Chapter 15 He's back. He came here to buy more goods. (Minor revision...)
Lu Xuan raised an eyebrow. "Is it that I won't let you eat? What can I do if we can't enable sharing? Let's wait a little longer. We can't finish all this honey in a short time. Once we can enable sharing, you'll be able to taste it."
Audience: I understand the reasoning, but who can resist delicious food in front of them!
Many people found themselves increasingly tempted by the sight of the desserts and couldn't resist ordering other available items from the StarNet Mall, including but not limited to synthetic candies and synthetic juices.
But how can the taste of these things compare to that of natural foods?
Especially after Lu Xuan got his hands on honey, he suddenly became interested and quickly caught a few pheasants.
After plucking and cleaning, mushrooms and seasonings found in the mountains are stuffed into the chicken's belly. Sufficient honey is rubbed inside and out. Finally, the chicken is wrapped in large leaves and buried under the fire.
Half an hour later, the chicken was taken out from under the fire and the leaves were opened, and a powerful aroma immediately wafted out.
Although the audience couldn't smell anything, they still couldn't help but drool over the tempting appearance of the glistening honey-glazed chicken!
This chicken must be incredibly delicious!
I want to eat! I want to eat chicken! I'm going crazy with craving it!!!
But they couldn't even smell the aroma! How tragic!
Because it was braised for a long time, the meat was easily pulled apart with just a slight tug.
Lu Xuan broke off a chicken leg and took a bite. The meat was fresh and tender, juicy, and almost melted in his mouth. The perfect seasoning and the sweet honey flavor that had seeped into the meat made it impossible to stop eating. He could never get tired of it!
He finished one chicken in a few bites, then pulled the other two out of the fire. Ignoring the screams from the viewers, he ate all the chicken, which weighed a total of seven or eight pounds, clean. A rare look of satisfaction appeared on his usually indifferent face.
Audience: You're having a good time! We're practically drooling!
Not long ago, a lot of synthetic candies were ordered, and when Lu Xuan played PUBG, even more people couldn't help but dig out nutritional supplements to watch the mukbang and eat.
But the thought that Lu Xuan was eating fragrant honey-glazed chicken while they were eating bland and tasteless nutritional supplements made the audience break down.
What a human tragedy!!!
Lu Xuan wasn't unaware of the audience's groans, but what could he do? It wasn't like he intentionally refused to share the content with them.
Having harvested dozens of kilograms of honey and enjoyed a delicious meal, Lu Xuan was in a very good mood. After completely extinguishing the fire, he roused himself and began his afternoon search.
Good fortune seemed to have returned to him. After searching for only an hour, Lu Xuan found two more ginseng roots, one about two or three hundred years old and the other about a hundred years old.
Before dark, several more He Shou Wu plants were found.
This plant grows more in the south, and it does exist in the north, but it's relatively rare.
As one of the "Four Great Immortal Herbs" alongside ginseng, lingzhi, and cordyceps, it may not truly grant immortality, but its effects of delaying aging and turning gray hair black should be very popular among wealthy and older people.
Like Ganoderma lucidum, Polygonum multiflorum is not necessarily better the older it is; its medicinal effects are best when it is around five years old.
The medicinal herbs on the outer edges of the mountains have long been picked clean by herb merchants, but it's not difficult to find He Shou Wu (Polygonum multiflorum) that is old enough in the deep mountains.
After dark, Lu Xuan found a place to stay for the day, as usual.
The schedule for the next two days was basically the same: mainly finding medicinal herbs, with hunting and finding other supplies as secondary tasks.
Besides common medicinal herbs, we also found a lot of mushrooms, wild vegetables and fruits, and the supplies in the space were visibly increasing.
As for whether he encountered any danger during the search, it might be considered dangerous to others, but the mutated vampire vine can easily kill even a pack of wolves, so what kind of animal in these mountains could pose a threat to Lu Xuan?
Wood-type ability users can also distinguish whether plants are poisonous, thus eliminating the possibility of poisoning.
For others, venturing into the deep mountains is a matter of life and death; whether they gain anything or how much they gain depends entirely on luck. But for Lu Xuan, this trip was purely for purchasing goods.
They easily acquired everything they could find, sweeping through everything in their path.
The audience was quite excited at first, but they got completely numb by the end.
At the same time, Lu Xuan did not forget another purpose of going into the mountains—to find a suitable refuge.
The mountains are not just covered with dense forests. If you go deeper into the mountains, you may encounter all kinds of terrain, such as stone forests and canyons, cliffs and precipices, deep mountain waterfalls, valleys and plains. Herds of herbivores can be seen everywhere, and jackals, tigers and leopards are not lacking.
A refuge needs to be flat and habitable, surrounded by abundant resources, free from too many wild animals, and have sufficient water sources.
There are several places in these areas that meet one or two of the conditions, but it would be a bit complicated to meet all of them.
However, on the fourth day, he finally found a suitable place to use as a shelter and made some modifications. This satisfied both Lu Xuan and the audience, who felt that their trip to the deep mountains had finally come to a successful conclusion.
The mountain range is so vast that in just a few days, let alone visiting other peaks, we only managed a cursory tour of this mountain. In reality, there are many places in the mountains worth exploring in detail. If we were to explore them all, it would conservatively take more than half a month.
Lu Xuan couldn't possibly waste his precious time here.
The main purpose of this trip was to stockpile goods, not to conquer the Yunlu Mountains. The supplies he had found and the data growth in the live broadcast room had already met his expectations. Early on the fifth day, Lu Xuan embarked on his return journey as planned.
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Yunlu Village, Lu Family.
Men, women, and children gathered in the courtyard, their brows furrowed, their faces filled with worry and sorrow.
"It's been five days already, why haven't they come back yet? Could something really have happened to them?" Zhang Chengming's father, Zhang Wende, said worriedly.
Before she could finish speaking, Zhang Yangshi nudged her with her elbow, "What do you mean by 'accident'? Everything will be fine!" Lu Qing and her husband are still here, can't they speak properly!
Sure enough, Lu Qing's already pale face turned even paler.
Village chief Li Tie glanced at her and sighed, "You should have told me before he went up the mountain. At the very least, you could have sent a few more people with Xuan boy."
Lu Qing's face was filled with regret.
She shouldn't let Ah Xuan do whatever he wants just because he had a successful hunting trip before.
If anything were to happen to him, how could she face her parents?
The thought of Lu Xuan encountering danger where she couldn't see him, and that she couldn't do anything about it, made Lu Qing's eyes well up with tears.
Lei Yan put his arm around Lu Qing's shoulder, offering silent comfort.
The villagers gathered outside the courtyard were also whispering among themselves.
"It's not a good thing that they haven't come back after all this time."
"What kind of ferocious beasts aren't in the deep mountains? Is that a place that ordinary people can go to casually? Sigh."
"Hunting is no easy task. That guy from the next village, he was so envious of the hunters' catches that he insisted on going into the mountains to hunt, and he ended up getting killed by a bear. Lu Xuan, he..."
"My brother will be fine!" Lu Chen, who was sitting with Zhang Chengming's sons Zhang Dafu and Zhang Xiaofu, angrily interrupted the villagers, his fierce expression making it seem as if he was about to pounce on them and bite them.
The villagers who had been gossiping looked embarrassed.
Hearing the commotion, Li Tie in the courtyard was about to warn them not to talk nonsense when he saw his son and Wu Cheng and a few others approaching from a distance.
"Ah Jing! In-law!" Li Tie's eyes lit up. "Well, have you found him yet?"
Lu Qing stood up excitedly and looked expectantly at the group of people who walked into the courtyard.
Li Jing shook his head regretfully, "We didn't find anything."
Hunter Wu Cheng said, "We walked into the mountains for more than an hour, and we have basically changed all the areas where I usually hunt. We even walked a little further in, but we did not find any trace of Lu Xuan. Maybe we missed him, or maybe Lu Xuan went into a deeper place."
The deep mountains are teeming with wolves, tigers, and leopards. Even he wasn't confident he could escape unscathed, so he naturally couldn't risk taking the villagers inside.
“But you don’t need to worry too much.” Wu Cheng glanced at Lu Qing and Lei Yan, whose faces were ashen. “Lu Xuan is quite capable. He can easily take down wild boars. Even if he encounters a ferocious beast, he can always run away if he can’t beat it.”
When the wild boar meat was being exchanged, other villagers didn't notice, but he carefully examined the wounds on the wild boar's body.
The large pig had no visible external injuries, except that its spine was broken into several pieces. Judging from the marks on its back, it may have died from a huge impact that caused its bones to break.
The deaths of the two half-grown wild boars were even more horrifying; their heads were completely pierced, and their brains splattered out—something no ordinary person could do.
Wu Cheng was a hunter who had been hunting for over twenty years without ever being seriously injured. He was very experienced, and his words were much more credible than those of others. Lu Qing was somewhat relieved.
Just then, villagers rushed over excitedly, shouting, "He's back! Lu Xuan is back—!"
"What!?" Everyone present was shocked.
"Ah Xuan!" Lu Qing, who had just sat down again, stood up excitedly once more.
Lu Chen took the lead and rushed out.
The others snapped out of their daze and hurriedly followed.
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On the dirt road not far from the Lu family's house.
Lu Qing threw herself at Lu Xuan, hitting him while crying and yelling, "You finally decided to come back! Do you know how worried I was about you?! If something happened to you, how would Chenchen and I live?! I'm telling you, you're never allowed to go back into the mountains again!"
Caught off guard by the punch, Lu Xuan felt a dull pain in his chest and was speechless.
It has to be said that, as expected of the daughter of a butcher, Lu Qing looks slender but has astonishing strength.
If it weren't for his extraordinary physique as a superhuman, those two punches would have caused internal injuries.
Before Lu Xuan could speak, his thigh was grabbed tightly. Looking down, he saw Lu Chen clinging to his leg, his face pale and tears streaming down his face.
Soon, acquaintances such as Li Jing and Zhang Chengming arrived one after another, and they all said, "Lu Xuan! You're finally back!"
"You've worried us to death these past few days!"
"You went into the mountains for several days without even saying goodbye. You're incredibly bold."
As she spoke, she looked him up and down, and seeing that he had no obvious injuries and his complexion was rosy, she was finally relieved.
Wu Cheng, who was following behind, noticed with his sharp eyes that the stains on Lu Xuan's clothes looked like dried blood, but the clothes were not torn, so it was probably not his blood.
At this moment, village chief Li Tie also ran over, panting.
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