novelraw Chapter 128 Shock! The Pentagon's Highest Alert
Chapter 128 Shock! The Pentagon's Highest Alert
North America, Nevada, deep in the desert.
Inside a secret military base known to the outside world as "Area 52," 500 meters underground, there was a moment of complete silence.
This is the most heavily guarded and highest-secret location in all of North America.
The warehouse walls are made of a special alloy three meters thick, which can withstand a direct nuclear attack.
The warehouse is filled with 3,600 energy detectors, infrared sensors, and space distortion detectors that cover every angle. If a fly flies in, it will be detected and vaporized within 0.01 seconds.
In the center of the warehouse, within a massive energy field shield, floats a piece of irregularly shaped, jet-black metal whose surface appears to shimmer with swirling starlight.
This is "Starry Black Gold".
North America spent countless resources to extract this treasure, known as the "metal of the gods," from a fallen meteorite.
Several top scientists, dressed in white protective suits, were using the most sophisticated instruments to record every slight energy fluctuation of the device through the shield, their faces filled with obsession and fervor.
"Incredible... its energy dissipation rate is zero! It's like a perfect energy black hole!"
"Its structure completely violates any of the physical laws we know! It doesn't belong to this dimension!"
"If we can crack even one ten-thousandth of its secret, we can usher in a completely new energy revolution!"
Just as the scientists were excitedly discussing it.
"Buzz—"
A faint, eerie sound, as if space itself were being torn apart, rang out without warning in the silent warehouse.
Then, to everyone's utter astonishment...
A pitch-black, constantly rotating, twisting void appeared out of thin air in the very center of the warehouse, right next to the energy shield!
"Warning! Warning! Anomaly detected in unknown space! Highest level threat!"
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
The piercing alarm instantly resounded throughout the entire base!
Countless super soldiers clad in exoskeleton armor surged in from all directions, their Gauss rifles aimed at the eerie black hole.
However, before they could even fire.
A man clad in magnificent golden armor, with long blue hair and an otherworldly handsome face, emerged step by step from the black hole.
He glanced around, his gaze sweeping over the soldiers who looked like they were facing a formidable enemy and the scientists who were already terrified. In his eyes was a faint, contemptuous look, like a god looking down on ants.
"Fire!!"
The base commander, seeing this scene on the screen, roared at the top of his lungs.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"
Countless blue energy beams, like a torrential rain, shot towards the golden-armored man.
However, a strange scene happened.
The energy beams, powerful enough to pierce tank armor, seemed to sink into an invisible quagmire when they came within a meter of the man's body. They slowed down and eventually disappeared silently into the air.
"This...this is impossible!"
The commander's eyes widened as he stared at the screen at the man strolling leisurely through the dense barrage of fire, feeling as if his heart was about to stop beating.
The man walked up to the huge energy shield and glanced at the "Starry Black Gold" floating inside.
He seemed to be assessing something.
Then, he held up one finger.
Just like that, gently, it touched that energy shield that was supposedly able to withstand a nuclear explosion.
"Pop".
A soft popping sound, like a soap bubble bursting.
The powerful shield that was maintained by 80% of the base's energy supply simply... vanished.
The entire base fell into a deathly silence in that instant.
All that remained was the futile, hoarse shriek of the siren.
The man, Saga of Gemini, walked up to the huge piece of "Starry Black Gold".
He reached out and tapped on it.
"Hmm, the material is alright. It'll be just enough for my husband to make a pot."
He muttered to himself.
Then, he brought his hands together, like a hand knife, and gently sliced across the huge piece of metal that even lasers couldn't cut.
"Sizzle!"
There was no earth-shattering noise, only a soft sound like a hot knife cutting butter.
The enormous piece of "Starry Black Gold" was instantly split in two, the cut as smooth as a mirror.
Saga nodded in satisfaction, picked up one half, and weighed it in his hand.
"It's a bit heavy, but I think you'll like it."
He glanced at the remaining half next to him and thought for a moment.
"Alright, you can keep the rest as a souvenir. After all, we've come all this way, we can't let them open the door for nothing."
He seemed to think that what he had done was already very kind and polite.
Having done all this, he picked up the half of the "divine metal" that was enough to drive a nation mad, turned around, and prepared to leave.
He walked up to the soldiers and scientists who were so terrified they couldn't even pull the trigger, and stopped.
He gave a graceful yet dignified smile.
"Mortals, there is no need to panic."
"My Lord needs a pot to cook his cabbage."
"You should feel extremely honored that this item can become the cooking utensil of my Lord."
Having said that, he ignored the mortals who had been completely petrified and stepped back into the still-spinning black void.
The black hole slowly closed and disappeared without a trace.
In the warehouse, only that lone half of "Starry Black Gold" remained, along with a group of pitiful humans whose worldviews had been completely shattered.
A few seconds later.
The Pentagon, the highest command center.
A red telephone emitted a piercing scream.
"General! Area 52 has been invaded! Half of 'Starry Black Gold' has been stolen!"
"What?! Who did this?! A Russian? Or a Chinese?"
"No... we don't know... all we know is that the other party... the other party was a man wearing golden armor... he... he came out of a black hole, and said... he said his master wanted to use that thing... to make a pot for stir-frying cabbage..."
"..."
The entire command center fell into a long, eerie silence.