No. 611, in a secret office.
Chen Nian sat in front of Yang Wei, accompanied by two senior cadres from the intelligence department.
Everyone looked serious, after all, what they were discussing was of great significance.
The intelligence officer named Zhang Wangshui sitting on the right first asked:
"Mr. Chen, do you think there will be risks in this transfer operation?"
Chen Nian nodded and answered straightforwardly:
"Yes, I think the interests involved in this return trip are too broad and are strongly related to the important projects we are undertaking. The other party will not give up such a good opportunity."
"I don't know what means they will use, but it is obvious that the risk of transporting so many people at the same time is too high."
"My suggestion is that everyone disperse on the spot and fly to Chengdu on a commercial airliner."
"During the process, special escorts can be arranged."
"Although this increases our confidentiality risk, it also sharply increases the other party's cost of action."
"They don't dare to blow up an entire plane just for one person. It's not cost-effective."
After finishing speaking, Chen Nian looked at Zhang Wangshui quietly, waiting for the other party's answer.
In fact, when he said "Don't go to AH" at that time, it was purely a subconscious reaction, because what popped into his mind was the major accident in his previous life.
In his memory, that accident was inextricably linked to the development of early warning aircraft. It was precisely because of that accident that our early warning aircraft development process was delayed for at least three years.
Logically speaking, the situation they are facing now can be said to be exactly the same as that time.
In fact, for the United States, the urgency is even greater.
So, who can guarantee that they will not use the same insidious means at this time?
So, Chen Nian spoke without hesitation.
Hearing his words, Zhang Wangshui nodded, and then said decisively:
"This is a very reasonable suggestion and we will adopt it."
"ah?"
Hearing this, Chen Nian was stunned.
"Are you sure you want to modify the plan?"
According to his prediction, Zhang Wangshui would first consider the credibility of his speculation before deciding whether to adopt it.
After all, if they follow their own plan, it will become more difficult for officials to control personnel, and it may even affect the confidentiality of the entire project.
However, Zhang Wangshui, who was sitting opposite, replied decisively:
"That's right. As you said, the original transshipment plan has risks."
"Although the risk is only minimal, our expected losses are still huge compared to the losses it may cause."
"So, we have to be cautious."
Having said this, Zhang Wangshui paused for a moment, and then continued to ask:
"In addition, we would like to ask, from your personal perspective, do you have any speculations about possible accidents?"
"After all, according to your speculation, the accident is likely to be related to aircraft. This is your specialty."
Chen Nian frowned slightly. He carefully recalled the memories of his previous life, but found nothing.
The originally disclosed information about that incident was incomplete, and even if there was indeed a hidden secret, it was not within his reach.
Therefore, the suggestions he can make are extremely limited.
After hesitating for a moment, he said:
"I can't give an accurate guess."
"But I think it is difficult to directly manipulate the aircraft. The key points may be the ground staff, personnel, and random luggage and cargo."
"Our control in these areas is relatively weak, which will give them more opportunities."
"I think you can organize a self-inspection to focus on identifying management loopholes in these modules."
Zhang Wangshui nodded solemnly and replied:
"Understood, we will implement it."
"Also, we ask that you keep this matter confidential for now - we may take further action."
"clear."
After hearing Chen Nian's answer, Zhang Wangshui stood up and sent him and Yang Wei out of the door. Then, he closed the door of the conference room, looked at another intelligence officer and asked:
"What do you think about this matter?"
The man shook his head slightly and replied:
"It's hard to say, but Chen Nian's idea makes sense."
"But if this is really the case, then the other party's actions are really a bit too radical."
"I doubt that even if such an action does exist, is it their front-line personnel who are making their own decisions, or is our opponent really crazy enough to do so."
"What do you think?"
Zhang Wangshui pondered for a moment and replied:
"I'm leaning toward the latter."
"As Chen Nian said, the success or failure of this project is extremely critical to both of us."
"Under these circumstances, whatever they did was not bizarre."
"The only problem is, I can't figure out where the flaw is."
"Me too."
Another person said with a sigh.
"It really doesn't work. We can only get through this crisis first, and then find ways to avoid it in the future."
"It doesn't make sense."
"We can't transfer all the people individually every time. This is too unscientific."
"It is better to catch a thief once than to guard against a thief for a thousand days. We must find the loopholes."
"How to find it?"
Zhang Wangshui fell silent, and after a long time, he spoke:
"Use the trick!"
On the other side, Sean and Bond's plan has been formulated and has entered the full execution stage.
In a very short period of time, all the forces in the country were mobilized and started to move forward step by step according to their designed action route.
The first to be launched was the "termination plan" for those returning scientific researchers.
According to Sean's arrangement and with the support of the May Meeting, all equipment and machinery suppliers related to airport logistics were quickly conquered. The duo encountered almost no obstacles and obtained relevant equipment supply information.
But fortunately, all these devices need to undergo secondary inspection before admission. It is basically impossible to tamper with the equipment.
So, they immediately turned their attention to the accompanying luggage and equipment that had been planned for a long time.
With the help of customs, some equipment that should not have passed through customs was exempted and successfully entered the port warehouse.
There, the equipment was well taken care of - they even reboxed the equipment.
Of course, special double-layer hard packaging boxes are used.
According to Bond's plan, if all goes well, these packages that cannot detect any abnormalities will board the transfer plane in China along with the equipment and target personnel.
Subsequently, due to the loss of fixed arrangement order, the center of gravity of these packaging boxes will continue to change due to turbulence in the air, and will eventually be concentrated on a certain side of the aircraft.
Such a huge change in the center of gravity will bring major difficulties to the control of the aircraft.
If the effects of air currents, low temperatures and other external conditions are added to the equation, their desired goals are likely to be achieved.
All they need is a little luck.
In addition to this plan, which they call the "final solution," a public opinion offensive has also been launched.
The first thing to be released was various tidbits about returned scientific researchers. The editors of these tidbits were not only familiar with various theories of communication, but also had a special understanding of "human nature", especially the "human nature" of netizens in the new era.
They cleverly inserted various keywords into their reports, such as "old cow eats young grass", such as "cheating wife", such as "teacher-student friendship".
Once these news were released, they immediately spread in the Chinese Internet circles without even requiring their active promotion.
For a time, discussions about "strength" and "character" were rampant.
Netizens were sharply divided into two factions.
One group believes that scientific research work is objective and does not depend on people's subjective will. As long as it can produce results, there is no need to care too much about private life issues.
The other group believes that private morality is deficient and public morality must also be imperfect. To recruit these people into the team is to plant a time bomb.
Arguments are constant, and even the most sensible netizens are involuntarily involved in this debate.
"If you guys think it's okay, then I hope that all your friends, colleagues, and family members will be like that Zhang, cheating on other people's wives."
"Oh, no, the one who cheated might not be someone else's wife, but your own wife."
"What you said upstairs is good, and that teacher-student one is really disgusting. Such a person can actually return to the country and be accepted into our own team. Do you still have any conscience?"
"Aren't you afraid, aren't those young girls in the institute afraid? Disgusting!"
"Isn't it too much? He fell in love with his doctoral student while he was a doctoral supervisor, and it is not prohibited by law. Does this have to be on the line?"
"This can't be put online. How long will it take before it can be put online?"
"You have an open culture in the United States, so stay true to the United States and don't come to us to corrupt the culture!"
Comments are posted one by one. If you bother to check, you may easily find that those netizens who use the banner of "good for the country" never seem to participate in actual discussions.
They just grasped the breaking point in the news and continued to vent their emotions.
What’s even more frightening is that this kind of pure emotional catharsis can gain the greatest say in the entire Internet environment, eventually forcing those who think rationally to drop to the same level as them.
As a result, in a very short period of time, the incident was replaced by emotion, and a wave of unusual public opinion frenzy gradually began to brew.
And in this frenzy, everyone seems to have forgotten one thing:
Are those reports true?
This is the consequence of forced choice.
If you ask a child if he wants milk, he will most likely say no.
But if you ask whether you want to drink from a blue or red cup, then he will definitely choose a color.
And today's netizens are children who are forced to choose cups.
However, what they drank was not necessarily milk, but something dirtier.
Under such circumstances, Li Xiang was almost going crazy in NPU.
While he had to deal with the pressure of public opinion brought by gossipy news, he even had to find ways to cover up the research and development projects of the 611 Institute!
Because, at the same time as these news broke, external media also released speculations about the new projects of the 611 Institute.
Those news did not seem to intend to conceal their intelligence sources at all, but directly pointed out that the 611 Institute's new fighter development project was related to carrier-based aircraft.
And, in addition, they also analyzed that this carrier-based aircraft may adopt STOVL mode.
As soon as the news came out, the already chaotic public opinion turned into chaos.
In every forum, there are different people discussing these two topics.
Some people even connected "experts returning to China" with "611 Institute's new projects" and guessed the research and development direction of J-20B.
This made Li Xiang extremely dizzy.
Do you really have to show off important secrets just to show off your little knowledge?
He wanted to delete these posts, but unfortunately he couldn't.
Because if you do that, it will appear to be covering up.
Therefore, he had to spend a lot of time every day to communicate with those netizens, and it was still a kind of cross-dressing.
"What's STOVL? This is too ridiculous. I can't believe it when you say carrier-based aircraft, STOVL? Are you kidding me? With China's aviation industry level, do you still want to engage in STOVL?"
"Don't study hard and finally come up with a Harrier. What's the use of that thing?"
After posting one post, he immediately switched to a new account and continued to reply under his own account:
"Yes, these foreign media really take the 611 Institute too seriously. Do they think that the 611 Institute is Chengdu Lockheed Martin? It says it can build airplanes?"
"Even Lockheed Martin, there's no news about building a STOVL fighter, right?"
"How dare you, a great country, do something that even the United States dare not do casually?"
"What you said above is right. Nowadays, some people like to deceive themselves and others. Just listen to the wind and it will be rain. Don't you think about whether you are worthy of it? You really think that everything will be fine after you have a fourth-generation machine, right?"
"With no technology accumulation and no infrastructure, how can you do STOVL? How can you do it? Rely on the touch of upper and lower lips at a press conference? Go to bed early, you can have everything in your dreams."
"That's not necessarily true. Didn't they bring back a group of experts from the United States? Maybe they can rely on foreign aid to save their lives."
Seeing more and more replies, Li Xiang finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The direction of the wind has turned.
Otherwise, if "speculations" are turned into "facts" by external networks through public opinion, many tasks will face unnecessary obstacles.
In this way, I can be considered as making a contribution to the project.
——
But pretending to be a rebel, a right-minded person, or a public intellectual is really not a good job.
It does too much harm to your soul.
Li Xiang shook his head. He casually opened a news website and found that the TV program that had been discussed in his department was already online.
A certain Mr. Zhang was sitting in the spacious and bright studio, talking to everyone:
"We have no plans for a new fourth-generation aircraft for the time being, and we don't know how this news came out."
"Don't talk about STOVL. We haven't even figured out how to play J-22 yet. What are we going to do with STOVL?"
"No, really not. There is indeed a project at the 611 Institute, but it is just some modifications to the J-10 and J-8. They are not the same thing at all."
In this era, Mr. Zhang's reputation and credibility are still very high. Seeing that he even denied it, most people accepted the statement that "the 611 Institute has no new projects."
As a result, another group of "I knew it early" appeared on the Internet.
"I already knew there was no chance because we didn't have the strength."
This is their typical statement.
However, just as this set of thinking was gradually established in everyone's minds, the United States added fuel to the fire again.
"On October X, the U.S. Department of Defense announced that it would abandon the JAST program, the Joint Advanced Strike Technology Program."
"It is understood that the main content of the plan includes the development project of a short-range, vertical take-off and landing fighter aircraft code-named F-35."
(End of chapter)
