Chapter 269 Jinjiang Exclusive Release
Except for a small number of islands with indigenous people, most of these islands are uninhabited.
Yunlu Village did not set foot in the places where there were indigenous people, and directly handed them over to the new emperor to deal with. It was up to them whether they wanted to exchange supplies or have other plans.
The Yunlu Village hunting team mainly explored uninhabited islands.
Some islands are covered with coconut trees. The harvest from one island is greater than that from the three islands occupied by the village. Hundreds of thousands of coconuts can be harvested, and hundreds of coconut crabs have also been found.
For this island that he did not intend to occupy, Lu Xuan did not cut down the trees except for ripening the fruits. He left them for ripening next time and could obtain the same number of coconuts and coconut crabs, and continue to harvest for a long time.
On other islands, there are many palm trees and a bumper harvest of palm fruits.
Similarly, if the tree is not cut down, the tree heart cannot be obtained.
Fortunately, Lu Xuan already had a mutated palm tree, so he didn't have to worry about not having tree hearts to eat in the future.
Tropical fruits such as jackfruit, papaya, avocado, breadfruit, etc., which Lu Xuan had not yet found on some islands, were also discovered, adding a few more types of fruits to his collection.
The young and strong people who have reaped so much benefits are so happy that they don’t even want to go into business.
However, the truly valuable discoveries are the various mineral veins.
Not only did Lu Xuan from Yunlu Village provide mineral vein detectors, but several groups of people from the Western Continent also approached Lu Xuan to trade for detectors. As a result, various gold, silver, copper, gemstone, and jade mines were discovered one after another.
Among them, the gold, silver and copper mines, which served as ancient currencies, were not occupied by Yunlu Village after they were discovered, but were handed over to the new emperor.
In return, the new emperor promoted everyone in the hunting team.
Those who are not supernatural beings will be given an honorary title of fifth rank, and will receive a corresponding monthly salary after the disaster is over. They will also be granted 30 acres of land each.
For those with special abilities, the baron title will be promoted to viscount by one level, the viscount title will remain unchanged, but the rank will be raised by one level, and the salary and amount of land will be doubled.
The hunting team was overjoyed.
Gold and silver mines are indeed precious, but they all know that they cannot control such important veins.
Lu Xuan is strong, but he can't take on everything, otherwise they will take advantage of him for nothing.
Instead of coveting gold mines, it is better to take some more tangible and safer benefits.
What's more, in addition to the gold and silver mines, they also discovered a small ruby mine and an emerald mine.
Ruby mines have associated minerals such as spinel and zoisite, which are not as valuable as ruby mines. However, zoisite comes in various shades such as blue, purple, and pink, and can be made into jewelry in more styles than ruby.
Jadeite mines are also accompanied by water jade, which is similar to glass jadeite.
In terms of total value, gem mines are not necessarily worse than gold and silver mines.
After discovering these mineral veins, Lu Xuan also promised the audience in the live broadcast room that when he returned to the Western Continent to find craftsmen to make a batch of jewelry, he would give away a batch through a lottery in the live broadcast room, which made the audience, especially the female fans, so happy that they threw gifts at him.
Of course, not every uninhabited island has its rewards.
Some islands are completely desolate, with rocks and weeds covering the entire island. There are no other living things except for some barnacles and oysters that cling to the reefs and beaches, which can also be found elsewhere.
Some islands are full of dangers, with poisonous snakes and various poisonous spiders and ants everywhere. When the hunting team discovered them, they ran faster than rabbits.
Two months is neither long nor short. Apart from the time spent on the road, the time spent on inducing the growth, and the time required to collect all the fruits and pick up the minerals on the surface, Yunlu Village has only collected supplies from 15 islands in total.
Three of the gold and silver mines were handed over, two islands yielded less, and only ten islands were truly valuable.
And the climate has been constantly changing during this period.
The rain and wind were erratic, and there were two insect fogs.
Although everyone has experience and knows how to deal with these things, the frequent climate changes have indeed brought considerable obstacles to the exploration team.
The reason why the exploration was stopped after only two months was that according to the weather companion, there was another wave of submarine volcanic eruptions on the seabed, accompanied by a new tsunami impact.
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Island No. 1 in Yunlu Village, on the highest hillside on the island.
As soon as the time displayed by the weather companion arrived, the ground began to shake.
The villagers, who had experienced dozens of earthquakes, both large and small, bent down calmly to steady themselves. Even Wei Yunyun, who was only five years old, and Zhang Xiuxiu did not show any panic on their faces.
The adults protected the children while looking at the sea in the distance.
"The sea water is starting to recede!" Someone suddenly said.
Naturally, other people also saw this scene. At this time, the villagers who had been calm became a little worried.
The women, who had seen the entire continent submerged a few months ago, turned pale.
Miao Jinfeng said anxiously, "Will this kind of tsunami really not submerge the island? Otherwise, we should pack up the safe house first?"
The others also showed some hesitation on their faces.
Only Lu Xuan looked calm and composed, his eyes sweeping towards the wall surrounding the entire island that they had built after they returned a few days ago.
"Don't worry. The tsunami is predicted to be no higher than ten meters. The wall is fifteen meters high and two meters thick, which is enough to block the impact of the tsunami."
He had spent a lot of superpowers and crystal cores to build these walls. If they couldn't even withstand an ordinary tsunami, he, a level seven superpower user, would be completely disgraced.
Sure enough, when the ten-meter-high water wall rushed in and hit the wall hard, the wall that had been specially reinforced by Lu Xuan did not move at all. Except for the splashing water, there was no sign of large-scale sea water flowing in.
“It’s really blocked!”
"Very good!"
The villagers cheered, and young men like Zhang Chengming put their arms around each other's shoulders, patted each other's shoulders, and their faces were filled with joy.
Lu Xuan said that earthquakes and tsunamis will still occur every now and then in the future, but the scale will mostly be similar to this time. This means that they will no longer have to worry about the island being flooded. They will have to return to live on the cruise ship and live a nomadic life!
Who among the inland people can stand living at sea for a long time?
There is not just one tsunami wave, but the aftermath, like the aftermath of an earthquake, is much less powerful.
After confirming their safety, many villagers ran excitedly to the city wall, ready to watch the tsunami up close.
Lu Xuan found a quiet place to contact the Western Continent and ask about the situation there.
The city walls of the Western Continent were built earlier than theirs and employed more workers, but the area to be defended on the Western Continent was much larger than their island, and the walls that were finally built were not as strong and thick as the ones built by Lu Xuan using his supernatural powers.
Under the huge impact of the tsunami, a small part of the city wall was destroyed, and the newly built houses and mobile shelters nearby were also damaged.
Fortunately, these were within expectations. The new emperor moved the disaster victims from the periphery to the inland in advance, and no casualties were caused.
As long as no one is killed, any material loss is not worth mentioning at all.
Even though a devastating disaster had just occurred, many disaster victims in the Western Continent and the people of Yunlu Village celebrated with a sumptuous meal that night.
The celebration banquet started at noon and lasted until the evening before it gradually dispersed.
After the Lu family returned home, Lu Miaomiao cut a plate of fruit for them to help them relieve their greasy feeling.
Lu Qing and Lei Yan were still talking about the tsunami while eating. Halfway through, they saw that Lu Xuan had not said anything, so they turned their heads and found that he was holding a piece of jackfruit in his hand and seemed to be distracted.
Lu Qing understood and said, "Are you still thinking about the mutation?"
Lu Xuan looked up at her and said nothing.
"It's not a big deal if one or two fruits mutate quickly, but these fruits we found later all took only two days to complete the mutation. Something is clearly wrong."
Lei Yan guessed: "Could it be that your ability has improved again?"
Lu Chen also nodded in agreement. "Brother Dafu and I have both reached level three. Brother Dafu is much better than us, so he must have improved even more."
[You guessed wrong. The anchor's strength was level seven at the beginning, and two years later, it's still level seven, with no change.]
[It's not like there hasn't been any change. The host has acquired ten special abilities in the past two years. How can that not be considered an enhancement?]
[The blood of several high-level mutant beasts obtained from the Star Alliance has also significantly enhanced my strength! ]
[However, the wood-type ability is still at level seven, and there is indeed no significant improvement in the ability to induce mutations. The mutation rate of fruit trees such as coconuts and jackfruits is indeed abnormally fast.]
[Could this be a sign of a new disaster?]
Even if it's a new disaster, it's probably not a natural disaster. I can't tell from the Weather Companion, so I can't even guess.
[I do have a few guesses, but... maybe I'm overthinking it, so I'll keep it to myself.]
【??? Why are you deliberately keeping me in suspense? If you don't want to talk about it, then don't mention it!】
Ultimately, the speculation about the accelerated rate of fruit mutation came to nothing.
Lu Xuan didn't tell his family too much about his premonition, so as to avoid making them feel uneasy again and causing unnecessary anxiety.
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late at night.
After returning to the room, Lu Xuan opened the system background to check the data increase during this period.
Ever since he successfully bought the warship, Lu Xuan no longer cared much about these things.
But whether he cares or not, his online presence and number of fans are growing steadily.
In the more than four months since the end of the year, the maximum number of online users has increased from 22 billion to 25 billion, and the number of fans has increased by more than 200 million to more than 4.7 billion.
Not to mention the points, the transaction with the Western Continent is still going on. The first digit of the points has increased from 2 to 3, and it is not far from reaching 40 billion.
At the same time, this day once again achieved an achievement that was not too important but extremely meaningful.
[Achieve the achievement of 'Receive gifts totaling 100 billion star coins' and be rewarded with a military S-class mecha, reaching the highest achievement of this item.]
Not only is the performance of the rewarded mecha comparable to that of a master-level custom-made mecha, but the fact that he achieved a supreme achievement in less than two years is enough to be recorded in the history of plane anchors.
Even though Lu Xuan usually likes to tease the audience, he couldn't help but smile sincerely at the screen when he suddenly realized that the audience had given him so many gifts.
"I'm sorry for all the expense. In return, I'll draw another wave of points rewards today."
Lu Xuan usually draws lots, but today he drew 10 rounds in one go, totaling 1 billion, which is equivalent to 10 billion points.
There are a total of one million places, and each place can get a reward of 10,000 star coins.
As expected, the entire live broadcast room went crazy again. From the announcement of the lucky draw to the more than one draw every ten minutes, Lu Xuan's live broadcast room had another small peak in terms of online users and number of fans.
The audience was also extremely excited.
Ahhhhhh!!! I haven't won a prize in almost two years, but finally, I finally won! Woohoo!
[A direct lottery giving away 10 billion star coins. Which other anchor could be so generous? I'm so excited just watching it that I almost want to scream out loud.]
[Many people shared this on Xingbo, and the host has already been trending.]
[Well, even though I won a prize, I still feel a little guilty. Actually, I didn't give out that many gifts. Probably less than 10,000 Star Coins in total. If I had to say who contributed the most, it would be the big spenders on the leaderboard.]
[That's true. The gifts given by the top 100 alone total over 10 billion, just as generous as the streamers.]
Lu Xuan nodded in agreement. "The fans on the leaderboard have indeed made great sacrifices." He paused briefly and added, "I'll give an extra gift to the big fans I've hooked up with. The top thousand will all receive one."
Lu Xuan did not specifically select the categories. He simply added the rarer foods he had and several relatively fresh mutant fruits that he had recently obtained, and gave out a big food gift package, each weighing one thousand kilograms.
The main reason is that the mutant fruits are large in size and take up a relatively large amount of weight, but the actual number is not that large.
The audience who didn’t get the gifts were certainly envious of this, but when you think about how many star coins the big spenders spent, they deserve an extra gift.
As for Lu Xuan, he actually didn't lose anything.
Because these big fans were very generous, before the gift packages were delivered to them, many online big fans had already resold them and a large number of the most expensive "Glory Star Crowns" were dropped, allowing Lu Xuan's account, which had just shrunk by 1 billion yuan, to recover a large part of it.
But there is much more to the excitement tonight than just that.
After the draw, Lu Xuan went to buy daily necessities as usual, and was pleasantly surprised to find that a new batch of crystal cores had been added to the anchor mall.
The new ones this time were all high-level crystal cores, including an eighth-level crystal core that he had never encountered before, and a 'versatile' type that he could also absorb.
Lu Xuan's expression changed and he quickly clicked to buy.
Seeing the words "Purchase successful" appear in front of him, Lu Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, his brows full of joy.
Later, he noticed that there were still some level 6 and 7 crystal cores left, so he bought them as well.
The ones further down were probably sold out because there were many people in need and they were sold out before he could make a move.
Lu Xuan didn't care about this. As long as he could get the eighth-level crystal core, nothing else mattered.
The audience, who had not yet calmed down from the afterglow of the lottery, could not help but get excited again after seeing the eighth-level crystal core.
[Holy crap! Did I see that right? It's a level eight crystal core!]
[This is so rare. The anchor mall has been unlocked for so long, and this is the first time that a level 8 crystal core has been available, right?]
[It seems like five years have passed since I last saw a Level 8 Crystal Core from a host in another dimension who had unlocked the Host Mall.]
[Ahhh! The host got an eighth-level crystal core. Can he break through to the eighth level?! ]
[Just now I said the host's ability hadn't changed, and now it's going to be upgraded? That's too fast.]
Lu Xuan raised his eyebrows. Fast? He still thought it was too slow.
You have to know that he has been a level seven mutant for three years. Three years in the high-intensity living environment of the apocalypse is enough for him to reach the peak of level seven.
If he were still in the apocalypse, he could find more mutant plants and animals of the same level or even level eight, or challenge level eight zombies. Even without a level eight crystal core, he might be able to break through naturally.
Unfortunately, I accidentally changed the world and almost cut off my path to upgrading.
Now, he finally sees hope for promotion again.
However, the breakthrough was not 100% successful. After the tsunami during the day, Lu Xuan consumed a lot of his supernatural powers to reinforce the wall and has not recovered yet.
If you really want to make a breakthrough, you need to adjust your state and find the best time.
As for the present...
While Lu Xuan was still playing with the crystal-clear eighth-level crystal core that was incomparable to any other gem, a familiar temporary pop-up window popped up on the mall page.
【Holiday limited time sale】
Lu Xuan's expression paused slightly. He calculated the time and suddenly realized that it was indeed the day of the new year's holiday flash sales.
Lu Xuan became interested and carefully put away the level 8 crystal core, preparing to see what good things could be bought this year.
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