Chapter 200 Squid Project
North America.
East Coast of America.
Jacksonville is located on the border of Florida and Georgia.
The warm sea breeze in summer blows across this coastal city, bringing warm moisture from the North Atlantic.
The nearby Kings Bay is the famous domestic submarine base of the US military, which is also known as the most leisurely resting harbor of the Navy.
At this time, four nuclear submarines, the Florida, the Alaska, the Maryland, and the Wyoming, were anchored in the submarine- .
A large number of sailors use this place as a vacation spot.
The maintenance personnel sent to maintain the submarine were currently inspecting the Florida.
Mark, an engineer who was checking the silencing tiles on the surface of a submarine, was doing it perfunctorily when suddenly he was patted on the shoulder. Startled, Mark looked behind him unhappily.
The tall and strong boss was looking at him with an unhappy face, and then threatened: "Mark, do you want to quit? If there is a problem with the silencer tiles, you will be court-martialed."
"I see..." Mark replied very perfunctorily.
Suddenly his eyes widened.
What?
torpedo?
"Mark! Are you listening?" the boss became even angrier.
But Mark pointed to the sea behind his boss with shaking hands: "Torpedo! There are torpedoes!"
"What? This joke is not funny at all..." The boss was confused.
But Mark, with a terrified expression, immediately pulled his boss down onto the deck.
Boom! A large hole was instantly blown out near the waterline of the Alaska's side not far away, and the violent explosion caused a column of water to soar into the sky.
Mark and his boss, who were more than 200 meters away, were immediately drenched by the sea water.
"What happened? Enemy attack?" The boss got up and looked at the Alaska, which was already tilted slightly, in shock.
Right at this moment.
The base's alarm sounded shrilly.
The sailors in the port were like headless flies, thrown into chaos by the sudden explosion and alarm.
In fact, it is not surprising that the sailors at the Kings Bay base were so lax and at a loss. The main reason is that this is mainland America, and the base has never been attacked since its establishment.
In addition, over the past 30 years, America has been accustomed to bullying the world and never thought that anyone would dare to challenge it.
Mark hurried off the submarine deck.
Other colleagues also ran out from the submarine one after another.
At this moment, the radiation detectors carried by several engineers who were responsible for inspecting the nuclear reactor began to beep frequently.
"Oh my god!"
"What's going on?"
"Could it be that the Alaska's reactor was hit?"
Mark shook his head: "Impossible, I saw that the torpedo did not hit the reactor."
"Stop talking and leave now!"
The maintenance engineers who reacted quickly didn't care about anything else and ran desperately towards the underground shelter inside the base.
Fortunately, there were several responsible engineers who reported to the officer in charge of maintenance work that the radiation level at the explosion site was seriously exceeding the standard before escaping, and asked the other party to quickly prepare anti-radiation measures.
After more than half an hour of chaos, the base finally gradually returned to normal order.
But at this time, the expression on the face of Major General Carnegie, the person in charge of the base, was as if he had eaten several kilograms of flies.
"The nuclear radiation is seriously exceeding the limit? Dozens of sailors are showing signs of radiation sickness? Asshole! Is the reactor damaged?"
However, Lieutenant Colonel Kevin, who was in charge of maintenance work, and Lieutenant Colonel Austin, who was in charge of base security, both shook their heads in unison.
"The reactor was not destroyed? Then where did the nuclear radiation come from? Are you trying to tell me that the Alaska was attacked by a nuclear bomb?" Major General Carnegie asked angrily.
Lieutenant Colonel Kevin replied solemnly, "Yes , Major General, we were attacked by a nuclear bomb! To be precise, it was a dirty bomb. The explosion did not produce a large amount of fission reaction, but contaminated the submarines and ports of the base with radioactive dust."
"..." Major General Carnegie was in a terrible state. After a while, he started to curse: "Fuck! Who did this?"
However, it was of no use how much they cursed.
…
The U.S. military and even the City on the Hill Council behind it all received this emergency notice at the same time.
In the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia.
Hidden inside a low-key large manor, this is one of the four rotation points of the Hilltop City Council.
This spot just took over as the temporary office location of the Council this quarter.
The formation of the four-city rotation system is mainly because the core members of the Hilltop City Council belong to various consortium families. If they are fixed in one place, families and consortiums in other regions will have opinions.
Therefore, we selected a remote small city in the east, south, west and north as the office location for each quarter.
It also means that every quarter, the families and consortiums in the region will become the rotating directors of that season.
The Appalachian Mountains are located in the eastern part of North America, and the directors on duty at this time are from the Wall Street financial consortium.
For example, Li Qingye’s “old friend” Thomas Morgan, whom he has been thinking about, is here at this moment.
"Kings Bay base was attacked by a dirty bomb?" Thomas's expression was very calm, but there was a lot of anger in his eyes: "Is this the safety you always talked about?"
Be it the Black Ship (CIA), the FBI, or the US military generals, they all lowered their heads at this time, not daring to look directly into the sharp gazes of Thomas and others.
Another slightly fat Mediterranean old man put down his cigar and said, "Huh... did you find out who it is?"
"Yes...it's a trefoil!" Jack replied nervously.
"Three Leaf Oaks? Is that the organization that has been causing so much trouble in Latin America recently?" Thomas' eyes flashed with a hint of viciousness and suspicion.
A thin layer of sweat appeared on Jack's forehead. "Yes, they marked the three-leaf oak pattern on the torpedo shell, but it is also possible that other forces deliberately disguised it."
Thomas immediately gave an order: "Continue the investigation! I don't care whether it's made of trefoil or not, but the source of the raw materials for the dirty bomb must be found out."
The other rotating directors also nodded.
In their opinion, the oak in Latin America does not have the ability to refine uranium 235. Even uranium 235 with a concentration of only 0.5 is not something that these underground rats can produce.
In this kind of situation, it is most likely that other major powers or regional bullies are behind it.
The location is in the North Atlantic, so it is most likely the force around the North Atlantic.
This further narrows the scope of the mastermind behind the incident.
Even Jack, a veteran agent who had been dealing with intelligence for his entire life, did not suspect East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia at this time.
After all, the two places are tens of thousands of kilometers apart. Conventional submarines cannot dive for so long, and only a few forces have nuclear submarines.
According to their intelligence, the nuclear submarines of several forces in Southeast Asia all have alibis .
As for other options, such as transporting it by civilian ships and then secretly dropping it near Kings Bay, that is also possible.
However, with this method, as long as we investigate the ship records of recent days, we can basically identify which ships have only passed through the surrounding waters.
Obviously they did not realize that the torpedo had come in underwater on its own, which involves a current technological blind spot.
As a result, the Black Ship investigated in the wrong direction from the very beginning.
With such , the Black Ships devoted almost all of their energy to investigating the matter.
Back in Southeast Asia, Joshua was disguised as a business investigator for a multinational trading company and was heading to the Borneo region of Malaysia.
