Reborn Action Star: Starting in Hollywood

Chapter 604 Collapse
"Are you okay?" Lin Yuan lowered his head and shouted.

From his angle, he could clearly see beads of sweat on Charlize's forehead and temples, constantly seeping out from the gaps in her hair covered by her climbing helmet.

But before the sweat beads could roll down, they instantly froze into ice chips in the cold wind, making her exposed golden hair roots shine.

"It's both cold and hot. My head and face are cold, but my body is sweating." Charlize replied, "You look relaxed?"

"Would you like to hear the truth from me first?" Lin Yuan teased.

"Well, to be honest, I'm not that easily irritated by you," Charlize said with a smile.

"Then I'll be frank." Lin Yuan said proudly, "It's so easy that I can't help but want to set a flag and put a debuff on myself."

Flag? Debuff?

Charlize said she didn't understand.

"I feel like climbing the ice wall this time will definitely go very smoothly!"

"It's been a long time since I've been injured while filming!"

"After filming this scene, I will never shoot dangerous action scenes again."

Charlize: (Benefit)
Now she understood everything. Lin Yuan was using his own safety to prove whether metaphysics was effective.

You are just making all kinds of suicidal remarks, but don't involve me!

"If anything happens, I'll blame you!" Charlize protested.

"If there is any danger, just remember to cut the safety rope immediately." Lin Yuan was not afraid at all.

"Say that again, you know I can't do that." Charlize protested again.

The two men were bickering, but their hands and feet did not stop, and they continued to climb up at a steady speed.

Under normal circumstances, talking during strenuous exercise will actually increase physical energy consumption.

However, when ice climbing, especially high-altitude ice climbing, talking not only has no negative effects, but has many benefits.

Because the load on the cardiopulmonary system does not increase significantly during ice climbing, the main consumption is that the muscles in the hands and feet need to be continuously tense and exert force.

In this situation, Lin Yuan's bickering with Charlize can help her forget about her muscle soreness and fatigue.

She must take advantage of her current physical condition and the fact that lactic acid has not accumulated in her muscles, and climb to the camber corner in one go.

Otherwise, with the more difficult climbing sections coming up, Charlize would definitely not be able to conquer them.

"Crack!"

"Crack!"

Lin Yuan slowed down the speed of hammering ice bolts into the ice wall and took the initiative to extend the time from 10 seconds to 20 seconds.

This can reduce the pressure on Charlize, so that she doesn't have to rush to keep up with Lin Yuan's progress and force her body to keep climbing at a high speed.

When you reach the middle of climbing the big ice wall, you must adjust your ascending speed.

The two continued to climb up little by little, one in front and one behind.

"Wow!"

Suddenly, the sound of an ice axe being unhooked came from below Lin Yuan.

This was followed by a loud "bang", apparently something hit the ice wall.

Hearing the sound, Lin Yuan immediately looked down.

Charlize was seen hanging awkwardly in the air, holding an ice pick.

Apparently, she fell off the ice wall while climbing without paying attention.

Fortunately, the fixed point was quite firm, and the climbing rope immediately tightened her safety belt, stopping her falling.

"Charlize, are you okay?" Meng Tao's voice immediately came from their headphones.

Charlize's unexpected fall immediately caused concern among the crew members on the ground.

"It's okay, it's okay, don't worry." Charlize immediately comforted.

"Are you hurt?" Lin Yuan said as he quickly climbed down.

"It's okay. I have the safety rope on my car. It just got squeezed when I was falling." Charlize said, "But if it weren't for these ice bolts, I would have died just now."

Charlize looked down. The height was about 80 meters at this time. The crew members on the ground were very small. She could not see their faces clearly and it was difficult to see their movements.

But Charlize still waved down, signaling everyone to rest assured.

Such a height is enough to scare most people, but Charlize obviously maintains a good mentality.

At this time, Lin Yuan had come to Charlize's side and helped her check the safety belt and various equipment again. Then he asked, "What's wrong? Are you not physically fit enough?"

Charlize shook her head. "No, my ice pick came loose."

"The ice pick is loose? Didn't you dig deep enough?" Lin Yuan asked.

He suspected that Charlize's arm pain caused her to lose strength when swinging the ice axe, thus affecting the supporting force of the ice axe.

"No, I used exactly the same strength as before," Charlize replied.

This is strange. The ice axe is a very mature tool for ice climbing. As long as it can be drilled into the necessary depth as required, how could it become loose?
Lin Yuan quickly climbed to the place where Charles had fallen just now, and he carefully checked the hole left by the ice pick.

As soon as he saw the holes left by the ice pick, Lin Yuan's expression immediately became serious.

I saw that the hole was covered with spreading cracks, and below it was a large area of ​​dense ice debris and a deep ditch.

This is extremely abnormal. Under normal circumstances, an ice pick would only leave a small hole with clear and regular edges on such a hard, thousand-year-old ice wall.

There would never be cracks scattered around the hole, let alone so many tiny pieces of ice.

This doesn't look like an ice pick hitting solid ice, but rather like it's hitting some fragile cracked ice, and it's shaving out a lot of smoothie that can be used to make shaved ice?

This is too outrageous...

"Charlize, come and take a look." Lin Yuan immediately called out.

Charlize carefully followed Lin Yuan's climbing path and came to the place where she had fallen.

"Why is the cave entrance like this?" She took only one look and discovered the problem. "It seems that this ice wall is a little fragile?"

"Thinking about it now, when I struck the ice axe just now, I seemed to feel that the recoil force was significantly reduced," Charlize recalled.

Lin Yuan waved the ice pick in his hand and tried to dig a few holes in multiple places above, below, left and right.

After inspecting each one, he said, "There's definitely something wrong with this ice wall. It seems the texture isn't evenly distributed. Some areas are quite solid, while others are very fragile, as if they were frozen only a short time ago."

"Isn't this an ice wall millions of years old?" Charlize asked curiously, "And now we discover that parts of it are shoddy construction?"

Lin Yuan said helplessly, "Millions of years of history refers to the entire ice wall, not the surface layer we're touching. The surface of the ice wall also undergoes metabolism like the human body. Perhaps the section we're touching was frozen for only a short time."

Fortunately, this ice wall is not entirely fragile, but a mixture of hard ice and brittle ice. Otherwise, we might have to take a detour.

When Lin Yuan passed by first just now, perhaps he was lucky and did not encounter this situation.

Charlize, who was following behind him, unfortunately hit a "tofu-shoddy" ice wall, resulting in an accidental fall.

"We need to be more careful during the next climb. If you feel that the feeling of drilling into the ice wall is not right, you must check whether the support is sufficient before climbing." Lin Yuan said.

Charlize nodded: "I see. Thank you for your ice bolt being strong enough to save me once."

Then she added, "Suddenly I feel that the fall just now was worth it."

"Worth it? Are you scared silly?" Lin Yuan reached out to touch Charlize's head.

Charlize dodged with a smile: “You said we started from the bottom of the ice wall, and then we hit ice bolts all the way to here, setting up safety points.

If there's no fall at all, then aren't all those ice bolts wasted?"

Lin Yuan: (1`1;)
Can we still look at the problem in this way?
I have to say that Goddess Charlize Theron has a really good mentality.

If someone else were to experience such a fall from an altitude of over 80 meters, they would probably be scared to death.

But she could laugh and tease herself, feeling fortunate that she had earned back the price of all the ice bolts this time.

On second thought, it seems that this mentality is very common.

For example, when you buy health insurance but just pay money for nothing, although you know it is a good thing, you still feel a little sad.

Also, if the common medicines at home expire but are not used, it would be a pity to throw them away.

After teasing Lin Yuan, Charlize began to urge them to make way: "Let's go, let's go up quickly."

"Well, I'll be responsible for leading the way." Lin Yuan climbed up first.

Only this time, both he and Charlize were more careful.

The subsequent climb became more difficult.

The supporting strength of the ice axe is relatively easy to determine, but the crampons under the feet are much more difficult.

Unless you really use your legs to push your body upwards, it is difficult to intuitively feel whether your crampons are stepping on the brittle ice wall.

Because of this, Charlize stepped on empty air several times.

Fortunately, she had prepared herself mentally in advance. When she stepped on empty air, the ice pick on her arm was firmly embedded in the ice wall, so the safety hook did not continue to work.

Just because of this, the speed of the two people climbing up slowed down a lot.

It took them nearly half an hour to increase the distance by another 30 meters.

From the time they started climbing the ice wall to now, it took them a total of 1 hour and 15 minutes. They completed nearly two-thirds of the distance and reached the last 40 meters of the outer chamfer.

This will be the most difficult part of the ice wall to climb.

To go up from here, the two of them would have to climb up backwards.

This significantly reduces the support that the legs can provide, requiring more hand strength to provide support.

This may not be a big problem for Lin Yuan, but it is quite difficult for Charlize.

It is well known that there are huge differences in muscle strength between men and women.

Without special training, 50% of men cannot complete pull-ups, 30% of men can only do less than 5 pull-ups, and no more than 10% can do more than 5.

If you think this data is tragic, it seems that men are weak.

Now let's look at the data for women. Among women without special rock climbing or strength fighting training, only 0.2% can complete pull-ups.

Therefore, once entering the climbing stage that mainly requires arm strength, the difficulty for Charlize will immediately increase sharply.

"Don't move here and wait for me to come back." Lin Yuan said.

Hearing Lin Yuan's words, Charlize rolled her eyes: "At this time, you still want to take advantage of me? Do you men really like being a woman's father?"

Lin Yuan: ()
"You seem to know too much. Can you understand this too?"

"Yeah! Sissi told me. She said you're a habitual offender in this regard!"

“…” Lin Yuan felt like he was going to choke to death, so he decided to hurry up and solve the problem at hand.

He untied the safety rope between himself and Charlize.

When Lin Yuan did this, Charlize was surprised and wanted to buckle the safety rope back to him immediately.

Before she could do anything, the communication channel immediately rang out, and Meng Tao's voice came: "Lin Yuan! What are you doing? Why did you untie the safety rope?"

"I need to go and install all the ice bolts first, and the safety rope is not long enough." Lin Yuan replied.

After hearing his words, Charlize finally understood why Lin Yuan wanted to untie the safety rope.

Because he wanted to get ahead and finish hammering in all the ice bolts on the entire outer chamfer climbing section at once.

This will avoid the situation where two people have to hit the ice bolts while moving forward.

This was so that Charlize could pass as quickly as possible, otherwise her arms would find it difficult to hold on if she climbed upside down for a long time.

However, this section of the journey was nearly 50 meters long, and Lin Yuan could not climb far with the safety rope hanging on him, so he was unable to drive the ice bolts along the entire route.

Doing so is naturally the best thing for Charlize, but the danger also makes everyone on the ground sweat.

"Lin Yuan, once you untie the safety rope, it means you have no safety measures at all." Meng Tao emphasized again: "If any accident happens, we will be helpless."

"I know, but if we want to complete this scene, we have to do this, otherwise it will be difficult for Charlize to pass through this ice wall." Lin Yuan insisted.

"Well, in my eyes, you are already a superman. I believe you can do it with certainty. I wish you good luck."

Meng Tao's reply came over the communication channel.

Hearing Meng Tao's answer, Lin Yuan couldn't help but nodded secretly in his heart.

When they were filming together in the early years, Meng Tao emphasized the risks in order to persuade him not to act recklessly. He really wanted to stop Lin Yuan.

But he couldn't stop Lin Yuan every time and could only watch Lin Yuan "seek death" again and again.

This made him feel very painful and conflicted.

But what’s even more infuriating is that every time Lin Yuan “seeks death”, he not only ends up being safe and sound, but also gives a visually shocking performance.

Meng Tao gradually realized that Lin Yuan's ability limit was far beyond his imagination.

So Meng Tao developed a blind faith in Lin Yuan. As long as Lin Yuan dared to do it, he believed that Lin Yuan could succeed.

Therefore, when Meng Tao warned Lin Yuan about the risks, it had become a necessary formality.

Seeing that Meng Tao and Lin Yuan had reached a consensus, Charlize did not stop Lin Yuan, but said:
"The wind speed seems to have increased again, please be careful."

Lin Yuan nodded, stopped hesitating, and climbed outwards with his back facing upwards, waving his ice pick.

The outer chamfer of the last section of the ice wall is about 20 degrees, which means that although Lin Yuan did not climb out on his back, his body and the ground were in a very uncomfortable backward position.

He clearly felt that the strength required to hold the ice axe with both hands had increased significantly.

Even his abdominal muscles were forced to tighten to ensure that his body would not collapse.

What’s even more hateful is that before, when the ice pick hit the ice surface, the broken ice chips fell on the top of his helmet, but now more of them fell on his mask.

As he moved forward, the broken ice fragments became more and more, gradually blocking his vision.

Lin Yuan could only shake his head to shake off as much ice as possible.

Fortunately, these were just minor troubles and did not particularly affect his climb.

He made good progress and completed more than half of the 15-meter distance in just 50 minutes.

Behind him were densely packed ice bolts and safety support points, each spaced every 50 centimeters.

But none of this has anything to do with him. Due to the plot requirements and for the sake of the film's visual stimulation, Lin Yuan does not have a safety harness and cannot use a quick safety buckle, so he does not need these safety support points.

"Huh~"

The strong wind whistled past his ears, causing his body to stagger in the wind.

"Be careful!" Charlize's exclamation came from the headphones.

"It's okay. The wind speed suddenly increased a bit just now. I was a little caught off guard." Lin Yuan comforted.

It was a little different from the previous vertical climbing. At that time, the body could stick tightly to the ice wall, reducing the impact of the strong wind.

But now they were climbing upside down, and it was inevitably difficult for their bodies to stick to the ice wall as before, which made the strong wind have a much greater impact on their bodies.

At the high altitude of the Yala Snow Mountain, any negligence may lead to an accident.

Lin Yuan couldn't help but tense up.

Suddenly, he felt that the force transmitted back from the ice pick in his hand was not right.

The ice surface was very brittle. The ice pick was swung with the same force. This time, the tip of the cone obviously penetrated more than 10 centimeters deep and brought out a lot of ice debris. It seemed to be even more brittle than the previous section below.

What surprised Lin Yuan even more was that the broken ice he chiseled out and fell in front of his eyes were not the kind of shaved ice fragments, nor the sharp-edged ice cubes like pebbles, but pieces of ice flakes that looked like shale layers.

What's happening here?
Lin Yuan couldn't figure out why the ice wall above his head was structured with layers and pages of ice sheets stacked on top of each other.

Is there something wrong with this section of the ice wall?
Obviously he didn't have the answer, but what was certain was that such ice conditions were not only unsuitable for climbing with an ice axe, but also unable to provide sufficient support for the ice bolts that were driven in.

Lin Yuan could only swing his ice axe, like a blind man groping for the way, and changed several places above his head, trying to find a solid ice surface to provide support.

"Crack!"

"Crack!"

"Crack!"

……

He drilled five holes in a row at different angles and directions and found the same result in all of them.

How can this be good?

It is definitely impossible to force it, it is too dangerous.

I absolutely cannot bear to give up. After all, I have already climbed here. As long as I can pass this section of ice wall, I will have successfully accomplished the feat of climbing the big ice wall.

Lin Yuan began to move his body sideways, trying to bypass this fragile ice wall and find a reliable new path.

His behavior immediately attracted the attention of Meng Tao and others.

"What's wrong? Lin Yuan, are you planning to change the route?" Meng Tao asked.

"Well, this ice wall seems strangely fragile." Lin Yuan replied.

"Fragile and a little weird?"

"Well, it's not simply frozen solid, but like stratified rock, frozen layer by layer. A light tap with the ice pick feels like piercing through layers of wood."

Hearing Lin Yuan's abnormal reaction, Meng Tao didn't know what was going on for a moment.

He could only say: "Since there is something unusual, just go around it."

Lin Yuan did not continue talking to Meng Tao, but concentrated on finding a reliable ice wall.

He was lucky and soon found solid ice more than 2 meters away to the west.

So Lin Yuan immediately changed the layout of the ice bolts.

This caused the original straight upward route to become a strange situation where it made a right-angle turn and then went up again.

Lin Yuan naturally hoped that everything would go smoothly, but unfortunately there were quite a lot of shale-like broken ice areas, so he had to take detours many times, turning the entire climbing route into a snake-like shape.

Fortunately, Lin Yuan finally completed the arrangement of the ice bolts through the entire outer chamfer area, successfully opening a path for Charlize.

After doing all this, Lin Yuan started to return the same way.

When returning, it was obviously much faster than when we went there, which required us to explore slowly.

It took less than 8 minutes for Lin Yuan to return to Charlize's side.

Seeing Lin Yuan returning, Charlize immediately handed over the safety rope buckle and tied herself tightly to Lin Yuan.

"Sorry to have kept you waiting for a long time. Do you still have the energy?" Lin Yuan asked.

Charlize nodded: "Well, your efforts will not be in vain."

"Let's go, hurry up. You must follow my route and avoid those broken ice layers." Lin Yuan said.

"Okay, let's set off now without further ado."

After saying that, the two continued to climb up one after the other.

Following the safety hooks that Lin Yuan had laid, the two climbed up quickly.

Originally, Lin Yuan was worried that Charlize's arm strength was not enough, so he was ready to pull her up with a safety rope.

But he didn't expect that Charlize was even more resilient than he thought. Even though she was gritting her teeth and gasping for breath, she still insisted on following Lin Yuan closely.

"Hold on a little longer, there are only 20 meters left to the top." Lin Yuan turned his head and encouraged Charlize below.

But what he saw on Charlize's face was not a smiling response, but an expression of horror.

"Lin Yuan! Lin Yuan!" she shouted anxiously.

what happened?

Why is Charlize so horrified.

The next moment, a voice from above his head gave him the answer.

"Boom!"

"Crack!"

Accompanied by the sound of ice cracking, a large amount of ice fell from the sky like a hailstorm.

"Stick to the ice wall, hold on tight and don't fall!" Lin Yuan shouted, pressing his body tightly against the ice wall.

"Bang! Bang!" The big ice block hit his helmet.

"Crackle!" A large number of fine ice particles hit his helmet like raindrops.

Lin Yuan didn't know why he suddenly encountered an ice avalanche. Maybe when he was hammering the ice bolts before, he destroyed the structural stability of the ice wall?
Perhaps it was the arrival of him and Charlize together that became the last straw that broke the camel's back for this fragile ice wall.

But the reason is not important at this moment. The key is to find a way to get through the difficulties safely.

Suddenly, Lin Yuan felt his hands loosen and the crampons under his feet suddenly collapsed downwards.

He lost all his strength and fell down rapidly.

The next moment, the safety rope around his waist suddenly tightened, and a great force came, stabilizing his body - Charlize pulled him.

But the supporting force disappeared in an instant, and his body only stopped for a moment before continuing to fall - the huge falling force made Charlize lose her balance and she was pulled into the water.

The two of them fell down from the ice wall together.

(End of this chapter)