Chapter 272: Chasing and Intercepting (I)
At the same time, in the integrated command and operations room of a special base far away in District 15 of Eagle Country, a white man with a stern face, wearing a gray-brown combat uniform and a traditional patrol cap, was listening to the reports of his subordinates around him.
Although this white man is dressed very casually and his combat uniform is similar to that of other members in the operations room, the military rank insignia on his collar symbolizes his extremely special identity.
"Sir, the cause of the loss of Starlink and GPS signals has been found."
"According to the latest news from the space agency, just ten minutes ago, the Earth's atmosphere was subjected to strong electromagnetic radiation interference. It was initially determined to be caused by a solar flash."
"Here are the report materials!" The black subordinate respectfully handed a handheld tablet to the white officer.
The white officer flipped through the information above and frowned slightly: "Is it interference from solar activity? Electronic things are indeed unreliable. If this happens during wartime, the break in the information chain will affect the entire combat plan."
"Since it is not electromagnetic interference from the enemy, let the soldiers stay away and wait for 10 minutes to lift the first-level alarm."
After signing his name and fingerprint authorization on this piece of information, the white officer walked to the several large screens in the operations room and took a look around.
At this moment, a nervous white woman rushed in from outside the operations room. Judging from the epaulettes on her shoulders, she should be the intelligence chief of staff of this base: "Bonnet, there is an emergency!"
"Two minutes ago, the Black Palace received a request for assistance from the Flower Planting Family. One of their space return capsules was derailed and is making an emergency landing in our District 15."
"This return capsule carries one astronaut, and the estimated emergency landing time is 44 minutes later."
The white officer named Bonat's face suddenly changed when he heard this: "What??? Jenny, are you sure you are not joking? The space capsule of the Flower Planting Family is going to land in the area under the responsibility of our base?"
"Bernat, this is really not a joke. When I first received the news, I couldn't believe it just like you."
"The impact of the strong electromagnetic interference in space just now is very large, and a large area of signal loss has occurred in the northern hemisphere. Not only our country's Starlink has been affected, but satellites and spacecraft of various countries have also suffered varying degrees of damage."
"This return capsule accidentally derailed and fell on top of us."
"Also, according to the data sent back by the space agency, the people on board this return capsule are not ordinary astronauts, but returnees from their second home. The Black Palace hopes that we can control the people inside as soon as possible and extract as much useful information as possible from them."
"This is the relevant information sent by the space agency. It has roughly predicted the landing coordinates of this unlucky guy." Jenny said as she marked a red area on the three-dimensional combat map in the operations room.
"Second home?"
"Is it the top-secret moon landing project?"
"This is truly a great gift from heaven! The guys in the base just happen to be free..."
"I hope that the yellow-skinned astronaut can understand English. There is no translator in our base." Bonat's pupils shrank when he heard this, and then a very playful smile appeared on his face.
The female staff officer at the side rolled her eyes in annoyance and said, "The interrogation room has already requested to dispatch a language expert. May God bless this unfortunate fellow to land successfully."
"Bonnet, you know that things from the Flower Planting House are often not very reliable, just like this uncontrolled return capsule."
"Jenny! You're so funny!"
"But you are right. In the field of space technology, our Eagle Country is half a century ahead of them."
Seeing that the female staff officer's words were pointed, the white officer also burst into laughter.
After taking a look at the circled area and pondering for a few seconds, the white officer immediately began giving orders to the operations room.
Soon a yellow alarm sounded throughout the entire Area 15 base, and everyone in the base began to mobilize.
More than a dozen armored vehicles loaded with personnel came out one after another, and several Black Hawk general-purpose helicopters began to take off.
In addition, this team also has a group of special personnel wearing protective isolation suits following them, so that the impact of outer space radiation is taken into account.
…
In low-Earth orbit thousands of kilometers above the ground, Chen Jue was frantically fiddling with the control panel in front of him.
Seeing that all the electronic equipment had failed, he was so angry that he yelled a few words in this small cabin: "Fuck!"
Due to the awakening of [Manas], a state that can enhance spatial perception, Chen Jue can clearly feel that the return capsule is constantly descending.
Seeing that he was unable to communicate with the ground base, Chen Jue simply prepared for an emergency landing.
Fortunately, this kind of emergency was taken into consideration when the return capsule was designed.
There is a spare mechanical start switch on one side of the control panel, which can force open the landing reverse thrust engine and parachute of the return capsule.
With the addition of the mechanical altimeter, Chen Jue could make an emergency landing manually even without the help of a computer program.
These had been rehearsed before the moon landing, but I didn't expect that they would come in handy in unexpected ways after such a long time.
…
The return capsule that Chen Jue was on began to force its way into the atmosphere after deorbiting and sinking .
The protective layer outside the cabin was scorched red by the high temperature generated by the friction of the air. Chen Jue, who was sitting in the cabin, first felt an abnormally high temperature and the vibration of the cabin.
Because the computer board was burned out, the air conditioning system of the return capsule had stopped working long ago. Fortunately, Chen Jue had a strong physique and could withstand the high temperature of 70 or 80 degrees.
If it were an ordinary astronaut, he would probably die in a short while.
"100,000 meters"
"Ninety thousand meters"
"Thirty thousand meters" Ignoring the environmental changes inside and outside the cabin, Chen Jue continued to observe the fluctuations in the distance from the ground on the altimeter.
When he was less than a kilometer from the ground, he reached out and activated the mechanical switch.
A huge reverse thrust formed from below, coupled with the opened parachute, Chen Jue could feel that his falling speed was rapidly decreasing.
When the cabin made an emergency landing on the hard ground with a thud, Chen Jue's heart finally relaxed.
"Fortunately, it didn't fall into the sea."
"As long as it's land, everything will be fine." Chen Jue said to himself. He reached out to open the cabin door, walked out of the cabin carrying the bloated space suit, and came to the surface of the earth after a long absence.
Standing on the solid ground, Chen Jue was filled with emotion. It was like a wanderer who had been away from home for many years and suddenly returned to his mother's arms.
Chen Jue felt that his whole body had become much more relaxed: "It still feels better to be back on Earth!"
As soon as he took off the helmet of his space suit, Chen Jue was stunned when he looked at the brown wasteland around him, secretly wondering where this place was.
Then, he saw a number of armored vehicles full of personnel rushing over from a distance with smoke and dust billowing. In addition, there were three black armed helicopters approaching in the distant sky, making the sound of propellers.
With the enhanced vision of [Clairvoyance], Chen Jue could clearly see the paint on the helicopter and the black and white armed personnel on the armored vehicle.
“What the hell???”
"What the hell kind of place have I landed in?" Chen Jue was suddenly shocked, and his originally relaxed mood suddenly dropped.
At this time, a loud speaker erected on an armored vehicle in the distance was playing a string of poorly translated Mandarin: "Astronauts from the Flower Country, please raise your hands immediately! You have now entered the Eagle Country's jurisdiction, please raise your hands immediately and give up resistance to avoid causing unnecessary harm."
“…”
Chen Jue listened to the broadcast, his face twitched, and various thoughts flashed through his mind.
There was no time to think about it, as he suddenly shrank his body, as if he had performed the skill of shrinking bones, and quickly pulled himself out of the bloated space suit like a loach.
Before the armored vehicles surrounded him, Chen Jue opened the folding wings behind him, stomped his feet on the ground, and flew into the air like a cannonball.
After adapting to the extremely high gravity environment on an alien planet for several months, Chen Jue felt that his body had become a lot lighter when he returned to Earth.
With this full-strength jump, he instantly flew to a vertical height of nearly 150 meters off the ground, like a rocket taking off.
When he jumped high into the air, he flapped his arms and turned in the opposite direction like a soaring bird of prey.
The Eagle soldiers who were sitting in the armored vehicles, holding guns and wearing radio equipment, all opened their eyes and mouths wide when they saw Chen Jue's sudden flying action, looking as if they had seen a ghost: "OMG! Did I see God?"
"What the hell is that flower-growing family member wearing?"
"WTF! Did I see Iron Man or Falcon?"
All the soldiers in the carriage looked confused, because they had never seen aerospace combat uniforms like the one Chen Jue was wearing.
Only one elite non-commissioned officer who seemed to be somewhat calm spoke up and warned, "FK! Quick! Speed up and catch up! The target person is trying to escape! Intercept him!"
"Calling the operations room, the target person is suspected to be wearing high-tech flying equipment and has already escaped into the air! Requesting an emergency attack order!" The elite non-commissioned officer hurriedly reported into the microphone next to his ear.
In the combat command room dozens of kilometers away, the situation was in chaos at this moment, because the entire round-up scene was being broadcast live by the base.
The moment he saw Chen Jue flying into the air, Bonat, who was joking with the female staff officer beside him while holding a cup of coffee, suddenly turned pale. He didn't even care about the coffee. He smashed the cup to the ground with a click, grabbed the headset on the head of a communicator and shouted, "Cancel the capture order. The whole team is allowed to attack freely!"
"Since we're in Area 15, we can't let him fly away even if he's a bird!"
After obtaining permission from their superiors, the mission of capturing the enemy alive, which originally seemed a sure thing to these soldiers, began to turn into an annihilation operation.
The anti-aircraft machine guns on more than a dozen armored vehicles began to emit intensive gunfire, and the interweaving bullets formed a long firepower network in the sky.
The three Black Hawk helicopters hovering overhead opened fire at the same time. Several onboard machine guns roared, and a large number of bullets poured towards the black figure in the distance.
What all the Eagle Country soldiers present did not expect was that after the black figure flew into the air, a stream of red-gold jet air suddenly appeared at its tail without any warning.
The next second, the black figure was seen, with the help of this red-gold airflow, exploding from his entire body, causing a visible white shock wave.
That's the sound barrier caused by breaking the speed of sound!
The roaring sound was like a thunder exploding from the sky!
You should know that the initial velocity of the chain gun used by the armed helicopter is about 792 meters per second, while the initial velocity of the bullet of the anti-aircraft machine is 1250 meters per second.
However, when Chen Jue was on the alien planet, he was subjected to 1.52 times the gravity and reached a flying speed of nearly Mach 2.
Now his strength has risen again, the amount of internal energy reserves in his body has increased greatly, and the influence of gravity has decreased after returning to the earth. His explosive flying speed has directly exceeded Mach 4!
All the bullets that flew towards him, whether they were from the anti-aircraft machine guns of armored vehicles or the machine guns of helicopters, did not even hit a hair on his body, but were left far behind by Chen Jue.
The Eagle Country soldiers who were aiming at Chen Jue and pulling the triggers could not help but widen their eyes at this moment, with a look of disbelief on their faces: "Report... Report to the commander, our bullets... can't catch up with the enemy!"
