[Ding] [Ryan's ability awakening detected] [Ability type: super healing] [Reward: Exchange Points ×100]
"Huh?" Soldier Boy froze, then quickly accepted this unexpected windfall.
He gave Ryan a look full of ill intent. You little rascal. Getting dropped makes you stronger.
Ryan was just about to tell Soldier Boy about the changes in his body when that familiar sensation of weightlessness struck again.
The first time was unfamiliar, the second less so. Get dropped enough, and practice naturally made perfect.
Ryan silently bristled at Soldier Boy's rough treatment. Since the falls couldn't kill him anyway, why should he be afraid of him?
But this time was different again.
He counted silently: ten seconds, twenty seconds... thirty seconds!
He counted all the way to thirty-two before he began to fall. Looking down, he could already see a fluffy sea of clouds spread beneath him, with scattered cities and mountains visible through the gaps.
Five thousand meters.
Once despair reached a certain point, there was no room left for fear.
Ryan laughed. "Fucking awesome."
He laughed and shouted like a madman, flailing his arms and legs.
He had given up hoping Soldier Boy would help. That old bastard wasn't going to catch him.
There was nothing in his ears but the shrill whistle of wind and his own shouting as he plummeted.
I'm really going to die. I'm really going to die.
Ryan could clearly feel just how fast his body was falling. His still-immature mind, pushed to the brink, even began flashing his life before his eyes.
Time seemed to slow, and all kinds of memories began surfacing in his mind.
From his earliest memories to the present, scene after scene flashed past, then began playing again. His brain was doing everything it could to find a way to survive.