Just as the audience in front of the screen was shocked by Jiang Ning’s flexibility and agility, Jiang Ning was feeling a bit puzzled herself.
Based on the frequency with which she and Nong Chun had encountered rabbits and chickens in the forest yesterday, she should’ve encountered prey long ago after roaming the forest for so long. Yet, she hadn’t seen a single rabbit or chicken.
Even leveraging the advantage of swinging tree vines to stand high and look far, she still didn’t detect any movement in the grass around her.
Resolving to act, Jiang Ning used the momentum of the vines to leap forcefully, nimbly flipping her body to reach a protruding branch with her hand, grabbing it tightly with her five fingers, pulling with her arms, and then climbing up onto it.
In just an instant, Jiang Ning was sitting stably on the high tree branch.
Witnessing her move, the audience in front of the screen felt like their brains had shrunk again:
[With that body’s flexibility and development, it’s a waste not to go into sports.]
[I have so many question marks over my head. How exactly did she get onto that tree branch?]
[I see it clearly... First this way, then that way, and then she was up...]
[Yeah, truly, watching Jiang Ning do it, it’s like flowing clouds and water, doesn’t seem difficult at all, like I could do it too.]
[Keep dreaming, just the swinging on vines alone would choke you.]
[What’s she doing sitting on the tree branch? Tired?]
Sitting three meters above the ground on that tree branch, Jiang Ning turned her head to look around. When her gaze landed on a rustling patch of grass, she finally spotted a lone rabbit.
The rabbit was clad in a gray fur coat, plump and chubby, and it looked identical to the ones Jiang Ning had caught yesterday.
Jiang Ning didn’t make her move immediately but watched the rabbit for a while. Once it was eating comfortably and its guard was down, she suddenly leaped down from the branch with the aid of the vines and ran towards the rabbit.
Jiang Ning was intensely focused when hunting, eyes firmly fixed on her prey, moving at great speed, her whole body exuding a fierce and cold determination.
The rabbit was soon in Jiang Ning’s hand, and then she turned to catch another chicken she had spotted from the tree branch.
[I don’t know why, but watching Jiang Ning hunt barehanded gives me a feeling like I’m watching a wildlife documentary.]
[Ahhh, finally someone said it! I wanted to mention it so badly when I saw her catch those two rabbits yesterday!]
[Holy crap, didn’t realize it until you guys pointed it out, but now that you mention it, it really does seem like that!]
[No wonder! I was just thinking, the way she runs and focuses on the prey looked so familiar – isn’t that exactly how carnivorous animals hunt in wildlife documentaries?]
[Ah?? Isn’t that a bit too far-fetched?]
[It’s true! Haven’t you seen wildlife documentaries? Go watch ones about the African savanna or about lions and leopards. After watching, you’ll agree with me, Jiang Ning is carved from the same mold as them.]
[Cough, is this... indirectly calling Jiang Ning an animal?]
Jiang Ning, unaware of what she had revealed about herself, walked back the way she had come, carrying the chicken in her left hand and the rabbit in her right.
When she encountered wild mint and perilla along the way, both edible, Jiang Ning casually picked some, with the perilla serving as a potential seasoning.
Jiang Ning’s pace was swift. By the time she emerged from the forest, Nong Chun was cooking fish in front of the tent.
With a chicken in one hand and a rabbit in the other, Jiang Ning’s triumphant return astounded everyone, except Nong Chun. The guests seated outside the tent stared at the chicken and rabbit in Jiang Ning’s hands.
[Hahaha, look at the expressions of the other guests, their eyes are practically glued to that chicken and rabbit and can’t be pulled away.]
[Yuan Wei has been staring at that chicken in Jiang Ning’s hand and seems to have even secretly swallowed.]
[Poor kids, seems like they haven’t eaten meat in days, right?]
[Be confident, remove the word "seems," ever since they arrived on this island, they haven’t touched meat.]
Starving and envious, Yuan Wei rolled his eyes and said sotto voce to Lin Qi beside him, "How does she catch rabbits every single day!"
Lin Qi seemed somewhat downcast as he replied, "Don’t know... maybe just luck."
Mu Mingxuan and Huo Ziheng just finished handling the brawl between Huo Miao and Jian Tiantian, and they were squatting in front of Huo Miao, consoling her. The moment Jiang Ning appeared with the chicken and rabbit, both of their gazes were instantly drawn to the prey in her hands.
Huo Ziheng nudged Mu Mingxuan’s arm, "Are rabbits that easy to catch? Why didn’t you guys get one?"
Mu Mingxuan didn’t know what to say. That morning, the four grown men barely found a chicken and failed to catch it after a half-day chase. Later, Yuan Wei spotted a rabbit, and the four of them surrounded it from all directions, yet they didn’t even glimpse its shadow!
Mu Mingxuan could only reply, "You’ll know once you try in the forest."
Huo Miao was in a very bad mood, having fought with Jian Tiantian inside the tent, leaving both disheveled. Then she turned to see Jiang Ning returning laden with her catch.
A surge of unwillingness arose in Huo Miao’s heart, but the hunger radiating from her body couldn’t lie. Tugging at Huo Ziheng’s hem, she said in a pitiful small voice, "Second Brother, I’m so hungry. Can you ask Jiang Ning to share a bit of that chicken and rabbit with us?"
[Eh? What did I just hear?]
[Where did that beggar come from?]
[How can Huo Miao have the face to say that? Did she forget that Jiang Ning had harshly taught them a lesson just yesterday?]