A genius? I just love studying.

Chapter 285 Slingshot Effect
“Go straight along Monument Avenue, then turn left at the second intersection…”

Chen Hui had already taken out Google Maps and was speaking to Lin Xiaotang. His brain was working at lightning speed. At this moment, his memory, which had been upgraded to level 5, made his brain like a small computer. Although it couldn't compare to a supercomputer, it still had a computing power far exceeding that of ordinary people.

Lin Xiaotang had already noticed that something was wrong with her surroundings, but she didn't know exactly what had happened. However, out of trust in Chen Hui, she still activated the Camaro immediately.

……

In the S.H.I.E.L.D. control room, Nick Fury was about to leave when he was suddenly stopped by a piercing alarm and turned to look at the large screen on the control panel.

At that moment, he also saw the hurricane that had already taken shape and was hurtling towards the S.H.I.E.L.D. encirclement.

Along the way, houses, buildings, and vehicles were all tossed about by an invisible giant hand like toys, unable to stop the giant of wind's advance.

Nick was in a daze, his eyes wide, unable to believe what he was seeing.

He had already learned from meteorologists that a hurricane might be forming off the Virginia coast today, but none of the experts had said that the hurricane would head towards Ohio.

Furthermore, the hurricane's path was too coincidental, as if someone was controlling him, leading him into the encirclement of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.

Nick couldn't help but have an absurd thought: some comic book scenes he had read before began to appear in his mind, almost overlapping with reality.

Was the sudden change in the hurricane related to Chen Hui?
Nick couldn't help but make that connection.

Based on the meteorological forecasting models that Chen Hui had been researching over the past few months, he suddenly felt a chill down his spine.

But he still immediately issued an order: "Everyone, immediately take refuge in the parking lot!"

……

Near the exit of a Volvo underground parking garage in Ohio.
The S.H.I.E.L.D. agents could only feel the increasingly terrifying wind. Their vision was blocked by the buildings, and they didn't know what was happening. They only saw the surrounding crowd screaming and scattering in panic, rushing into the buildings for shelter.

They also wanted to hide, but duty forced them to suppress their fear and continue to approach Camaro.

Many people already had their index fingers on the trigger; under such intense pressure, they could fire at any moment.

They might even have some frantic thoughts, like if they emptied their magazines now, would they be able to finish this terrible mission quickly and leave this awful place as soon as possible?

"Everyone, immediately move to the nearest parking lot to avoid the hurricane!"

The radio crackled with Director Nick's orders, and everyone frantically looked up, vaguely catching a glimpse of the dark column of wind reaching the sky. Terrified, they abandoned all thought of the mission and rushed into their cars, speeding towards the nearest Volvo parking lot.

The clever agent didn't even get into the car. After the earlier chaos, the road was full of cars, making it difficult to drive smoothly. The Volvo underground parking lot wasn't far away; it would only take a minute or two to run there.

Just then, they saw the Camaro, which had been surrounded, start moving and rush straight towards the direction from which the hurricane was coming.

"Don't they want to die?"

The agents were stunned for a moment, but they didn't care about anything else; escaping was their priority.

……

In a courtyard house meeting room in Beijing,

Lin Zhengtian had just received news from the front lines. Looking at the towering hurricane columns on the big screen, he was momentarily stunned. Every time he witnessed the power of nature, he was always awestruck by it.

"Could this be the reason Professor Chen designed this route?"

Old Zhao muttered to himself.

"But what's the use?" Lin Zhengtian frowned. "Under such power of heaven and earth, they still have no chance to escape. In fact, they will be trapped like turtles in a jar."

"The power of heaven and earth?"

Master Qian's eyes lit up. "What did you just say?"

Suddenly, everyone in the conference room remembered the words Chen Hui had sent back half a month ago: he wanted to borrow the power of heaven and earth!
In other words, what happened today was exactly what he had anticipated, and the hurricane was even part of his plan.

But how can he borrow the power of heaven and earth?

The people in the conference room racked their brains, but still couldn't figure it out.

……

Standing on high ground and looking far,

Because the hurricane was detected in advance, the television station's helicopter was able to take timely evasive action, quickly creating distance between itself and the hurricane, reaching a point several kilometers away from the eye of the storm.
"Hey John, stop right here, I want to get a close-up look at this storm!"

The photographer, his eyes gleaming, shouted angrily at the driver.

"You don't want your life?"

"We're so close to the eye of the storm here, the hurricane could turn this way at any moment, and then we're all doomed!"

The driver said as if he had seen a ghost, not wanting to pay any attention to this madman.

But then, a reporter joined the photographers. "John, you have to stay. We're doing a live broadcast, and the viewers are really interested in this hurricane. We can't leave!"

As a reporter who broadcasts live the pursuit of fugitives, she is a natural magnet for attention, and she couldn't possibly miss such a golden opportunity.

But John completely ignored the two lunatics. He was the driver, and he could leave whenever he wanted. He wasn't going to risk his life here with these two lunatics.

“John, Scarlett is right, you guys have to stay and finish this live stream. I promise you, your quarterly bonus will be doubled!”

However, at that moment, the voice of the TV station director came through the radio.

John suddenly realized that with his skills, he should be able to react even if the hurricane suddenly changed direction from several kilometers away.

Viewers in front of their screens went wild, and the number of viewers watching the live broadcast on television instantly soared to over a million.
Witnessing the devastation of a hurricane firsthand is a rare experience for them. They rarely see live streams or even videos, let alone a helicopter perspective like this. Hurricanes are often unpredictable and generate powerful air currents, and few helicopters have ever dared to hover around such a behemoth before.

"Look, what is that?"

Suddenly, Scarlett, the reporter who was staring at the photographer's screen, exclaimed and pointed to a small white dot that was rushing towards the hurricane.

"My God, is he going to charge into the hurricane?"

The audience was also drawn in by her words, and when they saw the white dot, they felt a sense of absurdity.

It's like seeing Don Quixote rushing towards a windmill.

As she spoke, the photographer adjusted the focus, and now everyone could see clearly that it was a snow-white Chevrolet Camaro, which seemed to be the same car that had just been chased by the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.

Three hundred meters... two hundred meters...

Comailo is getting closer and closer to hurricane, and it's even accelerating!
The hurricane was already moving very fast, and with the Camaro moving at full speed, the distance of a few hundred meters was covered in an instant.

One hundred meters... fifty meters...

As the Chevrolet drew ever closer to the eye of the hurricane, many spectators couldn't bear to look away and closed their eyes. They could foresee that the Camaro, like the cars before it, would be tossed into the sky like a toy by the hurricane and then torn apart by the terrifying air currents.

Including the people inside the car.

……

Princeton, Fefferman, and Deng Leyan's hearts began to clench.
Others didn't know who was in the car, but they did.

They hadn't expected Chen Hui to be so resolute, to choose such a way to end this farce. Even if he had been captured by S.H.I.E.L.D., it wasn't necessarily a big deal; in fact, there was a high probability that S.H.I.E.L.D. would have sent Chen Hui back to Princeton.

Based on Fefferman's understanding, the probability of this is very high.

Deng Leyan stared blankly at the live broadcast. He had thought he would catch up with Chen Hui academically sooner or later, but when he saw the Camaro rushing towards the hurricane like a moth to a flame, he felt an inexplicable shock.

He suddenly felt that he might never be able to surpass Chen Hui in his lifetime.

Fefferman sighed softly, turned his head away, unable to bear to see what was about to happen.

……

In the S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters control room, Nick Fury was also watching this scene.

I couldn't help but feel a sense of admiration for Chen Hui.
Everyone laughed at the moth flying into the flame, thinking it was foolish, but he believed that Chen Hui was not stupid. He was well aware of the consequences. Therefore, doing something that is known to be impossible still requires great courage!

Respect for martyrs is a universal value shared by people all over the world, not just in China.

Regardless of what happened with this hurricane, Chen Hui was already inevitably going to be buried in this storm. With death comes the end of all resentment, and all these secrets would be buried in this storm along with Chen Hui. He had no intention of investigating further.

The mere thought of that terrifying power filled him with dread.

……

In a courtyard house meeting room in Beijing,

"Chief, something's happening!"

A middle-aged man with a resolute face rushed into the conference room.

The elderly people in the meeting room immediately looked over seriously. The matters they discussed in the meeting room were often of great importance. If someone barged in without prior notice, the matter could be serious or minor.

"Watch the live stream."

The middle-aged man couldn't care less about anything else, because this live broadcast was a signal from the TV station, and this was the only way he could convey it to his superiors.

"Professor Chen?"

"What are they going to do?"

Lin Zhengtian saw Camaro heading towards the hurricane immediately.

From the helicopter's perspective, to the right front is the eye of a hurricane that stretches to the sky and blocks out the sun, while to the left is a Camaro moving at full speed.

The world seemed to stand still, and time itself seemed to freeze in this scene.

boom!
The snow-white Camaro plunged headlong into a swirling, roaring vortex of death, composed of countless wildly spinning objects.

*Pfft!* *Boom!*

First, the windshield suddenly appeared covered in spiderweb-like cracks, as if an invisible giant foot had stomped down! Vision instantly blurred and shattered.
Lin Xiaotang already knew what they were going to face.

Through the windshield, she could already see the towering eye of the storm, but she still obeyed Chen Hui's command, floored the accelerator, and sped forward.

"Now! Turn left!"

Chen Hui's voice came from the side, but it sounded as distant as if a century had passed. However, Lin Xiaotang's usual training still made her body react subconsciously.

buzzing...

A blinding white light flashed before Lin Xiaotang's eyes, causing her to lose her sight instantly. All she could hear was a chaotic and loud noise, as if she had been imprisoned in a gong, with someone pounding on it.

boom!
The Camaro slammed into something hard, and Lin Xiaotang only heard a loud "poof" sound explode beside her ear before her head sank into something soft.

"My God, what are we seeing?"

The reporter's exclamation startled the audience awake.

Only then did they notice that in the live broadcast, the Camaro that was heading towards the hurricane actually made a centrifugal motion around the outer edge of the hurricane's eye, and was then thrown out by the slingshot effect, without being caught in the eye of the hurricane.

"It's the slingshot effect!"

In Fefferman's office at Princeton, Deng Leyan's eyes flashed with a sharp light.

He hadn't closed his eyes or turned his head; he had witnessed the Camaro hurtling wildly toward the eye of the hurricane and then turning in the direction of the hurricane's rotation.

If a stationary vehicle were to be swept into the hurricane's violent airflow at such close range, it would be impossible to escape.

However, the centrifugal force from the hurricane's rotation, combined with the centrifugal force generated by Camaro's speed of up to 120 miles per hour, caused Camaro to be thrown out of the hurricane shortly after contact.

At that moment, the hurricane was right behind Camaro, which had been thrown off course, and continued to sweep rapidly backward, getting further and further away from Camaro.

It was as if even the angle at which Camaro was thrown was within Chen Hui's calculations.

The enormous angular momentum of a hurricane's rotation is converted into the kinetic energy of a vehicle through centrifugal motion, much like a space probe being launched and accelerated by planetary gravity. This is a manifestation of the conservation of angular momentum and energy transfer in classical mechanics.

Chen Hui not only predicts hurricane paths, but also turns the destructive eye of the storm into an escape tool. His calculations require simultaneous analysis of complex parameters such as hurricane hydrodynamics, vehicle power limits, and ejection critical points, which far exceed the scope of conventional science.

It's so terrifying!
Deng Leyan suddenly remembered that when they were competing back then, Chen Hui always managed to hand in his paper well in advance.

No wonder, with such terrifying mental arithmetic ability, who can beat him?
Fefferman turned around after hearing the exclamation and saw the Camaro slowly moving in the screen. He thought he was seeing things and quickly rubbed his eyes, but found that the tattered Camaro was running faster and faster, moving freely on the road swept by the hurricane, like a bird flying out of its cage.

Those S.H.I.E.L.D. agents were already separated by the hurricane, and he couldn't even see their taillights. Chen Hui and his team might actually be able to escape with the help of this hurricane.

Deng Leyan was overjoyed, happy for Chen Hui and the other two.

Fefferman, however, was not so optimistic. After all, this was America. Even if they had temporarily escaped the pursuit of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, they still had tens of thousands of kilometers to travel back to China.

This is just the beginning.

……

“Wake up… wake up…”

She didn't know how much time had passed when she felt someone gently patting her shoulder. She woke up from a white haze and opened her eyes with difficulty, seeing the airbags that covered her entire body.

Then he turned his head and saw Chen Hui gently patting his shoulder.

"you're awake?"

"Let's go quickly!"

Chen Hui reached out and punctured the airbag, then carried Lin Xiaotang to the passenger seat. He got into the driver's seat, started the Camaro, and drove away shakily but resolutely through the ruins.

His physical condition is now far superior to Lin Xiaotang's, so he naturally woke up faster than Lin Xiaotang. With the protection of the airbag, he was not seriously injured. On the contrary, Lin Xiaotang seemed to have suffered a concussion.

There won't be any further pursuit, so it's more appropriate for him to drive.

In the sky, the TV station's helicopter had run out of fuel, but two new helicopters had already arrived to relieve it.

After seeing the Camaro disappear into the distance, a helicopter decisively abandoned its pursuit of the Hurricane and followed the Camaro.

(End of this chapter)