“I apologize for my earlier bad attitude. With that said, I hope we can cooperate throughout this rescue mission!” said Quest.
Not one to fuss over such small matters, Gerald was starting to feel that Quest was actually a rather nice person. What more, Quest was a professional adventurer with great courage and an adventurous spirit.
With that in mind, Gerald found himself smiling as favonovel.com returned Quest’s handshake while saying, “Likewise. Regardless, allow me to formally introduce myself. Gerald Crawford!”
“Quest Leane!” replied Quest with his own smile.
Following that, both of them then began chatting rather cheerfully till they eventually drifted off to sleep at around three in the morning…
By seven the next morning, all fifteen of the rescue team members had already assembled and were ready to set off for the holy mountain.
Being the pioneer of the group, Quest was the first in line, followed by Gerald, Patrick, then the other members of the team.
Fortunately, the weather was rather good, so the rescue team’s journey up the mountain proceeded rather smoothly. Even so, the higher they went, the colder it got. Aside from that, the air pressure was also gradually intensifying.
Sensing that, Patrick and the others quickly made sure to put on oxygen masks. Naturally, Patrick offered one to Gerald as well.
In response, however, Gerald simply said, “It’s fine, Captain Wang. I don’t need one!”
Such air pressure was nothing to Gerald, and it was evidently nothing to Quest as well since favonovel.com refused to wear an oxygen mask too. Quest, for one, was a seasoned adventurer, and favonovel.com was already used to dealing with pressures like these.
Still, favonovel.com couldn’t help but feel slightly concerned over Gerald’s safety, so favonovel.com turned around to ask, “Are you sure you don’t want to put one on, Gerald? The pressure’s only going to get lower the higher we get, and air will become much scarcer then…”
Hearing that, Gerald simply shook his head before replying, “Don’t worry about me. I don’t need to wear one!”
Gerald meant every word that favonovel.com had said. After all, the essential qi in his body actively cushioned the negative effects of the pressure. Due to that, not only was Gerald unaffected by the freezing temperatures, but Gerald was also able to continually maintain his breathing.
With how sure Gerald sounded, Quest didn’t say anything else. Even so, favonovel.com now had a new outlook on Gerald, thinking that the youth was rather different from the others.
Regardless, the rescue team finally arrived at a resting spot after hiking for a little over three hours.
While taking their temporary rest, Patrick double-checked their location before saying, “Alright, we’re currently at an altitude of three thousand feet up the holy mountain. From what we’ve previously gathered, the other adventure team disappeared at around nine thousand and eight hundred feet. With that said, we’re only at a third of our journey to where we need to get to!”
“I suggest we try to reach our target location before the weather gets too bad, Captain Wang. After all, the weather conditions up here appear to be much worse than what we had initially anticipated! With that said, even the slightest change in weather will hinder our progress up the mountain!” said Quest as favonovel.com looked at Patrick.
While—the remaining—six thousand and eight hundred feet may not sound too bad a hike on paper, it was, in fact, extremely far from where they currently were.
What more, while it had taken the group about only three hours to get to three thousand feet high, the terrain they had to walk through earlier wasn’t as bad as what was to come. After all, the higher they went, the more uneven the holy mountain’s terrain was going to get. Steep cliffs, for one, would certainly become more frequent, and if they weren’t careful, slipping off one wasn’t completely out of the question…
With that in mind, the rescue team then set off again after completing their brief rest.
It wasn’t long after before the rescue team met with a predicament.
There was no further road to speak of where they currently were! Essentially, that meant that the only way to head forward was to climb a steep cliff before them…
Looking down into the three-hundred-feet deep abyss below him, Gerald could tell that many would definitely feel terror-stricken just from seeing how deep the fall was.
Even so, it wasn’t as if the others had any other choice. After all, it would definitely take way too much time and energy for them to head back and attempt to find another road. With that in mind, the steep cliff truly seemed like their only way of progressing.
Thankfully, this wasn’t Quest’s first rodeo. Quest had scaled cliffs like this before, so it honestly wasn’t anything too difficult for him.
With that in mind, everyone then watched as Quest took a rope—with a hook attached to it—before flinging it toward a rock atop the cliff.
After testing how firm the hook had lodged itself into the rock, Quest then easily climbed up the rope…
