Eventually, the police still informed the ranch, and what surprised Li Younan was that the ranch was far more eager than he was to find the person who leaked the GPS information of the contestants.
After all, this was an issue that concerned the ranch’s reputation.
Over the past few days, the livestreaming had rapidly turned Li Younan into an influencer with hundreds of thousands of followers, giving him significant influence in the area.
In Western countries, influencers like this can even, in some ways, directly impact political directions, which is why even presidents try to become influencers.
And that ridiculous incident happening to Li Younan during the hunting competition was absolutely absurd; not only would it affect the ranch’s reputation, but it could also potentially lead to legal issues.
In the United States, getting involved in such legal matters is a very nasty affair.
Right now, two things had to be done quickly: the first was to cooperate with the police to find that damn mole, and the second was to try to appease Li Younan as much as possible.
With the cooperation of the ranch owner and the police, this matter was handled very efficiently, as neither the crew-cut man nor the Mexican needed to be forced before confessing everything.
That unlucky staff member turned out to be a middle-aged woman who had worked at the farm for over a decade, thinking she was simply helping a fan. She hadn’t imagined this would cause her such huge trouble.
When the police handcuffed her, she was sobbing and snotting, about to collapse.
As for the crew-cut man and the Mexican, they faced much more complex issues.
First were the injuries caused by the wild boar, which were likely to cost them half their lives.
If they were lucky enough to be treated by the hospital, they would bear terrible medical debts, and subsequent imprisonment or deportation seemed less important.
Li Younan, however, didn’t care about any of this.
He was then taken back to the core area of the ranch, where the ranch owner personally received him in the living room.
First, of course, was to offer a sincere apology to Li Younan because this incident happened on his ranch, and he stated they could offer Li Younan substantial compensation, hoping that he wouldn’t hold the ranch accountable.
Honestly, Li Younan didn’t blame the ranch administration since this oversight was not really intentional by the ranch authorities. Moreover, these mega ranch owners usually come from families with legacies of three to five generations, representing true social elites who could even influence policy directions locally. Making things difficult for them might backfire.
Li Younan accepted the ranch owner’s apology in full.
Seeing Li Younan being so magnanimous, the ranch owner breathed a slight sigh of relief, stood up, and with some respect said, "Thank you for your generosity, but I also have some advice I’d like to offer: You’re someone with some social influence in the United States; I suggest you hire a couple of reliable bodyguards."
Li Younan nodded and said, "Thank you for your advice, I will consider it."
Two days later, Li Younan boarded a plane to New York.
Just before boarding, he received a message that caught him off guard.
He hadn’t participated in the last round of the hunting competition, yet unexpectedly, the final hunting champion was still him.
Moreover, this wasn’t arranged by the ranch as compensation for him.
This was because the last round of the competition involved selecting the top two hunters from the third round to participate in a 12-hour nighttime hunt in the fence area where wild boars appeared most frequently.
According to the rules, the advantages from each round could carry into the next round.
And the advantage brought into the last round was that the number of hunts in the previous round was used as the baseline data for the final round.
Because Li Younan withdrew, the finalists were Mark and Rodris, who hunted 23 and 21 wild boars, respectively, in the third round.
It’s fair to say these numbers weren’t bad.
After toiling all night, when the final results were announced, the two’s final scores were 29 and 30 wild boars, respectively.
However, Li Younan had already hunted 47 wild boars in the third round, so the hunting competition championship was undeniably awarded to Li Younan.
After the tournament, Mark released a video.
In the video, he sat silently in front of the camera for a while, then sighed lightly and said helplessly, "Honestly, I feel like this is an insult."
"It feels like, ’See, even if I don’t participate in the last round, there’s no way you could catch up to me.’"
Then he smiled in relief, "I’ve watched all his hunting clips, and I must say he is a great hunter, a natural-born hunter, a true wilderness survival master. If he sees my video, I want to tell him he has my respect!"
As for the footage of the crew-cut man and the Mexican that Li Younan filmed, he didn’t release it but gave it to the ranch owner.
In return for Li Younan’s gesture, the ranch owner gave him $1,000,000 in compensation, and with the $100,000 prize money from the hunting competition, Li Younan easily earned $1,100,000, replenishing his somewhat empty wallet.
With this, his trip to Texas came to an end, and next, Li Younan was flying to his last stop on this journey to the United States — New York.
New York has many famous labels, like the world finance center or the Knicks... but this time, Li Younan’s destination was Brooklyn. Speaking of Brooklyn, most people don’t have much of an impression, but it has a very famous competition, known as the "Sharpest Guy’s Speed Bump," called the "Sword Forging Competition."

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