Making a Big Deal

The morning after the cruise ship was discovered, the Navy's senior leaders, including the Department of Defense commissioners, all attended a conference call.

The person hosting the call was surprisingly neither an active-duty Navy officer nor a Department of Defense official, but an ordinary civilian, Lin Qi.

"...During this incident, our Navy has already exposed several fatal problems. For example, we were unable to quickly and effectively locate an enemy that might have already infiltrated Federal Waters."

Lin Qi's words left everyone on the line silent, because he was telling the truth. The cruise ship had been missing for six days, and the Navy had discovered nothing during that time.

They had mobilized nearly twenty warships of various sizes to search for the cruise ship, but had found absolutely nothing.

If Lin Qi's planes had not discovered the cruise ship first, they might have had to keep searching for quite some time.

At that moment, a Navy Major General spoke up, trying to salvage the Navy's current disadvantageous position. "Mr. Lin Qi, I know that, as one of the victims, you are extremely angry right now. But that doesn't mean the Navy did nothing. We simply aren't as good as you imagine."

"This isn't actually our problem. It's like how everyone knows they should call the police when they run into trouble, but the police can't immediately appear beside every person who needs them. It takes time."

"Even without planes, we would have found the cruise ship. It wouldn't have taken much longer."

His statement received the approval of many senior officers. People who had never gone out to sea would never know what the true ocean was like.

Many believed that the horizon actually extended very far into the distance. In reality, the distance to the sea's horizon was