Ah Chong swept away the snow in the cracks in the rock wall, revealing the stairs inside, which was indeed a dark path. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The staircase is a shallow groove, but it's big enough to climb, and up the staircase you can see a sloping and winding gap leading directly to the top of the mountain. This natural crevice is cleverly hidden in the mountain, and it is impossible to detect it if you don't look closely.

This gap is less than a meter wide, and can only be passed by one person, stretching upwards, and I don't know how far it is. It should be the hidden path to the cave eye.

Ah Chong carefully checked the traces on the lower steps, the age is relatively old, I don't know which dynasty and which generation left the work, but recently someone climbed these steps, leaving traces such as nail holes, which should be caused by the trampling of hiking boots.

Lao Wang sat down on the snow, grabbed a handful of snow and wiped his face, and asked everyone, "What's the matter?" Climb or not? ”

As soon as the words came out, I understood that it was superfluous to ask this sentence, not a question of whether to climb or not, but a question of how to climb.

This gap is so narrow, it is really dangerous, even if they can climb up safely, if Dawn is ambushed on the top of the mountain and guarded by one person, it will really be a man and a man - let alone using weapons, just throw a stone and serve everyone in a pot.

But they couldn't give up climbing the mountain, not to mention the great value of the mausoleum that might be hidden in the mountain, just chasing the clue of Dawn was enough for them to take the risk.

Li Tianming's gang killed the expedition members and held Jin Guoqiang hostage, what they did was tantamount to a mutiny, Ah Chong and Su Rui, as representatives of both China and the United States, were directly responsible, not to mention that Jin Guoqiang had a deep personal relationship with Lao Wang, and he couldn't help but take risks with this.

The group returned to their tents to pack their things and prepare for the climb, giving up extra supplies such as tents in addition to the necessary climbing equipment and supplies.

When he came to the foot of the cliff, Ah Chong said, "I will be the first to climb, and you will follow me - don't get too close." ”

Saying that, Qingwen tied to his back tightened again, in addition to eating, sleeping and going to the toilet along the way, Ah Chong kept tying Qingwen with a strap, fortunately, she was relatively thin, and it was not very obstructive to carry it on her back.

Ah Chong tried the stairs under his feet with his hiking boots, and after confirming that it was firm, he started to climb.

"Wait." Zi Yang suddenly remembered something and pointed to the figure of the giant in the distance, "What should this guy do?" ”

Ah Chong glanced at it, "Leave it alone for now." With that, he turned around and continued to climb up.

Since the discovery of the giant corpse, Ah Chong has been in a hurry, and he should have had a premonition.

Zi Yang understood that the top priority now was to reach the peak, and it didn't matter what to do with the giant corpse - maybe let it just freeze on the rocks until it was old.

Although he was carrying a girl of eighty or ninety pounds on his back, Ah Chong was still very agile, and after a while, there was a small shadow left on it.

Lao Wang tightened his hiking boots and volunteered: "Don't rob anyone with me, I'm second!" ”

Su Rui tied the safety rope to the hook around his waist and told him to be careful. Lao Wang nodded, shrugged up the stairs. After climbing a few meters, he turned his head to Ziyang Road below:

"Lao Li, if something happens to me, you tell Xiaoli to let her find an honest man to marry, and you don't have to wait for me."

Ziyang gave him a middle finger below. Lao Wang laughed, turned his head and continued to climb up, his bulky body was also very flexible.

Although he knew that Lao Wang was joking, Ziyang's heart was still tight, everyone was born and died together in the past two years, although they had experienced a lot of dangers, this time it was completely different from before, not only to be careful of natural disasters, but also to deal with man-made disasters.

After Lao Wang went up for more than ten meters, the next thing was Xiao Hei, Su Rui hung the safety rope on him, and Xiao Hei jumped up on the cat's waist.

After Lao Wang and Xiao Hei both went up, Zi Yang and Su Rui looked at each other and smiled, "Who will come first?" ”

Su Ruiyan said: "Lady first, you break off." ”

Zi Yang made a Western knightly gesture and stretched out his hand to pose for please.

Su Rui tied the safety rope to his and Ziyang's waists respectively, the strap of the mountaineering pickaxe was put on his wrist, and the backpack was fastened, and he climbed on the cliff crack with one hand and fixed it with a mountaineering pickaxe with the other, and climbed up step by step.

Zi Yang looked back at the camp, where the two tents stood alone, the tall figure covered in snow, still with his back to the crowd, and the sculpture was motionless "staring" into the distance.

Ziyang sighed, tightened his backpack, and climbed up the stairs.

Ah Chong took the lead, and his figure had long disappeared from sight. Lao Wang, Xiao Hei, Su Rui, and Zi Yang, the four of them were linked together with safety ropes, and each person was about ten meters apart, moving forward slowly.

Because they went through several "light trips" before departure, a lot of the equipment was abandoned. The original rock steel cone was also lost at the first assembly point, so there was no way to fix the fulcrum for this mountaineering, so it could only be climbed by manpower. For the sake of safety, everyone took one step at a time, and the progress was very slow.

The poplar is clinging to the mountain, and every time she moves, she has to step on the stairs twice with her hiking boots to fix it. The palms of the gloves were already sweating nervously. I took the time to glance at my feet, and suddenly I felt dizzy—the things under my feet had become very small, and before I knew it, I had climbed so far.

After climbing up for a while, the gap has become much wider, and the whole person can stick to the gap without worrying about the strong mountain wind next to it, although it is relatively safe, but the physical strength is still consumed quickly.

Rock climbing is a very technical sport, and people who have not undergone professional training will not be able to hold on for too long even if they are physically strong, because the first rock climbing will inevitably deform and the muscles will be overtensed, so it is very easy to get tired.

Zi Yang counted silently in his heart, gritting his teeth and persevering. How long have you been climbing? A few hundred meters? How many kilometers? It felt like a century had passed, and at this time he didn't dare to look down any further, grabbing the pickaxe with one hand and staring at the stairs in front of him with both eyes, for fear of accidentally sliding down.

At this moment, Ziyang is weak, his body has reached the limit, it was not so difficult to run 5000 meters in the school sports meeting that year, he already felt that his limbs began to swell and sore, and gold stars appeared in front of him, and it became more and more difficult to breathe.

Can't hold on! Zi Yang wanted to open his mouth and shout to the people above to stop, but he didn't even have the strength to open his mouth to speak, and when he was panicking, suddenly a strong hand above grabbed his wrist and lifted him up at once.

Zi Yang rushed forward and fell to the ground all of a sudden, panting for breath. I only felt that there was a white light dazzling in front of them, and it turned out that they had reached the top of the mountain. Although there are still a few hundred meters from the highest peak, the terrain in front of you is much flatter.

It was Ah Chong who brought him up, and Lao Wang was also beside him, lying on the ground like a puddle of mud.

Where they were was a flat ground, and at the edge was the abyss they had just climbed. The mountain peaks are covered with snow all year round, and the white snow that can not be seen is endless. The sun rose, and a sudden white light dazzled him.

Su Rui put on the snow goggles for him, and Zi Yang felt that his eyes were more comfortable.

Lao Wang gasped and said, "Hey, you say that in this kind of place, the mountains and fields are full of snow, and you can't open your eyes, will you be blinded by the reflection?" I've heard that a lot of mountaineers suffer from snow blindness or something. ”

Su Rui nodded, "It's possible that the reflection rate of the snow to sunlight reaches 95%, and the eyes are exposed to the snow for a long time, which is similar to looking directly into the sun, and the retina of the eye will be strongly stimulated and cause temporary blindness."

However, snow blindness is not necessarily just a reflective stimulus, sometimes caused by the eye's long-term dependence and adaptation to the external environment.

In the vast snow, people have no focus, their eyes don't know what to look at, so they are always looking for something to use as a reference, and if there is no obvious reference, the eyesight will be temporarily reduced or temporarily blinded. ”

Lao Wang took off the snow goggles and put them back on repeatedly, "Do you think my eyesight will be affected like this?" ”

Zi Yang sat on the snow for a while, and slowly felt that his limbs had regained their strength, and seeing that Lao Wang was funny there, he said angrily: "I don't know if my eyesight will be affected, but my intelligence will definitely be injured." ”

Lao Wang ignored his provocation, but looked into the distance intently, muttering, "Huh? What's that? I'm dazzled? ”

Everyone followed Lao Wang's fingers, and on the mountain peak in the distance, there seemed to be a faint cluster of red, which was too far away to see clearly, but it was obvious against the background of the white snow around him.

Su Rui took out his glasses and looked at them, and his face suddenly turned shocked.

Zi Yang took the binoculars and looked at it, and his heart was also shocked.

There was a large patch of red snow on the mountain peaks in the distance, as vivid as if soaked in blood.