"Whew, whew, whew......"

The wind and snow on Mount Everest continue all year round, and every climber firmly grasps the ice axe in his hand, his legs are forced, and the full-card crampons under his feet are tightly buckled on the cold and hard ice, and he is always under great physical exertion, and the heavy breathing has never stopped.

Old John dragged the equipment behind him upwards with force, and the dead equipment weighed down the ice under the crampons, and the top of the mountain was not far away when he looked up from the goggles.

He looked back at his companions behind him, who looked like a string of colorful sardines on the vertical ice for hundreds of meters.

Behind him was Cruze, who was wearing a bright pink mountaineering suit, and the strong man who was still alive before the departure was now almost out of breath.

Old John laughed, and shouted with all his strength in the cold wind:

"Boy, you're too weak, like a poor fawn, go down!"

The rest of the partners made fun of the strength of the force, and the powerless looked at Cruze with ill will.

Cruze looked up in pain and breathed heavily, but unfortunately there was a severe lack of oxygen at high altitude, and the breathing effect was almost non-existent.

He hoarsely said unconvinced:

"Fart! Lao Tzu must be the first to reach the top!"

After saying that, Cruze, who had been lying on the spot for almost three minutes, struggled to swing his ice axe and smashed it into the ice that had been frozen for tens of thousands of years.

Ice chips splashed, and the ice axe sank in.

Cruze pulled hard a few times, and when he was sure there was no problem, he slammed up with all his might.

He was no longer as powerful as he had been when he first set out, and it took a step to climb with great difficulty, his hands trembling violently, but his spirit of not admitting defeat made him swing his ice axe again.

As a result, he accidentally didn't pull it, and the ice axe slipped directly from his hand, and then the whole person fell off the ice.

"Ah~ Help!"

With a hoarse scream, Cruz swept past the crowd and plunged into a deep gully of ice.

The crowd cheered excitedly:

"Another one down!"

"Screaming like a woman!hahaha!"

"The 10th! the 10th!"

Old John craned his neck to look down, his face flushed, and he didn't know whether he was excited or frozen.

About 10 seconds later, everyone received a system alert:

"Your teammate Cruze fell to his death and failed to challenge an unprotected climb to virtual Everest. Cruz has retired from the game. ”

Old John laughed at his companion behind him with a violent gasp:

"Guys, let's go ahead, that is finished!"

"Haha! It's not as loud as my wife!"

", your wife screamed much louder than this last night~"

"Get out!"

"Hahaha! There are 13 left, let's see who's next!"

"It's not the worst to fall to death, last time a guy was poked to death by a falling ice pick~"

Listening to his companions shouting and struggling nonsense in the wind and snow, Old John turned his head, wiped the sweat from his face mixed with ice flowers, and continued upward.

This is his 18th challenge, and the previous 17 have all failed, and the virtual Everest with difficulty 8 is simply not a snowy mountain that normal humans can conquer.

This virtual game called 'Ice Climbing' is the most popular ice climbing game in the entire Second World, and since the launch of Second World, this game has been online for three months, and it has quickly become the favorite game of ice climbing enthusiasts.

Compared to real-life ice climbing, this game has too many advantages.

The cost is almost equal to 0, and it can also directly give keyboard ice climbing enthusiasts a strong fitness like professional athletes, which can be started at any time, the difficulty can be adjusted, and you can choose which mountain you want to climb.

On top of that, there's also an ice climbing leaderboard that shows the fastest speed for each route for each mountain.

Only then did we find out that under the unified standard body, there is still a huge difference in the speed of ice climbing for different people.

For example, this virtual Mount Everest with difficulty 8, John Sr. has never succeeded, and more than 50,000 people have successfully reached the top of the list.

Now this is the closest he has come to success, with more than 50 metres to the summit and he has climbed for eight hours, while the top of the leaderboard took only 27 minutes to reach the top......

The gap between people and people is so big, as if they are not the same species.

After an hour and 43 minutes, John Sr. finally reached the top of the mountain and successfully challenged for the 18th time.

He struggled to stand up straight, looked at the majestic snowy peaks under his feet, and roared excitedly:

"Ahh

His companions, who were still working hard at his feet, cheered for him vigorously,

The leaderboard was refreshed, and he became a newcomer who successfully climbed Mount Everest at level 8, although the speed ranking was only more than 48,000, and John Sr. was satisfied.

He savored the inflated sense of success at this moment, and for a long time commanded in his mind:

"Store this experience, archive, and rename the file to 'First Ascent of Everest at Level 8'!"

He was going to experience this pleasure again and again in the future.

Soon, the system prompts that the storage is complete, and John Sr. quits the game.

When he opened his eyes again, the icy and snowy Mount Everest disappeared, and in front of him was his RV trailer.

The small space was in tatters, full of second-hand goods, and that was all his belongings.

Since being fired from General Motors two years ago and kicked out of the house after divorcing his wife, he, like most hapless middle-class Eagle Nation men, has slowly been crushed by the exorbitant pension and become a homeless man.

He had good car repair skills, and he helped his boss repair twenty cars in a broken car second-hand market before he bought the trailer cheaply.

It's a pity that John Sr. is already a thin white man in his 50s, and the boss is unwilling to hire him for a long time, so he can only live like this, do it if he has a job, and will tow a tow truck to make up for his life if he doesn't have a job.

Like many homeless people, John Sr. also contracted alcoholism, but after the DT3 was launched, he unexpectedly quit.

You can spend a very small amount of money to enjoy the world's famous wine in the second world, why drink those water garbage in reality?

In this way, old John had a lot more money.

This 'ice climbing' fee is very cheap, about $0.5 per ice climb, which is almost nothing for him, and he can play thirty or forty times with one car repair.

There are thousands of games in Second World, John Sr. only plays for free, and 'Ice Climbing' is the only game he pays to play.

Now Old John has also saved a lot of food, and can enjoy a big meal in the second world, in reality he just needs to eat some cheap bread and drink some water.

Old John reminisced about the great satisfaction of successful ice climbing, and did not care about the dirty environment in the car at all, so he found a loaf of bread and lay back on the bed, chewed a few bites and fell asleep.

In the dream, he went back 20 years, when he had a high income, went to the snowy mountains every year to take a vacation, and then fell in love with ice climbing.

At that time, he was still young, his limbs were strong, his wife was not so annoying, the child had not yet been born, and the husband and wife lived in a warm hotel for two winters, it was not cold at all, everything was so beautiful......

......

"The unemployment rate in this quarter has hit a 10-year high of 6.9 percent! Since President David took office, he has excessively increased spending on education, science and technology, and the military, but the Eagle Nation economy has been hit hard, and the prototype of a new economic crisis is looming. Unemployment has skyrocketed by nearly 3% within two years compared to Plante's time in office, and I can't help but wonder if he has economic common sense......"

David felt a pain in his head and looked angrily at the chattering announcer on the TV, wanting to kill the damn guy so badly.

"F**K!" Davy turned off the TV with a cold face and walked around the office quickly, almost mad:

"I don't understand economics?"

"Increasing government infrastructure construction projects, reducing taxes for small and medium-sized enterprises to stimulate enterprises to increase jobs, and developing high-tech enterprises to innovate and create jobs, they haven't seen these moves since I took office?"

"Spending too much on education, science and technology, and the military?"

"Don't look at what Huaguo has caught up with in science and technology now! Don't mention the previous ones in the military, now Huaguo's nuclear-powered super carrier with an area of 7.8 square kilometers has been tested, and the navy is clamoring to increase the budget!"

"Why is unemployment skyrocketing, don't they know yet?"

"This is Plante's mess, I helped him take the pot, and now here is this damn second world! More and more companies are entering the second world, and a large number of real economies have been impacted, food, transportation, real estate, ...... Most of Plante's words are farting, but the evaluation of the media is right, these people are deliberately distorting reality! They are reporting fake news!"

......

There was a dead silence in the office, and the officials bowed their heads and remained silent.

After a while, the President finally finished venting and sat back in his chair dejectedly:

"Tell me, what are we going to do?"