"Go to the Urban Living Hotel and go up to the roof and use the telescope there to find the dwarf ceramic dolls around the building. Once you find the doll, go there and take it down, and you will get the next clue at the same time." The last Maori warrior The little brother still didn't get on with Dillon. After a stalemate, he simply took out the clue, and I read it out after taking the clue he handed over.
The Urban Living Hotel in Auckland is one of the most luxurious and upscale hotels besides the Sky City Hotel. So it is actually very easy to find its location mark on the map. Before getting into the car and waiting for Dillon to start the car, he saw Zoe and Joseph's sibling team coming down the mountain from a distance.
I quickly found the way from Mount Eden to the Urban Life Hotel from the map, drew it with a crayon, opened the car window and stuck my head out, greeted the two children, and walked away again.
Looking around the building with binoculars to find dwarfs was even less of a problem for Dillon. Just like a thermal scan, less than ten minutes after we reached the top of the Urban Living Hotel, Dillon spotted a dwarf tied to a tree in a nearby park. Because no one was fighting with us, we got the next clue very smoothly.
The next clue is printed on the dwarf's base, which is a detour mission. There are two options for detouring tasks, one is time is money, the other is courage is success.
In time is money, we need to drive to a kiwi orchard an hour from downtown Auckland, then stand in a crate full of kiwis and fry two litres of kiwi juice with our bare feet. Needless to say, in this task, there is no technical difficulty, the only thing that needs to be consumed is time.
In courage is success, we only need to drive to the Sky Tower, which is only a ten-minute drive from the Urban Life Hotel, and then climb to the top of the Sky Tower to complete the two tasks of air walking and high-altitude bungee jumping. Without a doubt, Dillon and I knew we had chosen the branch of courage is success.
"I heard that when I came to Auckland, New Zealand, if I didn't jump off its iconic building, the Sky Tower, it was a waste." I held up the dwarf ceramic doll in my hand and said with a smile to the camera, "So we definitely choose Courage is success. I've always liked the thrill of extreme sports, and I'm grateful for the opportunity to go fast."
While talking with a smirk, I leaned over to Dillon, who had been looking very boring in front of the camera and had a serious face, and put my hands around his waist like a koala, and said, "Don't say It is close to bungee jumping, and even skydiving is nothing to Dillon. We won the first place in the first relay station in the first round.”
Perhaps in the eyes of Chinese people who uphold the golden mean, such a statement would appear very arrogant and unpopular. But for Americans who are quite heroic, such a speech just hits their appetite.
From the Urban Living Hotel to under the Sky Tower, we never ran into anyone else to catch up. Putting on the equipment at the fastest speed, we followed the staff and took the elevator to the top of the 200-meter-high sky tower. Without any nonsense or hesitation, we tied the safety ropes on our bodies and stepped out directly.
The so-called air walking is to walk out of the sky tower with a safety rope tightly tied to the body, and walk three times around the outer circle with no other handrails except for the one-meter-wide road under the feet. Because of the game, we will not have staff leading the way.
Even filming was done with camcorders strapped to our wrists, and helicopter-style remote-controlled cameras flying in the air. This means that at an altitude of 200 meters from the storefront, under the strong sea breeze, only the two contestants have to experience this time alone.
Perhaps for many others, this will always be a more time-consuming task than stomping on a kiwi. For me and Dillon, however, the foot of the meter-wide circle can be seen as flat ground.
Under the amazed attention of the surrounding show crew, including the Sky Tower staff, Dillon and I started walking at a faster pace than the average person trotting or jogging. It is in such a situation that we even have time and interest to tease each other.
"The close-up shooting here is all self-help. How about a better shot?" I walked sideways around the footsteps with obvious arcs, and raised the camcorder strapped to the wrist of my left hand. He turned to Dillon. "Maybe I can go back and collect a beautiful clip collection like I did in Survivor."
"As long as you want." Dillon said noncommittally, but the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned to show his good mood. "What are you going to do?"
Just as he asked, I had already reached the spot I had seen before. This is the most beautiful place in the circle around the sky tower, behind us is the pier we have been to before the city boundary, and the blue sea can not see the horizon of the boundary. And this is the time of sunrise, the most dazzling and most beautiful moment.
As far as winter in Auckland is concerned, it is also a rare sunny day. Because it is close to the equator, the sky in New Zealand looks particularly low, with white clouds dotted on it, just like a painting.
I completely turned around to face Dillon, raised my hand to stroke the left side of his neck, and said with a smile, "Since you were so reluctant to let that Maori warrior finish his meeting, you will replace him. Do as the locals do." As I said that, I slightly took a step with one foot, the back foot stood on tiptoe, and put my forehead on his forehead.
At such a close distance, in addition to the whirring of the wind, I could hear the faint sound of his breathing. The hand on the side of his neck gently caressed the base of his ear, and there was stubble that came out before he had time to shave. Because I was so close, my eyes couldn't look directly into his eyes, but I still had the feeling that I saw into his soul.
We touched the tip of our noses and rubbed each other in the way of Maori greetings. Then my head was taken by Dillon's outstretched hands, and he kissed even one side. Feeling this kiss at an altitude of 200 meters without any support around me, I gently closed my eyes.
At this moment, our only reliance is on each other. But for me, in fact, the only person I can count on close to in this world is this man. He doesn't speak those nasty sweet words, but as long as he is around him, it will bring me an incomparable sense of security.
For me, the most important thing is the sense of security.
Not only Brian as a child of a single parent family, but even before this life I was just a helpless orphan, struggling to survive on my own. The nerves that have been tense forever can finally rest next to a person. Because of this, he trapped me tightly, like a spider weaving a web, and the prey that fell into the web could no longer escape.
At this moment, and only at this moment, I stopped thinking that I would stop calculating all the time. I didn't even think about what kind of sensation would be caused by the actions of me and him in the future because the crew of the Fast Forward program broadcasted without editing. And what a popular way to show affection when kissing during the Auckland Sky Tower air walk.
Once the kiss was over, I didn't count the time. Maybe a full half a minute, or maybe just a few seconds like a time standstill. I opened my eyes and looked at the city of Auckland that looked like a bird's eye view. Helicopter-style remote-controlled cameras flew professionally around us, capturing the kiss in a 360-degree circle.
"Let's go, we still have the whole world waiting for us to travel around." I smiled, "Even if it wasn't for the final reward of one million dollars, I would never pass up the opportunity to travel at public expense."
Taking Dillon's hand and walking around the sky tower three times, we finally arrived at the original starting point and were picked up by the staff. Facing the prompt of the film crew to say a few words, Dillon looked at the camera and said helplessly: "Maybe it's because Brian doesn't like such a nauseous way of holding hands, so let's try it out this time. "
After the air walk, it is a high-altitude bungee jumping that can only be performed by one person due to safety considerations caused by wind resistance and inertia. Because of my insistence, Dillon was the first to jump. After he jumped down without hesitation, I also stood on the platform after checking the safety measures by the staff.
I stood on the edge, my upper body leaning out of mid-air due to the weight of the straps on my body. I raised my head and faced the helicopter-style remote control camera that was shooting around me. I gave a sullen smile, loosened my hands that were holding the guardrail, and stretched out my arms.
At a height of 200 meters, the time spent in the air seems to make people think that they are flying. The feeling of falling is only a momentary moment at the beginning. In fact, people will not feel the feeling of weightlessness in the subsequent free fall. I opened my arms and watched myself fall from the top overlooking the city into the steel jungle again.
Relaxation is only temporary. The confrontation with opponents in social games is like the jungle of wild animals, and the modern jungle made of steel is our battlefield.
Fast forward to the first stop, and Dillon and I easily won the first place. The reward that comes with the first place is two fast-forward cards that have a huge advantage in the future. As long as we use a fast-forward card, then we can skip any roadblock mission or detour mission.
That is, we got a gold medal for avoiding death.
Another fast-forward card that we need to give to another pair of contestants. And there is no doubt that those who will get this fast-forward card will be our future steadfast allied siblings, Zoe and Joseph.