Chapter 83 Returning from Searching for Relatives
Lei Yan was shocked and asked, "Why are there so many clouds in the ground? Could it be that immortals have descended to earth?"
The livestream room erupted in laughter. "Sure enough, I misunderstood. This immortal descent is just dry ice."
Lu Xuan had been unconscious for two days and hadn't done any live streaming or opened any blind boxes. After waking up, he naturally wanted to compensate the audience and make up for the ones he hadn't drawn in the previous two days.
Apart from most of the duplicate items, the new items in the ordinary blind box include dry ice. After 200 draws, more than a dozen pieces were drawn, with the smallest being 5KG and the largest being 20KG.
The most profound use of this thing in the minds of ordinary people today is to create a stage effect, filled with smoke and fairy air.
There was no such demand in ancient times, but dry ice will quickly absorb heat after being poured with water, greatly reducing the surrounding ambient temperature. It can be used as an "outdoor air conditioner" in extremely hot seasons. It is cheap, effective, and very cost-effective.
With the "dry ice air conditioner", the villagers no longer have to suffer so much when farming.
Although it is impossible to spread the dry ice effect to the entire area, it is still completely possible to create a rest area for everyone.
Lei Yan marveled at the magic of dry ice, and then quickly got involved in weeding.
Lu Qing used her water-based abilities to fill the barrel with water.
After two days of experimentation, she had a rough idea of her ability threshold.
At present, her magic, or supernatural power level is only level one. In a day, she can only condense about 200 liters of water, which is about 20 barrels of modern bottled water.
It is not too much, but not too little either. It is enough for drinking and daily use, but it is not enough to water the fields five or six times a day.
What's more, this water is the daily amount that Lu Qing accumulates after it has been used up and recovered for an hour or so. In fact, only five barrels can be condensed at a time.
The main source of water for watering has to be filled from the stream and the waterfall using the large plastic buckets that Lu Xuan bought, which he then put in the space and brought back for use.
Although the use of superpowers is not great at the moment, Lu Qing will still try to use up all of her superpowers every day, because Lu Xuan said that this will help her improve her strength faster.
She also felt obvious progress in the past two days. For example, she could now condense more water at one time than on the first day... about one cup.
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At the fixed rest time agreed upon by everyone, the villagers gathered in groups of three or four to rest under the trees surrounded by dry ice.
Li Jing, Zhang Chengming, Xiong Mao and others took out several buckets of iced mung bean soup and popsicles of different colors in molds from the space.
The villagers took their empty bowls and each shared a bowl of mung bean soup to quench their thirst. They casually picked up a popsicle from the mold and took a bite of it, with a look of comfort and joy on their faces.
Lei Yan took an orange popsicle from his wife and took a bite. He was surprised: "It's so cold, and it tastes like orange. What is this? And the mung bean soup everyone is drinking, did Ah Xuan help to cool it?"
Lu Qing smiled and said, "Of course not. Ah Xuan can't take care of the food for the whole village." He has no obligation to do so.
"He got a new gadget from a deity a few days ago. It's called a refrigerator. Put food or water in it and it'll cool down in no time. It can even freeze water directly into ice. It's super convenient."
"Ah Xuan got two refrigerators in total. One is at home, and the other is given to the village. These days, the villagers freeze a lot of ice cubes every day and put them in the mung bean soup, which is both cool and refreshing."
"As for popsicles, they're actually just frozen juice. They're more convenient to eat than juice, and they're also cooler. Aren't they delicious?"
Lei Yan devoured a popsicle in two or three bites, nodding and sighing, "The gods have so many good things. Fortunately, we have this thing, otherwise the villagers would have suffered greatly."
When he woke up today, he clearly felt that the temperature was much higher than before he fell asleep, and it was indeed the case.
Today's minimum temperature is 40 degrees Celsius, and the maximum temperature is close to 50 degrees Celsius.
In the past, the villagers had no concept of degrees, but when Lu Xuan was chatting with Zhang Chengming and others, he would occasionally mention some new knowledge, and gradually everyone knew about it.
For example, in the past, they were used to summer temperatures of only 27 or 28 degrees Celsius, but now it's close to 50 degrees Celsius. What does that mean? That's double the temperature!
If there were no biological suits, most of the people in the village would have died of heat.
Even though most people working in the fields now wear biosuits, their faces and hands are still exposed.
Even with a straw hat and ice packs on, I still sweated profusely while working.
In the past two days, some frail elderly people and children in the village have shown signs of mild heatstroke. They basically do not go out during the day and have to drink mung bean soup every day to cool down.
People with special physical conditions like Ye Jing need to ask Lu Xuan to buy some anti-heat medicine to relieve the symptoms.
The villagers did hear from Lu Xuan that there was a higher version of the biological suit, but the price would be three times higher, and even the village chief's family would not be willing to exchange it for 150 kilograms of grain.
So until now, except for the Lu family of four, everyone still wears ordinary clothes.
After all, no matter how hot it is, it won’t kill people. It’s good enough to be able to survive the disaster period without starving. How can you expect to be more comfortable?
The disaster victims outside are probably suffering much more than them.
The villagers chatted while drinking cold drinks and eating popsicles.
Some talked about things in the fields, while others lamented the creek water which had become noticeably shallower in the past two days. Among them, Zhang Chengming mentioned an interesting story to Lei Yan, who had slept for two days and was not up to date with the news.
"Yesterday, Li Tuo was tired from work and had nothing better to do, so he cleaned his engineer shovel and dried it in the sun for a while. Then he greased it with oil and cracked an egg on it. Guess what happened? The egg was cooked in the blink of an eye! He could even use the engineer shovel as a pot!"
Lei Yan was surprised when he heard this, "It can be done this way? It does sound interesting." He couldn't help but want to try it.
Lu Xuan, who was sitting next to him, happened to see the audience's revelations on the barrage, and his expression couldn't help but become a little subtle.
Hahaha, has anyone seen the trending searches on Xingbo today? It's hilarious. Yesterday, someone imitated Li Tuo and tried to scramble mutant eggs, but ended up being poisoned by the smell and passed out, so they had to be rushed to the emergency room.
[Of course I saw it. That idiot thought it would be fine as long as he didn't eat it, but he underestimated the toxicity of the mutant egg. He didn't expect that even the taste was poisonous.]
[This level of silliness could easily make the annual list of confusing human behaviors.]
[Friendly advice: Children should not try this casually, as they may die if they try.]
Lu Xuan: As expected, there are always people who like to seek death in every era.
The villagers chatted about some other gossip.
Suddenly, someone said, "It's so hot now, I don't know if those who went out to look for their relatives will be okay."
The others paused for a moment, and after a quick calculation, realized that those people had been gone for six or seven days. They should have found a place after so many days, right?
If he was going fast, he might already be on his way back.
As soon as everyone arrived and the topic started, someone hurried over and shouted to them, "They're back! The people who came down the mountain are back!"
Everyone was shocked, and several people stood up suddenly in excitement.
Lu Qing asked with concern, "I wonder if they found the person successfully."
Lu Xuan didn't say anything, but observing the unpleasant expression on the visitor's face, he had some guesses in his mind.
This guess was confirmed when we returned to the cave and saw several people lying in a row with haggard faces, looking like they had lost half their life.
The women from several families were hurriedly feeding their men the summer heat-reducing medicine they had exchanged from the village chief, while asking Zhao Yong, the son of Old Zhao, the only one who was still energetic, what had happened.
Li Tie asked in a deep voice, "You guys couldn't find anyone?"
Zhao Yong said with a bitter face: "We didn't find Baisong Town at all."
The surrounding villagers were shocked. "How could they not find it? Could it be that even Baisong Town was buried by the earthquake?"
"No." Zhao Yong explained what happened with a somewhat embarrassed expression.
The villagers thought that they were in such a mess because they were devastated by not finding the person, but the actual situation was that they turned back halfway before they even reached the destination!
At first they did follow the direction they had taken up the mountain.
But when they went up the mountain, they were led by Lu Xuan, and they didn't remember the way at all. The mountain road was rugged and the vegetation was dense. On the second day of their departure, they started to go astray and lost their direction.
On the third day, the ground shook and the earthquake came again. The people who had psychological trauma from earthquakes were frightened and wanted to retreat.
But before they could turn around, they encountered a group of wild boars that were also frightened and rushing around. They fled in a hurry and didn't know where to go. Soon they were completely lost.
The temperature continued to rise in the following days, and one biological suit was not enough to change into. The use time of ice patches was greatly shortened in high temperatures. We were lost in the mountains for two days, and the condition of several older uncles became worse and worse, and they almost lost the ability to move.
Today, Zhao Yong gritted his teeth and put them in a shady place and went out to find the way alone.
If he hadn't been lucky enough to find a familiar direction and meet someone who went out hunting today to help carry the person back, let alone find the person, they themselves might have died in the mountains.
The villagers listened in silence, and the live broadcast room was filled with question marks and silence.
They were willing to morally blackmail the anchor to go out and find their daughter. I thought they were so determined, but this is the result?
After all the trouble, I ended up finding nothing.
The group used practical actions to set an example for the other people in the village, letting them understand how vulnerable they, a group of newbies, would be during the disaster period without Lu Xuan's protection.
Zhao Yong's father had relatively mild symptoms among those lying down. He only had a mild heatstroke. He recovered in a short while after taking some cooling medicine.
Next were Zhou Yunshan, who had a heat cold, and Sun Dahai and He Laoer, who had moderate heatstroke. The latter two lay down for more than half an hour before they recovered.
The faces of the few people who regained consciousness were filled with embarrassment and shame, and they obviously felt that the outcome of their ordeal was very disgraceful.
When Li Tie asked them, "Do you want to find someone else?"
Several people shook their heads in unison, "Forget it, let's take care of ourselves first. If something really happens to our daughter, it's her life."
They can't really ignore their surviving relatives and their own lives.
Li Tie was not surprised by this and said nothing. He patted Zhou Yunshan on the shoulder and said, "We have reclaimed wasteland in the mountains. You can take a few days off and then farm with your family."
"Clearing land?" The topic of farming unsurprisingly diverted several people's attention.
When the villagers said that Lu Qing and Lei Yan also possessed magical powers, and that the villagers could now drink cold drinks and eat popsicles every day, they were all shocked and opened their mouths wide.
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