"Alright, alright, stop joking around and get to work," Li Yinsheng patted Brother Hu's arm and urged.
Brother Hu chuckled, then turned and threw himself into the busy work of harvesting and sorting cassava. His movements seemed casual, but they were actually extremely efficient. In no time, he had picked up all the cassava from the ground and neatly piled them aside.
"Fatty, this cassava is really good! It's big, and there's so much of it. It'll be enough for us to eat for a long time," Wu Lei praised as he worked.
"This cassava is bitter. Although the bitterness will be reduced a lot after processing, the taste is not very good. You should be prepared for that," Li Yinsheng reminded them.
"We've endured all kinds of hardships during the three-day typhoon, what's a little bit of hardship?" Wu Lei laughed nonchalantly.
Thinking back on these three days of the typhoon, because the fire was extinguished, for these three days, what we ate was not only raw, but also not even a hot bite. We drank rainwater and ate wild, unripe, astringent, and bitter green bananas.
Wu Lei felt as if he had endured all the hardships of his life in the past three days.
"Alright, we're all packed up. It's all here. Come and weigh it." After Hu Ge and Wu Lei finished packing the cassava, Hu Ge waved to the staff members who were with them, signaling them to come forward and weigh it.
"Wait a minute, cassava can be eaten as a staple food to supplement the body's carbohydrates. Although it is not as good as fish and other meats, it is much better than vegetables and wild fruits."
"Calculating one point for every three jin isn't fair! I'm a proper scholar; I understand these principles." Li Yinsheng interrupted the weighing process.
“It is indeed inappropriate. Three catties of cassava would normally be worth two points, but Brother Hu and Wu Lei helped with cleaning up the cassava you dug up, and they also had to carry it back later. Therefore, 0.5 points will be deducted as their help. Now, three catties of cassava will only be worth 1.05 points.” One of the staff members stepped forward and said to Li Yinsheng after receiving Hong Tao’s instructions.
"Haha, I'm a proper scholar, who isn't a proper scholar?"
"Upstairs, when I was in school, I was dating, and that's when I finally got my wife, hahaha!"
"Haha, Fatty's strength is like she's cheating. Everyone else must be so envious. Group C is really rich by following Fatty. They can survive for a month on these cassava alone."
"But then again, the production team also needs to consider balance. They can't let one group dominate, otherwise the other groups will just be there to make up the numbers."
"The production team is really cunning. They saw that the chubby girl had collected a lot of cassava, which could be exchanged for a lot of points, so now they want to stop her."
"The amateurs in the other groups haven't found any food and haven't exchanged many points yet. If Fatty keeps going like this, she'll have fifty or sixty points by tonight. By then, everything on the exchange list will have been redeemed by Group A. What will the other groups be able to play then?"
"The person upstairs is right! Exactly, the production team's actions were too obvious. But the chubby girl is really capable, digging up so many cassava all by herself, she's practically a survival expert!"
"Now, whichever group gets the chubby girl, that team gets the championship."
The viewers in the live stream started discussing it, with the barrage of comments scrolling like a tide. Various guesses and comments were intertwined, creating a lively atmosphere. Amid the discussion, comments in foreign languages were also posted from time to time, all expressing amazement at the chubby girl's luck.
As the audience engaged in lively discussion, the camera switched to the situations of several other groups of ordinary people.
They were all alone, struggling to find wild fruits and vegetables in the jungle, their faces etched with exhaustion and helplessness. In comparison, the chubby girl from Group A certainly stood out.
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"Fatty, there are 63 jin of cassava in total. If we exchange that for points, it's 31.5 points. Adding the 5 points from before, that's a total of 36.5 points." The staff member weighed the cassava and calculated the points for Li Yinsheng.
Some of the directors watching the live stream started to rub their foreheads and get headaches.
The original idea behind the teammate swap was for Fatty to find some food for Group C so they could replenish their energy and prevent them from collapsing too quickly, which would affect the progress and atmosphere of the entire show.
Unexpectedly, the chubby girl found dozens of kilograms of cassava for Group C in just half a day. How were the other groups supposed to survive? The game set up by the production team was disrupted by the chubby girl's actions.
While the director was having a headache, he couldn't help but admire the fat girl's abilities. Her foraging ability was simply extraordinary, and her luck was astonishingly good, something even the planners hadn't anticipated.
"Director, how about we make the next variable a bit more difficult, or restrict the chubby girl's participation?" a staff member suggested cautiously, afraid of offending the director.
Upon hearing this, the director pondered for a moment, a complex emotion flashing in his eyes. "Restricting the chubby girl? The audience will think we're doing this on purpose. Right now, the chubby girl is incredibly popular; she's the highlight and the hottest topic of the show. Restricting her would be digging our own grave."
Moreover, the show is meant to showcase reality and challenges; while the chubby girl's performance was unexpected, it also demonstrated her abilities.
Hong Tao shook his head slightly and continued, "However, you are right. We do need to adjust our strategy to make the game more challenging while maintaining balance so that no group gets too far ahead or behind due to some uncontrollable factors."
The next variable could be increased by adding elements of teamwork to subsequent tasks, such as setting up challenges that require collaboration among multiple people. This would test team cohesion and mitigate the excessive influence of individual heroism on the overall situation.
"In addition, we can consider introducing some hidden tasks or special rewards to increase the show's watchability and unpredictability."
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Li Yinsheng was unaware that because of her actions, the program's variables would be changed again and again because of her.
"Fatty, Lao Hu, Lei Zi, you're back! Did you hunt any wild boars? What did you find to eat?" Reba had been collecting banana leaves and vines and had already returned to the shelter. When she saw Brother Hu and Wu Lei carrying something back with some effort, she quickly went up to ask.
"Fatty found several dozen kilograms of cassava." Brother Hu wiped the sweat from his brow, his breathing a little heavy, and put down the cassava he had brought back.
These past few days I haven't had any oily or fatty foods, and I've only had some wild vegetable soup in the mornings. After all this busy work, that little bit of wild vegetable soup in my stomach has long been used up.
"Cassava? Sweet potato?" Dilraba asked, somewhat confused.
"Cassava is one of the world's three major tuber crops and six major food crops. However, it is not a sweet potato and can be used as a staple food to supplement carbohydrates."
However, this cassava needs to be processed before it can be eaten, otherwise it will cause poisoning. First of all... Finally, Li Yinsheng also instructed Dilraba, Hu Ge, and Wu Lei on how to process the cassava before eating it, so that they wouldn't be poisoned if they didn't know how.
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