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Chapter 174 The All-Powerful Li Younan [First Update!]

By the time Lu Ya saw Li Younan catching fish, she was almost numb.

Li Younan fished one fish after another, as if he had installed a magnet on the fishhook, and the fish were like iron blocks that would stick to the magnet as soon as they touched it.

My understanding of Li Younan naturally needs to be refreshed in my mind.

Originally, all she knew about Li Younan was what was shown in the videos. This guy was a parkour expert, a sculptor, a carpenter, a plumber, a skiing prodigy, a mountaineering prodigy, and so on.

Suddenly, he could add another label to his identity: fisherman.

Strictly speaking, he's not just an ordinary angler, but a truly skilled angler.

Now, recalling Li Younan's actions of scattering bait into the water, Lu Ya gradually began to understand.

That was definitely not the haphazard scattering of bait and baiting that she initially understood.

As for his lack of action in adjusting the float and testing the waters, there was naturally a reason for it, but she couldn't quite understand it yet, so she couldn't help but ask.

Li Younan was just untying a fish he had just caught when Lu Ya asked why he hadn't adjusted the float or done a trial fishing session initially. Li Younan didn't keep her in suspense and explained, "The reason is... to establish a feeding area. Adjusting the float and doing a trial fishing session would have disturbed the fish."

Lu Ya couldn't help but ask again, "Then how did you know which water layer the fish was in?"

Li Younan shrugged and smiled, saying, "Well, when you have a deep understanding of the habits of fish, and combine that with the conditions of the waters here, the weather, the oxygen content, the color of the water, and so on, you can roughly deduce the answer... The specific principles are a bit complicated, but you'll have to listen."

Lu Ya looked at Li Younan with her big, watery eyes and kept nodding, wanting to hear!

Li Younan continued fishing slowly, explaining the intricacies of the process to Lu Ya.

He spoke for a while, and Lu Ya next to him looked even more dazed. Then she looked at Li Younan with some complicated feelings: "I didn't know you were such a seasoned angler."

Although Li Younan explained it to her for a while, the content involved was too complicated. Even a slight variable could lead to different results. So, even though Li Younan had explained it to her, it was almost impossible to directly convert it into usable experience.

Li Younan didn't explain, he just smiled.

By this time, Li Younan had been catching fish for a while. He looked at the catch in his fish basket and felt that he had almost met the requirements for advancing, so he decided not to continue fishing.

The rest is relatively simple.

The referees checked the catch at each fishing spot and collected everyone's scores for a summary.

During this time, Li Younan said goodbye to Lu Ya.

Li Younan then found Liu Yu again, and Liu Yu still had that calm expression.

Li Younan went over and asked him, "How was the fishing?"

When Liu Yu saw Li Younan, he calmly said, "Generally speaking, fishing is better when it's about cultivating one's character. If it becomes competitive, it will affect one's state of mind. Without that state of mind, fishing loses its original joy. This is a lesson I learned during this competition."

Li Younan laughed and said, "Just say it straight, it seems you're in the Air Force!"

Seeing Li Younan's wildly laughing expression, Liu Yu's lips curled into a smile.

That's exactly the effect he wanted. By saying those words, he made Li Younan think that he was definitely going to be eliminated or that his performance was bad. So when the actual results were announced, it would actually surprise Li Younan.

His performance today was actually quite good. Although he didn't break 500 points in the first 20 rounds, he still managed to reach around 400 points at the last moment.

All things considered, there should still be a chance to make it into the top 50 and advance to tomorrow's finals.

He said calmly, "Let's see how it goes."

The subsequent result was that the scores of the top 20 advancers and all the remaining people would be tallied together, and the final results would be published directly on the WeChat official account.

Li Younan drove Liu Yu back to the hotel to rest.

Just then, the results were announced on the WeChat official account. Liu Yu couldn't wait to take out his phone and open the list of the top 50 who advanced. He didn't look at the first few people and scrolled to the end of the page. Although he felt that he had a chance to advance, he wasn't confident that his name would appear at the top. It was much easier to look from the back to the front.

He scrolled down to the last place in the top 50 who had advanced and saw that the last place had 436 points.

He paused for a moment when he saw the score, then sighed softly.

His score is 405, which means he is 31 points away from advancing.

If I had caught two more carp back then, I probably could have achieved this result.

However, he felt that this result was still pretty good.

Li Younan then asked him, "How did it go? Did you advance?"

Liu Yu put down his phone, leaned back in his seat, and said in a relaxed tone, "I didn't advance. My score is 405 points. The threshold for advancement is 436 points." There was actually a hint of pride in his voice as he said this. 405 points, although not reaching the threshold for advancement, was not a bad score. For an average angler, it was still a pretty good score.

Then he asked Li Younan, "By the way, what was your score?"

As Li Younan drove, he thought for a moment and said somewhat uncertainly, "I haven't calculated it carefully, but it's probably around 700 or 800 points."

"Oh." Liu Yu nodded, then realized what he'd heard and his expression instantly turned strange. He thought he'd misheard: "Huh? How much?"

“Seven or eight hundred,” Li Younan repeated.

Liu Yu's eyes widened in disbelief. She scoffed, "You must be joking. If you get 700 or 800 points, you'd be at least in the top few. Top few... do you mean you can..."

He quickly scrolled to the top of the page, and then his words caught in his throat.

Because the first place was Li Younan with 805 points, while Zhao Tianyu, the first to advance, only had more than 700 points and was in second place.

Liu Yu looked at Li Younan in disbelief.

Li Younan hadn't seen the rankings yet, so he smiled and asked, "Well, did you find my name?"

Liu Yu silently put her phone away: "Go back and look at it yourself. I need to rest for a while now, so don't bother me."

After saying that, he leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes to rest.

……

The competition, originally scheduled for the second day, was postponed due to heavy rain.

The sudden downpour showed no signs of stopping.

Such weather presents both safety hazards and challenges, as the fish population becomes more difficult to monitor during rain, which can significantly impact the athletes' performance.

If the audience doesn't see any fish taking the bait, the competition will become boring, so postponing it is a very reasonable thing to do.

After the competition was postponed, Li Younan and Liu Yu were a little bored. Since Shengzhong Lake was located in a small county in the south, there was not much to see. So the two stayed in the hotel and did not go out.

I finished editing the video and sent it out.

There is something to celebrate: in the past two days, Li Younan's number of fans has exceeded 4 million, bringing him one step closer to 10 million fans.

Now, every time he posts a video, even without accepting sponsored ads, he receives a share of the traffic from Douyin, and he gets feedback very quickly after each video he posts.

Most of the comments on this fishing video were either stunned or filled with wild memes.

Because of Lao Xu's bloody lesson last time, even though some people had some doubts about Li Younan's transformation into a fishing expert, none of them dared to question it openly.

On the contrary, his fans and friends have unwavering faith in Li Younan's performance.

"Li Younan, just how many skills do you have that I don't know about?! I just saw you doing extreme mountain climbing a few days ago, and today you're sitting by the river fishing. Is your next step to use your carving skills to turn the fish you catch into a work of art, and then cook it into a Michelin-starred meal on the spot? You're ridiculously handsome, and you've maxed out all your skill points. How can a human do things like this?"

"I thought you were a 'hexagonal warrior' among travel bloggers, but it turns out I was too narrow-minded—once you pick up this fishing rod, you become a 'round war god'! I suggest you change your name to 'Li Younan, who can do anything'!"

"Help! Look at Li Younan fishing, sitting there so quietly, his profile is absolutely stunning, the fish must be willingly taking the bait because of his good looks... This isn't fishing, it's fishing for the lives of us fans who love both his looks and his skills!"

The people who paid attention to this video included Li Younan's fans, haters who were always looking for loopholes in his videos, and talent scouts from "Living Alone in the Wilderness".

After Li Younan demonstrated his fishing skills, Cameron decisively raised Li Younan's importance level by another tier.

At this point, he was no longer just a figure of interest; the skills he had already demonstrated were enough to ensure his strong survival ability in the wilderness.

If there is one Chinese contestant who can enter the "Living Alone in the Wilderness" program, then at present, that person can only be Li Younan.

However, there are still some risks involved in bringing in a Chinese person to participate in their program.

Although Asians and even Chinese have participated in this show before, they have basically flopped and there's not much to see.

In addition, we need to test the show's influence and popularity in China, and whether the market is large enough.

After thinking about it, they decided to release some information first and see the reaction.

The following day, the "Living in the Wild" program team released an announcement on multiple online channels: the next season of "Living in the Wild" will recruit a survival expert from China to participate in the program.

What the production team didn't expect was that the level of attention Chinese people paid to the show "Living Alone in the Wilderness" far exceeded their expectations.

(End of this chapter)