Opening the Gap
The passenger plane broke through the ink-like clouds and began its gradual descent towards the ground.
As the altitude decreased, specks of light emerged on the black earth. The passengers knew the plane was about to land, and the atmosphere in the cabin gradually became noisy and bustling.
Over the intercom, the flight attendant's standard announcement rang out, reminding everyone to stow their tray tables and fasten their seatbelts... Everything seemed perfectly normal. Only 【Yang Xiao】, sitting alone by the window in first class, was sweating profusely, appearing somewhat restless and anxious.
The seat beside him was completely empty. Chen Ling still hadn't returned.
【Nie Yu】, on the other hand, was lying in his seat with his eyes tightly shut, seemingly having fallen into a deep slumber.
"Hello, sir, please stow your tray table. Thank you." A flight attendant walked up to 【Nie Yu】 and gave a gentle reminder.
【Nie Yu】 slowly opened his eyes. Looking somewhat displeased, he nevertheless snapped the tray table up with one hand, then ignored her and went back to sleep... Just then, a conversation from behind the curtain drifted into his ears.
"Where's 【Aya】?"
"The cabin is only so big, where could she have run off to? Is she in the restroom?"
"The restroom door is locked, it won't open..."
"【Aya】, 【Aya】, are you in there?"
The voices of several flight attendants sounded from behind the curtain. The sweat on 【Yang Xiao】's palms increased. Knowing Chen Ling's plan, his heart was already in his throat.
Hearing this conversation, 【Nie Yu】 next door also opened his eyes. He frowned and looked towards the curtain, wondering what was going on.
The flight attendants waited at the restroom door for a long time but received no response. The cabin manager even tried to enter the cockpit, but found that the cockpit door couldn't be opened no matter what... A bad premonition suddenly welled up in everyone's hearts.
"It's fine now." The cabin manager used the 【Communication Device】 to contact the cockpit and breathed a sigh of relief. "【Aya】 went to bring them some water just now, but it seems the door got jammed, so she's stuck inside."
Only then did the doubts in everyone's hearts dissipate. Although they still found it somewhat puzzling, as the flight altitude continued to drop, they returned to their respective seats and prepared for landing.
Just before the plane landed, a figure walked out from behind the curtain at a leisurely pace and sat down beside 【Yang Xiao】.
Seeing Chen Ling return, 【Yang Xiao】 immediately sent a message:
[How did it go??]
Chen Ling didn't answer because he felt a bewildered gaze coming from beside him. Chen Ling turned his head, and his gaze met 【Nie Yu】's...
The next moment, a brilliant smile blossomed on Chen Ling's face.
【Nie Yu】: ?
【【Audience Expectation Value】 +3】
For some reason, 【Nie Yu】 suddenly had a very bad feeling.
The plane slowly came to a steady stop on the runway, yet the cabin doors remained shut. The passengers, who had already stood up and gathered their luggage, immediately began to complain loudly. Just then, a shocked voice rang out from the crowd:
"Fuck! Are those SWAT cars?!"
At these words, 【Nie Yu】 abruptly sat up straight in his seat and looked out the porthole.
Around the airport runway under the night sky, special vehicles flashing police lights rapidly surrounded the plane. The sea of red and blue lights dazzled everyone's eyes.
All the passengers were dumbfounded. They had absolutely no idea what was happening. The crowd, originally holding their luggage and ready to deplane, obediently sat back down in their seats. A cacophony of chatter filled the cabin.
【Nie Yu】 looked out the window, his face full of bewilderment and confusion... That heavily callused hand unconsciously clenched tight, a wary glint flashing in his eyes.
This shouldn't be happening...
The identification he used to board the plane had been specially procured through his connections. He had flown so many times before without a hitch, so there was no reason he should have been discovered this time... Was it because of something else?
Clang——
As the cabin door was thrown open, a group of armed figures stormed into the plane, taking control of all areas in the cabin in the shortest possible time. At the same time, a deep voice rang out: "Passengers, please do not panic. We are the 【Jingnan Airport】 Public Security Bureau. This hijacked plane has been secured by us. Please cooperate with our work..."
Hearing these words, the crowd was instantly dumbstruck.
Jingnan City?
Hijacking???
As these two words fell into their ears, their minds buzzed, and the same question surfaced in everyone's hearts simultaneously... "When was I hijacked??"
Before the crowd could recover, the armed special forces personnel directly broke down the cockpit door, rescuing the two sweating pilots.
"Where is the hijacker?" a special forces operative asked in a deep voice.
The pilot swept his gaze across the cabin, instantly locking onto 【Nie Yu】 sitting in first class, and abruptly pointed at him:
"It's him! He's the one who hijacked the plane! He even has a gun on him!!"
【Nie Yu】: ??????
"Hands on your head! Squat down immediately!! Hurry!!"
【Nie Yu】 was utterly dumbfounded. Before he could make a move, several muzzles instantly locked onto him, causing the atmosphere in the first-class cabin to drop to freezing point.
Although with 【Nie Yu】's strength, these firearms posed no threat to him whatsoever, having grown up in modern society, he knew very well that going head-to-head with the public security system in this situation was absolutely irrational, unless he wanted to try tanking a guided missile with his bare body... Even if he wanted to escape, he had to find the right opportunity. It was all airport runways around here, offering absolutely no place to hide.
Left with no choice, he could only temporarily put his hands on his head and squat down. But he couldn't understand it; he had just taken a nap in his seat, so how did he become a hijacker?!
"Is there some misunderstanding?" 【Nie Yu】 said in a deep voice. "I've been sleeping this whole time, how could I have hijacked the plane?"
"It's him! The surveillance cameras caught it all!" the pilot immediately retorted. "Not long after takeoff, he left his seat and didn't come back until right before landing. The cameras in the cockpit clearly captured his face!"
【Nie Yu】 stared daggers at him. "What kind of bullshit are you spouting?!"
At the same time, the officer responsible for retrieving the surveillance footage nodded:
"He's right. Twenty-five minutes after takeoff, he left his seat, entered the cockpit, and held the pilots hostage. The entire process is corroborated by surveillance video."
As he spoke, he even showed the footage to 【Nie Yu】. On the screen, 【Nie Yu】 was standing behind the two pilots, gun in hand, his expression as cold as ice.
【Nie Yu】 watched this scene in astonishment, his brain temporarily freezing...
"Search him."
Numerous figures swarmed forward and began searching him. Sure enough, they pulled a pitch-black 【Handgun】 from his pocket, perfectly matching the one in the surveillance footage... But 【Nie Yu】 distinctly remembered that he had kept his phone in that pocket.
Everything happening before his eyes felt so unreal that 【Nie Yu】 even wondered if he was dreaming... In a daze, he saw a few figures drag his suitcase out and open it right there in the cabin, followed by a gasp of shock:
"Gold!? It's all gold!!"
"Take it all away!!"
Several guns were pointed at 【Nie Yu】, coercing him off the plane. All the evidence, including the 【Handgun】, surveillance video, and a massive amount of gold of unknown origin, were transferred... 【Nie Yu】 stared blankly at all this. Suddenly, as if remembering something, he abruptly turned his head back!
He saw a figure draped in a brown trench coat standing before the plane's cabin door, looking down at him with an indifferent gaze, a faint smile curling the corners of his mouth...
"Now, the gap has been opened."