Chapter 1268: No-Fly Zone
"That's good."
Meng Chao closed his eyes and imagined the human soldier Ice Storm had described in his final moments before death. Suddenly, he thought of something extremely important. "One more thing—let me confirm this. You said that soldier was swept off the mountain by gale-force winds and blown down. He definitely didn't jump of his own accord, right?"
"Of course not. He wasn't looking to die. If he could have clung to the cliff face, why would he willingly jump?"
Ice Storm asked curiously, "What difference does it make whether he was swept away and blown down, or jumped voluntarily?"
"The speed is different."
Meng Chao's eyes gleamed. "If he was swept away and blown down by the wind, since he wasn't exerting force on his own—and was probably flailing wildly in midair, desperately trying to grab dead branches and vines jutting from the cliff face—his falling speed would definitely have been slower.
"But if he jumped voluntarily, and at the instant he jumped, kicked off the cliff face with all his strength, then drew in his limbs to minimize the area catching the wind, launching himself downward like a cannonball, his falling speed could easily be twice or even three times that of the first case."
Ice Storm stared at him for a long time before she finally understood what he was trying to do.
"You mean that if we reach the spot where that human soldier fell off the cliff back then, then wait for the spatial changes, for the Space Fissure between Thousand Blade Peak and Scarlet Peak to open, and jump with all our strength during those brief dozen breaths—reaching twice or even three times that soldier's falling speed—we might be able to cross over to Scarlet Peak before the Space