People's Federation will live forever

But today's People's Federation doesn't care about the loss of drones at all, and the loss of the port is not important. Our eyes are fixed on the giant aircraft above the port of Petro, which is called "XG-70". An experimental mobile aviation fortress code-named "Qi Nai Huang"!

"They really finished this thing."

From a long distance away, Li Wei looked at the ugly mechanical monster floating in the sky, and fell into "thinking". In the general headquarters of the wormhole base, a group of senior officers frowned at this ghost.

"The XG-70D decisive weapon developed under the framework of the League of Nations for the battle against beta nests is 170 meters long, and intelligence shows that there will be subsequent development models that break through 200 meters. This project has been established since the 80s, but it is limited by local people Computer-controlled technology and lagging behind gravity technology, the plan was never formally implemented."

The staff officer re-read the information, and then said: "The arrival of Tian Ximing has changed this plan. According to intelligence, he has greatly accelerated the progress of this work with the nanotechnology he has mastered. The information from our intelligence personnel According to the data, Tianximing transplanted a device called a nanocomputer host to build the control system of the project, which solved the problem of controlling the gravity field."

"Xi Ming must have some tricks today, but this is the biggest surprise he has given us right now." Major General Longling looked at the "Qi Nai Huang" that appeared on the holographic image, and analyzed the various parameters presented above, "Speaking , Our intelligence personnel actually penetrated into the enemy's interior, and still have access to such high-level information... If this is a military personnel, I should have seen the report."

"She is not your intelligence officer, but she can be said to be one of us, because she has decided to join the cause of the People's Federation."

An unexpected voice joined in. It interrupted the work of the staff officers. Those who have the qualifications to access this important place of military secrets at any time must be great figures. This made the staff officers a little distracted, and they looked at the source of the voice. .

"Because our intelligence personnel are the chief researcher of the 'Emperor Qi Nai', the person in charge of the League of Nations decision-making plan, and the chief scientist of the Neon Empire under Tian Ximing, Xiangyue Xihu."

No one came, just a piece of audio that appeared on the holographic platform.But just looking at the emblem of this signal is enough to bring together the minds of all the senior officers present. No spies are important anymore. Everyone seems to have a sense of consciousness in their hearts, as if a silent signal is sending to them. declared.

On the other side, Li Wei in "Thinking" nodded: "You have done a good job, Ensig, far better than what I expected from you."

"I am very honored to be able to make such achievements in the career of the People's Federation." Ensig is not proud of this, his voice is humble and polite, "But what is really important, my leader, please listen to me .”

"I am the blacksmith of war, I forge your weapons and forge your armaments; Olivia is the commander with the sword, she fights for you and kills for you; and the council is your messenger, for your great cause Lay the foundation stone, create order...but you are the one who gave us the goal, we are just assistants to complete your plan, we cannot execute the will of the People's Federation on your behalf."

Ensig's voice also brought together the voices of other people, including Olivia and Michael Hunter. In short, the entire Supreme Council submitted a piece of advice to Li Zhi Book--

"The pendulum of war has been swinging for a long time. For the benefit of mankind, please don't wait any longer. If anyone in this world can stop it, then only you have the power, and only you have the ability. Let the power be controlled, let the Restoring peace to the world."

At this moment, there was no war or chaos in front of Li Zhi's eyes, only the expectations from the entire People's Federation for him, as if countless people were confiding to him, not only Sira, but also Kamchatka and North Africa combined. The voices of hundreds of millions of people have been conveyed to him. Perhaps this is the basis for his assumption that there is no reality, but Li Wei heard or knew it.

The citizens of Sira look forward to the early return of their relatives and friends from the expedition to the alien planet. They don't care about the glory or not, they just hope that their loved ones are safe. Peace has only returned to Sira for less than ten years, and they worry that the war will never end.

The earth is not yet a citizen, but the people who are already in the People's Federation are also our people. They have also experienced a lifetime of suffering. Whether it is beta or human beings, wars hide lives and take more lives. their future.Hope is slim, but it is also precious. Even if there is only a slight possibility, this group of people who have nothing are willing to pursue it, because they really have nothing.

But this is not enough, this world is deformed, people struggling in this deformed world, no matter what their position is, even if they are our enemies right now, I should have a broad mind to accept them in the future, um, and impose reasonable penalties.

Want to ask why?Because this is the original intention of the People's Federation, we are for peace, not war, it is not just a slogan.

But the war is still going on, and the fighting between the People's Federation and Miri has never stopped for a moment. The tragedy and horror of the war did not make people realize its mistakes. On the contrary, the primitive anger deep in people's hearts drove the people called The power of hatred made them even more fanatical to join the war.

They don't care why the war started, and they don't care what they did—"To avenge the dead brothers, go!"

The place where the naval artillery bombarded was a mess, and the newly landed troops were often furious when they saw the tragic situation of the comrades who had landed before. Now there is an extremely reassuring "aviation fortress" above their heads, and they almost completely control the sky. Advantages, the heavy transport planes from the mainland landed on the repaired runway and sent to supplement the lost supplies. Thanks to the global deployment of the Mi army, all these actions were fast and good, and the joint actions taken by the coalition forces made up for each other's shortcomings. Board, the defense arranged by the People's Federation here was suddenly pushed to the brink of collapse.

The monster soars through the sky, right where you can see it. The sharp four-armed body of "Qi Nai Huang" stretches out, and it is not a traditional rocket engine that supports it, because there is an invisible force field surrounding this giant, the zero element, which sets up a breaking point around the aviation fortress. The "field" of space-time continuity makes the mass of matter in the field infinitely close to zero-yes, infinitely close does not mean there is no, their technology can only do so far, but it is enough.

It is obviously as big as a naval destroyer, but because of the huge reduction in mass, it floats in the sky like a balloon easily.It only needs to arrange a few engines in a few key positions to drive it to the sky with extremely low consumption. This is the use of element zero. It is an epoch-making weapon, a magic weapon for human beings to defeat the enemy, and a treasure to defeat beta— —

It is also the sword of Damocles of your people's union, and it has fallen!

"Wave Energy Particle Cannon, launch!"

Such a huge body is enough to hold a huge reactor and a nano-transient motor. It entrusts all of Tian Ximing's visions. For this moment, he has put all his technologies into it.Shengyang's wave energy particle cannon is far better than the charged particle cannon in the Earth's native theory. It is similar in power but has a huge increase in consumption and rate of fire. Its launch port is installed on the array similar to the chest of the fortress. As the energy continues to Gathering, it's like the light gathered into a spear and shot out from that chest!The surging energy wave swept across the ground at a distance of 500 meters in an instant, and the moment it touched the ground, the high-energy particles collided with the matter, causing the rock to dissolve and causing a large-scale air deflagration. A line passing by is a flame that annihilates everything the road!

In the flames, the sickle mechs turned into wisps of smoke like ants. Now they are the least important part of the battlefield, and even their owners don't care about them.The attitude of the People's Federation is to continuously deliver more mechas from the mountains of Kamchatka and from the rear of the battlefield, just to block the enemy's advance, and each mecha can complete its task even if it can be dragged for 30 seconds longer. value,

The result of this is that under the brave charge of the coalition forces, accompanied by artillery fire and air force bombing from the sky, the People's League's front retreated a little bit. The deadly bomb dropped by the drone is still killing the blood of this group of people——

"They are in a hurry, we have touched their weakness!"

They comforted themselves in this way, the more violent the Renlian's counterattack seemed, the closer they were to victory. It was this kind of spirit that made them willing to continue to move forward at the risk of Yetai detonating.But it doesn't matter, because they are always accompanied by Qi Naihuang flying above their heads. Every time the particle cannon fires a round every 10 minutes, a big hole will be opened in the defense line of the People's Federation. With the support of the roaring naval guns, Stepping on the hot sand and braving the vaporized high-temperature water vapor to drive the armor over-look, "I found the enemy's artillery position. The coordinates are XXX, and I request support!"

This phone call went directly to Emperor Qi Nai above his head. This aviation fortress has more than particle cannons. Its two forelimbs are rail guns with an astonishing caliber of [-]mm, that is, a caliber of [-] meters. An electromagnetic railgun that is bigger than any active railgun!I wouldn't believe it if it wasn't written like this.

"boom!"

A huge lump of metal passed through the 20-meter acceleration path in the [-]-meter gun barrel. The five-ton ammunition was accelerated to several times the speed of sound and escaped. Go to the battlefield.Along the way, this heavy piece of metal was hit by dozens of hundreds of heavy scythe air defense strikes with a terrifying howling sound, and it hit the target mountain with its own potential energy to maintain the offensive...

The pure kinetic energy made the hill sink down like a cotton ball smashed into a fist. The kinetic energy of the physical impact was converted into heat energy and then transformed into a shock wave, which destroyed the ghost gun car on the hill and caused the ammunition to explode. The explosion of the Thai nuclear warhead was like The tactical nuclear weapon was detonated, and the shock wave swept across several kilometers of land, far more powerful than the railgun.

No comment, because only rookies who are not up to the technical standards, or scientifically illiterate, will feel that the power of railguns depends on the caliber just like traditional artillery. They either cannot do it, or they have completely forgotten Einstein's teachings: " Speed ​​is quality".As an outsider, this large-caliber railgun is a sci-fi version of a trebuchet. After all, only a trebuchet is the bigger the stone, the better.

But it doesn't matter, because their victory is in sight - countless anti-aircraft missiles were fired from outside the People's League's defense zone, and Emperor Qi Nai's multiple 36mm Vulcan cannons formed an airtight barrage to blow them up one by one. Even if there is a fish that slipped through the net?It is an aviation fortress, not an aircraft. Its armor adopts the battleship standard and is equipped with nano armor!The weight is not a problem under anti-gravity flight, so these missiles hit Qi Naihuang's body like a mayfly shaking a tree, it is not a concern!

"The end of the Union has come."

Tian Ximing's eyes looked at the battlefield full of gunfire through the screen connected to the nanocomputer mainframe in Qi Naihuang's cockpit.That's right, Qi Naihuang didn't solve the problem that the driver would be crushed to death at all, that was an external claim, but in fact he was only remotely controlling through the nano-host - without the driver, there is no need to worry about death, right?And how can such a precious weapon not be firmly in the hands of the commander?

People's Federation is losing ground, because they have nothing new to do except to send more drones in a steady stream.They're smart, they're likely to trade space for time and try to avoid casualties, maybe they still have cards to play, but I don't want to give them a chance to play them.

The front is attacking, and their rear is still being bombarded by the space army's orbit. The tactical aircraft that landed from outside the atmosphere are their own non-frontal rangers. Even if the People's Federation wants to pull back the army on the western front It's too late—"I've broken the game, general (chess language)!"

With Tian Ximing's order, Qi Naihuang's wave energy particle cannon began to charge again—but at this moment, news that only senior personnel of his level could get it came from the ally, that is, Mi Jun.

"what's the situation?"

what's the situation?Unknown, because no one has ever seen such a situation—just above the geosynchronous orbit, the group of armored destroyers arranged in a column is busy concentrating on delivering more explosives to the earth, but the abnormality from the starry sky cannot Don't let them divert one bit of attention.

But once the attention is diverted, it never comes back.

The admiral of the Cosmos Army was lying on the side of the porthole, and took the astronomical telescope pushed by his subordinates: "The sun..."

The light of the sun is distorted, and the light it sends to the earth seems to be disturbed by something, and it becomes a little dim, a little distorted, and some... It seems to be separated by something, but it is released in an instant , this flickering feeling is easily observed by them.

In the starry sky, where the edge of the sun and Mercury, and the earth are in a straight line, that space seems to have fluctuations like water ripples, because the light cast on the earth by this fluctuation is also affected and becomes dim, falling on the earth, People feel like...

It's like dusk is coming.

PS: The next chapter, "Dusk Comes"

Chapter 250: Advent Day

In the boundless void, chaos breeds; stars are extinguished, and murderous intent is everywhere.

In the dark universe, the flames of war are eternal; the road to glory is paved with blood.

"With the power given to me by the leader, and in the name of the Supreme Council of the People's Federation, I hereby issue an assembly order to the First Home Fleet of the People's Federation - the 'Pendulum of War'."

This is the Sira galaxy, 0.6 AU away from Sira.Strictly speaking, Sira and the solar system have different structural compositions, but some concepts are consistent. There is still a Venus-like planet with a volume of two-thirds of Sira between Sira and the stars. We call it The inner solar system, and the greatest feat since the birth of the People's Federation is about to take place in an unnamed star field here.

"This is Fleet Command Center, saluting you, Dr. Adam Phoenix. We have received the order and are here to respond - the pendulum has begun to shake, the battle group has sailed, and we will prepare for war."

A series of lights lit up in this empty and endless void space, it was the light of azure plasma lightning, and the flames erupted from the battleship engines dragged for several kilometers, all because of the fusion pulse they used Shock engine, which is a technology that continuously injects concentrated fusion material balls into the engine and then uses the huge amount of plasma generated by laser detonation to complete the propellant of the working fluid. Its characteristic is that it can allow our warships to have unparalleled acceleration. The disadvantage is that this cannot be hidden at all. The horror of radiation unleashed.

There is a joke called "As long as it is close enough, the tail will still have output against the enemy", dragging the nuclear flames and accelerating crazily, the United Space Fleet formed a large conical formation and drove at a speed of 70KM per second (and constantly improving) Passing through the starry sky, they will soon accelerate to the speed of the fourth universe, but the fleet still has no intention of slowing down. They will go straight to the sun—the nearby circumsolar accelerator, the scheduled assembly point.

What a scene!Half of the warships of the People's Federation are here. The four 280-meter-long Twilight-class ships are the vanguard and main force of this fleet. Their slightly sharp bows point forward like daggers. Accompanying the main ship are three small and powerful ships. The polyhedron-like Thundercloud class, these hedgehog-like guardians will keep an eye on the vacancy of the front line, and protect the Frost-class electronic support ship and tidal supply ship that are accompanying 100 kilometers behind the front line-the Frost-class is a cylindrical ratio The take-off ship is more like a special-sized ship with an engine added to the space station, and the Tidal-class is the largest ship in the fleet. Its flat cargo hold is 200 meters wide, and its length reaches 450 meters, which is enough for the Twilight-class to dock on one side, one on the other. It may be the most important ship here even though it is not in charge of combat.

The distance between the warships does not seem to be very close, which is also natural. In a vacuum and with the terrifying speed of the warships, they must maintain a safe distance of at least 10 kilometers from each other, and the formation is by no means a horizontal and vertical square, but a prismatic one. Arranged crosswise, there is more space for possible flashes and maneuvers in combat. The array of 9 ships cannot be called huge, but anyone with a discerning eye knows what kind of power and determination this fleet means.

You never want to see the windows and the bridge from the battleship of the People's League. Its commander is hidden in the core protection of the middle section of the hull.In a Twilight class in the fleet, in the spherical zero-gravity command room, Mr. Captain, wearing the fleet-style black button-down coat, sits high on a highly informational chair in the center, and his left hand is the ship’s action button. Authority, the right hand is the switch of the fire control of the battleship, in front of him is the real scene of the starry sky arranged by the holographic simulation screen, which is constantly changing through his will, zooming in and zooming in to mark different scenes, countless data calculations, feedbacks, and being controlled by this throne The crew members sit around in the lower semicircle to perform.

The starry sky compass cap badge was shining brightly. Colonel Janot stood up from his chair. Next to his seat stood the number three figure on the ship, the leader who navigated the entire battleship and processed intelligence——Ratorova Zhong The school looked at him:

"Please issue an order, Captain."

The former tactical pilot now looks extremely capable. After officially serving in the fleet, she was recognized as a position. She transformed from a Soviet lieutenant colonel to a lieutenant colonel of the People's Federation Fleet, becoming the undoubted backbone of this newly formed force.There is no doubt that such a thing will never happen again in the future. The fleet has overcome the shortfall when it was first formed, and it will expand orderly in the future.So Latolova is lucky, her future has been tied to this fleet, which is extremely bright.

But this is not the reason why she has such a high fighting spirit today. Following her questioning, Captain Janot picked up a short scepter placed on the command seat, and let the communication camera take the scepter with himself. Record it and notify the fleet.

"Please note that this is the battle group under the Sira Homeland Fleet, the flagship of the Earth Task Force 'Supreme Authority', and I am the fleet commander, Colonel Geralt."

Colonel Geralt is a majestic soldier, and his image is transmitted to every combat ship at this moment for everyone to see-he must show majesty, after all, to be honest, if it weren't for the one that symbolizes peace and the other symbolizes war Well, the command scepter given by the Supreme Council represents the authority of the High Council, and others may really dislike Colonel Gernot.

The People's Federation Fleet has just been established, and 80.00% of its officers are transferees from the Air Force of the Guards. The characteristic is that they are all veterans. High ranks and low ranks are common, ranging from Kaiduan to Leiyun.Naturally, this is done in consideration of the need for a large number of officers in the future expansion of the fleet, but there is a problem at the moment - everyone has the same rank, why should you be the leader?Commander, are you teaching me how to do things?

"I am much earlier than you when it comes to enlisting in the army, Jie Luo Te Fat Fat Officer, maybe I am missing an uncle who will be the chief of the council."

On the bridge of the Thundercloud-class "Jingtao Sunset", Lieutenant Colonel Nankitezawa crossed his legs and put his hand on a chair to support his cheek.The black-haired man with an East Asian face whispered slightly contemptuously.The fleet political officer and first mate next to him rolled his eyes: "Colonel Gernot has an excellent service record, which cannot be brought about by political tactics. With leaders around, there is no such low-level nepotism in the People's Federation. I think Colonel Gernot was chosen because of his political reliability, after all, this is an expedition."

"There are no low-level ones, there are high-level ones."

Lieutenant Colonel Nanbeize still didn't let go of his opponent: "Forget about what happened in the academy, he blatantly robbed me of someone! I will remember it, wait, there will always be a reversal of the situation and he will beg me one day!"

The political and combat officer was a little helpless: "Captain, if personal grievances affect the operation, then I..."

"Yes, yes, I understand the rules." Nanbei Ze straightened his sitting posture, "Okay, let's listen to the pre-war speech, I hope he doesn't talk so much nonsense."

"I don't have that much nonsense to talk about."

On the holographic image, Colonel Janot held the scepter in front of his chest, as if responding to Namkitazawa's words.

"Everyone is my colleague, the rules are clear to each other, and the goals are also very clear. The Supreme Council has entrusted us with a glorious responsibility. They have high hopes for us, and the People's Federation has high hopes for us. I believe that you and Like me, I would rather die than let you down!"

So—"The interests of the People's Federation are above everything else, above each of us. With the authority given to me by the leader, I hereby issue the first combat order. Everyone must fulfill their duties and stick to it!"

"The second order, everyone must put the overall situation first, and give up their personal allegiance to the collective!"

"The third order, everyone must go all out and live up to the leader!"

From other Twilight-class, to Thundercloud-class, Tidal and Frost-class bridges, eight captains and all [-] crew members listened to the order from the authority with awe, no one was distracted, they all Get ready.

"Get ready, go through the wormhole!"

The twelve accelerators surrounding the sun have already been prepared, and they have been running. The accelerators standing in the deep space are huge space stations. The open solar panels are nearly [-] kilometers wide, and they can easily cover a city when they fall on the ground. The solar energy collected every minute and every second is injected into the core component of this space station-the particle accelerator.

High-energy particles start here, accelerate to sub-light speed, and rush to another accelerator 0.3 AU away in a straight line, where they will be received, where they will be turned with knife-tip dancing precision, and then accelerated and sent to the next site for relay.This project was once thought to be impossible to complete, but nothing is impossible. We embraced the sun, and with the power of the sun, we can use the power of the human union to compete for the galaxy.

"The power of the accelerator has reached its peak value, and the gravitational collapse coordinates and check coefficients are being calculated again. Please note that the wormhole will have a permanent gravitational impact on the solar system, including speeding up the revolution time of Sira by one second..."

"The flow of positive and negative electrons is about to break through the threshold, and a collision will occur after a countdown of 270 seconds!"

"There is no external device that can be maintained, and the wormhole generation time can only last for 2 seconds. During these 2 seconds, all the fleet must pass through, otherwise the entity will contact the collapsed singularity and cause a relativistic effect!"

We can't see the high-speed particle flow, but with the assistance of the Ministry of Industry and Research, the fleet has already understood what it is going to do——

"Fleet, change formation, speed up."

The continuous acceleration of nuclear explosions finally reached the speed of the fourth universe, and the fleet rushed forward at 350 times the speed of sound!Not to mention turning at this speed, the entire hull is stretched into a line under the potential energy, and personnel must be soaked in LCL solution to survive.say?Impossible, all information is transmitted wirelessly by the electronic brain!This is the People's United Fleet. It has just been born, but it has used the most extreme means imaginable, just like this journey through. Drilling into a wormhole just right, this is not a train entering a tunnel, this is chasing the lead wire of a bomb in a desperate rush!

"Three, two, one!"

A strange wave suddenly burst out from the side of the sun. At first it was a flash of light, a terrifying flash that could burn all those who dared to look directly at it from the retina to the eyeball. At that moment, it even covered the light of the sun, but it was just moment--

"Such a flash of light will spread out at the speed of light. If there are other interstellar civilizations around, how long will they see it? How will they react when they see it?"

Dr. Adam Phoenix said with emotion that this is a realistic problem - the moment the wormhole is opened means that this civilization has the qualification to roam the star sea, using this qualification is also an announcement to the outside world, they will know, know that there is something here A qualified interstellar civilization.

qualified?It took only a moment to go to the sky, and I had never reached the edge of the galaxy by myself, but I was lucky enough to obtain the power to span the void. Is the size of the People's Federation really qualified to be called an interstellar civilization?

But "we have no choice. The universe is an arena. Only those who rise up can fight their way out. It's not that if you don't advance, you will retreat, or if you don't advance, you will die!"

Therefore, when a "space collapse point" with a diameter of more than 200 meters and a width of more than 0.1 meters was formed in the void, and even the sunlight was absorbed, and the dark and colorless "space collapse point" appeared, every captain of the fleet locked it in an instant of [-] seconds .

"go ahead!"

Counting down to one second, the fleet crossed the final distance and arrived in front of the wormhole in a long line, each of them almost sticking to each other's tail flame.

0.8 seconds countdown, "Supreme Authority" passed the wormhole!

In 0.6 seconds, all the Twilight-class passed, and the Thundercloud-class "Stunning Waves Sunset" led all the remaining support ships to make the final acceleration!

In 0.3 seconds, the huge engine at the tail of the huge Tidal-class supply ship disappeared into the wormhole, together with the long plasma flame.

In 0.1 second, the wormhole disappeared instantly, leaving only a gravitational ripple spreading around in the space.

This fleet has completely disappeared from the Sira galaxy.

However, in the MUV solar system 17 light-years away from here, a round of wonders is unfolding in front of the members of the League of Nations Space Force fleet—how could it not be possible for the phenomenon that even distorts the sun’s light to occur in the vicinity of less than one astronomical unit? Get the attention of the space army?Except for the front-line combat troops who may still be immersed in bombing, the commanders of the various fleets, the astronomical telescopes deployed by the Space Force in space to monitor "beta re-airdrops", and even the "Absolute Earth Defense Circle" of the League of Nations have been continuously built for 20 years to improve All the orbital defense platforms temporarily forgot the disputes on the ground, and focused on the area that was not too far away, even enough for optical observation.

When the ripple-like surge passed, it seemed that a light-absorbing point appeared near the sun in less than two seconds. This time was too short to be sure, but suddenly, some entities came out of the hole " Jump" out.

Less than one AU, so this was something that happened about 5 minutes ago, and they're just now finding out.However, as the pictures seen by the astronomical telescope became clearer and clearer, the information pieced together became clearer and clearer. In the headquarters of the space army, the admiral of the fleet, and those staff members looked at the conclusion, shaking their hands like sifting chaff, zero gravity Sweat leaked from every pore, floating freely in the space station.

"That's the engine, that's... a deep-space vehicle, a deep-space vehicle that can travel through galaxies!" Mr. Admiral racked his brains to convince himself that there are other possibilities, but all of this is too clear and obvious, " They came from outside the solar system, they are aliens, they must be highly advanced aliens!"

"Warning local, fast! We are about to have a second three-type contact!"

"Adjust deep space communications, signal them..."

"Don't you understand!" A staff officer in the command room screamed, grabbing his hair with both hands, his spirit was broken, "The legend is true, they are here, they are here to take revenge on us, because of the stupid things we did, we will die, we will all die!"

This voice woke up the entire headquarters, they stopped their work, and a great fear enveloped them, because they also remembered the rumors, those ridiculous rumors.

"what should we do?"

This is a question that they can no longer hesitate to ask. The desperate suffocation makes them instinctively want to grab a life-saving straw, something that can calm them down.

"Don't be cowardly! Weakness will only lead to greater disasters! There are only 9 aircrafts here. Although they can navigate deep space, our duty is to guard the Earth's circle."

Mr. General closed his eyes, thinking about the current solution.