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"Why does it smell like gasoline?" Emma wrinkled her nose and asked Bai Yujing, who was sitting in front of her.
Bai Yujing and the others also noticed the smell. At that moment, Shen Fei, sitting in the back row, turned around and suddenly realized something, shouting in panic, "Not good! The plane, the back of the plane is smoking!"
"What?" everyone exclaimed at once.
At this time, Will Hackman also said, "This is bad; there's an anomaly with the instruments. It seems like we were struck by lightning when we just passed through Clouds. We need to make an emergency landing!"
Pilot Will Hackman immediately steered the plane quickly toward the distant aerial continent. As the outline of the continent grew larger in Bai Yujing and the others' eyes, they were getting closer to land.
However, at this moment, the plane became increasingly unstable. Hackman started to panic, "Not good, I can't seem to control the plane! Everyone get ready for an emergency landing!"
"Ah! I knew you people couldn't be trusted!" Shen Fei shouted loudly, his face pale.
Bai Yujing turned around and said, "Stop complaining; everyone stay calm. We're about to land!"
The plane traced an arc across the sky and finally slowly approached the ground. After skimming over a patch of grass, it crashed straight into a forest and ultimately collided with a thick trunk that resembled a skyscraper, falling down and getting stuck in the branches.
Everyone was thrown into disarray by the sudden violent impact. Bai Yujing coughed and patted his chest, looking at the others: "Emma, Will Hackman, Mr. Bivis?"
They all seemed dazed from the shock. Bai Yujing decided to check on them first and then find a way to pull them out one by one.
Bai Yujing unbuckled his seatbelt and opened the plane's door. As soon as he stepped out, he noticed that the ground beneath him felt strange. Looking down, he realized he was standing on an incredibly thick branch. Estimating its diameter to be about fifteen meters, it felt like standing on a road.
Looking into the distance, Bai Yujing was even more astonished. Towering trees reaching hundreds or even thousands of meters high appeared before him, each one like the branch he stood on. It felt as if he had entered an ancient wilderness world.
"My God, where is this? Is this Lilliput?"
At that moment, suddenly Bai Yujing felt a tremor beneath his feet, as if the world was turning upside down and the ground was shaking. He could barely stand, and the plane began to slide downward. Bai Yujing remembered that the others were still inside.
Just then, Bai Yujing saw a gigantic arm, about ten meters long and wide, grabbing the plane and pulling it out from between the trees.
The arm was covered in dirt, with blackened nails and dry skin, indicating that it belonged to someone who worked hard. If not for its size, it looked completely human.
"How is this possible? What kind of monster is this? Emma, Emma!"
Bai Yujing rushed forward but was confronted by an enormous head, roughly five or six stories high, appearing before him. The head wore a straw hat and its eyes were looking in his direction.
Bai Yujing was filled with terror; such a massive creature could instill fear even without showing any malice. Just its sheer size evoked an instinctual dread of giant beasts ingrained in human genes.
Bai Yujing immediately turned around and hid in a crevice of a tree trunk on the slope to avoid the giant's gaze.
"Hey? Who was just speaking?" The giant seemed puzzled and rubbed its eyes with another hand holding an axe, as if it had seen something strange.
After searching repeatedly, the giant still couldn't find anything that made a sound. It then picked up the small jet plane, which was over ten meters long, in its palm: "Whose toy is this? An Iron Bird, looks quite well-made. I'll take it back for Ilandor to play with!"
Hiding in the tree crevice, Bai Yujing understood what the hundred-meter-tall giant was saying because it spoke in Lilliputian Language. This meant that Bai Yujing and his companions had indeed arrived at the right place.
Suddenly, Bai Yujing recalled the accounts of Lilliput and Brobdingnag from Gulliver's Travels, a land filled with giants where everyone stood a hundred meters tall. However, this was only recorded by Jonathan Swift.
In Lemuel Gulliver's notes, everything here is briefly mentioned, simply stating Lilliput, along with records about Lake Fairy and the Fountain of Life. Bai Yujing previously thought that these were merely figments of the novelist Jonathan Swift's imagination.
What he didn't expect was that Lemuel Gulliver actually encountered Lilliput and Brobdingnag here, and there were indeed giants over a hundred meters tall. After the giant took hold of the airplane, he immediately raised his axe and prepared to turn away.
At this moment, Bai Yujing felt anxious; Emma and the others were still inside the airplane. He decided he couldn't just watch as this strange giant took them away; he had to think of a way to help.
The instant the giant turned around, Bai Yujing leaped onto the giant's blue coat, clinging to it like a grasshopper. He tightly grasped the giant's clothing, his feet planted on the giant's belt at the back.
Behind the giant was a large bundle of firewood. Bai Yujing climbed up and hid among the dry branches, gradually moving away with the familiar surroundings.
With each step, the giant covered a distance of seventy to eighty meters. For Bai Yujing, it felt like he was moving at high speed; the scenery around him continuously receded. This towering jungle, which could only exist in myths, seemed insurmountable to Bai Yujing, who thought it would take him ten days or more to get out. However, under the giant's feet, he crossed through the jungle in just an hour.
What appeared next was a massive hillside covered in lush green grass. On the other side of the hill lay vast farmlands and mills, with enormous windmills swaying in the breeze. In the rice fields, there were similarly tall beings busy with farming tasks. Gigantic beasts resembling cows snorted loudly as they grazed on grass that stood half a meter tall. It was as if this place was a human world magnified dozens of times.
However, it seemed that this area retained very ancient modes of living and customs, reminiscent of medieval Europe.
Bai Yujing watched as the giant greeted his kind and showed off his toy airplane. After crossing another stretch of fields and paths, he saw a house made of bricks and tiles that stood two to three hundred meters tall. At first glance, it resembled a grand ancient temple from mythology but appeared somewhat dilapidated without any luxurious touches.
The pointed roof with brown tiles and three-part architecture looked very cozy. There was also an attic with narrow rectangular windows; the wall plaster was peeling off, indicating it hadn't been repaired in a long time. This was indeed the giant's home.
As the giant slowly walked inside, Bai Yujing felt a sense of panic and confusion. What should he do next? How could he resolve the situation with Emma and the others?
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