When Ren Suo watched "Killer's Blood Feast," he had a strange premonition.
Now, seeing the grand documentary "If You Are Strong, Climb Ten Thousand Meters," he finally confirmed his premonition.
As long as he uploaded a game review, it wouldn't be long before an account named 'Ren Naiser' would upload a video closely related to his gameplay on various video websites!
However, "If You Are Strong, Climb Ten Thousand Meters" had seemed like a casual puzzle game to pass the time, completely lacking in realism, so Ren Suo had overlooked it.
He couldn't imagine how this game could happen in reality.
Yet now this video totally slapped his face: whatever I play, it will bloody happen in reality!
Upon opening Part 1, Ren Suo saw a blonde girl walking out of a moonlit lake in a dark forest. She was dressed in thin, gray-black training clothes. The rough clothes stood in stark contrast to her delicate skin. As Giligili's most esteemed VIP member, Ren Suo could activate the 1080p+ ultra-high-definition quality. Upon zooming in, he could smoothly and clearly see every detail of the blonde girl!
Her flesh-colored, almost transparent feet stepped onto the soil. Her flawless skin rippled with a hint of red from the cold breeze. Her shoulder-length blonde hair drifted in the wind, tracing elegant paths in the air as the girl walked step-by-step through the forest.
Of course, Ren Suo remembered; this was his character at the time—the female Truth Seeker!
"Hi everyone, this is my wife."
"I could play with this foot for a year!"
"Wife, wife, if she's female, she's your wife.jpg"
"This looks like it's made with CG for a movie."
"An animated movie? Live-action CG made with the latest motion capture technology?"
"This is way too long... Are they telling me they included the Goddess doing all her daily needs in there?"
"Airborne drop at 63:23, the Goddess peeing!"
Watching this, Ren Suo's heart fluttered. He quickly dragged the progress bar forward, only to see the Truth Seeker suddenly squat down and then...
...she grabbed a snake from the ground that no one else could see, twisted its neck, and raised it high.
In the moonlight, the snake looked fierce, its venomous fangs dribbling a disgusting line of saliva. It was held by a graceful and beautiful right hand, its meter-long tail flailing in mid-air like a small child being swung about.
The Truth Seeker casually flung the snake far away and continued toward the distant Tadamia Mountain Range.
"Where's the pee! Where's the pee I wanted to drink?!"
"I've been duped!"
"You shut-ins are disgusting! Don't you know beautiful girls don't pee?"
"Pee? When it comes to a beautiful girl, can you call it pee? That's called Holy Water!"
The tricked viewers were having a blast with the barrage of comments. Ren Suo dragged the video to the end and found that the Truth Seeker was still walking in the forest, though she was mostly on untrodden paths. In just two hours, her feet had been considerably worn by thorns and stones.
Ren Suo quickly skimmed through the rest of the video. He found that on April 3rd, the Truth Seeker spent all day trekking through forests and over mountains. Although she was on flat ground the whole way, the forest was not an easy place to traverse.
However, the Truth Seeker didn't rest for the entire day!
No eating, no resting!
Naturally, no peeing or pooping either...
Ren Suo opened the next few parts of the video. The beginning of each featured comments like this: "There are no peeing scenes in this video. Please search in the next one."
These shut-ins really have too much time on their hands.
On the day of April 4th, the gaunt-looking Truth Seeker finally encountered people. While she was running through the mountainous terrain as if no one else was there, a few young shepherds and cowherds appeared in the camera frame, herding sheep and cattle in the distance.
It was evident that the group of youths was quite shocked and excited to spot the Truth Seeker. They yelled and shouted in the distance, though no one understood them until a comment said, "This is the Kamian language of the Tadamia Mountain Range. They must be Kamian people; details are in comment number 221 in the comment section."
Ren Suo then read the comment: "The Kamian people live scattered along both sides of the Tadamia Mountain Range, with most residing in Niel and smaller populations in Mysterious Country and Peacock Country. The Kamian people have their own ethnic culture and language. They dwell in the deep mountains and old forests, leading a life isolated from the world until nations worldwide started attempting to summit Mount Hyjal. The Kamian people then became world-renowned for serving as guides or porters for the various national mountaineering teams climbing Mount Qomolangma, earning them the reputation of the 'Porters of Tadamia.'"
Mount Hyjal Summit, the Tadamia Mountain Range!
Ren Suo finally knew where the Truth Seeker was heading.
Isn't that Mount Hyjal Summit, the world's tallest peak, located within the Tadamia Mountain Range?!
Mount Hyjal Summit is the main peak of the Tadamia Mountain Range, situated on the border between Mysterious Country and Niel. Its northern part lies within Mysterious Country, while the southern part is in Niel. It rises to an elevation of 10,230 meters. The mountain is pyramid-shaped and often regarded as the backbone of the world.
"Hyjal," in the ancient language of Mysterious Country, means "holy and eternal." It is one of the faiths of the ancient western mountain people of Mysterious Country. This perennially ice-capped peak has long been an object of reverence.
In modern times, as the world's tallest peak, it has become one of the great challenges that mountaineering teams from various countries yearn to conquer. The world has other peaks steeper than Mount Hyjal. However, by conquering Mount Hyjal, the tallest mountain, climbers symbolically conquer this world: humanity has the highest peak beneath its feet!
Ren Suo was about to go back and continue watching the video when he saw a pinned top comment: "Watch the highlighted clip of Part 55! After watching this, you'll understand what happened. For those who don't believe, take your time to catch up on the previous 54 parts—those 54 parts are for those of you who are bound by your own worldviews to personally shatter them! Please believe, wait, and be full of hope!"
"It has been confirmed that Zhang Helai, the mountaineer who appeared in the video, is the president of Baluy Investment Development Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Baluy Food Group. He is also an amateur mountaineer and is currently safe and sound!"
Seeing this, Ren Suo decided to skip the remaining parts and directly watch the highlight reel of Part 55.
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"She is an ordinary person."
In the conference room on the third floor of the National Security Bureau, Part 55 of "If You Are Strong, Climb Ten Thousand Meters" played on the screen. A girl of about twenty-five said, "At the start of the film, up to the 4,000-meter elevation mark, her explosive power did not exceed normal human limits. It was even less than that of everyone here in this conference room, and even weaker than an average man. This aligns perfectly with the muscle distribution shown in her hands, neck, and feet."
"The only abnormal thing is her stamina," someone interjected. "For several days straight, without any rest or food, she managed to maintain the same pace as when she started. I swear on my flat pan, there has to be Spiritual Energy assisting her!"
As the speaker slapped a flat pan onto the table with a CLANK, Yu Kuangtu raised an eyebrow. "Xu Hailin, why are you carrying a new flat pan around?"
Scratching his head, Xu Hailin replied, "My mom asked me to buy a flat pan... The one at home broke, so she told me to bring one back to make me supper."
This Xu Hailin looked like a simple and honest country lad, yet he spoke in such a roundabout way. Yu Kuangtu shrugged. "Alright, alright. It's not good to delay you any longer. We still have over two hours of important footage to watch, and then we need to discuss it... You can all go now."
Before the agents in Black Body Armor could stand up, Yu Kuangtu added, "Go back, finish watching this video, and record all non-human traits and suspicious points exhibited by this target. Hand it to Wang Qingyu before 9:30 AM when you come in for work tomorrow."
The crowd groaned. "Why do we still have homework..."