"Oh my god!"
Zhou Niannian stood alone at the top of the tree, her legs trembling uncontrollably.
Who could blame her? It was her own fault for being so attention-seeking.
"It's okay, it's okay, just do what you did before, slide down the trunk!"
Dai Xiaomei instructed from below.
Zhou Niannian glared at Dai Xiaomei, who was talking from a safe position.
She tried to descend, managing to move down about a meter, but it felt harder than anything she had ever experienced.
The squirrels in the tree hollow above had reappeared, each holding nut shells and various strange objects.
Just as Zhou Niannian was about to move, *smack*, a rotten fruit hit her.
Good heavens, these squirrels held a grudge!
With the squirrels attacking, her chances of getting down safely were slim.
Dai Xiaomei was also on the verge of tears, having egged Zhou Niannian on to go in the first place.
"Staying up there won't help, jump down, I'll catch you."
Zhou Niannian was completely stunned. She had moved down a little, but she was still five or six meters from the ground.
Could Dai Xiaomei, with her small frame, possibly catch her?
"It...it'll be fine."
Dai Xiaomei went around and gathered a lot of soft grass, spreading it on the ground to form a makeshift nest.
"Jump down, there's no other way."
"When you jump, I'll catch you and help absorb the impact."
Dai Xiaomei said with a helpless expression.
With no other options, Zhou Niannian let out a shout.
"Here I go!"
Zhou Niannian clung to a tree branch with both hands, extending her body as much as possible.
At this point, the branch was about five meters from the ground. Zhou Niannian was over 1.7 meters tall, so her feet were only a little over three meters from the ground.
This distance was within a somewhat manageable range.
Seeing Zhou Niannian about to jump, several onlookers quickly flew up.
Whether it was the viewers watching the live stream or Dai Xiaomei, they all assumed these onlookers, under official direction, were going to act as shock absorbers and ensure Zhou Niannian's safety.
Besides, everyone had always suspected that these onlookers didn't seem to be from Earth's technology.
No one knew where the officials had gotten them from.
They looked like small, round spheres, and everyone believed they could support Zhou Niannian as she flew.
A tragic event unfolded. The onlookers flew up, not to act as shock absorbers or to cushion Zhou Niannian's landing.
Instead, they all flew to Zhou Niannian's face, zooming in on her terrified expression for a close-up.
"Scumbags!"
The live chat was filled with curses.
The squirrels in the tree hollow saw this and began attacking Zhou Niannian and the onlookers with nut shells and rotten fruits.
Zhou Niannian's hair was messed up by the rotten fruit.
" Beasts!"
The audience roared in unison, wishing they could skin the squirrels alive.
The squirrels didn't care; they were beasts to begin with!
"Ahhh, I'm jumping!"
Zhou Niannian couldn't hold on any longer. She closed her eyes and jumped.
Just then, a dark shadow shot from afar and landed under the tree.
Zhou Niannian didn't fall on Dai Xiaomei, nor did she fall on the ground. She landed directly in Jiang Fan's arms.
"My god, jumping from that height without professional training would have broken your legs."
"Do you think you're Daoist Master Chen from Wudang with your Qinggong skill?"
Jiang Fan wiped the sweat from his brow. He had seen Zhou Niannian about to jump from afar and his heart had screamed trouble.
He had rushed over at the speed of a track athlete sprinting 100 meters. Fortunately, he made it in time and caught Zhou Niannian.
Zhou Niannian nestled in Jiang Fan's arms, feeling his warmth and heartbeat. Her face flushed, and her heart pounded.
This was the first time she had been so close to Jiang Fan.
Jiang Fan's heart was beating so fast. Zhou Niannian couldn't help but wonder if he was excited because he cared about her and was worried, or if he was involuntarily moved by their rare close proximity.
The viewers in the live chat were in an uproar.
"Thanks for the invite, I'm already jealous, this has turned into a romance stream!"
"Let go of that Zhou Niannian and let me have her."
"Look, Jiang Fan's heart is beating very fast, he must feel something too."
"Isn't that obvious? He rushed over from hundreds of meters away at Bolt's speed, of course his heart is racing."
Zhou Niannian's mind was filled with romantic pink bubbles, and she couldn't think of anything else, just nestling softly in Jiang Fan's arms.
Jiang Fan suddenly sighed and spoke.
"My arms are numb, how long are you going to stay there before you get up?"
Zhou Niannian snapped back to reality and sprang away from Jiang Fan's embrace like a coiled spring.
Her face was flushed, and she said sheepishly.
"Thank you, I'm sorry. The tree was too high, it must have numbed your arms."
At the same time, she was surprised by Jiang Fan's arm strength.
After all, she had fallen from such a height, yet Jiang Fan had caught her as if it were nothing.
Looking at Jiang Fan's expression, catching her seemed as easy as catching a ball of cotton.
Just as she was about to praise Jiang Fan's strength, she heard him say.
"It's not really about the height of the tree, it's mainly because you're too heavy, that's why my arms are numb."
"Get lost! I'm only ninety-nine pounds, you rude man!"
Zhou Niannian was stunned. After a long moment, she couldn't help but roar.
"Ninety-nine pounds is already very heavy. My country cousin's pig weighed only eighty pounds when it was slaughtered. You're nineteen pounds heavier than a pig, no, twenty-eight pounds heavier."
"Besides, my intuition is very accurate, you're definitely one hundred and eight pounds."
Jiang Fan said earnestly.
The viewers in the live chat were laughing so hard they could barely stay on the ground.
"Haha, Master Jiang's intuition is very accurate! I bet Zhou Niannian is exactly one hundred and eight pounds."
"That's not the key point, the key is being twenty-eight pounds heavier than a pig."
"Master Jiang is a master of telling cold jokes."
"Master Jiang, join my Deyun Club!"
Zhou Niannian angrily turned her face away, refusing to speak to Jiang Fan.
"Go away, I don't want to talk to you."
The most sensitive thing for girls is being told they are fat, and Zhou Niannian was no exception.
Dai Xiaomei chuckled, feeling much more balanced.
Suddenly, there was movement in the surrounding bushes, as if something was approaching.
Faintly, they could also hear the roars of wild beasts.
Jiang Fan and the others immediately became alert, backing up to back and preparing themselves, as encountering wild beasts in the forest was common.
Although they said "back to back," Zhou Niannian was actually two meters away from Jiang Fan.
As it turned out, what emerged from the bushes were Yao and Panda!
"Big, big harvest!"
Yao was holding three blue pig-rabbits by their ears, their legs still struggling.
"Roar!"
Panda snatched a pig-rabbit with one hand, licked it with his tongue, indicating it was his.
Yao rubbed his forehead. His beastly intuition told him that the atmosphere among Jiang Fan and the others felt strange.
Zhou Niannian was a full two meters away from Jiang Fan, her eyes closed, nostrils pointed to the sky, completely ignoring Jiang Fan.
"You... you guys, what's wrong?"
Yao's intuition was incredibly sharp.
Dai Xiaomei quickly reacted and ran to take the two pig-rabbits.
"Nothing, nothing, let us have a good meal."