Chapter 169 Exclusively published on Jinjiang: New Feature with a Spending of 100 Million (Minor Revisions)
When Lu Xuan first connected to the live streaming system, his daily gift earnings could only buy about ten bottles of nutrient solution.
In less than half a year, they had unknowingly spent 100 million yuan.
Even Lu Xuan himself thought he was quite the spendthrift.
It is even worse than before the apocalypse.
But look at his current live streaming data.
In just over half a month, the number of online followers increased by 70 million, the number of fans increased by 20 million, but the total balance only increased by 10 million because of recent spending.
Nevertheless, it still reached 130 million.
Having spent 100 million and still having over 100 million left, it doesn't seem like much.
As for the plan to accumulate points to buy a spaceship.
At first, Lu Xuan only had his eye on the model with the lowest price and the most basic functions, with a total value of less than one billion.
But as points became easier to earn, his goals kept changing.
The old-model civilian spacecraft, costing less than a billion dollars, could no longer meet Lu Xuan's needs.
Now he's eyeing older, higher-performance military warships that cost ten times more.
Faced with truly astronomical figures in the tens of billions, whether it's a hundred million more or a hundred million less makes no difference.
So, the感慨 (feeling of mixed emotions) about spending 100 million only lasted a few seconds before being suppressed. He then clicked on the system information that was constantly making its presence felt, ready to see just how useful this new feature really was.
[Achieve the 'Spend 100 Million Points' milestone and be rewarded with 1 Medical Pod, 1 30% Off Coupon, and unlock the physical item recycling feature. Next milestone: Spend 1 Billion Points.]
Physical recycling?
Upon seeing these four words, Lu Xuan's heart skipped a beat. He quickly checked the specific usage, his eyes growing brighter with each reading.
Lu Xuan had thought about this a long time ago. Many of the items drawn from blind boxes were impractical or duplicates that even general stores couldn't use up. It would be great if they could be recycled.
And here comes the recycling function, doesn't it?
According to the introduction, the function can not only recycle the unused items he gets from blind boxes, but also other local items that he doesn't obtain through the system.
However, this only applies to biological species, such as crops, prey, the various mutated fruits and vegetables he grows, and the medicinal herbs he collects.
The recycling method is the same as for lottery items, via teleportation, which is straightforward.
The key is the price of the recycled items.
There is no clear price list on the recycling page; you can only price the item after scanning it.
Lu Xuan first took out some items obtained through blind boxes or online stores and priced them.
Nutrients, bio-clothes, spatial rings, energy stones, drones, safe houses...
The conclusion drawn from scanning dozens of items of varying sizes is:
The general recycling price is 30% of the original price. Consumables such as nutrients and energy stones can reach half price. Only high-end minerals such as amethyst ore, which are in short supply even in the Covenant, can reach a recycling price of 70%.
Overall, the buyback price isn't very high, but it's still quite worthwhile compared to leaving the items idle.
Lu Xuan has amassed no fewer than a hundred pieces of equipment, including large dryers, mixers, and many high-end bedding, cosmetics, and furniture from the Star Alliance.
He only needs to keep a few of these items for himself, and recycling the rest will earn him at least a few million points, enough for him to buy two or three more decent aircraft.
Afterwards, Lu Xuan took out other local supplies and checked their value one by one.
Wild vegetables, common mushrooms, and common vegetables are priced between 10 and 30 points per kilogram, with higher prices for those with more intact root systems.
Unmutated grains and crops are priced at 30-50 points per kilogram, depending on the type; the higher the nutritional value, the more expensive they are.
The price of common fruits is slightly higher, at 50-100 points per pound;
Mutant vegetables/grains are relatively expensive, costing 200-300 points per pound;
Because of their special effects, mutated fruits have become several times more expensive, costing 1,000-3,000 points per kilogram.
These are the prices of raw materials. If it is a processed product, the price will be 1 to 3 times higher than the original price.
Various meats/fish are worth 100-300 points per pound, and eggs are worth 50 points per pound.
Besides these, Chinese medicinal herbs are also quite expensive.
The lower-priced items are 100 points per kilogram, while the more expensive ones cost three to five hundred points. There are also items such as deer antler, tiger penis, bear gallbladder, and snake gallbladder, which cost between 1,000 and 5,000 points.
Ginseng is the most expensive, with a single plant costing tens of thousands of points, and older plants can even reach hundreds of thousands or millions of points.
Not all viewers in the live stream were familiar with the recycling function and the value of ancient items. Watching Lu Xuan appraise each item was quite an eye-opener for them.
Ancient Chinese medicinal herbs were so expensive!
[Especially ginseng that's over a hundred years old; a single plant can be worth 300,000 to 500,000 points, and a 500-year-old one can reach over a million points—that's an astronomical price!]
[It's a pity they can't mass-produce it, otherwise the streamer would have made a fortune.]
Lu Xuan suddenly said, "Who said it can't be mass-produced?"
[How can it be mass-produced? The streamer probably didn't even find ten plants in total deep in the Yunlu Mountains before, right?]
Lu Xuan reminded him, "Time-related abilities."
Live stream viewers: !!!
Holy crap! How could I forget about this amazing superpower!
Lu Xuan said, "If we plant about a hundred plants, and each plant grows for one year every day, wouldn't we have a hundred old herbs that are over three hundred years old in a year?"
One million per plant, one hundred plants would be one hundred million.
Unlike ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum and Polygonum multiflorum do not need to be cultivated for hundreds of years. In fact, they can be harvested much faster, with a harvest every few months.
[Time manipulation is truly the most powerful ability!!!]
I think wood-based abilities are the strongest. Time-based abilities have too long a payback period. It would be better to cultivate more mutated fruits; that would bring in money faster.
[Can you even do math? Unless the streamer expands the orchard four or five times, growing medicinal herbs will definitely be more profitable!]
We can't just grow fruits and medicinal herbs. Although the price of grains isn't high, the total output is considerable, and accumulating small profits over time is the most profitable approach.
This question also left Lu Xuan with some doubts.
"Aren't natural foods from the Star Covenant very expensive? Why is the buyback price for ordinary grains so low?"
The price of mutated food is relatively reasonable.
Because ordinary grains can only be eaten, not grown.
Even if you grow it, it will mutate, and its nutritional value cannot compare to that of nutrient supplements, so a lower estimated price is normal.
It's not that you can't plant them, but if you do, they might mutate into poisonous plants that are inedible, making it a losing proposition.
[The mutated food is different; it has been improved by the streamer, and even when planted in the Star Alliance, it will not mutate again, greatly reducing the time and money required for detoxification cultivation.]
[Unfortunately, there are many streamers in this dimension, but very few with supernatural abilities. Being a wood-type individual, only one streamer can alter the direction of plant mutations.]
[A truly hidden gem of a live streamer!]
[The streamer must remember to collect as many viable mutant varieties as possible so we can all benefit and achieve true freedom from natural food shortages sooner!]
Upon seeing this, Lu Xuan felt that he seemed to have underestimated his usefulness to the Star Alliance.
But new problems arose.
If the Star Alliance really had an urgent need for his mutated seeds, he had already given away quite a few in previous raffles. Didn't he find any audience members to buy the prizes?
[There's no way to find them. The Star Alliance controls all population information through a central central computer. Unless someone commits a crime, even the authorities cannot access our identity information without authorization.]
Besides, we don't have enough grain to feed ourselves! Even if the authorities take it all, we can't grow much more.
[So the higher-ups are also waiting for you, streamer, to quickly enable the recycling function.]
[Isn't it much better to collect tens of thousands of kilograms of cultivable mutated grains in one go than to take the pittance from us?]
[Once the Covenant's edible mutant crop production increases, even if not immediately, the price of natural food should drop significantly in a few years, increasing our chances of securing it in the StarNet Mall.]
[All things considered, the streamer is truly a hero! They should be awarded a medal!]
[Maybe an award will actually be given out when we truly achieve complete freedom from natural food consumption.]
[That's a matter for the future. Hey streamer, quick, the valuation's done, shouldn't we hurry up and buy back a bunch of items?]
[Yes, yes, yes! Collect them! You've spent a lot of points lately, this is a good time to recoup some.]
Lu Xuan had originally planned to do this, and when the audience brought it up, he nodded in agreement.
"Then let's process a batch of them."
He had previously given away a lot of grain and fruit through lotteries, but he received a larger share each month. He still had tens of thousands of kilograms of grain left, most of which were unprocessed and ready to be planted.
Lu Xuan took out the bags of grain one by one, scanned them using the new function, and submitted them.
Mutant grains and vegetables, ordinary lotus roots, ordinary fruits, mutated mushrooms, mutated fruits, wild boar meat that I don't like to eat... In short, process whatever you have in large quantities.
However, apart from supplies such as grains and vegetables that weighed thousands or tens of thousands of kilograms, not much else was processed.
It's because selling raw materials is a losing proposition.
We can hire more people to process a large quantity of by-products later. Even if it consumes a lot of seasonings, the points we earn in the end will be much more than selling raw materials.
He still has a considerable stock of eggs.
However, this item is difficult to obtain but consumed quickly, and it has hardly been given away in any lotteries, so it is impossible to recycle or dispose of it.
They managed to secure 70,000 to 80,000 jin of supplies, and also added the system items along with them.
Clicking the teleport button sent everything away, and my points balance instantly increased by more than 20 million.
Not only did it make up for the expenses incurred in achieving the goal of spending money, it also added more than two million.
Lu Xuan even did some quick calculations to figure out how many points he could earn each year based on the fixed yield of grains, fruits, and other produce from the land.
If all the output is recycled and processed, it should reach one billion?
However, he couldn't leave without any resources. Mutant fruits and ginseng and lingzhi are quite valuable, so if he could cultivate more of them, he could maintain this income.
In addition, there are gift revenues. At the current rate of increase, the annual income should also reach 1 billion, bringing the total to 2 billion.
It would take five years to save up enough money to buy a warship worth tens of billions.
Lu Xuan: "..." Why does it take longer to accumulate the more I save up?
Lu Xuan clicked his tongue, glanced at the balance again out of the corner of his eye, and was about to look away when he suddenly realized that something seemed wrong.
In the blink of an eye, my total points balance had increased to over 160 million.
Tens of millions in a second?
Almost simultaneously, a large number of gift effects appeared at the top of the live stream screen, all of them the most expensive 'Glory Star Crown' worth 10,000 Star Coins, and thousands of them were sent.
The gift list, which was originally full of familiar faces, now has a new face that was previously ranked very low.
The gift effect lasted for several minutes, during which Lu Xuan paid special attention to the comments and found that the content was also quite subtle.
【Here it comes!】
[They should have come long ago. Contractually mutated plants, artificially controlling the direction of plant mutation—aren't they all worth the money for this little gift?]
[They only ranked eleventh, and even deliberately avoided competing with the top ten fans for special prizes. How thoughtful and considerate!]
[How dare you speak like that? The Star Police might come looking for you.]
With this sudden appearance on the list and these undisguised remarks, what else could Lu Xuan not understand?
Lu Xuan said, "Thank you to this 'XM' for giving so many gifts. I will buy back another 50,000 jin of grain after the next harvest."
The new fan 'XM' didn't say anything, but just spent another million.
Lu Xuan smiled slightly upon seeing this.
Having sorted out the recycling function, Lu Xuan remembered that he hadn't finished looking at the achievement rewards, so he skipped the 30% off coupon and started looking at another item.
Medical cabin.
It has an oval shape, a pure white body, and a full glass window on top. The interior is large enough for an adult to lie down comfortably, and it looks very similar to the hibernation pods in some science fiction movies.
As the most advanced medical device in the Alliance, the medical capsule has far more comprehensive functions than home treatment devices.
In addition to detecting all the wound viruses currently discovered by the Covenant, it can also provide complete treatment for all internal and external injuries, major and minor illnesses, including cancer and genetic diseases.
Even limb regeneration, organ repair and transplantation can be easily accomplished in the medical pod as long as there is enough repair fluid.
Repair fluid and other special potions have also been unlocked this time, but they are quite expensive, costing 100,000 points per dose.
According to the pricing of Lu Xuan before the recycling function was unlocked, it would require 10,000 catties of ordinary grain, and even with a 50% discount, it would still be 5,000 catties.
Is it expensive to exchange 5,000 or 10,000 jin of grain for an arm or a leg?
Don't take it too seriously.
Moreover, once the recycling function is unlocked, prices will inevitably be adjusted significantly due to the recycling price, and the cost will drop directly to 1,000 catties of ordinary grain. Even if Lu Xuan raises the price by two or three times, it will still be at least half the price of before.
With such a medical pod, even if Lu Xuan doesn't put in any hard work, he can still earn a lot of food by finding opportunities to contact wealthy people in the future.
It's a treasure!
The number of products unlocked in the store this time is also exceptionally large.
Among the more noteworthy items are the special medical solutions for the medical pods and many cancer-specific drugs.
All different types of safe houses have been fully unlocked.
In the weapon and equipment category, laser guns, energy guns, and flight wings have also lit up, and even the mechs have been unlocked, with several older models that are slightly better looking than those refreshed in the daily discount.
However, his mecha technology is still in its early stages, and more models will be unlocked later, so there's no rush to buy it.
After browsing through all the unlocked items that he could use and roughly memorizing their prices, Lu Xuan felt more and more that this achievement in spending money had not been in vain.
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The next day, the snow was still falling, but the morale of Huo's army was exceptionally high.
It's not just because they're about to move to a new gathering point, but also because Yunlu Village has lent out two hoverbuses for passenger transport.
The first group sent there consisted of a small number of Huo family soldiers and frail elderly women and children.
At first, the latter was hesitant to get on the bus, but Huo Tiankuo set an example and followed.
As expected, when the bus started moving, people both inside and outside the bus exclaimed in amazement and admiration.
"This car can actually fly!"
"It's so fast, and it's not bumpy at all!"
"If we had these flying cars before, traveling wouldn't have been so difficult."
The temporary camp and the new gathering point are not far apart; it takes at most an hour to walk there, even though the heavy snow is the only obstacle.
With the hoverbus, passengers were told they had arrived before they even had a chance to sit down.
Everyone: !!! That was way too fast!
They began to believe that Yunlu Village might truly possess divine abilities.
The carnivores around the hillside where the new gathering point is located have been cleared by Huo Jiajun, and some large, obstructing rocks have also been moved away.
After two days of recuperation, the sick disaster victims and soldiers have all recovered, and those who were hungry have been fed. Without those bad apples from the Wei family, their spirits are completely different.
Upon arrival, they busily set up the tents again, and Lu Xuan then handed over the supplies donated by the village to Huo Tiankuo.
The variety of items was limited; each household contributed only one mutated radish/cabbage and thirty to fifty catties of sweet potatoes, along with an equal amount of charcoal.
However, each radish and cabbage weighs an average of ten jin (5 kg), and with more than fifty households combined, that's a thousand jin (500 kg).
Double the amount of sweet potatoes and charcoal, to two thousand catties each.
With these supplies, Huo's army could sustain themselves for at least another half month, no matter how hard they hunted.
Huo Tiankuo, who felt he had already received a lot of help, was too embarrassed to accept any more of their gifts.
But the villagers, led by Li Tie, insisted on building a fortress.
“We don’t lack these supplies. The Huo family army has sacrificed so much to protect us in the past. Please don’t refuse this small token of our appreciation, General.”
They even brought up Lu Xuan's previous words, "Even if you, General, don't eat, you should at least let the soldiers who have suffered a lot have a few more full meals."
Huo Tiankuo, who felt most guilty towards the soldiers at that moment, was caught off guard and could no longer refuse.
After the other disaster victims learned that Yunlu Village had sent them several thousand kilograms of supplies, their fear of them completely disappeared.
What kind of demons or monsters would give people so much food and charcoal for no reason?
They're so powerful, if they want to eat us, they should just take action.
They clearly met some good people!
...
Huo Jiajun and the disaster victims worked together all afternoon and finally managed to settle them down.
This also means that Yunlu Village has nothing left to help them with, and it's time for them to leave.
Despite having only spent a few days with them, Huo Tiankuo couldn't help but show a hint of melancholy and reluctance on his face.
Huo Tiankuo sighed, "I don't know if we'll ever meet again after this parting."
Li Tie asked in surprise, "General, what are you saying? Of course you can see it."
Huo Tiankuo: "?"
Lu Xuan smiled and took out a communication bracelet, handing it to the other party and explaining how to use it.
"If the general needs anything, he can contact us at any time. Our accommodation is quite far from here, and it would probably take a day and a night to walk. However, it only takes us less than an hour to get here by car, so it is very convenient to travel back and forth."
Huo Tiankuo: "..."
The viewers in the live stream were all amused by General Huo's fascinating changes in expression.
Huo Tiankuo was both amazed by the existence of such a useful way to contact people and saddened by his recent departure, leaving him feeling both amused and exasperated.
He fastened the communicator to his wrist and said dryly, "Then, let's keep in touch. Take care."
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Yunlu Village.
"I'm finally back!"
The elderly and children who stayed behind, as well as women with special circumstances such as Lu Qing and Zhu Qiao'er, were informed in advance and came out to greet them.
Some of the eager young men, who had just gotten off the bus, pressed them for details about their trip.
Although they had a communication device, they had a general idea of what they had encountered, but not enough details.
It was a rare treat to encounter outsiders in the dead of winter, especially the legendary General Huo and his army, which piqued everyone's curiosity.
Because Lei Yan returned early, Lu Chen and Lu Qing had already heard a lot about him from him. However, Lei Yan didn't get to experience the exciting scene where the villagers were falsely accused of being monsters, the superpowered individuals took action to deal with the Wei family, and finally drove them away. Only Lu Xuan could tell them about it.
The conversation continued until dinner time, finally satisfying the siblings' thirst for knowledge.
That night, the blind box shipments were quite ordinary, with duplicate items or points being distributed, including the diamond and black gold boxes.
However, Lu Xuan immediately recycled and disposed of the items he drew that he didn't need, earning more points than usual.
...
After being away from training for several days, the young and strong men, who had slept soundly and were full of energy in their comfortable and safe homes, came to the training room for extra practice after breakfast.
Only Lu Xuan came to his family's vegetable garden alone.
First, ripen the immature mutated vegetables in the garden to make room. Then, scatter the spores of Ganoderma lucidum, Ganoderma lucidum, ginseng, and Polygonum multiflorum that you have on hand, and use your wood-type ability to accelerate their growth.
Once these treasures have grown to a certain size, we will use our time-manipulation ability to accelerate their growth!
Upon hearing this, Lu Xuan's expression changed, and his brows furrowed involuntarily.
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