The meeting last night was a success. Monica won the love of her mother and Amanda. Monica also liked Owen's family very much. The family had a happy dinner.
Of course, it was impossible for Owen to send Monica back directly after dinner. It would be a pity not to do it in this situation. He successfully abducted Monica back to his rental house. However, he was destined to be disappointed.
On the bed, Owen was kicked out of bed by a furious Monica.
"Amanda is right, you ate minced garlic, your mouth smells so bad, oh, my God, I'm almost suffocating..."
Owen's happiness was ruined by garlic. Even brushing his teeth was useless. Monica took out her M1911. She did not allow Owen to come within two meters of her, otherwise she would shoot.
Owen was speechless. In fact, foreigners also eat garlic. Germany has garlic jam and garlic cheese, and France has garlic bread and garlic butter-baked snails.
There is even a small town in California called Graytown, which is known as the "Garlic Capital of the World." Since 1979, a grand music and food party has been held on the last three days of July every year.
All the food at the party was related to garlic, including garlic steak, garlic fried squid, garlic roast chicken, garlic buttered corn on the cob, etc., and there was even garlic perfume!
But the garlic was cooked or roasted, and had a completely different taste than raw garlic, so Irving was disqualified from the competition and had to stay alone in his empty room for one night.
Monica left with a face full of disgust, and before leaving, she strictly ordered Owen not to go to her again in the next three days, otherwise they would break up.
All because of garlic!
So Irving could only continue to wander the streets with nothing to do the next day.
Carlos was busy with the case and had no time to deal with him. Monica threatened to break up again. Owen went to the gym and stayed in the gym all morning without meeting Harry and Simon. The whole world seemed to have suddenly given up on him.
Owen decided to drive to find Dom. He hadn't seen him since the last time he was racing. That guy was also an extreme sports enthusiast. He not only loved racing, skateboarding, rock climbing, and skydiving, he might be able to find him.
What fun.
Irving didn't call him and drove directly to his repair shop.
The car drove to the door and Owen got out of the car. The repair shop was busy, and several workers from Dom were modifying an Alfa Romeo. Owen whistled and said hello to a few guys.
"Hi, Mia, is your brother here?"
Dom's sister Mia is very beautiful, with standard long legs, but some small breasts.
Mia likes to be the receptionist at the front desk when she has nothing to do. When she saw Owen coming in, she smiled and said hello to him: "My brother is busy with his own business in the back. You can go find him inside."
"Wash it for me and I'll give you a tip..."
Owen smiled and threw the car keys to Mia, then turned into the store.
From a distance, I could see Dom writing and drawing in a room through the glass. There seemed to be a structural diagram of something drawn on the whiteboard in front of him.
"Hey Dom, what are you doing..."
"Hey buddy, you're here, do you recognize where this is?"
Owen looked carefully at the contents on the whiteboard. There was obviously a structural diagram of a bridge, with the width and height also marked on it.
"Fayetteville Bridge?"
"No," Dom laughed with his signature magnetic voice: "It's the Karadisov Bridge."
"Shit, are you crazy, you want to dance like this?"
"Yes."
Dom nodded confidently.
What Dom wants to do is extreme skydiving, or to be precise, low-altitude skydiving, the most dangerous type of extreme skydiving.
BASE jump is called BASE jump in English. BASE is composed of the first letters of the four English words Building, Tower (Antennae), Bridge (Span or bridge) and Cliff (Earth).
As a kind of extreme sports, low-altitude skydiving does have its unique and exciting features. It is different from traditional high-altitude (aircraft) skydiving in terms of the parachute stacking method, parachute opening procedures and parachute equipment, but it is also the most dangerous.
, people die every year because they fail to open their umbrellas in time.
Because skydiving is extremely dangerous, it is explicitly prohibited in most countries in the world. Even in the United States, it is only allowed in a few places. The Fayetteville Bridge Irving just mentioned is one of them.
The Fayetteville Bridge, located in Virginia, is a mecca for skydiving. Extreme sports enthusiasts from all over the world come here to try it every year on the third Saturday of October.
The bridge is only 267 meters above the ground. 267 meters, how many seconds does it take to free fall? This height is really low for skydivers. Not everyone can do low-altitude skydiving. If something goes wrong, the consequences are very likely
It's death.
There are only about 1,000 skydiving athletes in the world, and there are only more than 50 top players in the world. Even the experts cannot guarantee that there will be no accidents.
Irving clearly remembers that in his previous life, during a BASE jumping exhibition competition at the Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai, a famous BASE jump expert from Australia had an accident and fell seriously injured.
The Fayetteville Bridge can become a mecca for low-altitude skydiving not only because it is low enough, but also because there is a large river below it, and the river is deep enough that even if the skydiver fails to open his parachute, he will not lose his life.
The conditions of the Karatisov Bridge that Dom chose are much worse than those of the Fayetteville Bridge.
The Karatisov Bridge is not far away from them. It is in the western suburbs of Los Angeles. Its height is 2 meters lower than the Fayetteville Bridge, only 265 meters. Moreover, although there is a small river under the Karatisov Bridge, the water in the river is
Almost all dried up.
If you try to skydive from a low altitude there, if you fail, you will definitely die.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Owen couldn't help but ask.
"Of course, I've done the calculations, and there's no problem at all."
Dom had a confident smile on his face, but Owen thought this guy was really crazy.
Owen can skydive, and his skills are pretty good, but low-altitude skydiving is an exception. This thing is really life-threatening.
Ordinary people may think that skydiving is more dangerous the higher you go, but it's actually the opposite.
The higher the altitude, the longer the reaction time left for the skydiver. The skydiver has time to adjust the direction before opening the parachute. Low-altitude skydiving generally chooses a height of 300 to 500 meters. Due to the limited distance, the skydiver only has 5 seconds at most.
Open the umbrella bag at the right time, but it will be cold if it cannot be opened.
Moreover, unlike high-altitude skydiving, low-altitude skydiving has two parachute bags. If the main parachute cannot be opened, there is a backup parachute. Low-altitude skydiving only has one parachute, and there is no time for you to open the second parachute, so it is so dangerous. Once something malfunctions,
There is basically only one ending.
Owen didn't know how to persuade Dom. If he wanted to challenge the height, he could go to the Fayetteville Bridge. But Owen also knew that he was not. What Dom wanted to challenge was not the height at all, but the kind of walking on the edge of life and death.
Danger.
Owen couldn't think of a reason to convince him. He couldn't tell him that skydiving here was illegal, and Dom wouldn't care about it.