As Chen Jue plunged straight toward Earth from the outer atmosphere, the intense air friction around his body was immediately picked up by the Long Province base's search radar.
"An unidentified flying object is approaching the base at over Mach 100 per second?"
"An alien UFO?"
"We only just received a signal from outer space. How could they be here so soon?"
At that moment, Elder Zhong and the others, who were worrying over the two ancient bronze artifacts, all blanched when they heard the alarm sound inside the base.
The base had originally been built to respond to Second Home, which had been discovered on the moon. Though it contained a large quantity of advanced aerospace equipment, the high-tech weapons that could actually defend against an extraterrestrial civilization were still in the experimental phase and had not officially entered service.
To defend against this hypersonic unidentified flying object, they could only rely on the Garrison Guard Forces stationed outside the base.
Just as the air-defense and fire-control radars around the base powered up one after another, and various surface-to-air missiles and antiaircraft guns went on standby, the latest signal source reported by the search radar made Elder Zhong's eyelid twitch.
"That's Comrade Chen Jue's smartwatch signal!"
"Shut down the defense system, quickly!"
Elder Zhong hurriedly explained, telling the control center in the tower to turn off the defense system's alarm.
Liu Chengdong, Zou Ying, and the others who had accompanied him exchanged looks.
So the "alien" that had kept everyone in the base on edge all this time was actually Chen Jue, their troublemaking old acquaintance!
Once this absurd alarm incident was resolved, everyone broke into a sudden cold sweat.
At humanity's current level of technology, there really was little they could do if they encountered an unidentified