Yi Chen and Putuomel quickly arrived at the foot of the last section of Yegla Peak.
At this moment, the high-altitude wind was like a knife, blowing constantly on the two of them, and the biting cold air was like a sword, silently penetrating into their bone marrow.
While panting heavily, Putuomel looked up at the 90-degree mountain wall and exclaimed:
"This...this...there are such mountains in this world, it's simply unbelievable!"
Although Putuomel had been mentally prepared for a long time, when she was about to start climbing, she still couldn't help but mutter.
"Putuo Mel, don't be afraid, no matter what, the two of us will live and die together!"
Yi Chen looked up and saw a steep mountain peak reaching into the sky, as if it was a bridge between heaven and earth. If he wanted to reach the top of Yegla, he had to climb it. He opened his mouth to comfort Putuomel.
"Huh, who's scared? Let's get started!"
Putuomel did not show any signs of weakness, and then leaned down and started digging hard on the mountain wall with the mountaineering pry in his hand. Ice chips were everywhere and sparks were flying.
After finally digging a small hole in the mountain wall, Putuomel just climbed up with his feet. With a crash, all the ice blocks around the small hole shattered, and the small hole became as big as a washbasin, with slippery edges. , and can no longer rely on its strength to climb upward.
The ice that originally covered the surface of the mountain wall was hard and brittle. If it was struck too many times with a mountaineering pry in the same place, it would be surrounded by cracks and unable to bear heavy objects.
"Putuo Mel, you first cut through the ice on the surface of the mountain wall, and then make a hole in the rock on the mountain wall."
Seeing this situation, Yi Chen thought about it, proposed a new solution, and took the lead in implementing it himself.
Sure enough, the method of digging holes in the rocks on the mountain wall worked. Yi Chen dug out two palm-sized holes, stepped in with his feet, and climbed more than one meter high.
Putuomel followed Yi Chen's example, and the two of them climbed up bit by bit.
"oops!"
When the two climbed seven or eight meters high, the high-altitude wind suddenly strengthened and almost blew Putuomel away, who was concentrating on digging a small hole. She was so frightened that she screamed.
Only then did Yi Chen realize a problem.
Putuo Mel was not Yi Chen. When Yi Chen was digging a small hole, he still had enough energy to cling to the mountain wall to protect himself. Putuo Mel had to use all his strength to break the ice and open a hole on the mountain wall. There was no spare time. Try your best to guard against all kinds of unexpected risks.
"Putuomel, catch it, tie it around your waist."
Yi Chen threw the other end of the rope to Putuomel and asked Putuomel to tie it around his waist.
In this way, the two were connected with a rope. Even if Putuomel encountered danger again, Yi Chen could use the rope to hold her.
In fact, it is a common method for mountaineering expeditions to connect several people together with ropes to climb the mountain together and become each other's insurance. Yi Chen and Putuo Mel, one is an ordinary college student on Earth, and the other is a scientist on Arcturus. Neither of them has experience in mountaineering expeditions, so they didn't think of it immediately. this way.
Putuomel glanced at Yi Chen gratefully:
"Thank you, Yi Chen!"
Yi Chen smiled mischievously and winked at Putuomel, making an expression that you would understand:
"Hahaha, Putuomel, if you want to thank me, you will have many opportunities in the future."
Putuomel understood the meaning of Yi Chen's expression and gave Yi Chen a big eye roll:
"Humph, I'm too lazy to care about you!"
After Putuomel finished speaking, he went to work digging a small hole on the mountain wall with all his strength.
As the height increased, Yi Chen and Putuo Mir's goal was about to be achieved. They were excited in their hearts, and at the same time, their physical fatigue became more and more obvious.
The two people relied on climbing levers and ropes to climb to the top of Yegla Peak with difficulty. Every time they stepped into the small hole dug out, they were fighting against the ubiquitous gravity.
The wind howled, and at some point, snowflakes filled the sky again, making Yi Chen and Putuo Mel unable to open their eyes. At this moment, they were facing an unprecedented test.
Especially Putuomel, every step she climbed felt as if her legs and feet were as heavy as being filled with mercury. It was extremely difficult. She relied entirely on her strong will to save the Yoru Empire.
When he climbed to more than 300 meters, Putuomel felt that his throat was smoking. Every time he inhaled the cold air from high altitude and entered his abdomen, his body couldn't help but tremble, and his vision began to become a little blurry. She knew that her body had reached its limit, but seeing that the top of Yegla was just around the corner, she decided to hold on a little longer, so she took a deep breath, tightened the mountaineering lever in her hand, and prepared to continue digging holes with all her strength.
Suddenly, Putuo Melton felt her feet slip and her body lost balance. She screamed and almost lost the climbing lever in her hand. She was hanging in the air 10,000 meters high, swinging back and forth as if on a swing.
Thanks to the rope connected to Yi Chen, Putuo Mel's body was held, otherwise she would have fallen from here.
Yi Chen was also startled by this sudden change, and his body was almost torn off. Thanks to his quick reaction, he immediately thrust the mountaineering pry in his hand into the ice of the mountain wall ravine.
However, the force of the mountaineering pry's penetration was so great that dense cracks appeared on the layer of ice covering the surface of the ravine.
Those cracks kept making "clicking, clicking" sounds, and they were increasing, lengthening, and spreading at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Yi Chen knew that his mountaineering pry alone could not support the weight of his and Putuomel's bodies. At this time, they were wrestling with gravity.
If they succeeded, the two of them climbed to the top of Yegla and found a new prisoner transport ship; if they failed, they fell down a 10,000-meter snowy peak together and were shattered to pieces!
"Ah ah ah, help,..."
Putuomel, whose body was hanging high in the air, completely lost his calmness at this moment. His body twisted repeatedly, his limbs grabbed randomly, and he shouted in terror.
Although Putuomel had made up her mind long ago and was willing to give up everything she had, even her life, in order to save the Yoru Empire, when it came to a critical moment between life and death, she still screamed and struggled out of instinct. .
It is not difficult to understand that an ant is still alive, let alone a living person!
The two ends of the current rope were connected to the waists of Yi Chen and Putuo Mel respectively. The strength of Putuo Mel's struggle and twisting was exerted along the rope and Yi Chen's body to the climbing mountain that pierced the ravine ice of the mountain wall. This causes the cracks in the ice around the mountaineering pry to increase, lengthen, and spread faster.
Seeing that the two of them were about to fall from a height of 10,000 meters, Yi Chen thought to himself:
"Oh, no, if this continues for a long time, the ice around the mountaineering lever will break into pieces, and neither Putuomel nor I will survive..."
At that moment, Yi Chen was born, so he simply cut the rope, abandoned Putuomel, and climbed to the top of Yegla by himself.
But when he thought of all the things the two had experienced together over the past few days and the feelings between men and women, Yi Chen softened his heart again and couldn't bear to leave Putuo Mel and run for his own life.
Yi Chen caught a glimpse of the mountaineering pry in Putuomel's hand swinging high in the air. He suddenly had an idea in his mind and yelled angrily:
"Putuomel, please shut up now. If you keep struggling and twisting, we will both be dead! Calm down, don't move around, and throw me the mountaineering pry in your hand."
Putuomeier, who was falling into fear and unable to extricate herself, was awakened by Yi Chen's roar. There was a cliff of ten thousand meters under her head, and a thin rope was connected to Yi Chen around her waist. At this moment, Yi Chen was looking down angrily. Holding her.
"Ah, Yi Chen, I..."
After calming down, Putuomel realized the dangerous situation between herself and Yi Chen. She did not dare to struggle and twist anymore and wanted to explain something.
At this time, Yi Chen had no time to listen to Putuomeier's nonsense. He urgently urged:
"What are you doing? Hurry up and throw me your climbing pry first, otherwise we won't have time!"
Yi Chen clearly felt that the mountain climbing lever on his right hand slipped a little, which meant that the ice he penetrated was about to break completely.
Putuomel just reacted instinctively when she was on the line between life and death. After she calmed down, she acted decisively. She took a deep breath to clear her mind so that she could control the muscles of her body and make precise throwing movements, and then shouted :
"Yi Chen, go on!"
The mountaineering lever in Putuomel's hand came out and flew towards Yi Chen.
At the same time, there was a "crash" sound, and the ice that Yi Chen's mountaineering pry penetrated inevitably shattered completely, and their bodies fell down at the same time.
When he fell about two or three meters, Yi Chen caught Putuomel's mountaineering pry with his left hand. He then used the mountaineering pry to stab the mountain wall violently, and then the mountaineering pry in his right hand also pierced the mountain wall. On a gully on the wall.
Two mountaineering levers pierced the ice one after another, finally stabilizing the two of them, and they stopped falling.
Yi Chen lowered his head and looked down at Putuo Mel, and saw that her face was pale and her eyes were full of fear, but she was restrained from struggling wildly like she did just now.
"What a strong-willed woman!"
Yi Chen admired secretly in his heart, and with some admiration for Putuomel, he shouted:
"Okay, Putuomel, you can climb up along the rope! I have to hold two climbing levers with both hands, so I can't spare any hands to pull you!"
Yi Chen didn't lie. When the two mountaineering levers penetrated the hard ice on the mountain wall, cracks began to appear in the ice. They only increased, lengthened, and spread at a speed that was not as fast as when there was no one, but sooner or later they would still break. .
However, Yi Chen had already thought of a way to climb to the top of Upper Yegla. It turned out that he was too rigid and didn't know how to use it flexibly. He thought that climbing should be done step by step, but now he realized that was unnecessary.
A minute later, Putuomel climbed up panting. She saw the frightening cracks all around the ice where the two mountaineering levers had penetrated. She was very worried and said:
"Ah, Yi Chen, here we are..."
