Chapter 148 Nuclear Weapons

At the same time, in the capital city's command center, the same scene was unfolding as in the Presidential Palace, with all the high-ranking officials of the city defense army and the garrison also under control.

The four hundred-plus people involved in this operation were divided into two teams. The forty most elite were responsible for the Presidential Palace, while the rest chose to surround the capital's command center.

Although this arrangement seemed somewhat unreasonable, as the importance of the Presidential Palace far outweighed that of the command center, Bai Jingyan allocated most of his forces to this location, seemingly putting the cart before the horse.

But in reality, this arrangement was the most appropriate. Although the Presidential Palace was very important, it was difficult for a large force to infiltrate it. Once there were too many people, the false identities created by Peter were likely to have loopholes. The command center, on the other hand, was different. Management here was not as strict, but the weapons and military strength were not weak. The single-soldier heavy firepower that the Presidential Palace lacked, such as heavy machine guns and automatic cannons, was readily available here.

Once the battle started, the casualties for the team attacking the command center would be higher than those attacking the Presidential Palace!

Fortunately, everything was proceeding according to plan.

Bai Jingyan sat in the office of the command center building, looking at the officers kneeling before him, and chuckled softly.

He was ambitious and had planned this coup, and now he had achieved his desired goals.

Almost all the high-ranking officials in the capital city were firmly in his grasp.

He took out his communicator, sent a message back to his subordinates at the Presidential Palace, and then deleted all the message records.

Five minutes later, Sonam, who was in the First Military Region, received news from his adjutant that the capital had been seized. He was overjoyed and conveyed the news to the major allies of his faction, and issued instructions to the military regions of the presidential faction, claiming that the president and the generals of the presidential faction had surrendered to the enemy and betrayed the country, and had been arrested and controlled. He hoped that the other officers of the presidential faction would pull back from the brink and surrender proactively, otherwise, they would not be spared!

After receiving this information, the military officers of the presidential faction immediately contacted their superiors, but they were surprised to find that all their superiors were out of contact. For a time, a sense of panic spread throughout the presidential faction's military regions...

"General Lass, Mr. Bai... we found something in the secret room of the command center. Please come and take a look."

In the command center building of the capital city, an evolver walked over, his expression somewhat strange.

Bai Jingyan and Sonam's adjutant raised their eyebrows and followed him to the basement. After passing through layers of checkpoints, they finally arrived at a place similar to an underground military warehouse.

Several evolver warriors controlled a high-ranking official, who said, "Mr. Bai, he took the initiative to tell us the secret of this warehouse, offering to use this information to save his life."

Bai Jingyan looked around the warehouse. The construction of this warehouse was of a high standard, covering an area of several thousand square meters, and it contained a lot of large equipment and some sealed, bright yellow barrels in the corners.

Bai Jingyan casually looked at one of the pieces of equipment, and his expression suddenly changed slightly.

"This is... a gas centrifuge?" Bai Jingyan raised his eyebrows, somewhat surprised.

This equipment was used to separate elements in minerals and was a type of industrial equipment. But why was this industrial equipment stored under the command center of a capital city?

"These damned things..." Sonam's adjutant also frowned, looking around.

Suddenly, Bai Jingyan strode towards the bright yellow barrels piled in the corner. Soon, he saw a mark on those barrels.

It was a circular mark with a black dot in the center and three fan-shaped arcs around it.

This symbol was usually used to indicate a source of radiation.

A nuclear radiation source.

Para!

Bai Jingyan's face was solemn. He reached out and lifted the lid of a barrel, revealing piles of black ore inside.

"This is... uranium ore!" Even with Bai Jingyan's composure, he couldn't help but raise his voice at this moment.

Uranium, the most important raw material for making nuclear weapons.

And the average content of this ore in the earth's crust is only two parts per million, extremely rare!

Even the total uranium ore reserves within the Yanhuang Federation's entire territory are only 70,000 tons, which is the storage capacity of an entire country! One can imagine how precious this thing is!

Bai Jingyan never expected that he would see such precious and dangerous materials here!

"Not only is there uranium ore here, but also enriched uranium-235 that has already been purified, but there is less than twenty kilograms of it. Its enrichment has reached ninety percent, which is weapons-grade." The captured high-ranking official revealed an even more shocking piece of information.

Bai Jingyan and the adjutant were stunned.

Not all uranium can be used as a raw material for nuclear weapons. Only high-concentration uranium-235 can be used, and the purification process is extremely difficult. Often, nearly two hundred tons of uranium ore can only be purified to less than one kilogram of enriched uranium-235.

There were actually twenty kilograms of finished enriched uranium here. If the news spread, it might shock many people.

"Actually, we discovered the uranium mine a long time ago, but we have been secretly mining it. Only the president's most trusted Second Military Region knows about this! And since the world changed, the president has secretly sent people to purify the uranium, originally wanting to imitate the former Yanhuang Federation and create his own nuclear weapons, but later discovered that the capital required for this project was too large, so it was forced to stop..."

"These purified enriched uranium were originally intended to be sent to Russia as a gift!"

After listening, Bai Jingyan finally understood why Russia would accept Murphy's request for vassalage. Originally, according to the geographical location, Russia and Murphy were separated by two countries, and Murphy's strategic location was not important, and their army was not considered a powerful force for Russia. So Bai Jingyan had always been puzzled as to why Russia would so readily agree to Murphy's vassalage.

Now it seemed that Russia was not eyeing Murphy's army, but these precious uranium ores!

"Mr. Bai, these things are useless to us. We simply don't have the conditions to use them... If possible, we can offer it to Russia in exchange for peace." The adjutant walked up, somewhat uneasy at this moment.

Originally, he thought that as long as the coup was successful and they seized power, Russia would not care about the change in power of a small country's army, but now it seemed that these things might make the change in power more difficult.

Bai Jingyan stared at these precious materials, his eyes flashing wildly, not knowing what he was thinking.

This matter was indeed somewhat unexpected. If he wanted to keep these materials by force, then Russia could find any excuse to strike at him, which would be detrimental to his plan to gradually seize power and control this country.

What should he do?

He fell into deep thought.