Homo sapiens

Time passes unconsciously.

It’s April 7, 2024.

More than a month has passed since the Homo sapiens fleet entered Latin America, and nearly three months have passed since the leak.

At this time, the Chilean Latin America Branch not only formed a huge security force, but also stationed two "commercial escort" fleets.

These two fleets are: the Third Pacific Fleet (also known as the New Granada Fleet) and the First Atlantic Fleet.

Surrounded by two sides, the American Canal States are like the center of a sandwich.

Following the Atlantic First Fleet from Madagascar, there was also a giant rhinoceros canal vessel. Obviously, the Homo sapiens company did not intend to use the canal of the American Canal States, but to dig its own canal.

The canal is located just north of New Granada. There is a low-lying plain in the area. The land distance from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean is only about 140 kilometers.

For a canalizing ship, it only takes about two or three months to create a single-line canal with a width of 550 meters.

And compared with the canals of the American Canal Countries that require ship locks, the New Granada Canal excavated by Homo Sapiens is an artesian seawater canal that does not require ship locks. It will greatly improve the navigation efficiency of the canal and at the same time reduce the number of ships. Maintenance costs.

This is a good thing for commercial shipping companies.

Of course, the premise is that these shipping companies do not commit suicide.

Homo sapiens has always struck hard at companies that dare to make noises.

For example, Amazon Group and Apple were directly blacklisted by Homo sapiens for posting remarks that slandered Homo sapiens, and their products and business activities were directly banned from appearing within Homo sapiens companies.

This directly resulted in the inability of Apple mobile phones to pass through the Suez Canal, the Strait of Malacca and the Kra Canal.

Amazon’s international express delivery has no way to pass through these core waterways and has to take a detour.

Nowadays, many large companies in Europe and the United States have become cautious in their words and deeds, fearing that they will be fooled by the iron fist of Homo sapiens.

These guys are all typical scoundrels. Only by hitting them hard in the face with your fists will they do business in peace.

…

New Granada.

Bogotá, Catalan Palace.

Garfield looked at the briefings reported from various places. He focused on the construction of security forces and the death ray defense system.

Except for the Amazon rainforest area within the Redwood Federation, which does not have the company's formal security force, branches in the other three areas have completed full formalization.

However, Garfield did not relax his vigilance in the Amazon rainforest. Although the agreement with the Redwood Federation did not allow Homo sapiens to station formal security forces, there were no restrictions on private armed forces.

Therefore, he equipped the employees of the Amazon Rainforest Branch with a large number of "personal" weapons, and the weapons and equipment were exactly the same as those of security guards.

As for the opinions of the Redwood Federation, Garfield simply ignored them. Weak people were not qualified to have opinions.

There was a sound of footsteps outside the office.

The assistant walked in: "Mr. Manager, Mang Lie, Director of the Latin America Department of the External Security Division, has requested to meet with you."

"Where are the others?"

"Just in the waiting room."

"Bring him here."

"yes."

After a while, Mang Lie appeared in front of him.

Garfield put down the tablet and asked, "Is there an emergency?"

"The Second Aerospace Fleet of the Feathered Serpent Corps has been formed, and the headquarters plans to deploy the Second Aerospace Fleet in the Latin America Branch." Mang Lie reported to him.

"Aerospace Fleet? Has it been completed?"

"Yes, we have currently built a total of 5 Quetzalcoatl-class aerospace carriers, and 24 Wing Loong-class aerospace frigates. Among them, the First Aerospace Fleet will be stationed at the Southeast Asia headquarters, and the Third Aerospace Fleet will be stationed in the North Africa region. .”

Garfield has no opinion on strengthening the security capabilities of the Latin American region: "When will it be in place?"

"In about 60 hours, the Third Aerospace Fleet will arrive on the west coast of New Granada."

"I understand, is there anything else?"

Mang Lie hurriedly said: "In addition, 37% of the underground bases we previously hidden in the New Granada Mountains have been integrated. Currently, using the facilities of these bases, we have initially achieved self-sufficiency in ammunition and light weapons."

"Produce more small arms and they will be needed soon."

Mang Lie nodded: "I will ask the logistics department to step up production."

Garfield asked again: "By the way, are those channels ready?"

"Get ready. In addition to the paths on the surface, there are also some temporarily dug underground tunnels."

"That's good."

…

at the same time.

East Irian Island in the Western Pacific Region.

There is a military airship production base under the Foreign Security Division.

Many factories here used to be hidden inside the mountains.

However, those large assembly plants and a dozen medium-sized assembly plants cannot be hidden in the mountain. After all, they are too big.

The roofs of three large assembly plants slowly opened, revealing the behemoths inside.

Compared with the previous transport airships, the airships produced here are larger in size. As a space carrier, the Feathered Serpent-class has reached a volume of 4.2 billion cubic meters after many adjustments. At the bottom of the stratosphere, it has a total weight of about 80,000 tons. buoyancy.

The cabin of flagship Quetzalcoatl No. 003.

Cabo Garcia, commander of the air and space fleet, ordered: "Start taking off, all departments are in their positions!"

"Received, start the vacuum system..."

As the air inside each carbon ball decreased rapidly, the space carrier slowly left the dock and then floated up into the sky.

The outer shell of the airship is covered with a layer of matte modified plastic film, and the bottom is filled with a layer of composite aerogel foam with a thickness of 1.5 meters. This thing is flame retardant and can also withstand warheads with a caliber of less than 30 mm.

More importantly, this kind of foam armor is very easy to repair and does not require welding or the like.

This Feathered Serpent-class space carrier is roughly similar to a transport ship, with six death-ray cannons embedded on both sides of the bottom.

On the upper deck, there are also 18 death ray cannons.

The length of the three flight decks is 500 meters. It is not that it cannot be lengthened, but it is not necessary.

After all, the speed of the airship itself can reach 200 to 300 kilometers per hour, and with an altitude of 20,000 meters in the stratosphere, it is very easy for the plane to take off.

If it weren't for the purpose of matching the Flying Sable aerospace transport aircraft, a 200-meter runway would actually be enough.

Quetzalcoatl-class space carrier.

It has a full load of 72,000 tons, a total buoyancy of 81,000 tons, a dry body weight of 28,000 tons, and a payload of 44,000 tons.

Powered by three improved thorium-based molten salt reactors with a total power of 600 megawatts; another 30 death ray cannons can also provide part of the power.

The maximum speed at full load is 500 kilometers per hour, and the cruising speed is 240 to 300 kilometers per hour.

The weapons and equipment include 30 death ray cannons, 30 Phalanx cannons, 600 loitering missiles, 100 cruise missiles, and 20 medium-range ballistic missiles.

There are 60 specially-built Eagle fighter jets, 4 Jinpeng transport aircraft, and 2 to 4 Flying Sable aerospace transport aircraft.

In addition to the 1,753 soldiers it needs, it can also carry an additional 2,000 Quetzalcoatl suborbital airborne troops.

The Quetzalcoatl 003, which was already fully loaded with supplies, joined another Quetzalcoatl 004, plus 8 auxiliary Pterosaur-class air and space frigates.

Of course, these aerospace frigates are not entirely combat-type. Two of them also serve as supply ships and two of them also serve as landing ships.

Cavo looked at the holographic map and picked up the intercom: "Each ship will implement Plan C."

"receive……"

The 10 air and space warships quickly adjusted their positions.

Four of the frigates and the mothership are at the same flying altitude, located exactly at the four corners, and the distance is maintained between 28 and 30 kilometers.

The other four frigates are located in a height area of ​​about 15,000 meters below the mother ship, also at the four corners 28 to 30 kilometers away.

The purpose of this arrangement is actually to defend against attacks from the ground.

Since the flying altitude of the aerospace fleet is between 15,000 meters and 30,000 meters, usually only a small number of fighters can fly to this altitude.

There is no way for ordinary missiles to break through the frigate's death ray defense system.

Unless a saturation strike is used, it is possible to break through the frigate's defense system.

However, it is very difficult to implement a saturation strike. After all, the aerospace fleet is not a fool and will certainly not give the enemy time to plan.

Cruise missiles and loitering missiles on frigates and motherships are not just decorations.

Moreover, while standing high, the death ray cannon can hit the sea and plains within 500 kilometers, and targets in the air cannot get close to the air and space fleet for 1,500 kilometers.

Facing this iron-barrel-like defense system, currently none of the major forces in the world have the ability to break through.

Cavo saw through the magnetic field radar that the ships had arrived at the designated position, so he picked up the intercom and said: "Everyone is heading towards New Granada at full speed."

"receive."

These airships all use electric propellers as the main propulsion method, and the auxiliary jet engines are only used as auxiliary power for emergency acceleration and maneuvering.

After all, the airship is powered by a nuclear reactor and uses a two-stage composite thermoelectric conversion system, so the power is very sufficient.

Therefore, using electric propellers is the way to go. If a jet engine is used, tens of thousands of tons of fuel alone will be used, which will seriously squeeze the payload of the airship.

The aerospace fleet flew towards New Granada, 15,000 kilometers away, at a cruising speed of 250 kilometers per hour, and is expected to arrive on the west coast of New Granada in 60 hours.

…

Northeastern kangaroo country.

Cape York Air Force Base.

This is the mechanism of the US military using the Free Association. They jointly established an air force base here, which is currently affiliated with the Free Association and is numbered A-06 Base.

At this time, the long-wave radar at the Cape York Air Force Base had detected the appearance of UFOs over the island of New Guinea.

Major General Rhodes, the base commander, hurried to the radar monitoring room.

"Is the target still over East Irian Island?"

Smith, the person in charge of the radar monitoring room, quickly replied: "They are moving. They are moving eastward at a speed of 250 kilometers per hour."

"Can I adjust the satellite to check?"

Smith looked at the trajectory of the satellite: "In about 12 minutes, a keyhole satellite will pass over the Western Pacific."

The current US military has long lost its previous calmness. After being killed by dozens of professional satellites by Homo sapiens, spy satellites in low-Earth orbit are now stretched thin.

Despite the emergency replenishment of 12 keyhole satellites through the Space Exploration Corporation, the monitoring power in low-Earth orbit has still not returned to its peak.

12 minutes later.

The keyhole satellite finally moved over the Western Pacific, and Smith quickly aimed the camera at the area where the UFO was found.

Soon they saw the true face of the UFO in Lushan.

"Airship?" Chief of Staff Allen, who had just come over, murmured subconsciously.

However, Smith, who was staring closely at the picture, had a hint of shock on his face: "3.3 kilometers long? Is this really an airship?"

After Allen came back to his senses, he paid more attention to the deck of the airship in the picture. At first, he thought it was a solar panel. It was not until he saw a dozen fighter jets parked on it that he realized it was the flight deck.

He swallowed his throat: "Gulu... Is this an aerospace aircraft carrier?"

Major General Rhodes frowned, his expression became more serious: "It seems that this is the new equipment launched by Homo sapiens company?"

They actually knew before that the Homo sapiens company built many airships.

After all, hundreds of sperm whale-class transport airships have been produced, plus dozens of communication airships. These things are flying around in the sky. America's intelligence agency is not blind and must have collected some information.

However, according to their previous intelligence, those airships were not used in the military field, and their size was not so exaggerated.

Allen saw the two people's expressions becoming solemn, but he smiled and said: "Major General Rhodes, this big airship is a target. It can be shot down with any missile. There is no need to worry too much."

Rhodes looked confused, as if he was looking at a fool, and thought to himself: 'You country bumpkins are really arrogant, and you are the chief of staff, and you don't even know that Homo sapiens have gamma ray weapons. ’

"Ahem... Colonel Allen, have you read the relevant evaluation report of Homo Sapiens Company?"

Allen was confused: "What report?"

Shet! Rhodes has made up his mind that after a while, he must find a way to get this guy to go back to Canberra to train new recruits.

He suppressed his anger: "It's the document sent from the Pentagon last week."

"Uh... I'm sorry, I just came back from vacation yesterday and didn't have time to watch it yet." Allen scratched his head in embarrassment.

Fake squid! With these stupid pigs, can America really defeat the Homo sapiens corporation? Rhodes could not help but feel a sense of frustration.

Smith on the side was also speechless. He explained helplessly: "Homo Sapien Company has a gamma ray weapon that can intercept aircraft missiles and even destroy satellites in low-Earth orbit."

"Oh my god... they actually have this kind of weapon. It's really scary." Allen was very shocked.

In fact, this is why the Pentagon blocked the news that satellites were destroyed, using solar storms as an excuse to say that some satellites were hit by solar storms.

After all, this kind of thing is a shame for America.

If it were announced, it would be a serious blow to the morale of the Free Association.

Therefore, Allen, the chief of staff who had just been transferred from the Australian Army, did not know about gamma rays.

After listening to Smith's explanation, Allen was very surprised.

After Homo sapiens acquired gamma ray weapons, the US military had to re-evaluate the combat effectiveness of Homo sapiens.

This is also the reason why Major General Rhodes has such a solemn expression, because their missiles and fighter planes have no way to get close to these airships.

He quickly reported the incident to the Pentagon.

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