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Chapter 369 - 367, The Battle for Number One! (Second Update)_1

Chapter 369: 367, The Battle for Number One! (Second Update)_1

An Si’s pupils suddenly constricted. He wondered if he had heard something wrong. No ropes? That kind of place without ropes could be lethal!

And so far, no matter how many masters have challenged Half Dome and Dawn Wall, they all set up ropes in advance. Even if you used ropes, no one would say anything about it.

Even to this day, no one has ever dared to truly attempt those two sheer cliffs without any protection, knowing that a fall would certainly lead to certain death.

But Ren He had no room to negotiate with the Divine Punishment System. The system’s demand was that there be no protective measures.

This also meant that Ren He would become the first person to challenge these two cliffs without any protective measures, and within his own heart raged an intense flame, for he also wanted to see if he could make it to the top without protection!

When he free-soloed Mount Everest, setting aside its slope and elevation for a moment, Ren He did it without any protective measures as well. This wasn’t his first time doing something like this!

And these tasks absolutely cannot fail. Just look at the rewards given by the Divine Punishment System, all smelly: armpit odor, bad breath, and foot odor. Damn it, I’m living with Yang Xi, okay? Although we still don’t share the same bed, but when that stench hits, will Yang Xi pass out on the spot? Ren He felt he might faint too!

The last punishment was the most badass: carrying a super strong static charge, making a crackling sound every time you move. This is basically forbidding me any contact with Yang Xi. Can it get any worse? You, as the Divine Punishment System, can’t you be a bit more serious?

I must have encountered a fake Will of Heaven!

An Si, stunned in the passenger seat for quite some time, asked, "You’re not serious, are you?"

"No, I’m serious. When I go up, I’ll forgo all protective measures," Ren He said calmly.

"You’re really fucking nuts!" An Si cursed softly, but for some reason, just like the times climbing Heavenly Road or summiting Mount Everest, his admiration for Ren He spread like a tide throughout his heart, unstoppable.

Everyone has only one life; life is not an arcade game. In an arcade game, you can insert dozens of coins and play until you beat the game, but life doesn’t work that way. Once your life is gone, it’s truly gone. No one has the privilege to insert coins to continue.

Ren He was not unafraid of death. An Si had once clearly felt just how nervous Ren He was when nearing Mount Everest. Ren He hadn’t been able to sleep properly in the tent, tossing and turning for several nights before the climb.

It was as if some shadow was haunting him, causing Ren He to hesitate as well.

But in the end, the result was that this young man still broke the world record as the first person to summit Everest without oxygen, and then broke another world record in the speed skiing domain with the title of the first to speed ski down.

Wasn’t he afraid of dying? Or are these two sports safe? The slightest mistake in either could be fatal, yet Ren He still gritted his teeth and went for it.

When An Si saw through a video how Ren He took the Leap of Faith from the top of Mount Everest, he was moved to tears. That young man in the camera closed his eyes as if he had already left life and death out of the equation.

As the one who knew Ren He’s climbing process the most, An Si profoundly felt this young man’s hardships, as well as his tenacious will.

He wasn’t fearless of death; rather, his commitment to his dream had long surpassed life and death.

Liu Erbao was at the side, and he was actually the most anxious, but he also knew very well that no matter how he advised, he wouldn’t be able to change Ren He’s decisions once they were made.

Liu Erbao, speaking across from Ren He to Yang Xi, said, "Little sister, persuade him for us. We can’t get through to him!"

Yang Xi smiled, "Whatever he wants to do, I support him." It’s not that Yang Xi wasn’t worried about Ren He’s safety, but she knew Ren He’s personality very well. Ren He was willing to summit Mount Everest a second time and go for another speed ski because he had not met the expectations during his first ski descent. If she let Ren He give up on the idea of climbing without protective measures now, he would probably have regrets in his heart.

Damn, Liu Erbao lost his composure completely at that moment. He mumbled softly, remembering the time Yang Xi kicked down the door to question him about Ren He’s whereabouts: "A pair of lunatics!"

Nobody had ever truly considered challenging these two cliffs without protective measures, especially Dawn Wall.

Or perhaps some people have thought about it, but in the end, even they didn’t dare to do it.

Before, there was a discussion that the difficulty of Knight’s current challenge seemed to have dropped, since both of these sheer cliffs had been successfully climbed by someone before.

But now, looking at the situation, no one can say anything anymore, climbing without any protective measures... even the first person in free solo climbing didn’t dare to try this!

Ren He looked at their reactions and felt somewhat helpless—there was no turning back for him, he couldn’t even save his own life if he wanted to, as the Divine Punishment System wouldn’t allow it.

Moreover, he truly wanted to give it a try.

When he stood at the top of the UP Building, the feeling of looking down on the city was just too great; the sport of free solo climbing really can make one fall in love with it.

Some people who have tried free solo climbing simply want to climb anything they see, even on a bus, they might think about how to flip from inside to the top of the bus...

That’s just crazy.

In the past, Ren He couldn’t understand this kind of thinking, but when he finally stood at the bottom of Half Dome, his eyes shone with excitement, almost wishing he could climb the 600 meter vertical cliff right then and there!

But he couldn’t; he had to patiently clear the loose rocks from the entire cliff face and set a complete free solo climbing route to the top.

Any loose rock on the route could potentially seal his fate, climbing without protective gears was to challenge even more extreme difficulties, not to seek death...

Previously, An Si and the others still harbored the mentality of persuading Ren He, and kept the matter of Ren He’s unprotected free solo attempt of the cliff hidden, but now that Ren He showed no signs of changing his mind, An Si had no choice but to inform everyone that the plan had changed!

The accompanying staff of tk were all shocked, as they hadn’t anticipated such a turn of events.

If ropes were added, the outcome of this challenge would be: success or failure.

But now, the outcome of the challenge changed to: success, or death.

The originally enthusiastic crowd began to fall silent, busily tending to their tasks, and whenever they glanced at Ren He’s back, they felt incredibly complex emotions.

Putting themselves in his shoes, would they dare to climb up there without any protective measures?

The answer for everyone was no, but Knight dared!

These past few days, the first person in free solo climbing has been speaking out frequently, and probably what he says each time to the media boils down to the same thing: he has already completed challenges on the sheer cliffs, and he was also the first to complete them.

The smart ones knew what he meant: even if Knight were to re-challenge those cliffs now, they had already been conquered by him, and he was the first to complete the ascents, so Knight attempting to re-challenge them now, he would still be the first person in the field of free solo climbing.

There is nothing wrong with his logic—think about it, on Mount Everest, what most people remember is the first person to summit Mount Everest, not some follower.

So as the first person to successfully challenge the cliffs, he could still look down on Knight’s achievements.

But he never considered that although Knight may not have been the first person to summit Mount Everest, he was the first person to summit Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen.

Knight was also not the first person to conquer these two sheer cliffs, but he would soon become the first person to conquer them without any protective measures!