Everest

The first night in the advanced camp was very difficult. On the one hand, at night, the wind howled outside, and through the thin tent, the sound seemed to be in the ears; on the other hand, at night, almost everyone’s voices On the contrary, it got worse. Even Luosang, who is more familiar with the plateau environment, couldn't stand it and asked them for some plateau medicine, let alone the others. Although Pei Lei and Yong Ke didn't have much reaction, they It was obvious that he was not in good spirits either. Lin Sheng and Geng Aiqing had the most intense reactions. Lin Sheng started to have a stomachache. He took some stomach medicine and reluctantly lay down to rest. Geng Aiqing had a headache, and the feeling of dizziness lasted until the early morning. He just fell asleep drowsily, but he didn't even sleep soundly. He woke up three or four times, and every time he woke up a little, he could hear the whimpering wind outside the tent. Geng Aiqing had no choice but to Forced himself to close his eyes again.

When he woke up the next day, the sky had just turned white. Geng Aiqing put on his clothes indiscriminately and got out of the tent, and was shocked by the scenery in front of him.

It turned out that there was a snowfall at night, and the wind mixed with snow particles wrapped the entire camp in whiteness. The sandy ground that could be seen yesterday was covered by a thin layer of snow, and the rising sun in the distance It fell on a mountain peak in front of it, and the entire mountain top was covered with a warm orange color, and the whole world in front of my eyes seemed to be glowing.

"How was your sleep?" Lin Sheng was squatting in front of his tent to reinforce the edge of the tent, when he turned his head and saw Geng Aiqing who was in a daze, he asked with a smile.

Geng Aiqing came back to his senses, thinking about last night's experience, smiled wryly: "What do you think?"

Lin Sheng tightened the rope in his hands, and sighed: "I only slept for less than four hours, what the hell..."

"Who wouldn't say that!" Geng Aiqing complained, "What's even more frightening is that I'm not sleepy now!"

"Not sleepy?" Lin Sheng looked up at him, "You are not sleepy now, you will cry in a few days."

Geng Aiqing: "..."

"You don't plan to take pictures?" Geng Aiqing changed the subject.

Lin Sheng raised the camera hanging around his neck: "Later, I'll fix the tent first, and you'd better check it too. Four or five tents in the camp were torn down last night."

It was only then that Geng Aiqing noticed that some climbers' tents had been overturned, and some were destroyed directly. Those people were stuffing their belongings into the tents of their companions.

"It's okay, I'll fix it." Geng Aiqing smiled, looked around, saw Yong Ke and Pei Lei talking together, but didn't see Shen Biwen, and said strangely, "Shen Biwen What? He didn't get up?"

Lin Sheng let out a "huh": "Oh yes, it seems that Brother Shen really hasn't woken up yet, he probably didn't sleep well last night, you go and call him, we will start training in a while."

The training still refers to adaptive training, but it is different from the previous training that started from the Everest base camp. From here on, all their training activities will be carried out on the snow, and within a week of the forward camp, they need to simulate This is the safest way to solve various problems and solutions that may be encountered during the final climb, and it is also the preliminary preparation that everyone agreed to after discussion.

This was also proposed by Shen Biwen.

Shen Biwen's tent was next to Geng Aiqing's. Geng Aiqing walked a few steps to the front of Shen Biwen's tent and found that his tent was still tightly closed.

"Shen Biwen?" Geng Aiqing shook the edge of the tent, "Shen Biwen, are you awake?"

There was no sound in the tent, Geng Aiqing shook it a few times, the thin snow accumulated on the tent was scattered on the ground by him, but there was still no reaction inside.

Geng Aiqing suddenly became inexplicably flustered, and her voice became anxious: "Shen Biwen? Can you hear me?"

"What's wrong?" The tent was pulled away from the inside, and Geng Aiqing, who had been lying on the tent's mouth, jumped forward without paying attention for a moment, and the snow on his body also jumped into the tent with him. Shen Biwen looked at it with a complicated expression. with him.

"Sorry, sorry." Geng Aiqing got up in embarrassment, "I didn't mean it."

Shen Biwen looked at him and shook his head: "It's okay."

"Well, Lin Sheng asked me to call you, and I'm leaving later." Geng Aiqing said.

Shen Biwen looked away from his face, turned around to get the backpack inside, and said with his back on his back, "Got it, I'll go out right away."

This obvious gesture of refusal made Geng Aiqing a little upset, but when it comes to whether he had any reason to be upset, he could only leave the tent reluctantly, thought for a while and added: "It snowed last night, you should wear more point."

Shen Biwen didn't answer.

Geng Aiqing ran to Lin Sheng who was already taking pictures with a straight face, and Lin Sheng glanced at him: "How is it? Did Brother Shen get up?"

"Get up." Geng Aiqing made a grimace, "It's another dead face."

"What's wrong with him?" Lin Sheng took a photo and said casually, "Brother Shen is probably a bit rebellious too, I saw that Brother Shen didn't seem very comfortable either."

"Hey? Is there?" Geng Aiqing was taken aback.

Lin Sheng didn't change his movements with the camera: "That's right, I went out to ask Sister Yong for some hot water last night, and I saw Brother Shen vomited outside, but he didn't vomit much..." Lin Sheng took the camera and looked inside. Photo, nodded in satisfaction, and smiled, "It's not like I was haha ​​that day, my intestines are about to spit out..."

"Why didn't you say it earlier!" Geng Aiqing scolded him, turned around and ran towards Shen Biwen's tent.

Lin Sheng muttered inexplicably, "What did you say earlier??"

When Geng Aiqing ran over, Shen Biwen had already packed up his things and closed the tent. Turning around, he saw Geng Aiqing running over with a flushed face and asked in surprise, "What's wrong?"

"Take some high anti-drugs!" Geng Aiqing said, "I thought you were in good health and didn't have any serious symptoms. You also vomited once. How do you feel today? Is it the same?" Didn't sleep well?"

"Did you not sleep well?" Shen Biwen asked back.

Geng Aiqing didn't expect the problem to come back again, and said in a daze, "It's no wonder I can sleep well, it's very windy outside."

Shen Biwen seemed to be thinking for a while, then pulled his tent away, groped inside for a while, then found something, turned around and handed it to him, Geng Aiqing took a look, and found that it was a couple Soft earplugs.

"If you can't fall asleep because of too much wind, you can try this first. Although the sound insulation effect is not that good, it still has a certain effect." Shen Biwen put the soft earplugs in his hand, and after a while He added, "I've taken high-risk drugs, thank you for your concern."

After Shen Biwen finished speaking, he happened to see Mr. Li saying hello to him over there, so he walked over, leaving Geng Aiqing standing alone in front of the tent in a daze. Geng Aiqing looked at the soft earplugs in his hand, and then Looking at Shen Biwen, who was talking to Mr. Li with a smile, he said to himself a little unhappy: "Thank you, thank you bastard, it's all my teammates who made me so unfamiliar!"

Mr. Li and the others set off earlier. It was almost ten o'clock when Geng Aiqing and the others were about to start their first high-altitude adaptation training. Everyone ate something and then set foot on the vast snowfield together.

The snowfall last night was quite heavy, completely covering the footprints of many people who walked yesterday, leaving a vast expanse of white land. They walked very slowly, because first of all, their upward route was With a slope, the slope increases as you go up. In addition, because the ground covered by fresh snow cannot judge the ground conditions, walking becomes more dangerous. At first, Geng Aiqing was a little excited to step on the snow. There was a creaking sound, but after hearing four or five consecutive sounds of ice breaking under his feet, he didn't dare to be presumptuous anymore. He could only follow Pei Lei's footprints in front of him and move step by step. After walking for two hours, all Everyone is exhausted.

At this time, they had only moved less than three kilometers.

I don’t know when the wind started to blow. The wind on Mount Everest is never gradual. It was too late for Luosang to remind everyone. The strong wind rolled the snow on the ground and rushed towards them. Geng Aiqing was caught The wind was blowing so hard that he couldn't even open his eyes. At this time, he could only lament that he was wearing a mask. It must be unrealistic to talk to each other in such an environment. Everyone can only get as close as possible to ensure that they will not be blown down by the wind. In the end, they could only help each other and grope forward.

After they continued to walk up for more than half an hour in the strong wind, the wind speed finally slowed down, and they finally encountered the first broken ice layer.

"What's going on?" Pei Lei called out.

Everyone responded weakly, and Geng Aiqing felt as if his throat was filled with snow, and he opened his mouth and said "ah" twice, but he couldn't speak.

Before he had time to panic, a person next to him turned him over, pulled off his mask, and slapped his chest violently a few times.

Geng Aiqing felt a pain in his throat and subconsciously bent down and coughed fiercely. After a while, he spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm mixed with blood into the snow beside him, and the saliva that did not flow from his mouth was flowing down his lips. After he got down, Geng Aiqing subconsciously reached out to wipe it, and handed him a handkerchief from the side to help him wipe away the remaining spittle from his mouth.

"Thank you..." Geng Aiqing turned his head to look, and happened to meet Shen Biwen's dark eyes, "Thank you." For some reason, Geng Aiqing suddenly didn't dare to meet those eyes, he took the handkerchief over, and I stepped on the place where I was spitting just now, and stepped on the bloodshot into the snow.

After doing all this, Geng Aiqing subconsciously took a look at the road they had just walked. His expression was a bit complicated, because it seemed that he was a He and Shen Biwen supported each other and walked up.

And before that, there was quite a distance between them.