Chapter 600 - 396: Unscathed, the World Is Stunned
What does one kilometer mean?
A normal person walking at a regular pace might take twelve to fifteen minutes.
Jogging might take around five minutes.
Even the world record set by Kenyan athlete Noah Engeni on September 5, 1999, in Rieti, Italy, takes 2 minutes and 11.96 seconds.
While this distance isn’t very long, it’s enough to make many modern people feel tired when running it.
But at Wang Ye’s seven Mach descent speed, this distance only takes 0.417 seconds.
That’s roughly the time it takes for a person to blink once in a relaxed state.
In this instant,
over a billion people worldwide were glued to the live broadcast screen, watching the rapidly descending fireball in the sky, not daring to blink, knowing that if they did, they might miss the moment Wang Ye hit the ground.
Enveloped in flames, cameras could hardly capture any human shape,
only a round fireball could be seen, trailing a tail hundreds of meters long, swiftly moving downward.
But for Wang Ye at this moment, this 0.417 seconds felt exceedingly long. Every millisecond was infinitely magnified in his senses, even as long as hours, because as his cultivation and physical strength increased, his super sensing limit had also increased by hundreds of times, allowing him to stretch one second into hundreds or thousands of seconds.
And this gave him enough time to adjust his posture. His eyes narrowed slightly as he sharply twisted his body at the moment before hitting the ground, directing the strongest part of his back downwards. In the eyes of others, he just instantly turned into a rapidly spinning ball.
Like a snail retracting into its shell while falling. But this maneuver didn’t affect his speed in the slightest because such a brief change in air resistance wouldn’t directly affect speed.
The next moment,
the fireball that Wang Ye became crashed into the ground, creating a huge crater in the green grassland.
Boom!!!!!!
The instant his body collided with the ground, a terrifying shockwave spread out overwhelmingly, turning all grass and stones within a radius of tens of meters into dust, flattening the area. The explosion caused by his contact with the ground blasted out a crater over ten meters in diameter and about three meters deep.
In an instant, smoke and dust surged,
endless sand and dirt were lifted into the air,
then gradually fell back down,
burying him completely underground,
while the drones pre-arranged nearby transmitted this scene seamlessly into the live broadcast,
at this moment,
the volume of comments in the live stream chat dropped to a minimum,
almost no one sent a comment for a full second,
because everyone was intently watching the smoke on the screen,
wanting to see if this man using his body to crash into Earth like a meteor,
could possibly survive such an impact.
Especially Li Weimin and the rest of the logistics team, their hearts were in their throats,
at such speed, could Wang Ye really survive?
If Wang Ye actually died from the fall, they’d be finished too!
The technical department’s dozen or so helicopters were all hovering directly above the dust.
The dust dissipated quickly; in about three seconds, seventy to eighty percent of it was gone,
but they still didn’t see that familiar figure.
Gradually, everyone’s hearts sank involuntarily,
it seemed the so-called human limit couldn’t withstand such speed impact...
The Anta staff led by Li Weimin, shook their heads and hung their heads, as if in mourning, or perhaps in regret. Countless viewers behind the live stream sent messages, asking about Wang Ye’s safety and survival.
[Is Wang Ye really dead?]
[No way... ]
[I really can’t believe Wang Ye would die in such a challenge...]
[What’s not to believe, hitting the ground at nine Mach speed, surviving would be strange!]
[Indeed, the energy burst at that moment is enough to crush a heavy tank, under such impact, if Wang Ye survives, he’s probably a real Superman.]
[I can’t even imagine, if a real Superman appeared in the world, how the whole world would react.]
[I said he overestimated himself, challenging without ensuring survival, isn’t that just seeking death?]
[He must have really thought he was a cultivator, but honestly, it’s a shame for all his talents.]
[If he recognized his abilities, he might have brought us many gold medals in a few years.]
[My comment is, great abilities, but a bit foolish in the head.]
[The man’s already dead, and you’re still mocking him, do you have any conscience?]
Although a few comments mocked Wang Ye’s overestimation of his abilities,
most comments were mourning Wang Ye’s passing.
However, despite Wang Ye ultimately dying in the challenge,
he was the first human in the world to break through nine Mach speed with his body,
just this achievement,
was enough to enshrine him in history.
You must know that with today’s technology level, even top fighter jets struggle to reach nine Mach,
yet Wang Ye in this era, with his pure body, broke through nine Mach. Even if in the future technology develops to easily break through ten Mach or even a hundred Mach, Wang Ye will remain the undisputed pioneer and leader in the field of speed.