Chapter 619 - 405: The Death of Carlos (2)
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At the moment on the Taylor Glacier,
Wang Ye and Carlos are still traversing the glacier one after another.
As the wind speed gradually increased, the blizzard also slowly approached.
Sparse snowflakes began to fall from the sky,
smeared across Carlos’s goggles,
making the already challenging situation even more difficult for him.
The obscured vision added a touch of uncertainty to his posture.
And it’s precisely this slight uncertainty that is the deadly root in extreme sports.
When you’re not sure you can overcome the current hurdle,
you subconsciously hold back a bit of your strength when you jump,
which is also true in wingsuit flying.
When Carlos couldn’t be sure how many obstacles lay ahead,
he would subconsciously slow down the speed of changing his angles,
resulting in his eventual failure to overcome the obstacles.
Carlos solemnly looked at the gradually roaring hurricane and blizzard around,
seemingly having predicted his own outcome.
He redirected his gaze back to Wang Ye, about 500 meters away,
struggling painfully inside.
At this rate,
his impact on Wang Ye’s challenge seemed inevitable.
With his stamina, he could barely hold on for another half a minute,
after which he would lose stability from exhaustion,
crashing onto the glacier,
shattering into pieces.
And now, there were at least two more minutes before they would truly land on the ground.
He knew that if he waited until his stamina ran out, Wang Ye would inevitably try to save him,
at which point not only would his challenge fail, but Wang Ye’s would fail as well,
a result he did not wish to see.
Thinking of this, Carlos seemed to have made a decision, his eyes turning from confused to determined.
"To be buried in Antarctica, this perhaps is the best end for an extreme athlete."
Carlos murmured softly, then suddenly twisted his body, diving to the left.
At this moment,
Wang Ye, diving ahead, suddenly turned his head,
discovering that Carlos behind him had directly changed course,
diving toward a place outside their designated route.
With his evolved brain, how could he not guess Carlos’s intention?
"This guy actually chose to commit suicide in this situation!" Wang Ye’s eyes widened, filled with astonishment.
He had predicted many outcomes,
but never had he thought that Carlos would commit suicide.
As living beings, every word and action is controlled by hormones,
without complete despair, it’s very hard to make the decision to commit suicide.
Ninety percent of those who commit suicide regret it during the process.
But by the time they realize their regret, it’s already too late.
Just like those who consume paraquat for suicide, in the last few days, they often regret it amidst extreme pain. This pesticide gives the suicides about a week to regret, with no cure.
And now Carlos, is in the challenge of wingsuit flying,
his body constantly in a weightless and disoriented environment.
Which means, his mind is actually filled with fear,
his body almost controlled by the desire for survival,
in this situation where he’s aware of his fear of death, choosing to commit suicide,
it’s unimaginable how much courage this requires.
Wang Ye initially wanted to turn back and save Carlos’s life,
but his diving speed was very fast, in just a second or two,
he had already fallen onto a glacier obstacle, his life or death uncertain.
"What a pity."
He sighed inwardly. Actually, if Carlos were just a little closer,
even with telekinesis, he could have safely brought him down to the ground.
Unfortunately, this kid unexpectedly left his telekinetic range to commit suicide.
"Forget it. Since he sacrificed himself to help me, I have no choice but to continue the challenge."
Wang Ye shook his head, continuing to focus on the challenge at hand.
His posture flattened, and his diving speed increased further.
By now, he had arrived beside the Blood Falls of Taylor Glacier,
which was also the final stretch of this challenge route.
Reaching here also meant that the Life of Wind challenge was nearing its end.
The audience in the live broadcast room saw the eerie scenery of the Blood Falls and were amazed.
[This is terrifying...]
[It’s like the earth is bleeding, does this scenery really exist on Earth?]
[I heard this place is called Blood Falls, a very distinctive landscape in Antarctica.]
[No wonder Wang Ye chose such a place to challenge, the scenery is so unique.]
[Watching Wang Ye’s live broadcast is really eye-opening.]
[In my lifetime, I also want to travel to Antarctica.]
[Even seeing it through a screen is such a shocking scenery, hard to imagine how awe-inspiring it would be in person.]
[I heard at least a hundred thousand is needed to go to Antarctica, well... better start saving.]
[Old Bing once said, if you’ve been to Antarctica, many of the world’s tourist spots don’t need visiting anymore because Antarctica is already one of the most beautiful and breathtaking sceneries in the world.]
[Back then I doubted if he was exaggerating, now seeing this, it really seems to be true.]
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Wang Ye’s live broadcast content triggered countless viewers’ urge to travel to Antarctica.
You need to understand that in the live broadcast room, it’s not just domestic viewers.
There are also many viewers from other countries.
This means that in the coming year, there will probably be countless people in the world spending huge sums to travel to Antarctica. The Antarctic tourism industry will also rapidly expand.
This sort of thing has happened before.
Months ago, after Wang Ye completed his challenge on Mount Everest, a similar situation occurred,
triggering a wave of challenges on Mount Everest domestically.
In just a few months, the number of people traveling to Mount Everest doubled.
This is Wang Ye’s current influence.
Finally,
one minute later,
Wang Ye completed the challenge,
landing steadily on the glacier.
The entire process without any mistakes.
His movements were as perfect as from a textbook.
But before the live broadcast’s comments marveled at Wang Ye’s technique,
Wang Ye directly turned off the camera and microphone.
Instantly activating Vertical Earth Golden Radiance, breaking through to ten times the speed of sound in half a second, with a roar like a missile explosion. Instantly teleporting to Carlos’s corpse.
Because Carlos fell from a height, his entire spine was already twisted out of shape.
Blood slowly flowed from his mouth.
His eyes were empty, staring forward,
clearly dead beyond revival.
Wang Ye walked up,
knelt down and whispered:
"Don’t worry, I promised you wouldn’t die."
He extended his hand, pressing it against Carlos’s scarred forehead.
Slowly infusing Primordial Qi, operating Mediation Creation.
In an instant, Carlos’s injuries began to rapidly heal, external abrasions healed completely within half a second, fractured bones cracking and snapping back into place, and the fracture openings mending themselves.
Wang Ye, although he could now only revive the body,
could not revive the brain,
more precisely, could not restore the brain to its state before death.
Even if revived, it would only be a high-intelligence being without any memory, completely different from the Carlos before death.
But this was already enough.
Wang Ye planned to repair Carlos’s physical body first and freeze it in Antarctica to prevent decay. In the future, when he mastered the technology of restoring consciousness and memory, he would come back to revive Carlos.
By then, Wang Ye should have also mastered the technique of Blood Rebirth.
After the repair, Carlos’s heart still did not resume beating,
remaining in a state of death.
Which was precisely Wang Ye’s plan, he just needed to preserve Carlos’s body in its optimal state for freezing,
without reviving his body.