Chapter 185 Jinjiang Exclusive

Lu family.

Lu Qing, carrying a plate of cut fruit, called Lu Chen's name several times in the room but didn't hear a response. She turned to Lu Miaomiao and asked, "Where's Chenchen?"

Lu Miaomiao took the fruit plate and placed it on the coffee table in the living room. She said, "I went out to play with Dafu, Meicheng and the others."

Lu Qing was helpless. "These kids are so energetic."

Since the beginning of the polar night, the children in the village have been as high-spirited as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

No matter how heavy the snow is outside, they can run out and play for most of the day, and no one can call them back.

Lu Miaomiao smiled and said, "Children's curiosity is several times stronger than adults. Polar night weather is rare, so it's normal for them to feel novel."

Normally, children in the village rarely go out after dark, and their elders don't let them go out either.

But now the day is the same as the night, it is impossible for the elders to completely stop them from going out and keep them at home, right?

You can experience the fun of night outings even when you go out during the day, and there is also the psychological stimulation of doing things you didn’t dare to do before. How can children resist such temptation?

It's not just about playing around. The feeling of attending classes in a private school with the lights on at night is also a new experience for the children.

As for adults, it's definitely fresh.

It’s just that they have too many important things to do and can’t be as carefree as the younger ones. Instead, they make a lot of mistakes because they are not used to it.

It was dark outside when I had breakfast.

At noon and dinner, it was still dark.

When I sleep, it is dark.

I opened my eyes and drew aside the curtains, but it was still dark outside.

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of sleep and don’t know whether it is day or night.

I can't tell exactly how much time has passed while I'm working, and I have to check the time several times a day.

This went on for five days, and the adults couldn't stand it anymore.

Men, women, young and old gathered in the large living room of the village chief's house, their expressions full of annoyance.

A middle-aged villager said with a frustrated look on his face, "It's pitch black outside, whether you open your eyes or close them. It feels fresh for a day or two, but after a while it's really annoying."

The others followed suit, gritting their teeth.

"Who said it wasn't? I used to think the polar night was nothing, but now I know it's like cutting meat with a blunt knife!"

"When I think about having to go through this for another twenty days, I feel like killing myself."

"I just want to get some sun now, and get my whole body in the sun."

When it comes to this, many people's faces show the pain of not getting what they want.

Li Tie sighed secretly when he saw how distressed everyone was.

In a sense, there is actually no difference between people and crops. They both need the nourishment of sunlight.

I didn’t think it was precious when I had it all the time before, but now that I have lost it, I realize how hard it is to live without sunlight.

Even if there is nothing wrong with your body, there is no guarantee that there will be no mental problems over time.

Zhang Wende sighed, "My little ones, Dafu and Xiaofu, were very lively a few days ago, but today they've become listless. They don't want to go out and play anymore, and they even eat less than before."

Other families with children also spoke up, saying that their children were not as energetic as they were in the past few days.

Although the current impact varies in depth depending on individual personality and ability to withstand stress, and the deep impact is not very serious, what about another three to five days, or even ten days later?

"Village Chief, can't Lu Xuan think of a way to solve this problem?"

Li Tie glanced at the person who spoke and said unhappily, "How do we solve this? Everyone is upset because of the polar night. How can Ah Xuan not cause any harm to the polar night?"

Liu Daxi frowned and said, "So we can only endure this?"

Li Tie saw that the people around him looked a little depressed, so he comforted them, "Don't just think of the worst. We are living in a safe house now. We have plenty of fish and meat every day. Every household has a lot of food stored, and there are also treasures exchanged from the grocery store.

The victims of the Huo family army envy us so much. It’s just that the polar night is a little difficult to endure. What’s the big deal?”

If the disaster victims who are still struggling to survive outside knew what they were thinking, they would probably think they were being pretentious.

You have food to eat and drink to drink, and you don’t have to worry about freezing to death or being bitten to death by wild animals. You just can’t see the sun, so why bother?

In other words, even if you are annoyed, you can just grit your teeth and get through it. At least they are still alive and well, right?

Li Tie thought for a moment and said, "If you're really upset, find something to do. Don't dwell on the fact that it's always dark outside. The more you dwell on it, the more you'll get stuck in a dead end. Go to the children's park more often, or go ice skating with me next time we go winter fishing. Relax."

The villagers sighed, "This is the only way."

Seeing their dejected expressions, Old Master Zhang said angrily, "You guys just can't think straight. Can't the holographic equipment in the training room simulate any environment? The location doesn't matter. If we set the weather to sunny, wouldn't we be able to get some sunshine?"

Everyone: “…”

Everyone: “!!!”

Is this even possible! ?

Even Li Tie couldn't help but slap his thigh after hearing this, and said excitedly: "Why didn't I think of this trick!"

Old Master Zhang snorted, "You guys are still too young. You're all so impulsive. Your brains aren't even as fast as an old man like me."

"Yes, yes, yes."

"You are the best!"

"If you hadn't reminded us, we would have forgotten about the holographic device."

The villagers were surprised and happy.

They only thought that the training room was exclusive to the hunting team and a small number of people who could ride mechas, but they forgot that Lu Xuan had never restricted this.

They can actually go!

Choose the one with the lowest risk factor, and choose a beast that is not so dangerous or not so fast. If you can stay in there for a while longer, can't you get more sun?

After realizing this, the villagers swept away their recent irritability and depression, and couldn't wait to wander under the sunshine of the holographic world.

It just so happened that the main hunting team had gone out, and there weren't many people in the training room, so they weren't afraid of the crowds when they went there.

A group of people were happily preparing to go to the training room. Just as they stood up, they heard a commotion outside.

"What's going on outside?"

"I long to hear someone say the hunting party is back."

"Is it so early today?"

Don't you usually come back in the afternoon? It's not even noon yet.

And they didn't know if it was their illusion, but they always felt that the noise outside sounded a little tense.

The direction from which the sound came seemed wrong. It was not from the processing shed, but from... Doctor Lin's clinic.

Li Tie's brows twitched, and he had a bad feeling. "I'll go out and take a look."

The others also realized that something was wrong and hurried to follow.

·

When they arrived at the clinic, Li Tie and his group found that the hunting team and other villagers were gathered together, and their hearts skipped a beat.

Li Tie spotted Lu Xuan in the crowd and quickly walked over to ask, "Xuan, is there something wrong with the hunting team?"

Before Lu Xuan could speak, the others who had arrived earlier replied, "Village chief, several members of the hunting team were injured. Zhao Yong broke his arm."

Li Tie's expression changed. "Fracture? How could it be so serious?"

With the hunting team's current strength and the weapons they carry, it would be fine if they suffered some minor skin injuries, but how could they suffer such severe fractures?

Aunt Chen, who had just confirmed that her son was not injured, said, "I don't know. We were just about to ask what happened."

Lu Xuan did not go with the hunting team today because he went to the Huo family army to help build mushroom houses.

So it’s not clear what exactly happened.

At this time, Wu Cheng, who had settled the other injured people, came out and explained to everyone what had happened.

At first, they didn't find any problems when they arrived at today's target hunting spot.

Not long after entering the mountains, we successfully caught several snow hares and a lone roe deer in the snow.

But later when he found the traces left by the wild boars and followed them, he discovered that there was something wrong with the group of wild boars.

Wu Cheng frowned. "Wild boars are naturally aggressive, so it's not surprising that they attacked us after discovering us. But their eyes were bloodshot, and they seemed to feel no pain after being attacked. They continued to rush towards us like crazy."

"There are too many of them, more than 30 of them, two-thirds of which are adult wild boars."

The others gasped, "Why are there so many!?"

The largest wild boar herd the hunting team has brought back so far seems to be no more than ten, right? At least half of them are still half-grown piglets.

They were horrified at the thought of more than twenty adult wild boars attacking like crazy.

Wu Cheng said: "Because the incident happened suddenly and there were so many wild boars, everyone was inevitably a little embarrassed."

With sufficient weapons, they would not be harmed by the wild boars, but they would suffer some bumps and bruises in the process of dodging.

Zhao Yong was the most unlucky one. He accidentally tripped while dodging and failed to avoid the wild boar rushing towards him.

But it was just a broken arm and no puncture in the stomach, which was a blessing in disguise.

Lin Qingfu has already repositioned Zhao Yong's bones and treated him with a therapeutic device. If nothing goes wrong, he will be almost fully recovered in three to five days.

If Zhao Yong and his father don't want to wait that long, they can also go into the medical cabin and lie down for an hour or so, and they will be full of energy when they come out.

This is a problem that the Zhao family father and son have to consider themselves. What everyone cares more about is why those wild boars are so crazy?

Wild animals are generally only at their most aggressive when they're in heat and fighting for a mate, right?

[Over thirty wild boars, could it be that they were on a group blind date, and the hunting team broke into their blind date venue and disturbed them?]

[Pfft, what the hell, wild boars going on a group blind date, how dare they be even less reliable?]

[It shouldn't be during the estrus season. It's clearly the wrong season. Food is so hard to find outside right now. I'm starving, so why would I bother with all that nonsense?]

[Could it be that, like the villagers, I'm troubled by the polar night?]

[Maybe he's been out of the sunlight for so long that he's been frightened and stressed?]

After reading the comments, Lu Xuan felt that what they said made some sense, but he couldn't immediately verify the truth of any of them.

Weather Mate can only simulate natural disasters, and does not care about animals going crazy, so it cannot provide any clues.

In the evening, at the Lu family.

While eating, Lu Qing and Lei Yan were still discussing why the wild boar went crazy.

Midway through the conversation, Lei Yan turned around and asked Lu Xuan, "Are you going to the place where the wild boars are tomorrow?"

It sounded like a question, but the tone was very certain.

After learning that the hunting team had encountered an accident, the village chief asked them not to go out hunting for the time being, but Lu Xuan would not ignore the doubts.

Sure enough, Lu Xuan nodded and said, "I'll go check it out."

Lu Chen slurped the fish noodles out of his mouth and said to Lu Xuan, "Brother, are you going alone? Then be careful and don't get hurt."

【???】

[Brother Chenchen, you got it wrong, right? The ones we should be careful of are the wild boars.]

[The anchor is a mobile humanoid weapon, and only other people/beasts are afraid of him.]

[Wild boars: Don't come over here! ]

Lu Xuan pinched Lu Chen's cheek and said, "Don't worry, there will be no problem."

Lu Qing and Lei Yan were not worried that Lu Xuan would encounter danger if he went alone, and they were looking forward to him bringing back the answer tomorrow.

However, no one in the family, including Lu Xuan, expected that the plan would not change as quickly as it did.

Before he could go out the next day, something happened that night.

…

Late at night.

There was complete silence in Yunlu Village.

When everyone was fast asleep, the moon, which had disappeared after the polar night, quietly appeared in the night sky without anyone noticing, and it appeared an ominous red color.

This red is different from the red moon that appears during a total or partial lunar eclipse. It is an extremely saturated red, so rich in color that it seems as if blood is about to drip at the next moment.

As the red moonlight shone on the land in the polar night, the pupils of countless wild beasts in the boundless wilderness gradually turned red, their cold eyes gradually became manic, and their inner desire for destruction reached its peak in a short time.

In the end, there was only one thought left in my mind.

—Kill! Kill! Kill!

They began to attack their own kind frantically, while also impatiently looking for other targets to attack.

Not long after, animals with a keen sense of smell smelled the scent of bipeds drifting over with the wind and snow.

Some with strong night vision discovered the light in the distance that was as conspicuous as a lighthouse in the darkness, and then ran in the same direction with one mind.

Driven by the large number of wild beasts running wildly, the ground began to vibrate slightly.

Ordinary people cannot easily perceive this kind of vibration, but Lu Xuan opened his eyes in the darkness at the first moment.

He first opened the system background to confirm that there was no earthquake today, and then walked to the window, opened the curtains and looked outside.

The green light of the mushroom lamp and the deeper dark red light instantly illuminated the room.

Lu Xuan raised his head and just saw the blood moon hanging high in the sky.

When I opened the window again, the sounds from outside quickly came into my ears, the sound of wind and snow, and the howling of wolves that were getting closer and closer.

There are a lot of them.

"Ding ding ding—" the communicator suddenly rang.

When Lu Xuan saw the village chief’s name, he guessed that it must be the night watchman who notified Li Tie.

He casually opened the live broadcast room, explained the current situation to the audience who were surprised by his late-night broadcast, grabbed the coat beside the bed, put it on, and jumped out of the window.

…

A large group of people, including young and strong men who hurriedly put on their clothes, some of the elderly and women in the village, and helpers of the Huo family army who lived in tents, gathered in the open space at the entrance of the village.

The helpers looked particularly nervous.

"Why are there suddenly wolf howling sounds?"

"Are the wolves coming towards us?"

"That sounds like a lot of people. What should we do? Should we run?"

The villagers of Yunlu Village frowned and said, "Our village is here, where are you running to?"

Some speculated about the reason for the wolves' appearance, "Is it because the village is too bright that it attracted the wolves?"

"If I had known, I would have blocked the mushroom lights at night."

"But we've never seen a large group of wild beasts attacking the village before."

Their village is built in the wilderness, so it's normal for wild animals to be nearby.

But on weekdays, the guards will patrol the surrounding area, and once they find any traces of wild animals, they will clean them up before they gather into groups.

In more than two months, they have never encountered a pack of wolves where they could tell there were at least dozens of them just by the sound.

Some female members of the family also noticed the ominous color of the moonlight and felt a little scared.

"Why is the moon red? It makes me feel uneasy."

Su Ying narrowed her eyes slightly and said sharply, "Could the sudden appearance of the wolf pack have something to do with this red moon?"

The others looked at each other in confusion, "This, shouldn't be possible...?"

In the live broadcast room, many viewers who learned about the emergency came to the scene.

[Of course not! I think there must be something wrong with Hongyue!]

[Perhaps some element from the moon suddenly reached the host's plane and affected the beast.]

[Sounds like the wolf pack is quite large. Will there be an extra battle tonight?!]

[Excited! Waiting for the host to go on a killing spree!]

When everyone was anxious and the audience's expectations were at their highest, Lu Xuan took out several night vision binoculars, kept one for himself, and gave the others to the village chief and others.

The person who was assigned the telescope couldn't wait to bring a ladder, stepped on it, and looked in the direction of the wolf's howling.

The extreme cold season has lasted for more than two months. In order to facilitate their activities, the snow in the village and in the wilderness dozens of meters away from the village has been cleared.

But farther away, the snow had been piling up for more than two months and was still piling up. It had now reached a height of more than ten meters. In a sense, the village was completely surrounded by the snow.

The snow had no chance to melt, but instead froze directly as the temperature dropped. At this time, the wolves were running towards them on the thick snow.

The telescopes produced by the Star Alliance have a high enough magnification and excellent clarity.

Even though the wolves were still a long way away from them, the people holding the binoculars could still clearly see the wild wolves with their red eyes and ferociously open mouths showing their fangs.

"hiss--"

“How can there be so many!”

Others quickly asked, "Are there a lot of wolves? How many exactly?"

"Let me see it too."

Li Tie handed the binoculars to the others, his lips trembling slightly as he said, "I can't count them, at least several hundred."

"What!?" The crowd erupted in excitement. "How could there be so many!?"

They had seen dozens of wolves in the Yunlu Mountains, and the hunting team had brought some back after the extreme cold season began, but hundreds of them... were too many!

The faces of the elderly and women in the village turned pale with fright, but they had seen many big scenes and could barely keep calm.

The helpers are different.

Although they had encountered attacks by wild beasts during the previous disasters, they were surrounded by hundreds of Huo family soldiers and thousands of disaster victims, so they were still very confident.

But how many people are there in Yunlu Village? There are only about 200 of them, and the result of facing hundreds of wolves...

Many of the timid female workers fainted with their eyes rolled back, while others collapsed to the ground with limp legs, expressions of despair and terror.

Li Tie asked Lu Xuan: "Ah Xuan, what do you think we should do?"

Lu Xuan moved his fingers slightly, a hint of fighting spirit in his eyes, "Of course, fight!"

Li Tie was stunned for a moment, then took a deep breath, his face serious, and turned to the others, shouting, "Don't just stand there. Old people and women, hurry back to the house and hide. Men, prepare your weapons!"

With so many wolves, a fierce battle is bound to follow.