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Chapter 577 - 571, Define Your Own Life (First Update)_1

Chapter 577: 571, Define Your Own Life (First Update)_1

Jumping from an altitude of 3800 meters and then maintaining free fall for over 50 seconds, Ren He had known for a long time this mission was a deep pit. If he rashly started the mission, he would inevitably meet a bloody disaster...

Now, being able to unexpectedly discover a pit with a negative altitude of 579 meters was absolutely the best place to complete the mission.

But once Ren He calculated carefully, it still wasn’t right; an altitude of 579 meters wasn’t enough time! If he had to free fall for over 50 seconds, it meant that Ren He’s parachute opening time had to be just as he plunged into the pit; otherwise, there still wouldn’t be enough time for free fall!

Ren He inhaled sharply. After entering the pit, he would have only 500 meters left to deploy his parachute? This was truly a life-threatening gamble! Normally, the minimum safe height for a parachute jump from an airplane is 500 meters!

During the parachute opening process, the human body would continue to fall for another 50 meters as the canopy fully deployed, meaning that if Ren He wanted to complete the mission, his parachute opening time was approaching dangerously close to the minimum altitude.

Not to mention whether he could rely on the parachute to slow his descent, the landing certainly wouldn’t be as smooth as last time.

Moreover, at an altitude of 3800 meters, how could he accurately fall into the pit? The Divine Punishment System had indeed imparted him with skills on how to use high-altitude air currents and body posture to control the direction of his fall, but the problem was that Ren He still worried. After all, it was a distance of 3.8 kilometers, maybe even more; a slight deviation could mean that Ren He might miss the pit entirely and make intimate contact with the ground!

This was a terrifying task. The sky and the ocean will always require reverence from humans; those are the grand forces of nature.

Finding a pit from a height of 3800 meters with a free-falling method isn’t less challenging than an 800-meter sniper shot; there were so many factors to consider, with wind speed and direction being the first things that Ren He had to think about.

Seeing Ren He frowning, Yang Xi curiously asked, "What’s wrong, is there a problem?"

Ren He smiled upon hearing this, "No, everything’s fine."

To others, every extreme sports performance seemed like an unnamed suicidal adventure. At an altitude of 3800 meters, the significance of life once again became insignificant and fragile.

People are afraid of danger; since childhood, parents tell everyone not to play with fire, not to talk to strangers, not to climb high or dive deep, not to...

And not to fall in love early, not to abandon studies, not to lose ambition playing games...

People always say what you should and shouldn’t do, but is that really the case?

If there were no great adventures, there would be no such thing as airplanes.

Ren He really wanted to know, how brave the creator of planes must have been at that time. That courage becomes evident when people look back on the history of mankind’s first flight, as if they are watching a dragon slayer in action.

And there’s Xia Boyu, who still aimed to summit Mount Everest even after losing his legs, these are the true dragon slayers in our ordinary lives – the dragon being the invisible shackles. They cut the shackles and press on courageously.

People like to define things only to gradually confine themselves within a circle – safe, protected, yet moving like the living dead.

Ren He had already been defined by others in his past life; this time, he wanted to define his own life.

So, every time extreme sports began, that blossoming, that fury, that full bloom of life, was like a grand and beautiful scene.

In the Netherlands, when Ren He leaped from the cable-stayed bridge and disappeared into the canal, the CIA observation post had already sensed that strange beauty, as if a young man was using his life as a brush to paint a masterpiece!

This was also why Liu Erbao and An Si were willing to follow Ren He on the extreme path. Nothing more; that moment was just too beautiful.

"I’m planning to go to Chongqing for some skydiving fun," Ren He casually said to Yang Xi with a smile, "You’ll see me jumping from the deep sky when you’re on the plane!"

Yang Xi didn’t stop him because she knew that for the current Ren He, this was the meaning of his life.

"You can jump, but after you do, you have to teach me," Yang Xi said with batting eyes, wanting to touch the inner world of Ren He, to have more common language between the two: only by experiencing it could she truly understand.

She knew the skydiving Ren He had in mind was a hundred times more dangerous than the usual kind, so what she meant was that Ren He had to teach her after this particular jump.

Actually, beginning to play Dota was also her attempt to understand Ren He’s inner world; if two people didn’t share a common language, how could they spend the decades of life together? Sitting opposite each other in silence? Certainly not.

In the game of love, someone always has to give. Ren He had done so much for her in the past, so she was more willing to take the initiative to understand him, rather than letting Ren He make the effort to understand her again.

Ren He was taken aback for a moment; he sensed her thoughts and smiled in agreement, "Sure, as long as you’re not afraid of heights."

He decided to take Yang Xi on a jump together – the way an instructor jumps with a tandem partner in commercial skydiving. With his guidance, normal skydiving was almost 100% safe.

Being understood is a blissful thing, as is having someone who wishes to understand you. Some people often lament that maybe one day someone will come along who will go through all your past moods to experience your life, flip through your every tweet, every social media post, attempting to blend into your life in this way.

But Ren He thought that even so, it wasn’t as Geili as Yang Xi!

With one week before departure, Ren He started setting aside two hours every day to give Yang Xi basic skydiving training. Under normal circumstances, tandem jumps through a commercial company only required a week of training.

This included teaching the trainee some minor techniques to maintain balance in the sky, movements, positions, and so forth — not particularly hard things to learn.

Uncle Fang and Mrs. Wang looked on, perplexed, at what the young couple was doing. Only after asking did they learn Ren He planned to take Yang Xi skydiving!

Uncle Fang, with a wrinkled face and smoking his pipe, couldn’t fathom it. They already knew their young master was a nation-wide young tycoon, and his girlfriend an international superstar. Why should such a successful individual seek dangerous thrills...

According to Uncle Fang’s thinking, what these two should do is just get married quickly and have a few kids. He and his wife could still help out with the children now.

Once Uncle Fang spoke to Ren He about this, Ren He was somewhat amused and perplexed – Uncle Fang sure worried about a lot!

But he could only sigh, "I’d love that too..."