Novice Takes to the Skies

Chapter 731: Novice Takes to the Skies

Riding atop his horse, Zhou Xu looked up at the hot-air balloon as it climbed higher, clearing Black Stone City's walls and heading even higher. A hint of satisfaction appeared on his face.

He had noticed the problem earlier, when he saw the hot-air balloon drifting toward Black Stone City. If it did not gain altitude, it might crash into the walls.

But he had not called out a warning in advance. He wanted to see whether the two operators aboard the hot-air balloon could react correctly in time when faced with such an unexpected situation.

The maneuver was not difficult—in some ways, it was even quite simple. But as the saying went, the one in the thick of things was blind, while the bystander saw clearly. In a crisis, people sometimes lost the ability to think and made elementary mistakes. It was hardly uncommon.

After the two operators successfully raised the hot-air balloon's altitude and cleared Black Stone City's walls, both let out a huge sigh of relief. They then realized that their entire backs had already been drenched in cold sweat.

Wiping away the beads of sweat on their foreheads, the two exchanged glances and laughed awkwardly twice.

"Too close. Way too close."

After their emotions had settled, the two took a deep breath, stood up, and looked outside.

The moment they looked, their hearts nearly stopped from fright!

"Damn it, we flew too high! What do we do now?!"

Just moments ago, in their panic, they had frantically thrown fuel into the burner and worked the bellows, increasing the heat.

Once the heat rose, the hot-air balloon had kept climbing. Before they knew it, they had flown to an altitude they had never reached before!

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