In a secret underground base in the Eagle Country.
Around a round conference table of moderate size, gathered some of the most important figures in the entire Eagle Country. They had met here to discuss a very important matter, one that would determine the fate of the entire Eagle Country.
"What are your thoughts on the new weapons recently showcased by Divine Land?"
The man who spoke was dressed in military uniform, his chest covered with badges. He had a very traditional white face, with a hawk-like and wolf-like appearance, and his eyes revealed a murderous aura.
"What are your thoughts? Shouldn't we be asking you that? With such a huge amount of military spending every year, are you just sitting around doing nothing?"
Sitting next to him was a middle-aged man who looked to be only 40 or 50 years old. He had a nonchalant attitude and lit a cigar as he spoke. This man was the head of the tax bureau.
"Fuck you!"
The man in military uniform slammed his fist on the table, about to explode in anger.
"Don't worry, Divine Land's technology comes from the moon. How can we compare to alien technology? There's nothing we can do about it."
A robust middle-aged man sitting in the central seat tapped the table lightly with his fingers, unhurriedly.
He seemed to be playing peacemaker, but as soon as he finished speaking, he looked at another person dressed in a black suit. This person had an air of old-fashioned complacency and gave off a gloomy feeling.
"I'm saying, Divine Land has this technology, so why hasn't the FBI figured it out yet? They can't even give me a unit codename?"
"We lost too many men in the last operation. If you want intelligence, you'll have to pay more."
The FBI director looked older than everyone else present; he was the only one with white hair and many wrinkles on his face.
"Money, money, money, everyone wants money! We're in big danger now, don't you know that?"
The military representative spoke again, even showing the footage of the flying swords that had been recorded.
"This one weapon alone, the hypersonic kinetic energy weapon, requires less than 10 of them to prevent our nuclear missiles from even leaving our homeland. Ladies and gentlemen, we may have the weapons, but in the current situation, they will pose no threat to anyone, and our hegemonic status will cease to exist."
"What can we do? Weapon development is your military's business. If you can't do anything about it, do you expect us to conjure up some weapon for you?"
It seems there's some kind of conflict between the tax bureau official and the military; they're constantly at odds.
"Could we contact the people on the moon and ask them to provide us with some technical support?"
The first solution that the person in charge could think of was naturally to find out where the technology came from in Divine Land and how it came from in the Eagle Country.
"I'm afraid that won't work. We haven't been able to meet with the lunar personnel privately yet, and although we've restarted the lunar landing program, the relevant technologies still need to be refined over time. Moreover, the moon is now under the control of Divine Land and the lunar people, making a direct landing very difficult for us."
"Damn natives, they should be like those Indians; only exterminated natives are good natives."
"I think we still have to go to Divine Land to 'get' it."
After much discussion, the ball was ultimately passed to the FBI.
"Seconded"
"Seconded"
The burden ultimately fell on the intelligence department, and the wrinkles on the face of the FBI representative deepened even further.
Intelligence agents are not easy to train; each one requires decades of training and comes at a considerable cost. Even turning internal personnel to defect requires a significant amount of time and money.
"Hey, why haven't you used our vampire potion yet? You look so old, how many more days can you last?"
After discussing this first matter, the tax official looked at the FBI official.
"You got all the technology, what's there to worry about?"
"It's precisely because I acquired the technology that I know how rudimentary your methods are. I can't trust such poorly made products."
The old man shook his head.
"If your methods weren't problematic, why would you need so much blood to survive?"
The old man was fully aware of the initial version of the vampire potion they had created using this technology. The experimental process was so haphazard that it couldn't even be described as haphazard. Fortunately, the human body's genes, after millions of years of natural evolution, were essentially a mountain of excrement. Despite all this fuss, it didn't lead to any particularly strange consequences—it just required the user to drink blood.
This is already the easiest outcome, considering how many people live at the bottom of society, and bloodshed happens everywhere.
"Now that we've lost our nuclear deterrent, how can we maintain the Eagle Country ' global standing?"
While stealing technology is a must, we must first ensure that the Eagle Country remains the same Eagle Country. Otherwise, what if it gets swept away by Divine Land while the power imbalance is still there?
"Deterrence, deterrence..."
The middle-aged man in the main seat muttered to himself, seemingly lost in thought.
The others also looked serious, as if they were deep in thought, but what they were thinking remained a mystery.
After a while of filtering, the middle-aged man in the main seat suddenly shouted.
"Got it!"
The eyes of everyone else, who had been lost in thought or daydreaming, were now fixed on him.
"If it's for deterrence, then we have absolutely no need to launch a nuclear missile."
The middle-aged man in the main seat kept everyone in suspense.
"If we don't launch it, are we just going to leave it to self-destruct?"
The tax bureau representative coldly mocked.
"Yes, it's meant to be kept for self-destruction."
The middle-aged man's words shocked them all. Was he insane? To detonate a nuclear bomb—what was the difference between that and suicide?
"Of course, it wasn't a random self-destruction. Everyone, you all know Yellowstone National Park, right?"
"Nonsense, which Eagle Country doesn't know that?"
The others then joined in the mockery.
" Yellowstone National Park is the largest volcano on Earth Star. If we were to manually detonate it, the resulting devastating impact would directly cause the collapse of Earth Star's ecosystem, and the entire human civilization would be wiped out."
"No matter how much technology Divine Land possesses, it's impossible for it to emerge unscathed from a crisis of this magnitude, capable of causing global destruction."
"But wouldn't we be the first ones affected by Yellowstone National Park volcanic eruption?"
The uniformed personnel clearly disagreed; after the volcanic eruption, the first Eagle Country, and such an action was obviously Tai Chi.
"What's there to be afraid of? They're the ones who should be afraid. The button to destroy the world is in our hands. They're the ones who should be afraid."
The middle-aged man clenched his fist, making his decision.
"Plant all the existing nuclear weapons near Yellowstone Volcano. If Divine Land shows any intention to attack, we'll just go for a mutual destruction."