A Gentle Revenge

The weather in early September is still hot, but the temperature has slowly dropped. At Yanjing Baihe Rock Climbing Field in the evening, the chatter and laughter of tourists can be heard from a distance.

On the rock wall, a group of rock climbers are working hard on routes of varying difficulty. Xiao Dayan, the belayer under the No. 2 rock climbing route, watched his companion climbing smoothly, and was thinking about whether to smoke a cigarette to satisfy his hunger. Suddenly, he felt his...