Wang Ye pondered for a mont and typed: [That's not a problem, being cautious is a good thing too.]
[Li Weimin: Sure, I'll book your ticket for tonight.]
Wang Ye put away his phone.
He cleaned up the entire ss on site.
To save ti, he stepped right onto the edge of the window,
and leapt off the abandoned building that was over a dozen stories high.
Thud!
A deafening dull sound spread.
Wang Ye hit the ground like a falling cannonball,
the concrete floor cracking in a circle under his feet.
It was as if a multi-ton truck tire had harshly rolled over it.
Yet Wang Ye didn't even bend his knees, and walked away nonchalantly after landing.
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After leaving the abandoned building,
Wang Ye headed straight to his elders' ho.
The community where the elders lived was called Wang Family New Village.
It used to be a rural area converted into a residential community.
Just from the na, you could tell that most of the people living there were Wang Ye's relatives.
Honestly, Wang Ye didn't really like going to his elders' community because he hated seeing those relatives and being endlessly questioned by so-called acquaintances. He barely saw these relatives outside of festivals and had little interaction, yet every eting required forced small talk. So relatives who liked to curry favor, seeing Wang Ye's current status, might even try to borrow money from him, or set him up on dates.
But now Wang Ye was about to leave ho, possibly for a year or more, and after going abroad, his work couldn't exactly be called safe. Just Ozaki's Eight alone was enough of a life-threatening challenge, not to ntion his plans to test firearm resistance in the United States.
Not saying goodbye to the elders in person, or explaining things, felt a bit unreasonable.
Wang Ye tried his best to avoid acquaintances and relatives along the way,
and using his sense of sll, he climbed over walls to reach his elders' ho.
He honestly explained his future plans and schedule to the elders.
But to Wang Ye's surprise,
the elders didn't oppose his decision.
Instead, they fully supported Wang Ye's self-challenge.
In Wang Ye's impression, the elders were never the conservative and rigid type of old generation.
They had always supported Wang Ye's various odd hobbies since he was young.
Like skateboarding, basketball, soccer, badminton, and so on.
But Wang Ye never imagined the elders would support his extre sports pursuits.
There's a popular saying online that extre sports should only be played at noon, because sothing will happen sooner or later.
This saying is no joke, the death and injury rates in extre sports are extrely high. Almost every slightly skilled extre athlete bears so physical scars. News reports of athletes dying during parkour or wingsuit flying aren't rare either. No matter how honed these skills are, mistakes or equipnt malfunctions do occur over ti.
When Wang Ye discussed his future plans, he also ntioned this to the elders.
So the elders were definitely aware of the risks in extre sports.
Yet they still supported and encouraged Wang Ye to complete his challenges.
This made Wang Ye's heart feel at ease.
After saying goodbye once more, Wang Ye left the elders' ho.
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At eight in the evening,
Wang Ye dragged out a suitcase from ho containing three sets of spare clothes and so essential living items.
He took a cab to the airport, checked in, and boarded the flight.
The process of taking transportation was extrely trying and dull.
He couldn't even practice Innate Skill during the journey.
Because he discovered that mobilizing the surrounding Innate Qi to train could severely disrupt the plane's navigation and communication systems, essentially disrupting the electromagnetic field. Such seemingly minor malfunctions could be fatal in aviation, posing deadly risks.
Therefore, Wang Ye could only sit on the plane with his eyes closed to rest,
and secretly vowed to himself.
He must master the skill of Flying as soon as possible.
After several hours of flight,
Wang Ye finally landed again in the territory of Lanzhou.
When he left the airport, it was already around four in the morning.
Wang Ye waited outside the airport for over ten minutes but couldn't get a suitable cab.
Because such professional parachuting bases require very large landing lawns and training grounds, their locations are usually extrely remote, in suburbs or on islands, to minimize impact and cost. No taxi driver was willing to go to such a remote area, as the gas to get Wang Ye there and then return to town would cost a fortune, making it not worth their while.
Ultimately, Wang Ye had no choice but to drag his suitcase and run forty kiloters to the base.
When he reached the base, it was already around seven o'clock.
Seeing Wang Ye arrive looking travel-weary, Li Weimin, who had been waiting in the base's hall, exclaid in shock: "Did you seriously run all the way here with your suitcase? If you couldn't get a cab, you should have told ; I could have sent soone to pick you up from the airport. If that wasn't possible, you could have stayed overnight at a nearby hotel."
"It's just exercise, just a marathon distance," Wang Ye said nonchalantly as he placed the fifty to sixty pounds suitcase he was carrying on his shoulders on the ground with a soft "thud".
"..." Li Weimin fell silent.
Indeed, forty kiloters is just the distance of a marathon.
But Wang Ye had run that distance while carrying a fifty to sixty pound suitcase.
And based on the ti Wang Ye left the airport,
he had run from the airport to the base in less than two hours.
This ans Wang Ye ran a marathon with a heavy suitcase and still broke two hours.
This kind of physical ability,
is sowhat extraordinary.
Li Weimin rubbed the bridge of his nose and continued: "Let's not talk about that for now. You haven't had a chance to sleep since traveling all night, right? Go take a rest in the dormitory. The simulation training is around three in the afternoon, and I'll co get you from the dorm then."
"Okay." Wang Ye nodded, moved his suitcase into the dorm at the base,
and lay down on the already-made bed, watching short videos.
He roughly got a sense of the recent online trends.
Recently, thanks to Li Weimin's deliberate publicity, the news of Wang Ye planning to climb Mount Everest in early August and live stream a skydive from the summit is now widely known across platforms like Douyin and Bilibili.
Unexpectedly, there weren't many people supporting Wang Ye in completing this challenge this ti.
Because Ozaki's Eight, after all, is a fictional challenge from a movie, and not many people know the content and difficulty of this challenge in reality.
Now, Wang Ye has been regarded by many fans as the hope who is likely to lead the Chinese Team to scoop all the gold dals in the international Olympics.
A top athlete who could win Olympic gold and break world records is undeniably important to the country. Sports prowess symbolizes a country's soft power and is a way to improve comprehensive national strength. The more Olympic gold dals a country wins, the stronger its national power is.
So, for soone with the potential to win nurous gold dals like Wang Ye, he has essentially beco a national treasure. Letting such a national treasure attempt Ozaki's Eight, a fictional challenge with an extrely high risk of death, sounds like pure nonsense.
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