Chapter 14: Desert Survival?
“It’s here, it’s here!”
“It’s finally open!”
“Do you really not care about the office workers? Live streaming at nine o’clock every morning!”
“Don’t be afraid, the boss is watching too!”
“Laughing to death, just received a notification, the morning meeting is postponed by an hour.”
“Don’t, the Streamer can’t get it up in the morning, he’ll be limp in half an hour.”
“Live streaming so late every day, don’t you want our Western market?”
“This damn thing doesn’t even have a tip button, what’s the use of your Western market?”
“I suggest the Congress order, no live streaming on the light screen within the country.”
“If you have the ability, don’t watch, no one is begging you to watch, Dongfeng 81 is Number One Under Heaven.”
……
As time passed, Qi Xuan’s familiar face quickly appeared in the Live Stream Room, as energetic as ever, in excellent condition, even his pupils were clear black and white, crystal clear, and completely unable to see any frustration and despondency from being trapped in the wilderness.
“It’s a new day, good morning everyone.”
“When we ended the Live Stream last night, the Netizens who were following my Live Stream should have seen that giant Octopus monster.”
“I might as well tell you the truth, after I ended the Live Stream, I did prepare to go and see the situation, weigh the Octopus monster, but when I got close to the Swamp, I suddenly realized that I can’t swim, it would be too disadvantageous to fight it, if someone throws me into the water, I can’t breathe at all.
If you have the ability, let it come to land and fight me, I guarantee I’ll beat it into Octopus balls, each person in the Live Stream Room gets a pound, two pounds for each person who bets on my victory, and I’ll eat the rest myself.
So, it’s not that I don’t want to give you a wonderful battle, it’s really impossible, let it live for a while longer.”
Hearing Qi Xuan’s righteous declaration, the Netizens all burst into laughter:
“He really thinks he can win 【 Zhen Zidan points at someone 】.”
“With your win rate, I really can’t stand on your side.”
“Octopus-ge heard it, and held a swimming class overnight, teaching the Streamer how to breathe.”
“Laughing to death, he even thought about keeping the rest for himself after dividing it among the audience, our Giant Octopus is ten times bigger and it’s not enough to share.”
……
“Okay, let’s stop the idle talk here.”
Qi Xuan clapped his hands and said seriously:
“Everyone has seen the situation in the West, with that Octopus monster guarding it, it’s temporarily impossible to continue exploring.
In fact, even without the Octopus monster, I don’t really recommend going to that Swamp, God knows if there are even more terrifying things hidden underneath, I can’t summon a Missile, I suggest everyone stay as far away as possible.”
“So let’s change direction today and explore towards the East.”
“The road to the West is blocked, can’t the East also have this thing?”
He picked up a Wooden Stick as he spoke and walked towards the East.
The East might be deeper into the Forest, and along the way were endless Twin-Born Trees, intertwined in black and white, as if they had become the only colors in the world, even the weeds on the ground were sparse and white.
In this empty Forest, Qi Xuan walked for a long time, but still didn’t find anything, not to mention Insects and small animals, he didn’t even find any edible plant tubers, compared to the West, this side was too desolate.
But he could also understand this desolation, the Twin-Born Trees have always been very overbearing, the toxins they secrete seep into the surrounding soil, and few other plants can grow, so in the Territory of the Twin-Born Trees, it is always rare to see other plants.
Fortunately, this Forest wasn’t as vast as imagined.
After walking for more than forty minutes, he was almost out.
It’s just that after coming out, the situation was still very bad.
There were indeed no Twin-Born Trees nearby, but it was Gravel Ground.
Plants were even rarer than in the Forest of the Twin-Born Trees, and only a small cluster could be seen occasionally.
Looking around, it was a whole gray-yellow dead silence.
Seeing this, Qi Xuan was still calm, but the Netizens couldn’t hold back.
“Damn, what a terrain change?”
“One second from Forest survival to Desert survival.”
“I thought the West was dangerous enough, but this East, he can’t survive at all.”
“There’s nothing to eat, and no water to be found, if we continue to walk, won’t we be thirsty to death?”
“Although this place isn’t a Desert, the environment is similar to a Desert, the key is, no one knows how big its coverage is, once you walk far, you may get lost in it, and it will be difficult to leave then.”
“Streamer, go back quickly, there are many people who disappear every year in the uninhabited area because they get lost, and this place can’t be marked at all.”
“Even if you fight fiercely with the Giant Octopus, it’s better than starving to death in the sand.”
……
But no matter how the Netizens advised, Qi Xuan couldn’t see it.
Even if he saw it, he wouldn’t listen.
If this is a part of getting out of being trapped, he must at least try it out.
Perhaps this Gravel Ground isn’t as vast as imagined, perhaps the other end of the Gravel Ground is the Colony of the Natives.
And he’s not without support, as a Cultivator, his vitality is far stronger than ordinary people, especially after awakening the 【Refining Essence】 ability, even if he eats sand to survive, he can still last for ten days and a half months.
The situation isn’t as bad as imagined.
What’s more…
Qi Xuan walked into the sandy ground, and suddenly stopped.
He squatted down, and after scratching at the slightly brownish stones, he actually dug out several gray “potatoes” from the sand pit.
“But this isn’t a potato, but a kind of mushroom, called Bubble mushroom, the round part you see is its cap, and there are short stems that are almost hidden underneath, so don’t get it wrong, this is a real mushroom.”
Qi Xuan wiped the sand off the surface of the Bubble mushroom, and then took out a piece of tissue paper to wipe it carefully, and swallowed his saliva:
“I heard that this Bubble mushroom is very rare, and the taste is extremely delicious, not even a thousand gold can buy it, I’m going to taste how delicious it is today.”
Saying that, he bit off half of the cap, and then slowly chewed, it was visible to the naked eye that the expression on his face became extremely enjoyable, every hair was telling of joy, telling of satisfaction.
“Too good!”
“It’s really too good!”
After Qi Xuan swallowed the Bubble mushroom, he said with emotion:
“This deliciousness far exceeds everything I’ve ever eaten in my life.”
“I’ve eaten a lot of good things in my life, abalone, truffle, caviar, Wagyu beef, bird’s nest, king crab, and so on, in terms of deliciousness, there is no other, it’s really not even a thousand gold can buy.”
“You may not be able to understand my feelings now, how should I describe it to you, right!”
Qi Xuan suddenly thought of something, and his eyes lit up:
“In my Hometown Jiang City, there is a Baozi Shop on Huayang Road, with a red sign, called HuHu Baozi Shop, their Mushroom and Bok Choy Bun, is about eighty percent as delicious as this Bubble mushroom, I often went to buy it with my Classmate when I was in school, if you want to experience it, you can go and try it.
Remember it’s the red sign, next door is a green sign HuHu Baozi Shop, their big meat buns use pork scraps, it’s disgusting to death, I ate a lymph node the first time I ate it.
The boss is even more mean and unkind, I almost got beaten out with a rolling pin when I went to ask for an explanation, so I never bought their buns again.”
Qi Xuan looked at his watch and then said:
“The morning Live Stream time is almost up, let me rest for a while, we’ll continue in the afternoon.”
Saying that, he casually closed the Live Stream Room.
He was completely unaware of the impact that those remarks had on Blue Star.
