"You call that a threat?" The Secretary of Defense pointed at the screen. "They're obviously just meteors. I know NASA needs funding, Paul, but don't scare everyone half to death in the middle of the night and drag us here to look at your meteor shower. Aliens? Cosmic Zerg? Ha!"
Before he could finish speaking, the Female Secretary of State said coldly, "Field, take a good look at what these Fiery Meteors really are! Enlarge the original satellite photos immediately. One hundred times!"
On the giant screen, as the resolution steadily improved, the beautiful-looking Fiery Meteors gradually grew larger and clearer.
Crystal-like tentacles, enormous heads like lions, terrifying fangs, bodies brimming with energy, and torsos that remained perfectly healthy despite being enveloped in temperatures of several hundred degrees—
There was no mistaking how terrifying they were.
The expressions of the Secretary of Defense and the other hardliners gradually changed. But they still refused to admit their judgment had been wrong.
"Even if they're creatures from space, so what?" Secretary of Defense Field sneered. "We have Nuclear Weapons, Laser Weapons, ballistic missiles, more than a dozen aircraft carriers, and a fine army of young men. These beasts can only be wiped out in large numbers. We'll send the survivors to the zoo for people to gawk at."
"You call these terrifying creatures, which can withstand temperatures of over a thousand degrees, beasts?" The Female Secretary of State sneered. "The most frightening thing about them is what they can do on the ground. Tell your European Garrison to prepare for a tough fight!"
Field said nothing, but secretly ordered that every Carrier Strike Group launch its fighter jets to intercept the invading aliens. He, too, had begun taking the threat seriously.
The aliens' fireballs were gradually approaching the human Space Station.
Suddenly,