Chapter 277 Jinjiang Exclusive Release
Barrage:
[Wow! Is this drone footage from the wild?]
[Wow! All the plants and animals have mutated! This is exciting!]
Isn't this an ancient live broadcast? Why are there only mutant creatures?
[Wow, is this the legendary anchor with the ability to copy? Can you show me your ability?]
[New fans are a little behind the times, but I'm also curious. Given the ancient environment, how could the entire region suddenly mutate?]
Could it be caused by the unknown components in the volcanic ash brought out by the previous volcanic eruption? 】
Lu Xuan nodded to the new emperor, signaling him to observe the projected screen, while casually interacting with the audience, "It might not just be the volcanic ash. There have been many anomalies before, including the oversized fish and shrimp, and the rapid mutation rate when promoting breadfruit and coconut trees. These might all be signs."
If you think about it a little more, after several consecutive extreme hot periods, it is unknown how much the glaciers in the Arctic and Antarctic have melted, otherwise the sea water would not have remained for so long after the tsunami.
No one can say for sure whether there is a virus lurking in the glacier that could cause biological mutations.
But he is not a scientist, so the exact reason is not important. The most important thing is how to ensure human survival in such an environment.
When the new emperor, Marquis Weiyuan and others asked Lu Xuan, the latter told them the same thing.
"I'm not a god. Even if I knew the cause, I can't reverse the mutations. Instead of dwelling on the cause of their mutation, I should think about how to arrange travel for the victims and minimize casualties."
The madness of the fish is only temporary, and going out to sea or not is only a short-term choice. However, the large-scale mutations faced by animals and plants are not something that can be endured for a while.
There is no point in escaping, you can only face it.
Everyone looked disappointed.
The new emperor quickly recovered after feeling lost, nodding in agreement and saying, "Marquis Yunxian is right. It's better to rely on yourself than on others."
Afterwards, the ministers discussed how to minimize the threat posed by these mutated animals and plants, and whether to send soldiers to carry out cleanup work on a regular basis.
During this period, Lu Xuan also gave some suggestions, um, some summaries of everyone's experience in dealing with mutated animals and plants at the end of the world.
The audience in the live broadcast room continued to express their feelings while watching.
[Sigh, I have mixed feelings. In ancient times, the environment was excellent, and everything we ate and drank was pure and natural. Now, things have changed. My pure land is gone! Woo woo woo!]
I thought after more than two years, the ancients wouldn't suffer any more mass casualties. But judging by the situation, they still have a long way to go.
[A serious question suddenly occurred to me! The mutated plants and animals of the Star Alliance are inedible. Ancient creatures have also mutated. Could it be that they won't be edible anymore?]
【??? What nonsense are you talking about! It's impossible!】
[Don't be such a pessimist! The Ancients and the Star Alliance are still different!]
[That's right! In the apocalypse livestream I watched before, people there still ate mutant beast meat, the only difference was that it tasted a little sour.]
Those who were worried that the ancient mutant creatures were inedible only accounted for less than one-tenth of the tens of billions of viewers in the entire live broadcast room, but it was still not a small number.
As a result, a series of debates quickly broke out on the barrage.
Lu Xuan originally had no intention of intervening, but when he was leaving after the meeting with the new emperor and others, he received a message from the village.
Got some bad news.
He paused for a moment and said to the audience, "I'm afraid your guess is about to come true."
Audience: ???
Lu Xuan: "The meat of the mutant beast has indeed changed."
Audience:!!!
Lu Xuan answered Li Tie's call and asked about the details in person.
Li Tie pointed at Chen Rong standing next to him and said, "This is quite a coincidence. Didn't you guys clear out all the mutant beasts on the island earlier? The village is basically safe now. The Western Continent is busy clearing out the mutant creatures and has no time to bother with the hunting team. These guys are just sitting around getting bored, so Chen Rong suddenly had the urge to try these mutant animals and see if they're still edible."
As soon as the idea was put forward, it was agreed by the rest of the hunting team.
However, the appearance of the mutant beast was different from the original one. They were not stupid, so they borrowed an animal testing instrument from Lei Yan to test whether there was any problem with the meat.
Well, they guessed it right!
Lu Xuan asked: "Is the meat poisonous?"
Li Tie shook his head. "Not really. We just took some of the common animal meat we had in stock and compared it, and found that the composition was quite different. Furthermore, some of the meat was clearly freshly processed, but it gave off a strange odor that didn't smell good. It didn't smell good at all."
Lu Xuan: "So you didn't eat any meat in the end?"
"I ate it anyway." Chen Rong came forward and said, "The meat is out. As long as it's not poisonous, how can I not try it?"
Lu Xuan looked at the troubled expressions of Chen Rong and the others around him and asked, "How does it feel then?"
Chen Rong had a face full of bitterness and resentment: "It tastes terrible, sour and bitter. Some of it even gives you diarrhea. I've never eaten such awful animal meat in my life."
Wild boar meat and wolf meat mostly have a strong fishy smell and a rough texture, especially the internal organs, which are so smelly that they are impossible to eat, and they still smell bad no matter how you clean them.
But the taste of these mutant beasts is even worse!
He almost vomited from eating it.
The audience in the live broadcast room were heartbroken after hearing this.
[No way, no way, could it really be true?!?]
"Are our days of enjoying delicious meals every day truly over? Nooo ...
[No, no, no, calm down! Even if the mutant beast meat is inedible, isn't there still plenty of original beast meat stored in the anchor space from the beast raids? There's more than enough to eat.]
"But no matter how much we stockpile, we'll eventually run out. If we're only going out and not getting in, we'll have to focus on our own food. There won't be any more animal meat in the lottery, right? Then I guess my dream of eating meat in real life will be shattered!"
[Shattered Dream +1]
Lu Xuan remained calm and said, "Don't jump to conclusions too soon. There are only a few herbivorous species on the island, so we can't be completely sure."
Since some meat tastes bitter and some tastes sour, how can we be sure that other meats still retain their original taste?
In the end times, not all mutant beast meat is edible.
After Lu Xuan told the new emperor the news, the latter immediately ordered people to classify some of the mutant beasts obtained today according to different species and bring the processed meat over.
When the leaders of each town learned that there might be problems with the meat, they did not rush back, but stayed to wait for the results, looking quite worried.
According to the results of drone investigation, not all animals have mutated.
However, the non-mutated beasts have almost no ability to resist the mutated beasts. As time goes by, the number of non-mutated beasts will continue to decrease.
It can be foreseen that if they want to continue eating meat in the future, they will probably have to get it from mutant beasts.
If the meat of mutant beasts really can't be eaten...
The meat was delivered quickly, including chicken, rabbit, venison, wolf, mutton, snake... there were more than ten kinds in total.
Lu Xuan used multiple testing machines and asked others to help with the testing. He also used ordinary animal meat for comparison.
It turns out that the difference in ingredients between the two is indeed huge, and not all of them are truly non-toxic.
For example, one of the venomous snakes.
Logically speaking, poisonous snakes only contain toxins in their venom sacs, so if you cut off the head, the snake meat is mostly safe.
However, the mutant venomous snake is poisonous all over its body. Not only is its meat poisonous, but even its skin will cause dense red rashes when touched.
As for other non-toxic meats, the obviously smelly meat can basically be discarded, and the remaining meat without any peculiar smell can be simply cooked and then sent over for tasting one by one.
“So sour.”
"The wolf meat I use in this dish is bitter."
"Rabbit meat is also sour. It might be edible if you add some heavy ingredients, but the taste is really not that good."
The ministers tasted and commented on the food.
Suddenly, someone exclaimed, "This stewed mutton is delicious! It's more tender than any mutton I've ever had, and it doesn't have any fishy smell at all!"
When the others heard this, they immediately reached out for their chopsticks.
Weiyuan Hou said in amazement, "It's really good. Although it lacks a bit of chewiness, it tastes much better than ordinary mutton."
Others also praised the food and said thankfully, "Fortunately not all meat tastes bad."
Later they ate roe deer meat that tasted the same as before. The texture was slightly inferior, but the mutant pork was still edible.
After one round of eating, everyone had a rough idea of what was going on.
To sum up, some of the meat of mutant animals can be eaten while others cannot, some taste good while others do not.
About half of them are inedible, about 20% to 30% are poisonous, and the rest are edible, which are divided into two different grades: ordinary and delicious.
Even if it is the same lamb, not all of them are delicious. Some taste unsatisfactory or even sour.
In short, it’s just like opening a blind box. Except for the smelly or poisonous meat, you will never know what the rest will taste like until you put it in your mouth.
In order to prevent problems with food in the future, Western Continent replaced a lot of ingredient detectors with Lu Xuan.
The audience in the live broadcast room breathed a sigh of relief after eating a round.
[Luckily, it’s not like we can’t eat anything, so the benefits of eating live broadcasts in the future are still guaranteed.]
[Emm... How should I put it, my mood is a bit complicated. ]
[Same complexity. We can't eat mutant beast meat, so we'll have fewer good things to eat in the future. But now that we can eat it, it's a bit unpleasant.]
[I understand! Why can't we eat the mutant beasts from the Star Alliance, but we can eat the ones on the host's side?!]
[That's right! Mutant beasts are generally large. A single mutant rabbit can weigh over a hundred pounds, and high-level mutant beasts can easily weigh several thousand pounds. It would be such a waste if we couldn't eat all that meat!]
Lu Xuan looked indifferent after seeing the barrage.
Don't waste food? That's just wishful thinking.
The only ones that cannot be eaten are humans, and the mutant beasts can eat each other to fill their stomachs.
Even if it is toxic, breaking down into nutrients to nourish the earth is not a way to give back to nature.
Humans cannot eat meat, but nutrients can still be extracted from mutant animals. Can't their fur be used to make armor and other tools?
You have already gained a lot of benefits, so you should be content.
In addition to the animal meat, Lu Xuan went out in the afternoon to look for some mutated wild fruit trees, as well as some mutated mushrooms as big as washbasins, and mutated wild vegetables as tall as weeds. He also brought back some for testing and tasting.
Like animal meat, the taste of these foods is as strange as opening a blind box, and they are inedible. More than half of them are unpalatable.
The old viewers in the live broadcast room all felt a little sympathetic towards the new fans who were attracted by the recommendations today.
In the past, they had followed the anchor to taste a lot of delicious food and drinks, but the new fans were in a hurry and could only eat these weird mutant animal meats, which was miserable.
After a busy day, Lu Xuan felt a little sorry for these new audiences. When he settled in Beijing at night, he took out a lot of delicious food from his stock.
Stir-fried vegetarian dishes, cold dishes, meat dishes, and several top-notch seafood dishes were a feast for the inundated new audience, and some passers-by who had originally just come in to watch the fun decisively clicked to follow.
Today happened to be the time for the audience to draw evolution liquid as usual. Lu Xuan looked at the recommended time and saw that there was still more than half an hour left. In order to improve the effect, he added a lot of other lottery items.
Points, the ordinary animal meat that everyone is concerned about, as well as mutant food, mutant fruits, etc. are all arranged.
After the lottery carnival was over, the physical rewards were all sent over and the first round of the lottery also ended.
The total number of online users exceeded 40 billion, and the number of fans reached more than 6.5 billion, an increase of 1.5 billion in half a day, and the balance reached more than 50 billion.
A viewer told Lu Xuan that his ranking in the plane anchor rankings jumped from 35 to 20+, and the screen projection effect was neither terrible nor horrible.
This is only half the effect. After the craze subsides after a while, I will find an opportunity to complete the second round. If all goes well, I may be able to directly enter the top ten.
Although this ranking does not have any actual rewards, it is better to rank high than low.
The next day.
Lu Xuan traded a batch of weapons, medicines, gas masks and protective clothing to various towns and then returned to the island.
After learning about the mutant creatures, the hunting team quickly perked up and started hunting.
Ordinary wild beasts have long been no match for them, and it is not as easy to fight fish in the sea as on land. Now that they have many mutant beasts with improved combat effectiveness, they can improve their strength in battle.
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