Pm, 11:35.
Plans can't keep up with changes.
The goal was to arrive in 12 hours, but they had only reached the summit of the last mountain, and were already overdue.
The mountain was quite difficult to climb.
After tremendous effort and risk, they reached the summit opposite Tangjia Mountain and found an irregular plateau.
More than 800 soldiers had gathered here.
The civilians who had followed them had already stopped halfway up the mountain, looking up at them from a distance, vividly aware of their destination.
Standing here, looking down.
The great river flows from among thousands of mountains, all converging toward the east with the river's current.
Beneath one's feet lay the severed mountain.
In one's eyes surged the waves.
Directly opposite stood Tangjia Mountain, with the dam of the barrier lake lying just ahead and below, yet the path had disappeared.
The terrain here was a sheer drop, and so was the mountain across from them.
