Chapter 5: Formatting Theory (1/2)

Chapter 5: Formatting Theory

The noise’s volume was simply unfathomable. The soundwaves clumped together and smashed fiercely on their eardrums like the fists of a boxing champion. It was as if a ferocious beast had opened its bloody mouth wide to its cheeks and howled in rage.

Xie Junping swore that he had never heard such a fearsome sound in his life. The seismic wave permeated through his entire body, causing his eyes to bulge out. All his internal organs with rolling, jittering, and shaking. Amidst his stupor, he felt that the husk of his skin and flesh was like a penetrated water sack that could fall apart at any time.

This feeling of unprecedented fear was like a storm that swept through his mind. It washed his entire body from the inside out and took all the details out for him to see incomparably clearly.

Xie Junping didn’t know how this feeling came about. His mental defenses had collapsed, and he couldn’t hold back from screaming yet again. Though this time there was no one to stop him.

Xie Junping screamed for an unknown amount of time; he only stopped when he exhausted all his emotions and energy down to zerk. Only then did he discover that he was still hanging in the air. His situation had not gotten better nor worse.

The vibrational assault came and went suddenly. A cold wind blew before him, but Xie Junping had already fainted from exhaustion. Only his fingers remained striving to grasp Luo Nan’s wrist. All sense of feeling was indistinct amidst his trembling; it was as if he had fallen entirely into a nightmare.

Most fearsome of all was the state of the person who decides his fate, Luo Nan. Luo Nan was lying face down with an ugly expression on his face. His eyes maintained an extremely cool-headed and resolute gaze to them; he refused to let them go out of focused. His hand’s palm was dripping wet and also appeared to be shaking.

Xie Junping was on the verge of crying for reals: “Hey! Hey! It’s no problem for you right!?”

Luo Nan didn’t respond, instead closing his eyes. Sweat slipped out from the distant edges and dripped down.

Xie Junping finally confirmed that Luo Nan’s present state was extremely extremely bad. It would be hard for him to make additional actions.

He would die a violent death if things continued this way!

It’s all that damned……. Wait. What had happened? An explosion? Xie Junping could not figure out what the cause of the violent shock and impact was. He also didn’t have the time to think about this. He forced himself to raise his voice:

“Stay firm. Stay firm. I’ll sound an SOS asap……”

Luo Nan’s eyes trembled, then opened with great difficulty. Luo Nan swept a look at Xie Junping and squeezed out a few words through gritted teeth: “Look at your car!”

“Uh, let’s focus first on……”

“Look down!”

Xie Junping hesitated for a moment. Finally he fought against his dizziness and fears, his eyeballs rotating down. Then he saw the silhouette of his Phantom in all its magnificent glory located diagonally 10 meters down from him.

The flying car Phantom valued at 500 million held an extraordinary standing. Aside from having capabilities of an ordinary flying car, it could also speed up on the magnetic rails’ superconductive roadway. And it even has an air suspension braking mechanism in case of emergencies.

So the Phantom didn’t just fall to the ground and smash into pieces when it fell off the overpass. Instead it had automatically activated its suspension mechanism. It rose up slowly, searching for a magnetic rail to dock with. There wasn’t any damage asides from some dents caused by fallen rubble.

His life was saved!

Xie Junping was completely awake now. He issued a command in a hurry to make the flying car come over to act as a foothold.

They were freed from danger a minute later.

Xie Junping didn’t have the strength to speak having just escaped from mortal danger. He simply tended to his wound while sitting in the cockpit of the flying car. His entire body was weak.

It took a while before Luo Nan returned inside the car. He had tossed his loose-leaf notebook to the ground to free his hands before saving someone. Naturally he had to pick it back up.

Luo Nan closed his eyes as soon as he returned to his sitting spot. His body sweated a great amount of sweat. He had exhausted far too much physical energy just then. He only felt at ease when he recovered his notebook, only then did some life return to him.

Xie Junping was stupefied for a while before he finally thought of a few things he ought to do. The situation appeared to be at an anticlimax. But Luo Nan had maintained a level head and rescued him in the most critical moment. Otherwise, Xie Junping would have probably become the saddest dead member of Acumen College’s Honor Society.

This was without a doubt a life-saving grace.

Xie Junping twisted his head around with the intention of displaying his gratitude when a crackling sound rushed forth. The micro earbuds embedded in his ear rebooted. Ying Ying shouted:

“Hey hey sucker. You’re fine right.”

The corner of Xie Junping’s mouth twitched. An intense state of mind spurred him into roaring without caring what Luo Nan would think of him:

“SUCK YOUR SISTER! SUCK YOUR MOTHER!”

Ying Ying was silent for some time. The voice proceeded to transmit over. This time the voice wasn’t brash, yet it didn’t necessarily lack anger: “Okay then Young Xie. I don’t care what your situation is right now, but you must leave that place at once. According to my surveillance, an intense impact went off approximately 2 kilometers to the northwest of you and 1 kilometer underground. The energy of the impact is equivalent to that of a small nuclear warhead. It had created an electromagnetic storm. As for if the ionization radiation has exceeded safe limits, well it’s hard to explain.”

“Nuclear warhead?” Xie Junping’s mood was pressed dead. He finally understood why all the electronics on his body had totally malfunctioned.

He checked flustered if he could lock the door to his car, and he turned on the detection system. A few seconds past and nothing at all happened.

“Nope, nothing shows up here.”

Then you need to hurry up and leave. Can it be you want to stay there and help the police do a write up?” Ying Ying gave him a new set of coordinates after speaking.

Xie Junping cursed as he started up his flying car: “It wasn’t an earthquake? It wasn’t an earthquake?”

“Terribly sorry. We can’t discover anything within a 12 square kilometer range about a case of an earthquake that actually exceeded a magnitude of 9. So, I’m inclined to believe that this was due to an accident…… an accident of disastrous levels.”

Ying Ying analyzed the situation some more and put forth a suggestion: “Furthermore, its best for you to return to Mangzhong immediately. An earthquake of magnitude 4.5 happened there a minute ago, honest to god. Those colleagues of yours are probably running all over the place searching for people.”

“......”

Xie Junping lost even the strength the curse.

Ying Ying continued speaking: “I’ve already gone above and beyond for you. I’ve asked for a high-altitude shuttle to come over from your father’s company. It’ll arrive in 90 second and will basically guarantee that you’ll arrive back in Mangzhong within twenty minutes.”

Ying Ying’s calculations were proven to be extremely accurate. The Phantom flying car had just arrived at the coordinates given by Ying Ying when their call had just terminated, a landing platform atop of joint skyscrapers. This place was relatively peaceful since it was outside the 12 square kilometer range. There were only shattered glass that were being cleaned up by janitor bots in some places.

A Hummingbird model shuttle had just arrived, landing on the platform with a rumble.

Xie Junping stared at the shuttle. He was somewhat muddle-headed so he slapped his face as an effort to raise his spirits. He got out of the car and walked a few steps. Then he suddenly turned his head:

“I have no words to thank with for your great grace Junior. I’ll remember this favor. Your current state is also not that great, so I’ll leave this car for you to ride. Go get yourself checked at the hospital. I’ll get in touch with you later.”

Having said this, he transferred the control privileges of the Phantom flying car over to Luo Nan. This way Luo Nan could use his own wristband to execute basic controls.

Luo Nan knew that Xie Junping had just walked out through the gates of hell. Xie Junping’s state of mind was in complete disorder at the time, yet he was able to think of this. This morality was very hard to come by, so Luo Nan did not speak any further. He nodded to continue on.