Chapter 014 Treasure Hunt in the Mountains
Lu Xuan fell silent as he looked at the Ganoderma lucidum with a missing corner.
I was careless. I only thought that there were no living people competing in the deep mountains, but I forgot that there was no shortage of animals in the mountains. There might be smart ones among them who knew that Ganoderma lucidum was a good thing and would take a bite.
The incomplete Ganoderma lucidum is obviously worth several grades less, but it can still be sold for a hundred or eighty taels, right? Pick it, pick it!
After finding two in a row, not only was Lu Xuan in a good mood, but the audience's enthusiasm also greatly increased. Whenever suspicious plants appeared in front of the camera, someone would leave crazy messages to remind them.
[Quick! Anchor! We found something at 8 o'clock! Looks like there's more than one! Go pick them up! This is all money!]
How much can this be sold for? A thousand taels? Or a few hundred taels?
Lu Xuan walked over and took a look, then said speechlessly, "It can't even be sold for one or two taels. This isn't Ganoderma lucidum, it's a mushroom."
Interstellar people, Ganoderma lucidum mushrooms, I can't tell them apart.
While picking mushrooms from the patch under the tree, Lu Xuan shared some information with the StarCraft audience. "This is a type of mushroom called 'hazel mushroom,' also known as honey fungus. It's not very valuable, but it tastes smooth and refreshing. It's the best mushroom for making chicken stewed with mushrooms."
Once you find one mushroom, you're sure to find more nearby. He looked around and found a lot of hazel mushrooms growing under several other trees.
What are you waiting for? Pick them all!
Although it cannot be sold at a high price, it can be preserved as a food ingredient without any problems. It is delicious whether it is stir-fried or stewed in soup.
Especially in ancient times when there was no artificial chicken essence, dried mushrooms ground into powder were a natural flavor-enhancing seasoning powder, and there was no harm in storing more.
After picking the hazel mushrooms, Lu Xuan found chicken leg mushrooms in another forest more than a hundred meters away.
Chicken leg mushrooms generally grow in spring and autumn, probably because the mountains are covered with dense trees and the air is relatively humid. Even though it is summer now, there are still a lot of them growing around.
The taste of chicken leg mushroom is slightly different from that of hazel mushroom, each with its own flavor. Lu Xuan is certainly not picky and still collects all the ones he can find.
After making sure that there was no more fish that had escaped the net within the range of sight, Lu Xuan changed places to continue looking for high-value precious medicinal materials.
Maybe he was just really lucky today?
As it was getting dark, Lu Xuan discovered a large wild ginseng. This ginseng had long and dense roots and had already taken a fairly complete human shape.
He had seen what a century-old ginseng looked like at an auction he attended before the end of the world, and he also had one privately kept at home. This wild ginseng was obviously fatter than any he had seen before, and it must be at least two or three hundred years old.
When the audience heard Lu Xuan say that the value of ginseng was at least two or three times higher than the hundred-year-old red Ganoderma lucidum, they all became more excited. Some even urged him to go down the mountain quickly to sell it for money so that they could have fun.
Lu Xuan: “…” Do you think he’s stupid for going down the mountain so quickly?
We have achieved such a harvest on the first day, how much less can we gain in the following days?
He won't go down the mountain easily unless he gets what he wants.
But it was already very late today, so Lu Xuan found a small cave nearby that was not occupied by wild animals as his residence for the night. He lit a fire, took out some mushrooms and roe deer meat, skewered them and grilled them, and had a simple dinner.
There was nothing good to live broadcast in the cave, so Lu Xuan simply said goodbye to the audience and turned off the live broadcast, then counted the gift income from the afternoon again.
Picking Ganoderma lucidum and digging ginseng were both quite a sight, bringing Lu Xuan gifts worth more than 10,000 star coins. After buying the space ring, he only had more than 2,000 points left. After exchanging the new gifts, the total points increased to over 4,000.
This amount of points is obviously not enough to buy another 100-cubic-meter space equipment, but even if it is enough, Lu Xuan has no plans to buy more for the time being.
The next level of online achievement is 100,000 people. If nothing unexpected happens, it will not be difficult to achieve it if we find some good things in the next few days.
At that time, the mall will be able to unlock the purchase rights for a batch of products. If a larger space can be unlocked, it will definitely be better to buy bigger rather than smaller, and the price will be more cost-effective.
That night, Lu Xuan fell asleep peacefully amid the howling of wolves and many unidentified animals. Thanks to the secretly placed vampire vines, he slept without any psychological burden until dawn.
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The next day, he woke up early and turned on the live broadcast. After a quick wash in a nearby stream and a quick bite, Lu Xuan continued his treasure hunt for the new day.
My luck was not very good in the morning. I only found some common medicinal herbs, including the great thistle and small thistle that I picked the previous two times, as well as honeysuckle, isatis root, mint, etc. They cannot be sold at a high price, but they are still good for daily use at home.
It was not until near noon, when Lu Xuan was considering whether to find a place to have lunch, that he had a new discovery.
It was not that they had discovered some precious medicinal materials, but rather that they had found rows of natural irregularly shaped honeycombs connected between thick branches under a towering tree with a trunk diameter of nearly two meters. Together, they formed a huge honeycomb that was more than one meter wide and half a meter long.
Each honeycomb is densely packed with bees, and there are also many active bees nearby.
When Lu Xuan saw those honeycombs, his eyes couldn't help but light up slightly.
A honeycomb means—honey!
At first, the audience in the live broadcast room didn't understand why Lu Xuan suddenly became excited, until he gave a brief explanation, they suddenly realized.
[…The mutated bees in Interstellar are so large and poisonous! I almost forgot that in ancient times, before bees mutated, the honey they collected was edible!]
I once watched another ancient streamer's livestream, and they also got some honey. It tasted incredibly sweet when mixed with water! It was infinitely better than synthetic juice!
【!!! I want to eat it! The anchor makes it!】
[This honeycomb is so big, how much honey can be harvested?]
Lu Xuan raised the corner of his lips happily and said, "I roughly counted. This hive has eight rows of honeycombs. Although not all of them contain honey, with such a large hive, we should be able to harvest at least dozens of kilograms of honey, enough to last us for a long time."
Someone mentioned in the barrage whether bees would sting people and whether he would be pricked all over his body when trying to collect honey.
Lu Xuan said: "Of course you can't cut it directly."
As we all know, the only way to collect honey in the wild is by fumigation.
However, beehives in stone forest caves and other places can indeed be smoked at will. Lighting a fire in the mountains just to smoke out the bees...if you are not careful and set the surrounding trees and grass on fire, causing a forest fire, it is no joke.
While Lu Xuan was telling the audience the rule that "setting fire to the mountain will result in life imprisonment", he picked up some branches and damp fallen leaves and piled them up, then took out the fire starter he carried with him.
【??? Why does the anchor say one thing and do another?】
Lighting a fire in the mountains is no joke, don't get yourself into trouble, host.
[Although I also want to see the anchor get honey, burning the mountain for a little food is a bit unethical.]
[What do you mean by a little bit? It's just that I lack great virtue, okay! ]
Even putting aside the possibility of a car overturning, the host's fire is too far from the hive. It can't even smoke the bees.
Lu Xuan slowly lit the fire and looked at the slowly rising smoke. "There's weeds all around the beehive, and it's too close to the trees. If we really light a fire, we won't be able to stop it. As for not being able to smoke it out...it'll just be blown by the wind."
The audience was just about to ask where the wind was when they saw a gust of wind blowing the thick smoke precisely towards the hive. The originally peaceful bees were immediately agitated by the smoke.
Audience:!!! What a coincidence!
[The host is so lucky! ]
[Whatever the host says comes true. Is his mouth blessed?]
Lu Xuan raised his eyebrows, "Is there a saying about consecration in the interstellar space?"
"Yes, it's a tradition passed down by our ancestors. The host hasn't answered yet, how do you know there's wind? I've been watching the live stream all morning, and there's no wind where you are today."
Lu Xuan said leisurely: "Who knows, maybe the weather has just changed."
Audience: Really? I don’t believe it.
When the weather changes, the wind comes just when you want to fumigate the beehive?
There is definitely a problem!
But if they were asked to say there was something wrong, if Lu Xuan hadn't previously revealed the mutant vampire vine, clearly demonstrating the abilities of a wood-type user, they might have guessed that he was a wind-type user. But now...
Uh, that shouldn't be possible, right?
He is a wood element, how could he be a wind element?
Yes, it must be a coincidence!
When the audience was made suspicious by Lu Xuan's actions, many bees in the hive were frightened and flew around. Because Lu Xuan was quite far away at the beginning, the bees did not realize that it was him who did it.
After waiting for another ten minutes, many bees were scared away, and only a few were still flying around in a daze near the hive.
Lu Xuan saw that the time was right and walked over.
He first checked the status of the honeycombs to confirm which ones contained honey, then opened the system mall and bought a few environmentally friendly plastic boxes for honey in the daily necessities category.
As a simple daily container for storing things, this thing is not expensive. You can buy a few large ones with just a few dozen points, which is enough to store honey.
It took Lu Xuan a quarter of an hour to cut off most of the honey.
He picked up the filled box and padded it, then said with a satisfied smile, "This box should contain about ten kilograms of honey."
He filled three boxes in total, and one box was only half full, which added up to more than 30 kilograms.
Pure natural wild honey is a good thing even in modern times with superior living conditions. It not only tastes good, but also has the effects of moistening the lungs and promoting bowel movements, detoxifying, sobering up, anti-inflammatory, and beautifying the skin.
Lu Xuan didn't care about its effects, but the taste of honey was hard to refuse.
What's more, the price of sweetness in ancient times was not cheap. Dozens of kilograms of wild honey should be worth at least dozens of taels, right?
Of course, he could earn enough money by selling medicinal herbs. He did not plan to sell the honey. He would keep it for himself to eat slowly, and also use it to nourish the Lu family, whose living conditions had always been poor.
He put away the three full boxes of honey, leaving only the half-filled one, broke off a piece from it and put it in his mouth. The rich and sweet honey instantly filled his mouth. It was very sweet, but if he tasted it carefully, he could also taste a slight sourness in the sweetness.
Yes, that’s the taste!
These honeys contain many different kinds of floral scents, which can probably be considered as multi-flower honey. The more intense floral scents among them can allow Lu Xuan to roughly judge which flowering plants are nearby and thus grasp the resources available nearby.
The audience was almost going crazy watching Lu Xuan chewing the honey with relish while he was lost in thought.
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