Chapter 6
For some reason, Shen Jinfeng still felt a little awkward inside. He raised his eyes and asked with concern, “Can you still walk?”
Qin Ye froze for a moment, then realized that the young man in front of him was worried about him.
He glanced back at the teammates behind them, who were either sitting improperly or even lying down while eating, and understood.
Shen Jinfeng had probably taken him for a “weak chicken” too.
“I still have strength. I’ll go look for food with you.”
Shen Jinfeng gave an “oh,” then carefully looked at Qin Ye’s complexion.
He looked like he wanted to speak, stopped himself, wanted to speak again, then stopped again. In the end, he still said nothing.
But the suspicion in his eyes was bright and clear, practically filled with disbelief.
Very obviously, on the screen, the young man who had been walking quickly a moment ago took the initiative to slow his steps, as if accommodating the “burden” following beside him.
The netizens watching the livestream were amused by the brief exchange and the meaningful expressions between the two.
[I’m dying of laughter. This is probably the first time Qin Ye has ever heard someone suspect his stamina isn’t good.]
[When Qin Ye filmed Moment of Confrontation, he personally did all the action scenes. They were all high-difficulty moves and required extremely strong stamina. Even the martial arts stunt doubles in the industry said they couldn’t compare to him. If every celebrity were like him, they’d be unemployed… So… how could his stamina possibly be bad?!]
[I heard he spent some time in a military camp, and even in the army, his skills were top-tier. But it’s just gossip, not guaranteed true.]
[That makes it even funnier hahahahahaha. “Can you still walk?” It’s just like the morning after a certain kind of activity, asking afterward: Baby, can you still get out of bed today?]
[Pfft, upstairs, you’re going to steal all the bamboo shoots on the mountain!]
[Actually, you can’t really blame Shen Jinfeng for doubting it. Look back at those teammates who seem like they’ll collapse if they move even once… Aren’t they the normal ones?]
[Isn’t He Erwang an idol? Usually, after several hours of singing and dancing on stage, he’s still full of energy! Why is he so useless now?]
[Exactly. Gu Shengsheng and Qi Xiu look weak at a glance with their small frames. Mo Fan… although Mo Fan is rumored to have committed domestic violence, his build doesn’t look strong either. But I heard when He Erwang was a trainee, his longest record was sleeping only seven hours in five days while practicing nonstop. Logically speaking, his stamina should be very good, right?]
[There’s no need to doubt He Erwang’s professional ability, okay? If you’re interested, you can go to C Station and watch the stage compilation made by He Erwang’s fan support club!]
[So, is there a possibility that it’s not that the others are weak, but that Qin Ye and Shen Jinfeng are too strong?]
[Silence…]
[Everyone knows Qin Ye has good physical fitness. Shen Jinfeng looks tall and thin too, but he actually still has strength now? Could the production team have opened a back door for him?]
Sun Xinping looked at the guesses on the bullet comments that had been led astray. Now they were all suspecting that the production team had given someone special treatment.
He gave Shen Jinfeng special treatment?
“Old Qian, put a big line of text on the screen for me! Say that our Being Human production team is completely fair and impartial!”
Clearly, the only unfair thing about Being Human was the personas. But the personas were completely public, and the unfairness had been visible from the very beginning.
Old Qian was the leader of the publicity team. After hearing Sun Xinping’s instruction, he directly activated administrator privileges, temporarily cleared the bullet comments, and forcibly “washed the show clean.”
All the netizens: “…”
Impressive.
While the bullet comments were discussing heatedly, Shen Jinfeng and Qin Ye had already reached the seaside.
The sea stretched endlessly with blue waves, vast and beautiful. But for people stranded on a deserted island, what they felt was more likely despair.
Qin Ye frowned slightly and also felt that the current situation was not optimistic.
Just then, he suddenly saw a figure step directly into the water.
!
“Shen Jinfeng, what are you doing?” He strode forward, wanting to pull him back.
In the end… he could not pull him back??!
Shen Jinfeng’s body swayed slightly, and he also sighed inwardly that it had been close.
He turned back in surprise. “You’re pretty strong.”
Because he was going into the water, with waves surging and ripples swaying, there was no telling when he might be knocked over by an incoming tide.
Stabilizing his body was very important.
Therefore, when he stood in the water, he had used a “Firm-Rooted Old Tree Method” he had learned in a certain martial arts world. Although this body had no internal force now, when coordinated with breathing and control over his muscles, logically speaking, his lower body should have been as unmoving as a tree.
In the end, Qin Ye had actually almost pulled him back just now.
He had not expected Qin Ye to be stronger than imagined.
Or was it that he was too weak now?
However, those words, which were filled with praise, sounded like naked “insult” to Qin Ye’s ears.
Qin Ye lowered his head and stared blankly at his own palm twice, his cold expression showing a faint crack.
Although he had not used his full strength just now, he had failed to pull even one person back and had almost lost his own footing?
Was it really like Madam Yun said—that after sitting in an office every day, he had already become weak?
He clearly worked out every day.
Seeing that Qin Ye had not pulled him away and now seemed to have sunk into “sadness,” Shen Jinfeng turned his head away somewhat guiltily and answered Qin Ye’s earlier question.
“I’m planning to catch fish. You can sit on the shore and wait for me.”
Qin Ye came back to himself, his gaze landing on the fishing tool Shen Jinfeng raised to show him.
A bare tree branch. Shen Jinfeng had casually broken it off a tree trunk before coming over.
“Using this to catch fish?” Qin Ye could not help asking.
Shen Jinfeng nodded. Seeing that the other party still was not leaving and was staring straight at his “fish spear,” he wondered—
Did Qin Ye want to join him?
But there was only one “fish spear.” If he broke it into two, it would be too short.
“You want to help me?” he asked, somewhat troubled.
When Qin Ye was young, he had been the king of the children in their courtyard and had once brought a group of little followers to catch fish in the water. He knew very well that even with all kinds of tools, catching fish was not simple.
How could he possibly succeed with just a tree branch?
He looked at Shen Jinfeng’s enthusiastic appearance and thought about how to word his persuasion, to convince this “team leader” to give up catching fish.
Perhaps going into the woods to pick some wild fruit would be the wiser choice now.
Seeing that Qin Ye did not speak, Shen Jinfeng sighed inwardly.
This secret admirer refused to eat, followed closely behind him, and wholeheartedly wanted to help. Now that he could not do anything, he was probably feeling rather upset.
“Qin Ye.” He seriously assigned him a simple task that would give him some sense of presence. “Go sit by the shore first. It might take a while. Later, I’ll give you all the fish, and you help me hold them, all right?”
“What?”
Shen Jinfeng said, “If you help me, I’ll give you half of the fish I catch later.”
Qin Ye: “…All right.”
He looked at the young man opposite him, who was slightly shorter than him and was now raising his head a little to look at him, eyes full of sincerity. His heart moved, and he could not bring himself to say anything discouraging.
Although Shen Jinfeng had unrealistic fantasies about catching fish, the first thing he thought of was actually giving half to Qin Ye.
He was a kindhearted, very sincere, and responsible team organizer.
Qin Ye formed his first impression of Shen Jinfeng, someone he had not been familiar with before.
Let him play in the water for a while. Once he got tired, they could leave.
Although Shen Jinfeng was the boss, he was actually still young, and his temperament was not yet mature. It was understandable for him to be a little confident.
Qin Ye would rest first and build up his strength. Later, if they went into the forest to pick wild fruit, he could be responsible for shaking the trees and climbing them.
So Qin Ye really returned to the shore. But he did not sit. He lazily crossed his arms and stood there, looking toward the young man in the shallow water, a trace of a smile in his eyes.
[Damn it, Shen Jinfeng actually managed to show off in front of me.]
[What do you mean, “I’ll catch fish, you just sit and rest”? What do you mean, “Sitting there and helping me hold the fish counts as helping”? What do you mean, “I’ll give you half of the fish I catch later”? Since when did Shen Jinfeng know how to talk like this?!]
[The problem is Qin Ye actually agreed!]
[Qin Ye probably agreed because he thinks the idea of catching fish is stupid… How could anyone catch fish with a tree branch?]
[Actually, I want to ask, when did Qin Ye become this weak? In the movie, didn’t he lift a fat guy weighing over two hundred pounds with one hand without even blushing or panting? Did Old Dog Sun give him some persona that lowers his strength?]
Sun Xinping: “…”
Did every pot have to be thrown onto his back?
Yes, he could assign personas, but personas were implanted into the guests’ minds. They could not directly increase or lower the guests’ intelligence, let alone alter their physical constitution.
Wasn’t that nonsense?
This time, without needing his instruction, the publicity team leader very consciously displayed a few large words on the screen:
This humble official would not dare!
[Pfft, fine.]
However, only a few seconds after the explanation disappeared, the screen suddenly blurred. What had flown up from the sea?
They saw three fish sweep through the air in a perfect arc and land accurately at Qin Ye’s feet.
???
[Are my eyes blurry?]
[Is something wrong with my eyes? Am I the only one who seems to have seen fish?]
[Upstairs… you’re not alone.]
On the screen, obvious astonishment flashed across Qin Ye’s expression, his dark eyes widening slightly.
“Qin Ye, I’ll leave the fish in your care!” Shen Jinfeng’s voice drifted over from the sea.
As soon as his words fell, several more perfect arcs appeared in midair.
At Qin Ye’s feet, there were now seven fish in total. Each fish clearly had a hole pierced through its body, but they were not fully dead yet. They were rolling their eyes, occasionally twitching.
Qin Ye slowly bent down and reached out to pin down a struggling fish trying to slip away.
[What just happened? Asking weakly.]
[Does Shen Jinfeng have some kind of fish-attracting technique? In less than a minute, he raised his hand, dropped the branch, and caught fish?]
[Good grief, there are already ten now.]
[My dad has been a fisherman all his life. I just showed him this move, and he said with absolute certainty: Fake! Edited! Don’t use high technology to fool me!]
[I just carefully selected a thick branch and aimed it at my dad’s precious koi in the tank.]
[How did it go?]
[The tank broke, the fish ran away, and I’m currently catching fish.]
[Pfft.]
Shen Jinfeng’s perfect—outrageous—fishing skill successfully shocked everyone.
[No, did Old Dog Sun really not give Shen Jinfeng cheats?]
Sun Xinping stared blankly at the screen and asked Xiao Li beside him, “Did we give him cheats?”
Xiao Li: “…”
“Is it possible that Shen Jinfeng is just good at catching fish?”
The corner of Sun Xinping’s mouth twitched.
Was that merely being good at it?
With Shen Jinfeng’s momentum, if he stayed at sea for a few days, was he planning to catch all the fish in this stretch of water?
Could he be the god of fish?
Rather than saying he was catching fish, it would make more sense to say that those fish were offering up their own bodies on their own initiative to add a meal for their fish god.
