Chapter 195 Jinjiang Exclusive
When the villagers were dazzled by the colorful holographic world and holographic games, Huo Tiankuo paid them a visit.
The temperature has risen too quickly recently, the ice on the lake has melted rapidly, and winter fishing can no longer be carried out.
It would be convenient to skip the step of breaking the ice and continue fishing directly from the lake, but they no longer lack supplies or fish, so there is no need to drain the pond to catch all the fish.
Huo Tiankuo came to Yunlu Village to personally thank Lu Xuan for helping the camp build ten acres of mushroom houses, which gave them another stable source of income.
On the other hand, Yunlu Village has become completely silent since the 500 helpers who helped the village process meat and fish for more than ten days returned to the camp.
He no longer looks for help, nor does he go to the hot springs or go hunting.
It often takes several calls to the village chief or Lu Xuan before someone answers, and they hang up in a hurry after just a few words.
The strange phenomenon made Huo Tiankuo suspicious. He even suspected that Yunlu Village was too rich and was robbed by someone without his knowledge.
But when he thought about Lu Xuan, who was able to destroy thousands of beasts, he felt that it was impossible for anyone in this world to rob him, so he was probably worrying too much.
It was not until he arrived at the Lu family and saw Lu Xuan in person that Huo Tiankuo realized that the silence in the village was because everyone was busy playing games.
Huo Tiankuo: “…”
Originally, Huo Tiankuo was not interested in these things.
In his opinion, games are just like gambling houses, which can easily corrupt people's hearts.
But Lu Xuan said, "Holographic games include combat games. The general can let his personal soldiers only play combat games as actual combat training."
Huo Tiankuo: “…” He felt a little moved.
He had always been envious of the holographic training equipment in Yunlu Village. After confirming that the combat game could really play a similar role, he bought a batch of helmets.
Then, it got out of control.
The personal guards really only play combat games.
But there are more krypton gold points in the combat game, and the personal soldiers are willing to ask Lu Xuan to "recharge" themselves, and Huo Tiankuo can't do anything about it.
After the disaster victims learned about the existence of the holographic helmets from their personal soldiers, they ran to Yunlu Village to buy helmets with the fish they caught in winter, and Huo Tiankuo was even more unable to restrict them.
In just three days, the number of game players in this dimension expanded from more than a hundred to nearly two thousand.
Because the time was short and the novelty of each game had not yet worn off, the game categories that everyone played were relatively concentrated, with at least two to three hundred players in each type of game.
When there are more people, a sense of competition also emerges.
The disaster victims don't have enough money to spend like the people in Yunlu Village, so they need to change their strategy. If they don't have enough supplies, they can gather them together in time!
The disaster victims work hard, the villagers spend money, and people on both sides are struggling for life and death in the holographic world, and it is more than just today.
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Li family.
"Are you ready to eat, Li Tuo? Come down quickly!" After calling for a long time but no one came down, Miao Jinfeng came to Li Tuo's room and knocked on the holographic helmet directly.
A moment later, Li Tuo followed Miao Jinfeng downstairs, still complaining, "Why do we have to eat again so soon? What a hassle."
Miao Jinfeng rolled her eyes at him and said unhappily, "Eating is too much trouble, so why don't you find living too much trouble?"
She turned her head and complained to Li Tie, "Look at him, he's really been getting more and more outrageous these past few days. Last night, when I got up at night and passed by his room, I found that he wasn't even asleep, he was still playing!"
She admitted that holographic games were fun.
Farming games and board games are quite fun.
But everything has its limits. It is too much to play so much that you forget to eat and sleep and don’t plan to live a good life.
Li Jing and Wu Yinyin, who were also absorbed in the game, silently shrank their necks to reduce their presence.
Because they don't take precautions against addiction, they play for longer hours every day than Li Tuo, but they still log off early at mealtimes so as not to delay their sleep at night.
Li Tuo doesn't sleep because he is a bachelor, but they are not.
Li Tie said as he ate, "The hunting team has been taking a break lately, so playing games is just a way to relax. It's not a big deal."
Miao Jinfeng had an expression that said, 'You're too naive.'
"He not only played games, but also spent a lot of points in the game."
Li Kangbao, who lived at the bottom of the family and could only play for an hour and a half every day, said quietly while eating his meal, "Grandma, you've been singing a lot while working these past few days. I remember Brother Lu Xuan said that listening to songs also costs points."
Miao Jinfeng, who had recently become addicted to music, blushed. "Listening to music only costs a few points. How can it be compared to playing games? Eat your food, so much talk."
Li Tie looked up at Li Tuo and asked, "Did you top up a lot of points in the game?"
Li Tuo blinked, "Probably not a lot."
In fact, he only asked Lu Xuan to recharge three to five hundred points every time, which was just a few kilograms of food or a dozen kilograms of meat. He would remember it at the beginning, but he didn't pay much attention to it later.
He wasn't sure exactly how much it cost in total.
After being reminded by his mother, Li Tuo counted carefully with his fingers, and then... his expression gradually became horrified, guilty, and cold sweat broke out.
Li Tie noticed his change in demeanor, his eyelids twitching, and asked fiercely, "How much did you spend? Did you spend all the fish and meat I gave you recently?"
"How is that possible!" Li Tuo blurted out, "It only cost one-third."
As soon as these words were spoken, not only did Li Tie and Miao Jinfeng's expressions change, but the youngest Li Kangbao's eyes widened after he did a quick calculation.
Wow!
Li Tie angrily said, "One third!? You spent thousands of kilograms of supplies just to play a game!?"
The grain allocated to the family was kept in the public treasury and not distributed because they had to pay off debts and buy houses.
But most of the more than 30 tons of meat obtained from the beast tide and the fish obtained by Xuehua in the previous winter hunts were distributed among her three children, including Li Yue.
Li Tuo's portion of fish and meat weighed over 20,000 kilograms, and he spent a third of it, so that would be 6,000 to 7,000 kilograms—!?
Even if you eat meat every meal, the amount is enough for at least two years. How could it be used up in just four or five days?
Miao Jinfeng was also heartbroken. She pointed at Li Tuo's nose and cursed, "You're a spendthrift who doesn't even know how expensive firewood and rice are! Even if our family is wealthy, we shouldn't be so wasteful! Are you trying to piss us off to death?"
She only knew that Li Tuo spent a lot of money on the game, but she didn't know that he spent so much.
Li Jing and Wu Yinyin were both a little scared.
I don’t understand how Li Tuo can spend so much money on the game.
Li Tie didn't curse like Miao Jinfeng did. He directly took out a weapon from the space to beat his son.
Li Tuo was so frightened that he shouted, "I haven't spent all my points yet. There are still hundreds of thousands of points left in my account!"
He just felt that he had to recharge every time he played for a while, and it would be too troublesome for Lu Xuan if he did it too often, so he recharged a few billion more in one go.
Li Tie laughed angrily, "You only have about 100,000 left, but you still spent 200,000? Do you think that's too little?"
He is one of the few who has little interest in games.
There are greenhouses and barns in the village, as well as food and livestock. There is no need to set up a farm in the game.
The greatest pleasure in entering the holographic world is to listen to the divine music like his wife, and avoid being irritable and unable to sleep like during the polar night.
It only takes one point to buy a song, and one kilogram of supplies in exchange for 100 points is enough for him to listen to for a long time.
Even if he occasionally watched the animal documentaries that were now open to copyright, a one-hour documentary only cost ten points, and he could watch it over and over again. In five days, he had spent less than 500 points in total.
The father lives frugally, but the son lives extravagantly. The brat is just itching for trouble and deserves a beating!
Li Tie chased Li Tuo around the house for several laps, hitting Li Tuo several times without any hesitation. He stopped for a while when he was out of breath. Then he turned his head as if he remembered something and looked at his eldest son and his wife with a fierce look.
"You guys can't be that extravagant, can you?"
Li Jing and Wu Yinyin's skin tightened and they quickly shook their heads, "Of course not."
Li Jing has been playing farm games these days. Since he is a wood-type mutant, the game can turn on the mutant mode, which allows him to speed up the growth of crops without spending any money.
Wu Yinyin did spend a lot of money playing the dress-up game, but it was not as exaggerated as Li Tuo's.
Besides, in addition to the small family assets she and Li Jing had, she also had the supplies given to her by his father and his brother, so she was much more confident than Li Tuo.
Li Tie snorted, "It's best not to. You have children to raise and you're the eldest in the family, so you can't take the lead and do something reckless."
After saying this, he became more and more annoyed with Li Tuo, and scolded him for a long time, and warned him sternly: "If you continue to spend money recklessly, your share of the supplies will be kept by your mother in the future, and not given to you!"
Li Tuo naturally didn't want to.
A man cannot go out without some supplies in his pocket. He quickly promised that he would not spend money recklessly. Then, fearing that his parents would continue to scold him, he finished his meal in a hurry and slipped upstairs.
Miao Jinfeng said angrily, "He's definitely playing games again. I don't think the anti-addiction measures can stop him at all."
It says that those under 20 can only play for three hours, but that just means they can’t play games, and it doesn’t affect their ability to stay in the lounge and watch others play games.
You can still spend points by staying in the lounge.
Miao Jinfeng felt that this couldn't go on any longer, so she suggested to Li Tie, "We need to find him something to do. If he's busy, he won't have time to play games."
Li Tie was exhausted and thirsty from scolding his son. He picked up his water cup and gulped down a drink before saying helplessly, "Everyone in the village has been playing games lately because they're exhausted and want to rest. Besides, we have everything we need now, so what could possibly happen?"
Miao Jinfeng's mind moved: "Then find him a wife as soon as possible! With a wife to keep him under his wing, he won't dare to waste his supplies recklessly."
Wu Yinyin thought to herself, that’s not necessarily true.
What if my brother-in-law and his wife are also obsessed with changing clothes like other women in the village? If the couple spends together, they might end up spending even more.
This is not an exaggeration. It's not just men in the village who are addicted to games these days.
Li Tuo is the only one in their family who spends a lot of money on in-game items, but the same may not be true for other families.
For example, she knew that Su Ying alone spent no less than three thousand kilograms of supplies to buy all kinds of beautiful clothes and jewelry accessories in the dress-up game.
However, her husband Xiong Mao agrees with her in everything and does not dislike her for being a spendthrift. Instead, he would rather not spend money himself and let Su Ying buy whatever she wants.
But it’s different for other families.
I didn't think much of it when I was spending it, but when I finished spending it and checked the account after I finished the game, I found that thousands of kilograms of supplies were gone!
Now those who spent money immediately started blaming each other for spending so much.
Both sides had very bad tempers and fought several times.
But no matter how much they complain and blame, it is too late to stop them from spending money...
Once the door is opened, it is impossible to close it again. The most they can do is set a maximum amount of money each person can spend. Once the limit is exceeded, they are not allowed to spend any more money. Just bear with it.
But generally speaking, married people still don't spend as much as bachelors like Li Tuo who can feed the whole family.
Older people don't spend as much as young people.
Even so, the elders in the village still have many complaints about this.
"Recently, several of my younger generations have been wearing holographic helmets from morning till night and are reluctant to take them off. They are completely fascinated."
"Before, I told psychics that their appetites were too big, and no one wanted to take nutritional supplements to make do. But now, they're so busy playing games that they think eating is a waste of time, so they just take a nutritional supplement and don't even think it's self-contradictory."
"I heard that Li Tuo spent thousands of kilograms of supplies playing a game. That's too much. I have to keep a close eye on my kid. If I'm not careful, he could ruin my entire family."
"Is there no way to deal with these young people who don't know their limits?"
"That's right! If you keep going like this, everyone will be ruined."
"Why not ask Lu Xuan?"
Lu Xuan, who was also addicted to the game and had casually thrown away millions of points in the game: "..."
The audience in the live broadcast room burst into laughter: [Hahaha, the ancients have become addicted to the internet. The anchor is deeply sinful.]
Facing the expectations of elders like the village chief, Mr. Zhang, and even Carpenter Ye, Lu Xuan simply said, "Confiscate their helmets, or simply cut off their internet access."
Old Master Zhang exclaimed, "Can we disconnect the internet for just one person?"
Lu Xuan said: "No, if the internet is down, no one can play."
Li Tie and others: "..."
I'm afraid this won't work.
Although they dislike the younger generations in their family being too addicted, they themselves still have to go online from time to time to listen to music and play games, and they cannot disconnect from the Internet.
Several people looked at each other and said, "Let's confiscate the helmet!"
"You can set a maximum time for them to play each day. If they exceed the time limit, the helmet will be confiscated and given back the next day."
"This is good. Without the helmet, they can't play the game even if they want to, even if they spend points in the game."
"That's right, it won't delay the important things."
"That's what we'll do."
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With the powerful weapon of "confiscating helmets", the unhealthy trend of young people in the village who neglected sleep and food to play games has finally been curbed.
Zhang Chengming and others were a little depressed at first, but after calming down, they realized that they had indeed gone a little too far recently, so they stopped complaining and put their minds back on business.
The polar day continues, but the snow has completely melted away, and green has reappeared in the barren wilderness and mountains.
It is now the end of March, the time when spring wild vegetables are in full bloom. It can even be said that it is a bit late now because of the catastrophic and abnormal climate.
After finally discovering traces of wild vegetables, the collection team, which had been silent for a long time, regrouped. Except for Lu Qing and Ke Wei who were not feeling well, everyone else started the first picking of the new year with high spirits.
The hunting team members would just go along for protection, help pick wild vegetables, or get more firewood to take home.
In short, if you keep busy, you won’t be thinking about playing games all day long.
There are many kinds of wild vegetables in spring, and it is also the time when they are the freshest and most delicious.
Shepherd's purse, dandelion, purslane, bracken, toon, elm seeds, locust flowers, and black fungus... There are so many delicious ones that it's impossible to count them all.
The collecting team took a casual walk around the hills and the two hilltops where greenhouses were built. When they came back, everyone had several large baskets of wild vegetables in their space.
Before the disaster, the villagers of Yunlu Village picked wild vegetables just to add a dish to their families. It is impossible to say how much they liked them.
But nowadays, because every household has too much meat stored at home, and every meal is full of fish and meat, eight out of ten people get stomach upset after eating. It can be said that wild vegetables come at the right time.
Whether it is dandelions that can be eaten directly with sauce after being cleaned, or other wild vegetables that need to be blanched to remove the bitterness and then served cold or made into soup, they are all just right for reducing heat and clearing the mouth.
Lu family.
Because of Lu Qing's physical disability, their family did not receive a share of the wild vegetables from the gathering team.
But it doesn’t matter, it’s the same if you exchange the supplies from public supplies.
Stir-fried bracken, cold-mixed purslane, scrambled eggs with Chinese toon, shepherd's purse and tofu soup, locust flower egg pancakes, and elm seed steamed buns, every dish or staple food will be quickly snatched up as soon as it is served.
Not only Lu Xuan and his three companions loved to eat it, but the audience in the live broadcast room also missed the dishes made with wild vegetables after several months. They did not dislike the vegetarian dishes at all and ate them with great relish.
[After eating too much delicacies from land and sea, it feels so good to eat wild vegetables occasionally! ]
I used to think wild vegetables were a bit bitter and unpalatable, but now I realize they have just the right bitterness.
[Actually, wild vegetables in spring are much more tender than those in summer and autumn, and the bitterness isn't noticeable. Anyway, I really enjoy eating them, so I strongly urge the host to give me some wild vegetables.]
Lu Xuan selectively ignored this request.
The reason why wild vegetables are called wild vegetables is because they grow wildly in the wild.
The yield of things that grow wildly is naturally not very high.
They don’t even think it’s enough for themselves, so why would they want to participate in the lottery?
After the meal, the wild vegetables were eaten up without leaving any residue, but the meat, vegetables and fish that were served every day were hardly touched by anyone.
Lei Yan sighed, "I never thought that one day there would be meat left over from a meal."
Lu Qing and Lu Chen also had complicated feelings.
Before the disaster, our family could only eat meat a few times a year. Occasionally, we would eat it all up with our chopsticks.
Their lives have really improved, they have grown taller and no longer care about meat.
Lu Xuan looked at the meat dishes on the table and thought for a while, then said, "Since I'm tired of eating meat, it's time to change my taste."
Lu Qing and the others all looked at him, "What flavor do you want to change to?"
Aren’t today’s wild vegetables a change of taste?
Lu Xuan said: "Wild vegetables are delicious, but they are too vegetarian and not nutritious enough. I still need to eat some meat."
Lu Chen, with his round belly, looked at the meat dishes on the table with an embarrassed look, "But, brother, I really don't want to eat meat anymore."
Lu Xuan said, "We don't eat meat, let's eat seafood. Have we almost finished the seafood I brought back last time? The weather has been getting much warmer recently, so why don't we all go to the beach together? What do you think?"
Go to the beach! ?
Lu Qing and Lei Yan's eyes lit up at the same time.
Lu Qing clapped her hands excitedly. "What a great idea! I've been wanting to go since you guys came back last time. This time, our whole family will go together, and I want to get some delicious seafood myself!"
Lei Yan said, "It might not be a good idea for us to go alone. Why don't we ask the villagers? I think other people in the village would also be interested in going to the beach."
Lu Qing nodded in agreement. "Indeed, Yinyin, Ayue, and Suying also yearn for the ocean. We should ask them."
Lu Xuan had no objection to this.
In a sense, this can also be considered a spring outing, and it would indeed be more interesting with more people.
As expected, the result of the inquiry was that almost everyone in the village wanted to go along.
But the crops in the greenhouse need to be taken care of, and the village cannot be completely empty. What if something unexpected happens?
After discussion between the village chief and everyone, they finally selected about twenty young and strong men. The elderly and women were left behind first. After they had a good time at the beach, a group of people would come back to take over their rotation.
The villagers were extremely enthusiastic about going to the beach and were unwilling to wait even a moment. Early the next morning, more than a hundred people boarded two suspended buses and RVs and headed to the beach.
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