In the hot air balloon hovering nearby, David, clad in a full-pressure suit, saw through his translucent glass helmet the figure spreading its arms wide and leaping down without a trace of fear.
A flicker of admiration passed through David's eyes.
He was once an paratrooper, and now standing at an altitude of twenty thousand meters, he felt it more keenly than anyone else.
Not to mention jumping, even calmly following the hot air balloon to this height required courage that not everyone possesses.
And Lewis, without hesitation, jumped after being secured in the balloon for less than five minutes.
This courage deserved his admiration.
"He jumped…" Ash swallowed hard.
The tension in the hearts of the others was no less than his.
Even Reg instinctively tightened his fists.
The chat messages in the live brast room disappeared for a moment, leaving it clean and giving people the illusion that the chat function was malfunctioning.
And a few seconds later, a flood of tips poured in almost overwhelmingly.
[Duck King] tipped 10 rockets and left a message: Lewis, you're the eternal god!
[North Guy] tipped 66 rockets and left a message: It doesn't matter if it's completed or not!
[Tree Tree] tipped 100 rockets and left a message: I haven't admired many people in my life, but you're one of them.
"Wow, Tree Tree is here watching Lewis' live brast too!"
"Lewis, hurry up and thank him! This is the fifth-ranked big shot on our Tiger Shark's leaderboard!"
"Thank your shit, he's parachuting!"
The tips lasted for dozens of seconds, and many people couldn't watch without blocking the chat and tips.
But even with the chat blocked, they couldn't block the continuous tips.
As a result, many people switched to the program's live brast room to watch.
"It's my turn."
David adjusted his breathing and mindset. The panoramic view below caused a huge impact on his heart.
But as an paratrooper, he was the freest bird in the sky. They had conquered the blue sky countless times, and this time, even if he couldn't complete it, the altitude of ten thousand meters wouldn't make him fear or retreat. This was the pride of being an paratrooper!
"Twenty thousand meters, I'm coming!"
David released his grip on the ropes and allowed his body to fall freely.
The production team switched the screen to number 62.
Ash shouted loudly, "David jumped too! Please, staff, put the live brasts of number 62 and number 1 on the screen at the same time."
Soon, the live brasts of Lewis and David split into two halves on the big screen.
This way, everyone could see the status of both of them at the same time.
Both of them were head-down, but the difference was that David's arms and legs were spread out.
"Number 62s movements can slow down the descent speed to some extent."
Reg nodded slightly, "Very professional, no wonder he's a retired paratrooper."
Looking at Lewis again, Reg's face suddenly showed astonishment.
After several seconds, he realized, "What… what is he doing? Is he crazy?"
Zoe asked nervously, "What's wrong?"
"Look at his posture!"
Lewis' descent speed was fast from the beginning and was still accelerating.
The pressure suit on his body rubbed against the air, making a buzzing sound, like someone constantly scraping a cutting board with a kitchen knife.
His hands were tightly pressed against the sides of his thighs, his legs were tightly closed, and his body was straight like a javelin, falling vertically downward.
Yes, vertically downward, not diagonally.
"What's wrong with his posture?" Zoe asked, confused.
Reg said, "Falling in this posture will make his speed very fast, extremely fast!"
"Isn't fast good?"
"Of course not!"
Reg shook his head and sighed, "This is an altitude of twenty thousand meters, not three or four thousand meters. Jumping from this height, number 62's posture is the most standard. That posture can effectively slow down the falling speed and prevent accidents."
"Accidents?" Ash caught the keyword, "What kind of accidents?"
Reg was silent for a few seconds before uttering two words, "Sound barrier."
"Falling freely in this way with the least resistance may create a sound barrier!"
"What's a sound barrier?" The two women looked blank.
Reg explained, "Below ten thousand meters, where the air is not too thin, when an airplane breaks through the speed of sound, it compresses the air in front of it to form a shock wave. This phenomenon is called the sound barrier. But if it's purely free fall, due to air resistance, the human body will eventually maintain a relatively constant speed of descent, called the terminal velocity, which is much slower than the speed of sound. Of course, air resistance is related to air density. The thinner the air, the less resistance, and the higher the maximum speed that free fall can achieve. So, to exceed the speed of sound with pure flesh and blood, it is only possible to achieve by jumping from an altitude with thinner air."
"And now, the environment Lewis is in meets this requirement."
"If nothing goes wrong, in about twenty seconds, his speed… will reach supersonic, and as he descends to around ten thousand meters, it will start to slow down from supersonic until it returns to a normal descent speed."
"But…"
Reg sighed again, "The sound barrier will have a certain impact on him. Even if he wears a pressure suit, he may be knocked unconscious at the moment the sound barrier is generated."
Their mouths gaped open.
"Unconscious?"
"Unconscious at ten thousand meters… This…"
The netizens were also scared by Reg's words.
"Are you kidding?"
"How could he be unconscious…"
"It's true, and unconsciousness is the least of it. Fortunately, he wore a pressure suit; otherwise, breaking through the sound barrier purely with his body would tear his body apart at the moment of breakthrough."
"Does Lewis not know about this?"
"He definitely doesn't. If he did, would he dare to do this?"
"I suspect Lewis might already be unconscious."
Lewis had maintained this position for dozens of seconds without moving, and it was indeed possible that he was unconscious.
"Bang!"
Suddenly, a loud bang rang out unexpectedly from the live brast room.
Many people were scared and their phones almost flew out of their hands.
"What's going on?"
"It's the sound barrier, the sound of a sonic boom!"
"He really broke through the speed of sound, this is amazing!"
Lewis' live brast perspective switched from first-person to his legs, allowing this perspective to see his entire body.
At the moment the sonic boom sounded, everyone saw Lewis' falling body suddenly lurch forward, and a cloud of white mist stayed at his tail, dissipating only after a long time.
And under this sonic boom, Lewis' speed increased again, falling faster towards the ground.
One second…
Two seconds…
Five seconds…
When it reached the seventeenth second, Lewis' speed slowed down significantly.
And the colors in the live brast room also suddenly brightened, no longer having the darkness and oppression that seemed to be at the edge of the Earth before.
"Hu..."
A breathing sound suddenly echoed in the live brast room filled with roaring winds.
Everyone was stunned, and then a flood of chat messages came pouring in.
"Wow, it's Lewis' breath!"
"He's still alive!"
"Duh, of course he's alive!"
"Lewis is awake, he's awake, he's not unconscious!"
Everyone's emotions were simply indescribably excited.
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