Chapter 236: The Final Stretch, Three Difficult Points!

After Chen Zijin finished saying this, a bad premonition also arose in Liu Xuemin's heart.

The next second, he frowned and slowly said, "Why do you say that?"

Chen Zijin shook his head, hesitating to speak: "It's nothing, I just feel that everything has been proceeding..."

"Proceeding too smoothly?"

The moment he looked at Liu Xuemin, his expression became even more grave, as if he were worried about something.

After this sentence was spoken, Liu Xuemin also fell into endless deep thought.

This operation had indeed proceeded very smoothly; almost no accidents had occurred at all!

All the clues were as if they had been arranged in advance, requiring almost no effort from them!

The abandoned paddleboard, the small tavern by the port, the black ship at Bo Er Ta Xi Ya Gang, the Angel Waterfall in Venezuela...

These clues were actually very easy to hide.

But he had not done so.

Thinking of this, Liu Xuemin muttered: "You mean... the clues we found earlier were actually left behind by him on purpose?"

Hearing this, Chen Zijin nodded with some hesitation: "It is very possible..."

"Why would he do that?" Liu Xuemin asked again.

"I don't know."

After exchanging a glance, the two fell into deep thought once again.

The next second, Chen Zijin spoke again: "I always feel that all of this must be a facade he created for us?"

"A facade?"

"Yes."

Liu Xuemin did not quite understand what he meant.

He understood even less what the "facade" he spoke of meant.

Could it be that climbing Angel Waterfall was not Chu Chen's Seventh Challenge?

How could that be?

While pondering, Chen Zijin looked at Liu Xuemin with deep eyes and continued: "Do you think a criminal like him wouldn't have anticipated what we did on the Guiana Highlands? If he already knew that the outcome after reaching the summit would be falling into a trap, why would he still unhesitatingly start this challenge? Is it just to provoke us?"

"Don't forget, he still has an Ultimate Trust that he hasn't completed. Based on my understanding of him, even if he were to give up his Life, he would not give up this final challenge! Would a person like him allow such a thing to happen?"

After Chen Zijin finished these words, Liu Xuemin pondered for a long time without speaking.

What he said did indeed make a lot of sense.

A person like Chu Chen would indeed not allow such a thing to happen!

But based on the clues they currently possessed, this arrest operation was already the optimal solution they could provide.

They couldn't just give up now, could they?

With the competition having reached this point, this was one of their only two opportunities to clash with him.

If they couldn't catch him this time, they would have to bet everything on his final crime!

Based on this point, no matter what, they had to try!

Regardless of what his true purpose was!

At the same time!

Venezuela!

When the two in the Command Room were discussing Chu Chen's operation, his distance from the peak was already very close!

After several hours of climbing, his physical stamina had also shown a clear decline, and his speed had slowed down quite a bit compared to before.

But his movements were still very solid!

His entire state did not reveal any exhaustion; he looked full of fighting spirit, not at all like someone who had been free climbing for several hours!

【This stamina is just too damn invincible!】

【Awesome (voice cracking)!】

【He's been climbing for five hours, and his movements haven't even deformed!】

【Brother Chen is truly too badass, please accept my knees!】

【I'm not afraid of you all laughing at me, but I feel like I could climb five meters at most...】

【I won't laugh at you, I could do two meters at most...】

【This challenge is too suffocating! Those with weak psychological endurance must not watch!】

In the live broadcast room, everyone was discussing it heatedly!

At the same time, Chu Chen had already safely passed the crack between 900 and 920 meters, successfully entering the final stretch of the road!

There were three difficult points in the climbing of this stretch.

The first difficult point was a crack perpendicular to the ground, over ten meters long in total. The rock walls on both sides of the crack were very smooth, with almost no visible rock holds; to climb up, one could only work on this crack.

The second difficult point after the crack was a rock wall that required a short-distance traverse; one needed to use a climbing technique called Tengkong+crimp to complete it!

Tengkong, as the name implies, means to leap.

Crimp means using the strength of the fingers to grab a rock hold!

Combined, it means to first leap and then use the fingers to grab the rock hold!

Tengkong+crimp is a very dangerous move in free climbing, bar none.

Even the karate flying kick that many people are familiar with cannot compare to it!

Because this movement requires the climber to briefly leave the rock face, abandoning all handholds and placing the body in mid-air!

Under these circumstances, if there is a problem with the subsequent crimp, all previous efforts will be wasted.

Based on this, unless necessary, no one will use the mid-air crimp method in Free Climbing.

The reason for choosing a traverse for this section is that the rock face after the crack is severely weathered and damaged, making it no longer suitable for climbing.

To continue, one must traverse to the right, cross a Waterfall, and grab a handhold on the opposite rock face!

The width of this Waterfall is at least two meters.

Because of the influence of the Waterfall's Water flow, there is absolutely nothing to grab onto in the surrounding area, and visibility is not very good either!

Trying to traverse while clinging to the rock face is almost impossible.

The only way is to leap across this Waterfall in mid-air, then grab that handhold on the right rock face in one go!

Other than this, there is no other choice!

Because reaching out to grab it won't work.

In the movie Point Break, the protagonist's teammate met his end in this very place!

The second difficulty is the hardest to execute among the three, and also the one with the greatest danger!

A moment of carelessness will make all previous efforts go to waste!

If it were climbing with protection, this would be nothing; if you fail, you just try again.

But for Free Climbing, failure means facing death; there is simply no chance to try again!

Success or failure depends entirely on a single thought!

As for the third difficulty!

It is actually the final hurdle before reaching the summit!

What is needed here is a climbing technique called a mantle!

The so-called mantle roughly means a technical movement of using the hands to push up the entire body, somewhat similar to a muscle-up, but not entirely.

This movement is usually used by climbers to overcome large rocks blocking the way.

The rock face of Angel Falls is different from ordinary rock faces.

Due to its special geographical location, the structure at the top of the cliff is also very unique, with all the edges protruding outward.

To reach the summit, one must use a mantle to push up the entire body to be able to flip over to the top.

This is the only way!

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