Chapter 19: The Dangerous Peak

The top of the main peak is covered with a layer of fresh snow, and the original knife-cut and axe-like mountain tip looks a little rounder at this moment, which is very cute.

But that's not a good thing.

The closer you get to the summit, the more and deeper the ice crevasses crack in the mountain; And the thicker the snow, the harder it is to peek out from the ice crevices below.

Despite this, Lang Wang and Kalu looked at the peak from afar, without the slightest fear on their faces.

It's not that they've already done their job and can go down the hill right there.

"Boss," Lang Wang said, grinding his neck, "if you have to go by yourself, you will look down on my brother." ”

Yu Moji looked back at him suddenly.

Lang Wang is a bit of a backbone, he has always clearly and frankly hated Tu Lian's identity as a Qi person, and the title of "head" has never been so sincere.

It seems that in just two days, something may have really happened that Yu Moji couldn't imagine, taking away the appointment, but the relationship between people has changed so much.

"One more person means more strength," Karyu said, "and besides, we must not lose any more friends." ”

Dansang pondered for a moment and interjected, "Climbing to the top is a desperate thing. Are you really going to go? ”

Tu Lian looked at Lang Wang, then at Kalu, turned his head to the side, and said, "I really don't want to risk your life again." He said and looked at the ink marks again, and said, "Moreover, Celer is going down the mountain......

"I'm with you." Yu Mojin was still hesitating, but when he heard Tu Lian say this, he immediately made up his mind.

Yu Mochen is used to living alone, and she can't stand others thinking about her the most. In the past, Yuan helped her a lot, and she still dare not forget it in her heart. And in this caravan, since she joined the caravan, she has not been taken care of, and the more Tu Lian thinks about her, the more she feels that she can't hold others back.

She was afraid that Lang Wang would dislike her incompetence, so she made up again, "If I go down the mountain at this time, I have to let Brother Dansang take it; You don't have an 'old horse' to guide you, can you really get to the top? ”

Dansang smiled, "I haven't promised to take you there yet." ”

Tu Lian immediately said, "Since the 'old horse' has said so, I think you should go down the mountain......

"Come on, I said 'boss'," Dansang still looked funny, "You really can't see that in your team, a brother and two female dolls are determined to die with you?" He sighed as he spoke, "In our business, the guests don't take them down the mountain, they run away first, and it will be difficult to do that business in the future." ”

"So you agreed?" Kalu patted Tu Lian happily and said, "Boss, don't shirk it." ”

Dansang smiled bitterly, "I've never seen someone in such a hurry to send him to death." ”

"Death, I am naturally reluctant, but I am even more reluctant to let Tu Lian die alone." Karyu suddenly became serious, "I'll go along, at least give him some chance of surviving." She glanced at the ink marks and said with a smile, "We are all capable people, and we will turn over the peak and bring Cele down the mountain in the same way." ”

Yu Moji was encouraged by Kalu's words, and a sense of pride suddenly rose in his heart.

This pride burned into a fire, supporting her, and supporting everyone, and reached the last steep slope in one go. On top of the steep slope is the peak.

Dansang told them to stop and rest for a while, and let him, the "old horse", go up and explore the way first.

Ink was shivering with cold, rubbing his hands and stomping his feet, moving in place in an ugly posture to prevent his fragile limbs from losing consciousness before climbing the final and most difficult stretch.

The colder it gets, the more sleepy people become. Yu Mochen was afraid of falling asleep, so he looked for a topic and said, "The stone you brought out seems to be mediocre. Her voice was close to talking to herself, and she didn't expect anyone to answer her words.

Karyu took over and said, "When we come here, we can already be called friends of life and death. Actually, there's nothing to hide from you. ”

As she said this, she paused, her eyes very obviously asking for Tu Lian's opinion.

Tu Lian immediately sighed a little helplessly, but still nodded and said, "This stone is indeed inconspicuous. However, it is recorded in a book that the inner wall of the mecha box made of this stone will not overheat when burning Chitose Gold, which can greatly increase the life of the Yanji and Yanjia. However, this stone is too rare, and the one that appeared on the market has been made into a mecha box, and it has been fed up at a sky-high price. ”

People often have a blind trust in what is written down. This is especially true in places like Lamentation, where books are not read. Yu Mochen grew up in mourning and understands this truth very well.

Because she understood, she was even more skeptical of the things Tu Lian said, "What is written in the book is not necessarily right." Since this kind of stone is rare, it is possible that the person who wrote the book has never seen it at all. ”

"No," Tu Lian's attitude was actually very determined, "That unique mecha box was finally brought forward by the Great Qi Government and included in a place in the imperial capital that specializes in the study of Yanjia." And the person who wrote the book happened to be a general there, named ......" The author's name is obviously not as important as the content of the book, Tu Lian recalled for a while before he said, "It seems to be surnamed Yuan." ”

Yu Moji's heart jumped. What Tu Lian described is indeed what Yuan Yizhi can do.

But at the moment, she just hopes that it is not Yuan Zhizhi.

The person who wrote the book may have just casually recorded a piece of information that was useful for the study of Yanjia, but due to fate, Tu Lian and his party were attracted to Chilu Mountain, and for various reasons, Yu Xia indirectly lost his life.

Yu Mojian couldn't help but have mixed feelings in his heart, so he said, "Since the stone is precious, why do you know to come here to find it?" Is there even a record of the origin of the stone? ”

"How is it possible," Lang Wang interjected, "If there were really records, Chilu Mountain would have been hollowed out a long time ago. His grief had not long passed, and that contemptuous and slippery posture resurfaced, "You little girl, with long hair and short knowledge, it is impossible to think that the sky-high price of the stone flowed out of our leader's hands. ”

Yu Moji's hair is not long, and he thinks that his knowledge is not short, but he is still speechless in shock.

Tu Lian seemed to be reminded of some tragic memory, his eyes lowered and he was silent for a while before he said, "When the legend of the Chitose Golden Vein was at its peak, the three of us went up to Chilu Mountain, and we just picked up the stone to fix the rope...... Later I ...... I was in the same situation as Yosha at the time, so I had to stop and rest. The two of them were fine anyway, and they were also young and vigorous, so they made an appointment to try their courage and take this opportunity to climb to the top......"

"It turns out that you have to come to the top, boss, just for this matter." Karyu knew something inside, and his face showed a bit of emotion, "After so many years, I originally thought you had let go. ”

"It's about human life, how dare I forget?" Tu Lian smiled bitterly, "...... When I recovered, I went back to look for the two men, only to find that the leader had gone down the mountain with all their equipment and supplies, leaving only my old friend...... I finally found him and wanted to take him down the mountain. But he ...... after all After all, he still couldn't hold ......," he said, his voice shattered to the point that it was almost inaudible.

Yu Mochen felt sad and a little resentful, so he said, "What happened to the person who led the way?" ”

"Good and evil will be rewarded in the end," Lang Wang said, "and the government of their Qi people forcibly took away the mecha box made of stone, so they cut down that bastard." ”

Yu Mochen said in his heart that this is a good and evil thing that will be rewarded in the end, but some people die for profit and some people die for righteousness.

She was sighing in her heart, and suddenly saw Dansang's figure.

While they were talking, Dansang, the "old horse", had already explored the way. Not only that, but in order to facilitate the passage of those who had not climbed the peak, he also fixed a long rope at the highest point that he could go.

The higher the peak, the steeper it becomes; And beneath their feet, under the seemingly harmless white snow, there are either cracks in the ice that swallow people, or hard, shiny ice.

Although each of them has clogs with sharp iron teeth, it is almost impossible to stand on them.

Yu Moji could no longer walk, so he could only climb as if he were struggling.

She balances with her right hand with a flying eagle pickaxe, and with her left hand she pulls the long rope that Dansang hangs on; Despite these two things, she was able to climb here thanks to a special mechanism of her own making.

The main body of this mechanism is very simple, only an iron ring and an iron hook. Yu Moji made a clever design according to the ingenuity he had learned, and fastened the iron ring to the long rope, so that it could flexibly push upward, but the downward momentum would be blocked by the iron hook.

In this way, when they climb, although it is difficult to exert force on their feet, it is always much more convenient for them to hold the rope with the help of iron rings; If you can't climb, you can hang on it for a little rest.

Yu Moji was hanging on the long rope at the moment, feeling like a grasshopper that was about to freeze to death.

Along the way, she had fallen into the bottomless crevasses of the ice several times, and it was all the iron hoops and ropes that hung her up. At the deepest point, the snow and ice had already reached her waist.

She didn't know how Dansang had reached such a high position by herself before. Perhaps, with enough ability and experience, human strength can really reach unimaginable levels.

They climbed up for a long time, and the rope that Dansang had hung before finally came to an end.

But it's not far from the summit.

Tu Lian discussed with Dansang and decided to connect everyone with a long rope again, so that if someone slipped, he could also be temporarily pulled by manpower. However, considering that this place was really dangerous, he himself did not tie it to a long rope, but walked back and forth on one side, watching the progress of the people, and was very conscientious.

In this way, the last one in line becomes the ink mark.

She was a little nervous, but seeing that Tu Lian, Lang Wang, and Ka Lu in front of her were quite calm, and their steps were still firm, her heart couldn't help but calm down.

The three of them have climbed to the top in turn.

The road was a safe one.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Lang Wang had even sat down, untying the rope around his waist while beckoning Yu Moji to hurry up.

Although Yu Moji was exhausted, he was also very excited about the victory that lay ahead. She took a deep breath and slammed her feet hard, trying to exert the last of her strength, and kicked up in a few stepsβ€”

The eaves of snow under her feet, disguised by a thick layer of fresh snow, collapsed at this moment.

Kalu's reaction was very fast, and when he saw this, he immediately pulled the rope and lay down, and Tu Lian and Lang Wang also immediately came over and tried their best to pull the rope.

On the other side of the collapsed crack, Dansang, who was originally protecting behind Yu Moji, kicked down a few clouds of ice and snow in a panic, but finally stabilized his body in extreme danger.

Tu Lian breathed a sigh of relief and asked Lang Wang to hurry up and help fix the rope and form a group of pulleys according to the method that Yu Moji had taught before. As he commanded, he shouted to the ink marks hanging in the ice crevices, "Don't be afraid...... Are you hurt? ”

Yu Moji was already so frightened that he didn't dare to come out. She glanced at the dark feet, and could not see the bottom at all; There were still countless sharp tooth-like ice cubes hanging in the cracks, threatening her with teeth and claws.

Rao is like this, Tu Lian's rare slightly panicked, but also rare slightly warm words, still comforted her. Yu Mojian struggled to stabilize his mind, suppressed a voice as steady as possible, and said to him, "I'm fine." ”

"We'll pull you up," Karyu's voice was as concerned as ever, "be careful not to bump into you." ”

Yu Moji agreed, and soon felt that he had moved a little upward; As the rope moved, a few clouds of snow fell on top of her head, and she didn't know where she finally fell.

At that moment, she suddenly heard a barely noticeable noise overhead.

She looked up and saw to her horror that the snow had lost its backing, and the sharp edges and corners of the ice break had cut the ropes.

She was about to scream, but the rope finally couldn't hold anymoreβ€”

She fell.