Hanging on a steep cliff all day is a big test for both physical strength and willpower. Most of the time, we have to climb close to vertical rocks like geckos.
This rock is really too straight, and the cracks and folds are so pitiful. If you accidentally slip under your feet, you will not fall off, but scratches are inevitable. We only climbed without protective equipment. Less than two hundred meters, there were bruises on the elbows and knees.
Climbing to about 400 meters, I found that the rock plug inserted in the crack was loose, and I was about to reinforce another one. Suddenly, with a "click", the rock plug fell out. Not only did the main rope loosen, but my feet also slipped. , The whole body suddenly lost support.
The three of us are like grasshoppers on a rope. When one suffers, no one can run away.
So when I fell, I immediately involved the big eyes that followed, and Zhang Ling was the one who followed.
"Boom boom", two more rock plugs were pulled out from the cracks...
All of this happened in an instant.
Fortunately, Zhang Ling quickly fixed his hands and feet on the rock wall. This prevented us from continuing to lose slip and ended the chain reaction. Big Eye and I were hung in the air.
It wasn't until this moment that Zhang Ling's voice reached our ears: "Hurry up and grab something! I can't hold on for long!"
The weight of Dayan and I, together with the weight of each of them, is almost four hundred jin. Now they are all supported by a woman Zhang Ling, which is indeed a bit difficult for her.
I steadied my body, fixed the main rope with another rock plug, and found the attachment point again, only to finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Big Eye also returned to the rock wall, and said with lingering fear: "Good risk, good risk."
Zhang Ling asked me: "Should I be in the front?"
I said, "No, I can do it."
As you go up, the wind begins to increase, and the rock wall that has been stroked by the artesian wind for thousands of years becomes smoother. What's more difficult is that this large rock wall with a vertical distance of 2,000 meters does not have a resting platform where the three of us can sit at the same time.
Therefore, when resting, one or two people are required to hang on a lifeline like a sandbag, and take turns to rest and climb and walk. Regarding the diet, Zhang Ling made regulations long before departure, because people are in mid-air and cannot urinate and defecate normally.
Me and Big Eye are nothing, after all, living people are not
Can suffocate the poop to death, but Zhang Ling is a bit...
We started to climb from the dawn, until the sky gradually darkened, we stopped and started to build the rock camp. The upper and lower rows of rivets are deeply inserted into the rock wall, the lower row of steel pipes are inclined to the sky, the upper row of steel pipes are bracketed like a beam of a plank road into a triangle, and the outer edges of the upper row of alloy pipes are spliced and fixed into a rectangular box, and then A strong nylon rope is repeatedly wound between the alloy tube and the alloy tube of the frame to complete the platform stretched out in mid-air.
Finally, pull down the camouflage cloth diagonally from the top to complete the construction.
Viewed from the side, Yanying looks like two triangles, one large and one small, joined together.
Zhang Ling stood on the edge of the platform, and the cool wind whipped her hair. The forest below had turned into blue waves. The indifferent cloud was like a wisp of smoke rising from the surface of the sea, like a light veil floating on the green sea. .
Her eyes were deep and she didn't know what she was thinking.
I squatted aside and chewed on the grasshopper meat I had stored yesterday. I looked up at the sky. The red rock wall was like the palace wall of the Giant's Palace, towering into the clouds, out of sight.
Looking down the probe, the tall forest plants have been connected together, and only a green smooth silk cloth can be seen. The wind blows, and there is a slight microwave mound.
This world cannot enjoy direct sunlight, so it gets dark very early, and it takes less than half an hour from the platform to the meal. The sky above his head then changed from golden, to gray, and then to pitch black.
Big eyes sighed and said: "I always feel that all this is not real, it is illusory."
I nodded in agreement, and said: "The mystery of the world is like a dream."
"Yes, yes, it's like a dream, but the dream is too long."
Zhang Ling returned to the tent and said, "Everyone, rest early, we can climb up tomorrow."
Sleep at night, and wake up at night. We have developed a habit these days. After all, there is a different concept of time here.
I got up and went into the tent. I looked over my head and suddenly felt a movement in my heart. I said excitedly: "Light! There is light!"
Zhang Ling hurriedly climbed out of the tent and looked up.
I continued: "Look, north, is that a star?"
Since I came here, whether it is sunny or cloudy, the world is dark every night. I can’t see my fingers. Today suddenly there is light, naturally.
It is very exciting.
Big Eye said: "Really, it's true. That should be the North Star!"
I looked at Zhang Ling and said, "We fell from a well. When we were down, we couldn't see the light at night. Now we can see the stars. Does it mean that we are getting closer and closer to the surface?"
Zhang Ling was also a little excited. She climbed out of the tent and raised her head and said, "It should be!"
Big eyes exclaimed: "Then we can go out!"
It’s a bit early if we can go out, but now that we can see the stars, it undoubtedly gives us great hope. We can persist until now, and there is always hope when we are in crisis.
The three of them were not talking, but staring blankly at the North Star. As time went by, the second, third, fourth... More and more stars appeared in the night, and finally even moonlight appeared.
This makes the long narrow gap hidden in the clouds and mist above our heads look very real. The place we are in is a canyon between two mountains. It is also appropriate to say that it is a mountain crevice.
Several mountain peaks stand on the two walls, all sloping toward the center of the canyon, slightly curved into the shape of spikes. If you compare it to a lotus flower heart, from the lotus platform, it is like the lotus that has not yet blossomed!
The center of the rift valley is studded with stars, as if the Milky Way has been drawn a hundred times closer, and a round of jade discs poking out from one side of the gap, pure white and flawless, shining brightly.
"The moon!" Big eyes exclaimed in joy.
It was thought that we have been cut off from the world and do not know where we are. How can we not be excited to see the long-lost moon now? Although there are still all kinds of doubts, it can at least prove that we are still in an unknown corner of the earth instead of falling into the abyss of hell.
Zhang Ling was calmer than me and Big Eye. After rejoicing, she thought for a while and said, "Do you look at the mountains and peaks, do you feel familiar?"
After she reminded me, I also watched carefully, and then suddenly there was excitement in my heart, but before speaking, Big Eye yelled first, and he said: "Ah! It's Daxue Mountain! It's the Daxue Mountain we're riding on." Really! Look, the opposite mountain peaks, those peaks, the arc of the second mountain on the left, and the one on the right, that is Daxue Mountain! It must be Daxue Mountain!!!"
Zhang Ling nodded and said, "It seems that we are now in the cracked snow on the top of Daxue Mountain!"
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