26: Chapter 26: Luring the Enemy into a Trap, Shocking the Entire Audience!

The next day, the air was humid.

It had rained the night before.

An Ke walked out of the camp and took a deep breath of the air.

He couldn't help but sigh, "The air is truly fresh!"

It seemed as if the entire island had been washed clean by the rain.

However, what An Ke didn't know was that contestants from other countries absolutely detested this rain.

Although most people had already built their camps.

Because the camps were too rudimentary, they leaked.

Contestants from many countries were drenched awake in the middle of the night, shivering in the rain.

They couldn't even light a fire to warm themselves because they didn't have as many supplies stockpiled as An Ke.

This resulted in almost half of them falling ill to varying degrees.

Officials from countries whose contestants were severely ill were extremely anxious, even willing to use the precious bullet comment function.

Hoping to help their contestants pull through this hardship.

No one wanted to be like the Wō country, struck by a natural disaster from the National Fortune Game.

After finishing his morning routine, An Ke began his daily patrol as usual.

What puzzled An Ke was that Little Scar hadn't brought the Monkey troop to find him today.

"Perhaps because of last night's rain, they haven't woken up yet."

An Ke didn't dwell on it, deciding to wait until the afternoon to see if Little Scar would come.

If not, then he would go check on them.

"Jin Gang, let's go!"

"Go! Go!"

The Macaw flapped its rainbow-like wings, following An Ke as he left the camp.

"Heh! You're quite talented at learning to speak, aren't you?"

Ordinary Parrots need to be taught for a long time before they learn to mimic human speech.

But Jin Gang only needs to hear something a few times, sometimes even just once, to repeat it.

An Ke thought this was excellent.

At least there was a bird to talk to.

Even if they might not be on the same wavelength, at least he wouldn't be lonely and bored.

An Ke's first task, naturally, was to check the traps.

He would check for prey while also seeing if any traps were damaged.

If any were broken, he would fix them on the spot.

It took about forty minutes for An Ke to check all the traps.

Since one of the traps was broken, he spent some extra time repairing it.

"No harvest at all..."

This was the reality of wilderness survival; you never knew if you'd get food tomorrow.

However, An Ke wasn't disappointed.

He had mentally prepared himself for this when he first arrived.

After last night's rain, the behavior of many animals would change, and some might not come out at all.

Animals are very sensitive to changes in weather.

Since it rained last night, the animals must have prepared beforehand.

"Jin Gang, come on! I'll take you to the seaside. You've probably never seen the ocean!"

An Ke said with a hearty laugh.

Macaws typically live on cliff faces, usually located inland.

An Ke first ate a few bananas to fill his stomach a bit, then set off towards the sea.

He was now very familiar with the route, having walked it frequently these past few days.

It only took An Ke about half an hour to reach the sea.

The sound of waves rose, accompanied by a refreshing sea breeze.

In the sky, many seagulls soared above the Azure sea.

This Azure vista mesmerized the viewers in the live broadcast room.

No matter how many times they saw it, they never grew tired of it.

It was a pity that Planet Blue no longer had such scenery.

An Ke admired the view for a while, then began inspecting the traps in the ocean.

When he pulled the traps up, there were only a couple of small fish and a few tiny shrimp inside.

Other than that, there was no other significant catch.

In the live broadcast room, the Foreigners had been eagerly awaiting this moment.

Seeing An Ke's meager harvest, barely enough to fill a tooth gap, they immediately started mocking him.

"The Dragon Country Kid went to all that trouble, and this is all the food he gets? It probably doesn't even make up for the energy he just spent."

"As expected, he was just lucky before."

"Now that his luck's run out, he's back to his true form."

"Hey! Don't say that. He still has a reserve ration by his side."

"He'll probably kill that Parrot if he can't find any food."

"Most Dragon Country people only care about profit. They're capable of doing such things."

"A hypocritical nation that only pretends to be righteous."

"Exactly! The Dragon Country didn't even accept refugees before!"

"..."

Thoroughly satisfying!

Having found an opportunity, the Foreigners immediately began their derision.

On the program, Expert Cui spoke up, "I said it yesterday, such crude traps are unlikely to catch much prey."

"And that's exactly what happened."

"An Ke is probably going to go hungry today."

Liu Yifei maintained a smile but countered Professor Cui.

"It's still early. Perhaps An Ke will be able to catch some prey later!"

Expert Cui immediately became arrogant. "Only wilderness novices like you would think there's still time."

"In the wilderness, you should never entertain the thought that 'there's still time.'"

"Nature doesn't follow a script; it won't craft a beautiful myth just for you..."

Expert Cui's authority had been challenged repeatedly over the past few days.

He had been simmering with anger and was finally able to reassert his credibility.

He was waiting for the opportunity. As long as An Ke had no food to eat,

he would propose a solution to the national officials: have An Ke find a certain type of tree root to temporarily fill his stomach.

That type of root was edible and plentiful in the jungle, though many people didn't know about it.

When the time came, after he helped An Ke solve the problem, his reputation would be restored.

Thinking of this, Expert Cui beamed with joy.

However, at that moment, Sa Beining beside him exclaimed excitedly, "Look, Contestant An Ke has caught fish!"

Expert Cui's smile froze. He hurriedly looked at the live stream.

They saw An Ke place his hand on the barrier of the trap.

Moments later, nearby sea fish swam over one after another.

Then they actively swam into the trap.

This bizarre scene stunned everyone in the live broadcast room.

"Hey, hey, hey! Is Boss An using magic again?"

"Is this magic something us mere Muggles are allowed to see?"

"Is this the so-called 'luring the enemy into the jar'?"

"Mom! I'm learning idioms from watching a live stream!"

"..."

Meanwhile, the Foreigners in the live broadcast room were completely dumbfounded.

"sea fish are swimming into the Dragon Country Kid's trap on their own?"

"No, I want to know what's so attractive about that trap to the fish?"

"Could it be... Hogwarts is in the Dragon Country?"

"Bakayarou! The National Fortune Game is unfair! I will use my death to condemn this game!"

"An Ke oppa is just amazing!" Kimchi Country - Jin Sisi.

"Friends from the Dragon Country, can you teach us this magic?" Russian netizen.

"Teach us too. Our contestant has only eaten one frog in the past few days."

"..."

This seemingly miraculous method made many smaller nations submit.

They humbly requested, hoping the Dragon Country side would teach them this magic.

To help their own contestants overcome their difficulties.

After all, what else could it be but magic if it made fish swim into a trap on their own?

On the live stream.

An Ke scooped up all three fish.

He sneered inwardly. He hadn't originally wanted to use Natural Affinity.

But there was no choice; they forced him to use it.

Upon inspection, he found one of them was pregnant.

Its belly was full of fish eggs.

An Ke simply scooped it out and released it back into the sea.

He also released all the small fish that weren't yet mature.

In the end, he kept only the two plumpest ones.