Chapter 845: To the Us of Two Years Ago; Welcome to Ignite Humanity's Own History
"Can it... be so similar?"
When the AG-99 appeared on the screen, the audience was stunned, just like the personnel in the command center.
Everyone's first reaction was, "Not sure, let's look again."
But after looking at it a second time, they all expressed:
"No, what is this?" "What's going on?" "Encountered the Foundation of a parallel universe again?"
"If judged by appearance, this is highly likely a spaceship belonging to the Foundation, highly likely a sister ship of the same model as AG-99."
"Why is it highly likely?"
"You can't say things too definitively; what if this is something copied by an SCP, or mimicked, specifically here to fish for the Foundation, wouldn't that be a slap in the face instantly."
"Oh, I've read such stories; a shapeshifter capable of imitating humans occupied a refugee starship, successfully deceived the fleet that came to support, landed on a colony planet, and eventually forced the empire to destroy the entire planet. ~"
"This sounds exactly like something the Foundation could do."
"Yuck! Don't talk nonsense!"
……
【The thing we were most worried about still happened.】
【Regardless of whether the person driving it is one of our own or someone else from a parallel world.】
【Regardless of whether that is an experimental error or a deliberate crime.】
【We have made humanity notice AG-99.】
【We might rewrite the history of humanity in this universe; this is the greatest disaster.】
"Wait..." Jiang Wenhan stopped turning the pen in his hand and frowned deeply.
"An AG-99 that didn't turn on the optical stealth system?"
He felt he had grasped something, raised his head suddenly, and looked at the advanced aircraft hovering and flying in the sky in the picture.
Immediately after, like flint striking to produce sparks,
a thought flashed through his mind.
Jiang Wenhan stood up from his seat a bit messily, his figure slightly unstable, half-walking and half-running, his hands alternately supporting the back of each chair and the edge of the long table.
While saying "sorry," he ran toward the general commander's seat where Zhang Hanyu was.
The sounds of the world drifted away, gradually becoming a faint and distorted wind in his ears.
Everyone in the command center was either thinking or discussing, wanting to figure out what the origin of this other AG-99 was?
And why would it appear in ancient times so blatantly?
To what extent has history been changed?
But all this had nothing to do with Jiang Wenhan anymore; only one thought remained in his mind, and everything else was handled by instinct.
"Old Zhang! Old Zhang!"
Zhang Hanyu raised his head and looked at Jiang Wenhan, who was stumbling and not at all like a Level 5 researcher:
"What's wrong, Old Jiang?"
"I suddenly thought of a point; hurry up and let AG-99 aim the lens at the other side's tail wing!"
Zhang Hanyu didn't turn into a curious baby, asking questions, but nodded and relayed Jiang Wenhan's request into the microphone:
"AG-99, move the perspective to the rear of the other side's fuselage."
As the camera turned, the screen clearly displayed that behind the fuselage of the other AG-99, there was a water vapor contrail, and a translucent cyan-blue light was visible clinging to one side of the fuselage.
Jiang Wenhan stared fixedly at the screen, at that touch of cyan-blue flickering in the mist.
In Zhang Hanyu's puzzled and helpless eyes,
he took the microphone and stared at the largest screen in the command center, without blinking.
A moment later, the communication from AG-99 sounded again:
"The contrail is light pink, and a cyan-blue light source can be seen near the side of the fuselage. Wait... cyan-blue light source?"
Jiang Wenhan was a bit excited; he said quickly:
"Sure enough! That's exactly it!"
"Old Zhang, I think we should consider all possibilities—I remember in the Anomalous Studies document, there is such a sentence, right?"
If AG-99 turned off the optical stealth system, it meant that the observable optical effects produced by the nuclear reactor would also appear.
And the most famous one is Cherenkov radiation.
——High-energy particles released during the nuclear reaction process will produce blue glow when passing through the air.
The sound transmitted back by AG-99 also began to tremble:
"Yes, I remember this sentence!"
"'The tail shines like a blue flame.'"
"Exactly. It is 'The tail shines like a blue flame'!" Jiang Wenhan said, "Young man, do you know about Cherenkov radiation?"
"I learned it in physics class, and I still remember a little bit... If I remember correctly, it is related to nuclear reactions.... AG-99's nuclear reactor is at the tail!"
"That's exactly it! So, if the blue Cherenkov radiation is scattered by the contrail, will it in the air..."
The pilot of AG-99 didn't wait for Jiang Wenhan to finish, and connected the second half of the sentence:
"... drift like a blue fire!"
A sound of deep breathing came from the broadcast, followed by a firm response:
"I understand, will track the unidentified aircraft with all my strength."
Jiang Wenhan let out a long sigh; he looked at the picture in the screen, which was a bit shaky and deformed.
That represented AG-99 tracking the aircraft of unknown origin but belonging to the same model with all its strength.
The mystery that his family had pursued for thousands of years had finally been answered.
It would be a lie to say there were no regrets.
This answer exceeded expectations, but obviously not romantic enough.
The "Blue Bird" is not a true "anomaly," not some mythical creature, and certainly not a divine messenger sent to the human world by the Queen Mother of the West.
However, although the doubts in his heart had been answered, there were obviously some questions remaining, and some people had one new doubt after another in their hearts.
Jiang Wenhan subconsciously turned his neck and looked at Zhang Hanyu sitting on the side—the latter was flipping through thousands of pages of application materials quickly.
A moment later, Zhang Hanyu patted Jiang Wenhan:
"If you say AG-99 is the 'Blue Bird,' then other characteristics..."
As he spoke, Zhang Hanyu's voice became smaller and smaller, the wrinkles of doubt on his face gradually smoothed out, and his eyes gradually widened.
Obviously, the doubts in his heart didn't need to be asked out loud, and they had already been answered.
He supported his chin with one hand and tapped the tablet computer used for reading reports with the other.
"Ah, it seems that some other characteristics do match!"
"The first one is this... 'When it rises, purple energy must be seen, and the energy penetrates ninety thousand miles upward.'"
"We thought before that this was just a foil for 'auspicious omen,' but now it seems... maybe it's describing the contrail?"
AG-99's communication sounded:
"Ah! The contrail just now, in the part far from the fuselage, was pink."
"Now it's 6 PM, it's already sunset, that contrail should have reflected the sunlight, so it has a purple tone!"
"In that case, AG-99's paint is blue-white. The 'Blue Bird's' wings... seem to be too?"
Zhang Hanyu subconsciously took a look at the screen in front of him, feeling the veil covering history being slowly torn open—
Sending a spaceship capable of crossing time and space to a parallel universe to investigate the mysteries of this universe, and then discovering that it was the masterpiece of another Foundation, this...
This set of things is really enough for the Foundation.
But what else could he say? All descriptions that were once regarded as related to extraordinary creatures and divinity all matched the characteristics of AG-99.
There is no evidence that can be used to overturn this argument, so he can only admit that AG-99 is the legendary "Blue Bird."
Calmly accept that the history of humanity in this universe has been influenced by the Foundation of another universe, producing some extremely subtle changes.
Dr. Zhang sighed in his heart, completely accepting this conclusion that jumped from the fantasy set to the sci-fi set, while continuing to verify other characteristics.
"That's right, 'wings are blue-white.' Well done! Then this sentence also matches." ===== CHAPTER 847 =====
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