Chapter 1311
Will Absolutely Be Earth-Shattering
Most of the bureau chiefs present initially thought this was just a heartbreaking major aviation accident. Although it was tragic, it should be mainly the responsibility of the Civil Aviation Administration and the Investigation Bureau. Although the National Security Department would intervene to assist in the investigation, it seemed unnecessary to make such a fuss and urgently recall everyone to Kyoto for a meeting.
Seeing Lei Wanting's expression, everyone couldn't help but think that this matter was probably not simple!
"Everyone," Lei Wanting began, his deep and powerful voice breaking the silence of the conference room.
"The reason I've called everyone back is because of the 'Xuanyuan 816' air disaster that you just witnessed."
He paused, then emphasized his words.
"Based on our most preliminary and core intelligence analysis, this plane crash that killed hundreds of people... is very likely not an accident!"
"Not an accident?"
"Man-made?"
A subdued murmur rippled through the conference room, and the expressions of the bureau chiefs turned serious.
If it was man-made, then this would be a terrifying terrorist attack!
Lei Wanting ignored the commotion below and continued speaking in a deep voice.
"Before we proceed with the next activity, please cooperate by handing over all electronic devices you have on you, including mobile phones, smartwatches, voice recorders, etc., for safekeeping by our staff."
These words immediately caused an uproar in the conference room.
Yu Jianzhong, the director of the National Intelligence Agency, couldn't help but ask.
"Old Lei, is it really necessary to be so strict? What's going on?"
Luo Fei frowned slightly, but he immediately realized that what he was about to show was probably more confidential than he could have imagined.
Lei Wanting offered no explanation, but instead surveyed the entire room with an unquestionable gaze.
Soon, several staff members dressed in black suits with stern expressions walked in, carrying metal detectors and safes, and began to collect everyone's electronic devices one by one.
After confirming that all equipment had been collected, Lei Wanting spoke again, his voice exceptionally clear in the quiet conference room.
"What you are about to see is the last footage captured by a private surveillance camera in the Yunwu Mountain villa area before the plane crash."
He surveyed the crowd with a sharp gaze.
"I must warn you all that the contents of this photo may... shatter your imagination and your worldview. Furthermore, according to top orders, everything you have seen today is classified as top secret!"
This information must not be disclosed to anyone, including your families! Anyone who violates this rule will be prosecuted for treason!
Lei Wanting's final words, "to be punished for treason," were like a bucket of ice water poured over their heads, instantly silencing all the high-ranking branch bureau chiefs in the conference room, who even unconsciously lowered their breathing.
A heavy, almost solidified feeling permeated the air.
Luo Fei took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the turmoil in his heart, sat up straight, and fixed his gaze on the huge projection screen in front of him like a hawk.
He realized that Lei Wanting was going to such great lengths, even resorting to the highest level of secrecy regulations, that what he was about to reveal would be absolutely earth-shattering.
"Let's begin."
Lei Wanting nodded to the technicians at the control panel.
The conference room lights dimmed, leaving only the faint glow of the screen. A patch of static first appeared on the screen, then stabilized, revealing a fixed monitoring view—a corner of the luxurious observation deck in the Zijing Pavilion Sky Garden at Yunwu Mountain, with timestamps showing the crucial moments before the plane crash.
The scene was initially calm, with only the bulletproof glass railing of the observation deck and the twilight sky in the distance visible.
A few seconds later, just as the news report described and Jiang Tiansheng's mistress saw, a tiny red dot appeared on the distant horizon.
Everyone’s heart is raised.
The red dot grew rapidly at an illogical speed, accompanied by an increasingly loud roar that could be faintly heard from outside the frame.
It was no longer a point of light, but a beam of death tearing through the night! Soon, the outline of the light became clear—it was the nose of a huge passenger plane painted with the Xuanyuan Airlines logo!
Like a steel behemoth bursting forth from hell, it charged toward the camera with an aura of utter destruction!
The image began to distort and flicker due to the violent shaking and bright light, filled with a desperate noise.
In that suffocating final moment, when the nose of the plane almost filled the entire screen and everyone could foresee the earth-shattering impact that would happen in the next second, Lei Wanting suddenly spoke in a deep voice, his voice like ice shattering.
"Attention! Look here! Directly above the nose of the aircraft! The image freezes!"
Technicians immediately set up a camera to freeze the moment just before the plane crashed into the observation deck, approximately 0.5 to 1 second before impact.
"Zoom in! The nose section!"
Lei Wanting gave the order.
The image was magnified, focusing on the top of the massive nose cone.
"hiss--"
When the magnified image revealed its details, a collective gasp filled the conference room! Some even let out a soft exclamation!
Above the nose of the passenger plane, which was flying at a high speed of hundreds of kilometers per hour and subjected to enormous wind pressure and inertia, stood a human-shaped silhouette!
Due to the distance and image quality, the specific appearance and clothing are not clear, but it is definitely in human form!
His/her feet seemed to be firmly planted on the nose of the aircraft, standing steadily. Despite the blurring of the image caused by the high-speed airflow and vibration, his/her figure carried an eerie sense of stability!
What's even more chilling is that, near his/her feet, one of the four prominent windows at the nose of the aircraft has irregular, spiderweb-like cracks, as if it had been damaged by some enormous force from the outside!
"This...how is this possible?!"
"Am I seeing things? There's...a person standing on the nose of the plane?!"
"A hallucination! It must be a distortion of the image or an illusion of light and shadow!"
"High altitude! High speed!"
How did he manage to stand still?!
This violates the laws of physics!
After a brief silence, the conference room erupted in chaos. Even the seasoned bureau chiefs could not remain calm, falling silent with disbelief and a sense of absurdity written all over their faces.
"Quiet!"
Lei Wanting gave a low shout to quell the commotion.
His gaze swept over the shocked faces of the crowd.
I know this is hard to accept.
Therefore, we conducted a more detailed technical analysis.
He gestured to the technicians.
"0.1x speed, replay the last second before the impact."
The images on the screen began to play at an extremely slow speed.
The plane drew ever closer to death, and the figure standing on the nose of the plane became increasingly clear.
Just a split second before the plane's nose cone was about to hit the bulletproof glass of the observation deck—a mere fraction of a second—the figure moved!
It wasn't being flung away, nor being swallowed up by an impact, but rather... he/she pushed off the nose of the plane with both feet, and as if defying gravity, the entire body rose into the air in an illogical manner, upwards and to the side and backwards, lightly detaching from the nose of the plane!
Almost at the same frame that he/she left, a massive explosion and flames engulfed the screen, turning the surveillance footage into a static mess. Deathly silence.
Absolute silence filled the conference room.
Everyone saw it clearly.
In the final moments before the plane crashed into the mountain and exploded, that mysterious figure took the initiative and calmly... flew away!
“After cross-verification by the most authoritative national image technology appraisal center and multiple independent laboratories,” Lei Wanting’s voice broke the silence, each word carrying immense weight.
"This video shows no signs of being artificially synthesized, tampered with, or edited. In other words, we can be fairly certain that before Xuanyuan Airlines Flight 816 crashed into the Yunwu Mountain villa, there was a 'person,' or rather, some kind of humanoid being that could disregard the high-altitude, high-speed flight environment and detach itself at the last moment, standing on the nose of the aircraft!"
The news was so shocking that it took a long time before someone finally managed to speak.
Duan Zhenggang, the director of a branch bureau in the Northwest, asked in a dry voice.
"Director... this... this could be the legendary... 'superhuman'?"
Lei Wanting did not answer directly, but slowly stood up from the main seat.
He calmly swept his gaze across the entire room, and then made a gesture that made everyone's pupils shrink.
He stretched out his right hand, palm up, and made a grasping motion in the air towards the steaming purple clay teacup on the conference table in front of him.
The next moment, under the gaze of more than a dozen pairs of eyes, the teacup seemed to be pulled by invisible threads, steadily and smoothly flying into the air, drawing an arc, and landing precisely in Lei Wanting's outstretched palm.
Not a single drop of tea spilled from the teacup.
"hiss--!"
Another wave of suppressed gasps erupted!
This time, even Luo Fei's pupils contracted sharply!
Telekinesis?!
This is not some kind of magic trick!
This was personally demonstrated by Director Lei Wanting at the highest-level meeting of the National Security Department!
Its significance is self-evident!
"This...this..."
Duan Zhenggang pointed at the teacup in Lei Wanting's hand, his lips trembling, unable to utter a complete sentence for a long time.
Lei Wanting gently placed the teacup back on the table, his voice steady and powerful.
"Now, do you still have any doubts about the existence of 'superhumans'?"
No one answered. Facts speak louder than words. The director himself demonstrated a power that transcends common sense, which is more convincing than any explanation.
“Now that everyone has accepted this premise,” Lei Wanting continued.
"Then, I'll show you another long-forgotten file."
The projection screen switched to display a document cover marked "Top Secret" with the title "In-depth Analysis Report on the 2013 Chelyabinsk Meteorite Event".
"2013, Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast."
Lei Wanting's voice brought everyone's thoughts back to ten years ago.
"At 12:30 pm that year, a blinding white light suddenly appeared in the sky above the area."
A meteorite approximately 17 meters in diameter and weighing 7000 tons entered the atmosphere at a terrifying speed of Mach 54, or 18,000 meters per second, hurtling straight to the ground.
"Its trajectory points directly to a secret nuclear fuel storage and reprocessing facility in the Chelyabinsk region."
If this meteorite had hit its target directly, the resulting disaster would have been unimaginable, with radioactive contamination potentially affecting the entire northern Eurasian continent.
The screen displayed blurry footage taken by bystanders at the time, along with a simulated trajectory diagram from the aftermath.
"However, when the meteorite was still 24 kilometers from the ground, it suddenly... exploded."
Lei Wanting's tone became more forceful.
"Although the shockwave from the explosion still damaged more than 7000 buildings and injured more than 1500 people, it was a stroke of luck compared to the potentially devastating consequences of a direct impact on a nuclear facility. Subsequent calculations showed that the energy released by the meteorite's explosion in the air was equivalent to 30 of the 'Little Boy' atomic bombs that fell on Hiroshima!"
Everyone held their breath, listening to this thrilling story.
"Initial investigations suggested that the meteorite's unstable structure caused it to disintegrate in the atmosphere."
However, subsequent in-depth joint technical analysis between Russia and us uncovered a startling detail.
Lei Wanting switched the screen to display a heavily processed, extremely blurry high-speed photograph screenshot.
In the center of the screenshot is the burning meteorite, and in front of the meteorite is a thin, almost indistinguishable, humanoid shadow!
"Analysis confirms that the meteorite exploded at the critical moment not because of natural disintegration, but because it was caught up from behind by a high-speed object and instantly pierced and shattered!"
Lei Wanting pointed to the blurry shadow.
"After repeated simulations and reconstructions of the trajectory, speed, and destruction mode by supercomputers, the final conclusion is that there is a greater than 97% probability that this 'high-speed object' is a 'human figure'!"
"At the time, there was speculation that it was some kind of secret high-speed missile, but the problem was that the fastest missile that mankind had at the time could not reach Mach 54, so it could not catch up with that meteorite at all! As for aliens... the possibility exists, but there is a lack of other evidence."
Lei Wanting's gaze sharpened.
"Based on what we've seen today, and what I just showed... I personally tend to think that it was also a... or rather a group of 'superhumans' whom we don't fully understand, who intervened at a critical moment to prevent a greater disaster."
He surveyed the entire room, his voice deep and powerful.
"Now, let's connect the two things."
"Ten years ago, a 'human figure' shattered a meteorite at a speed beyond human technology, averting a potential nuclear disaster. Yesterday, a 'human figure' stood on the nose of a high-speed passenger plane and calmly left before the collision."
"If the 'human figure' in the meteorite event represents a guardian."
So, what was the purpose of the "figure" in this plane incident?
The meeting room fell silent; everyone was deep in thought.
Duan Zhenggang tentatively said.
"Terrorist attack? Indiscriminate attack against the civil aviation system?"
Another bureau chief countered.
"If it was an indiscriminate attack, why would he bother standing on the nose of the plane? And why did he aim so precisely at Jiang Tiansheng's villa?"
This looks more like a… meticulously planned… murder! (End of Chapter)