50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 415 The Covert Battle of Special Abilities
Although the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty will be announced by both parties after its signing, this intelligence is still very valuable before the treaty is signed.

Therefore, he didn't waste any time, went directly through the old secret passage in Washington to the White House underground, found the draft of the treaty in Jimmy's office, took a picture of it and handed it in.

After this matter was completed, Sun Zhiwei no longer had any urgent tasks to complete. The pace of life seemed to slow down all at once, and the surroundings were peaceful, as if he had arrived in China decades later, quiet and safe.

The reality was that at this time, the United States was in dire straits, and the Soviet Union had a comprehensive and overwhelming advantage over the West in Alaska, Eastern Europe, South Asia, and other regions.

Not only militarily, but also economically, due to the soaring oil prices, the Russian economy, which relies mainly on oil exports for foreign trade, has now reached 70% of the size of the United States.

This is just the direct confrontation; there are also confrontations in various strange directions behind the scenes, such as those involving special abilities.

At that time, many people around the world believed in the existence of human superpowers.

Both the East and the West have set up specialized research institutions within their respective intelligence departments and invested heavily in the hope of developing "superhumans" to defeat the other side.

The participating units on both sides included their respective main intelligence agencies. The KGB and PAH on the Russian side, and the CIA, DIA, and DARPA on the US side, engaged in a covert war in the field of human paranormal abilities.

Research on human special abilities in both the East and the West mainly includes "remote viewing," which is what we call "clairvoyance."

There's something even more powerful called "remote sensing." It involves transcending geographical distances to read or even control another person's consciousness, seeing what they see and thinking.

In addition, a series of miraculous human special abilities, including "psychic abilities," "passing through walls," "future perception," and "telekinesis," are all key research subjects for scientists.

In this situation, the domestic market is inevitably affected by both sides.

Even during periods of economic hardship, in order to prevent us from falling too far behind in various cutting-edge fields, a "507 Research Institute" was established domestically.

Initially, Institute 507 was used for research on space medicine and engineering, aerospace medical engineering, including the selection, training and development of astronauts.

While the East and West were fiercely competing in the field of human special abilities, Institute 507 also began research in this new direction.

However, they haven't achieved any results yet.

Why bring up Institute 507? Because in September, a letter of assistance was sent from China, hoping that 'Diting' could help them obtain research results in this area from the United States.

Sun Zhiwei was completely baffled when he received the letter of assistance. Did he have nothing better to do?
How could he not know whether there are special abilities in this world?
Yes, he does. He has a spatial ring, which perfectly matches one of his research areas: "telekinesis." It's a pity he doesn't dare report it.

According to his memories from later generations, apart from himself, there shouldn't be any other human special abilities, at least not the kind that could be publicly disclosed and researched.

Of course, if there were any truly confidential achievements, his past life as a loser would certainly have been impossible for him to know.

He originally didn't want to bother with this path that was definitely a dead end, but since Lao Han had sent him this letter of assistance, the meaning behind it was quite clear.

It's not mandatory, but we can offer assistance. It's best if there are results, but we won't blame you if there aren't.

Fortunately, it was just a letter of assistance, not an order to gather intelligence. So, the outcome was naturally up to Sun Zhiwei.

As for what research achievements M has made in these areas, he didn't recall much, but there seemed to be one well-known research report, which was in the CIA's classified documents.

On January 18, 2017, the CIA released 12 million pages of declassified documents on its official website, including the most famous project at the time that researched paranormal abilities: "Project Stargate".

This project mainly studies "remote viewing" and "remote sensing," both of which are used for intelligence gathering.

Among the declassified documents of the entire "Stargate Project," the most eye-catching is the report of Uri Geller, an Israeli, who underwent testing at Stanford in August 1973.

This Yuri Geller is a person with "remote sensing" abilities; he underwent a week of study by experts.

What was the testing method? Geller was placed in a sealed room, while the researchers were all outside the room and could not see each other at all.

Then, the researchers randomly selected a word from the dictionary and drew a picture based on that word. Geller's task was to use his "remote sensing" ability to see the picture and draw it himself.

In one of the tests, the researchers chose the word "punch" and then drew a bunch of grapes.

As a result, Geller also drew a bunch of grapes, and even more incredibly, the number of grapes was the same, 24.

After numerous tests, although Geller did not succeed every time, the success rate was very high. A declassified CIA report showed that researchers concluded that Geller did indeed possess the superpower of "remote sensing".

Sun Zhiwei felt that if he got this report, he would be able to finish his task.

This is actually not difficult. The CIA headquarters is located in Langley, about seven or eight kilometers northwest of Georgetown, on the banks of the Potomac River.

It's only a ten-minute drive away; he plans to go and take a look tonight.

That "remote sensing" test was done six or seven years ago, and the report should already be in the CIA's database; he just needs to find it.

He'd been bored for months with no assignments, so when this opportunity came up, he was naturally eager to get involved.

Besides, Langley's CIA is so close, he's been wanting to check it out for a while, and since he has a mission to go there, he's planning to take the opportunity to go and have a look.

At night, when all was quiet, Sun Zhiwei sneaked out of the monastery's underground passage and drove a pickup truck onto the main road.

He crossed the Potomac River on the bridge south of Georgetown and went directly onto the George Washington Memorial Highway.

This highway is built along the river and leads directly to the George Washington Monument, ten kilometers away.

One section of the road passes right in front of the CIA headquarters, where a side road was specially built that leads directly to the north gate of the CIA headquarters.

After looking at the map, Sun Zhiwei knew that he couldn't go down that side road.

Because there was only one side road leading directly to the CIA gate, with no turning points in between, he estimated that any car turning off the side road would enter the CIA's surveillance range.

(End of this chapter)