Chapter 2 one

"Will Shanghai also sink?" "It's hard to say, prepare yourself." "Prepare?" "Stock up on bottled water and bread." When the general said this, he was standing in front of the French window and looking outside.The sky in the distance is hazy, and gray-black clouds are rolling on the sky, like a tidal wave.Visually, the height of the cloud layer is only about two kilometers. There are no cirrus clouds that are so close to the ground in the world.The clouds moved very fast, and when they approached us, the surroundings quickly dimmed, and the street lights on West Nanjing Road flickered a few times and turned on one after another.The cloud covered our heads, and what was weird was that it seemed to have encountered some obstacles, split into two and then quickly merged. The whole cloud swept over us in such a turbulent way, leaving only the center of Tianxin. A huge circular cavity was opened, and the sun was shining from the cavity like a holy light.

I looked down at the monitor on the general's desk, and it was the result of the model calculation: the height of the cloud layer was about 1,700 meters, and at an altitude of 1,500 meters, it encountered a bubble defense interface, which covered the entire Shanghai, like an upside down pot. "It's the dust after New Delhi was bombed by the light flow. It took 72 hours to be blown here by the wind. After the dust cloud passed, there was also a rain cloud formed by the condensation of water vapor from tiny particles. The weather will clear up after two days. The dust enters the air above the sea to the east, and when it collides with the moist air current, it will form gray rain, and the fish there will suffer.” The general said very academically, like an old man in my "Principles of Atmospheric Science" class.

There was silence again, and the air was filled with the clatter of old-fashioned turbines.The central air conditioner in this building is not working very well. Not only is it loud, but the cold wind also has bursts of humidity, which makes people very uncomfortable. "If you want to sink a city into the ground, bottled water and bread can withstand it?" I don't like the dead and dead atmosphere, so I want to pick up the original topic. "Even if the Lu Shen plan is adopted, there will be supporting rescue measures. 18 million people will not die so easily. Report to me, and you can get out." The general gave me a very informal military salute.

I know the old man is in a bad mood right now, there's no need to stroke his tiger beard.So I put the document bag on his desktop, on which was written "New Delhi Bubble Defense Rupture Technical Analysis Report", and a red seal of "Top Secret" was printed on the seal. The moment I exited the office and closed the door, I heard the prelude to "Superstar", and the song of the girl group came from the general's pocket.I'm just too gossip, I turned my head blankly, and saw the general open his Samsung slider phone, and rolled his eyes at me without expression.

In fact, I was also in a hurry, and when I went out, I ran as fast as I could. The entire office building is filled with officers in uniform, their epaulets displaying various ranks from captain to colonel.And now I am the most conspicuous.Everyone in the huge circular office looked at this boy in the uniform of a reserve lieutenant with strange eyes, probably not understanding why such a person would appear in the hall of the defense headquarters and run so arrogantly. After rushing out of CITIC Plaza, I stood on the empty Nanjing West Road.I still remember that when I first came to Shanghai, I liked to stroll along this road on a sunny afternoon, watching the beautiful women in fashionable clothes come and go.But now those street lights are dark and cold, and there is no wind, but it makes people feel that the heat on their bodies evaporates in an instant.Wrapped in a standard windbreaker, the young officer stood erect at the door of the building by tightening the collar of the windbreaker to keep out the cold.Their eyes are stern, and they have gendarme markings on their cuffs.

Opposite is the Westgate Square, a huge Mickey Mouse light box is slowly rotating, and there is the faint sound of "Happy New Year" music, which reminds me that today is the Lantern Festival of the Year of the Rat.Westgate Plaza is still running its Spring Festival discount hypermarket, which should be a trick for the publicity department of the city government to reassure people.But it's too clumsy, who still has the mind to visit Burberry and Givenchy at this time? The Mickey Mouse light box spins, and the mall entrance is empty. Both New York and London have sunk, New Delhi's bubble defenses have been defeated, and there is no tile left under the bombardment of light flow.Whether it will be Shanghai's next turn, no one knows.At the beginning of the war, New York's fortifications and preparations were the most adequate. At one time, it took the initiative to attack and wiped out as many as three digits of predators.But in the blink of an eye, news came that New York had launched the land sinking plan, which caused seawater intrusion and caused heavy losses.

The time is now February 15, 2008, and the war has been going on for a whole year. The captain of the gendarmerie next to me gave me a cold look. I felt that my vest was a little cold, and I was just about to show him my ID, but he waved at me, motioning me to get out of the way.I followed his gaze to the sky, and in the hazy clouds, a huge thing hovered faintly inside.It is about 1500 meters away from us, which is its limit.It is impossible to break through the bubble defense interface, but it is extremely approaching.In the turbulent and flowing dust cloud, it was also trembling constantly, and its long tentacles swayed violently, reminiscent of the demon inside.When I was a child, I always fantasized about these monsters coming from the clouds. The men wore leather jackets full of punk nails, and the women wore leather boots and Lolita dresses, roaring in the wind and sucking up the clouds.

It suddenly opened its eyes! In just a split second, the twelve eyes arranged radially opened at the same time, and they looked at us for a short while separated by more than one kilometer.Those eyes are green, like cat pupils, without whites, but in the shape of human eyes.My back was numb, and the numbness rushed straight from the tailbone to the back of the head.After all, the military police were different. He pressed the handle of the gun at his waist, took a step forward, and stared at the thing closely. Sometimes I really don't understand these soldiers. I don't know what is supporting their will-a weapon that uses chemical power to push metal projectiles?But the captain standing in front of me made me feel safe out of thin air.The thing closed its eyes, and the process of opening them was more like a shutter flash, and then it waved its tentacles lightly, disappearing in the swiftly moving dust cloud.

That is the Predator, but it should be a reconnaissance type. It should have captured the ground data including me the moment it opened its eyes, and now it has to go back and transmit it to the secondary mothership. "Damn it!" I breathed a sigh of relief, "How big are the eyes? Just come out and scare people." "Probably the size of a football field." The young gendarmerie captain smiled, "The big-eyed thief." When he smiled, all the austerity was swept away, and he was a little childish, he should be about my age.I took Zhongnanhai from the big pig out of my pocket and handed it to him.

He waved his hand: "Stand guard."