Chapter 573 - Chapter 573: Chapter 573: Xia Tianhuos Resentment (1/2)
Chapter 573: Chapter 573: Xia Tianhuo’s Resentment
Essentially, based on the audio from the CVR, the entire accident process matched up with the description given by the aircraft’s pilots.
Through monitoring the changes in engine sound, the time of the bird strike could also be pinpointed, and some passengers’ cries of alarm could vaguely be heard, but the specifics couldn’t be made out.
However, synthesizing these sounds didn’t provide any means to confirm the existence of the “little girl in the white dress”.
“It would have been great if someone had taken some photos or videos at the time,” Zhou Rui regretfully suggested.
“According to a passenger, they did try to take out their phone to take a picture, but their phone wouldn’t unlock, it seemed to have jammed,” Ye Chong shook his head and said.
By this time, they had already arrived in another small meeting room, and with only the eight of them present, they could speak without any reservations.
Mijoe frowned and said, “This situation… seems familiar.”
“Indeed, during the mass hallucination incident in Myitkyina, where a crowd saw the eight-armed, eight-eyed giant, everyone’s phones stopped working. Not just mobile phones, all electronic devices were affected, even the street lights went out. As a result, in the area directly affected by the mass hallucination, not a single piece of surveillance footage or viewable video was left,” Zhao Feng immediately added.
As for the mass hallucination in Myitkyina, he and Wang De’an had investigated it for so long that they pretty much had all the details memorized.
“This time, the plane’s electronics weren’t affected. If the little girl in the white dress on the wing and the eight-armed, eight-eyed giant from Myitkyina are of the same kind of existence, either she can deliberately control the range of impact, or her ‘energy’ was smaller this time resulting in a smaller influenced range. However, I lean more towards the former,” Wang De’an also said.
“So you’re saying, if they wished to, neither the little girl in the white dress nor the eight-armed, eight-eyed giant would necessarily cause any impact on electronic devices when they appear. The only reason they created this disturbance is to prevent themselves from being recorded?” Fang Pingfang ruminated.
“If that’s the case, wouldn’t investigating them risk angering them?” Zhou Rui asked worryingly.
Shrugging his shoulders, Mijoe said, “Do we have a choice?”
“True…” Zhou Rui didn’t worry too much, given the high salary they received from ‘Divine Technology’, they couldn’t afford to be afraid. For now, it appeared that neither the little girl in the white dress nor the eight-armed, eight-eyed giant had a history of killing or harming people. On the contrary, both seemed to save people.
“What’s the next step?” Zhao Feng looked at Fang Pingfang, “The analysis of the FDR is not so fast, and I estimate that we won’t get any valuable results from those data.”
He had his own investigation ideas and plans in mind, but with Dr. Fang being the team leader, he didn’t want to overstep. He planned to wait for Dr. Fang to propose a plan before suggesting his own ideas.
Fang Pingfang was flipping through the large, heavy tablet in her hand, and said, “According to Old Zhao, Old Wang’s material, the eight-armed, eight-eyed giant that appeared in Myitkyina, didn’t cause any substantial physical-level impact. There were no footprints or other traces left in its path, so it can be judged as a purely illusory phenomenon, at most causing the influence and disturbance of the magnetic field level. But the little girl who appeared on the aircraft’s wing, according to some passengers’ descriptions, was seen blocking the bird that was heading toward the engine. Unless the bird wasn’t real, she did have a real physical impact on a real object, which is very different from the giant illusion in Myitkyina.”
“Could it be that the little girl is a real person? Is she a real existence and not an illusion?” Mijoe muttered.
“It could also be that the passengers made a mistake in what they saw, or perhaps the little girl is an illusion, but she has some other special method to impact other things, and the appearance of a little girl is just one of the ways she misleads others. As for what the actual situation is, let’s go talk to a few passengers first, ask them a little more about the details, and confirm what they saw,” Fang Pingfang said.
Zhou Rui suggested, “Then how about we find those three passengers mentioned by Old Zhao, Old Wang? They happen to be in Tongshi Town, and we are planning to head there anyway.”
However, Zhao Feng shook his head and said, “If we’re asking about the little girl on the wing, I’m afraid they might not be the right people to ask. They both told me last night that they didn’t see anything.”
“They didn’t see anything?” Zhou Rui was puzzled, “Was their line of sight obstructed because of their position?”
Zhao Feng took out his tablet and pulled up the passenger seating map he and Wang De’an obtained last night, then pointed out the seats of Xiang Kun and the other two: “From their position, they should have a good view.”
“So they didn’t see anything… does that mean they weren’t affected by the illusion and didn’t see the little girl? In other words, the little girl doesn’t really exist?” Zhou Rui said.
Mijoe speculated, “Or perhaps, they are deliberately concealing what they saw?”
While browsing the passenger list on the tablet, Ye Chong said, “Who knows, maybe the illusions were caused by them?”
Zhou Rui brightened at this, “In that case, we should definitely go have a chat with them!”
Fang Pingfang said, “No, let’s first contact the passengers who are currently in Jianzhou City and chat with them first.”
Zhao Feng agreed, “I concur, we should first talk to the passengers who saw the little girl, get a detailed understanding of what the little girl on the wing looked like and the whole process when the plane experienced abnormal conditions, then meet with Mr. Xiang and the others. This way, our conversations will be more targeted, better enabling us to analyze and probe.”
Dr. Fang’s suggestion was the same as his own, which gratified him.
However, Fang Pingfang shook her head and said, “No, we won’t have direct contact with those three individuals anytime soon.”
“Huh?”
Zhao Feng was taken aback, and it wasn’t just him, Mijoe, Zhou Rui and others also looked puzzled. It was clear that Mr. Xiang and the other two passengers were suspect, so why wouldn’t Dr. Fang go see them?
Fang Pingfang patiently explained, “On the way here, I looked at the investigation material collected by Old Zhao and Old Wang, and combined it with the information we have here. There are now several clues that point towards Tongshi Town, Chongyun Village, and Chongyun Mountain. Considering the near tragedy of this flight we’re now investigating, the mass hallucinations in Myitkyina, the strange escape of Mr. Xia after being kidnapped in Burma, and the fact that Mr. Xiang and his friends are all at the center of these incidents, I can now safely say that the special events we are investigating are definitely related to them. The root of these events probably lies with one, or several, of them. Thus, before we have direct contact with them, it would be best if we thoroughly investigate all the surrounding clues.”
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While Zhao Feng, Fang Pingfang and others were discussing in the upstairs meeting room, Xia Tianhuo was still lurking under the administrative building of the airport.