Upward or Death

"No way! Ye Jin's actually doing it! I can't watch anymore. It's too scary!"

"I want to know, is Ye Jin really a beginner? This is free solo climbing, one of the most dangerous extreme sports in the world."

"Oh my god, my legs are already shaking just watching. A mountain like this is so smooth. Either he makes it to the top or he falls."

"In the past, those extreme rock climbers were also challenging the impossible, and although they didn't wear protective equipment, there were always people nearby keeping an eye on them. If anything went wrong, someone could rescue them."

"But Ye Jin is all alone."

"In this virtual world, all of humanity has disappeared. He's the only one left, living alone in this world. In other words, within this setting, Ye Jin hasn't even considered the possibility of failure."

"This is way too crazy. It's madness to the extreme."

"Has he really not considered the possibility of failure at all?"

Countless viewers broke out in cold sweats as they thought about what it meant.

This wasn't a challenge at all. It was practically suicide.

What kind of beginner went straight to free solo climbing?

He could at least have climbed with safety equipment!

Instead, he had nothing but his hands and a pair of climbing shoes.

No, he also had a pair of daggers at his waist.

What use were daggers?

Could he possibly intend to use them to climb this impossibly high cliff?

It was simply impossible.

Wishful thinking.

As the camera gradually zoomed in, they got a clear look at the cliff face.

It was an incredibly smooth cliff, like a naturally formed slab of rock.

There were no large trees growing on the cliff face at all.

There were only a few tufts of wild grass that had occasionally fought their way out of cracks in the cliff.

If not for the occasional protruding rock, they wouldn't have thought it possible to climb at all.

Even the places where one could pause were extremely small. Without astonishing willpower and superb skill, no one could possibly climb it.

The sport was dangerous to the extreme.

Just looking at it made people tremble with fear. It was sheer wishful thinking.

Ye Jin had long since become a monster in their eyes.

But they had never seen a monster capable of anything so incredible.

Even monsters had their limits, okay?

You could race cars at breakneck speeds.

You could fly in a wingsuit at low altitude.

You could also possess an incredibly astonishing capacity for comprehension and memory.

But how could you even master free solo climbing?

You were practically courting death!

Quite a few people had already sentenced him to death in their minds.

Without pausing for a moment, Ye Jin had begun climbing.

His whole body clung to the cliff like a gecko, as though covered in countless barbs that held him fast against the rock, leaving no gap between them.

Everyone followed his movements as he climbed.

And he was moving fast.

In just a minute or two, he had climbed nearly ten meters.

He was practically flying.

With every move he made, everyone's hearts trembled.

They felt as though they had become him.

Their lives hung in the balance.

"Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap! I'm completely hooked. I can barely take it anymore!"

"This is fucking thrilling! We haven't done anything else all day but chase thrills."

"Fuck, I'm done playing Honor of Kings, League of Legends, and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. From now on, I'm just going to buy a washboard and kneel on it while I watch God Ye work miracles."

"The more I watch this video, the more hooked I get, and the less real it feels. I don't even want to go to work tomorrow. What do I do? Help!"

"The person above is so real. I don't want to go to work either. I'm firing my asshole boss tomorrow!"

"This is fucking mind-blowing!"

"Where's the production team? Are you really not going to do anything about this death wish? Fuck, I bet the production team is losing it too. If someone really dies on the show, whether it can even continue will be up in the air."

"It's okay for now, but once he climbs higher and higher, there'll be absolutely no chance of surviving a fall from a mountain this high."

"Why else would we call him badass?"

The viewers stared wide-eyed, afraid of missing a single detail.

Quite a few people counted themselves lucky.

Luckily, they had kept the livestream open on their phones all day. Otherwise, they would have missed such a spectacular broadcast.

Even if they could watch the replay later, they wouldn't be able to feel the same explosive excitement as watching it live.

That was the thrill of a livestream!

Real-time, simultaneous.

They could feel what he was experiencing.

Every one of their heartstrings was now tied to Ye Jin.

The nanocameras circled around him.

They livestreamed from every angle, all 360 degrees, without a single blind spot.

The main camera view changed from a view of his body to one looking down from above.

That camera angle was even more thrilling, driving people even wilder.

As he moved faster,

he climbed higher and higher.

Just watching made everyone tremble with fear.

They were terrified that one careless move would send Ye Jin falling.

With each move he made, their hearts skipped a beat.

Some people simply couldn't take the excitement.

They didn't dare watch the livestream anymore.

Some people wondered, though: even Alex, one of the world's top rock climbers, needed four hours to climb to such a height.

Ordinary rock climbers needed almost two to three days to reach the same height.

How long would Ye Jin take at his current speed?

If he found his way blocked halfway up,

then his only option would be to jump down.

Countless people worried about the road ahead of him. That road was hell, an unknown world.

Ye Jin's expression remained utterly calm and composed, as though he hadn't realized the predicament he was in at all.

The section at the very bottom was the easiest to climb.

There were occasional protruding rocks.

Ye Jin used his own momentum to plan his route, and every time, he found the best path straight upward.

His eyes had never looked down.

They remained fixed directly above him.

As though his ultimate goal lay ahead.

Every time, his hands and feet found exactly the right places to push off and rest.

In a short time,

Ye Jin had already surged up to a height of thirty meters.

Even Alex wouldn't have dared do anything so crazy, because doing so was not only extremely dangerous but also carried enormous risks.

This was only the very beginning. The farther up he went, the more stamina he would expend.

Climbing a sheer cliff of this height

took nearly four hours even at the fastest speed.

Those who took longer could spend two or three days on it.

That was why some rock climbers carried compressed biscuits to replenish their strength.

But Ye Jin...

He had brought nothing.

All he had brought was his courage.

The viewers felt a chill run through their bodies as they looked at the height he had reached.

They had always known Ye Jin was crazy.

But none of them had foreseen that he would be crazy to this extent.

Ye Jin... still hadn't slowed down... he was still surging upward!

Thanks to the benefactors [Yongheng, Zongsong] for the tips of 100 and 588 book coins!