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Chapter 685 Groudon: This isn't over, is it?
From ancient times to the present, regardless of region, the vast majority of people have always held a grand dream in their hearts: to fly. Of course, it's not impossible that certain Divine Beasts who cannot fly might also have the same dream, but how could there be a Divine Beast that cannot fly?
Although it seems difficult, Flying is actually a very simple thing, just like swimming; you just need to make the upward force on yourself greater than the downward gravity.
However, being able to fly oneself doesn't necessarily mean being able to carry other things while flying. For example, right now, although **Slifer the Sky Dragon** has the power of flight, it needs to carry the heavy airplane. The sum of its own gravity and the airplane's weight far exceeds the lift, causing the small passenger plane where Hayato and the others were located to have already sunk into the cloud layer, clearly about to fall towards the Sea below.
How lame.
After receiving the plea for help from Joey Wheeler , the group also rushed to the Cockpit where Tristan was. Only then did they learn that the Co-pilot subdued by Joey Wheeler and Tristan was also one of the assassins. Seems like he had long prepared a backup Plan C in case Plan B failed, which was a virus that would hack into the airplane's automatic piloting system, as well as small explosives planted on the airplane's engines beforehand.
Once he couldn't return to the Cockpit within the preset time, the virus and explosives would activate simultaneously, causing the airplane, under the control of the automatic piloting system, to dive downwards. And given the airplane's original flight altitude, it wouldn't make any difference whether it was the Sea Surface or land below.
However, due to the airplane's control logic, the priority of automatic piloting is not higher than manual control. After all, although the current technological level has become very advanced due to the 'involution' behavior of a certain trench coat enthusiast, the hidden dangers of automatic piloting still exist, whether on the Ground or in the air.
So strictly speaking, the explosives placed on the engines were actually the overly cautious Co-pilot's Plan D. Even if among the group of kids on the airplane after he killed the Pilot, another person who knew piloting skill could be found, an airplane without power is just an airborne coffin, impossible for even a god to save.
Anyway, if he couldn't return to the Cockpit on time, whether the assassination failed or he was taken care of in a double-cross, it all meant he likely wouldn't survive. In that case, he might as well drag everyone down to death with him.
And facts proved that this Co-pilot, who was very suitable to be a Hero in a Different Dimension, had his preparations come into use. It just so happened that after killing the Pilot, he was controlled by Joey Wheeler and Tristan due to a sneak attack. Then Tristan happened to know a little piloting skill. So the explosives in the engines became the fatal blow. If not for **Slifer the Sky Dragon** desperately pulling the airplane as if it were about of breath, Hayato and the others would have probably already crashed.
But even so, the crisis still hadn't been dispelled. Tristan , cooperating with **Slifer the Sky Dragon**, desperately controlled the airplane to fly in a gliding stance with the only two intact engines, trying his best to delay the falling speed and buy time. But falling into the Sea was only a matter of time.
In that case, rather than dying together with an airplane whose fate of falling into the Sea couldn't be changed, it would be better to—
"Is there really no other way, Hayato?" Yugi put on a backpack, tightening the harness by looping it under his legs, and looked at Hayato, who also had a backpack on, saying, "I've never parachuted before."
"What are you afraid of, Yugi? None of us here have parachuted before either. What normal person goes parachuting? Isn't Dueling better?" Hayato tightened the harness, ensuring the parachute pack on his back wouldn't detach from him after parachuting.
Although Hayato was also wearing a parachute pack for the first time, but thanks to having seen many high-altitude falling death incidents in his past life caused by Scenic Areas not using high-altitude work safety harnesses but instead using lower-cost area restriction safety harnesses, resulting in tourists falling to their death from high altitudes, he somehow managed to learn another piece of useless knowledge through various popular science and news verification programs.
However, although it was "useless knowledge", it actually became useful in the current situation.
Although there was still some time before the airplane crashed, it wasn't ample. Everyone almost immediately took action after deciding to parachute. First, they tried to awaken the remaining five unconscious flight attendants. From them, they learned the location of the parachute packs on the airplane, and after distributing one to each person, they immediately put them on.
It's worth mentioning that although the unconscious flight attendants seemed quite confused when they were just now awakened, and seemed to have some symptoms of anemia from being bitten by Camus, however, upon hearing that the private jet they were on was about to fall into the Sea, each and every one of them quickly became conscious and took action.
One can only say that if people don't push themselves, they fundamentally don't know how great their potential is.
Another point is that this airplane was originally prepared for Pegasus alone, and that old bachelor probably had no plan of getting married and having children in the past, present, or even in the future. Actually, the airplane only had parachute packs prepared for ten flight attendants and Pegasus alone, but this time, Hayato and the others riding the airplane had a full six people.
Fortunately, there were only five flight attendants left now. Adding Hayato and their six people makes eleven people, and eleven parachute packs was just right.
Seeing that everyone had almost finished putting on their parachute packs, Yugi, however, cast his gaze towards the seat in the corner of the Aircraft Cabin. The assassin controlled by **Dark Magician**, and the Co-pilot who failed in his sneak attack on Joey Wheeler earlier, were tied to a chair with a rope.
Hayato also noticed Yugi looking in their direction, knowing what Yugi was thinking in his heart. He patted Yugi's shoulder: "I know you feel a little uncomfortable in your heart right now, but there's no way, Yugi. We can't leave the others' parachute packs for them. And when they accepted the quests to kill us, they had already prepared for death."
"You are a gentle person, Yugi, you can treat even those who want to kill you gently. This gentleness is precious, not a superfluous existence." Saying this, Hayato turned around, "But now, we have no choice."
"The altitude is about right, everyone hold on tight, I'm going to open the cabin door!"
After calling out, Hayato controlled **Slifer the Sky Dragon**, which was almost at its manifestation limit, to wave its claws and tear off the airplane's side wing to prevent colliding with the wing due to airflow after jumping out, and simultaneously suddenly opened the Aircraft Cabin Door.
Due to the huge air pressure difference between inside and outside, almost in an instant, everyone inside the Aircraft Cabin was swept up by the airflow and thrown out, their line of sight spinning, and **Slifer the Sky Dragon** also completely dispersed. The airplane, having lost its support, fell downwards at full speed.
The instant the cabin door was opened, because Hayato was the one closest to the cabin door, he was naturally the first one to be swept out of the airplane by the airflow. Amidst the spinning world, he finally managed to figure out which way was up and which was down, effortfully controlling his body's rotation, attempting to recover balance.
Their parachuting this time was different from normal parachuting. What is conventionally called parachuting is an activity where you ride an airplane with a professional parachuting platform and jump out from the tail at a constant altitude where airflow interference is relatively minimal, to experience the thrill of flying in the air.
But parachuting from a falling airplane is completely different. What is most important to pay attention to in ordinary parachuting is pulling open the parachute at an appropriate altitude, but currently, the most important thing for Hayato is to first regain his body's balance. Otherwise, blindly pulling open the parachute while spinning could instead cause the parachute's ropes to become entangled with his body, making it impossible to open.
The parachute not opening is a minor issue; after all, besides the main parachute, a parachute pack usually has a reserve parachute prepared, but if the ropes were to become entangled around his neck or similar positions, Hayato would probably be strangled to death in mid-air.
Although he wasn't a NewType with strong spatial awareness, Hayato's speed was also not slow. He quickly controlled his body's rotation. By controlling the airflow, he caused his body to fall downward in a balanced, prone stance. He slightly relaxed his head, whose brain matter felt like it was about to be shaken up, and began to observe the situation of the others.
Although they had only undergone an extremely brief training conducted by the flight attendants on the airplane, in the face of a life-or-death crisis, everyone learned quite seriously. Hayato saw that Yugi and Joey Wheeler almost immediately recovered to a normal falling state after he finished recovering his balance. Tristan and Téa were relatively slower, but they also recovered after not too long.
As for the other flight attendants, needless to say, although four successive assassins easily infiltrated, their team's professionalism was still undeniable. Their speed in recovering balance was even faster than Hayato's. Presumably, they could also handle the timing of pulling the parachute themselves.
But the problem was, there was one person who still hadn't figured out which way was up and down until now, rolling and accelerating downwards in mid-air.
"Mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble (That's why I didn't want to return to Egypt)!!!" Because air was pouring into his mouth as he fell, Marik's wail became inarticulate. "Mumble, mumble (Brother-in-law, Help)!"
"Who's your Brother-in-law!"
Even if he couldn't hear clearly or even hear what Marik was saying at all, Hayato guessed he was calling him Brother-in-law again. Although normally Hayato always put on a show of disliking Marik, now that things had come to this, he still had to act and help him out.
Hayato wasn't a professional parachutist; being able to perform a prone action to decelerate his descent was already his limit. He couldn't perform actions like dive acceleration or acrobatic flying. However, as a Duelist, he also had his own method.
He did not choose to open the Card Box on his waist, which would be blown messy by the wind once opened. Hayato directly took out a card from the System's Warehouse and clamped it between his fingers, flicking it out against the wild airflow: "Gathered starlight will illuminate a new miracle, I forgot the rest, the situation is urgent now, come out, Wagatama Soul!"
"Standing at the apex of the Ritual Summon, the Strongest Drytron—**Herald of Perfection**!"
Although Hayato considered himself to have shouted with great aura, actually, he also couldn't change physical phenomena. The lines he shouted out, because the wind poured into the air, were just some "mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble" sounds, just like Marik.
However, just like a monster having full resistance doesn't mean a Duelist has full resistance, Hayato was affected by the airflow and couldn't say cool lines, but it didn't affect the card he threw out, which violated aerodynamics and flew directly under the rolling, falling Marik, transforming into expanding radiance.
Marik only felt the airflow around his body suddenly become smaller. His head collided with the monster that suddenly appeared below him, successfully stopping his rolling. Before he could see clearly what the monster under his feet looked like, but saw that **Herald of Perfection**, which had only materialized for an instant, became transparent and disappeared again. He quickly assumed a prone action before the former disappeared.
Seeing that Marik had also recovered his body balance, Hayato slightly let out a breath of relief. A wave of fatigue flooded his heart. Although Hayato now was already not what he used to be compared to when he first started Dueling, his ability still grew within the scope of human capabilities. Just now, in order to delay the airplane's falling speed, he had already spent a great deal of effort maintaining **Slifer the Sky Dragon**'s manifestation for so long.
Thinking about it this way, indeed, you Traitor Dragon tricked me again, unforgivable, Osiris!
It was also around this time that Hayato, looking downwards, saw with his own eyes the "Hindenburg" airplane they had been riding earlier, after falling for this period of time, crash headfirst into the Sea Surface, transforming into a huge display of fireworks blooming on the Sea.
If Hayato and the others hadn't jumped out, they would have only been a small, insignificant piece of combustible material within the fireworks.
Although they had successfully escaped from the plane crash incident, it wasn't time to relax yet. Hayato, against the strong wind, effortfully opened his eyes, overlooking the seemingly boundless Sea below.
Because the route they took this time when going to Egypt was basically on the Sea, far from land, after the airplane crashed, they, who had parachuted, were also above the Sea. Although having parachutes meant they mostly wouldn't fall to their death, but if there was no land to land on, they, drifting on the Sea, only had the possibility of drowning after exhaustion.
And what made Hayato slightly surprised was, when overlooking the Sea, he discovered the existence of a not small Island a little distance away. It was a lush green patch, clearly a small Island rich in natural resources.
But Hayato clearly remembered that before parachuting, he had specially gone to confirm the data of their location, knowing that there shouldn't be any Islands existing near their current location. Where did that small Island come from? This wasn't a Desert, so it wasn't very likely to be a mirage.
But Hayato also had no time to worry about so much. Landing on a small Island that looks like it's very suspicious is always better than drowning in the Sea. If they opened their parachutes at their current altitude, as long as there weren't too many problems with the airflow, they should be able to successfully glide to that Island.
After having some gesture communication with Yugi, Joey Wheeler , and the others, everyone decided to go towards that small Island without wasting too much time. Immediately, they all pulled open the ripcords on their parachute packs. Parachutes of different colors unfolded in mid-air, one by one, carrying everyone who had jumped out of the airplane towards that small Island.
Preview:
Helplessly parachuting after a plane crash, but unexpectedly landed on a small Island that doesn't exist on the map.
While waiting for rescue, they discovered that the mysterious power on the Island could actually make Card Spirits stronger? What kind of mysterious power is that!
Also, "Is this the World of Duelists? Oh no!", "Hayato Kobayashi and Friday," Let's Duel!
(End of Chapter)
From ancient times to the present, regardless of region, the vast majority of people have always held a grand dream in their hearts: to fly. Of course, it's not impossible that certain Divine Beasts who cannot fly might also have the same dream, but how could there be a Divine Beast that cannot fly?
Although it seems difficult, Flying is actually a very simple thing, just like swimming; you just need to make the upward force on yourself greater than the downward gravity.
However, being able to fly oneself doesn't necessarily mean being able to carry other things while flying. For example, right now, although **Slifer the Sky Dragon** has the power of flight, it needs to carry the heavy airplane. The sum of its own gravity and the airplane's weight far exceeds the lift, causing the small passenger plane where Hayato and the others were located to have already sunk into the cloud layer, clearly about to fall towards the Sea below.
How lame.
After receiving the plea for help from Joey Wheeler , the group also rushed to the Cockpit where Tristan was. Only then did they learn that the Co-pilot subdued by Joey Wheeler and Tristan was also one of the assassins. Seems like he had long prepared a backup Plan C in case Plan B failed, which was a virus that would hack into the airplane's automatic piloting system, as well as small explosives planted on the airplane's engines beforehand.
Once he couldn't return to the Cockpit within the preset time, the virus and explosives would activate simultaneously, causing the airplane, under the control of the automatic piloting system, to dive downwards. And given the airplane's original flight altitude, it wouldn't make any difference whether it was the Sea Surface or land below.
However, due to the airplane's control logic, the priority of automatic piloting is not higher than manual control. After all, although the current technological level has become very advanced due to the 'involution' behavior of a certain trench coat enthusiast, the hidden dangers of automatic piloting still exist, whether on the Ground or in the air.
So strictly speaking, the explosives placed on the engines were actually the overly cautious Co-pilot's Plan D. Even if among the group of kids on the airplane after he killed the Pilot, another person who knew piloting skill could be found, an airplane without power is just an airborne coffin, impossible for even a god to save.
Anyway, if he couldn't return to the Cockpit on time, whether the assassination failed or he was taken care of in a double-cross, it all meant he likely wouldn't survive. In that case, he might as well drag everyone down to death with him.
And facts proved that this Co-pilot, who was very suitable to be a Hero in a Different Dimension, had his preparations come into use. It just so happened that after killing the Pilot, he was controlled by Joey Wheeler and Tristan due to a sneak attack. Then Tristan happened to know a little piloting skill. So the explosives in the engines became the fatal blow. If not for **Slifer the Sky Dragon** desperately pulling the airplane as if it were about of breath, Hayato and the others would have probably already crashed.
But even so, the crisis still hadn't been dispelled. Tristan , cooperating with **Slifer the Sky Dragon**, desperately controlled the airplane to fly in a gliding stance with the only two intact engines, trying his best to delay the falling speed and buy time. But falling into the Sea was only a matter of time.
In that case, rather than dying together with an airplane whose fate of falling into the Sea couldn't be changed, it would be better to—
"Is there really no other way, Hayato?" Yugi put on a backpack, tightening the harness by looping it under his legs, and looked at Hayato, who also had a backpack on, saying, "I've never parachuted before."
"What are you afraid of, Yugi? None of us here have parachuted before either. What normal person goes parachuting? Isn't Dueling better?" Hayato tightened the harness, ensuring the parachute pack on his back wouldn't detach from him after parachuting.
Although Hayato was also wearing a parachute pack for the first time, but thanks to having seen many high-altitude falling death incidents in his past life caused by Scenic Areas not using high-altitude work safety harnesses but instead using lower-cost area restriction safety harnesses, resulting in tourists falling to their death from high altitudes, he somehow managed to learn another piece of useless knowledge through various popular science and news verification programs.
However, although it was "useless knowledge", it actually became useful in the current situation.
Although there was still some time before the airplane crashed, it wasn't ample. Everyone almost immediately took action after deciding to parachute. First, they tried to awaken the remaining five unconscious flight attendants. From them, they learned the location of the parachute packs on the airplane, and after distributing one to each person, they immediately put them on.
It's worth mentioning that although the unconscious flight attendants seemed quite confused when they were just now awakened, and seemed to have some symptoms of anemia from being bitten by Camus, however, upon hearing that the private jet they were on was about to fall into the Sea, each and every one of them quickly became conscious and took action.
One can only say that if people don't push themselves, they fundamentally don't know how great their potential is.
Another point is that this airplane was originally prepared for Pegasus alone, and that old bachelor probably had no plan of getting married and having children in the past, present, or even in the future. Actually, the airplane only had parachute packs prepared for ten flight attendants and Pegasus alone, but this time, Hayato and the others riding the airplane had a full six people.
Fortunately, there were only five flight attendants left now. Adding Hayato and their six people makes eleven people, and eleven parachute packs was just right.
Seeing that everyone had almost finished putting on their parachute packs, Yugi, however, cast his gaze towards the seat in the corner of the Aircraft Cabin. The assassin controlled by **Dark Magician**, and the Co-pilot who failed in his sneak attack on Joey Wheeler earlier, were tied to a chair with a rope.
Hayato also noticed Yugi looking in their direction, knowing what Yugi was thinking in his heart. He patted Yugi's shoulder: "I know you feel a little uncomfortable in your heart right now, but there's no way, Yugi. We can't leave the others' parachute packs for them. And when they accepted the quests to kill us, they had already prepared for death."
"You are a gentle person, Yugi, you can treat even those who want to kill you gently. This gentleness is precious, not a superfluous existence." Saying this, Hayato turned around, "But now, we have no choice."
"The altitude is about right, everyone hold on tight, I'm going to open the cabin door!"
After calling out, Hayato controlled **Slifer the Sky Dragon**, which was almost at its manifestation limit, to wave its claws and tear off the airplane's side wing to prevent colliding with the wing due to airflow after jumping out, and simultaneously suddenly opened the Aircraft Cabin Door.
Due to the huge air pressure difference between inside and outside, almost in an instant, everyone inside the Aircraft Cabin was swept up by the airflow and thrown out, their line of sight spinning, and **Slifer the Sky Dragon** also completely dispersed. The airplane, having lost its support, fell downwards at full speed.
The instant the cabin door was opened, because Hayato was the one closest to the cabin door, he was naturally the first one to be swept out of the airplane by the airflow. Amidst the spinning world, he finally managed to figure out which way was up and which was down, effortfully controlling his body's rotation, attempting to recover balance.
Their parachuting this time was different from normal parachuting. What is conventionally called parachuting is an activity where you ride an airplane with a professional parachuting platform and jump out from the tail at a constant altitude where airflow interference is relatively minimal, to experience the thrill of flying in the air.
But parachuting from a falling airplane is completely different. What is most important to pay attention to in ordinary parachuting is pulling open the parachute at an appropriate altitude, but currently, the most important thing for Hayato is to first regain his body's balance. Otherwise, blindly pulling open the parachute while spinning could instead cause the parachute's ropes to become entangled with his body, making it impossible to open.
The parachute not opening is a minor issue; after all, besides the main parachute, a parachute pack usually has a reserve parachute prepared, but if the ropes were to become entangled around his neck or similar positions, Hayato would probably be strangled to death in mid-air.
Although he wasn't a NewType with strong spatial awareness, Hayato's speed was also not slow. He quickly controlled his body's rotation. By controlling the airflow, he caused his body to fall downward in a balanced, prone stance. He slightly relaxed his head, whose brain matter felt like it was about to be shaken up, and began to observe the situation of the others.
Although they had only undergone an extremely brief training conducted by the flight attendants on the airplane, in the face of a life-or-death crisis, everyone learned quite seriously. Hayato saw that Yugi and Joey Wheeler almost immediately recovered to a normal falling state after he finished recovering his balance. Tristan and Téa were relatively slower, but they also recovered after not too long.
As for the other flight attendants, needless to say, although four successive assassins easily infiltrated, their team's professionalism was still undeniable. Their speed in recovering balance was even faster than Hayato's. Presumably, they could also handle the timing of pulling the parachute themselves.
But the problem was, there was one person who still hadn't figured out which way was up and down until now, rolling and accelerating downwards in mid-air.
"Mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble (That's why I didn't want to return to Egypt)!!!" Because air was pouring into his mouth as he fell, Marik's wail became inarticulate. "Mumble, mumble (Brother-in-law, Help)!"
"Who's your Brother-in-law!"
Even if he couldn't hear clearly or even hear what Marik was saying at all, Hayato guessed he was calling him Brother-in-law again. Although normally Hayato always put on a show of disliking Marik, now that things had come to this, he still had to act and help him out.
Hayato wasn't a professional parachutist; being able to perform a prone action to decelerate his descent was already his limit. He couldn't perform actions like dive acceleration or acrobatic flying. However, as a Duelist, he also had his own method.
He did not choose to open the Card Box on his waist, which would be blown messy by the wind once opened. Hayato directly took out a card from the System's Warehouse and clamped it between his fingers, flicking it out against the wild airflow: "Gathered starlight will illuminate a new miracle, I forgot the rest, the situation is urgent now, come out, Wagatama Soul!"
"Standing at the apex of the Ritual Summon, the Strongest Drytron—**Herald of Perfection**!"
Although Hayato considered himself to have shouted with great aura, actually, he also couldn't change physical phenomena. The lines he shouted out, because the wind poured into the air, were just some "mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble" sounds, just like Marik.
However, just like a monster having full resistance doesn't mean a Duelist has full resistance, Hayato was affected by the airflow and couldn't say cool lines, but it didn't affect the card he threw out, which violated aerodynamics and flew directly under the rolling, falling Marik, transforming into expanding radiance.
Marik only felt the airflow around his body suddenly become smaller. His head collided with the monster that suddenly appeared below him, successfully stopping his rolling. Before he could see clearly what the monster under his feet looked like, but saw that **Herald of Perfection**, which had only materialized for an instant, became transparent and disappeared again. He quickly assumed a prone action before the former disappeared.
Seeing that Marik had also recovered his body balance, Hayato slightly let out a breath of relief. A wave of fatigue flooded his heart. Although Hayato now was already not what he used to be compared to when he first started Dueling, his ability still grew within the scope of human capabilities. Just now, in order to delay the airplane's falling speed, he had already spent a great deal of effort maintaining **Slifer the Sky Dragon**'s manifestation for so long.
Thinking about it this way, indeed, you Traitor Dragon tricked me again, unforgivable, Osiris!
It was also around this time that Hayato, looking downwards, saw with his own eyes the "Hindenburg" airplane they had been riding earlier, after falling for this period of time, crash headfirst into the Sea Surface, transforming into a huge display of fireworks blooming on the Sea.
If Hayato and the others hadn't jumped out, they would have only been a small, insignificant piece of combustible material within the fireworks.
Although they had successfully escaped from the plane crash incident, it wasn't time to relax yet. Hayato, against the strong wind, effortfully opened his eyes, overlooking the seemingly boundless Sea below.
Because the route they took this time when going to Egypt was basically on the Sea, far from land, after the airplane crashed, they, who had parachuted, were also above the Sea. Although having parachutes meant they mostly wouldn't fall to their death, but if there was no land to land on, they, drifting on the Sea, only had the possibility of drowning after exhaustion.
And what made Hayato slightly surprised was, when overlooking the Sea, he discovered the existence of a not small Island a little distance away. It was a lush green patch, clearly a small Island rich in natural resources.
But Hayato clearly remembered that before parachuting, he had specially gone to confirm the data of their location, knowing that there shouldn't be any Islands existing near their current location. Where did that small Island come from? This wasn't a Desert, so it wasn't very likely to be a mirage.
But Hayato also had no time to worry about so much. Landing on a small Island that looks like it's very suspicious is always better than drowning in the Sea. If they opened their parachutes at their current altitude, as long as there weren't too many problems with the airflow, they should be able to successfully glide to that Island.
After having some gesture communication with Yugi, Joey Wheeler , and the others, everyone decided to go towards that small Island without wasting too much time. Immediately, they all pulled open the ripcords on their parachute packs. Parachutes of different colors unfolded in mid-air, one by one, carrying everyone who had jumped out of the airplane towards that small Island.
Preview:
Helplessly parachuting after a plane crash, but unexpectedly landed on a small Island that doesn't exist on the map.
While waiting for rescue, they discovered that the mysterious power on the Island could actually make Card Spirits stronger? What kind of mysterious power is that!
Also, "Is this the World of Duelists? Oh no!", "Hayato Kobayashi and Friday," Let's Duel!
(End of Chapter)
