Episode 8: Who Will Be the Lifelong Partner? Part 8
As a pilot, one must remain calm at all times.
However, Xu Fei could not calm down now.
Xu Fei is twenty-six years old and just a rookie co-pilot.
He dreamed of becoming an airplane pilot because he loved flying. He gave up on other entertainment and time with friends, and after ten years of hard work, he finally became the pilot he had always dreamed of.
But after finally becoming a co-pilot, he discovered that the job was not as exciting as he had imagined.
One cannot prioritize personal emotions while working. For safety, even the smallest things must be sacrificed.
This is the first rule for pilots.
The top priority is ‘safety’. Most of the time, his job only involves checking, reading gauges, and reporting, but the ‘flying’ he most desired was not something he got to do.
The automatic pilot system would ensure the plane smoothly reached its destination on a safe route.
The captain he was following was an excellent pilot who had never had an accident in twenty-three years. With the help of this senior, Xu Fei only had to enjoy the flight happily every time. Work, instead, became his most relaxed time.
Of course, in the eyes of outsiders, this was a well-paid and enviable job, but after ten years of hard work, this was not what he wanted.
And now, perhaps the opportunity to ‘fly’ that he had always wanted had finally arrived, but at the cost of his life, it was uncertain…
When the communication equipment suddenly went down, and then the captain made a strange prayer gesture and walked out of the cockpit, he knew something bad was about to happen.
He really wanted to follow the captain to see what was going on, but his professional ethics as a pilot kept him in the cockpit. There must always be someone in the cockpit.
However, the accident happened just like that.
He had no idea how to deal with it now. Xu Fei had not flown many times, and this was his first accident.
On top of that, the communication equipment was completely paralyzed, and his lack of experience was exposed at this moment.
Xu Fei hated himself and regretted why he hadn’t done his homework earlier. Maybe then there would be a way, instead of sitting and waiting for death.
He was always best at ‘being prepared’ before. It was precisely because he was well-prepared that he had successfully become a pilot… Had he become complacent in this comfortable situation after achieving it?
He couldn’t calm down, thinking that the plane might crash at any moment. Fortunately, it was a late-night flight, and there were only two passengers.
Slap! Xu Fei slapped his own cheek.
No, even if there were only two, they were still human lives! And the flight attendants, how could they know that this would be a journey to the end of their lives?
Xu Fei was filled with mixed emotions. He was not yet married and only worried about his parents. But now the communication equipment was broken, and pilots were not allowed to bring their phones into the cockpit, so he had no way to contact his parents.
Perhaps he should apologize to the passengers and take responsibility like the captain… Perhaps the captain had already expected that the accident was irreversible, which is why he walked out.
If even such an experienced pilot was helpless, what could he do…
Xu Fei felt disheartened and thought he should give up. Just as he was about to get up from the pilot’s seat, someone put a hand on his shoulder.
A young voice ordered him in a tone that did not allow refusal.
“Sit down.” “Ugh?”
Xu Fei saw a young man under the age of twenty sitting in the captain’s seat, smiling at him and saying.
“We haven’t landed yet. As the captain, where are you going?”
You are… a young couple, but Xu Fei did not expect the other party to be so young, he looked like a high school student.
“Now is not the time to introduce ourselves. Let’s talk after we land safely. However, I can tell you my name. I’m Juncheng An, and you are…”
“Xu, Xu Fei. I’m not the captain. The captain just… Wait, where’s the captain?”
The captain is dead?
“Well, he deserved it. This accident was also premeditated by that captain… No, why are we chatting? Let’s not talk nonsense anymore. Prepare to land.”
Xu Fei’s mind was in a mess. Before he could fully process the information, he heard the young man named Juncheng An say the familiar four words, ‘prepare to land’. His instinct told him that the plane was out of control. He bit his lower lip and said with difficulty.
“Um, passenger, although it’s a bit embarrassing to say, actually…”
“Report the current situation, co-pilot Xu Fei.” “Huh?”
He saw the expression on the young man named Juncheng An change from serious to focused. There seemed to be a power in his eyes, just looking at him for a moment felt like a whole new world opened up, even though he was a senior pilot.
“Pull yourself together. You’re a professional, aren’t you?”
“Pull yourself together. You’re a professional, aren’t you?”
This sentence echoed in Xu Fei’s mind like a thunderbolt. Yes, he was a professional, he had a responsibility, and he had to salvage the situation no matter what. Giving up like this would be the worst choice.
He didn’t expect to be encouraged by a passenger. Xu Fei finally calmed down. Although he still had many questions, such as the identity of this young man named Juncheng An, and the captain’s death, the most pressing matter now was the landing of the plane, so he stopped thinking about it.
Although his flying experience was insufficient, the professional habits cultivated through countless training sessions allowed him to start ‘working’.
“Initiating… rapid descent!”
“Engine status.”
“The right engine has stopped! The left one is rapidly weakening… The left engine has also stalled! There are no problems with fuel or oil pressure, but the engines have stalled!”
“Forget it, there’s no time to analyze the cause of the malfunction now. What’s our altitude?”
“Current altitude is thirty-four thousand feet and still descending. Shall we try to restart the engines?”
“No, I don’t recommend that. The air will become thin. Let’s descend first and then try. Activate the auxiliary power unit.”
“Yes! Activating the auxiliary power unit…”
After activating it, Xu Fei only then realized that this young man was so skilled?
Who exactly was he?
“No problem, we’ll use the ram air turbine to supply power. Even if the engine stalls, the autopilot system is still working. We can glide like a glider. It’s fine.”
“But the communication equipment is malfunctioning, so we can’t change the autopilot system’s data…”
“There’s no need to go through the airport. We can manually change the program.”
“What!”
He could manually change the autopilot program?
In such a short time? How could this be possible? Isn’t this more difficult than flying the plane?
“Alright, the data has been changed. However, because the communication equipment has been hacked, we can’t contact any other airport. To prevent any accidents, we’ll land on the sea. Is that okay?”
“…No problem.”
This sense of security was the same as when the captain was by his side. Xu Fei suddenly felt that he might not die here after all.
The crisis was resolved, and the doubts that Xu Fei had forcibly forgotten resurfaced.
Who exactly was this young man?
Why was he so experienced? Even if the captain were still here, he didn’t think they could have overcome the accident so smoothly, especially directly changing the autopilot system, which was already considered divine skill.
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In any case, they should be safe now.
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning struck the fuselage, followed by the sound of thunder.
“What! What’s happening!”
“Tsk, are they trying to finish us off… Hey, don’t just stand there, report the airspeed.”
“N-No! No airspeed! Both the airspeed indicator and altimeter are malfunctioning!”
“Because of the internal…”
“But there was no display on the weather radar! It wasn’t a cumulonimbus cloud either!”
How could lightning strike out of nowhere?
Could there be a cultivator undergoing tribulation nearby?!
Xu Fei was on the verge of breaking down. Just when they were about to overcome the crisis, they were back to square one.
“Heh, so among those Lolicon groups, there are capable individuals who can control lightning…”
“It’s nothing. When the aircraft’s fuselage is struck by lightning, the electricity is discharged outside the fuselage. I’m afraid they didn’t expect their lightning to directly fail to bring down the plane, hahaha, so weak.”
Xu Fei held his head and vaguely remembered that he had learned this knowledge in college classes, but when he actually encountered it, he couldn’t remember any of it.
“However, the air data inertial reference system that displays the aircraft’s status, altitude, and speed is broken. This way, the data cannot be digitized, and the autopilot system also cannot be used… All our previous efforts have been in vain.”
“Ah, so annoying… Switch to manual control. You fly.”
“Huh? Me?!”
“Otherwise? Do you want me, an outsider and a passenger, to fly the plane and land it?”
Xu Fei was stunned for a moment. That was true. It was just that the young man’s instructions gave him an illusion.
“Don’t worry, I’ll assist you, but you need to keep your hands steady, or the plane might break apart in mid-air.”
“Just follow my commands. We’ll descend at five hundred feet per minute, then fly about two hundred kilometers, and finally land on the sea.”
“But it’s night now, and visibility is almost… How are we supposed to land?”
“By sight, self-sufficiently.”
“By sight?!”
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What a joke, was he going to perform a stunt?
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But this was a passenger plane, not a fighter jet!
“Are you asking me to perform a stunt?! No, doing something like this without authorization means I don’t deserve to be a pilot!”
“The only passenger on the plane right now is… my wife. Well, we both agreed, so you shouldn’t have any burdens, right? Besides, I’ll be watching. You can even close your eyes and just listen to my commands.”
“Regretting things later makes you a fool. I’ve done many things I regret, but if you let your mind be constrained by hesitation, you won’t be able to deal with what happens next… You don’t want to regret it, do you? Moreover, if you die, you won’t even have the chance to regret it.”
…That’s right. It’s already happened. What comes next is more important. Fine! I’ll do it!”
“Heh, that’s more like it. Well, it’s about time. Dump the fuel, prepare for landing.”
The altitude continued to drop, and the young man beside him gave clear instructions.
Xu Fei felt his hands were incredibly steady. Just as the young man said, it was fine even if he closed his eyes. “Leave it to me,” Xu Fei thought. Perhaps this young man was a messenger sent by God to free him.
But his whole body still vibrated and trembled, his hair felt like it was standing on end, and his heart felt like it was stalling.
His heart felt like it was taking over his whole body.
The excitement surged through him, the feeling of flying freely in the sky!
This was what he wanted, Captain Xu Fei, we’re about to touch the water… Oh!”
“Hold on tight.” With the vibrations and the sound of water, Xu Fei felt a sense of relief.
As they descended sharply, Juncheng An got up from his seat, his serious expression gone, and said to Xu Fei in a relaxed tone.
The plane is safe. You wait for rescue here.
“Thank you… Ah, wait a moment…”
“Ah, I’ll be going to the deserted island with my wife for a walk.
“There’s an…”
“Deserted island? There’s a deserted island?”
How could this be possible? In Li Hei’s vision, he could still see a deserted island, and he was being directed to land near a deserted island in the sea?
In that…
This was no longer shaking his head, but also getting up from his seat, turning ninety degrees, and bowing.
Xu Fei had no choice but to board this flight. We wish you a pleasant journey!
“Thank you…”
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