Chapter 279 Jinjiang Exclusive Release

A month and a half during which plants and animals mutate.

Since the volcanic ash spread, the sky has been gloomy every day.

As the magma cooled and solidified, the temperature also dropped and remained at around 20 degrees.

This temperature is not only suitable for human survival, but also makes mutant beasts more active.

With the disappearance of lone mutant beasts in the wild, all animals, whether originally living in groups or alone, now move in groups. The people who had been actively hunting some time ago have become more obedient.

You have to be honest. If a team of three or five people encounters dozens of mutant beasts, even if it is just a group of rabbits, it will be extremely dangerous.

Now that the number of people is less than thirty or fifty, the gatekeepers at the gates of each town will not let them go, fearing that the people will never come back.

Even if there are enough people going out, they must carry the body parts of mutant beasts from the Covenant.

Feathers, leather, or dried meat that they specially traded from Lu Xuan.

When Lu Xuan returned from Sorensen, there was still a lot of mutant beast meat that had not been eaten by the vampire vines in the space. Because the meat was inedible, it had been kept in the bottom of the box. It was not until this time when mutations appeared in the local area that he thought of the new use of this meat.

The feathers and skins still have the aftertaste of advanced mutant beasts, and of course the meat as well. They are dried to prevent them from rotting. When going out hunting, they are first put into the space to avoid all mutant beasts avoiding them and resulting in no harvest. When they really encounter trouble that they cannot handle, they are taken out to deter them.

In this way, the casualties of travelers can be greatly reduced.

Not only the common people, but also the soldiers had to wear two pieces when they went out, one of which was used as a spare in case of an accident.

As for what is an accident...

Naturally, they encountered mutant beasts of the same species as the higher-level mutant beasts.

Low-level mutant beasts can enhance their own strength by devouring high-level beasts. In this case, the pressure emitted by those feathers and skins will have the opposite effect. Instead of driving them away, they will become extremely attractive.

However, this kind of situation is a low-probability event after all. The varieties that Lu Xuan gave out are relatively rare, or are rare or even cannot be seen in the country.

The probability of it actually happening is less than one in a thousand.

Despite this, hunting is not easy as the mutant beasts gather more and more.

Most of the psychics in the Western Continent are still at level one, the same level as mutant beasts.

The second level is stronger, but it will still be doomed if it is besieged by ten or eight mutant beasts, and in the end it can only rely on hot weapons to save the situation.

When Lu Xuan led his hunting team in the wild, he would occasionally encounter hunting teams from the Western Continent.

Apart from the "professionals" such as the Huo family army or the Luochuan garrison, most of the time the hunting process of the disaster victims is so stressful that people can't help but sweat for them, as dangerous situations often occur.

The battle process is basically as follows:

Those who have special abilities in the team will use their abilities first, while others will use alloy crossbows or other cold weapons for assistance - hot weapons are rarely used to avoid internal strife, and most teams cannot get them - and when they find they cannot win, they will immediately take out the furs of high-level mutant animals to scare away the beasts.

After recovering, he would collect the fur and regroup to continue the fight. If he failed halfway, he would take out the fur again and repeat this process.

You may need to repeat the above steps four or five times a day.

After Lu Xuan observed for two days, the audience in the live broadcast room felt tired for the victims and lamented that it was really not easy to make a living during the disaster period.

Lu Xuan didn't care.

If it were the end of the world, besides mutant beasts, there would also be a large number of zombies. If you were scratched, you would become one of them. Wouldn't that be even more terrifying?

Let’s look at the battle situation in Yunlu Village.

The hunting team has more than a dozen third-level psychics, so fighting a herd of more than a hundred or eighty beasts is no problem at all.

But after fighting for more than a month, these ordinary mutant beasts that showed no signs of upgrading could no longer bring more progress to their supernatural combat.

What is needed to upgrade from level 3 to level 4 is more accumulation and time, which cannot be overcome no matter how many times you play.

In this case, instead of wasting a lot of time every time we encounter a group of mutant beasts, it would be better to change the way of fighting and improve efficiency.

Lu Xuan had been hoarding more and more mechas in the space for a long time. The ones he got as rewards, the ones he drew from the black gold blind box, and the dozens of mechas he bought with daily discounts finally came in handy.

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In a wilderness more than ten kilometers north of the Western Continent.

A civilian hunting team of thirty people is fighting a fierce battle with a group of more than twenty mutant wild boars.

It would be a bit of an exaggeration to say that there was a fierce battle. To be precise, the hunting team was being madly charged by the mutant wild boars and was completely crushed.

Among the thirty people, six or seven had been injured and fell to the ground, losing their ability to fight. The others had also suffered a lot of injuries in the process of dodging and fighting, and had consumed a lot of physical strength. They were about to collapse.

On the other hand, only two wild boars were injured, one of which was not seriously injured and was about to regroup.

The team members, sweating profusely, shouted to the captain, "Boss, we're losing! We can't defeat so many wild boars! Hurry up and get the skins!"

The captain felt a little unwilling.

Every time they go out hunting, they have to prepare weapons carefully, and the furs of high-level mutant beasts are not cheap, so it can be said that the investment is huge.

At the moment, we have only captured one wild boar. Excluding the cost, if it is divided among thirty people, and the injured ones get more, each person will not get much on average. Compared with their efforts, it is not worth it at all.

But when he thought about how it would be difficult to explain to the relatives of the injured and dead if there were any casualties, and that he would also have to pay more compensation in the form of supplies, he gritted his teeth and nodded.

"You all stand back."

The team members, who had long been unable to hold on, were about to retreat, but they didn't expect that the wild boars had already started a new round of attacks.

The team members couldn't help but relax because the captain was going to take advantage of them. Two of them were a little slow in dodging and were about to be knocked away.

At the critical moment, the sky above everyone's heads, which was already gloomy, suddenly became darker, as if something big was falling rapidly, bringing with it a strong wind.

Everyone's faces turned paler.

Could it be that I was unlucky enough to encounter a flying mutant beast?

These flying birds and beasts are much more difficult to deal with than those running on the ground.

"Captain——!" Hurry up and take out the leather!

When the captain's hand was about to touch the 5-cubic space ring that all the members had raised money to buy, a behemoth more than ten meters high fell to the ground with a loud bang, and its huge mechanical feet stepped on the wild boars rushing towards the team members.

The others only heard two clear "puff" sounds, and the two huge wild boars were actually trampled into meat patties on the spot.

“!!!”

Immediately afterwards, the big guy in front swung his mechanical arm and slapped a wild boar away. The wild boars were either thrown into the air and smashed to death, or slammed into a huge tree trunk farther away. The strong impact caused their internal organs to be broken and they vomited blood, and fell down twitching.

For a moment, the scene was filled with the mutant wild boars' shrill screams and the increasingly strong smell of blood.

Looking at the people in the civilian hunting team, they were already frightened when the huge iron lump in front of them crushed the wild boar.

It was not until there was no wild boar left standing that someone came to their senses and let out a scream.

"Iron Man Immortal Artifact! It's Yun Xianhou's people who are here to rescue us!"

When the others heard the two key words "immortal weapon", they were also suddenly awakened and realized.

"Is it the one that others mentioned before? I was thinking it would be great if I could see it with my own eyes, but I didn't expect to encounter it today!"

The team members who were still reserved and frightened a moment ago immediately became excited. Even the captain couldn't help but look at the big guy in front of him with excitement after wiping his cold sweat.

A few days ago, there were rumors in the city that a magical weapon that was more than ten to twenty meters tall and could carry people appeared in Yunlu Village where Yunxianhou was located. The power of the magical weapon was even stronger than that of a psychic and could easily kill mutant beasts.

Before they saw it with their own eyes, they couldn’t imagine what such a thing looked like. Now that they have seen it, they realize that it is indeed very big!

Even though they were more than ten meters away from the magic weapon, the pressure still doubled when they looked up.

"Are you okay?" A young man's voice suddenly came from the magic weapon.

Everyone was alerted by what they heard. After a while, the captain hurriedly said, "We are fine. Thank you for saving us. If your benefactor had not appeared in time, I am afraid many of us would have died."

The big guy, that is, Chen Rong in the mecha, waved his hand and said, "I just happened to pass by. Since there is nothing wrong, I will leave."

The captain paused, "What about these wild boars? You..."

Chen Rong said: "I don't lack this little prey, you can handle it yourselves."

The team members looked at each other with surprise on their faces. They didn't expect to have such an unexpected gain after such twists and turns.

Chen Rong quickly flew away again, and the team members left behind went to collect wild boars while having a heated discussion.

"Too strong! Just one kick and one slap, and all the wild boars are dead."

"If we had this ability, why would we have to work so hard?"

"Well, can you compare with the people in Yunlu Village? They are all talented people. Didn't you see the previous superpower competition? Even the children there are much more powerful than the adults."

The captain reminded them: "We are very lucky to be rescued and to have so many prey today. Don't be too greedy."

The others didn't have any other thoughts and nodded quickly, saying, "Indeed, with so many mutant wild boars, even if not all the meat is edible, after factoring in the cost of buying bows and crossbows and space rings, each family should be able to get at least 100 to 180 kilograms."

"This is equivalent to our harvest in half a month."

The more they thought about it, the happier they became. Although it was still early, in order to avoid any more accidents later, they decided to call it a day and go back to divide the meat.

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In the air, Chen Rong crossed the wilderness and came to a forest with dense trees. He opened the internal channel and told others about his experience.

Others also responded one after another: "I also encountered a group of people here, but they were from Feng County. The beasts they encountered were not very powerful. I ignored them because they could handle it."

"I did rescue a group of people, but they insisted I take half of the prey, so I put it away."

"I didn't meet anyone, but I did find a group of mutant horned sheep. They are much more powerful than goats. Fortunately, I had the mecha, so I took care of them all without much effort."

After hearing this, Chen Rong was not envious.

Ever since everyone in the village who could operate mechas put on them, they have dispersed and acted independently. With the assistance of mechas, they have gained much more than before.

Even if you're unlucky, you can still get several thousand kilograms of edible meat per person.

This is also the reason why Chen Rong looks down on the mutant wild boars, which generally don’t taste very good.

He was used to eating good food and looked down upon the meat.

As expected, the powerful Lu Xuan reaped the most harvest, obtaining tens of thousands of kilograms of edible mutant beast meat every day.

When Chen Rong learned that Lu Xuan had already obtained more than 30,000 kilograms of meat in the morning, he immediately stopped chatting and hurried into the woods to look for the herd of animals that had just appeared on the radar.

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In addition to providing mechas to the Yunlu Village hunting team, Lu Xuan also traded a batch of cost-effective standard mechas to various towns in the Western Continent.

With the mecha, the Western Continent has become more powerful, the safety of people going out is further guaranteed, and the amount of supplies obtained by the official has doubled, just like Yunlu Village.

However, the number of wild beasts on this continent is too astonishing. Even after so many people killed for more than a month, the size of the beasts gathered from the Western Continent did not decrease at all. Instead, they increased in number. Even strange fish that mutated and grew legs appeared on the beach and crawled ashore.

After a long journey of more than half a month, these mutant beasts and strange fish finally gathered together to form a beast tide of astonishing scale, surrounding the entire Western Continent.

Lu Xuan initially speculated that the reason these herds of beasts came to the Western Continent was because there were many psychics and crystal cores gathered here, and they were attracted by the large amount of energy contained in them.

But when you see the dense, countless beast tides that are like a torrent and stretch as far as the eye can see through drones and telescopes, the answer to this question is actually no longer important.

The beast tide has come, and all they can do now is fight!