The pregnant young woman to Zhang Heng's right had started screaming from the very first second of the descent.
It was clear that she cared deeply about the little life growing inside her. Before this, she had been careful with every movement she made and had strictly followed her diet, hoping her baby could be born safely and see this beautiful world with her. Yet she had never imagined that day might never come.
The chief flight attendant had initially tried hard to suppress her fear and reassure the passengers, but after hearing the roar from the cockpit, she too began to cry. That despair spread through the cabin as though it were contagious.
In truth, even if the chief flight attendant had managed to remain calm, it would have been useless. The plane's rate of descent made it clear to everyone that they were doomed.
Zhang Heng had been among the first to notice the engines had lost power. Since his seat was relatively close to the engines, he could see even more clearly than the captain that nothing, such as a bird, had been sucked into them. In other words, the engines had stalled without warning, as if the captain had made an error.
But then Zhang Heng glanced at his phone. For some reason, its screen was stuck on the image displayed before it had gone dark, and he could not unlock it no matter what he did. Zhang Heng immediately realized that the plane had likely suffered the same thing.
This inexplicable pause... was it affecting every mechanical device?
If so, this clearly was not an accident, but a premeditated attack. And unless something unexpected had happened, he was the target!
Although he had immediately identified the problem, solving it was another matter. No, it should