Chapter 1

Luocheng, Qingyuan Village.

Here, birds sing and flowers bloom, the scenery is pleasant.

And the live broadcast of "Aspiration Life Season 6" also began here.

A large group of netizens instantly flooded into the live room.

"Ah, it's Teacher Huang and Yixing, they arrived first!"

"The location for this season is great, the scenery is truly beautiful, it will definitely be very relaxing."

"Hey? Where are Zifeng, Pengpeng, and Teacher He?"

As a long-running program, the ratings are still guaranteed.

As soon as it started, countless netizens sent bullet comments.

Even though three of the regular guests hadn't arrived, it didn't dampen everyone's enthusiasm.

"Teacher Huang, Yixing, welcome to Qingyuan Village."

An elderly man stepped forward, speaking in imperfect Mandarin, to welcome Teacher Huang and Yixing.

He is the village chief of this village.

According to the procedure, he would lead the two regulars to the Mushroom House.

The village chief of Qingyuan Village looked honest, simple, and very热情.

On the way to the Mushroom House, he almost introduced every detail of the village to the two guests.

Teacher Huang and Yixing also warmly responded to the village chief.

"By the way, Chief, it's almost mealtime. What kind of wild game can we eat on the mountain?"

Yixing rubbed his flat stomach and asked the village chief.

"Of course! How about wild chickens?" the village chief asked.

"Chickens?" Yixing was startled.

"What, don't you like to eat them?" the village chief was puzzled.

Teacher Huang affectionately hugged Yixing: "Haha, no, this kid of ours is just afraid of those sharp-beaked animals."

"I see..."

The village chief thought for a moment, then his eyes lit up: "Right, how about mushrooms? It rained yesterday, today is a good time to pick mushrooms!"

Teacher Huang immediately agreed: "Of course, Yixing, let's split up and see who picks more mushrooms."

The chief director, seeing this, couldn't let this opportunity pass.

"Start the competition!"

With a command, the live room split into two screens.

One showed Teacher Huang's perspective, the other showed Yixing's.

The two split up, entered the forest, and used their own skills to pick mushrooms.

The final competition would be based on the number of mushrooms each found.

Chief Director Pan Yang looked at the live room's popularity and sighed.

"Aspiration Life" is getting worse with each season.

Although it is still a hot program, its popularity is far from what it used to be.

This is also because of relying on past success, which has led to the audience not buying it anymore.

To retain old viewers and attract new ones, innovation is needed, with new segments and new effects.

But how easy is innovation?

He couldn't think of a new program format at all!

Just as Pan Yang was racking his brains over the program's data...

"Wow!"

A scream echoed.

Yixing's voice not only rang out in the live room but also directly pierced through the forest and into Pan Yang's ears.

Pan Yang was startled.

It's one thing for the program's data to be poor.

Artists are precious.

If anything happened to the artists, not only would the program be affected, but he would be in big trouble.

He quickly switched to the footage of Yixing being filmed.

But to his surprise, the footage wasn't of Yixing.

"Wow, everyone, look over there!"

However, Yixing's voice and a hand soon appeared in the frame.

Following the direction Yixing pointed, a figure was seen dashing through the forest as if it were flat ground.

The camera zoomed in.

It turned out to be a girl of about thirteen or fourteen, with a ponytail.

The girl was holding a plastic bag in one hand and easily climbed a nearly vertical rock wall with the other.

Then, she quickly disappeared from everyone's view, heading towards the mountain top.

"Damn! Is... is this a Chinese version of Lara Croft?"

"Is that really a little girl? Her core strength is stronger than mine!"

"I admit it, I can't walk on flat ground as fast as she can!"

"I want her detailed information within an hour!"

...

The bullet comments in the live room instantly doubled.

Many new viewers also flooded in.

In an instant, the live data of "Aspiration Life" reached its peak for the day.

Pan Yang was stunned; he never expected that the appearance of a little girl would make the program's data so impressive.

"Teacher Huang, stop the competition, find out the girl's information!"

Pan Yang made a quick decision and gave Teacher Huang the instruction.

Teacher Huang had also noticed the girl.

Even without the director's instruction, he was very curious about the girl's identity.

He immediately asked the village chief.

Fortunately, the village chief knew the girl's information.

"Oh, you mean Xiao Ke? Climbing the cliff bare-handed is nothing to her."

"She went down the mountain to buy supplies today, so she's climbing back up."

"You ask why she doesn't walk? Because walking is a bit roundabout, this girl finds it troublesome, and climbing the cliff is faster."

"Usually, she lives alone on the mountain."

...

"What? Lives alone on the mountain? And not in the village?"

Teacher Huang was stunned after hearing the village chief's story.

Leaving a girl of only thirteen or fourteen in the isolated forest?

What a scoundrel!

As a father, especially one with a daughter, Teacher Huang's anger flared up.

Which parent could do such an inhumane thing?