As Harass used the open-source quantum communication technology of Iridium Star to send a message to his mother planet, Bai Zhongqi was eagerly preparing to watch a grand spectacle—the 72-hour ultimatum had expired, and Lighthouse Country still had not made any effective response, and thus the real war had erupted.
For the majority of the Iridium Star people, this was a lackluster war; even Bai Zhongqi, who once fantasized about various scenarios of China's rise to power overwhelming the American Empire, found the actual outbreak of the war lacking the thrill he had imagined.
Perhaps there were many military enthusiasts and ordinary people in the country who were passionate about this war, but those truly familiar with the situation were aware that the disparity in strength between the two sides was too great, ensuring not only that the outcome was predictable but also that the process was not enjoyable.
Five minutes after the 72-hour deadline, China began a missile barrage within a 3,000-kilometer radius targeting all American military bases. In the following two hours, the Chinese military had almost exhausted all their old stock of missiles, including the Dongfeng-26, Dongfeng-31, and even the newly commissioned Dongfeng-41, which had become obsolete.
Thousands of land-to-land missiles, most of which were fitted with a new guidance head from Iridium Star Technology or equipped with an all-nitrogen anion, plasma, or small-yield hydrogen bomb warhead, were promptly put into action.
From South Rod Country and Neihong Country to Guam, including small and large American military bases and even host nation bases, all were included in the strike range. Out of humanitarian concerns, China had announced its intended targets three days prior and urged surrounding civilians to evacuate to avoid unnecessary casualties.
The American military also adjusted their garrison locations within those three days. Perhaps the surrounding civilians didn't evacuate, but China was not going to notify them again. They had already made it clear: if the American military purposely used civilians as human shields, then the Chinese military could only express regret.
The effect of this round of missile barrage was incredibly shocking. Not a single missile was intercepted during this process, and the stealth J-20evo activated strong electromagnetic interference above the battlefield, rendering all air defense systems, including radars, command centers, communications, and missiles, utterly useless.
The massive missile strike had leveled some military bases, while others were transformed into huge craters by the more powerful explosions.
The Reagan aircraft carrier, which had left Yokosuka earlier but was still navigating between the First and Second Island Chains, was hit by two modified Dongfeng-21D missiles. The ballistic missiles, attacking from a vertical trajectory, penetrated the flight deck and exploded just before piercing through the bottom of the ship, tearing the aircraft carrier into pieces and leaving fewer than twenty survivors from the thousands of American soldiers on board.
Essentially, this missile barrage had destroyed the entire military power of the Northeast Asian NATO, leaving no reliable organized resistance force deployable.
Unexpectedly, armored troops from North Rod Country north of the 38th Parallel headed to battle, and hundreds of thousands of loyal guards from Baekdu Mountain took advantage of South Rod and Lighthouse Country's chaos to decimate the scant remaining troops of South Rod.
Over the following week, North Rod's military forces completely occupied South Rod, which had been known as the strongest country in the Universe on Earth, thereby consigning it to history. On the same day, North Rod announced comprehensive reforms to emulate China, striving to join the Star Alliance.
The young third-generation fatso, labelled as insane, constantly confused the world. But this time, Bai Zhongqi was quite clear about the situation in North Rod. The fatso was not the original guy at all. He had created a look-alike bionic human and replaced nearly half of North Rod's high-ranking officials in the same way, taking control of the situation in North Rod. North Rod had long since become a puppet of the Star Alliance. The rolling torrent of iron armor crossing the 38th Parallel consisted largely of obsolete Type 59 tanks provided by China.
The situation in Neihong was similar, but it was occupied by China. Sergeant Major Wang Dong's amphibious assault troops descended from the sky into Edo. As a military force, the JSF failed to organize any effective resistance, and the Emperor surrendered to the amphibious assault troops in the royal palace.
Subsequently, up to 200,000 Chinese Army and armed police troops landed in Neihong sequentially, beginning to maintain local order and setting up a provisional government there.
As for Okinawa Prefecture, it gained independent status and established Ryukyu Country. After China took away the captured American soldiers from the local area, they also withdrew from this region.
Most of these incidents occurred later. Bai Zhongqi, originally thrilled, wanted to watch this great drama on Earth, but all these were interrupted by an unexpected situation.
As his personal assistant AI, Sacret Falcon, known as Zero, was contacting Bai Zhongqi during his observation of the missile barrage, he received a communication: "Your Majesty, urgent situation. Someone used a commercial version of the Sunarmon Mobile Phone to develop a specific-use quantum communication software and utilized a different quantum communication protocol to send at least 100T of data packets."
Bai Zhongqi's heart nearly clenched as he hastily asked, "Were the data packets intercepted?"
"The other party used a different communication protocol from ours, making it impossible to intercept during transmission. However, we intercepted the data packet from their local device, which contains a large amount of text information we cannot identify, and a significant part of the image information focuses on our Iridium Star fleet and defense systems," Zero replied.
Bai Zhongqi could no longer remain calm, "Aliens? Are there aliens on Earth that we haven't discovered?"
Zero emerged before Bai Zhongqi and said, "I have already temporarily disabled all functions of that device, but the data packets have been sent out. As it was being sent, the receiving party apparently received it. The first line of the data packet should be multi-base numbers, which we decoded first, and these numbers are actually Earth's spatial coordinates in the Galaxy."
Bai Zhongqi's expression darkened, "Earth's coordinates, along with our Iridium Star military details—this doesn't need your decryption for me to guess, whoever sent this data pack definitely has malicious intentions. Tell me, have you already determined the location of the person who sent this data packet?"
Zero nodded, saying, "I have dispatched six teams from the Stellar Transmission Academy to raid the signal origin, and full surveillance has already been set up; no one has left that building yet."
Bai Zhongqi knew that this was merely an attempt to bolt the stable door after the horse had bolted. Now, he needed to understand the situation to know what kind of enemy he would soon face.