Chapter 50: Su Huan's Struggle

The hotel room wasn't big—just one large bed and a bathroom, no different from an ordinary budget hotel.

Qin Yun had drunk too much, so the moment he lay down on the bed, drowsiness surged up, and before long he was snoring softly.

Su Huan gave him a push, and seeing he was truly asleep, she was genuinely a bit helpless.

"He's already a grown man, yet he doesn't even take his clothes off to sleep. With this Harbin weather, he'll definitely catch a cold tomorrow."

Muttering to herself, Su Huan hesitated a little.

But on second thought, she was only doing this to prevent him from catching cold—what was there to overthink?

After convincing herself, Su Huan reached out and undid the buttons of Qin Yun's suit jacket, taking off his outer garment; as for the knit shirt underneath, she left it alone.

Hanging the suit on the coat rack by the door, Su Huan also took off Qin Yun's leather shoes, then the two of them gave him a push toward the bed.

But because she was too weak, she couldn't push a sleeping person at all.

"He doesn't look heavy, so why is it so much effort?"

Su Huan gave up, too lazy to keep pushing, and pulled the blanket over intending to just toss it on Qin Yun and call it done.

But just as she yanked the blanket over, her whole body suddenly stiffened.

Two arms suddenly wrapped around her waist, and her body was pulled by a force toward one side of the bed.

Her brain stopped thinking at that moment, and only when she was lying on the bed, held in Qin Yun's embrace, did she jolt awake.

Just as she was about to scream, she abruptly covered her mouth, because Qin Yun, eyes closed, smacked his lips and let out another soft snore.

This bastard is still asleep?!

She had assumed the other party was deliberately taking liberties with her, and had already made up her mind that she absolutely wouldn't let him off.

Su Huan struggled a little. Qin Yun really wasn't using any strength; the hands around her waist were just resting there lightly, and without much effort she moved Qin Yun's hands away.

After finally getting off the bed, her face had turned beet red.

"Bastard, you're asleep and still taking advantage of me—I'm furious."

She said she was furious, but no matter how you looked at Su Huan, she didn't seem angry at all—shyness outweighed annoyance.

She pulled the blanket over Qin Yun, didn't dare stay any longer, and hurried back to her own room.

But the feeling from that instant of being held lingered in her heart and wouldn't go away.

The next day, when Qin Yun got up, he felt like he stank all over, and immediately ran into the bathroom to wash up thoroughly.

Only then, refreshed and clear-headed, did he go find Su Huan.

When Su Huan opened the door, Qin Yun was taken aback and looked at her strangely: "Why do you look like you didn't sleep all night?"

*Bang! *

The door was shut. Su Huan looked at herself in the mirror, seething inside.

She hadn't slept well all night, yet this guy looked full of energy. If she'd known, she would have just let him catch a cold yesterday.

Qin Yun rubbed his nose, thinking to himself, who offended Squad Leader Su? Why does she look so worked up?

"I'm going to eat breakfast. Should I bring you some, or will you go eat later yourself?"

Su Huan heard him and thought for a moment before saying: "Just bring me a little."

"Okay."

Qin Yun went downstairs to eat breakfast on his own, while Su Huan quickly washed up, reapplied her makeup, and packed her things.

By the time Qin Yun saw her again, she already looked no different from the day before.

Taking advantage of the time Su Huan was eating breakfast, Qin Yun asked: "What time is your flight again?"

Su Huan swallowed a tea egg: "Three in the afternoon, still early."

After saying that, she looked up at Qin Yun: "What about you, when are you going to Jilin?"

Going from Harbin to Qin Yun's destination didn't require a plane—a long-distance bus would do.

"I'm flexible."

Qin Yun had already told Su Huan about his upcoming wilderness survival trip. Though Su Huan was surprised by Qin Yun's choice, she couldn't really say anything.

Besides, Qin Yun had already made his decision, so whatever opinion she had didn't really matter.

"Still livestreaming the whole way? Are you sure the Greater Khingan Range will have signal?"

Su Huan was deeply skeptical about this.

Qin Yun, however, didn't care: "Li Rui said this livestream drone was tested in primeval forests similar to the Greater Khingan Range, and the satellite signal had no problems at all. Besides, even if I can't livestream, I can still record video."

"Alright, then be careful." Su Huan nodded. "I'll chat with DJI's side in a bit."

The livestream is about to start and the commercial deal still hasn't been settled—give me a break.

Although a partnership with DJI had been established and a preliminary agreement on video commercial deals had been reached,

it didn't mean every video and every livestream of Qin Yun's would receive DJI's support.

Further commercial discussion was necessary. Otherwise, if he signed a contract that paid him just for livestreaming, then Qin Yun could just do a livestream from home every day and that would be enough.

The contract currently signed only gave DJI the priority right to place advertisements, that's all.

"Alright, thanks for your hard work."

Seeing Su Huan eating with great relish, Qin Yun suddenly thought of something: "Oh right, did I fall asleep really fast yesterday? You took my clothes off, right?"

Su Huan's face turned red, she looked up and glared at him: "What? Want to thank me? You were dead to the world, couldn't be moved at all. You don't even look fat, so why were you so heavy?"

Qin Yun scratched his head and laughed it off: "Did I? That bad? I'm only a hundred and sixty 【jin】."

At one meter eighty-five, a hundred and sixty jin was quite a balanced build for Qin Yun—truly looking slim in clothes but solid without them.

Su Huan said speechlessly: "Only a hundred and sixty? I'm only ninety in total."

"Ninety?" Qin Yun looked at Su Huan's figure, showing a doubtful expression. "You're at least a hundred."

*Whoosh... *

A fried bun flew past his nose and smashed into the TV.

Su Huan said with murderous aura: "The last person who said I was a hundred already has weeds three zhang tall on his grave."

Qin Yun's face changed drastically, and he hurriedly fled: "I misspoke, just a slip of the tongue, please give me a chance to reorganize my words."

"Die!"

……

The airplane grew farther and farther away, gradually disappearing from his sight.

After it was completely out of sight, Qin Yun took his suitcase, hailed a ride-hailing car, and headed straight for the intercity bus station.

At around eight-thirty in the evening, he arrived in Jilin, and casually found a budget hotel near the station to stay the night.

The next day, he continued by bus, spending three bumpy hours, and by nearly noon arrived at a small town near the southern foothills secondary forest belt.

Afterwards, Qin Yun spent some money, found a local, who drove a battered three-wheeler, hauling him toward the forest.

For this check-in mission, Qin Yun had prepared four machines: one livestream drone, one backup, and two action cameras.

Sitting on the bumpy three-wheeler, Qin Yun took out his phone and directly set up a livestream preview.

【A spur-of-the-moment five-day trip into the primeval forest】

As soon as his preview was posted, fans quickly noticed it.

The comment sections of several videos immediately spread the word, trumpeting it far and wide.

He had set the livestream time for two in the afternoon; from now, there were still nearly two and a half hours to go.

But as his livestream preview went out, the number of people reserving his livestream rose in a straight line.

By the time the three-wheeler stopped and Qin Yun got off, the reserved popularity of the livestream room had already exceeded three thousand.

These numbers were simply outrageous — you have to know that his last livestream's peak viewership was only five thousand, yet now the reservations were already nearly approaching that.

Qin Yun was thrilled, and Su Huan, who had already returned to Hangzhou, was even more confident about the next negotiation with DJI.

Although Qin Yun's follower count wasn't that high, his fans' stickiness was extremely strong, which undoubtedly proved that the followers paying attention to Qin Yun were a group of people with very strong targeting.

For DJI, or other sponsors, this was undoubtedly the best possible placement spot.

"Young man, go about three kilometers in up ahead and you'll reach the spot you mentioned."

Qin Yun thanked him, and after the man turned around and left, Qin Yun prepared to head inward.

But before that, he checked the equipment's condition once more.

The most important was the main drone, followed by the three backup camera positions.

For this livestream, the several pieces of equipment had no real issues; the problem was the batteries.

Fortunately, this DJI livestream drone's main unit came with a complimentary solar charger.

Moreover, the machine could also connect externally to charge other devices.

Otherwise, it really wouldn't be easy to handle.

The main drone's battery test was the bigger issue — three batteries in total, which not only had to support its own livestream mission but also had to provide reverse charging.

Regarding this, Qin Yun could only hope that no problems would arise over these five days.

When he was almost approaching the forest, Qin Yun checked the time and directly started the livestream, though only one main drone was turned on.

The moment his livestream began, fans immediately flooded in; before he even spoke, the viewer count in the upper-right corner of the drone's display broke a thousand.

"Happy holidays, everyone, I'm Qin Yun. I'm currently at the edge of the ****** southern foothills secondary forest belt in Jilin Province. This livestream is about entering the Greater Khingan Mountains from this spot, surviving five days in the primeval forest of the Greater Khingan Mountains, and then coming out toward Inner Mongolia."

"I won't be carrying any weapons or gear, only the livestream equipment. The main point is to let everyone see whether I can succeed. Let me say first, I can't guarantee I'll definitely make it either — after all, who knows if we'll run into Xiong Xiazi, tigers, or whatever."

"We can't be stubbornly reckless, can we."

In the time it took to speak, the livestream room's viewer count had already reached two thousand.

"Holy shit, is the streamer that hardcore? Running into the primeval forest of the Greater Khingan Mountains — tigers in packs, grizzlies everywhere there."

"Is the guy upstairs an idiot? Are tigers pack animals?"

"Awesome. After watching the streamer's rock-climbing livestream, I thought this time the streamer was still challenging rock climbing — didn't expect it turned into wilderness survival."

"Wilderness survival is great, I love watching shows by Bear Grylls and Ed Stafford the most."

"Fake as hell, going into the primeval forest without any gear — what is that if not being a retard."

"Why don't I buy that it's a primeval forest? Maybe he just casually found some national park."

"I'm from Jilin, everyone move aside, let me take a look. No doubt about it, those really are the vegetation characteristics of the Greater Khingan Mountains, I can vouch for it."

At this point, Qin Yun was already standing at the edge of the forest; one look ahead, and it was a view with no end in sight.

Seeing the comments, he simply flew the drone up into the sky, and immediately the boundless forest was transmitted into the livestream room.

Those little trolls who had been questioning immediately shut their mouths.

But some still said:

"What gear does the streamer have that's so badass, that he can livestream in the primeval forest — doesn't he have to consider signal? When did our country build base stations into the primeval forest?"

"Right, let alone the primeval forest, I go to an underground garage and there's fucking no signal."

Qin Yun aimed the drone back at himself, and seeing these few comments, said with a smile: "For that you'd have to ask DJI. This device of mine is sponsored by DJI, made specifically for livestreaming. It doesn't connect to base station signal, it connects to satellite signal. According to DJI's official statement, as long as this device is within China, it will have signal."

"Holy shit, that badass. As expected of DJI, amazing."

Qin Yun steered the drone forward, walking and talking: "The Greater Khingan Mountains lie in the northeast of our country, with mountains stretching endlessly, totaling 1,200 kilometers in length. The forest is dense, beasts are countless, and it's extremely dangerous. I still have to say — don't learn from me and come here alone. Once you go missing, you really call out to heaven and get no answer, call out to the earth and get no response."

"There the streamer goes again — are we so full we'd be sick to learn from you? Isn't it better to lie on the sofa at home and watch your livestream?"

"Exactly, that was one unnecessary remark."

Qin Yun gave a wry smile and said: "Fine, my loose lips."

After saying that, he glanced at his phone and said in a serious tone: "The time is now 3:12 PM on October 5, 2026. I'm about to enter the forest and officially begin the livestream. Given battery and other issues, my livestream will run during the daytime, and in the evening depending on the situation."