Chapter 9: The City of Elopement

On the Mediterranean Highway to Marbella, you travel around the back row carefully checking your climbing equipment, and tie the rope firmly to the hook with a sailor knot.

Gracia was talking to Paris on the phone, and when the two chicks didn't quarrel, the relationship seemed quite good.

When we were about to reach Marbella, the car got off the highway and entered the winding road.

Gracia hung up the phone and deliberately said coquettishly: "That stupid girl is really annoying, it's boring to take a car, and I don't want to think about it, she is here to travel, isn't the scenery here enough for her to see?" ”

Zhou You shifted his eyes back from the window, pinched her face and smiled: "It's not enough for you to be proud, you are not allowed to bully her when she comes." ”

Gracia snorted, leaned into his arms and crossed her legs out the door. "As long as she is honest, I won't bully her."

Arona, who was driving, glanced at her in the rearview mirror and said, "Gracia, the road here is very narrow, don't blame me if you hang up your foot when you get on the wrong ride." ”

Gracia laughed, "I don't blame you, but Besain will definitely teach you a lesson." Having said that, she honestly retracted her feet.

Alona was not a member of the Gang, but a female warrior with superior force that Bassain had arranged for Gracia, so sometimes Gracia's orders did not work in front of her.

Zhou You also admires her very much, although this chick's force value cannot be compared with him, even Liang Hao and them can't compare, but ordinary three or five big men are not opponents in front of her.

After nearly two hours, the two Mercedes finally arrived at the elopement city of Ronda.

The city is small, but it is famous in Spain, as it is the birthplace of the most famous bullfighting in Spain. Here, there are two types of people who have been most famous since ancient times, one is the matador and the other is the bandit.

Due to the inconvenient transportation and the picturesque scenery around, it was also called the most suitable city for elopement by Hemingway. Since then, the name Ronda has become less famous than the city of elopement.

More than 3,000 years ago, a group of refugees built their first house on a 750-high cliff. Later, this small town with difficult terrain and fertile land began to develop.

Zhou You has no love for the cultural landscape, and he went to a lot of places in his previous life, so for the city, he has always been a wanderer, and he has no interest in those histories or anything at all.

He likes nature, but because he has lived on the sea for a long time, he has no love for the seascape. Now, I generally like mountain views.

It's not her history that attracts Ronda, it's the cliffs beneath her city.

In modern times, rock climbers have carved out more than 1,000 climbing routes on the kilometre-long cliffs that stretch below the city of Ronda. The highest one is more than 300 meters, and the lowest is tens of meters high, and this almost vertical cliff attracts countless rock climbing enthusiasts to conquer.

Spain has some of the best rock climbing in the world, but it's in the northern part of Spain, especially in GrΓ cia's hometown, where it's full of all-rock climbing sites of all levels of difficulty.

There aren't many places in the south that are suitable for rock climbing, and Ronda is one of the more famous.

The distance to the north is too far, so I chose this place to enjoy my travel.

Although there are many layers of adobe and even mud on the rock walls of Ronda, there is also a convenient benefit that is not found in other areas, and that is that the city is on top of it, and it is overgrown with trees.

Therefore, climbing here, the safety is very guaranteed, only two people need to be arranged on it to control the safety rope, and the climbing can be said to be almost completely dangerous.

Zhou You likes rock climbing and looks for thrills, but that doesn't mean he likes to die. Especially now that he has everything, of course, he will not take unnecessary risks easily.

The car arrived at the Ronda train station, and after waiting for about half an hour, I saw Paris coming out of the station with several assistants. They arrived in Madrid in the morning and took a few hours by train to Ronda.

Zhou You didn't get out of the car, and saw two girls hugging each other like sisters in the car, and spontaneously gave birth to a sense of pride, anyway, his own training was pretty good, although there were some small contradictions, but it was quite harmonious.

As soon as she got into the car, Paris screamed and threw herself into Zhou You's arms to ask for a kiss. She didn't see it, Arona in the front row was rolling her eyes.

Gracia slapped her little fart and said, "Be honest, or I'll drop you out of the car in a moment." ”

Paris pouted coquettishly, and coquettishly played with Zhou You. "Honey, she's bullying me again."

Zhou You picked her up and wanted to put her to the left, but she hugged Zhou You's neck and didn't lose it. "Honey, I want to sit on you." ”

Zhou You said helplessly: "You can't beat her, don't deliberately anger her, otherwise, she will bully you for a while, I don't care." ”

Paris smiled and sat down on the left, wrinkling her nose at Gracia as she walked around.

Gracia was much more generous, and sneered: "Let you be arrogant for a while, anyway, you will leave tomorrow." And I'll be with Evan all March. ”

"It's a big deal I'm not going to the fashion festival......" she asked curiously, still holding a brochure of Ronda in her hand, "It's no different from an ordinary European town, why is it called an elopement city?" ”

Zhou You smiled: "Because we came." ”

Although it was nonsense, this answer made her very satisfied, and she smiled sweetly.

In Ronda, Gracia has already booked the most luxurious hotel in Ronda, the Rena Vicattorica, which is located on the same street as the oldest bullring in Ronda, in the new town.

It is worth mentioning that under the garden of the hotel, there is a vertical cliff with a drop of 300 meters, which is also the most difficult place in the entire Ronda, and the difficulty of the route has reached 9B.

And because the floating soil layer here is relatively thick, if you want to climb here, you must have equipment protection. Because the floating soil layer is not like rock, it can bear the weight of a person, and if the soil collapses, it is the end of the game.

After staying at the hotel, you can't wait to come to the cliff of the garden, which has also been opened up as a scenic spot, standing on the edge of the cliff and looking down a few hundred meters, you can get adrenaline pumping.

For safety, the hotel built a safety fence tens of meters long with thick steel bars five or six meters away from the edge of the cliff, and people can cross the safety fence, but they must fasten the safety belt, and the safety hook is hung on the row of steel bars.

Zhou You looked at the time, and it was only ten o'clock now, so he couldn't help but want to experience it first.

He took off his jacket and wore only a T-shirt with good elasticity, a pair of sweatpants on his lower body, and a pair of climbing shoes with strong friction.

The hotel's climbing instructor asked Zhou You a few questions, knew that he was not a novice and was proficient in the figure-of-eight landing, checked his own safety rope again, and agreed to his request to control the descent himself. "It's a great safety rope, it can hold a ton of weight."

It's still February, and although Spain has a warm climate, standing on the edge of a 700-meter cliff, Gracia is still a little shivering in the wind.

Zhou You helped her put on a jacket, brought a headset, and helped her check the rope buckles everywhere. She doesn't have the ability to travel, and she just plays this kind of difficult rock climbing, so she is also equipped with a safety officer on it.

And her safety rope is not directly hung on the steel bar, but an electric winch, which can rise fifty centimeters in one second. In other words, she can climb on her own, and if she can't climb, she can also order the safety officer to hang her up.

Seeing her play like this, Paris was going to play too, and the two of them were arguing and making out at the same time, and finally even the assistant she brought wanted to try it, because this kind of rock climbing was really not a little difficult.

Traveling around but ignoring them, because they belong purely to the lift, and they just go down together, not in the same position.

After checking the equipment on his body again, Zhou You put on his helmet and held the figure 8 landing device in his hand, found a place to stay from the edge of the cliff, and slowly slid down.

When sinking, Zhou Yu descended and observed the path of climbing. Due to the fact that there are many people who play, Zhou You found that this so-called 9b difficulty is definitely exaggerated.

Although there are several angles of outward inclination during the descent, it is more difficult. However, due to the large number of people climbing here, there is a clear focus point, so the difficulty is greatly reduced, because it is completely possible to climb according to the traces left behind.

Before he could reach the bottom of the cliff, Paris and Gracia were slowly lowered by the electric winch. The two of them also spotted Zhou You's figure, calling his name loudly, and both seemed very excited.

Zhou You waved to them, then ignored them, tightened the fingerless gloves on his hands, and sped down.

Both girls screamed when they saw how fast he was descending, and it was not until they saw him fall firmly at the bottom of the cliff that they understood that he was completely sure that he was not falling.

The foothold of the tour is actually located in the middle of the entire mountain cliff, below him, there are still three or four hundred meters high, but it is a gentle slope, and you can walk to the bottom.

The staff below saw the rappelling of Zhou You, and was scared of a cold sweat at first, only to find that his body did not lose his balance, and he kept falling down with a rhythm, and gently touched the rock wall after four or five meters, which showed that although he fell fast, he still controlled the downhill, and then he was relieved.

At the same time, it became clear to them that this is a master, not a novice.

Seeing Zhou You landing steadily on the platform, the staff immediately ran to him, gave him a thumbs up and praised: "Sir, your rappelling is really amazing, why do you have such a big hand?" ”

"Just practice." Zhou You shrugged his shoulders and waved at Gracia and Paris, who were still in the air. (To be continued.) )