Awakening

“Can you tell me what exactly is happening? Speak!” The Colonel’s blue veins were very visible as he pounded the stack of reports in front of the Lieutenant Colonel, the Intelligent Officer, and several other officials’ faces. Their faces were pale and no one dared to say anything.

Seeing this, the Colonel was about to explode in anger but at this time, the telephone on his desk suddenly rang.

“Who is this? Yes, I am sorry, I don’t know that it’s you. I was just berating my subordinates, please forgive my previous tone of voice.”

“I understand, I will arrange it according to your instruction.”

After he hung up the phone, the Colonel coldly stared at them and said: “All of you get out, right now.”

After they went out, the Colonel immediately picked up the phone and dialed up.

Around 2 AM, the chaos in the City has yet to subside even a little bit, people can still hear the sound of gunfire and explosion from time to time. In each area, the police station has run out of back up, all have been involved in the crackdown. But with respect to the looters and the rioting crowd, the police has considerable disadvantages in number. Therefore, they failed to control the situation. Moreover, the surrounding darkness increased the difficulty in controlling the situation. The police did not dare to send another helicopter to circle the sky anymore because several helicopters have been hit by rockets from one of the corners of the street, which then exploded and crashed.

However, when a group of camouflaged, heavily armored soldiers came into these Cities in batches, the situation immediately changed drastically.

Under the combined sieged of well-trained soldiers with heavy firepower, the rioters and looters with guns who previously have the upper hand immediately scattered in all directions. The marauding men have been effectively deterred. Many people, upon seeing the siege from soldiers in camouflage fatigues, stood up and raised their hands to surrender.

In the Southern part of Dover, not far from Philadelphia, there was a piece of continuous ten miles bay with a natural reserve. In the Northern part of this conservation district, there were ten inconspicuous yet big military base buildings.

Among all the military personnel who were sent to Philadelphia to suppress the riots there, one fifth of them came from this base. This military base is less than 100 km away from Dover Air Force Base, which was responsible for transporting the soldiers to assist the repression.

“What is the current situation?” At the basement office in this military base, a Lieutenant General-ranked man sitting in a chair asked a young aide in front of him. The young adjutant immediately replied: “Report General, just a moment ago, all three team leaders have given their reports. The center area of Philadelphia and its urban district have been successfully controlled by us, most of the looters and rioters have been arrested by the local police.”

“What happened with Major General White and Lieutenant General Hans over there?”

“Five minutes ago, Major General White’s troops have entered the second area. As for Lieutenant General Hans’ troops, they are still in the transport aircraft, it will probably take them another fifteen minutes to arrive.”

The Lieutenant General sneered, “I don’t know what are those police doing that they need our army to suppress it. The numbers of dead and wounded are none of our business.”

The aide said: “General, this time’s riot is very strange. Besides the 1992 Los Angeles riot, there have been no such large scale and serious riots in the United States.”

The Lieutenant General nodded his head, “Perhaps this is even bigger than that. I suspect that someone incited this riot from behind.”

“General, do you think the terrorist is behind this?”

“It probably is, after all, the United States have a lot of enemies. But this is the work of Intelligence Department, it has nothing to do with us, we only need to execute our command.”

Seeing the Lieutenant General’s somewhat tired look, the aide did not say anything anymore and ask to be excused. After all, they were all awakened in their sleep by the telephone at night.

When the aide went out, the Lieutenant General, no longer able to resist his strong feeling of sleepiness, walked to the nearby couched and laid down. After an indeterminate amount of time later, a burst of vigorous knocking sound woke him up. When he opened his eyes, he found that the room was dark.

“General, General Matt.” The aide shouted from the outside the door. The Lieutenant General groped in the dark toward the door. When he opened the door, the adjutant emotionally said, “General, our base is under attack.”

“What did you say?” The Lieutenant General could not believe his ears.

“General, our base is really under attack. The other is a group of mysterious men in black, we don’t know how they come in. They blew up our generators and backup power supply. Right now, our base is completely out of power.”

The Lieutenant General calmed himself down and asked: “How many people are they?”

“I don’t know, a conservative estimate put them at more than three hundred people. Each have powerful weapons in hands. Three areas and two areas’ doors have been forced open by rocket launchers. Moreover, from the smoothness of their actions, they should be equipped with night vision goggles.”

“How many men do we have in this base?”

“Because most of our people went to Philadelphia to suppress the riots, our base fighting personnel is less than two hundred people, the rest is logistic personnel about fifty people. Those men in black are moving toward the basement.”

The Lieutenant General was startled, “Immediately concentrate our people in the basement, we must stand our ground there. We absolutely cannot let them enter the level three basement. Also, immediately seek support from the outside.”

The aide’s face fell as he said: “General, we have no way to look for outside help now, because those people had succeeded in occupying the communication rooms in the second building and our weapon’s arsenal. I just tried to send a signal for help, but the signal transmission device that was mounted outside has been destroyed by them so we have no way to send signals to the outside. They know our communication method and communication facilities.”

Hearing his words, the Lieutenant General’s whole body shook. If all of these were true, then they have been completely isolated. This was obviously a carefully planned attack.

After a while, the Lieutenant General’s deep voice sounded in the dark: “No matter what happens, we must defend the lowest underground level, we absolutely cannot let them enter there. Since the communication facilities cannot be used, we need to create a huge explosion to attract other people’s attention. All right, let’s go.” With that, he went out of the room with his aide.