Countdown 06:00:00.
On the second night of trekking to the Mount Everest base camp, the tour guide Xiao Zhang led everyone to Nanchi Market.
This is the last human settlement; beyond this lies a forbidden zone of life.
All merchants will stay here, and a large number of mountaineers will also gather here as a temporary stopover.
Every spring, Nanchi Market becomes bustling and crowded, with a complex mix of people like the United Nations. You can even see some foreign mountaineers performing performance art or magic here.
Someone lit a bonfire here, and people gathered outside the town for final preparations, relieving their fear of the world's highest peak.
As night fell, tour guide Xiao Zhang gathered everyone together to eat fresh, hot meals, including even spicy shredded potatoes.
Xiao Zhang asked everyone to sit together in a spacious room and then said with a smile: "Let's introduce each other. We'll be spending the next 30-plus days together, so let's get to know each other. Climbing Mount Everest is a life-or-death experience. Of course, I hope everyone doesn't borrow money from each other, and maintains this principle when we return to China."
At night in the high-altitude area, the temperature had begun to drop. Everyone was wearing windbreakers huddled in the room, each holding a cup of steaming high-mountain tea.
In the room, Mr. Liu was the first to introduce himself: "My name is Liu Shuangxi. I'm in the clothing business in China and a passionate mountaineering enthusiast. If I don't climb a mountain two or three times a year, I feel itchy in my bones. I particularly love the moment of reaching the summit. The immense sense of accomplishment makes me feel that nothing in the world can defeat or break me."Mr. Liu's wife followed: "I'm his wife, Zhang Yan. Our family's clothing business is very large. If anyone needs clothes when you return to China, you can tell me, and I'll send you each a box."
Liu Shuangxi's self-introduction was very low-key, mainly focusing on his love of mountaineering, but his wife was not so low-key.
A young man in the room said: "My name is Jiang Ming. I'm a fund manager in China, and also a mountaineering enthusiast."
The team consisted of a total of 8 people. Besides the Liu couple and Jiang Ming, there were two men who were senior executives from major domestic Internet companies, who had recently resigned and were preparing to start their own businesses, intending to liberate their minds before starting their businesses.
The last woman was a solo travel blogger.
Everyone turned their attention to Qing Chen and Yang Yang.
Qing Chen said: "Qing Xiaotu, just an ordinary student, my resume isn't as impressive as yours."
"Yang Yang, also an ordinary student."
"Huh, you two should be in your third year of high school, don't you need to take the college entrance examination?" Liu Shuangxi asked.
"We were admitted without examination," Qing Chen explained with a smile.
Liu Shuangxi curiously asked: "At your age, how did you come up with the idea of climbing Mount Everest?"
Yang Yang explained: "We're here for our honeymoon."
Mr. Liu's wife, who was sipping hot tea, sprayed water out when she heard this: "What?"
Jiang Ming suddenly said: "Can you take off your face coverings? We still don't know what you two look like."
Qing Chen hesitated for a moment, but finally took off his face covering.
Everyone in the room was stunned. Qing Chen's face was covered with cracked blue lines, as if a breaking dawn glacier was disintegrating.
Qing Chen looked extremely tired, looking exhausted, seemingly unable to adapt to the high-altitude climate.
He slowly explained: "This is a tattoo. I covered my face earlier to avoid scaring everyone."
Liu Shuangxi sighed and shook his head: "Young people don't know how important their faces are. You guys just love to pursue fun and exciting things, and you even got tattoos on your faces. How will you see people in the future? Your work and business will be affected!"
His wife tugged at his sleeve: "What business is it of yours? Say less."
Seeing the wrong atmosphere in the room, Xiao Zhang quickly said: "Everyone is very tired after a day of trekking, go back to your rooms to rest."
At this time, Mr. Liu's wife took out several small bags: "These are Rhodiola prepared for everyone. After eating it, it can quickly increase the growth rate of oxygen-carrying red blood cells and increase resistance to high altitude. It's not expensive, I've prepared one for each of you."
Yang Yang took it and smiled sweetly: "Thank you, Aunt Zhang."
Everyone dispersed.
Return Countdown 01:00:00.
At this time, Nanchi Market had quieted down. Everyone had gone to bed early due to mild altitude sickness.
In several small houses on the edge of Nanchi Market, people whispered: "The target has been confirmed to have ice-blue lines on their face, and is in a normal human state. We can proceed. Be quick and decisive, don't give the other party a chance to cross to the Inner World to relieve the poison."
The implication was that Qing Chen and Yang Yang might have been poisoned.
"Received. Our team will attack from the right wing and provide fire support to your team. Don't use drones, don't alarm the target prematurely. If he discovers our actions, everyone will die."
In a moment, two teams totaling 24 people quickly left the house, one composed of Asians, and the other composed of Black and white people.
Their combat skills were extremely high. The Asian team quickly passed through the low houses in the town.
The North America team climbed onto the houses, taking up fire suppression points from the rooftops and quickly approaching the house where Qing Chen and Yang Yang were staying.
They were well-equipped, and some even carried a black box containing an RPG rocket launcher.
According to these people's plans, they didn't intend to engage Qing Chen and Yang Yang directly, but planned to use individual weapons for fire coverage.
They were very clear about one point: once Qing Chen and Yang Yang sensed the action, the action would inevitably fail.
"Assault team arrived at the expected combat location."
"Fire coverage team will arrive at the combat location for bombardment in 2 minutes. After the bombardment, please complete ground cleanup and then evacuate."
2 minutes later, the fire coverage team on the roof could see the hotel where Qing Chen was staying.
The hotel was a small courtyard, where more than 20 tourists from all over the world were staying, but the fire coverage team didn't care. They would flatten the courtyard and kill everyone.
Their attack point was 350 meters away from Qing Chen, to avoid being sensed by the Force field Awakened One.
These people not only understood Qing Chen but also understood Yang Yang's abilities as a Force field Awakened One.
"Fire coverage team has arrived, assault team prepare," a white man said.
However, at this moment, they suddenly found that the assault team had lost contact!
"Assault team? Reply if you hear me!"
"Assault team?"
The white commander muttered a curse: "Unreliable Asian monkeys, quickly observe the target!"
At this time, an observer looked into the room with a thermal imager: "Two targets in the room, each lying on a single bed, no abnormalities!"
"Strange, the target hasn't discovered our actions, why did the assault team lose contact?" The white commander had a bad feeling, but the operation couldn't stop!
They were a death squad, with no way out.
The white commander opened the large black box, took out a shoulder-mounted RPG rocket launcher, and began to aim at the house where Qing Chen and Yang Yang were.
The next moment, a voice said to himself: "Koshima and Future Organization are working together, Li Yunze was disfigured last time, I wonder if he's here."
Li Yunze was the son of Demi-God Li Bingxi, and was a Metahuman who, in Qing Chen's previous battle in Europe, used a clone to forcefully contend against a six-winged angel, ultimately injured by a bomb hidden in a trash can, with half his face like melted candle wax, terrifying and hideous.
The white commander froze when he heard the voice, because the voice came from behind him, half a meter away, like a ghost appearing behind him in the middle of the night!
His rear should have been his teammates!
The white commander slowly looked back, but found a young man in a white windbreaker looking at him with a smile, still holding a local Nanchi home-brewed wine, taking small sips!
Behind the young man, white Shikigami floated in the air, with sixty-seven pairs of eyes on their hands and cheeks, looking unusually terrifying and hideous.
And beside this young man, 11 teammates of the fire coverage team had died at some point, all lying on the roof.
The white commander steeled his heart and opened the RPG's safety, pulling the trigger.
Even in death, he had to complete the mission!
However, the white commander found that when he looked back at the man behind him, a white dragon had already flown in front of him, catching the RPG rocket launcher with its mouth.
The rocket launcher entered the dragon's mouth, with a muffled bang, the white dragon's abdomen instantly swelled, and then quickly shrank.
After the explosion, the white dragon was still exceptionally active, as if it hadn't been affected at all.
The young man sighed: "You were tricked, why are you all so weak?"
Speaking, the white dragon swallowed the white commander whole, then turned into a stream of light and flew back into the young man's mind's Spiritual Bridge.
At this time, Shendai Yunluo looked into the distance.
Further away, several people stood in the darkness outside the town, watching him coldly.
Just as Shendai Yunluo was about to kill them, they disappeared into the darkness.
The mountaineers in Nanchi Town had been startled by the explosion of the RPG and came out to see what had happened.
But when they looked towards the source of the explosion, the roof was empty.
Knock, knock, knock, a knock on the door.
Qing Chen opened his eyes in the room and smiled at Yang Yang: "It's alright, it's our own."
The person outside said with a smile: "Wow, to be called "our own' by you, why do I feel a sense of happiness? Open the door quickly."
Qing Chen opened the door: "Don't be so sarcastic."
"I'm a Yin-Yang Master, I should speak sarcastically," Shendai Yunluo said with a smile. He patted the dust off his white windbreaker: "I'm curious, you two just lay here as bait, aren't you afraid that I'll make a mistake and cause you to be blown up?"
This Yin-Yang Master wasn't wearing a white hunting robe, but Qing Chen seemed to notice that no matter what he wore, he had that young master's temperament.
It turned out that this was something in his bones, not something supported by clothes.
Shendai Yunluo walked into the room, complaining as he walked: "You told me there would be B-Class or higher eyeballs, but I've killed so many people on the way, and there wasn't even a single B-Class."
Qing Chen smiled: "Be patient, there will be. This time they have the determination to kill me, the masters of Future and Royal Organization will definitely come."
"Let me remind you, it's not just Future and Royal Organization, there's also Koshima," Shendai Yunluo said with a smile: "I heard Li Yunze was disfigured a long time ago, but I haven't had a chance to see it. Before, he and I were called the young masters of the north, but now he's not up to par."
"You still care about this title!"
"Why wouldn't I care?" Shendai Yunluo said with a smile: "You haven't seen how many ladies throw themselves at me, you can't imagine my happiness."
Yang Yang said with interest: "I thought you were a rival in love, but seeing that you're normal, I'm relieved."
Shendai Yunluo laughed and cried: "Hey, you two have been having fun all the way, and I'm the one cleaning up after you, how can you be hostile towards me?!"
Yang Yang said: "As soon as he calls you, you come, it was like that outside Forbidden Zone 002 last time, and this time too. This isn't true love, it can't be explained."
Shendai Yunluo's mouth curled up: "We have a win-win cooperation model. He's good at drawing hatred, and I need a lot of eyeballs. Rather than go to the trouble of slowly searching for B-Class eyeballs, it's better to stick with him and wait for the eyeballs to come to me. But the key is, since you know it's true love, when you two go out to play, can you at least tell me?! I want to jump on the bandwagon too!"
After Qing Chen left Whale Island, he met up with Yang Yang in Osaka, Japan, and then set off on the Brilliant Pearl cruise ship.
It wasn't that they couldn't come to Nepal from China, but he had to pick up Shendai Yunluo in Osaka.
With such an A-Class master around, Qing Chen could face his Trials of Life and Death more confidently.
A few nights ago, when Qing Chen and Yang Yang were having fun on the cruise ship, there was already a combat team trying to attack them, but before they could touch Qing Chen, they were all dealt with by Shendai Yunluo.
Qing Chen and Yang Yang were killing it in the casino, Shendai Yunluo watched enviously but couldn't appear.
Even more outrageous was that when Qing Chen and Yang Yang went to the bar and became top-notch male escorts, he still couldn't show up.
This kind of occasion should have belonged to him!
The bar was his home court!
Later.
On the Royal Express in Mumbai, Qing Chen was in car 17, and Shendai Yunluo was in car 16.
Shendai Yunluo thought it would be a pleasant journey, he had prepared the alcohol, but Qing Chen and Yang Yang didn't get on the train at all, leaving him behind and going off on their own!
Not only that, but he had to stay on the train to deal with the assassins.
So angry.
Finally, he got off the Royal Express early, hurrying to catch up with the mountaineering team, and as soon as he arrived, he had to deal with assassins again, and was targeted by a mysterious target.
"You two had fun, but I'm like your nanny, why is my life so hard?" Shendai Yunluo sighed.
"Don't worry, everything will pay off," Qing Chen smiled: "This time, I'll help you find more eyeballs. By the way, I have a new plan, I'll discuss it with you when we return next time, it's also related to eyeballs."
At this time, Yang Yang said: "That couple who gave us Rhodiola also has a problem, right? How should we deal with them?"
Qing Chen glanced at the time: "It's time to cross, let's talk about everything next time we return."
Countdown to zero.
Crossing.