Chapter 140: Two Special Series Exclusively Published on Jinjiang Literature City
Lu Xuan carefully checked three times to confirm that among the two types of physical items listed after the long row of points, the one following the Gene Evolution Fluid indeed showed a quantity of 2.
Even someone as composed as him was momentarily stunned.
The live stream chat experienced an unprecedented pause before suddenly bursting with comments.
Two vials of evolution fluid!!!
[Double yolk! The anchor is finally getting ahead!]
I thought the Evolution Fluid I got on the day I unlocked the Golden Blind Box would be my last, but I got it again after more than a month!
[Wow, I'm in awe of this lucky person!]
[Lucky streamer, please let me vent my frustration so I can successfully get into the top military academy!]
[I successfully confessed my feelings to my crush!]
[I wish I could receive an offer from my dream company!]
Besides the constant stream of wishes, the gift-giving effect lasted for several minutes, with top gift-givers leaving comments to congratulate the recipients.
Lu Xuan looked at the two newly acquired evolution fluids and smiled with pleasure.
Although the store and daily discounts can guarantee that you can buy one or two Evolution Fluids every day, the feeling of getting Evolution Fluids from blind boxes is quite different.
Of course, Lu Xuan didn't really think he was so lucky that he could extract two vials of evolution fluid at once.
If you do the math, today is the day I'll be able to collect 100 Golden Blind Boxes again.
The basic bio-clothing is obviously not a guaranteed drop, so one of the two evolution fluids is actually a guaranteed drop after 100 pulls, while the other is the normal drop.
Looking at it this way, it doesn't seem so incredible anymore.
A 100,000 drop rate is the lower limit of the pity system. If we don't consider the actual value of the evolution fluid, this drop rate is actually quite unlucky.
After a series of wishes, the audience started urging him to bring out the two vials of evolution fluid for a raffle.
Lu Xuan said leisurely, "Didn't I save the evolution fluid I bought with the daily discount for you guys?"
It's a rare double-yolk egg, and it's a bit of a shame to give it away in a raffle.
Two days ago, every household in the village had received an evolution fluid. Of the more than forty people, twenty were awakened, and a small portion of them were body enhancement types.
The second batch of recipients was finalized yesterday, and the order of administration was determined by drawing lots.
Because the new members were all well-behaved and didn't cause any trouble after joining, with the consent of the whole village, the newcomers were included in the second batch of people. Mei Cheng was lucky enough to be the fifth one drawn.
Lu Xuan wasn't very familiar with the first three people, but the fourth was Zhang Dafu from the Zhang family.
According to the original schedule, Zhang Dafu was supposed to wait until the day after tomorrow, and Mei Cheng until the day after that. Now that there were two more evolution fluids, Lu Xuan thought about it and decided to move their schedules forward and put them all on the way to tomorrow.
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The two children were luckier than Lu Chen; they fell into a deep sleep one after the other after taking the evolution fluid.
Apart from the Zhang family and Mei Xue, who stayed by the children's side out of concern, everyone else had long been used to someone lying down every day, going out to fish as usual, taking care of the mushroom house, watering the fields, and doing their own job.
Lu Xuan did not go out again today.
He asked the idle women in the village to help him pickle the cabbages and radishes that were still stored in his space waiting to be processed.
One large vat can pickle 200 jin (100 kg) of sauerkraut/kimchi.
When Lu Xuan first drew lots, he gave away a large number of cabbages and radishes. However, later, as the villagers and the village chief paid off the debts of Ship No. 2, he used a lot of cabbages and radishes to offset them. Now he still has more than 15,000 catties of stock on hand.
There are about 10,000 catties of cabbage, which is enough to pickle fifty vats.
Radishes take up a lot of space, so one vat can only pickle 100 jin (50 kg) of radishes, but you can pickle 50 vats in total.
[I remember the streamer got about 500 large vats in the county town? Wouldn't 100 vats have been enough? They should have just traded them for some other more useful supplies.]
Lu Xuan disagreed: "If this batch is enough, there will be another batch, and the batch after that."
His vats weren't just for pickling vegetables; they were also used for making vinegar and wine.
Five hundred jars are meant to be used for a long time. If they are all used up at once, he will have to rack his brains to find new jars, which will inevitably involve contact with people, causing trouble.
The most troublesome and time-consuming part of pickling sauerkraut/kimchi/radishes is boiling water and scalding tens of thousands of kilograms of vegetables.
To save the women time, Lu Xuan used his fire-based ability to boil water, then used his wind-based ability to cut the cabbage in half and blanch it in the pot. All the women had to do was arrange the cabbage at the end.
A hundred cylinders may sound like a lot, but it's only about four or five cylinders a woman is responsible for, and she can finish them all in a day.
The women were all skilled workers, and their efficiency after they started working was even higher than Lu Xuan had expected. At noon, he gave them half an hour to rest so they could go home and cook for their families.
Of course, he also took the opportunity to enjoy a delicious meal.
The fish, meat, and cold dishes were all prepared in advance; the only two dishes that were made fresh were pickled cabbage with pork belly and stir-fried pickled cabbage with glass noodles.
The pickled cabbage used was the first batch made in the cave.
Logically speaking, the sauerkraut made in the cave should have been edible long ago.
Unfortunately, the sauerkraut jar couldn't be taken out between the hottest part of the season and the arrival in the county town. It also couldn't ferment properly in the space, which is why it took some time to pickle it.
The pickled cabbage made from mutated cabbage is crisp, sour, and fragrant, with a mellow taste and a hint of sweetness. It is more amazing than ordinary pickled cabbage. It goes very well with pork belly or stir-fried with sweet potato noodles. It makes people's mouths water and whets their appetite.
The youngest, Lu Chenguang, ate three large bowls of rice with these two dishes, while the three adults each ate a whole bucket of rice. Well, that's a consistent performance.
The audience was also seeing mutated sauerkraut for the first time, and they were all eating it with great gusto, clamoring for Lu Xuan to give away sauerkraut in a lucky draw.
Lu Xuan: "..."
He doesn't deny that his sauerkraut is good stuff, but don't you guys find it really incongruous that a bunch of interstellar people are fighting over sauerkraut?
"If you really want them, I'll ask the villagers to help vacuum pack them in the next couple of days. Each pack will weigh one pound, and I'll make a thousand packs."
The audience certainly wants it.
They've even started asking each other what other dishes can be made with pickled cabbage besides the two dishes we're having today.
Lu Xuan: "..." It's like you're sure you'll win.
With a probability of one in two hundred thousand, most people are destined to only make up a small part of the population.
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"Ah Xuan, do you think my Dafu will be able to successfully acquire superpowers?" Zhang Chengming paced anxiously back and forth in the living room of the Lu family's yacht, his expression troubled.
Lu Xuan silently organized the blind box inventory that had piled up in his space, wondering whether he should spread out the miscellaneous goods again, and casually said, "I don't know."
Zhang Chengming said with a troubled expression, "Ever since your Lu Chen obtained the gravity ability, Dafu has been very envious. He often talks to me in private about wanting to have a powerful ability too. Wouldn't he be very disappointed if he got an ability he didn't like?"
Lu Xuan withdrew his spiritual energy from the space and said calmly, "Perhaps."
Zhang Chengming said with a headache, "If the result is really not ideal, how am I supposed to comfort him?"
Lu Xuan replied expressionlessly, "I don't know."
Bullet comments:
[Haha, is the streamer getting annoyed with Zhang Chengming?]
[They come to bother me four or five times a day, anyone would be annoyed, I'm getting a little annoyed too.]
This is just like those parents who send their kids to take entrance exams for prestigious universities in the capital, fearing they won't get in.
[It's like seeing myself when my kid was taking the college entrance exam. *facepalm*]
Lu Xuan glanced at Zhang Chengming, who was completely unaware, and silently moved his fingers.
He could understand the anxiety of a father hoping his son would succeed, but no matter how annoying Zhang Chengming was, he couldn't guarantee he wouldn't hit him on the head and make him sleep with his son for three days.
Despite her concern for her younger brother's safety, Mei Xue never bothered him. Zhang Chengming was not as sensible as a ten-year-old girl.
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The day after the two children fell into a deep sleep, the three people ahead of them in line successively finished their side effects period.
Of the three, only one awakened the ability to enhance his body; the other two did not.
This result made the Zhang family and Mei Xue, who were already worried, even more anxious.
Even Lu Chen couldn't help but ask Lu Xuan, "Brother, is it really true that none of them can awaken their special abilities?"
Lu Xuan patted his head and said, "Whether or not they can awaken depends on their luck. If they can't awaken, that's their fate. If they don't awaken, does that mean you won't play with them anymore?"
Lu Chen shook his head quickly: "Of course not!"
Lu Xuan said, "If they really fail to awaken, you can think of a way to comfort them."
Lu Chen nodded seriously, "I understand!"
Dafu likes to eat beef jerky, and Meicheng likes to eat candy. If they haven't awakened yet, he'll share the beef jerky and candy he has with them...
Alright, let's just give each person one pack. If that's not enough, we'll add another pack!
On the third day of the side effects, the children should have woken up by now according to the normal cycle, but they still showed no signs of waking up.
Even Li Tie came over to check on the situation out of concern.
Zhang Chengming was more direct; he brought over both Lin Qingfu and Lu Xuan.
"Doctor Lin, Ah Xuan, please take a look at my Dafu! Why isn't he awake yet? Could something have happened to him?"
Mei Xue stood at the door of the Zhang family's room, pursing her lips and waiting for them to finish examining Zhang Dafu and then take a look at her younger brother as well.
Lin Qingfu checked Zhang Dafu's pulse, then lifted the child's eyelids to look at him. He turned to the Zhang family and the village chief, shook his head, and said with shame, "The child's pulse is normal, there is nothing wrong with him. I don't know why he can't wake up."
The existence of elixirs was beyond his medical comprehension, and he had no idea what changes would occur in the bodies of those who took them.
In the end, we still have to rely on Lu Xuan's... healing device.
According to the results of the treatment device, Zhang Dafu's physical data were all normal, and even showed an increase compared to the average values of his peers, indicating that the evolution fluid was already taking effect.
If we measure Mei Cheng's physical data next door as well, we can see that it is almost the same as Zhang Dafu's.
Lu Xuan said to the others, "Both children are fine."
The Zhang family was even more confused upon hearing this. Zhang Chengming asked anxiously, "If she's alright, why isn't she waking up?"
Lu Xuan glanced at the comments section.
Many viewers have said that the side effects last longer for a small number of people, but this is normal and will not have a significant impact.
What truly saddened them was that the data for their two children had increased too little.
Either they are like Wei Dayong and Ge Yuan, whose physical abilities have only been improved to a certain extent but have not been awakened, or the awakened ability is not a strong offensive ability, but most likely an enhancement of the five senses.
If you're lucky, you might awaken a wood-type ability.
A very small number of people have mentioned that they might be able to awaken a special type like Liu Chun, since many special types are not particularly outstanding in terms of physical stats.
Unfortunately, not many people took this speculation seriously.
Special departments are so rare.
Liu Chun only appeared once in the first twenty awakenings, how could two appear in a row?
Lu Xuan didn't dwell on the audience's speculations, but said to the Zhang family and Mei Xue, "Wait a little longer. Some people absorb the effects of the medicine more slowly, so they may wake up a little later. They should be awake by tomorrow."
What if he still doesn't wake up by tomorrow?
This question was on everyone's mind, but no one voiced it.
Other villagers were quite worried after learning about the two children's situation, but the first batch of mushrooms had ripened today, and they couldn't waste any time. Led by Miao Jinfeng, the women of the gathering team started picking them in a hurry.
Because there were so many mushrooms harvested at once, the bamboo baskets that everyone usually wove were not enough to hold them all, so they used large plastic boxes provided by Lu Xuan to hold the mushrooms.
Mushrooms are easily crushed but don't add much weight; a box can hold a maximum of 100 pounds of mushrooms.
Half of the wood fungus beds were set up two days late, and those half were not harvested today.
Nevertheless, the final harvest was still not much different from Lu Xuan's estimate, indicating that the actual yield per acre was much higher than he had estimated.
Looking at the more than twenty boxes of mushrooms piled up at the entrance, the viewers in the live stream exclaimed: "Mutant mushrooms, truly excellent!"
The audience knew he had plenty of mushrooms to eat and were craving the delicious mutated mushrooms. As soon as Lu Xuan got his share of mushrooms, they clamored for him to give them a raffle as compensation for using up the double-yolk egg evolution fluid.
This request isn't unreasonable. The sauerkraut, pickled radish, and kimchi I promised to give away weren't packed up yet, so I might as well use them all together for the teleportation.
Just as Lu Xuan was about to accept the audience's request, Ye Ping, who had stayed on ship number 2 to look after the child, ran to the deck and excitedly shouted to the busy people on the shore, "Dafu is awake!"
Mei Xue followed closely behind.
She instinctively spotted Lu Xuan in the crowd and cried out anxiously, "My brother's awake too!"
Inside the room.
The Zhang family and Mei Xue kept asking their grandson/son/brother if they felt unwell, while other villagers gathered outside, some eagerly asking, "Lu Xuan, have the two children gained superpowers?"
Zhang Chengming quickly looked at Lu Xuan with expectant eyes.
Without wasting words, Lu Xuan took out the supernatural ability detector and scanned Zhang Dafu and Mei Cheng.
The indicator light on the detector lit up quickly.
The Zhang family members, who had seen it many times before, exclaimed with delight, "It's lit up! It's lit up! It has superpowers!"
Zhang Chengming excitedly picked up his eldest son and spun him around, exclaiming, "Hahaha, now our family has two superhumans!"
Grandpa Zhang, beaming, exclaimed, "Excellent! My eldest grandson is truly outstanding!"
While clapping their hands excitedly, Zhang Xiaofu and Zhang Xiuxiu couldn't help but tug at their family members' sleeves and ask, "What is brother's ability? Is it the same as brother Lu Chen's?"
The Zhang family members, who were so excited that they didn't have time to ask about the type of superpower, hesitated for a moment. Mei Xue, who was also holding Mei Cheng's hand and was too excited to speak, also stopped.
A group of people looked at Lu Xuan, only to find that his expression had clearly changed.
Everyone's hearts skipped a beat.
Zhang Chengming put his son down and asked, "Ah Xuan, what's wrong? Is Dafu's ability not good?"
The Mei siblings also opened their eyes wide with tension, holding their breath as they awaited the answer.
Lu Xuan stared intently at the results on the testing device, and after a long while, he slowly let out a breath, looking at the two children with a complex expression.
"It's not bad."
On the contrary, the two children's superpowers were far better than he had expected.
They actually stumbled upon that tiny probability, just like he drew a double yolk, and both of them gained special abilities.
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Author's Note: Special thanks to the following:
SUN launched two rocket launchers.
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This is the first time I've received two rocket launchers! That's a huge sum of money! I'm so happy!
Two updates today! Next update at 6 PM.
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P.S.: The name of the passenger ship is a bit complicated, so I changed it at the beginning of Chapter 138; it's now ship number 2 in this chapter. The protagonist's ship is number 1, and the cargo ship is number 3.
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