Because he hadn’t adjusted the livestream perspective in advance, the viewers could only see a blurry figure moving in the water from above the pool, but they couldn’t see anything clearly.
This made them anxious, and they flooded the chat with requests for Lu Xuan to change the angle, but the latter was too busy catching fish to pay any attention to them.
Fortunately, he didn’t keep everyone waiting for long; soon, fish began leaping out of the water, tossed onto the grassy bank.
One, two, three… The growing number of large fish made the viewers forget their impatience, shifting their focus to inspecting Lu Xuan’s haul.
[Does anyone recognize these fish? They look completely different from the mutated fish in our Interstellar era.]
[I recognize the grass carp, and isn’t the black-colored one a snakehead fish?]
[There’s also a catfish! With the longest whiskers, and catfish are generally quite large—they taste pretty good, too!]
[Which of these fish the host caught is small? The smallest looks like it’s seven or eight jin (3.5-4 kg), and the largest must be thirteen or fourteen jin (6.5-7 kg).]
[Can the host even finish all these fish? If you can’t, just give them to me.]
[What kind of dreams are you having? The host hasn’t even enabled taste sharing, let alone… ￥%#￥…]
[Is this your first time watching an ancient-era livestream? Don’t you know that features the host hasn’t unlocked yet get censored by the system?]
While the chat was lively, Lu Xuan, who had jumped into the pool, finally poked his head out of the water, walking ashore with a catfish firmly in his grip.
When the viewers saw this, the chat paused for a moment, followed by a frantic flurry of messages, as if they had been injected with stimulants.
[Ahhhhh! Abs!!! I see muscles!]
[I didn’t expect the host to look lean but actually be so toned! Slurp!]
[This man is seducing me! If you’re going to get wet, have the guts to take off your clothes!!]
[Very good! Man, you’ve successfully caught my attention! Today, either you marry me, or I marry you!]
Accompanying the excited viewers came the sound of “ding-dang” gift alerts and special effects.
Lu Xuan tossed the fish in his hand to join the others, casually combed the hair plastered to his face backward, gave a calm look at the chat, and raised an eyebrow: “You want to see?”
The chat was filled with a uniform screen of “Want.”
Lu Xuan gave a light snort and said coolly: “Then keep on wanting.”
After saying that, he deliberately adjusted the livestream angle to the grass bank on the side.
[Ahhh! Can you not play like this!]
[If you aren’t going to marry me, why tease me!]
[Was my gift not enough! I’ll give you everything, is that not good enough!]
Adjusting the angle didn’t affect his ability to see the chat. Lu Xuan coolly said, “I sell my talent, not my body,” and stopped paying attention to the audience, who were practically itching to “take things to the next level” right there, turning instead to the large fish that were still flopping around on the bank.
Fish don’t live long out of water. After pondering for a moment, he fenced off a section of the downstream creek and tossed all the caught fish inside.
The space was a little small, but as long as they remained energetic, it was enough.
The temperature in the forest was lower than in the village, but since it was still summer, his soaked clothes were dry before long, and Lu Xuan wandered around the vicinity.
Animals need to drink water, and finding prey near a water source was effortless. Without much trouble, he found two roe deer.
These creatures were quite foolish and didn’t even know to run when discovered. Lu Xuan originally intended to use the same trick and solve it with a few stones, but the viewers kept shouting for him to show off his skills. Considering they had thrown quite a few gifts his way, Lu Xuan reluctantly satisfied them, giving the two roe deer kicks that broke their spines.
A broken spine didn’t mean the prey died instantly; to reduce their suffering, Lu Xuan reached out and snapped the necks of both deer, giving them a quick end.
“Done.” Lu Xuan clapped his hands, his expression relaxed, though the viewers’ moods were quite complicated.
Although it was indeed them who had requested it, seeing him snap the prey’s necks without changing his expression sent a shiver down many people’s spines, and they couldn’t help but rub their arms on the other side of the screen.
[Host is awesome! Just… I have nothing to say, here are the gifts!]
[I don’t know whether to congratulate the host on a bountiful harvest or pity those two roe deer… Forget it, I’ll just throw gifts instead.]
Seeing the unusual attitude of the viewers, Lu Xuan was about to say, “You people are hard to please,” when he noticed the system messages flashing again.
He clicked on them, and two small windows popped up.
[24 hours of streaming reached. Reward: Newcomer Gift Pack, 500 points.]
[Achievement “Streamed for 24 hours” reached. Reward: 500 points, Household Emergency Medicine Pack, unlocked purchase permissions for some items in the store (please check the details yourself). Next stage achievement: 240 hours of streaming. Reward: Unknown.]
Lu Xuan didn’t try to hide this from the viewers while checking, so they saw the contents as well.
[Finally got the newcomer gift pack!]
[Host, hurry up and see what’s inside!]
[It’s time for everyone’s favorite moment—testing luck! Whether the host is a “lucky one” or a “black-faced chief” all depends on this!]
Lu Xuan saw something in their comments and asked: “Are the contents of the gift packs different for every streamer?”
[That’s right! I remember there are three items in the newcomer pack: a nutrient solution set, a storage space, and a tech product. The quantity of nutrient solution, the capacity of the storage space, and the value of the tech product are all random.]
[Those with good luck might draw a space of over a thousand cubic meters. As for the tech product, I heard a streamer once drew a mech! They became rich overnight!]
Lu Xuan became interested the moment he saw the word “mech.”
[Stop talking nonsense, host, open it and see what’s inside! You’ll know the answer once you click it!]
Lu Xuan himself was curious about the contents, so without stalling, he clicked to open it.
The next moment, two items appeared in his hands.
A small box and a plain silver ring.
Lu Xuan: “?”
Wasn’t there supposed to be three things?
The box contained what was likely the nutrient solution. He opened it and took a look; there were twenty vials of original-flavor nutrient solution, worth 200 points.
He put the ring directly on his index finger. The ring, which had been a bit too large, automatically adjusted its size to fit his finger perfectly.
He focused his attention and probed inside, soon seeing the empty space within the ring, measuring about 100 cubic meters.
As mentioned before, the smallest specification for spatial rings/pendants in the store was only 5 cubic meters, with sizes of 10, 50, and then 100 cubic meters going up; larger ones existed at 500 and 1,000.
The one he obtained could be considered mid-sized; his luck wasn’t bad.
But… that same question remained: Where was the third reward?
The system couldn’t have stolen it, right?
Just then, a viewer who noticed something wrong alerted him.
[If there’s no physical object, it’s very likely embedded software installed automatically into the livestream system. But such software generally doesn’t have a very high value.]
[Looks like the host’s “luck value” isn’t very high.]
Lu Xuan’s brow twitched—automatically installed software?
He checked the dashboard again and found that, in addition to the original icons, there was indeed a new one. This must have been the third item from the gift pack, right?
Lu Xuan: “Weather Companion? What is this?”
Viewers in the stream also saw the icon.
[Same question, what is this?]
[Ah… how did you get this thing? Isn’t this just useless garbage?]
[I think I’ve heard of this. It’s said to have been made by some big-shot researcher at the Science Academy to pass the time when they were bored. In the end, it was shelved because it had no use.]
[Of course it was shelved. Now, even on edge planets, as long as it’s a habitable planet, special energy shields are used to isolate harmful cosmic rays and most ion storms. Weather changes are controlled by specialized weather satellites. Daily weather patterns are fixed—you just need to look at the records on your light-brain. There’s absolutely no need for software that detects weather like this.]
Upon seeing this, Lu Xuan understood.
Wasn’t this just a weather forecast? Software made by an interstellar civilization—the accuracy should be very high, right?
Sure enough, someone soon explained the usefulness of this item.
Since most viewers were laypeople, no one could explain the specific principles behind the software, but simply put, the “Weather Companion” could use the massive database loaded into an AI brain to perform data analysis based on local air composition, geological changes, and other information to predict climate changes in the user’s area over a period of time.
It was 99% accurate for weather changes within one year, 80% accurate within three years, and the accuracy decreased as time went on.
Setting aside the three-to-five-year projections, near 100% accuracy within a year made it a “small artifact.”
At the very least, for the ancients who relied on the weather for their livelihood, this was incredibly useful. Whether for ensuring grain harvests for farmers or predicting natural disasters to avoid calamity in advance, it could play a massive role.
Useless garbage?
There is no such thing as a useless piece of software in this world; it all depends on how one uses it.
At the very least, Lu Xuan was very satisfied with this reward from the newcomer gift pack.
Although it couldn’t compare to a mech, if he had actually drawn a mech, he would have had to consider how to use it and what results that might bring. By comparison, this weather system was actually far more practical.
What satisfied him even more was that the new products unlocked by the streaming duration achievement finally included storage spaces; the prices for spatial equipment of different specifications were displayed.
Five cubic meters cost only 500 points, ten cubic meters cost 1,000 points, fifty cubic meters cost 3,000 points, and a hundred… wasn’t unlocked yet.
If he hadn’t drawn one in the newcomer pack, even if he could afford to buy one with the gift points and achievement rewards gained today, it would have been useless without the permissions.
Since he already had one that was currently the largest and best, he didn’t spend points to buy other smaller ones, preparing instead to experience the functions of the “Weather Companion”—the interstellar version of a weather forecast.
Then, he saw a patch of blinding red.
Lu Xuan: “??”
Was it a bug?
Modern screens go black or blue—did the interstellar era switch to red screens?
No.
Lu Xuan’s expression shifted slightly.
He didn’t believe that an interstellar civilization capable of developing a cross-dimensional livestreaming system would have a bug in such a basic piece of software. In modern times, red often signifies one thing—a warning of danger.
Just then, someone in the chat mentioned this point.
Sure enough!
With a dark expression, Lu Xuan slid his finger to carefully examine the content below the red warning. High temperatures, heavy rain, blizzards, storms… countless extreme weather conditions almost filled the entire screen.