The Goddess Seen by Mortals (Part II)

At 4 a.m. on April 8, when Zhang Helai's team officially set off from the fifth camp, there were only 12 people left in the team.

They were three groups of them, and there were supposed to be 20 of them, but eight of them were seriously unwell while resting in Camp 4, not vomiting blood or other serious symptoms, but lying on the ground as if they were drunk, confused, unable to distinguish between shoes and thermos even if they barely got up - yes, one guy picked up his boots and shoved them into his mouth, wondering why there was no water.

In this case, they could only stay in the fourth camp and wait for the Kamians to escort them down the mountain.

Because they are located on the peaks of Mount Hyjal at an altitude of more than 8,000 meters, the oxygen here is only one-third of that of flat land, and even if they wear oxygen masks when they sleep at night, they cannot contain the fluctuations produced by their bodies.

Compared with them, Zhang Helai is lucky, he can still stay conscious and continue to persevere; Unfortunately, his physical strength reached its limit and he had to maintain his skills by consuming more oxygen.

Even though they had been resting for six hours in Camp Five, the size of a football field, Zhang Helai woke up feeling extremely heavy.

When they set off together, the team members next to them could also see that Zhang Helai was carrying more oxygen cylinders than they could - a very dangerous value. Someone patted Zhang Helai on the shoulder and pointed to the oxygen cylinder, Zhang Helai shook his head, so no one continued to persuade him.

They must cherish this strength to speak, and they must also fulfill their duty to persuade others to cherish their lives.

Anyone who dares to conquer the Hyjal Peak must be responsible for themselves, even if the ascent of the Hyjal Peak has been set up very safely, they can see a lot of corpses buried in the snow and icefalls along the way - except for some of the corpses because the location is too strange to collect, the rest of the corpses are because of the climbers who have died on the road for various reasons in the past two years.

Hyjal is undoubtedly a natural ice coffin, and the decay rate of death here is extremely slow, and because climbers are often fully equipped with cold protection, those who come after them will not see rotting flesh and bones, but only the signposts on the snowy glaciers.

This is the truth about the Hijal Peak, a mountaineering trail above 9,000 meters: each path is stepped out step by step with the lives of countless climbers. Some are not even considered roads, to be in the cliff wall of nearly 90 degrees, rely on the old hand to nail the rope, slowly climb over, sometimes encounter a cracked mountain road, but also let the old hand set the rope and put the plate, and then slowly climb over the cliff on the 9000 meters, if it is a mistake, even the body can not be found.

At first, they would have some mixed emotions such as fear of this corpse monument, but in the end, they were completely relieved, and nodded slightly as a greeting when they passed by - after all, they could also be a part of it, and now it is considered to say hello to the neighbors early.

Either conquer nature, become nature, or give up. Dare to come here, no one has to take responsibility for your life.

All climbers have their own desires, either for an experience to show off, for fame and fortune, or for dreams, but at the top of the world above 9,000 meters above sea level, they have only one thought left: conquer it, and live!

At around 8:50 a.m. on April 9, they had already followed the mountain road to the 9,810-meter altitude sign, and it would take them at most two hours to climb to the summit of Hyjal Mountain, and then they could take pictures and descend the mountain back to Camp 5 by 1 p.m.

The latest descent to the summit is at 1 p.m., and any slower weather conditions can prevent climbers from returning to camp before dark, or even die halfway through. Zhang He came to the 9,810-meter road sign they saw, and next to it was a corpse buried in the snow - no one knew if he had frozen to death because he was trapped here by the weather.

At this time, Zhang Helai had severe nausea, paleness, cold sweats and other symptoms, and slowly fell behind to the back of the team, and his oxygen cylinder was also consumed - he had severe hypoxia symptoms.

Even if he could make it to the summit, he would not be able to descend because of the lack of oxygen. He overestimated his physical fitness, he used up oxygen too quickly during the climb, and now he was finally at the end of his rope.

It was impossible for him to return now, so he braced his body, took heavy steps, and thought that even if he died, he would die at an altitude of 10,000 meters - the future life guarantee of his family, he had arranged before he chose to come to the peak of Mount Hyjal.

No one was going to help him here, and at most they could only tell the Kamiya the location of Zhang Helai's body after descending the mountain, so that the Kamiya could bring his body back and inform his family to take the body back for burial.

The lack of oxygen made Zhang Helai's body heavier and heavier, and the equipment on his body seemed to become a chain extending from the mountain, trying to keep him in this natural burial place forever.

At that time, he didn't have many thoughts in his heart - ordinary people had a retrospective light before they died, and hypoxic people would slowly lose consciousness before they died because of insufficient oxygen supply to the brain, and even the extravagant operation of 'memories' did not exist.

Just as he was about to lose consciousness and close his eyes, Zhang Helai heard a strange sound from below in the cold wind howling.

It was the sound of sand and gravel from the collision of rock formations.

Something has fallen? Or did the wind blow open the icefall?

Zhang Helai barely opened his eyes, and in his hazy vision, he saw a figure appear below.

Below... Figure...?

Zhang Helai is walking on the mountain road, and there is a slope of nearly 80 degrees below him!

In a trance, Zhang Helai thought that he was hallucinating due to lack of oxygen, but soon the figure quickly approached him and lifted his oxygen mask!

The air like the wind and the cold sword instantly covered his face, and he almost fainted directly after losing the oxygen cylinder, but in the next second, another oxygen mask was stuffed into his face, Zhang Helai subconsciously took a big breath, and the full oxygen instantly alleviated his hypoxia symptoms, allowing him to be pulled back from the edge of losing consciousness.

"Who saved me?" Zhang He came to regain consciousness, and immediately thought: "How could someone give me his own oxygen cylinder?" "

Each person should bring an oxygen cylinder at most, otherwise the weight is too high to move, and the oxygen that Zhang Helai is inhaling now is naturally someone else's oxygen. He opened his eyes and turned his head, only to see a face he didn't recognize.

The wind and snow covered her blonde hair with frost, her exposed fair skin was frozen red, her thin clothes were like useless armor in the cold wind and cold sword, only serving as a covering, although her delicate face was thin and thin, the divine light in her eyes shone into the depths of Zhang Helai's heart like the sun.

She held an oxygen mask in her right hand to plug Zhang Helai's face, and an oxygen cylinder in her left hand, with a rope wrapped around her waist, and nothing else.

One... Blonde teen.

One... Climbers who did not use oxygen cylinders.

One... A mountaineer who does not take the mountain path and climbs the rock directly.

One... A mountaineer who does not wear warm clothes, has bare hands and feet, and climbs in the mountains at an altitude of 9,000 meters!

No winter suits, no oxygen cylinders, what is this concept?

According to the concept of a decrease of 6 degrees per 1,000 meters above sea level, the Tidamian Plains are now in spring, about 20 degrees Celsius, and above 9,000 meters above sea level, at least minus 34 degrees, in fact, when they set off at 9,600 meters, the temperature measured was minus 40 degrees.

What is the concept of minus 40°? Spit and spit, the saliva freezes before it hits the ground; A normal person who does not wear cold-proof relics in minus 40 ° will not be able to lose heat in less than an hour, and the body temperature will drop below 25 ° due to the lack of heat, the body temperature regulation center will fail, the breathing and heartbeat will be suppressed, the blood pressure will drop almost in a straight line, all kinds of reflexes will disappear, and there will be no response to external stimuli, which will eventually lead to paralysis of the vascular motor center and respiratory center and death.

To put it simply, this blonde girl should have turned into an ice sculpture, her hands and feet are as fragile and stiff as popsicles, and it is impossible to move!

What's more, she doesn't have an oxygen cylinder yet!?

Although among extreme mountaineers, there are those who believe that human potential is limitless, after all, many climbers can gradually adapt to the highland climate after training at an altitude of 6,000 meters. The alveolar partial pressure of oxygen and arterial oxygen is 10 mm Hg for people in the plains, but 1 mm Hg for the Kamians in the highlands.

Therefore, some people believe that as long as someone adapts to the plateau for a long time, he can reach the top of the 10,000-meter peak in Mount Hyjal, where the oxygen content is less than one-third, without an oxygen cylinder!

However, this is false after all, not to mention 10,000 meters, even if it is the third camp of 8400 meters, no one can climb without relying on oxygen cylinders, not even the Kamiya people who have lived on the plateau for generations!

Then, this blonde girl still did not take the usual path, climbing the cliff at nearly 70 ° ~ 90 °, relying on her bare hands...

Countless complex thoughts kept colliding, and finally precipitated into a sentence in Zhang Helai's mouth: "Thank you." "

He didn't think that he was charismatic enough for the blonde girl to sacrifice herself to save him, so the reason was natural - the blonde girl saw that he was going to die and helped him.

The blonde girl smiled and helped him remove the oxygen cylinder behind him and put the oxygen cylinder in his hand.

Zhang Helai didn't stop it, and he didn't have a position to stop it - worried that the blonde girl gave him an oxygen cylinder, causing her to die of oxygen without an oxygen cylinder?

Shit, Zhang Helai can see with his eyes that the blonde girl is in a better state than him!

"At that time, you should also know that the person in front of you ..." asked the black vest, "It shouldn't be an ordinary person." "

"It's not too much to describe Superman." Zhang Helai smiled, "She's just ... The goddess of Mount Hyjal, the existence that mortals can only look up to. "