Eh? Do you also want to try the iron fist of the humanoid girl?

At this time, Lingyin turned and looked at her.

"This is?"

"Beer and some light snacks."

Seeing Lingyin looking at the tray with a puzzled look, Raphael answered with some confusion.

"Roasted pork elbow and pickles," Lingyin picked up the glass. Clear and delicate foam appeared on the surface of the light golden wine, and the rich aroma of malt spread around her.

“It also smells a bit like watermelon.”

"Yes, because summer is here, and drinks should have some summer characteristics."

Lingyin put a small piece of pickled cucumber into her mouth, and it tasted very crisp when she chewed it.

"delicious."

"..."

If it didn't taste good, Raphael wouldn't let it appear in the refrigerator storage cabinet.

The two of them remained silent for a while, letting the leisurely time pass.

The first person to break the silence was Lingyin. Judging from her expression, she probably hesitated for a long time before speaking.

"Raphael... that..."

"Yes, I am listening."

"Asuka and I have been doing a lot of, you know... that kind of work in the North lately."

"Wet job assigned by the CIA, right?"

"Ah."

Lingyin temporarily replaced Raphael's identity and tried to complete some assassinations that had no reason but had to be completed. After coming to Germany for so long, she had never been so busy as she had been recently, so she had unconsciously forgotten this at first.

To say she wasn't confused would be a lie.

27 people were killed, and the birds shot 19 people, a total of 46 deaths. The records of the mission target files show that most of these people only had some personal moral deficiencies, and very few of them committed serious crimes.

She couldn't understand the CIA's actions, but no one could explain her confusion. It was very painful to grope forward in the dark.

Lingyin clenched her own cold fingertips, and a heavy emotion slowly emerged.

"You are in pain and confused about the dead and the mission. Do you want to turn off the emotional module?" Raphael suggested.

"I don't know, it would be better if it wasn't closed."

"no problem?"

"no problem."

"Really? If you want to discuss this with me, just say so."

Raphael narrowed her eyes, and Lingyin felt as if she was penetrated by her gaze. The two of them were not connected at the mental level at this time.

Lingyin barely managed to hold on to her self-control which was about to slacken.

Just be patient and hold on until the situation in Leipzig improves.

"I'm... fine. Nothing's bothering me."

"is it?"

Raphael looked away, picked up the glass and took a sip.

For a moment, Lingyin felt that she saw disappointment in her eyes, and her heart ached.

"Um...are we doing the right thing?"

Raphael let out a sigh of relief after hearing this. He finally said it. The target files delivered to Lingyin had actually been processed, hiding some information that should not be known to the executor.

Usually, people who do this have firm beliefs, or at the very least, they do it for money.

"My answer?" Raphael paused deliberately, "You did nothing wrong. Most of those people deserve to die."

"how come?"

Raphael put the glass with only one sip of beer left on it back on the tray.

"I have verified the things sent to you by the CIA through other channels." She stood up and pulled out a stack of documents from the desk in the bedroom under Lingyin's puzzled eyes.

"As you can see, they did a rare good thing, a very rare one."

This was not a fake document that Raphael had temporarily brought out to save face. She had really found someone to confirm the necessity of these wet works. From top to bottom, they could just form a transportation link.

The end point of this transport line is Frankfurt.

Therefore, it was not entirely the CIA's wet work, the German will was also involved, otherwise East Germany, as the Stasi's sphere of influence, would have stepped in to stop Asuka and Suzune's activities long ago.

In other words, the Stasi played an important role in promoting this.

As for the reasons why the CIA took such actions, Rafael guessed that there were other considerations involved, probably an exchange of interests at the political level.

Raphael briefly told Lingyin all the twists and turns in it, then raised his hand and rubbed Lingyin's head vigorously twice.

"…Why…didn't you tell us earlier?"

“Because it’s not necessary. In addition, we have a complete emotional module, and as witnesses of the Frankfurt incident, it is very likely that we will have unnecessary additional emotions.

So, I suggested that they omit some of the content that would cause unnecessary emotions... Sorry, this is my mistake. I underestimated your ability to accept and caused you confusion. Does this answer your question? "

Suzune flipped through each document, comparing the information she had with these documents. Suzune was worried that this was an excuse Raphael used to appease her.

The results all matched. Many confusions caused by incomplete archival materials were also answered here.

"Yes."

They are obviously tactical dolls rolling around on the battlefield, Lingyin thought self-deprecatingly, but she was completely confused by this kind of thing.

"I'm really a fool..." she sighed softly.

Just then, Raphael saw his phone light up.

This is a message push from the navy system: the war in Canada has ended successfully, and the cruiser St. George deployed on the coast of North America in the North Atlantic is about to return.

Immediately afterwards, the Latin American Alliance was established late that night.

However, in Rafael's eyes, the emergence of this Latin American alliance is undoubtedly a new provocation. Now that the war between the United States and Canada is over, the next war is just around the corner.

Chapter 91 Rebuilding the System

The United States has never been happy about taking over the entire Canada. The next to join the battlefield is the clown Latin American Alliance.

The strike group, led by the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush CVN-77, weighed anchor and sailed down the east coast of the United States, scheduled to patrol the waters outside the maximum operating radius of the Venetian Air Force and perform training missions.

The United States appears to be exercising restraint, but in fact it has already adopted an offensive posture.

The DOD did not announce the movement of the USS Bush in a high-profile manner, but instead posted a message about the sea blockade in the corner of its official website.

The latest news about the aircraft carrier was in April: 4 people on the ship were infected with influenza A.

News of other carrier strike group activities nearly filled the first page panel.

During this period, there were also reports on the Navy's outstanding performance in the US-Canada War, as well as some information on meritorious service. If you clicked in without a purpose, you would hardly notice the movements of the USS Bush.

At the same time, the three amphibious expeditionary strike groups centered on the LHD-7 "Iwo Jima", LHD-2 "Essex" and LHA-8 "Bougainville" amphibious assault ships have completed their maintenance work and are making final preparations before setting sail.

This is a landing force built after entering the 21st century in accordance with the strategic plan of "winning two local wars at the same time". It requires the amphibious fleet to have the ability to deploy 2 Marine Expeditionary Brigades (MBEs, each unit with 2.5 people) in wartime.

Compared to the LHD-7 "Iwo Jima" and LHD-2 "Essex", the LHA-8 "Bougainville" amphibious assault ship has the ability to operate the F-35B.

Since the ship is specially designed to carry F-35B Lightning II vertical take-off and landing fighters and MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, the 1231 square meter dock deck of the Wasp class was cancelled to free up more space to accommodate more carrier-based aircraft and aviation fuel.

Although it has lost the ability to carry heavy equipment such as air-cushion landing craft and amphibious assault vehicles for flooding landings, the newly added space allows the "Bougainville" to have a longer and larger hangar deck than the "Wasp" class.

Three amphibious fleets were prepared at once to deal with the Latin American alliance that might provoke them at a critical moment.

The reason there is no declaration of war at this time is that preparations for a new war have not yet been completed.

The situation has been exposed, but some people are immersed in the beauty of the Latin American alliance. Perhaps they realize that the crisis is approaching, but they still do nothing.

Some keen observers pointed out in online articles that the Latin American alliance has not yet been integrated, most likely because the U.S. Army has not yet completed its assembly and the ships used for cross-sea landing operations have not appeared on a large scale.

The supplies and number of Marines carried by the three amphibious fleets are sufficient to carry out landing operations, but they cannot go further into the enemy territory.

After all, at the end of the war, infantry will still be needed to occupy positions and land.

Simply allowing the port to be captured by the enemy would definitely be the worst possible scenario.

Rather than being concerned about the future of the Latin American alliance, people were surprised by the military power displayed by the United States.

Even though a series of large naval bases and maintenance ports on the east coast were lost, and most of the research and production units of high-tech equipment were lost, it was still able to provide maintenance support for large equipment.

This is a very surprising result.

The original Bath Iron Shipyard was not in a very good situation. Although it employed nearly 7000 workers and planned to recruit more employees, this could not curb its declining work efficiency.

Not only did it cause a large backlog of orders, it also caused serious dissatisfaction among the US Navy.

Although Bath Iron Works' hardware conditions have greatly improved compared to the 90s, and the overall facilities have been improved and expanded,

But the current peak forecast is only 1.5 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers can be delivered each year, far less than the peak of 90 ships delivered per year in the 3s.

The layout back then was the same as it is now, with 2+3 areas, namely 2 assembly positions and 3 outfitting positions, and it also had a more traditional inclined slipway.

In comparison, the efficiency in the 30s was not as good as that in the 90s.

The urgent need for war and expansion of living space made the Navy's attitude more tough. Finally, in September of 33, the Navy forcibly took over the shipyard.

Although this aroused strong opposition from General Dynamics, the powerful legal team and the lawyers of the JAG Military Law Firm have been in court for four years, and the trial is still ongoing.

Seeing the delay, General Dynamics was so angry that there was nothing they could do except let the legal team continue.

The Navy not only forcibly took over the Bath Iron Works, but also started construction of a new large slipway and shipyard.

In order to solve the problem of shrinking related manufacturing supply chains, the Ministry of the Navy, after consultation with the Naval Operations Department, decided to establish a subordinate "Navy Equipment Command" and an investment department under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Navy, which will jointly coordinate the reinvestment of related industries.

Bath Iron Works is currently still fulfilling the contract to build the Burke III-class destroyer simply because it is the only available and experienced shipyard.

But under the leadership of the Admiralty, new shipyards were being built at a rapid pace.

The Navy is considering allocating a portion of its funding for building new ships to the fledgling shipyard and has provided sufficient financial support to ensure the shipyard acquires new manufacturing equipment.

In addition, the Navy is measuring radiation levels in Virginia and Mississippi, especially ELID radiation levels in the area where the Hopkins Shipbuilding plant is located.

If it does not exceed the limit of human endurance, their next plan is to transport the abandoned manufacturing equipment in the ELID wide-area collapse radiation zone.

After all, recycling is always cheaper than buying new.

And something that makes the US Navy envious happened in Moscow. The Russians used their general industrial robots to achieve the rebirth of the Moscow Shipyard.

Moscow signed a modification plan, project code: 1144.2M.

At this point, the originally abandoned Type 1144 cruiser "Admiral Lazarev" returned to the slipway and was named "Frunze" and was reborn.

Its modernization plan is on track with the introduction of general-purpose industrial robots.

Before the renovation of the "Frunze", technical workers at the shipyard directed general industrial robots to complete nondestructive testing and rust removal operations at an astonishing speed, while also carrying out comprehensive replacements of insulating materials and cable lines.

Before the renovation, this 20,000-ton large cruiser mainly relied on two types of mechanically scanned radars to complete air search/tracking missions.

After the transformation, it will be equipped with an active phased array radar, which is dozens of times more powerful than the original MR-800 long-range early warning radar.

此外，原来的20个P-700“花岗岩”反舰导弹发射器被取消，在原有的位置上加装了10组3S14U1通用导弹垂直发射系统。

由于1144型巡洋舰的防空导弹有专门的垂发系统，这80个新增加的垂发单元可以全部用来搭载P-800“红宝石”巡航反舰导弹和3M70反舰导弹。

This is not the end. There are currently two plans for the power system. One is to repair the existing nuclear reactors and eliminate the defects left over from the construction.

Plan No. 2 is even more radical, advocating the dismantling of nuclear reactors and steam boilers, with power entirely provided by high-power gas turbine units and diesel generators.

Plan No. 2 may seem radical, but in the eyes of the new Soviet Navy's top brass, it is considered the best option.

They still remember the series of nuclear submarine accidents in the former Soviet era, all of which sent a warning: nuclear power is not as stable as imagined.

At the 8 Project review meeting one year after the sinking of the K-1144 nuclear submarine, Gorshkov, who had high hopes for the nuclear-powered cruiser, did not want to see a similar tragedy happen again, so he raised the issue of the backup power unit.

With his intervention, the design bureau made urgent modifications to the original design plan.

Two steam boilers and an independent power supply gas turbine unit were added to the nuclear power unit, and new flues and chimneys were re-opened for these equipment.

The third-generation automated compact vertical oil-fired boiler, developed at the time by the Leningrad Boiler Manufacturing Special Design Bureau, was able to provide the ship with the ability to travel at least 17 nautical miles at a maximum speed of 1000 knots with only two spare steam boilers;