Xu Yang seemed very confident, and Jiang Ran also wanted to believe him very much, but at this moment, the roaring crisis was chasing them closely, and no one knew when it would completely sweep over them. She did not want Xu Yang to take risks with her.
"Mr. Xu, no matter how good your escape plan is, it can't beat a life-saving bag. Just press the start button now and you'll be gone in an instant."
Without even turning his head, Xu Yang shouted, "If you move, I move. If you press, I press!"
Jiang Ran didn't say anything, but continued to run forward.
She didn't want to leave until the danger was truly imminent. The wild beasts behind her kept roaring, which was also an opportunity for her.
Of course Xu Yang understood what she meant. He asked this question just to make her give up trying to dissuade him.
"Since you don't plan on opening the life bag, just follow me!" Xu Yang said. "Since I said there's a way, then there really is a way."
Jiang Ran asked loudly: "Where are you going?"
Upon hearing this, Xu Yang pointed to the front and side, where he could see a huge rock wall several people tall.
Jiang Ran had been there before, so she knew that behind the tall rock walls and thick ice, there was a wide river channel formed by the broken ice.
Jiang Ran instantly understood what Xu Yang meant by "method" -
At first glance, a pyroclastic flow looks like a cloud of smoke and dust. Conventional wisdom suggests that smoke and dust are absorbed by water. Was Xu Yang hoping that after crossing the riverbank, the river would act as a barrier to the pyroclastic flow?
Unfortunately, she knew this approach wouldn't work.
Jiang Ran continued running and shouted to Xu Yang, "It's useless to stop the pyroclastic flow with water! When Krakatoa erupted, the pyroclastic flow didn't stop even when it hit the water. It drifted across the ocean for dozens of kilometers and swallowed up countless islands. It was completely unstoppable!"
When Xu Yang heard this, he was about to say "no" when a loud "bang" suddenly came from behind him.
None of them looked back, not knowing what had happened, but they all ran a little faster.
There is no time.
Xu Yang grabbed Jiang Ran's wrist and rushed forward with her, uttering only two words amidst the billowing dust and roaring roars: "Trust me!"
Jiang Ran didn't quite believe him intellectually, but emotionally he really wanted to believe him. But was it really that important whether he believed him or not at this time?
A few seconds later, after crossing the huge rock wall, a small migrating starship suddenly appeared before their eyes.
Jiang Ran was shocked: "This is..."
"Hurry up and get on!" Xu Yang opened the cabin door and pulled Jiang Ran inside.
As they rushed into the cabin, they finally had a chance to look back, only to see that the pyroclastic flow had spread to 20 to 30 meters away.
As soon as the hatch was closed, Xu Yang almost jumped into the cockpit, quickly started the starship, and issued the take-off command. Jiang Ran stumbled in in the cabin that was gradually shaking.
Xu Yang didn't turn around or raise his hand. When he heard the voice, he just said with a tense expression: "You sit in the passenger seat. The safety button is on the right side of the seat back. Press it immediately after you sit down."
Jiang Ran did as he said without even breathing a breath, for fear of disturbing Xu Yang. After sitting up straight, he just looked at him silently from the side, but could only see his sweaty profile.
After the starship was started, it took off at a very fast speed.
Jiang Ran felt dazed for a while, and under the action of inertia, he was pressed close to the seat for a few seconds, and his head couldn't help but press down for a moment. When he came to his senses, they had already risen to a height of several hundred meters.
Xu Yang drove the starship away at a high speed, and only after confirming that they were completely safe did he slowly slow down the speed of the starship.
They looked out through the transparent partition and saw that the pyroclastic flow that had been chasing them closely had become as small as an earthworm.
However, this gray "earthworm" is really powerful. Wherever it passes, the surrounding white or green scenery is all dyed into a deep gray.
Jiang Ran breathed a sigh of relief and turned his head to look at Xu Yang.
"Mr. Xu, can you explain to me now?" she asked, "How did this starship appear?"
Xu Yang's shoulders had relaxed by then. After switching the spaceship to automatic flight mode, he turned around and said, "Knowing you were in the erupting crater, how could I have dared to bring them to find you without any preparation?"
"But doesn't the production team allow off-site support? They only arranged for a safety liaison to promptly check on the contestants and deploy life-saving bags. Isn't that a violation?"
"That's the rule under normal circumstances. This is a survival show, not a suicide show. No normal contestant would happily rush into a volcano when they see it's about to erupt, right? Special circumstances warrant special treatment."
Jiang Ran: “…”
I suspect you have a point, but I have no proof.
Xu Yang continued, "I didn't expect them to suddenly open their life bags, but it was just in time. If the six of us had tried to squeeze into the spaceship together, we might not have made it in time, and I wouldn't have insisted on leaving like that."
"Speaking of this..." Jiang Ran recalled, "It took them no more than two seconds to open the life bag. It was like they had planned it in advance. I was really scared at the time."
"Indeed, they must have discussed it in advance, otherwise they wouldn't have reacted so quickly." Xu Yang said, "I'll have to ask them about it when I see them. It's fine if they discussed it behind your back, but why are they on guard against me?"
Jiang Ran imagined the scene, and while observing a moment of silence for his friends in advance, he couldn't help but smile.
"but……"
Jiang Ran thought of something else: "Boss Xu, since you've made preparations in advance, why not just have someone wait outside in a spaceship? Why do you have to park an empty spaceship so far away? We still have to run here to drive it ourselves."
Xu Yang looked at her and was silent for a while before saying, "Your kindness is taken for granted."
Jiang Ran: “?”
"If you're just trying to be safe, why not just deploy the life bladder? Why bother with a spaceship? Just like the others did. But the thing is, you're obsessed with volcanoes. Would you deploy the life bladder if I asked you to? Would you board the spaceship if I asked you to? If you weren't escaping in such a desperate situation, with danger so close behind you, I doubt you'd even want to stop and pat that debris stream!"
Jiang Ran heard this and nodded vigorously.
She felt that what Xu Yang said made a lot of sense.
If there really was a spaceship waiting nearby and it was safe, she might even tie a rope around her, wait for the pyroclastic flow to catch up with her, start the spaceship, and use the rope to tie her away.
Thinking about it this way...
That scene was kind of wonderful too.
Jiang Ran thought of this and looked at the environment around him.
There is a starship, in mid-air, safe and sound.
so……
"Since we've mentioned pyroclastic flows, why don't you give me a ride and finish filming them?"
Jiang Ran said excitedly, "I haven't tried filming pyroclastic flows on a spacecraft yet! That feeling must be amazing!"
Xu Yang: “…”
Xu Yang finally did not refuse Jiang Ran. He switched the spaceship back to manual mode and controlled the speed and altitude to slowly descend.
Pyroclastic flows do not only expand outward, they also expand upward, so Xu Yang did not drive the spaceship close to the ash flow, but deliberately left a gap of more than ten meters to serve as a buffer safety belt.
At first, Jiang Ran was sitting in the starship, sticking to the transparent partition, and filming the ball outside with the remote control, but she soon became dissatisfied.
She complained that the view in the starship was not wide enough, and she couldn't find the most suitable shooting angle and compose the picture reasonably. After enduring for a few minutes, she began to discuss with Xu Yang the possibility of hanging herself down with a rope.
Xu Yang: “…”
Later on, I didn’t think it was that shabby after all.
Xu Yang activated the starship's wing device, extending a wide and long wing about five or six meters long on both sides.
Just as he was about to ask Jiang Ran to go to the end of the wing to take pictures, before he could even finish his words, Jiang Ran cheered and ran towards the entrance.
Xu Yang: “…”
Although she ultimately failed to achieve the close-up shooting that Jiang Ran had always dreamed of, the fact that they were less than ten meters apart already made her very satisfied.
Almost half an hour later, Jiang Ran returned to the main cockpit contentedly. She patted her treasure and ball gently and told Xu Yang that she had done everything.
As Xu Yang controlled the spaceship to ascend again, he reminded: "Don't forget..."
"What?" Jiang Ran raised his face in confusion.
"...Don't forget Fu Bo and the others. They opened their life-saving capsules, and they should still be floating in the stratosphere of Earth's atmosphere."
Jiang Ran suddenly understood.
It really is...
I completely forgot...
The author has something to say:
【Small Theater】
Fu Bo: It’s over, Mr. Xu hasn’t come back yet!
Zeng Pei: It’s over, there’s no sign of Jiang Ran!
Everyone: What should we do? Won't they be buried in the volcanic ash?
Xu Yang: Laxative, taking Ranran for a ride~
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