Lin Feng dove straight down at over Mach 4, leaving the mesosphere forty to fifty kilometers above.
He was falling so fast that the receding scenery blurred into streaks of light.
After a thirty-second dive, Lin Feng plummeted from the mesosphere into the relative safety of the stratosphere before plunging headfirst, without pause, into the turbulent airflow of the troposphere.
He was now less than six or seven thousand meters from the ground and could already see the faint, twinkling lights on the Northern Loess Plateau.
Only then did Lin Feng dare to look back and confirm that the dark shadow from outer space, high above the thermosphere, had not given chase.
But the crisis was far from over. He was currently falling at over a thousand meters per second. In five seconds, he would smash into the ground.
The force of impact at this speed would be lethal, even if he were to hit a body of water.
