Chapter 145 Lu Xuan's Carnage Unfolds (1st Update) - Exclusively Published on Jinjiang Literature City
Since the water park and adult water entertainment facilities were built, people of all ages have become quite engrossed in them, almost forgetting everything else.
Unfortunately, their joy lasted only a few days before a hailstorm, even larger than the one in Yangshan County, forced all the villagers, who were engrossed in their fun, back onto their boats.
Inside the restaurant on Ship No. 2, villagers gathered together, gasping as they watched the hailstones crackling outside the window.
"I was planning to take my wife for a spin on a jet ski today," Xiong Mao said with a gloomy expression.
Zhang Chengming asked with a headache, "How long did Lu Xuan say it would take?"
Li Jing: "One hour in the morning, and another half hour in the afternoon."
Xiong Mao was even more frustrated, "So long!"
Li Jing looked worriedly at the glass window that was being pounded by hail and asked, "Won't the window break from the hail?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the nearby villagers silently took two steps back, their expressions filled with fear.
Li Tie frowned and used the communicator to contact Lu Xuan to confirm, "Ah Xuan, will the ship's windows be damaged by the hail?"
Remembering that Lu Xuan usually liked to stay in the lounge on the top floor of Ship No. 1, which had a glass roof and walls, she asked nervously, "You don't stay in the glass room, do you?"
Lu Xuan, holding a cup of hot fruit tea, said unhurriedly, "The windows on the ship are all reinforced glass, so they won't break easily."
The villagers, who had been listening intently, breathed a sigh of relief.
Li Jing, standing nearby, asked worriedly, "What about the field? Will everything be alright?"
Lu Xuan said, "The waterproof cloth is very sturdy; it can't be torn by hail."
Before providing the village with waterproof tarpaulin greenhouses, he had already confirmed with a dagger that the impact of falling objects from a height could be offset by the flexibility of the waterproof tarpaulin.
But Lu Xuan still overlooked one thing.
Just because it won't break doesn't mean it won't be crushed by continuous hail.
He had just reassured Li Tie when the villagers standing by the window witnessed a corner of a greenhouse in the distance being crushed by ever-increasing hailstones.
Lu Xuan: "..."
Live stream viewers: Pfft.
[Hahaha! The streamer messed up!]
[It's rare to see a streamer get humiliated and embarrassed, why are you taking screenshots? Just stand there and watch!]
The villagers were taken aback at first, then, remembering the crops in the shed, they exclaimed urgently, "Rice!!!"
Some people wanted to rush out and prop up the collapsed greenhouse.
Li Tie quickly stopped the man, angrily saying, "Are you out of your mind? The hail is still falling, and you're going out without any protection? Do you want to get crushed to death?!"
"But what about the crops in the fields!" The person who was stopped was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan.
Just as Li Tie was about to speak, Miao Jinfeng slapped her thigh and exclaimed, "Oh dear, another section has collapsed!"
Li Tie couldn't stay calm any longer and quickly said to the other end of the communicator, which was still connected, "Ah Xuan, didn't you trade some safety helmets for Grandpa Chen and the others? Quickly replace them with a new batch. We can't let the sheds in the field collapse any more!"
There are still many days before harvest. If the greenhouse collapses and crushes too many immature mutant crops, the grain that should have yielded a larger harvest this time will suffer a huge loss!
Lu Xuan: "...I'll be right there."
When they came downstairs, Lei Yan and Lu Qing learned what he was going to do, and they quickly put down what they were doing and went to help him.
The able-bodied men in the village put on safety helmets, braved the hail, disembarked from the boat, and rushed to the fields to begin repairing the collapsed greenhouses.
The other structures that hadn't collapsed yet, piled high with hailstones, were also on the verge of collapse, and the hailstones needed to be cleared off quickly.
To improve efficiency, Lu Xuan used his wind-based abilities to help sweep all the hailstones off the rooftops.
But it was still hailing outside, and someone inside had to be on guard at all times to keep knocking down the accumulated hail.
Relying solely on young and strong individuals was too slow, so soon middle-aged and elderly people also came to help.
Not only should the land on the hills be saved, but the land on the mountains should not be forgotten either.
Lu Xuan led his hunting team to the fields halfway up the mountain. As before, he used his special ability to sweep away the hail first, and then left someone behind to keep an eye on the aftermath.
After working for an hour, everyone finally stopped to catch their breath when the hail stopped.
He didn't get a chance to catch his breath for long; don't forget there's another match this afternoon.
Once the hailstorm completely stopped, it started pouring rain again. The rain, which the villagers had grown tired of, suddenly seemed much more pleasant to them.
"Hiss—" Zhang Chengming and the other young men, finally able to relax, couldn't help but grimac and rub their shoulders.
To make their activities easier, they took no safety precautions other than wearing helmets, and their shoulders, backs, and arms were frequently hit by hail.
Now, if you roll up your clothes, you can clearly see many bruises.
Mei Cheng wanted to use her superpower to help, but her level one healing ability could only help two or three people recover at most.
In the end, Lu Xuan took out the healing device and, together with Lin Qingfu and Lu Qing, helped heal the bruises of the others.
He now has three medical devices, and he quickly healed everyone's injuries.
During the treatment, everyone also roughly tallied up the losses for the day.
The hillside was closer, so they were able to remedy the situation promptly, damaging only a dozen or so rice seedlings.
The losses in the mountains are much greater.
The mountainous area was spread across two different peaks. When Lu Xuan and Lei Yan arrived separately with their men, the collapsed sheds covered an area dozens of times larger than those on the hills, resulting in the loss of at least four or five acres of crops.
The good news is that half of them were sweet potatoes. The collapsed greenhouse only broke the sweet potato branches and leaves, but did not affect the sweet potatoes buried in the soil.
The missing few days of growth were made up by Lu Xuan inputting a wave of his supernatural power.
Rice and soybeans are a different story; if they get damaged, it's a real loss.
If it hailed like this all day, the village will lose at least 1,800 jin of grain.
After the women in the village figured out the cost, their eyes welled up with tears, and the viewers in the live stream also felt a pang of heartache.
Li Tie couldn't help but ask Lu Xuan, "Will there be more hail?"
Lu Xuan glanced at the weather app. "There will be another one in half a month, it will fall in the middle of the night, and the magnitude will be about the same as today's. Also, there will be an earthquake in the second half of tomorrow night."
Li Tie's face darkened, and his lips moved silently twice.
Although the viewers in the live stream didn't hear the village chief speak, they had a feeling that he must have been swearing quite rudely.
[Sigh, I used to think the villagers were living a comfortable life thanks to the streamer, but in reality, as long as disasters keep happening, there will never be a time when they can truly relax.]
Even if there are no major problems, minor inconveniences are still unavoidable.
The disaster is expected to last five years. Living in constant fear would likely damage one's mental health over time.
[Now I understand why the streamer spent hundreds of thousands of points to buy those water entertainment facilities.]
We can't keep the villagers on edge all the time; a balance of tension and relaxation is necessary for long-term sustainability.
Otherwise, facing a group of indifferent villagers every day would be unpleasant for both the streamer and the viewers.
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The earthquake struck as expected in the latter half of the night following the hailstorm.
Because the magnitude of the earthquake was not high, apart from the flood causing some waves that rocked the three large boats on the shore quite a bit, it did not cause any damage to the villagers.
No further incidents occurred in the following days.
Several more days passed.
After a month and a half of heavy rains, the villagers of Yunlu Village have finally reaped another bumper harvest.
Plant protection machines couldn't help with the harvesting, and the villagers, who had enjoyed a relaxed month, were now caught up in the busy harvesting work.
In weather with torrential rain every day, it's impossible to expect harvested grain to dry naturally; a dryer is the only option.
Lu Xuan couldn't get the Shell-Shelling Machine from the blind box, so he bought two directly from the store.
The harvest this time was too large, and hulling it without a machine would be too slow. He didn't want to be a manual hulling machine operator.
After three days of busy work, the output figures for this batch have finally been tallied.
— 300,000 jin!
This yield is more than double the average yield per acre compared to the third harvest during the hottest season!
The reason for such a large increase is not only the increase in planting area, but also the fact that most of the crops affected this time are high-yield crops.
Mutant sweet potatoes, mutant potatoes, cabbage and radishes, followed by crops such as corn and soybeans.
As agreed, Lu Xuan received 90,000 jin of goods, while the public goods received 60,000 jin.
Other families in the village can receive between two thousand and three thousand five hundred catties depending on the amount of land they own.
But now that the second batch of people have started taking the evolution fluid, the villagers are heavily in debt and naturally have to continue repaying it.
This is also the purpose of deliberately planting more high-yield crops.
Therefore, Lu Xuan ultimately received two-thirds of the total grain production.
The extra 40,000 jin was paid by the village chief for the cost of boat number 2. Combined with the 10,000 jin paid earlier, this covered half of the cost.
At this rate, there's no need for a five-year installment plan; the payment can be completed by next year at the latest.
Other households in the village who were still using 50 cubic meter spaces have also gradually traded in their old spaces for 100 cubic meter spaces.
Some families even bought small storage spaces for other family members to pack supplies, giving each family two or even three separate spaces.
Viewers in the live stream remarked, "It seems people are the same everywhere; once they receive a large sum of money, they can't help but spend it."
[That's me, that's me. I spend every penny I get, and I can't even keep it for three days. *facepalm*]
The villagers were relatively restrained; they didn't spend even half of their harvest, saving most of it.
[Speaking of which, with the streamer suddenly having so much food, is it time for another big giveaway?]
Lu Xuan nodded, "Okay. In a couple of days, the mushrooms and fruit orchards will be ready for harvest, and we should be able to harvest a lot of honey from the beehives. We'll give them all away in a raffle then. It'll be a gift draw for both fans and casual viewers, and the number of spots for regular fans and casual viewers will be doubled compared to the first time."
[The host is so generous!!!]
[I've already finished the ones I won last time, so I'm going to win again this time to replenish them!]
[Waaaaah, I haven't won anything in the previous giveaways, but there are more spots this time, I hope I can win!]
[You're overthinking it. The first time there were the most spots available, the streamer only had a little over 20 million followers. Now that number has quadrupled, the odds are even lower.]
[I don't care! I'm sure I'll win! (Falling to the ground, acting like a cheater.)]
Shh! Keep this a secret. Don't let it get out and create more competition for yourself!
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