Chapter 28: Emergency Plan 00001

Whether it was the Arakawa Ward or the adjacent wards.

Everyone who spotted the Yunhu in the sky simultaneously fixed their gaze upon the floating, magnificent, and ancient city in the Yunhu's sky.

Just a single glance.

Sent everyone into a frenzy, their faces instantly changing color.

Their eyes nearly burst open.

They wished to carve everything they saw deep into their eyeballs and imprint it into their memories.

Everyone was panting heavily, barely able to withstand the visual shock brought by the scene before them.

Their hearts pounded violently, as if ready to explode at any moment.

Even breathing became difficult.

Some elderly people were so shocked they suffered heart attacks, pinching their philtrum with all their might.

At that same moment.

Sakada Wenzhijie and the others were also looking up at the sky like everyone else.

However.

They were different from the others.

They were inside the Yunhu's image, gazing at the distant firmament, utterly shocked.

The twilight sky, illuminated by the setting sun, displayed a desolate and cold radiance, with faint traces of dimness.

Heaven and Earth seemed to have entered their twilight years; everything appeared to be decaying, nearing the end of its life.

Only that incredibly vast and towering ancient city floating in the air did not appear decrepit, nor had it lost its brilliance.

It was as if the setting sun was in twilight only because the ancient city had sucked away all its light and glory.

The ancient city was too vast; even just one corner of it filled this entire realm of heaven and earth. Luminous light flowed across its surface, majestic and grand, emitting an immortal and magnificent aura, drawing all the fortune of heaven and earth to converge here.

Although located far away, it still made Mizuno Yuichi and the others feel its immense scale.

"How the hell big is this?!"

"It must be at least a hundred li! No, a thousand li! No, no! Ten thousand li is correct."

Mizuno Yuichi and the others clicked their tongues; a single glance was not enough to take in the entire ancient city.

Amidst the shock, they were bewildered.

How could a city float in the sky? Is this magnetic levitation?

Inside the high-level conference hall of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.

An oval conference table was surrounded by seated personnel; every person's shoulder bore a title so large it was terrifying. They were uniformly high-level officials of the Police Department, with other government officials among them.

When the anomaly in the Arakawa Ward sky occurred, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, the Tokyo Government, and the Tokyo Self-Defense Force immediately convened a high-level gathering at the fastest speed.

At this moment, those gathered here were all various officials.

In today's world, every country and every government has an emergency plan for unexpected situations.

Once an unknown emergency occurs, the government will immediately summon high-level personnel from all sides to hold a meeting.

"What on earth is going on? Is this a movie shoot?"

Looking at the screen, which displayed the footage captured above the Arakawa Ward,

every high-level official was filled with doubt, looking completely baffled.

What the hell?

Is this playing a special-effects blockbuster? The kind where the budget is burning.

Isn't this an emergency situation? How can they still have time to play a movie?

A high-level official who had just gotten drunk from socializing thought he must have misheard; this wasn't an emergency summons, it must be a summons to watch a movie, right?

No wonder everyone was baffled; they had been urgently summoned, told that a major unknown situation had appeared in the Arakawa Ward, only to arrive here and see the conference's large screen playing a blockbuster comparable to 'Avengers 4'.

Anyone would be baffled.

"Everyone, this is not a movie shoot; what you are seeing is footage captured above the Arakawa Ward."

As Director Saito explained,

everyone's faces changed color.

"Not a movie shoot?"

"Director Saito, are you sure this is footage?"

"Hey, hey! Director Saito, don't joke, okay? Uh, could it really be real?"

Everyone was filled with shock and doubt, their eyes bulging like oxen's, staring dead at the screen, growing more and more alarmed the longer they looked.

What kind of joke is this?

This magical Fairy Sea Yunhu is actually real?

The drunk one even blurted out directly,

"Is this... an alien invasion??"

Due to the alcohol and the shock, his speech involuntarily became loud, echoing through the conference hall.

Although that high-level official was drunk, his drunken remark was not impossible given the current situation.

On the contrary, the possibility was quite high.

"With current technology, can one project special effects large enough to cover an entire ward?"

A high-level official raised the most critical question.

"I don't know about other countries, but as one of the most technologically advanced nations, we cannot do it; I believe other countries probably cannot do it either."

"With this kind of projection technology that is indistinguishable from reality, the technological level, I feel, is not an exaggeration to say it surpasses current technology by a hundred years."

"I agree; no country currently possesses such technology. If they did, that nation would have turned the world upside down long ago."

After this discussion,

they unanimously concluded that current technology could not produce such a large-scale, indistinguishable projection.

"So? Could it really be an alien invasion?"

The same drunk high-ranking official's mouth twitched, his expression indescribably strange.

Damn it, according to your analysis, we've just circled back to talking about an alien invasion again.

Just thinking about an alien invasion,

everyone's breathing became rapid and clear, impossible to calm down for a moment.

They had actually assessed the situation in the Arakawa District and considered the possibility of an alien invasion, but the inferred conclusion was too shocking for them to believe.

Aliens.

Since humanity first entered space, the search for aliens, that is, other life forms outside Earth, has never ceased.

Yet after decades of searching, nothing was found; now, damn it, one just popped out, and judging by its technological level, it far surpasses today's technology.

At this moment,

a high-ranking official from the Metropolitan Police Department, his eyes flashing with fiery intensity, spoke with a trembling voice.

"If, I say if this really is the arrival of aliens, we might be the first nation in human history to make contact with aliens. If we could obtain their technology first and monopolize it..."

He stopped speaking halfway through.

But everyone knew what he meant.

The entire conference hall fell silent, with only rapid and violent breathing sounds remaining.

Every pair of eyes flickered with different lights: greed, hegemony, money...

The next moment,

that high-ranking official slowly stood up and said in a deep voice:

"I suggest activating Emergency Plan 00001. Yes, it is the response to alien diplomacy and alien invasion. I... my God! Someone! Someone!!"

He stood up in excitement, knocking over the chair he was sitting on.

He pointed at the conference screen.

In the Immortal Sea Yunhu, ripples rose again, waves rippling, as if a deity extended an ethereal, invisible hand and pointed a finger into the Yunhu.

With that single point, the wind and clouds were stirred.

The mist in the lake, divine light flowing, colorful and variegated; the scenery changed once more. This time, instead of being pulled back, it was pulled closer, constantly magnifying. Finally, after a few breaths, the image reflected a street in the Arakawa District.

The image now contained something absent from the previous two scenes... people!

And not just one person.

A full thirty-plus.

"Are those aliens?"

Minister Saito was astonished; the 'aliens' in the image looked exactly like humans.

However, before he could finish speaking,

a high-ranking official cried out in shock.

"Wait... isn't that person Sakada Wenzhijie!"