airborne force, no one dared to challenge them easily, let alone stop them.

Even the British Royal Secret Service, who had already landed on deck, withdrew to the helicopter in disgrace after negotiations failed to make progress.

And just as the world's intelligence agencies were focused on the cargo ship, a file bag full of photographs and various documents had been placed on a simple desk in an office far away in Beijing, China.

"The organization that attacked Academician Lu has been found," the index finger tapped on the file bag, and an old section chief in a national security uniform, like a slightly younger man sitting behind a desk, said, "According to the information collected and summarized by our offline intelligence officers, the one who hired that group of pirates should be a ...... Organization of the Cosmic Spirit Foundation. ”

"Cosmic Spirit Foundation?" Hearing this strange name for the first time, the man sitting behind the desk had a surprised expression on his face, "What's that?" ”

It sounds like something out of a movie or an online game, but it really doesn't look like something that would come out of the real world.

"It seems to be a new religion, or an organization that makes money through this new religion...... It is more popular in developed countries and regions, but we have not seen any traces of their activities in China. They cited Professor Garrett Miró, a former IMCRC employee, as a forerunner and believed in the doctrine of cosmic animism. ”

"Maybe they have bigger plans than just money, but they are careful and they don't show a very clear political appeal. so far it has not attracted the attention of ZF in other countries. ”

Speaking of this, the old section chief's brows couldn't help but furrow.

"I just don't know why, they will suddenly target Academician Lu."

Could it be that Professor Garrett Miró's death is blamed on Academician Lu?

But this argument is a bit far-fetched.

The man sitting behind the desk, thinking about things that were a little different from the old section chiefs, after simply flipping through the information in the file bag, he spoke.

"Isn't this doctrine denied by Professor Lu?"

Hearing this, the old section chief smiled.

"There are a lot of things that are denied by science, but who really listens? What's more, Professor Lu did not completely deny the existence of such a mysterious will in the universe, but only classified it in the category of agnosticism, and explicitly stated the existence of the void and the existence of N+1 dimensions. ”

The man sitting behind the desk had a surprised look on his face.

"I didn't expect you to know so much about physics."

The old section chief grinned: "If you stay in the task force for a long time, you will always learn all kinds of things." ”

That's a true statement.

Especially for the national security, the cases they handle are often more difficult than ordinary criminal cases.

Without commenting on this, the man read the file, then rested in the corner of the table and sighed softly.

"And what about this case?"

"It's not our job anymore."

"How?"

“…… According to news from other departments, it is said that our satellite hangs on the head of the suspected leader of the pirate organization 24 hours a day, and follows their fishing boat all the way to their lair. ”

"Awesome...... It's a big fish, isn't it? The man sitting behind the desk couldn't help but sit up straight, and continued with curiosity written on his face, "What are the people above going to do?" Notify Interpol? ”

"Interpol? They can't manage this kind of thing," the old section chief smiled, his eyes narrowed into a slit, "And there is no need to ask them for this kind of trivial matter, there are a hundred ways that Lao Tzu can think of." ”

"What method do you mean?"

"The way to trample this grasshopper to death."