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"It's an elephant." Mengka replied: "It is said that dying elephants will march towards Xuefeng, hoping to die closer to the gods, but no elephant has ever walked out of the jungle. It seems that this elephant is a exception."

Uh... Hu Xiaowei silently prayed for it in her heart, hoping that the god it yearned for would treat its soul kindly.

Finally, the highest peak of Luo Ze appeared in front of us.The snow-covered mountain peaks became steep as if they had been cut by a knife, and turned into a long, vertical "wall" hundreds of meters high.Mengka said that the locals call it "Dragon Gate", which means that only dragons can pass through it. Is it like a fish jumping over the Dragon Gate?

Mengka began to give Hu Xiaowei and Gu Qing the last explanation before climbing: "Remember what I taught you, try to use your legs and waist strength as much as possible, and avoid using your hands. Pay attention to controlling the balance of the center of gravity, and use your hands and feet to find the rock surface. All available fulcrums. Pay attention to adjusting your breathing..."

Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by a sudden gunshot.

"Damn it! It's Li Yuanba's men! They're chasing after them!" Gu Qing swiftly picked up Hu Xiaowei, hid behind a boulder, then quickly took the gun from his backpack, and fired back at the opponent.

"Xiaowei, lie down and don't let your body show from behind the stone. Bullets don't have eyes!" Gu Qing instructed.

Hu Xiaowei shivered and curled up her body, nervously watching Gu Qing and Mengka lying on the stone and fighting back.

"How many of them? Are we going to die?"

The sound of gunfire whistled past Hu Xiaowei's ears, and Li Yuanba's sinister snake-like face in his memory came to mind again.Hu Xiaowei bit her lips tightly to prevent the scream of fear from overflowing from her mouth.

Finally, after the last gunshot, everything returned to calm.

"Okay, we're all done." This was Gu Qing's voice.

Hu Xiaowei stood up quickly: "How are you all? Are you all right?"

Gu Qing stood steadily, but Mengka lay lifelessly on the rock.

"Mengka! Are you injured?" Hu Xiaowei hurriedly reached out to help him.

"He's dead. He was shot in the head." Gu Qing replied.

"Mengka, I'm sorry!" Hu Xiaowei burst into tears.

"There's no time to be sad now, hurry up and leave! Although these people are all dead, there are only five or six of them, and there must be Li Yuanba's people behind. If you don't leave, you really can't leave!" Gu Qing urged me, Hu Xiaowei, to hurry up leave.

Hu Xiaowei had no choice but to put away her sadness, wipe away her tears, and pick up the backpack that had rolled aside.

"I don't want these anymore." Gu Qing stopped: "Carrying them will consume your energy and make you unable to climb over."

So the two dropped all their burdens and climbed to the foot of the dragon gate step by step.The real test of life and death has come.

"Should we start now?" Hu Xiaowei turned around and asked Gu Qing beside him with some hesitation.

He didn't answer, but reached out to support the stone wall beside him, and sat down slowly.

"What's wrong with you?" Hu Xiaowei hurriedly squatted down in front of him, checking in a panic whether he was injured or not.

And he seemed to be speechless, with a pale face, panting heavily.

Hu Xiaowei couldn't see any scars on the first part of his body, but when I unzipped his waterproof jacket, I was stunned.

His inner clothing had become a blood-soaked sponge, and red fluid was still gushing from a small hole in his side.It turned out that he was also shot!

Hu Xiaowei hurriedly blocked the bullet hole with her hands, and asked him anxiously, "Which bag are the bandages and medicine in?"

Gu Qing shook his head, and answered with difficulty: "I left in a hurry, so I didn't bring it out. Besides, even if there was, it's useless now."

"What nonsense!" Hu Xiaowei anxiously tore off her clothes to make a bandage for him.

He seemed to use all his strength to press Hu Xiaowei's hand: "I'm about to die. Can you quietly listen to what I have to say for a while?"

Hu Xiaowei's hand pressed against his bullet hole in vain, ferocious blood trickled down from between her fingers. "What nonsense are you talking about, isn't it good!"

Hu Xiaowei's tears flowed out like a spring, but she didn't dare to cry out, so she could only bite her lips tightly and nodded desperately at him.

"Promise me, you must climb over the mountain." He said, "I promise you, you will bring the child back safely." Hu Xiaowei answered him holding back her tears.

"Not only the child, but also yourself." He shook his head with difficulty: "Xiaowei, haven't you always wanted to know why I saved you? I am Gu Yifei's younger brother, and I have met you a long time ago , Downstairs at my brother’s house! You also know that our family is divorced. My brother followed my mother and I followed my father. I was beaten by my father that day. I couldn’t help but ran back to my brother, and I saw you. I never thought girls were cute, but I saw you smiling so happily that day, and I felt that I became happy too..." He began to pant violently, unable to speak.

Hu Xiaowei finally couldn't help crying.

"It's okay, Gu Qing, I can't climb over alone, you must accompany me." Hu Xiaowei cried.

"Really? Then what good do I do?" He suddenly opened his eyes in a ruffian way, and asked with a smile.

"You mention it..." Hu Xiaowei didn't notice Gu Qing's expression, and was still immersed in sadness alone and couldn't extricate herself.

"Listen..." Gu Qing's voice became weaker and more difficult: "Promise me a few things. First, after I die, push me off the cliff next to me. If Li Yuanba and the others see my dead body here , I definitely know that if you are going to climb over the dragon gate, you will chase it all the way to the end. Second, this jacket on me is waterproof and warm. You must wear it when you are climbing later. Third, about me , don’t mention a word to my brother, I don’t want them to be sad, just let them think that I am living well in a distant place. Finally,..."

Gu Qing's originally dull eyes suddenly glowed brightly: "You know, since I saw you, I have lost interest in all women, and I...my sexual fantasies are all about you. Can you kiss me so I'll get motivated to get up." His lips moved slightly with infinite expectation.

Hu Xiaowei was taken aback for a moment, then lowered her head and pressed her lips to his.At this time, for the first time in her life, she kissed a man other than Liang Wenfan, but she felt beautiful.

Hu Xiaowei slowly raised her head, held his hand, and looked at him.There was peace and contentment in his beautiful black eyes, like the calm Aegean Sea.

"This kiss, don't tell him..." He whispered, as if sighing.

Then, holding onto Hu Xiaowei's shoulders, he slowly stood up, shaking his body a few times, and finally stood still.

"Does it matter?" Seeing this, Hu Xiaowei quickly stood up and supported Gu Qing.

Gu Qing touched her lips with her hand, looked at Hu Xiaowei with a satisfied smile and said, "Little fool, you are so easy to cheat, you gave me a kiss so easily."

Hu Xiaowei is angry, this man, even when he was injured, he still doesn't forget to flirt with women, he has never met a girl before, hmph...it's all a lie, but she is so stupid!Yes, she is really stupid, Liang Wenfan said she was a fool, Gu Qing also said she was a fool...

Hu Xiaowei wiped away her tears, wiped the blood on Gu Qing's coat, then looked up at the towering snow-capped mountains in front of her, "Would you give me this coat back?"

"No, I still have to save my life."

In the thin clouds, it is as majestic and mysterious as a fairyland, quietly watching the life and death happening under its feet, telling you with its silence that it is truly eternal and invincible.

Both took deep breaths at the same time to cheer themselves up, and then began the hardest climb of their lives.

Hu Xiaowei recalled the essentials explained by Mengka, and carefully controlled the balance of the body's center of gravity, looking for protrusions or dimples on the rock face, and after stabilizing with her feet, she used the strength of her legs and waist to bring her whole body up.

Some of the snow on the rock surface has condensed into ice, which is so slippery that it is almost impossible to step on it.With the help of Gu Qing, Hu Xiaowei carefully tested and stepped on the ground step by step, for fear of slipping and falling.

After climbing for an unknown amount of time, her legs began to tremble, and her arms gradually became numb.

Hu Xiaowei lay on the rock wall panting, looked up, the peak was still an infinite distance away from them.

"Xiaowei, do you still have the strength?" Gu Qing brushed the ends of Hu Xiaowei's hair that fell on his face a few times, and asked worriedly.

"It's okay." Hu Xiaowei replied pretending to be full of energy, but in fact she was so tired that she wanted to fall to the ground and never get up.

She raised her right foot and reached for a pit on the slope above the rock wall, ready to use it as a starting point for the next step.But at this moment, Hu Xiaowei's left foot suddenly slipped.She reached out to grab the rock face in a panic, but only heard a short cry from Gu Qing, and Hu Xiaowei's body fell down quickly.

After a violent impact, Hu Xiaowei's eyes went dark and she lost consciousness...

"Xiaowei, Hu Xiaowei?"

Looking at Hu Xiaowei who was lying motionless at the foot of the mountain, Gu Qing couldn't care less about other things, he hurriedly rolled down the height he had finally climbed up, and came to Hu Xiaowei's side to stop.

Holding Hu Xiaowei in his arms, the man who never cried finally felt a bit of sour liquid in his eyes want to overflow, blurring his vision...

Her whole body was drenched by the thick fog, so cold that there was no warmth at all, her pale face was even less bloody at this moment, her eyes were tightly closed, and the long eyelashes drew a thick shadow, Gu Qing He hugged Hu Xiaowei tightly, trying to keep her body temperature.

However, in the ice and snow, Gu Qing himself was so cold that his hands and feet were stiff, so how could he give Hu Xiaowei the body temperature?So, Gu Qing took off her coat and put it on Hu Xiaowei's body, and took off her gloves. She held Hu Xiaowei's hands and kept rubbing them until her hands were rubbed red and red, "Xiaowei, you must wake up." Come here, you must wake up, you still have children..."

The effect of warming with hands is really poor. Hu Xiaowei's body gradually becomes stiff, and a small amount of ice flakes gradually appear on her fingers and eyebrows. They all have to freeze to death here, Gu Qing looked around, and suddenly remembered that the elephant bones he saw when he saw it might still be able to light a fire...

"Xiaowei, wait here for me, I will come as soon as I go, you must persist until I come back, otherwise I will treat you and Liang Wenfan as a mistress!"

Gu Qing wrapped Hu Xiaowei with everything that could keep her warm, laid her down in a leeward place, got up and started walking back, looking for the pile of elephant bones that might be able to ignite.