Chapter 105 People Are Dead. A mud wall stretching for hundreds of meters rose from the ground...
Star Alliance Forum, Dimensional Live Streaming Section, Lu Xuan's Special Zone.
[Title: Mutant Fruit! Time Traveler! Apocalypse! How many more surprises does the streamer have in store for us to discover?!] (Breaking News)
OP: Did you all watch today's live stream? I was so excited I was practically incoherent!
I thought the streamer had already given us enough surprises, after all, he was the first discovered clone of a superhuman so far, but the streamer showed us with his actions that he had even more surprises in store!
1L: I've lived for over twenty years and I've actually met a living time traveler! When I saw Xingbo, I even wondered if I woke up the wrong way today.
2L: Still from the apocalypse!! I really want to see Lu Xuan's life in the apocalypse right now!
5L: I want to see it too! The streamer's true strength obviously doesn't have many opportunities to be displayed in this current world. A level 7 clone ability user fighting against a zombie horde, just thinking about it is exciting! Isn't this much more interesting than watching those Star Wars rubbish movies that we're already tired of watching?
11L: It would be great if the streamer could travel back to the apocalypse. We would be so happy to see him slaughtering zombies.
18L: It's not that easy. Do you think traveling between dimensions is as simple as going on a trip to the next planet?
35L: Stop thinking about that. Let's talk about the mutated fruit! The people of Yunlu Village only ate a few and their bodies showed obvious improvement. It's incredible! Why can't our Star Alliance's wood-type ability users do the same?
72L: Why even ask such a simple question? You're a noob.
102L: ? ? Have you all gotten so arrogant that you're starting to look down on wood-type ability users? You've had enough of natural food, do you want to eat nutritional supplements every day?
287L: It's not just mutated fruit, didn't the streamer also artificially cultivate mutated crops with amazing yields? Why can't the wood-type ability users of the Star Alliance learn from this?
329L: emmm....The topic of contracted mutant plants is outdated, does nobody care anymore?
361L: It seems someone has successfully contracted a mutated plant, but it's a level 2 mutated 'weed,' which isn't even worth cultivating.
394L: It's not easy to form contracts with powerful mutated plants, and it hasn't been that long. It will take at least a year and a half to see any real results. Right now, the mutated fruit is more important!
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1020L: According to reliable sources, both official and private research institutes are already following up on the cultivation of high-yield, mutated, and non-toxic crops. However, the results are unlikely to be available so quickly, since not everyone is as eccentric as the streamer.
1688L: I don't care, I'm going to eat the mutated fruit! The evolution fluid didn't awaken my superpowers, but at least eating the mutated fruit will allow me to pretend I'm an enhanced superpower user!
2430L: It's unlikely that the Star Alliance's wood-type ability users or other researchers will produce results in the short term. As expected, x will still have to rely on the streamer.
2674L: Got it! It's better to rely on yourself than others. I'm going to keep showering gifts in the livestream! I'll try to get the streamer's mutated fruit to become stronger as soon as possible!
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Since Lu Xuan used forceful methods to completely intimidate the disaster victims, the group has become much more obedient.
The idea of monopolizing the waterfall and extorting money from Yunlu Village is no longer even a thought; they can only rely on waterfall water and fish for food and drink every day.
The helpers lost their stable source of income, and naturally they had a lot of opinions about Lei Shan, Fang Dahe and Uncle Xu who led the trouble. They were sarcastic and argumentative all day long, making the atmosphere in the cave very tense.
When Yunlu Village had its first bumper harvest, seeing countless grains being harvested from afar, the helpers were filled with envy and regret. As soon as they returned to the cave, they got into a fight with Lei Shan and the others, and a major battle broke out.
It wasn't just them arguing with the three families in Leishan. Fang Dahe and Uncle Xu felt that Leishan had gone too far and made even more unreasonable demands, which led to the breakdown of negotiations. The latter was not the kind of person who would reflect on his own actions, and he unleashed all sorts of nasty words, making the others feel angry and unable to control their tempers.
In addition, some disaster victims took advantage of the chaos to vent the fear and pain that had been suppressed in their hearts since the disaster, and a fierce fight broke out in the cave, making more and more noise.
None of the people arguing noticed that their noise had attracted a group of uninvited guests.
Several pairs of green vertical pupils, gleaming with a cruel light, silently appeared in the dark grass.
Inside the big cave.
Wu Yang, who was on night watch, was chewing on some beef jerky he had gotten from the grocery store. He listened to the grinding of teeth and snoring coming from inside the cave, and occasionally glanced at the dimly lit square outside the cave under the faint moonlight.
A moment later, Wu Yang paused, his gaze suddenly fixed on the only entrance leading to the fields across the square, where he noticed a shadow moving closer.
He quickly opened the small window of the security door, and sure enough, he could faintly hear human voices coming from the hot air, as if they were shouting for help.
Wu Yang suddenly stood up and immediately blew his whistle.
"What's wrong? What happened?!"
"What happened?!"
The sleeping villagers were all awakened. The able-bodied men grabbed the crossbows placed beside their beds and quickly ran out of the makeshift shelter to check the situation.
"Wu Yang, what happened!" Li Tie rushed over in a thin shirt and asked.
Wu Yang quickly said, "Someone outside is shouting for help. Something might have happened to the disaster victims."
The expressions of the other villagers who had gathered around changed.
Unlike the disaster victims who had weapons, the people running out in the middle of the night crying for help must have done something terrible.
Li Tie immediately ordered, "Open the door!"
When the security door opened, the person was already right in front of them. The light from inside the hole shone on the person, and large patches of blood were clearly visible on their body. A strong smell of blood filled the air.
The person who came was terrified, tears streaming down their face, and threw themselves at them, screaming hoarsely, "Wolves! A pack of wolves is attacking us! Help—! Please save them—!"
Li Tie's expression changed drastically, and he shouted to the others, "Someone go and inform Lu Xuan, the rest of you take your bows and crossbows and go rescue them quickly."
After learning that there were more than a dozen wolves, Li Tie left Li Jingxiong Mao's hunting team behind and took two other hunting teams with him to head to the caves of the disaster victims.
As they approached the cave, a group of villagers heard the howling of wolves, mixed with the roars of humans and their cries of agony, a sound that sent chills down their spines.
Upon arriving at the scene and witnessing the horrific scene, he gasped in shock. Without pausing his astonishment, he quickly raised his crossbow and fired at the pack of wolves that were viciously attacking the victims.
"Swish swish——"
"Awooo—!"
The wolves howled in pain after being shot, and some even fell to the ground with arrows piercing their skulls.
When the villagers arrived, several wolves were already lying on the ground. The remaining seven or eight were quickly wiped out after a round of intense shooting, with none escaping.
It took the disaster victims a while to realize they had been rescued. Then, looking at the many people lying on the ground around them, covered in blood and unsure of their life or death, and feeling the intense pain in their bodies, they couldn't help but cry out in anguish.
Some people breathed a sigh of relief and then immediately fainted.
Li Tie hurriedly told the others to check on the condition of the disaster victims, "First, send the survivors into the caves to stop their bleeding. I have some wound medicine here, you can take it and distribute it to them."
It took a lot of effort for a group of people to settle all the survivors who were still alive in the cave, and then they hurriedly treated their wounds.
Of the survivors, only a small number remained hidden deep within the cave and escaped the wolves' attacks; most were seriously injured.
"It hurts so much, help me, I don't want to die..."
"My father, how is my father—"
"Ouch, my arm—"
The villagers, sweating profusely, helped bandage the wounds, but the victims had so many injuries that they soon ran out of medicine.
"Village chief, I'm out of medicine."
"Mine is gone too."
Upon hearing this, Li Tie immediately ordered someone to go outside, "Ah Xuan is outside, ask him for more medicine!"
Lu Xuan, who was outside using his supernatural abilities to turn over the soil to cover up the smell of blood, heard the sound and took a bunch of wound spray, bandages, anti-inflammatory drugs, painkillers, fever reducers and other useful medicines and handed them to the villagers.
He glanced at the corpses that had been temporarily placed outside the cave. The wolf attack had resulted in the direct loss of six people in the refugee team.
He noticed that several of his wounds were too deep, indicating excessive blood loss, and that his entire arm had been torn off.
Even if the bleeding is stopped and medicine is applied, it would be difficult to survive such an injury in this climate.
The ranks of disaster victims are likely to suffer significant losses.
Half an hour later, Li Tie came out with a grim expression and said to Lu Xuan, who was sitting on a clean rock waiting, "They want to move."
Although the smell of blood and the wolf carcass were dealt with immediately, it was still difficult to guarantee that other wild animals wouldn't be attracted.
Lu Xuan raised an eyebrow. "Again, you said you wanted to go to the big cave and live with the villagers?"
Li Tie shook his head, "No, he just asked if we could stay in those two caves to the east."
He definitely wouldn't have bothered with it if there hadn't been a night raid.
But we've already seen how miserable they are... If we just leave them here and ignore them, it's no different from letting them die.
But thinking about the last conflict, Li Tie couldn't help but feel conflicted. "I'm afraid that if they live too close, there will be more trouble. What if they keep coming to this square all the time..."
Lu Xuan said, "I can think of a way to do that."
The villagers helped bury the dead, and the living packed their belongings. They sent a message back ahead of time to ask others to clear out two small caves a hundred meters east of the square before sending the dead there.
They didn't finish their work until dawn and finally returned to the cave.
The villagers who stayed behind nervously asked what had happened when they saw the returning people.
The hunting party recounted the scene they witnessed upon arrival, as well as what they later learned from other victims.
The six people who died included two helpers, two elderly and weak people, one young and strong person, and Aunt Xu.
The wolves attacked while a fight was taking place inside the cave. The two elderly and weak had run to the cave entrance to avoid the conflict, but they ended up becoming the first targets of the wolves and were killed before they could even run away.
The able-bodied men were killed in the battle when they were surrounded and attacked, so there's not much to say about that. However, the two helpers and Aunt Xu died somewhat unjustly.
The first two were pushed out by Lei Shan and killed, while the latter was used as a shield by his own son, Xu Dawu, and had his throat bitten open on the spot.
The women turned pale upon hearing this, exclaiming incredulously, "That's her own mother! How could Xu Dawu be so cruel?!"
Xu Wenze's face darkened upon hearing this; he hadn't expected his cousin to be so ruthless.
Su Ying snorted lightly, not surprised at all. "Every man for himself. That family was never a good family to begin with. It's not surprising that he chose his own life over his mother's."
Aunt Liu asked anxiously, "What about the Fang family? How are they?" Are they dead?
Others asked, "And what about Lei Shan, Wen Ze's uncle?"
Wu Cheng said, "Lei Shan was scratched on the back by a wolf's claws, but the injury wasn't deep. Lu Xuan's medicine is so effective, he should be fine in a few days. Fang Dahe is a bit unlucky. Several pieces of flesh were bitten off his broken leg, exposing the bone. He also has several bite wounds on other parts of his body. It's hard to say whether he can pull through."
"His wife, Zhou, was clever. She hid in the innermost part of the cave with Lei Shan's wife and son. They were not injured at all, but they were quite frightened."
"Both Xu father and son only suffered minor injuries."
The villagers, still harboring resentment over their previous attempt to monopolize the waterfall, couldn't help but mutter to themselves, "What a scourge that lives on for a thousand years."
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After working hard for most of the night and taking a nap at home, Lu Xuan naturally started his live stream much later than usual the next day.
When the audience asked him why, he succinctly explained that the disaster victims had been attacked.
Why aren't you broadcasting about something this big?!
[Aaaaaah! I missed a great show! Streamer, do you even know what traffic generation is?!]
[You streamer who doesn't make money even when you have it, what am I supposed to say to you!]
So the surviving victims are actually living near you now? Did all those attempts to scare them away completely fail? Did the wolves even help them out?
Using six or more lives to assist? That's a joke.
I'd like to know more about how the streamer plans to deal with the harassment.
[Same curiosity.]
Lu Xuan chuckled softly, "Isn't that simple?"
He walked to the fence on the side that offered a view of the cave to the south, and under the astonished gazes of the other villagers in the square and the viewers in the live broadcast room, he stepped on it, and a five-meter-high, fifty-centimeter-thick, and hundred-meter-long earthen wall rose from the ground, completely blocking the outer perimeter of the square and utterly eliminating any possibility of climbing over the fence to break in.
The villagers: !!!
Viewers in the live stream: !!!
Inside the cave to the south, the uninjured disaster victims, having recovered their senses, thought that their homes in Yunlu Village were nearby and came out to check the situation. However, they were immediately stunned by the towering earthen wall in front of them.
The disaster victims: ? ? ?
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Author's Note: Lu Xuan: Surprised? Unexpected?
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