Chapter 051: Warm Ice Patch

Lu Xuan didn't think there was anything wrong.

Drawing a hundred times a day is a way to increase popularity. The number of online followers has increased, and more people are giving gifts. He has not lost money in two days of drawing, so what is there to worry about?

What's more, if the biological suit and space are exchanged for the villagers, the space is obviously more valuable. Although Bailianli did not draw the biological suit, he did draw two spaces, one of 5 cubic meters and the other of 10 cubic meters, which is still a good profit.

"Okay, that's all for today's live broadcast. We'll continue exploring tomorrow."

Because today's points income was not as good as yesterday, after drawing the blind box, Lu Xuan's points account still shrank by 10,000 points.

Fortunately, today’s gift points have not been redeemed yet.

In the morning, he treated the children in the village, went hunting in the afternoon, and collected and distributed the prey after returning. Although there was no particularly shocking content today, there were still many things to watch from morning to night. As expected, the number of online users and fans increased by 100,000.

StarCraft fans are as generous as ever. Today, we received more than 300,000 gifts. If we exchanged all of them for points, it would be more than 30,000.

I spent a lot of money on biological clothing during the day. After adding and subtracting, the remaining points were just over 17, with a few thousand left, which was just enough to refresh the daily discounted items.

After five refreshes, biological clothing appeared twice. The new product was the ice patch gift pack that was also drawn from the blind box today. Because the price was as cheap as the nutritional supplements, Lu Xuan bought them all.

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The next day, although there was no knocking on the door to disturb their sleep, the Lu family's biological clock still made them get up early.

When I walked out of the small cave, there were already quite a few people moving around in the square. There were many washed clothes hanging on the clotheslines, fluttering in the wind, and the breath of life was overwhelming.

At the same time, there were gusts of hot wind that could not be ignored.

According to the weather companion, the temperature in the morning has reached 35 degrees, and the highest temperature today is as high as 42 degrees.

The temperature in the cave was okay, only 25 or 26 degrees, which was quite cool, but the temperature in the square was still over 30 degrees. People who were not wearing biological suits would sweat profusely after a little exercise.

But no matter how hot the weather is, life still goes on.

Just yesterday, the village chief announced that they would no longer eat from the same pot, and today the diet of most families took a sharp turn for the worse.

Only a few families with good conditions who are willing to spend money on food maintain their original standards.

For example, the Lu family’s staple food today is meat buns, meat pies, and twenty boiled eggs, and the side dishes are red oil pig ears and cold shredded chicken prepared by Lu Qing.

The buns and pies are full of ingredients, the red oil pig ears are sour and spicy and appetizing, and the cold shredded chicken is a dish that Lu Qing learned from her aunt who is from the south. Lei Yan loves it very much.

Boiled eggs look ordinary, but when you pry open the shell and take a bite, they are almost all runny egg inside. Dip them in a little soy sauce, and the taste can be summed up in one word: amazing!

The audience in the live broadcast room watched as Lu Xuan deliberately took a bite to reveal the golden, runny egg yolk inside, slurping their saliva frantically and feeling anxious.

"If you're capable of coveting us, why don't you open a sharing service? If you don't, I'll make a scene!"

Lu Xuan said perfunctorily: "It will be soon. It will be open tomorrow. Just bear with it."

The table full of breakfast was eaten up in the blink of an eye. Just as Lu Qing had cleared away the dishes, the village chief began to call people to gather in the square.

After a night and breakfast, the personnel lists of the hunting team, gathering team and escort team had been confirmed.

The hunting team consists of thirty-two people, mostly young and strong men between the ages of sixteen and thirty. The only older one is Wucheng, an experienced hunter.

More than 30 people were divided into three teams. The hunting team had eleven people, Lu Xuan was the captain, Lei Yan was the deputy captain, and Zhang Chengming and Wei Xiang were both in the same team.

Hunting Team 2 has eleven people, Wu Cheng is the captain and Wu Yang is the deputy captain.

Hunting Team 3 has ten people, Li Jing is the captain and Xiong Mao is the deputy captain.

The collection team consisted of more than 40 people, mainly middle-aged aunts and young women, followed by girls and boys over thirteen years old.

They were also divided into three teams, with an average of thirteen to fifteen people in each team. The team leaders were Miao Jinfeng, Zhang Yang, and Aunt Liu from the Tofu Liu family.

Lu Qing, Wu Yinyin and Miao Jinfeng were in the same team, Ye Ping was in the same team with her mother-in-law Zhang Yang, and Aunt Liu's team also included her daughter and daughter-in-law.

In order to coordinate with the activities of the other two teams, the escort team was also divided into three teams. However, the personnel were mainly middle-aged and the number of people was smaller, with eight people in each team.

The captains of the three teams were Li Tie, Zhang Wende, and a middle-aged man named Ge Yuan who had served in the military when he was young and had a scar on the corner of his eye.

Li Tie said, "Today, a gathering team will go to the area explored by Lu Xuan and his group yesterday to gather wild vegetables and mushrooms. Ge Yuan will bring your guard team to protect the women. As for the hunting team, to save time, we will not count them according to the divided teams today. Except for two people who went out yesterday, they will follow the gathering team to lead the way. The rest of the people will be divided into two teams.

One team will follow Lu Xuan, and one team will follow Wu Cheng. They'll explore the other two directions we didn't explore yesterday. Those who went out yesterday will have to make another arduous journey today. Starting tomorrow, the three teams will rotate in order, and the same goes for the collection team."

The members of the original exploration team had no objection to going out for two consecutive days. One more trip meant getting more prey, which was a good thing!

Those who joined later were also thinking about the dozen pounds of pork that the exploration team had distributed yesterday, and they all wanted to hunt a wild boar immediately.

Hunting wild boars naturally requires powerful new weapons.

As soon as the village chief finished speaking, those who had no weapons rushed to Lu Xuan.

"Lu Xuan, I want to exchange the weapons you gave to Zhang Chengming and the others. I want a crossbow!"

"I think a bow is more suitable for me. I want a bow!"

"The price is the same as yesterday, still 30% of the individual earnings from the first ten hunts, right?"

Lu Xuan said, "You can also choose a flat price of 20 catties of fresh meat, 15 catties of cured meat, and 30 catties of coarse grain."

After a brief hesitation, everyone quickly chose the payment method they thought was the most cost-effective.

Lu Xuan made a record of each of them in his mind, and those who used physical objects to calculate went to the spot to get supplies to exchange for weapons, while the others kept accounts first.

Everyone who got their weapons was delighted and full of fighting spirit, as if they could already see themselves sweeping away chickens and ducks and killing wild boars in seconds.

There were more than a dozen people who bought biological suits. They were probably frightened by the temperature rising by one day, or maybe they listened to the experience of the exploration team members yesterday. Some of them were prepared for the female family members.

Women's physical fitness is not as good as men's, so it's always a good idea to make more preparations.

"I have something here that's not as good as the biological suit, but equally good. Do you want to exchange it?" Lu Xuan looked at the others who didn't move because they were reluctant to part with their supplies.

Everyone asked curiously, "What is it?"

Lu Xuan took out the rectangular metal box he had drawn from the blind box yesterday. With a light press, the transparent lid retracted, revealing the neatly arranged translucent silicone sheets inside, each the size of a fingernail.

Lu Xuan took out one of the pieces and said, "This little thing is called a temperature-sensing ice patch. It can quickly cool down the body when you stick it on it, but the effect is not as good as the biological suit.

The biosuit can cool the whole body when worn, while ice patches can only be applied to a small area. For example, if you apply it to your face, it can cool your face and neck. If you apply it to your upper body, it will cool your upper body. Similarly, applying one to your legs can also cool your legs.

"The ice patch can only be used for four hours at a time. If the temperature is too high, the time will be shortened. Also, after using it once, you need to let it sit for twelve hours before using it again. An ice patch can only be used three times at most before it becomes useless."

The villagers frowned as they listened. "A consumable item?" It sounded a bit useless.

"However," Lu Xuan changed the subject, "it has one advantage, which is that it is very cheap."

Upon hearing the word "cheap," Aunt Liu, the leader of the third collection team, couldn't help but ask, "How cheap?"

Lu Xuan said: "Ten ice sheets are worth one pound of grain or three pounds of wild vegetables/mushrooms/fruits."

The villagers were shocked when they heard the price.

“So cheap!?”

"What's the difference between this and giving it away for free?"

The women quickly calculated in their minds.

Consumables that wear out after three uses are naturally incomparable to biosuits that can be worn for a long time. But isn't it because those who haven't bought biosuits yet are reluctant to part with dozens of kilograms of food? So, we can't just focus on whether it's a permanent solution; the most important thing is cost-effectiveness.

You need three pieces of clothing to keep your whole body cool, which costs 90 yuan a month, equivalent to 9 kilograms of food. It only costs 27 kilograms of food for three months, which is cheaper than children's biological clothing.

Moreover, posting three pieces is a relatively luxurious usage. They are just a group of country people, very resistant to work, so they only need to post one piece, or at worst two pieces can make do.

Besides, the hunting and gathering teams will only go out once every three days. When they are not going out, they will stay in the square and the big cave. The temperature is not that high, so they don’t need to stick to it.

All in all, you may only need a dozen kilograms of food for an entire quarter. If you exchange it with wild vegetables and fruits you collect, you can save even more food.

If you have a large family, you might need to multiply this cost several times, but will the cost of the bio-suit double? The more people you have, the more you save!

Lu Xuan couldn't say whether this calculation was correct or not, because most people subconsciously ignored the fact that biological clothing could also be effective in extreme cold.

Anyway, as long as they think it's worth it.

The mall has not yet unlocked the purchase permission for the ice patch, but according to the price shown in yesterday's discount, 100 pieces of this thing are worth 100 points, which is equivalent to one point per piece, and ten pieces are equivalent to one nutrient supplement.

People in the interstellar age have to take a nutritional supplement for each meal, but based on his physical sensation, one nutritional supplement for the ancients could probably last a whole day.

It is hard to say which is more cost-effective, a nutrient supplement or a pound of coarse grain, but it is hard to say whether it is profitable or not. I gave the villagers the exchange simply because I don’t want them to have problems one after another as soon as the disaster period begins.

When he drew the blind box yesterday, he got three ice stickers, in sizes of 100, 500, and 1000 sheets respectively. Later, he got a discount and got the size of 500 sheets, and he bought out all the five limited pieces.

He now has 4,100 ice patches, which should be enough for them to exchange.

After calculating their expenses, the villagers quickly started a new round of consumption.