The stratosphere, nearly 20,000 meters above the surface... the air at this height is already very thin. Even in the 21st century, only the most advanced reconnaissance aircraft and strategic bombers will visit this area. As for the legendary plane of gods and ghosts in the 1920s, no life form had the ability to reach this height.
However, an uninvited guest visited this area today: a bright silver-coated helium balloon slowly rose to this height, and the hatch of the alloy container hanging under the balloon opened, revealing a man wearing no clothes. Qianying, who was wearing a spacesuit and not even carrying a parachute, stepped out of the container, and then...jumped off!
That's right, it was Ye Zi who was in free fall and gradually approaching the speed of sound. And with her actions, was she planning to commit suicide? ?
Obviously it's not... just the speed of sound. With Ye Zi's physical strength, it can fully bear the load. In fact, her full speed using her own skills is at the subsonic level. Problems such as lack of oxygen at high altitudes do not pose a threat to extraordinary people with second-level genetic locks and BB-level bloodlines. Unless strenuous exercise is required, it is not difficult to go without breathing for several minutes.
The only problem left was how to land: if Ye Zi, who was not wearing a parachute, was "smashed" to the ground with such kinetic energy, he would only end up being shattered into pieces and turned into "Ye Zi Jiang".
Five thousand meters, two thousand meters, one thousand meters...
As if to embrace the ocean below, Ye Zi opened her arms, and at the same time, a pair of translucent, semi-material wings made of magical energy with a wingspan of nearly ten meters, using her double The arms formed rapidly as the center: she calmly and accurately adjusted the direction of her wings, not confronting the kinetic energy head-on, but like a swooping bird of prey, constantly changing her angle...
Finally, when she was less than a hundred meters away from the sea, Ye Zi's speed was still above the speed of sound, but her flying angle had changed from vertical to almost parallel to the sea. When she passed almost close to the sea, the strong wind cut away the oncoming waves, and the strong shock wave left a conspicuous track on the sea.
Then, Ye Zi waved her "wings" to adjust her attitude, raised her altitude, and glided towards the uninhabited island at the end of her field of vision. When her speed dropped past the dividing line of the speed of sound, the long-lost sound of the wind came to her ears again. sounded. Looking towards the horizon, her eyes were not genetically locked and blank, but more emptier and distant, shining with inexplicable brilliance.
A few minutes later, Ye Zi was walking on the white sand of the uninhabited island beach, letting the waves lap at her soft and delicate feet. Her eyes were slightly closed, but an invisible force began to take shape between her slender fingers. .
Yes, her leap from an altitude of 20,000 meters was by no means a simple experience of "extreme sports".
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Ye Zi's strength... is very strong. Even though it took her five missions (counting her return) to unlock the first level of the gene lock, and three more missions to unlock the second level, compared to Zheng Zha, the clone Zheng Zha, and the original Luo Gandao The progress of waiting for others is indeed much late. But she has accumulated a lot of experience and now has a glimpse of the third level. Her speed is no less than that of Zheng Zha.
Of course, the so-called "first glimpse" is just the use of a very small part of the third-level abilities in advance... For example, when she ambushed Dr. Jackal in the last game, she briefly simulated Zhao Yingkong's breath gathering skills, such as Faced with Arlot's high speed, Zheng Zha once forced the second-level "power" of the gene lock to be applied to his brain. If there are enough opportunities, it may only take one mission or even one epiphany to open this door. However, if you don't catch the "feeling", it may take ten or eight games to get through this difficult process. A first glimpse of the door.
Fortunately, Ye Zi has a certain degree of certainty about how to take his "path".
The four techniques she previously created based on "Magic Release" contain the artistic conception of water, wind, thunder and ice respectively: [Stagnation] is like water, which can delay, resist, eliminate, and resolve energy and physical attacks; [Edge] is like wind. , turning energy into many small sharp blades, allowing hundreds of sword lights to strike at the same point in a very short period of time; [Ting Ni] Ruorei, like electric stimulation, forces specific muscles to be hyperactivated, temporarily Use super-limited speed; [Hansu] is like ice, using dark power to penetrate into the enemy's body and then semi-materialize, "freezing" the opponent's body and energy circulation.
These four self-created techniques, placed within the second-level category, are worthy of an evaluation of "exquisite"... However, the so-called "artistic conception" is just artistic conception after all.
Different from Zheng Zha's "Red Flame" and Dr. Jackal's "Thunder and Lightning Dou Qi", Ye Zi's four skills are only similar in appearance and even spirit to water, wind, thunder and lightning, and ice, but in essence they are still just elf energy without attributes. "Magic released". Or, to use Naruto's terminology, this is only the category of "morphological change", but cannot achieve "property change".
This makes their upgrade and expansion potential very limited. If they can truly use the power of water, wind, thunder, and ice, there will be a leap forward in terms of their most intuitive combat effectiveness, the richness of their skill pool, and their room for future progress. sexual enhancement.
By exchanging A-level "Elemental Spirits" or releasing high-level sub-species of magic power (such as Karna's magic power release [Fire] A), you can indeed "buy" similar abilities directly, but the price is very high. Not that some poor, ahem, poor girl who even had to borrow a branch line from Zhao Yingkong in order to save Zhang Jie could afford it, and...
Ye Zi's intuition told her that if she could turn the non-attributed elf energy into the power of various attributes by relying solely on her own realm, practice and understanding, the experience accumulated in this process would be extremely valuable. wealth.
And when she possesses the power of "water" and "wind", it will also be the day when she officially steps into the third level of gene lock!
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It was precisely for this reason that she spent tens of thousands of reward points to exchange for three full years of living days... Otherwise, almost no side mission, no matter how huge, would take such a long time.
In the past fifteen months, in addition to practicing hard in the cold and summer to circulate and temper his spirit energy, Ye Zi has traveled to almost all major rivers and lakes in the world.
She has drifted in the rapid and dangerous underground rivers, and has also physically dived into the seabed hundreds of meters deep, experiencing the endless pressure of the ocean and the vitality as the cradle of life.
She once built a platform at the bottom of the Niagara Falls and meditated for seven days and seven nights. She also traveled upstream along the Yangtze River to trace the source of the extremely pure and clear snow-capped mountains and glaciers.
Now, after spending hundreds of days and nights understanding the many aspects of water, plus thousands of attempts, the power of "water"...is in her hands.
And Ye Zi's "crazy" move of leaping from the stratosphere just now was one of Ye Zi's many attempts to understand the power of "wind".
"boom."
But the next second, the invisible power at Ye Zi's fingertips, an unstable "semi-finished product" between the attributeless elf energy and the power of the wind attribute, began to appear chaotic. Even if she reacted quickly enough and immediately threw the power out of her hand, the bursting turbulence would cause her palms to become bloody and bloody.
("Wind"'s third thousandth attempt failed... I have long been used to this level of injury, and it takes about half an hour to heal. However, the power of the wind attribute is still more dangerous than the power of the water attribute. a lot.)
(Every time I tried, I opened the gene lock to the limit. So far, the cumulative time to open the second level of the gene lock is nearly a thousand hours at least. As for the power of the second level, I have mastered the power of the arm. The so-called "second level peak" is probably at this level, but... at the third level of genetic lock, that door that is so close and seems within reach can never be pushed open.)
(Just like my intuition, only by completing the practice of "wind" can you enter the third level... Different from the second level of gene lock, the third level emphasizes not the evolution of strength, but skills, control and calculation. Evolution in ability, liberating the potential of the brain. As a precursor to the fourth level of subtlety, it really couldn’t be more appropriate.)
After a short period of contemplation and rest, Ye Zi adjusted his state and started the 3001st attempt.
