Acrophobia

  After dinner, Qin Feng asked if there was anywhere she wanted to go. Lin Peipei tilted her head and looked at him, not speaking for a while before saying, "Is it that wherever I say is fine?"

  "Of course, as long as it's a place you want to go, I'll risk my life to accompany young miss."

  Qin Feng deliberately took a deep breath, his face looking like he was ready to die, which made Lin Peipei burst out laughing.

  The two got back in the taxi and arrived at Lin Peipei's destination - the Sports Center. Standing at the entrance of a stadium, Qin Feng looked up at the three words on the sign above the door and his face began to look uncomfortable.

  Climbing hall, Lin sister, are you certain and affirmative, you didn't do it on purpose?

  At the service desk, Qin Feng rented clothes and equipment, but instead of following to change, he walked into a rest area and sat down, staring at the high wall in the climbing area, his fingers holding the clothes began to clench unconsciously, his face turned pale.

  Lin Pei Pei changed into her clothes and came out, seeing Qin Feng sitting there in a daze, she found it strange that he hadn't gone to change his clothes.

  "You go first, I'll watch." Qin Feng's voice was a little hoarse as he turned his head to look at Lin Peipei with a dazed expression.

  Lin Peipei also noticed his abnormality, but thought he was a newcomer and was nervous, so she didn't pay much attention to it. She walked into the climbing area by herself and came to a bouldering wall. With the help of an assistant coach, she buckled up her safety rope. She didn't choose a seatbelt, obviously, she was already an old hand. A magnesium powder bag hung behind her waist, and then she started climbing up.

  Qin Feng's eyes stared blankly at Lin Pei Pei's climbing motion, his gaze was slightly scattered, and his mind flashed with scenes of explosions and flames, as well as the scene of him and his companions falling from the high tower...

  When Qin Feng was stuck in painful memories, Lin Pei Pei had almost reached the top. At the last turning point, during a brief rest, she turned around and shouted at Qin Feng. Seeing no reaction from him, she continued to climb up the last few blocks of rock. After touching the final rock, she let go of her hands and slid down quickly along the rope. Originally, this action was a simple move for an experienced climber, as the rope had already been wrapped around in advance, only requiring the climber to control the start according to their needs. It shouldn't have caused any problems, but accidents often occur unexpectedly.

  Just now, Lin Peipei's turn caused the rope to change position slightly. Before she could even blink, the rope got stuck. Lin Peipei's body suddenly jerked to a stop, spinning horizontally in mid-air. The sudden unexpected event made her subconsciously let out a loud cry.

  Qin Feng came to his senses just in time to see Lin Peipei's figure in mid-air, like a thunderbolt that jolted him awake. He took an arrow step and rushed to the wall, calling out Lin Peipei's name, telling her not to be nervous or afraid, his eyes fixed on the wall as he silently memorized the location of the stone holds, and then he began to climb up at top speed.

  The assistant instructor beside him was also anxious, wanting to stop him, but after calling out twice, he didn't dare call again. Qin Feng's speed was too fast, and in the time it took to say a few words, he had already climbed several meters high. He feared that if he called out again, it would distract Qin Feng's attention, and if he lost his footing and fell, it would be a big deal. Qin Feng hadn't even worn a safety harness when he went up.

  Originally, the assistant instructor wanted to stop Qin Feng from rushing up, as the rope had double insurance, specifically designed to prevent accidents like this. Above the main zip line was an auxiliary zip line; as long as Lin Peipei stabilized her body, hooked onto the auxiliary zip line, and released the stuck main zip line, she could slide down safely along the other rope. But Qin Feng just stood at the bottom, staring blankly. Alas, it's true that worrying leads to chaos.

  Qin Feng climbed up as if he had done it countless times, his feet steady on the ground. He quickly reached the top and grabbed Lin Pei Pei's rope, then slid down to her side with a move that made people below gasp in shock. He hugged her tightly, stabilizing her spinning body, first letting her legs wrap around his waist, then using his hands to support her waist and help her lean back, letting her arms wrap around his neck. Then, following the instructor's guidance, he changed the zip line and slid down with Lin Pei Pei in his arms. When they finally touched ground, everyone's hearts were put at ease. People nearby ran over to ask if they were injured.

  It's okay, Lin Peipei just got a bit dizzy from spinning too much and didn't get hurt. The assistant instructor saw that everything was fine, felt relieved, and then started scolding Qin Feng.

  "Comrade, how can you have no safety awareness at all? You didn't even wear a seatbelt and just climbed up. Do you know how high this is? This is 50 meters high! Even if you're very skilled, if you lose your footing and fall, it's not a joke, it will cost lives!"

  "How high is this?" Qin Feng didn't take the assistant's words to heart, but he did notice what he said about the height of that wall. The number made him excited, and his muscles tensed up all over his body.

  "What? How... high is it? 50 meters?! The assistant coach was in the middle of a lively training session when he was interrupted, and his rhythm was slightly off."

  "50 meters..." Qin Feng heard the definite number, his legs suddenly went soft and he fell to the ground, cold sweat pouring down, his face turning pale and green.

  Lin Pei Pei was frightened by his sudden change and quickly asked the teaching assistant to help him to the rest area. Looking at Qin Feng starting to breathe rapidly, with his eyes tightly closed, his pale face, and cold sweat instantly penetrating a large piece of his T-shirt, she anxiously spun around, sometimes letting him drink some water, sometimes fanning him, sometimes wiping his sweat, not knowing what to do for the best. Fortunately, the teaching assistant was experienced, "He's like this, could it be acrophobia?"

  Qin Feng rested in the rest area for a long time before he slowly came to, and was helped into a taxi by Lin Pei. In the car, Lin Pei looked at Qin Feng's gloomy expression and felt a surge of frustration - how could her sister be so unlucky? They had only gone rock climbing, but somehow managed to create a huge mess, originally intending to make Qin Feng lose some face, but things had gotten out of hand, almost scaring him half to death. Looking at Qin Feng's half-dead appearance, Lin Pei also looked worried.

  Send Lin Peipei home, Qin Feng didn't stay, although Lin Peipei was uneasy in her heart, seeing him say it's okay, she could only let him go back first. When Qin Feng went out, he happened to meet Lin Haotian who had just returned, and asked him where he was going. Qin Feng said with some weakness that he was tired and wanted to go back to sleep, didn't pay much attention, told him not to oversleep and remember to come for dinner. He turned into the door, thinking in his heart, what did these two do to be so exhausted?

  At dinner time, Wu Shulan asked Lin Peipei to call Qin Feng. The phone was connected but no one answered for a long time, and Lin Peipei also started to worry.

  "Peipei, didn't you guys go to see the car today? How come Qin Feng came back looking like a eggplant that's been beaten by frost, not saying a word, where did he go?" Lin Haotian also felt something was off.

  Lin Pei Pei thought it wasn't good to hide this either, so she told him everything that had happened after going to see the car and then going to the rock climbing gym today.

  "You said... you guys went rock climbing? I didn't mishear, did I? Qin Feng and you went rock climbing?"

  Lin Haotian listened and found it unbelievable, "He's afraid of heights, how could he accompany you to rock climb? And climbed 50 meters high to save you, did I hear that wrong? I feel like this is so surreal... Mom, hit me."

  Wu Shulan looked at her son's energetic and mischievous appearance, and in a fit of anger, she slapped him hard on the face, leaving Lin Haotian with a pained expression and a scowl.

  "Mom, what's going on? Is this acrophobia serious? Won't anything happen?" Lin Peipei started to get anxious and restless.

  "Yes, severe cases can lead to shock."

  Wu Shulan caught the eye signal from her son and intentionally made her tone a bit heavier, not forgetting what her son said, to help blow some wind and add fuel to the fire.

  "After a while, you take some chicken soup to Xiaofeng and go see him. He might be asleep." Wu Shulan looked at her daughter's guilty face and didn't want to stimulate her too much.

  "Hurry up and eat!"

  Lin Pei's heart was racing like a cat scratching, eating so hastily that it was like wolfing down food. While eating, she kept urging Lin Hao Tian to hurry up. She finished a bowl of rice in just a few mouthfuls and ran back to her room to change clothes, then ran back downstairs again. Without even checking if Lin Hao Tian had finished eating, she pulled him along, leaving him with a mouthful of food that he hadn't swallowed yet. As they reached the car door, Lin Pei was still urging him to hurry up behind him. In his heart, Lin Hao Tian couldn't help but slap himself in the face, thinking "this is what happens when you're too talkative". In the end, he resignedly opened the door and got into the car.

  Qin Feng struggled back to his dormitory, and as soon as he entered the door, he fell onto the sofa and fell asleep. He didn't even hear Lin Peipei's phone call, and just slept soundly until a knock on the door woke him up. For a moment, he was disoriented and didn't know where he was. After a while, the knocking sound came again, and he finally realized that this was his dormitory. He sat up, rubbed his face with his hands, and after sleeping for a while, his head wasn't as dizzy as before. He got up to open the door, and seeing who was standing outside, he felt a little surprised, and then suddenly delighted.

  "Pepe, how did you come?"

  "Are you okay? I called you and you didn't answer, mom said you might be asleep, so I came to take a look, how are you?"

  Lin Pei Pei saw him open the door, raised her hand and pressed it to his forehead to check his temperature, her face tense as she stared at his face, fortunately his complexion wasn't as frightening as when he left, and her heart also relaxed a bit.

  "I'm fine..."

  Qin Feng pulled Lin Peipei's hand down, leading her into the house. Lin Peipei curiously looked around his room, a main room with a small kitchen and a bathroom, although it was small, everything was complete. Although it was a boy's room, it was also very clean, the whole room had only one bed, one sofa, one desk with bookshelves, one chair, one closet, and one small tea machine, nothing else. The bookshelves were filled with professional books, she wasn't interested in looking at them because Lin Haotian's room also had a lot of them, she had flipped through them all before. Qin Feng was watching her curiously as she looked around the house, feeling like his girlfriend was inspecting the place, and he started to feel that the previous feeling wasn't so bad after all, with the corner of his mouth raised, his eyes following Lin Peipei's gaze.

  Lin Pei Pei took a glance around, then shifted her gaze back to Qin Feng's body, seeing that he was still wearing the same clothes as when he went out in the morning. She assumed that he had been sleeping before she arrived and told him to take a bath. She carried the can of chicken soup into the small kitchen, found some noodles, and started cooking chicken noodle soup for him. When Qin Feng came out after washing up, a bowl of steaming hot and fragrant chicken noodle soup was placed in front of him.