themonasnovels Chapter 334 - 145: Voices of Doubt and the Desire to Climb
Chapter 334 - 145: Voices of Doubt and the Desire to Climb
The video questioning Li Younan’s performance has gone viral.
While all this is happening, Li Younan has officially reached Zimei Pass.
From this angle, you can just see the south face of Gongga Mountain, where the majestic snowy peaks seem to connect heaven and earth.
In a certain sense, such a magnificent view might even be more impressive than Mount Everest.
The altitude of Mount Everest is undoubtedly the highest, but when viewing Mount Everest, your standing altitude is also not low; standing at an altitude of 5,000 meters looking at an 8,000-meter peak, versus standing at an altitude of 3,000 meters looking at a 7,000-meter peak, visually, the latter might be more overwhelming.
So far, Li Younan hasn’t found it very difficult, so he decides to continue climbing a bit.
Before setting off, he carefully checks his equipment once more.
Of course, there isn’t a definite plan to reach a certain height; if he judges there to be danger along the way, he’ll choose to retreat immediately.
April is a very good season for climbing Gongga Mountain.
After checking his equipment and resting a little, he prepares to set off again.
What Li Younan doesn’t know is that at this moment, a girl who can’t reach him is silently anxious alone.
JK Long, also known as Liu Li.
Public opinion online is getting more heated, and to be honest, she’s a bit surprised.
Usually, the popularity of such news doesn’t last long, but now it’s at the stage of rising popularity.
The trigger was a video from a debunking video host named Xu Yusheng questioning Li Younan’s journey to Gongga Mountain as a mere performance.
That guy has previously released several videos questioning Li Younan; his track focuses on debunking big online influencers and popular hosts, looking to find loopholes whenever someone becomes famous.
He did indeed expose several performing hosts before.
Only Li Younan’s videos hadn’t garnered much attention because Li Younan never responded, but somehow, this time’s video gains significant traffic online despite his lack of response.
On Li Younan’s homepage, a video is still about his preparation before departure.
About three days have passed since then.
Most people are busy hustling for life and only scroll through videos during leisure moments.
When watching the spectacle, people naturally focus more on someone glamorous suddenly toppling overnight, their persona collapsing.
Many who follow the situation might not recognize Li Younan beforehand; they focus on keywords like "millions of fans" and "performing."
Due to Xu Yusheng’s analysis, there’s a strong momentum with a certain confidence.
The majority lacks the ability to judge right from wrong and likes hearing opinion leaders’ viewpoints.
Revisiting the previous videos Xu Yusheng released questioning Li Younan.
Although quite a number of die-hard Li Younan fans argue logically in the comment section, such volume appears insignificant amidst the massive idle traffic.
Moreover, Xu Yusheng controls the comments.
Thus, in the recent days, speculation about Li Younan tends to lean towards negative opinions.
But this small hot topic also brings about changes in other aspects.
People paying attention to this matter naturally search for information and knowledge about mountaineering.
Mountaineering, regardless of the historical period, is an extremely niche sport, yet this matter holds immense honor value.
After all, from a young age, news of mountaineers reaching the summit constantly appears in textbooks or exam papers.
While searching for related information, many come to know the difficulty of summiting Gongga Mountain.
Since mountaineering draws very little traffic inherently, such a topical event naturally encourages some bloggers to amplify the sport’s influence.
However, most mountaineering bloggers don’t comment on whether Li Younan will truly climb Gongga Mountain, only objectively sharing information about Gongga Mountain.
Most of the information isn’t easily memorable, but one piece of trivia is astonishing and instantly stick in minds.
That’s Gongga Mountain has only around 10 successful summit records, with merely thirty-plus people reaching it. And Mount Everest’s data? The answer is over 12,000 times. Additionally, Gongga Mountain has a higher death rate for mountaineering, with Mount Everest’s figure only at 2.8%.
The data is hard to remember, so people focus on what’s critical: Gongga Mountain’s summit difficulty is far greater than Mount Everest’s.
With such a fact shared, people understandably believe Xu Yusheng’s words are credible because Li Younan didn’t have a mountaineer persona beforehand, yet suddenly attempts a summit challenge even harder than Mount Everest, which sounds outright absurd.
Despite Li Younan never saying from the start that he would attempt summiting Gongga Mountain, Xu Yusheng’s deliberate guidance completely misled Li Younan’s motives.
The same saying goes, scandals are often more dramatic and enticing than praise. Li Younan, who is about to "overturn," will create a stir in the ocean of internet flow for everyone to watch comfortably.
The current online sentiment leaves Liu Li very anxious.
Even if Li Younan restores communication and posts his crossing video now, it likely wouldn’t reverse this trend.
The guy named Xu Yusheng has already led many uninformed bystanders to interpret this matter as Li Younan allegedly exploiting a challenge to Gongga Mountain as a guise for gaining traffic.
She asks her brother to hire internet forces to drive the conversation, but Liu Yu calmly analyzes and rejects the idea.
Liu Yu suggests waiting until Li Younan returns from Gongga Mountain once the situation clears before doing anything.
...
Meanwhile, Li Younan is completely unaware of all this.
At the moment, he’s carefree, moving towards the intended route, getting closer to Gongga Mountain.
In fact, Li Younan’s climbing technique, fully equipped, is already flawless.
If further skill enhanced, it would merely allow him to summit more easily with simpler equipment.
Li Younan gradually feels this during his climb.
Gaining this skill, he also possesses a peculiar ability, akin to... a sixth sense!
To be precise, it’s the brain’s subconscious judgment of the environment.
If he feels safe, it’s the brain subconsciously processing factors like wind direction, climate, sunlight, and mountain shape, similarly for danger.
Today’s weather is very good.
Reaching the campsite at the base of the mountain, a thought pops into Li Younan’s mind, startling even himself.
The snowy mountain ahead doesn’t seem so difficult to climb at all...
Originally, he didn’t plan to climb further up, but then again, since he’s already here...
Currently, there isn’t any danger, so after considering, Li Younan decides to continue towards the next campsite for a while.
Moments later, unexpectedly, after crossing a small hill, he sees several figures in the campsite...