Volume 12: Yaguna Kotor Chapter 599 Abandoning the Machine
Ke Lan wanted to say that instead of wasting a lot of energy and ammunition to destroy it, it would be better to keep it as a research sample, which would definitely bring considerable benefits. But then he thought that this thing had too many unstable factors. Even if it was used as a sample, it would be a high-risk sample at the same level as the "Yinglong Egg". Thinking of the numerous criminal records of the group of incompetent guys in the research institute, Ke Lan finally chose to remain silent.
I'm tired, let's destroy it... It's better to blow this thing to pieces to avoid any more trouble.
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Lin Qiming acted quite quickly. In less than four minutes, he had distributed the umbrella bags to everyone.
"Remember, don't panic when you take off, and don't jump too far. Just be careful not to hit your head on the hatch." Lin Qiming checked everyone's parachute bag and taught loudly, "The altitude we are at now is very safe. Don't rush to open the parachute as soon as you jump out. You will be sucked into the airflow generated by the turbine engine. As for the timing of opening the parachute, I will teach you a simple method. After jumping out of the hatch, count to twenty numbers in your mind, and then pull the parachute rope."
The parachutes on transport planes are all "fool-style" emergency life-saving parachutes, not the highly maneuverable "combat parachutes" specially used by airborne troops. But the "fool-style" has its own advantages, that is, the parachutist only needs to grasp the timing of opening the parachute, and does not need to worry about anything else - even if the parachute is opened during a high-speed tumble, the safety device inside the parachute will help the parachutist regain balance.
"Don't be in a hurry to open the parachute. Twenty seconds is just an example. You will still have time to open the parachute even if you count to forty . In addition, the buckle on the right hand side is the lock of the main parachute. Pull it when opening the parachute. If the main parachute fails to open, pull the spare parachute on the left hand side. Of course, you can pull both at the same time." Lin Qiming said quickly, "As long as one of the parachutes can be opened, it will be fine."
"Also, there is a lack of oxygen and extreme cold at high altitudes. Try to check your equipment and don't expose your skin to prevent frostbite. As for oxygen supply equipment, I think you should be familiar with these things, so I won't waste time elaborating."
"Any other questions?" Lin Qiming asked again, "Raise them now if you have any. If you raise them after you jump out of the cabin, no one will have time to help you solve them."
The researchers, who were fully equipped, looked at each other, but no one spoke.
This group of people are undoubtedly the best of the best with extremely high IQs. Lin Qiming only gave them a brief explanation once, but they have already mastered the essentials of skydiving. If there is any problem, it is probably that their nervousness cannot be eliminated in a short time... But it is useless to talk about this problem.
Lin Qiming walked around the group of people again and picked out the older researchers. The officers from the Crisis Management Department took them for parachuting. As for himself, he tied Dr. Norison and himself together with a safety belt.
After doing all this, Lin Qiming gave a thumbs up to the surveillance camera and said, "Everything is ready, you can parachute at any time!"
"The emergency door will be opened in ten seconds. The specific time of parachuting will be up to you." Ke Lan said, and glanced at the surveillance camera outside the plane. At this moment, the black mummy had already walked halfway. "I will give you five minutes. Within five minutes, everyone must leave the plane."
"Okay!" Lin Qiming responded.
The so-called emergency door is an escape route designed specifically for first-class passengers. Generally speaking, in addition to the two aisles in the front and rear, the only way to enter the first-class cabin is through the door on the left side of the fuselage that connects to the airport's suspended boarding corridor. However, this door is very narrow and cannot be opened during flight for safety reasons.
When this emergency escape passage is opened, first-class passengers can enter the soft passage through the secret door on the floor and slide into the decompression chamber. The decompression chamber will help skydivers adjust the air pressure in their bodies to prevent accidents such as internal organ bleeding or cerebral hemorrhage when jumping out of the cabin - after all, the air pressure inside the plane is much higher than that outside, and the higher the flight altitude, the greater the pressure difference.
The carpet in the first-class corridor was lifted up, and the floor below slowly moved, revealing a two-meter square passage. The researchers, wearing protective equipment like space suits, jumped into the passage one by one and slid into the decompression chamber below like a slide.
Lin Qiming and Dr. Norison were the last two to jump down. As soon as they jumped into the passage, the secret door above closed again.
The air pressure in the decompression chamber was dropping rapidly. According to operating specifications, the decompression process must take more than ten minutes, but they obviously did not have that much time. Lin Qiming had to use force to pry open the control door, remove the limiting valve, and increase the decompression speed to the fastest.
Everyone invariably developed some discomfort similar to altitude sickness, but no matter how you look at it, it is much better than jumping out of the plane directly.
If an elderly person like Dr. Norison were thrown directly out of the plane, he would immediately fall into shock even with the protection of a parachute suit - decompression sickness is no joke.
Lin Qiming stared at the air pressure valve while glancing at the countdown on his watch from time to time... When the air pressure in the decompression chamber was almost the same as the external air pressure, there were only the last 110 seconds left in the countdown.
He pushed open the hatch at the belly of the plane - since the air pressure inside the decompression chamber was the same as outside, no one felt a strong suction force, only gusts of biting cold wind kept pouring in from outside the cabin. In an instant, a thin layer of white frost condensed on the wall of the decompression chamber.
An operator from the Crisis Management Department jumped out of the cabin first as a demonstration.
"Do as we just taught you, quickly!" Lin Qiming shouted at the top of his lungs - he had to shout loudly, because without any communication equipment, all he could hear was the whistling sound of the wind, and the only way they could communicate with each other was by roaring.
A young researcher was the second to jump out of the cabin, followed by the third, the fourth...
"Sixty seconds left! Hurry!"
But at this moment, a somewhat fat researcher stopped at the cabin door. He held the pull ring above his head tightly with both hands, but was unwilling to jump out of the cabin.
"What's the matter? Do you have a problem? Why didn't you say it just now?" Lin Qiming unbuckled the safety belt between himself and Dr. Norison, walked quickly to the side of the fat man, and asked loudly.
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The fat man turned his head and spoke with a look of fear on his face, but his voice was too soft. In this environment, Lin Qiming couldn't hear what he was saying at all.
"Do you want to dance by yourself or should I help you?" Lin Qiming asked again.
There were only forty-five seconds left. According to the frequency of one person jumping every five seconds, the time was already limited. As a result, the time equivalent to three people's time was wasted on this one person alone.
The fat man shook his head vigorously, and his tears and snot were all stuck to the inside of the transparent mask of his helmet.
Without saying a word, Lin Qiming kicked him on the back and kicked him out of the cabin.
Even if this person was unwilling to jump out because there was a problem with his parachute or protective equipment or for some other reason, Lin Qiming didn't have the time to care - he couldn't let others lose the chance to parachute and escape just for him.
Even if the fat guy didn't survive after being kicked out of the cabin, it was better than him blocking the cabin door and continuing to waste precious time.
The loss of a researcher is still within an acceptable range.
"Two people in a group! No! Three people in a group! Jump quickly! Only thirty seconds left!" Lin Qiming shouted as he pulled Dr. Norison, who was standing at a side and seemed a little at a loss, over and tied him in front of him with a safety belt again.
When he and Dr. Norison finally jumped out of the cabin, Lin Qiming glanced at the countdown on his watch and saw that there were exactly two seconds left.
He raised his head and looked up. The Hercules transport plane was flying away quickly, and a flight formation of more than a dozen fighter jets was following closely behind the Hercules. Not long after they jumped out of the cabin, these fighter jets finally started shooting at the things on the back of the transport plane.
From Lin Qiming's angle, he couldn't see what the black cardinal summoned, but from the perspective of those fighter pilots, the appearance of this monster could be seen clearly.
"We have confirmed that all rescue targets have left the aircraft. Switch to the third combat formation. The first team is preparing to launch a delaying attack. Try to buy time for our personnel on board. Also, be careful not to damage the structure of the transport aircraft."
"The first team is ready. The 24-type non-lethal ammunition has been loaded. Request to open fire."
"Permission to fire."
At a command, four fighter jets on the right wing of the formation approached the Hercules transport plane at the same time, and the machine guns mounted on the nose began to fire wildly at the black mummy.
The Type 24 non-lethal bullet is a special ammunition used to hunt large indigenous creatures. The bullet will automatically split after being out of the barrel for a period of time, releasing the highly viscous compressed resin inside. Compared with the sticky foam grenade that Ke Lan had used before, its blocking ability is not just one or two times stronger, but its lethality is also improved by several levels.
Don't be fooled by the name "non-lethal bullet", but if it hits a human, the high-speed flying liquid resin can easily penetrate the fragile human body and crush all the internal organs near the wound... This "non-lethality" only applies to those large indigenous creatures with thick skin and flesh that even bullets cannot penetrate.
Even the metal shell on the back of the Hercules transport aircraft became bumpy under the impact of these compressed resins, which shows how strong the impact force is.
At least more than two thousand "Type 24 non-lethal bullets" hit the target, and the white sticky resin almost wrapped up the entire black mummy - it looked exactly like the scenes in some heavy-taste booklets.
With this amount of fire, a thunder beast would probably have difficulty walking, but the black mummy's movements were not affected at all.
Although its movements are slow, they are almost unstoppable.
"This is impossible! I've never seen a creature that can be hit by so many 24 types of missiles and still remain unaffected!" exclaimed a pilot who opened fire.
"To be honest... I haven't seen it either. The last time I used the Type 24 bomb was to help ground troops suppress an SP mutant. Although the effect was minimal, it still had some blocking effect to some extent." said another pilot.
If Ke Lan heard their conversation, he would probably just let out a helpless smile - even a metal body with a hardness higher than that of Nino alloy can be driven by brute force, so there is no way such a "little bit" of sticky resin can have any effect.
Ke Lan estimated that even if this thing was sunk into a pool filled with sticky compressed resin, it would be able to climb out easily.
These fighter pilots still underestimated this guy's "physical strength"...
That was something summoned by the Three-Headed Seed of Erosion as a sacrifice!
The black mummy was less than fifteen meters away from the cockpit. Ke Lan glanced at the camera at the rear of the plane. The parachutes of Lin Qiming and others had all opened. A series of parachutes painted in eye-catching orange floated behind the transport plane and slowly fell towards the White Ridge Mountains below.
The fighter formation following behind was divided into two groups. One group continued to follow their transport plane, and the other group began to circle in place to provide protection for the parachutists.
"The distance is about two kilometers... that should be enough." Ke Lan took a deep breath. Now, it was his turn to abandon the plane and escape.
"It's a pity that the Ye Group didn't add a self-destruct device to this plane, otherwise we could at least test the physical strength of that thing." As Ke Lan spoke, he called up the "unloading program" on the console and lit up a whole row of virtual buttons one by one.
The cargo hatch of the Hercules opened directly backwards, and one by one the unlocked containers slid out of the cargo hold and fell towards the mountainous area below like bombs.
These containers were not equipped with parachute equipment, and Ke Lan was not sure how many of the precision equipment would be usable after being dropped down like this... But at least, it was better than being buried with the transport plane...
After unloading the cargo hold, Ke Lan adjusted the flight angle of the aircraft, making the nose of the aircraft at a dive angle of about thirty degrees, and then locked the driving program - in this way, after flying forward for a distance, this Hercules transport plane would crash into the ground.
Ignoring the frantic alarm, Ke Lan quickly rushed to the edge of the breach in the cockpit and jumped down.
At the same time, the black mummy on the top of the nose of the plane also jumped down with him!
