Chapter 148

——What is this situation?

——How is it so... interesting?

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Xia Zhi squinted his eyes, gazing into the distance at the receding airliner, an abnormal light called interest flashing in his pupils.

He gently extended his hand, crooking a finger at the distant airliner.

The powerful gravitational field extending outward instantly captured that massive modern aircraft.

As if spacetime had been extremely stretched, the spatial distance on the physical level was redefined; the plane could no longer advance. Or rather, the plane was still advancing, but only relative to itself and the people inside; to the outside world, it was simply continuously moving backward.

Having just brushed past Xia Zhi a moment ago...

It was now immediately going to be pulled back to his side...

Hundreds of tons of weight, a maximum cruising speed nearing Mach 1, such a steel giant beast carrying unparalleled kinetic energy and inertia, at this very moment was like light fallen into a black hole's event horizon, completely unable to escape that despair deep to the extreme.

And seeing Xia Zhi's light and casual appearance, one would understand this matter was truly effortless for him, as simple as an adult merely needing to casually pull the string in hand to easily reel in a kite that had flown away.

After all, merely at the initial stage of mastering the Holy Grail's power, he could already interfere with spacetime to a certain degree; for instance, relying on a massive Magic Source, performing operations like stretching, distorting, splicing... and so on. Because energy and mass are closely related, massive energy itself is like a singularity with huge mass, exerting a kind of force on surrounding spacetime.

This counts as a clever usage method utilizing the characteristic of a massive Magic Source.

It is also a direct manifestation of the Holy Grail's power being sufficient to distort the World.

As for now, it goes without saying even more; he possesses a grander, vaster Magic Furnace Core, his energy level having risen who knows how many levels compared to before. Plus the talent points plucked from the Fantasy Tree, the "ability to manipulate gravity" is also even more useful than imagined.

This naturally makes his degree of interference with spacetime rise another level, truly like moving one's own arm and fingers.

Let alone such a small airliner...

Even if all the world's airlines were added together, it wouldn't make him expend half a bit of effort...

Simultaneously.

Inside that airliner, the atmosphere was also slightly agitated and tense, but not to the point of being uncontrollable; it was still well suppressed.

Mainly the few passengers by the window just now saw an extremely shocking scene, so they couldn't help but panic and shout loudly.

However, truth is often held by the few, and this moment was no exception; after all, only those few saw it, the others didn't see — let alone those not by the window, even those by the window wouldn't stare outside every moment... unless it was their first time flying, otherwise it's hard to have such interest.

Since they didn't see it with their own eyes, then —

According to normal people's worldview and thinking circuits, they naturally easily draw corresponding conclusions.

The result is most passengers completely don't believe those few's words, instead feeling disturbed, glaring at them angrily; the cabin atmosphere became tense for a time. And the more those few tried to explain, the more they drew dissatisfaction from the surrounding majority, the gazes toward them gradually carrying annoyance.

After all, this kind of thing sounds like fantasy, absurd and groundless; thinking with one's navel tells you it's definitely impossible.

Yet under their sneering dismissal, these few suddenly sick lunatics are still making unreasonable trouble here...

——Are they high?

Because they didn't see, the majority of "normal people" fundamentally don't believe, directly denying this possibility. And those few passengers who saw are emotionally agitated and stubbornly insistent, repeating again and again the scene they just witnessed, extremely firm.

Truthfully, if only one person saw it, they'd probably suspect it was their own problem.

But it just so happens several people all saw it...

Under mutual corroboration, their mindsets naturally became vastly different; they all firmly believe they absolutely saw something!

Only the flight attendants on the plane walked back and forth, loudly telling all passengers to calm down, don't act impulsively, appeasing the crowd as much as possible.

Also only in the driving cockpit, the captain and co-captain were a bit panicked, after all they too had just watched that human figure suddenly appear in front, nearly colliding head-on with the plane... this was somewhat terrifying; the two cursed continuously while trying to contact the outside world to report.

However...

A despairing thing happened.

They discovered in horror that all signals had disappeared; no method could contact the nearby ground control units.

Checking carefully, it seems it also happened not long before; judging from the time, it should be the moment that figure suddenly appeared in front, nearly crashing. Because the situation then was too critical and dangerous, they were scared stiff, completely not noticing that the plane's signals had all simultaneously disappeared at that time.

"Holy shit!!"

"What the hell is going on! Is that a devil!"

Venting the fear and unease in their hearts through cursing, the two worked hard to calm down, quickly reaching consensus, attempting to first maintain stable cruising.

See if they could smoothly reach the destination, or find a nearby airport to land...

Hoping no problems would occur during this process.

However, the more one fears something, the more it comes; almost the next moment, the captain and co-captain and the passengers outside all incomparably clearly heard a sound ring out.

A knocking sound came from outside the cabin —

The sound wasn't loud, but eerily reached every person's ears —

In this instant, not only did the cursing in the driving cockpit disappear, even the voices of the passengers arguing fiercely vanished without a trace in an instant. The whole airliner, just now lively, instantly became quiet enough to hear a pin drop; the silence faintly stung everyone's eardrums.

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Silence, dead silence.

An uneasy atmosphere silently spread in the solidified air.

Regardless of what thoughts they held before, those arguing there now completely couldn't care about the stances they just insisted on. Those who thought they saw weren't delighted because of it; those who thought it was nonsense weren't annoyed because of it... at this moment, they suddenly could understand each other, and empathize.

This is ten thousand meters above the sky!

What could possibly be outside the plane knocking!

Fear, apprehension, trembling... all kinds of uneasy emotions spread, also making their bodies stiff, facial expressions completely frozen.

Under such circumstances, naturally no one would go open the door, or try to dialogue with the thing outside; even passengers near the cabin door leaned back hard, shrinking tightly against seatbacks, not daring to move a muscle, not daring to breathe, fearing the slightest movement would draw attention to themselves.

However, that thing outside seemingly didn't have much patience either.

Bang!

Not long after the knocking sound disappeared, a dull thud rang out, and the sealed cabin door was violently ripped down in its entirety.

A figure appeared outside, casually tossed aside the cabin door, then stepped inside, his natural, casual bearing carrying a trace of carefree relaxation.

And strangely, even though the cabin door was wide open, the air pressure inside the cabin did not change at all; the debris in the plane did not fly out like dust sucked up by a vacuum cleaner, and the plane itself did not stall, although by rights its structure should have begun to tremble and disintegrate.

"Good afternoon, everyone……"

The young man who walked in was smiling, his smile sunny and hearty.

He scanned his surroundings, taking in the faces of every passenger and crew member, and discovered the vast majority were European and American faces, so this should be a flight departing from mainland Europe?

Familiar English letters……

Familiar racial features……

All seemed to proclaim that this plane came from a parallel world background similar to twenty-first century Earth.

Considering this region itself also belongs to the category of the European continent, is this a phenomenon caused by spacetime overlap? Two parallel lines that should never intersect, briefly converging, swapping this airliner flying over the European continent from another world's Earth to this world's Earth?

"You…… you……"

At this moment, the purser in the nearby aisle, gripping the adjacent seat tightly with both hands, spoke up trembling: "What are you…… what kind of person? What do you want to do?"

"Me? I'm naturally your Savior, come here to save you." The young man gathered his thoughts, raised his head, and heartily revealed a mouthful of white teeth.

Savior?

Come to save us?

Everyone in the cabin looked in disbelief at the violently torn-open cabin door, then at the strange existence standing at the doorway, feeling only wave after wave of absurdity in their hearts, yet no one dared to speak out in opposition.

Xia Zhi didn't care either; after all, practically speaking, he indeed saved this plane full of people. The only land in this world is on Britain Island, and it's not in this flight's direction. They who transmigrated would soon discover in utter despair that not only does their destination not exist, perhaps not a single place on this planet's surface exists where a plane can land.

Of course……

Perhaps before they even realize that kind of despair, they would slowly suffocate to death.

Because this world's ecological environment has been completely destroyed by alien invaders, destroyed in every sense of the word, including drastic changes in atmospheric composition being one of them, so ordinary people simply cannot survive in such an altered atmospheric environment.

His gaze fixed on a black-haired, black-eyed woman not far away, he pointed a finger directly: "You! Come tell me, what is today's date."

That woman froze for a moment, subconsciously widened her eyes, and simultaneously looked around frantically, her eyes pleading for help…… but the people around her all averted their gazes, not daring to look at her.

With an expression looking like she was about to cry from fear, not knowing what she would encounter next after being singled out, yet not daring not to answer, her lips moved: "To-today's date is…… June 21……"

"Ri-right, this year is 2024!" As if thinking of something else, she quickly added the year: "AD 2024!"

"……"

"……"

"It's the Summer Solstice of 2024, ah……"

The young man pinched his chin thoughtfully, his expression becoming subtle.

This date……

Wait! Could this plane have transmigrated from my own world?

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(PS: Today's 【Unlucky Catalyzing Event】 is my computer broke, so I can only painstakingly type on my phone…… it was fine until I shut it down last night, this morning it had issues, troubleshooting shows the graphics card is broken, needs to be sent for repair…… emmmmm, well——it's fine I guess, I'm a bit curious to see what other events I'll trigger next (#_<-))

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