I'm a Hokage in Tokyo

Under Lieutenant General William's arrangement, they were unaware of each other and thought they were Lieutenant General William's most trusted confidants, so they were sent to various military bases in Japan.

Even these officers didn't know what was in the classified briefcase.

In the whole of Japan, only Lieutenant General William knew where the real Buddha's stone bowl was hidden.

The other people's confidential briefcases contained nothing but counterfeits that looked so real.

At an altitude of 8000 meters above Hokkaido, an airborne command aircraft converted from a C-130 transport aircraft is flying around Japan on a fixed route.

In the belly of the airborne command plane, Captain Hawke, protected by a team of armed soldiers, looked at the secret briefcase handcuffed to his right wrist, a puzzled look still visible on his dark face.

To be honest, he had never seen such a weird mission in his twenty years of military career.

According to Lieutenant General William's arrangement, Captain Hawke rushed to Yokota Base without stopping, carrying the confidential briefcase.

Then we boarded the airborne control plane and flew around Japan without stopping. Up to now, we have been stuck in the air for more than 18 hours.

And it may continue to hover in the air for the next 24 hours or even longer.

During the Cold War, as an important part of the second-strike nuclear force, the United States always kept a number of B52 bombers carrying nuclear warheads flying in the sky, hours a day, days a year, without stopping.

The purpose is that if a nuclear war breaks out, the strategic bombers can turn around and bomb Russia.

At the same time, in order to ensure that nuclear strike orders can be issued even if ground communications and command systems are completely destroyed, the United States has replicated a complete set of nuclear weapons command and communication systems on some EC-135C airborne command aircraft.

For nearly 30 years before the victory of the Cold War, the US military had such an EC-135C in the sky every day. If the ground command system suffered a devastating blow, this aircraft would become the airborne command center.

The characteristics of an airborne command aircraft are long range, long endurance, and the ability to even refuel in the air.

Although the aerial command aircraft that Captain Hawke was riding in was not as good as doomsday aircraft like the E-4, it could still stay in space for more than 48 hours.

Captain Hawke was also curious about the contents of the confidential briefcase and this unclear mission.

But he knew very well that obeying orders was a soldier's duty, so he did not pursue the issue further.

General William said that he was the person he trusted most in Yokosuka Port and had entrusted this confidential mission to him, so Captain Hawke would certainly repay loyalty with loyalty.

Guard this secret briefcase until the end of the mission, or until the last moment of your life!

Time passed minute by minute, and it was getting closer and closer to midnight. Captain Hawke and several big and well-armed soldiers around him couldn't help but feel sleepy.

When Captain Hawke first boarded the airborne command plane, he was quite vigilant, but as time went on, he gradually became lax.

Yes, what kind of threat could there be at an altitude of nearly 10,000 meters?

Apart from enemy aircraft, there was no possibility of any attack.

The current world situation is relatively peaceful, and it is impossible for any country to break into Japan's airspace and start a war with them.

"Tuk-tuk-tuk-"

Just as Captain Hawke's eyelids began to droop, a rhythmic, crisp metal knocking sound came from outside the porthole.

"Did you hear anything?"

Captain Hawke suddenly woke up from his doze, his eyes alert, and his left hand holding the gun at his waist.

"Captain Hawke, there seems to be some noise. It sounds a bit like... knocking on the door?"

The other soldiers in the cabin looked at each other in disbelief.

"Tuk Tuk Tuk!"

The knock on the door sounded again, neither slow nor slow, and this time everyone had a look of surprise on their faces.

At an altitude of 8000 meters, outside an airplane with a maximum flight speed of 0.5 Mach, who is knocking on the door?

Superman?

Or the motherland?

Chapter 283 Chapter 284 Magnetic Field Rotation

An altitude of 8000 meters is close to the top of the troposphere. The temperature is below minus degrees Celsius. There are also gusts of wind caused by flying airplanes. It is extremely cold. Ordinary people exposed to this extremely harsh environment of low temperature, low pressure and low oxygen will soon freeze to death.

Although there are occasional reports of survivors who have managed to sneak onto planes around the world, they all hid in the landing gear compartment. If they were outside the plane, there would be no chance of survival.

Who on earth could be knocking on the cabin door of a flying plane at an altitude of 8000 meters?

Or, is it really a human?

A tense and uneasy atmosphere suddenly spread in the cabin. Captain Hawke and several soldiers looked towards the porthole hesitantly, their faces not looking good.

"Hahaha, maybe some part outside the plane is not fixed properly, which is why it makes this sound."

After being stunned for a while, a soldier forced a smile.

Having said that, judging from his slightly pale face and weak tone, he obviously didn't have much confidence.

"Think about it, this is a plane. Everyone knows how fast and how high it flies. How could someone knock on the door outside, unless it's someone from our country?"

The soldier just wanted to make a joke to ease the atmosphere.

But as soon as he said this, Captain Hawke's dark face became even darker, and his bald head looked like a boiled egg.

Homelander is an anti-superhero in a very popular American TV series in recent years. He is ruthless and vindictive. More importantly, Homelander appears on planes several times in the series and nothing good happens. He uses laser eyes to shoot down planes more than once.

It's such a crow's mouth!

Captain Hawke glared at the soldier who spoke and was about to say something.

"Tuk Tuk Tuk!"

At this moment, the strange knocking sound rang outside the cabin door again, like a death warrant.

This time, everyone felt their hearts pounding, and cold sweat unknowingly crept up their cheeks.

"alert!"

Captain Hawke, with veins popping out on his forehead, immediately let out an angry shout, grabbed the communicator with his left hand and contacted the crew of the airborne command plane.

"Climb quickly! Fly as high as you can, fly as fast as you can! Quick, quick, quick! This is an order!"

The engines of the airborne command aircraft ran at full power and accelerated to a maximum flight speed of 0.5 Mach.

In just a few minutes, the airborne control plane penetrated the thick clouds like a blue whale leaping out of the sea, and climbed to an altitude of ten thousand meters.

Stratosphere!

Inside the cabin, Captain Hawke and the soldiers holding their guns and cannons all shut their mouths at the same time. There was total silence, so quiet that one could hear a pin drop. The only sound they could hear was the roar of the plane's engine.

For Captain Hawke in the cabin, every minute and every second was so torturous, and he didn't know whether a few minutes or years had passed.

Even when he was imprisoned and awaiting punishment for drunk driving and killing someone outside the Sasebo base two years ago, he was not as stressed and felt like every day was a year as he is now.

Time seems to stand still, yet it also seems to pass by in a flash.

I don't know how long it has been -

The dreaded knocking on the door never occurred again.

Those suspicious soldiers couldn't help but swallow the hearts that were hanging in their throats, and their faces looked a little better.

The soldier who mentioned his motherland before glanced at Captain Hawke, with a smug look on his face, but he didn't say anything.

But Captain Hawke, who was still in shock, looked down at the secret briefcase handcuffed tightly to his right wrist with a serious expression.

Was the knock on the door just now really just an accident, or had it been ignored by the air control plane?

No matter what, Captain Hawke dared not be careless at all. In order to meet General William's expectations, he had to guard this secret briefcase until his death!

"Tuk Tuk Tuk!"

The knock on the door was like a maggot in the tarsal bone, lingering and echoing in the cabin once again.

Captain Hawke and several other soldiers had pale faces and wide eyes with uncontrollable panic in their eyes. They held their guns tightly in their hands, as if only this could give them courage.

“Knock, knock, knock, knock—!”

Naturally, no one would step forward to open the cabin door, and this was an aerial control plane flying in the stratosphere, so they couldn't open the gate.

But the unknown existence was very polite and kept knocking persistently.

The knocking on the door became increasingly urgent, like the precise rhythm of a wound-up clock, until it became continuous like a violent storm.

"Monster! Don't come in!"

The scene unfolded like a horror story or a nightmare. The suffocating pressure and panic almost made a soldier collapse. He screamed hysterically and pointed the black muzzle of his rifle at the hatch.

"Fuck! You idiot!"

Captain Hawke couldn't help but curse upon seeing this. Using this kind of firearm inside a cabin at an altitude of ten thousand meters was simply courting death.

The situation has not been clarified yet and there is no trace of the enemy. If it is just some misunderstanding, wouldn’t all their deaths be in vain?

"Crack!"

A crisp sound of metal tearing came from the direction of the cabin door!

Everyone looked at the sound and their pupils suddenly shrank to the limit, only to see a palm piercing through the extremely solid alloy door.

"It's coming in!"

As they stared in amazement, the hand ripped the hatch open with terrifying force, as if opening a can.

A god-like figure appeared in everyone's sight.

He was wearing a black robe with red clouds on it, and a swirling single-eye mask on his face. His black hair was dancing in the wind, and his eyes were flashing a dangerous and cold light.

"Beep beep!"

A shrill alarm suddenly sounded in the cabin, and the red warning light flashed violently.

A violent and icy air current raged in the cabin. Captain Hawke and others were blown all over the place and could only hold on to the seats in the cabin to stabilize their bodies.

The aircraft door was opened unexpectedly in the stratosphere ten thousand meters above sea level, the airtightness was destroyed, and the air inside the cabin was sucked out due to the ultra-low air pressure outside.

If this continues, it won't be long before the airborne control aircraft disintegrates and crashes.

With a loud bang, the plane door was closed.

Captain Hawke and several other soldiers collapsed on the ground, their faces pale and gasping for breath.

The uninvited guest ten thousand meters above the ground walked straight towards Captain Hawke without any unnecessary movements.

"found it……"

The cold words were clearly heard by Captain Hawke. He felt as if his heart was being grabbed by something and for a moment he couldn't even breathe.

A cold gaze fell on the secret briefcase handcuffed to his hands.

There is a term in aviation terminology called explosive decompression. When an airplane is damaged in the air due to some unexpected situation, the cabin and the outside of the cabin will lose pressure instantly. Passengers will also have difficulty breathing and weakness in their limbs due to the pressure difference, and may even face life-threatening danger due to alveolar rupture.

However, after the hatch was blocked, the air pressure in the cabin quickly returned to normal. Moreover, these burly and strong soldiers were in good physical condition and they quickly recovered their breath.

"Monster! Devil!"

"Don't come over here! Stop! I'm going to shoot!"

The shocked and angry soldiers picked up their guns, pointed them at the masked man, and issued warnings.

"hehe."

The masked man ignored them and walked towards them slowly.

"Don't come here!!"

"kill him!"

The soldiers, whose spirits were on the verge of collapse, did not care about the fatal consequences of firing in the cabin. They all roared and fired all the bullets from their weapons in one go.

"Bang bang bang!"

Hundreds of bullets intertwined into a barrage of death, about to pierce the masked man with holes.

But the next second, all the warheads came to an abrupt stop, floating densely several inches in front of the uninvited guest, spinning non-stop.

Magnetic Escape!

Captain Hawke and the other soldiers gasped, their faces filled with disbelief.

Is this The Matrix?

"Damn it! Keep attacking!"

The soldiers who had emptied their magazines looked horrified, their bodies trembled, and they began to reload their weapons in a panic.