Evolution game, nothing more than that!

Fortunately, although it was a little late, Yi Shen and his team finally discovered the help provided by the Evolution Game in this mission at the critical moment.

The three of them looked at each other, and in silence, they made a decision together in tacit understanding.

Go to that base and seize control of the anti-satellite weapon!

……

At Hinode Base, for the soldiers in the base, this was another day that couldn't be more ordinary.

Although it was heard that a big incident happened in downtown Tokyo and even the Sibyl System was affected and offline and has not been able to be put back online, for the officers and soldiers at the base far away from the city, the disturbance was just a new topic of conversation and did not cause much impact.

——This is the benefit of closed management. As long as the door is closed and people are stopped from entering and leaving, the turmoil and chaos in the outside world will be well isolated.

Especially now that even the civilian Internet has been cut off, the soldiers cannot obtain external intelligence through their own information terminals, so the panic and chaos in the city have not spread here.

However, today, the peace of this base will soon be broken.

Private Ichiro Sato was on a routine patrol of the base with a team of armed robots.

Originally, this kind of patrol was basically just a pretense, and most of the time it was only done by robots, while human soldiers could openly sneak around and be lazy.

But this time, probably because of the turmoil in the city, the superiors issued an order that all patrols must be physically present, and they must report the situation to the guard department every half hour until the shift is changed.

Just as he finished his routine communication and thought the night would pass uneventfully, suddenly, the alarm rang throughout the base.

[Level 1 alert, all personnel, take combat positions. This is not a drill. Repeat, Level 1 alert, all personnel, take combat positions…]

Ichiro Sato was stunned for two seconds before he reacted. He immediately abandoned the robots and rushed to his combat post in a panic.

He wasn't the only one panicking; the entire base erupted in a frenzy. Soldiers scrambled to their respective positions, each wondering—what was going on? Why was there a sudden level one alert? Was a war brewing? Against whom?

Chapter 142: Reversal of Tiangang

In the command room, a large number of technical officers and soldiers who were urgently summoned were busy working.

Colonel Kameda, the commander of the camp, was standing behind everyone, waiting quietly.

"Sir, the radar and optical targeting systems are activated. The Artemis laser launcher has completed coolant injection. Please enter the attack target."

His adjutant handed over a tablet that listed all the orbiting targets captured by the base's radar and optical targeting systems in the visible sky.

"..."

Colonel Kameda took the tablet and did not look at the densely packed satellite images on the screen. Instead, he directly entered a coordinate data below.

In an instant, all other objects in orbit in the image blurred and disappeared, leaving only a target in geosynchronous orbit marked as its own.

"This... Sir, this is our satellite?"

The adjutant was surprised when he saw the target chosen by Kameda. Was there something wrong?

"That's right, this is the target of this attack!"

Colonel Kameda said in an unquestionable tone:

"According to reliable intelligence, the terrorists who previously destroyed the Sibyl system and attacked the Prime Minister's Office intend to manipulate satellites to drop to the ground to launch a larger-scale terrorist attack. Our intelligence department intercepted the data link of their intrusion satellite and confirmed that the manipulated satellite is this one!"

"This……"

The adjutant was a little stunned.

Although what the commander said made sense, why didn't he know such important information?

According to military regulations, he must be informed simultaneously of important mission-related intelligence like this!

"I'm sorry, sir, I'm still a little confused about the information you provided. Please allow me to reconfirm this with the General Staff."

The adjutant saluted first and then said this.

"Is this so..."

Colonel Kameda glanced at his adjutant and said nothing more.

The latter thought that this was the other party's tacit consent, so he turned around and prepared to use a special encrypted phone to call the General Staff Headquarters to confirm the authenticity of the information.

However, before he could pick up the microphone, there was a "bang" sound, and the adjutant felt his vision suddenly turn red, and a burning pain appeared at the back of his head and between his eyebrows. Then, he completely lost consciousness and fell to the ground.

But in the eyes of the people around him, it seemed that Colonel Kameda, who was just talking peacefully, suddenly pulled out a gun and shot his adjutant in the head!

Everyone was stunned by this scene, especially those who heard the conversation between the commander and the adjutant, who realized that there might be something wrong with this emergency mission!

However, facing the shocked and frightened eyes of the people around him, Colonel Kameda just said coldly:

"Adjutant Suzuki intentionally disobeyed my orders and was clearly connected to those terrorists, so I killed him on the spot. Everyone, continue your work!"

Faced with the authority of their superiors and the black muzzles of their guns, these technical officers and soldiers who had never seen a real death since they joined the army were immediately frightened.

Everyone turned around obediently like trained dogs and continued with their work. No one dared to raise any objections.

Regardless of whether there was any problem with the order given by Colonel Kameda, he was now the highest commander in the base. According to military law, he had the right to kill any soldier who disobeyed orders during combat missions.

Although everyone knows that the other party will inevitably pay a price later, no one dares to resist him now - who would risk their life for a salary of more than 200,000 yen a month!

After a while, the coordinates were entered into the system, and a soldier reported with some trepidation:

"Target locked, you can start attacking!"

"Very good, remove the disguise and get 'Artemis' into launch position!"

Colonel Kameda ordered.

"Yes, remove the disguise, and prepare the Artemis for launch!"

As the order was repeated, alarms rang in the base, and an inconspicuous half-buried building suddenly expanded to both sides, slowly revealing a giant laser launcher that was being raised underneath.

This huge machine, with a diameter of more than ten meters and a weight of more than two hundred tons, looks more like a telescope than a weapon. It is the main body of "Artemis".

The high-energy laser it produces is enough to attack from the ground to the geosynchronous orbit and effectively kill satellites or space stations in orbit.

"Access atmospheric data and perform low-power calibration."

"Accessing atmospheric data, conducting low-power calibration! ...Calibration completed, ready for launch!"

Accompanied by commands and reports, the huge launcher slowly turned and aimed the lens at an area on the equator in the southern sky.

"emission!"

Colonel Kameda gave the order.

The soldier who carried out the order hesitated for half a second, and finally pressed the button.

In an instant, a high-energy laser beam invisible to the naked eye shot out from its launch port and hit the satellite that was floating in the geosynchronous orbit and moving at the same speed as the ground at the speed of light 300,000 kilometers per second!

In an instant, the temperature on the satellite's surface began to rise rapidly.

[Alert, ground-based anti-satellite weapon attack detected, self-defense system activated! ]

The digital life forms hiding in the server inside the satellite were startled when they heard the alarm sent by the satellite system itself.

"What's going on? Why are we suddenly under attack?"

"Who is it? Who is attacking us?"

"It's our own laser weapon, the attack comes from the Japanese mainland!"

"What's going on? Did they rebel?"

"No, it's those guys. They must have seized control of the anti-satellite weapon! Don't forget that they have super powers and can do this easily!"

"Damn it! Even so, how did they know we were on this satellite? This is clearly a top secret that only the Prime Minister can know!"

"No, it wasn't me. It had nothing to do with me. You were all watching at the time. I didn't reveal any information about the satellite to them!"

For a moment, in the virtual world within this satellite server, the noise of each consciousness was so deafening that it was dark and chaotic.

However, as digital life forms, their sense of time is different from that of humans. No matter how fierce the quarrel is, it is only a moment in the outside world.

And at this moment, the satellite system itself also responded - grenade-like warheads were launched from the satellite, and then exploded in front of the satellite, turning into a cloud of black heavy metal particles.

The high-energy laser shot from the ground shone on it and was immediately absorbed and intercepted. The high temperature on the surface of the satellite, which had been rising continuously, finally stopped rising.

But this is only a temporary measure. It won’t take long before the cloud of heavy metal particles evaporates completely, so the satellite quickly started the next self-rescue action - changing orbit to avoid it.

At the same time, the digital life forms in the satellite server had ended their quarrel and started their counterattack.

They issued commands to other satellites in space, mobilizing space-based weapons in orbit and aiming at the "rebellious" ground-based anti-satellite weapons base.

Chapter 143: Minister, do you want to be Prime Minister?

In a low-Earth orbit lower than the synchronous orbit, hundreds of satellites began to deform and unfold after receiving commands. Reflective films thinner than cicada wings were propped up around them, turning them into large-area, highly reflective mirrors.

Satellites under direct sunlight adjust their positions to focus and reflect the sunlight onto other satellites around them. The reflectors of these satellites then project the sunlight onto the dark side of the earth that is not illuminated by the sunlight, and onto those satellites that are in the "night" like a relay.

Eventually, these relayed sunlight will be concentrated on a few satellites, focused into high-energy beams with extremely high energy density, and eventually projected onto the ground.

This is Japan's space-based weapons system in this world, called the "Apollo" space strike network, which corresponds to the "Artemis" anti-satellite system on the ground. It can attack every corner of the earth without blind spots around the clock.

However, just as the launch of "Artemis" requires time for warm-up preparation, the launch of "Apollo" also requires time to adjust the satellite orientation and reflectors.

Such adjustments naturally cannot escape the observation of ground radar.

"Sir, the launch of our Apollo satellite has been detected. Based on its position and mirror orientation, the predicted target is... us!"

A radar soldier reported loudly.

After hearing this, everyone in the command room realized that there was indeed something wrong with the target they had just attacked!

This problem is so serious that we have to use space-based weapons to attack them!

Everyone couldn't help but look at Colonel Kameda. Some even took their hands off the operating table, not intending to continue accompanying Kameda in his madness. They could still argue that they were just following their superior's orders before, but now the situation was clear. If they continued, it would be naked treason!

Even if they were not killed by the space-based weapons attack that was about to arrive, they would definitely be brought to military court afterwards!

The soldier in charge of controlling the laser launcher even quietly reached for the button to terminate the launch, trying to turn the tide.

However, before his hand could touch the button, another gunshot rang out, and blood mixed with brain matter splattered on the operating table.

"Everyone continue to stay at your posts!"

As he said this, he pushed the corpse aside, not caring about the dirt on the blood, and personally stepped forward to operate it, adjusting the laser transmitter to tracking mode and firmly locking it on the satellite that was beginning to perform orbit change maneuvers.

Now, it depends on whether our side will destroy the opponent's satellite first, or the opponent's space-based weapons will fire first.

This is a gamble, and the stakes are Kameda himself and everyone in this entire base!

Time passed by minute by minute.

While changing their orbits, the satellites in the sky continuously throw out new heavy metal particle smoke bombs to block the heat of the laser, but the number of smoke bombs is limited after all. When the last cloud of heavy metal particles is evaporated by the laser and the high-energy beam shines on the surface of the satellite again, those "Apollo" space strike satellites will just adjust their positions and lens directions.

The high-energy laser burned through the thermal insulation layer on the surface of the satellite in just a few seconds. The high temperature of thousands of degrees instantly burned the server units inside the satellite, and the digital lifeforms faced a catastrophe.

At the same time, two high-energy beams formed by the sunlight gathered from hundreds of Apollo satellites also fell from the sky and landed directly on the Hinode base, shining on the command building and the laser launcher respectively.

The laser transmitter, which required coolant to work properly, immediately stopped working due to the sudden increase in temperature, and even the inside of the machine was overloaded and damaged.

On the other hand, in the command building, even with the isolation of reinforced concrete, the highly concentrated sunlight still showed its lethality. The temperature in the command room soared to a level that was enough to burn people's lungs in just a few seconds. No one cared about the deterrence of the gun in Kameda's hand anymore, and they got up and fled in panic.

Only Colonel Kameda was still standing in front of the blood-stained operating table, watching his skin blister and swell from the high temperature, and eventually being roasted to death!

Until the moment before he lost consciousness, he regained control of his body and used his burned vocal cords to utter a Japanese curse: "Bakayarō..."

……

Yes, Colonel Kameda, who personally attacked the real ruler of his country and committed the crime of "treason", was also an unlucky guy controlled by Yi Shen.

Considering the current strength of Yi Shen and the other two, it is too easy to control a person silently.

Sakurajima Mai was responsible for infiltrating without being discovered, Yi Shen was responsible for hijacking the nervous system, and Yamasaki An was responsible for sucking blood and reading memories. The three of them performed their duties and successfully brought Kameda under control without alerting anyone. They also knew how to mobilize the base's power to launch an attack.

What happened next was as mentioned above. Under the command of "Kameda", the entire base instantly entered combat status, targeting the server satellite that Yamasaki An obtained from the Prime Minister's memory, and launched an attack.

As for themselves, they hid far away on a small hill one kilometer away, controlling everything remotely and avoiding the inevitable counterattack from the other side.

"How is it? Did you destroy the target?"

Mai Sakurajima looked at the beam of light falling from the sky and asked.

"It's been destroyed."

Yi Shen nodded.

Before "Kameda" died, he had seen the signal that the target was destroyed through the opponent's eyes.

"But the mission doesn't seem to be over yet..."