DC New Krypton.

Chapter 62 The Dark Sky Will Shroud the Sun

The Pentagon is located in the town of Arlington on the Potomac River near Washington, USA, and is the seat of the US Department of Defense.Overlooking from the air, the building is a regular pentagon, hence the name "Pentagon".

The building covers an area of ​​29 acres. The building is 22 meters high and has 5 floors. The total construction area is 60 square meters, and the usable area is about 8 square meters, which can accommodate 34 people.There is a large parking lot on the north and south sides of the building, which can park 4 cars at the same time.

There are banks, post offices, bookstores, clinics, telegraph offices and various shops in the lobby on the first floor of the building.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff, known as the "soul of the Ministry of National Defense", is on the second floor. The office building on this floor is covered with golden carpets, known as the "Golden Hall".

The Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Department of the Army are on the third floor.

The fourth floor is the Ministry of the Navy.

The fifth floor is the Ministry of Air Force.

In a corner of the fifth floor, there is also the "Space Surface Surveillance and Safety Information Department" that was split from the space agency. Its main function is to gather a variety of surveillance, spy, and commercial satellites, intercept communications, and update the intelligence of various countries in a timely manner. Carry out all-weather and inexhaustible protection of all countries on the earth.

Sudden.

A red warning sounded from space to the surface surveillance security information department.

A door away from the lobby of the command room, Harold, who is in the office to approve the next satellite to focus on monitoring the country, has strong muscles under a close-fitting suit, thick arms, straight waist, and a square-shaved face. Even after two years from the Air Force fighter unit to the civilian job, he still retains his strong military style.

With a love for the country and a sense of mission, responsibility, and justice, he took the important position of deputy minister at the age of 37.

With a jerk, he stood up from his comfortable seat with a stern face and eyes flashing with surprise.

"Minister, red warning!" A secretary hurried over and reported nervously.

The surveillance of space to the surface by the Security Information Department to the countries on the surface of the surface is roughly divided into five levels.

They are classified according to Mach.

The lowest level is Mach [-] flying objects flying in the airspace of various countries. Only a few countries on the surface have fighter jets flying at Mach [-].

The second level is a Mach [-] flying object. This level is only available to a few military powers that focus on the surface.

As for the Mach [-] flying objects of the third level, only Harold is proud of and loves his own country. Every concealed takeoff test makes Harold feel proud when he monitors it.

The fourth-level alarm has never sounded, and many information engineers in the Space and Ground Information Department believe that this is just an alarm that will sound honor for their country in the future.

As for the highest fifth-level alarm, the previous head of the space-to-surface security information department once jokingly said: This level will only sound when aliens appear.

At this moment, Harold's mind flashed through the words of the old guy with a vegetarian meal before he left.

The flashing thought disappeared in the next moment, Harold stepped out of the office vigorously with a stern face, and came to the lobby of the Information Department with multiple screens lined up on the wall.

"How is that possible?"

"What exactly is this?"

"Oh my God!!"

"Is he... a human?"

"Have aliens come?"

"This is impossible."

"There is nothing flying over Mach 50 on Earth!"

Suspicious and terrified voices kept rising in the lobby of the Information Department.

"What happened!"

Harold's stern voice, with clanging will, loudly suppressed the panic of the group of information engineers, inexplicably calming down the hearts of the information engineers who were about to riot.

"Minister, 15 seconds ago, a black shadow appeared in the stratosphere above Switzerland, 50 kilometers above the ground, and began to parade over Switzerland at a speed of over Mach 300. While we were speaking, the black shadow had already entered the sky over France. , is patrolling." An engineer quickly reported.

Harold's stern Chinese face became stricter, and he looked at the screen on the wall. On the fixed screen that reflected the surface of France from the height, a black shadow appeared, crossed the screen, and patrolled the sky over France. .

With its fast speed, it only takes a few seconds to complete the parade over France.

How could this speed be only Mach 300!

"My God! The monitoring satellite uses the distance and time of the black shadow, the high-resolution dynamic limb detector, the emission spectrometer, and calculates that the black shadow has a speed of Mach 1000!" A female information engineer screamed, inserting her hands into the light In the blond hair, staring at the dull eyes that couldn't believe it, he suspected that he was in a dream.

"sure?"

Harold's heart of steel, which he had experienced in the most severe battlefield, couldn't help trembling fiercely, and asked.

The equatorial radius of the earth is 6378.137 kilometers, the polar radius is 6356.752 kilometers, the average radius is about 6371 kilometers, and the equatorial circumference is about 40076 kilometers.

Around the earth is about 4 kilometers.

It takes only about 1000 seconds to go around the earth at a speed of Mach 340, 117.6 kilometers per second.

In less than 2 minutes, the black shadow parading in the sky is enough to circle the earth.

If Sombra were a creature, he would run rampant on Earth.

If the shadow is an alien creation, then the earth will face the most severe test of civilization.

"Definitely! Using high-resolution imaging spectral radiation, multi-angle imaging spectroradiometer, space-borne thermal emission and reflection radiator, atmospheric infrared detector, it has been calculated several times, and it is still being calculated. I hope there is a mistake!" Ling Yi There was dense sweat on his forehead, and his breathing was slightly short of breath. He heaved his heart and answered quickly.

"Release his route and trajectory map!" Harold suppressed his frightened guess, and stared at the screen tightly.

When the black shadow's route trajectory map appears on the screen, it can be clearly seen that every time the black shadow turns back, it does not exceed the place of human habitation.

He could go straight out of the ocean, but didn't, only turning back on land.

From Switzerland to France, the United Kingdom, Spain... There is no missing track route, and even the track of this sonic boom cloud track can be found in the stratosphere.

Where there are people, there are dark shadows passing through the stratosphere of the sky.

Sombra is scouting, measuring the human territory.

Harold's heart twitched violently.

"It has completed patrolling over Switzerland, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Poland, and Italy. He is conscious, and he is patrolling, scouting the territories of various countries, the territories of humans!"

"Is it karma? Is it karma? He's doing what we do!"

The entire hall of the Ministry of Information was plunged into a major earthquake, trembling with horror.

An engineer backed away with trembling steps, bumped into a colleague who was stunned and shocked, and the two of them rolled together, very embarrassed.

They can only watch the black shadows patrolling, patrolling, monitoring, recording, and the borders of various countries.

Until he started to cross Canada, some programmers were crying and trembling their lips:

"He crossed Canada and came to... our country..."

The land area of ​​the United States is 930 million square kilometers, with a span of 4500 kilometers from east to west. It only takes 1000 seconds to fly over the United States at a speed of Mach 13, from east to west, across the sky of the United States.

13 seconds.

Harold turned around and left the hall of the Ministry of Information. For 13 seconds, it seemed like the sword of Damocles was hanging above his head. He didn't know how the earth could prevent such a flexible shadow with a speed of Mach 1000 from patrolling the countries.

Maybe the countries have been inspected and have not yet reacted. There was a black shadow crossing the sky of their own country.

The country that makes him proud, proud, and honored does not have the weapons to contain a shadow that exceeds Mach 1000.

The tie of the suit made it difficult for Harold to breathe. He gasped for breath and pulled off the tie. His usually unwavering pupils and will were trembling.

At the beginning, he was just striding and walking quickly in the corridor, and 13 seconds was like a curse, urging him to move forward. He ran straight away, knocked down a beautiful civilian lady, and didn't care about apologizing. He exhausted his life's strength, He ran down the stairs and arrived at the office of the Minister of Defense on the third floor. He rushed in without knocking on the door.

Fortunately, the Minister of Defense did not conduct any confidential matters, but he still frowned at Harold's rudeness, and Harold's anxious expression made the Minister of Defense suppress his dissatisfaction.

"Harold, is there anything so important that you can't even knock on the door?" Minister of Defense Singer stared at him and asked.

Harold gasped, looked directly at the Minister of Defense, and said sternly: "Yes. A black shadow appeared in Switzerland, and was regularly patrolling the territory of various countries at a speed of Mach 1000. He passed through Switzerland, France, the United Kingdom, and Spain. , Poland, Italy... through Canada, and while I'm talking to you, he's 50 kilometers above the country, in the stratosphere."

"???"

Defense Minister Singh's head flashed a question mark: "Are you kidding me? Mach 1000?"

"No. We need to inform the president, prepare the armament, prepare for a civilized battle."

Harold's serious, serious, and stern expression made Defense Minister Singer aware of the seriousness of the situation.

He stared deeply at Harold, and quickly picked up the encrypted satellite phone, before he could speak.

At this time, 13 seconds had just passed.

Singer put down the satellite phone, with a tolerant smile on his face: "All of this is his will. The laser engraving and mass nanotechnology bestowed by him has already started construction around the world. After completing the order, the rest is my responsibility." Waiting for the vitality. What we should do is not to prepare armaments and face the war. It is to dig out the underground city that allows the people of the country to survive.”

"A dark sky covers the sun, and the earth is about to usher in the coldest period."

"Harold, starting today, disband the space-to-surface security information department, and you are about to go to the Hoover Dam to assist Dr. Hale in handling any matters."

(End of this chapter)