Practice starts from a small soldier

Chapter 14

At a place more than 300 meters away from the camp, everyone found Gao Ji's remains.

Except for some bloody hair and rags, not a single bone was found.The crowd dug a pit, buried the bloody hair rags in it, and simply made a tomb.

Yuzi can once again staged a dance master.

This time, no one made fun of it anymore, and everyone silently watched Yuzi Cang singing and dancing on the grave, with sadness on their faces.

After eating some dry food.

Under the leadership of San Weng, everyone continued on the road.

Maybe it was because of the bad luck last night, but today's journey was surprisingly smooth, without any accidents during the whole journey.

Everyone is constantly marching in the mountains.

Zhang Qi no longer remembered how many mountains he had climbed, and how many canyons he had crossed. He only knew that this Beiman Mountain was too big and the terrain inside was too complicated.

In addition, there is thick fog everywhere in the mountains.

If no one leads the way, he will definitely get lost once he enters the mountain.

"This should kill the flying mosquito!"

Yu Zijia swears and swears all the way, and his arms and face are bitten by mosquitoes one by one.

The mosquitoes in the mountains were overwhelming in number and extremely ferocious. Even if everyone smeared insect repellent powder on their bodies, they still couldn't drive away these blood-sucking flying insects.

In addition to mosquitoes, there are even more terrifying blood-sucking leeches, which will jump on people from bushes or even trees.

Zhang Qi saw with his own eyes that after a ginseng collector took off his pants, his legs were covered with black leeches that were wriggling and sucking blood. That scene was simply a blessing for trypophobia sufferers.

"Fortunately, I have practiced the gold-eating kung fu."

Zhang Qi secretly rejoiced.

He has cultivated to the level of iron skin, and he is not afraid of the bites of mosquitoes or leeches at all. In the whole team, he is the only one who can avoid the infestation of mosquitoes and leeches.

"Sure enough, hard work is king."

Every time he saw Zhang Qi strolling around the courtyard amidst the flying mosquitoes, Yu Zimai couldn't help but feel emotional.

During the previous battle with the ghost beast, he discovered that this brother Zhang Dake had practiced a hard skill, and his level was not low, so he was able to block the attack of the ghost beast's sharp claws without being injured.

He is really envious.

It's a pity that practicing hard skills is too hard for ordinary people to bear, and without more than three to five years of hard training, you can't even enter the door.

This brother Zhang Dake has gone through a lot of hardships to forge this body of copper skin and iron bones.

Yu Zimao looked at Zhang Qi with even more eager eyes.

When night falls.

They immediately stopped, found a cave, and camped for the night.

The good news is that no matter whether it was the first half of the night or the second half of the night, the ghost beast did not appear.

The bad news is that several people in the team developed a high fever one after another, vomiting and diarrhea, and even their bodies kept shaking...

By the next morning, two people did not make it through and were buried in the cave.

In less than two days, four people were killed.

And whether it was Youxia Yuzijia or other ginseng collectors, they were all used to it, and they didn't think it was such a serious matter to die a few people.

Zhang Qi personally realized how cheap human life is in this world.

After dawn, everyone continued on the road.

After climbing several hills in a row, San Weng, who was in charge of leading the way, stopped and told everyone not to go any further.

Because the destination is here.

Zhang Qi raised his head and looked up at a mountain in front of him. It was a cylindrical mountain, like a huge pillar standing on the ground. The group of ginseng collectors called it Tianzhu Peak.

Because of the dense fog, it is difficult to see exactly how high and how big this Tianzhu Peak is.

According to San Weng, no one has climbed to the top of Tianzhu Peak so far.

And those incomparably precious Beimang ginseng grow on the cliffs of this Tianzhu Peak, eating the wind and drinking the dew, and absorbing the essence of heaven and earth.

Because it is getting late.

Everyone decided to camp and rest for one night, and then go up the mountain to dig ginseng tomorrow morning.

Peaceful night.

On the third night after entering the mountain, no one died at last.

The next morning.

Dozens of ginseng pickers rushed to Tianzhu Peak scrambling to be the first.

Tianzhu Peak is extremely steep, and the cliffs on all sides are almost vertical. Climbing this mountain requires not only skill, but also courage.

Zhang Qi watched those ginseng pickers take out various climbing tools, such as ropes, claw hooks, etc., and began to climb the Tianzhu Peak.The northern mang ginseng at the foot of the mountain has been dug up long ago. Only the higher you climb, the more chance you will find the northern mang ginseng.

In a blink of an eye.

All the ginseng collectors climbed up Tianzhu Peak, and even the lame ginseng joined in regardless of the danger.

There were only Zhang Qi and Yu Zijian left at the foot of the mountain.

Seeing that Zhang Qi was just staring at Tianzhu Peak, but did not move for a long time, Yuzi asked, "What are you waiting for?"

"I'm looking for a way up the mountain."

Zhang Qi replied.

He had done rock climbing for a while in his previous life. Before climbing, he had to find and plan the path of rock climbing, otherwise he might find himself unable to advance or retreat while climbing. This is a big taboo of rock climbing.

"Then I'll go ahead."

Under Zhang Qi's watchful eyes, Yuzijian climbed the steep cliff quickly with only two hands without using any tools. His figure was more flexible than that of an ape, and he quickly surpassed those ginseng pickers before disappearing. In the mist.

"Master."

After Zhang Qi sighed, he silently took out a bag of lime powder from his body.

I can't get magnesium powder for rock climbing, so I can only use lime powder I bought instead.

If a workman wants to be good, he must first sharpen his weapon.

In addition to lime powder, he also used a rope and a few hoops and hooks to temporarily make a set of climbing ropes, which can help him climb more safely and with less effort.

He also chose the rock climbing path.

Because the mountain is shrouded in dense fog, it is impossible to find a perfect rock climbing path, so we can only take one step at a time.

The first hour.

Zhang Qi climbed no less than 700 meters.

The second hour.

Zhang Qi only climbed less than 300 meters, not because he lacked physical strength, but because the cliff became smoother and steeper as he went up, making it difficult to find rock points to climb.

In addition, the sudden drop in temperature is also a problem.

The low temperature not only made his body stiff, but also formed a thin layer of ice on the cliff, making his hands and feet slippery when touched.

Zhang Qi took a few breaths. His whole body was tightly attached to the cliff like a gecko. Above him was a mirror-like cliff with almost no cracks or rock points.

This kind of mirror is the nightmare of all rock climbers.

Under normal circumstances, he would definitely choose to take a detour.

But now he is in an awkward position. If he chooses to take a detour, he has to climb down a long distance first. This will not only delay a lot of time, but may not necessarily find a better path.

"I can only use a trick."

Zhang Qi raised his right hand like an eagle's claw, and violently 'grabbed' towards the rock above.

boom!
On the smooth and hard rock, only a few faint white marks were left.

"hiss!"

Zhang Qi took a painful breath.

The skin on his fingers was fine, but the bones of his fingers were aching from the violent impact.

The "Food Gold Kungfu" he practiced has only 11% proficiency, so far he has only cultivated his skin, not his own bones.

Simply put, his bones are not as hard as his skin...

"Pretend to fail!"

Zhang Qi shook his head, honestly took out the short spear, and used the sharp point of the spear to pierce holes in the rock wall.

Then use these small holes to climb up.

After half an hour.

Zhang Qi went through a lot of hard work and finally crossed this mirrored cliff with a vertical height of more than 20 meters, and climbed onto a rock platform that protruded outwards above it.

After resting on the platform for a while and eating some dry food, Zhang Qi was about to continue climbing when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a light green plant growing alone in a crack in the rock not far away.

But it wasn't the Northern Mang Ginseng.

(End of this chapter)