Brian Carter immediately exclaimed in surprise. This old man was the very person who had sent him the email. He had once saved the old man's daughter, and despite their age difference, they had become close friends. It was this old man who had guided him here.

"Hi, Brian Carter, this is the stock password for the secret channel. Only those who understand my new type of password can view this video. So, how is it? This is the last gift I leave you, to repay the favor of you saving my daughter. Do you like it?" The Western old man chuckled a few times, then spoke seriously.

"Listen carefully to what I’m about to say, Brian Carter. This concerns your life and death, perhaps your companions as well, and possibly the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. It’s about this ship called Noah II..."

"This is a spaceship with a fatal flaw..."

Chapter Eight: Decision

"In the 1950s, the United States discovered a crashed alien flying saucer in Tennessee. Contrary to what the records show, this saucer hadn’t just crashed recently—it had been there for at least eight to ten thousand years before being excavated by the U.S. in the 1950s..."

"The metal shell of this saucer was made from a special metal unknown to humanity. Even now, as various countries build their own spaceships, the metal of this saucer’s shell remains unanalysable—it's technology from a future far beyond our current understanding."

"The only reason we were able to open the saucer’s hatch was by launching endless attacks with computer viruses. Even so, it took the U.S. from the 1980s until the early 21st century to finally open it. Ever since computers were invented, viruses have been constantly created and mutated—this is exactly what the U.S. government needed: a vast number of powerful viruses. In fact, the U.S. played a guiding role in this. As for the computer inside the saucer—or whatever it was, something like a computer—it was beyond our imagination."

The old man in the video gave a bitter smile and said, "Actually, I’ve always been hiding something from you, Brian Carter. My family has always been under surveillance. My first contact with the saucer was in the early 21st century. As a world-renowned computer programming and cryptography expert, I was fortunate enough to participate in this project: decrypting the information from the saucer’s internal computer. There were also all kinds of computer experts, cryptographers, linguists, and so on—almost all the top talent from every major country in the world. Even so, it took us about ten years and several of the latest supercomputers to finally decrypt most of the programs inside the saucer and obtain a vast amount of technology from it."

"But the reason a secret is a secret is because it waits for someone to uncover it. The existence of this saucer was known to most of the world’s major powers even before I joined the project. So among the participants, there were people from the UK, France, Germany, Russia, China, Japan... almost all the elite from the world’s powerful nations were involved."

"And the vast amount of technology obtained was also mastered by these countries. Of course, I guess these countries must have paid some price to the U.S. For example, I know that your China paid by purchasing a huge amount of U.S. national debt. I won’t talk about the politics. As for some of the technology I know about, such as the gravity system, it can generate a certain amount of gravity and counteract a certain amount of gravity. The reason Noah II could be built so large and still break through the atmosphere is precisely because of the gravity system."

"Of course, none of the countries got the weapon technology they wanted, because this saucer seemed to be a survey ship or something similar. There was only one alien corpse inside... I won’t go into that. I’ve put all the detailed information in the central computer of this ship. Using the new type of password I taught you, you can extract it."

"The truly most important technology, the epoch-making technology that could change the future of humanity... is space jump! This is the most important thing all the countries obtained!"

"As for the specific principles of this space jump, how it’s formed, even the details of its formation—we have no grasp of them at all. The great physicists I know are completely baffled by it, because this kind of space jump even violates the physical laws they know. How can such a massive object cross space with so little energy? This is a subversive fact for the law of mass-energy conservation."