Chapter 318 White Crane Broken Leg
Qi Xiaorui smiled with his phoenix eyes and tilted his head to look at her: "Stationmaster Xiao Xu, Dean Xiao Xu. From now on, you will have another title, Captain Xiao Xu."
Their eyes met in the air, and Xu Ying's face suddenly became hot.
She smiled and asked, "Coach Qi, where is the training base?"
"It's three hundred kilometers away." Qi Xiao added, "Don't worry about the distance. I'll fly this Airbus H145 to take you to flight training every week."
The tips of Xu Ying's ears suddenly started burning.
Whose good person goes to school by helicopter?!
Xu Ying was extremely excited at the thought of learning to fly a helicopter. He grabbed Qi Xiao's wrist, felt his throbbing pulse, and released his hand: "Captain Qi, can we test fly now?"
Qi Xiao's long and thick eyelashes cast fan-shaped shadows under his eyes.
When the plane arrived, he had already applied for a flight plan from the relevant authorities. "Of course."
Qi Xiao held her cold fingertips with his backhand and pressed the start button, and the claw mark just embedded in her palm.
All the command lights in the cabin lit up.
Qi Xiao took a half step back, his right hand casually placed on his left chest, and his chivalric salute was somewhat unruly: "Fox-One special flight, Captain Qi Xiao is on standby for you at any time."
As he bent over, the wolf-tooth silver chain drew a silver arc from the open collar of his shirt.
Xu Ying's heart was pounding and her cheeks were flushed.
"Are we going to make any preparations for the flight?"
——"Just leave everything to me."
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Qi Xiao changed into a black flight jacket and was checking the dashboard with his slender fingers.
Xu Ying also changed into the small-sized flight jacket prepared by Qi Xiao.
Seeing Xu Ying coming, he picked up the noise-canceling headphones on the passenger seat, and the metal buckle flashed with light in the sunlight.
"Come here." He waved to Xu Ying, and his voice came with the sound of the wind.
When Xu Ying sat in the co-pilot seat of the helicopter, he reached out to brush away the wind-blown hair on her temples, brushed her earlobes with his fingertips, and put the headphones on her head.
The leather straps carried his body temperature, and Xu Ying could smell the faint amber and citrus scent on his wrist.
"seat belt."
Qi Xiao leaned over and pulled the seat belt very carefully. The moment the metal buckle "clicked", his breath just brushed her collarbone.
Xu Ying looked down and saw a small flight badge on the back of his neck, which was faintly visible between his collars as he moved.
Amid the roar of the engine, the veins on the back of Qi Xiao's hand holding the joystick were slightly bulging.
He tilted his head to check Xu Ying's condition, his profile shimmering with light. "Are you ready?"
After getting Xu Ying's nod in response, he pressed the communication button. Qi Xiao adjusted the headset with one hand and tapped the communication button three times with his knuckles.
Amidst the murmur of electricity, the small mole on his Adam's apple rolled slightly with the low voice of reporting:
"Area Control, this is Fox-One, requesting a test flight for hospital special equipment."
He rubbed the microphone with his fingertips, and the electromagnetic waves transformed this small movement into a tiny noise. "The coordinate point has been synchronized, and the altitude remains below 300 meters."
Qi Xiao was obviously very familiar with the regional controller. The air traffic controller replied with a smile on his face over the radio: "Roger that, Fox-One. Flight area check completed."
The faint sound of keyboard tapping could be heard in the background. "Is your code name for 'special equipment' still QX-09 today?"
Xu Ying saw Qi Xiao's eyelashes tremble suddenly. He spoke quickly, unable to hide the sudden redness in his ears: "Correction, today's equipment upgrade is XY-52."
A burst of suppressed laughter suddenly erupted from the radio. "Understood. The XY-52 equipment flight test clearance has been approved. Congratulations, Captain Qi." The electrical noise paused subtly. "...the flight test acceptance was successful and complete."
Qi Xiao decisively ended the call, but met Xu Ying's curious gaze.
"What kind of medical device is the XY-52?" She poked the still-hot radio.
"Is that the code name of this plane?"
Qi Xiao suddenly raised the collective pitch lever with his left hand, and the helicopter suddenly raised its head like a wolf with its neck strangled.
Amidst the roaring sound waves, his voice came from the headset: "This is the code name for you."
The low radio tone made Xu Ying's ears numb.
The moment the helicopter took off, Qi Xiao suddenly covered the back of Xu Ying's hand with his right hand: "Don't hold on to the seat, hold on here."
He guided her to hold the central control panel. There were thin calluses on his palms from years of gripping the joystick, and the warmth from their skin continued to flow through.
Outside the window, the desert was unfolding at an alarming speed. Qi Xiao suddenly tilted the fuselage, and Xu Ying screamed and leaned over his shoulder.
He chuckled and performed a beautiful hovering turn: "Look east."
It turned out to be a group of cheetahs chasing shadows on the sand dunes. When they saw the helicopter, they stood up and waved their claws.
"Hold on tight." Qi Xiao suddenly lowered the joystick, and the helicopter suddenly sank like a diving falcon, almost brushing the tops of the palm trees in the oasis.
The huge rotor airflow rolled up the dewdrops on the treetops, and exploded countless tiny rhinestones on the windshield.
Xu Ying's exclamation got stuck in his throat and turned into a light laugh of joy.
She saw the swirling air currents create a silver ring on the surface of the lake.
Qi Xiao's lips curled up in a barely perceptible arc. He tilted the fuselage, and the wind whipped up by the rotors just happened to pass over a patch of flowers. Instantly, thousands of petals soared into the air, forming a pink and purple blizzard in the sunlight. A few petals even passed through the open window and landed in Xu Ying's outstretched palm.
Xu Ying suddenly realized, how could there be such a large patch of flowers in the desert?
Someone prepared it in advance.
"This is cheating." She turned around while pinching the petals, only to find Qi Xiao looking at her through goggles stained with water droplets.
Behind the glass reflecting rainbow spots, his eyes were focused and gentle: "For passengers' first flight experience, the service must be perfect."
Xu Ying's face was dimpled. "The passengers are very satisfied. I give Captain Qi a five-star rating!"
The helicopter slowly landed beside a mirror-like lake, and the startled water droplets exploded into countless diamonds in the sunlight.
When Xu Ying jumped out of the hatch, the soles of her boots just sank into the wet mud. She took a breath of fresh air from the ground, and the sweet and fishy smell of rust mixed with the direction of the mud pierced her nostrils.
In the reeds, a white crane used its broken wing bones to support the ground and crawled forward. Its legs were broken at the joints, revealing the white bone stumps.
Blood left two sticky red lines along its crawling path, and with every inch it advanced, new drops of blood dripped from the cross-section.
"Oh my god..." Xu Ying quickly turned around and said to Qi Xiao, "Quick, give me my animal first aid kit."
Qi Xiao quickly took the medical kit from the plane and handed it to Xu Ying.
Xu Ying knelt beside the white crane and gave it emergency treatment to stop the bleeding.
The crane suddenly twitched violently, and a special steel cable was found wrapped around its broken leg bones - it was a carbon fiber towing rope specially used for aerial photography drones.
Half a propeller blade was still stuck in the knot.
Qi Xiao's shadow descended, bringing with it a whirlwind of blood. He knelt on one knee, his tactical dagger already having pried open the steel cable on Bai He's leg.
He held up half a propeller wreckage, a few crane feathers still tangled in the sharp section. "It's a German-made octorotor drone, a camera gimbal model."
Xu Ying frowned, his eyes sweeping over the reeds, the mineral water bottles and snack bags left nearby, and a map similar to a bird watching atlas.
"This white crane appears to have had its legs severed by a birdwatcher's drone..."
(End of this chapter)
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