Chapter 242 Jinjiang Exclusive Release
People in various gathering places have suffered from the rain for a long time.
As soon as the rain stopped, everyone rushed out impatiently, and then all got hit.
Chen Bing, Miao An, Liu Zimo, the two Liu Ziying brothers, Ye Feiluan, Hua San, and a large number of the city garrison led by Chu Ming who went out for training, as well as Huo Tiankuo and most of the Huo family army who were outside, were not spared.
The audience in the live broadcast room were all numb when they heard the names called out by the hunting team.
[Tsk tsk, these are the people who are doing the best in each town, and yet they all got infected. How unlucky!]
[It's not that they're unlucky, it's just that the timing of the insect fog's appearance is too bad, it just appeared when everyone was relaxed.]
If I were stuck indoors for more than ten days because of heavy rain, I would rush out and run a few laps if it suddenly stopped.
Fortunately, these people have good physical conditions, and because they have a good status in the gathering place, or are even the boss, they have no shortage of anthelmintics. As long as they can be detected with a treatment device in the first time, they will recover quickly.
The real trouble is the rescue in the city.
Lu Xuan couldn't go to every gathering place to help blow away the insect fog. If he really had to run around one by one, who knows how many people would have symptoms so severe that they would be unable to get help.
To this end, local psychics and the young and strong people of Yunlu Village worked together.
Zhang Chengming, Ye Feiluan and other wind-type ability users started from the most crowded areas and used their abilities to blow away as much of the crowd as possible.
Chen Bing, Chu Ming, Li Tuo, Wei Xiang and other fire-type ability users couldn't blow the insect mist, so they directly used fire. The insect mist was the manifestation of the insect swarm. After encountering fire, you could clearly hear the "sizzling" sound of things being burned, which made everyone who was hit feel refreshed.
There are also ice and lightning elements, which can have a certain effect on destroying insect fog.
Although Lu Xuan is in charge of the capital, the eldest brother of the Xie family is also a wind-type ability user. Lu Xuan's wind cannot reach everywhere, so he can just check for deficiencies and fill in the gaps, and improve his abilities by the way.
Those without special abilities were not idle either. According to the arrangements above, they used strong flashlights, whistles and other means to point the way for others in the fog.
Some people also used loudspeakers to remind people who had not been exposed to insect spray not to go out and to close the doors and windows tightly to prevent more people from being infested by insects as much as possible.
Everyone is doing their best to resolve the crisis brought by the insect fog.
But among the large settlements, Yangshan, which has the smallest population, has a population of more than 70,000, not to mention other large cities with hundreds of thousands of people?
The number of people infected ranges from 30,000 to 50,000, and as many as one-third of the total population, exceeding six digits.
Even if the above actions are fast and the anthelmintics are in place, casualties are still inevitable, and there are quite a few of them.
The audience in the live broadcast room sighed, and the superiors who received the specific data turned pale.
The number of deaths ranged from a few hundred to several thousand. The losses caused by the seemingly non-aggressive insect fog were even more severe than those caused by the midnight beast attack.
When the rain fell again the next day, it washed away all the insect fog, and it disappeared without a trace just as it appeared. The rescue work came to an end, and the leaders in various places could not help but question Lu Xuan.
"Boss Lu, besides insect repellent, is there no other way to eliminate the insect fog in advance?"
"Boss Lu, the disaster change table you provided earlier shows that there will be several dry days after the rainy season. Could it be that insect fog will appear during these days?"
"After all, where does this damn bug fog come from? I've never heard of bugs forming fog."
Faced with these questions, Lu Xuan's answers were only "not sure" and "uncertain".
He didn't really know everything, so how could he know if there would be more insect fog later.
As for asking him for a solution, he has provided the anthelmintics and protective clothing, what else do you want?
Lu Xuan said, "No matter if there will be more insect fog later, every failure will teach you a lesson. Don't rush out, and you will naturally be able to prevent yourself from being parasitized."
It's a bit frustrating, but it's better than dying.
Wanting more would be a bit too greedy.
The leaders of each gathering place were speechless.
After solving the insect fog, Lu Xuan had no intention of staying in the capital for long. However, many noble families received news from officials in the Huo family military camp and rushed to him to buy safe houses.
The lowest price is a two-story small villa, and most people set their sights on a three-story villa.
The nobles were amazed at the voice-controlled equipment, touch-screen sensor lights, and convenient bathroom facilities in the safe house. Lu Xuan also curled his lips in satisfaction at the more than two million kilograms of mutant grain he had obtained.
When they returned to the village, the other members of the hunting team were upset and even felt guilty about the number of casualties in the various gathering places. Only Lu Xuan acted as if nothing had happened and happily treated everyone to a meal.
Zhang Chengming, Xiong Mao and others gathered in the lounge of Ship No. 1. While grilling various seafood and eating hot pot, they couldn't help but ask Lu Xuan, wanting to know how he maintained such a good mentality?
Liu Chun asked: "A lot of people must have died in the capital, right? Don't you feel guilty for not being able to save those people?"
Li Jing, who happened to be from Licheng, where the highest number of deaths occurred, nodded vigorously.
He recalled the victims who had their internal organs eaten by parasites and eventually died in agony. He felt short of breath and had no appetite at all.
Although the others were not as exaggerated as Li Jing, they were generally in a low mood.
Lu Xuan raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Why do you feel guilty?"
Zhang Chengming scratched his head. "After all, many people died in various places this time, and those who survived were severely tortured by the parasites."
"So what?" Lu Xuan said bluntly, "Without you helping deliver medicine and protective clothing, more people would have died. Don't look at how many people died, look at how many people you saved."
Without anthelmintics, and even worse, without the treatment device he provided in advance to allow others to quickly diagnose parasites and then use targeted medications, those who were not infected by the insect mist would continue to go out, and then die in batches.
If we are not careful, most of the people except Yunlu Village may die.
Now only a small number of people have died and the majority have been saved. In the last days, even if they have received enough rewards, their actions can be called holy fathers.
Guilt? The accelerated opening time of the aged wine is more like a celebration.
After listening to Lu Xuan's theory, the others fell silent.
It sounds like something is not right, but when you think about it, it seems to make sense.
People like Li Tuo and Xiong Mao were carefree and quickly put aside the casualties that should not have been borne by them. Others were still a little conflicted. When they heard Wu Yang mention that he had met several people who resented him for coming too late because their relatives had died and wanted him to pay with their lives, they couldn't help but frowned.
Chen Rong said unhappily, "Isn't this just like when they first started doing business and someone complained about them being late? We don't owe them anything. Go blame the heavens or the insect fog if you want."
When no one blames them, their values will make them feel guilty, but once someone really takes their anger out on them, their rebellious psychology will suddenly arise.
Lu Xuan was right. They had done enough and there was no need to feel guilty.
The people present finally let go of their psychological burdens and began to discuss the changes in lifestyles that they had discovered in various settlements after the floods.
Each town has purchased a number of fishing boats, kayaks or inflatable platforms.
In order to avoid being washed away by the flood, these boats and platforms were linked together with ropes and chains to form a large artificial "land", where the victims had their food, clothing, shelter and transportation.
In some cities, most areas were flooded, and there were not enough houses or boats to accommodate them, so people simply moved into greenhouses and entered and exited through the greenhouse roofs.
If I have to say anything inconvenient or annoying, it would probably be that we can't rely on fishing to obtain resources this year because of acid rain.
Not only the other disaster victims were worried, but the people of Yunlu Village were also heartbroken.
We didn't feel it deeply before the flood came, but when the flood came, looking into the water from the boat, we could see dead fish killed by acid rain floating in the muddy flood everywhere.
Think about how many kilograms of fish they could catch every day at this time last year, and the gathering and hunting activities that were also affected. It can be said that apart from the sales of heated houses, Yunlu Village has almost no other additional income during this year's rainy season.
So miserable!
The audience in the live broadcast room were speechless as they watched the villagers eating delicious food while constantly looking at the outside world and booing and sighing.
[Before you start complaining, can you please just eat some porridge and some side dishes for a few days to at least pretend you're okay?]
Is eating congee and side dishes bad? Aren't we even worse off with supplements every meal?
[Although it's true that I didn't get any extra benefits, it's still miserable... I really don't see any difference.]
[I remember this year's rainy season was shorter than last year, only a little over two months. Can the villagers' stockpiled goods be eaten up in just over two months?]
[Impossible. Even if it rains for the whole year, no one in the village will starve to death.]
[I understand! They are deliberately being pretentious!]
In fact, the villagers are not really Versailles. They are just used to a good life under Lu Xuan's leadership. It is difficult to go from luxury to frugality, so they cannot adapt for a while.
However, no matter whether the villagers are really miserable or pretending to be miserable, the acid rain in the rainy season continues to fall.
The full month celebration of Lu family's newborn baby Lei Xiao also arrived as scheduled under such circumstances.
Lu Xuan sent invitations to the full moon banquet to everyone he had some connection with.
People from various gathering places have long been curious about Yunlu Village. It was rare that Lu Xuan took the initiative to invite them, so except for those who were really unable to spare, almost all the younger generation were picked up in advance by aircraft sent by the village.
Ever since the villagers moved into the boats and all the safe houses in the village were put away, the village has become much less attractive on the surface.
But the mutant fruit forest, which has been moved to a new planting area and expanded in size, and the equally amazing livestock shed, have amazed the guests.
Chen Bing looked at the endless mutant fruit forest and exclaimed in amazement, "How much fruit can such a large forest produce at once?!"
Ye Feiluan, Liu Zimo, Bai Xuefeng and others looked at the fruit trees with plump fruits everywhere around them, smelled the fruity fragrance, and couldn't help swallowing.
It smells so good and makes me hungry.
Li Tuo, who was receiving guests with Lu Xuan, said proudly, "In the beginning, the orchard was small, with only a hundred or so fruit trees. Each year, we could produce less than 5,000 kilograms of fruit, of which ordinary fruit accounted for more than half. Later, Brother Lu continued to expand the scale, and now there are over a thousand fruit trees in the orchard, of which mutant fruit trees account for two-thirds. Every month, we can harvest more than 30,000 kilograms of ordinary and mutant fruits."
There were few trees at the beginning, so the fruits could be ripened once every two weeks.
Later, as there were more trees, Lu Xuan's supernatural power consumption was high, so he changed the harvest to once a month, just like the food.
Compared with the hundreds of thousands or even millions of kilograms of grain, the output of fruit is still relatively small. Therefore, the hunting team only brings about 100 to 180 kilograms to small settlements for trading. In big cities such as Luochuan and the capital, they can exchange for 1,000 to 2,000 kilograms each time.
Even so, it’s still not enough.
Originally, they came here this time with the intention of getting more mutant fruits so that more victims can strengthen their bodies with the mutant fruits, and buy more time when they encounter a crisis similar to the insect fog next time.
But now that I knew the output of the orchard and calculated the accounts privately, I felt a little embarrassed to speak up.
Lu Xuan then channeled the last wave of his energy to the fruit trees in the forest and said, "Since it's rare for you to come here, I can make an exception today and let you eat as much as you want. After you finish eating, each of you can pick a box of fruit to take home. There's no limit to the variety."
Everyone's eyes lit up when they smelled the fruity aroma, which was stronger than when they first came in.
When Lu Xuan took out a stack of large boxes that could fit an adult man, everyone said, "This is so embarrassing," and quickly divided the boxes among themselves and rushed into the orchard.
【!!!!!! Not only can you eat as much as you want, but you can even pick up a whole box!?】
The host is so generous! They came here to eat, why did they let them eat and take away the food?
[How come I don’t get this kind of good thing (crawling darkly)! ]
[Ahhh! I want to attend the full moon banquet, too. I want to eat and pick fruits for free!]
There were more than a dozen people attending the full moon banquet this time, including Chen Bing, Cheng Yi, Miao An from Yangshan, Ye Feiluan, Hua San, and Yu Niangzi from Fengxian, the Liu brothers and Chu Ming from Luochuan, and Xie Yun and Bai Xuefeng who were familiar to everyone from the capital.
Huo Tiankuo was too busy to come, so the only one who came was Lieutenant General Liu who stayed in the camp.
As soon as these people entered the orchard, they were like mice falling into a rice jar. They let go of all their reserve, quickly found their favorite fruits, and ate them while putting them into boxes.
The fruits that Lu Xuan got from the anchor mall have all been successfully mutated and improved. They not only taste good but are also large in size. The key point is that because they were obtained relatively late, he had not had time to trade many of them with various gathering places.
Scarcity makes things valuable, and since they are indeed delicious, most people’s first choice are mutant pineapples, mutant mangosteens and other special fruits.
Among them, durian is quite special. Those who love it would like to eat it all, while those who hate it stay away from it and don’t even want to smell the smell, and their disgust cannot be hidden on their faces.
The group was busy in the orchard for most of an hour before they finished their meal. They filled a large box with mutant fruits and came to the door to meet Lu Xuan with satisfaction.
Chen Bing patted Lu Xuan on the shoulder and thanked him with a big laugh, "I've taken advantage of you this time."
Others also expressed their gratitude.
Lu Xuan just waved his hand and then took them to the barn.
The barn, or indoor pasture, is also covered with glass greenhouses and is filled with grass.
Outside the hills, the ochre flood was still raging, but inside the greenhouse, the grass was full of green grass, creating a sharp contrast.
The smell inside the ranch is not so pleasant. Even though people and robots work together to clean it every day, the unique smell of livestock and the smell of feces still make people who don't come into contact with it often frown.
But with Lu Xuan's words, the eyes of Chen Bing and others lit up again.
"The eggs in the ranch haven't been picked up yet today. You can each pick up a basket. If you want milk, you can take a bucket of cow's or goat's milk, but you have to milk it yourself."
Everyone:!!!
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