The audience in the Livestream Room.
No one knew what had happened.
They only saw her stand up, then sway, and collapse to the ground again, curling into a ball as if she had suffered an even more intense impact than during her earlier fight with the Mutated Plant.
Her head throbbed with excruciating pain from the sonic attack.
After a long while.
Lu Liuhe finally opened her eyes and said weakly, “There are other people in the Planting Base who have encountered attacks from Aberrant Species like me. The base he was in initiated a self-destruct mode.”
【What exactly is the self-destruct mode?】
Lu Liuhe said, “It’s similar to being exposed to thermal nuclear radiation within five hundred meters. Everything vaporizes instantly. People won’t feel any pain, and there’s no radiation contamination.”
As she spoke, she simply lay on the ground, pointing at the ceiling, and said, “The base uses special high-explosive materials for construction, embedded with nanobots. If they detect a C-Class or higher Mutated Plant, they trigger a self-destruct countdown.”
A Bullet Comment asked.
【Can’t you escape?】
Lu Liuhe shook her head: “No, you can’t. See this? It’s like a giant coffin. Once a Mutated Plant is detected, the base enters lockdown mode—no one can enter or leave unless you eliminate the Mutated Plant or go ‘boom!’ along with the base.”
She made an exaggerated explosion gesture.
Everyone in the Livestream Room gasped in shock.
After finishing her explanation, Lu Liuhe got up and sat on the ground. Looking at the now-vanished black mist and the Mutated Dandelion that had been reduced to ashes, she found a silver lining and gave herself a thumbs-up: “I didn’t know I was this amazing.”
She had used Taoist techniques against Mutated Plants before and knew they were effective.
However, using them drained her Spiritual Power significantly. After confirming their effectiveness, she refrained from using them casually.
The ground was still trembling slightly.
After a while longer, it finally settled.
Outside.
Heart-wrenching cries of grief could be heard—a woman wailing for her husband, children calling for their father.
A Bullet Comment asked.
【Anchor, people have died. Aren’t you going out to help?】
Lu Liuhe said, “I don’t know them. Here, we change Planters every two months on average. To be honest, my family’s Planting Base is the only one that hasn’t been blown up.”
Other Planting Bases were like leeks—blown up in batches, over and over again, countless times a year.
The Livestream Room audience shivered in fear.
The Wasteland was terrifying.
【Then why are people still willing to come here to farm?】
Lu Liuhe: “Because of points. If you grow qualified crops and sell them to the government, you can exchange them for points—one point per pound of grain. Accumulate 100,000 points, and you can obtain a household registration to enter the Inner City and become an Inner City resident.
Inner City residents are allocated housing and jobs by the government, and their children are assigned schools to attend. Water and electricity are supplied on a fixed schedule every day.
That’s why many people are willing to take the risk.”
The Livestream Room audience immediately understood—it was all for a better life.
【Then Anchor, why did you stay?】
Lu Liuhe smiled sincerely: “Of course, for love.”
Of course, she was just a donkey, lured by the carrot dangled in front of her by the system.
If she wanted endless food and treasures from various Planes, she had no choice but to obediently farm.
The audience:…
They believed her.
But not entirely.
Lu Liuhe lay down for a while, resting until she felt fully recovered, then went to pick up the small stones from earlier. She placed them in a sealed bag, sealed it, and began walking back.
The original owner’s entire family lived in the Planting Base, right at the entrance.
The house was quite nice—a standard rural-style courtyard with three bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, and a bathroom, plus a small yard enclosed by a wooden fence.
Next to it was an even larger yard, built during the base’s most prosperous period as employee dormitories. It had eight dorm rooms with shared bathrooms and a communal kitchen.
Lu Liuhe stopped at the doorway, placed the sealed bag into a recycling bin on the left side of the gate, and then pushed the door open to enter her home.
The yard was paved with bluestone slabs, clean and tidy.
In the living room, there was a shoe cabinet, a sofa with a coffee table, an aquarium, and a wine cabinet—simply arranged yet warm and cozy.
However, the aquarium had no fish, and the wine cabinet held no wine.
The newcomers in the bullet comments were utterly stunned.
【Compared to the shantytown we saw earlier, the streamer’s house could be called a mansion, right?】
【Would you want to live here if given the chance? The Planters here are replaced on average every two months. Why do those people outside prefer to stay in the shantytown rather than live in such luxurious, free housing?】
Living in the shantytown was tough, but at least they could survive.
Those who lived here were truly risking their lives.
Earning points wasn’t easy, and moving into the Inner City to live wasn’t simple either.
The ever-present threat of Mutating plants was like a blade hanging over their necks, never knowing when it might fall.
Lu Liuhe also thought it was quite nice. The only thing that gave her a bit of comfort after crossing over was this house.
Although the original owner had been so poor she had to beg for food, and the water, electricity, and gas had been cut off, at least the basic infrastructure was still there. Once she earned enough money and paid the fees, everything could be restored.
After changing into a pair of comfortable slippers, she went to the study, took out paper and a pen, and said, “Everyone, I’m going to start drawing Talismans. Drawing Talismans consumes a tremendous amount of Spiritual Power, so I won’t be chatting with you.”
In the past, she could draw at most two pieces of spirit paper in a day before her Spiritual Power was completely depleted, and it would take several days to recover her energy.
But after being reborn, this body’s Spiritual Power endurance was remarkably strong.
On her busiest day, she had drawn eight Talismans before her Spiritual Power ran out.
The viewers in the Livestream Room were seeing someone draw Talismans live for the first time, feeling both novel and excited. Some even took out paper and pens to try copying her strokes.
Even if they had been firm atheists before, witnessing Lu Liuhe form hand seals to summon heavenly thunder had shaken their beliefs.
One person drew Talismans.
A crowd watched her draw.
The bullet comments were unusually clean, creating an indescribable harmony.
Lu Liuhe drew until the sky darkened and she could no longer see anything, then put down her pen, waved at the light screen, and said, “That’s all for today’s livestream. See you all tomorrow.”
With that,
the light screen dimmed, and the livestream ended.
She tidied up a bit and went to her bedroom to sleep.
However, some viewers who had left the Livestream Room were still busy.
The fan who had initiated the Crowdfunding for her edited two clips from today’s livestream and posted them on the Crowdfunding link.
One video showed a frail child collapsing and dying, never to rise again.
The other video captured Lu Liuhe’s heroic stance as she reduced the Mutating dandelion to dust in one minute and fifty seconds.
The video had just been posted, and no one paid it any attention until someone uploaded it to a sci-fi movie platform, where it began to attract notice and spark discussions.
Some claimed it was fake, made with AI special effects, just another trick to scam money, and only fools would fall for it.
Others felt that everything in the video didn’t seem fabricated. Just the massive base structures alone—forget about donating one Seed worth a million, even ten thousand Seeds wouldn’t be enough to build them.
And weren’t special effects expensive? Such realistic and breathtaking effects, especially the one-minute-fifty-second battle with the dandelions, would definitely cost tens of millions to produce.
Many people, driven by skepticism or curiosity, flocked to the original crowdfunding platform where the video was posted, leaving comments under the link asking for the Livestream Room account.
Of course, the crowdfunding amount was also increasing rapidly.
As for everything happening on Blue Star, Lu Liuhe was completely unaware. She slept soundly until dawn, then got up to pack her things: the drawn spirit paper, a large machete with a chipped blade, a big woven plastic bag, and a stack of sampling bags for experiments.
Finally, she opened the original owner’s drawer, took out the last two protein bars and a nutrient drink, and stuffed them all into her backpack.
When she opened the livestream again, the viewers saw her stepping out of her home with a large backpack on her back.
Lu Liuhe greeted them with a radiant smile. “Good morning, everyone! Today, I’m heading out of the base on an adventure to find clean soil in the wilderness. Let’s explore outside the base together and broaden our horizons.”
Only after she finished speaking did she notice that the viewer count had jumped from yesterday’s twenty to thirty, then forty, fifty, and quickly climbed to a hundred before stopping.
The Livestream Room was full!
Then, with a bang, beautiful, dazzling fireworks exploded across the light screen.
Fan #ProsperousDragonYear# sent you a Sweet Potato.
In Lu Liuhe’s mind, the system’s voice also rang out: [Congratulations, host! Achievement unlocked: First Livestream Gift Received. Reward: One Sweet Potato.]
One surprise followed another, all too sudden.
Lu Liuhe was stunned for a moment until a Sweet Potato appeared on the storage shelf in the System Space.
With a thought, the real, slightly cool-to-the-touch large Sweet Potato materialized in her palm, moving her to tears of excitement.