Break out of the courtyard

"The earliest record of electromagnetic pulse hazards was a high-altitude embrace test 29 years ago."

"After the explosion test, alarms, transformers, burglar alarms and other electrical appliances were damaged almost simultaneously on many islands one or two thousand kilometers away."

Inside the Magnesium Kingdom's Huadu Palace, a black-haired Indian man interrupted the crowd listening to a consultant's introduction to electromagnetic pulse bombs and asked, "Were there any casualties?"

"Afterwards, statistics showed that many people within the electromagnetic pulse range experienced symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, numbness, and tingling, but there were no deaths."

Seeing that no one else had any questions, the old consultant with thinning hair continued, "After we discovered the dangers of electromagnetic pulses, we began research and development of electromagnetic pulse weapons and related defenses."

"After Beisu discovered our research, he abandoned cheaper transistors and focused on electron tubes, which are less susceptible to electromagnetic pulses."

“Therefore, North Sudan’s electronic technology has always lagged behind us.”

"Last year in the Middle East, we tested a non-nuclear electromagnetic pulse bomb that successfully disabled enemy air defense radar."

"We then applied for the Lyrical Project, which aimed to adjust the frequency and power of electromagnetic pulse weapons to achieve varying degrees of damage and achieve different strategic objectives, but the project was never approved."

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Zhang Heping, who was still at the Peace Satellite Monitoring Center, responded to the speculation of the young people nearby with a smile, "If the Chinese in Magnesium really did what you said and followed the example of Northern Jiangsu and switched to using vacuum tubes, I would wake up laughing in my dreams!"

"Teacher Zhang, I think this is very likely," said a young man in a gray uniform standing by the wall. "European Magnesium's semiconductor technology is currently far behind ours, and after the collapse of Northern Soviet Union, a large number of electron tube experts have lost their jobs."

"If I were a high-ranking official in Magnesium, I would immediately send someone to recruit those North Soviet experts. Regardless of success or failure, it will at least provide another option for EMP protection research."

"The key is, the guys in Magnesium don't lack that little money!"

"That's a good analysis!" Zhang Heping glanced at the young man by the wall and smiled. "Unfortunately, I'm not short of that little money either. I was one step ahead of them and hired some electron tube experts to work in the mainland."

Zhang Heping was chatting idly with the people around him who were watching the excitement, but his eyes were always fixed on the small surveillance screens on the large screen, watching the supersonic missile changing its trajectory up, down, left and right.

"Broaden your horizons, think more broadly." Zhang Heping, perhaps getting a little impatient, offered a suggestion, "Have you learned the word 'superposition'?"

A good space-based early warning system was completely messed up by the young people in the aerospace force, and it became a scattered group of people. You shot a laser, I shot a laser, as if I was massaging the missile.

This made Zhang Heping’s idea of ​​building a space cloud computer even stronger!

If there were space cloud computer assistance, that supersonic missile could be intercepted in minutes.

"Teacher Zhang, how about we give it a try?" A middle-aged engineer from the Satellite Monitoring Center asked tentatively.

Zhang Heping looked at the engineers and assistants standing by and said with a smile, "You will also have to cooperate with them in intercepting in the future. So go and help them and give them some advice. Don't let Mr. Qian and the others look down on you."

Mr. Qian, who was at the Peace Space Rocket Launch Command Center, had no idea that Zhang Heping was cheating.

He was also watching the combined large screen and commanding another group of young people in the aerospace force.

"Laser weapons have the ability to fire at the speed of light. Although they are much faster than Mach 12 and can quickly lock onto the position of our missiles, these weapons require focused energy..." Old Qian frowned as he spoke, "Why is the screen black?"

"Mr. Qian, the interceptor has sent a message saying our system has been hacked. We have three minutes to crack it. Once that time is up, they will destroy the missile!"

Before he finished speaking, a countdown appeared on the large screen that had just gone dark. [00:02:59]

"Hey, hey! It must be Old Hu and his team from the monitoring center who's involved!" Lu Zhongsheng, the head of Peace Aerospace, who was watching the excitement from the sidelines, smiled at Old Qian and said, "Old Qian, how about we get some help?"

"That feels like actual combat!" Old Qian nodded and said with a smile, "Then please ask President Lu to send out his generals so that Consultant Zhang won't laugh at us."

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A group of Taiwanese in military uniforms gathered in the lobby of the Japan Space Agency. Seeing the missile suddenly stop moving on the big screen, they couldn't help but look at the Japanese behind them, asking if there was a problem with the satellite monitoring.

After a busy period of work and communication with the Magnesium Space Agency, the Japanese engineers finally came to the conclusion that the satellite monitoring was not broken, and it was because the missile did not change its trajectory that it looked like it was not moving.

As soon as this conclusion was made, the missile on the screen in the hall began to change its trajectory again, and soon disappeared from the satellite's blind spot.

Then, the surveillance images on the big screen began to switch continuously, but the missile that was previously visible was nowhere to be seen.

The situation at the Magnesium Space Agency is the same as that on Japan Island.

The surveillance footage in the hall switched hundreds of times, but nothing was found!
"what happened?"

The blond old man in a blue uniform in the middle of the hall looked at the small surveillance images on the large screen and asked with a frown:

"Given the trajectory of that missile, how could we lose track of it?"

"Sir!" A middle-aged engineer operating a computer at a workstation on the left shouted, "I have a guess. Our surveillance satellite may have been hacked again!"

The blond old man in the middle of the hall turned to look at the source of the voice and asked, "Are you sure?"

The middle-aged engineer who had just spoken replied while rapidly tapping on the keyboard: "I'm trying. This will take time, sir!"

The blond old man turned around and shouted to the engineers at other workstations, "Someone help Jason and find out why we lost track of that missile as soon as possible!"

"found it!"

A young black-haired woman in a blue uniform in the last row stood up excitedly. Under the gaze of the others, she leaned over and manipulated the mouse, then pointed at the satellite surveillance screen that dominated the entire large screen and said loudly:
"Based on the missile's trajectory, I checked the imagery recorded by the nearest monitoring satellite on that trajectory."

"Everyone, please look at the bright spot in the upper right corner!" said the black-haired woman, and tapped the arrow keys on the keyboard a few more times, moving the surveillance screen forward and backward by several frames.

Then he continued, "Shortly after the missile disappeared from the previous satellite monitoring screen, this monitoring satellite captured this sudden bright spot."

"What I can be sure of is that it is definitely not a star!"

"If it is the missing missile, we can use this point to calculate its trajectory and landing point, and then send people to collect the missile's debris!"

"Everyone!" the old man standing in the middle of the hall shouted, "Immediately! Now! Find it according to Miss Angela's idea!"

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In the capital, the ice on the lake has melted. Old Li is at home, eating while explaining to a few old friends the queuing rules for the Lifespan 120 potion and the approximate costs involved.

When he saw the guard Xiao Liu coming in out of the corner of his eye, he didn't pay much attention to it.

But after a while, I still saw the boy standing at the door, looking very happy, so I couldn't help but ask him "What's wrong?"

"Mr. Li, Mr. Hua from Shenzhen called and said he intercepted it. He sent you a copy of the relevant video to your email." Although the guard, Xiao Liu, was very excited, he still did not forget the principle of confidentiality and did not say exactly what they had intercepted.

When Mr. Li heard this, he naturally understood what was being stopped.

Ever since the Peace Group launched that supersonic missile, this thing has become a concern for many people.

Just then, Lao Xu, who was eating at the table, exposed the cover-up of guard Xiao Liu and asked, "Was it that supersonic missile that was intercepted?"

Guard Xiao Liu smiled but did not respond. He just looked at Lao Xu apologetically and then looked at Mr. Li.

"That should be it!" Elder Li thought about the rank of the people present and said casually, "Recently, this is the most noteworthy thing in Shenzhen."

Lao Tan, who was also there for a free meal, immediately became interested after hearing this answer. "Lao Li, I wonder if we can watch that video?"

"Wait a moment, I'll make a call and ask Mr. Hua," Mr. Li said, getting up and going to the living room.

Mr. Li asked a few simple questions and then mentioned that Lao Xu, Lao Qin and others came over for dinner today and asked about the queue for the Shouyuan 120 potion.

After a moment, Mr. Li returned to the dining table and shook his head helplessly, saying, "This matter needs to be kept secret for a while. Just keep it to yourself and don't tell anyone else."

After he finished speaking, Mr. Li glanced at his wife and thought that she was not the kind of person who likes to gossip, so he did not remind her any further.

"Old Li, I overheard you on the phone just now. Did you talk to Old Hua about our situation?" Old Xu asked eagerly, "What did he say?"

"He gave me that official response!" Old Li picked up his glass, clinked it with the others, took a sip, and then met their gazes and sighed:
"He said that even he hadn't applied for the 120-year lifespan potion. Anyone who feels more qualified than him can apply for it from him."

"This..." Several people who wanted to take the back door looked at each other in confusion.

Following this, Lao Xu, Lao Tan and others looked at Mr. Li, who also did not use the 120-year lifespan potion, and suddenly realized something.

Perhaps, Mr. Hua and Mr. Li wanted to use the fact that they hadn't used the longevity potion to deter other healthy elderly people from flocking to apply for it.

After the few outsiders who had freeloaded the meal left, Old Li asked his guard, Xiao Liu, to turn on the computer in his study and the video that Old Hua had sent him via email.

Guard Xiao Liu wanted to stay and watch, but he knew that this was against confidentiality regulations.

So, when he turned on the video and heard a clear female voice explaining the rules of interception and counter-interception, he hurriedly retreated.

Mr. Li was slow to adapt to computers and mobile phones, but the video that Mr. Hua sent him had narration and explanation, and the video also used red lines to represent invisible and invisible lasers.

So, after watching it once, Mr. Li finally understood the principle of this satellite intercepting missile.

To put it simply, multiple satellites attack with lasers together!
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Zhang Heping didn't care whether the missile fragments would leak secrets, because that thing was just a pile of stainless steel products. Apart from the thin layer of black heat-resistant and cold-resistant paint on the outside, which had some technical content, the only thing worth looking at was the engine at the bottom.

However, after the missile was intercepted by 33 lasers, the main body exploded. The outer black heat-resistant and cold-resistant coating could not work in the atmosphere. After such friction in the atmosphere, it is unknown how much of it can remain on the ground or in the sea.

Therefore, the foreigners who failed to find the missile fragments launched a public opinion offensive that night.

Some people say that Zhang Heping is lying and that the mainland does not have the so-called space-based early warning system at all.

Some also said that Zhang Heping was not injured at all on the night of January 1, and that the truck bomb story was a lie they made up.

Anyway, all the foreign media have said things that distort the truth.

Although the Hong Kong and Macao media, as well as foreign media controlled by the Peace Group, have defended the space-based early warning system, without photos or videos as evidence, the defense has fallen into a self-proving trap and has been at a disadvantage.

Zhang Heping usually doesn't interfere in matters of verbal disputes, unless it is something like the stock market where one needs to make money by relying on some fake news, then he will guide the fund managers of Heping Investment and Stepmother Investment.

So, when the outside world was in an uproar, Zhang Heping, who was at the center of this public opinion storm, turned his attention away from external affairs and focused on handling the experiments in the Shouyuan space capsule.

Last time, because he and the driver were seriously injured, Zhang Heping asked the laboratory assistant to contact and urgently withdraw the small return capsule.

Because of this incident, part of the previous space experiment plan was disrupted.

Fortunately, the Dragon Egg Spacecraft No. 1 successfully docked with the Shouyuan Space Capsule No. 4 and continued the previous experimental research.

With the newly delivered experimental materials, Zhang Heping was very busy and had no time to care about the outside world.

The second sister Zhang Pandidi stayed in Shenzhen for a week. It seemed that she had difficulty communicating with Zhang Heping. She returned to the capital with a gloomy face and began her performance.

Yes, life is like a play, it all depends on your acting skills!

Zhang Heping asked her and her eldest sister to fight for their interests. Although it was a bit difficult for the two sisters, it was the only way for them to climb up and fight for their interests.

Otherwise, no matter how many good connections the Zhang family has, the two of them can only stop at the level of director, and then push the next generation of the Zhang family to climb and compete!

Because of the electromagnetic pulse bomb, Japan and Magnesium made significant concessions on the explosion incident, raising the compensation for the deceased to 1000 million magnesium yuan, paying 500 million magnesium yuan each to the seriously injured Zhang Heping and the driver, and personally apologized in person, etc.

Zhang Heping didn't care about that little bit of money, so he didn't budge when Hua Lao, Zheng Laotai, and Director Wang tried to probe him.

In fact, Hua Lao and the others were also aware of the underhanded tricks Zhang Heping had been up to.

Compared to promoting Zhang Zhaodi and Zhang Pandi, Elder Hua and Director Wang would prefer to move Zhang Heping's military rank.

Because of Zhang Heping's other secret identity, he remained at the regimental level for 12 years without changing his position. (End of Chapter)