Chapter 51: What's the difference between these temperature-sensitive cooling patches and giving them away for free?!
Lu Xuan didn't think there was anything wrong with it.
Offering 100 free draws every day is a way to attract popularity. With more online users and fans, more people are sending gifts. He didn't lose money after two days of drawing, so what's there to complain about?
Moreover, the bio-cloak and the space are obviously more valuable to the villagers. Although Bai Lianli did not get the bio-cloak, he did get two spaces, one with a volume of 5 cubic meters and the other with a volume of 10 cubic meters, which is still a good deal.
"Alright, that's all for today's live stream. Let's continue our exploration tomorrow."
Because today's points income was not as good as yesterday's, after drawing all the blind boxes, Lu Xuan's points account still shrank by 10,000 points.
Fortunately, I haven't redeemed the gift points yet.
In the morning, I treated the village children for medical care; in the afternoon, I went hunting. After returning, I cleaned and distributed the game. Although there wasn't anything particularly amazing today, there were still plenty of interesting things to watch from morning till night. As expected, my online presence and number of followers both increased by 100,000.
StarCraft fans were as generous as ever, receiving over 300,000 gifts today, which, when converted into points, amounted to over 30,000.
I spent quite a bit on bio-suits during the day. After adding and subtracting, I had a little over seventeen points left, plus a few thousand in spare change, which I used to refresh the daily discounted items.
After five refreshes, he got the bio-clothing twice. The new item that appeared was the ice patch gift pack that he also got from the blind box today. Since the price was as cheap as the nutrient solution, Lu Xuan bought them all.
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The next day, even without the disturbing knocking at the door, the Lu family's biological clock still woke them up early.
When I came out of the small cave, there were already quite a few people in the square, and many washed clothes were hanging on the clothesline, swaying in the wind, giving off a lively atmosphere.
At the same time, a wave of hot air also swept over us.
According to the weather app, the temperature this morning reached 35 degrees Celsius, and the high for today is expected to be as high as 42 degrees Celsius.
Inside the cave, the temperature was only around 25 or 26 degrees Celsius, which was quite cool. However, the temperature in the square was still over 30 degrees Celsius, and people who weren't wearing bio-suits would get sweaty after a little activity.
But no matter how hot the weather is, life goes on.
Yesterday, the village chief announced that the communal dining system would be discontinued, and today, the dietary standards of most households have taken a sharp turn for the worse.
Only a few families with good conditions, who are usually generous with their food, maintain their original standard.
For example, the Lu family's staple food today is meat buns, meat-filled pies, twenty boiled eggs, and side dishes are freshly mixed red oil pig ears and cold shredded chicken by Lu Qing.
The steamed buns and pies were generously filled, the spicy and sour pig's ear salad was appetizing, and the cold shredded chicken salad was a dish that Lu Qing learned from her aunt whose ancestral home was in the south, which Lei Yan loved to eat.
Boiled eggs look ordinary, but once you crack open the shell and take a bite, they're almost all runny yolks. Dip them in a little soy sauce, and the taste is simply amazing!
The viewers in the live stream watched as Lu Xuan deliberately took a bite to reveal the golden, runny yolk inside, their mouths watering and their hearts pounding with anticipation.
【You're so envious of us, why don't you just turn on sharing?! If you don't, I'm going to make a scene!】
Lu Xuan replied perfunctorily, "It'll be soon, it'll open tomorrow, just bear with it a little longer."
The breakfast on the table was quickly devoured. Just as Lu Qing finished cleaning up the dishes, the village chief began calling people to gather in the square.
After a night and breakfast, the rosters for the hunting team, gathering team, and guard team have been confirmed.
The hunting party consisted of 32 people, mostly young and strong men between the ages of 16 and 30, with only one experienced hunter, Wu Cheng, being the oldest.
The group of more than 30 people was divided into three teams. The hunting team consisted of 11 people, with Lu Xuan as the captain, Lei Yan as the vice captain, and Zhang Chengming and Wei Xiang in the team.
The second hunting team has eleven members, with Wu Cheng as the captain and Wu Yang as the vice-captain.
The hunting team consists of ten people, with Li Jing as the captain and Xiong Mao as the vice-captain.
The collection team was larger, with more than forty people, mainly middle-aged women and young women, followed by girls and boys over thirteen years old.
They were also divided into three teams, with an average of thirteen to fifteen people in each team. The team leaders were Miao Jinfeng, Zhang Yangshi, and Aunt Liu from the Tofu Liu family.
Lu Qing, Wu Yinyin, and Miao Jinfeng were in one team, while Ye Ping was in another team with her mother-in-law, Zhang Yangshi. Aunt Liu's team also included her daughter and daughter-in-law.
To coordinate with the activities of the other two teams, the guard team was also divided into three teams, but the personnel were mainly middle-aged and fewer in number, with eight people per team.
The three team leaders are Li Tie, Zhang Wende, and a middle-aged man named Ge Yuan with a scar near his eye who had served in the military when he was young.
Li Tie said, "Today, one team will go to the area that Lu Xuan and his group explored yesterday to gather wild vegetables and mushrooms. Ge Yuan will lead your guard team to protect the women. As for the hunting team, to save time, we won't follow the pre-assigned teams today. Except for two people who went out yesterday, who will accompany the gathering team to lead the way, the rest will be divided into two teams."
One team followed Lu Xuan, and the other followed Wu Cheng, to explore the other two directions they hadn't explored yesterday. Those who had already gone out yesterday would do another round today. Starting tomorrow, the three teams will rotate in turn, and the same will apply to the gathering teams.
The original exploration team members were not at all opposed to going out for two consecutive days. Going out once more meant they could get more prey, which was a good thing!
Those who joined later were also thinking about the dozen or so kilograms of pork that the exploration team had received yesterday, and each of them wished they could hunt a wild boar right away.
Powerful new weapons are essential for hunting wild boars.
No sooner had the village chief finished speaking than those who had no suitable weapons rushed in front of Lu Xuan.
"Lu Xuan, I want to exchange the weapon you gave Zhang Chengming and the others for a crossbow!"
"I think a bow suits me better, I want a bow!"
"The price is the same as yesterday, still 30% of the individual income from the first ten team hunts, right?"
Lu Xuan said, "You can also choose a fixed price of 20 catties of fresh meat or 15 catties of cured meat and 30 catties of coarse grains."
After a brief hesitation, everyone quickly chose what they considered the most cost-effective payment method.
Lu Xuan made a mental record of each of them, and those who used physical items to exchange for weapons on the spot, while the rest were recorded in the books first.
With their weapons in hand, everyone was overjoyed and their fighting spirit soared, as if they could already see themselves sweeping away chickens and ducks and annihilating wild boars.
There were also more than a dozen people buying biosuits, probably because they were frightened by the temperature rising by one liter a day, or because they listened to the experience shared by the members of the exploration team yesterday, and some were preparing them for the women.
Women's physical condition is not as good as men's, so it's always good to make some preparations.
“I have something here that’s a little worse than the bio-suit, but still pretty good. Would you like to exchange it?” Lu Xuan asked the others who hadn’t moved because they were reluctant to part with their supplies.
Everyone asked curiously, "What is it?"
Lu Xuan took out the rectangular metal box he had drawn from the blind box yesterday. With a gentle press, the transparent lid retracted, revealing neatly arranged semi-transparent silicone sheets, each only the size of a fingernail.
Lu Xuan took out one of the pieces and said, "This little thing is called a temperature-sensing cooling patch. It can cool the body down quickly when applied to the body, but it is not as effective as the bio-clothing."
"Wearing a bio-suit can cool the entire body, while cooling patches only maintain a small area. For example, if you put one on your face, it will cool your face and neck; if you put one on your body, it will cool your upper body. Similarly, putting one on your legs will cool your legs."
"The cooling patch can only be used for four hours at a time. If the temperature is too high, the time will be shortened. In addition, after one use, it needs to be left for twelve hours before it can be used again. A cooling patch can only be used a maximum of three times before it is ruined."
The villagers frowned as they listened. "A consumable? That sounds a bit useless."
"However," Lu Xuan changed the subject, "it has one advantage, which is that it's very cheap."
Upon hearing the word "cheap," Aunt Liu, the leader of the third collection team, couldn't help but ask, "How cheap?"
Lu Xuan said, "Ten ice patches for one pound of grain or three pounds of wild vegetables/mushrooms/wild fruits."
The villagers were furious when they heard the price.
"So cheap!?"
"What's the difference between this and giving it away for free!"
The women quickly began to calculate in their minds.
Consumable items that are used up after three uses cannot compare to biosuits that can be worn for a long time. But isn't the reason why people haven't bought biosuits yet because they can't bear to part with dozens of kilograms of food? So we can't just focus on whether it's a one-time solution or not; the most important thing is cost-effectiveness.
You need to apply three patches to keep your whole body cool. It costs ninety yuan a month, which is equivalent to nine kilograms of grain. If you use it for three months, it will only cost twenty-seven kilograms of grain, which is cheaper than children's bio-clothing.
Moreover, putting up three sheets is a rather extravagant practice. They are a group of country folk who are very resilient. They only need one sheet, or at the very least, two sheets to make do.
Furthermore, the hunting and gathering teams would only go out once every three days. When they weren't out, they would stay in the plaza or the large cave, where the temperature wasn't so high that they wouldn't even need to wear protective clothing.
All things considered, one might only need a dozen or so kilograms of grain for the entire quarter. If one were to exchange it for wild vegetables and fruits gathered from the wild, one could save even more grain.
For families with many members, the price might be several times higher, but would it double the price of a biosuit? The more people you have, the more you save!
Lu Xuan couldn't say whether this calculation was correct or not, because most people subconsciously overlooked the fact that bio-clothing could also function in extremely cold conditions.
Anyway, as long as they think it's worth it, that's fine.
The store hasn't unlocked the purchase of cooling patches yet, but according to yesterday's discount, 100 patches cost 100 points, which is equivalent to one point per patch, and ten patches are equivalent to one nutrient solution.
People in the interstellar era would need to consume a nutrient solution per meal, but based on his experience, one nutrient solution in ancient times could probably last a whole day.
It's hard to say which is more cost-effective, a bottle of nutrient solution or a pound of whole grains, but it's not really a matter of making a profit or not. The reason for exchanging it for the villagers is simply to prevent them from having problems one after another so soon after the disaster begins.
Yesterday, when I was drawing blind boxes, I got three sets of cooling patches, in quantities of 100, 500, and 1000 patches respectively. Later, the discount showed that the 500-pattern pack was available, and I bought all five limited sets.
He currently has 4,100 cooling patches, which should be enough for them to exchange.
Having calculated their expenses, the villagers quickly began a new round of spending.
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