[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-starting-from-a-solitary-life-in-the-wilds":3,"chapter-starting-from-a-solitary-life-in-the-wilds-starting-from-a-solitary-life-in-the-wilds-chapter-17":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Starting from a Solitary Life in the Wilds",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2302402,4503,"Chapter 17: The Incident Further Escalates!","starting-from-a-solitary-life-in-the-wilds-chapter-17",17,"\u003Cp>“Captain, this guy’s a walking monster!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Exactly! With this kind of power, weren’t we just redundant?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How heavy was that punch?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The situation really was dire—only someone like Xiao Shen would dare sleep out in the wild!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Right—if he’d woken up just a second later, Xiao Shen would’ve been bear food.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is seriously worth studying—I’d love to dissect his body structure.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing this, all the rescue team members instinctively stepped several paces away from Dr. Xue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the rescue team returned to base, no one felt sleepy; everyone couldn’t help but rush to check the playback footage of Xiao Yi’s critical moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they saw Xiao Yi punch the bear’s face into a pig’s face, they all burst into exclamations, each saying something different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Night had grown still; after the heavy rain, the air in the wild was unusually fresh and invigorating, and most of the wild creatures had entered dormancy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the wild also had nocturnal hunters—the top night predators now hid themselves, masking their scent, hoping for a good haul tonight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In contrast to the wild, the metropolis teeming with people—like Rongcheng at this moment—was ablaze with red lanterns and green lights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everywhere, voices roared, music played, and for those living here, their nightlife had only just begun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Rongcheng had far more hardworking office workers burning the midnight oil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As one of China’s newest metropolises and among the top ten cities for survival pressure, overtime was routine here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside Rongcheng’s Chongming Tower, in a relatively cramped office, a mature-looking man in a suit passed by and, seeing a young man still working at his computer, couldn’t help but say with concern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wu Jiang, it’s this late—aren’t you going home to rest? Do it tomorrow; no need to work this late.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You go ahead, Boss Shen. I just need to finish this— I feel our ‘Curiosity World’ public account might be saved this time.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man in the corner, startled by the voice, looked up, recognized the visitor, and smiled as he replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man was Wu Jiang, a typical office worker and employee of Hongfeng Internet Company—and also a minor shareholder, with negligible equity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man who had just spoken to him was Shen Hao, the company’s founder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Hongfeng Internet Company, it was less a company and more like a small studio.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire staff totaled exactly ten people, including the boss who had just spoken to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The company had no special technology or core expertise—just seized the tide of short videos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the early days of short videos, Boss Shen Hao seized the opportunity, creating several original public accounts across major short-video platforms and websites, then posting all kinds of videos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the short-video trend surged, these accounts gathered substantial followings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boss Shen Hao used this traffic to attract investment and successfully launch his own internet company.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like this kind of sparrow company that rose on online videos, they were everywhere in Rongcheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the great tide of the traffic era—even a single viral video influencer could build their own online studio.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their company, among these similar sparrow studios, could be considered mid-sized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, their studio had one account with ten million followers, seven with a million each, and twelve with tens of thousands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Jiang’s ‘Curiosity World’ account was their studio’s first public account, co-founded by Shen Hao and himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, ‘Curiosity World’ had surpassed a million followers on major platforms like Yinfu, Shoushou, and Weibo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its content mostly featured the world’s strange wonders—like fire that had burned for decades without extinguishing, or why bats were the kings of poison—to prove the universe held endless marvels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, good material was too hard to find; recently, this account’s posts had hit their lowest points in views, searches, likes, and comments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t that Wu Jiang hadn’t tried hard—that caused the account’s traffic decline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world simply didn’t have enough bizarre material left for him to uncover; current content mostly just spread common knowledge, and audiences had grown bored.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Wu Jiang say this, Shen Hao—who had been about to leave—perked up; after all, this was his very first account. He walked over to Wu Jiang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Hao himself knew the account’s problem—but he had no good solution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So now, the company’s main focus and attention were on cultivating female streamers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to earning money solely through short videos, the profits from live-streamed e-commerce were far more important to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Shen Hao approach, Wu Jiang immediately opened the video he’d recorded and said, “Boss Shen, check this out.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What appeared on screen was a man punching a giant fish underwater three times until it passed out, then lifting a thousand-jin white poplar log, and finally punching a bear twice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This… this isn’t edited by you, is it? Xiao Wu, this account is our baby—I want it to revive and return to the public eye, but I don’t want it done through deception.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After watching the video, Shen Hao first couldn’t believe it, then turned to Wu Jiang with a serious face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Jiang naturally sensed the misunderstanding from Shen Hao’s tone and quickly explained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Boss Shen, you’re overthinking—I’m not that kind of person. All this is real footage I took from Yinfu’s Wild Challenge show; the man in the video is one of the contestants.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Hao “…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Shen Hao was utterly stunned, at a loss for words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yinfu’s Wild Challenge show had been heavily promoted since yesterday—he’d heard about it, of course.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he hadn’t been interested in such shows, so he hadn’t paid attention—yet who would’ve thought…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two offices at the farthest corner of the sixteenth floor of Chongming Tower didn’t turn off their lights until 3 a.m.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterwards, ‘Curiosity World’ posted several videos and captions across its major platforms overnight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s the human limit of strength? Today, Curiosity World reveals the truth.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The man who wrestled a black bear—who’s the real king of the north?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How many astonishing events still exist in this world!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh? Has Curiosity World switched back to its old style? I haven’t seen it in ages—but what’s this? Yinfu’s giving it a top recommendation?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn, who’s the guy in the video? Awesome!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That white poplar log can’t be real—I don’t believe anyone could lift such a heavy log, and that bear’s definitely fake. Curiosity World’s really going downhill.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Holy shit, today I learned bears can be punched—got it, got it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Learned something new! Does anyone know who this guy is? I’m going to follow him—where can I see him?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Isn’t this the No. 6 contestant from Yinfu’s Wild Challenge? I watched a bit two days ago and turned it off—it was boring. What did I miss?! So regretful!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let me tell you—it’s from Yinfu’s show, and the video isn’t edited. This guy’s a contestant.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“100% real—I was in the live stream last night and saw Xiao Shen punch the bear into the ground.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately after the videos were posted, likes and shares on Yinfu, Shoushou, and Weibo all broke 100,000 within minutes, and comments surged past ten thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was even during late night hours—most short-video viewers still preferred watching videos over live streams, so even with Yinfu’s massive promotion, most people still hadn’t seen the show.\u003C\u002Fp>",1221,"2026-06-20T08:19:46.963Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","2885031da3c40df063613cf8a488ff026927953e5b119e88356ea763bf360b18","starting-from-a-solitary-life-in-the-wilds-chapter-18","starting-from-a-solitary-life-in-the-wilds-chapter-16",366,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarting-from-a-solitary-life-in-the-wilds-cover.jpg"]