The chilliness of the valley was so sharp that it directly pounced on his skin. Sheyan felt a bone-piercing chill as he stared at the endless abyss before him. It was like a gigantic maw of a demonic beast, ferociously pouncing towards him. His mind was slightly dizzy, and his heart was indescribably cold!!
Although Sheyan had already accelerated his descent into the abyss, he could clearly hear an irrepressible chuckle coming from more than ten meters above him! He was very familiar with that voice, and he clearly remembered that the guy who did it was Taba, one of the Nepalese porters he hired!
He had also sensed Taba's approach earlier. He thought that Taba was coming over to help him out of goodwill, but he did not expect Taba to be here to "push him"!
In a flash, Sheyan didn't even need to ponder to understand the motive of this bastard. It wasn't because of anything else, but four simple words.
Murder for money.
Sheyan was a lonely foreigner who was in such a hurry. He did not have any relatives around him, and he had shown a forthright attitude in spending money along the way. He was like a piece of juicy meat.
In particular, Sheyan was confident that he was a powerful contestant. In order to save time in Kathmandu, he did not go to the government agencies with better confidentiality. Instead, he directly exchanged a large amount of US dollars and gold on the black market. Hashemi naturally knew that he still had a lot of cash and gold in his luggage ….
These people had been tour guides on the snowy mountains for a long time. They were poor and engaged in high-risk work, so their character was naturally full of arrogance and risk. These locals also knew that it was not a big deal to die in an accident on the snowy mountains! Would the police be so dedicated as to go thousands of meters above sea level to check the crime scene?
All these factors added up to an obvious motive for committing the crime. There was a low risk after committing the crime, and a high reward for committing the crime, so why wouldn't someone take the risk?
What was even more surprising was that Taba was not greedy. He did not choose to knock Sheyan out or tie him up to squeeze more money out of him. Instead, he directly pushed Sheyan down into the deep ice valley! The first two methods were completely ineffective against Sheyan, but pushing him down was Sheyan's Achilles' heel!
Although Sheyan's perceptive sense was very strong, it could only provide a warning to a sniper rifle that could directly cause immense damage. It didn't possess any deductive abilities.
Strictly speaking, Taba's push couldn't even touch a single strand of Sheyan's hair. Moreover, his' Perceptive Sense 'couldn't deduce that he would fall into the ravine after being pushed, so of course it wouldn't warn him. As for the Omphalos, his Perceptive Sense had been warning him of the danger of falling down. So, with all these factors intertwined, Sheyan really had failed miserably. He wanted to cry but had no tears.
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The cold wind howled, as if there were thousands of hands violently pouring air into Sheyan's nostrils and ears. All he could see around him were icicles made of frost blades and snow swords, sharp and fierce, shining with a cold light.
Following the rapid descent of his body, the feeling of death in his heart grew increasingly intense, shrouding his heart. There was a saying, 'There is great terror between life and death'. Right now, Sheyan was tasting this indescribable despair and terror bit by bit. He had never felt such sullenness in his heart, nor had he ever felt such fury and unwillingness!
"Damn it, damn it, damn it!!"
Along the way, whenever he encountered an ice wall, he would instinctively swing his fists in a frenzy. However, he was currently in the present world, where most of his equipment had been removed. Hence, the only thing he could rely on was his fists and his body! He wanted to smash his way out of the thick ice that had accumulated on Annapurna Peak for thousands of years!
The ice that had accumulated on Annapurna Peak for thousands of years was even harder than steel. Without any protective measures, Sheyan's fist smashed into the ice with all his might, causing his skin to split open and his flesh to be badly mangled.
But at this moment of life and death, Sheyan had sunk into a frenzied state of selflessness. He punched the glacier again and again as he fell. He could only feel the blood and qi in his body churning, as though his body was about to inflate and combust!
Drops of blood spilled on the ice. At first, the blood quickly solidified into blood clots, but later, when the blood fell on the glacier, it did not show any signs of solidification. Instead, it was like steaming acid, emitting a large amount of smoke and corroding into the glacier!
At the same time, the description of Sheyan's innate ability 'Stronghold' showed that the red glow was even more dazzling and intense! The intensity of the glow almost gave people the illusion that it would explode in the next second.
Obviously, in the face of the great crisis his body felt, all of Sheyan's strength and potential were surging wildly. The crazy pressure from death was like a huge furnace, forcing Sheyan's strength to the limit, and forcing him to continue crashing madly, unwilling to break through!
Finally, Sheyan screamed. Blood spurted out from his mouth, nose and ears, and the burning feeling in his body was completely vented out with this punch!! The punch punched deeply into the glacier, causing dense cracks to appear on the transparent ice wall that was as hard as steel. The cracks were tens of meters long! Even the large part of the glacier that was stuck to the cliff was in danger of collapsing.
However, this almost earth-shattering punch still could not stop the momentum of his fall. It only sent him flying more than ten meters in the air.
Sheyan then fell heavily to the bottom of the ice valley of Annapurna Peak! This place was completely forbidden to humans. Except for those who fell down from the top like Sheyan, it could be said that no one had set foot in this place for thousands of years.
Sheyan had already closed his eyes, bracing himself for the terrible impact. Of course, he also felt his body distorting, shattering, or even breaking into pieces!! Sheyan knew very well that contestants were not omnipotent. The terrible impact of falling thousands of meters was definitely not something a body of flesh and blood could withstand!!!
However, although the expected pain came from his back, and there was even the crisp sound of bones breaking, Sheyan also had a clear and strange feeling. The whole ground on his back had sunk down.
How was this possible?
At first, he thought it was his imagination. How could the ground sink? But very soon, Sheyan realized that this was a fact that made him go wild with joy!
If one looked down from a bird's eye view at this time, they would see that the moment Sheyan hit the bottom of the valley, a large amount of snow and ice rose up, followed by a crisp sound of "Kale Kale". Then, signs of a large area of snow and ice rose up from the bottom of the valley, which was nearly one square kilometer in size. Then, clear and dense cracks that looked like a round spider web appeared, and the place Sheyan hit was the center of the spider web ….
The next second, the area where Sheyan was standing collapsed, and a large number of water columns shot up to the sky! The water column was still steaming with smoke, and there was a strong smell of sulfur in the smoke.
When the warm water flowed through Sheyan's body, nose and mouth, and stung the wound on his fist, Sheyan finally understood what was going on. All his doubts were cleared up.
The bottom of this ice valley was actually a hot spring lake! A hot spring lake with a thin layer of ice on its surface!
The warm hot spring had a strange smell, but to Sheyan, it was a rare healing medicine. Sheyan could also feel an indescribable power flowing all over his body. He did not need to look to know that his innate 'Rampart' had broken through the critical value and was successfully promoted!
At this moment, he couldn't help but curse in his heart.
"Old fox!"
Of course, these three words were not directed at those porters who had attempted to kill people. Instead, they were directed at that mysterious voice.
The mysterious voice could be said to have calculated everything. He could even grasp a person's mentality without the slightest mistake. He proposed the method of jumping onto the lotus rock as soon as he arrived. It was obvious that he wanted to choose someone who believed in him unconditionally! Even if this person used high-tech means to understand the situation below the ice valley in advance, he would not be able to jump down.
Because the "path" mentioned by the mysterious voice was the enlightenment, madness, and breakthrough in the moment of life and death! Without the pressure of death, the potential in the body could not be forced out. If one knew that there was a hot spring lake with a frozen surface below, it would be like bungee jumping. There would only be excitement, but no threat of death. Of course, it would not be considered a breakthrough.
According to Sheyan's original intention and personality, it was absolutely impossible for him to jump down. How could he have known that the greedy porter Taba would come out of nowhere and push him down?
Sheyan had been soaked in seawater since he was young. After becoming a contestant, his Physique had skyrocketed, and he also had the bonus of the title 'Pirate Captain'. It was not a problem for him to soak in the water for an hour without taking a breath. He was lying in the warm hot spring. The impact on his back was not light, so blood was constantly flowing out of his five orifices. It looked a little ferocious, but it was the powerful self-healing ability of a contestant that was rapidly repairing the internal injuries of his body.
Seizing this opportunity, Sheyan called out his original innate ability 'Rampart'. He found that it had indeed been replaced by a series of new data! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to qidian.com to vote for me. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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