Chapter 92 Investigate Her Past
Henry, squatting by the stream, finished washing his face and looked up to see Kendall staring intently downstream. He couldn't help but stand up to look and, like the netizens in front of the screen, saw the large rooster preening and cleaning its beautiful feathers by the creek.
Henry's eyes widened, and his tone was slightly uncertain, "Is that... a wild pheasant?"
"No, it's a free-range chicken the program team put in beforehand. Wait here for me." After saying this, Kendall dropped the items in her hand and walked towards the downstream section of the creek.
user @CutieMiMi: "Ahhh! Kendall is really going to catch the chicken!"
user @QueenBee: "Kendall is impressive, she can recognize the breed of the chicken with just a glance."
user @UnbiasedOpinion: "You guys have been stuck in this live stream, so you don't know, but Jasper and Liam were just complaining that Kendall was raised in the countryside, all brute force, no manners, blah blah.
.. So, it's normal for a child raised in the countryside to recognize a free-range chicken. "
user @LazyPanda: "So that's it. No wonder Kendall is so familiar with this forest. She probably walked mountain paths often when she was little."
user @WhiteForest: "Wait... is Jasper mentally ill? What does 'country folks are all brute force' mean? How can they work without strength! Isn't the food he eats grown by farmers?! Since when is manners linked to wealth?!"
user @SpoonAndFork: "Hahahaha, don't get angry. He's already a trending topic for criticism, and I heard netizens have already started boycotting his family's cosmetics."
user @DetectiveSoo: "Look, look! Kendall is catching the chicken! Is she going to use her bare hands?"
user @IAmHungry: "Catching a chicken barehanded is so hard! You can't catch it at all!"
user @EagleEyes: "Where's her knife, where's her knife!"
Kendall was unaware of the netizen's shouts.
She focused intensely on the rooster, quietly circling behind it with light steps.
Watching Kendall approach the beautiful rooster step by step, the audience in front of the screen felt as if they were there, subconsciously holding their breath, afraid that any loud movement would scare the chicken away.
Even the comments floating on the screen were fewer than before.
Kendall's feet stepped on the green leaves without making a sound.
The beautiful rooster stood by the creek, meticulously preening its feathers. It wasn't until Kendall was about two or three meters away that the rooster seemed to sense something. It snapped its head up, spread its wings, and leaped into the air, flying towards the lower section of the creek.
user @PrincessRuRu: "Ah ah ah ah, it's flying!!!"
user @CutieMiMi: "Oh no! What a pity! She was only two steps away!"
user @IAmHungry: "I told you catching a chicken wasn't that simple."
user @TopCommentor: "See, see, the chicken flew away."
user @CoolUncle: "I knew it wouldn't be easy. Chickens aren't stupid. How could they just stand there waiting to be caught?"
Watching the rooster fly away from her sight, Kendall's eyes narrowed. Without thinking, she took a large stride, leaped high into the air, extended her long arm, caught the beautiful rooster in mid-air, and then landed steadily on the ground.
user @CuriousCat: "Huh??? Huh!!! Did something just leap up?"
user @PeaceMaker: "What happened? How did she catch it?!"
user @CalmMind: "That's ridiculous! She jumped up and caught it?!"
user @SerialNovelist: "Holy cow, how did she jump that high! Her move to catch the chicken in mid-air looks like an anime protagonist's move!"
user @PuppyLove: "Ah ah ah ah, it was so fast, I didn't even see clearly, and she already caught it."
user @PeachBlossom: "Who took a screenshot? Who took a screenshot just now? Do you have the picture? I want to see that moment of her catching the chicken!"
user @TopCommentor: "I didn't capture it."
user @DetectiveSoo: "I wanted to, but I didn't make it in time."
user @AngryTeen: "It was too fast. It happened in that one second, I couldn't screenshot it."
user @GymFreak: "Her jumping power is incredible. The height that chicken flew, an average person definitely couldn't have caught it, let alone the long distance between her and the rooster when she leaped!"
user @QueenBee: "Her reaction was so quick too. She almost immediately went after it the moment the rooster spread its wings."
user @UnapologeticallyHonest: "Why does Kendall's actions always defy expectations? It seems like everything she does is beyond my comprehension, yet she actually manages to do it."
Kendall held the rooster by the base of its wing, weighing it in her hand. It was about four or five pounds, not bad, enough for a satisfying meal. She walked back contentedly with the rooster in hand.
Henry, standing in place, was stunned. He hadn't expected Kendall to actually bring the rooster back!
"You're too amazing! At that height, the rooster was already flying away, but you seemed to fly right after it." Henry couldn't help but say, staring at the beautiful rooster in Kendall's hand with astonishment.
"Help me hold this." Kendall offered the rooster to Henry. Henry quickly reached out and took it, holding it tightly with both hands, afraid the chicken would escape in his grasp.
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(Please be advised that this section contains vivid descriptions of gore. Feel free to skip if you prefer to avoid such content.)
Kendall took out another unused survival knife and a packet of seasoning from her backpack. Henry saw her actions and had a vague guess. "Are you going to kill the chicken here?"
Kendall nodded. "Mhmm, we'll eat it before we go back."
Henry was delighted to hear this. Kendall had said 'we', meaning he would get a share of the meat! Henry, who hadn't eaten all day, immediately felt hungry.
After taking out the knife and seasoning packet, Kendall plucked a few large, long green leaves nearby and washed them clean in the stream. Kendall squatted by the creek and beckoned to Henry. Henry immediately walked over, holding the chicken.
Henry held the chicken's body, and Kendall held the rooster's head. Her right hand, holding the survival knife, slid neatly across the chicken's neck, and warm blood immediately flowed out.
Before entering the forest, they had taken out many items from their backpacks and left them in the tents. Henry's titanium pot hadn't been brought, and there was no other container here to collect the chicken blood temporarily, so Kendall didn't plan to keep it.
user @SiSiOnTop: "I don't know why, but Kendall's swift motion of slitting the chicken's throat suddenly gave me a chill on my neck."
user @SensibleTeen: "I feel like Kendall is more skilled at killing a chicken than my mom."
user @RainDrop: "Isn't Kendall only in her twenties?"
A chicken with its throat slit doesn't die instantly. Kendall told Henry to keep an eye on the chicken, then turned and walked back in the direction they came from.
On the way here, Kendall had noticed many edible wild plants, including wild ginger and wild thyme for removing the gamey smell. Since these two plants were nearby, she planned to dig some up.
Kendall's movements were fast. By the time she returned with the freshly dug wild ginger and thyme, the rooster lay motionless on the ground, already dead.
Kendall tossed the wild ginger and thyme to Henry, telling him to wash them clean, while she handled the rooster with the survival knife.
Since there was no way to heat water under the current conditions, Kendall simply cut off the head, feet, and wings, then peeled off the feathers and skin together.
What was left was the beautiful chicken meat.
After skinning it, Kendall walked to the creek's edge, gutted it, and reached in with her fair, slender fingers to pull out all the internal organs.
(The explicit scene ends here. You may continue reading comfortably.)
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user @AlwaysFirst: "I... I never thought I'd be watching someone kill a chicken in a live stream one day."
user @HotCocoa: "I originally wanted to leave when Kendall was about to kill the chicken. I can't stand seeing blood and gore, always felt disgusted by it... But I unknowingly watched the whole thing! And I didn't feel disgusted at all!"
user @BelieveInMyself: "I don't know why, but whenever Kendall is doing something, I can't help but focus my attention on her.
Whether it was setting up the tent yesterday, foraging for seafood this morning, or her going to dig wild ginger just now, and handling this chicken.
.. I feel like her movements are incredibly neat, and her expression is very focused and serious when she does anything.
It's fluid and carries a certain mysterious aura. "
user @FreeBird: "Yes! Me too! I originally wanted to leave, but I unknowingly watched it all!"
user @TiredOfLife: "Watching her work is very stress-relieving."
user @CuriousCat: "I suddenly really want to know where Kendall is from! What was her childhood experience like? I feel like her wilderness survival skills are exceptionally strong! This is not something that your average country kid would know."
user @DetectiveSoo: "True! I also grew up in the countryside, but I don't dare kill a chicken, I'm not that familiar with the forest, and catching a chicken in mid-air with bare hands is even more impossible. As for seeing a snake... I'd cry louder than anyone else."
user @SleepingAuntie: "Hahahahahaha, how cute."
user @ColdAsIce: "Private investigators in the live stream, start digging!
My identity is the invincible cold young master of the Orapolis elite circle.
I'm giving you three days to investigate all of Kendall's information from childhood to present and submit your report in the live stream!
Don't make me personally crawl to your house and beat you! "
user @BigPeach: "Haha, the guests are now divided into two teams, and the program team has also split into two live streams. Although the number of viewers in Kendall and Henry's live stream is lower than the live stream next door, five out of the seven people in the live stream next door are celebrities! "
user @LongFingers: "Celebrities bring their own traffic. Kendall and Henry are just ordinary people, yet the traffic of the two live streams is almost comparable. You don't need to shout. I believe many media outlets are already digging into Kendall's past, trying to ride her wave of popularity."
(End of Chapter)