On this day, they finally saw the true face of Rock City.
Deng Hao asked the entire team to get up at 3 a.m., an hour earlier than usual. It was a typical case of "seeing the mountain and killing the horse," as they could see Rock City in the distance yet it still took them half a day to reach it. Once they entered the territory of Rock City, the scenery within their field of vision changed immediately. Those visually tiresome trees, flowers, pits, and slopes were almost completely gone. In their place were fields upon fields, acres upon acres, mountains connected to mountains of lush green fields—