50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 417 "Project Stargate"

In the early 70s, the CIA received intelligence that the Soviet Union was allocating $6000 million annually to research and development of human superpowers.

The CIA panicked.

The M country's military immediately allocated a large amount of research funding and implemented a plan to find and train superpowered individuals in order to catch up with the Soviet Union's leading position in "superpowers".

The "Stargate Project" was thus born.

The plan has only been implemented for a few years now, and the archives do not say whether it has yielded any results.

However, Yuri Geller's test report was inside. Although he felt it was useless, he still took a picture of the report to hand it in.

He didn't know what would happen to the specifics of the "Stargate Project" later, but a clue was revealed in a bestselling book in the 21st century.

The author is said to be a US military officer named David Morehouse, who was once a superhuman in the "Stargate Project".

David Morehouse wrote the book "Back Alive: My Top Secret Mission in the CIA's Stargate Program" after retiring.

In the book, he describes in detail how to train superpowers, such as the ability of "telescopic vision," which can be mastered in just one to two years under the training of the "Stargate Project" system.

Subsequently, the superpowered individuals are assigned to different departments to utilize their abilities for military and espionage activities.

For example, remotely stealing intelligence, identifying traitors within an organization, and even using mental control to disable the enemy's nuclear weapons.

In the book, he described in detail the missions he carried out as a superhuman.

Among them are stories of people traveling through time and space to obtain intelligence through astral projection, or even returning to the site of the Hiroshima atomic bomb explosion.

It's more like an autobiography than a novel, and the truth about the "Star Gate" is even more unbelievable, resembling various tropes in online novels, which makes people feel crazy.

But this book, which resembles a science fiction novel, became an instant bestseller upon its release. It not only ranked first in the top 100 investigative non-fiction books in the United States, but also went through multiple reprints and became a global bestseller.

In short, after recalling the book, Sun Zhiwei thought it was well-written, but he became even more skeptical of the "Stargate Project".

After all, nobody's stupid. If such miraculous power truly existed, how could ordinary people like us possibly know about it? And how could the US military possibly allow this book to be published, and even reprinted multiple times?

He finished filming the "Stargate Project," returned the materials, and continued flipping through the pages.

At the end of these secret plans, he saw a draft of a new plan, which later became known as the "Jedi Plan".

This "Jedi Project" is similar to the "Stargate Project," but it mainly studies techniques such as wall-penetrating, invisibility, long-distance remote sensing, and mind-based killing.

It is said that one of the leaders of the project, Major General Albert Stubbbing III of the M Army, firmly believed in and studied the so-called "wall-penetrating technique".

Furthermore, he repeatedly bumped into walls in his office, resulting in bruises and swelling on his face. This even made headlines and became a laughing stock.

This "Jedi Plan" later established a special unit: the "Psychic Force," which is hard to believe.

Whether others believed it or not didn't matter; the Russians eventually did. They even established a special unit called "Unit 10003" to deal with the "psychic forces."

It is said that the "Unit 10003" only has ten members, but its annual operating budget is as high as $400 million, and its power can be described as a "human nuclear bomb".

Looking back now, it seems there must have been a group of people in the Soviet Union drawing salaries and funds under the guise of this unit. From a later perspective, it's unclear whether these superpower projects had any other effects, but they certainly wasted Soviet funds and were one of the strategies used to economically cripple the Soviet Union.

In Sun Zhiwei's view, the biggest impact of these projects on later generations was that they provided enough fantasy material for Hollywood science fiction blockbusters and video games.

Think of movies like *Yuri Red Alert*, *Chronicle*, *X-Men*, *Fantastic Four*, *Jumper*, and so on.

The superpowers shown in the film all reflect the research on superpowers in this era.

After a busy day of shooting, he finally finished photographing all the materials. By then, it was almost dawn, and Sun Zhiwei packed up his camera and began to wrap things up.

The tunnels that needed to be filled in were filled in, and the entrances that needed to be sealed were sealed. Finally, taking advantage of the darkness before dawn, Sun Zhiwei left the villa in the woods by the same route and drove onto the highway home.

At dawn, Sun Zhiwei returned home through the secret passage and began to catch up on sleep, not waking up until noon.

Afterwards, he processed the film he shot the night before at home, then sorted and cut it, and wrote his own comments based on the content.

He bluntly stated that the superpowers were fake. As for whether his family listened or not, he didn't care.

Sun Zhiwei thought it was unlikely that taking back the superpower-related materials would lead to a waste of funds for his own family.

One reason is that our family is poor and we don't have the money to waste money; the other is that the leaders are still very clear-headed.

There are even more powerful immortal techniques in their family's heritage, such as flying, escaping, and moving mountains and seas, which they haven't even studied yet. These superpowers that seem unreliable are even less worthy of the old folks' attention.

But just like how emperors of all dynasties researched immortality, did they not know that previous emperors had already researched it?
I know.

But they still want to try it themselves, otherwise they won't be satisfied. Birth, aging, sickness, and death are just the natural course of life.

He received a lot of information last night, but he wasn't planning to submit it all at once.

He thought the most explosive thing would be the list of undercover agents; if it were taken back to China, it would cause an uproar.

On his way to work after lunch, Sun Zhiwei put the list of undercover agents into the toilet tank in the mall.

Just submit the most important list of undercover agents first, and send the rest back gradually over the next six months to show that you haven't been idle.

Time quickly passed to mid-September, and Huang Mingyu from Cathay Bank's New York branch called.

The new store he found for Sun Zhiwei's Magnificent Jewelry store in the Tribeca district has been renovated, and the jewelry store can move now.

The new store is located in the Tribeca district, and Sun Zhiwei was stunned when he saw the specific address.

Huang Mingyu gave a very detailed introduction, explaining that the store is located in the southern part of Tribeca, at the border with the financial district.

To its south lies Wall Street, to its west Battery Park, just two blocks away is Broadway, and to its southeast is Holy Trinity Church.

The key point is the east side: the new shop is right across from the World Trade Center Twin Towers.

Good heavens, it seems the security measures for this new shop need to be improved.

(End of this chapter)