Chapter 112: Chapter 112: The Photography Team’s Tricks

Maybe because Xu Ying often browses videos related to animals, the next video recommended to her by the platform was posted by an animal photography team.

The video’s content featured a rare twelve-spotted ladybug drinking dew on a leaf.

This twelve-spotted ladybug was light yellow, shimmering beautifully under the light. The leaf it lay on was large and green, with dewdrops glistening along its veins.

The entire scene was high-definition and beautiful, with the ladybug, leaf, and dewdrops all appearing perfect, making one feel the vitality and vibrancy of nature through the screen.

To capture such a perfect moment, the photography team must have waited for a long time and spent considerable time and effort searching for shootable scenes in nature!

Xu Ying couldn’t help but click into the homepage of this “Spiritual Photography” account to browse their other works.

No matter which work Xu Ying clicked on, she was shocked by its perfection; all were products of the right time, place, and people.

Xu Ying discovered that the animals photographed by Spiritual Photography were all small, agile insects, small birds, arachnids, small reptiles, and small amphibians.

These animals are keenly alert and easily spooked, often making it difficult to produce satisfactory footage. Xu Ying grew more and more impressed by the Spiritual Photography team, convinced the photographers must have devoted a lot.

Xu Ying noticed that many animal sounds captured by this account are infrasound or ultrasound frequencies inaudible to human ears.

Xu Ying slightly raised her eyebrows; her newly unlocked advanced “Beast Language Mastery” could be put to use right now!

She was curious to know what these small animals were saying when captured by the photographers, what mood they were in, and whether they would complain about the human photographers.

Xu Ying eagerly searched through her toolkit to find the device.

A regular phone speaker couldn’t play ultrasound and infrasound; a special external speaker was needed.

When danger approaches, animal rescuers sometimes use special audio to drive away birds, and Xu Ying had such a special speaker in her toolbox.

She connected the external speaker to her phone and exchanged for an hour of “Beast Language Mastery,” then hurriedly clicked on Spiritual Photography’s top-rated video.

This video, with over 500,000 likes, had a very amusing content—

A small frog’s lotus leaf house was about to collapse, and it stood up trying hard to support the shaky leaf with one of its front limbs.

The photographer pretended to extend a finger to poke the frog’s round belly, and the little frog quickly waved its other front limb, indicating the photographer not to disturb it, as if to say, “Damn you, get lost! Bastard!”

The comment section was full of comments laughing because of the video’s humor and meme comments.

[Frog: What you’re doing, I feel you’re more inhuman than I am!]

[Little frog: How can you humans have no sense of boundaries?]

[Frog: A house can be rebuilt, but what you build can’t.]

[Photographer, why scratch it, kiss it and it’ll turn into a prince!]

However, Xu Ying couldn’t laugh at the sound made by the small frog, her brows furrowing into a “川” character.

The frog species in the video was the concave-eared frog, producing ultrasonic sounds.

The small frog in the video was saying: [Someone save me, my frog palm is stuck on the lotus leaf!]

[Can’t shake it off, can’t shake it off, sob sob sob…]

[I can’t hold on, I’m going to fall, so tired…]

So, the video’s content was not about the small frog’s house collapsing and being teased by humans, it was just misleading text added in post-production.

The truth was that one of the little frog’s palms was glued to the lotus leaf by someone.

The lotus leaf was high, with one front palm glued, it couldn’t touch the ground, could only maintain a standing position.

Xu Ying’s fondness for this “Spiritual Photography” team vanished, and she watched several more videos—

In the beautiful yet tragic video of months drawn to flames, the moths emitted distress signals: [Don’t electrocute me! I have nowhere to run!]

[Quick, take your big swatter away!]

The video was not actually moths flying into flames in the dark, but off-camera, someone was driving them to desperation with an electric swatter, forcing them to fly towards the flame.

In the video of a standoff between a snake and a small bird in a tree, the snake’s body was fixed and wrapped around the tree with glue, while the bird was also scared off artificially. If the shooting results were unsatisfactory, it would be netted back and frightened repeatedly until a satisfactory film was shot.

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Xu Ying scrolled through video after video, her heart sinking to the bottom, her respect for the Spiritual Photography team replaced by disdain and loathing.

Initially thought the photography team possessed the eyes to discover beauty and the patience to wait, but unexpectedly, it was all staged for quick output at the cost of harming animals through unscrupulous means.

The “Spiritual Photography” account already had 600,000 followers. Xu Ying was just about to figure out how to report this unscrupulous account for traffic, when she discovered that their current IP location showed in Xizhou Province!

Xu Ying felt a jolt in her heart.

You guys better not come here!!!

She quickly scrolled to this account’s most recent video, which was posted five days ago. The IP was still in Lin City, and many users were asking the photography team to shoot desert animals.

The Spiritual Photography team responded to a high-like comment, saying: “It’s arranged! Let’s go to the desert!”

Some users hoped that Spiritual Photography could cooperate with the Desert Rescue Station, but the blogger did not reply.

Xu Ying furrowed her brows tight enough to kill a fly, this photography team’s efficiency was too high, just going with the traffic.

Later, when she got to headquarters, she must explain the situation to them, take precautions, and make animal rescuers in each desert rescue zone wary of this unscrupulous filming team.

Arriving at the Desert Rescue Station headquarters entrance, as soon as the car stopped, Xu Ying thanked Qi Xiao and hurriedly went inside to find the ear fox cubs.

She happened to encounter Zhuo Yi, holding a folder and recording data.

As soon as Zhuo Yi saw Xu Ying, she beamed with a bright smile: “Little Xu Station Chief, you’re back!”

Seeing Xu Ying’s anxious look, she knew what the other was thinking: “You’re probably looking for the fox cubs, right? They miss you, follow me.”

Xu Ying took out the dried fruits and milk pieces brought from West Mountain from her backpack and stuffed them into Zhuo Yi’s arms: “Sister Zhuo Yi, how’s your diet plan going?”

Zhuo Yi hugged the goodies in her arms and gave a mysterious smile: “You’ll know when you see it on-site!”

Zhuo Yi led Xu Ying to the activity center at the rescue station headquarters, which was a place resembling a gymnasium.

Zhuo Yi pushed open the activity center’s door, and Xu Ying immediately heard the lively music inside. Curiously, she stepped in, stunned by the scene in the activity center.

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