Chapter 182 Jinjiang Exclusive Release
"I heard that Yunlu Village gained immortal arts because you provided them with the elixir."
Huo Tiankuo looked at Lu Xuan intently, "I wonder what the conditions are for obtaining this elixir? Is it possible for us to get this opportunity?"
Before Lu Xuan could say anything, the audience became excited.
[Oh, finally remembered to ask about the evolution fluid?]
【I thought he was going to pretend he didn't know about this.】
[Everyone knows that 'immortal arts' can be obtained artificially, so how could one not be tempted and want to possess them for themselves?]
[I probably didn't mention it before because I was worried about upsetting the anchor and stopping the Huo family army from continuing to provide supplies, which would be a waste of both ends.]
Lu Xuan nodded and said, "As long as you can afford the price, you can get the elixir. However, getting the elixir does not mean you can obtain the immortal arts, that is, supernatural powers."
"General, you should already know that everyone in the village has taken the elixir, right?"
Huo Tiankuo nodded.
Lu Xuan said, "Theoretically, the probability of gaining superpowers after taking the elixir is only 10 to 20 percent. Taking enough mutant fruits beforehand to improve your physical condition can increase this probability by over 40 percent, but there's still a high chance of losing everything."
Huo Tiankuo said with a relaxed expression, "I heard that even those who haven't acquired immortal arts can increase their strength. This is already very good, and it's far from being a complete loss."
His only worry was that the elixir was not easy to obtain.
But looking at Lu Xuan's attitude, it seemed that he could get it as long as the price was high enough, so Huo Tiankuo felt half relieved.
The remaining half is, "I wonder how much the elixir costs exactly?"
Lu Xuan didn't keep anyone in suspense and gave the price directly.
"Each elixir requires 10,000 jin of supplies. Vegetarian animal meat, fine grains, or mutated grains can be exchanged. For coarse grains, wild boar meat, or other meat with a strong mutated smell, the price will be increased by 50%."
Huo Tiankuo: “!”
Audience in the live broadcast room: Oh wow!
Since the recycling function was launched, the prices of most items from the Star Alliance have dropped across the board, and even housing prices have plummeted.
Only the prices of portable space and genetic evolution fluid remained high, with the former also reduced by half.
But the price of evolution liquid has actually increased!
【The anchor is so dark! 】
[What's the point of being so smug? Didn't I already say that I'd pay double for good things when selling them to outsiders? That's called keeping a promise.]
"That's right! We don't even have the chance to buy the evolution fluid, so why can they buy it cheaply?! It should be more expensive! 20,000 or 30,000 is not too much!"
[Twenty to thirty thousand kilograms of natural food isn't too much? Is the brother above so arrogant that he doesn't even know his last name?]
"I think this price is very reasonable! This is a treasure that can turn ordinary people into superpowers. It will benefit you for a lifetime, so no matter how much, it's not too expensive."
[+1. Except for the lucky few who can snag it at the original price, everyone else has to pay three to five times the price. The unlucky ones pay ten times the price, and it's normal for the streamers to raise the price several times.]
[I also think ten thousand is too little. How about fifty or a hundred thousand? Let Huo Tiankuo be reluctant to spend and give up buying the evolution liquid. Then use the extra evolution liquid for the lottery, hehe...]
【!!! Oh my goodness! So that's what they were planning! So cunning!】
[To be honest, 10,000 jin is already a lot. I doubt he can afford this price.]
[What's so hard to pay? There's still a lot left from the second harvest. If all else fails, give the third batch of food to the streamer as well.]
[I think it's going to be tough. The evolution fluid is so expensive, it's destined to be shared by only a very few people. Others won't get any, but will have to give up their share of food. Would you be willing to do that?]
Lu Xuan: Of course I’m not happy about that.
What is worrying is not the lack of wealth but the inequality.
It's not just food. Even if they can harvest more than 100,000 kilograms of winter fish every time, since the rules for distribution have been established, it is not something that Huo Tiankuo can change at the last minute and the victims will agree to it.
If this really happens, it will be difficult to lead the victims in the Huo family army.
In order to avoid causing dissatisfaction, Huo Tiankuo had to find another way and obtain resources from other channels.
But it is not easy to get tens of thousands of kilograms of supplies.
He was also very curious, would Huo Tiankuo temporarily give up on exchanging for the elixir, or... ?
While the audience was expressing their opinions, Huo Tiankuo had already recovered from the shock of the sky-high price of the elixir.
There was no sign of retreat on his face, and it was obvious that he had no intention of giving up on getting the elixir.
Huo Tiankuo asked, "I wonder if Brother Lu's floating bus is available for rent?"
Lu Xuan's expression paused, and the scrolling barrage of comments also froze for a moment.
Um? ? ?
Rent a car?
Huo Tiankuo said, "The food and fish in the greenhouse are difficult to distribute and the harvest in the mountains surrounding the camp has been decreasing recently. I think we can go to a more distant place to get supplies."
The cost of renting a car shouldn't be that expensive, and the public supplies left behind by Xueyunlu Village would be enough to pay for it.
If you are lucky, you might be able to get several supplies of elixirs in one trip.
【!!! As expected of a general, his brain works so fast!】
[Instead of cutting costs, it's better to increase revenue! Using more convenient transportation to collect new supplies is a smart move!]
Lu Xuan also thought this was a good idea.
After entering the extreme cold season, he became a little lazy and never went out.
But after several rounds of lotteries, the victims bought a lot of fresh meat at the grocery store, and the meat stock in his hands was reduced very quickly.
The amount of reduction has not reached the point of being cleared out, but stockpiling is like saving money. You will feel at ease only when the amount is constantly increasing. Once there are fewer things, you will feel uneasy.
It would be a good thing if Huo Tiankuo could get him a lot of fresh meat.
Lu Xuan said: "You can rent a car, the price is not expensive, and I can also provide you with several suitable hunting spots."
For example, the grassland where he discovered bison and wild donkeys last time he went out was quite nice.
There are mountains and hills around, so there is no shortage of prey.
Huo Tiankuo was cheered up when he recalled the scene he had seen in the driving documentary a few days ago when he was attending a course with his personal soldiers and saw cattle and sheep in the wind blowing through the grass.
If he could directly find a place where there were many prey, it would indeed be much easier than running around in the snow like a headless fly.
Then he remembered that there were herds of wild horses in the documentary.
If he was lucky, he might be able to tame some wild horses and bring them back to serve as a new batch of war horses.
Huo Tiankuo suddenly remembered that there was something important he hadn't asked.
"How many doses of elixir can Brother Lu provide per month?"
Lu Xuan thought for a moment and said, "10 per month."
After the villagers used up the evolution liquid, he hoarded the fixed quota of the mall every day and the evolution liquid obtained from daily discounts.
Putting aside the ones I occasionally pull out of blind boxes, I can only buy about 40-45 pieces regularly in a month.
He kept 10-15 of them for the audience to raffle off, just in case he wanted to stock up on some for himself.
Furthermore, taking out too much at once makes it seem like the things are too easy to obtain and not valuable.
10 sticks per month is just right.
However, this is just what Lu Xuan thinks.
But to Huo Tiankuo, it sounded like too much!
He had been mentally prepared to only get two or three, but he didn't expect to get ten!
After noticing Huo Tiankuo's change in demeanor, the audience couldn't help but feel annoyed for Lu Xuan: "Anchor! You've said too much!"
They say that things are valuable because they are rare, so how can ten of them be considered rare?
Just one a month!
Lu Xuan: One per month, and maybe there won’t be a mutant for two or three months?
He's not planning on doing a one-time deal.
If you don't give people a taste of the sweetness first, and the investment and rewards are not proportional over time, how can you guarantee that they will continue to buy from you every month?
Besides, he could provide so much, and Huo Tiankuo might not be able to get so many supplies every month, or it was impossible for him to run around just to collect supplies to buy evolution liquid and ignore other things in the camp.
It would be good if you can save one-third or half of the supplies in a month.
…
After confirming that the elixir could be purchased and the bus could be rented, Huo Tiankuo learned basic functions such as automatic driving and how to set the destination that day. Then he called thirty personal soldiers and set off on the second day of the new year.
After sending the people away, the audience realized a problem that had been overlooked.
The people of Yunlu Village are just ordinary people. Even though they have learned a lot about the world after taking natural science classes, they generally just want to live their lives well and have no ambition to conquer the world.
Huo Tiankuo, it’s not that he will engage in wars just because he has superpowers, but he is an official of this plane after all.
Is it really appropriate to give the evolution liquid to Huo Tiankuo and his personal soldiers?
Lu Xuan: "You guys just thought of this problem, don't you think it's too late?"
【It’s not too late! 】
"If there really is a problem, at worst we can just make up an excuse and say we immortals don't think the Huo family army deserves the elixir, and the deal is void!"
It's not good to go back on one's word, but if there are really any additional risks, some unnecessary morality should be discarded.
[The anchor comes from the end of the world, so he shouldn't be so moral, right?]
Lu Xuan: “…” I’m not that particular, but I’m not that unconcerned either.
Lu Xuan said, "Let's not talk about whether it's embarrassing to contradict myself. Let's just talk about my purpose in selling evolutionary fluid. As long as the Huo family army can provide me with new special abilities, what does it matter if they are from the imperial court or not?"
[Why doesn't it matter?! After the catastrophe, the ancient dynasty order is restored. A powerful traitor like you, host, will definitely be feared.]
[It's fine to always maintain your strength advantage, making them fear you but unable to defeat you. But if you take the initiative to hand over the evolution fluid to the authorities, and Huo Tiankuo turns against you in the future, do you regret it?]
【??? Is the above statement serious?】
The corner of Lu Xuan's mouth twitched. He also wanted to ask whether this statement had been thought through.
"I'm a level seven esper with a bunch of special abilities. How can I be afraid of someone who's only level one even after awakening? Do you think that's reasonable?"
Even if Huo Tiankuo was lucky enough to obtain a special special ability, it would be easy for him to copy it.
If he is still afraid of this and is still hesitant about it, how useless is he?
【……】
That seems to be true.
Lu Xuan said: "Besides, it is precisely because Huo Tiankuo is from the imperial court that once he and his personal soldiers possess supernatural powers, the villagers will not seem so special."
To hide a tree, you have to plant a forest.
He can't protect the villagers forever.
Instead of going to great lengths to build an iron wall for them to prevent them from being persecuted by those in power, it would be better to create more similar beings to divert attention.
Of course, we still need an iron wall.
It’s like China’s peaceful weapons. You can choose not to use them, but you cannot not have them.
·
At that time, Huo Tiankuo and his personal soldiers had been taken to the grassland where Lu Xuan found the bison herd last time by a suspended bus.
The extreme cold season has a comprehensive impact on the world.
The grassland at this time was naturally not as green as before. Everywhere you looked was no different from other places. It was all covered in silver and snow.
Of course, I didn't see any of the herds of buffaloes, donkeys and horses that appeared in the documentary.
The Huo family soldiers who had been waiting all the way: "..."
Coming to the grassland in the middle of winter, it doesn't seem surprising to encounter such a scene.
However, the guards turned their heads to look at Huo Tiankuo, who was also silent, and said, "General, there seems to be no prey here?"
"Will they all freeze to death because it's too cold, or starve to death because they have no food?"
"Then we made this trip in vain?"
"Will I not be able to obtain the elixir?"
Huo Tiankuo frowned and said, "What's the rush?"
He lowered his head and glanced at the snow below, and accidentally saw some huge rocks covered with snow. Thinking of a hunting harvest he had heard the Yunlu Village hunting team mention before, an idea flashed in his mind.
"If they're alive, we need to find them; if they're dead, we need to find their bodies. Animals that died of starvation or freezing will inevitably leave behind corpses. Focus on finding areas on the grassland where the snow is unusually thick, and dig up the snow to see if there are any frozen animals underneath."
The guards' eyes lit up, and they shouted, "Yes, General!"
Huo Tiankuo controlled the bus to fly around the grassland, and the other soldiers took the opportunity to open their eyes and carefully observe the abnormal protrusions on the grassland, and went down to confirm if they found any.
At first, all we found were stones or piles of earth covered with snow.
It was not until half an hour later that they actually discovered a group of frozen wild donkeys.
“I really found it!”
The guards shouted excitedly and quickly started digging. In the end, they dug out a total of six wild donkeys that had frozen to death in an area.
"These wild donkeys should weigh over a thousand pounds in total, right? If we find a few more batches, we'll have enough for a magical elixir."
"That's right! Let's look for more quickly. With such a large grassland, there must be many wild animals that have frozen to death."
They then continued to search a larger area.
An hour later, the corpses of several starving buffaloes were found.
Two hours later, another group of frozen bison were found in an area more than ten miles away.
They dug out batch after batch of animals that died in the extreme cold, and they also found skeletons whose meat had been eaten by some unknown carnivores, but overall, the harvest was still very considerable.
The personal soldiers who had thought they were facing extremely hungry and ferocious beasts were all overjoyed.
This prey came too easily!
Huo Tiankuo was also very satisfied with this.
Not only can you get a lot of food, but you can also prevent your men from getting hurt, killing two birds with one stone.
The group became more and more excited as they searched. After spending two days to make sure that there were no more free prey to pick up on the grassland and that they had not found any traces of the animals that should still be alive, they happened to approach a mountain.
Since I was already here, I might as well take a walk and see if there was any prey to pick up in the mountains, so I got out of the car and went into the mountains.
·
Huo Tiankuo's departure did not affect the lives of the villagers in Yunlu Village.
Some people who lived in seclusion didn't even know that General Huo had rented a car and went out.
The audience in the live broadcast room were very concerned.
Especially when the other party has been gone for three days and there is no communication.
[It's been three days, why is there no news from Huo Tiankuo? ]
[Could it be that he ran away with the car? ]
How is it possible that they didn't want the remaining soldiers? They didn't care about the victims? They didn't want thousands of acres of greenhouses and hundreds of thousands of kilograms of grain?
[Perhaps he found too much prey on the grassland and was too happy to leave.]
[It's good to be so happy. The more items he gets, the more the anchor will get in the end, and we can also benefit from it, hehe.]
When the other audiences were discussing how much Huo Tiankuo could gain, someone suddenly said something shocking:
[Actually, I have a question: Will General Huo drive his hovercraft directly to the capital, or return to the northwest?]
【!!! 】
[Oh shit! Why didn't I think of this possibility?]
[Right! The reason he brought his personal soldiers and a group of disaster victims on this arduous journey was to return to the northwest, wasn't it? Now that he's borrowed the host's floating bus, why not go back and take a look?]
[Returning to the capital isn't out of the question. It's a good opportunity to see if the new emperor has ascended the throne and what the current situation is like.]
If he had already ascended the throne and saw Huo Tiankuo bringing back a flying car, even if Huo Tiankuo didn't intend to embezzle the host's car, the emperor would definitely confiscate it, right?
【!!! Is the anchor's car going to be used as a meat bun to hit the dog?】
No way!
[What are you afraid of! If anyone dares to steal the anchor's car, I'll just go and kill them. Then I'll ascend the throne and become emperor, changing the dynasty!]
Lu Xuan: “…”
"Huo Tiankuo must have guessed what the result would be if he drove the floating bus. With his sense of responsibility, it would be impossible for him to accommodate thousands of people in the camp." There were also so many half-grown mutant crops in the greenhouse.
[I think perhaps General Huo discovered other disaster victims along the way and wasted time rescuing them.]
[It's not impossible.]
[Don't make blind guesses. If the host takes the initiative to contact and ask what's going on, you'll know.]
[Yes, host, please contact General Huo to find out more.]
Lu Xuan said, "Why rush? It's only been three days. It's a rare trip for General Huo, so he must want to get as much prey as possible. Let's wait another two or three days until there's no news."
…
On the fifth day after Huo Tiankuo and his party left, there was no communication, but another earthquake occurred.
The magnitude of the earthquake was not low, reaching 5.5.
The disaster victims who returned to work screamed in fear after feeling the violent tremors.
Instead, the villagers applauded as they watched the snow that had accumulated on their roofs and greenhouses for several days being shaken off.
"Hey, this saves a lot of trouble. It's just right for the New Year and everyone can take a break. No need to clear snow."
The helpers, whose faces turned pale with fear, said: "..." They didn't know whether they should continue to be afraid.
The audience didn’t know whether they were afraid or not, but when Huo Tiankuo, who had been waiting for several days, suddenly sent a call for help, the audience was shocked.
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