Reborn in 2010, the AI ​​in my mind is too powerful.

Twenty-eight missiles may seem like a lot, but in reality, their destructive power is not very high.

The United States has been monitoring Iran with its satellites for a long time. Tens of seconds after the missile was launched, the space-based infrared early warning satellite detected the exhaust plume of the boost phase and automatically alerted the satellite early warning system at the Cheyenne Mountain military base in the United States.

The duty officer at Strategic Command, combining satellite data and known launch sites, calculated the trajectory and predicted impact point. The two targets of the missile were quickly identified.

Three minutes later, Incirlik Air Base and Khuregik Radar Station received evacuation orders.

Airport ground crew risked their lives to quickly launch two refueling aircraft and two fighter jets that were ready for takeoff. The remote control station also began to take over the drones, scrambling them to take off for safety as much as possible.

Thousands of officers of various ranks rushed to the refuge points.

Five minutes later, the Aegis-equipped ships in the Mediterranean launched numerous Standard Missile 3 anti-aircraft missiles in an attempt to intercept some of the missiles at the terminal stage.

Seven minutes later, four Patriot missile batteries in Turkey went into combat mode. Their phased-array radars detected the missile 170 kilometers away and began launching anti-aircraft missiles for final interception. A large number of PAC-3 missiles, designed specifically for missile defense, were launched.

Ten minutes later, some missiles were successfully intercepted, while several others disintegrated in mid-air due to their own problems.

Twelve minutes later, the missiles successfully hit two bases, and the war escalated.

Calls were flying from all sides, to European Command, to the Sixth Fleet, to the White House Situation Room.

This was just one hour after Israel launched Operation Lion Force, around 10 p.m. Iranian time, while it was afternoon in Washington, D.C.

At Watkins Elementary School, not far from the White House, stood a number of Secret Service members in black suits.

In a beautiful school kitchen, Lucian is discussing cooking with a group of second-grade children. The vegetables on the table were all grown by these second-grade children.

Lucian had no food of his own, so he kept going from table to table asking for help, grabbing a scallion from the left and a clove of garlic from the right.

Today's event is to promote STEM education, which is an abbreviation for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. This educational initiative aims to cultivate students' creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.

Although growing vegetables and cooking may seem unrelated in education, the main purpose of STEM is to cultivate thinking and behavioral patterns. Therefore, subjects such as computer science, agriculture, psychology, and even mechatronics and environmental data can all be extended to STEM.

Lucian managed to scrape together a considerable amount of supplies and prepared to make himself a simple beef wrap.

His cooking skills aren't exactly top-notch, but they're adequate. He also often gets into the mood and goes to the kitchen to cook something himself.

Just as he was preparing to show off his skills, White House Chief of Staff McDonough opened the classroom door, walked over to him and whispered, "The operation on the Israeli side was successful, but there's a problem on the Iranian side. They launched missiles at our base in Turkey."

Lucian felt a chill run down his spine for a moment, but he glanced at the elementary school students and the camera around him out of the corner of his eye. He ultimately decided not to react for the time being, but instead told McDonough to go out first, and then continued to cook with a group of little kids.

In an instant, he had already decided how he should react: don't panic, finish today's schedule, and then worry about other things.

Fortunately, he has the experience of a senior colleague, which he can learn from.

When 9/11 happened in 2001, then-President George W. Bush was attending an event at an elementary school in Sarasota, Florida. At first, when the first plane crashed into the building, people thought it was an accident, perhaps the pilot had a heart attack or something similar.

However, after the second plane arrived and it was confirmed to be a terrorist attack, the Chief of Staff whispered the same thing to George W. Bush.

George W. Bush showed no expression at the time, but continued to sit in his little chair, listening to the children finish reading a children's book. He even praised a few students before calmly leaving.

Those seven minutes became the most discussed segment of President George W. Bush's term, with critics arguing that his close-up of sitting still confirmed his slow reaction.

That classic joke about him has been brought up again.

"Our ideal president had Carter's morality, Nixon's intelligence, and Reagan's prestige. But we got George W. Bush, who had Carter's prestige, Nixon's morality, and Reagan's intelligence."

Opponents kept using his blank expression at the time to mock him for being stupid, having a low IQ, and being too slow to react.

However, Lucian had studied the matter carefully. The students and teachers at the time were very grateful for Bush's composure, which prevented the children from having too many negative memories of the incident.

Most Americans also felt that regardless of whether George W. Bush was genuinely calm or simply slow to react, it was the right thing for him not to rush out and abandon the children.

That's just how people are. They may know that it would be more in the national interest for the country's leader to rush out and take charge at this time, but if given the choice, they would still choose the person who stays in the classroom to spend some time with the children.

Fifteen minutes later, the wraps made by Lucian's group were very well received. Although there was no ranking, everyone received a consolation prize. Lucian also received his prize, which was a bag of bear cookies made by the teacher.

After waving goodbye to the children, Lucian immediately dropped his charming smile and became serious as he got into the car, asking his chief of staff to explain the current situation.

Because of the major incident, the roads along the route had been blocked off. The motorcade sped along and returned to the White House in less than ten minutes. In the West Wing of the White House, all the senior executives who could get there were already waiting for him.

Upon seeing him enter, Security Advisor Rice did not waste any time and immediately began reporting the situation: "Just now, Iran launched 40 missiles, 12 of which were launched at Israel."

The other 28 missiles were launched into Turkish airspace, targeting Incirlik Air Base and Küregik Radar Station, 14 from each side.

Lucian looked at the satellite imagery on the screen in front of him, rubbed his head, and asked, "How's the damage? How many shots hit?"

"Ingillik Air Base was hit by five missiles. The casualties have not yet been tallied, but because of the early warning, there should not be large-scale casualties. Currently, there are three large craters on the runway, and it will take a day to repair them before takeoffs and landings can resume. We have already sent several aircraft that took off to seek refuge to Saudi Arabia."

One hangar was penetrated, but luckily it was empty. The last shot hit the dormitory building on the ground, which should have already been emptied. Overall, the actual damage wasn't too great.

However, the B61 nuclear weapons storage area remains somewhat sensitive. We still have 50 nuclear weapons stored there, and whether or not to withdraw them is a question.

Then the Khurek radar station had a major problem. Only 3 missiles malfunctioned in the air due to their own reasons, while the remaining 11 all hit their targets. It was an overkill, and the entire station disappeared from the map.

"Everyone has been evacuated. We've received confirmation that all our personnel, including the Turkish technicians, were evacuated at the last minute."

Although Lucian was the de facto Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, he wasn't knowledgeable about every military matter, and asked in astonishment, "Our radar station can't even intercept a single missile?"

Rice quickly explained, "We never expected to be attacked here; it was our carelessness. That's Turkish territory, and attacking it would be tantamount to declaring war on NATO. We even considered the possibility of a symbolic warning, like deliberately firing a few misfires near the radar station, but we never imagined that someone would actually dare to attack the radar station directly."

Actually, there are also problems at the airbase. You know, because we are preparing to completely resolve the Syrian issue, Turkey has been afraid that Syria might retaliate desperately and directly attack them with ballistic missiles. So we just rotated three Patriot air defense systems to [location missing].

That direction is severely under-defended against Iran.

None of those present asked about Turkey's own missile defense capabilities. In fact, Turkey is a very abnormal country. In terms of air defense capabilities, Turkey is not bad. It has Hawker, Stinger and all other missiles, and has a good defensive capability against aircraft, helicopters and cruise missiles.

However, their missile defense, or ballistic missile defense, is completely nonexistent.

Türkiye is the most rebellious member of NATO, constantly moving between various powers.

However, the Patriot missile defense system is standard equipment for NATO allies, and the United States is willing to provide it to Turkey. However, the price of $40 billion makes Türkiye hesitate.

When Turkey tendered in 2013, China's HQ-9 won the bid with a bid of US$34 billion and a commitment to local production.

However, due to compatibility issues between Chinese equipment and the NATO system, the contract was not signed two years later.

Therefore, Turkey has been in a state of complete vulnerability in terms of missile defense, relying entirely on Patriot missile defense units brought in by NATO allies. The United States, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain all have Patriot units stationed there.

Lucian was a little annoyed. Türkiye was disobedient every day, acting like it was very strong, but in reality it was quite useless.

"I know about Google's 'Baiyan' now. Wasn't it said that Israel used it to attack Iran's missile forces? We could take a look at the actual combat situation of 'Baiyan' and see why it ended up like this."

Rice said somewhat helplessly, "We've pieced together the situation, and you can probably guess what's going on. Iran has likely been issuing pre-authorizations to those missile companies that go out on patrol for a long time. They discovered that their bases were under ground attack, but they didn't know about the capabilities of the 'Hundred Eyes' missiles, so they thought it was a large-scale ground invasion."

So, a group of company-level officers launched missiles directly according to the pre-set plan. This also explains why the number of missiles was so strange. In theory, the radar station had no anti-missile deployment, and three missiles should have been enough to destroy it, but in the end, 14 missiles hit.

This proves that these officers were all acting independently, unaware of the firing status of other companies, and simply firing according to the manual.

Lucian thought of the mysterious death of Iran's Supreme Leader, and felt that the war was getting increasingly bizarre in the last few days, as if some powerful force was escalating the situation. Instinctively, he thought of the legendary Jews who controlled the United States.

He squinted and said, "Give Israel a direct warning. Tell them that if they continue to cause trouble behind our backs, the United States will seriously reconsider its strategic objectives in the Middle East. I have a feeling that these recent events were all their doing; it's too much of a coincidence. How were the results of the Hundred Eyes operation?"

Rice said with some shock, "It's surprisingly good. The three missile brigades underground in Kermanshah were completely wiped out. All the missiles detonated inside the mountain, triggering a magnitude 4 earthquake in the area."

In Tehran, all of Iran's top military and political officials were wiped out, including the president, the Revolutionary Guard, the armed forces, and the defense minister.

According to reports from Israel's Mossad, only Intelligence Minister Allawi successfully escaped and returned to Tehran to take charge.

Lucian paused for a moment and said, "Issue a statement condemning Iran's attack on Turkey. Then state that the United States is ready to fulfill its collective defense obligations under NATO."

Prepare a phone strategy for me. I need to contact the Turkish president, who will certainly invoke NATO Article 4, which states that any member state can request emergency consultations when it feels threatened.

However, we should try our best to persuade him not to invoke Article 5. As long as Türkiye does not consider itself to have been attacked, it will not need to invoke NATO's collective defense obligations.

This is good for everyone.

The officials present didn't say anything, but Lucian sensed from their eyes that they thought he was a bit weak.

The abilities Baiyan has displayed, at least in special operations, are quite outrageous. Whether it's group or large-scale operations is debatable, but in many missions, he is far superior to humans.

Many people present felt that they could take advantage of this opportunity to simply flatten Iran. Israel only has the Broad Eye, but the United States has more than just the Broad Eye.

Aurora has stopped hiding its military ambitions this year. It recently acquired Kratos and is currently going through legal procedures. Kratos has already provided three robots to the US government.

From any perspective, Aurora's technology should be better than Google's, and there's a good chance of resolving the Iranian issue at a very low cost.

Lucian didn't offer any explanation; he had indeed softened his stance and was genuinely reluctant to fight. His term had only a year and a half left, and both parties were already preparing for the next election.

Recently, discussions have emerged about whether people should still be considered human and whether they should be allowed to vote, leading to increasing chaos within the United States.

Using Israel as a testing ground is fine, but for the US to personally engage in a major war with robots would inevitably cause even greater chaos within the US.

Although this was bound to happen sooner or later, it must not happen during his term.

After the meeting, Lucian hurriedly returned to his study and put on his Wanderer's Helmet.

He has keenly realized that the Oasis is the future and may occupy a lot of humanity's time. He has been adapting to the virtual space of the Oasis recently.

Of course, as a seasoned basketball fan, the basketball game jointly launched by Aurora and 2K is also one of the reasons why he is so addicted.

Inside, he can truly create a version of himself with superhuman physical abilities: 2.27 meters tall, 2.45 meters wingspan, and a standing reach of 3.1 meters, higher than the basketball hoop! With such height, he also has a standing vertical jump of 97 centimeters, and a running vertical jump of over 1.1 meters. While others dunk with their foreheads level with the rim, he can easily jump and his entire head is above the rim.

After dominating the game world for a while, the Oasis notified him that someone had been detected outside. He paused the game, raised his helmet, and saw his chief of staff rushing in, saying, "Something terrible has happened. Iran has retaliated."

"They still have two missile brigades in the central region. Have they launched missiles again?"

"No, it seems they had some robots stored in Israel before, and now they've all been activated. The situation is very bad. They're not Google's; they're more like Aurora products. They might be modified versions of older models that were previously sold to Bahrain. They've deployed them directly to the city. The death toll could be staggering."

The escaped intelligence minister, Allawi, announced a nationwide state of martial law in Iran, and several of his television stations and websites are now displaying this slogan. This comes from a line in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, a book of Persian literature.

"Translate this sentence. What does it mean?"

"Those who raise the butcher's knife will ultimately die by it."