Every ti Wang Ye reached out to climb, his five fingers and nails seed to be welded into the crevices of the rock wall. More frighteningly, in the places he had climbed, he mostly left behind five fingertip-sized dents.
This was because the layer of moss and li on the rock wall was forcibly stripped away by his finger strength.
If he exerted more force, Wang Ye even suspected he could directly snap these rocks with his fingers.
The result of long-term grip strength training exercises was having a significant impact at this mont.
Therefore, Wang Ye used only about sixty percent of his strength while climbing.
As Wang Ye concentrated on climbing, the attribute panel in front of him suddenly blurred, and then a new skill appeared—Climbing.
In an instant, a rush of specialized climbing skills and knowledge flooded Wang Ye’s mind.
Wang Ye’s previously clumsy and brutish climbing movents suddenly beca much more refined.
If earlier his climbing moves relied solely on brute strength to haul his body upward, now his climbing moves utilized trunk muscles to assist his arms, increasing climbing speed and correspondingly reducing the physical energy required.
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About half a minute later.
Wang Ye climbed to the top and patted the dust off his body.
Then he turned around, standing atop surveying the distance.
Without the obstruction of leaves at the top of this rock wall, the view was remarkably clear.
He could see the scenery of a good portion of the mountain range at a glance.
At this height, he was already above the clouds, where fog lingered year-round, as if in a fairyland.
Wang Ye reached out his hand and rubbed his fingers together, sensing a faint slickness. With his keen touch, he could feel the heavy dampness here.
After taking in the scenery, Wang Ye crouched down, scooped up water from the stream at the waterfall’s top, and swallowed it. The sweet, cool spring water passed down his throat, imdiately clearing his mind significantly.
Just as Wang Ye was enjoying the view from the top of the rock wall,
Suddenly,
A faint sound of footsteps reached his ears.
He could tell it was a hiking team with decent fitness levels, roughly five or six people in the group.
They were about 200 ters away from Wang Ye’s position, only a matter of a minute or two.
"Looks like I should get down quickly."
Wang Ye didn’t intend to let others see him climbing with bare hands.
He placed his fingers on the edge of the rock wall, cautiously stretched out his leg, preparing to climb back down.
But perhaps due to his limited climbing experience, just as he was about to use his toes to grip the rock crevice, he suddenly slipped, lost his footing, tilted backward, and fell off the rock wall.
"Damn it!"
The intense feeling of weightlessness instantly triggered Wang Ye’s adrenaline.
With the rock wall being over ten ters high, even Wang Ye would at best sustain a minor fracture from such a fall.
Wang Ye hurriedly reached out his hand, grasping desperately at a rock crevice about 1-2 centiters deep.
Whirr—an ear-piercing sound like a drill suddenly resonated through the quiet mountain forest path.
Countless pieces of li dust fell like raindrops. Wang Ye’s fingers, like iron hooks, actually carved out five gouges in the moss-covered rock wall. The rock, which was originally as firm as iron, at this mont seed as soft and fragile as tofu, ready to crumble at a tear.
With the rock’s cushioning, Wang Ye’s descent speed began to slow down gradually. He seized the opportunity to reach out his other hand to hook onto the rock crevice, barely hanging on the rock wall, avoiding injury from the fall.
"Saved."
Wang Ye breathed a sigh of relief and quickly climbed down from the rock wall.
Standing barefoot on the dirt and stone path, he glanced at his hands. After the intense scraping on the rock wall earlier, the skin on his fingertips, tempered by the Golden Bell Shield, was now oozing slight blood beads and bore distinct abrasion marks and tears.
Wang Ye rinsed the remaining li from his wounds with the waterfall’s water and left them as is.
With his recuperative ability, such minor external injuries would automatically heal in about ten minutes.
Before the hiking team arrived, Wang Ye quickly put on his shoes and socks, wore his backpack, and sat on a nearby rock to rest.
He appeared just like any ordinary climbing tourist sitting by the roadside for a break.
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Not long after,
The five or six mbers of the hiking team arrived at the site, panting heavily.
The mbers of the team, seeing Wang Ye resting by the roadside, widened their eyes in surprise.
"There’s actually a solo tourist hiking on this trail?" A middle-aged man in his forties or fifties wearing a fisher hat exclaid in wonder.
"Old Zhang, this tourist is quite the climber. We’re exhausted climbing here, yet he managed to co alone. Should we try to recruit him and add him to our hiking team?"
"Recruit my ass... Keep your damn voice down, don’t let him hear you. You might be shaless, but I care about my face." The fisher hat-wearing middle-aged man, called Old Zhang, responded with a dark face, clearly unwilling to show weakness in front of the tourist.
While the older mbers of the team bantered, a young man at the end of the hiking team, who seed to be a recent college graduate, suddenly noticed five peculiar gouges on the nearby rock wall.
These gouges were clearly left by Wang Ye earlier when he fell from the rock wall, using his fingers to make them.
"The thickness and path of those gouges... do they look like they were made by fingers?" The young man furrowed his brow and squinted his eyes. He also noticed a faint trace of crimson blood in the gouges and the li debris scattered on the ground indirectly reminded him that these seed to be fresh gouges.
"How could human fingers leave such deep gouges on rock?"
The young man mused, scratching his chin, before lowering his head thoughtfully,
And then happened to spot Wang Ye, munching on a Snickers bar at the base of the rock wall.
Suddenly, a bold conjecture popped into his mind, "Could it be that the tourist left those gouges while climbing?"
At this mont,
Sitting on the stone block, munching on a Snickers bar, Wang Ye seed to realize sothing, lifted his head, and t the young man’s gaze at the end of the hiking team.
Upon seeing Wang Ye’s deep blue, enigmatic eyes, the young man inexplicably felt his heart tighten sharply, and he imdiately shifted his gaze elsewhere.
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