Climb a Mountain (Bonus Chapter for Huan Yu of the Silver Alliance)
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Qing Chen looked up at the 600-meter-high cliff in front of him.
My teacher once said, "600 is a very small number; if it were money, it would be gone in the blink of an eye. But when you stand in front of that vertical, Green Mountain Cliff, you can understand what 600 meters means to a rock climber."
A 222-story building.
Sears Tower.
KVLY TV Tower.
Haicheng Center Building.
He quietly looked up.
His memory wasn't of much use here.
Because he had never seen the entire cliff, he was unable to use Hyperthymesia to analyze the climbing route.
No wonder the teacher said that to climb this mountain, one needs the courage to make a decision without regret.
This is the longest road to heaven among all the shortcuts in the world; just one glance at it will inspire boundless pride.
However, danger also exists.
Qing Chen had no safety rope, and knights cannot wear safety ropes when facing Life and Death Trial, so if he fell from the sky, the only outcome would be death.
At this moment, Qing Chen smiled bitterly and looked down at his right thigh, where a rope was tied and blood was still seeping out.
The burning hunger in my stomach felt like a fire was raging inside.
The boy wondered if the teacher had gone too far. He thought that in his current condition, he probably couldn't even climb 20 meters, but now he had to climb 600 meters?!
But Qing Chen will never turn back.
Once, when Qing Chen was training in Prison No. 18 and was so exhausted that he could barely keep going, Mother Ye told him: Imagine you are pushing the earth.
Once, when Qing Chen asked Li Shutong what this Life and Death Trial was called, Li Shutong replied, "Universal gravitation."
Because he, as a tiny human being, wanted to approach the heavens as if he were escaping gravity.
Climb on, there is no turning back.
Qing Chen limped toward the stone wall, but then he suddenly saw a line of small characters carved at the foot of the cliff. "Only faith and the sun and moon are eternal."
Qing Chen suddenly looked up and saw white marks seeping into the rock wall from the lines on the "giant's" palm.
Those were the marks left on the cliff by the magnesium powder from the hands of the knights of yesteryear, like a ladder to heaven, leading straight to the sky.
He no longer needs to remember anything; he only needs to follow in the footsteps of his predecessors.
At one moment, he thought of the familiar sound of the wind beside the big willow tree, and looking at the white marks in front of him, it was as if those old fellows who had shone through countless eras were smiling and saying in his heart:
Climb up, climb a mountain, see a snowfall, chase a dream.
Let us walk the path we have walked before and become new knights.
Qing Chen felt a lump in his throat.
I don't know when it started, but Qing Chen has to rely on himself in his life.
If you don't have money for food, you learn to endure hunger.
If you don't have money for tuition, then earn it yourself.
During the Parent's Association, he was the only one sitting alone in the classroom.
Once, when he really couldn't raise the money to pay his tuition, he had no choice but to go to his maternal grandmother's house and ask her for it.
As a result, his grandmother coldly asked him: Why don't you go find your father?
Later, Qing Chen realized it wasn't a big deal, since there were many people who had suffered more than him.
So he learned to be strong.
However, after arriving in the Inner World, he found a teacher named Li Shutong, and after reaching the Forbidden Zone, it seemed as if the whole world was helping him.
This feeling is so wonderful, it feels unreal.
I realized that I can be less strong sometimes.
No wonder Li Shutong said that the first hurdle to unlocking the Gene Lock must be overcome here.
It's not that this is the only precipitous peak in the world, but rather that this is the path that knights have walked.
Qing Chen smiled.
"Breathe."
Flame Markings suddenly bloomed on both sides of his cheeks, like the clouds when the rising sun pierces the sky.
The boy took out the bag of magnesium powder that Li Shutong had given him from his pocket and tied it around his waist.
He reached out and gripped the crevice in the rock, climbing towards the "giant's" palm.
But then he suddenly realized something was wrong.
The moment he began his Breathing Technique, a warm current suddenly swept through his entire body from his abdomen, like a rushing warm river flowing through his blood vessels and permeating his muscles and bones.
The pain from the injury on the outside of my thigh has subsided, and the bleeding has stopped.
The hunger was gone, and I felt incredibly energetic.
Qing Chen realized that this was the true purpose of the White Fruit; it needed to be used in conjunction with Breathing Technique to be effective.
Those old guys are really helping me.
"Thank you," Qing Chen, continuing to climb.
10 meters.
20 meters.
40 meters.
Qing Chen saw that someone had carved a line of small characters on the cliff: Guo Qi Qiliu.
This is the perfect spot for three-point positioning. During a break, this senior named Guo Qi even used one hand to carve words with a dagger.
He smiled knowingly, as if bidding farewell to a senior, and continued onward.
62 meters, left by Zhou Peng.
83 meters, Zhao Yongyi stayed.
Qing Chen had never climbed such a high cliff before, but he was not alone.
The boy saw his senior's handwriting again and again, and said goodbye to his senior again and again, seemingly without ever getting tired.
The energy surging from the ginkgo was like a small reactor, providing him with a continuous source of energy and even relieving the fatigue in his muscles.
However, at this moment, Cao Wei followed the scent of blood to the foot of the cliff. He looked up at the cliff and was stunned, because only at this moment did he understand why the boy had been fleeing westward for his life.
So this is where their destination is.
Green Mountain Cliff!
Not many people know about the Green Mountain Cliff, but Cao Wei, who did his homework, is one of them.
He knew this was where the dream of chivalry began.
But he never imagined that he would witness it with his own eyes.
Cao Wei felt extremely complicated emotions. There was a time when he also wanted to become a knight.
People in the Outer World now know that Li Shutong possesses the best legacy of our time, so how could the natives of the Inner World not know?
Moreover, for many people in the Inner World, it is not only a tradition, but also a yearning and aspiration.
Cao Wei remained silent for a long time before finally raising his crossbow and pulling the trigger towards the cliff.
He's already in the adult world; he can no longer dream like that.
With a clang, the crossbow bolt traveled over a hundred meters and struck Qing Chen's left side.
Qing Chen was startled; he hadn't expected the crossbow bolts to have such a long range.
Cao Wei leisurely loaded another bolt into the crossbow. Nowadays, very few people use crossbows; they are more like handicrafts than weapons.
He went to great lengths to acquire this item, because according to the rule that firearms cannot be used in Forbidden Zone No. 002, only those using gunpowder are considered firearms.
The second crossbow bolt struck Qing Chen's feet, but missed.
The third crossbow bolt struck Qing Chen's left side but missed.
The drawback of hand crossbows is that their effective range is generally only 60 meters. Whether they can hit the target beyond 60 meters depends entirely on luck.
Wind speed, trajectory, and many other factors affect the trajectory of a crossbow bolt.
A person who can hit a target with a crossbow at 100 meters can be called a god.
Moreover, even if the crossbow bolt hits the boy when fired at an upward angle, it won't cause him much harm.
But Cao Wei didn't care.
He knew how dangerous climbing cliffs was, and all he needed to do was distract the other person.
If the boy gets distracted, he will naturally fall off the cliff.
Indeed, the boy on the cliff had stopped climbing, and Cao Wei could sense his fear.
Standing on a precipice, one wrong step could mean certain death. And if someone is aiming a crossbow at you in that situation, no one could remain calm.
However, just as Cao Wei fired the fifth crossbow bolt, he suddenly saw that the boy's figure had stabilized.
The next moment, the other party fixed himself to the cliff using a three-point positioning method, then drew a dagger from his waist with his right hand and carved three words on the treacherous rock face.
Qing Chen remains.
Only after he finished carving did the boy begin climbing upwards again.
He didn't look back at Cao Wei again.
Cao Wei stared blankly at the scene, feeling the other party's silent yet condescending mockery.
Is this the one chosen by the knight?
Is it only people like this who can become knights?
Suddenly, Cao Wei vomited a mouthful of blood.
Fortunately, no rules were triggered.
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