Chapter 807: Hello Everyone, I’m Captain Tom
After that bout of shock and terror.
Jiang Ran glanced around dazedly.
The entire first-class cabin remained just as quiet as before, with nothing happening.
Everyone was minding their own business.
The only addition was the Danger Warning that had appeared in his mind.
He lay back down.
Jiang Ran had completely lost interest in playing with his phone.
He listened carefully to the lullaby in his mind: [Ding! Detected host is in a dangerous zone! Please leave immediately! Please leave immediately!! Points +5! Points +5! Points...]
He murmured to himself, "I didn't mishear. It's not warning about a dangerous individual, but rather... that I'm in a dangerous zone."
A dangerous individual meant a single person.
A dangerous zone meant this entire place was filled with peril.
But what Jiang Ran found puzzling was this.
Usually, the moment he stepped into a dangerous zone, the Danger Warning would sound instantly.
It had never happened before where he entered a dangerous zone and the warning only sounded over an hour later.
His Danger Warning System had even been upgraded before.
There shouldn't be this kind of delay.
"Unless..."
Jiang Ran thought of one possibility: that during the first hour after he boarded, this plane truly had no danger. But afterward, it did become dangerous, and because of that danger, the warning sounded immediately.
It wasn't a delay.
This was actually easy to understand. For example, if a terrorist wanted to blow up a building. He started by choosing from a bunch of buildings without deciding which one. Only after an hour did he settle on this particular building, then moved to blow it up.
In any case, Jiang Ran confirmed that there was indeed danger on this plane.
But even if there was danger on the plane, what could he do? How could he escape?
He couldn't fly.
Of course, danger was nothing new to Jiang Ran. He often danced on the blade's edge. For instance, Alice Apartment always had danger warnings, and he lived there just fine.
But the problem now was that this plane wasn't Alice Apartment!
He was truly terrified of something happening to this plane!! It was completely different from something happening at Alice Apartment!!
What if this plane had some mechanical failure that led to a crash? Wouldn't that also count as a dangerous zone, triggering the Danger Warning?
The more Jiang Ran thought about it, the faster his heart pounded.
In the modern world, airplanes were hailed as the safest mode of transportation, but! If something did happen to a plane, it meant total destruction and death for everyone aboard. Absolute death.
And the kind where you couldn't even find the bodies. Many plane crashes ended with the aircraft slamming into the ground, turning the passengers inside directly into ash.
Jiang Ran grew restless. Because he wasn't sure what exactly had happened to this plane that triggered the Danger Warning.
Was it as he thought? That this plane might have developed some malfunction, or encountered extremely severe weather? Or was it like Alice Apartment, Macedonia Island, and Aisen Town, where there were a large number of dangerous individuals on board?
Or did these dangerous individuals initially have no intention of harming the passengers, only preparing and changing their minds after over an hour? But he hadn't received any warning about dangerous individuals either!!!
Therefore, Jiang Ran still felt it was more likely that the plane had developed a malfunction or encountered some extremely severe weather—something that could lead to the total destruction of the aircraft and loss of life.
Jiang Ran pulled out his phone and used it to communicate with her.
His phone's voice translation function had pre-downloaded language packs for many countries, so it could work without an internet connection, though the effect wasn't as good as when connected.
After the phone translated.
The flight attendant listened and frowned slightly: "Sir, rest assured. Our plane was thoroughly inspected before takeoff. There are no malfunctions whatsoever, not even the slightest one now. As for encountering severe weather, there's none of that either. You can look outside the window—the weather is very clear."
Jiang Ran listened and looked out the window. Everything was normal. There was none of the dark clouds pressing down, storms, or thunder and lightning he had imagined.
As for plane malfunctions, he figured that even if there really were some issues, these flight attendants wouldn't casually tell the passengers to calm their nerves.
So he said, "Okay, I understand."
The flight attendant smiled: "Please don't worry, sir. I know you might have a bit of a fear of flying or acrophobia. That's very common. I've met many guests like you who worry about the plane crashing.
But rest assured, that absolutely won't happen. Our airline has been established for over fifty years, and in all that time, there's only been one incident. And even that one didn't result in a crash. The plane landed safely at another airport."
Seeming to thoroughly reassure Jiang Ran, the flight attendant even poured him a glass of ice water, urging him to drink.
At that moment, Jiang Ran held the cold glass tightly with both hands.
It felt as though the restlessness in his body and the fear in his mind were gradually being soothed.
"If what this flight attendant said is true, and there really are no malfunctions on the plane, nor any extremely severe weather or turbulence, then the problem lies with the people on the plane itself."
If that were the case, it didn't seem like such a big deal.
After all, it wasn't much different from the so-called dangerous zones he had visited. What did he have to fear?!
Thinking this way, three minutes passed, and he had already turned his phone back on to read a novel.
But just at that moment, a broadcast suddenly sounded throughout the plane.
It was a woman's voice. Judging by the sound, she was probably not too old—in her twenties, at most her early thirties.
Her voice was quite lively, quite pleasant. If she used that voice for an online romance, she could definitely charm a lot of people.
This voice began to speak, echoing through the entire plane. Not just first class, but also business class and economy class behind them—the speakers all broadcast this woman's voice simultaneously.
"Hello there, lucky ones on this plane."
"First, let me introduce myself."
"My name is Captain Tom!"