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"Maybe I should just forget it, I can just watch you from below."
Jiang Li didn’t agree, "If you stay below, you’ll just give me away."
Is that blatant disdain?
"Fine then." Yu Li took a deep breath, stood in place, and began to move his limbs. "I’ll give it a try."
Seeing him stand still and not move for a while, Jiang Li finally couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow.
"Dean Yu, you’re not afraid of heights, are you?"
"Cough cough, how could that be?" He cleared his throat and then rolled up his sleeves.
However, no matter how he moved his arms, his feet never left the ground.
Jiang Li couldn’t stand it anymore, leaned forward, and directly pulled his arm, yanking him up.
Yu Li almost cried out, but Jiang Li quickly covered his mouth from behind.
Yu Zhongyi, who had been performing acupuncture for years without a tremble, was now squatting on the thick trunk, shaking like a leaf, his complexion utterly pale.
In the live broadcast, his students were laughing uproariously.
[Hahahaha I thought Old Yu wasn’t afraid of anything, turns out he’s afraid of heights!]
[I’m dying of laughter here, it’s not even that high, and look at Dean Yu’s face!]
[Our dorm is laughing so hard we’re rolling on the beds hahahaha.]
Soon, the image of Yu Li squatting on the trunk, hugging Jiang Li’s arm with a shocked expression was turned into a meme and circulated incessantly through various groups at Traditional Chinese Medicine University.
Even some young teachers joined in teasing Yu Li by incorporating his meme into their regular messages.
So much so that later, freshmen seeing these images were utterly shocked.
Is this really the same man from the promotional videos, the noble, pure as jade Dean Yu??!
Atop the cargo ship, Zhao Lang couldn’t help but darken his complexion upon seeing this.
This Yu Li is simply too much!
It seems returning to the country was the right decision!
Then he silently took out his notebook and added another line—
Being unable to climb a tree can stimulate a woman’s protective instinct.
The two were at a stalemate in the tree for five minutes.
Finally, as Jiang Li’s eyes were about to turn cold, Yu Li silently released her arm, and the next second, clung tightly to the trunk again.
Jiang Li then turned her body with satisfaction and focused her attention on several people not far away who were entangled with one another.
Just as she had expected, another team had snuck up, bumping into Shang Shuyue and others who were fishing.
A fierce race for the watches had commenced.
Initially, both teams were testing each other out, neither taking rash action.
But the obviously attacking team wanted a quick victory, and under the lead man’s signal, they surrounded Shang Shuyue and her group.
Jiang Li, squatting in the tree, watched with great interest and even began analyzing the situation—
".....That man in the white jacket is quite agile, moves well."
"Shang Shuyue does have some skills, she even knows a move or two."
".....Their team is pretty fierce but has clear weaknesses, they’re too hasty, which makes it easy to expose the positions of their arms. It’s a pity, Shang Shuyue and her team are quite rushed too."
[I’m going to die laughing, this is the first time I’ve laughed out loud watching the guests scramble for watches.]
"Sister Li’s voice is so magnetic, have you ever considered becoming a narrator?"
"No kidding, but seriously, the analysis is quite sensible."
Seeing no response from the person beside her, Jiang Li curiously turned her head.
At this moment, Yu Li was staring at a pallid face, trying to pull a roll of toilet paper out of his backpack.
Just when Jiang Li was wondering what he needed so much paper for, she saw Yu Li quickly wipe his arms with the toilet paper pulled out, and then hurriedly stuff them to one side of his backpack before once again hugging the tree trunk tightly and letting out a long breath.
It seemed as if that series of actions had drained all his life’s strength and courage.
When he noticed Jiang Li watching him without moving, Yu Li pushed up his glasses awkwardly and forced a strained smile.
"Miss Jiang," he said, "these trees have too many bugs, they’re not clean... do you want to wipe yourself too?"
She thought she had a cleanliness obsession, but after meeting Yu Li, she felt that her own cleanliness obsession probably didn’t count as one.
This guy would carry a handkerchief and toilet paper wherever he went, even after leaving Team G without taking anything else, he still managed to take a small bottle of alcohol with him, spraying it from time to time.
It was truly hard for him to have survived until now on a deserted island full of bacteria and poisonous insects.
When she turned back, the scene had already quieted down, with only the last two people still in an anxious state, while the others had run off and hidden somewhere in the woods.
Jiang Li roughly assessed the situation.
The two remaining people posed no threat to her, and if she went down now, she would definitely find some leftovers.
It was just too bad that she was on the defensive side at the moment; if she made a move to take their watches, she would be directly eliminated.
As she was pondering a compromise, a rustling noise suddenly came from the bushes below.
Jiang Li immediately grabbed Yu Li again, lowering her voice to warn him: "Don’t move."
Yu Li’s face turned a shade paler, and he silently nodded.
Soon, a figure moved out of the bushes. However, it was a bit strange, so strange that Jiang Li didn’t even dare to decide whether it was a person.
—The individual had branches sticking out of their head, and their clothing was woven with leaves and grass, while their limbs had turned to emerald green, almost blending in with the earth itself.
Their way of moving was also quite peculiar, slowly crawling on the ground, sometimes as swiftly as a gecko, other times as slow as a tortoise.
Even Yu Li’s attention was captured by that "thing" down below, and his face showed less fear.
"What is that?" he asked, somewhat shocked.
The strange "thing" seemed to have given him a considerable visual shock.
"I don’t know," Jiang Li honestly shook her head, also dispelling the thought of jumping down right then.
She decided to observe a bit longer—
The strange species suddenly stopped not far from the two people who were embroiled in a struggle.
The strange species picked up a stone from nearby.
The strange species leapt from the ground and pounced directly toward the two people.
The strange species knocked down each person with a rock in hand.
The situation changed so rapidly, even Jiang Li was surprised for a moment.
This person’s skills... were unexpectedly decent.
Yu Li fell silent for a few seconds then said, "Now I finally understand the meaning of ’When the snipe and the clam grapple, it is the fisherman who profits’."
Jiang Li laughed, "Then why don’t we be the ones to take down the fisherman?"
Having said that, she leaped down from the tree.
The huge commotion startled the strange species, who immediately turned around with the stone in hand.
In the split second when their eyes met, Jiang Li was taken aback, and then her lips parted in disbelief.