The Return of Gratitude Volume 2

In the early morning of the next day, Archer and Qin Xiu packed up the necessary belongings and set off with the team. Other large equipment such as water bags and tents were consigned up the mountain by yaks.This section of the road has a slight slope and is not difficult to walk, but there are a lot of gravel. Although the temperature is not high, everyone is still hot from walking. Archer took off his coat and only wore a T-shirt. Looking back, Qin Xiu was still wrapped up. Like a zongzi: "Aren't you hot?"

Qin Xiu looked up at him, his chin tucked into the collar of his coat, and said in a muffled voice, "It'll be cold if you take it off."

"It's not cold," the dog youth walked up to him, rolled up his sleeves, and gestured to his bare chest, "I still feel hot."

"Dogs have hair, but I don't." Qin Xiu coldly inserted the trekking pole into the crevice of the rock, and walked forward.

The young dog who was left behind was furious, you know that I am hairless now!

An Jiamian and Jason walked in front of them, and sometimes Archer would see An Jiamian turning his head, and he quickly waved his hands enthusiastically, but An Jiamian ignored him at all, but the guide in front of the team took the trouble for the nth time. He waved back.

Qin Xiu sneered from behind: "It's only a few days before you get so familiar with the guide?"

Gouboy dropped his arm in dismay, innocent and confused.

Jason had never climbed a mountain before, and An Jiamian was walking fast again. He couldn't take it anymore, so he tried to follow a few steps, stopped with his alpenstock, and gasped for breath: "Can you walk slower?"

"How is that possible?" An Jiamian walked forward without looking back, "You didn't see that kid bouncing around. If I slowed down a bit, he would catch up to me."

"Then you go first, let me walk slowly?" Mr. Lawyer supported his waist from behind.

An Jiamian looked back condescendingly, ignoring the curly-haired young man who was waving his claws enthusiastically in the distance, and said to Jason: "Three months of paid leave."

Jason suddenly felt that his waist was no longer sore and his legs were no longer painful.

The mountaineering team camped and rested overnight, and arrived at the leading camp one after another the next morning.Archer walked around the col, and saw colorful flags fluttering in the snow at a glance, and the mountaineering team behind him rushed back to encourage him: "We're here! Everyone work hard!"

Qin Xiuxiu took pictures of the scenery along the way, saw that he was in command of a charge, pouted his lips very disapprovingly, and saw that Shen Che was enthusiastically helping to pull an older team member, so he raised his hand to Shen Che, and said forcefully: "Give me a hand."

Archer's ears twitched, and he hurried over to tug him happily: "You can't walk anymore, it's okay, I'm here..."

A cunning flashed in Qin Xiu's eyes, and he held Shen Che's hand hard. Archer felt that his whole body was being pulled by a "bear force", and he fell down by surprise.

This fall even made the team members behind break into a cold sweat, but Archer didn't fall, but bumped into Qin Xiu solidly.

Under such a big impact, Qin Xiu stabilized Shen Che and himself with just a push of his shoulders, with one hand firmly around the back of the young dog's waist, and his voice was low and joking: "If you want you to pull me, how can you pounce on me?" in your arms?"

Archer stood still for a few moments, and then Qin Xiu let go of his hand, and proudly met the shocking gaze of the curly-haired young man.Archer really didn't agree with Qin Xiu's indiscriminate and gentle behavior, but looking at Qin Xiu's beautiful and lively face when he was happy, he couldn't say anything to blame.

"Are you all right?" the team members who came up below asked with concern.

"It's okay." Qin Xiu nodded towards the other party.

Archer looked at Qin Xiu who had turned back to the cold and arrogant iceberg in the blink of an eye, and felt miserable in his heart.

The scale of the first camp is not small, with kitchens, toilets, and medical sheds. This is the first step to officially climb to the summit.According to Captain Carter's arrangement, they will stay at the leading camp for three days for further adaptive training. The main content is not only adapting to high altitudes but also ice climbing. This is the most difficult part in the process of climbing to the summit. Many team members have With experience in mountaineering, you can use trekking poles and safety ropes well, but you may not be able to control crampons well. If there is a danger, you may use ice axes. Captain Carter must ensure that every team member can master ice climbing skills proficiently. Feel free to let them join the summit team.

Qin Xiu's comprehension is very strong, and he has two rock climbing experiences in the United States before, and he is also very good at using safety ropes and safety buckles.Archer was more unlucky, stepping on crampons and pulling a rope to hang on the ice wall with difficulty.

Qin Xiu was standing under the ice wall. He and the rest of the group had completed the training first, and were looking up at Shen Che's progress: "Shen Che! Just hold the ascender, don't pull the rope!"

He was a little far away, and coupled with the buzzing around, Shen Che, who was above the ice wall, didn't seem to hear it at all, and was still fighting with the rope.

An Jiamian was at the top of the ice wall, followed by Jason, and then Shen Che.Hearing the commotion below, he turned his head and glanced down. Shen Che was trying to climb up the ice wall with the rope in the same way as ordinary people pulling lifelines.

"JASON."

The lawyer looked up.

"Don't pull the safety rope." An Jiamian said.

Jason wondered, he didn't pull it. Before accompanying An Jiamian to climb Mount Everest, President An had a conscience and took him to practice rock climbing twice. He still understood the basic way of using the safety rope.

"The role of the safety rope is to keep you balanced and hold you when you fall, not to let you grab it and climb up. You can't put your whole body on it when you climb, you have to pretend it doesn't exist. .”

Jason looked up at An Jiamian, who was gracefully leaning back and hanging above him, and always felt that his eyes were not in line with An Jiamian's: "I know this..."

"Do as I say," An Jiamian interrupted him involuntarily, "release the ascender and buckle it on the safety rope."

Jason didn't understand what An Jiamian meant, so he complied in a daze.

An Jiamian squinted his eyes and saw that Shen Che was really stealing from his teacher with his dog ears up, and continued: "Okay, I won't be able to fall this time. I'm holding the ascender with my right hand, and now I'm going up with my crampons."

Shen Che raised his crampons and took a step, but his left hand couldn't help but want to grab the rope.

"Don't grab the rope, it's the same as going up the stairs. You hold on to the handrail just to borrow strength. You don't climb the handrail, you go up the steps. The crampons are your steps."

Jason said these words so brilliantly, why didn't you tell me earlier?Have to watch me fall all over my head at the rock climbing club?

The guide above the ice wall was urging, An Jiamian took a last look, turned around and kicked a few times, stepped on the crampons and climbed up the nearly vertical ice surface neatly. Jason, who was left far behind, was stunned for a while before he realized After receiving the empowerment, Shen Che turned his head and looked down. Shen Che, who was still struggling with his life on the rope just now, had mastered the trick at this moment, and took several steps in a row with his crampons.

Mr. Lawyer looked up at Mr. An, who was already above the ice wall and was about to descend, with a look of amazement.

The Sherpas who went to lay the rope ahead of time returned safely that night. A small celebration was held in the camp. An Jiamian did not attend, and he read a book alone in the tent. Jason drank some whiskey generously donated by the Yankees. Nausea, stood outside the tent and vomited for a while, then felt someone friendly along his back, and thoughtfully handed him a cup of hot water.He was about to say THANKS when he turned his head, but he regretted it when he turned his head - the bright white teeth of the young man with wheat rolls were particularly conspicuous in the night.

Jason had no choice but to accept his fate like an unlucky ghost who was caught playing peek-a-boo.Shen Che squatted beside him, turned his head and glanced at the shadow of An Jiamian in the tent reading with his legs crossed in frustration: "Did I offend Young Master An somewhere?"

Jason said in his heart that you have offended him, he treats you well, he just ignores you, I can't ask for more. "You definitely have nothing to offend him," he said while drinking boiling water while sobering up. "If you really offend him, you don't have to go to him, he has to rush to you."

"Then why is he pretending not to recognize me?"

"Maybe he's in a bad mood."

"Then why are you pretending not to recognize me?"

Facing the curly-haired young man squinting at him, Jason froze for a while, then took a sip of water: "...Maybe it's because my boss is in a bad mood."

Archer patted Jason on the back sympathetically, and asked in a low voice, "Can he hear us talking bad about him here?"

As soon as the voice fell, the lights in the tent went out.

An Jiamian shook his head and lay on the sleeping mat. The lights of the camp cast the shadow of the curly boy on the tent. The guy was squatting on the ground, gesticulating and gesturing to Jason, with a look of "what to do, did you hear me?" Jason's shadow spread his hands, and the curly-haired shadow just turned his face to the tent, huddled outside the tent in frustration, pitifully motionless.

Like a big golden retriever who made a mistake and guarded the door.

An Jiamian quietly watched the pantomime performed by Stubby and Mr. Lawyer in the dark. The noise of the camp and the darkness in the tent made him fall into a state of half-memory and half-thinking.The guy who was squatting him was right, he's an emotionless guy.

He can rescue Stubby from the asylum, or he can throw it into the hands of the gangsters to fend for themselves, the only difference is that the former is easy for him, while the latter is a matter of life for him.

Doing charity is only because of an unspeakable agreement. The fact is that he doesn't care about the lives of others at all.When I came to climb the mountain this time, I also assumed that if Jason was buried in Everest because he accompanied him to climb the mountain, he might only help him build a gorgeous clothes tomb in the city. , not even a tear will fall.

Sitting up, he looked at the shadow outside the tent.So do you get it?

The shadow was still there, and Mr. An couldn't help counting the seconds in his heart, nineteen eighty-seven, with the last five seconds left, he finally got up from the sleeping mat as if resigned to his fate, and when he stood up, the shadow squatting outside the tent Moved, got up and left.