From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 624 The east wind blows flowers and thousands of trees on a night

Mr. James, an "ordinary citizen" living in the federal capital, is one of the "lucky ones" who has the honor of witnessing the entire process of the federal navy garrison fleet launching orbital airdrops and strikes on the areas surrounding the capital.

As the CEO of a company, on the day when Congress launched the impeachment vote against the "Iron Triangle", he was sitting in the skylight office on the top floor of his company's headquarters building, reviewing the company's financial reports.

Although he had already known through his own channels that members of the two parties were going to impeach the current federal president, defense secretary and others, in his opinion, no matter what the final result was, the impact on his company would not be as great as he had imagined.

Anyway, it doesn't matter who you give your political donations to. Will a new ruler stop accepting your money?
At least in the current Federation, James doesn't think there will be such a person.
So instead of paying attention to these "insignificant" things, it is better to pay more attention to the recent news of the Atlas Group's massive expansion in the Federation.

God knows if this greedy company will come to buy out the assets under his company's name one day.
But that afternoon, James, who was "obsessed with financial reports," discovered that the situation of this "political struggle" might have exceeded his expectations, and after President Brandon issued a martial law order, it began to move towards a "military coup."

Considering that the capital city might be engulfed in war if not carefully watched, causing the transportation, network and people's livelihood facilities to be paralyzed, James thought for a moment and finally decided to let the headquarters employees not leave work from today, stay in the headquarters building at night and not go home for the time being.

This is to avoid delays in work due to failure to arrive at the company on time. After all, this is the headquarters building, which is the heart of the entire company and no problems can occur.

Although employees can work from home, what if the public network communication is interrupted? Therefore, it is safer to use the "dedicated line" customized by Atlas Communications in the company~
However, the war in the capital came faster than he had imagined. As soon as the order was issued requiring employees to stay at the company headquarters to work, the security department reported that there were exchanges of fire in many places in the capital, especially near the Presidential Palace and the Ministry of Defense building.

Even standing on the edge of the dome office, James could directly see the HCPs occasionally leaping high from buildings in the city, as well as the occasional flash of directed energy weapons and explosions.

By evening, the National Capital Region issued an emergency notice for everyone to stay at home or seek shelter in nearby air-raid shelters.

At the time, James thought that this emergency notice was a bit of an overreaction. After all, there was no need to launch an orbital strike on the capital of one's own country in order to carry out a coup.

But the CEO soon discovered that he had underestimated the federal soldiers at the center of the coup.
The first wave of airdrop pods carrying orbital paratroopers smashed directly through the high-tech dome of the Capital Special Zone, and fell onto the streets of the capital with the dome shattered into countless pieces.

When he saw teams of murderous orbital paratroopers and multi-legged tanks passing through the streets of the company's headquarters building on several surveillance screens, James realized that these soldiers were serious.

The secretary reported to him that the employees at the company's headquarters were in a panic, and many wanted to go back to their families. There was even a large group of people who wanted to break through the security guards and leave the building.

James was also furious when he heard the news.

"What a bunch of ungrateful people! Am I keeping them here for the company? I am doing this for the safety of these salary thieves. It's so chaotic out there now. The orbital paratroopers have already landed. Who knows what will fall behind them? Wouldn't it be courting death to go out at this time?!"

Just as James was about to ask his secretary to turn on the broadcast of the headquarters building and "earnestly" persuade the employees to come back, he suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck.

As if he had thought of something, the CEO immediately raised his head and looked at the sky through the skylight office.

At this moment, the dome of the Capital Special Administrative Region had been largely shattered when the orbital paratroopers smashed down, so now James could also see the night sky outside directly through the remaining frame structure.

A series of "meteors" were coming from afar towards the capital special zone. They were shining under the stars on the other side of the planet, reflecting a strange optical effect in the night sky. Thinking of the orbital paratroopers that had fallen before, James quickly realized that these should be orbital strike bombs dropped by the near-space orbital attack ship.

Don't ask why James didn't run when he saw the orbital strike shells coming.

It's not that he doesn't want to run, but his CEO office is on the top floor of the headquarters building.
The scene before him reminded James of the famous quote used by ancient humans to describe the spectacular scene of a split ballistic missile re-entering the atmosphere.

"The east wind blows thousands of flowers into bloom at night, and blows down stars like rain."

He recited this verse unconsciously, and at the same time lamented that the ancients were still a bit conservative when describing this scene. The speed at which these missiles entered the atmosphere was much slower than raindrops.

After a brief silence, James felt a sudden flash before his eyes.

The first orbital strike missile hit the ground first. In an instant, the world seemed to stop for a second. Then a deafening explosion broke the brief silence. The strong light instantly illuminated the entire night sky, illuminating everything around as if it were daytime.

Afterwards, the remaining missiles landed one after another at the preset attack coordinates. Each impact with the ground was accompanied by a devastating explosion, and each flash was a challenge to the darkness.

Dozens of rays of light burst out one after another in just a few seconds, each one brighter than the previous one, as if time itself was infinitely stretched at this moment, allowing the citizens of the capital to witness this series of continuous yet independent artistic destruction.

When the orbital strike ended, the entire Capital District fell into deathly silence.

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No one dared to leave the air-raid shelter or building they were in, for fear that another round of orbital strike missiles would fall from the sky after they walked out.

James even hugged his secretary and hid under the large desk, shivering.

When the explosion just happened, the top floor of the building where he was located felt a strong tremor. The glass in the Tianmu office creaked for a long time, as if it would break in the next second. Fortunately, the quality finally withstood the test.
James came to his senses and immediately contacted the security department and asked them to release drones to see the situation of the city under attack. Although the federal government has expressly prohibited general companies in the capital from releasing drones within the capital, most companies have actually secretly hidden a batch in case of emergency.

And right now, this is the 'urgent need'.

Not long after, the drone images were transmitted back. When James saw the Capitol building razed to the ground by orbital strike missiles in the center of one of the images, and the surrounding positions that could no longer be seen in their original state, he swallowed involuntarily.

"These crazy people are really not to be messed with."

Thinking of this, James suddenly slapped the secretary who had just stood up on her buttocks, and then said anxiously:
"Quick! Find a way to find out which side won!"

(End of this chapter)