After Shen Fu’s fans finished finished spying on the enemy in her livestream, they rushed back to Shen Fu’s stream, shouting anxiously: 【Little Shen, hurry and find crabs.】
Shen Fu looked up, but ignored it.
Whether blue crabs or any crabs, they mostly appear in large numbers only from June onward. It was only the end of March, how were they supposed to catch crabs?
Not that it was impossible.
But catching crabs during the daytime at this season was extremely difficult, you could very well work the whole afternoon and still get nothing.
Seeing that Shen Fu had no intention of hunting crabs, some viewers began thinking of switching back to Zuo Mei’s stream: 【She doesn’t dare take risks, boring.】
【The mussels and other little things in stone crevices are almost gone. If she can’t find some high-scoring big seafood, Shen Fu is still going to lose.】
After Zuo Mei started copying the low-tide stone-flipping method, the small mussels attached to stones indeed became fewer.
Shen Fu thought for a moment, then took two long rods from her toolkit, which looked like calligraphy brushes.
The barrage was captivated again: 【What is this now?】
They watched her circle around the mudflat, find a few small holes, then stab the long rods into them, steady, accurate, and fierce.
The next second, when she pulled the rod out, several shrimps were clamped onto the end.
One was reddish and plump, about half a palm in size, biting the rod-end the fiercest, twitching nonstop, seawater splashing onto the camera.
【Holy sh*t!】
The first-person POV made the barrage feel it was thrilling and dangerous: 【Ahhh I got splashed all over.】
【How the h*ll did she do that?!】
Villa With Backyard Pond By the Sea couldn’t resist explaining: 【This is called a wool rod. It smells like sheep, and shrimp latch onto it easily.】
Soon the wool rod became unusable. Shen Fu didn’t stop, and pulled out a pack of salt from the plastic bag.
She used a discarded rod to poke around the beach. Some places hit stone and wouldn’t go in, but in some spots one poke revealed a soy-bean–sized hole.
The barrage watched with great interest: 【Her poking action is kinda cute. I feel like I’m watching a real-life Animal Crossing.】
After poking out over a dozen small holes, Shen Fu began sprinkling salt into them.
When she finished sprinkling, she covered them with the plastic bag, then squatted beside it, curling up, motionless.
Seeing her holding her breath, the barrage also held theirs: 【I’m so nervous, is something going to jump out??】
The moment that comment was sent, several things shot out of the tiny hole, color unclear.
Shen Fu pounced with lightning speed, wrapped them with the plastic bag in one swoop, tied it up, and tossed it into the bucket.
【Holy sh*t holy sh*t this first-person view is killing me, I almost flung my phone.】
【What are those?!!】
Shen Fu answered voluntarily: “These are razor clams. You can catch them with salt, but remember not to leave discarded salt bags on the beach. Also, some razor clams can pop up, so be careful not to get hurt.”
Some of Zuo Mei’s fans, after seeing her dig crab holes for ages with zero results, felt bored and switched over to Shen Fu’s stream.
Shen Fu started low, had a long-standing black mark on her, and whatever she did attracted haters. But now, the barrage was all excitement, not a single mocking comment??
Looking again, her bucket was already nearly half full.
Zuo Mei’s fans were practically dying of jealousy, so they began picking faults: 【Heh, does she think explaining a few facts can gain fans?】
Other viewers were in high spirits, and seeing such a buzz-killing comment, immediately cursed: 【Jealous chicken, get lost.】
Zuo Mei’s fan refused to leave, and continued sarcastically: 【It’s just using tools. With tools, anyone can fill a bucket.】
Not long after the comment, Shen Fu looked at the direction of the tide, put down her tools, and carrying only the bucket, walked dozens of steps toward the area near the mountain.
【See? Even she feels it’d be an unfair win.】
But the other barrage comments suddenly screamed: 【Holy cr*p, that’s a huge spicy snail!】
The snails follow the tide; in the lowest-tide areas of the cliff zone, large spicy snails often appear. This time Shen Fu didn’t even need tools, she just walked and picked them up by hand, like collecting treasures in a game.
The barrage felt fully satisfied: 【My collector’s soul is tingling with pleasure.】
Zuo Mei’s fans: ……
Zuo Mei’s fans refused to accept it and kept yapping: 【She’s picking all the things with no difficulty now. If she’s so capable, let her feel around for a sea cucumber.】
A passerby watching with rising excitement but constantly being ruined couldn’t help scolding: 【Are you insane? You want a girl to go feel for sea cucumbers? It’s really scary to put your hand into seawater…】
Before this was even finished, they saw Shen Fu’s hand already reaching into a spot under a big rock with seaweed floating around it, expression unchanged.
Shen Fu: “Since I’m already here.”
The next second, she pulled out a sea cucumber.
Zuo Mei’s fans: 【……】
The passerby who had spoken up: 【……】
Zuo Mei’s fans were furious, racking their brains for anything else to attack, but Shen Fu checked the sky and was already carrying her bucket back.
It was currently 5:30, only half an hour left until the program’s set ending time.
Even if she sat under the sunshade drinking a cold drink for half an hour, Zuo Mei wouldn’t catch up.
Even Zuo Mei’s cameraman couldn’t bring himself to film her bucket, after working the whole afternoon, she only had the two small shrimp from the start and a few small green mussels she found copying Shen Fu’s method of flipping stones.
Compared side by side, Shen Fu’s bucket was nearly full, while Zuo Mei’s bucket still showed the bottom.
Zuo Mei’s initial showy, magazine-photo-posture had gradually devolved, her hair was getting messier, more disheveled, and she even got stung by who-knows-what in the water.
Her mood was getting worse and worse.
What kind of stupid segment did the program team design? This is not the kind of work pampered celebrities should be doing!
Shen Fu’s livestream room was almost bursting, everyone still not satisfied: 【Shen Fu, don’t stop, keep going!】
Zuo Mei’s livestream room only had her fans left.
None of Zuo Mei’s fans could laugh.
A young fan named “Guan Guan Lan Guo” couldn’t resist rewatching Zuo Mei’s old interview about Mermaid.
Back then, Zuo Mei had clearly said the set conditions were extremely harsh, that when hungry, actors even had to catch seafood to eat themselves. She said she once returned full-handed and all the other actors were shocked… so why is she like this now…
“Guan Guan Lan Guo” began to feel some uncomfortable seeds sprouting in her heart.
A calm fan analyzed rationally: “Today Jie just lost at the crab-catching part. It’s not entirely her fault, some ignorant fan pushed her early on. She dotes on fans, she tries to fulfill every request, that’s why she lost to the other side.”
“Yes, I suspect the person who pushed her earlier was a disguised hater. Don’t they know you can barely see crabs this season?”
“Everyone don’t panic, we’ll definitely win the hidden mission.”
Another radical fan directly rushed to Shen Fu’s livestream room: 【If you’re so capable, catch a crab then? Our award-winning Empress wasted the whole afternoon trying to catch crabs, but you only looked for simple, easy seafood. You’re not even competing on the same track, what are you comparing?】
Shen Fu saw this message and paused her steps toward the sunshade. “You want to see me catch a crab?”
The barrage audience, regretful that the PK time wasn’t longer, instantly perked up: 【We want to see!】
Shen Fu smiled slightly. “Then I’ll give it a try.”
Zuo Mei’s radical fan suddenly felt a bad premonition.
Shen Fu returned to the mudflat area, bending down to search for holes everywhere, occasionally raking loose soil with a small hoe.
Her movements looked no different from Zuo Mei’s, and the radical fan relaxed.
Like this she’ll never find one! Jie searched all afternoon and didn’t get even one.
But the next second, Shen Fu very casually picked a hole, then suddenly jabbed her middle and thumb together along the tunnel’s path.
She dug a couple of times, her movements looked like they required zero technique, and when her hand came back out, she was already pinching the dirt-covered body of a green crab.
【Holy f*ck???】
【It’s a crab! D*mn, she actually caught a crab?!】
The barrage was stunned.
The radical fan barely even registered her movement before she caught one.
How the h*ll did she do that? Isn’t she digging the same way Zuo Mei did?
Even the cameraman got excited and leaned closer. Shen Fu abruptly shoved the crab waving its pincers right up to his lens.
【Sh*t.】 Not only did the cameraman instinctively take a step back, even the viewers pulled back from their screens.
【I’m dying lmao, who knew Shen Fu had a mischievous side.】
“Put it in the bucket quickly.” The cameraman touched his neck; for a moment he felt the pincers had nearly hit his face.
“The audience is very curious how you caught it.”
Shen Fu explained: “Not every hole is a crab hole. You have to first check whether there are footprints around. If the surrounding area is full of those straight, orderly sesame-sized dots, don’t bother, most likely no crab.”
“This season it’s extremely hard to catch crabs, so you have to look for the most standard crab holes. Even so, I was quite lucky to run into one.”
【lol a king’s humility.】
【Truly bad*ss, this is so satisfying to watch.】
【uhhh then why couldn’t the award-winning Film Empress tell? I saw her poke every hole she saw, poking for a whole afternoon and found nothing.】
【Not to gossip, but that day the award-winner obviously didn’t remove her makeup properly. After soaking in seawater half the day her makeup was smudged, and her skin looked worse (not mocking, but if you don’t want people to see your bare face, then don’t purposely say you’re removing makeup for attention).】
Zuo Mei’s fans sensed the tide subtly shifting, growing anxious and angry.
They were about to organize and post rhythm-leading comments.
Running Lighthouse came back after eating a watermelon and saw that Shen Fu had won, and for some reason felt a bit happy: 【Hahaha I just knew Shen Fu would win.】
Barrage: 【？】
Running Lighthouse: 【？】
Barrage: 【？？？】
Running Lighthouse looked down: 【……】
Holy sh*t, save him he forgot to switch to his alt account!!!
