Chapter 16
Shen Jinfeng noticed the instant Qin Ye’s gaze dodged away.
He slowly withdrew his hand, his eyes pausing on the faintly reddened earlobe of the young man opposite him.
There were clear traces of sweat there. As Qin Ye breathed, a crystal-clear bead of sweat rolled down, and now that Shen Jinfeng was staring at it, the clear liquid seemed to tremble too, hanging at the root of his ear, about to fall but not falling.
Just like the owner of the body.
Shy.
Hiss. This was bad.
Shen Jinfeng coughed lightly and turned his gaze away.
It was over. This secret admirer was definitely going to start imagining things now. He wouldn’t think Shen Jinfeng was interested in him, would he?
“Qin Ye, if you can’t hold on, just tell me. I’m the captain, so I have to take care of you all,” he explained, trying a little too hard to cover things up.
Qin Ye’s movements paused for two seconds. Then his arm swung with a fierce rush of wind, and with one slash, he actually chopped down a bamboo stalk.
[??? What happened? Why does Qin Ye suddenly look like he took stimulants?]
[My god, he actually wasn’t using his full strength earlier! Too amazing. As expected of someone the Kung Fu Heavenly King wanted to take as his successor.]
[Speaking of which, does no one think the atmosphere between these two is a little strange? Why did Qin Ye suddenly work even harder after Shen Jinfeng came over? His strength even increased? Like a peacock spreading its tail.]
[No, upstairs, aren’t you seeing gay everywhere? What’s strange about it? Isn’t it just caring about a teammate? Yesterday, Shen Jinfeng also brought He Erwang down from the tree. Why didn’t anyone say that was strange?]
[No, upstairs, why are you suddenly dragging He Erwang into this? Besides, who says no one thought those two were “strange”? Strange in quotation marks! The Feng Chui Wang Dong CP group was built overnight on Weibo, and it already has nearly tens of thousands of fans, okay!]
Just as the bullet comments sensed that something was off and began arguing noisily,
He Erwang lived up to expectations—unexpectedly yet also completely expectedly—and squeezed between Qin Ye and Shen Jinfeng.
His purple hair was damp with sweat, sticking wetly to his forehead, unexpectedly making him look somewhat obedient.
But the moment he opened his mouth, his tone was still the same unchangeably flamboyant and lively one.
“Hahahahahaha, Boss, you don’t understand this! A man can’t say he can’t!” He patted Qin Ye’s shoulder with an expression that said he understood everything.
Shen Jinfeng suddenly understood.
Then, thinking of the reason behind the phrase “can’t say he can’t,” he fell silent.
“I’m going to the sea to catch some fish,” he said after a pause, then turned and left.
He Erwang nodded cheerfully. “Okay! Boss, you’re the best!”
Before his words had even fallen, he shrank his neck.
Why did it feel like the temperature had suddenly dropped?
[Pfft, this silly kid is going to make me laugh to death hahahaha.]
[That’s right, a man can’t say he can’t! I guarantee when Qin Ye heard him say that, the look in his eyes like he wanted to stab someone was almost impossible to hide.]
[He Erwang has a point. What has Qin Ye ever done before that wasn’t far ahead of everyone else? But on this deserted island, Shen Jinfeng’s big-shot persona has clearly stolen the spotlight. He probably just wanted to show off a bit. Then Shen Jinfeng even asked him to say something if he couldn’t hold on. Isn’t that exactly a case of not being able to say he can’t? So his strength suddenly exploded.]
[Uh, these days, netizens as innocent as upstairs are rare. CPDD?]
[Report! Someone here is openly trying to flirt with girls, uh, maybe boys…]
The five-person tree-chopping and wood-carrying team continued diligently working.
But clearly, with only one main force, their efficiency really could not be considered high.
Meanwhile, Shen Jinfeng’s efficiency was far too high.
Catching fish was nothing more than a small dish to him.
Every thrust of the forked branch hit its mark. Sometimes, one thrust even caught several fish, easily making countless people feel: If I went, I could do it too.
Sun Xinping, who had been staring at the livestream camera the whole time, looked at the mountain-like pile of fish in the shot and knew that his idea of controlling the guests through food had completely fallen through.
Damn it. Did Shen Jinfeng have fish gravity?
At this moment, the publicity team leader beside him hesitated, struggling for a long time before asking Sun Xinping, “Director, why is Shen Jinfeng catching fish again?”
Sun Xinping glared at him irritably. “Where did you run off to all morning? Why are you only appearing now? What do you mean ‘again’? Doesn’t he need to eat?”
The publicity team leader shrank his neck, his brows twisting into a deep frown.
A bad premonition rose in Sun Xinping’s heart. “What happened?”
The publicity team leader wiped sweat from his forehead. “Director, we received a lot of complaints this morning. They’re all complaints from parents during summer vacation. They said our show has a bad influence and that dangerous actions are inducing teenagers to imitate them.”
“Huh?” A huge question mark appeared on Sun Xinping’s forehead.
The publicity team leader pointed at Shen Jinfeng’s smooth, flowing movements on the screen. “The videos of Shen Jinfeng catching fish and climbing trees have gone viral. And since it’s summer vacation, lots of children are imitating him. Some smashed the fish tanks at home, and some tried climbing trees and fell.”
“There are even parents vacationing by the sea with their children saying that because their kids watched Shen Jinfeng’s video, they took branches and spent the whole day at the seaside. No matter how much the parents tried to persuade them, they wouldn’t come back…”
Sun Xinping held back his impatience. “No, why are these kids trying to learn this so eagerly? There’s qinggong that lets people fly in martial arts films too. Why don’t they learn that?”
At this moment, he did not yet know that his words would soon become prophecy.
The publicity team leader also looked indignant. “Exactly! In the end, what does this have to do with our production team? Besides, Shen Jinfeng didn’t fake anything. That means catching fish and climbing trees are things real people can do. Isn’t learning this more hopeful than learning qinggong?”
“Ahem.” Seeing Sun Xinping’s expression gradually darken, Xiao Li at the side urgently coughed a few times. “Team Leader Qian, if there’s something that needs to be done, just say it.”
After all, Team Leader Qian had not seen it.
But Xiao Li had. Among the people who thought catching fish looked simple and easy enough to learn, felt “I can do it too,” went to try, and then failed, hadn’t Sun Xinping himself been one of them?
The publicity team leader analyzed with a serious expression, “Director, our show is too popular. The slightest stir gets noticed by countless people. I saw that online, some paid commenters are already guiding public opinion, saying that playing in water during summer vacation is dangerous and that many children have been influenced by us, running to riversides alone to try catching fish…”
Sun Xinping’s expression turned solemn, and he also recognized the seriousness of the matter.
He looked somewhat conflicted at the handsome, carefree movements of the young man on the screen.
They could not lose this popularity, but public opinion had to be paid attention to as well.
After struggling for a moment, his eyes lit up.
He instructed the equipment team leader, “Mountain Goat, put a line of text on the screen. Make it obvious.”
The equipment team leader said, “Ah? What line?”
Sun Xinping said, “Professional action. Please do not imitate.”
Equipment team leader: “…6.”
Sun Xinping thought for a moment. “From now on, if you see Shen Jinfeng do anything ordinary people can’t do, be a little sharper and add this line yourself.”
Equipment team leader: “Oh.”
The netizens watching the sudden appearance of this line on the screen in real time: [???]
[What the hell, professional action.]
[Iconic.]
By the time Shen Jinfeng finished this professional action and returned with a basket full of fish, less than half an hour had passed.
The basket holding the fish had also been woven from leaves yesterday. It looked soft and “fashionable,” but evidently, its load-bearing capacity was excellent.
[I feel like this basket of fish plus water must be forty or fifty jin.]
[More than that. I was just staring at the screen and counting fish. Shen Jinfeng moved too fast, so it might not be completely accurate, but the number will only be lower, not higher. He just caught over eighty fish! Do you know what that means? My dad sells fish, and I’ve been influenced by it since childhood. The basket in his arms has to be at least over 130 jin. Hard to say exactly how much, but it’s definitely heavier than he is.]
[How, how much? He looks like he’s carrying it without any effort at all. I weigh just over ninety jin, and even my boyfriend struggles to carry me! He says normal men are all like that.]
[Pfft, sister, your boyfriend is the abnormal one.]
[No, is this real or fake? How can his basket fit that many fish?]
[Holy crap, could this basket be an illusion? Actually, it’s a storage basket. That’s right, like the storage rings in xianxia novels, inexhaustible and endless.]
[No need for xianxia novels. Just go straight to mythology. One of the ten great ancient divine artifacts: the Qiankun Bag!]
#ShenJinfeng’sQiankunBasket rushed onto the trending searches.
Deep in the mountains of Gui Province, a certain young girl who accidentally saw this trending search widened her eyes.
She enlarged the “Qiankun Basket” and looked at it again and again. After looking for more than ten minutes, she hurriedly put down her phone and ran out a few steps, then suddenly rushed back to grab the phone.
“Grandpa! Grandpa—” The young girl held the phone, her eyes shining as she showed it to an old man.
The old man wore a plain sweat-stained shirt that had already been washed faded. His hair was snow-white, but he still wore reading glasses and was focused on weaving with bamboo strips.
“Why are you making such a fuss?” He helplessly put down the bamboo strips and asked his granddaughter.
The young girl enlarged the photo on her phone for him. “Grandpa, is this the Qiankun Basket you talked about?”
The old man’s hand paused slightly, and he subconsciously refuted, “The Qiankun Basket has been lost for a long time. Even I’ve never seen it. Where did you dig up a picture to fool me?”
“No! Grandpa, I’ll show you the video!” The girl jumped anxiously. “You showed me the records before. It really looks like it!”
The old man disapprovingly leaned over and glanced at it.
Then, his gaze never moved away again.
“Girl, play it again!” When the video ended, he urged the girl to replay it.
He watched for several times longer than the girl had earlier.
Only after almost half an hour did he say in a trembling voice, “Light in weight yet heavy in carrying capacity, inexhaustible and endless. It really is the Qiankun Basket.”
“Girl, hurry and help me contact this young man in the video!”
“Uh…” The girl froze in place, somewhat hesitant. “That might be a little difficult…”
The old man stood up anxiously. “How can I contact him? Would it be useful if I went to Old Yuan and the others?”
The Old Yuan he mentioned was the current curator of Gui Province Museum.
The girl answered uncertainly, “Maybe?”
As for Shen Jinfeng, who had accidentally made a legendary ancient “divine artifact,” he did not take the casual little basket seriously at all.
He carried the fish back to shore.
Possibly because he had returned too quickly, it was obvious that the wood needed for the hut was only just over halfway gathered.
This was already a little better than he had expected.
Shen Jinfeng put down the Qiankun Basket, casually picked up a military knife from the ground, and walked to the other side of Qin Ye.
It was almost noon now. Better to start early and finish early.
Thus, He Erwang and the others had just spotted him and wanted to greet him when they saw his hand rise and blade fall, and a tree collapsed with a sound.
Qin Ye could also do something like that.
But Shen Jinfeng was too fast. So fast that within three minutes, more than a dozen trees had fallen like this.
And, as if it were nothing, he casually lifted the fallen trees with one hand and threw them through the air to the open space not far away.
[!!!]
[? Good grief. If a TV drama filmed it like this, I’d still have to say it was ridiculous!]
[Old Dog Sun, come out and explain! Are those trees really solid?]
Clearly, the rest of the team at the scene was also shocked.
He Erwang swallowed and stared blankly at his movements.
The purple-haired youth’s eyes seemed to be filled with stars, sparkling with worship.
After watching foolishly for more than ten minutes, he abruptly made a request that seemed unreasonable and was, in fact, a little strange.
“Boss.” His tone was filled with amazement.
Shen Jinfeng continued chopping trees without even stopping his movements. “What is it?”
He Erwang thickened his skin, his eyes shining as he asked, “Can I see your abs?”
