Fate's Choice: Livestream at the Start Summoning Billions of Ravens

The next morning, at exactly six o'clock.

The sky was not yet fully bright, carrying a hint of gray and coolness.

The heavily guarded gate of Villa No. 7 at the Xishan Nursing Home in Yuzhang City opened silently inward.

Jiang Ming, dressed in a simple black tracksuit, came out.

A black sedan was already waiting at the door, its headlights on, but the engine was not running.

Jiang Ming opened the car door and got in.

After an hour and a half of driving, the vehicle arrived smoothly at a national forest park in the southeast of Yuzhang City that was not yet open to the public.

At the park entrance, a makeshift cordon line blocked the road.

Two field personnel from the Ninth Bureau, dressed in camouflage training uniforms, stood there straight. As the vehicle approached, they simultaneously raised their hands and gave a standard military salute.

The blockade line was broken.

The vehicle did not stop and continued driving along the winding mountain road deeper into the mountains.

Eight o'clock in the morning.

The vehicle stopped at the end of the winding mountain road.

There is no road here.

Jiang Ming got out of the car alone and looked up at the direction leading to the summit.

A rugged path, worn down by mountain dwellers and only wide enough for one person to pass, stretches steeply upwards.

The path was covered with slippery moss and sharp pebbles.

Jiang Ming took a step and began to climb upwards.

His steps were exceptionally steady, each step landing firmly on the solid ground, without the slightest sway of his body.

The steep mountain road was like flat ground to him.

His formidable physique of 20 points ensured that his heartbeat and breathing remained perfectly regulated from beginning to end.

Twenty minutes later, Jiang Ming reached the summit of the main peak.

The mountaintop is a huge rock platform with an area of ​​about fifty square meters, its edges as if cut by a knife and axe, and it is very flat.

Standing here, the view suddenly opens up.

Beneath my feet was a surging sea of ​​clouds, like an endless white ocean.

In the distance, the city's outline appears and disappears at the edge of the sea of ​​clouds.

Jiang Ming chose a clean rock to sit on, took out his personal cell phone from his pocket, and dialed Zhao Lin's number.

The call was answered almost instantly.

Zhao Lin's voice carried an undisguised mix of nervousness and anticipation.

"Mr. Jiang, what can I do for you?"

Looking at the distant clouds, Jiang Ming said, "Get ready, the live stream will start in ten minutes."

"No need for any warm-up, just open it directly with my account."

Douyin Headquarters, Special Content Cooperation Department.

Zhao Lin put down the phone, took a deep breath, and immediately issued instructions to the entire team in an unquestionable tone.

"The God of Crows is going to start airing!"

"All technical personnel, take your positions immediately! Be ready to follow up at any time!"

"Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!"

.......

8:30 a.m.

A live stream room, without any prior notice or promotion, quietly launched on the Douyin platform.

The title of the live stream was very simple, consisting of only six characters.

Regarding flight CA4527.

The live stream showed an incredibly vast sea of ​​clouds atop the mountains from a first-person perspective.

At the moment the broadcast started, only a few thousand die-hard fans who happened to be online or had set up special notifications flooded in.

"Holy crap! They've started streaming!"

"The Raven God! It really is the Raven God!"

Three minutes later.

The message spread like wildfire through hundreds and thousands of fan groups, online forums, and Weibo.

The number of viewers in the live stream began to increase at an alarming rate.

The number in the upper left corner of the screen went from "1" to "5", and then jumped directly to "10+" in less than ten minutes.

Jiang Ming remained silent.

He simply fixed the phone camera lens with a few small stones and aimed it at the magnificent scenery in front of him.

The chat in the live stream was completely insane, scrolling so fast that the content was impossible to read.

"Where is the Crow God? Where are the people??"

"Where is this? The scenery is amazing! Is it a fairyland?"

"Is it finally time for a response to the plane incident?! I've been waiting for days!"

"Is the 'heroic crew' mentioned by the official sources real or fake? Give us a straight answer!"

"It was the plane that the Raven God saved! I knew it was you!"

The live stream's popularity was pushed to an unprecedented peak by the influx of countless viewers.

Jiang Ming finally made a move.

He adjusted the camera, clearly presenting his face to millions of viewers.

The wind on the mountaintop ruffled his hair, with an endless sea of ​​clouds in the background.

Jiang Ming looked at the screen, his eyes calm, and spoke his first words.

"I know you have a lot of questions."

"I'll answer the first question."

Yes, I was on that plane.

[Shock level +125!]

[Adoration Value +240!]

[Excitement level +301!]

...

On Jiang Ming's system panel, his emotional value balance began to jump upwards at a visible speed, rapidly approaching 1.3 million points from one million.

He ignored the uproar in the comments section and continued speaking in his calm tone.

"The second question is about whether I am God."

"I am not."

Jiang Ming stretched out his hand towards the camera.

"You can think of it as me possessing a rather special talent."

"A capability that can resonate with and interfere with specific 'fields' around us."

"For example, as you have seen before, the biofield represented by the raven, and the life field that brings dead trees back to life."

Jiang Ming began to use a completely new set of terms that sounded vague and profound, yet had a scientific flavor, to explain his power.

He began to describe the events of the day the plane crashed.

"That day, lightning destroyed the plane's engine and hydraulic system."

"The plane lost all power and entered an irreversible death spiral."

"In that situation, I tried to interfere with the 'spatial field' around the aircraft."

"Field theory?"

"What kind of theory is this? I'm a PhD in physics and I've never even heard of it!"

"Never mind that, it sounds pretty awesome!"

The barrage of comments exploded again.

Jiang Ming continued to explain without pausing.

"Of course, I can't lift an airplane that weighs tens of tons on my own."

"But I can instantly raise the density, pressure, and buoyancy of the air within a certain range below the aircraft to an extremely high value."

"This creates a high-density 'air field' with a diameter of several hundred meters."

"It acted like a giant, invisible air cushion, ultimately catching the rapidly falling cabin."

"What about that forest?" someone immediately asked the crucial question in the live chat.

"As for that forest," Jiang Ming continued to explain, "it was during the final stage of my descent that I infused the soil of the valley with my own 'life field' energy for a secondary buffer."

"The energy stimulated the seeds and plant roots already present in the soil, causing them to enter a state of super-rapid growth."

This seemingly absurd yet self-consistent "field theory" explanation instantly split the live stream chat into two opposing camps.

Some rational viewers believe this is pure pseudoscience and utter nonsense that uses a fallacy of misleading concepts.

"What kind of bullshit field theory is this! What about the conservation of energy? What about the laws of thermodynamics?"

"Stop pretending, you are the magician!"

Meanwhile, another group of people began to frantically try to interpret and prove the possibility of the existence of "field theory" using various cutting-edge scientific concepts such as quantum mechanics, dark matter, and string theory.

"Is it possible that the Raven God is interfering with dark energy?"

"I feel it's somewhat related to quantum entanglement, belonging to macroscopic quantum effects!"

The debate intensified.

Adoration, shock, confusion, disdain... all sorts of intense emotions were being absorbed by the system like a tsunami.

In order to increase the persuasiveness of his theory.

Jiang Ming slowly extended his right hand in front of the phone camera.

"Words are not enough."

Under the watchful eyes of tens of millions of people in the live broadcast room.

Jiang Ming opened his palm.

The next second, an unbelievable scene unfolded.

Above his palm, the moisture in the surrounding air began to condense rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

A crystal-clear, perfectly structured, and exquisitely crafted hexagonal snowflake appeared out of thin air.

At this moment, the temperature at the mountaintop is at least 20 degrees Celsius.

sunny.

The snowflakes hovered quietly above Jiang Ming's palm, spinning for three seconds.

Then, it melts into a crystal-clear droplet of water and falls down.

Holy crap!!

"???"

"The spiritual energy has returned!!"

...

Ninth Inning, Command Center.

Chen Jianguo and a group of top experts from various fields with gray hair were staring intently at the huge main screen.

When that snowflake appeared and then melted.

One of the country's top physicists adjusted his glasses and muttered to himself.

"Under conditions of ambient temperature above 20 degrees Celsius, standard atmospheric pressure, and the absence of visible condensation nuclei... water freezes into ice out of thin air, then melts instantly..."

"This...this completely violates the second law of thermodynamics."

Chen Jianguo remained silent.

He stared at Jiang Ming's excessively calm face on the screen, remained silent for a long time, and then gave an order to his secretary.

"Immediately compile his 'field theory' and the phenomenon just now into a file and establish a separate research topic."

On the mountaintop.

Jiang Ming glanced at the time and thought it was about time.

He spoke his last words to the camera.

That concludes today's live stream.

After saying that, he immediately turned off the live stream on his phone.

Jiang Ming brought up the system panel.

[Live stream duration: 1 hour and 03 minutes]

[Cumulative Emotion Points Earned: 1,300,000]

[Current total sentiment score balance: 2,300,545 points]