Chapter 16: A Major Disaster Strikes

Hamamatsu Base, Pilot Dormitory.

"A-Jian, I'm done washing; go wash quickly." Fujihiro Masaji stepped out of the dormitory bathroom.

Flopping onto the bed, Fujihiro Masaji, with nothing to do, dried his hair with a bath towel while logging into YTB, mindlessly scrolling through videos.

Normally, when Fujihiro Masaji wasn't flying planes, his favorite thing to do was scroll YTB.

Out of his love for scrolling YTB videos, he even opened an account, specifically to upload videos of himself performing high-difficulty maneuvers while flying planes.

Regarding this, Hamamatsu Base did not stop him; instead, they encouraged him to post videos.

Because his videos helped attract young people to join the military.

Therefore, as long as the videos he posted did not involve secrets, Hamamatsu Base did not interfere.

On the Japanese YTB channel, Fujihiro Masaji was considered a somewhat famous video uploader, nicknamed "Machine God."

"Eh?"

While scrolling videos, Fujihiro Masaji was attracted by a video titled "Archive -- NH137."

NH137??

Wasn't that today's hijacking incident?

The reason the video attracted Fujihiro Masaji was not the title.

"This video is the world's only recording capturing the entire sequence of events before and after the NH137 incident."

Fujihiro Masaji read the video description aloud.

The NH137 incident had already gone viral in Japan earlier today.

Therefore, there were many uploaded videos on YTB filming the NH137.

These videos had very sensational titles; Fujihiro Masaji had seen them, and their content varied greatly, all recording the plane's drift.

Needless to say.

The uploader must have been someone present at the airport scene.

For these videos, Fujihiro Masaji basically clicked open, watched for a few seconds, and then closed them.

Come on, he had watched the entire drift from the air; his unique aerial perspective made him see much more clearly than the shooting angles of these videos.

However, this video was different.

It specifically highlighted the sequence of events before and after the incident.

No one else dared to write this in other video descriptions.

With curiosity, Fujihiro Masaji clicked into the video page and scrolled down to the comment section.

He had a habit of reading comments before watching videos.

Upon seeing them, Fujihiro Masaji was shocked and suspicious, his curiosity growing even stronger.

"This video... how did the uploader film it?"

"I can't take it; I'm starting to doubt it. Could the NH137 incident not be an accident?"

"Is this a movie?"

"!!! ∑(Дノ)ノ OMG! Can anyone tell me if this is a movie adapted by a film company based on the NH137 incident after it happened?"

"To the person above, I can tell you for certain this is a follow-up video, because making a movie takes too much time."

"Kamikawa Mitsu's piloting skills are absolutely incredible!"

"The angle switching in the video... could the uploader be one of the 231 people? But that doesn't seem right either."

Fujihiro Masaji was astonished.

Every single comment was exaggerated and filled with awe.

Moreover, from the video's release time until now, only half an hour had passed; the video had been reposted over a hundred times, and there were already 768 comments.

"Could this video really record the sequence of events before and after the NH137 incident?"

With curiosity in his heart, Fujihiro Masaji clicked to watch the video.

"Woh!"

"Oh my God!!"

"Oh f***!!"

As the video played, Fujihiro Masaji's exclamations never stopped; he kept shouting, making anyone think he had gone mad.

The video was exactly as the description said.

It recorded and filmed the NH137 incident, and in great detail!

Its level of detail was so great that... the crows colliding with the plane, what those few crows looked like, the horrific nature of the collision with the plane, how the captain died accidentally, how the co-pilot was injured, the high-altitude crisis of the plane, the scenes inside the cockpit, what the passengers experienced, the changes in the passengers' facial expressions, the situation in the cockpit, and so on—all were recorded in the video.

In the first moment.

Fujihiro Masaji made a judgment.

This absolutely was not a fake video or a movie; it was truly a video recording of the NH137.

The people appearing in the video were exactly the 231 people of NH137.

At the same time.

Watching the crows collide with the plane in the video, Fujihiro Masaji was terrified.

The video footage was extremely bloody and horrific; one could clearly feel how huge a crisis the crows colliding brought to the NH137.

"How was this filmed?" Fujihiro Masaji asked, both shocked and suspicious.

The angle of the crows flying in the video was obviously not filmed from inside the plane's cockpit, but rather... filmed from the air.

Or rather.

It was filmed at close range from the air, capturing the crows' flight.

This angle was as if an aerial drone had flown overhead, capturing the crow and simultaneously capturing the crow striking the plane—a perfect God's-eye view.

Similar angles appeared in the video more than once.

Besides the crow striking the plane, there were shots of the plane banking overhead, reaching its altitude limit, its left wing icing up, and the plane descending with the high-altitude airflow.

All of these used the God's-eye view angle.

That is, footage shot from outside the plane, capturing the entire flight process of the aircraft.

What was used to shoot this?

Who shot it?

Fujihiro Masaji watched the video, a strong sense of doubt rising in his heart.

The location where NH137 encountered trouble at high altitude was above 6,500 meters.

At that altitude, an aerial drone could not possibly reach.

Because the camera footage showed no shaking whatsoever from the strong airflow; the entire shoot was stable, ruling out the possibility of an aerial drone.

Current aerial drones still cannot withstand strong high-altitude air currents.

Therefore, it could only be someone flying a plane to shoot it.

But.

Shooting while flying a plane is completely impossible!

Others might not know, but Fujihiro Masaji knew clearly: after NH137 encountered trouble, he flew a plane to provide escort and protection, yet never saw any other aircraft around NH137.

As for shooting with a satellite, that is absolutely impossible.

The shooting angles were multi-directional; a satellite located in space can only offer a top-down view, unable to achieve multiple angles.

So...

Exactly how was the video shot?

And who exactly shot the video...

Compared to the question of how the video was shot, Fujihiro Masaji cared more about who shot the video.

Simply because the more he watched the video, the more he was astounded by the person behind it.

Why could the person who shot this video follow NH137 the entire way, from takeoff to the incident to landing?

The other party seemed like a prophet, having predicted in advance that NH137 would encounter trouble, thus following and filming NH137's entire journey beforehand.

Wait!

Predicting in advance that NH137 would encounter trouble??

As if realizing a critical issue, Fujihiro Masaji's expression suddenly changed.

He did not believe the shooter had randomly decided to film a plane, happened to select NH137, and coincidentally NH137 encountered trouble, thus coincidentally witnessing a world-class news event.

The evidence was right there in the video.

In the video, there was a scene: before NH137 encountered trouble, the footage specifically switched to the crow...

At that time, the crow was still a great distance from NH137, and NH137 had not yet taken off; the two were not on the same flight path, making it impossible to predict the crow striking the plane.

Impossible to predict, yet the fact was... the shooter had indeed filmed the crow in advance.

This point alone was enough to show.

The shooter clearly knew in advance that the crow would strike the plane next.

So, how did he know?

"Could it be that the crow striking the plane was deliberate?!" Fujihiro Masaji muttered, voicing a terrifying speculation.

Regarding prophets, fortune-tellers, and the like, he absolutely did not believe such claims.

Because scientifically, there is a theoretical basis: humans cannot predict the future out of thin air; they can only predict through deduction.

Simply put, it is using certain information to perform calculations, thereby deducing what will happen next.

However, NH137 could not possibly predict a bird striking the plane.

It was a complete prediction out of thin air.

This point, science cannot explain; it can only be explained by theories of ghosts and spirits.

As an intellectual who had received higher education, Fujihiro Masaji did not believe in ghosts and spirits.

He firmly believed that science is supreme!

There are no ghosts in the world.

Those supernatural phenomena rumored in folk traditions, seemingly involving ghosts and spirits, have long been verified by scientists: supernatural phenomena are merely scientific phenomena, with reason and evidence.

Moreover, if ghosts and spirits truly existed in the world, why have none appeared to this day?

As for whether the plane and the crow in the video were special effects...

Fujihiro Masaji was not a fool.

Although he could not create movie special effects, he understood one thing: creating special effects takes a great deal of time.

In merely half a day, it was impossible to achieve such realistic special effects for the crow and the plane.

Since it was neither predicting the future nor special effects production.

There was only one possibility.

The crow striking the plane was deliberate!!

Someone was guiding the plane to take off and driving the crow to strike the plane.

"Hiss!" At the thought of this speculation, Fujihiro Masaji's scalp went numb.

If it truly was deliberate, the NH137 incident would not be an accident.

It would be a heinous murder case of an extremely vicious nature.

A single murder of 231 people!

No!

I must report this immediately.

Fujihiro Masaji hurriedly rose to dress.

NH137 If not for the accident, the murderer would surely still be at large, and might commit another crime.

Dressing quickly.

Putting on his shoes, Fujihiro Masaji picked up his phone.

Suddenly.

A glance from the corner of his eye, and Fujihiro Masaji's hand holding the phone froze, his gaze fixed straight on the video image on the screen.

"This!"