611, in a secret office.

Chen Nian sat in front of Yang Wei, accompanied by two senior cadres of the intelligence department.

Everyone looked serious, after all, what they were discussing was of great significance.

An intelligence officer named Zhang Wangshui, who was sitting on the right-hand side, was the first to ask:

"Chen Gong, do you think this transshipment operation will be risky?"

Chen Nian nodded and replied bluntly:

"Yes, I think that the interests of this return trip are too broad and strongly related to the important projects we are working on, and the other side will not pass up such a good opportunity."

"I don't know what they're going to do, but it's clear that it's too risky to transfer so many people at the same time."

"My suggestion is that everyone disbands on the spot and flies to Chengdu on a civil airliner."

"During the process, a special escort can be arranged."

"Although this increases the risk of confidentiality for us, at the same time, it also sharply increases the cost of the other party's operation."

"They wouldn't dare to blow up an entire plane for one person, it's not worth it."

After finishing speaking, Chen Nian quietly looked at Zhang Wangshui, waiting for the other party's answer.

In fact, his statement of "don't go to AH" at that time was purely a knee-jerk reaction, because what popped out of his mind was the major accident in his previous life.

In his memory, that accident is inextricably linked with the research and development of early warning aircraft, and it is precisely because of that accident that the research and development process of our early warning aircraft has been slowed down for at least three years.

Logically, the situation they are facing now can be said to be the same as that time.

For the U.S. side, the urgency is even greater.

So, who can guarantee that at this time, they will not use the same insidious means?

So, Chen Nian opened his mouth without hesitation.

Hearing his words, Zhang Wangshui nodded, and then said decisively:

"It's a very reasonable suggestion, and we'll take it."

"Huh?"

Hearing this, Chen Nian was directly stunned.

"Are you sure you want to change the plan?"

According to his prediction, Zhang Wangshui should first consider the credibility of his speculation before deciding whether to adopt it.

After all, if you follow your own plan, it will be more difficult for the authorities 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, there are risks associated with the original transshipment scheme. ”

"Although it is only a very small risk, our expected loss is still very large against the potential damage it may cause."

"So, we have to be cautious."

Speaking of this, Zhang Wangshui paused for a moment, and then continued to ask:

"Also, we would like to ask, from your personal point of view, do you have any conjectures about possible accidents?"

"After all, according to your speculation, the accident is most likely related to the aircraft, which is your specialty."

Chen Nian frowned slightly, he carefully recalled the memories of his previous life, but found nothing.

In that case, the information that was originally disclosed was incomplete, and even if there was really a hidden secret, it was not something that I could access.

As a result, he was extremely limited in what he could suggest.

After a moment's hesitation, he spoke:

"I can't give an exact guess."

"But I think it's very difficult to do it directly on the aircraft, and the key points may be in the ground crew, personnel, and random baggage and cargo."

"In these areas, our relatively weak control will also give them more opportunities."

"I think you can organize a self-inspection to focus on the management loopholes in these modules."

Zhang Wangshui nodded solemnly and replied:

"Got it, we'll do it."

"Also, I hope you keep this matter a secret for the time being - we may have further action."

"Understood."

Hearing Chen Nian's answer, Zhang Wangshui stood up and sent him and Yang Wei out of the door, and then, he closed the door of the conference room, looked at another intelligence officer and asked:

"What do you think about this?"

The man shook his head slightly, and replied:

"It's hard to say, Chen Nian's idea makes sense."

"But if that's really the case, then the other party's actions are a little too aggressive."

"I'm skeptical that even if such an operation exists, it will be their front-line personnel who are making claims, or if our opponents are really crazy to this extent."

"What do you think?"

Zhang Wangshui pondered for a moment and replied:

"I'm leaning towards the latter."

"As Chen Nian said, the success or failure of this project is extremely critical for both of us."

"In this case, it's not bizarre that they do anything."

"The only problem is that I can't figure out what's going on."

"Me too."

The other said with a sigh.

"It's really not good, we can only get through this crisis first, and then find a way to avoid it."

"It doesn't make sense."

"It's impossible for us to transfer all the people individually every time, it's so unscientific."

"It is better to catch a thief for a thousand days, we must find out the loopholes."

"How?"

Zhang Wangshui was silent, and after a long time, he spoke:

"Whatever is planned!"

On the other hand, Sean and Bond's plan has been formulated and has entered the stage of full execution.

In a very short period of time, all the forces in the country were mobilized and began to advance step by step in accordance with the course of action they had designed.

The first to be launched was the "termination plan" for those who returned to China.

According to Sean's arrangement, with the support of the May Meeting, all the equipment and machinery suppliers related to the logistics of the airport were quickly overcome, and the duo almost encountered any obstacles to obtain the relevant equipment supply information.

But fortunately, all of these devices need to be tested twice before entering the venue, and it is basically impossible to use them on 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 kept – they even reboxed it.

Of course, a special double-walled rigid box is used.

According to Bond's plan, if all goes well, the packaging, which cannot detect any abnormalities, will be loaded on a transfer plane in China along with the equipment and the target personnel.

Subsequently, due to the loss of a fixed order of arrangement, the center of gravity of these boxes will constantly change due to turbulence in the air, and eventually accumulate on one side of the aircraft.

Such a huge change in the center of gravity will bring significant difficulties to the control of the aircraft.

If you add the influence of air currents, low temperatures and other external conditions, the goal they expect is likely to be achieved.

All they need is a little bit of luck.

And beyond what they call the "final solution," a public opinion offensive has also begun.

The first thing that was released was a variety of lace news about returned scientific researchers, and the compilers of these lace news were not only familiar with various theories of communication, but also particularly aware of "human nature", especially the "human nature" of netizens in the new era.

They cleverly implanted various keywords in the report, such as "old cows eat tender grass", such as "cheating wives", and "teacher-student friendship".

As soon as these news were released, they did not even need to take the initiative to promote, and they immediately spread in Chinese Internet circles.

For a time, discussions about "strength" and "character" were rampant.

Netizens were rigidly divided into two factions.

One school of thought believes that scientific research is objective and does not depend on people's subjective will, and as long as it can produce results, there is no need to worry too much about private life.

The other faction believes that private morality is a loss, and public morality is inevitably imperfect, and to absorb these people into the ranks is to plant a time bomb.

The quarrels were endless, and even the most sane netizens couldn't help but get involved in this debate.

If you think it's okay, then I hope that your friends, colleagues, and family members around you will be like that Zhang Moumou, cheating on someone else's wife."

"Oh, no, maybe it's not someone else's wife who cheats, it's your own wife."

"It's good upstairs, and that teacher and student, it's disgusting enough, such a person can actually return to China, and can he still be accepted into our own team, do you still have a conscience?"

"You're not afraid, aren't you afraid of those young girls in the institute? Disgusting! ”

"Too much, right? He fell in love with his doctoral student during his doctoral supervisor, and it is not prohibited by law, so does this also have to be put on the line? ”

"This can't be on the platform, when will it be on the platform?"

"Your American atmosphere is open, then be honest America, don't come to our side to corrupt the atmosphere!"

If you have the heart to check the comments one by one, I am afraid it is easy to find that those netizens under the banner of "for the good of the country" never seem to participate in the actual discussion.

They just seized the breaking point in the news and kept venting their emotions.

What's even more terrifying is that this kind of pure emotional catharsis can gain the greatest voice in the entire Internet environment, and eventually force the group of rational thinking people to fall to the same level as them.

Thus, in a very short period of time, events were replaced by emotions, and a wave of not-so-normal public opinion frenzy gradually began to brew.

And in this wave of frenzy, everyone seems to have forgotten one thing:

Are those reports true?

This is the consequence of forced selection.

If you ask a child if he wants milk, he will most likely refuse.

But if you want to drink in a blue or red cup, he will definitely choose a color.

And now netizens are children who are forced to choose cups.

It's just that what they drink is not necessarily milk, but something even dirtier

In this case, in the Western University of Technology, Li Xiang was almost busy.

On the one hand, he has to deal with the pressure of public opinion brought by lace news, and on the other hand, he even has to find ways to cover up the R&D project of the 611 Institute!

Because, at the same time as these news broke, external media also released speculations about the new projects of 611.

Those news did not seem to intend to disguise their intelligence sources at all, but directly pointed out that the new fighter research and development project of the 611 Institute was related to carrier-based aircraft.

And, in addition to this, they also analyzed that it is possible that this carrier-based aircraft will use the STOVL mode.

As soon as the news came out, the already chaotic trend of public opinion simply turned into chaos.

In each forum, there are different people discussing these two topics.

There are even people who connect the "return of experts" with the "611 new project" and guess the direction of the development of the J-20B.

This made Li Xiang extremely big.

Is it really just to show off your knowledge, you have to show off the secrets that matter most?

He would have liked to delete the posts altogether, but unfortunately he couldn't.

Because if you do that, you want to cover it up.

Therefore, he had to spend a lot of time every day to connect with those netizens, or the kind of anti-string.

"What STOVL, this is too, you said that I can still trust the carrier-based aircraft, STOVL? Are you kidding? At the level of China's aviation industry, do you still want to engage in STOVL? ”

"Don't go through the trouble of researching and finally come up with a harrier, what's the use of that thing?"

After posting one, he immediately switched to a new account and continued to reply under his account:

"Yes, these foreign media really take the 611 Institute too seriously, do they think the 611 Institute is Chengdu Lockheed Martin? Say you can build an airplane? ”

"Even if it's Loma, there's no news about making a STOVL fighter now, right?"

"What the United States doesn't dare to do casually, how dare you do it?"

"Upstairs is right, now some people like to deceive themselves, listening to the wind is rain, you don't want to think about your worthiness? If you have a fourth-generation aircraft, you really think you can do anything, right? ”

"One is that there is no accumulation of technology, and there is no infrastructure, so do STOVL? What do you rely on? Leaning on the upper lip and the lower lip touching at the press conference? Go to bed early, you can have everything in your dreams. ”

"That's not necessarily, didn't they get a group of experts from the United States back? Maybe I can save my life with outside help."

Seeing that there were more and more replies, Li Xiang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The wind has reversed.

Otherwise, if the "speculation" is turned into "facts" by the Internet in the form of public opinion, a lot of work will face unnecessary obstacles.

Speaking of which, I can be regarded as a meritorious contribution to the project.

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But pretending to be an anti-bone boy, a reasonable guest, and a public knowledge is really not a good job.

It's too much damage to your own psyche.

Li Xiang shook his head, he casually clicked on a news website, and found that the TV program discussed in his department before had been launched.

A certain Mr. Zhang sat in the spacious and bright studio and talked eloquently to everyone:

"We have no plans to build 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 J-22 yet, what are we going to do with STOVL?"

"No, really not, there is indeed a project on the 611 Institute, but it is only some transformation of J-10 and J-8, which is not the same thing at all."

In this era, Mr. Zhang's popularity and credibility are still very high, and when he even came forward to deny it, most people agreed with the statement that "611 Institute is not engaged in new projects." ”

As a result, a group of "early knowledge of the party" appeared on the Internet.

"I knew there was no chance because we didn't have the strength."

This is their typical remark.

However, just when this set of thinking was gradually established in everyone's minds, the United States added another fire.

"On October X, the U.S. Department of Defense announced the abandonment of the JAST program, the Advanced Joint Strike Technology Program."

"It is understood that the main elements of the program, including the development of a short-range, vertical take-off and landing fighter codenamed F-35."

(End of chapter)