Chapter 73: Has anyone successfully contracted a mutated plant on the Star Alliance Forum...?
With Lu Xuan's wood-type superpower, every tree yielded a bumper harvest, ultimately producing over 8,000 jin of fruit.
Lu Xuan wasn't a devil after all. After discussing it with the others, he left some ripe fruit for the monkey troop. Otherwise, they could have had at least another thousand or eight hundred catties of harvest.
However, eight thousand catties was enough to excite the members of the collection team so much that they pinched each other's philtrum.
After picking the fruit, Lu Xuan, as usual, uprooted a few trees of each different type, and pulled up all the ones with small numbers.
After a busy morning, everyone was hungry, so the group had lunch in the orchard.
In the afternoon, Lu Xuan led the two teams to change locations again.
This time, we didn't find a second orchard, but we did find several relatively large wild flower bushes by the scent of flowers. Following the flowers, we found two beehives of different sizes and collected dozens of kilograms of honey.
The newly explored area saw an increase in the number of pheasants and rabbits. The hunting team missed several times with their arrows. On the way back, they also encountered a small group of wild goats, a total of twelve, which they caught and killed.
Under the protection of the hunting team, the gathering team also picked a lot of wild vegetables and common Chinese medicinal herbs, but they hardly encountered any mushrooms, probably because the environment they were wandering in today was too dry and not suitable for mushroom growth.
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When they returned to their lodgings in the evening, the villagers who stayed behind almost burst out laughing when they learned about their day's harvest.
More than 8,000 catties of fruit, hundreds of catties of honey, twelve sheep, a number of chickens, rabbits and other game, and three hundred catties of grain that Lu Xuan brought to exchange for monkey wine, it can be called a great harvest within a great harvest!
Because Lu Xuan contributed to the fruit harvest, he also received 30% of the fruit harvest, in addition to the hunting spoils.
Nevertheless, everyone still made a fortune from the remaining portion. Each family got at least 30 kilograms of fruit, and if there happened to be members of a gathering or hunting team in the family, the profit could be doubled or tripled to over 100 kilograms.
Those with little grain could receive more than three jin (1.5 kg), while others received more than ten jin (5 kg). Each family could also receive at least one and a half jin (0.5 kg) of honey.
It wasn't that no one wanted to try the monkey wine, but since everyone wanted to try it, there wasn't enough wine to go around, so in the end everyone just harvested the grain and stopped thinking about it.
Lu Xuan, on the other hand, after the village chief finished distributing the supplies, used his grain to exchange the twenty-five catties of honey from the public supplies for twenty catties of honey.
For the village chief, food was naturally more important than honey, which couldn't be eaten as a meal. Besides, Lu Xuan had specifically set aside five catties, so naturally he had no objections.
That evening, some families followed Lu Xuan's example and made their dinner meat into honey-glazed chicken and honey-glazed pork, while others cooked mutton, either stewed or braised, and still others stir-fried it with scallions.
As herbivores, mutton tastes much better than wild boar meat. Except for those who dislike the gamey smell of mutton, everyone enjoys eating it very much.
Enjoying a few crisp, sweet fruits after a meal makes life feel like paradise!
Fruits enhanced by wood-type abilities are not as sour and astringent as ordinary wild fruits. They are mostly eight parts sweet and two parts sour, large and round, full of juice, and bursting with juice when you bite into them.
Only a small portion of them are already ripe and quite acidic, but since they're too sour to eat on their own, they can be used as a seasoning, so nothing is wasted.
The young people gathered together, eating fruit and sighing, "We eat meat and fish and have fruit every day, but many of the disaster victims outside are probably dying of heat and hunger right now."
The elders sitting nearby, digesting their food, glanced at them sideways and said, "Then you don't have to eat."
The young people immediately stiffened and quickly changed their tune: "No way!" They had stockpiled the supplies through their own efforts, so why shouldn't they eat them?
The elders scoffed, "Then stop talking nonsense. Eat and drink as you please, and don't take other people's business to heart."
They are living comfortably now, but who knows what unexpected things might happen after the hottest season?
There are always people struggling financially. If everyone had to consider and compare their circumstances, how could we possibly get by?
Enjoy it while you can!
Everyone thought it made sense, so they decided to stop thinking about such things and focus on the present!
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That evening, besides the joy of the harvest, there was something else that made everyone very happy: the village chief finally discovered the secret of how cool the Lu family's small cave was, and rented it to Lu Xuan to install the amethyst air conditioner in the large cave.
The air conditioning in interstellar space is much more powerful than that in modern times, but the area of the cave is too large. One unit can't handle it, but two units are just right. So Lu Xuan installed the two remaining units in the village.
Lu Xuan only charged the village a daily rental fee of one jin of grain for each of the two air conditioners, which was incredibly cost-effective.
With the air conditioning on, the cave, which was already much cooler than outside, became even cooler.
The air conditioner also has a very comprehensive air purification function. While cooling, it can also sweep away all kinds of unpleasant smells mixed in the cave, giving the villagers a fresh environment suitable for human habitation.
Zhang Chengming, Li Jing, and the other men took a deep breath and were moved to tears when they discovered that only the unique smell of soil and rocks from the cave remained in the air.
"The flavor is completely gone! That's great!!!"
"I thought we'd be living like this until the hottest season was over!"
"To be honest, smelling the stench of sweat and urine in the cave every day, I suspect that I've been pickled and odored. The first thing I do every morning is to go to the river and wash myself from head to toe."
The viewers in the live stream couldn't help but laugh as they listened to their sighs of relief.
[Pfft, so they knew it was tough inside the cave. I thought they were all numb to it. They can smell it, can't they?]
[Don't even mention it, I can't help but think of that crazy splash screen attack when we first started sharing, ugh—]
[+1, Dead memories suddenly resurfaced, ugh—I was all prepared to turn off the sharing whenever the streamer came to the cave, but I didn't expect the streamer to actually do something like this.]
[Tsk tsk, these villagers must have saved the universe in their past lives to have met a streamer like this. The disaster victims outside never have such a good life; even during a catastrophe, they have air conditioning.]
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Star Alliance Forum, Dimensional Live Streaming Section, Lu Xuan's Special Zone.
[Title: Daily Question: Has anyone successfully contracted a mutated plant today?] (Breaking News)
1L: As the title says. It's been a few days since the streamer's contract with the mutated vampire vine was exposed. Aren't there quite a few people who have tried contracting with mutated plants? So, does anyone have any good news to share?
2L: If it were that easy, the streamer wouldn't have become the first person to contract mutated plants.
12L: To be precise, he's not just the first, but the only one to date. Shouldn't some of those pathetic wood-type ability users reflect on themselves instead of pointing fingers?
48L: Can't you wood-type ability users do something to bring honor to the Star Alliance? Are you really going to lose to an ancient streamer? Don't you feel ashamed?
66L: Wood-type ability users can earn tens of thousands of dollars in no time by cultivating natural food. They are much more successful than the person upstairs. What's so shameful about that?
78L: Actually, it's not that the Star Alliance's wood-type ability users are useless. Wood-type users are generally weaklings. Even if they want to form a contract, they don't have the strength. Not everyone is Lu Xuan.
102L: Don't even mention it! I actually know an ambitious wood-type ability user who is interested in contracted mutated plants and specifically hired a mercenary group to help him.
213L: Really? And then? What happened next? Was it successful?
234L: I'm also waiting for a follow-up, stop keeping me in suspense and tell me already @102L.
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624L: Wow, you guys are building this thread so fast! Don't rush, I'm about to say it. Success is obviously impossible, just like Second Brother said, it's not that easy. First of all, you can't just randomly choose any useless mutated plant to contract, right? Just selecting suitable varieties with combat capabilities or special effects takes time.
Secondly, the level needs to be determined. Level two or three mutated plants have limited combat power and are not as useful as an energy gun, so the level should be at least level five or above. However, level five or above mutated plants are very fierce and difficult to kill, let alone tame.
Most importantly, even if we really wanted to tame them, we didn't know how! In the end, not only did we delay our original task of cultivating natural food, but we also spent a lot of money hiring mercenaries. The mercenaries were injured in battle, and the employer had to pay for their medical expenses. In just a few days, we lost over a million star coins, which was a huge loss.
738L: Ouch! I feel so sorry for this unknown wood-type ability user.
750L: This is the disparity of the world. We are both wood-type ability users... no, we can both use wood-type power, so why is there such a big difference?
766L: Could it be that the mercenary group they hired was too weak? I think the official authorities should handle this kind of important matter themselves.
780L: Speaking of the authorities, it's been several days, and there seems to be no reaction at all? If the military were to take action, it would definitely be much more efficient than the mercenary group. If successful, the military's overall strength would definitely be greatly enhanced. I don't believe that the higher-ups are really not tempted at all.
820L: How do you know there was no interest or action?
1033L: I've never heard of this before. Could it be that my village has internet access? Do you know anything inside information? @820L.
1308L: What we're saying is, is it possible that the military tried it but failed, and felt ashamed so they didn't publicize it?
1310L: Ah... that's actually quite possible.
1456L: Actually, I think that instead of trying things blindly on your own, it's better to just ask the streamer. Isn't that much more efficient than wasting a lot of time, energy and money?
1542L: Isn't this kind of secret to getting stronger a personal secret? How can a streamer reveal it publicly in front of millions of people on a live stream? That's such a waste.
1611L: But the streamer isn't on Star Alliance, so even if he told us, it wouldn't cost him anything. At worst, we won't just freeload; we can crowdfund gifts and treat it as if we paid for them! Even if we can't buy the gift immediately, we can at least make ourselves known to the streamer and get some exposure.
1823L: That's one way! But it doesn't necessarily have to involve throwing real money at gifts. Those on a tight budget can try a different approach. Aren't streamers nearing a data plateau? Why not edit together the replays of their streams and create several compilations of highlights to promote the streamer and attract viewers? Isn't that much more appealing than simply throwing gifts?
2233L: ...You guys are so clever! Great idea! This is my compilation! After I finish editing, I'll go to the streamer to brag and make him notice me, and then secretly tell him the secret of the contracted mutated plant, hehehe.
2235L: Count me in!
Of course, there was more than one clever person. Before long, various replay compilations of Lu Xuan's live streams appeared on Xingbo.
The videos feature a variety of acts, including hunting with stones, the vampire vines killing robbers, the vampire vines battling a pack of wolves, Lu Xuan using various superpowers, and videos of him processing all sorts of delicious food.
As the number of views on these videos continued to increase, many interstellar citizens who did not previously pay attention to interdimensional live streams discovered Lu Xuan, the new streamer.
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