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Chapter 50 [Hummingbird]
When getting on the plane, Chen Nuo took the initiative to help carry the equipment, and then entered the cabin. He also took the initiative to sit in the corner, abiding by the standard politeness and politeness of a strange guest - not annoying anyone.
In the cabin, Nivell looked out the window at the vast snow-capped mountains in the distance. Because the weather was very good and the visual conditions were excellent, Nivell looked a little lost.
Chen Nuo was huddled in the corner of the cabin, wearing earplugs in his ears and listening to music on his MP3 player.
This move aroused a bit of contempt from Lux.
Humph, turns out to be a rookie.
Climbers with a little experience know that they will not waste batteries casually, because once they arrive at EBC, it is not that easy to replenish the batteries.
Lux's disdainful gaze just flickered across Chen Nuo's face... This sister didn't have the slightest fondness for Chen Nuo.
First of all, she doesn't like people who are late... and because Chen Nuo was late, the takeoff time of her family was also delayed.
Secondly...although Chen Nuo was wearing mountaineering clothes, he looked very thin and thin.
The British girl who is a sports expert, gym enthusiast and a squat fanatic does not like this pretty girl.
Chen Nuo seemed to notice Lux's eyes, and he actually took the initiative to speak.
"Hello. I think you look familiar...Excuse me, do you have a nickname called...Hummingbird?"
Lux was stunned for a moment.
Hummingbird is a nickname given to herself by the industry after she appeared on the covers of several sports magazines.
Well, even though I didn't like this guy, her tutoring and politeness still prompted Lux to reluctantly nod, showing a polite smile: "Yes, it seems you have read my magazine."
"Of course." Chen Nuo smiled: "You are very beautiful."
"...Thank you." Lux nodded, took off her hat, closed her eyes and rested - this move was very obvious: don't bother me.
Chen Nuo's eyes fell on Nivel's face.
Nivel's side profile is very beautiful, and the healthy blush on the girl's face makes her look full of vitality. Especially her blue eyes under the long eyelashes are extremely beautiful.
Chen Nuo sighed inwardly.
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hummingbird.
This bird is famous for its small size and brightly colored feathers. Especially when flying, its wings vibrate at high frequencies and make a buzzing sound like a bee.
Hence the name, hummingbird.
It was also the codename used by Niver in her previous life when she was by Chen Yanluo's side, accompanying him from birth to death and walking on the edge of hell for many years.
However... this Nivell doesn't like birds like hummingbirds.
The reason why she uses this code name is to commemorate her sister Lux.
Because, according to the history of the previous life, on March 22, 2001.
The Devonshire family will encounter an unexpected accident while climbing Lobuche Peak.
In the accident, except for 18-year-old Nivell, all members of the Devonshire family died.
This accident brought about a turning point in the life of eighteen-year-old Nivell.
However, Nivell, who met Chen Nuo a few years later, told Chen Nuo the truth about what happened that day:
While climbing a steep rock wall, her uncle Benjamin suddenly cut the rope with his own hands, causing Mr. and Mrs. Rock to fall to their deaths - this was a naked murder!
The sisters Nivell and Lux saved the lives of the two sisters because of Lux's timely reaction and used an ice pick to dig into the rock wall in time.
Benjamin tried to kill the two sisters to silence them, but in the end, Lux pulled Benjamin's rope in order to protect his sister, and the two fell into the abyss together!
Eighteen-year-old Nivel watched her uncle murder her parents, and watched her sister fall into the abyss with her enemy... For an eighteen-year-old girl who was not deeply involved in the world, the whole world
All collapsed.
What's worse is that when Nivel returned after being rescued, she faced an even more difficult situation:
The second month after she was rescued, Nivel was sentenced to 30 years in prison for murder.
Nivel met Chen Nuo six years after her family was killed, that is, when she was twenty-four years old.
The place where the two met was a women's prison for serious offenders.
Nivel has been in that prison for six full years.
The crime was: in her family's old manor, she personally killed a relative who tried to embezzle the last old house of her family. And that old house was the only memory and memory Nivell had left in the first half of her life.
care.
Judging from Nivel's life experience in her previous life.
Her youth was full of sunshine. Then her whole family was killed. When she was eighteen years old, her family property was embezzled by her hungry relatives. The desperate girl finally collapsed, so the eighteen-year-old Nivell lost everything and killed someone in anger.
Dang was imprisoned and spent six years in prison.
Until one day, Chen Yanluo received a commission to kill the warden of that prison.
During that operation, Chen Nuo first met Nivelle in the warden's office.
Twenty-four-year-old Nivell was kneeling in the corner with a metal collar around her neck and a chain, like a poor dog. The girl was naked and her eyes were empty, like a soulless doll.
The warden was a vicious old woman with a perverted mentality.
And just after Chen Nuo shot the warden, the old pervert was crawling on the ground wailing in pain... Nivel suddenly woke up, jumped up like crazy, and then threw herself on the warden.
, using nails and teeth in a crazy manner, as if they want to tear each other into pieces.
She even actually bit off a piece of meat from the other party's body.
After being taken away by Chen Nuo, Nivel later told Chen Nuo: On the first day she entered the prison, she was spotted by the warden. Because of her former aristocratic status, the perverted woman regarded her as a
The special toy pet tormented her for six full years!
From that time on, Nivell followed Chen Nuo and gave herself a new name: Hummingbird.
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Amid the sound of helicopter propellers, Chen Nuo stopped recalling.
The plane slowly landed on a flat terrain less than fifty meters in diameter near the EBC base camp.
When getting off the plane, Rock shook hands with Chen Nuo: "It was a pleasant journey. I wish you good luck, young man."
Chen Nuo took a deep look at the other person, his eyes a little complicated at first, then he smiled and extended his hand.
"I'm very happy to be traveling together this time. We will be at EBC in the next few days. If there is anything you need my help with, please feel free to do so."
After turning around and rummaging through his backpack, Chen Nuo walked back to Nivell, handed out a piece of stuff, stuffed it into Nivell's hand, and said with a smile: "A small gift."
Watching the boy staggeringly pick up his hiking bag and leave, Nivel was stunned for a moment, and looked at the palm of her hand, which was a piece of 75% dark chocolate.
Moreover, it is my favorite brand: Daibao Jialai.
...Is it a coincidence?
Nivel subconsciously glanced at the young man's back.
"...I don't like this guy." Lux appeared in her ear.
"Why?" Nivel frowned.
Lux smiled and said as if he was joking: "Because he actually ignored my beauty and only showed his courtesy to you."
The joke wasn't funny, so Nivel still managed to pull her lips together.
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The huge Khumbu Glacier is just around the corner.
It's still afternoon now, and there's still some time before the sun sets.
Although this was not the first time for Nivell to see a glacier, it was still shocking to see the world-famous Khumbu Glacier up close.
Contrary to what ordinary people expect, the glacier does not look silvery white, but has a strange light blue color. It is probably the color of the reflected sky.
It's just that piece of blue that makes people faintly addicted...
Although EBC is located at an altitude of 5,300 meters, the climate here is not particularly cold. In March, due to the sunshine during the day, the temperature is not bad...at night it will plummet to zero or even below.
Nivel, who was wearing a jacket, was very skilled in helping her father set up the tent. Lux, her mother and uncle were not around, and I heard that she went to the camp tent to buy some replenishing supplies.
Tent, sleeping bag, and a tent used as a toilet - no doubt, a special tent is needed to be used as a toilet. Otherwise, the subzero temperature in the middle of the night and the high mountain climate will make it impossible to use it casually outdoors.
of...if you don't want to freeze.
And according to climber regulations, all garbage must be cleaned up - including excrement.
After helping her father set up the tent, Nivell walked out of the tent alone. Just as she was about to take a few photos with her camera, she saw a bright red and eye-catching tent about ten meters away from her family's camping site.
The boy was squatting on the ground outside the tent, talking to a Sherpa guide.
Then the Sherpa guide took out a few oxygen bottles from the yak, dropped them, and took away a few banknotes handed over by the young man.
Nivell noticed that the young man seemed to see her and waved to her.
After hesitating for a moment, Nivel had no choice but to wave her arm... As a result, this guy actually climbed over and ran over!
Seeing the young man coming in front of her, Nivell hesitated for a moment, then kindly reminded him: "You'd better not run like that. This is a high altitude place and it's a waste of energy."
Chen Nuo smiled.
"I'm not planning to climb a mountain, so I'm just going to take a look around. It's a hike." Chen Nuo smiled.
"You'd better pay attention to your safety. Don't do anything too forced." Nivel sighed. She didn't want to talk to strangers, but her kindness still made her say a few more words: "Even if you are hiking
, this is a high-altitude area, and there are certain dangers.”
"Is chocolate delicious?" Chen Nuo asked with a smile without answering the question at all.
Nivel gave him a sideways glance and walked away.
Not too far from the tent area of the base camp is a slightly raised hillside.
On this hillside, there are some strange symbols stuck on the ground.
Some are shovels, some are ice picks, and some are wooden signs that stand up—mostly in the shape of a cross.
One thing they have in common is that these markers, more or less, have nameplates hanging on them from ropes or metal chains.
Nivell stood here and watched quietly for a while. She heard footsteps coming from behind. She turned around and saw the smiling face of the young man again.
"What are you thinking about?" Chen Nuo asked.
"..." Nivel sighed: "This is a holy place for climbers. Each nameplate represents a climber who died during the journey. Because it is impossible to recover the body on the snowy mountain, nor can it be brought down, so
Many times, teammates will bring back the nameplates that have passed away and hang them here."
"So, are you honoring the dead? Are there people you know here? Do you want to be a great climber?"
"No." Nivel shook her head and glanced at Chen Nuo: "...I don't want to be a simple climber, I hope to become a great adventurer and extreme sportsman!"
Well, it’s no wonder that in your previous life you were able to do anything in the sky, dive on the earth... Chen Nuo sighed in his heart.
"What are you doing?" Lux's voice.
...This royal sister seemed to have appeared at the wrong time. Chen Nuo sighed.
Lux stared at Chen Nuo with a critical look: "You, please don't try to take advantage of my sister."
"Huh?" Chen Nuo looked strange and complicated.
Ignoring Chen Nuo, the sisters turned and left.
Although the upper body is wrapped in a thick jacket, the slender, toned and round thigh curves of the lower body are really a visual enjoyment when viewed from behind...
Chen Nuo smiled and looked at the back... um...
...What a beautiful peach butt.
After sighing softly, Chen Nuo put away his smile and looked at the pile of "tombstones" in front of him with a gloomy look.
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March 22, 2:40 pm.
Lobuche Peak is about 6,000 meters above sea level.
Nivel's eyes hidden behind her snow goggles were staring at her feet. The hand holding the hiking pole was wearing cold-proof gloves. She could clearly feel that the palms of her hands were numb.
In my mind, I slowly adjusted my breathing step by step according to the breathing rhythm of mountain climbing techniques.
After hiking for nearly four hours, Nivel felt that her physical strength was almost reaching the critical point.
At this moment, someone behind her tapped her on the shoulder.
When climbing on snowy mountains, even on flat ground, team members communicate with each other by slapping each other's bodies - under thick and strict cold-proof equipment, simply shouting may be ignored by the other party, and you must slap each other to attract the other party first.
of attention.
"Ahead! We're almost at the rock climbing point!"
Nivel recognized her sister's voice.
She didn't look back and gave a thumbs up.
Nivel was in the middle of the team, with a climbing rope tied to the buckle around her waist. The five-person mountaineering team maintained a front-line queue and headed towards the summit of Lobuche Peak.
This season is the off-season for mountaineering, and I didn’t encounter anyone of the same kind along the way to Lobuche Peak…
Of course, even in peak season, you won’t see anyone there.
There is still more than a hundred meters to reach the top of Lobuche Peak... but the journey is not that short.
There is a not-so-high rock wall ahead...it is the only and last slightly difficult section on this climbing route.
The sloping rock wall is not a difficult challenge for the Devonshire family, whose family are all rock climbers.
Nivell looked up at the rock wall. She felt that her heartbeat rate was abnormal, but she didn't think much about it. She just thought it was a normal reaction after the physical energy was lost.
She adjusted her backpack vigorously, tied the poles, took out the rock wedge, and tightened the lock of the climbing rope.
I have no problem! The girl has a firm belief in her heart.
There were snowflakes in the cold wind. Even though she was wearing a windproof hiking hat and goggles, Nivel could still feel the cold wind beside her ears, as if there was a wind leak somewhere.
Then she realized that it must be her imagination.
Inserting a rock wedge into the rock crevice, Nivell took a breath, hung on the climbing rope, and turned around slightly.
At this moment, she felt that her brain's reaction was becoming more and more sluggish...
reaction to high altitudes?
Well, after going up, it seems that I need to take oxygen.
My mind started to get confused, and at this moment...
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A sharp blade cut into the climbing rope, and it was filed away!
"Oh my god! What are you doing!!"
"stop!!"
"It's going to fall!!"
"Hold on tight! Don't let go!!"
"Ice pick! Ice pick!!!!"
boom……
I don't know if it's a real roar or a buzzing in my ears.
Nivell felt her body falling, falling endlessly...
She seemed to have lost consciousness, severe hypoxia, and severe loss of physical strength, making the girl's mind a mess...
There are only a few fragments left that are flashing through my mind...
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The blade of the knife was still cutting on the rope.
But at this moment, bang... the blade suddenly slipped from the hand for some unknown reason, and then fell directly onto the rock wall...
The girl's eyes have been closed.
She fell into darkness.
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Snap.
Snap.
The strong wind howled, shaking the tent's alloy frame back and forth.
Nivel woke up from the darkness, feeling that her body's consciousness was recovering bit by bit.
My body was warm wrapped in a sleeping bag.
The lights in the tent were dim, and Nivel squinted her eyes and looked around, and saw a figure wearing a red cold-proof mountaineering suit with his back to her, squatting there without knowing what he was doing.
After a few seconds, the man turned around with a steaming can of porridge in his hand.
"Drink it, I finally heated it up, drink it quickly, otherwise it will cool down soon."
The young man in front of me had a familiar face.
"You? You... you..." Nivel felt a splitting headache. Looking at Chen Nuo in front of her, she suddenly became frightened: "Dad? Mom?? Sister???"
She sat up suddenly.
Chen Nuo slowly sat in front of Nivel and stared into the girl's eyes.
His eyes were complicated.
After a long time, Chen Nuo sighed softly: "Nivell, haven't you woke up yet? There is no one else here, no your father Roque, no your mother, no your sister Lux, and no you.
Uncle Benjamin.
everything……
It's all your imagination.
Everything is just you."
boom!!
The words "You are alone" are like a heavy hammer hitting the girl's heart!
All the scenes in the past few days are shattered like glass!!
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Nivel stood in front of the mirror in the Lukla Airport control tower and looked at herself in the mirror: "Okay girls, we are ready to go!"
Nivel looked at herself in the mirror and said impatiently: "Are you ready to go? Dad said he still has to wait for a guest."
Then he raised his head, put his hand on his forehead, and looked at the plane that appeared in the sky...
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Nivel stood next to the plane, looked at the young man in front of her, and said in a low voice: "The guest introduced by Wilson? I want to see your passport first, sir."
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Nivel smiled and looked at the young man in front of her: "Very good, our family is all Arsenal fans. You are welcome to join, Mr. Chen."
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"Hello. I think you look familiar...Excuse me, do you have a nickname called...Hummingbird?"
Nivel smiled reservedly: "Yes, it seems you have read my magazine."
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When they got off the plane, Nivell shook hands with Chen Nuo: "It was a pleasant journey. I wish you good luck, young man."
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Nivel looked at the chocolate in her hand with a dazed expression, but she said to herself in a teasing tone: "I don't like this guy...why?...Because he actually ignored my beauty and only looked at you.
A person is so courteous."
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He was setting up a tent by himself, and when he turned around, the young man waved enthusiastically to him.
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I stood side by side with this young man, looking at the tombstones, and suddenly I whispered to the other person in a warning tone: "What are you doing?...Don't try to take advantage of my sister!"
Then he turned around and left, leaving the young man with a strange and complicated expression.
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"On April 17, 1997, your father, Mr. Rock Devonshire, and your mother, Ms. Rosa Devonshire, a well-known couple in the mountaineering community, died due to the harsh weather.
Along the way to climb Mount Everest.
June 3, 1999. Your sister Lux, the talented heir of the Devonshire family and an outstanding rising star in the mountaineering world, decided to climb Mount Everest in order to inherit your parents’ legacy and to commemorate your parents. However, after
During the acclimatization training on Lobuche Peak, the climbing rope accidentally broke and he fell to his death.
On July 21, 2000, your uncle Benjamin forced you to sell your property because he was heavily in debt. After you refused, he tried to violently attack you, and you shot him to death in self-defense. Although you later
Acquitted, but...
Nivell, maybe, since that time, you have had serious mental problems."
Chen Nuo gently placed his hand on the shoulder of the confused girl.
"For a long time, your mind has split and imagined your parents, your sister, your uncle, four different personalities, plus yourself. You are playing the roles of five people at the same time
, live like this every day.
You imagine that all the tragedies in your family have never happened, and everything is living in the dream world that you support...
Of course, in the eyes of others, you are just getting weirder and weirder, talking more and more to yourself in a low voice, and behaving weirdly.
Just last month, you dropped out of Eton...because of your chronic absences.
In the past year, you have spent too much time traveling around the world, hiking, or doing various extreme sports. You imagine that your family is still with you, that your parents and sister are still alive...
Until the day before yesterday, you came to Nepal.
You used your sister's passport and identity to join an entry-level mountaineering team training program, generously paid all the fees, and took everyone on a helicopter ride to EBC.
Then, I paid for a ride and took your plane.
And just this afternoon, you and your team members arrived at the last rock climbing point before reaching the summit of Lobuche Peak.
You were on the rock wall and had an illusion...you tried to cut off the climbing rope with a knife!"
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Yes, all this is the truth.
There is no such thing as the Devonshire murders, where the uncle killed his parents and the sister died holding her uncle in her arms.
In fact, the truth about her previous life is that Nivel faked her sister's passport and identity and came to Nepal to join a small team.
Then, that afternoon, while climbing Lobuche Peak, Nivel suddenly went insane, and several other personalities in her mind had chaotic fantasies, imagining the tragedy.
The real situation is that she cut the rope with her own hands in the confusion, causing two team members to be seriously injured and one to be slightly injured!
In the history of her previous life, Nivell was rescued from the mountain by the rescue team and returned to the UK because of this incident. After returning to the UK, she was sued for the injury incident and was forcibly imprisoned because she was identified as having a mental problem.
In a mental hospital.
There is no such thing as prison for felons, and there is no such thing as killing relatives to protect the old house.
In fact, that mental hospital only houses prisoners who have committed serious crimes due to mental problems... It is actually a special kind of prison.
The evil and perverted prison warden is actually the director of the mental hospital.
Of course, the evil content is true.
Chen Nuo sneaked into the mental hospital that day and actually saw Nivelle in the dean's office, naked like a dog and tied to the corner - at that time she had been tortured by the evil pervert inside for six years.
The only difference is: in fact, the commission Chen Nuo received that time was not to assassinate some warden.
Chen Yanluo’s assassination target is Nivell herself!
The only heir to the Devonshire family, title, and huge family legacy!
If she dies, then... the client who entrusted Chen Nuo will benefit greatly.
This is all...the truth!
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The face of the girl sitting in the sleeping bag went from numb to blank, and finally, emotions appeared bit by bit.
Her eyes showed deep sorrow little by little!
Finally, she began to cry softly.
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"I'm sorry for pulling you out of this dream... If this was a beautiful dream, I would hope that you would continue to dream and not wake up. But... little hummingbird, you are trapped in a dream that you have woven for yourself.
, looks beautiful, but is actually a nightmare in the dark abyss.
So, I am a person who fell from the sky, and I came from afar just to help you get rid of nightmares."
Chen Nuo finished speaking softly.
The girl seemed to have exhausted all her strength and burst into tears...
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