Arlington, Washington.
The Pentagon is brightly lit.
An urgent document has just arrived from nasa, the national space agency.
After a preliminary judgment, this document was immediately sent to the office of the Secretary of Defense on the third floor.
"What's the matter?"
Defense chief Leonard Toynbee was awakened in his sleep.
I looked at the time on my watch: two in the morning.
He was in a daze for an instant.
Wake him up at this time, and think with your toes that something extremely urgent must have happened.
Touching his forehead, his mood suddenly became bad.
Russia sent troops to intervene in the Asian-Arab war?
Or did China expose a new heavy weapon?
Leonard Toynbee got dressed and came to the office. Several uniformed field officers have been standing inside waiting.
One of the serious colonel, is carrying a heavy military laptop, see him, then said:
"Defense Minister Toynbee, this is an urgent document from the International Space Station to nasa, and then from nasa."
Leonard Toynbee suddenly wondered: "International Space Station? What urgent documents can they send? "
He still remembers that some time ago, the International Space Station leaked air, and the application for maintenance was not answered, but Russia was preparing to launch a spacecraft.
The colonel didn't answer his question, just put the computer on the table, turned it on and played a video.
Leonard Toynbee was calm at first, but slowly, his face became more and more shocked.
The room was silent.
People who haven't seen it also show incredible eyes.
When I saw the huge body drifting across the space station, in contrast, it was almost a third of the length of the space station, and Toynbee caressed her mouth:
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is unbelievable."
If it weren't in the Ministry of National Defense at the moment, this video was not taught to him by a group of serious school officials, and he almost thought it was the beginning of a science fiction movie.
What does it mean that a huge creature that has never been seen before appears in space?
All the people in the office have the same word floating in their heads:
Extraterrestrial life!
Leonard Toynbee looked at the colonel with a heavy face. "What did nasa say? Is there any detailed information? "
The colonel shook his head: "No."
Smell speech, Leonard Toynbee stood up, walked out of a few steps, and turned his back to the crowd and meditated.
According to the American system, people in the position of Secretary of Defense are actually not soldiers, but more politicians.
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Politicians, on the other hand, will consider gains and losses first.
The monster in space, seemingly motionless, can be called a corpse at first.
Leonard is not a scientist, but he probably knows that extraterrestrial life may carry microbes that people have never seen before.
It's very risky.
After all, an earth-born pneumonia virus has already caused the United States to be overwhelmed and lose its prestige this year, let alone come from space.
But at the same time, it is also an extremely important discovery.
That's extraterrestrial life!
In the vast universe, in the dead space, how many probes have humans launched, trying to find traces of other life in this boundless loneliness.
In the end, they all ended in failure.
But now, in such a wonderful way, he appeared at the door of the earth.
How many mysteries are contained in that body? What kind of life structure is there? Can it bring a breakthrough to American science?
Therefore, while Leonard is dignified, he is almost sighing: This is a gift from God to America!
As for whether that thing might still be alive, and then the threat posed by its force, he did not consider it.
After all, this is the real world, a scientific world, not the comic world where two people restart the timeline willfully when something goes wrong.
No matter how strong a living body is, how strong can it be? Can it withstand the 11 active aircraft carrier formations in the United States?
Really not, you can also go to chemical and biological weapons and tactical nuclear bombs.
Leonard is confident enough about American military power that even if extraterrestrial life is made of pure titanium alloy, the torrent of artillery fire can melt it into molten iron.
But the key now is that this thing can't be known to other countries.
Especially China!
If this corpse contains great opportunities, and then it is obtained by China, then the hegemony of the United States on the earth will really be gone forever.
At the thought of this, Leonard was suddenly surprised and hurried back and asked, "Do other countries know about this?"
He is not the only American on the International Space Station.
There are astronauts from the United States, Russia, Japan and Italy.
Of course the latter two are silent, but Russia ...
The colonel replied, "Yes."
Leonard Toynbee's muscle lines suddenly bulged on his face, and his face sank again. He thought for half a ring and said:
"Take your things and let's go to see the president."
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