Chapter 90 (One of the new friends)
"How many people are there?" Yan Zixiu asked Peacock.
"There are three, two boys and one girl." Peacock answered.
There are actually three more? No wonder they were positioned here this time. Maybe one of the three has used Xianfu products.
"Then let me follow you and see if I'm heading in the right direction?"
"Come with me, it's closer this way." The peacock led the way, flying slowly.
Yan Zixiu climbed up with the peacock in the snow that was up to his knees. After a while, he saw several figures three or four miles above him.
He thought it would be nice to meet and chat with people on Mount Everest, so he stepped up his pace.
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Besides, the three people in front were wrapped tightly from head to toe and strung together with safety ropes, and they were slowly climbing up.
They came here early in the morning after resting at the nearest camp last night.
One of the bearded men stopped and took a few pictures around with his camera. He accidentally looked back and was startled and almost fell down. He screamed: "Oh, my God.
How can this be?"
A red-haired woman next to her asked: "Mike, what are you shouting?"
"Jenny, there's someone behind you!" Mike, the bearded man, quickly picked up the binoculars and looked, and he really saw a person moving up the mountain.
He couldn't believe it, so he took off his snow goggles and looked through the binoculars again, "There is really someone. This person is actually wearing autumn clothes and has nothing with him except a hiking stick."
"Mike, are you talking in your sleep before you wake up! Who can climb Mount Everest wearing autumn clothes?" said another tall man.
"I'm not lying. Come and take a look." The bearded man Mike handed the binoculars to the red-haired Jenny.
"There really is a person! There is a peacock beside him. Look, Cooper." As expected, women's perspective is unique, so Mike ignored the peacock.
The air on Mount Everest is thin and the transparency is excellent. In addition, it is a sunny day and the visibility is excellent.
Cooper, a tall man, saw a person approaching without a telescope. However, he still took the telescope: "This is a young Chinese man. My God, he is really wearing autumn clothes. There is no luggage, nothing."
Oxygen tank."
"Looks like I'm not just hallucinating. Haha." Mike said with a smile, "What should we do? Should we wait for him, or should we continue climbing?"
Jenny said: "I think meeting this person is more worth looking forward to than climbing to the top. There are many people who have climbed to the top, and such a strange person is a once-in-a-lifetime chance."
Mike also wanted to wait.
Cooper thought for a while and said: "Look at his speed, he is faster than us. If we walk up slowly, we can also wait for him."
Mike and Jenny thought it made sense, so they turned around and continued to move forward slowly.
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Yan Zixiu chatted with the peacock while climbing the mountain: "Do you have a name?"
"You can call me Qingqing."
Yan Zixiu thought to himself, why isn't your sapphire dress called blue?
"Okay. Then I'll call you Qingqing. My name is Yan Zixiu."
"Yan Zixiu? That's a pretty name."
"Thank you. Besides you peacocks, are there any other friends on the mountain?"
"There are cows, sheep, donkeys, chickens, and leopards." Peacock Qingqing introduced.
Yan Zixiu was a little surprised that there were so many animals in this restricted area of life. However, these animals probably had the word "wild" in front of their names, such as bison, wild sheep, etc.
"Then do you have any clansmen?"
"I have about ten companions." Peacock Qingqing was a little proud, "Where are you from?"
"I'm from the Central Plains area."
"Central Plains area? What is that place? How far is it from here?" It seems that Qingqing likes to talk.
"How far is it from here? About four to five thousand miles. We have almost no mountains, it's all vast plains as far as the eye can see." Indeed, there are only a few hills in the Yingtian area.
Peacock couldn't understand the concept of thousands of miles and simply ignored it: "Then can we go play?"
"You are welcome at any time. If you don't want to play anymore, you can come back at any time." Yan Zixiu felt that if some peacocks appeared in the base, it would look more spiritual. Besides, there is a teleportation light gate, so going back and forth is not a problem.
"Okay, okay. Hey, those people in front stopped and seemed to be looking at you." Peacock said.
Three or four miles away, Yan Zixiu could see the few people in front of him without turning on his clairvoyance.
He saw that the other party stopped for a while and then started again, but the speed seemed to have slowed down. He knew that the other party was waiting for him while walking, so he quickened his pace.
In about an hour, Yan Zixiu caught up with the three of them: "Hi, how are you?"
Mike and the others stopped when they heard the sound of treading in the snow, and looked at the young man in surprise: "Hello."
Jenny was the most frustrated: "Young man, aren't you cold?"
Yan Zixiu looked at the three people in front of him. They were all wrapped in down mountaineering jackets, and their exposed faces were half covered by snow goggles. Originally, the three people were white, but their skin color was dark and red, which was obviously caused by the plateau climate.
He smiled and said, "Do you think I'm cold?"
Mike and the others were speechless. Indeed, if Yan Zixiu was really cold, he would not be able to pretend to be so calm.
After slowly accepting the reality for a while, Mike broke the silence: "Are you also here to climb Mount Everest and prepare to reach the top?"
"No. I was just passing by and came up to take a look." Yan Zixiu told the truth.
The three of them were even more depressed and didn't know what to say.
In order to reach the summit, they spent a lot of money and material resources, hired people to help transport supplies, and gradually moved forward from camp to camp. They went through a lot of hardships before they got here. But what about this young man? He was just passing by and taking a look.
Jenny thought it was better to get to know each other first: "My name is Jenny, this is Mike, and this is Cooper. What do you call me young man?"
Yan Zixiu borrowed the name of his predecessor for the third time: "My name is Yan Ziling."
The peacock chirped greenly. It couldn't understand the human language, but it seemed that something was wrong.
"Yan, do you want to climb to the top with us?" Mike asked.
"It's better to meet by chance, so let's go up and have a look together." Yan Zixiu agreed happily.
Jenny suggested: "Yan, why don't you tie our safety ropes too? It will be safer this way and we can take care of each other."
She meant well, thinking that although this young man was strange, he seemed to have little mountain climbing experience, so she wanted to take care of him as much as possible.
Yan Zixiu thought that since they were destined, it would be okay to take care of the other person, so he took the rope handed over by Jenny and tied it around his waist.
He asked Peacock Qingqing: "Will you go up with us?"
"No. I go often, there's nothing interesting to see. I'll wait for you at the bottom of the mountain." Qingqing was very proud and had no interest in anyone else except Yan Zixiu. It flapped its wings and prepared to fly away.
"Wait. I haven't thanked you yet." Yan Zixiu took out a fruit plate, smashed a juicy pear, put it on top, and put the fruit plate on the ground, "I'll treat you to something delicious."
In the severe cold of dozens of degrees below zero, Shuiling pear didn't freeze at all. It was indeed a product of Xianfu, very magical.
The peacock smelled the fragrance of Shuiling pear, fell down and pecked a piece: "It's so refreshing and sweet." It stopped talking to Yan Zixiu and buried its head in eating.
Jenny felt that there were endless miraculous things about this young man today: "Yan, were you talking to the peacock just now?"
"Yes."
"Do you understand bird language?" The three of them were surprised.
"I know a little bit," Yan Zixiu said.
The three of them looked at each other, then at the sky and the mountains. They were indeed not dreaming together.
Jenny said: "Yan, can you please tell us how the weather will change today?"
Mountaineers are most afraid of sudden deterioration in weather. If they encounter bad weather in dangerous areas, they will have no way to advance or retreat.
Mike and Cooper felt that Jenny's brain responded quickly and she asked questions well.
The peacock is the owner here and should be familiar with the environment.
Yan Zixiu conveyed the question.
Qingqing also finished eating Shuiling pear at this time: "According to my experience, the weather will not get worse today."
After hearing the story, Mike and the others were overjoyed and felt that they would definitely succeed this time.
If you succeed in reaching the summit this season, it will be big news all over the world. How can they not be happy?
Peacock Qingqing asked: "Zixiu, do you still have the fruit just now? I want to bring some for my companions to eat."
"It seems that your companions have a good relationship, and you are still thinking about them. Yes, you wait." Yan Zixiu took out a cloth bag with a rope and filled it with more than a dozen Shuiling pears.
"Then I'll wait for you at the bottom of the mountain." The peacock grabbed the rope, circled twice, and flew away.
Jenny looked at the peacock flying away for a while, feeling a little disappointed. "Yan, does it not like us?"
Chapter completed!