Chapter 292 The Tragedy of Cherry Blossoms, The Gift Has Been Delivered (Bonus Chapter)
The general's hand was trembling slightly.
He picked up the coffee cup on the table, wanting to take a sip to cover up his embarrassment.
"Smack."
The coffee cup slipped from his fingers and shattered on the polished floor.
His eyes were bloodshot, like a raging beast, as he lunged at the communicator and roared into it:
"Fire another one!"
"Increase propulsion power! Push it to maximum speed!"
"Break through it!!"
The Land of Cherry Blossoms, Yokosuka Base.
The launcher for the second Tomahawk missile slowly rose again amidst the piercing alarm.
Huaxia, the Supreme Command Center.
On the screen, a new threat warning lit up again.
"Report! Enemy preparation for a second round of launch detected!"
"Launch is expected in 30 seconds!"
This time, the tension in the command center was gone.
Everyone's face was filled with shock and fervor, as if they had witnessed a miracle firsthand.
Chief Zhang slowly stood up and walked to the screen.
Chen Jianguo also came over. He stretched out his finger and gently tapped the simulation trajectory on the screen, which almost overlapped with that of the previous missile.
He turned his head and looked at Commander Zhang in the command center. His voice was not loud, but it clearly carried throughout the entire command room.
"Commander, activate Level II response."
"Why are they in such a hurry to give this 'gift'?"
Chen Jianguo pushed up his glasses, and a cold light flashed behind the lenses.
"We should send them back too."
Chen Jianguo adjusted his glasses.
"It is impolite not to reciprocate."
"Since they are so enthusiastic, we should do something in return."
In the command center, everyone held their breath.
Level 2 response means no longer passive defense.
This means that China will retaliate in kind, or even more severely, against any attacks.
Commander Zhang remained silent, looking at the red warning indicator on the screen that had lit up again, representing the second missile.
He slowly raised his hand, spoke only three words into the communicator.
"Approved."
...
The Pentagon, underground conference room.
A confident smile returned to the hawkish general's face.
"Increase propulsion power! Charge forward at top speed!"
He gave the order through the communicator.
"I don't believe anything can stop two 'Tomahawk' missiles in a row!"
"This time, I'm going to show the whole world how their 'paper' has been torn down!"
On the screen, the second point of light, moving faster than the first, traced an even more treacherous trajectory and once again hurtled towards the East China Sea.
All eyes were fixed on that point of light.
This time, it will definitely succeed.
...
Huaxia, the Supreme Command Center.
"Report! The enemy's second missile has entered our air defense identification zone!"
"Speed 2.5 Mach, and is accelerating!"
"Twenty seconds until contact zone!"
The technician's voice trembled slightly with excitement.
Chief Zhang didn't look at the screen; his gaze fell on Chen Jianguo.
Chen Jianguo met his gaze and nodded.
He walked to his control panel and lightly tapped the screen with his finger.
[Switch mode.]
[Generation of the reverse partial derivative force field.]
[Loading spatial curvature model...]
[Target trajectory locked...]
A series of data streams flashed rapidly across the screen in front of me.
"start up."
He said softly.
Above the East China Sea, in that empty expanse of airspace.
The transparent barrier, composed of countless hexagonal grids, reappeared.
But this time, it's no longer a flat surface.
In the second before the missile made contact, the entire surface of the energy grid was pressed inward as if by an invisible hand, forming a huge and perfect arc.
Like a concave mirror facing a sharp arrow.
...
"We crashed! We crashed!"
Inside the Pentagon, a tech officer shouted.
The general's mouth was stretched from ear to ear.
However, the explosion he had anticipated did not occur.
The red dot representing the missile on the screen did not disappear the moment it touched the boundary of China's territorial waters.
It just... paused for a moment.
Then, under the stunned gaze of military observers around the world...
The point of light seemed to have struck an invisible wall, and then its direction was forcibly reversed by an incomprehensible force.
It drew a smooth, yet strangely round, 180-degree arc in the air.
It roared back in the direction it came from, at an even faster speed than it had come from!
"What?"
"Fuck!"
"What?!"
The general's smile froze instantly.
"What is this thing?!"
He couldn't believe his eyes.
"Report! General!"
The technical director's voice was filled with shock and panic.
"Target...target is returning along the original path!"
"Speed... My God, the speed has exceeded Mach 3! And it's still accelerating!"
"Its target... is the Yokosuka launch site!"
"No! Impossible!" the general roared.
He lunged at the communicator, acting as if he were going mad.
"Intercept it! Shoot it down!"
"Yokosuka! Yokosuka! Activate the Patriot! Intercept them immediately!"
"At all costs!!"
...
The Land of Cherry Blossoms, Yokosuka Military Base.
The piercing alarm blared throughout the entire port.
The soldiers, who had just completed their launch mission, hadn't even had a chance to catch their breath when they heard an incomprehensible order from command.
"Intercept? Intercept what?"
A ground crew member looked up blankly.
The next second, he saw it.
On the horizon, a line of fire was rapidly expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye.
That familiar trail of flame, that whistling approach...
It's a "Tomahawk"!
It was the "Tomahawk" that they launched themselves just a minute ago!
"My God..."
Countless soldiers collapsed to the ground in terror.
The base's missile defense system was activated in the chaos.
Several interceptor missiles, trailing white smoke, hastily took off.
However, it was all too late.
The Tomahawk missile, accelerated by the "reverse deflection field," has a speed and kinetic energy that far exceed the reaction limit of the Patriot system.
It was like a highly accurate boomerang, deftly bypassing the interceptor missiles.
Under the watchful eyes of countless desperate people in the base.
It plunged headfirst into the ammunition depot next to the No. 2 launch silo that had just completed its launch.
"boom--!!!!!"
A huge mushroom cloud, filled with thick black and red smoke, shot into the sky.
A violent shockwave, carrying countless metal fragments and concrete blocks, swept outwards in all directions.
Half of the base, along with several warships docked in the port, was instantly razed to the ground.
On the screen at the highest command center of China, footage of an explosion was being played.
At this moment, the whole world fell into a terrifying silence.
In the command center, you could hear a pin drop; everyone's mind was blank.
Commander Zhang looked at the screen; his voice wasn't loud, but it reached everyone's ears clearly.
"Gift."
"Delivered."
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