40: I'm not a god, I just have some talent.

The next morning, at exactly six o'clock.

The sky was not yet fully bright, carrying a hint of grayish chill.

At the Yuzhang City Xishan Nursing Center, the gates of the heavily guarded Villa No. 7 opened silently inward.

Jiang Ming walked out, dressed in a simple set of black sportswear.

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

Jiang Ming pulled open the car door and sat inside.

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

At the park entrance, a simple cordon stretched across the road.

Two Ninth Bureau field personnel in camouflage training uniforms stood straight. Seeing the vehicle approach, both raised their hands simultaneously in a standard military salute.

The cordon was pulled aside.

The vehicle did not stop, continuing along the winding mountain road deep into the mountainside.

Eight o'clock in the morning.

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

There was no road left here.

Jiang Ming got out of the car alone and looked up toward the summit.

A rugged path, worn by mountain dwellers and wide enough for only one person, extended steeply upward.

The path was covered in slippery moss and sharp gravel.

Jiang Ming set off and began to climb.

His pace was exceptionally steady; every step landed on the firmest ground, and his body did not sway in the slightest.

The steep mountain path was like level ground to him.

The power of his 20-point constitution ensured that his heartbeat and breathing remained perfectly steady from start to finish.

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

The summit was a massive rock platform of about fifty square meters, its edges as sharp as if cut by a knife or axe, and very flat.

Standing here, the view suddenly opened up.

Below his feet was a churning sea of clouds, like a vast, boundless white ocean.

In the distance, the outline of the city was faintly visible at the edge of the sea of clouds.

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

The call was answered almost instantly.

Zhao Lin's voice carried a hint of unconcealable tension and anticipation.

“Mr. Jiang, what are your instructions?”

Jiang Ming looked at the distant clouds and said, “Get ready. Start the live stream in ten minutes.”

“No need for any warm-up. Just go live directly using my account.”

TikTok Headquarters, Special Content Cooperation Department.

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

“The Crow God is going live!”

“All technical personnel, get into position immediately! Be ready to follow up at any time!”

“Fast! Fast! Fast!”

...8:30 AM.

A live stream room with no prior notice or promotion quietly opened on the TikTok platform.

The title of the live stream was simple, consisting of only a few words.

《Regarding Flight CA4527.

The live stream showed an incredibly vast sea of clouds from a mountain peak in a first-person perspective.

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

“Holy crap! He's live!”

“Crow God! It's really the Crow God!”

Three minutes later.

The news spread like a virus through hundreds of fan groups, forums, and Weibo.

The number of people online in the live stream room began to surge at a terrifying speed.

The number in the upper left corner of the screen jumped from '10,000' to '50,000' and then directly to '100,000+' in less than ten minutes.

Jiang Ming did not speak.

He simply used a few small stones to fix the phone lens, aiming it at the magnificent scenery ahead.

The bullet chat in the live stream room had gone completely crazy, scrolling so fast that the content was impossible to read.

“Where's the Crow God? Where is he??”

“Where is this? The scenery is too good! Is this a fairyland?”

“Is he finally going to respond to the plane incident! I've been waiting for days!”

“Is the 'heroic crew' the officials mentioned real or fake? Give us a straight answer!”

“It was the Crow God who saved the plane! I knew it was you!”

When the popularity of the live stream room was pushed to an unprecedented peak by the countless viewers pouring in,

Jiang Ming finally moved.

He adjusted the lens, presenting his face clearly before the millions of viewers.

The mountain wind blew through his hair, with the boundless sea of clouds as his backdrop.

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

“I know you have many questions.”

“The first question, I will answer.”

“Yes, I was on that plane.”

【Shock emotion points +125!】

【Admiration emotion points +240!】

【Excitement emotion points +301!】

...On Jiang Ming's system panel, the emotion points balance began to jump upward at a speed visible to the naked eye, quickly approaching 1.3 million from 1 million.

He ignored the complete boil of the bullet chat and continued in his steady tone.

“The second question, about whether I am a god.”

“I am not.”

Jiang Ming reached out his hand toward the camera.

“You can understand it as me possessing a somewhat special talent.”

“An ability to resonate with and interfere with specific 'fields' around us.”

“For example, the biological field represented by the ravens you've seen before, and the life field that makes Dead Wood Meets Spring.”

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

He began to describe the scene on the day of the crash.

“That day, lightning destroyed the plane's engines and hydraulic systems.”

“The plane lost all power and entered an irrecoverable death spiral.”

“In that situation, I tried to interfere with the 'spatial field' around the plane.”

“Field Theory?”

“What theory is this? I've never heard of it even as a PhD in physics!”

“Don't worry about that, it sounds so cool!”

The bullet chat exploded again.

Jiang Ming did not pause and continued to explain.

“My personal strength, of course, cannot lift a plane weighing dozens of tons.”

“But I can instantly increase the density, pressure, and buoyancy of the air within a certain range beneath the plane to an extremely high value.”

“Thereby forming a high-density 'air domain' 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 in the bullet chat immediately asked the key question.

“As for that forest,” Jiang Ming continued to explain, “it was during the final stage of landing. To provide a secondary buffer, I infused my own 'life field' energy into the soil of the valley.”

“The energy stimulated the original seeds and plant roots in the soil, causing them to enter a state of super-speed growth.”

This set of 'Field Theory' explanations, which sounded a bit nonsensical yet seemed self-consistent, instantly split the live stream's bullet chat into two factions.

A portion of rational viewers believed this was complete pseudoscience, a load of nonsense using substituted concepts.

“What kind of bullshit is Field Theory! What about conservation of energy? What about the laws of thermodynamics?”

“Streamer, stop pretending, you're just a magician!”

While another group of people began to frantically try to use various cutting-edge scientific concepts like quantum mechanics, dark matter, and string theory to interpret and argue for the possibility of 'Field Theory' existing.

“Is it possible that the Crow God is interfering with dark energy?”

“I feel it has something to do with quantum entanglement, belonging to macroscopic quantum effects!”

The argument became increasingly heated.

Admiration, shock, confusion, disdain... all kinds of strong emotion pointss were frantically absorbed by the system like a tsunami.

To increase the persuasiveness of his theory,

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

“Words alone are no proof.”

Under the gaze of tens of millions of people in the live stream room,

Jiang Ming opened his palm.

The next second, an inconceivable scene occurred.

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

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

At this moment, the temperature on the mountain peak was at least 20 degrees Celsius.

The sun was shining brightly.

The snowflake hovered quietly above Jiang Ming's palm, rotating for three seconds.

Then, it melted into a crystal water droplet and fell.

“Holy shit!!”

“???”

“Spiritual energy is recovering!!”

...Ninth Bureau, Command Center.

Chen Jianguo and a group of gray-haired top experts from various fields were staring intently at the massive main screen.

When that snowflake appeared and then melted,

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

“In an ambient temperature above 20 degrees Celsius, standard atmospheric pressure, and no visible condensation nuclei... condensing water into ice out of thin air, then melting instantly...”

“This... this completely violates the second law of thermodynamics.”

Chen Jianguo did not speak.

He looked at Jiang Ming's excessively calm face on the screen, remained silent for a long time, and only gave one order to the secretary beside him.

“Organize his 'Field Theory' and the phenomenon just now into a file immediately, and set up a separate research project.”

Atop the mountain peak.

Jiang Ming glanced at the time and felt it was about enough.

He said one last sentence to the camera.

“That's all for today's live stream.”

With that, he directly closed the phone's live stream.

Jiang Ming called up the system panel.

【Current live stream duration: 1 hour 03 minutes】

【Cumulative emotion points obtained: 1,300,000 points】

【Current total emotion points balance: 2,300,545 points】