Chapter 453: Chapter 322: Snow Mountain Climbing Activity! _3
"I really value my life." Xu Xin laughed. He was very cautious when dealing with danger, "Then I’ll be off."
"Kiss, kiss goodbye, um..."
"Hmm?" Keke lay on the sofa, tilting her head to look at the affectionate couple.
After another passionate kiss, Xu Xin resisted the urge to carry her into the bedroom and undress her, quickly leaving the main treehouse.
Li Wenxi truly seemed to be evolving into a little enchantress, unbearable...
Looking at the map again, the green dots in the two treehouse areas were still displayed, while the green dot representing Lou Fei’Er had already run far in the northeast direction.
That’s pretty good; this should count as resolving a major hazard, right?
After all, a neutral unit doesn’t provide the peace of mind of an allied unit.
Sliding toward Xue Feng, Xu Xin opened his watch.
After he left, Li Wenxi sent him a private message: "Be careful~(T ^ T)"
Xu Xin’s lips curled slightly, he replied, got it, and then opened the world channel.
The world and regional channels already had many people who had discovered these towering peaks. Overnight, these stone pillar peaks sprang up around the world, scaring everyone.
However, no one could say what had caused these stone pillar peaks to suddenly appear; it was just a bunch of empty guesses.
Soon, two minutes later, Xu Xin returned to the foot of the massive peak, where Ji Chaoyang was already waiting for him.
"So, did you find anything?" Xu Xin asked as he slid to his side.
"No discoveries. I even dug into the snow layer with a shovel, but there was nothing beneath." Ji Chaoyang shook his head, glanced at Xu Xin, didn’t inquire about Li Wenxi, and instead looked up at Xue Feng, "Look up there, about fifty meters."
"Fifty meters?" Xu Xin squinted his eyes to look.
"Step back and see."
Fifty meters, roughly the height of seventeen or eighteen stories, standing under a steep, rugged cliff, was not visible.
Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang stepped back to a distance of twenty or thirty meters from the massive peak to observe.
Upon careful identification, Xu Xin also noticed some clues.
"Is it the color of the rock that’s changing?" Xu Xin murmured in confusion.
Because the entire mountain was shrouded in clouds and mist, he hadn’t noticed anything unusual upon arrival.
But now, after careful observation, one could see a fairly distinct color demarcation line at the fifty-meter mark, with the color above noticeably deeper than below.
Could it be that the fifty-meter mark represents something?
"I just discovered it too, not sure what’s going on." Ji Chaoyang looked toward the fifty-meter mark, "Want to go up and see? Maybe above fifty meters, there’s something different?"
"Sounds good. By the way, what was your random enhancement today?" Xu Xin turned to ask Ji Chaoyang, "Mine’s an arm strength boost, should be quite suitable for climbing."
"Oh? Mine’s an arm strength boost too." Ji Chaoyang slightly widened his eyes, "The same? Haven’t we been different in those few times before?"
The two exchanged a look.
Perhaps today’s random ability is indeed related to this Xue Feng.
Ji Chaoyang hadn’t chosen a second enhancement either, according to him, it’s better to choose as needed.
"Can you choose enhancements through the watch too?"
"Of course, a blue-level watch can, it just can’t perform item-related operations like trade or receive rewards, pure click operations are still possible."
Xu Xin nodded and then maneuvered his skateboard closer to the rock wall.
Looking at the rock wall, Xu Xin decided to use the grappling hook.
Once he decided, he acted.
He gripped the powered skateboard with his right hand, and immediately shot the telescopic grappling hook at the rock wall above with his left hand!
He had tested the grappling hook, it only had a rope length of about twenty meters, so it couldn’t directly reach the fifty-meter mark, he’d still need to climb himself.
"Clack!" The grappling hook emitted a mechanical sound, the sharp claw shot out rapidly!
With a slender rope, the sharp hook head embedded deeply into the rock wall about ten meters up with a "clack," then the sharp-shaped grappling hook immediately opened like a flower, embedding itself into the rock wall securely.
Immediately after, the rope retracted, and he quickly stored the powered skateboard into his backpack with his right hand while shooting up the rock wall rapidly with the grappling hook.
So fast!!
"I..."
"Bang!"
Using the grappling hook for the first time, due to unfamiliarity, he slammed diagonally into the rock wall, but with the arm strength boost and his right hand as a buffer, he managed to stabilize himself.
"Clack! Whoosh!" Beside him, Ji Chaoyang also flew to a position approximately ten meters from him, he seemed much more skilled than Xu Xin, probably having tested it previously, and turned to Xu Xin, saying, "The retraction speed of the grappling hook is controllable, no need to go so fast."
Xu Xin nodded.
However, since he was already on the rock wall, the grappling hook was no use for now.
On such vertical, rugged rock walls, using the grappling hook was of little use; climbing by hand was better.
Of course, the grappling hook was still useful if he ended up not grabbing securely and fell, he would need it to save himself.
He retracted the grappling hook, the opened claw in the rock wall folded back into a sharp shape, then withdrew back into the device.
Then, Xu Xin grabbed onto the rocky surface with both hands immediately.
At this moment, his arm strength boost manifested fully.
He could easily hang onto the rock wall using just his arms.
Not bad.
Looking upward, Xu Xin exerted his arms, and his entire body leaped up two or three meters like a spring!
Indeed, the arm strength boost!
He reached out again, securely grabbing the rock wall in front of him.
Climbing was effortless! Two or three meters each time!
Places on the rock wall that could be grasped were basically covered by a thin layer of snow, fortunately not too slippery. With the arm strength boost, Xu Xin climbed upward rapidly, like an incredibly skilled climbing expert.
Very quickly, he reached the fifty-meter mark he had noticed earlier, the distinct coloration line on the rock.
At close range, the color boundary was even more apparent.
Not just the color, but even the rocks above and below were not of the same type!
Xu Xin didn’t have much knowledge of rocks, he could only tell the rock wall below was rougher with a lighter color, whereas the wall above was much smoother with a deeper black hue.
"What is going on here?" Xu Xin observed the rock wall, pondering.
He turned his head to look at Ji Chaoyang, who had also climbed to the fifty-meter mark and was also contemplating the wall.
Just as Xu Xin was about to ask his opinion, suddenly, a familiar mysterious voice came to his ear!
The sudden occurrence of the mysterious voice caused him to shake his hand, almost losing his grip, his eyes widened in shock.
[Congratulations, survivor, for triggering the Snow Mountain Climbing Activity!]
What?!
Snow Mountain Climbing Activity?!
As expected!
These stone pillar peaks, just like the lightning storms, were all the work of that mysterious voice!