Chapter 56 Section IX

"Fasten your seat belt!" Malone yelled. Sienna hurriedly buckled up her seat belt, the extreme tension and the roar from the open door made her scream, "I'm afraid the plane is going to crash!" "Everything went well, nothing—" "Watch out! We—" Leaning back, Malone tried to keep the plane up and headed for the estate at about twenty feet. Sienna groaned. Malone tried his best to control the altitude of the flight. He saw the tall buildings of the manor rushing towards him, and then the foggy sky appeared in front of him. At this moment, he felt the plane shake, and then it shook.

"What's wrong--" "Something hit the plane!" "what?" "They're shooting!" The controls were shaking too.Sienna also lost her balance as the helicopter spun to the left and wobbled as the plane tilted toward the door, fortunately her seat belt held her tight. "Close the hatch!" Malone shouted. "Try it!" As much as he's worried about her, he can't risk looking back at her because he's too busy controlling the plane, "Can you get the door?" "I think... I've had enough!" Out of the corner of his eye he saw her struggling to close the hatch.The sound immediately became quieter.Almost at the same time, he also pulled the plane back to a balanced state, he also closed the hatch on his side, the roar of the engine immediately weakened, and he and Sienna didn't have to shout for a conversation anymore, he was right I was ecstatic about the temporary relative quiet I had gained.

He looked at the unfamiliar buttons on the control panel that had puzzled him since he'd been flying at Bellasar, the pilot had never touched them, so Malone didn't know what they were for, but now There's no time to study them either - the plane is about to stall.Malone felt more and more that the controls were going to fail as the plane made its way across the earth and the stone fences.A mountain surrounded by cypress trees blocked his way, and he tried desperately to lift the plane, but with little success. "What's wrong?" Malone took a quick glance at the gauges. "The oil pressure is dropping, the bullet must have hit—" He adjusted his direction and flew towards the lowest point of the mountain. Just after flying over, he felt the plane shake again. It was a landing gear of the plane swept across on cypress leaves.

"We're going to—" Sienna's voice was full of fear. "No, I'll make an emergency landing before the plane crashes." "But we haven't gone very far! Still over Derek's manor, he will—" She stared out of the cabin, "Smoke!" Thick black smoke billowed from the plane's engine. "If we can last a little longer on the plane..." Malone checked the compass on the instrument, "There is a small airfield ahead." "Where? I can't see it." "In the next valley." "How did you know?"

It was back in Cozumel, and when Malone agreed to work with Jeb, they discussed the following rescue options if Malone had the chance to get Sienna out of Bellazar.One is to go to a café in Nice whose owner is hired by the CIA, and he'll hide Malone and Sienna until Jeb's men arrive; Contact, this guy sometimes works for the CIA.But these places are located in opposite directions.Malone was now flying inland instead of the sea, so the only option left was the last option, the airport Jeb had told him about.Malone remembered it when he saw the compass, and Jeb said there would be a pilot and a small plane waiting to rendezvous with him.

"If you get to the airport," Jeb said, "you're in a foreign country." "I don't understand," Sienna said, "how do you know there's an airport there?" "I don't have time to explain to you right now." "You know about the portraits of Derek's other wives," she gasped as the plane swooped suddenly, "how do you know so many things?" Malone frantically controlled the joystick. "I'll tell you later—" "My God, are you—" "what?" "spy?"