Chapter 1: The Land of Abundance

In June, the sky of Sichuan is clear and clear, with white clouds floating in the blue sky, and the warm early summer sunshine spreads over the entire Haidar Mountain, such good weather is rare.

Although there are many lofty mountains in Sichuan, this mountain is the extreme. This is a fantasy fairyland on earth, with strange peaks and strange stones, with different shapes; Panpine giant tree, majestic and magnificent; mountain vines and wild vines, twisted and twisted; Mountain flowers and wild grasses, thousands of purples and thousands of reds. The scenery everywhere is picturesque, seemingly meticulously crafted, but in fact, it is natural, one step at a time, one scene is ever-changing, and the most incredible shapes can be found everywhere in the most inconspicuous corner. Even if you have to sigh at yourself, even the imperial brush painter can't paint the charm of the whole thing.

If you look far away from the mountain, you will see the blue sky, white clouds, green grassland, and green lake, the color is so transparent and crisp, just like using a cool mountain spring to rinse your eyes without a trace of dust, and you will see through the bottom of your heart at a glance, and your soul will be pure immediately. There is no such pigment in the world, and it can only be found in the picture plates of angels.

There was no sound, not even the chirping of birds, and only the sound of the wind whistling quickly and slowly passed between the mountains and rocks to reach this height. Even in the middle of summer, you will never feel the agitation of the urban steel forest on this high mountain. Because it is not a tourist attraction, there are few traces of people here, if someone can stand on such a steep peak, all they can feel is the sense of belonging of the tiny human beings into the boundless nature, this feeling will be silently filled in the body, but no one can experience it here, because no one has ever come up.

The mountainous terrain of Haidar Mountain is extremely steep, especially at the top of the mountain, almost all of them are cliffs at vertical angles, even birds and beasts are difficult to reach, the hard gray granite is chaotic like thorns sticking out of the ridge, some hang upside down in the air, and some places have weathered out of winding cracks after thousands of years, and the sharp edges of the blades are formed between the cracks, and the layers are pressed together, like the scales on the tail of the most ferocious giant crocodile. There is also very little vegetation here, and the birds are not willing to nest in such a harsh environment, and there is almost no life to conquer here.

Except for the four small black dots that are moving on the cliffs of the East Mountain.

Dongshan is the highest peak of Haidar Mountain, the highest altitude reaches 2275 meters, and the mountain here is also the most precipitous, from the eagle wing peak below the altitude of 1864 meters upward, all the way up is almost vertical bare rock cliffs, the peak of Dongshan is a natural formation of a cliff top, the top of the ridge protrudes a huge rock mass, bends down to the west to stretch out about 70 meters long and 15 meters wide cliff in the air, from the side to see that it is the shape of an eagle's beak, so the locals call it the eagle's beak peak. The cliff that sticks out of the air is called the eagle's beak cliff. If ordinary people stand on the top of this eagle's beak cliff, the surrounding area is bottomless, and the fast and slow wind drives the body, they must tremble, their legs and feet are weak, let alone standing, even if they are lying on their stomachs, they will be frightened. Below the southwest side of the peak is a dizzying valley filled with dense primeval forests, where large tracts of native plants can be bred, rare trees and medicinal herbs can be found, and endangered wildlife is lucky to survive in this uninhabited world.

Fang Ming was on the cliff of Dongshan at the moment, he raised his hand to insert a rock wedge into the crack of the rock on the upper right, his right hand grasped the climbing rope linked to the wedge ring and tied it to his waist, his left foot stepped on a protruding wide rock, his whole body was close to a relatively flat straight wall, he was going to stop here for a while to rest.

Fang Ming is 29 years old this year, with a slender face, a pair of falcon-like eyes under thick eyebrows, dark brown pupils full of essence, an erect nose bridge, and a resolute lip shape, revealing a shrewd and resolute temperament. A native of Hong Kong, he runs several mid-scale outdoor chains on Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. At 1.72 meters, he is a medire of his age, weighs 65 kilograms, and has a strong physique. He was the initiator of the freehand climbing event and the leader of the four-person climbing team, and he wanted to stop to find out what was going on with the other three members.

The climbing team departed from the camp at the foot of the mountain at 4 a.m. and arrived at Eagle Wing Peak at around 10 a.m., where the group rested for two hours to recuperate, replenish water and food. After doing a full warm-up and preparation, they began to climb towards the eagle's beak peak at noon, Fang Ming looked at the mountaineering watch on his right wrist, it has been almost 3 hours now, he looked up at the eagle's beak peak, there are still dozens of meters to reach the top, Fang Ming's eyes shot a resolute gaze, conquer it! I can do it today!

Fang Ming looked to his left, about 15 meters away from him horizontally, where the height was basically the same, the "water monster" was trying to climb, his name was Zheng Yuanji, the same age as Fang Ming, he was his buddy from childhood to adulthood. Fang Ming's father, Fang Wenyuan, is an archaeologist and explorer, when he was young, he traveled around the world to hunt for archaeological treasures, explored in uninhabited secret places, fearless from heaven to earth, and was quite famous in the international exploration community. Fang Ming's love for extreme sports was also largely influenced by his father. Zheng Yuanji's father, Zheng Bolun, is a wealthy jewelry merchant in Hong Kong, who is involved in the real estate industry and the transportation industry at the same time, with a net worth of tens of billions, and is a well-known figure in the Hong Kong business community, and is also the original sponsor of Fang Wenyuan's expedition, so the two families have been good friends for many years. Zheng Yuanji's figure was thinner than Fang Ming's, and his single-eyelid eyes were two sizes smaller than Fang Ming's, like a pair of mouse eyes and thieves. Zheng Yuan often boasts that these ** little eyes will discharge, which is right for the taste of the current girl, and there is no one who has been electrocuted without surrendering, so his womanhood is good. Fang Ming often teased that it was not necessarily his little eyes that hit those beauties, maybe it was his wallet, because the banknotes in this rich young man's wallet were like the radio waves in his eyes. Because Zheng Yuanji has excellent water nature, he is more flexible in the water than on land, and often drives his father's yacht to the sea, and his diving skills even exceed that of professional divers, so his friends who play well call him "water monster". Zheng Yuanji looked at Fang Ming through the red goggles, Fang Ming whistled at him, he grinned and raised his right middle finger at Fang Ming, and said, "Let's see who arrives first!" Then continue to climb upwards.

Fang Ming glanced at the "water monster", and then turned his head to look to the right, 6 meters away from him at four o'clock, a rock climber wearing a yellow mountaineering helmet like Fang Ming was stepping on a rock crack with his right foot, from the black ponytail floating behind her helmet, it could be known that this was a female rock climber, I saw her right hand smearing magnesium powder into the powder bag hanging on her waist, and then reached up and grabbed a protruding rock chip, after testing the strength, her left hand clasped the edge of another stone bar, and her hands and feet were used at the same time to pull up her body, After lifting her left foot, she stepped on the gap between the two rocks above her waist, so that she advanced about 1 meter high, she let go of her left hand and hung behind her back, shook her muscles, smiled lightly, and her mouth showed white and neat teeth, you may be able to imagine from her delicate cheeks that she must have a good look. Fang Ming asked through the headset worn in the helmet that the team members were talking to each other, "How are you?" Miko? The girl named Miko looked up at Fang Ming and said, "I'm fine, Bruce." You don't have to stop and wait for me. "Bruce is Fang Ming's English name, which was chosen to pay homage to his idol, Mr. Bruce Lee. Fang Ming smiled and said, "You speak Chinese very well." Miko smiled very cheerfully, she is a rock climbing enthusiast from Japan, her name is Miyai Masami, 27 years old, studying for a doctorate at Kyoto University in Japan, and Fang Ming and the "water monster" met in a rock climbing event in Switzerland in December last year, and made an appointment to come to China's Sichuan Haidar Mountain in June this year to challenge the unreached eagle's beak peak.