Chapter 045 Arrival at the Great Falls
Lu Xuan said, "Send the food to me when you get back. This is just one exception."
Everyone was delighted. "Okay, okay! Send it off. We'll give you food when we get back. And quickly change me into a biosuit! I'm killing myself with heat."
"I want one too!"
"And me!"
Finally, of course, everyone who didn't have a biological suit got one.
As soon as I put on the biological suit, I felt different.
“It’s really not hot at all!”
"If I had known this dress was so good, I would have bought it a long time ago. Now I'm sweating all over and it's really uncomfortable."
Others felt the same way.
They didn't even have time to treasure such a good thing as the biological suit, but now they can only wear it under their sweaty clothes. It's so heartbreaking.
Be sure to wash your clothes carefully when you get home!
Without the bother of the high temperature, everyone finally had the energy to start exploring seriously.
The first thing is to decide which direction to explore.
This is not their village. There is no specific road in the mountains. They can only grope their way through the weeds.
They currently have two options.
The first is to go around in three directions except the stone mountain where the big cave is located. The second is to choose one direction and go as far as possible. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. The only thing in common is that no matter which one you choose, the harvest and danger cannot be guaranteed.
Li Jing, who was more cautious, said, "We've already wasted the entire morning. If we don't gain anything in the afternoon, the whole day will be wasted. Let's choose the first option."
Several people with similar personalities to Li Jing nodded in agreement.
Li Tuo disapproved, "Brother, you're too conservative. If we walk in all three directions, we can't explore more than a mile in an afternoon. We can't find any valuable supplies in that short distance. We've used up a lot of food these past few days, and everyone in the village is trying to collect some supplies to make up for the loss."
Lu Xuan: I was called upon.
Zhang Chengming scratched his head and said, "But if we only choose one direction and there are no supplies, it will be a waste of time."
Xiong Mao waved his machete with high morale and said, "If you want to leave, go as far as you can. There's no need to worry about danger. There are so many of us here. If we encounter a wild animal, we can just kill it."
Wei Xiang, the only woman who came along, frowned. "It's not that easy to deal with a ferocious beast. What if it gets hurt?"
Xiong Mao sneered, "Womanly kindness, I'm afraid you can go back."
The others expressed their opinions one after another. When it was Wu Yang's turn, he said, "I listen to my father. He has much more experience in the mountains than we do."
Everyone looked at Wu Cheng, "Uncle Wu, what do you think we should choose?"
Wu Cheng had indeed already had an idea in mind, "It's not like there's no way to avoid having the best of both worlds."
His eyes fell on the stream that was vaguely visible not far away and was the source of their water for the past two days.
"We can follow the stream upstream to find its source."
"The temperature will continue to rise, and the stream will eventually dry up. We need to find a more abundant water source. The produce near water sources is generally more abundant, and many animals drink from them. Whether it's hunting or gathering wild vegetables and fruits, it's a good option."
Everyone's eyes lit up, "That's right! Why didn't we think of that!"
"Then let's follow the stream and search online!"
Wu Cheng glanced at Lu Xuan and asked, "What do you think?"
Only then did everyone remember that team leader Lu Xuan had been silent.
Lu Xuan nodded slightly: "Uncle Wu is right, let's just follow the stream."
"Then let's go quickly!" Seeing that he had no objection, the others couldn't wait to set off.
Before they even reached the destination, the audience in the livestream room asked Lu Xuan, "Isn't the anchor the team leader? Why didn't you take the lead just now? Isn't the anchor clear about which direction has more supplies?"
[Indeed, when we first found the big cave, we explored the area around it.]
[You're a bit lazy as a team leader.]
Lu Xuan said nonchalantly, "If I planned everything for them in advance and asked them to just follow my orders, do you think they would like it? If it were you, would you like it?"
Audience in the live broadcast room: It seems... a bit annoying.
Lu Xuan: "Besides, with Wu Cheng here, isn't this the best choice? I just need to make sure they don't lose any limbs when they encounter danger."
He didn't want to take on everything, so that when problems arose in the village, people would look to him to solve them.
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"Did you hear that?" After walking for about a quarter of an hour, Wu Cheng gestured to the people behind him to stop and listened carefully.
The others followed suit, and soon Wei Xiang said, "There's a rumbling, dull sound. Could it be... the sound of water?"
But shouldn’t the sound of water be splashing?
Wu Cheng had some guesses in his mind, "Go and take a look!"
The group quickened their pace and headed towards the source of the sound. After walking a few dozen meters, they saw a faint white light through the gaps between the trees in front of them, and the sound of water became increasingly deafening.
When they walked out of the woods, what came into view was a huge waterfall that was more than ten meters high and about seven or eight meters wide. White water flowed down from a great height, forming an equally large pool below.
“So much water!”
"With so much water, we don't have to worry about the stream drying up anymore! That's great!"
Everyone looked at the spectacular waterfall in front of them, surprised and delighted.
Wu Cheng noticed that there was no surprise on Lu Xuan's face, and said firmly: "You knew there was a waterfall here a long time ago, right?"
Lu Xuan remained silent.
When Wu Yang heard what his father said, he looked at Lu Xuan in surprise, "Then why didn't you tell me before?"
Others also said: "Yes, if we had chosen another direction, it would have wasted a lot of time."
Lu Xuan: "Even if you choose other places, you will still have to come here sooner or later. Besides, how can you be sure that there are not abundant supplies in other directions?"
How could the shelter he chose, which even satisfied the audience, only have resources available near a water source?
Everyone was speechless.
Wu Cheng said: "Alright, since we're already here, let's not talk about anything else. Check your weapons and make sure they're all good. Then spread out and look for any valuable resources nearby."
After hearing this, everyone stopped hesitating and quickly dispersed in groups of three or four to search.
Li Tuodu approached Lu Xuan cunningly, and asked with a chuckle, "Brother Lu Xuan, since you've been here before, you must know what's around here. Can you tell me about it?"
Lu Xuan glanced at him and said, "It's not life-threatening at all. You'll find out if you go find it yourself."
Li Tuo: "That's it?"
Lu Xuan: "Or?"
Li Tuo was a little disappointed, but the fact that there was no life-threatening danger at least proved that there were no ferocious beasts such as jackals, tigers and leopards nearby. He quickly regained his spirits, said hello to his brother and followed the others to explore.
Before long, the group made discoveries one after another.
It must be said that the resources near the water source are really abundant.
Almost every team found wild vegetables and mushrooms. The wild vegetables were not as old and inedible as they thought. They looked quite tender.
Wu Cheng speculated that the existence of the waterfall might have lowered the temperature nearby, and with the shade of the trees, the environment here is different from that in the plains, so there are some differences in the crop growth cycle.
In short, no matter what the reason was, they found a lot of edible resources!
In addition to vegetarian food, they also found pheasant feathers, and someone even found a chicken coop and took out several pheasant eggs.
The others were very excited when they saw this. They explored more enthusiastically and spread out further. Soon they found more pheasant eggs and picked two baskets of wild vegetables and mushrooms.
Looking at the harvest in front of them, everyone couldn't help but sigh in their hearts, the supplies in the deep mountains are so abundant!
It's been less than a quarter of an hour and they have already found so much food. There are still several hours before dark, so they must have found something good?
Next, they focused their search around the chicken coop and, as expected, found traces of pheasants.
On the way here, they actually saw some wild rabbits running through the grass, but they held back in order to find their destination first. But now it’s different.
Now comes the real hunting time!
"Quick! Over there!"
“I saw it!”
"superior!"
Everyone was ready to fight and rushed towards the pheasant that was leisurely looking for insects in the grass.
The clever pheasant heard the noise and flapped its wings and ran away before they got close. Before running away, it made a strange clucking sound at them, as if mocking their arrogance.
Everyone: “!!!”
How dare you, a mere chicken, laugh at them!
After that, the process was almost always like this: spot the pheasant, pounce on it, let the pheasant run away, and repeat this over and over again.
A sharp machete might be useful against wild boars, but pheasants are small and agile, and they often slip away before anyone can catch them, so the machete is completely useless.
Only Wucheng and Wuyang, father and son, relied on their bows and arrows to shoot one each.
The others struggled for a long time but still came back empty-handed.
"……"angry!
Lu Xuan, who had been watching from the sidelines: How embarrassing.
Li Tuo, who had the highest fighting spirit, and Xiong Mao, whose expressions were obviously a little embarrassed and annoyed, the former was more embarrassed, while the latter was more annoyed.
Seeing that the pheasant was about to run away, Lu Xuan said: "Since it seems that it is not useful, let's change weapons."
Having said that, without waiting for anyone to ask, he quickly bought more than a dozen compound bows and alloy guns from the system mall.
The crowd, exhausted and breathless with little gain, couldn't help but gather around the strangely shaped weapons that appeared out of nowhere.
"Are these weapons used by gods?"
As a hunter, Wu Cheng had some discerning eyesight. "Is this a crossbow? It's quite different from what I've seen before."
There is a big difference in appearance between traditional bows and compound bows. The Star Alliance's compound bows have undergone significant changes based on modern ones. It is very bold of Wu Cheng to be able to distinguish that it is a bow.
Lu Xuan said, "The 'immortals' have better weapons. These are obsolete and few people use them. However, they are all good and perfect for hunting."
People in the interstellar age are more accustomed to using hot weapons such as energy guns, superpowers, and energy cannons. The most common cold weapons used are daggers. Therefore, cold weapons were fully unlocked very early.
Among them, swords, guns, sticks, whips and the like were not suitable for the current situation, so he only bought a bow and crossbow.
Lu Xuan picked up one of the alloy crossbows, loaded it with matching crossbow arrows, pulled the string to its full extent, pressed his finger on the trigger, aimed the alloy crossbow at a tree in front of him, and fired!
With a clear sound of breaking wind, the crossbow arrow flew out with a "whoosh", piercing through the entire tree trunk and embedding into the second tree behind it, leaving a small hole in the target tree trunk that allowed sunlight to penetrate.
"hiss--!"
“So strong!”
Everyone gasped and exclaimed, their eyes filled with shock.
Wu Cheng's eyes also changed significantly when he looked at the alloy crossbow in Lu Xuan's hand.
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