I am a Big Player
Chapter 320 - 318, Everything is Ready (First Update)_1

Chapter 320: 318, Everything is Ready (First Update)_1

Knight is now one of the hottest sports stars in the world. The endorsement fee he signed with TK is public, so anyone who’s interested can easily crunch the numbers and realize that even if he only took on TK’s endorsement, he’s worth tens of millions.

Moreover, Knight’s value can’t be measured by his income alone. After all, he’s currently rejecting other endorsement deals. What if he starts accepting them one day? His commercial value could easily exceed one hundred million without a problem.

When Ren He organized the murder game with Qinghe Club, everyone knew he was someone who didn’t lack money. But where his wealth came from was a mystery no one knew. Now they understood that he had been earning a yearly salary of over ten million RMB since junior high just by doing extreme sports, and that figure has multiplied many times already.

They had never imagined such an incredible person would appear among them. What did that feel like? It was akin to the excitement of hitting a five million lottery jackpot.

Ren He smiled, "Keep it a secret for me. I don’t want people at school to know, nor do I want to be hounded by the media for interviews."

"Got it, got it," everyone nodded in agreement. At this point, they began to feel some confidence about climbing Mount Everest: Knight leading a team to summit Mount Everest, what more could you ask for!

No wonder they counted 50 oxygen tanks, and Ren He said each was prepared for them with ten tanks each, not counting any for himself, because he simply didn’t need any!

"Rest up early. After the summit, I’ll have other actions planned, and you must follow the commands of the Sherpa people. As long as you retreat from Mount Everest in time, there won’t be any safety issues. Then, An Si will lead you back to the country," Ren He instructed seriously.

"Don’t worry, we’ll definitely follow the arrangement!"

Tomorrow would be their departure date. They had already acclimatized at an altitude of 6,900 meters once. When they reached 7,200 meters, everyone would start using oxygen tanks and climb to the top. The Sherpa people would assist them by carrying all the equipment, and all they had to do was walk on ice claws, carrying an oxygen tank that weighed only 2.97 kilograms.

Everyone at the 6,000-meter camp jokingly called their expedition a sightseeing climb. It was as if a group of amateurs came to tour Mount Everest. Whether out of astonishment or envy, Liu Bing and the others indeed heard quite a few teasing comments.

What mattered more in climbing Mount Everest, the process or the result? Ren He believed both were important, but Liu Bing, Jiang Haoyang, and the others were ordinary people. Without money paving the way, they couldn’t possibly reach the top on their own strength.

After all, they had never experienced climbing above an altitude of 6,000 meters.

What Ren He needed to do was to minimize the difficulty, to ensure they could summit within an acceptable level of challenge, and not perish on the mountain.

In 2006, the commercial model on the South Slope was gradually improving, but it was far from reaching the insane level of Ren He’s previous life in 2017. Ren He was simply fast-forwarding the process. Some might think he was desecrating the sanctity of Mount Everest. In fact, many media and climbing experts criticized these actions in the previous life, but Ren He never cared about such things. He was just a very practical person, doing whatever it took to achieve his goals.

The next morning, wrapped up tight, Ren He led the team towards Mount Everest. This time, he brought a satellite phone, which was kept by the Sherpa leader, and An Si had prepared thoroughly for this challenge.

As soon as Ren He and the others set off, An Si immediately used the remaining satellite phone to contact Erbao on the North Slope: "Ren He has set off, expecting to reach the 7,900-meter camp after 13 days, and will strike for the summit on the 14th. We’ll maintain daily contact from now on, to ensure the smooth progress of the filming... and help him become the first person in speed skiing descent!"

"I can hardly wait," Liu Erbao laughed on the other side of the phone.

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Climbing Mount Everest was never something that could be achieved overnight, and Ren He was in no hurry, just leading everyone to slowly adapt to the high altitude.

This time, whether it was setting up ropes or handling everyday affairs, the Sherpa people took care of everything, and members of the Qinghe Club only had to endure the pain that the low-oxygen environment brought them, without having to do anything else.

In fact, even with such assistance, reaching the summit of Mount Everest was not an easy task. Everyone was looking forward to reaching the altitude of 7,200 meters where they could use oxygen tanks, for only those who had experienced a low-oxygen environment could understand how blissful it was to live in a place with sufficient oxygen.

During this period, no other teams traveled with them, all tacitly avoiding them. Indeed, even if money paved the way, no one wanted to associate with a group of novices. Ren He couldn’t care less about what they thought. He would rather not have any other teams accompany him on this journey. People at the 6,000-meter camp were waiting to see them fail, but little did they know Ren He never even bothered with them.

At first, the Sherpa team leader thought he might be very tired since he was leading a group of inexperienced climbers to the summit. However, once in the mountains, he found that Ren He seemed to be incredibly familiar with the path to the summit. Ren He knew exactly what to do at each location and controlled the pace of the journey the entire time.

The Sherpa team leader was puzzled, "With such a Master Level person like you, who has climbing experience, why would you need to pay a costly price to hire me?"

After 10 days, the entire team meticulously followed the planned route and arrived at the 7,200-meter-high camp. Ren He distributed oxygen tanks to Liu Bing and the others, who put on their masks and greedily breathed in the air. This feeling was just too good!

Experiencing a rush of sufficient oxygen after a low-oxygen environment gave everyone an instantly revitalizing feeling!

"Breathe freely, there are plenty of oxygen tanks," Ren He said with a smiling face, before going off to make a phone call in a corner of the tent.

Once the call connected, Liu Erbao’s excited voice came through, "We have already reached the North Slope 7,200-meter camp, standing by at any time!"

"Erbao, hard work. We will continue with our original plan here, expecting to summit on the 14th day, and start precisely at 12:20 PM," said Ren He, who, after summiting once before, had great confidence in the accuracy of the summit timing.

Others were still unaware of Ren He’s plan. Even members of the Qinghe Club thought Ren He was purely intending to lead them to summit just once and had never considered that Ren He would pull off another major move.

As the outside world said, Ren He seemed to have played every possible trick on Mount Everest. What else could he play with?

Meanwhile, Liu Erbao calculated the timing of Ren He’s summit and readied all equipment. The climbing team they had hired was also standing by at the North Slope’s Camp 3, preparing to sprint to the 8,400-meter altitude on the final day, which would be the most thrilling moment!

Three days later, the team successfully reached Camp 4 at an altitude of 7,900 meters. That night, Ren He distributed new oxygen tanks to assure everyone had a good night’s sleep. The next day, they would switch to the fifth oxygen tank for climbing. Everything was going smoothly.

The Sherpa team leader confidentially told Ren He that the weather the next day would definitely be clear skies, and he guaranteed it upon the honor of his two summits.

Ren He took a deep breath; having paid such a premium to find him, now it finally seemed worth the ticket price.