Chapter 244 Jinjiang Exclusive Release
Lu family villa.
The Lu family members who were having breakfast were surprised to see Lu Xuan coming down from upstairs.
Lu Chen said excitedly: "Brother, you are finally back!"
Lu Qing asked anxiously, "When did you come back?"
Lu Xuan walked to the table and sat down, asking Lu Miaomiao to serve him a bowl of porridge. While eating, he said, "Last night, it was too late and I didn't wake you up."
Lei Yan looked him up and down, making sure there was nothing wrong before saying, "You have no idea how worried we were about you during your absence. The village chief and other villagers would come over three or five times a day to ask if you'd returned."
Lu Qing: "It's mainly because we can't get in touch with you. Everyone is always worried that something might have happened to you." They are also worried that he will really never come back.
Lu Xuan said: "I won't do that next time. I gained a lot this time. I'll show you after dinner."
Lei Yan reminded him, "Contact the village chief first to prevent him from worrying further."
After they finished breakfast, the village chief and other villagers who had received the news rushed to the Lu family one after another.
"You're finally back."
"You didn't even tell us you were going out."
"We haven't been able to contact you these past few days. We've been so worried, afraid you might be in trouble."
Li Tie, Mr. Zhang and other elders expressed their deep concern and a touch of blame for Lu Xuan, who had been out of contact for seven days.
Zhang Chengming, Li Jing, Wu Yang and other peers were curious about whether he had any new experiences or gains in the past few days.
Lu Xuan first soothed him for a few words, then raised his eyebrows and said, "It's hard to describe the experience, but I gained a lot."
Chen Rong urged, "What did you get? Show us!"
The Lu siblings and Lei Yan also looked at Lu Xuan curiously. They were busy eating just now and didn't know anything yet.
Lu Xuan asked the people gathered around him to step back a little and showed them the changes in his body first.
With a "swish" sound, a pair of huge blue wings tore through the clothes on his back and unfolded from behind Lu Xuan.
Everyone present was stunned at first, and then took a deep breath in shock.
Someone else exclaimed: "What is this—!?"
"Wings? Lu Xuan has grown wings!?"
“Oh my God!”
"Brother is so handsome!" Lu Chen's eyes lit up and he clapped his hands excitedly.
However, Miao Jinfeng, Granny Lin and other elderly women were so frightened that they couldn't help but hold their hands to protect their hearts that were about to jump out.
Li Tuo and Chen Rong almost flew behind Lu Xuan after they came to their senses, staring at the part where his wings and back were connected with wide eyes.
"They're not just stuck on, they're really growing out of the flesh? How is that possible?"
"You left for seven days just to grow wings?"
Lu Xuan avoided their hands that wanted to touch him and retracted his wings under everyone's unsatisfied gazes.
Li Tuo and Chen Rong looked at the two cracks on Lu Xuan's back and found that there was no trace left on the exposed skin.
It’s amazing.
Lu Xuan said: "Of course it's not just for the sake of growing wings. This is just a small insignificant gain."
The audience who were watching silently: The anchor is pretending to be cool again.
Wu Yang asked, "Can these wings fly?"
"It should be possible. It's so big after all." Chen Rong spoke first.
Lu Xuan nodded, "It can fly, and it's very fast. It's very useful."
The others found it incredible and at the same time yearning for it.
Being able to fly into the sky with just a pair of wings without the help of a hover car or aircraft is an ability they never dared to imagine before. It is so enviable!
After Lu Xuan retracted his hummingbird wings, he spread out another pair of wings.
This time it has an umbrella-like skeleton and black bat wings. They are not as big as hummingbird wings, but they give people a different kind of shocking feeling.
Hummingbird wings give people a dreamy feeling, while bat wings are like the ones possessed by vampires in modern legends, which are extremely charming.
The people in Yunlu Village didn’t know what vampires were, but the young women couldn’t help but look amazed when they saw the cool black wings behind Lu Xuan.
Xiong Mao covered his wife's shining eyes in dissatisfaction. What's so good about it? If you want to see something, look at him!
Lu Xuan did not broadcast again after he came back yesterday, and it was the first time for the audience in the live broadcast room to see the pair of wings.
Black wings! So cool!
[The host finally absorbed the bat wings, but they look really good, super cool! ]
[It would be even better if it had a pair of fangs.]
[Ahhhh! I want the anchor to suck my blood dry!]
[Hiss, the food upstairs is a bit strong.]
Lu Xuan was not finished just by showing off his wings, he also launched a precise sonic attack on the psychics present.
Zhang Chengming suddenly felt a buzzing in his head and his body swayed unsteadily.
The others were shocked when they saw this, and only relaxed when Lu Xuan explained that this was a new ability given by the wings.
Zhang Chengming and others were even more jealous.
The wings are already amazing, but they have additional abilities!?
Lu Xuan: I haven’t mentioned another more amazing ability yet.
He also took the octopus blood that the vampire vine brought back.
The reaction caused by the blood of the eighth-level mutant beast was stronger than the others, and the dense tingling sensation lasted for most of the night.
As for changes in appearance after taking the medicine, they are naturally unavoidable.
Before taking it, Lu Xuan was worried that his legs would turn into octopus legs and his face would turn into an octopus face, like in a mermaid or pirate movie.
Fortunately, neither situation happened. The octopus legs did exist, but they emerged from the tail vertebrae. Eight huge octopus claws appeared behind it, and they were blue octopus claws similar to hummingbird wings.
It does look good, but the overall shape is quite unsightly, and it has a bit of a Cthulhu feel to it.
Lu Xuan admired his new look last night and decided not to show it off unless absolutely necessary.
Speaking of abilities, it is similar to a chameleon. In addition to the ability of mimicry, octopus claws can also regenerate.
From now on, if Lu Xuan is injured, he can recover quickly even without using his healing ability. Even if a piece of flesh falls off his body, it can grow back, and he doesn't even need a medical cabin.
After showing himself off, Lu Xuan took out a batch of mutant beast furs.
As soon as the thing was taken out, the remaining pressure on it made the psychics step back uncomfortably, and looked over with some fear.
Wu Yang frowned and asked, "What are these?"
Li Tuo frowned uncomfortably, "It feels a bit like the pressure from the vampire vine, but the pressure isn't that great."
Female psychics such as Lu Qing and Su Ying also felt a little uncomfortable, but they were also amazed when they saw the fur that looked exceptionally soft.
“These leathers look very high quality.”
Lu Xuan said: "These are high-level mutant beasts."
"Mutation, beast?" Everyone present looked puzzled.
Lu Xuan explained: "Plants can mutate, so naturally animals can too."
Everyone seemed to understand.
So, is the fairy world full of mutant creatures?
After getting used to the residual pressure, the crowd looked at the types of furs: wolf skin, tiger skin, rabbit skin, leopard skin, deer skin, snake skin, and an animal skin they had never seen before (crocodile skin) that was similar to snake skin but not quite the same.
What's even more astonishing is that rabbit skin is as big as tiger skin, and tiger skin is even bigger than cowhide.
Old Master Zhang exclaimed in amazement, "So, mutated things will grow in size? This size is too exaggerated."
Lu Xuan smiled and said, "That's even better. Before, a piece of rabbit skin could only make a plush scarf, but a mutant rabbit skin can be made into a cloak. Moreover, the pressure from the mutant beast can have a deterrent effect on ordinary wild beasts. In the wild, there is no need to encounter attacks from wild beasts, as they will automatically avoid us."
"After the sea recedes, give the children in the village a set of clothes or gloves made of mutant animal skins. Then let them run around freely without worrying about being taken away by wild animals."
The eyes of those with children at home immediately lit up.
Lu Xuan said, "However, the value of mutant beast skins is much higher than that of ordinary beasts. You can consider whether to exchange them or not."
Originally, the matter of the mutant seeds should have been brought up together, but to be honest, something unexpected happened last night when he took out the seeds and tried to cultivate them.
I don't know if it's because there's a problem with the transmission between different planes, or if these seeds have a dormant period. In short, the cultivation process is not as smooth as the vampire vine. Even the input wood-type ability is completely unable to make the mutant seeds in his hand germinate, let alone further cultivate mature plants of different grades.
It may take some time to study to get results.
As he was unsure whether the subsequent research would go smoothly, Lu Xuan thought for a moment and decided not to tell Li Jing and other wood-type mutants about the seeds for the time being, so as to avoid being disappointed.
Finally, there are the spoils taken back from the mercenaries and pirates.
Mainly some anonymous cards that cannot be used temporarily and cannot check how many star coins are in them, some weapons, a dozen mechas of average quality, some other miscellaneous items, and a privately bound optical computer that Lu Xuan cannot use.
After returning to ancient times, the optical computer could not connect to the star network, most of the functions could not be used, the star blog could not be connected, and the live broadcast room could not be logged into. However, there were some videos downloaded by the pirates themselves that did not require an internet connection to watch.
But most of them are pornographic videos that are not suitable for children, or bloody and violent videos.
There is no need to display these.
Even so, everyone present and the audience sighed from the bottom of their hearts that Lu Xuan’s work these past seven days was really not in vain and he gained a lot.
Some viewers joked that they were supposed to ride a battleship.
Not only the battleships, even the master-level mechas didn't get a chance to show up.
Lu Xuan remained calm and said, "Why rush? Just because you don't have the chance to use it this time doesn't mean you won't have the chance in the future."
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In the next few days, every family in the village exchanged some high-quality leather from Lu Xuan and took it back to tan it, preparing to make clothes, scarves, handbags, etc.
The heated discussion about Lu Xuan's experience of leaving for seven days and the wings he grew has never stopped.
During this period, the rainy season continued.
Five out of ten days it was acid rain, and the remaining two days were ordinary heavy rain/torrential rain. After one or two days of no rain, the insect fog came again as expected.
It’s just that all places took precautions, and there was no second large-scale damage.
Hail and earthquakes occur every ten days or half a month. The former will cause certain damage to a few greenhouses, and the latter will cause an underground crack in Fengxian County and Luochuan City.
Fortunately, Lu Xuan issued an early warning to them, and the two places evacuated nearby victims in advance, so no casualties were caused.
However, the unfathomable underground cracks absorbed a large amount of flood water, causing the water levels in the two places to drop significantly.
Huo Tiankuo had almost no rest throughout the rainy season and was always on the move, focusing on the survivors who had hidden in the mountains or some remote villages after the disaster, and bringing them to the nearest large gathering place.
Over two months, more than 50,000 people were rescued.
One and a half years after the disaster began, when most of the surviving towns had regained contact, more than 50,000 victims were still found. Even Lu Xuan couldn't help but admire Huo Tiankuo.
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As the villagers of Yunlu Village counted the days until the rainy season ended, time quietly arrived in mid-November.
The rain that had lasted for more than two months finally stopped.
When the air, which was so humid that it seemed to soak people, gradually became dry and the temperature, which had been stable for more than a month, suddenly began to drop rapidly, the villagers couldn't help but cheer when they realized something.
“The rain has stopped!”
"The rainy season is over!?"
"It's finally over! It's been so damp outside, I feel like I'm going to grow hair all over me."
"Who says it's not true? The man at home trains in the training room every day, and his body is getting stronger and stronger. I do handicrafts on the boat every day, eating and sleeping, sleeping and eating. When I weighed myself yesterday, I gained ten pounds!"
"My waist has also become thicker. I gained weight for the winter in advance, so I don't have to worry about getting cold in winter."
As they spoke, the men, women, young and old in the village all spoke with a hint of self-mockery.
However, instead of complaining about the inconveniences of the rainy season, they are more happy that they can finally go out and stretch their muscles!
As soon as the rain stopped, the temperature outside dropped rapidly at a rate of three to five degrees every day.
The villagers, who had been holding back for a long time, took advantage of the good weather and busily started pickling autumn vegetables for the new year.
Even though they pickled a lot of sauerkraut last year and made countless cured fish and salted fish, after a year, the fish they consumed themselves and the fish taken away by the young and strong people in the family to sell were almost gone, so they naturally had to make a new batch.
And the quantity cannot be less, we need to do more than last year!
The Lu family has done more than anyone else.
While taking care of the children, Lu Qing also supervised the work of a large number of hired helpers, who had to prepare several thousand kilograms of pickled cabbage, radishes and salted fish every day.
The space cleared out by various towns to store agricultural and sideline products was gradually filled up again.
The whole village was mobilized for half a month. During this period, the flood receded completely and the land reappeared in front of everyone. The safe houses that had been stored for more than two months were returned to their original locations and the villagers moved back to their own homes.
Almost on the same day, as the temperature dropped to minus thirty degrees Celsius, the first heavy snow of the year fell.
The extreme cold is coming.
After only two days of heavy snow, the ground around the village was covered with snow as thick as an adult's thigh.
The entire village and even the surrounding wilderness were covered in snow.
It is not suitable to go out in such weather, but in order to avoid the whole village being buried, the village dispatched several large snowplows and a large amount of snow melting agents. On the other hand, because it was the time for the greenhouse in the village to harvest again, the whole village was busy going back and forth between the greenhouse and the village in the cold wind and snow.
Every household received at least tens of thousands of kilograms of grain income.
Because there was so much grain that it could not be eaten up, the villagers processed the part of the grain they kept for themselves after harvesting it.
Although the output dropped by 30% after being processed into refined rice and flour.
But the villagers are no longer the villagers of the small mountain village they used to be. Since they have the conditions to eat better food, there is no need to force themselves to save the processing losses.
This harvest was also the last time Lu Xuan received dividends from the hilly land.
After that, his only fixed grain income was the ten thousand acres of land in the capital.
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After harvesting the crops, the villagers quickly began to plow the soil, apply fertilizer, and sow seeds.
Because the land area is more than ten times larger than before, even with the help of plant protection machines, agricultural robots, and tillers, people are still busier than before.
After finishing the work in the fields, it was time to close the mushroom houses, as well as Lu Xuan's orchard and the lotus roots in the lotus pond...
After collecting a large amount of materials, we still need to hire helpers to process and supervise...
When all the work is finished, the young and strong people will set out again to do business and collect food.
It is clearly the season for hibernation and weight gain, but the entire Yunlu Village is not idle at all.
The audience in the live broadcast room felt very tired for the villagers.
It is indeed very satisfying when the harvest comes, but when you think about how busy you are every day and you can only make do with a simple meal, the audience said: The children can't bear this hardship.
Some people also suggested to Lu Xuan that he should persuade the villagers to take a break and not to get exhausted.
Lu Xuan said, "It won't collapse."
The really hard work is done by agricultural robots and hired helpers, and the villagers who are mainly responsible for supervision are not really that tired.
During the rainy season, except for the hunting team, other villagers have been in a state of disarray for more than two months. The current busyness is not only necessary work, but also may mean that the villagers are so frustrated that they want to vent.
In the past, processing a variety of autumn vegetables for half a month was a way to vent my stress, and now it’s the same as being busy harvesting and planting crops every day.
What's more, they were not just busy. They also went to the hot spring pool to soak in the middle of the trip, so they had enough time to relax.
In addition, Lu Xuan also took the time to visit the big lake.
As the snow accumulates, the ice layer is visibly thickening.
After the young and strong men came back from a walk, Lu Xuan organized people to prepare for the new year's winter fishing.
The young men, who hadn't been able to catch any fresh fish for a while, were delighted at first. Then, as if remembering something, Chen Rong said, "Didn't the fish in the lake get washed away or corroded by acid rain during the rainy season? How could there be any fish there now?"
After the others realized what was happening, they couldn't help but become worried.
Lu Xuan said: "I went to confirm, there are live fish, but the exact number is uncertain. I won't know until I go there."
Zhang Chengming, Li Jing and others did not hold much hope, but when they thought about how they could catch thousands or even tens of thousands of kilograms of fish with just one net last year, they were reluctant to give up such a large harvest, so they came to the big lake.
The group took some effort to clear the snow off the lake, then dug several holes in the ice near the center of the lake and dropped fish finders.
Compared to last year, the fish finder is significantly slower in finding fish this year.
Lu Xuan frowned slightly.
[It's over. I have a feeling today's harvest won't be very good.]
Acid rain is causing serious harm! Even after the rainy season ends, the aftereffects are still there.
【What a huge loss! 】
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In the afternoon, when the young men returned to the village, villagers led by Li Tie immediately ran out of their homes, braving the wind and snow to ask, "How was the catch? Did you catch a lot of fish today?"
Xiong Mao scratched his head in annoyance, "What a fart."
Li Tie glanced at him and asked, "How can you talk to your elders like that?"
Then he frowned because of the implicit meaning in Xiong Mao's words and asked Lu Xuan: "Is the situation in the lake not good?"
Lu Xuan said: "It's not very good. We only caught more than 30,000 kilograms of fish."
"Why is it so little?" The others also became worried after hearing this.
More than 30,000 kilograms may sound like a lot, but last year, after being fully equipped and skilled in the techniques, he could easily bring back more than 100,000 kilograms of fish or even more.
In this way, after deducting Lu Xuan's share, each family can get more than a thousand kilograms.
Now only one-fifth is left, and each family only gets about 200 kilograms.
It’s enough for our own consumption, but where will we get the money to sell?
You can't just sell a few dozen kilograms in one town, right? It would be embarrassing to tell others about it.
But they didn't expect that more than 30,000 kilograms was already the most substantial harvest of this winter's catch.
The harvest afterwards became less and less.
One reason was that the Huo family army camp was also visited, and the other reason was that there were really fewer fish.
"Forget it, don't sell fish next time you go out." Li Tie said to the hunting team.
Even though he didn't say it, the hunting team had originally planned this.
This made Wu Yang think of another thing. "You said that the fish in the big lake have been greatly affected. If the blood moon appears again after the polar night, will the number of beasts be reduced if they attack again?"
"This..." Everyone looked at each other.
Li Tuo reasonably speculated: "It should be less... right?"
Liu Chun said, "Less is a good thing, at least it's safe."
After all, they have no shortage of meat to eat. The biggest impact of the decrease in the number of animals is that after reducing the trade in fish, it further eliminates the meat trade.
Now the disaster victims in various towns have no shortage of nutritional supplements. Those who have a little means can at least have dozens of kilograms of food in stock. As long as they don't freeze to death, not eating meat for a winter is not a big problem.
However, will the number of beast tides really be small?
No one will know until that day actually arrives.
And on this day, everyone did not have to wait too long.
This year's extreme cold season and polar night are almost right next to each other.
When Yunlu Village and other towns were almost buried in the continuous heavy snow, the sun suddenly set and the polar night fell again.
What is better than last year is that each town has traded a lot of lamps. When people realize that the polar night is coming, the camping lights and atmosphere lights that have been arranged in advance are strung together in the streets and alleys, and the greenhouses are lit one after another.
Not only on the streets and in greenhouses, but also those victims who had the conditions tried their best to replace the lamps in their homes.
If you have limited supplies and don’t want to spend them, you can also exchange them for some glow sticks. You can break off one and use it for the whole day without affecting your meals or work.
Yunlu Village is no exception.
The streets of the village have been replanted with mushroom lights with soft light, and in order to distinguish between day and night, brighter street lights will be turned on during the day.
The curtains in each house were also replaced with blackout curtains to avoid disturbing sleep.
At the same time, soldiers defending cities or disaster victims in various places were also on edge.
In their minds, the polar night is almost synonymous with the blood moon beast attack.
The polar night has arrived, can the beast attack be far behind?
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The third day of polar night.
The blood moon lived up to everyone's expectations and appeared high in the sky late at night, illuminating the snow with a bright red glow.
The person in charge of night watch in Yunlu Village discovered the abnormality at the first time and quickly notified the entire village.
The young men, who were not sleeping soundly to begin with, quickly got up, grabbed their clothes and rushed out of the house. They quickly looked up at the ominous blood moon above their heads and quickened their pace to gather at the village entrance.
"How is it? Have you found the herd of animals?" Li Jing nervously asked Wu Cheng and Liu Chun who were in charge of the night watch today.
The two of them were still holding the drone's remote control. Wu Cheng shook his head and said, "We haven't found anything yet."
Zhang Chengming said with a stern face, "Last year, the herd appeared on the day the blood moon appeared. This year, it's likely to be similar. We can't let our guard down."
The others nodded in agreement and launched more drones to detect movements in all directions.
At the same time, half of the people were sent to guard the new planting area with a large number of weapons.
The greenhouses covering more than 3,000 acres of land cannot afford to be damaged.
Lu Xuan also reminded the people who went to the greenhouse, "Use hypnotic bombs to knock down all the livestock in the pasture." To avoid losses like last year.
"clear!"
The group waited for about half an hour and were almost buried in the snow before they finally discovered the situation.
"Got it!" Li Tuo shouted, "A herd of animals has appeared! It's a group of wild boars, at least fifty or sixty in number!"
Almost at the same time, Liu Chun, who was monitoring the other direction, said, "I spotted a pack of wolves here, at least over a hundred!"
Lei Yan also said: "There is also a group of wild boars in the southeast, the number... should be more than two hundred."
Others were shocked when they heard this, "So many showed up on the first day?"
Who said that the number of animals would decrease after acid rain?
Lu Xuan looked at the increasing number of beasts on the remote control screen, as well as the ferocious and bloodthirsty expressions on their faces. He narrowed his eyes and said, "Prepare for battle."
No matter how many there are, since they appear, just kill them all.
The non-combatants had gathered in the training room by now, yawning while wrapped in self-heating blankets and watching the images from outside.
"Is Daddy okay?" Zhang Xiuxiu leaned in Ye Ping's arms and asked in a low voice.
Before Ye Ping could speak, Zhang Dafu said, "Dad will be fine. He's much stronger now than before!"
Zhang Xiaofu nodded vigorously, "That's right!"
Xiong Dabao, who was not far away, also said to Su Ying, "Dad will definitely kill the most beasts this time! He will add more meat to our family and give it all to Mom and my sister!"
Su Ying touched her son's head and thought that the person who killed the most wild beasts had already been determined. Xiong Mao was probably crazy if he wanted to compete for this title.
But compared to others, she is confident that Xiong Mao is no worse than anyone else.
Wu Yinyin, Li Yue, Ye Jing, Ji Xiuling and other female relatives also missed their men.
They only knew that the men seemed to have become much stronger after Lu Xuan's special training, but they had no idea how strong they were.
Now that I have finished the formalities, it is a good opportunity to see it.
To be honest, I do have some concerns, but not much.
Nothing happened last year. If I fail after a year of promotion and bring shame to them, I'll just have to sleep on the floor when I come back!
The married men outside shuddered inexplicably and muttered in their hearts who was plotting against them. But then they quickly suppressed this premonition because of the herd of beasts that appeared in their sight.
With Lu Xuan's order, dozens of water balls, earth spikes and ice arrows were shot at the wild boars/wolves that were rushing towards them.
The battle officially begins!
Not long after the fight started, the audience in the live broadcast room keenly noticed something was wrong.
[Is it my imagination? Why do I feel like the fighting power of these wild boars and wild wolves has been weakened?]
[My god, my combat power has been weakened. This isn't like playing a game.]
[Could it be that the effects of acid rain have not worn off? ]
[Some wild boars do have traces of acid rain corrosion on their fur, but if they've been exposed to the rain for so long, it's unlikely they've survived this long.]
[Haven't you noticed yet? It's not them who have become weaker, it's the hunting team who have become stronger. Was all the training you did for the others before becoming the anchor in vain?]
Xiong Mao, Zhang Chengming, Li Tuo and other attack-type psychics soon realized this.
The same attack could only scratch the wolf's skin last year, but this year it can easily penetrate its internal organs and cause serious damage.
Li Tuo's fireballs could only barely burn off a layer of the wild boar's fur before, but now they can penetrate deep into the wild boar, burning it and making it wail and scream.
The clearly visible changes made the eyes of the person who took action shine.
All those days and nights of training in the late rainy season, the countless sweat, aches and pains on the body, and bruises were not in vain.
Although they were still a long way from reaching level three, they had become much stronger and could easily kill a group of mad beasts even without the help of weapons.
As a result of the increased attack power, the speed at which everyone eliminated the beasts became visibly much faster.
The first batch of hundreds of multi-species animals were killed in just half an hour.
However, in addition to the first batch of beasts, a larger number of second and even third batches of beasts have appeared on the drones, and the battle is still far from over.
Seeing that others could handle it, Lu Xuan did not rush to take action, but looked at the blood moon again and contacted other gathering places.
As expected, battles broke out in other places at this time.
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