The first day of the Lunar New Year was extremely important to every Chinese person. In the Chinese community, the luck they received on this day would determine their luck for the year. This was why the Chinese had a lot of superstitions surrounding this fateful date, which included seemingly unassuming things like avoiding arguments and losing at a round of poker. 

For Xia Lei, his luck today was pretty decent. It would be a difficult task to determine his luck for the year but it wasn’t looking too bad with the information he had just received. 

In his study at the Peace Mansion, Xia Lei opened the tightly encrypted file inside the USB stick. William Mussi had provided him with one text document and a video file inside the USB’s folder. 

“Could this be how the Americans got the AE capsule?” Xia Lei was curious, quickly clicking onto the video. 

In the media player was a small valley surrounded by tall mountains. There was no vegetation to speak of on the brown mountain, making the barren land seem particularly desolate. Judging by the angle, the videographer seemed to be standing on the side of the hill. After recording...