Just like many towns in the Tibetan area, Jiulong has mountains on both sides and a large river running through the middle.
During this season, the river isn’t particularly swift, and there aren’t many tourists on the road, mostly local cars, with few people around.
This is a city without many tourist attractions, and even the few scenic spots it has are not very famous.
As night falls, the street has turned a bit chilly.
People dressed in ethnic minority costus stroll leisurely, often elderly folk whose ethnicities are imdiately recognizable.
Younger people have distinct ethnic features: high nose bridges, thin lips, and often slightly darker skin.
Li Younan wandered aimlessly down the street with his cara, trying to find scenes worth recording.
Then, in front of a bus stop, he spotted an elderly Tibetan woman sitting on a bench, calmly and leisurely shaking a small prayer wheel in her hand.
The bus hadn’t arrived, and she wasn’t in a hurry.
Li Younan approached and asked, "Grandma, can I take a picture of you?"
It took quite a bit of effort for the elderly woman to understand what Li Younan ant, but she smiled simply and agreed.
Li Younan stepped back a bit and used a telephoto lens to capture a shot.
In the lens, the elderly woman had a kind smile, and the prayer wheel in her hand was still turning.
Li Younan really liked this photo as well; thus, the first Tibetan task of his photographic mission was completed.
The upcoming tasks of photographing the Han and Yi people were a bit more troubleso.
At least the Yi people have their own costus, while identifying the Han by their clothing is not very accurate anymore.
Fortunately, Li Younan was not in a hurry; the success of the first photo had put him in a different fra of mind.
He realized that the system wasn’t really encouraging him to do this so utilitarianly; just wandering and pausing to record so beautiful monts was fine.
He beca a street photographer, actively striking up conversations with people on the street whom he thought had their own aura, asking if he could take their pictures.
In truth, Li Younan was prepared for rejection, understanding that from the perspective of the approached, suspicion about the other’s intentions was not unreasonable.
But what surprised Li Younan was that, once he explained his identity, everyone he approached was initially surprised, then gladly allowed him to take their photos.
Even those who refused did so because they weren’t very confident and felt they weren’t photogenic.
The people here were quite simple, inclined to trust others’ goodwill, which left Li Younan sowhat taken aback.
He took photos of roughly a dozen groups, though he hadn’t completed the task, but the quality of these photos was quite good.
So people asked for Li Younan’s contact info—his small work number—and he sent them the photos.
Others, like the elderly woman from before or so other seniors, weren’t concerned about the photos.
Li Younan wandered aimlessly on the street for more than an hour, and the task he hadn’t completed was the Han photo task.
Just when he was about to give up, a Tibetan girl suddenly called out to him.
This girl was tall, with dark skin, and used sowhat imperfect Mandarin to approach Li Younan, yet she was very bold and unafraid: "Are you taking photos for others, handso?"
Li Younan nodded.
The girl’s expression imdiately beca excited, and she asked, "Can you take a photo of and my boyfriend?"
Following the girl’s direction, Li Younan looked over and saw a boy with glasses, appearing scholarly and a bit shy, forming a striking contrast with the girl’s appearance.
Li Younan blinked and smiled, "Sure."
The girl hopped over, grabbed the boy’s arm, leaned on his shoulder, and grinned widely.
The boy looked a little shy but also began to smile.
Behind them was a crowd, with bright lights shining brilliantly.
Li Younan focused on the boy and girl’s faces, then imdiately crouched down, capturing the mont.
System task completed!
Li Younan stood up, looked at the photo on his cara, and the girl pulled the boy over, admiring the photo.
Li Younan didn’t know the stories behind this boy and girl, but he felt they must be touching.
After giving the photo to the boy and girl, Li Younan felt his day was complete, and he walked quietly toward the hotel, thinking, traveling is so wonderful.
It was then that he started to browse the rewards he had just received.
[Gained Snowboarding Skill!]
[Snowboarding Level 1: The board becos an extension of your body, and each jump is perfectly precise.]
Soon after, the system gave another prompt—
[Affected by Parkour Skill Level 2, Snowboarding Skill 1!]
[Snowboarding Skill Level 2: Like an eagle slicing through the sky, you weave impossible angles between snow waves and clouds.]
Li Younan felt so subtle changes in his body again, but with the current state of his physique, such changes weren’t so noticeable anymore.
Snowboarding skills, huh?
Unfortunately, there wasn’t a way to imdiately experience it; it’s quite an interesting skill. Not only snowboarding, but under this skill’s influence, Li Younan felt he might as well be okay at skateboarding. Even if he couldn’t perform high-difficulty tricks, maintaining balance on a skateboard should be pretty easy.
He couldn’t help but recall the ti back in college when Jing Chaoyi once held his skateboard and let Li Younan give it a try.
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