Chapter 176

"And tonight."

Liu Ju looked at the live stream screen.

On the screen, Ning Chen had just pulled up a screenshot, seemingly analyzing something.

"Ning Chen, by analyzing a segment of the video,"

"we believe this Li Sai Gao may not be just an ordinary internet celebrity."

"What he's involved in is very likely illegal activity."

"Illegal detention, or something similar."

Liu Ju was speaking.

Mr. Ding Xiangdong suddenly stood up.

"Don't speak yet!" Mr. Ding suddenly said.

Everyone froze.

But they saw Mr. Ding's gaze, sharp as fire.

Fixed intently on the live stream projection directly ahead.

Everyone, puzzled, turned to look at Ning Chen's live stream.

In Shiguang's live stream.

Ning Chen was studying a picture.

This picture, too, had been cropped from Li Sai Gao's video.

A picture of Li Sai Gao sitting on a chair, holding a guitar, singing with his back to the window.

The picture suddenly zoomed in.

Zoomed all the way to the window behind Li Sai Gao.

Outside the window was night.

The moon was visible in the night sky, the sky a deep ink-blue.

At the side of the night sky, an airplane had just entered the frame.

At this moment—

Everyone saw the host, Shiguang, zoom in again.

Zooming in, focusing on the airplane in the night sky.

Behind the airplane was a white contrail; this detail was first magnified.

In the clear night sky, with no smog interference, everything appeared sharp.

Then, the lens zoomed further, focusing on the airplane itself—its basic outline became clear.

They could see the engines, the shape of the tail fins, and more.

But the aircraft's registration code area remained blurry.

Suddenly!

The host began operating again.

He used technical means to sharpen the blurred registration code area on the plane!

Continuously increasing the resolution!

Gradually, the outline of a code appeared.

Though still not perfectly clear,

it was now legible.

【CNMU920】

After this code appeared,

the entire conference room erupted into murmurs.

Zhao Mengmeng stared at the live stream projection.

Suddenly, something occurred to her.

"This! Isn't it the same string of numbers and letters Ning Chen wrote on paper earlier?"

Liu Ju Zhiguo froze.

He spun around abruptly.

"Where is that string?"

Beside him, an officer handed over a piece of paper.

Earlier, when they saw Ning Chen write a code on the bedside table, the surveillance officer had recorded it down.

Now, Liu Ju saw the paper clearly read:

【CNMU9201305】!

Except for the extra "1305" at the end!

The front part!

Was identical to the plane's code after Ning Chen had lowered the resolution!

"W-What is going on?!"

The conference room burst into a clamor of voices.

Mr. Ding Xiangdong's voice rang out again: "Everyone, be silent!"

Silence fell once more.

The officers saw that in the live stream,

the host, Shiguang—Ning Chen—opened the screenshot tool and captured the magnified airplane.

Then he directly opened the browser's search engine and dragged the airplane image he had just captured into the search bar.

"What is he trying to do?"

The director beside him frowned.

He turned to look at Mr. Ding.

When he saw Mr. Ding's expression, the director was stunned.

The old man's eyes were fixed tightly on the large screen ahead.

On the old man's face appeared an expression of utter disbelief!

Then, a voice echoed through the conference room—

"This—this young man—he wants to find the specific details of this 2020 aircraft!"

At midnight.

Ning Chen raised his hand and dragged the captured airplane image.

Into the search bar.

In an era with search engines, things are convenient.

Ning Chen's purpose in dragging the image into the search bar was not to find identical images online.

He merely wanted to confirm the aircraft model in the image.

Using this method does not guarantee an absolutely precise answer.

But the search results could never yield only one result.

Dozens of pages of answers would appear.

Among these answers, a trend would emerge.

That is, the principle of majority rule.

The more frequently a particular answer appeared, the greater its likelihood and probability.

And Ning Chen needed only a higher-probability answer.

Soon, the search results appeared.

Based on the aircraft's silhouette, the search results gave the answer—

Boeing 747-8F large cargo aircraft.

First key confirmation: aircraft model—Boeing 747-8F.

Second key: time.

The cluster of numbers from the earlier clue fragment.

CNMU9201305

Except for the last four digits, the preceding content matched the tail number on the aircraft visible through the window in the Li Sai Gao video screenshot.