Knights of the Wasteland Fortress

Chapter 53 The Second Twilight

Second dusk.

The climbers set off again.

After yesterday's preparation, they knew more about the stele.

As Sun Simiao said, knowing these contents through "others" will make "resistance" serious.

This made some climbers suffer a lot——

They originally planned to continue to use the "double combination" before passing the big eaves, and then split into two groups after passing the dangerous big eaves.

But they began to vomit near the "big eaves", and they couldn't move forward at all. The gastric juice they spit out made their waists and legs sore and unable to stand still.

But on the other hand, climbers who choose to "solo" are not so serious.

With previous experience, many people climbed to the edge of the third floor within four hours and began to look for suitable climbing paths.

According to the sign language feedback, they are only a little dizzy under the current situation, and there is no more serious condition.

While Jiatu was relieved, he also made up his mind.
Under the stunned gazes of Hua Lun and Hena, he walked towards the gloomy boy more than ten meters away.

Jiatu had been paying attention to him since yesterday.

Just like what Hua Lun said, beside the gloomy boy, there was always a trainee who was slightly shorter than him.

His appearance has been hidden in the shadow of the hood, and he can only be judged from his height, he is about the same height as Noah.

"Noah."

Jiatu walked to the gloomy boy's side without any hesitation.

In the astonished eyes of the gloomy young man, he looked at the young man behind him:

"Tell me the correct climbing route."

"Are you crazy?"

Warren was a step behind and ran to his side, his expression full of shock.

It seemed completely incomprehensible why Jiatu would accost the "enemy".

But Jiatu didn't reply, just silently waiting for the other party's reaction.

When Jiatu called his name, the trainee behind the gloomy boy shook his hood slightly.

He seemed to want to flee, but was stopped by Warren's voice.

The gloomy boy also couldn't understand Jiatu's actions at all.

He protected Noah behind him with a shocked face. Jiatu noticed that the gloomy boy's right wrist was still covered with plaster, which fell on his neck, and he looked like he was "accompanying the exam".

"...why am I telling you this?"

After more than ten seconds of silence, realizing that the blond boy was completely exposed, he reached out and took off the gray hood on his head.

Compared with the three days, he lost at least four or five catties, and his expression was full of exhaustion.

But when he took off his hood, it was his right hand that was raised.

Nor did his demeanor show signs of a collarbone injury.

I didn't expect such a magical drug to exist...

Jiatu thought silently in his heart.

He has added confidence that the Exploration Team can heal his left foot.

After recovering from the slight excitement, Jiatu looked at Noah and continued:

"I think other people may not understand, but you should understand that the feud between us has been settled."

Jiatu raised his injured left hand and gestured to the blond boy:

"I think you don't want another 'enemy' like me."

"..."

Noah was silent, with dodge in his eyes.

On the contrary, the gloomy boy shouted angrily:

"What 'enemy'?! You can't even become a explorer, you want to say, Boss Noah must be afraid of you?"

"I think it's better to have one more 'friend' like me than one more 'enemy' like me."

Jiatu shook his head calmly: "What if I pass the third round of the test without relying on you? What if you fail the third round of the test? Have you ever considered that we will explore in the future? Since you know what caused this result, why don’t you take the initiative to take a step back—we don’t have to be so tense when we meet again in the future, right?”

"I'd rather die! Jump off the stone tablet! I don't want to reconcile with you trash!"

The gloomy boy barked at Jiatu like a mad dog.

Hena's eyes froze, and she was about to rush up to beat him, but Jiatu stopped her.

He just silently looked at Noah behind the gloomy boy.

He has already thrown out the olive branch, and it will depend on the other party.

"...you owe me a favor."

The blond boy looked at Jiatu silently. Even at this moment, he still couldn't look directly at Jiatu, and could only look at him from the corner of his eyes:
"I can't explain anything to you, but Uncle Nolan did tell me a point about the third floor."

He took a deep breath, as if trying to escape from Gator's gaze, he took off his cloak and threw it to the gloomy boy.

Under the stunned eyes of the gloomy boy, Noah walked towards the giant stone tablet.

Leaving the gloomy boy with a gradually straightened back:
"My injury has almost healed, and then you just watch—"

"Anyway, you will see it sooner or later."

.

Just like Noah said.

He began to climb up.

His speed is very fast, far from what those previous climbers can match.

It only took him about 10 minutes to climb up the "reinforced area" on the first floor.

As for the "big eaves", he also found a piece of I-shaped steel very quickly, and climbed to the second floor after three times and five times.

Just when Jiatu thought he would continue to climb up, he repaired the I-shaped steel beam at the bottom of the second floor.

Jiato, who had seen this situation several times, immediately realized what had happened——

"Dizziness...it appeared so soon..."

Through this, Jiatu confirmed that Noah did know more information about the stele than ordinary climbers.

For other solo climbers to have a similar situation, most of them will have to wait until the middle of the second floor.

However, the information Noah knew was obviously valuable.

Unlike other climbers who are like headless flies, he climbed to the upper right corner of the second floor with a clear purpose from the very beginning.

About every 30 meters or so, he takes a break to relieve the dizziness.

After about an hour, he climbed to the edge of the third floor.

Simultaneously began to retch.

This made Jiatu feel a little depressed.

For Hena and Warren, they didn't know much more information than Noah.

So it is certain that their symptoms should be similar to Noah's.

But Jiatu is different, because of Heiyin, he knows more about the "Life Stele" than the other two.

This caused his symptoms to be at least one level higher than Noah's.

"Illusion... it should be acceptable..."

Jiatu watched as Noah trimmed on the edge of the second floor, and then began to climb the third floor.

The third layer is also a great challenge for trainees like Noah.

Like the previous climbers, he first found a crack in the rock and began to climb upwards.

His climbing speed is much slower than that of the first climber, and he is obviously not able to adapt to the "support confrontation" climbing method.

But he took a lot less detours than the first climber, and his physical strength and energy are also very well preserved.

So it took him about an hour to climb to the middle of the third floor.

He retched twice in the middle, but the symptoms were not very serious. The arm deeply inserted into the rock crevice also firmly fixed his body.

In the final sprint stage, he hung on the rock wall with one hand, took out a dry food bar to eat and took a rest.

Then start climbing to the left.

This surprised Jiatu——

Because from his point of view, on the climbing point on the left of Noah, there is no grip point, it looks like a large flat and smooth rock wall.

Although there is a crack leading to the top of the stone tablet five or six meters away on the opposite side of the rock wall, it is a blank area of ​​five or six meters!

But Noah stretched out his hand, as if lying on the rock wall, changing hands and moving bit by bit.

His whole body is like a big frog lying on the cliff, relying on the small climbing points that cannot be observed by the naked eye under the tiankeng, moving little by little to the left.

"...Is this 'family heritage'...that's an exaggeration..."

Seeing such a situation, even Warren couldn't help being amazed: "Without guidance, how could someone find such a climbing point within three days..."

"He has a good uncle..."

Jiatu nodded, and couldn't help being a little silent.

It wasn't until this moment that he really felt what kind of family he had offended——

Just being on par with Captain Wu Yao in strength can crush him and Hera to death.

He even began to worry, if he or Hena became a explorer, would Nolan wear shoes...

"However, according to the tradition of the refuge, every qualified person will join the exploration team that went out for an expedition that year... So I should be in the third team of the general leader Wu Yao... So it shouldn't be that dangerous, right?"

Jiatu looked up at Noah on the stone tablet with some trepidation.

Suddenly, I felt a little lucky that I took the initiative to reconcile with him.

To be honest, before Noah nodded, he was not sure.

He just believes that the "United Front Value" is created by himself. Even if Noah can't listen to it now, he can force him to listen to it by improving himself——

Unless he can kill Noah once and for all, "reconciliation" is the best strategy he can take at present.

"'Cooperation' is always more efficient than 'confrontation'... This has been proven countless times in human history..."

Cato does not believe in illusory beliefs.

So he doesn't believe in "justice" and "goodness" in a purely abstract sense.

But he believed in history, and he believed that "time" would do the right thing.

So he chose to let go of his grudges and work together——

"What's more, I have already taken revenge..."

Thinking of this, Jiatu couldn't help feeling a little emotional——

"Revenge never stays overnight" is really a good habit...

(End of this chapter)