Zhao Hao's disciples and Xu Yuanchun's gang also followed on horseback. When they saw the hot air balloon flying into the city, they were all stunned.

“Didn’t you say that it would land if it couldn’t fly more than three miles?!” Third Senior Brother was anxious, staring at Seventh Senior Brother and said, “This guy has already flown into the city!”

"That shouldn't be the case." Zhao Shizhen finally lost his composure and reached out to the air, only to see his robe sleeves hanging down. "There's no wind here."

"Yes, we have tried it many times, but it has never flown more than three miles." Zhang Jian also said with a look of surprise: "It has flown five miles, why is there still no trace of it?"

"Master is Master, he always flies farther than others." The eldest brother flattered him out of habit, and then worriedly said, "If this flies into the palace, won't you just shoot it down?"

"Unless you land right in the palace, the arrows can't shoot that high." Zhao Shizhen swallowed his saliva and said, "As for the bed crossbow, it's hard to say."

Everyone looked worried and quickly rode their horses into the city to chase after him.

Xu Yuanchun saw a scene in front of his eyes...

Amid the sound of alarm bells, the imperial guards rushed to the top of the palace wall, raised their powerful bows and crossbows and aimed at the approaching balloon.

There were also soldiers setting up crossbows, catapults, and falconets...

Following the order given by the commander of the imperial guards, arrows flew like locusts and cannons roared, blowing the hot air balloon to pieces.

'Uh, no, no!'

He suddenly remembered that the bright moon was also there. He quickly said to himself that this wheel didn't count, didn't count. Reshoot, oh no, think again...

~~

The hot air balloon flew over Beijing, and Zhao Hao finally understood why he had to take such a long flight.

Even the high-tech hot air balloons of four hundred years later can only ascend and descend autonomously. As for moving forward, backward, left and right, they still all depend on the wind direction - the turbulent changes in air flow make the wind direction at different altitudes very different. People use this to navigate in the direction they want to go.

But Zhao Hao had no ability to adjust the height, so he could only leave it to fate.

In that case, there is no need to panic.

He lay on the basket, overlooking the tall city gate tower, the neatly laid out streets of the capital, the black roofs lined up one after another, and the bustling pedestrians and horses on the streets.

It is really great to feel that all living beings and emperors and generals are at your feet!

Zhao Hao stretched comfortably, spread his hands towards the Forbidden City, and felt that he was embracing the magnificent mountains and rivers. He almost blurted out:

"I am the king of the world!"

But I felt it was too childish, so I shut my mouth in shame.

Li Mingyue also followed his example, stretched out her arms towards the wind, and looked at the same scenery as Zhao Hao.

There was limited space in the hanging basket, so the two people stood there, one in front and one behind, with their hands outstretched. To the birds flying by, it looked like their bodies were pressed together.

"I'm flying, brother." Li Mingyue discovered the beauty of this posture and was so excited that she couldn't control herself.

"Do you like it?" Zhao Hao asked with a smile.

"I like it the most!" Li Mingyue nodded vigorously, then turned around with a red face and asked, "Brother, do you like it too?"

"Yeah, I like it very much." Zhao Hao looked ahead happily and said, "I hope that in my lifetime, I can let you experience real flying."

Li Mingyue felt her body soften when she heard the first half, but she sighed in disappointment after hearing the second half. It turned out that her elder brother hadn't figured it out yet...

At this moment, the hot air balloon suddenly shook. Li Mingyue screamed, and Zhao Hao quickly supported her, and then the two of them held on to the edge of the basket tightly.

"Look, even God can't stand it anymore..." Zhao Hao couldn't help but secretly condemned: "She is one year younger than you, don't fall in love too early, young man!"

Li Mingyue's face was so hot that it could boil water.

Although she spoke confidently in front of her best friend, she was still not as strong as her mother and felt extremely ashamed for her overly bold expression.

But my brother still hasn't figured it out, so it doesn't matter what I say, right? He doesn't understand anyway... Fortunately, the little county lady has an extremely strong inner strength, and she only needs a moment to cool down her boiler.

“It’s starting to go down.”

Zhao Hao said this in a deep voice, and Li Mingyue looked at it blankly, and sure enough, she saw that the hot air balloon was obviously starting to fall.

This is natural.

The air in the balloon had already cooled down at high altitude, and after being freed from the support of the rising air current, it naturally turned into an oversized parachute and fell to somewhere in the capital.

"Why do I feel like it's heading towards the imperial palace?" Zhao Hao looked at the red walls and yellow tiles in front of him, feeling bitter.

Oh my god, please don't joke around like this, I'm really going to get shot down...

Even if I can't shoot it down, and it doesn't fall into the palace, but as long as it flies over the roof of the palace... I will definitely be invited for tea!

Oh my god!

"Don't be afraid, big brother." Li Mingyue hurriedly comforted him, "It doesn't matter if we fall into the palace. We will shout 'I am the Princess of Lanling County' later, and no one will dare to shoot arrows at us randomly."

"Yeah." Zhao Hao felt relieved, and said with a smile, "I have never been to the palace in my life."

"Don't worry, there's nothing to be afraid of from the emperor." Li Mingyue raised her little head and said, "If he dares to scold us, I will pull out his beard."

"Mingyue, I didn't expect you to have such a reliable side." Zhao Hao felt relieved after hearing that and praised: "I thought you were so weak that you didn't even dare to speak loudly to others."

"Uh..." Mingyue lowered her head and whispered, "I was trying to comfort big brother. Actually, I am a coward. I can only cry and see if I can soften His Majesty's heart."

"Oh, okay, no need to worry." Zhao Hao heaved a sigh of relief after observing the trajectory, "We can't even reach Xiyuan..."

~~

On the Xihua Gate Tower, the voyeuristic Emperor Longqing set up his human telescope and was looking at the Lingji Palace with great interest when he suddenly saw a huge colorful ball entering his field of vision.

"Oh my God..." The emperor was startled and quickly jumped back.

If the telescope hadn't been in the hands of the young eunuch, it would have been broken.

Teng Xiang hurriedly supported Longqing and asked anxiously, "Your Majesty, what's wrong?"

"What is that?" Long Qing pointed at the balloon in the sky and said, "It's such a round and big ball."

"Who flew this kite?" Teng Xiang asked uncertainly. After all, people were flying kites inside and outside the palace today.

"With such a big kite, who knows who will fly it?" He took a telescope to observe it, and couldn't help but slap his thigh and said, "I'm right, the kite really took someone up to the sky."

"Hey, there seems to be some words on it." He raised the telescope again and looked. "Science... So it was that guy who came up with it again..."

"Hey, it landed in Lingji Palace!" Teng Xiang could see with his naked eyes that the big balloon had landed steadily in the wide square in front of Lingji Palace.

"How accurate!" Eunuch Teng couldn't help but sigh.

"Haha, it seems that he is not convinced and goes to ruin the show!" Emperor Longqing was so happy that he wanted to dance with joy.

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