Daily Evolution from Mastering Tai Chi-Chapter 267 - 229: The Fallen Genius_2
The number of shares in the live streaming room soared to a million in an instant!
Topics related to Wang Ye's Awakening Earth also went viral on the Weibo platform within minutes, hitting the hot searches.
If some netizens could barely doubt that Wang Ye was just lucky enough to complete the challenge the first time he attempted Celestial Descent, then this time as he successfully completed Awakening Earth, the previously skeptical ones were left speechless.
Many netizens who did not follow Wang Ye have now truly realized that Wang Ye seems genuinely determined to travel around the world in a short time to complete Ozaki's Eight, recreating scenes from the movie!
Once Wang Ye completed the challenge of "Awakening Earth," Ah Gui and the others controlled the account's backend to close the live streaming room and quickly flew back to the ground to prepare for the upcoming support work.
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At this moment in the cave, Wang Ye quickly packed up his gear, preparing to climb back up along the previously fixed anchors and ropes.
For other climbers, the height that takes 40 minutes to 2 hours to climb, Wang Ye almost only took fifteen minutes to finish.
When he climbed to the cave's entrance, the first people he saw were not Ah Gui and others. Instead, it was a group from the Red Bull Team, wearing blue and red helmets and uniforms.
Seeing Wang Ye climb up safely with bare hands, everyone in the Red Bull Team was extraordinarily shocked. They seemed to have not expected Wang Ye to really complete this hell-level difficulty challenge.
What shocked them the most was that Wang Ye actually took only fifteen minutes to climb up from the cave's bottom.
Almost everyone in the Red Bull Team is a relatively well-known top extreme sports athlete in their respective fields,
with at least 10 years of extreme sports experience, having challenged countless perilous places worldwide,
and naturally knew how difficult it was to climb such a rock wall.
And now Wang Ye's various actions have thoroughly overturned their inherent knowledge of extreme sports.
Carlos stepped forward, assisting Wang Ye up from the rock wall and said, "Wang Ye, you are really strong. Although we just met by chance, I am thoroughly impressed by you."
"Thanks." Wang Ye said as he stood on the ground, asking, "Your challenge of Awakening Earth failed this time, what's the next plan?"
Upon hearing this, Carlos lowered his head in contemplation,
seemingly pondering whether to tell Wang Ye the truth.
He remained silent for about half a minute, eventually speaking, "To be honest, according to our contract, we plan to continue to the Cortes Sea to challenge 'Life of Water' as the fourth item."
"Are you guys still going to continue the challenges?" Wang Ye slightly frowned, "Do you really have to complete Ozaki's Eight?"
Through this competition, Wang Ye roughly knew the Red Bull Team's level.
Given their skill level, completing Ozaki's Eight is like a fantasy.
Even if they continue, the result can only be failure, and it might even lead to injuries or fatalities.
Carlos shook his head, "We are aware of our limits, definitely can't complete them all, but we still have to try each item once, to at least answer to the sponsors. Of course, we lost to you, which means we will definitely face penalties for breach of contract."
Hearing this, Wang Ye couldn't help but fall silent.
Prior to coming to Mexico, he had done his research and knew how ridiculously difficult Life of Water is.
The difficulty of this challenge is definitely not less than any other items and is arguably the hardest one.
The Cortes Sea, also located in Mexico, features surfing as the content of this fourth Life of Water challenge. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦
Usually, surfing as an extreme sport carries relatively less risk. Even if the challenger gets swept by the waves, they can at least rely on their swimming skills to swim to the beach and barely survive.
But that's usually the case.
For Ozaki's Eight Life of Water, it requires the challenger to surf alone amidst dozens of meters high waves under bad weather conditions. Such terrifying gigantic waves can crush a person, causing an immediate knockout.
In the movie, this challenge was also completed last. That's enough to show how difficult it's.
However, Wang Ye has yet to delve into surfing, so before heading to the Cortes Sea challenge, he still needs to learn about surfing this sport specifically.
Surfing is somewhat similar to skateboarding, standing on an unstable board, moving at high speed, and performing fancy moves. However, surfing's instability is much stronger than skateboarding, making it more technically demanding.
Therefore, Wang Ye's body, exceeding human limits, doesn't offer much advantage in this challenge, at most making it slightly less lethal. Thus, he plans to make thorough preparations in advance by systematically learning surfing in the United States, and then challenge Life of Water in the Cortes Sea once his surfing skills mature.
"Good luck to you." Wang Ye said, finishing his words.
Ah Gui arrived in the jungle by helicopter.
Carlos and others also did not linger any longer and returned to the town.
Wang Ye boarded the helicopter, took off his skydiving suit, and changed into clean clothing.
After this challenge, the shark skin-made skydiving suit, worth hundreds of thousands, was almost destroyed and needs to be sent back to the country for remaking before it can be used again.
Clothes made of shark skin can reduce drag but come with the flaw of easy damage. After being scuffed a few times by rock walls, cracks easily appeared.
Although there is a scratch-resistant layer inside that doesn't hurt the skin, once the outer layer is damaged, the original drag-reducing effectiveness is gone, and aesthetically it's no longer appealing, making it unusable further.
Nonetheless, this consideration also fell within Li Weimin's plan.
Since Ozaki's Eight includes only two skydiving projects which Wang Ye has already completed. Now only the Alps Wingsuit Flying challenge remains. After Wang Ye ruined the skydiving suit, they can just modify it into a wingsuit on this basis, saving a significant amount of expenses.
Once Wang Ye and his team returned to the town by helicopter,
they recuperated their body and spirit at the hotel.
Adjusting their tense nerves from the battle while managing the aftermath.
In the following days, Ah Gui and others were almost glued to the room sorting videos. Though no finished product was edited, the basic template was completed.
On September 15th, they finally set off for the United States,
preparing to participate in the Chicago Marathon on October 10th.
The Chicago Marathon is held in Chicago City, Cook County, Illinois, USA, every October. It's an IAAF Gold Label, AIMS certified event, and one of the World Marathon Majors (others include the London Marathon, Berlin Marathon, Tokyo Marathon, New York Marathon, and Boston Marathon), making the Chicago Marathon a particularly high-status competition in international events.
The previous marathon world record was also set on October 8, 2023, at the Chicago Marathon, with Kelvin Kipchoge clocking in at 2 hours and 35 seconds.
This young Kenyan, Kipchoge, was praised within the circle as the most likely athlete to break two hours in a marathon when he broke the world record, but unfortunately, he passed away due to a car accident on February 11, 2024. The Kenyan government held a state funeral for Kipchoge.
Yet, before these marathon athletes could mourn for a few months, Wang Ye, a relentless Chinese individual, emerged mid-way, forcefully advancing the world marathon record by more than twenty minutes.
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