Chapter Thirty-Eight: Joking Helps Improve Quality of Life
The team reached the eastern ice wall three days later.
The reason why this ice wall is considered a landmark is actually quite simple, because of its vertical height of nearly 50 meters and the distance that stretches for several kilometers in a straight line.
If you take a greenhouse train through the Eastern Plains, you can basically see this ice wall glistening in the sun.
And that's why De Rosso wanted to paint his paintings here.
However, painting on a 50-meter-high vertical ice wall is not so simple. Even if you get here, you still have to face a lot of problems.
"Oh my God." Jester lay on the edge of the cliff, looking at the ice wall below, and the next moment, his legs went limp.
"I promise, I will never go down."
With just one glance, he could be sure that if he accidentally fell from here, he would be clumped into a ball of flesh, whether it was snow or not below.
"I have a little bit of experience in rock climbing, but I'm not sure if I'm going to take someone down to paint."
Maika stood aside and shook her head.
"Don't look at me, I have a fear of heights, you know." Seeing that Jester and McCar both looked at him, Kent hurriedly waved his hand, making a look of difficulty in taking on the task.
"It's okay." Carefully probing the snow in front of him with his cane, Droso moved to the side of the cliff, and after checking the height of the ice wall downward, he said with a smile.
"I can go down on my own, you just need to help me secure the rope on it. Of course, if you want to end the commission here, I won't mind, after all, my original commission was for you to send me here. ”
"Hey, what are these words, do you look down on us?" Listening to De Rosso's statement, Kent glared at himself.
"Since we promised to help you complete this work, we will not leave early, as a professional hiring team, we still have this kind of professional ethics. As for the fact that you want to go down on your own, we can't agree to it. Don't forget that you are still a patient, and if something happens, you simply can't solve it on your own. ”
"What then?" De Rosso smiled wryly and retreated to the safe area with his cane: "We can't stand stupidly here, can we?" ”
"Hmm." Maika frowned and touched her chin: "I hope you can give us a little time to think of a relatively safe way to solve this problem." ”
"We might consider building a platform, but it's 50 meters high." Jester crouched on the ground and rolled his eyes.
"Platform." Maika thought for a moment and spoke.
"Maybe I can go down and carve out some places to land with an ice pick?"
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Just when everyone was at a loss, Yanagihara, who was leaning next to the carriage, suddenly spoke.
"I can take De Rosso down and tie him to my back with a rope."
For a while, the eyes of several people were attracted.
"Hara." Maika said hesitantly, frowning.
"Are you sure, you can't just go straight to the bottom, you'll have to stay on the ice wall with De Rosso all the time to paint."
"In some ways, I'm pretty good at it." Yanagihara shrugged his shoulders and said as he stood in the corner of the line.
"If you fix the ropes, then maybe we can try it first?"
"That's good." Maika nodded.
"Since you've said so, we believe you. What about Mr. De Roso, would you like it? ”
"When, of course." De Rosso looked at Yanagihara and scratched his cheek with a slightly stiff expression.
"It's my pleasure."
To be honest, it made him a little nervous.
Over the next few hours, the team set up camp next to a cliff in the ice wall, and that's when the three of Maika's experienced experience finally came to use.
They set up the camp very firmly and well, with a wide field of vision that allows them to detect danger in the first place, and portable and practical facilities can support them to deal with all their daily needs, whether it is food, clothing, shelter, transportation, or sending and receiving signals, or weathering the wind and snow, this camp is much better than Yanagihara imagined.
If nothing else, they might have to take a few months with them, so a few of them were prepared to stay for a long time.
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"Yuan, you've really figured it out, in fact, we can take some time to prepare a safer way."
In the snow, Kent said worriedly as he helped Yanagihara and Derosso secure the cables on their bodies.
"But that's the most convenient way to do it right now, isn't it?" Yanagihara said as he looked at Kent.
Kent had no way to deny it, so he could only hand over a communicator to Yanagihara.
"If you encounter any situation, remember to contact us as soon as possible."
"Understood." Yanagihara took the communicator and put it in his chest pocket.
The rope is secured by a half-human-high rope reel, through which the person standing on the cliff can also more easily pull the person below the cliff up.
Compared to the method of using icicles that De Rosso originally considered, it is obviously much safer and more reliable.
But the danger of this attempt is still not denied.
"We're all ready here." Jester put on his headphones and adjusted the signal receiver on the snowmobile, jumped out of the car, patted De Rosso on the shoulder and said.
"Boy, enjoy this opportunity to get in touch with Hara."
"I ······" De Rosso lay on Yanagihara's back and opened his mouth in embarrassment, looking a little unsure of how to answer.
Until Yanagihara glanced at Jester and spoke slowly.
"If you're going to want to eat some more snow later, say more about it now."
"Ahem." Jester coughed at this time, put his hand on the shoulders of the two of them "solemnly", and said "sincerely".
"Please be careful."
"Alright, don't make a fuss." Maika stood in the snow and double-checked the facility, half-ringing, and turned to Yanagihara and nodded.
"If you're ready, let's get started."
"Hmm."
Yanagihara responded, glanced at Al, who had been staying in the corner and didn't say much, gave the other party a reassuring look, and carried De Rosso to the edge of the cliff.
At this time, in addition to the cables, the two of them also had several sealed paint buckets hanging from their waists, and De Rosso was holding several brushes of different sizes in his hands.
"Are you ready?" Yanagihara lowered his head and looked at the cliff in front of him and asked out loud.
"Well, let's get started." With his hand around Yanagihara's neck, De Rosso took a deep breath and nodded.
To be honest, Yanagihara's back was much harder than he had imagined, almost like he was lying on a real rock.
It must be admitted that Yanagihara is indeed not a feminine woman in the traditional sense, she is more like a sculpture that combines strength and beauty.
It is full of the primitive atmosphere of the mythological period.
But at this time, De Rosso didn't have the energy to think about it.
All he knew was that the next moment he nodded, Yanagihara led him forward and leaped into the valley.
Looking at this scene, Maika and the others' brows jumped at the same time, because this did not conform to the normal operating regulations at all.
But then, they saw Yanagihara turn in mid-air, and with Droso, he easily climbed the cliff with one hand.
"Let's put the rope down." In the communicator, Yanagihara's flat voice came faintly.
"You can trust me, I don't usually joke with other people's lives."
So you're always joking with your own life!?
Well, it's really a dangerous statement as always.