Oahu, Pearl Harbor, U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet Command.

In the commander's office facing the harbor, Admiral Sallivan, wearing a short-sleeved military uniform in summer, sat face to face with Hubert in suit and tie on both sides of his desk. The atmosphere in the room was very unfriendly, and Sallivan, as the commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet, did not need to be too friendly to the civilian from Langley, Virginia.

In fact, Sallivan had long been fed up with the intelligence officer of that Cia.

For more than a month, not only has Sallivan's daily work and life been disrupted, but even the entire Pacific fleet was disturbed by Hubert.

Thirteen days ago, the USS Lincoln aircraft carrier, which was sent to the eastern waters of the Kuril Islands, accidentally "missingly entering" Russian waters. As a result, the ship's carrier-based aircraft clashed with fighters sent by the Russian Air Force, and almost broke the gun and fired. Seven days ago, the USS Washington anti-submarine patrol aircraft, which was operating in the western waters of the Okinawa Islands, was tracking and monitoring a return Chinese strategic nuclear submarine, almost fought with the Chinese fighter jets who came to support. The worst happened three days ago, the USS Antitan cruiser that entered the Sea of ​​Japan "missingly entering" the territorial waters of the eastern North Korea while performing a tracking and surveillance mission. It was intercepted by three North Korean ships, and a force conflict broke out.

These things are directly related to that agent of Cia.

"Hubert, what are you looking for?" Sallivan finally couldn't help it and said, knocking on the table, "Although I have no right to know about you, you have to let me know why all the warships were sent out."

"General, I have nothing to tell you about your problem." Hubert shrugged his shoulders, "Actually, I don't know what I'm looking for. I'm just executing orders just like you."

Sallivan clenched his fist and wanted to punch the "Langley's liar".

Hubert must be lying, he must know the purpose of the action. Anyone knows that Cia's agents are liars full of lies.

However, Sallivan had no other choice, because Hubert had the presidential decree in his hand.

"Okay. You don't say anything. I can't help you."

"General. This is the president's direct order to go to the ground." Hubert picked up the chicken feather arrow. "There is not much time left for us. The surveillance and search range must be expanded. In another week, if you have not found it, you can withdraw all the land warships. But within this week, you must mobilize all the power in your hands. The surveillance and search range must be expanded. Search for all suspicious land ships and submarines!"

"God. What do you want me to do?" The anger that was pressing down on Sallivan's heart completely broke out. "For more than a month, I have sent out all the land warships that can be found. Even all the shore-based patrol planes have been sent out. Where do you ask me to find more land ships?"

"This is your work. It has nothing to do with me."

"Is that?" Sallivantung stood up and pointed to the huge warship docked beside the dock opposite the harbor. "I will report to the president immediately and ask for the unblocking of the "Missouri". Then I will personally take the warship to carry out this shit mission. Now, you should be satisfied, right?"

"General!" Hubert couldn't sit still. "Getting angry cannot solve the problem. If there are other ways, we will not mobilize all warships in the Pacific Fleet. In addition, this is the order issued by the President himself. In any case, we have to implement it."

After breathing a long sigh, Sallivan sat down again.

He was indeed getting angry at first and venting his anger. The Missouri battleship has been sealed for more than ten years and is in vain. Not to mention returning to service within a week, it is difficult to even sail out of Pearl Harbor.

The problem now is that Sallivan does not have any warships to mobilize.

"This way, think carefully and give me a reply in the afternoon." Hubert also decided to end the talks as soon as possible. "In addition, I will report your questions to the headquarters, hoping there will be other solutions."

Sallivan did not say goodbye to the intelligence officers, and he was still angry.

Back at the temporary office, Hubert immediately contacted Langley's headquarters using a confidential phone number specially assigned to intelligence officials abroad, and directly called the office of Deputy Director Wesley.

CIA has a director and four deputy directors. In addition to the director being directly appointed by previous presidents, the four deputy directors in charge of operations, intelligence, security and logistics are all professional intelligence personnel with no political inclinations. After graduating from university at the age of 21 and being admitted to CIA, Wesley worked at CIA for 37 years, and went from an ordinary intelligence analyst to a deputy director in charge of intelligence, and was also the oldest among the leaders of CIA in this world.

Unlike the intelligence personnel we know from the outside world, Wesley has been dealing with various intelligence materials for thirty-seven years and has never performed field missions. Intelligence analysts like him will not be sent to perform field missions at all. Most intelligence analysts are ordinary people who do extraordinary work.

Putting down the microphone, Wes used force to wipe off his wrinkled face.

It has been more than a month, as if the stones were sinking into the sea, and there was still no clue. At some point, Wesley even suspected that the troops attacking the camp had killed the Houston and slipped away from the eyelids of the Connecticut. Of course, this was just an imaginary imagination to relax the nerves. As a senior intelligence officer, Wesley has always believed that there is no unexplainable thing in the world except for the 51st District that has been circulating among the people.

Where did that mysterious special forces and that mysterious submarine go?

Over the past month, thousands of intelligence analysts from the intelligence analysis department led by Wesley have used the news feedback from various aspects to conduct a comprehensive analysis, and finally came to only a few ambiguous conclusions.

First, the attack on the camp was a powerful special forces, using ka-27 helicopters, as well as light weapons from Germany, France, Italy, and even the United States.

Secondly, the submarine that sunks the "Houston" does not belong to any ally of the United States, and it must be a nuclear submarine. The CIA and the Navy's intelligence database do not have relevant information, and even data on characteristic noise.

Finally, based on the above two points, we can only roughly determine that Russia or China participated in the operation.

Is it Russia or China?

The intelligence analysts under Wesley were unable to draw conclusions, nor did Wesley reach accurate conclusions.

The ka-27 anti-submarine helicopter is produced in Russia, but it is equipped with navies from more than a dozen countries, including China, and even the black market for fireworks. A year ago, Russia had two nuclear submarines in service, and the US Navy has not collected any data on the two nuclear submarines so far. China has been building nuclear submarines, and its most advanced attack nuclear submarines have been built, and all of them have been in service. The US Navy has not collected reliable data on these three nuclear submarines. Russia has a special forces that have participated in the Chechen War and the Georgian War, with rich experience and strong combat effectiveness. China's special forces have also been fighting terrorist organizations in the Pamir Plateau and Central Asia, and its strength cannot be underestimated.

As a last resort, Cia could only target these two countries that had the strength to cause trouble for the United States.

Less than five days after the "Houston" sank, the U.S. Navy blocked several major maritime channels in the eastern Indian Ocean and then strengthened surveillance in the southern Australian waters.

According to Wesley's analysis, if the submarine comes from China, it will definitely return to China's naval base as soon as possible; if the submarine comes from Russia, it can only return to its naval base in the Far East. It is impossible to bypass half of the earth and venture to break through the North Atlantic Ocean. The submarine exploration network established by the United States during the Cold War and head to Russia's naval base in the Black Sea, the Baltic Sea or the Arctic Ocean.

In a moment, the US Pacific Fleet mobilized comprehensively, and hundreds of warships gathered in the Western Pacific region.

In order to strengthen the blockade, Cia also mobilized hundreds of long-range patrol aircraft in the name of joint Pacific Navy exercises, under the name of joint Pacific Rim Navy exercises. At the same time, dozens of reconnaissance satellites closely monitored China's mainland, as well as every port in the Russian Far East, and even monitored certain major inland river ports.

As intelligence director, Wesley knew that the longer the time delayed, the less hope it was.

More than a month has passed, and the joint Pacific Rim Navy exercise has long been over, and the "2010 Sea Existence" military exercise organized by the US Navy alone has reached its final stage. However, the mysterious submarine is still unknown, and there is not even a single satellite photo related to it.

After breathing a sigh of relief, Wesley picked up the cold coffee cup.

If there is no harvest in the past few days, this operation will be completely failed. He even thought that in fifty or even twenty years, the United States will become a third-rate country.

Then look back at what is happening now, the century-old history of America's prosperity has ended here.

Just as he was thinking, the door was knocked a few times. When Wesley looked up, his chief assistant Jackson hurried in with a few photos that had just been washed out.

"My latest discovery." Jackson did not say hello and directly spread the photo on Wesley's desk. "This was taken by our reconnaissance satellite more than ten days ago. It did not attract attention at the time. Today I discovered the problem during the re-evaluation."

“What’s the problem?”

"Look at this track." Jackson pointed to the white line on the photo in the middle and said, "This is the track left by a large merchant ship. From the perspective of the course, it should be a cargo ship from Peru to China. It is very likely that it is a bulk cargo ship carrying copper ore. Due to the angle problem, the name of the merchant ship was not captured. Looking at these photos, the track has changed significantly. When the cargo ship arrived here, the route was about fifteen nautical miles south and had already left.

The international route is just outside the search area of ​​our shore-based patrol aircraft. In addition, after analyzing the trails of the merchant ship, it is determined that the speed of our reconnaissance satellite will be reduced to about four knots between the passing of two times. I checked the schedule. If the submarine leaves the Somali basin, submarines at a speed of four knots, heads to the Cape of Good Hope through the Mozambique Strait, then heads straight to the Drake Strait, and then heads directly to the sea area, and meets the freighter here."

"Why just tell me now?"

"I discovered it too." Jackson felt a little aggrieved.

Reconnaissance satellites take hundreds of thousands of photos every day, so they can only be screened with computers, and then selected photos of high-value or suspicious targets, and then analyzed by intelligence analysts. Obviously, freighters far away in the Eastern Pacific are neither "high-value" nor "suspicious targets".

"Now, where is this cargo ship?"

"It should be about to pass through the Okinawa Islands and enter the East China Sea."

"What?" Wesley stood up suddenly, "Contact Hubert immediately and ask him to tell General Sallivan immediately to intercept the freighter at all costs!"

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Chapter completed!