Chapter 0744 – Snowy Mountain (IV)

“No, it’s too dangerous.”

Gyatso shook his head, although he didn’t know Zhuang Rui’s identity, he knew that Zhuang Rui was the VIP that Panchen personally invited to participate in this quest, as the guide of the questing team, Gyatso had the responsibility to be responsible for Zhuang Rui’s safety.

“Brother Gyatso, no need to say, I won’t go down the mountain, human life is at stake, you’d better think about how to bring that young man down!”

Zhuang Rui waved his hand to stop Gyatso’s words, over the past year or so, with the change in status and the increase in wealth, Zhuang Rui raised his hand and threw his feet to produce a kind of indescribable majesty, this waving of the hand really made Gyatso’s following words unable to be said.

Gyatso saw that he could not persuade Zhuang Rui, can only give up, Zhao Jun’s injury is indeed not suitable for more time in the snowy mountains, after thinking about it, said: “That’s fine! However, Xiao Zhuang, it is absolutely not possible to climb the mountain at night, in addition to not being able to pitch your tent in this place.”

“Why ah? The terrain here is very platform ah!”

Zhuang Rui was a bit puzzled, since going up the snowy mountain, this place was considered the most suitable for setting up camp, and there was also a small lake next to it that wasn’t frozen, so it was convenient to get water.

“Older brother, there is a lake in this place, many animals will come here to drink water, I’m afraid that snow leopard is so attracted.”

Gyatso shone his torch at the snowy ground next to the lake and then said, “Did you see the bones of those animals you looked at? All of them were attacked while drinking.”

Zhuang Rui looked along with the torch, and sure enough, there were some animal bones scattered on the ground, and there was even a complete skeleton of a disk sheep, with the roots of white bones clearly visible, it was estimated that it was visited by vultures and other carrion animals after death.

“Don’t underestimate these animals on the snowy mountains, like that golden eagle we saw when we came here, can catch all the cows and sheep in the sky, not to mention the people, wait I’ll accompany you a little bit up, see if there is a suitable place.”

Gyatso’s words let Zhuang Rui can not help but shiver, he does not want to try a few more blood holes in the body, and then come back to a trapeze experience, the white lion is fierce, but the raptors in the sky, I think there is nothing that can be done about it.

“Zhuang …… Zhuang elder brother, where are you going up?”

Zhuang Rui and Jatso stood up and brought the white lion to go to the mountain when they were going to the mountain, Zhu Wei a few students were scared, they had long been scared out of their wits by the snow leopard attack just now.

Zhuang Rui smiled and said, “It’s fine, it’s just around here, I’ll be right back.”

“Can I go along for you?” Zhu Wei asked.

“I’m also going ……”

“And me too …….”

Aside from Zhao Jun who was lying on the ground, the rest of the few people stood up, and in this silent snowy mountain, they felt cool from the bottom of their hearts.

“If you all go, who will come to see Zhao Jun? When we come back later, you guys will be able to go down the mountain.” Zhuang Rui waved his hand in a good-natured manner, and Gyatso accelerated his pace, heading up the mountain.

At an altitude of five thousand meters of snowy mountains at night, the temperature plummets, Zhuang Rui also put on a cotton coat at the moment, due to the fear of slipping and falling, he is using hiking poles to poke into the ice before he puts his foot down and climbs upwards, the speed is much slower than in the daytime.

After climbing for more than half an hour, he had only gone a hundred meters or so, and he could still see the lights on Zhu Wei’s side when he turned back.

Suddenly, Gyatso stopped his steps and pointed to a place more than ten meters away on his right hand side and said, “Xiao Zhuang, this place is fine.”

Zhuang Rui looked along the light, this place was really good, right next to the mountain, the terrain was flat, although the place wasn’t big, it was enough to set up a tent by himself.

“Okay, let’s do it here!”

Zhuang Rui put down the backpack on his back and took the tent out, Gyatso was lightly using a small shovel to smash the solid ice on the ground for fixing the tent, the wind is strong on the mountain, unlike in the grassland, it’s on the line to be directly put up, it has to be reinforced.

“Brother Gyatso, go, I will give you a ride.”

More than ten minutes later, the tent was set up, Zhuang Rui put his own backpack in, and then hung a light on the tent, so that he could find the tent when he came back, and there was no fear that an animal would break in.

After returning to Zhu Wei and the others’ campsite, Gyatso told them to bring food and hiking ropes and other equipment, and left everything else here for the time being, waiting for the village people to come up to pick it up later.

Zhao Jun’s legs could not walk, Gyatso used a knife to cut open a tent, then tied climbing ropes at the corners to make a simple stretcher.

Due to the addition of several layers of tent canvas underneath, this stretcher doesn’t need to be lifted completely, it can be placed on the snow and dragged, as long as the people in front and behind pay attention to the rocks on the ground.

After the preparations were completed, Zhuang Rui has been sent to them to the elevation of four thousand meters or so, only to return to the mountain to climb, there is no outsider in, Zhuang Rui’s action is much faster, spent more than three hours down the mountain, and then go up, Zhuang Rui only used half an hour.

When Zhuang Rui lay in his tent sleeping bag, it was already 12 o’clock at night.

The white lion’s body was also in the tent, exposing its head to the outside, although the temperature was already ten degrees below zero, but for the white lion, it was still bearable.

Early the next morning, Zhuang Rui was suddenly awakened by a wailing sound, opened his eyes and found that the sky outside had already dawned, and the white lion that originally slept beside himself, also disappeared.

“Holy shit, white lion, this …… this is what you prey on?”

Zhuang Rui just drilled out of the tent and was startled, because on the snowy ground outside the tent, there was a one-meter long disk sheep.

There were traces of tearing at the disk sheep’s throat, and there were blood stains everywhere on the ground, and looking along the blood stains that looked like blossoms of plum blossoms, they extended all the way to the small lake that was more than a hundred meters away.

“You kid really can’t stay here, otherwise how many animals are going to be scourged by you.”

Zhuang Rui touched the body of that disk sheep, it was still warm, it seems that it had just been bitten by the white lion, it is estimated that it was the white lion’s backstabbing when it drank water in the early morning.

“Woo …… woo woo!”

The white lion aggrieved low roar of a few times, and then used its mouth to bite the neck of the disk sheep, to Zhuang Rui side pulled in some.

“Alright, know your heart.”

Zhuang Rui laughed, he knew that the white lion was letting himself eat it!

However, Zhuang Rui does not have Peng Fei’s ability to skin and bone, he can only return to the tent and take out an opener, not caring about the disk sheep’s fur, directly and violently removed one of the disk sheep’s hind legs, only then did the white lion drag the rest of the disk sheep to one side and started his own breakfast.

Zhuang Rui used the alcohol stove that the students brought with them to boil a pot of water, cut the mutton into chunks and threw it in, and after the water boiled, it was basically half-cooked, and dealt with eating a breakfast.

“Let’s go! You smell the flavor, this finding a daughter-in-law or rely on yourself!”

This breakfast took Zhuang Rui more than two hours, after packing up the tent, Zhuang Rui let the white lion lead the way and continued to climb up.

The more upward, the slope of the mountain becomes bigger and bigger up, some places even if it is Zhuang Rui, have to use the mountaineering pickaxe in the mountain rock to make a hole, and then hang on the ground anchor and rope in case of emergency.

At this point Zhuang Rui has a hint of climbing feeling, the body close to the mountain rock, turn around and look down is a hundred meters of cliffs, occasionally there are stones sliding down, can hear the crisp sound.

There is a section of more than thirty meters high, so Zhuang Rui spent nine oxen and two tigers to climb up, the body does not feel tired, but the spirit of taut too tight, to know, the mountain wind blowing, Zhuang Rui feel like in the wind in general.

On the contrary, the white lion climbed very easily, there are four sharp claws, such a slope is not difficult to defeat it, large body dexterity is incomparable, Zhuang Rui sometimes see is very doubtful, the white lion categorized as a feline may be more appropriate.

As the peak of the approach, the mountain snow is getting thicker, look around, everywhere is a white blanket, the village under the mountain has become pocket-sized, the head of the blue sky, but more blue.

“Ah ah …… ah …… ah!”

After nearly four hours of climbing, Zhuang Rui finally went up to the top of the mountain, the open view made Zhuang Rui couldn’t help but shout loudly, a burst of echoes reverberated in the mountains, in the middle of which was also accompanied by the low roar of the white lion.

Although not as lofty and steep as Mount Everest, not as famous as the Meili Snow Mountain, but standing on the top of the mountain, Zhuang Rui still has a kind of will be when over the top, a glimpse of the mountains small ambition, in the chest back and forth agitation.

The top of the mountain is about 400 square meters in size, around the top of the mountain around a circle, looking at those who were abandoned by the previous oxygen cylinders and other objects, Zhuang Rui know, he is not the first to conquer this mountain peaks of people.

After resting for a while, Zhuang Rui began to cook, mountaineering consumes a great deal, even if there is aura supplementation, Zhuang Rui also needs to eat, not to mention that there is also the white lion this big appetite king in.

After cooking a large piece of mutton and throwing it to the white lion, Zhuang Rui asked, “White lion, where is the partner you are looking for?”

“Wooo……” The white lion raised its head and rushed to the back of the mountain and roared low for a while.

“Over there?”

Zhuang Rui looked toward the opposite side and couldn’t help but look bitterly, although the mountain over there wasn’t high, but it was rolling and there were many hills, if this was really looking for it, it would be a month or two that he couldn’t find it ah!

“Come on, I won’t go back if I can’t find it, will it work?”

Zhuang Rui bit a mouthful of that half-baked, salted and tasteless mutton, and said fiercely that he couldn’t just focus on himself and let the white lion play bachelor! It was easy to get the news of another snow mastiff and it was close at hand, Zhuang Rui would not give up so easily.

“Hehe, leave some remembrance!”

After eating, Zhuang Rui used a knife to cut a piece of canvas, wrote on it the words “Zhuang Rui White Lion came to the next trip”, and then tied it to a tent’s iron bracket, and fixed it on the snowy ground on the top of the mountain, as if it were a flag.

Zhuang Rui in doing these things, the white lion in a side spinning, not from the throat issued a whimper, seems to despise Zhuang Rui this kind of environmentally friendly behavior.