The Pentagon.

In a special conference room.

A group of people sat at the conference table and watched the live broadcast of CTV watermark on the large screen without saying a word. When the group of soldiers armed to the teeth, accompanied by the drone, appeared on the screen, almost everyone held their breath.

It wasn't until the square disappeared from the video that the whispering voice spread in the conference room.

"I don't know how many victories their airborne soldiers have against our Rangers..." The first to break the silence was the Minister of defense, who reached out his index finger and touched the coffee cup on the table. He tried several times to hold the cup handle and calmly took a drink. "We don't need those fancy armor at all. It's no difference between carrying lithium battery and carrying explosive bag."

This sentence brings some comfort to many people. After all, lithium battery, which uses active metal as electrode, is more spectacular than thermite.

However, there are many people whose faces are still full of melancholy.

After all, even those sitting here have taken this issue into consideration. There's no reason why Chinese people can't. What's more, this thing was thrown directly from the low earth orbit. Even if a retarder was added, the test of equipment durability and soldiers' quality would not be small.

“…… Similar issues seem to have been discussed last time, "the White House national security adviser, looking at the overconfident - or overly optimistic - Defense Secretary, stood up, pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose, and said slowly," it depends on whether they want to fight our Rangers or not. "

The defense minister retorted: "the battlefield is changing so fast that there are not always elections."

The national security adviser shook his head.

"Let's face it, this landing mode of vertical landing, we have no effective defense means at all, almost no missiles can catch up with their speed 20 kilometers away from the landing point after they break through the atmosphere. Unless they parachute in our face, or we build anti-aircraft missiles all over the country. "

The president turned his ballpoint pen.

"That sounds like a good idea."

The national security adviser looked at the president seriously.

"Mr. President, I'm afraid no one would be happy to do so except for the arms company. And with all due respect, instead of wasting our money on this black hole of discontent, we should do more in other places, such as diplomacy. Whether you are willing to accept this reality or not, the current situation is not good for us. "

"We only know that they have a formed orbital airborne unit, but we still don't know the number of this unit until now. Do you know what I mean? They may be more than we think. If they arm every orbital airborne soldier according to this standard... "

Looking at the people in front of the conference table looking at each other and exchanging surprised eyes, the national security adviser in a suit took a deep breath and said in a difficult tone.

"I think it's hard for us to find the winner in the face of such an opponent..."

……

The hot discussion on the Internet continues to ferment, people's excitement continues, obviously not so fast to vent.

The parade is over.

As the finale of the whole review ceremony, it was the square array of the orbital Airborne Brigade. This square is led by Li Gaoliang, the commander of the team - of course, we may call him brigadier Li now.

Since the second half of this year, the size of the orbital airborne forces has been expanded from regiment level to brigade level, and the special services originally affiliated to the East war zone have also been allocated to the space forces under the direct command of Shangjing.

For Li Gaoliang to have such a future, Lu Zhou is also happy for him from the bottom of his heart.

I think he will be glad to have made the choice to change his fate.

"Dad, the celebration of the bird's nest starts in the evening. You don't have to worry about it," Lu said with a sigh, looking at the impatient dad who was there after the parade. "And our tickets are special seats. No matter how late we go, we have seats."

In fact, there is a VIP box in the bird's nest gymnasium, but Lu Zhou went to the scene to have a look. The "viewing experience" of the box is not good to sit in the open gymnasium, but because of the closed environment, it will lead to a rather narrow vision.

Although the holographic technology of star technology has achieved the level of leading the world for the time being, it is still not very mature. At least, it is a few kilometers away from the complete enhancement of all-round coverage of reality.

In this case, the best seats are actually the temporary seats placed in the middle of the stadium on the green field. The VIP seat, which takes into account the experience and comfort of watching movies, is the closest row to the stadium.

Hearing Lu Zhou's words, Lu stared.

"What? At night? "

"Well."

Lu Zhou made a helpless expression on his face. If he remembered correctly, he said it at least three times.Lu Bangguo made a embarrassed smile and touched the back of his head.

"It starts at night. There's really no need to worry Oh, oh, by the way, I met a very interesting old man on my way to Beijing. His niece is in her early twenties and has no boyfriend. I have a chance to arrange it for you... "

When I saw that Dad had gone to look for his business card in his pocket, Lu Zhou was almost choked by his saliva.

What the hell?!

To be a high-speed rail can find a date for yourself, as for it?

At last, he understood why Xuejie didn't want to go back to her home in Beijing until the new year.

Just as Lu Zhou was thinking about how to politely refuse such a troublesome thing, the student sister standing next to him noticed the embarrassment on his face.

She took a step forward quietly. Before the boat reached out her hand, she took the card from his father with a smile.

"Uncle Lu, he doesn't have a place to put his business card. I just took my bag, so I'll take it for him first. When it's done, I'll urge him to go. "

"Oh, oh..." I don't know if it's true or false. Lu Lian nodded and said with a smile, "well All right, this kid in our family doesn't speak very well. Please. "

"Well, don't worry!"

Looking at the communication seems to be very smooth, Lu Zhou secretly rejoiced at the lack of a troublesome thing and gave her a thumbs up.

Good job!

……

With the coming of night, the neon lights of thousands of houses are gradually lit on the tall buildings.

Outside the bird's Nest stadium, soldiers who had just been reviewed in the square formed a man-made wall, like a human shaped wiper, to dredge the traffic around the area and guide pedestrians into the stadium orderly.

A generation of nearby roads have been sealed. Wang Peng parked his car in the underground garage of a nearby hotel, and then, together with several other colleagues, led a group of people on a land boat toward the stadium.

Put up the tiptoe and look at the crowd ahead, Chen Yushan said with some emotion.

"There are so many people this year."

"After all, it's the first time..." Suddenly thought of what, Lu Zhou looked at Wang Peng and asked, "say, has this celebration been held before?"

Wang Peng thought and wanted to say.

"Bird's nest seems to be the first time for such a large-scale holographic projection application It's like the first time. "

Isn't that bullshit?

The boat smiled and shook its head.

Where did you get such a large-scale holographic projection system before? Even if you want to install this force, you have to have something to install it.

Walking with his wife, Lu Bangguo looked left and right, looked at the dense crowd around him, and whispered: "so many people How can we meet? "

Before he came here, he and the old man named Liu were on the phone in Rio and would meet in front of the bird's Nest stadium.

Fang Mei took a look at him and said, "if you can't touch it, you won't touch it?"? There are so many people standing here. You meet in front of the gym. Isn't that looking for needles in the sea? "

There was a sad expression on Lu Bangguo's face.

It was agreed that Liu Peizhong, the niece in her early twenties, would be brought to see the grand performance with them tonight.

But look at this picture now. It would be amazing if we could meet each other.

Didn't notice what Dad was thinking, so Lu Zhou raised his head.

At this time, a fire red beam of light rose from the center of the stadium, suddenly burst the brilliant particles of light, lighting up the whole night sky.

I didn't expect that there was a fireworks show before the ceremony. For this unexpected surprise, the passers-by around made a surprised sound, excitedly raised their mobile phones and took photos of the light and shadow in the air.

Lu Zhou didn't take out his mobile phone to take a picture, just looked at the gorgeous fireworks and said softly with a smile.

"It's about to start."

Eyes reflected the gorgeous flowers, looking at the sky of Chen Yushan, with some surprises and unexpected tone said.

"That is Are you setting off fireworks? "

"Yes, but it's different from the traditional gunpowder fireworks," continued the boat after a pause. "The scattered light particles are all emitted through the hologram."

“…… It's a hologram. "

The boat glanced sideways at her.

"You seem to be disappointed in your tone?"

"I'm not disappointed Actually, I'm very happy. I just think that these fireworks are not real, and I always feel a little distorted, "shrugged her shoulders, and Chen Yushan joked playfully," maybe it's my affectation. "

The boat smiled and shook its head.

"Fireworks, whether holographic or gunpowder, are only temporary things in the world. With the original kind of fireworks, on the contrary, it will leave behind pollution and security risks. Don't you think this kind of hologram has the breath and fashion of the new era? "Chen Yushan said teasingly, "this kind of saying really has your style."

Lu Zhou: "which style?"

"Straight man style in science."

Is this kind of thing originally divided into science and arts?

Does it have to have an engineering department?

Looking at her side face illuminated by fireworks and slightly cocked corner of her mouth, Lu Zhou made a helpless expression on her face and looked forward.

Maybe men and women think differently.