Quick Transmigration: Saving That Cannon Fodder

Akahoshi seemed embarrassed and turned her face away, saying softly, "Mmm, it's sweet."

Shao Yuyan paused in picking peanuts, a thought flickering in his mind: what did Xingxing mean by this?

While silently picking peanuts, Shao Yuyan heard Chen Duo and Ou Su laughing and talking in the peanut field on the other side. He looked up and saw Lin An and Feng Wuyuan slowly walking over from the ridge.

Lin An walked over and called out to Chi Xing. Shao Yuyan stepped aside to block Chi Xing, looking at him with a puzzled expression.

The camera followed them as they turned around. Shao Yuyan was getting impatient; Lin An always seemed to be bullying Chi Xing.

He had seen these kinds of tricks before when he was a child. Lin An's face was just like those concubines in the imperial harem back then.

"Is something wrong?"

Faced with Shao Yuyan's icy expression, Lin An's cheeks flushed slightly. He nervously twisted his fingers, and his voice softened.

"Brother Yu, I just want to apologize to Chixing."

He turned to look at Akahoshi and said with a smile, "Akahoshi, I think we might have some misunderstanding. I apologize to you and would like to give you the starting position. Can you please not leave the team?"

This is a nonsensical statement. Saying this in front of the camera, is it an attempt to use moral blackmail?

Unfortunately, Chi Xing wasn't buying it. Just as he was about to speak, Shao Yuyan said, "Your decision to leave the team was your own. What you said yesterday doesn't count today. What? Does the whole world have to revolve around you?"

Lin An was speechless at his words. She never expected that Shao Yuyan, who seemed so gentle and refined, could say such a thing. Her goodwill towards him vanished instantly.

"No, I just wanted to apologize." Lin An looked at Feng Wuyuan, her eyes filled with grievance.

As the captain protecting him, Feng Wuyuan couldn't stand it anymore and stepped forward to say, "He just wanted to apologize, there's no need to be so malicious, is there?"

"If you're going to apologize, then do it properly. Why are you demanding that Akahoshi not withdraw? Your team and club have already issued a statement saying that Akahoshi has the right to join another team."

Akahoshi gave him a cold look: "I've already left KR, so where I go from now on is none of your business."

He had no intention of accepting Lin An's apology. His older brother had already told him that the Lin family was investigating him, and if Chi Xing were just an ordinary person, he might have been quietly eliminated by the Lin family.

Fortunately, the Chi family is there, and the eldest brother is already preparing to deal with the Lin family.

Seeing that he wouldn't listen to reason and was being forced to drink the penalty cup, Lin An forced a smile despite her discomfort: "Alright, sorry to bother you."

He thought he was being very polite, and even gave the camera a sad look.

His fans indeed started to feel sorry for him.

[Seriously? Why did Shao Yuyan speak so rudely to Chi Xing?]

[That's right, my An'an is the young master of the Lin family. He's already apologized, what more does Chixing want from him?]

[I think Akahoshi went too far. How could he talk to someone like that, showing no respect whatsoever in front of the camera?]

Other fans immediately retorted upon seeing this comment.

[You're so aloof. Yesterday they wanted to kick Akahoshi out, but today they're preventing him from leaving once they find out he's second on the Asia server rankings. What's their intention? It's so hard to guess.]

[Lin An is really strange. He can't tell that Chi Xing doesn't like him, yet he insists on talking to her.]

[The acting was unconvincing; Lin An's expression didn't seem like a genuine apology at all.]

[Finally, someone else feels the same way I do. Lin An seems to have a performative personality; he's always acting in front of the camera. His gestures when looking at the camera seem so deliberate.]

As Akahoshi watched these comments, 250 took advantage of the chaos to stir up trouble, and the comments expressing sympathy for Lin An were quickly drowned out by doubts.

Lin An knew nothing of this. His eyes darted around, and he squatted down in front of a pile of peanuts next to Chi Xing, reaching out to pick some, mimicking Chi Xing and the other person's actions.

Akahashi frowned: "This is our mission."

Lin An was speechless: "We stopped assigning tasks this afternoon. If I do it, it's considered done."

"What are you talking about? These are peanuts we pulled up. It doesn't count if you picked them, does it?" Shao Yuyan pointed to the peanut field on the left and said:

"If you want to do this task, you should go and pick the peanuts yourself, instead of stealing our half-finished products."

Feng Wuyuan noticed that everyone else was looking over, and an uncle from a village not far from Chi Xing and the others also spoke up: "These were all picked by that young man. If you want to pick them, go pick them yourself."

With an honest and simple smile on his face, he stood up and said, "I'll take you to pull it out; it's very easy."

Lin An felt wronged again. He felt that everyone was bullying him. There was not a single good person in this production team. Even the villagers were helping Chi Xing.

"Xiao An, why don't we ask the director first?" Feng Wuyuan said. In fact, he had also figured it out; it was just as Shao Yuyan had said.

But seeing Lin An looking so aggrieved, he couldn't bear to see her unhappy, so he changed his approach.

"We harvested the rice this morning, so why don't we..."

Lin An got angry, threw the peanuts hard on the ground, turned around and walked towards the rice field without even looking at them.

The uncle's smile faded a little as he bent down to pick up the peanuts that had fallen to the ground. Akahoshi helped him pick them up and said to the uncle, "Please sit down and pick the peanuts; it's too hot."

“Okay, no rush, you guys take a break too.” The uncle’s Mandarin wasn’t very standard, and Chi Xing had to listen carefully to understand him. He nodded and sat down next to Shao Yuyan.

"Ayu, let's do this tomorrow. I want to finish all of these."

"Well, I'm with you."

Calm returned to normal. Lin An went to the rice paddy, and Zhou Wang immediately said, "You can pick up peanuts if you throw them away, but you can't throw rice away."

This rice paddy belongs to an elderly couple; every grain is their food supply for the coming year, so it cannot be wasted.

"What do you mean? It's not like I can't cut it. You do what you want."

Lin An was in a bad mood, so he picked up a sickle and started cutting rice. Feng Wuyuan sighed and came over to work next to him.

Seeing a single tear fall from his eye, Feng Wuyuan was immediately at a loss: "Xiao An, what's wrong?"

"Don't be sad. If you don't want to work, I'll do it."

"Or do you want to pick peanuts? Then we'll do that task tomorrow too."

The more she was comforted, the more aggrieved Lin An felt, and tears kept falling.

The Lin family had no time to watch the live stream. Lin Ping was still investigating information about Chi Xing, but strangely, he couldn't find anything on his end.

Lin's father returned to the company; a major project had run into some problems.

The crying was still going on over there. Jiang Tu, standing next to Lin An, was contemplating whether to cut off the other side as well, when Xie Xiuming handed him a bottle of water.

"You take a break, let me cut this side."

Jiang Tu hesitated for a moment, then nodded and drank some water. Farm work was tiring, and he had never done such work before when he was in the orphanage.

Xie Xiuming was also doing farm work for the first time. He went from being unfamiliar with the work in the morning to being able to quickly cut a large handful of rice.

They didn't cut directly onto the eucalyptus field; it was as if they had drawn a straight line down the middle of the field. They only did the work within their assigned tasks.