Chapter 248, exclusively published on Jinjiang Literature City, describes the transformation of a cruise ship.
More than two months have passed since I finished using the two recommended products during the rainy season.
Whether it was the recent flooding of the land or Lu Xuan leading his men to dive underwater to salvage the water, both events attracted a significant increase in tap water flow, causing a surge in data.
Today, his peak concurrent online users have increased by 2 billion, his number of fans has reached 4.5 billion, and his total points balance has far exceeded 20 billion.
At the current rate of fan growth, it will take at least another six months of painstaking work to reach 5 billion fans before the next recommendation.
After reviewing the data, Lu Xuan, as usual, browsed through the daily discount section, purchased the daily limited-edition evolution fluid from the shop, and finished his daily blind box draw.
Finally, a giveaway was held to reward the fans who gained tens of millions of followers today.
The 10,000 mu of greenhouses in the capital were destroyed by the tsunami, and Lu Xuan will not have a large income of grain for some time. Therefore, there will be no physical rewards for the time being, and points will be drawn instead.
With the demand for warships gone, the increase in points is just a long string of numbers for Lu Xuan, just like before the apocalypse.
Although Lu Xuan wasn't in a good mood because of the tsunami, he still generously gave away 10 million points, equivalent to 100 million star coins.
His lavish gesture sent the entire live stream into a frenzy, with the chat filled with compliments and praise for Lu Xuan.
The chaos lasted for more than ten minutes before everyone calmed down and turned their attention to other important matters.
[So, what are the streamer's plans for the future?]
[Searching for a new home? Or simply drifting at sea?]
Most of the land is now submerged, leaving very little space. Even though other settlements have lost some people, there are still many remaining. It's estimated that there won't be much land left for the villagers; they can't possibly share with everyone else, can they?
The people of Yunlu Village, accustomed to acting alone, did not want to mingle with other disaster victims.
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Lu Xuan said, "Don't rush to find Lu Di, and don't worry about living with other disaster victims."
If he were going to have to squeeze in with other people, he wouldn't have specifically bought such a large cruise ship in the first place; he would have just used the previous ship for a short stopover.
“The cruise ship is large enough to be considered a small ‘land’. It’s not impossible to live on the cruise ship and drift with the tide until the tide recedes.”
I really miss the feeling of being grounded. I'll find some land to regroup for a few more days and do some business with the disaster victims. It will also allow the villagers who are not young and strong to come into contact with the disaster victims outside of Huo Family Army's camp.
Want to start a survival adventure at sea? Sounds like it'd be really interesting.
Whether it's interesting or not, there's probably nothing the streamer can do.
[Who says there isn't? We can take the villagers directly onto the warship and start living in the air, hehehe.]
[It's better to stay at sea; at least the ocean resources are abundant, and you don't have to worry about starving. What would you eat in space? Meteorites? (Funny image)]
Lu Xuan was a bit mentally exhausted after cultivating over a thousand acres of land in one go today. He watched the live stream for a while, exchanged today's gifts for points, greeted the viewers, and then ended the broadcast. He planned to study the mutated plant species he brought back from the Star Alliance for a bit before going to sleep.
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Early morning, on the twelfth floor of the cruise ship.
The brothers Li Jing and Li Tuo yawned as they walked out of the cabin, followed by their family members.
The family chatted as they walked toward the elevator. When they arrived, they found the Zhang family and the Wu family of three there as well. After exchanging greetings, they chatted while waiting for the elevator.
Li Tie asked Wu Cheng, "How was it? Did you sleep well last night?"
Wu Cheng rubbed his temples. "I kept having dreams about tsunamis, and I woke up several times."
The other people in the elevator nodded in agreement, and Li Tuo said, "I had nightmares all night. I kept being drowned in my dreams, and when I woke up I felt even more tired than if I hadn't slept at all."
Even children like Li Kangbao and Zhang Dafu had faint dark circles under their eyes, and they leaned against their parents, their heads gradually becoming drowsy.
Grandpa Zhang sighed, "It feels like we've gone back to when we first encountered the great earthquake."
At that time, they did not know Lu Xuan's abilities well enough, and they felt that the prospects were very slim. Even if they went deep into the mountains, they did not have much hope. The shock in their hearts was no less than yesterday.
Li Tie said, "I just hope that this time, like before, another group of people will fall ill."
Grandpa Zhang said, "Chengming gave Dafu and the others a sedative before they went to bed yesterday, so there shouldn't be any problems."
“Of course there won’t be any problems.” Miao Jinfeng reminded them, “You’ve all forgotten that we’ve eaten quite a lot of mutated fruits, and the physique of superhumans is even better than that of ordinary people. We’re not the same as we used to be, so we’re not so easily sick.”
As they were talking, the elevator arrived with a 'ding'.
Everyone's attention was instantly diverted, and they filed in one after another while smoothly changing the subject.
"I must say, this elevator is really convenient. You can go to whichever floor you want just by standing there."
"That's right. If there hadn't been an elevator, we would have just made do with a room on the second floor yesterday."
"The rooms on the second floor are still too small, with only one small window, and the lighting is much worse than upstairs."
"Village chief, should we be able to continue staying in the rooms upstairs? There are hundreds of rooms, do we still need to draw lots?"
Li Tie said, "We'll talk about that later."
The elevator quickly took them all the way to the first floor.
When the group arrived at the restaurant, several other families had already arrived.
Everyone found a seat and sat down.
Although the restaurant had a full set of tables and chairs, no one prepared food for them. It was only after Lu Xuan and his family came down that they sent a few kitchen robots, which they had obtained from blind boxes, to the kitchen, so that they would be responsible for cooking large meals for the village.
Today, we weren't in a rush to get the robots to work. Each household had pre-made dishes in their spaces, so we could just grab some and have a meal.
While eating, everyone chattered about their sleep quality the night before, and some even talked about what they had seen and heard during their cruise ship visit the day before.
Others looked out through the large French windows at the still-heavy rain-soaked sea and complained, "If this rain keeps going on, when will the floodwaters on land recede?"
Chen Rong served Ji Xiuling some food and helped feed her daughter, then sighed, "If you don't give us a refund, we'll just stay on the cruise ship. It's so comfortable to stay in such a luxurious place."
"You've already stayed here for two months during the rainy season, haven't you had enough?"
“How can they be the same? The ships we stayed on before weren’t this big. When it rained heavily and there was a strong wind, the ships would rock a bit. But this cruise ship doesn’t rock at all, and the rooms are much more comfortable.”
"Well, whether it's comfortable or not, we don't have any other choice."
"Speaking of which, didn't Lu Xuan say yesterday that he had something to discuss today? Is it about the upcoming plans?"
Upon hearing this, all the villagers turned their attention to Lu Xuan, who was showing off a large bowl of seafood porridge.
Li Tie went even further and asked, "Ah Xuan, what are your plans for the future? Tell us so we have some idea."
Lu Xuan finished the rest of the porridge quickly but without appearing impatient, and then slowly wiped his mouth.
"The greenhouse is gone, but we can't leave the crops unplanted forever. I'm thinking of renovating the areas on the cruise ship that people don't need."
Everyone became interested, and Old Master Zhang asked, "How do we renovate it?"
Lu Xuan: "Transform it into farmland."
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"Are we really going to use this place for farming? Isn't that a terrible waste?" The villagers stood on the escalator on the third floor, looking down at the shopping area below, which they had removed all the decorations and tables and chairs from. Their expressions were complicated.
Aunt Chen didn't take it seriously. "Lu Xuan is right. We only have a little over a hundred people, but the cruise ship can hold more than a hundred times that number. There's plenty of space that we don't usually need. Rather than leaving it empty, we might as well make use of it."
As Lu Xuan said, they should convert everything into land so that they can continue to grow crops even if they don't find new land.
At this moment, Lu Xuan below had already taken action.
The superhumans present simultaneously felt a massive energy spreading across the third floor. Almost at the same time, a large amount of soil appeared out of thin air on the entire third floor. This soil, which barely covered the ground, gradually thickened until it reached a depth of more than one meter before stopping.
Although the villagers had heard Lu Xuan's plans beforehand, they were still amazed when they saw it with their own eyes.
"I never knew earth-based abilities could be used like this!"
"Other superpowers can also condense water or fireballs, but Lu Xuan just condenses a tiny bit more than others."
"With this soil, we can grow crops on the cruise ship!"
Moreover, it's not just the third floor of a cruise ship that can be empty.
The restaurant on the first floor is enough for all of them to eat together. There is no need to keep the restaurants on the other floors. The empty shopping areas, banquet halls, gambling dens and the like can all be used to fill in the land and turn it into farmland.
According to Lu Xuan's plan, after clearing out the other rooms, there would be at least fifteen floors of space available, in addition to leaving about a hundred comfortable guest rooms and suites for them to stay in.
Aside from the walls, support pillars, and other obstacles on the ship that cannot be dismantled, each floor is about three acres in area, so fifteen floors would be forty-five acres.
This amount of land is far larger than the greenhouse area in the hills, let alone the newly planted areas.
But things are different now; people are already very content to have this land.
After filling the third floor, Lu Xuan went to the other floors, while the others followed behind to clear the new fields and prepare by watering and fertilizing with plant protection machines.
According to their agreement, of the 45 mu of land, 35 mu would be used to grow crops, 5 mu would be reserved as a vegetable garden, 2 mu would be used to grow mushrooms again, and the remaining 3 mu would be used by Lu Xuan to grow fruit trees and bamboo.
As for the lotus pond, the number of swimming pools on the cruise ship is clearly excessive, and Lu Xuan plans to select two of them for renovation.
Because the entire renovation project involved most of the cruise ship, even though Lu Xuan's special abilities could support it, it still took three full days to complete the initial phase.
The audience knew the plan from the beginning, but when they actually saw the luxurious banquet hall and shopping area inside the cruise ship turned into fields, they were still speechless.
[A luxury cruise ship bought with 500 million points has been completely ruined by the streamer and villagers, losing all its prestige.]
[What a waste! Even if all the produce from those forty-odd acres went to the streamer, he could only earn ten or twenty million points per run. When would he ever earn back five hundred million? Besides, not all the produce from those forty-odd acres went to the streamer.]
[Whether the harvest is large or small is secondary. The streamer isn't short of land anyway. As long as he keeps using his wood-based abilities to stimulate growth, he can harvest food every three days. The main thing is having a stable source of supplies.]
[That's right. Living off your savings will always cause anxiety. For example, if I lost my job and had to live off my savings every day, I would definitely be so anxious that I couldn't sleep.]
[However, each household can only harvest about 300 to 500 catties of grain from these 30-odd mu of land each time, which is nothing compared to the tens of thousands of catties they used to have. I guess they can no longer continue trading grain with other disaster victims.]
[Then let's just trade nutritional supplements. The other disaster victims have also lost their homes, so their losses must be significant. They might not be willing to exchange them for food.]
Alas, the chain reaction of disasters caused by a tsunami has truly devastated people.
During the land reclamation period, the villagers gradually moved to the 19th and 20th floor accommodation areas.
After planting the seeds and mushrooms, the villagers gradually adapted to life on the cruise ship and recovered from the shock of their village being submerged.
After finishing their work in the fields, the workers didn't stop to rest.
Everyone felt deeply distressed by the loss of two-thirds of the food and supplies in the planting area.
How can I alleviate this feeling?
Naturally, the goal is to acquire more other resources to make up for the losses.
When the land was being reclaimed for farmland, the cruise ship was always in a free-floating mode, drifting wherever the waves took it.
But now, Lu Xuan went to the cockpit, turned on the radar detector, found the nearest school of fish, and steered the cruise ship there in the torrential rain.
The first thing discovered was a group of mackerel.
Hunting teams used to catch a lot of this fish when they went out to sea, and each household had a considerable stock.
But the villagers, who had just lost a lot of grain, didn't mind at all. After discovering that the fish were a huge school, they couldn't wait to cast their nets.
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