Chapter 2783 Your Majesty, there is a ball floating in the sky
Cheng Chubi touched his chin, looked at Li Ke who was eager to try, and looked at his bulging beer belly.
One dog is too light, so it would take three or five dogs to reach Li Ke's weight.
But there are only two watchdogs in the entire Cheng University. If we don’t use dogs, how can we use horses?
Cheng Chubi immediately pressed this idea. The horse is too tall, and the animal is too sensitive and strong. If it doesn't want to go up to the sky and kicks around inside, it will directly smash the bamboo basket.
Isn’t it all a waste of time?
Just when Cheng Chubi was worried and wondering what kind of animal he should use to go to heaven, a humming and chirping sound came from the distance.
When Cheng Chubi turned his head, he saw an oxcart approaching slowly, and inside the fence of the oxcart were five fat, naive pigs.
Cheng Chubi's eyes suddenly lit up and he showed a happy smile.
"Whoever is over there is so stunned. Hurry up and drive the bullock cart over."
"Brother Chu Bi, what do you want to do?" Li Ke, who had been eager to try for a long time, turned his head. After seeing the car, he felt something was wrong.
"Since you, dear brother, must be the first person to ascend to heaven, then, for my brother's sake, I can only find other living creatures to give it a try."
"If these pigs go up to the sky without any accidents, this proves the stability and safety of the hot air balloon. Then please go up to the sky, my dear brother, so that I can feel more at ease."
"...You want the pigs to go in first?" Li Ke's eyes suddenly bulged as he looked at the big fat pigs swaying around in the fence with their noses moving back and forth.
I always felt a little aggrieved, but then I thought about it, Brother Chu Bi was also thinking about safety.
Besides, they were just a few pigs, not people with names. If the history books recorded it, they would definitely only record that His Highness King Wu of the Tang Dynasty was the first person in history to ascend to heaven.
Li Ke, who had figured this out, finally did not hesitate and stepped aside, letting Cheng Sanlang greet the people and drive the fat pigs off the bullock cart.
The Cheng family drove the pigs into the large bamboo basket slightly off the ground, and then locked the door of the bamboo basket.
Cheng Chubi finally gave the order to start the test flight. After Wang Fangyi loudly accepted the order, a group of students from the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering began to get busy.
A group of fat and strong Cheng family members also joined the team pulling the cable.
With the shouting, the last anchor rope was loosened, and the huge hot air balloon suddenly shook, then began to rise slowly, but was soon trapped again.
Following the sound of the order, students and Cheng family members in the four directions of the bamboo basket were slowly relaxing the rope.
At this time, the big fat pigs, who had been relatively quiet in the hot air balloon, seemed to have noticed something was wrong, and began to raise their throats and neigh.
However, their voices could not compare to the excited shouts of the over a thousand students in Cheng University.
At this moment, whether it was the young students, the older, serious teachers, or Li Zhi and Fang Jun, they all opened their mouths and cheered involuntarily.
Cheng Chubi pursed his lips tightly and watched the huge hot air balloon slowly leave the ground, one foot, two feet, one foot, two feet...
Soon, the height of the hot air balloon bamboo basket from the ground was higher than Cheng Sanlang's height, higher than the roof, and higher than the trees.
Still flying steadily and tenaciously towards the higher sky, towards the clear blue sky.
Soon, the hustle and bustle in Cheng's University gradually stopped, but the neighing of the frightened big fat pigs in the hot air balloon not only did not mean to stop, but instead became more and more joyful.
However, the ugly and harsh pig song will not affect everyone's joy of success.
"How high is it?" Cheng Chubi stared intently at the hot air balloon that was getting higher and higher. Even his neck felt a little sore from the tilt, and he was unwilling to look away.
"Third Young Master, it's already over thirty feet..." Deng Chengxin was looking at the scale displayed on the ruler rope and shouted loudly.
Li Ke on the side couldn't help but persuade him.
"Thirty feet, not bad, not bad. Brother Chu Bi, let those pigs down quickly. Listen to how miserable they are."
"I'm so anxious. We'll wait until we reach the expected height. Team leader Wang, let them continue to lower the rope and see if they can rise to 100 feet as expected."
Seeing the hot air balloon made by himself and others flying so high in broad daylight, Wang Fangyi, who was so excited that his heart was trembling, replied loudly.
"Students take orders, classmates, have you heard the principal's order? Continue to let go..."
In the past, because I was worried about causing unnecessary commotion, I always conducted test flights at night. In addition, for safety reasons, I could only use heavy objects such as sandbags to test the load-bearing capacity.
At night, once the hot air balloon is more than ten feet above the ground, it is difficult to see clearly. It is not as clear as it is now.
At this moment, many students have spread out in all directions in order to see more clearly. After all, standing at the bottom, you can only see a small black dot.
If you can get farther away, you can still see the whole view of the hot air balloon.
As the hot air balloon rose little by little, the people around Cheng University were busy.
Even the boatmen and travelers on the boats traveling on the Luo River were frightened by the huge thing rising into the sky.
At this moment, on top of the Luoyang City ten miles away, the generals guarding the city were staring with extreme glare.
He even wanted to put his eyes into the telescope to see what the hell it was.
A huge black sphere, with a large bamboo basket underneath, was slowly rising into the sky.
It was rising higher and higher, and even the guard felt that the thing had far exceeded the height of the city wall.
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Li Shimin was in Zhenguan Hall, having a court meeting with a group of important civil and military officials. At this moment, he heard bursts of noise coming from outside the hall door.
This made Li Shimin frown and glance at Zhao Kun. Zhao Kun immediately sprinted towards the entrance of the palace.
When Zhao Kun rushed out of the hall and shouted at the imperial guards and eunuchs outside the hall, he subconsciously followed the eyes of those people and looked eastward.
In an instant, Zhao Kun opened his eyes exaggeratedly. He saw a black spot, slowly rising towards the sky...
Zhao Kun rubbed his eyes vigorously, and after confirming that the thing was not an illusory thing, he quickly ran back into the hall, whispered in Li Shimin's ear quickly and quickly.
"Your Majesty, to the east outside the city, there is something, like a ball, floating in the sky right now."