CHAPTER 354: CHAPTER 354: EAT, EAT, EAT

The system was tangled in a dilemma.

Upon waking up, Tuanzi could only think about fried noodles with meat sauce, steamed buns with meat, sugared pastries, and tofu pudding.

She ate so blissfully that she completely forgot about last night’s curious thoughts that kept her from sleeping.

[Ancient Martial System: ...]

Hearing something vaguely, Tuanzi looked up.

The system instantly went silent.

If the host heard its voice and remembered, it would be troubled again.

With her belly full, Tuanzi joined the main group and energetically headed up the Mountain again.

This time, she even enthusiastically invited her senior brother to fly with her.

"This Mountain is so big, it takes days to explore it. We can take on more tasks to spot and solve any issues early."

Duan Xiayou: "..."

"Elder brother, why aren’t you speaking?"

Duan Xiayou wiped his face, "Okay."

He decided that after the "Mountain Patrol Journey," he would revise his life plans.

Initially, he was lost about the future, just arriving in an unfamiliar world, so he chose to follow the little junior sister.

After spending time together, he finally realized a problem.

He and the junior sister were two totally different people!

One lazy, one lively; one practiced martial arts for health, the other to reach the peak.

This led to him wanting to sleep, but the junior sister pulling him to practice martial arts. He wanted to rest, but she pulled him to work. He wanted to lie down, but she pulled him to do good deeds.

He also acted heroically, but only when encountering problems. The junior sister, however, dived into any trouble she could find.

If only a junior brother could accompany the junior sister, he couldn’t take it anymore.

Duan Xiayou was just staff, and the camera wouldn’t stay on him long. Yet each time it lingered, it was a stunning glance for the audience.

[Charming and elegant, face like an exquisite jade—that’s the kind of handsome man he is]

[Why did the camera move away again? Let me see him one more time, please]

[Are all the handsome guys and beauties not enough for you?]

[Handsome guys and beauties, who would mind more of them]

[But this handsome guy has a weird expression, maybe I could describe it as, a faint fondness amid a look of helplessness?]

[I get the helplessness, he’s genuinely lazy. When the camera occasionally sweeps by the staff, he’s either asleep leaning against a tree or napping on a trunk. Meanwhile, Miaomiao is the opposite, either bouncing around or chattering away]

[Miaomiao: Senior brother, master sent me to torment you, hahaha]

Everyone was already used to these two taking the camera and breaking away from the main group.

The other kids were quite envious too.

Yang Heng sidled up to Wu Yu, clenched his small fists, "I’ve decided, no matter what, I must take Miaomiao as my master! My brother already agreed!"

Wu Yu glanced at him, striding along with her short legs to keep up with the main group.

"It doesn’t matter if your brother agrees, her brother has to agree."

Yang Heng immediately turned his head to glance at Gu Cheng. The exceptionally handsome man had his lips pressed together, with a grave expression, making him hard to approach. Then he looked at his brother, who always had a silly smile on his face.

He gulped nervously.

Wu Yu coolly remarked, "Give up."

Yang Heng clenched his fists, "No, I’ll convince him!"

On the following mountain patrol, Yang Heng ditched his own brother, constantly trying to curry favor with Gu Cheng, bringing out his chocolate beef jerky, or handing over his water bottle.

At lunchtime, he held his bowl of food and went to Gu Cheng, "Big brother, are you tired? After eating, want me to massage your shoulders?"

Yang Jin, sitting nearby, heard this and grumbled, "I’m very tired, why don’t you come over and massage my shoulders."

Yang Heng looked back at him, "Oh, you’ll get used to being tired."

Yang Jin: "..."

[Forgive me for laughing out loud irreverently]

[Hahaha]

Watching from the sidelines, Yang Zhi mused, "Fortunately, my cousin never tries to flatter me, so I don’t expect or get disappointed."

Wen Jing snorted, "Hmph!"

Gu Cheng hadn’t reacted yet when Tuanzi showed her teeth cautiously, "What, are you trying to steal my brother?"

"Hey? No," Yang Heng said honestly, "I’m trying to cozy up to your brother."

Gu Cheng raised his eyebrows, what’s the point of ingratiating himself with him? Could it be he just wants to keep playing with his sister, so he’s sucking up?

Tuanzi snorted, unable to stop someone else from trying to please her brother, she could only bury herself in her food.

Yang Heng made his clumsy attempts at flattery, then carefully asked, "Big brother, do you agree to Miaomiao taking me as her disciple?"

Gu Cheng: "...You have to ask her about that."

Yang Heng approached Tuanzi, "I’ll give you a drumstick if you accept me as your disciple."

Tuanzi really craved the drumstick in his bowl, but she held onto her principles.

"I’ve said, Miaomiao hasn’t graduated yet, she can’t take on disciples. Why do you keep forgetting this?"

A genuinely forgetful Yang Heng: "..." Did he flatter for nothing?

And, who misled him in the first place?

Receiving skeptical looks from his peers, Wu Yu thought for a moment and gave a thumbs up.

Yang Heng: Is this brushed-off approval?

After lunch, Tuanzi accompanied the main group for a while before running off with the camera and Duan Xiayou.

The two of them leaped from branch to branch, soon hearing chirping sounds.

"Are these birds having a meeting?"

Different birds have different calls, and she already heard several kinds.

Duan Xiayou: "Didn’t they say this area has a rich variety of birds? But these sounds, something’s off."

Hearing the words ’something’s off,’ the audience was already panicking.

Why does it feel like there’s a problem on every Mountain?

The hater popped up questioning if it was all just hype. Why does something go wrong everywhere the crew goes?

[Isn’t it possible that such things are happening everywhere? No matter how much you crack down, someone is always committing crimes]

[Greed drives people]

Tuanzi shot out like an arrow, quickly landing on a branch and peering down through the leaves.

There she saw a man holding a megaphone, playing bird calls through it.

She couldn’t understand the bird language, but it attracted quite a few birds.

And once they landed, they would get tangled in bird-catching nets.

The meshes of these nets were tightly knit, even small birds couldn’t escape once trapped.

Another man was catching birds and putting them into a large sack.

Tuanzi looked at the sack, suspecting that the birds would soon suffocate inside.

[Ancient Martial System: They’re probably catching them to eat, not caring if they’re alive]

Most of the birds here are protected species, no one in the country would buy them. But if you eat them, once you pluck the feathers, who could tell what they are?

Tuanzi’s hair nearly stood on end with anger.

"Eat, eat, eat, I’ll make them eat right now!"

She dropped straight down, landing on the megaphone user’s back, causing him to fall flat on the ground.

Tuanzi stood on his back, pressing his head down, making him eat dirt.

"You eat, come on, eat up!"

The man with a mouth full of dirt: "..."

Duan Xiayou straightforwardly imitated her.

The man grabbing birds also fell, and before he could lift his head, a foot pressed against the back of his head, grinding it, making him eat dirt.