Reborn Action Star: Starting in Hollywood

"How much time is left?" Lin Yuan asked as he ran.

He was speeding toward the specially designed dune buggy.

"2 minutes and 48 seconds." Meng Tao's voice came through the earpiece.

Time was still lost because of an accident during the climb, which reduced the remaining time by 12 seconds compared to the estimate.

There's no time to lose; we must race against time. Every second of delay increases the chances of the shoot failing significantly.

According to Lin Yuan and Meng Tao's original design, the final part of the sand gliding was planned to use a combination of the Teramobile laser system and other means to trigger lightning to complete the final leap.

If we can't arrive at the filming location within the scheduled time, the filming of this scene will probably fail!
In this situation, Lin Yuan couldn't care less about anything else and could only run as fast as he could, rushing all the way to the "coffin lid," quickly slipping his feet into the groove, and preparing to start sand flushing.

"Filming is about to begin. Car 1, proceed along Route A as planned. Car 2, proceed along Route B as planned." Director Miller's voice came through the communication channel.

"Wait, the thunderstorm intensity is too high. We need to use the backup plan," Meng Tao suddenly said.

"Understood. Follow Director Meng's instructions and use the backup plan." Director Miller paused for a moment, then immediately confirmed Meng Tao's filming plan.

The thunderstorms tonight are too intense. If we proceed as planned, the camera vehicle may be affected by the storm. Therefore, we must choose an alternative route with a more distant shooting location.

"Crack!"

Another bolt of lightning flashed, splitting the night sky over the Taklamakan Desert in two. The intense light illuminated the entire desert as if it were daytime.

This is the fourth lightning strike!

The discharge channels are continuously superimposed, each one stronger than the last. Perhaps on the seventh or eighth lightning strike, a super lightning strike that will "terminate" the event will be triggered.

Lin Yuan must arrive at the designated location before the scheduled time, or he will miss this earth-shattering final blow.

He stood on the edge of the dune, tiny electric arcs dancing on the surface of the carbon fiber sand-blasting slab beneath his feet—the result of an electrostatic field exceeding 50 kilovolts per meter in the air.

"Wind speed 34 meters per second, sandstorm level V." Meng Tao's voice, crackling with static, came through the earpiece: "2 minutes and 16 seconds remaining, you must speed up!"

Lin Yuan was 14 seconds behind schedule, and he had to make up for the lost time.

In fact, simply making up for lost time is probably not enough. Considering the greater power of lightning and the need to maintain a safe distance, he might need to be 5 or 6 seconds faster.

How can we make up for a 20-second deficit?

Before Lin Yuan lay a five-kilometer-long sand slide, winding like the spine of a giant dragon beneath the thunderstorm—this was the track he was about to conquer.

"I know!" Lin Yuan said calmly.

As he spoke, he lowered his center of gravity, and the sandboard tilted and began to slide down under the influence of gravity.

Lin Yuan lowered his body to its lowest point, activating all his talents. He had to use the most extreme methods to maximize his speed in a short period of time!
No, it will even exceed the predetermined maximum speed!

The moment the sand-carrying slab cuts into the sand slope, the world suddenly tilts.

Unlike the previous daytime event, the sand grains during the thunderstorm night carried static electricity, causing tiny blue sparks to explode on the bottom of the plate.

Lin Yuan lowered his center of gravity, feeling two completely opposite forces—the pushing force of the gale and the gravitational pull of the sand flow—tearing him apart.

But Lin Yuan paid no attention to that; his focus was entirely on his feet, all in an effort to go even faster.

The speed quickly increased to 30 kilometers per hour. At that moment, the fifth bolt of lightning struck down from the sky, landing two kilometers to his right and illuminating the entire desert in a ghastly white light.

Lin Yuan could clearly see his shadow leaping wildly across the sand dunes, like a shadow puppet manipulated by an invisible hand.

The speed continued to increase, exceeding 40 km/h. At this moment, the sandstorm, accompanied by strong winds, suddenly intensified.

Gravel with a diameter of more than 3 millimeters struck from behind, rattling against his windproof jacket as if he were being baptized by hail.

This filled Lin Yuan with ecstasy. The wind blowing from behind was a huge boost, allowing him to further increase his speed!
Sure enough, his speed reached 50 kilometers per hour in an instant.

However, an abnormal vibration frequency was also transmitted from the bottom of the slab—this was not the friction of the quartz sand, but rather the relatively rough support layer of sand belt that was aroused by the high-speed movement.

Lin Yuan instantly bent his knees, which adjusted with the vibration to become the best shock absorber. Guided by his talent and nerve reflexes, the degree of his knee flexion was accurate to the millimeter, distributing the impact force to all muscle groups in his body.

Just a few seconds later, Lin Yuan's speed exceeded 60 kilometers per hour.

He already knew from the last test route that 60 km/h was a critical point.

He felt the vibration beneath his feet drop sharply again. The grooves at the bottom of the sand-washing slab guided the surface sand grains to form a drag-reducing layer in a supercritical carbon dioxide state, just like millions of miniature ball bearings working simultaneously.

So the speed increased like a snowball rolling downhill, getting higher and higher, and constantly soaring!
70 km/h...

80 km/h...

……

110 km/h...

The speed reached 110 km/h again, the same as in the last test.

The world began to become simpler, or perhaps only for Lin Yuan.

All he could hear was the howling of the wind, and his vision narrowed into a tunnel.

Lin Yuan's brain automatically filtered out all irrelevant information, focusing all his attention on the subtle changes in the terrain ahead.

At this speed, without any protection, even the slightest mistake could lead to irreparable and tragic consequences.

But this time, Lin Yuan did not stop at 110 kilometers per hour like he had done in the previous days; he chose to accelerate further!
"Lin! Too fast! Slow down!" Director Miller's anxious shouts came through the earpiece.

"Lin Yuan! It's too dangerous! You can't speed up anymore!" Meng Tao shouted anxiously.

At this moment, Lin Yuan was unable to answer them; at high speed, he simply couldn't open his mouth to speak.

But actions speak louder than words. His lowered body and accelerated posture had already told Meng Tao and director Miller that he wanted to be faster, even faster!
"My God! The speed has surpassed the world record!" exclaimed the technician monitoring the data.

"What is the current speed?" Meng Tao asked hurriedly.

"136.7 km/h," the technician replied immediately.

Everyone was shocked by this data.

The world record for dune bashing is 120 km/h, and Lin Yuan's speed at this moment has far exceeded that!

Unwittingly, he once again broke through the limits and created an unparalleled miracle.

But Lin Yuan's acceleration did not stop there. He had only one idea in his mind: he had to make up for the lost 20 seconds!
To make up for those 20 seconds, even a speed of 150 kilometers per hour isn't enough; you have to go even faster!
"160 kilometers per hour!" the technician exclaimed.

At this speed, any mistake will be fatal.

The entire crew held their breath; no one dared to utter a sound.

"boom!"

Just then, a pebble the size of a peanut suddenly bounced up from under the board, making a loud noise like a grenade being detonated!
The high-speed pebble grazed Lin Yuan's calf and immediately tore a hole in his thick jeans.

A bloodstain appeared on Lin Yuan's calf in an instant, but the spurting blood was dried by the wind before it could flow to his ankle.

Before the crew could even gasp in surprise, another wave of trouble arose!
"Crack!"

The sixth bolt of lightning streaked across the night sky, striking hard 500 meters to the east of Lin Yuan.

The energy of this lightning strike was extremely terrifying. Everyone could clearly see that the moment the sand dune was struck by lightning, it was as if someone had detonated a powder keg beneath the dune.

The entire sand dune was instantly blasted into the sky, and countless grains of sand were scattered into the air, like a sand rain!
"Clatter, crash, crash!"

The sand and rain poured down on Lin Yuan, pelting him from head to toe.

Normally, getting splashed with sand wouldn't be a big deal; at most, you'd just look a bit dusty.

But now Lin Yuan is gliding at a speed of over 170 kilometers per hour. Under the influence of relative speed, every grain of sand is transformed into a hidden weapon like a rain of pear blossom needles.

"hiss!"

"Hiss!" "Hiss!"

A series of tearing sounds rang out, and all the crew members could see clearly that Lin Yuan's jacket was instantly ripped into countless holes.

His exposed skin began to bleed, and a huge cloud of blood mist formed around him!
"God!" exclaimed director Miller!

"Is Lin Yuan alright?" the assistant director asked.

Meng Tao shook his head helplessly: "You all ask me, but how would I know about such things?"

"Everything will be alright, trust Lin Yuan." GAKKI-chan has only one principle: to always firmly believe in this man who has created countless miracles.

"Don't worry, we've weathered much bigger storms, this is just a minor issue." Charlize Theron, who had been through countless terrifying moments with Lin Yuan, said this firmly.

But the next moment, to everyone's astonishment, Lin Yuan suddenly staggered and almost fell off the sand-pushing board!
"what!!!"

"No!"

The crew members had barely uttered their exclamations when Lin Yuan tilted his body to an incredible angle and regained his balance.

But the price was that he relied on the downward pressing motion of his left hand to maintain his balance by rubbing his palm against the sand, and his skin was immediately rubbed raw and bloody.

"201.3 kilometers per hour!" the technicians exclaimed in disbelief.

This data has exceeded everyone's expectations.

No one expected Lin Yuan to reach such speed!

"Trajectory deviation of 0.3 degrees!" Meng Tao stared intently at the data screen, warning Lin Yuan, "There's a hidden sand fissure ahead!"

Meng Tao's expression turned serious. He didn't know how Lin Yuan would handle things at this pace.

Lin Yuan did not slow down—nor could he.

At this speed, if he dares to stop suddenly, the inertia will directly fling his internal organs out of his mouth.

After receiving Meng Tao's reminder, Lin Yuan didn't even have time to look down at the broken sand layer in front of him.

His body reacted entirely based on muscle memory: his left knee bent slightly at 7 degrees, his right shoulder dropped 3 centimeters, and the sandboard swept across the sand in a precise arc.

The sand grains in the cracked sand layer burst into a five-meter-high sand curtain as they were cut by the blade, like a miniature nuclear explosion.

Before anyone could even cheer and applaud this astonishing change of course, a staff member suddenly exclaimed:

"Look, isn't Lin Yuan emitting a blue light?"

Everyone immediately sensed that lightning seemed to have begun to chase Lin Yuan.

This is not a metaphor—the pilot channel between the cloud and the ground is indeed following the moving conductor.

Lin Yuan felt his hair standing on end!

He knew that the strongest discharge channel was about to form!

He accelerated desperately just now, and now it's time to reap the rewards.

At this moment, the Linyuan Expressway passes through a sand dune, and on the other side of this dune is the location where the Teramobile laser guidance system is placed.

The lightning strike was about to be directed at this location, and his only goal was to leave quickly, making that earth-shattering attack the most spectacular backdrop.

Then the sky split open.

After six super lightning strikes accumulating energy within the clouds, the release point has finally been found.

This is not a naturally formed passage, but rather the Teramobile laser-guided system that Lin Yuan had set up in advance.

Dozens of terawatt-level lasers buried along the route simultaneously emitted ionized beams into the clouds, paving a precise "highway" for lightning.

The aerosols were sprayed beforehand with a mixture of sodium chloride and silver nitrate, along with a suspension of carbon nanotubes.

It also increased the electrical conductivity of this area by 10 times, like lighting up the "target" of a lightning strike!
"Fire in the hole!" Meng Tao's roar was drowned out by the thunder.

A plasma column with a diameter of over eight meters fell from the sky, releasing energy equivalent to a single unit of a super-large hydroelectric power station operating at full load for 17 seconds.

The instant the lightning struck the target, the entire sea of ​​sand instantly vitrified, and the shockwave spread in a ring, leveling all the sand dunes within a radius of nearly 100 meters.

This terrifying scene was like the end of the world.

But Lin Yuan had been waiting for this moment.

He adjusted the angle of the sand-bursting plate to precisely cut into the leading edge of the shock wave.

The moment the blast wave arrived, Lin Yuan made a near-suicidal move—he leaped up and adjusted the sandboard to a near-vertical angle.

The blast wave propelled him and the sandboard into the air, like a javelin thrown by an invisible giant hand.

"boom!"

The shockwave lifted him up like an invisible hand.

Lin Yuan stretched out his body in the air, and the sandboard became a temporary hang glider.

At this moment, he was completely exposed to the thunderstorm. His hair stood on end due to static electricity, and the gale lifted his tattered clothes, which clung to his face, outlining a ferocious facial contour.

The height of Lin Yuan continues to rise:
20 meters...30 meters...40 meters...

At the vertex of this parabola, time seems to stand still.

Lin Yuan saw the sand beneath his feet, melted into a mirror-like surface by lightning, the emergency lights of the film crew's vehicles in the distance, and even the main trunk of lightning that had not yet dissipated in the clouds—it looked like an inverted, luminous giant tree with its roots deeply embedded in the earth.

Then gravity takes over everything again.

The descent was even more frantic than the ascent, and Lin Yuan adjusted the sandboard to a diving posture.

The sand dunes in the buffer zone rapidly magnified in the field of view.

Like ski jumping, Lin Yuan stepped onto the sand table and slammed hard onto the downhill slope, dissipating most of the impact!
But the impact of the landing still made Lin Yuan's vision go black for a moment, and he felt that at least two of his ribs were broken.

Relying on muscle memory, Lin Yuan instinctively completed the recovery maneuver, sliding nearly a hundred meters across the sand dune before stopping.

At this moment, the crew members waiting at the finish line rushed forward towards Lin Yuan without any instructions from the director.

When everyone arrived at his side, Lin Yuan was lying on the slope of the sand dune.

"Did you pass?" Lin Yuan's first question was.

"Of course, it's a pass!" Director Miller nodded vigorously.

"That's amazing! It's unbelievable!" Meng Tao exclaimed.

"That's good, because we can't film it a second time," Lin Yuan said.

Following his gaze, the crew members looked into the distance.

At the lightning strike site 600 meters away, the sand crater that was just struck by super lightning is still emitting blue smoke. The crater-like depression with a diameter of more than 200 meters will become the most stunning natural set for this movie.

At the bottom center of the pit, the metal base of the Teramobile system had vaporized, and the main structure had turned into scrap metal.

A set of equipment worth $1000 million was simply written off as a result.

The cost of this action scene must have been quite high.

"Hahaha! I don't feel bad at all. Just based on this scene, we can make an extra $2 million at the box office!" Director Miller said excitedly.

"2 million US dollars? Who do you think you are?" Meng Tao retorted dismissively.

At this moment, the thunderclouds that filled the night sky were gradually dissipating. (End of Chapter)