Chapter 731: One Man and One Horse: The Most Eye-Catching Standout in the Hunting Grounds (Part 3)

Chapter 731: Chapter 314: One Man and One Horse: The Most Eye-Catching Standout in the Hunting Grounds (Part 3)

He lifted his gaze towards a building here; evidently, that was the first task collection point.

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In fact, not every hunter’s livestream room was as desolate as Li Younan’s.

As a hunter competition with significant influence in Dezhou, it attracted outstanding hunters from across the United States and even other parts of the world.

Compared to the “Alone in the Wilderness” show, this hunter competition, due to its requirement for livestreaming, unrestricted platforms, and non-infringement on contestants’ copyrights, was greatly favored by influencer hunters using hunting as a gimmick. This competition was practically made for them.

Ma Long was a seasoned influencer hunter, having had many impressive hunting experiences on the African savanna.

Compared to Li Younan’s first-person perspective, this combination’s biggest distinction was that Mark was responsible for hunting, while his partner handled filming. He didn’t use the first-person perspective equipment provided by the show, instead using a high-powered camera brought by himself, focusing on Mark with the backdrop of a December mountain meadow, where the west wind swept dried fragments across his shoulder.

Mark wore a composed smile at the corner of his mouth, “Ladies and gentlemen, look at this place. December’s mountain meadow is a hell mode for most hunters, but for me, this is my home ground.”

Then, Mark picked up his phone and entered his livestream room, where over a thousand people were watching at that moment.

Considering he already had hundreds of thousands of followers, this number wasn’t surprising.

The comments in the livestream room were mostly various praises for him.

He remained very composed in response to these comments.

For an excellent hunter, these were well-deserved.

But it was still not enough.

This competition was very interesting, and the pasture was large enough to fully showcase his hunting skills.

Initially, when arriving there, he hadn’t expected the format of this competition to be so suitable for an influencer hunter like him.

Well then, it was time to give it his all.

His idol was Kobe.

That’s right, Kobe the basketball player.

He liked one of Kobe’s sayings: “Second place is the first loser.”

And in this competition, undoubtedly, he aimed to be the strongest contestant; he didn’t even deign to compete for second place… it wasn’t a difficult task.

When he opened other hunters’ livestreams one by one, his confidence grew stronger.

At this time, he lit a cigarette for himself, during a break, to watch the status of others’ livestreams.

He wasn’t planning to see what hunting strategies others used, but merely looking at the popularity in the broadcaster’s livestream room could reveal insights.

In this era, an excellent hunter was often also a highly popular influencer.

Of course, each hunter’s livestream was only reported to the organizers. In theory, other hunters had to rely on some luck to find each other’s live streams during the competition, but Mark had a friend among the organizers who secretly revealed others’ livestreams to him.

The first livestream he opened with his phone was that of Julian, the competition’s only female hunter.

Julian indeed was quite popular; she was already a famous hunter before coming to this competition. However, Mark was very dismissive of this since he knew clearly that her becoming an influencer wasn’t mainly due to outstanding hunting skills or marksmanship accuracy, but simply because she was a woman, and an attractive one at that.

However, this competition was very fair; a woman’s beauty and allure wouldn’t bring her victory.

Mark quickly closed her livestream and moved to another one.

This was who he considered his most competitive rival, Rodris from Australia.

Rodris was also a hunter who became famous quite early, initially renowned in Australia for hunting rabbits, even referred to by Australians as Mr. Fox and the King of Rabbit Hunters.

One should know rabbits, despite their small size, aren’t any less challenging to hunt than wild boars.

This was also Rodris’s first time coming to the United States to challenge, and his livestream room similarly had over a thousand people online.

Thus, Mark went through watching most of the hunters’ livestreams.

He categorized all the contestants into three tiers: naturally, the first tier included himself, Rodris, and Julian, as the three of them were influencers with dedicated cameramen, which was a choice only possible with a certain level of skill.

The second tier was those whose livestreams weren’t well-known, with both members being hunters working in tandem, but these teams could potentially surprise with upsets and need to be watched cautiously.

The third tier clearly wasn’t professional, participating in the competition more for the experience, basically as cannon fodder.

At this moment, Mark categorized a hunter team led by a streamer named Richard into the third tier and proceeded to the next livestream room.

However, this livestream room immediately took him by surprise.

Because, at this moment, the broadcaster here had just reached the first task point to receive a task.

It was Li Younan’s livestream.

“Are there such amateur hunters?”

Mark didn’t even bother to see who the main character of the livestream was, casually classifying this hunter’s livestream below the third tier, into the fourth tier, and proceeded to the next livestream room.