[Book title: The Broken Temple Has Immortals. Main text: There Are Still Living Sea Demons! Author: Xue Manlin]
Tang Changsheng exchanged a few pleasantries, then climbed into the military vehicle. Inside and outside the airport, the atmosphere was tense. Fighter jets and ground crews were hard at work, and even the surrounding missiles and antiaircraft guns had been brought out.
"Major Li, why is the base so tense? I saw the British Fleet on my way here. Does it have something to do with them?"
Li He made no secret of it. "Somewhat, but not much. Hmph. Great Chu's Atlantic Fleet is already on its way. Those Brits won't dare get cocky."
Great Chu's Atlantic Fleet had two Aircraft Carrier Battle Groups and formidable strength.
Britain, meanwhile, had lost every colony after its defeat years ago. How could that little island nation still afford to support a powerful fleet?
These days, it could barely maintain two Aircraft Carrier groups, and the ships had been in service for quite some time. One carrier was even a relic of the Thirty Years' War. Despite extensive modifications, it was scrap compared to Great Chu's carriers!
Besides, Britain no longer had the courage to fight Great Chu again.
With its strength as the world's sole superpower, Great Chu could strike Britain's homeland in no time and teach them how to behave.
That was, of course, assuming nuclear weapons were out of the picture!
It really was strange. Not long ago, Tang Changsheng had been in the "Immortal Realm," fighting a war with cold steel.
Now he was in a modern military base... and might even find himself facing a carrier group.
The thought flashed through his mind, then he asked, "If it isn't the British Fleet, why is the base on lockdown?"
Li He