Chapter 426 The truth
However, the young man who had been imprisoned was still in extreme excitement because reporters from more than a dozen newspapers came to interview him. Even though he was in prison, he still spitted and told the story of his conquering the sky.
Li Zhaoyu did not disturb him for the time being because he did not want him to appear in front of the reporter.
When the sky was dark and after the reporters left, Li Zhaoyu followed Dan Tai Jun into the detention center. The moment he saw Lin Shirong, the guy was still very excited, but when he saw Li Zhaoyu following Dan Tai Jun, Lin Shirong immediately turned into a frost-beating eggplant.
"Yes... something happened? Why are you here too?" Lin Shirong knew that if there was no big deal, he would not have alarmed Li Zhaoyu.
Li Zhaoyu sat on the chair and said, "Ms. Chen Yalai has passed away, Shirong."
"She...she is dead." Lin Shirong's eyes widened and he was at a loss. He sat down on the ground and said, "But she was obviously fine. I was injured by the branches and she didn't even have any skin injuries."
"I know only this is the only thing I know about the failure of organs caused by internal bleeding." Li Zhaoyu said lightly.
"When did it happen?" Lin Shirong asked.
Li Zhaoyu said: "Just less than four hours after you landed."
"Wouldn't that mean that only I know the truth, so how can I tell it clearly?" Lin Shirong murmured, Li Zhaoyu said: "So, the emperor handed over this matter to me. You are just talking to the reporter about your glorious deeds today, but you don't know that there has been a lot of trouble outside. Now, I want you to tell me what happened."
By this time, Lin Shirong had nothing to hide.
He and Chen Yalai met three months ago, at the Sky Sports Club. Unlike Lin Shirong, who went to the Sky Sports Club to climb the sky to seek excitement. Chen Yalai is also a researcher. She is dedicated to studying natural weather and how wind, rain, thunder and lightning are formed.
This is related to her family. His father was a sailor who died in a shipwreck. Chen Yalai believes that if a scientific method can be found and severe weather such as typhoons in advance will benefit mankind. Therefore, she became a researcher, but she was studying the weather, so she had a fate to meet Lin Shirong.
Earlier, like Lin Shirong, she only took a balloon to travel by the old birds of the Sky Sports Club, including hot air balloons and hydrogen balloons. The flight altitude is generally around 2,000 to 4,000 meters, which is also a common height for balloon travel.
But Chen Yalai is committed to climbing a height of 10,000 meters, and Lin Shirong also wants to challenge the limit that the Sky Sports Society has never reached.
Therefore, the two deceived the people from the Sky Sports Club. They specially hired a hydrogen balloon, modified it, and added various equipment, anemometers, altitude meters, telescopes, thermometers, etc. The two just told the people from the Sky Sports Club that they only went to a height of 4,000 meters to survey and map. During the drill, they practiced several times. The two took the opportunity to learn how to operate this hydrogen balloon.
Chen Yalai's goal was to survey and map, while Lin Shirong was to take risks. He was always curious about parachutes and prepared to test parachutes and perform parachute diving during the period. Of course, Lin Shirong was not reckless enough to jump himself, and he prepared a parachute for the goat.
On a clear morning, the two of them tricked the Sky Sports Club into going down, unbuttoned the fixed cable, and flew to the sky, with the goal of 10,000 meters, a height that humans had never reached.
In just ten minutes, they reached 1,500 meters. Lin Shirong helped Chen Yalai complete the first surveying and mapping, and wrote the data in detail on the note and passed it out through the carrier pigeon. It was not until this time that Lin Shirong knew that this flight was extremely dangerous. It was Chen Yalai who knew this danger that he sent out the data in advance so as not to fail to return due to the accident.
When the balloon continued to rise, it floated into the dark clouds, with lightning and thunder inside. This was the first time Lin Shirong felt regret. He remembered a story he heard when he was a child, a story related to Grandpa Yu.
It is said that when King Yu was a child, a master from Tibet came to Beijing to meet Emperor Taizu at that time and vigorously promoted Tibetan Buddhism. In King Yu's eyes, it was feudal superstition. Tibetan monks at that time wanted to restart the Tibetan Buddhist temples in Beijing during the Qing Dynasty, but the Supreme Emperor only allowed two to be opened.
One of the young monks and luckily received the summons from King Yu. King Yu was willing to make a bet with him, and if he wins, he would plead for him.
King Yu asked the monk to carry an iron spear and run on the ground on a thunderstorm to see if the thunder could kill him, but the result was that the monk did not dare to do this. It is said that he later returned to Tibet and asked Mu Nu to do this, but Mu Nu was struck to death by lightning.
Lin Shirong was very worried that she would be struck to death by lightning, but Chen Yalai was not worried. She told Lin Shirong that no conductive material was used on this set of balloons because her husband died of lightning while accompanying her to take off.
However, there were not only thunder and lightning in the dark clouds, but also storms. Under the strong wind, Lin Shirong and Chen Yalai were thrown around in the basket like broken sacks. Once, Lin Shirong was thrown out. In order to get rid of the dark clouds and storms at this height, the two threw the sandbags out and rose smoothly, reaching the dark clouds, seeing the sunshine, and entering a fairyland on the clouds. When they recalled, Lin Shirong described the most, because they saw butterflies at this height of five thousand meters.
To prove this wonder, they caught butterflies, and the balloon rose rapidly because it lost enough counterweight, reaching 7,000 meters, which was the highest altitude that all aircraft had previously reached.
At seven thousand meters, the air became thinner and the temperature dropped to zero. When Lin Shirong changed into his leather jacket to keep warm, he saw that Chen Yalai did not add thick clothes. He realized that in order to save valuable load, this woman did not even bring cold-proof clothes. Lin Shirong gave her his clothes.
Obviously, the 18-year-old man has developed some feelings for this lady who is nearly thirty years old.
The two hugged each other to keep warm, and then rose to 8,000 meters. They endured the temperature of minus fifteen degrees Celsius. Chen Yalai still insisted on recording the data, but could not transmit it because one of the carrier pigeons she brought was frozen to death and one of them did not die, but when they were thrown out, they fell down like an iron hammer.
At this time, the two finally realized the danger and wanted to lower the height. At least at this moment, Lin Shirong no longer cared about conquering ten thousand meters. He didn't know whether it was for this woman, or simply to save his life, or both.
However, the height that has never been reached is the biggest test for hydrogen balloon equipment.
To lower the height, you can only open the air-closing valve to release part of the hydrogen and reduce the buoyancy. But the problem is that this is a height that has not been reached before, and the air-closing valve has not considered such a low temperature and has long been frozen by ice.
Lin Shirong was confused by the cold and hypoxia, and his familiarity with balloons was not as good as Chen Yalai.
Chen Yalai climbed the rope ladder, and at a temperature of minus 15 degrees Celsius, a height of 10,000 meters and a thousand meters, she had to climb to the top, and manually unbutton the valve. In the end, she succeeded, but she could not control the valve. The hydrogen was constantly released, and the balloon was also landing, but the problem was that this kind of landing was completely uncontrollable.
When the balloon dropped to a height of 6,000 meters, the temperature rose and the air was abundant, which made Lin Shirong regain consciousness. He learned what had just happened in Chen Yalai's mouth, but this crazy woman recorded various data while telling it. After the record, she stuffed it into a copper tube and hung it on her chest. She told Lin Shirong that the balloon was descent at an uncontrollable rate. Maybe the two would die, but the data must be preserved.
In order to save yourself, all you can do is to throw away everything you can throw away. But the problem is that the balloon has fallen down from the clouds, and the land is below. You can see the residential area. Lin Shirong hesitated whether to throw things, which may kill innocent people on the ground. However, Chen Yalai did not care about this at all. She just wanted to keep her data, so she threw away everything she could throw away, and even took off the coats of the two people despite Lin Shirong's opposition.
But even so, the balloon still fell very quickly. Lin Shirong pulled Chen Yalai up the rope ladder, cut the rope with a knife, and threw the hanging basket down. The two landed on the ground and saved their lives. But as Lin Shirong was worried, the thing thrown on the balloon killed a farmer who worked in the countryside, and the one who killed him was a sheep that had fallen into a meat pie. It was Lin Shirong who was preparing to test the parachute.
Lin Shirong was arrested for stealing balloons. He thought Chen Yalai was also arrested, and he didn't know that their self-rescue behavior had killed others. When he knew all this, Lin Shirong realized the horror of the problem and he accidentally killed someone.
"I have understood your affairs. Finally, I would like to ask you if what you said just now is true." Li Zhaoyu patted Lin Shirong's shoulder and asked.
Lin Shirong focused on it: "It's all true, except for Chen Yalai who opened the valve and heard her say, the rest were all seen by me and heard by myself."
Li Zhaoyu nodded: "Okay, I understand."
"Uncle, what should I do?" Lin Shirong didn't expect that after Li Zhaoyu said that, he knew and was about to walk out.
Li Zhaoyu turned around and said to Lin Shirong: "Continue to stay here. If someone asks you, just tell them what you just said to me, whether it is the judicial department or the reporters' question."
"But...who will believe me?" said Lin Shirong.
This dangerous flight killed people, which is a fact. Lin Shirong must be responsible, but the problem is that the things that killed people were thrown down by Chen Yalai, and she also advocated that the main responsibility should be borne by her, but the woman was dead and the responsibility could not be distinguished.
Li Zhaoyu said to Lin Shirong: "The Emperor asked me to come because he wanted to take you out of here and reassure your grandfather. You also have to serve as my best man at the wedding. This is also the emperor's arrangement."
"Is this really what the emperor means?" Lin Shirong couldn't believe it. In his impression, the emperor of the empire could never rub a grain of sand in his eyes.
Li Zhaoyu nodded: "It's true."
Finally, Li Zhaoyu arranged for Dan Tai Jun to watch Lin Shirong here and left. He did not reveal his identity at all, so that the eldest son of Prince Yu's mansion had come in Chongming County.
And Li Zhaoyu finally knew why the emperor arranged for him to do this.
Chen Yalai is dead, and the inside story of this matter can only be explained by Lin Shirong alone. Whether it is true or false is no longer circumstantial evidence. How to punish him depends on whether the person in charge of the case is willing to believe what Lin Shirong said.
The severe punishment is that Lin Shirong is willful and stolen balloons, causing accidents and causing death. This is bound to be sentenced to a serious crime and imprisonment for several years.
But if we look at it lightly, Lin Shirong is urgently avoiding danger during flight, and all responsibilities belong to Ms. Chen Yalai. Lin Shirong is not responsible for it, and only needs compensation and apology are required.
However, because the public opinion is already in full swing, this matter cannot be hidden, so it will inevitably make a big deal. Once such a thing is big, it will make a big deal in the Imperial Court. Li Zhaoyu doesn't have to go around like a headless fly and go straight to the Imperial Court.
The most powerful competitor to the imperial crown throne and the imperial court and the case of noble children is the emperor's true intention.
Li Zhaoyu's carriage arrived at the dock. When he boarded the boat, he suddenly stopped and returned to the shore. He said to the attendant following him: "Go and check what kind of sky sports club is there, and what is going on there."
In the afternoon, Li Zhaoyu was having dinner in a small restaurant on the pier, and the attendant came back and told Li Zhaoyu about some good news.
The Sky Sports Club has been on holiday, and most of the members of the club have returned to their hometowns, leaving only the boss's family behind. This family has been hiding and does not accept any interviews. It has also overturned the rumors that Lin Shirong and Chen Yalai have stolen balloons, saying that it is not stealing, and that balloon has been rented to the two of them for a long time.
The boss even told the sheriff that it was still under investigation whether it was an accidental flight or an operational error.
Obviously, this boss is a sensible person. After learning about Lin Shirong's identity, he deliberately talked about the situation in favor of him, and deliberately confusing the public.
"First inform Lin Shirong about the news about this sports club, and then find this boss." Li Zhaoyu said.
"What after finding it?"
Li Zhaoyu said: "If Dan Tai Jun saw him, this guy knew what to do was more beneficial to Lin Shirong. I could come forward with some things, but I should avoid some things."
"Young Master is afraid that the young master will not understand your good intentions." The attendant whispered.
Chapter completed!