Chapter 287: Slip
Seeing Lu Jinyu's impatience, Xu Ying warned, "But everyone, please pay attention to your technique when laying the moss. Don't resort to shoddy work just for the sake of speed and quantity!"
"When laying the moss, you need to level the ground and clear away the pebbles. Then, lay the moss pieces in a staggered pattern like fish scales, and compact the moss to prevent wind erosion."
Lu Jinyu ignored all these words and said, "I know, I know. You can understand the rules while playing the game!"
After the five celebrity guests drew lots to allocate five baskets of pikas to their teammates, Xu Ying blew a whistle and the carpet-laying battle officially began.
As soon as the whistle blew, Ye Jie rushed out holding the moss, but because she ran too fast, she fell to the frozen ground with a "bang".
She hurriedly climbed up, with a few pieces of moss stuck in her hair, but she kept muttering seriously: "It's okay, it's okay, as long as the moss is not broken!"
She was completely oblivious to the fact that her trouser legs had sunk into the thawing permafrost as she stretched her arms out to reach a patch of moss in the distance.
“Just a little bit!”
She threw herself forward, this time landing directly on the moss.
Perhaps because Ye Jie was working too hard and feeling too sad, those pikas actually came to help.
They divided the work and cooperated with each other. Two of them were responsible for digging the soil and clearing the small stones in the frozen soil, and six were responsible for bringing the moss over. Ye Jie only needed to use a snow water spray gun to fix the moss and simulate the penetration of melted snow.
The last two remaining pika inspectors rolled on the moss, leaving behind their body hair to help hold the moss in place.
[The pika digging with its paws is so cute, and rolling around is also so cute~]
[I have a question. Why are these pikas so willing to help? Is it just because Ye Jie looks so pitiful?]
Xu Ying saw the comments on the live broadcast screen and explained, "Moss can cool the ground by 6°C. Every square meter of moss is equivalent to providing an air-conditioned room for 100 pikas. That's why they cooperate so well."
[No wonder the animal guests this time are all plateau pikas. Who doesn't want an air-conditioned room?]
Lu Jinyu has already entered the "game mode".
Lu Jinyu had already figured it out after a quick glance: the flat areas of the glacier reserve were more prone to moss growth. So, he divided the ten pikas into two groups and began directing his teammates: "Quick, Team A, run southeast, Team B, run due west! Quickly capture the strategic location!"
However, the 10 pikas on the ground just tilted their heads and looked at him in confusion.
"I'm impressed! My teammates have such poor comprehension skills!"
Lu Jinyu had no choice but to pick up the two pikas manually and place them in the area he had just chosen. However, the rabbits were not content and started running around as soon as they were put down.
Lu Jinyu was so confused! "Forget it, I'll develop on my own first. My teammates are so useless!"
"Using a Z-shaped laying path increases efficiency by 37.5%!" He muttered to himself as he laid the moss at an astonishing speed.
When Lu Jinyu’s fans saw how seriously he was playing the game, they started to flatter him crazily.
[Brother Lu is so smart, he's worthy of being an esports player! His hand speed is really fast!]
[Anti-fans, please speak up! Even if Brother Lu plays other games, he's still the most dominant player, okay?]
[Wait a minute, Lu Jinyu didn't follow Stationmaster Xu's instructions to lay out the moss in a fish-scale pattern, nor did he compact the moss?]
"So what? Brother Lu's method is faster and more effective! Smart people like Brother Lu use rules to break them, rather than being as rigid and mechanical as Ye Jie, who only follows the rules."
Unfortunately, reality is not a game. The moss blocks he threw down quickly were crooked like overturned building blocks, and some of them even slid down the hillside.
"Area A is short of moss! Group B's pikas are going to fill the gap!"
Seeing this, Lu Jinyu gave orders to his Pika Squad and made a tactical gesture in a serious manner.
As a result, the pikas were all confused again.
One of them even dragged the moss to Ye Jie to help in front of him.
"Oh my god, what a crazy move! How could a teammate betray the enemy?"
"This crappy game has too many bugs!" Lu Jinyu was so angry that he almost threw the measuring tape to the ground. He couldn't help but complain to Xu Ying, "Master Xu, are you relying on your good relationship with Ye Jie to deliberately assign him obedient Pika teammates?"
"The gap between me and her teammates is too big!"
Xu Ying shrugged innocently. "Just now, the distribution of the pika teammates was decided by you guys drawing lots. How could I have the ability to manipulate the results?"
"You look pretty miserable. Let me ask it why it rebelled."
The pika who joined Ye Jie said in an interview with Xu Ying: "I saw that young lady had a really good work atmosphere, while ours was a mess and we didn't know what to do, so I couldn't help but want to join."
After Xu Ying translated, Lu Jinyu was even more upset: "You must have translated it wrongly!"
Many netizens began to complain that Lu Jinyu couldn't afford to lose.
[Classic: Blame your teammates for your poor performance.]
Lu Jinyu is usually very impetuous during games. He relies on his teammates to fix his mistakes, and when they fail to do so, his fans blame them. He was the same when playing this little game today.
[You're a young master in the club, but now that you're on a show, the little animals won't spoil you.]
Lu Jinyu was already thinking about quitting the competition. He threw the moss cube on the ground and said, "The matching mechanism is too bad. I don't want to play anymore!"
"Whoever you want can spread the moss!"
Seeing Lu Jinyu's poor performance, Xu Ying winked and prompted, "Are you sure? If a guest abstains, then there will be one person missing for this round of tasks."
"If I can't unlock this round of 200,000 charity rewards, who will everyone blame?"
Xu Ying shook his head and said "tsk tsk tsk".
Lu Jinyu was often defeated because people always said that he was a pure loser who relied on his teammates. But after being inspired by Xu Ying, he stood up again.
He had no choice but to follow Ye Jie's way and work diligently.
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"You're actually going to touch this dirty moss with your hands?"
Su Zhining looked at the moss squares that were being scrambled for by everyone with a look of disgust, and slowly found the gloves and put them on.
The 10 pikas at her feet were already spinning in panic: "Hurry up! The others are so much ahead of us!"
Su Zhining slowly picked up a piece of moss with two fingers. The others had already occupied the relatively flat permafrost area, so Su Zhining could only climb up the slope. She was afraid that her shoes would sink into the permafrost, so she walked very carefully. She felt like she was dancing ballet as she walked up the slope.
She gracefully pinched the moss with her fingertips and spread it on the slope, as if she were making a work of art, but her efficiency was far behind that of others.
"Okay!" After slowly laying the first piece of moss, Su Zhining patted the dirt off his hands.
She was about to take a step back when the frozen ground beneath her feet suddenly loosened and she rolled down the slope!
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