On the other side, Qi Xuefei and Li Wenxi were both in Xu Xin's tree house.
Qi Xuefei had just come here. Because this was the tree house closest to the Giant Peak, they could see the Giant Peak at a glance. Both of them were observing the situation and changes here.
It's all white outside now, and there's no place to explore. There are people guarding near their tree house, so there's no need for them to be there in person. They can rush back if anything happens.
"I didn't expect that you and Xu Xin... You two are developing really fast." Qi Xuefei sighed. She was already 26 or 27 years old, but she was actually lagging behind a 20-year-old girl. She felt a little melancholy.
"Half of the responsibility lies with you, Sister Xuefei!" Li Wenxi had been lying by the window staring blankly at the huge stone pillar, not knowing what he was thinking. When he heard Qi Xuefei say this, he immediately turned around and said, "But you were the one who instigated me!"
Qi Xuefei sat on the sofa, touching Coco who no longer had any suspicion of her in her arms, and said with a smile: "Isn't that what you wanted? I just slightly added fuel to the fire."
"How can it be easy? You've given me great determination." Li Wenxi took out a bottle of pills and shook it in front of her eyes. She didn't know what she was thinking about, and her face turned red. "If it weren't for this bottle of pills, I would definitely not do such a thing!"
"Is this the reason why you came to someone's tree house and gave it away for free?" Qi Xuefei looked at her helplessly, "I didn't expect you to be so decisive and give it away at the speed of light."
"Hate it, what's this for free?" Li Wenxi blushed and spat, "I just felt... Oh! I just wanted to do it, what's the matter!"
As they spoke, both women started laughing.
"Have you taken this medicine?" Qi Xuefei pointed to the small medicine bottle in her hand.
"Not yet..." Li Wenxi took out a pill, looked at it in front of his eyes, and said hesitantly, "I chose the safest day, so it should be okay, right? Isn't it said that taking this kind of medicine has serious side effects..."
"Don't worry, the medicine I made is only good for the body." Qi Xuefei was very confident in this regard, and said calmly, "Not only can it help you get pregnant, but it can also improve your physical condition."
"...Okay, I believe you, Sister Xuefei!" Li Wenxi gritted his teeth, stuffed the pill in his hand into his mouth and swallowed it, then heaved a sigh of relief.
Then, she glared at Xuefeng fiercely: "You stinky man, you ran away the next day and left me alone to think about this kind of thing, humph!"
"Hasn't he considered it?"
"He asked me about it last night." Li Wenxi glanced at Xuefeng again, then walked back to the sofa, sat next to Qi Xuefei, and touched Keke's little head. "I told him that it was a safe period and that I had the medicine that Sister Xuefei gave me. He felt relieved after seeing it. Humph, he looked so anxious. Even without the medicine, I think he couldn't help it."
“Hmm…?” Coco lay on her back with her belly exposed. She tilted her head and looked at the two girls. She didn’t know what they were talking about.
Qi Xuefei suddenly came over and asked in a low voice with some curiosity: "Is that kind of thing comfortable?"
"It hurt a lot at first, but then... Hate you, Sister Xuefei, why are you asking this?" Li Wenxi blushed and gently pushed Qi Xuefei.
Qi Xuefei looked a little melancholy: "I didn't..."
At this moment, an explosion suddenly sounded in the distance.
"What's wrong?!" Li Wenxi immediately stood up from the sofa and ran to the window. Because the direction from which the sound came was the direction of the stone pillar peak.
The snow peak was only a thousand meters away from the tree house, and Xu Xin's position was only more than 300 meters above the snow peak. The sound of the exploding crossbow could still be heard to some extent.
"Using an explosive crossbow?!" Li Wenxi exclaimed, "Who used it? If we use an explosive crossbow on a snowy mountain, won't there be an avalanche?!"
"It should be fine." Qi Xuefei also walked to Li Wenxi's side and looked towards the stone pillar peak. "There is not much space for snow to accumulate on this peak. It shouldn't snow much."
"Oh... That's good, that's good." Li Wenxi observed for a while before he breathed a sigh of relief. Indeed, the mountains in the distance had not changed much.
Please don't let anything go wrong...
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On the other side, Ji Chaoyang had also climbed to a similar position as Xu Xin and was sitting in a cave, waiting for the small avalanche to end.
Since he arrived at this area with caves, he has always had the idea of hiding in the caves and creating an avalanche to make the snow above fall down, which would make it easier for him to climb later.
But he was worried that it would affect Xu Xin who was climbing with him, so he didn't take any action.
I didn't expect the snow to fall by itself.
He didn't know whether Xu Xin had caused the avalanche, because he and Xu Xin seemed to have entered a special space where they did not affect each other. Although they shared a snowy peak, they were completely unable to sense each other.
So, even though he was on the top of the mountain, he did not hear the sound of the crossbow exploding, but only felt the snow mountain shaking, and then the avalanche came down.
He thought this was just a test on the way to climbing the snow-capped mountains.
When the avalanche ends, he will continue to climb upwards.
"It's a pity that I didn't keep the guy I just met."
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On the other side, after the avalanche ended, Xu Xin ate some fruits, replenished his body, and began to climb up faster.
After all, they had just spent a lot of time in that cave. Although there was plenty of time, Xu Xin still felt a sense of urgency in his heart.
Who knows what you'll encounter up there.
Just now a mutated white-headed sea cucumber escaped and survived. It might come and attack us again, so we have to be careful.
Those white-headed sea cucumbers appeared seemingly silently. When he was attacked just now, his enhanced hearing only heard the sound of breaking air nearby.
Fortunately, there are many sunken rock pits in this area, and there are many footholds, so there is no need to worry too much.
In this area, all the rocks are emitting a cold breath. Fortunately, as long as you don't enter the cave in the mountain, the outside temperature is still above minus 50 degrees Celsius, although it's a little icy.
Keep climbing.
The situation he expected, where the fleeing white-headed seagull attacked him, did not occur.
The pits around him were slowly decreasing, and he could feel that the temperature of the rock wall he was holding on to was slowly rising as he climbed upwards. Gradually, he no longer felt the cold.
The temperature of the rocks has risen to over fifty degrees below zero, and the surrounding temperature is no longer close to the limit that the snow fox scarf can withstand.
As time passed, the sun slowly rose in the sky, and its bright light shone on Xu Xin, making him even feel a hint of warmth.
The fog around began to thin, and seemed to be about to dissipate.
Not long after, Xu Xin grabbed the edge of a pit, exerted force with his arms, easily flipped in, and sat down.
He looked down.
Well, this should be about five or six hundred meters, right
This road is so smooth.
Because the explosive crossbow he had just fired had triggered an avalanche, most of the snow had slid down, leaving only a small amount of snow, making it much easier to climb than before.
He leaned forward and looked up again.
He was already very close to the clouds.
This layer of clouds, which looks a bit thick, should be the clouds that caused snowfall at night in the past two days.
The bottom of the cloud layer was only about 800 to 900 meters from the ground, very close. He only needed to climb another 300 meters to enter the cloud layer.
And above the clouds is the peak of the giant peak.
Based on previous visual observations and the distance he had climbed, this layer of cloud was estimated to be only about three or four hundred meters thick, not very thick.
After all, some cumulonimbus clouds can be several thousand meters or even tens of kilometers thick. Compared with those clouds, the small cloud above Xu Xin's head is still a little weak, and it is also very white, and it seems that there is no danger.
Based on the thickness of the clouds and the proportion of the height of the giant peak protruding from the clouds, he was able to roughly calculate that the height of this giant peak should be between 1,500 and 1,800 meters.
In other words, he should have climbed one-third of the way now.
And it wasn't even two hours that had passed, and half of that time had been spent on exploring the cave and dealing with the bald eagle.
There is plenty of time.
After replenishing his physical strength and condition, Xu Xin began to climb up again.
After climbing up about another hundred meters, the surrounding environment changed a lot.
All the holes where we could rest had disappeared. We continued to climb upwards. The rock wall was uneven, but there were no more holes where we could rest, so we had to climb up in one go.
It seems that we have entered the next stage.
The current altitude is about 700 meters.
In other words, he has passed the ultra-low temperature stage of 300-700 meters and entered the next stage of climbing this snow peak.
The few white-headed seabirds just now were just a small episode and perhaps they were not supposed to appear in the previous stage at all.
They should be just the remnants in the underground city. If he hadn't taken out the energy core fragments just now, perhaps those mutant white-headed sea lilies would not have been attracted out by him.
He did not rush to climb up, but looked up and began to observe the distance.
It was only about two hundred meters away from the bottom of the clouds.
The wind finally started to blow around, and the fog began to flow with the wind.
Fortunately, the wind was not strong, just a breeze, which did not affect his rock climbing safety.
"Huh?" Xu Xin narrowed his eyes and looked up about a hundred meters.
The mountain wall there actually bulged outward.
As far as his eyes could see, at that height, the giant peak had a whole circle of rock wall protruding out.
It protrudes about one meter, like a balcony protruding from a high-rise building.
That neat circle feels a bit abrupt.
Is there a platform on top of it
Is there something on top
Treasure
Xu Xin's eyes lit up.
The height there is about 800 meters. According to the height he just calculated, it is likely to be the middle of the entire stone pillar peak! Maybe there really are some good things there!
Xu Xin immediately became motivated. He took a deep breath, exerted force with his arms, and instantly climbed up three meters.
He hadn't received an activity reward for a long time, and he felt a little excited at the thought that he might get a reward just a hundred meters away.
The body continued to climb upwards, and the wind speed around him gradually increased, but Xu Xin was not affected much. Instead, he felt a lot more relaxed because the wind at the edge of the cliff would form an updraft after being affected by the terrain.
The updraft lifted him upward, which actually made his arms feel a lot more relaxed.
Yes, there is wind to help.
Continuing to climb upwards, when he was about forty or fifty meters away from the protruding platform, his brows suddenly frowned slightly.
It's not because the wind is stronger, but because...
He seemed to hear some sound coming from the platform above!
Looking up, Xu Xin listened carefully.
Because of the wind around, the sound above was not clear.
After climbing up about ten meters, the sounds in his ears gradually became clearer. Xu Xin's expression became more and more solemn, and he stopped climbing completely.
There is really movement above!
There is a strange sound!
It sounded like something was rubbing against each other and scratching the stone wall.
It's a living creature!
Moreover, there are a lot of them, because this kind of sound can be heard from all positions on this circle of raised rock walls!
Xu Xin doesn’t think that this creature that appeared from high in the sky would be any good!
Could it be that...
Just as Xu Xin was nervously guessing, suddenly, there was a chaotic commotion from above.
Then, the scene in front of him made his eyes widen!
Suddenly, a big bird with its wings spread jumped out from the raised steps!
This big bird had black-grey feathers all over its body, and its wingspan of more than four meters even blocked out the sunlight for a moment!
Covering the sun with clouds!
This bird is so big!