Chapter 192: Exclusive Publication on Jinjiang Literature City: The Strength of a Level Seven Ability User...
"How could there be so many all at once?"
Zhang Chengming was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he almost dropped the binoculars on the snow.
The others weren't much better off.
Even Xiong Mao, who was always in high spirits when faced with beast attacks, couldn't bring himself to say he wanted to kill the entire beast horde.
With so many ferocious beasts, including jackals, wolves, tigers, leopards, wild boars, and wild cattle, and even flocks of birds rapidly approaching from the sky, it was impossible to kill them all!
Some people have already begun to show signs of despair.
With the training room and the Lu family's protective shield, they didn't think they would be completely wiped out. But they were only a few dozen people. Even with Lu Xuan, how could they possibly withstand the massive army of beasts?
The destruction of safe houses and greenhouses, and the devastation of crops, seemed like an inevitable outcome.
If the beasts don't retreat, they can't hide forever. Eventually, some will get injured, or even... lose their lives.
Chen Rong muttered, "It's over, this time we're probably going to suffer heavy losses."
He just got married, and his wife hasn't given him a son or daughter yet.
As everyone's expressions grew increasingly grim, only Lu Xuan remained calm and composed.
Lu Xuan moved his fingers, taking out all the ammunition he had drawn from the blind box, and calmly gave orders to the others: "Your abilities are indeed a drop in the ocean. Once the beast horde arrives, immediately fire the hypnotic grenades and throw all the bombs at the beast horde. Don't be stingy, just throw them away."
"If you don't have time to throw ammunition or run out of supplies, just retreat without hesitation. Leave the rest to me."
In the apocalypse, which zombie siege isn't a zombie horde that seems to stretch endlessly?
Even the smallest group is much more difficult to deal with than these beasts that have simply lost their minds but have not actually mutated or gained any special abilities.
Lu Xuan had them disperse to different directions to prepare, while he stood alone in the open space.
When the beast horde was within sight, the level seven supernatural power pressure that had been suppressed since arriving in this world, along with the pressure from the blood-sucking vine, were simultaneously released completely.
Two invisible yet incredibly powerful pressures swept towards the frenzied horde of beasts.
The aura exerted by a level seven superpower is not just capable of intimidating animals.
Many animals that were not even considered ferocious beasts were first stiffened by the extremely dense pressure. Their bloodshot eyes were filled with endless fear. Then, without warning, they fell to the ground in large numbers and died completely.
Before they even faced them head-on, a third of the dark horde of beasts had already fallen.
Although the other beasts were not dead, their bodies trembled with fear from the powerful aura they had never felt before.
However, after being affected by the red moon, his reason and instincts completely failed him, and he could only continue to roar and run wildly, trampling the fallen animals along the way.
Large patches of bright red flesh and blood were quickly left on the white snow, appearing even more glaring under the blood-red moonlight that hung in the sky once more.
The hunting party members took their positions in all directions of the village and the greenhouse, their hair standing on end as they listened to a mixture of fierce, ear-piercing roars.
In temperatures as low as minus fifty degrees Celsius, sweat poured from everyone's foreheads and palms, which quickly froze into ice crystals on their faces, making them shiver with cold.
The training room and the Lu family residence.
The elderly women watched through multiple drone cameras as herds of animals surrounded the village from all directions, and many of them were so frightened that they collapsed to the ground on the spot.
Ke Wei, who was pregnant, even had a miscarriage, which frightened Wei Qiaoqiao and Qian Erniang so much that they quickly helped her sit down and took out some medicine to prevent miscarriage and gave it to her.
Qian Erniang's voice trembled slightly, but she still tried her best to comfort her daughter-in-law, "Don't worry, with Lu Xuan here, Dayong and the others will be fine."
Kovi's face was deathly pale, and she bit her lip tightly. "But there are too many wild beasts..."
Wei Qiaoqiao's face was also completely pale, but she kept saying to her mother, "We'll definitely be fine. We've overcome so many obstacles before. It's just that the number of beasts is a bit larger. They're definitely no match for Lu Xuan."
Lu Qing, Su Ying, Wu Yinyin, Ye Ping, and the other women were also worried about the safety of their men. Looking at the seemingly endless horde of beasts, their hearts clenched with anxiety.
Lu Chen, Xiong Dabao, and the other little ones were so frightened that they cried on the spot.
The only one who remained calm was Lu Miaomiao.
She held Lu Qing's hand and said confidently, "Don't worry, the strength of a level seven ability user and a level seven mutated plant is beyond your imagination. No matter how many primitive animals come, they won't be able to hurt Lu Xuan at all."
Lu Qing grasped Lu Miaomiao's hand in return, confirming repeatedly, "Are you sure? You're not just trying to comfort me?"
Su Ying and the other women stared intently at Lu Miaomiao, wanting a definite answer.
Lu Miaomiao said firmly, "Absolutely nothing will happen!"
The women's hearts, which had been in their throats, finally settled back into their stomachs, but their rapidly beating hearts were still beyond their control.
Reason told them that Lu Miaomiao was a robot and wouldn't deceive them.
Emotionally, however, they cannot be completely at ease until they see the beast herd wiped out and their man/brother return safely.
Inside the training room, the guard team, mainly composed of middle-aged men like Zhang Wende, couldn't help but ask Li Tie for permission to act, as Lu Miaomiao was not there to comfort them.
"Village chief, let's go out and help too. How can Chengming and his forty-odd men possibly handle so many ferocious beasts?"
"That's right! With us here, we have a better chance of winning."
"These beasts, I don't know where they came from, there are so many of them!"
"I don't want to be an older person burying their younger child; if we're going to die, we'll all die together!"
As they spoke, the group was about to set off almost immediately.
"Stop right there!"
Li Tie, his face dark with anger, roared and gritted his teeth, "Ah Xuan didn't say you didn't need his help if you didn't go out. If you go now, you might not be of much help and could even cause them trouble."
His two sons are also away, isn't he worried?
But it is precisely at critical moments that they should remain calm.
Li Tie said, "Even if we want to help them, you alone can't do much. It would be better to contact General Huo and see if they have been attacked. If not, perhaps we can ask them to come and help."
Even if only a hundred or eighty personal guards come, they are much stronger than the guards and can relieve a lot of pressure on Lu Xuan and his men.
Li Tie thought about it more and more and felt that this was a good idea, so he turned on his communicator and prepared to call Huo Tiankuo.
"Village chief, look!" Liu Daxi suddenly exclaimed.
Li Tie and the others subconsciously looked up at the screen again. After seeing the scene displayed, their tension and fear were instantly replaced by shock, and their mouths were agape.
Outside the village, in an open space, on Lu Xuan's main battlefield.
The vanguard of the herd has arrived.
The closer they got to Lu Xuan, the stronger the pressure from this level seven ability user became, almost forming a dense wall of air around her that made it impossible for the frenzied beasts to move an inch.
The result of forcibly getting close was that blood began to spurt from the fur and facial features, and the body kept emitting mournful cries of impending destruction.
Because the flock of birds flies high, the pressure from the main horizontal sweeping attack doesn't have a significant impact on them.
Crows, which hadn't appeared last time, were mixed in with the bats, who even tried to attack the drones observing the battle.
Before they could hit the drone, Lu Xuan raised his arm and clenched his fist, doubling the force of gravity!
Get down!
Under the doubled weight, the birds cried out in anguish as they fell to the ground.
Take advantage of your illness to kill you.
Lu Xuan did not move the bloodsucking vines that continued to protect the village, but instead spurred the growth of a thick vine that resembled a giant tree.
Immediately afterwards, the thick vines transformed into thousands of thin vines, piercing towards the flock of birds falling from mid-air and the beasts on the ground that were still struggling to move forward, with Lu Xuan at the center.
The sounds of flesh being pierced were heard continuously. Without exception, the pierced animals were drained of their flesh and blood in an instant, leaving only a thin layer of fur.
The massive herd of beasts was mixed with a large number of rats and insects, which Lu Xuan used his gravity ability to compress and blast them all to pieces as usual.
The ferocious roars of the beast horde were gradually replaced by screams and howls, and the vanguard was wiped out in the blink of an eye.
However, the herd of beasts behind them rushed forward to reinforce the fighting strength of the herd, and their numbers were even greater.
The battle not only did not end, but intensified.
Lu Xuan was not surprised at all. On the contrary, he became more and more excited as the battle progressed. His usually calm eyes were now flashing with intense killing intent and excitement.
With his left hand, he gathered wind-based supernatural power, and with a wave of his hand, he created several huge wind tornadoes that churned wildly among the beast horde, carrying a large number of wild animals into the air and turning them into minced meat, raining blood all around.
With his right hand, he used his ice-type ability to freeze ten miles away, instantly freezing the ferocious beast horde with their gaping maws. Then, countless wind blades swept across, shattering the block of ice into countless small fragments, some of which still contained hearts that were not completely frozen, thumping and thumping inside.
Poison-type abilities and lightning-type abilities—using either one once is enough to take down a large group of wild beasts.
The more that came, the more that fell, and the corpses quickly piled up like mountains, forming a tall barrier that blocked the advance of the beast horde.
As Lu Xuan got into the swing of things, the live stream chat went completely crazy.
[Ahhh! The streamer is so cool! This is the true power of a level seven ability user!]
I thought the streamer had put in a lot of effort in the past few days, but I found out today that he was just playing around all along.
[My god, there are so many beasts! The streamer must be going all out today.]
[A level 7 ability user is incredibly strong! The streamer is a clone, and he switches between various special and combat abilities, single-handedly achieving the effect of a group of high-level ability users. It's so awesome!!!]
I'm not sure if it was at full power, but I certainly enjoyed watching it!
[This was so exhilarating! I couldn't help but hold my breath while watching, I almost suffocated.]
Did anyone notice the streamer's eyes? He looks so excited, it's kind of creepy.
[Having lived in the post-apocalyptic world for ten years, the streamer must have witnessed a great deal of darkness and experienced countless fierce battles. It's normal for her mental state to be more beautiful than the average person.]
Is this a crazy livestreamer today? Exciting! I love this vibe!
Viewers, caught up in the excitement, spammed the chat with comments and showered the audience with virtual gifts, while countless others shared the live stream, causing the number of online viewers to grow rapidly.
While the battle raged fiercely on Lu Xuan's side, the hunting teams guarding other directions of the village had also begun their battles.
Unable to quickly eliminate a large number of beasts with their special abilities, they followed Lu Xuan's instructions and bombarded the area directly with firearms.
Hypnotic bombs, darts, and bombs were used in turn, and a large number of beasts were taken down with almost no effort, achieving a very impressive result.
Occasionally, when Zhang Chengming and his men were outnumbered and unable to throw hypnotic grenades in time, the vampire vine that surrounded the village would send out some of its tendrils to help fill in the gaps.
Compared to Lu Xuan, who could easily wipe out hundreds or thousands of wild beasts with a wave of his hand without using ammunition or wearing masks, the hunting team, whose members were indistinguishable in the dim light and thick fog caused by ammunition while wearing gas masks, did not seem so impressive.
But it doesn't matter, safety is the most important thing for them right now.
The main fighting force was still another vampire vine that fought alongside Lu Xuan.
Thousands upon thousands of tiny vines continued to spread outwards, forming a vast sea of vines that trapped all the surrounding beasts within it.
The more wild beasts rampaged through the area, the more wounds they sustained.
Among them, the blood-sucking vine will quickly drain the flesh of any animals that are unpalatable or inedible, such as hyenas, orangutans, and rats, as long as they have wounds.
For those with good quality meat, a special sap is secreted from the vines to paralyze them, then their hearts are pierced and thrown aside, to be collected when the battlefield is cleaned up.
In addition, the vampire vine unexpectedly bloomed with many brightly colored small flowers, and the strange fragrance of the flowers drifted further and further away with Lu Xuan's supernatural power.
Countless ferocious beasts, drawn by the aroma, immediately betrayed their kind, turning on each other and turning on their own kind, killing and weakening one another.
Rarely did he encounter such an opportunity to slaughter without holding back. Halfway through the fight, Lu Xuan leaped into the horde of beasts and began a massacre.
Whether it's a big insect, a bear, a wild boar, or a gorilla, anything that gets too close gets its head blown off and its heart ripped out.
As the fight progressed, he intensified his arm strength, grabbed the beast's mouth and pulled it forcefully to both sides, tearing the beast, which was twice his size, in half.
Live stream viewers: !! !! Hiss!
He actually tore apart a ferocious beast with his bare hands!
Brutal! So brutal! I love it!
Countless drops of blood splattered onto Lu Xuan's body and face. The bloody and violent scene was extremely visually impactful. Coupled with Lu Xuan's eyes, which gleamed with obvious pleasure and excitement under the moonlight, it resembled the scene of a perverted killer's brutal murder.
Viewers: Today's host is definitely a crazy host, so exciting!
The remaining villagers who stayed in the training room and with the Lu family were completely dumbfounded.
They assumed that today would be a tough battle, perhaps even a brutal fight with casualties, as if the endless hordes of beasts were indeed still coming wave after wave.
But look at how Lu Xuan and the Bloodsucking Vine ruthlessly slaughtered wave after wave of beasts, their corpses almost filling the entire open space. Some that couldn't fit were thrown by Lu Xuan onto the snow even further away, creating huge craters.
They all realized that no matter how many beasts came, it wouldn't matter; they were simply not enough for Lu Xuan to defeat.
Their previous fears and worries were completely unnecessary.
The tragedy was indeed horrific, but it wasn't the victims who suffered; it was the beasts.
Lu Xuan's combat power was far greater than they had anticipated, so much so that they felt that Lu Xuan might not have ascended to immortality after the catastrophe ended, but had already joined the ranks of immortals long before they knew it.
The reason they stayed in the village was simply because they couldn't let go of them, or rather, they couldn't let go of their relatives.
They must have accumulated a lot of good fortune over many lifetimes to be able to live in the same village as such a living deity!
Many people are planning to carve a longevity tablet for Lu Xuan and pay their respects afterwards.
As for Lu Xuan's somewhat abnormal expression, it was all to protect them. What abnormality? It was divine power!
It's normal that the expressions of immortals are different from those of mortals.
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The battle lasted for a full six hours before it ended.
Lu Xuan single-handedly wiped out 70% of the beast horde, but also used up 80% of his supernatural abilities.
After tearing the last bear to pieces, Lu Xuan contacted Zhang Chengming, Li Jing, Wu Yang, and the others, and together they used binoculars to check the surrounding area.
After waiting for a full half hour to make sure no new wild animals appeared, they notified the village chief to bring people out to help clean up the battlefield.
This is no easy task.
Because the village, including the area extending several hundred meters outward from the hills, was littered with the carcasses of wild animals, the villagers felt dizzy and disoriented after wandering around in the thick smell of blood.
Miao Jinfeng muttered, "When will this cleanup ever end?"
Aunt Zhang gasped, "So many wild animals, there must be at least tens of thousands of them!"
Grandpa Zhang shook his head and said, "There are more than tens of thousands of snakes, insects, rats, ants, and birds in total."
However, if we're talking about large animals, tens of thousands is probably a reasonable estimate.
It could be said that the number of wild animals they encountered today alone is roughly equivalent to the number of herds they would have encountered throughout the entire polar night, and perhaps even more.
The viewers in the live stream roughly counted the number of people watching the match.
Among the ferocious beasts that attacked Yunlu Village today, there were over a hundred solitary beasts such as tigers and bears, making them marvel at how wonderful the ancient environment was and how many wild animals there were!
For the next three days, the village was busy collecting the body.
It's not just about picking up animals from around the village; it's also about those beasts that were scared to death by Lu Xuan's supernatural power on their way here.
Although most of them were trampled flat by the later beast hordes, quite a few pieces of meat were left behind, totaling several thousand kilograms of flesh. They couldn't be thrown away.
As for the bulk of the problem, Lu Xuan and the hunting team took care of those.
There was quite a bit that they couldn't finish.
For example, those who were poisoned to death by Lu Xuan's poison-type superpowers; those whose flesh and blood were drained by the blood-sucking vines, leaving only skin and fur; and those who were trampled into mincemeat by their own kind in battle.
However, this type only accounts for about one-fifth of the total, and the remaining harvest is still very considerable.
Even with all the villagers' spatial rings already full, it still wasn't enough. Lu Xuan had to temporarily use a large amount of unused space to finally collect all the prey.
After three days of continuous work, I'm really exhausted.
But when they thought about how they had survived the crisis of their village's destruction, and how it only required a little physical exertion with no risk of injury, and how the prey they had collected would eventually become their own meat stockpiles, the villagers had no complaints no matter how hard or tiring it was.
After all the prey was collected and their weights were estimated, which took up most of the day, the moment everyone had been waiting for finally arrived: the meat-sharing session.
This large-scale beast attack can be said to have been entirely saved by Lu Xuan's efforts. The village chief and the hunting team originally wanted Lu Xuan to take 70% of the profits, but Lu Xuan said that taking half would be enough.
Although the hunting team was indeed not as strong as him, they had each fought desperately and deserved their due reward.
Finally, the village chief decided that only 10% of the public supplies would be collected this time, with Lu Xuan taking 50%, the hunting team taking 30%, and the remaining 10% to be divided equally among the households.
The total meat harvest was ten million catties. Lu Xuan alone took five million catties, each member of the hunting team took more than sixty-six thousand catties, which is more than thirty tons. Each household also received nearly ten tons.
Families like the village chief's family and the Wu family, which have two hunting teams, can collectively receive over seventy tons of meat.
Most villagers could hardly imagine how large the number actually was.
All they knew was that they had been given a huge mountain of meat, so much so that even if the whole family ate meat every day, they could never finish it in their lifetime!
This large-scale beast attack brought more than just countless meat harvests.
During the battle, while continuously throwing hypnotic grenades/bombs, the hunting team still managed to kill many wild beasts using their supernatural abilities.
After about twenty days of persistent effort, by the end of the battle, apart from Wu Yang and Chen Rong, who didn't have many opportunities to use their superpowers, Lei Yan, Xiong Mao, Zhang Chengming, Liu Chun, Li Jing, Li Tuo, and others all broke through to become level two superpower users.
A crisis of village annihilation? Not a chance.
Some villages only have a huge carnival where meat is distributed to the whole village, and superpowers are upgraded, making the atmosphere far more exciting than the Lunar New Year.
During the days they were collecting the corpses and dividing the flesh, Lu Xuan deliberately sent out drones to search the surrounding area, even searching all the way to the mountain where the hot spring pool was located, but they didn't find a single living creature.
It seems that this large-scale beast attack has drained the surrounding animals.
After thinking for a moment, Lu Xuan decided to take the opportunity to retrieve the mining robot that had been mining underground.
Since the start of the polar night and subsequent beast attacks, Lu Xuan has been unable to spare any resources. The robot's energy was exhausted midway through the operation, and it was only during the recovery that emergency backup energy was used.
However, the amount of tungsten ore mined before the power outage had reached 20,000 tons, which was almost enough to empty out most of the tungsten mine.
During the beast attack, the hunting team almost used up all the ammunition he had brought out, which added up to several million points.
It's time to recoup the costs of these battles.
Lu Xuan had just acquired five million catties of meat. He kept some of the better-tasting venison, mutton, and beef, and recycled the rest along with the ore.
Because the total amount recycled was so astonishing, the number of points earned was also frighteningly high.
Four and a half million catties of meat, buyback price: 900 million points.
20,000 tons of tungsten ore, buyback price: 800 million points.
In addition to the gift income from the day of the beast attack, Lu Xuan's total account balance soared to 3 billion.
On that day, the new live streaming duration, which had been absent for more than four months, was finally achieved.
[Achieve '3000 hours of live streaming' achievement, reward: 100,000 points, 1000 cubic space ring *1, holographic helmet *1. Next stage achievement: 10,000 hours of live streaming.]
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