"But how can I land on the island quietly without being discovered? Umbrella Mountain Island is in the center of Taiping Lake, and the only way to land is by water. If the other party has control over all the ports on the island, thinking of sneaking in by boat is just daydreaming. Do I have to fly there?" Luo Chao was troubled by this issue.

"Wait, fly?" Thinking of this, Luo Chao's eyes widened, and he slapped his thigh hard, followed by a look of ecstasy on his face.

"I weigh 80 kilograms, and my Telekinesis can now exert a maximum force of up to 2500 kilograms. Since the human body is also an object, can I use Telekinesis to float myself in the air and move, achieving the purpose of flying?" Luo Chao thought excitedly.

Flying has always been one of humanity's greatest dreams. When our ancestors gazed at the eagles soaring through the sky, they surely wished to give themselves wings to fly.

For centuries, many have dedicated countless time, energy, wealth, and even their lives to this great dream, most notably the Renaissance master Leonardo Da Vinci.

Da Vinci sketched numerous drawings of birds in flight, attempting to unravel the secrets of free flight from them.

He also meticulously designed some flying machines, somewhat similar to modern gliders and helicopters.

However, he never really understood the physical principles of flying, and by the time of his death in 1519, he still wasn't able to truly fly.

In the three hundred years that followed, countless philosophers also struggled to uncover the secrets of personal flight, but most failed, until an engineer named George Kelly from the United Kingdom appeared.

After many experiments, George Kelly discovered that flying mainly depends on three factors: lift, thrust, and control power.

Thus, he designed a glider with curved wings.

This curved wing form was effective in providing lift.

He ordered his servant to sit on this glider and had workers place it on a slope and push down.

The glider, after gaining enough lift, finally took off, but unfortunately, the servant could not control the machine and crashed after gliding for more than 90 meters.

Though the servant's life was spared, it is said he was badly injured.

Decades later, a German engineer named Otto Lilienthal emerged.

In 1891, he created the first fixed-wing glider, with wings spanning 7 meters, made with bamboo and rattan frames, covered in fabric, with spaces for a person's head and shoulders to pass between the wings. It was equipped with a tail and weighed about 2 kilograms, resembling a bat with outspread wings.

He hung himself from the wings, leapt from a 15-meter-high hill, using body movements to control flight.

The glider, driven by air currents, glided gracefully, and landed safely 90 meters away.

This was the world's first glider.

During this period, many "birdmen" also hoped to achieve their dream of flying with self-made wings.

They jumped off towers or cliffs, but without realizing that, no matter how fast or hard they flapped their arms, they could never generate the necessary lift for flight, they eventually met tragic ends.

Luo Chao stood straight in his room, stretched out his arms level to his sides, and silently chanted, "Rise!"

Meanwhile, he started visualizing himself flying in his mind. Slowly, his feet began to leave the ground, and he continued to rise higher and higher.

10 centimeters, 20 centimeters, 30 centimeters, until his feet were nearly a meter off the ground, Luo Chao controlled himself to stop rising, otherwise, he would hit the ceiling.

Floating in the air, Luo Chao felt ecstatic!

He was probably the first and maybe the only person in the tens of thousands of years of human history to successfully fly without relying on any external tools.

After doing a somersault in the air, he resisted the urge to immediately fly out the window and lowered himself back to the ground.

He packed his suitcase and headed downstairs.

At the entrance of the hospital was a grocery store, and as Luo Chao passed by the store entrance, he seemed to remember something and turned back.

"Boss, do you sell those masks people wear?" Luo Chao asked.

"Yes, I have plenty of masks. Do you want this Sun Wukong mask or the Ultraman one? These two sell the best; local elementary students come in every now and then to buy them." The shopkeeper said, holding a Sun Wukong mask in one hand and an Ultraman mask in the other, showing them to Luo Chao.

"Aren't these a bit childish for me?" Luo Chao said with a straight face.

"Childish? Then how about this one?" The shopkeeper pulled out a Transformer mask.

Luo Chao thought, "Oh come on, is there any difference?" and then said, "Alright, I'll take a Sun Wukong one."

He spent 5 yuan on a Sun Wukong mask, then went to a secluded corner, unleashed his full Telekinesis, levitated off the ground, and sped towards Umbrella Mountain Island!

Luo Chao was flying at a height of 500 meters above the ground, yet rather than flying, it was more like moving at high speed.

Birds flap their wings when they fly, and even airplanes have wings and engines that emit high-temperature flames.

Luo Chao, however, floated in the air as if standing on the ground, with his arms crossed in front of his chest. A small suitcase didn't need to be carried by hand; it simply hovered in the air beside him, moving forward at the same speed as him.

Although Luo Chao's Telekinesis could reach speeds ten times that of sound, his physical body wasn't nearly strong enough to withstand supersonic flight in the air without external protection.

Therefore, Luo Chao had to slow down; otherwise, if he forced a supersonic flight, his body would be torn apart by the air currents in an instant.

His current speed was 100 kilometers per hour, but with the strong winds at high altitude, there was still significant air resistance.

To increase speed, Luo Chao adjusted his position to reduce the surface area exposed to air resistance, achieving a safer and faster flight state.

The speed increased to 160 kilometers per hour under the control of his Telekinesis.

Luo Chao checked his watch, estimating it would take another ten minutes to reach Umbrella Mountain Island.

About eight minutes later, he could vaguely see a silhouette of a black mountain in front of him under the moonlight.

As Luo Chao approached, the mountain's outline became clearer, and as he got closer, it gradually revealed itself to be a small island.

However, in the dark, it was impossible to see more clearly, so Luo Chao expanded his Spiritual Force Field, using his Spiritual Power to explore the specific situation on the island...

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