Chapter 150 Jinjiang Exclusive
Because the water flow was too fast, it was impossible to determine how far the lotus leaves were washed. Lu Xuan and others walked around the water where the lotus leaves were found for nearly an hour before they roughly determined the range.
However, determining the location does not mean that you can dig lotus roots.
The water here is at least seven or eight meters or even ten meters deep. The lotus roots are buried under the mud, so it is simply unrealistic to dig them out.
[Can't the anchor just buy a few diving suits? ]
[I'm afraid that won't work. The water's so muddy, I can't see clearly down there.]
【And the water was so fast that it was washed away in an instant.】
【Tie a rope.】
Lu Xuan said: "No need to go through so much trouble."
He activated his wood-related abilities and brought out the blood-sucking vines that had not been released for a long time.
Dozens of vines continued to explore underwater, and the touch of the vines was connected to Lu Xuan. Lu Xuan soon "touched" something that looked like a lotus stalk at the bottom.
Lu Xuan moved his fingers, controlling the vines to break through the underwater mud and dig below. After digging up the lotus root, he rolled it up and pulled it up.
Zhang Chengming looked at the dark brown object wrapped in the vampire vine and said excitedly, "There really is a lotus root!"
Lu Xuan took the half-broken lotus root in his hand and frowned.
The roots of the lotus root grew in the mud, and his vision was obstructed, so he couldn't control the strength and angle well. The lotus root he rolled up only had two sections, and it was broken in half. The broken end was dirty with mud and water, and it looked unappetizing.
He controlled the other vines and dug up a few more lotus roots. Without exception, none of them were complete, and the best one only had four sections rolled up.
But he remembered that the longest lotus roots he had seen before had up to eight or nine nodes.
Even if the lotus root varieties in ancient times were inferior, there shouldn't be only this much.
He looked at the water surface and it seemed that he could not expect to bring up all the lotus roots with the vampire vines.
He asked the others to wait where they were while he drove the fishing boat around. During the process, the vampire vines continued to expand their exploration range underwater and finally determined that the lotus roots were distributed over an area of about twenty acres.
He had never learned about the yield of this crop before or after the apocalypse, but considering that a lotus root has nodes, the yield should not be too small, at least two or three thousand kilograms, right?
If you use vampire vine to break it, the loss will be too great.
Still need to go into the water to harvest manually.
After returning to meet up with the others, Lu Xuan expressed this idea.
The others looked at each other.
Zhang Chengming asked, "Can't your vampire vine be used to break lotus roots apart? Are you having any trouble?"
Lu Xuan padded the half lotus root in his hand and said, "Using the vampire vine to break it will cause huge losses. There are more than 20 mu of lotus roots here. We can probably dig 1,800 kilograms of lotus roots per mu. Using the vampire vine, we may only be able to dig 400 to 500 kilograms per mu."
Chen Rong was shocked: "Half an acre lost? That's too much of a loss!"
Such a huge loss for one acre, what about the more than twenty acres... everyone had a painful expression on their face.
No, they can't accept such a huge loss!
Wu Yang frowned and said, "But the flood is too fast. I'm afraid we'll be swept away soon if we go down."
Lu Xuan glanced at the number of fans in the system background, which was getting closer and closer to 100 million. "Then drain all the water."
Everyone: “???”
Live broadcast audience: ???
Pump out the water?
How to draw?
Lu Xuan did not answer, but directly showed them how to draw with practical actions.
"Everyone, move back a little and clear an acre of land."
The others didn't understand what was going on, so they kayaked a little further away out of curiosity.
After Lu Xuan retracted the vampire vine, he placed his hands on the water surface. The supernatural power in his body surged wildly into his palms, and under the horrified gaze of everyone, he quickly drained the large area of water in front of him.
Watching the flood in the one-acre area they had cordoned off rapidly decreasing at a rate of one meter with every breath, gradually revealing the lotus stems hidden underwater that were still barely remaining under the impact of the flood, as well as the mud layer at the bottom, Zhang Chengming, Wu Yang and others all widened their eyes, their expressions as if they had seen a god.
"I'm not dreaming..."
"Drain it all!!!"
"This, this is too exaggerated!"
"Can water-based abilities be so powerful?!"
Xiong Mao was stunned.
He had always thought that water-based abilities were of little use except for providing water during extremely hot seasons.
Even if he could attack with water balls, could their power compare to fire and his earth spikes?
After seeing what Lu Xuan did, I realized that the strength of supernatural powers depends on how they are used.
[Ahhh! The host is awesome!]
[Holy crap! Can you give me a warning before you do something next time? I almost had a heart attack.]
[666, draining an acre of land over a disagreement is pretty cool! I really bow down to the anchor!]
[Hiss! How much superpowers must be consumed to drain such a large amount of water? The strength of high-level superpower users is really a bit outrageous.]
Lu Xuan did not stop there. After pumping out the water, he used his earth-based ability to erect a thick earth wall around to resist the impact of the water flow.
The earthen wall couldn't last long, but it was enough for them to dig up all the lotus roots.
Lu Xuan opened the clothing category of the system mall and bought about a hundred pairs of rubber boots. He put on one pair himself and threw the rest to Zhang Chengming for them to divide. He jumped onto the muddy ground in front of him and used his earth-based ability on the ground again, turning over the entire muddy ground.
Then he looked up and waved to the others, "You can start digging."
Everyone: “!!!”
…
Inside the earth wall.
More than twenty young men in rubber boots were digging enthusiastically in the muddy ground.
"Wow! This lotus root is so long!" Chen Rong dug out a lotus root that was almost as tall as him, with a look of surprise on his face.
Zhang Chengming from next door dug out a short and fat one right after that, "Hahaha, mine is thicker than yours!"
“I dug it up too.”
"There's one here too, I felt it!"
With Lu Xuan's help in turning the soil in advance, the difficulty of digging lotus roots was greatly reduced, and everyone gradually reaped a harvest.
Seeing the tangible results, everyone's spirits grew higher and higher.
The harvest was not just lotus roots. After the flood was drained, many fish, shrimps and crabs were left on the ground that had no time to swim away.
This season is the season for eating crabs. The crabs are all big and fat.
As they dug, everyone kept talking about Lu Xuan's feat, and their eyes couldn't help but look at the surrounding earth walls, their eyes full of admiration.
Lu Xuan looked at the efficiency of the others and felt that at this rate, it would be impossible to dig up all the lotus roots today. He simply used the communicator to contact the village chief and briefly explained the situation, and then asked Lei Yan District to pick up some people.
Soon, a new group of laborers arrived at the lotus root digging site.
In addition to the collection team who were taking a break today, some members of the guard team also came, including newcomers such as Ji Xiuling and Lin Qingfu.
Everyone, whether they were newcomers or former villagers who had never seen such a scene, were stunned when they saw the separate and isolated site for digging dolls.
Water-based ability users like Lu Qing and Lin Man had their eyes bright as light bulbs and couldn't help but sigh.
"That's amazing! When can I achieve this level?"
The new labor force was amazed for a long time before joining the ranks of digging for partners.
With more than one-third of the village population working together, efficiency instantly increased by more than double, and the lotus roots, fish and shrimps from an acre of land were quickly harvested.
Lu Xuan quickly drained new waters.
The newcomers saw the entire operation with their own eyes and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
Only at this moment did Ji Xiuling deeply realize what kind of extraordinary organization she had associated with.
While the villagers were busy digging lotus roots, the audience in the broadcast room were still discussing:
[Since the anchor can separate the flood, why didn't he use this trick when catching fish before? ]
Are you serious? Even though the host seems to be doing it easily, separating the flood definitely consumes a lot of energy. People in the village go out fishing every day. Does that mean the host has to use up a lot of energy every day?
[The catch is less than the energy consumed. Does the anchor look like someone who would do such a losing business?]
[That's certainly not the case.]
【He is not! 】
[It was only because we gained so much this time that the host was willing to give a big push.]
Lu Xuan, who was paying attention to whether there were any cracks in the earth wall, glanced at the barrage and raised his eyebrows.
The high returns are indeed part of the reason, but more importantly it is to give this group of excitement-loving audiences some content they like and to increase their statistics.
Lu Xuan looked at the background data.
So far, the results are very good.
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More than fifty people dug for most of the day and finally returned home with a full load of lotus roots, fish and shrimps from more than twenty acres of land.
After returning to his residence, Lu Xuan, who was responsible for harvesting lotus roots, took out all the harvest of the day on the few open spaces on the hills. A mountain of lotus roots instantly appeared in front of the villagers.
"So many!?" The villagers who stayed behind were surprised and happy.
"This must weigh tens of thousands of pounds!"
The final weight was more than they expected.
A total of 20,000 kilograms!
The average yield per mu is 800 kilograms!
Lotus roots buried in the mud will basically not be washed away by floods. If nothing unexpected happens, this yield is the normal yield of lotus roots in this era.
It was much lower than expected, and Lu Xuan felt a little disappointed.
The villagers, however, didn't dislike it at all.
This is a harvest of 20,000 kilograms. Looking at the entire hottest season, the harvest is only comparable to that from discovering wild sweet potato fields and digging bamboo shoots in bamboo forests. What is there to dislike?
They were so happy that they couldn't contain themselves.
Besides lotus roots, there were also a lot of fish caught, including thousands of kilograms of various fish, more than 600 kilograms of shrimps, and 500 kilograms of crabs!
When the villagers calculated how much each family would get, their mouths were almost split with laughter.
The audience in the live broadcast room are also beautiful.
They were even thinking about what delicious food they could make with the harvest.
Li Tie knew that everyone was waiting anxiously, so he distributed the harvest without wasting any time.
Each family received at least 70 to 80 kilograms of lotus root and 8 kilograms of fish, shrimp and crabs. Some families received more than 400 kilograms of lotus root and 40 to 50 kilograms of fish, shrimp and crabs.
Lu Xuan and the public supplies received even more, occupying half of the total, including several thousand kilograms of lotus roots and four to six hundred kilograms of fish, shrimp and crabs.
After the supplies were distributed, Lu Xuan immediately exchanged the shrimps and crabs in the public supplies, increasing the shrimps and crabs in his hands to 550 kilograms.
The newly dug lotus roots were covered with mud, and even after some of it was washed away by rain, they were still very dirty.
The families who were given lotus roots did not rush to put away the dirty lotus roots, but started cleaning them in batches on the spot.
Everyone else had to wash the lotus roots by hand, but it was convenient for Lu Xuan. He simply used his water and wind abilities and washed thousands of kilograms of lotus roots in no time.
The villagers looked at him with envy but did not ask him for help. Instead, they washed the clothes by hand.
After washing the lotus roots, it was already past the Lu family's usual dinner time.
Lu Qing asked Lu Xuan: "What are we having for dinner tonight? Should we just make do with the dishes that are already in the space?"
Lu Xuan pointed to the fish, shrimp, crab and a lotus root that he had specially left out, and said, "We'll have a river fish feast tonight."
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