Emergency Meeting

108 hours after the Sky Pit appeared.

On Christmas 2024, it wasn't just East University giving America a bad holiday; even the aliens were rubbing salt in their wounds.

After the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group was severely beaten by a force suspected to be aliens, America fell eerily silent. None of the media outlets were reporting on the incident.

It wasn't just American media; the entire Western media was silent as well. East University merely announced on its official media that shipping and passenger flights over the Pacific Ocean were temporarily suspended, and under the guise of an exercise, all vessels near the Sky Pit were rerouted.

The Northern Bear also turned its gaze this way, but as soon as it looked, it was slapped hard by the Second Bear. The enraged Great Bear then started throwing rice at the Second Bear, which was exactly what the West wanted to see.

Strangely, at the United Nations headquarters, no emergency meeting was held regarding the appearance of the Sky Pit. The reason was that East University proposed an emergency meeting, and America directly vetoed it.

In response, East University's representative to the UN could only shrug, but the upturned corner of his mouth proved that things were not as simple as they seemed.

On the surface, no country was making a move, but there were plenty of covert actions happening behind the scenes. Reconnaissance planes, patrol ships, and disguised ocean-going fishing vessels were constantly approaching the Sky Pit. In addition, satellites in space were also focusing their attention on the Western Pacific.

Invisible satellites, even if they consumed precious propellant and maneuvered to change orbits, had to direct their gaze here.

In this world, risk and opportunity always go hand in hand. This Sky Pit in the center of the ocean was likely an ineffable opportunity and a challenge to humanity. The biggest question was whether humanity could seize the opportunity amidst this great upheaval.

The Sky Pit in the sky, rather than being an anomaly, was seen by many countries as a "door." Since those unidentified flying objects could fly out from it, there was no reason they couldn't go in.

There were also some "people" who were very interested in this Sky Pit. However, their intentions were different from others; they hoped to use these aliens to achieve their own unspeakable secrets.

Screech, tires scraped against the ground as two Coaster vans, escorted by Dongfeng Mengshi vehicles, arrived in front of a heavily guarded building.

The car doors opened, and several dust-covered experts alighted, assisted by men in black suits. Song Xizhu helped an old academician with white hair into a wheelchair and pushed him towards the interior of the building.

"Teacher Zhou, we've arrived."

"Xiao Zhu, were you scared this time?" Academician Zhou asked softly.

"No, Teacher Zhou."

"I didn't expect you to test the new shipborne radar and run into something like this. Aliens..."

Academician Zhou shook his head. He hadn't expected that just as East University was about to launch its extraterrestrial life search program, and the project had just started, aliens would show up before they even began searching.

This was going to be lively, physically lively.

Two security guards opened the large doors. Academician Zhou proceeded through the accessible pathway to a large conference room on the first floor. As Academician Zhou entered the conference room, he immediately saw several of his old acquaintances: big names from different fields, professors, and think tank members, including the one who sold sea cucumbers in Inner Mongolia, War God Against the Wind, and Hehehe Professor, among others.

They were all looking down at the paper documents in front of them, occasionally writing something in their notebooks.

After pushing Academician Zhou to his seat, the old man next to him greeted him, "Old Zhou, your leg?"

"I'm old, can't walk anymore."

The two old men started chatting. Song Xizhu walked to the back and sat in the seat on the right side of the back row, looking down at the documents in her hands, waiting for the person presiding over the meeting to arrive. And the person presiding over this meeting would definitely be of high caliber!

Soon, the attendees arrived one after another, numbering close to a hundred, each one a well-known figure in their respective fields.

People in administrative jackets sat on the left, scientists in the center, and military officers in uniform sat on the right. Song Xizhu saw a certain elderly gentleman, who had retired and then returned to work, in the front row, quietly talking to the major general beside him who had developed the medium-voltage direct integrated power system.

Creak, the door opened again, and several men in black suits entered the room, carrying plastic baskets. They began collecting the mobile phones of everyone present and then set up signal jammers in the room, distributing microphones, Nongfu Spring water, and snacks.

Once everything was ready, several officials walked in and sat at the "podium." As they took their seats, the thick door slammed shut. Behind the door, a squad of men in black suits stood in the corridor, while more security personnel guarded the outside.

"Ahem..."

The person on the stage coughed lightly, and the low chatter in the room quickly died down. Everyone looked towards the stage, waiting for him to speak.

"Now, we will discuss the Western Pacific [Suspected Contact with Extraterrestrial Civilization Incident]. The results of this discussion will be reported."

No one present was surprised by this. Such matters had to be handled with extreme caution. Even now, WZ7s were flying 24 hours a day over the Western Pacific, monitoring the Sky Pit.

"First, let's give a brief overview of this contact to help some comrades understand the situation."

Some people had arrived in too much of a hurry and didn't know the specifics. The news about the Sky Pit was still being suppressed. Although there were some rumors online, most people still didn't believe them. For ordinary people, their daily concerns were about food and money; who cared what was happening thousands of miles away, as long as it didn't affect their lives.

But now, it was likely that things would soon be affected.

[Four days ago, at 0200 (military time, 2 AM), a Sky Pit appeared in the sky over the Western Pacific at an altitude of 18,000 meters. The Eastern Theater Command reacted swiftly, dispatching H-6Ks equipped with WZ8s for reconnaissance, and further deploying WZ7s (unmanned reconnaissance aircraft).]

As the person at the front spoke, those below occasionally jotted down details and things they considered important.

[Currently, the 815A vessel and the Liaoning have rendezvoused and are withdrawing from the dangerous waters to return to port for resupply.]

The incident happened so suddenly that the Liaoning was not prepared. It had limited supplies and needed to return to port for resupply to prepare for future military operations.

[Now, let's start with the definition of unidentified flying objects. Are they aliens? Please speak.]

"I believe they are aliens," stated an academician specializing in the field.

"First, the fact that they possess the ability to manufacture flying objects means they have their own industrial system, as well as corresponding weapon systems. They use a completely different technological route from ours. However, we lack samples to define what technology they use, but undoubtedly—they are aliens!"