Chapter 596: Chapter 394: A World-Shocking Leap
After reaching an altitude of 30,000 meters,
the helium liquefied due to extremely low temperatures, causing the balloon’s volume to shrink by two-thirds and its lift to drastically decrease.
The ascent speed dropped sharply from five meters per second to two meters per second.
Fortunately, Wang Ye’s calculations had already accounted for this,
so he still managed to reach nearly 40,000 meters in about two hours and five minutes.
This is the altitude where he would begin the parachute-free free fall!
At this moment, Wang Ye had already exited his meditative state.
He stood up, approached the edge of the helium balloon, and started to observe the surroundings,
in order to determine his strategy for the upcoming challenge,
but in fact, even without a strategy,
he could descend unscathed even by just sitting down,
yet he knew that the audience in the livestream wasn’t there to see him land unscathed; they wanted to see his dive posture and the sweeping scenery around him during the descent, as these factors provided the comprehensive appeal they sought. So he needed to constantly adapt his dive maneuvers according to the changing environment around him.
The action camera Wang Ye carried captured the scene below as he surveyed his surroundings. Seeing the vast distance from the ground, countless viewers felt their palms start to sweat!
[Whoa!]
[Is this what 40,000 meters looks like!]
[Looking down, you can almost see the contour of Earth’s edge.]
[You can’t even see the ground. If the resolution were a bit higher, wouldn’t you be able to overlook the Huaxia Land?]
[Definitely!]
[Wow.]
[Wang Ye isn’t wearing a parachute, is he really going to survive the fall?]
[I think some experts analyzed earlier that Wang Ye should have set up a safety net on the ground beforehand so that as long as he lands precisely on it, there shouldn’t be any issues.]
[You really believe that...]
[You think this is a video game where any height fall into water negates damage? A 40,000-meter free fall with such gravitational acceleration, even with a large and soft enough safety net, would surely still cause severe injuries! Unless he was wearing some protective suit, but right now Wang Ye isn’t wearing anything like that, just a thin windbreaker.]
[Without the safety net, he’d have to crash land, and aside from the Tathagata Divine Palm, I can’t think of any other way for him to survive.]
[Either there’s a safety net on the ground, or he truly is a Cultivator...]
[Of course, there’s also the possibility of opening seats on the spot.]
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Meanwhile,
the logistics team responsible for managing the livestream immediately started promoting online, investing significant amounts of funds into advertising and positioning recommendations. In just a few minutes, its popularity exploded,
though Wang Ye’s challenge had already topped trending searches across major platforms, maintaining its number one spot without any sign of moving,
if you looked at the backend data, you’d see the topic’s heat rising at a rate that doubles every minute, skyrocketing!
Initially, the second and third trending topics were relatively close in popularity, potentially overtaken by star fan clubs with enough efforts,
but now, with Anta stepping up, the Celestial Palace Leap pulled far ahead in ranking, leaving the next highest search volume hovering around five hundred thousand, while the number one had already surged to fifty million, with potential to surpass one hundred million!
This wasn’t solely due to Anta’s significant financial input and resource recommendations,
but also the natural traffic generated by Wang Ye’s imminent 40,000-meter free fall challenge!
As the ascent process over the past two hours was rather dull, despite the host’s continuous efforts to hype things up, many still left the livestream to attend to their own matters, be it work or study,
but they weren’t disinterested in Wang Ye’s 40,000-meter free fall challenge,
they planned to return in two hours to witness firsthand this unprecedented leap!
Thus, the current surge in popularity was actually the results of two hours’ worth of gathering momentum!
In an instant, the livestream’s popularity broke through one billion viewers, rapidly soaring to one and a half billion!
Even the host, upon seeing these figures, found it difficult to hold onto the microphone as his hands began to tremble involuntarily, his palms perspiring. He’d never seen such a massive turn of events!
Seeing the host freeze, Wang Ye slowly walked up to the camera and spoke to the tens of billions of viewers in the livestream:
"Hello everyone, I’m Wang Ye. It’s a pleasure to meet you all,
this time, I am about to challenge a parachute-free drop from 40,000 meters. As you can see, I’m only wearing a windbreaker, equipped with neither parachute nor wingsuit, and once the challenge starts, I will also remove this windbreaker, wearing only a jumpsuit."
As Wang Ye spoke, translators around the world synchronized his voice into various languages, so that the international audience could understand what he was saying.
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