Survivor's Guide to Survival

Bagemana is not a pristine snow mountain, and many explorers have climbed to the top before the mountain was closed, so there are still a few lanes up the mountain.It's just that this lane can only go up to about a quarter of the entire mountain, and if it goes up, it will be impossible to go because of steep hillsides, bad weather and other reasons.

It took less than half a day for the car to drive to the camp. There was a mountaineering camp tent abandoned five years ago on the mountain. Ning Xiao parked Lu Xun next to a certain tent.The four got out of the car and started walking up the mountain.The mountaineering tools brought by the four were all borrowed by Yugina from the home of a local villager with rich mountaineering experience. The safety can be guaranteed, but the mountaineering clothes are heavy, and the mountaineering bags contain a lot of equipment. At the beginning, they were carried on the back. Huo Yizhou, who didn't carry much weight, felt uncomfortable.

"Shall I carry it for you?" A hand stretched out from the side, as if to take the bag on his back and carry it on his body.

Huo Yizhou looked at the girl who was still walking vigorously while carrying a bag bigger than himself, and blushed and rejected Ning Xiao's kindness: "No... I'll just carry it myself."

Yang Tao looked enviously at the two older brothers who were arguing over a bag. He sighed and tightened his straps, dragging his heavy steps to keep up with the rhythm of the large army.

"I really don't need to recite it?" Seeing that Huo Yizhou avoided his help, Ning Xiao raised his eyebrows and asked again worriedly.

"It's really not necessary." Huo Yizhou raised his head and glanced at him helplessly, showing him that there was nothing wrong with him by speeding up his pace.

A group of people walked through the vast snow-capped mountains, and soon turned into four inconspicuous black dots.

A month ago, Huo Yizhou couldn't believe that he would suddenly come to Arsa to climb the snow mountain.He gasped and adjusted his breath to keep up with Yugina in front of him.Yang Tao didn't feel too tired following Huo Yizhou - his youth and years of physical exercise made his physique better than ordinary people, which allowed him, a non-supernatural person, to keep up with the rhythm during the climbing process .Ning Xiao is at the end of the team, always on guard against possible dangerous situations that may arise later.

The more you go up, the steeper the road becomes. Huo Yizhou can feel how difficult it is for him to overcome gravity and do work. The steps he lifts up become heavier and heavier. In the end, every step he takes is like carrying a heavy weight on his back and stepping on a weight.Even so, he still followed Yugina closely.

After climbing for a while, the road ahead seemed to be cut off and turned into a nearly vertical cliff.Yugina took out the climbing rope, hung it on the hook and threw it into the hard rock above, and inserted it into the hard rock above. After testing the firmness of the rope, she put on the buckle and climbed up the rope without hesitation.While climbing, she did not forget to turn her head and tell the three people below: "Don't look down, hold on to the rope before going up."

The girl ran far away. Yang Tao looked up at Yugina, who had already climbed halfway, and compared it with the extreme rock climbing he had experienced in the rock climbing experience hall.

Until he also buckled the buckle and hung it on the rope, Yang Tao finally felt his own strong heartbeat protesting.He swallowed with a "gudong", firmly grasped the rope in front of him with both hands, and imitated Yugina's movements, stumbling up and climbing up.After climbing about ten steps, he habitually looked back at the distance between himself and the ground. What he never expected to see when he turned his head was the abyss beyond the mountain wall of Baremana. With a mouth full of blood, it is ready to devour the dead at any time.Yang Tao felt that there seemed to be a mysterious attraction in the abyss calling him, calling him to let go of the rope in his hand and throw himself into its embrace.

Yujina, who had already climbed to the top, saw that Yang Tao suddenly stopped in mid-air, and even had a slight tendency to slide down. She stretched out her hand and pulled the rope to remind him that she was in the air.Yang Tao came back to his senses, secretly shouting "It's so dangerous" in his heart, he stabilized his mind and stopped looking down, and stepped on the place Yujina stepped on just now and climbed to the top step by step.

After him, Ning Xiao also came up, and Yugina took the hook fastened on the stone and put it back into the backpack, and led a few people to continue walking diagonally.

"Taozi, why did you stop in mid-air just now?" When Yang Tao was climbing, Huo Yizhou was standing at his feet, looking up to see his movements clearly.

Yang Tao whispered to Huo Yizhou: "No wonder Yujina told us not to look down. I accidentally lowered my head just now... It scared me to death. What I saw was an abyss, and I felt as if I could look down at any time. It's like jumping in."

Huo Yizhou patted the boy on the head: "Don't really jump, if you do, you and I will have no chance to save you."

Yang Tao made a military salute: "Don't worry, I have experience, and I won't look up if I climb up and kill myself!"

"There is a scientific expedition team camp here, take a break before going up." Yugina talked about the destination with everyone, and while talking, an open space appeared in front of everyone.

This is a relatively flat open space. There have been few people in the past five years, and I don’t know how many winds and avalanches have occurred. The facilities and buildings that should have existed in the camp have disappeared. When everyone arrived, there was nothing left. Occasionally, a few stakes used to pitch tents on the ground show traces of human activities.

Huo Yizhou looked around, but found nothing else, he subconsciously turned his head to look for Ning Xiao, and found that the other party was staring at a corner of the camp for a long time.Huo Yizhou followed his gaze and looked there, only to see a few blue-black stones that were not covered by snow, and they seemed to be alive.

"Brother Xiao, what are you looking at?" Huo Yizhou asked him in a low voice.

Ning Xiao raised his legs and walked towards the rock, stopped when he reached the rock, and suddenly took out his mobile phone and placed it horizontally on the rock. A natural mobile phone support frame.He clicked on the camera function, turned the lens over to face himself, and took a few steps back to look at the screen on the phone.

Huo Yizhou also followed. Seeing Ning Xiao's movements, he quickly realized: "Was that video started from here?"

Ning Xiao fiddled with the camera a few times, and finally stopped after adjusting several angles. He said, "Ninety-nine are close to ten."

In this place, the scientific expedition team members heard a mysterious voice, received a call from nowhere, turned into the walking posture of the walking dead, staggered to the top, and died peacefully one by one.

Huo Yizhou looked at himself and Ning Xiao in the camera. They were wearing similar mountaineering suits and the same goggles. They were very close to each other, with a natural sense of intimacy.He suddenly had a thought that if he heard the voice at this moment, it would be good to go up the mountain together and die together...

"Brother Xiaozhou? Brother Xiaozhou?"

Huo Yizhou felt himself being shaken violently by a force, he suddenly came back to his senses, and found that Yang Tao was shaking his arm vigorously.He recalled the thought that suddenly came to his mind just now, and he felt cold sweat.Does this mountain really have any magical power?How could I have such a terrible thought!

Yang Tao was learning how to pitch a tent with Yujina, but Ning Xiao went to the distance alone to search for something.Learning and learning, Yang Tao suddenly realized that Huo Yizhou had been standing there alone for too long, he put down his things worriedly and went to look at Huo Yizhou.

I don't know if I don't look at it, but I was shocked when I saw it - Huo Yizhou's pupils were dilated, showing an abnormal state of intoxication, and his face was flushed as if he had drunk alcohol, which looked a little scary.Yang Tao didn't dare to take it lightly, so he quickly stretched out his hand and shook Huo Yizhou's arm vigorously: "Brother Xiaozhou, wake up! You are on the mountain!"

Fortunately, not long after, Huo Yizhou shook a few times, and his eyes became clear again.He turned to look at Yang Tao, with gratitude in his eyes: "Thank you, Taozi."

"It should be..." Yang Tao touched the back of his neck, smiled embarrassedly, and then asked worriedly, "Did you not wear enough clothes? Our biology teacher said before that hypothermia can also cause hallucinations. Brother Xiaozhou, you are clearly hallucinating."

"He's not hallucinating," Yugina's voice came from behind the two of them, "he was trapped by the mountain nightmare."

Lived by the mountain nightmare?Huo Yizhou had heard of Nightmare, but this was the first time he had heard of Nightmare.Yang Tao was even more confused, and asked, "What does it mean to be trapped by a mountain nightmare?"

Yugina took out a thermos cup from her backpack, poured some hot water from it, and handed it to Huo Yizhou. Huo Yizhou took the water, looked down, and found that the water was not as clear as usual, but had a cloudy yellow color. , he hesitated for a moment.

"Don't worry, it's just added some calming herbs, it won't eat dead people." Yugina saw the hesitation in Huo Yizhou's eyes, she didn't mind, and said heartily.

After Yujina said that, Huo Yizhou didn't show any more pretense, he held the cup and drank the liquid in it, and the throbbing feeling in his heart calmed down a little.

Watching Huo Yizhou finish drinking the water, Yujina poured another glass and handed it to Yang Tao: "You should drink some too."

Yang Tao took the cup and stuck out his tongue to lick the water surface. He frowned at the bitterness of the water, turned his back and secretly poured it on the snow, and then returned the cup to Yugina pretending to be full of water.

So Yujina then poured another glass for Ning Xiao.Ning Xiao held up the cup and looked at Yugina steadily, then took a few sips of the cup and put it down.

Seeing that the three of them had finished drinking the water, Yugina opened the conversation and continued: "Baremana means primitive in Sanskrit, and in the eyes of Arsa people, it is said that this is the origin of life, so every Every living object can hear the call from the source... This is a call to return to the source."

"What does it mean to return to the original?" Yang Tao felt that even wearing a thick mountaineering suit could not withstand the goosebumps brought about by Yugina's words.

Yugina smiled and said, "It's just... dust to dust, dust to dust. Wherever you came from, you will return to where you came from."

Huo Yizhou understood, and he asked Yugina: "So people who come to climb this mountain will have suicidal thoughts to varying degrees?"

Yugina nodded: "Everyone has more or less, but most of the time they can be restrained, just like you and Yang Tao. However, just five years ago, this suicidal feeling got out of control. "