A Plane Crash Right from the Start

At an altitude of ten thousand meters, aboard a passenger plane flying from Jinling to Yuzhou, Li Zhi was resting with his eyes closed.

Li Zhi was not from this world. To be precise, his soul was not from this world!

In his previous life, he had been a soldier. During a special mission, he had chosen to take the enemy down with him to cover his teammates' retreat.

His rebirth in this world had not involved possessing someone else's body. He had been conscious from the time he was in his mother's womb.

He had grown up in an ordinary Jinling family, and even in his second life, he could not let go of his dream of becoming a soldier.

In his previous life, he had desperately wanted to become an air force pilot, but his eyesight had failed to meet the physical requirements, and he had been eliminated in the first round of screening. It had become a lasting regret.

In this life, for the sake of his dream of flying, he had been exceptionally disciplined from an early age, paying close attention to exercise and diet and teaching himself from every book on flying he could buy.

Finally, in his senior year of high school, he had taken the preliminary flight recruitment screening and passed.

Those who passed the preliminary selection could not go straight to the flight academy for further testing. They had to wait for their college entrance exam results to see whether their academic scores met the requirements.

Although flight recruitment did not set very high academic standards for candidates, that did not mean there were no requirements at all.

Fortunately, that had posed no problem for Li Zhi. His high score of 622 had met the academic requirement for the next round of testing.

Now he was on a plane to Yuzhou for that next round. He was highly confident he would pass, having long since memorized the testing process. All his qualifications were sure to meet the standards!

The thought that he was about to become an air force pilot filled Li Zhi with excitement. His dream from his previous life was finally going to come true in this one!

Li Zhi's mind was wandering.

Suddenly, without any warning, the plane began to tilt to the right. It appeared to have made a sharp, short-radius turn in considerable haste.

Under normal circumstances, a passenger plane in regular flight could not possibly do such a thing. After all, every airline placed great importance on providing passengers with a comfortable experience.

An uncomfortable flight naturally drew complaints, and the cabin began to grow noisy.

Still, people were only complaining a little. Ten thousand meters up in the air, their lives were in the crew's hands. After all, people with no brains were in the minority.

At a time like this, all it would take was a flight attendant or crew member coming out to reassure everyone, then offering a polite apology and explanation, and the incident would be nothing more than a minor episode.

But after three minutes, not only had no one come out to explain, there had not even been an announcement from the crew.

That was more than most people could accept. They could say "that's all right" in response to an apology, but the crew could not simply fail to apologize at all!

"Flight attendant! Where are the flight attendants?"

"What happened? Why hasn't anyone come out to explain?"

"Where is everyone? Where the hell did they all go?"

"Come out and face us! Don't think you can make this go away by hiding. If you don't give us an explanation today, we'll... we'll... file a complaint against you!"

"My dad is XXX. Believe it or not, all I need to do is make one call..."

At first, everyone had remained basically reasonable. They had only wanted to know what had happened, or perhaps just wanted an apology.

But when they realized that even after they started "making trouble," the crew still paid them no mind and no one came out to explain, things began to spiral out of control.

Quite a few people began leaving their seats, intending to go to the flight attendants' station at the front and demand an explanation.

Amid the chaos, however, Li Zhi noticed something slightly unusual.

Even if the crew had no fear of the passengers' grievances, they should not have let the situation continue to escalate. At the very least, a flight attendant should have come out. After all, ten thousand meters up, they were all grasshoppers tied to the same rope!

The eerie atmosphere made it impossible for Li Zhi to remain in his seat.

He had yet to do anything with this life. If it ended just like that, without him even knowing why, it would be far too unfair.

Besides, he did not want to transmigrate again!

Mixing into the crowd demanding an explanation, Li Zhi prepared to go to the front with them and see what had happened.

Bang!

"Ahhh!!!"

"What's wrong? What happened?"

Bang! Bang!

"I want to get off! Let me off!"

The plane tilted again.

Since most people had left their seats and were not secured by seat belts, they were thrown every which way, inevitably bumping into things.

Only then did everyone seem to remember that they were still on a plane ten thousand meters in the air!

Some people began to lose control of their emotions.

Li Zhi's expression changed dramatically as well, though for a different reason. Having died once already, he was not quite so afraid of death.

His expression had changed because, amid the noise just now, he seemed to have heard several gunshots.

Not "seemed to." Those were gunshots!

Having dealt with guns all his life, Li Zhi was all too familiar with the sound.

The sound did not match any gun he knew, but he was certain it was gunfire. The gun was probably homemade or modified.

A hijacking!

The moment Li Zhi heard gunshots on the plane, that was the first thing that came to mind.

At the thought, Li Zhi shoved his way roughly through the stumbling crowd and hurried toward the front. A soldier's duty would not let him stand by, even if he was not a soldier yet in this life.

Even for the sake of his own life, he had to do something.

Past the aisle by the restrooms was business class, and beyond business class was the plane's cockpit.

This was an economy-oriented passenger plane on a domestic route, with no first-class cabin. Usually, very few people bought business-class tickets anyway, and on this flight, not a single one had been sold. Dragon Country's average economic standard still had room for improvement.

"Sob, sob..."

"Shut the fuck up, or I'll put on a live show, rape you, and then kill you!"

"Qiangzi, don't forget we..."

"You shut the fuck up too! Fuck, I'm dead either way, and you won't even let me have some fun before I go? I'm going to fuck her right here, right now. Anyone who dares stop me, I'll fucking kill them!"

There was no door between business class and economy class, but a curtain blocked the view.

Li Zhi had just reached the curtain when he heard the exchange.

Although he could not see what was happening in business class, those few lines were enough to give him a general idea of the situation.

His suspicion of a hijacking was now confirmed, and the criminals had most likely already taken control of the plane. Knowing their fate in advance, they had begun to descend into a final frenzy.

Rip!

"No, no, please let me..."

Smack!

"Fuck, we're all going to die anyway, and you're still fucking putting on an act!"

After the slap, the only sounds in business class were crying and clothes being torn apart.

The other criminals, who had tried to stop him earlier, did not intervene again. Perhaps they had been frightened by the criminal's frenzy, or perhaps he had stirred up desires hidden deep within them.

The people being held captive also seemed to have accepted their fate and stopped resisting, leaving only helpless sobs.

Yes, everyone was going to die in the end anyway. Did what they did before death still matter?

Everyone else had accepted their fate, but Li Zhi could not. Even if he could not escape death in the end, he could not allow something like this to happen!

Everyone's attention should now be focused on the man who wanted to put on a "live show." Li Zhi boldly and gently lifted a corner of the curtain, and the people inside did not notice.

There were eleven people inside altogether. Six flight attendants were crouched on the floor with their hands on their heads, watched by two knife-wielding criminals. To the right, on a reclined seat, were the two people involved in the impending "live show."

The last person sat in the flight attendant's seat at the very front, facing Li Zhi's direction and resting with his eyes closed.

But he was indeed the greatest threat, because he had a gun in his hand!

There were at least four criminals and at least one gun, and they were all at the far end of the cabin, some distance from Li Zhi.

This was going to be difficult!

"Help! Someone help me!!!"

The flight attendant who had given up resisting suddenly began struggling again.

Because she had seen Li Zhi "peeking" in!