Chapter 155: Deviated Parachute Jump
People often show their cowardly side when facing the unknown. Now that Chang Ning had figured out his situation, his emotions gradually returned to calm.
The wind hadn’t stopped, so Chang Ning had no way to control the parachute to fly against the wind.
That would require complex operation skills and rich experience, but Chang Ning had only participated in three days of related training. Could he be expected to go from beginner to expert?
In Chang Ning’s own imagination, he would die from crashing or break his legs due to a problem with the parachute pack.
After calculating every possibility, he hadn’t expected that he would lose contact with the team due to a sudden change in wind direction.
“How is one person missing? Where’s Chang Ning?”
Gao Zhong Dui turned to look at Lao Pao and Xiao Zhuang upon seeing Chang Ning wasn’t there.
These two had jumped after Chang Ning, so they should have seen where he went.
“Report, I saw Chang Ning drifting toward the city area direction.”
Xiao Zhuang said loudly. He had been right behind Chang Ning, but the distance between them was quite far, so he only saw roughly.
“Why didn’t you say so earlier!”
Gao Zhong Dui said, suppressing his anger. If not for discipline, just for Xiao Zhuang seeing the abnormal situation and not reporting it, he could have kicked this guy.
“Earlier, a gust of wind carried Chang Ning off course. Since we were far apart, it didn’t affect me.
I thought Chang Ning could land safely.”
“You thought? It’s always what you thought! I bet next time I’ll hear this from you again!”
Clearly, Gao Zhong Dui had been angered by Xiao Zhuang.
“Everyone assemble!”
Facing such a big incident, Gao Zhong Dui quickly had everyone assemble immediately. He planned to lead people to search for Chang Ning toward the city area direction.
Ma Da, who was far at Wolf Fang’s Barracks, had just gotten off Flying Wolf’s helicopter when he saw He Da Dui hurrying over with the guard.
Seeing this, Ma Da even deliberately looked around, thinking He Da Dui was just passing by, but when he saw only he and Flying Wolf around, he knew the captain was looking for them.
This was definitely not good news, especially when the captain’s face looked grim. At such times, it often meant someone was in trouble.
Facing He Da Dui, Ma Da couldn’t remain as calm as Gao Zhong Dui.
“No need. Get on the plane quickly. We’ll talk on the plane.
Flying Wolf, we’ll have to trouble you this time.”
He Da Dui rushed ahead with the guard. When passing Ma Da, he conveniently stopped him from saluting.
Something had happened!
Ma Da only felt his scalp tingling. It had been a long time since he had seen the captain so flustered.
It was clear this incident was no small matter, possibly extremely tricky.
Bewildered, Ma Da had just gotten off the plane and hadn’t even stretched his body when He Da Dui called him back onto the plane.
“Captain, what’s the matter?”
Sitting opposite He Zhijun, Ma Da asked curiously. What on earth had happened to make the captain so anxious?
“Speaking of this, it has quite a bit to do with you.” He Da Dui said, looking at Ma Da.
What? It involves me!
Hearing this, Ma Da was even more baffled. Recently, their A Team hadn’t gone out on any missions; they had been staying at the barracks training B Group’s newcomers.
How could there be an opportunity to offend any big shots?
He Da Dui hadn’t spelled it out, so Ma Da thought he had offended someone who was now coming for trouble.
Wait! Even if someone wanted revenge on him, it shouldn’t make the captain so nervous.
Seeing Ma Da still hadn’t reacted, He Da Dui said irritably: “It’s Chang Ning!”
“What! Chang Ning? What’s wrong with him?”
Hearing it was Chang Ning who was in trouble, Ma Da completely lost his composure.
Could it be because he had kicked Chang Ning that something happened to him?
At this moment, what Ma Da was thinking wasn’t how to explain to the captain, but sincerely praying that Chang Ning was okay.
“Chang Ning didn’t land at the predetermined drop zone. He was blown toward the city area direction by a gust of wind.”
He Da Dui said this, not knowing what mood he was in about the matter. He could only say Chang Ning’s luck was really too good.
Wolf Fang’s Barracks was far from the city area, with large expanses of jungle in between, where the terrain was complex and mostly pure natural original landscape.
They only used a small piece of jungle near the barracks to train the soldiers. With Chang Ning’s parachute jump height and basic round parachute, the chance of drifting exactly to the city area wasn’t high.
When He Zhijun arrived at Gao Zhong Dui’s location on the helicopter piloted by Flying Wolf, several full tactical squads from Wolf Fang had already assembled here.
Though they were few in number, thanks to Wolf Fang’s unique environmental advantages, these soldiers were all jungle hunters. Finding a person in the jungle was a piece of cake for them.
This wasn’t a mission, and Chang Ning wouldn’t deliberately cover his traces in the forest. On the contrary, he might deliberately leave traces to be found.
“What’s the situation now?”
He Da Dui had just gotten off the plane and quickly walked toward Gao Zhong Dui, asking urgently.
“It’s still unclear now. Chang Ning has drifted out of our sight, so we can only send people to search.”
Neither mentioned contacting Chang Ning by radio.
It was just a simple test jump, and for newcomers on their first parachute jump, Gao Zhong Dui and the others definitely wouldn’t let them be fully armed, so no radios were equipped.
Who could have thought the wind direction would suddenly change, and it happened to hit Chang Ning in that area.
Then He Da Dui personally deployed the search plan, and Gao Zhong Dui led A Group and other squads to join the mission to search for Chang Ning.
But they seemed to have overlooked the weather factor; wind direction isn’t constant.
After leaving Gao Zhong Dui’s sight, Chang Ning was once again carried off course by the wind.
Around this original jungle were several small county towns nestled by mountains and rivers. Compared to Donghai City, the pace of life was much slower.
After being carried by the wind to such a county town split in half by a river, Chang Ning finally noticed the wind had weakened a lot, and he could barely control the parachute.
Chang Ning’s altitude had dropped quite a bit now. By his visual estimate, there were about 300 meters left before landing.
But looking around, there were quite a few residential buildings nearby, and a school in the distance.
Chang Ning immediately ruled out the residential buildings; his skills weren’t enough to land accurately on a rooftop.
So the school was Chang Ning’s only viable option.
“Look, there’s someone parachuting in the sky!”
A short-haired girl with black-framed glasses in the second-to-last row by the window was sneaking snacks in class when her peripheral vision caught Chang Ning controlling his parachute toward the school.
So she secretly poked the back of the girl in front of her with her pen—that was her best friend.
“Where?”
Parachuting wasn’t a common sight in 2006.
The short-haired girl pointed out the window, signaling her best friend to look.
“It’s real! And he’s wearing a military uniform. So handsome!”
The girl in front’s eyes lit up seeing Chang Ning drifting in the sky.
Finger injured, typing inconvenient, one update today.
