Chinese Army Headquarters, Beijing. Strategic Command Center – Operations Room. 3:47 AM.
The operations room was usually calm at this hour of the night, but for several days, activity had been feverish, constant, charged with palpable tension. High-ranking officers and technicians constantly took turns in front of the giant screens illuminated with multiple data streams, their faces marked by stress accumulated since the announcement of the draconic invasion in Europe.
General Wei Shun, a man with a grave face, short-cropped gray hair and a sharp gaze, stood in the center of the room, silently examining the information flowing continuously on the screens. Beside him, Commander Zhao Ling, calm and rigorous, nervously consulted the latest reports from their aerial scouts.
