Everest

The howling of the wind almost covered all sounds. Two hours after they set off, the wind suddenly picked up. Geng Aiqing was blown by the wind several times and had to stop and bend over to stabilize his body. It was originally expected to arrive at the transition at noon The camp plan was also delayed for nearly two hours due to the sudden increase in wind speed. When they arrived at the camp, everyone was a little exhausted. Compared with the previous two easy walks, this time obviously cost them more energy.

"Damn..." Geng Aiqing returned to the tent and found a seat and sat down, except for a few sighs in a low voice, he was speechless for a while.

Shen Biwen came over and poured him a cup of hot tea: "How are you?"

Geng Aiqing took a sip of the tea, then shook her head slowly: "I'm much more tired than the previous two times."

Shen Biwen sat a little distance away from him, and said with some concern: "The wind speed is not too high, and there may be stronger winds going up."

Geng Aiqing nodded: "I know, I will be mentally prepared."

"En." Shen Biwen hummed briefly, but did not speak.

After drinking all the tea, Geng Aiqing realized that the people around him hadn't spoken for a while, so he turned his head and took a look. He found that Shen Biwen was resting with his head up against the wall with his eyes closed, but he didn't look like that. He didn't fall asleep, the tiredness and worry between his brows made Geng Aiqing unable to lower his voice.

"How are you?" Geng Aiqing asked, "Are you still used to it?"

"Get used to it." Shen Biwen closed his eyes without intending to open them, "I just climbed Cho Oyu before I came here, so the altitude doesn't affect me at all."

(Cho Oyu is a slightly shorter mountain next to Mount Everest, at 8200 meters above sea level.)

"It doesn't matter." Geng Aiqing didn't know what to say after saying a word, so he closed his eyes and leaned back.

After a delay of 10 to [-] minutes, Pei Lei came into the tent to find them, and said that Lin Sheng had a relatively serious high reaction situation and had vomited for more than half an hour. Geng Aiqing was startled, and quickly stood up and walked out of the tent. Sheng and Pei Lei didn't feel too much about it, so Lin Sheng didn't go into the tent with him and he didn't think too much about it.

Geng Aiqing was taken aback by his pale face when he saw Lin Sheng, Lin Sheng was in a good mood, and smiled at him when he saw him coming.

"Laughing fart, if you laugh any more, you're going to die!" Geng Aiqing said anxiously, "Go back to the tent and have a rest!"

Lin Sheng waved his hand: "No, no, I have to vomit for a while, and I will go to rest after I vomit out my stomach."

Yong Ke was next to him and patted him on the back fiercely: "You won't starve to death if you vomit it up? Take the medicine first!" As he spoke, he handed over the prepared pills, and Lin Sheng took a sip. He rinsed his mouth with water and spit it aside, then took another sip of water and swallowed the pills with his head raised.

"Eat, eat." Lin Sheng was still a little vain in walking, Geng Aiqing hurried over to support him and walked into the tent, Shen Biwen didn't come out, and helped Geng Aiqing stuff Lin Sheng into the sleeping bag together.

"How is it now?" Geng Aiqing was still a little worried, squatting by Lin Sheng's forehead and asked.

Lin Sheng rolled his eyes at him: "Don't stand on my side, if Gao Fan didn't die, he would be suffocated to death by the smell of your feet."

"...My feet don't stink, okay!" Geng Aiqing retorted.

Lin Sheng chuckled twice: "It's really fine, Young Master Geng, don't look at me, you can't fall asleep looking at me."

"Okay." Geng Aiqing could only help him wrap the quilt, and then walked aside.

"Don't worry." Shen Biwen comforted, "This is a normal high reaction and it's not particularly serious. He should be able to recover after a short rest. If the reaction is still serious, he will not be allowed to continue. up."

Geng Aiqing looked at Lin Sheng's direction and nodded worriedly.

Geng Aiqing's worry was not unreasonable. In the middle of the night, Lin Sheng's high reaction suddenly deteriorated, and he fell into a slight coma. Geng Aiqing was the first to discover this situation. The sound was a bit strange and he turned on the flashlight of his mobile phone to look. He didn't expect to see a little white foam overflowing from the corner of Lin Sheng's mouth, which was overflowing with his heavy breathing, and he jumped up in fright.

"Shen Biwen!" Geng Aiqing was next to Shen Biwen, so he didn't even think about pushing Shen Biwen to wake him up first.

Shen Biwen opened his eyes with an unnatural flush and bewilderment on his face. Geng Aiqing had no time to take care of his abnormality, but said in horror: "Lin Sheng! Lin Sheng is foaming at the mouth!"

Geng Aiqing thought he lowered his voice, but in fact his voice was as sharp as a horn, and everyone in the tent immediately woke up.

Shen Biwen was the first to react. He sat up suddenly and rushed over, followed by Pei Lei, and Luosang also followed in a hurry. Pei Lei was not only the team leader, but also the team doctor.

"Bring the oxygen cylinder." Pei Lei ordered calmly.

Lausanne quickly delivered an oxygen cylinder and oxygen mask.

Pei Lei put the oxygen mask directly on Lin Sheng's mouth, and Lin Sheng took a few violent breaths. After more than half an hour, he slowly regained his composure. Pei Lei took off the oxygen bottle, and Lin Sheng had already fell asleep again.

"It should be the lack of oxygen caused by some colds, and it's all right now." Pei Lei whispered.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Pei Lei came over and patted Geng Aiqing's shoulder: "Thanks to your quick response, otherwise...but fortunately, it's not a big problem. If nothing happens, he can recover tomorrow."

At this time, Geng Aiqing realized that he hadn't moved since just now. When everyone was surrounding Lin Sheng, he had been standing there, watching the rescue operation from a distance. The palms and soles of his feet were sweating, and he felt that he could hardly control his body's reaction.

Shen Biwen walked up to him, stared at him for a while, and then directly reached out and grabbed his fisted hand.

Geng Aiqing broke free subconsciously, but did not break free.

"He's fine." Shen Biwen whispered, "Go and rest."

Geng Aiqing seemed to have suddenly gained control of his body. He pushed Shen Biwen away, and lay back silently. Shen Biwen didn't say anything, and lay down with him.

Geng Aiqing rubbed his temples in the dark, his head hurt a little, and the temples were throbbing and numb, he didn't know if this was a symptom caused by high reaction, or just because of fear.

Lin Sheng really recovered the next day. When Geng Aiqing woke up, he was sitting cross-legged and tinkering with his precious camera. Seeing that Geng Aiqing opened his eyes, he immediately took a few close-ups of him with the camera. Geng Aiqing Ai Qing tilted her head uncomfortably.

"Are you okay?" Geng Aiqing sat up and asked.

Lin Sheng shook his head: "It's all right, thank you, brother Shen said that you saved me last night!"

"What can't be saved..." Geng Aiqing muttered, and he found that Shen Biwen was no longer there.

"What about others?" Geng Aiqing asked.

Lin Sheng stood up: "I'm talking to the collaboration, get up quickly, we're leaving for the advance camp at eleven o'clock."

Seeing that Lin Sheng was about to leave, Geng Aiqing remembered, "Do you still have any painkillers?"

"Huh?" Lin Sheng thought for a while, "Is there anything else, why? Do you want it?"

Geng Aiqing nodded: "Well, bring me some, I have a headache."

"Huh..." Lin Sheng squatted down again and touched his forehead, "It's okay if you don't have a fever, but you just have a headache?"

Geng Aiqing felt it for a while, and felt that the symptoms of pain were a little lighter than last night: "Well, it's just a headache. You can get me a few tablets and I'll eat first."

Lin Sheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said, "What the hell, you should take some high-reverse medicine first, and then take some painkillers when you really can't stand the pain. Don't take it now if the pain is not serious."

Geng Aiqing snorted: "Then can you prepare something for me first?"

Lin Sheng had no choice but to pull out a simple small medicine bottle from his backpack, and handed it to him: "You put it away first, there are only ten pills in here, don't take it now."

"I know, I know." Geng Aiqing stuffed the small medicine bottle into his bag, took out some high-resistance medicine from the bag, poured some water and swallowed it directly.

"Just say what you need, don't hold on." Lin Sheng said seriously.

Geng Aiqing rolled his eyes at him: "I don't know who is holding it back? You almost belched yesterday, okay?"

"..." Lin Sheng smiled, "Yes, yes, is the savior okay? Hurry up and wash up!"

Geng Aiqing and Lin Sheng felt much better after the quarrel. When he went out to wash up, he happened to meet Shen Biwen who was in the cold. Shen Biwen smiled at him, but didn't speak to him, and went directly into the tent.

With a toothbrush still in his mouth, Geng Aiqing nodded symbolically and said nothing. He felt that something was wrong with Shen Biwen's face, but he didn't know if it was his own illusion.

The team officially started at eleven o'clock. From the transitional camp to the advanced camp at an altitude of 6400 meters, the vertical height is 700 meters, but the total distance is as much as 8 kilometers. If there is no delay on the road, it will take at least seven to eight. Hours, that is to say, they will not be able to arrive until at least five or six in the afternoon.

They went up from the transitional camp, bypassed a broken river valley and climbed up to a ridge. Looking back, they could just see the transitional camp located in the depression of the mountain. Sheng asked everyone to stop, reluctantly fixed the camera on the tripod, and took an unclear group photo of everyone with the transitional camp and the barren gravel mountain as the background.