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Chapter 314 - 312, We Only Focus on the Knight (Second Update)_1

Chapter 314: 312, We Only Focus on the Knight (Second Update)_1

Only after the doubts were clarified did everyone have the inclination to pay attention to what exactly happened to Knight during this climbing expedition. After all, it involved bare-hand rock climbing and skiing; it was incredibly thrilling. Who knows what else happened along the way?

However, Xia Boyu and others were asked more about themselves during the exclusive interviews. People’s Daily wouldn’t spend much space introducing an anonymous sports celebrity. Their only goal was to guide public opinion.

Therefore, Knight’s fans were eager to know more details about the process of summiting Mount Everest. For them, anyone other than Knight wasn’t too important. Enough with the nonsense, can we just focus on Knight?

Moreover, this was the first time so many people accompanied Knight on an expedition. There should be many who were in the know.

Everyone was saying Knight’s given name was An Si. However, TK had already come forward to clarify that Knight’s real name should not be disclosed. An Si was the President of their Greater China region, and for this climb, President An Si himself served as Knight’s assistant.

Everyone was stunned for a moment; even the name was fake, and it turned out their excitement was all for naught. Friends who had contacts at the police station had even gone to the trouble of searching for someone named An Si, only to find after scanning more than thirty thousand ’An Si’ that the person didn’t bear that name...

Getting the President of TK Greater China to willingly serve as an assistant... impressive!

Which extreme sports athlete could achieve such a feat?

Just then, someone was surprised to discover that a freelance writer named An Quan described this Everest expedition in fifteen thousand words in the latest issue of China Travel magazine. Out of those fifteen thousand words, more than half were dedicated to describing the journey with Knight...

"Lei Ming and I had arrived at the 6000-meter altitude camp ahead of time. We followed the deputy leader on a three-day trek, acclimating to the high-altitude climate as we made our way to 6000 meters. It was during this journey that we learned an ’investor’ had spent 100,000 US dollars to join the team. While the rest of us had only spent 50,000, he was willing to spend twice that amount because he had no climbing experience. We figured it was just some rich kid from within the country wanting to experience life."

"I was initially a bit upset since the team operated on mutual aid up until 7900 meters, and no one wants to carry dead weight. When he arrived, I saw him in person for the first time. Yes, he was Knight, the young investor with no climbing experience that the deputy leader had mentioned. His face was dirty, but he had a good-looking smile. I was ready to meet him with anger, but his smile melted away much of that anger."

"Our American teammate made fun of him, but Lei Ming and I, intending to help a fellow countryman, let go of our aversion and stood united against the outsiders. Yet he seemed as if he never took those mocking words to heart. It’s only now that I understand that was a kind of disdain from a position of superiority. Would an elephant care about the mocking of ants? I think not."

"During the acclimatization hikes, Knight slowly began to show his formidable physical strength. Everyone was struggling in the oxygen-scarce environment; even our American teammate had to abandon his climb due to altitude sickness. After each day’s training, all I wanted was to crawl into my tent and close my eyes to sleep, but by then, even eating, reading, and sleeping had become torturous for us. But Knight was unaffected, seemingly as comfortable as if he were on flat land, not bothered by the thin air. Moreover, when everyone was exhausted both physically and mentally, he still had time to watch the sunset at the 6000-meter camp every day. For some reason, I always felt that his silhouette against the sunset seemed lonely. At the time, I wondered how a young kid could feel such loneliness."

"His girlfriend caught up with him, which was quite unexpected for all of us. It seemed he hadn’t told his girlfriend about this trip. Because she didn’t have to train, her fitness was still quite good, and it was obvious that she had some climbing experience, given the complete set of gear she had. From then on, the number of people watching the sunset went from one to two, and their silhouettes became our scenery."

When An Quan wrote this, he released a photo of their silhouettes against the sunset. The girl was snuggled up in Knight’s arms with the sunset in the distance, casting an orange glow that blanketed the entire 6000-meter base camp with extreme beauty.

And that silhouette, indeed lonely yet upright. Afterward, just this one photo made Ren He incredibly popular, and the fact that Knight already had a girlfriend broke many girls’ hearts...

Ren He’s +3 in charm attributes truly weren’t for naught...

"The hike training began, and Knight exhibited an astonishing level of physical fitness. Even when we reached an altitude of 7200 meters, he seemed to have no problem at all, while the rest of us were nearly tortured to death by the lack of oxygen—he even had the mood to invite everyone to play a murder game, which everyone mercilessly rejected..."

Many viewers laughed out loud at this point, seemingly able to imagine the scene where an energetic Knight, while others were barely able to think straight, invited everyone to play a murder game only to be turned down...

"All of us recognized his strength. Someone verbally provoked him, hoping he would take on more work during the climb, but he said, ’Up here, everyone is equal. Life is equal. The chance for survival is equal,’ and he only accepted an equal share of the work. Honestly, I really agreed with him at the time. Why should a group of adults expect a child to take on more of the work? I began to realize that although Knight could seemingly move around immune to the hypoxic environment, he couldn’t resist strong ultraviolet rays. So I gave him my sunscreen, and that was the second time I saw his radiant smile. He thanked me."

"When we reached Camp 3 at an altitude of 7200 meters, the team leaders distributed the oxygen bottles—one per person. He told us that if we wanted to be in a better condition the next day, then we should use the oxygen to sleep at night, which we did. At that time, we did not realize how desperately the elderly Xia Boyu needed oxygen. His yearning for Mount Everest led him to overuse his oxygen bottle, and no one noticed that Xia Boyu’s oxygen bottle was nearly empty, but Knight did."

"During the final push to the summit, amidst the drifting snow that morning, we saw Knight swap his own oxygen bottle for Xia Boyu’s. At that moment, I didn’t even realize what was happening, I only heard Xia Boyu screaming frantically, ’He didn’t bring an oxygen bottle. He gave his to me.’ We were all dumbfounded. How could a human conquer Mount Everest without an oxygen bottle? That was only a theoretical possibility!"

"We wanted to stop him, but no one could catch up to his pace; we could only watch as he left alone, his silhouette was very lonely, so solitary that at one point, I thought he was a hero at the end of his path."

"But at that time, no one imagined that he would create a miracle of life on Mount Everest."

"No, countless miracles."

"Some people are curious how we perfectly avoided that storm, it was because he had detected the storm’s approach early on. I think he saved my life once. We all owe him our lives."

An Si finished writing the article and looked out the window, lost in thought for a long time, as if still reminiscing about Ren He’s upright silhouette walking into the snowstorm.

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