Chapter 13 Shopping Mall: What's most important in the apocalypse? Food? No! ...
Bullet comments:
[...I hadn't thought about these issues at all; I was just watching the live stream like an idiot, yelling and screaming. Seeing how much you guys have analyzed, I feel like I'm finally growing a brain.]
[I never expected this. I'm sorry, I've embarrassed the people of interstellar space. *facepalm*]
In conclusion, there's definitely a secret about this streamer!
So what's the secret?
How would I know?
I feel like I'm just one clue away from figuring it out.
Why not just ask the streamer?
Lu Xuan, who had been called upon, stuffed the freshly roasted roe into his mouth and said again, "Can you continue guessing?"
Live stream viewers: ...Guess, guess, guess! You just want us to guess, you don't give us any hints, how are we supposed to guess?!
Lu Xuan watched them complain wildly, then continued grilling meat until he had eaten about ten pounds of meat and was full. He casually adjusted the view so they could enjoy the natural scenery in the deep mountains, while he checked the backend data.
The excitement from the two battles easily led to a significant increase in both online viewership and number of fans in the live stream.
The number of online users increased from over 20,000 to over 120,000, and the number of fans also reached over 50,000!
Lu Xuan clicked on the constantly flashing system information.
[Achieve '10,000 Followers' milestone: One 10,000-follower traffic coupon. Next milestone: 100,000 followers, reward unknown.]
[Achieved the milestone of '100,000 viewers online' and received a reward of 10,000 points. Next milestone: 1 million viewers online, reward unknown.]
Achieving two accomplishments in one go certainly made the debut of the mutated vampire vine worthwhile.
Looking at the gifts received, the amazing performance when killing the wild boar and the subsequent display of power from the vampire vine were all highlights. As expected, many fans excitedly showered the gifts with gifts. The total value of the gifts was over 30,000, which could be exchanged for more than 3,000 points.
Lu Xuan immediately exchanged all his points.
Including the more than 3,000 points he earned yesterday, and the 10,000 reward he just received, his total points are now just over 17,000.
This amount is enough for him to buy what he wants.
He opened the system store while switching the live stream view back.
The audience had already guessed that he was checking his gift earnings, and now that he's opened the shop, they know he's ready to spend 'money'!
One viewer immediately asked him if he was going to buy nutritional supplements in full to stock up.
"No."
While denying it, Lu Xuan switched the page from the food category to another category and clicked to buy the newly unlocked, currently largest space equipment, a 100-cubic-meter space ring.
Viewers in the live stream: ? ? ?
[I don't understand. Didn't the streamer already get a 100-cubic-meter space ring from the newbie gift pack? Why did they buy another one? To store their belongings? Surely they don't need to buy two?]
Lu Xuan clicked his tongue, "Naive."
Ask modern people, setting aside those who can't even survive, if they have enough strength, what would be the most important thing in an apocalypse?
Was it food? Weapons? Or something else?
Neither.
It's space!
While the various supplies needed for survival are important, in the apocalypse, no matter how much stuff you have, where do you put it?
You can stockpile supplies, but first you need to have enough space to carry them with you wherever you go, so that you won't attract unwanted attention.
That sounds reasonable!
[But 200 cubic meters is still a bit too much. If you're storing nutrient solutions, even if you take ten vials a day, that's only a little over 3,000 vials a year, or a few hundred boxes. All that's taken up is a corner of the space.]
Lu Xuan said leisurely, "Is two hundred cubic meters a lot? There are still twenty days before the first catastrophe. During this period, I plan to buy as much space as I can. I wouldn't mind buying a thousand or eight hundred cubic meters."
If it weren't for accumulating points to unlock more space, he would have bought three at once.
Is it addictive?
I do know many streamers, both ancient and modern, who have a strange interest in online spaces. Could it be that streamers fall into this category as well?
[Don't be confused, streamer! Prioritize! Two hundred cubic meters is already a lot. Use those points to buy more nutrient solutions. Besides, even if you buy that much space, do you have enough silver to fill it with supplies? It'll be embarrassing if you can't even fill one room.]
Lu Xuan said nonchalantly, "Aren't we already making a profit?"
Filling several hundred cubic meters of space would indeed require a lot of money, and hunting was simply too slow a way to make money, so he never placed his hopes on hunting in the first place.
To make big money, you still need to rely on other treasures.
Lu Xuan's gaze involuntarily drifted into the deep mountains that stretched as far as the eye could see, a faint expectation appearing in his unfathomable eyes.
Hopefully, his gains over the past few days won't disappoint him too much.
After lunch and a short rest, Lu Xuan set off again.
This time, he didn't deliberately try to catch any fish. Instead, he kept a close eye on his surroundings while traveling, deliberately avoiding areas where wild beasts or herds of animals roamed and taking detours.
During this time, he also used the 10,000-view traffic voucher he had just received, and many new viewers who had come to the live stream because of the traffic voucher came in one after another.
[Is this an old streamer? Are they new? I've never seen them before.]
What are they doing? Running? The surroundings are all blurry, you can't see anything, what's the point?
[Lu Xuan? Isn't that the streamer who supposedly kicked a wild boar to death with one kick, as someone posted about him on Weibo a couple of days ago?]
[Are primitive animals weak fighters? Killing a wild boar by kicking it to death is nothing special.]
When the longtime viewers noticed the sudden influx of new viewers, they quickly guessed that Lu Xuan must have used the reward traffic vouchers from the 10,000-follower event. So, they enthusiastically explained Lu Xuan's great achievements to them, telling them not to worry, as a high-energy warning might be coming soon.
They also emphasized that Lu Xuan is a wood-type ability user who has contracted with an exceptionally powerful mutated plant, and his combat power is in no way inferior to that of high-level ability users in interstellar space.
Many new viewers were initially ready to leave because Lu Xuan was busy traveling and the live stream wasn't very interesting, but topics like wood element and contracted plants suddenly caught their attention, and they finally became interested and asked for more details.
Others went directly to watch Lu Xuan's previous live stream replays, and after seeing content that interested them, they clicked to follow, and the number of fans in the live stream began to increase slowly.
Lu Xuan wasn't unaware of the new audience's skepticism, but he didn't bring up any particularly appealing topics to try and keep them there.
The live streaming system can be a tool for him, but it cannot make him a slave to live streaming.
People who enjoy watching his live streams will stay without much persuasion, and there's no need to force those who aren't interested to stay.
However, as he wandered around the deep mountains, occasionally jumping onto tall tree roots to scan his surroundings, but never making any further moves, both new and old viewers couldn't help but ask him what he was trying to do, or rather, what he was looking for.
Lu Xuan's gaze locked onto the base of a huge ancient tree. With a smirk, he leaped down from the trunk and appeared beneath the target tree in a few more bounds. At the same time, he shifted the live stream's view to a red object at the tree's roots.
Bullet comments:
【Huh? Is that a mushroom? It's quite big!】
[It looks tough and not very appetizing. Did the streamer spend half a day wandering in the mountains just to find this?]
I've watched a lot of old livestreams, but I've never seen a mushroom like this before.
Lu Xuan twitched his lips, speechless at the ignorance of the interstellar people. "What mushroom? This is Ganoderma lucidum, which is much more valuable than mushrooms."
Lu Xuan gave the still bewildered interstellar viewers a simple explanation of the effects and age of Ganoderma lucidum. As he explained, some people who had watched other ancient live streams finally remembered this medicinal herb.
Immediately, someone asked how much this Ganoderma lucidum could sell for.
Lu Xuan carefully picked the Ganoderma lucidum and said, "The price is definitely not as high as ginseng, but it can still fetch a good price if you accumulate a little bit."
Lingzhi and ginseng are not quite the same.
The longer ginseng grows, the more medicinal effects it accumulates, and the more valuable it becomes.
However, Ganoderma lucidum matures in two years, and after two years, the various beneficial active ingredients will gradually decrease.
There are indeed Ganoderma lucidum mushrooms that can grow for decades, hundreds of years, or even longer in deep mountains and forests, but those things only look big and intimidating; in reality, they are no different from wooden stakes.
Therefore, the price of a single Ganoderma lucidum plant is incomparable to that of ginseng.
But if one isn't enough, then ten, or a hundred.
It is indeed a precious medicinal herb; selling one plant for tens of taels of silver is certainly not a problem.
Even if you add up dozens of them, you can still sell them for a considerable price.
Not long ago, they said that the streamer would only earn a hundred or eighty taels of silver at most by hunting in the mountains for a few days, but he actually found precious medicinal herbs that could be sold for more than ten times that price!?
Lu Xuan told the audience his plan, then looked at the endless mountain range in the distance.
"The mountain next to Yunlu Village is adjacent to the Yunlu Mountain Range, which stretches for thousands of cubic kilometers. The deep mountains are fraught with danger, and basically no living person can set foot there."
"Do you think there are just how many unharvested Ganoderma lucidum and aged ginseng secretly hidden in these mountains?"
Audience: !!!
How many rare medicinal herbs can be found in this entire mountain range?
The answer, of course, is countless.
Not enough space? Not at all.
His only worry is not having enough points to buy enough space to store all the supplies he can get!
What's even more delightful is that all the treasures found in the mountains are free, requiring no investment whatsoever. How can this not be considered a zero-cost purchase in another sense?
You should know that people in the apocalypse love buying things for free.
Good heavens! I really am a good heavens!
[Turns out we were the naive ones! The streamer had it all planned out from the start; they weren't worried about not making enough money!]
Selling medicinal herbs is really lucrative! I wish I could go to ancient times to hunt for medicinal herbs!
[Just imagining how many medicinal herbs the streamer could find and how much money they could make makes me go numb. Wouldn't that make them instantly rich?!]
While nutritional supplements can indeed fill you up, plain rice is definitely tastier. If you have ample funds, nutritional supplements are indeed rather useless, and there's no need to stock up on too many.
[People facing natural disasters don't need nutritional supplements, while we only have nutritional supplements to eat every day. I won't say who's jealous, but I feel sorry for myself!]
[This is heartbreaking! I'm so upset I could cry!]
Lu Xuan put the Ganoderma lucidum into his spatial ring and watched the audience's excitement for a while before saying, "Alright, I'm going to continue."
After saying that, he began searching around again.
It was probably because the surrounding environment was very suitable for the growth of Ganoderma lucidum that Lu Xuan soon discovered another red Ganoderma lucidum.
Then one more, two more, three more…
The audience: "..." Oh my god, so many?
Isn't this money a little too easy to make?
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