1450H GMT+8

October 1, 2016

Beijing, China

National Day…

The day the red flag of the People's Republic of China waves with great pride over Beijing as the communist state has declared sovereignty over China. In China, it is a day where history was made and nationalistic spirit burns as bright as the Sun.

But this day is not only about history and nationalism. This is the start of a week long holiday and with every other countries in the world, what is a holiday without a vacation. The national day is also a cultural holiday, where the old and new meet.

For the workers of the Chinese nation, after days of hardwork, nothing is more fruitful than a single outing somewhere in the great city. And so 14 million tourists (excluding the already 11 million residents of the city) from neighbouring provinces and all across China flocked together in a city of 1300 square kilometres.

What a nightmare it is for those who are in-charge of public safety and security and also for those in-charge of the transportation departments – for in total, there are about 25 million souls jam-packed in the capital of the People's Republic of China. To make sure the week will go on with little to no incidents, the Ministry of Public Security has placed a total of 60,000 men on which 15,000 are from the People's Armed Police and 45,000 Volunteers from the People's Liberation Army Militia. The Ministry of State Security has also reinforced their surveillance capacity and heightened their surveillance on suspicious individuals both inside and outside China.

Today is certified, like every other National Days that went before it to be as safe as anyone can think of.

And so… what could possibly go wrong?

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1450H GMT+8

October 1, 2016

Beijing South Station

"Attention to all motorists in Hufang Rd., Taiping St., Nanhendong St. and Beiwei Road. Due to a recent accident in Beiwei Road Taiping Street Corner, motorists on the said roads will experience a mild traffic. We advise motorists to use a different route."

"That's strange, an accident during National Day here in Beijing? That driver must be one crazy guy." The man on his late 20s looked on his phone as he read the motorist advisory app. "I hope his only going to pay some fines. He really made a bad show just now. Dealing with 25 million is not an easy job, the Ministry of Transportation guys will surely make a good score on you, and well good luck."

He then looked at the map on his phone. "Come to think about it, it's right straight ahead." As of now, he currently outside Beijing South Station. He then raised his left wrist and remove the sleeve of his black suit covering his Swiss made wrist watch. "It's 1450. The old man said he wants me to be in the Ministry of National Security by 1600. I think I should have come here to Beijing by plane afterall."

"Oh well, let's go!"

The man then picked up his suit case as he walked to the exit of the terminal. As he walked out of the station exit, the man was meet with a ton of people walking around him. Realizing what had just seen right now, he realized the station was full of people. If his eyes were right, probably about 5000 people were inside the station.

And the area outside the station – there should be more than 5x the amount of people walking around, doing and minding their own business, some are entering the station and some are leaving it.

"2nd Lieutenant Wang Xin!" Just a few meters away from him, a dark greyish haired woman wearing a black suit made a salute.

"At ease…" The man looked at the woman who stared at his right on the face. "She must be wondering about my blue eyes and darkish blue hair."

"Yes, I am 2nd Lt. Wang Xin, so you must be Sergeant Chang Lei." The man soon noticed her hair is quite strange – a dark greyish colour of the hair is not common in China after all. "Anyway, stop the formalities. We are in public afterall. This is an order."

"Yes, anyway, General Wang had ordered me to assist you in this mission. We are going to meet him in the Central Military Commission by 1630." The woman was about to walk right into the car when she was stopped by Xin.

"I think I shall go there by foot. It's just 3.5 km away from here. Walking will be enough, plus it's been some time already since I have been here in Beijing."

"If that is what you want." Lei than made a gesture to the driver of the car. The car then moved out leaving the two of them behind.

"This guy is going to be my companion for the next one year, I wonder if he is what the records says he is." Lei then brought her gaze away from him and looked straight ahead on the busy sidewalk of Beijing.

XXX

1500H GMT+8

October 1, 2016

Intelligence Department, Ministry of State Security

"General Lao, we have received a class D confidential document from the Ministry of Transportation, it's a CCTV footage taken 10 minutes ago from a traffic surveillance camera in Beiwei Road." A man wearing a black suit gave a memory stick to the General.

The General immediately took the memory stick, insert it into his computer and opened the video icon. A few moments later, the footage shows the traffic situation on Beiwei Road on 1448H, about 12 minutes ago.

At first, the footage shows a low density traffic in Beiwei Road. All cars in the area are running at an average speed of 50 kph, as shown by the vehicle speed indicator on the top left corner. There was nothing unusual. But, around 14:50:22, a few milliseconds after the green traffic light was on, a vehicle running on 40 kph crashed on the middle of the road. There was nothing in front of the vehicle but the car crashed as if it collided on a concrete wall. Soon, other cars began to crash on the middle of the road, and they all crashed on the same manner – it is as if they had crashed on an invisible wall.

The entire clip was around 180 seconds long.

"What the hell is this?" the General then paused the video and looked into his secretary. "By the way, did the Ministry of Transportation already posted an advisory warning?" General Lao said.

"Yes they have posted already a traffic advisory 13 minutes ago." The Secretary replied.

"Warn them not to act harshly. We have already more than half a million people on that area alone. We might cause a stampede." General Lao then picked up a piece of paper from his desk and gave it to his Secretary. "Contact our men in the Shahezhen Air Base and tell them to send a UAV with infrared sensors in that coordinates ASAP."

"Yes sir!" His secretary then made a salute and left the General on his office.

XXX

1507H GMT +8

Shahezhen Air Base

"Sir, I receive a command from General Lao of the Intelligence Department of the MSS. It's a Class D order!" A man in military uniform rushed into the Base Commander's office carrying a concealed fax letter.

What are those guys from the intelligence department are upto this time. Its National Day for damn sake!

"What do you mean urgent. Give me that!" The Commander stretched his hand and took the letter from his subordinate.

"Class D? A drone with infrared sensors?" The Commander then looked at his subordinate and placed the confidential paper on his desk. "Sergeant, do we have any drone operators as of now?"

"We have atleast 7 operators available but all of them are having there one hour breaks." The Sergeant replied. "We have also 5 operators in duty but they are currently piloting surveillance drones heading into the Yellow Sea on the request of the PLAN."

"You got to be kidding me." The Commander clinched his fist and bang it on the table as he stood up angrily into his subordinate. "How about the state of our drones."

"Our drones equipped with infrared sensors are still charging after their last mission. It will take about 5 minutes to prepare them for launch. And once we have launched the drones, it will take us another 20 minutes for the drone to arrive in this coordinates." The Sergeant replied.

"Kay then, tell the MSS that we will deploy two surveillance drones with infrared sensors in about half an hour and put our operators on standby ASAP."

XXX

1516H GMT+8

Beiwei Road Taiping Street Corner

Hufangfu, Xuanwu District

Beijing

"Mommy, mommy what is that?" A child tug her mother's sleeve looking at the strange silhouette in the middle of the street.

"Hey what is that?" Another man pointed at the object as he took his camera.

Currently, there are five cars in total that had crashed in the middle of the road. Frankly speaking, there was nothing in there, the security cameras cannot see anything. However, if someone is to look at it closely, there are some places were the light from the sun bends in a peculiar pattern thus creating a silhouette. In addition to that, smoke from the cars seems to deviate and make sharp turns as it hits the invisible structure.

Fortunately, all the drivers and passengers of the cars that had crashed in the middle of the road only manage to get minor injuries. All of them escaped to safety, but most of them, of course, complained about what happened.

People from across the street gather around the object to get photographs, some are even taking selfies on the object.

"Is this some strange event orchestrated by someone?" Someone on the crowd ask as they looked at it.

"I don't know." Another guy replied.

"What happened here?" a dark-blue haired guy asked to a bystander watching the invisible structure.

"I don't know. We can't see anything aside from a silhouette of a strange building standing in the road. We don't know what it is, but it's strong enough to stop those cars right there!" A man explained to the dark-blue haired guy.

"Anything else?" the woman accompanying the dark-blue haired guy asked.

"I just arrived here recently but does the government finally able to make things invisible?"

"No, if they do, then I don't know anything about it." The dark blue-haired man responded.

"Hey! Hey! Look at that!" One of the bystanders on the site noticed a change on how the invisible building appears. A while ago, the invisible building looks like a transparent structure which let light pass through it, except on some places where the light of the sun is refracted and even bent on some ways, thus creating dark shadowy corners - a silhouette of a building.

Now the light bends in a more erratic pattern. First, the light began to reflect everything around it as a reflective spherical surface appeared on the middle of the road. A few moments later, the scenery around the spherical surface began to distort as if light is escaping out of the sphere. And it wasn't just light, it seems that other wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum is affected by the distortion of light as radio wave signals on the phone seems to jump up and down.

There was no trace of an impending explosion. It was just that light is being distorted. Then, something appears out of nowhere. First the colour change to black, probably because there was no light hitting the object since all the colours of light are deflected from the point of interest.

Now, signs of panic are starting to appear from the crowd as the black object began to form a figure. Some began to walk away slowly while the others are left frozen (shock and awe effect).

"This doesn't feel anything right at all."

Xin kneeled down and opened his suitcase. Inside his suitcase is a pair of QSW-06 customized silenced pistols equipped with holders for military standard melee knife. He then hid his pistol inside his coat along with his knives and the ammunition.

"Short range and melee…"

Lei noticed Xin movements as the man secretly stashed his weapons into his clothing. She then placed her hand on her coat to see what she has… "Damn, I only have a pistol with two cartridges."

Less than a few moments later, the distortion of light was over. Soon, the black coloration was gone as soon as the light finally was able to reach the surface of the object. The colour was then revealed when the light from the Sun reflected back into the human eyes as well as the eyes of the camera from phones to security cameras.

"It looks like!"

"Hey it looks like –"

"The Parthenon?"

"No it look more like the US Library of Congress…"

"No, I think it looks like those old buildings in Italy."

"Whew, I thought I was going to die in there."

"You're such a scardy-cat you know."

"You were afraid too you know…"

"Nah, I thought it was something else – it was only just a new cloak-field probably made by the military."

"You think so? Why here?"

"Why ask me, ask them instead!"

"An invisibility mechanism? Are you sure it was ours and not from others, maybe American or Russian? Maybe the Japanese?"

"Americans? Russians? Japanese? Why would they? The PLA will not allow such a show of force to be displayed right on the capital and right on an important day for China – that would be a declaration of war you know!"

"Hey, if it's the Japanese, we should just knock them and let them remember who the boss is?"

"I don't think so…"

"Me either, maybe it's some military stuff."

"I agree. Maybe the military is trying to show off."

"But why here?"

"Then, instead in Tiananmen Square or somewhere else, why here in such a small street?"

"Maybe a malfunction or some mishap?"

"Who knows? Now then, what should I do, my car is damaged you know."

"Wait, if it's Chinese, then what's with the Western style construction?"

"Beats me… I think it's not Chinese afterall."

"Then, if it's not Chinese then whose building is this?"

"Hey, why ask me? Like I said, it's Chinese!"

"I think it's not. Does Chinese buildings look like that?"

"Hey why are you people talking about if it's Chinese or not… We should be talking about why it's here!"

"Is asking why it's here going to help… I think let's just wait for a statement from the government!"

While the people are talking about what the building is there, Xin reached out for his headset and attached them the earpiece on his ears and the 3.5mm connector into his smartphone. He then dialled a number on his phone and called someone on his phone.

And then…

XXX

15:26H GMT+8

National Defense Mobilization Department

Central Military Commission,

August 1 Building, Beijing

"Lt. General Wang, we have detected a strange building right in middle of Beiwei Road here in Beijing." A man made a report to the General as soon as the General entered the room.

"Anything else?" the General replied.

The man then gave images of the building captured by street cameras. "This is the building in question. At first, around 14:50, an obstruction appeared right in the middle of the road causing a minor road accident and a mild traffic congestion. The Ministry of Transportation has managed to divert the traffic. Then by 15:20, our cameras has captured this footage."

The General then skimmed into the footage and before he can say anything, the man continued on his explanation. "We don't know if this is our cameras malfunctioning or is this what happened back there. What we know though is that by 15:25, this building appeared into existence. We don't know the perpetrators but some of our intelligence advisers proposed that this could be a case of teleportation."

"Any foreign activities?" The General asked.

"As of now, we had detected no unusual activity from any of the major countries aside from the usual Japanese vessels in the Diaoyu Islands and the US activity near our reclaimed islands in the South China Sea."

"No, I mean any nuclear sites warming up? Any major naval movements?" The General asked.

"No, sir!"

"By the way, is Chairman Xi already informed about this?" The General asked.

"We had, and right now, we are prepping the escape routes for evacuation of the VIPs" the man replied.

"I see." The General then looked at the map of the entire city on the table in front of him. "Also give a notice to the Beijing Garrison to be in standby. I want them to be ready for mobilization ASAP!"

"Yes Sir." The man replied and immediately went to a nearby telephone connected into the Beijing Garrison Headquarters. Moments later, another person made a salute in front of him.

"Lt. General Wang, 2nd Lieutenant Wang Xin wants to talk to you personally." The man said.

"If he wants to talk about the mission, tell him something more important has come up. If his already here tell him to wait for a while in my office." The General replied.

"No General, 2nd Lieutenant Wang is currently on Beiwei St. He wants to talk with you with the matter in hand."

"In Beiwei St.? Ok, then give me the phone!" The man immediately put the Lieutenant on the line. It was a voice only communication through a military channel. Without further delay, the General immediately went on to business with the Lieutenant.

"What is the situation there Lieutenant? Is the Sergeant with you?" The General asked.

"Yes the Sergeant is with me. The current situation here General is bad. A building of Greek-Roman architecture has appeared out of nowhere. General, what's my orders?"

"Orders? Okay tell me what you think about this situation?"

"I think this is just a start. I have a feeling were in deep trouble."

"I see, so you also thought about this the same way I do. Okay, for now keep a good distance between you and that structure. Report immediately here in headquarters. Let the Beijing Police and the Beijing Garrison handle the evacuation of the area 1 km around that structure."

"Yes sir…"

"I hope were not too late!"

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15:35 GMT+8

Beiwei Road Tianqiaonan Street Corner

Hufangfu, Xuanwu District

Beijing

"We have orders. The General said we must report immediately into the CMC as soon as possible!" Xin told Sgt. Lei as the female sergeant listened to the conversation between him and the General.

"That's it?" Lei asked.

"For now, that's it."

Lei then made a nod. After that, the two of them moved directly straight from Beiwei Road to Tianqiaonan St. which leads straight to Zhengyang Gate and into Tiananmen Square. As they walk straight ahead, they then realized how jammed the street has become. Although the traffic has been diverted, the people from nearby tourist spots flock in to Beiwei Road as news about the building appeared right into social media networking sites like Weibo, WeChat, RenRen and DianPing.

Instead of people moving away from the scene, the people are instead gathering into the road. Before they realize it, the roads where all packed with people it was hard to move anywhere. Curious people from within the city wants to check out the Western building that had appeared out of nowhere.

"Damn too many people. It's hard to move!"

The more they move forward, the more people began to pack up in the streets. The Civilian Guards are being overwhelmed by the massive flock of people coming in to see the building. Most of them are Chinese citizens but there are foreigners mixed in the flock of people.

And finally, due to the information spreading viral into the internet, the Ministry of State Security had, as of 15:45, had imposed an information black-out. All telecommunication services aside from those channels of communication utilized by the military had been shut off. Cable television, radio and even telephone utilities had been temporarily shut off.

It has been already 14 minutes since they had been in touch with the General but due to the densely packed streets in Beiwei Road, it took them that much time to move to Tianqiaonan St.

There can be easily around 15,000 people in a 4 lane road stretching about 400 meters.

And another wave of people are approaching to that road.

"Looks like the military is serious about this!" Xin then looked at his companion and said. "Lei, prepare your weapon and let's go inside the Museum of Natural History."

Lei nod in agreement with Xin.

When all of a sudden…

AHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHH!

GRRRRRR! ROOOOAAAAARRRRRR!

AHHHH!

Screams and sounds of different varieties field the air. And it's coming from the building that had appeared in Beiwei St.

15:50H GMT+8

Beijing

"Chairman Xi! I have an urgent message to you Your Excellency… Beijing is under attack!" Lt. General Wang Qishen reported to his Commander-in-Chief during an emergency meeting of all notable military leaders in the Beijing Military District.

After Lt. General Wang Qishen made his report, the remaining Generals online at that time were left speechless. Chairman Xi, who has remained the entire time, looked at the map of China and the entire distribution of forces all over China, and beside that are live footages of the UAVs from Shahenzhen Air Base along with security camera footages on Beiwei St.

The scene was of pure carnage. It was one sided battle, with Chinese civilians being hacked down by what seems to be a medieval invader.

"Beijing is under attack – well then, as the Chairman of the State Central Military Commission, Commander-in-Chief of the Joint Battle Command of the PLA, the President of PRC and as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, I hereby place the whole of China under Combat Readiness Condition Level 1."

"LT. GENERAL WANG! I ASSIGN YOU TO LEAD THE BATTLE AND MAKE SURE TO PUNISH THEM WITH EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT!"

CHAPTER 1 – BEIJING: UNDER ATTACK

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