Chapter 121 is exclusively published on Jinjiang Literature City! A giveaway of evolution fluid is underway! (Bug fix...)
Bullet comments:
I know I shouldn't be laughing right now, but it's really funny! Hahaha—
[They even said Yangshan County was doing just fine, but your family has lost Boss Chen! Hahaha!]
Everything else is fine, except for Chen Bing's family.
[Going out for a trip, returning home to find it gone—surprising, isn't it?]
Li Tie and the others finally understood why the house Miao An had brought them to, which appeared to be well-preserved, had not been occupied by other forces.
So close to the underground fissure, another earthquake is likely to occur every ten days or so. Who knows if the fissure will widen further after a few more earthquakes, with small fissures connecting to large fissures and swallowing up the entire residential area?
A wise person does not stand under a dangerous wall.
So what about them...?
Everyone turned to look at Lu Xuan, who nodded to indicate that he was alright.
The next earthquake will be in about two weeks. It will not be of high magnitude. The geological conditions in the area are relatively stable, so there shouldn't be any major problems.
Moreover, it's uncertain whether they'll still be here in two weeks.
Lu Xuan recalled the overall terrain of the county town he had observed on the way here, his expression intriguing.
After Miao An left, the group first drove the hovercars into the yard. Once they were no longer being watched by outsiders, they put all four cars away, otherwise such big vehicles would be too in the way in the yard.
Afterwards, the cattle, sheep, and chickens were placed in the carriage shed, while the other villagers gathered together to talk about the four major powers.
After Lu Xuan's grocery store opened, almost every household in the village replaced their old communication devices with at least one for easier communication. Li Tie had been keeping his communication device connected to the car, so they all heard what Miao An said.
People looked down on the old county magistrate who had taken eight concubines. The wealthy merchants and gambling dens were also the opposing classes that the common people resented. Even though there were no tenant farmers in Yunlu Village, it did not prevent them from naturally disliking the landlord class.
However, it's not accurate to say that they had any obvious affinity for the local gentry.
Old Master Zhang said with considerable experience: "Many local gentry and elders abuse their age and power. In order to demonstrate their authority and make the younger generation absolutely obedient to them, they resort to private punishment, kill clan members, and seize the clan's public property for themselves. Such cases are commonplace."
"Who knows if the local gentry might also have people like that? If you ask me, they might not be much better than the government."
Isn't the government essentially supposed to be the people's authority, but how much of it actually does it?
If this is the case even in times of peace, then disasters will only expose more of people's inherent flaws.
The others nodded in agreement, and couldn't help but chuckle as they looked at Old Master Zhang's age.
Chen Rongchong gave the old man a thumbs up and chuckled, "What you said really carries weight!"
Grandpa Zhang laughed and scolded, "You brat, is that a compliment?"
Chen Rong laughed heartily, "Of course it's a compliment. You're not like those disrespectful elders who make things difficult for us younger generation."
Old Master Zhang glanced at him sideways and said, "If you hadn't pulled back from the brink back then, I certainly wouldn't have minded teaching you a lesson as an old man who takes advantage of his age."
"So we won't join any faction?" Zhang Wende asked.
Grandpa Zhang glared at his son with annoyance, "Join what? What good is forming cliques?"
Zhang Wende frowned and said, "Won't refusing to join any of them make us a target of all forces?"
Others also have similar concerns to varying degrees.
Chen Rong glanced at Lu Xuan, who was talking with Lei Yan, and chuckled, "If other forces are unreliable, then why don't we just build a new one ourselves? We won't have to be beholden to anyone else."
The others exclaimed in surprise, "You can do that?!"
After thinking about it seriously, everyone realized that... there really wasn't a rule against doing this?
Where do these outsiders get the confidence to create a new force...? Everyone couldn't help but look at Lu Xuan.
Lu Xuan, who overheard their conversation: "..."
[Hahaha, look, even the villagers think we can form a new force! That's public opinion!]
Lu Xuan lazily said to Chen Rong and the others, "You can want to, but I won't get involved. Ask the village chief if he's willing, or if any of you want to be the leader."
Even Xiong Mao, who had been listening silently, shook his head at this moment.
Regardless of whether Lu Xuan is in charge or not, as long as he's around, who would dare to step forward and claim to be the boss?
Upon hearing that Lu Xuan wouldn't be involved, the enthusiasm that had just been ignited in the hearts of the others for forming a new force was instantly extinguished by more than half.
Chen Rong, unwilling to give up, went to ask the village chief. However, after learning Lu Xuan's answer, Li Tie shook his head without hesitation, "Managing one village is troublesome enough; I can't manage any more."
If a new faction is formed but no new members are planned to join, what's the difference between that and the current situation?
Li Tie said irritably, "Stop making a fuss and hurry up and choose a room."
The group could only regretfully suppress their thoughts and disperse to choose their rooms.
Both houses are three-courtyard complexes with dozens of rooms in total, including the rear building, guest rooms, main house, side rooms, and back building. Except for a few rooms with a corner collapsed, most of them are habitable.
The larger and safest main rooms were assigned to several elderly and infirm families in the village, as well as to the Ye family, whose family included a pregnant woman.
The villa safe house was too large; if it were used, it would fill the entire yard, making it inconvenient for others to move around. Therefore, the Lu family also chose two guest rooms to stay in: one for Lu Xuan and Lu Chen, and the other for Lei Yan and Lu Qing.
By the time we settled into our accommodations, it was already dark, and it started to drizzle again outside.
The women went in groups to the small kitchens in each courtyard to prepare dinner for their families.
As expected, there wasn't a single piece of firewood in the kitchen, let alone a pot or a knife.
To be precise, the entire house was empty; everything except what couldn't be demolished had long been moved out.
Fortunately, they had their own tools and were not affected.
After a perfunctory dinner to warm up the stove, everyone agreed to go out to the city for a good look around the next day. Three people were left to keep watch at each house, one person in charge of one courtyard, and then everyone went their separate ways.
...
Inside Lu Xuan and Lu Chen's room.
Lu Xuan gave Lu Chen a custom-made children's bed that he had won from a silver blind box, while he himself lay down on a luxurious mattress with just the right firmness on the simple four-poster bed in the master bedroom.
Lu Chen quickly fell asleep, while Lu Xuan, after checking today's live stream data, did his usual first round of blind box draws.
The regular blind box is 100 pulls, the silver blind box is 30 pulls, and finally the gold blind box is 10 pulls.
The first two types of draws mostly yield duplicate items, while the gold blind box draws are more visually appealing.
[Ten consecutive Gold Blind Boxes: 2133 points, 1706 points, 4575 points, 11783 points, 4434 points, 100g of rare platinum, a 1000 cubic meter space ring, an astronomical telescope, a single-person safe house, and a complete set of surveillance equipment.]
Platinum, a rare metal... it's quite valuable, but there's not much of a chance to use it. I'll just put it away with the amethyst I got before and other rare metals and store it away.
The gold blind boxes from the Space and Safe House events have been released more than once in the past few days, and have become somewhat worthless.
However, safe houses are limited to single-person use only.
I only managed to get the two-person safe house on the first day of unlocking, and I've never gotten the small villa or the big villa even once. Things worth hundreds of thousands or millions are not so easy to obtain.
The astronomical telescope is indeed somewhat useful, but it's not very practical during a catastrophe. Let Lu Chen take it and play with it to broaden his horizons.
The surveillance equipment is quite good, with a total of twenty smart cameras and five backup monitors. It has comprehensive functions such as night thermal sensing, dynamic image alerts, voice recording, and abnormal alarms.
Ancient mansions are much larger than modern villas, and the rampant growth of vampire vines in the city could easily cause unnecessary panic. Furthermore, it relies too much on him alone.
Having surveillance equipment makes things much more convenient. By installing a camera in various locations throughout the house, we can immediately detect any strangers approaching and also save on the number of people needed for night watch.
However, no matter how good the monitoring is, it still can't compare to the value of the evolution fluid.
The probability of getting Gene Evolution Fluid from blind boxes is really low; similarly, I haven't gotten a second one since the first day of unlocking.
Fortunately, there are daily discounts to take advantage of.
Lu Xuan opened the daily discounts and began refreshing them skillfully.
After half a month of testing, he basically determined that the daily discount could only refresh for one evolution fluid per day at most. Once it had been refreshed, refreshing ten, twenty, or even thirty times would not yield a second one.
However, this doesn't mean that discounts will always refresh every day. Sometimes there will be times when they just won't appear, and in those cases, you'll have to give up.
After all, each refresh from the 11th time onwards costs 30,000 points, so ten refreshes would cost 300,000 points. In addition, the first ten refreshes would cost more than 50,000 points, which is too expensive.
He only invested two or three million in the first few days when he confirmed this hypothesis, and now he feels quite sorry about it.
Lu Xuan glanced at his current balance of over 25 million again, and thought, "Hmm, I don't feel so bad about it anymore."
Now he refreshes a maximum of fifteen times a day. If he doesn't get the result, he considers it as a failed refresh for that day and tries again the next day.
You can usually buy one every two or three days. With the purchase privileges from the online store, you should be able to maintain around 40-45 units per month.
Most of the previous doses have already been given to the villagers; the rest are intended for a raffle for the audience.
On the twelfth try, I finally succeeded in obtaining the gene evolution fluid.
Click to buy.
Lu Xuan was finally satisfied with today's gains.
Lu Xuan didn't rush to put away the evolution fluid. Instead, he took out two extra vials and waved them in front of the camera. "I promised you guys I'd draw evolution fluid, so let's do it today."
The viewers, who were originally just relaxing and watching him open blind boxes and chatting casually, were initially met with a gasp of surprise.
Unexpected joy!
【Aaaaaah! Another giveaway!】
[Still trying to get evolution fluid! Hahaha, I really want to go downstairs and run ten laps around the neighborhood!]
I need evolution fluid! Evolution fluid! Evolution fluid!
[It's such a shame the mutated fruit tree is gone! Otherwise, we would have had mutated fruit to draw this time. Just thinking about it makes my heart ache, I burst into tears!]
[Damn, don't remind me of such sad things!]
After they had been yelling for a while, Lu Xuan explained the rules of the lottery.
"From now on, we will draw two evolution fluids every month, and each time we will give away three vials. Other draws, such as mutated fruits, food or other supplies, will be calculated separately, and the specific time and frequency will be uncertain."
"Anyone who follows the live stream can participate in this giveaway. It will start in ten minutes."
As soon as he finished speaking, the number of followers began to increase dramatically, jumping from over 100,000 to more than 2 million in just ten minutes.
Including the growth in the previous two weeks, the current number of fans is 65 million, and the peak number of concurrent viewers is 220 million.
Lu Xuan roughly calculated that at this rate, his fan count would soon exceed 100 million before the end of the rainy season.
Reaching one billion online views is not easy, but since it only rewards points, it's all up to chance.
Besides the increase in new fans, the wealthy men and women who didn't get the fixed number of gifts this time still sent a lot of gifts.
The amount wasn't as extravagant as last time, but it was still very considerable, easily pushing his balance past 30 million.
Their enthusiasm wasn't for this lottery, but for the gifts they received last time.
[Although I already gave feedback to the streamer when I first received it, I still want to say it again: the taste of the mutated vegetables and fruits is absolutely amazing!]
[Now I eat all-natural food sent by the livestreamers every day, and I no longer need to mobilize the entire company to help me snag the limited new arrivals on the StarNet Mall. I'm so satisfied!]
My son has always been physically weak since birth. I had the evolution fluid but didn't dare use it on him. Unexpectedly, after eating the mutated fruit, his health improved significantly, and after using the evolution fluid, he successfully awakened his superpower! I don't know how to express my gratitude, so I'll just shower him with gifts since I'm so broke.
The top three on the leaderboard received extra surprise gift packages but kept quiet about it until this time when they couldn't help but reveal a little bit.
Although no specific details of what Lu Xuan gave him were mentioned to avoid inciting hatred, it still caused several fans at the back of the list to cry foul, half-jokingly complaining about Lu Xuan's differential treatment.
Lu Xuan raised an eyebrow and said, "If you want extra gifts, then try to climb higher next time and pull them down."
Many fans of the leaderboard commented: What a unique way to ask for gifts!
"Alright, time's up." Lu Xuan pressed the lottery button cleanly and decisively, drawing three winners before they even had time to react.
Three lucky winners were chosen, and they immediately posted comments on the screen, their excitement evident in their tone.
Upon reading the contents, Lu Xuan discovered that one of the three came from a wealthy family but had been unable to secure the evolution fluid, while the other two were from remote planets and couldn't afford the evolution fluid at all. One of them was even a recipient of welfare from the Star Alliance.
Many viewers immediately tagged the person on welfare, asking if he would provide the evolution fluid.
But the other party firmly replied: "I want to take it myself!"
Lu Xuan and the other far-sighted viewers nodded in agreement when they saw that the other party had not chosen the immediate opportunity to get rich quick.
Most of those who qualify for minimum living allowance are those whose physical condition prevents them from engaging in other jobs that could earn them money.
Selling the evolution fluid could certainly earn you hundreds of thousands or millions in one go, but you can't spend that money for a lifetime. Once it's all gone, you'll still be on welfare.
It's better to seize an opportunity to take off. Even if you can't awaken your superpowers, improving your physical condition will allow you to find a job like ordinary people, escape the status of being on welfare, and change your life.
Lu Xuan didn't give a fixed number of spots to the top gift-givers because he wanted more fans who genuinely needed the Evolution Fluid to win prizes, and he was very satisfied with the results of this giveaway.
After extracting the evolution fluid, Lu Xuan thought for a moment, then took out the ordinary fruits and vegetables he had been cultivating in his spare time these past few days, and randomly gave one pound to each of the thousand people.
Viewers who missed out on the evolution fluid were quite satisfied with this extra little surprise and continued to send out many small gifts.
While Lu Xuan was busy giving away prizes to his fans, the atmosphere at the headquarters of the four major forces in the county was quite different.
Just as Miao An said, before Lu Xuan and his group even arrived in the east of the city, the leaders and high-ranking officials of the four major forces had received the news one after another.
The sudden appearance of over a hundred people, including the elderly, women, and children, whose mental state resembled that of people who hadn't experienced a high fever, was bound to attract their attention.
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