Chapter 159, exclusively published on Jinjiang Literature City: Getting Beaten Up and Unlocking a New Blind Box...
Inside a double safe room that serves as an adult training room.
Zhang Chengming, Xiong Mao, Wu Yang, and other young men glared fiercely at Lu Xuan, who stood in the center, as wind blades, earth spikes, and arrows flew out at him.
Then, all the attacks were blocked by a wall of wind when they were still a meter away from Lu Xuan.
The wind blades were scattered, the earth spikes and arrows were instantly shattered, and the person who rushed up with a punch was also thrown away by the wind-type ability.
Some people either slammed their faces to the ground or bumped into others, their noses stinging so badly they almost burst into tears.
The first wave failed, and the second wave immediately rushed forward.
Among those rushing forward this time were water-based ability users, and Liu Chun even helped them gain an advantage. However, they were overwhelmed by the even stronger current of water, and were swept away and soaked to the bone.
After several rounds of back and forth, each time Lu Xuan countered with a superpower of the same attribute but a stronger one.
In the end, some people were soaked to the bone, some had disheveled hair, some had several pieces of their clothes burned, and some even had black smoke coming out of their mouths...
And without exception, everyone was bruised and battered, looking quite disheveled.
Half an hour later, no one had the strength to get up anymore.
Looking at Lu Xuan again, he was still standing in the middle, and at some point he had even taken out a single sofa, leaning back on it and slowly sipping a cup of hot coffee.
Live stream viewers: Pretentious! So pretentious!
However, when he turned to look at Zhang Chengming and the others who were being taught a lesson by the anchor, he couldn't help but laugh with schadenfreude.
[Tsk tsk, being tortured like this, so pitiful.]
[Dozens of people couldn't even take down one streamer, they're really bad.]
[Isn't it normal for them to be weak? Less than half of the dozens of people have superpowers, and they're all only at level one. The streamer can beat them up like it's nothing.]
[If the streamer hadn't gone easy on them, there wouldn't have been a single survivor.]
I love watching streamers stomp on newbies! So exciting! I love watching!
Lu Xuan glanced indifferently at the crowd lying on the ground groaning, "Is that all? Get up and continue."
Zhang Chengming struggled to roll over from his prone position, waving his hand weakly: "I can't fight anymore, let's rest and continue tomorrow."
The others nodded reluctantly; they didn't want to be beaten anymore.
Lu Xuan didn't care. "What's there to slow down? We'll get another beating tomorrow. Let's continue."
As he spoke, he casually used his healing ability to remove the bruises on their faces and the invisible bruises on their bodies, and then threw each of them a stamina-restoring potion.
At the same time, vampire vines surged out from behind, waving wildly throughout the vast hall.
As everyone swallowed hard, Lu Xuan smirked and said, "Next, you should learn how to run away from these little brats."
Everyone: "!!!"
Soon, a series of chilling screams and angry curses echoed through the large living room.
"ah--!"
"Get out of the way!"
"Bang!"
"Lu Xuan! Don't go too far—! How can you chase me so fast? How am I supposed to dodge this—ah!"
No sooner had he finished speaking than a thick vine lashed out and struck Chen Rong's buttocks.
"No, you're really hitting me!" Chen Rong yelled, clutching his burning buttocks. "Wasn't this just training our escape skills? The kids have never been beaten like this before!"
Lu Xuan chuckled lightly: "How old are you little brats? How old are you?"
Do they think they're giant babies and yet they compare themselves to little brats?
Lu Xuan crossed his legs, rested his elbows on the sofa armrests, propped his chin on the back of his hand, and looked at everyone. He twitched the fingertips of his other hand slightly and said calmly, "Go faster. I need to accelerate the vampire vine."
Everyone: "!!!" And then—!?
Chen Rong gritted his teeth and used his superpower to speed up, narrowly avoiding another vine lashing out, while quickly glancing at the others.
He wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but he always felt that there were more vines chasing after him than on others.
Was he being targeted?
The audience, who could see it clearly, thought: Speed-type ability users are faster than others, so of course they need to train more. Isn't that a given?
However, the situation wasn't much better for those who didn't receive special treatment.
People were slapped on the arms, thighs, and even the unlucky ones almost got slapped in the face.
Xiong Mao narrowly avoided the oncoming thorny vines and angrily shouted, "Don't hit someone in the face! If I'm disfigured and my wife leaves me, are you going to take responsibility?!"
Lu Xuan: "..." I really can't take responsibility for this.
Others, exhausted from their frantic efforts, couldn't help but roar, "Who was it that said we had to take combat lessons like the kids?!"
The men who were complaining just a second ago fell silent instantly, thinking to themselves, "Isn't this what everyone agrees on?"
But their main goal was to secretly learn from Lu Xuan to improve their strength, who would have thought they would get beaten up right away!
Don't ask, the answer is always regret.
Lu Xuan: If you want to become stronger, isn't the first thing you have to learn to take a beating?
A group of people were chased by the vampire vines for a full half hour.
Many people wanted to give up and give up along the way, but Lu Xuan used his healing ability to give them a breather and forced them to keep running.
After Lu Xuan retrieved the blood-sucking vines, everyone collapsed to the ground, panting heavily and unable to utter a single word.
All I could think was this: how lucky are those little kids who can sit and draw! I want to have Chinese class and math class too QAQ!
Adult combat courses are truly inhuman.
When someone finally caught their breath and said it, Lu Xuan said, "You've already learned a lot from the children at home, there's no need to rush to take academic classes. Combat classes will continue at the same time tomorrow."
Everyone: "..."
How could a normal, living person say such cold words!
Lu Xuan! You have no heart!
...
Complaints aside.
After an hour of intensive training, most people clearly felt that their reaction speed was faster than before.
With such obvious results, everyone was unwilling to cancel Lu Xuanzhen's training for them.
However, this did not stop them from continuing to condemn Lu Xuan's devilish nature with resentful eyes.
"I got beaten up... no, training's over, can we go home now?" Xiong Mao said, rubbing his empty stomach. "I've been running and fighting all this time, I'm starving."
As if some strange switch had been flipped, the moment the words were spoken, a chorus of rumbling stomachs filled the room.
Zhang Chengming sighed, "I feel so hungry right now I could eat a whole pig!"
Liu Chun said, "My mother said that I worked hard building the greenhouse a few years ago, so today she's going to make braised venison and stewed beef to nourish me. Just thinking about it makes my mouth water."
Li Tuo slurped his saliva and said, "Right now I want to slurp up some sweet potato noodles, spicy and numbing, with lots of slices of cured meat and bean sprouts in them!"
The more they talked, the hungrier and more tempted they became, so they put their arms around each other's shoulders and hurried outside.
Passing by the single-person safe house next door, which is used as a classroom for children, some people couldn't help but stop and watch as they saw their own children listening attentively to the lesson through the window, their eyes filled with admiration and envy.
This is a class where you don't get beaten up, that's great.
It has been ten days since the private school started classes.
All the children have learned addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division up to at least ten, and they have started memorizing the multiplication tables.
If you read and write the pinyin every day and memorize a portion each day, you'll have almost finished learning it.
The private school holds monthly exams, and it's still far from the time for actual exams, but Lu Xuan has suggested the idea of 'classroom quizzes' to the teachers.
Therefore, it is already becoming clear who the top students are and who the poor students are.
Highly gifted students are able to apply what they've learned to other situations and master anything they learn instantly.
Conversely, underachieving students can read a book a hundred times but still stumble over it, and forget most of it after a good night's sleep.
During class, he gradually went from being attentive to being distracted and talking, and even showed signs of wearing a mask of pain.
Xiong Mao watched his son looking around again, scratching his head and cheeks, and said with exasperation, "This brat, he's not paying attention in class again!"
"Yesterday my wife checked his pinyin recitation. Even though he had been studying it for several days, he still couldn't memorize it well!"
His wife taught the kids so well they've memorized everything!
Xiong Mao said angrily, "My wife and I are both very smart, so why is he so stupid! He eats so much every day, but none of it goes into his brain; it all turns into fat in his belly!"
The viewers in the live stream burst into laughter.
[This evaluation—you can tell it's from his real father just by listening to it.]
[Su Ying is indeed clever, but you're clever? Really? I don't believe it. Didn't your son take after you?]
Zhang Chengming said, "My Dafu said that Lu Chen can already read the Three Character Classic once using pinyin." He then looked at Lu Xuan to confirm.
Lu Xuan nodded and said, "I can read the Three Character Classic and the Thousand Character Classic without any problem."
The reason there are only these two books is because Xu Wenze didn't have time to annotate more books.
Besides Lu Chen, Mei Xue and Mei Cheng also did well in their studies. Their only problem was that they couldn't distinguish between retroflex and alveolar consonants, but the siblings were better at math than Lu Chen.
The Zhang family's Dafu, Xiaofu, and Zhang Xiuxiu are all of average ability, with Dafu being the most hardworking and considered above average.
As for Xiong Dabao, according to Lu Chen's occasional sharing during meals, he is only so-so in Chinese and math, and always recites the multiplication table in a jumbled way.
Xiong Mao said discontentedly, "I'll beat him up tonight!"
Wu Yang said, "His buttocks won't suddenly become smarter even if you beat him up." The buttocks and the head aren't directly related.
"Academic performance cannot represent everything."
Before they learned from the children, these elders were all illiterate; at most, they could only write their own names.
But will this prevent them from making a living?
Besides, at least they have their children's education to worry about. He doesn't know when he'll get married and have a child to give him a headache.
Wu Yang's gaze swept past the private school to the Li family not far away, and he sighed inwardly.
After watching for a while, seeing that a thick layer of snow was about to fall on their bodies, the group quickly brushed it off and went home.
The two classes at the private school today were both in the morning, so the kids were free in the afternoon.
Except for a few who obediently stayed home to do their homework, everyone else ran wildly towards the indoor playground and water park, which also had greenhouses.
On the other side, the older generation, still feeling the lingering soreness and numbness from being beaten, had to continue working.
Do they really think the village chief will let them rest and they'll be free of all trouble?
Innocent.
Snow needs to be shoveled on the streets and on the roofs of houses, but doesn't the roof of a greenhouse need to be shoveled?
Two hundred acres of rooftops may not sound like an exaggeration, but if you do the math, one acre is 666 square meters, so two hundred acres would be 133,000 square meters!
It's so terrifying that just hearing about it makes your vision go black.
This doesn't even include the area of the mushroom house, vegetable garden, and two children's playgrounds.
The greenhouse is not actually that sturdy enough to be crushed by snow, but the snow will inevitably affect the light and crop growth by blocking the originally transparent roof.
Even if Lu Xuan could provide supplemental lighting, they would still need to shovel snow at least every three days to allow the crops to see sunlight.
Sweeping an average of over 40,000 square meters of snow every day is still no easy task.
In order to improve efficiency, the young and strong men put a lot of thought into it.
Finally, the three parties—Strength Enhancement, Wind Element, and Support Element Liu Chun—collaborated to form an efficient snow-clearing team.
First, the strength enhancement user took the five-meter-long iron rod borrowed from Lu Xuan, wrapped it with a waterproof cloth, and swept it across the rooftop, removing all the thick layer of snow. Then, Liu Chun helped the wind-type ability user enhance their abilities and blew down all the remaining snow chunks in one go.
The rooftop of a half-acre area can be cleaned in less than fifteen minutes.
There are multiple individuals with both Strength Enhancement and Wind Ability attributes, meaning that the same snow-clearing team can be formed in multiple ways.
It's okay if Liu Chun can't support multiple people; Lu Xuan can fill in.
There aren't as many wind-type ability users as enhancement-type users, so Lu Xuan can fill that gap.
Not only that, Lu Xuan also created several small tornadoes to sweep across the rooftops one by one.
He single-handedly took on the task of clearing snow from half of the roof.
More?
Then it's no longer his responsibility.
The group worked up a heavy breath and were covered in sweat, finally finishing their task for the day before nightfall.
Several strong young men with enhanced strength were so exhausted that they could barely lift their arms.
Everyone looked through the glass wall at the villagers who were on duty that day inside the greenhouse and sighed.
"I used to complain that operating the agricultural drone was all repetitive, but now I think it's pretty good." At least I don't have to go out in the snow to shovel snow.
Snow removal is more tiring than farming; who can you complain to?
Looking up at the roof that had just been cleaned, I saw that it was covered with another layer of snow in such a short time!
Forget it, I'd better not watch it anymore. The more I watch, the more upset I get. I'll talk about it in three days.
The audience was quite moved after watching for a while.
Their snow-clearing method is primitive, but the fact that they use superpowers makes it seem extravagant.
[I noticed they only used wind-type abilities; couldn't the other types help?]
How can we help? By using water to freeze the snow into ice?
[Or could we use fire to blast the glass roof open?]
【...Oh, this.】
[Actually, you can also use heating to further raise the indoor temperature, causing the snow on the roof to melt naturally as soon as it falls.]
[The anchor said it snowed heavily every day that day; the snow was melting faster than the snow itself.]
[Aren't there snowplows? Why doesn't the streamer buy a few? They're not expensive.]
On the way back, Lu Xuan casually remarked, "The shop hasn't unlocked yet, and I haven't gotten anything from the blind boxes. I'd like to ask, doesn't the Star Alliance have any more advanced snow-clearing tools?"
Our technology is many years ahead of modern times, why do we still need snowplows to clear snow?
【Ah... I don't think so?】
I haven't followed this account.
[The main reason is that, except for a very few remote habitable planets that haven't been assigned weather satellites, most planets simply don't have this need, and there's no market for researching it.]
The disasters the Covenant faces are not earthquakes or blizzards, but various cosmic rays, ion storms, and potential alien invasions in unexplored galaxies...
After much discussion, the audience concluded: "So, using superpowers to sweep snow is the ultimate method! Streamer! Go for it!"
Lu Xuan: "..."
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"You must be exhausted after a long day. Eat more." Lu Qing kept piling meat onto Lu Xuan's plate with concern.
Lu Chen also took a little bit of each dish, and even thoughtfully served soup to his brother.
Viewers were enthusiastically praising the food while simultaneously commenting: "Is the streamer tired today? I don't think so!"
Lu Xuan said, "I also used up my superpowers, so how could I not be tired?"
[Did you consume even one percent?]
Lu Xuan: "No."
Look at you! You're the one who's tired from shoveling snow! Shoveling snow isn't tiring for you. This morning you even beat up all the men in the village. Don't get too cocky.
Lu Xuan said leisurely, "There's a kind of tiredness that your family feels, you understand?"
He leisurely picked up the soup bowl, blew on it twice, and took a couple of sips with relish before starting to eat the dishes that Lu Qing and Lu Chen had put on his plate.
After entering the extremely cold season, the family's meal plans have changed significantly.
Previously, the main meat dishes were pork, chicken, and fish, with occasional rabbit, snake, or roe deer meat for variety.
Although I have a lot of wolf meat, venison, and mutton stored in my space, I only eat a little bit of them very occasionally.
Looking at tonight's dinner table, there's braised venison, stir-fried mutton with scallions, and a radish and mutton soup sprinkled with lots of scallions and pepper—nourishing and warming.
As for cold beef salad, it's simply because beef tastes good, regardless of the season.
After eating such a meal, coupled with the 22-degree air conditioning temperature in the room, I was sweating profusely.
After the meal, Lu Qing and the other two habitually took out hot tea to drink, but Lu Xuan directly took out a row of popsicles of different flavors and started eating them one by one.
Lu Qing shuddered at the sight and asked incredulously, "It's so cold, why are you eating ice? Isn't it cold?"
Lu Xuan said, "It's cold outside, what does that have to do with us inside? Are you cold or hot right now?"
Lu Qing and Lei Yan, who were feeling hot from eating a hot meal, were speechless.
Soon, the number of people crunching on ice cream inside the room increased to four.
Lu Qing laughed and said, "I must say, it feels pretty good."
Lei Yan nodded in agreement; it was indeed very exciting.
In previous winters, they would rather stay in bed and not go anywhere, let alone eat ice cream indoors, as their already cold bodies would be frozen to the bone.
Lu Xuan said, "Winter is all about eating ice."
After finishing a milk-flavored ice cream, Lu Chen looked up and asked, "What about summer?"
Lu Xuan: "Eat whenever you want."
...
After being thoroughly chilled, Lu Xuan leisurely returned to his room.
Instead of immediately opening the daily discount page, he opened the blind box page in the online store.
Sure enough, the last two grayed-out top-tier blind boxes lit up.
It's been almost half a year since I started playing with blind boxes, and before I knew it, I had spent tens of millions of points on buying them.
Lu Xuan's total spending was only 80 million, with blind boxes accounting for one-eighth of that.
It's pretty crazy to think about.
[Hurry up and give away prizes! Diamonds! Black Gold!]
These two blind boxes are packed with amazing stuff! Trust me!
[Isn't the streamer still 20 million short of spending? Just give them 200 consecutive diamond blind box pulls, or 20 consecutive black gold pulls, and they'll reach 100 million in spending in one go!]
Faced with the audience's enthusiastic encouragement, Lu Xuan: ?
Does he look like an idiot?
A diamond blind box costs 100,000 points, but the minimum value of the items obtained is only 10,000.
The price difference for the Black Gold Blind Box is even greater. A single blind box costs one million points, and the item's value is at least 100,000, resulting in a price difference of 900,000.
According to his observation, the higher the level of the blind box, the greater the loss in points when drawing it.
For example, with the gold blind box, if you draw it a hundred times and get more than forty reward points, no more than ten of those points will exceed the price of the blind box itself. The rest will basically result in a loss of half or even more.
He wouldn't necessarily go so far as to actually draw the lowest possible value, but a single diamond 10-pull would conservatively cost him 200,000 to 300,000, and a black gold 10-pull would cost him 2 million to 3 million... Heh.
[No, streamer, you can't think like that. You have to understand, the highest reward for Black Gold has no upper limit!]
[Yes, yes, yes! What if you get incredibly lucky and pull out the spaceship or even a military warship you've always wanted!]
Even if you don't get the spaceship, getting the mech is still pretty good.
Lu Xuan: "..." You guys seem to be shills for the system store.
Even if the Black Gold Blind Box really contains items worth hundreds or thousands of times more, the probability of getting them would be so low as to be almost negligible, such as one in a billion.
It's faster to accumulate points and buy it yourself than to try and get it from a blind box.
The audience was greatly disappointed by his heartless demeanor.
[It's rare to unlock a top-tier blind box, surely the streamer wouldn't be too stingy to even do a ten-pull, right?]
Lu Xuan said, "Who said I wouldn't smoke anymore? I just didn't plan to smoke for the sake of achievement as you suggested." Then he ended up losing several million.
It's only 100 million in spending. If we maintain the current pace, we can reach that goal within half a month.
Lu Xuan calmly said, "Let's open the first three types of blind boxes first."
Audience: !!! They're already tired of the first three types, hurry up and draw the diamonds and black gold!
Lu Xuan, as usual, drew the others first.
Audience: ! I'm so angry!
The dog streamer is still as dog-like as ever!
They had no choice but to hold their noses and wait patiently.
Regular blind boxes still mainly contain everyday consumables, while silver blind boxes contain several upgraded bio-suits. There's also space available. Today, I also got a box of [unspecified item], a box of hypnotic bombs, and... a powerful snow melter.
Live stream viewers: !!!
[Snow melting agent!]
How could I have forgotten about this?!
This is the first time I've heard of something called a snow-melting agent. Judging from the name, it should be something that can solve the snow removal problem in the village, right?
[Absolutely! The Covenant's de-icing agent is far more effective than any ancient one.]
[The streamer won a super-large package weighing 1,000 kilograms in one go! It would last for several days if used in all of X locations. If combined with manual labor and de-icing agents, it could last for more than half a month!]
So starting tomorrow, the able-bodied men in the village won't have to work themselves to the bone like they did today?
Something seems off.
[I also think that's not right. Snow-melting agents don't require much technology, and their value is about the same as nutrient solutions. The system shop can't possibly be unlocked yet, right?]
Seeing that someone had finally noticed, Lu Xuan said, "It was indeed unlocked a long time ago."
【?? You unlocked it a while ago, but you're not letting anyone else use it today?】
Lu Xuan asked in surprise, "They didn't ask me for anything. Am I their nanny, that I have to rush to provide everything for them?"
The audience was speechless.
That seems to make sense.
Lu Xuan: "Besides, the extreme cold season lasts for three months, and using de-icing agent every day is not a small amount."
When the outside temperature reaches minus forty, fifty degrees or even lower, even if they can go out and explore using their bio-suits, it will be difficult to find anything of value.
If there's only spending and no income, the village might not be willing to incur such an extra expense.
Lu Xuan casually gathered up a pile of items and snapped his fingers at the screen to draw everyone's attention back.
"Alright, stop worrying about the de-icing agent. You guys wanted to see me draw diamonds and black gold blind boxes, right? Let's start now."
The audience was invigorated.
It's finally coming!
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