LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 47 - Lingzhi
Day 17 of the Survival Game broadcast.
The early-rising viewers who supported Mai Dongzi had already developed the habit of checking in on her livestream before heading off to school or work. But today, instead of going out to exercise as usual, they noticed Mai Dongzi packing up her treehouse into her space backpack, which immediately piqued their interest.
“Is Lucy Xi packing up and preparing to move somewhere else?”
In the eyes of those following her livestream, Mai Dongzi’s move from the desert oasis to the forest had seemed “unavoidable.” Therefore, some viewers, still not fully familiar with her, assumed that the forest was very safe and expected her to stay there until the survival game ended.
In fact, over the past few days, not only Lucy Xi but most other adventurers had found suitable places to camp and settle down. They had also cleared the surrounding dangers, and most of them had entered a relatively calm and routine phase of life.
The fact that no adventurers had been eliminated in the past two days was the best evidence of this.
For the viewers in the livestream rooms, this phase was the least interesting. Most people who enjoyed watching survival game streams were thrill-seekers, and the calm was the most boring part for them.
As a result, the viewers were getting bored over the past few days, frequently hopping from one live stream to another in search of excitement.
No one expected Lucy Xi to give up a stable environment and prepare to move elsewhere.
When the word got out that the “fake heiress” was abandoning a safe environment to explore other places, thrill-seeking viewers flocked to her stream in droves.
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Over the past few days, Mai Dongzi had detected several energy-rich plants, but she hadn’t dug them up in front of the livestream drone. Instead, she left markers so that Prince Arthur’s people could come and retrieve them.
After Deputy Officer Chen left that day, a young officer who had been standing behind Chen during their meeting quickly returned and delivered 500 nano-exploration robots to Mai Dongzi.
These nano-exploration robots were extremely small, about the size of a grain of rice. When placed on a medicinal plant, the robots would stick to it, allowing Prince Arthur’s team to pinpoint its exact location.
Mai Dongzi didn’t tamper with or secretly collect any of the plants.
Before she knew that Water Blue Planet was privately owned, it wasn’t a big issue to discover valuable items in the forest and collect them for herself. Her previous secret collection efforts were simply to avoid revealing to the live-stream viewers how much she had actually harvested.
But now that she knew Water Blue Planet had an owner, she realized that collecting plants from this planet without the owner’s permission would be akin to stealing. Naturally, Mai Dongzi wouldn’t engage in such behavior.
On the second day after Deputy Officer Chen took the energy plants, Mai Dongzi received a report.
The report showed that Deputy Officer Chen had sent the three energy plants to the most authoritative Pharmaceutical Guild of the Blue-Black Empire for testing.
The Pharmaceutical Guild’s test results confirmed that the roots of these plants were indeed rich in concentrated energy, capable of quickly replenishing the powers of practitioners.
By the third day, Deputy Officer Chen reached out to Mai Dongzi again, informing her that after analyzing the energy contained within these plants, the Pharmaceutical Guild had formulated recipes for refining these energy plants into energy potions with different attributes.
Prince Arthur had already decided to have these energy plants refined into energy potions.
Deputy Officer Chen then asked Mai Dongzi whether she would prefer to receive her reward in the form of potions or the raw plants themselves.
It was an easy choice—of course, she wanted the potions!
Mai Dongzi could feel that when she consumed the ginseng and Gastrodia directly, she couldn’t fully absorb the energy from these plants, likely wasting at least a quarter of it.
The pharmaceutical industry in this world was already highly advanced, and they would undoubtedly be able to extract the maximum amount of active ingredients from the energy plants, refining them into top-quality energy potions.
Moreover, since these energy plants were provided by Prince Arthur, the Pharmaceutical Guild would certainly not take the task lightly and would likely have their senior pharmacists handle the refining process.
The original host had studied pharmacology and could even make basic first- and second-level potions.
While Mai Dongzi was also interested in potion-making, it required too much time to achieve mastery. After considering it, she preferred to spend her time cultivating physical and mental powers.
However, given her current status, she couldn’t afford to hire a senior pharmacist.
So when Deputy Officer Chen asked her, she quickly opted for the energy potions.
As she pondered these matters, Mai Dongzi continued walking deeper into the forest.
After passing through areas she had already explored, she began using her mental and wood-based abilities to search for energy plants in the surroundings.
To focus on finding energy plants, Mai Dongzi had to avoid mutated beasts, which significantly slowed her progress.
Around 10 AM, her mental powers detected a type of medicinal plant that many people from ancient Water Blue Planet would recognize as rare and precious—**Lingzhi**.
Over 2,000 years ago on the ancient Water Blue Planet, Lingzhi was surrounded by countless legends, including miraculous tales of resurrection.
Although she knew these were just myths, Mai Dongzi was still thrilled when she saw the Lingzhi and eagerly bounded over.
Ginseng, Polygonum multiflorum, and Gastrodia—all precious medicinal plants—had mutated and become energy plants. Mai Dongzi instinctively thought that Lingzhi would be the same, hence her excitement.
Even through her mental powers, she could tell that these Lingzhi had also mutated. They were enormous, with the largest one as big as a tabletop, reminding her of the ancient legends of thousand-year-old Lingzhi.
But as she approached the Lingzhi, her excitement slowly froze on her face.
Even standing right next to it, she couldn’t sense any energy fluctuations from the Lingzhi. Still unconvinced, she picked the largest one and held it in her hand, but there was still no energy response.
Mai Dongzi began to doubt whether the energy in Lingzhi was something she couldn’t perceive, so she left a marker and even sent a message to Deputy Officer Chen to explain the situation.
The viewers in the livestream room were baffled by her actions. After watching for so long, they knew that Lucy Xi seemed to have a particular interest in plants, constantly searching for ones that were clearly extraordinary.
Despite their curiosity, they received no response from the show’s producers about these plants, and any discussions about them outside the livestream room on the star network were quickly deleted.
It was clear that something was going on.
Particularly when some viewers mentioned that the lord of Water Blue Planet was Prince Arthur and that these plants belonged to him, everyone quieted down.
It was obvious that Prince Arthur’s people had suppressed the information, leaving the viewers with nowhere to ask questions and no desire to pursue the matter further.
However, all of this confirmed that Lucy Xi had indeed found something valuable. Judging by her actions, it seemed she was under orders to continue her search.