“Thanks for the good wishes.” Tang Jing accepted her spirit paper and handed her two chocolates in return, smiling as he said, “A token of appreciation.”
A teammate beside him also fished out a chocolate from his own pocket.
Then the other three called out to him, each contributing one, making a total of four chocolates, all given to her.
The bullet comments were moved.
[From now on, if anyone says there are no good people in the Wasteland, I’ll be the first to disagree.]
[They’re good-looking and kind-hearted. I, a devout woman, am willing to stay single for life in exchange for the safety of these little brothers and sisters.]
[They’re so kind. Please, you must all come back alive—not a single one missing!]
Lu Liuhe accepted the gifts, bid them farewell, and after parting ways, took a small path nearby.
The bullet comments were still reluctant to see them go.
[Streamer, can you divine whether you’ll have a chance to meet them again in the future?]
[Streamer, tell me the truth—when you gave them those protective talismans earlier, did you divine that they would encounter life-threatening danger?]
[I bet they’ll definitely be fine. Tang Jing is handsome and kind-hearted. Whether in TV shows, movies, or novels, that’s the makings of a protagonist.]
Lu Liuhe didn’t respond to them, merely looking up at the grayish-yellow land stretching endlessly before her, flat and barren, with nothing but stones of various sizes and not a single plant in sight.
Within ten kilometers of the Base, the land was like this—sprayed with large amounts of Mutated Plant Cleaning Agent, leaving it barren and lifeless. This was the relatively safe green zone.
Beyond that lay the blue zone, where patches of green grass and sparse shrubs could faintly be seen.
She had chosen to get off here to personally observe the various terrains and environments outside the Base, hoping to gain a clearer understanding.
The empty green zone was devoid of people, with only the occasional Off-road vehicle passing by on the main road, all belonging to Mercenary Corps heading out on missions.
She continued walking forward, occasionally stopping to dig up some soil and place it into a sampling bag.
The bullet comments were scrolling:
[Did anyone notice that two minutes ago, after the streamer finished digging soil, her speed increased?]
[Everything here looks the same, with no reference points for comparison, so it’s hard to tell.]
[It really did increase. Look at her legs—she has a piece of spirit paper stuck on each side. Is this the legendary talisman-controlled flight?]
[What flight? Her feet are on the ground… Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit! My eyes are playing tricks on me. Her feet are barely touching the ground. She’s flying—she’s really flying!]
Lu Liuhe remained calm. “Don’t make a fuss over everything. I’m not flying, and I can’t control talismans to fly. I just used two speed talismans to increase my walking speed.”
The bullet comments were still exclaiming in shock.
Lu Liuhe said, “This is very simple. There’s a newly listed ‘Talisman Encyclopedia’ in the shopping cart, personally compiled by me. It contains the drawing methods for various Talismans. If you try it, you can do it too.”
With the system around, everything was simple.
The Talismans in her mind were directly compiled into a book.
Fans: It’s reasonable to suspect you’re showing off, but there’s no evidence.
Opening the shopping cart:
Item: Lu Liuhe’s Personally Compiled Talisman Encyclopedia.
Price: ¥500,000.
[Forget it, streamer. Do you think selling me would even cover the cost of one book?]
[Now this is what I call genuine integrity—never scamming the poor.]
[I’d rather watch the streamer draw talismans in the livestream. I, for one, never believe in myself.]
Lu Liuhe clarified, “The price wasn’t set by me—it was set by the platform. Once I make it big in the future, we’ll hold giveaways and send them to you for free.”
With a hundred people in the livestream room keeping her company,
Lu Liuhe chatted casually from time to time, never feeling bored. Before she knew it, she had already reached the edge of the green zone.
At the border between the two zones, some tenacious little grasses struggled to survive, but due to the cleaning agent in the soil, they were all withered and yellow, barely clinging to life.
Before she could say anything,
the bullet comment mouthpieces were already getting nervous.
[Streamer, that area looks really dangerous. Maybe you shouldn’t go any further and just head back!]
[My palms are sweating from nervousness. Look southwest—isn’t that a tree waving at us?]
[And straight ahead, about a kilometer away, zoom in and look. Behind that tree, there’s a big black wild boar staring right at the streamer!]
[Damn, the person above must have bad eyesight. That’s a freaking giant rat!]
When Lu Liuhe saw the words “giant rat,” her scalp tingled. She slapped two speed talismans onto her legs and vanished like a gust of wind in the blink of an eye.
All that was left was the giant rat, which had been preparing to ambush its prey, standing bewildered in the wind: It had clearly seen a person, so how had they disappeared in an instant?
Lu Liuhe ran several kilometers in one breath, not stopping until she could no longer see the tree hiding the giant rat. Only then did she relax, clasping her hands toward the light screen and saying, “Please keep an eye on my surroundings for me. My little life depends on all of you.”
The livestream room was quite advanced, allowing for real-time zooming and high-definition viewing. The fans in the livestream could spot many details she might miss.
With them, it was like she had a cheat code—seeing and hearing everything around her was no longer just a dream!
The journey through the blue zone went smoothly from then on.
As long as it wasn’t a rat—whether it was a mutated rabbit with eight legs, branches growing from its head, and teeth as sharp as arrows; a snake with eight heads; or a mutated tree covered in meter-long spikes, each skewering the corpse of a large bird—
if anything tried to attack her, she’d chop it into eight pieces without a second thought, generously adding cleaning agent for good measure. Her approach was one of equality for all: exterminate everything and send them off to the afterlife.
The bullet comments were utterly stunned, and people began questioning their own perceptions.
[You’re telling me she’s a Planter? She’s a farmer?]
[Streamer, I’m telling you, don’t farm. Farming is a waste of your combat talent. Team up with that group of guys and girls from earlier and become a mercenary!]
[Wait, am I in the right livestream? This isn’t some pro player dominating noobs—it’s a farming stream?]
With her fierce, god-slaying aura that would cut down even Buddha himself,
farming truly seemed beneath her.
She handled fighting and killing with ease and precision.
But when it came to collecting seeds and soil, her technique was so clumsy it was painful to watch.
She even had to frequently flip through that thick book to double-check and confirm things.
At that moment,
Lu Liuhe was sitting on the ground, holding a beautiful blue-purple flower spike in one hand—similar to a wheat ear but about ten times larger—while flipping through the thick book with the other.
The book was a family heirloom passed down from the original owner’s ancestors—an agricultural manual containing planting theories and experiences from the prosperous world before the Wasteland era.
More importantly, it compiled the accumulated theories and various experiments conducted by the original owner’s family over generations of Post-Apocalyptic Farming in the Wasteland.
With a serious attitude toward learning, she carefully read through it from start to finish.
What intrigued her most was a conclusion drawn by the original owner’s mother after countless experiments: the soil in which Mutated Plants survive would transform into the purest and most nutrient-rich soil in the world the moment the plants absorbed all the mutated pollution within it. The higher the level of the Mutated Plant, the richer the soil’s nutrients would become.
This critical point was extremely difficult to pinpoint. Under their current conditions, it was impossible to conduct experiments to verify it, as even the best laboratories in the Base could not fully simulate the natural environment.
Thus, to this day, it remained merely a hypothesis, a speculation.
Lu Liuhe’s primary purpose for venturing out this time was to verify the truth of this speculation.
She knew that some high-level Mutated Plants would relocate periodically. Research experts claimed this was because the plants sought more nutrients and chose more suitable land for survival.
However, like the original owner’s mother, she leaned more toward the idea that Mutated Plants moved and changed habitats because they had completely absorbed the mutated pollution in the soil of their original location.
At that moment, the Bullet Comments issued a warning.
【Host, there’s someone behind you!】
【Five people, all armed, heading straight for you.】