Chapter 879: Mountaineering
By the time Leo and the others arrived at the Rumhorn, it was already the third day, and the temperature here was slightly warmer than the previous Northland ice sheet, because the sea breeze blowing from the eastern sea would neutralize the cold of the ice field wind to a certain extent.
After entering this area, Leo and the others have already met two or three tribes, although the clothes worn by these tribes are no different from the clothes of ordinary tribes, their overall temperament and behavior are very different from the tribes that live in the Northland for a normal year.
At that time, after seeing these tribes, Leo and the others quickly realized that these tribes were the losers in the civil war in Ferut, and after escaping from Ferut, they settled in the relatively warm eastern ice fields.
Although their lives are not comparable to those in Ferut, at least there is no shortage of food, and there are some tribes of relatives and friends in the city of Ferut, who can help them buy food and clothing for the winter, and they are not short of money, and when they flee from Ferut, they also carry a lot of money, which is enough for these tribes to spend for several years.
However, these tribes are clearly unhappy with the status quo and are still thinking about returning to Ferut, not only because of their original revenge, but also because they are no longer able to adapt to life in the tribe outside the city, even if they are not short of food and clothing.
When these tribes met Leo and them, they did not trouble Leo and them, but asked Leo and them about the city of Ferut.
When they learned from Leo and the others that the city of Ferut had now returned to peace, and that the other tribes in the Northland had not had any conflicts with the tribes staying in the city, their faces showed obvious disappointment, obviously in their opinion, if nothing chaotic happened in the city of Ferut, with the current number of survivors of their families, they would definitely not be able to shake the rule of the families in the city.
Although they didn't get the news they wanted from Leo and them, these tribes still welcomed Leo and them very warmly, and when they learned that Leo and they were going to climb the rum peak, they all showed obvious surprise, but they all thought that Leo was a mountaineer and an adventurer, so they did not doubt Leo's motive for climbing the rum peak, after all, every year there are always some adventurers from the south who will try to climb the rum peak from the north slope.
As Leo and the others left, the patriarch of one of the families suddenly took out a letter and a sum of money and handed it to Leo, expressing the hope that if Leo and the others returned to the south alive, they would give the letter to a powerful court nobleman in Winter Rin, it seems that these exiles want to use the power of the French Empire to suppress the victors so that they can return to the city of Ferut.
However, this did not mean that they thought that Leo and his party could climb the Rum Peak, they just thought that Leo and the others would give up the climb halfway through the climb and return the same way, just like other mountaineering adventurers.
Leo didn't intend to help these fugitives, but under Sylvia's secret instructions, he still accepted the letter and the honorarium, and said that when he arrived in the French Empire, he would give the letter to the nobleman with real power in the court.
After leaving the sheltered camp of those families, before Leo couldn't help but ask curiously, Tessa Mocha took the first step to ask, "Why do you want to take this matter? If we go to the Fran Empire, we shouldn't have so much free time to help other people, right?"
"Although Baron Ethan was only a court baron, he was indeed one of Louis X's most trusted people, and several other court nobles managed the royal estate for Louis X, including the agricultural and commercial taxes of the royal feuds. Sylvia carefully explained: "If Baron Ethan can get in touch with him, and with the pass he has issued, then we will be much less hindered in the counties under the control of the Crown." ”
After listening to Sylvia's explanation, Tessa Mocha didn't ask any more, and Leo felt that Sylvia asked him to take the matter of sending the letter, which didn't seem to be as she said, just for the pass, I'm afraid there were other deep meanings, but he didn't ask more, because Sylvia would take the initiative to tell him when he needed to know, and there was no need to ask.
The group continued their march towards the ridge where the Rumhorn was located, and in the evening they came to a modest camp at the foot of the Rumhorn that had been set up by former mountaineering explorers.
Although the camp was rudimentary, there were still things that should have been there, such as a wooden house for shelter from the wind, a fireplace, a firewood house for storing firewood, and a cellar for storing food, just judging from the supplies in this camp, enough for seven or eight people to stay here for a winter.
Leo decided to stay here for one night and wait until tomorrow day to climb Rumpeak, and while it would not be difficult to climb Rum with his, Sylvia's, and Tessa Mocha's abilities, it was clear that Mister and Randall would not be able to climb it at night.
The group was speechless all night, and they ate early and went to sleep.
It's just that in the middle of the night, Leo suddenly opened his eyes and looked towards Mister and Randall, and at the same time, the spiritual net also covered the two people, recording the energy fluctuations on their bodies, the details of the activities of their body organs, etc., especially the process of some secretions on their bodies.
The reason why Leo suddenly paid attention to the situation of Mister and Randall was because the energy on the two of them just now produced a very special resonance phenomenon, if it was just a resonance phenomenon, he would not be too concerned, the important thing is that this resonance phenomenon actually caused a trace of uncontrolled abnormal fluctuations in the supernormal power in his body.
Although this fluctuation was very slight, so slight that it would be difficult to detect it if he didn't perceive it carefully, it was enough for Leo to attract his attention, not to mention that he was already a little skeptical about the abilities and actions of Mister and Randall, so when he noticed the resonance phenomenon and discovered the abnormal fluctuation of the supernormal power in his body, the things that the two of them had done in the Longhorn Tribal House immediately came to his mind.
So when he was paying attention to the energy resonance effect on the two of them, he was also paying attention to the secretions on the two of them.
After carefully recording for a while, Leo quickly found some anomalies through the analysis of the recorded information.
Whenever some substances are secreted from the two of them, such as sweat, dander, nails, etc., the resonance effect of the energy on the body will be weakened rapidly, as if the special energy generated by these resonance effects has been transferred to the substances secreted by the two people.
When Leo found this, he seemed to grasp a clue, and guessed in his heart: "No! It's not just the abnormal fluctuation of power, but also something lower, such as ...... For example, bloodline. ”
At this moment, Leo seemed to understand something, looked at Mister and Randall who were sleeping quite meaningfully, withdrew the spiritual net, and ignored these two people.
The night passed quickly, and Leo and the others got up early, freshened up, cut down some trees, and replenished some of the wood consumed last night, and then put on their luggage and walked towards the Rum Peak.
Of all the peaks in the Vienovi Mountains, the Rum Horn is not the tallest or the lowest, but it is definitely the easiest to climb, and of course it is mainly relative to the other peaks of the Vienovi Mountains.
The mountaineering expedition to conquer the Rum began a long time ago, and from some records, hundreds of years ago, those smugglers wished to bypass the supervision of the Frank Empire and go to the Northland to smuggle the special products of the Northland, they chose various peaks to try, and finally decided that the Rum Peak was the most likely to be crossed, so they began to conquer the Rum, and the result is that all those who tried to cross the Rum Peak fell in the mountains of the Rum, and to this day, their bodies are still in the snow in the mountains.
Although the smugglers' attempt to conquer the Rum Peak was unsuccessful and soon lost confidence and did not continue, the act was spread by specious rumors and turned into a heroic feat of human conquest of the Vinowian Mountains, which inspired a large number of adventurous people.
For hundreds of years, many people have tried to climb the Rum Peak every year, and they have all failed, the lucky ones can walk down the mountain alive, and the unlucky ones stay on the mountain, and the closest to success is the mountaineer Fadia who named the Rum Peak.
For many years, all those who tried to climb the Rum Peak did so from the south side of the mountain, and they never thought of climbing from the north, until a noble couple who traveled to the Northland, who were also famous mountaineering adventurers, suddenly wanted to see what the north face of the Rum Peak looked like, and they found that the north slope of the Rum Peak was much gentler than the south slope.
At that time, the couple decided to try to climb, but the couple still climbed the north slope according to the southern slope, and accidentally stepped on a layer of ice floe and fell directly under the cliff, both of them died, while their servant returned to the French Empire alive and told the couple's experience, so that people realized the possibility of climbing from the north slope, so the number of people who climbed the rum from the north slope also increased.
If the French Empire had controlled the number of people entering the Northlands, it would have been possible that there would be ten times more adventurers climbing the northern slope of the Rum Peak than there are now.
The relatively gentle climb to the Rumhorn from the north slope allows the average climber to climb the Rum Peak, but there are also a number of dangers, such as the moving glaciers formed by the snow on the north slope over the past countless years.
These glaciers are all buried deep underneath, and the upper layers are covered with a thick layer of snow, and these glaciers are moving at a very slow pace at all times, so that this movement is almost imperceptible to ordinary people.
And this seemingly non-dangerous movement can create a deadly danger, one moment the ground under the climber's feet is still a solid layer of ice, and the next moment it will become an abyss of ice that cannot be seen.
It is for this reason that those who climb the Rum from the north face have a much lower chance of surviving in distress than those on the south face.
Leo and the others used ropes to link everyone together before they started climbing, and then Leo opened the mental net, checked the situation of the glacier under the snow under their feet, and found out the location of the trap.
At first, Mister and Randall walked a little tremblingly, after all, they had heard all kinds of rumors about the north face of the Rum Peak, and it was difficult not to be afraid.
So in the previous journey, Leo and the others had to deliberately slow down in order to take care of the two of them, but even so, sometimes they needed to stop and wait for the two to ease some of the physical discomfort caused by the nervousness.
However, with no danger along the way, the two realized that Leo must have mastered some method to know the traps under the snow, and their nervousness relaxed and their pace was much faster.
In less than two hours, the group had climbed two-thirds of the height.
"Wait a minute!" Sylvia suddenly stopped Leo, who was leading the way in front, and then pointed to something that looked like a flagpole in the distance, and said, "Let's go over there and have a look." ”
Leo didn't say anything more, but turned around and walked towards the place Sylvia was pointing.
On the way, he found a crack that was not very wide, and he would definitely have to take a detour under normal circumstances, but he didn't want to waste time, so he directly used the psionic skill created after combining the Warlock's Ice Technique to solidify the snow layer on this crack into ice, forming an ice bridge that could be walked on.
After the group walked through the rift, they came to the flagpole.
It was a large, outward-protruding rock, and a loft with a large strip of cloth had been artificially inserted into a crevice in the rock below, surrounded by rocks that would not fall.
"Is this the list of martyrs?" said Mister, who walked over to the rock, and looked at the barbed pole with some surprise.
I don't know who started it, but when mountaineering adventurers begin to conquer some high mountains, when they reach a certain height, they will find an obvious place to stick a stick, and then tie a strip of cloth with their name written on it to the stick, both as a nostalgia and as a proof of their achievements.
However, most of the people who left strips of cloth on the sticks died in accidents while climbing higher places, and over time these strips of cloth gradually accumulated, and because they were all the names of dead climbers, some people thought that these climbers were martyrs of human conquest of nature, so this kind of sticks with the names of climbers were called the list of martyrs.
For transcendents like Leo and them, this kind of martyrdom is just the product of the self-spiritual satisfaction of ordinary people, such as the Rum Peak, most transcendents only need to be careful and have the ability to climb over the past, so the conquest of nature by humans is just a joke in the eyes of those who really understand nature, not to mention ordinary people, even gods may not have the ability to conquer the whole of nature.