At 0:48 a.m. on March 8, 2014, the plane began taxiing and taking off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

Gao Jie fastened his seat belt and sat alone in the last row of seats in the huge cabin of the Boeing 777. It can be seen from the gloomy expression on his face that the time spent in Malaysia for eight days has not made him feel better.

Gao Jie is 41 years old this year, he is already a Ben Wu person, a native of Yinchuan, Ningxia, Hui ~ clan, 1.82 meters tall, thin figure, making him look in his 30s, because it is Hui ~ clan blood, so that he has deep sunken eyes, angular face, the whole person looks mature and stable, and handsome.

At the beginning, in the tour group of more than 40 people, several young Guliang were attracted to him, and secretly sent him Qiubo from time to time, looking for opportunities to talk to him, but Gao Jie was silent and arrogant.

Gao Jie's position was next to the aisle of the plane, quietly leaning back in the back of the chair, his deep eyes looked out of the window of the plane over an old man sitting by the window beside him. In the night, the sporadic lights in the airport flew behind me, and the huge plane began to accelerate and climb.

In fact, Gao Jie didn't see anything now, and the night view of Kuala Lumpur didn't make him feel nostalgic at all. In his mind, he was recalling his past like a movie.

When Gao Jie was two years old, his parents divorced. His mother is said to have remarried to the south because the family was too poor and has not been heard from since, while his father, a truck driver, died in a car accident when he was five years old. Since he was a child, he was raised by his grandparents, and his life was very difficult.

From elementary school to high school, he was not the kind of student who could read, teachers often said that he had an elm head, and his grades were always among the bottom in the class, plus he was taciturn and withdrawn, and he was often ridiculed and isolated by his classmates in class.

On a Saturday morning three months before the college entrance examination, Gao Jie, who felt that he had no hope of going to college, was not interested in reviewing his homework, so he wandered aimlessly to the sand lake in Yinchuan. There he saw a lonely old man, fishing alone by the lake in the breeze. Perhaps feeling as lonely as the old man, he sat down beside the old man, silently watching the fish from time to time being caught out of the lake.

The lonely old man spotted Gao Jie and suddenly became interested in the silent boy, so he took the initiative to talk to him. Gao Jie didn't know why, he had an inexplicable sense of closeness to this old man, so he unconsciously told him a lot of things about himself.

When the twilight gradually rose and he was ready to retract, the old man patted Gao Jie's head lightly, saying that he would teach him a way to develop his brain, which might help him in the college entrance examination, and if he wanted to study, he would come here every Saturday to meet.

Hearing that he could develop his brain and improve his grades, Gao Jie immediately agreed. And as agreed, he came to the old place by the Sand Lake every week and began to study with the old man. The method taught by the old man is quite profound, and some Gao Jie can't understand it, and he stumbles when he learns. According to the old man's boast, when he learns the realm of Dacheng, he can take things from the air.

Although Gao Jie is not a good student, he is also a materialist educated in a socialist country, so he naturally does not believe in those nonsense. However, after a few studies, he felt that his memory had improved a lot, and it seemed to have some effect, so he persevered rain or shine.

Two months later, the old man never appeared again, and I don't know if he died. And Gao Jie still insisted on going to the Sand Lake every Saturday, while waiting, while practicing on his own according to the method taught by the old man.

In the blink of an eye, the college entrance examination, to everyone's surprise, although Gao Jie failed to get a high score, but with the extra points of ethnic minorities, he was barely admitted to an unpopular major in a national university - archaeology.

Gao Jie still remembers that when he went back to school to get the file, the teacher who "complimented" him on his elm head saw him as if he had seen ET.

Gao Jie in college is still alone, but because his brain is much better, he has also learned a lot of things, because he is an archaeology major, he has a very good memory of historical events and characters.

In the year Gao Jie graduated from university, his grandparents went hand in hand, and he became a veritable orphan.

Since then, his living conditions have become even more dire. For archaeology majors at third-rate universities, it is really difficult to find employment. The beautiful vision for the future was shattered in the relentless blow of reality in three months.

The pressure of life forced him to let go of his status as a college student, and like a group of young people who graduated from junior high school and high school, he went to work as a waiter in a hotel in Yinchuan.

Although he has a strong ability to accept and a high starting point, in the Chinese society, his withdrawn and arrogant personality makes him the kind of outlier who does not know how to behave in the world and does not understand the world. The hotel leaders commented on him: "Diligent, conscientious and responsible, an excellent employee! ”

So, after working in the hotel for eleven years, he was promoted from a D-level waiter to an A-level waiter, but he was never able to be a small foreman, and there was no hope of promotion, but he was in his thirties.

Introverts, although they may not appear on the surface, are often no less ambitious than extroverts.

Gao Jie was unwilling to wait for death like this, so he resigned and began to look for opportunities for self-development.

Because he has the habit of living in the Hui ~ clan, he has a pure heart and few desires, and he has worked in the hotel for so many years, and he still has tens of thousands of yuan in savings, and he started a business.

For a person like him who is not good at communicating with people, the first choice for starting a business is to be an otaku - he chose to speculate in stocks.

Over the past few years, with ups and downs, his calm personality, super memory and quick thinking have made him hundreds of thousands of dollars in the stock market.

At this moment, Gao Jie finally accumulated some confidence, and he was hot-headed, and he started to be a restaurant owner in Yinchuan last year.

Due to his withdrawn personality and unapproachable personality, he has never had many friends since he was a child, and he does have problems communicating with people. The management of employees is not so simple, it is really like what the original hotel manager said, he is an excellent employee, but he is a crappy manager.

In addition, China's bosses began to fight corruption, and the consumption of public funds was greatly reduced, and those high-end restaurants and hotels were deeply affected, and in order to survive, they began to reduce prices and get close to the people, so they seriously squeezed the living space of Gaojie and their medium-sized restaurants.

Before a year came, Gao Jie's restaurant couldn't survive. Just last month, he had to transfer the restaurant, with the remaining 20,000 yuan in his pocket, huddled in a rented home to lick his wounds.

In order to cheer himself up, he signed up for an 8-day tour of Malaysia to go abroad for a walk, by the way, to review the past, think about life, and then start again.

"I'm in my forties, I haven't achieved anything, I haven't even talked about my girlfriend, and I don't know what to do when I return to China. ”

This is Gao Jie's mentality now, confused and helpless.

"Sir, what drink do you need?" a nice female voice interrupted Gao Jie's thoughts.

It turned out that at this time, the plane had been flying smoothly at an altitude of 10,000 meters, and Malaysia Airlines, like other international airlines, would recruit some Chinese flight attendants on flights to China.

The service was provided by a beautiful Chinese flight attendant, who could be described as beautiful and beautiful, but Gao Jie just glanced at her with a blurred eye, and then replied lightly: "Orange juice!"

Taking the orange juice handed over by the flight attendant, Gao Jie picked up the cup, took a sip, and then looked out of the dark window again, not noticing the complaining gaze of the beautiful flight attendant.

"It's dark outside, there's a fairy or what?!" The beautiful stewardess had never been ignored by a man like this, snorted in her heart, and turned to continue her work.

It was her first international flight, and her excitement and excitement were suddenly ruined by this hateful man.

She has always been the focus of attention because of her beauty and intelligence, even in the flight attendant's line full of beautiful women, she can be regarded as a leader.

As long as she is on duty, there will be many various men on the plane who find all kinds of excuses to take the initiative to talk to her, so that her vanity is greatly satisfied.

But this time, Gao Jie's indifference, no, it should be said to ignore it, hit her deeply, and made her smile a little unbearable.

How did Gao Jie, who was wandering, know that he had hurt a beautiful woman like this, he recalled the course of the past few decades at the moment, and after summing it up, he came to the conclusion that his withdrawn personality and pessimistic attitude were the reasons for his failed life in this half of his life.

"If I could do it all over again, would I change?" A thought jumped into Gao Jie's mind, and was immediately deleted by him with a wry smile, it seems that he has read too many online rebirth novels, so he is more willing to live in the virtual world, such a boring and meaningless problem will also appear!

But then this thought kept repeating itself, so that Gao Jie couldn't control it at all. So, in desperation, he had to give a perfunctory answer: "If I can do it all over again, I will definitely be positive and optimistic, like Wang Baoqiang, and I will not abandon or give up......"

Just as Gao Jie was silently expressing his determination passionately and silently, just as he did when he joined the Young Pioneers in elementary school, he suddenly felt a violent vibration of the plane. When he opened his eyes, Gao Jie saw that the lights in the cabin flickered on and off, and there was chaos.

At this time, because the plane had already been flying smoothly at an altitude of 10,000 meters, except for Gao Jie, who forgot to unbuckle his seat belt because of his fugue, the people on the plane were basically unfastened, and they had already started their free activities on the plane.

The sudden and violent jolting left the passengers defenseless, everyone was shaken to the ground, and several passengers fell to the ground in the aisle.

Gao Jie, who has been on a plane a few times and is also highly educated, did not panic in his heart, and two words appeared in his head: "Airflow!"

However, the calm Gao Jie immediately became a pain.

Because, next, the plane was thrown up like a toy, drawing an upward parabola, and many people were suddenly thrown into the air in the cabin.

Then, the plane slowly reversed in the air, turned its nose down, and after a few seconds of immobility, it did not hesitate to dive sharply to the ground.

Because the plane at this time was basically in a state of vertical downward fall, in the bright and off lights, accompanied by repeated screams, the passengers fell to the nose like dumplings, stacked up one by one, not knowing whether they were dead or alive!

Only Gao Jie, because the seat belt was still tied, did not fall.

He sat at the end of the cabin, and now at the top of the entire cabin, Gao Jie seemed to be standing on the roof of a tall building, clutching the backrest of the seat in front of him with both hands, overlooking the pile of people who had fallen underneath and squirmed. From time to time, I felt something fall from my head and hit the pile of people below.

Gao Jie could not hear the sound of the engine, and based on the speed at which the plane was falling at this point, he realized that the plane had completely lost power.

At this moment, he finally truly experienced the theory of high school physics - free fall, and the terrifying acceleration made him feel weightless more and more intense.

Gao Jie understands that this time, it is estimated that the game is over!