Lu Liran rechecked the usage restrictions of the portal with the system—

He has a map mission bound to the system, and the teleportation function must be activated by himself, and everyone else is portable.

In other words, the teleportation function is unusable until the mission is completed.

Lu Liran withdrew his evaluation of the system as "reliable", and the system squatted in the corner of his consciousness, humming.

He called up the task panel, and re-read the details of the hidden two-star task that he extracted before—

[Mission Detection: Muddy Land, Forest of Bones]

[Mission Difficulty: ★★]

[Map Type: Swamp]

[Mission Location: Ghost Forest Swamp]

[Mission details: Collect the special products of Ghost Forest Swamp—10x Cod Grass, 1x Swamp Ghost Crocodile Tail, 3x Giant Mouth Catfish. Carrying basic equipment is limited to no more than seven pieces, and the terminal storage function is disabled]

[Basic task reward: 1. 300,000 star coins 2. Accumulated online popularity]

[Task additional reward: unknown]

Ghost Forest Swamp is actually a collection of hundreds of thousands of swamps, large and small, covered with dark green swamp plants.

Large trees such as fallen spruce and iron-clad wood tightly wrap the swamp group, and at night it looks like a ghost hand swaying in the moonlight and wind.

So over time, that swamp group was called Ghost Forest by people—the Lost Forest in ghost shadows.

Ghost Forest Swamp ranks sixth among the top ten no-man's lands in Desolate Star, slightly higher than Sarba Desert.

But if the hinterland of the Salba Desert is also included in the average difficulty, then I am afraid that Salba's ranking will go straight to the top five.

In contrast, what makes Ghost Forest Swamp even more helpless is its harsh and unbearable environment—

The swarms of mosquitoes caused the terrible plague virus, and there were terrible predators hidden in the muddy pool.

Lu Liran narrowed his eyes slightly. To go to this place, he had to prepare again and adjust his physical condition to the best.

"Where are you going?" The eldest brother raised his brows high, "What swamp? It sounds spooky and not a good place."

Lu Liran laughed: "Fortunately, I went there once in a while before, but I only caught a few snakes on the bounty list at the edge, and I didn't go in deep. I'm afraid I have to go further in this time."

The special product "cod-shaped grass" collected in this mission is something he has never heard of.

He had already turned the outside of Ghost Forest Swamp upside down before, if he hadn't seen it before, it must be deeper in the swamp.

As for the swamp ghost crocodile and giant-mouth catfish, these two creatures originally lived in the swamp and quagmire, and they would not exist in a small swamp, so they had to enter a larger swamp.

And the large swamp is the reason why Guisen can squeeze into the sixth place on the ranking list.

Lu Liran didn't say much, so as not to worry his elder brother.

///

During the days when Lu Liran was recovering and exercising, both Ke Ji and Lu Liqing were busy, and from time to time they could be seen head to head discussing something in a low voice.

Lu Liran was puzzled by this scene—

My eldest brother originally thought that the Commander was not pleasing to the eye, so it is not possible to get close enough to negotiate head-to-head in just these two days.

"What are you two talking about?" After practicing for three hours, Lu Liran passed by his eldest brother and Ke Ji, wiping his sweat, and raised his eyebrows slightly.

Ke Ji heard the words and was about to answer, but was immediately stopped by Lu Liqing, who laughed and said, "I'm asking him how to get close to Xiao Zai Zai."

Lu Liran twitched the corner of his mouth when he heard the words: "Did you find any answer?"

"...It's probably a matter of blood relationship." Lu Liqing coughed lightly and looked away guiltily.

Ke Ji was a little funny, I don't know why the brother-in-law wanted to hide what they were doing, but since the brother-in-law didn't say anything, Ke Ji nodded slightly as if to cooperate.

Besides, the answer made him very satisfied.

Seeing that the commander nodded in agreement with pride, Lu Liqing's temple twitched slightly, and after his brother turned to leave, he elbowed him.

Ke Ji didn't hide, his face remained unchanged with a smile, and he asked Lu Liqing: "By the way, there is also the live broadcast platform that Ranran is on. I checked it, and it's not suitable. Let's deal with it together?"

Lu Liqing nodded: "I think the capital injection behind the platform is mainly Fang Ye and Fei Le. Fang Ye can't hold on for too long now, and will soon sell his shares. It's almost the same time that the owner changes at this time."

After he finished speaking, he paused, then frowned and looked at Ke Ji: "Who allowed you to call Ran Ran like that?"

Ke Ji smiled good-naturedly, and changed the topic: "After that, he will go to Guisen Swamp, I don't worry, I will go with him, and then these matters will be handled by you."

Lu Liqing nodded when he heard the words: "Well, you are almost as good as you were. As for those things, you don't have to worry about them. It won't make things easier for those people. Just take care of my brother."

"Don't worry." Ke Ji responded, "Also, thank you for your help, let the four garrisons come together."

Otherwise, I don't know how long it will take to reach the barren star.

Lu Liqing waved his hand: "Bronte told me, it's just a little effort. Besides, I was thinking of bringing a batch of Lu family warships over, but it seems that your four warships are more powerful, so forget it."

Ke Ji laughed, pulling a group of starships over to support Lu Liran? It's really the style of the Lu family.

Lu Liran has chosen a start date, but there is an embarrassing situation right now, he doesn't know if his live broadcast room can be opened again.

The recent news is all about what happened two days ago, but the focus has shifted from him early to the change of the supreme director of Desolate Star.

At present, the Supreme Council has not yet announced the results of the change, but Xie Wei, the administrator of the Crusade Bureau, is the acting executor, and the political incidents of the three major corporate groups that have been investigated and dealt with have gradually begun to show some signs.

Lu Liran had paid attention to these information, but he didn't care about the results of the treatment of the three group legal persons - the legal persons were just unlucky **** who were pushed in front of them, and this kind of treatment would not hurt the foundation of these consortiums unless there was a follow-up.

Lu Liran doesn't care much about the income from live broadcasts, but he cares about the popularity of live broadcasts. If the current Huangxing blocks him all across the board, then his live broadcasts will become troublesome.

Fortunately, after Lu Liran sent a private letter to Lucio, the manager's reply made him feel relieved——

[Lucio: Big brother! Are you still planning to continue live streaming! ? Great woo woo woo woo! I thought you didn't do it! 】

Lu Liran slightly raised his eyebrows and asked him:

[Lu Liran: Why do you think I'm not doing live broadcasts anymore? 】

【Lucio: Because you... are not short of money? 】

Lu Liran was silent, which is true.

After Lucio sent it, he felt that what he said was not very good, so he hurriedly made up for it:

[Lucio: But I believe that you will never abandon those loyal and lovely fans! So God! When is our next livestream? where to go! What are you doing! 】

Lu Liran looked at the manager's message, and raised the corner of his mouth slightly:

[Lu Liran: Three days later, ghost forest swamp, wilderness survival]

[Lucio: Good! 】

[Lucio: I'll arrange a preview right now! let's go! 】

Lu Liran squinted his eyes, a little curious that his previous live broadcast on Huangxing was so "rebellious", did he just expose it so lightly?

He looked at the chat panel and suddenly sent a message:

[Lu Liran: Is this the case that the live broadcast room was blocked? 】

When Lucio received the news, he blinked and didn't dare to fool Lu Liran, so he replied first:

【Lucio: God, wait a minute, let me ask first】

He quickly knocked on the table to ask his team for a plan, and then went to the general manager to ask for benefits—the Great God is willing to stay on their platform after such a thing happened! Is there a problem with asking him for a little benefit now? no problem!

The manager is still in a state of desperation about the big boss change at the top, and when he sees Lucio coming to ask for a recommendation, he angrily wants to drive him away.

As soon as he reached the door, he suddenly realized that something was wrong, and stopped Lucio again: "Which anchor do you want?"

"Brother Lu! The one from Outdoor Channel! The one from Survival!" Lucio replied immediately.

The manager gasped: "The one from the heir of the Lu Industrial Group? The one from the Interstellar Federation Army?"

Lucio nodded vigorously.

The corner of the manager's mouth twitched, their platform has almost become a possession in other people's pockets, what else can't they give?

"Let's just give him the most recommended standard on the platform, and the other contract... well, forget it, I'll contact him personally after I change it." The manager said, feeling a little guilty, after all, the operation of locking the live broadcast room was also ordered by him. .

I'm really afraid that the boss will come to him to settle accounts after the big change of blood, so let's make up for it in advance and settle it a little bit, shall we?

Lucio immediately responded cheerfully—that's right!

He quickly responded to Lu Liran—

[Lucio: Great God! I asked! In response to the accident that the live broadcast room was locked before, our platform will compensate you as follows! 】

[Lucio: 1. A half-month-long screen-opening personal push; 2. A one-month copyright cooperation recommendation—basically, most of the copyright cooperations facilitated by our platform are games and film and television works! ;3. During the broadcast period, the homepage column image tweets and related hot tweets of popular live broadcasts; 4. During the broadcast period, the top ten most searched on social platforms are guaranteed to be promoted]

[Lucio: Great God! This is the strongest recommendation standard that our platform can come up with! It was an accident last time! We have exposed QAQ]

Lu Liran was a little surprised, this was completely different from his original intention, two different things.

But if you think about it carefully, it can't be said that it was a complete accident, it can only be said that it was expected, after all, his identity gimmick still has a lot of weight.

It's just that Lu Liran was used to being a poor and white ordinary person, so he never thought that one day he would be able to walk sideways because of his name in Desolate Star.

After all, even if he claimed to be the heir of the Lu Industrial Group before, no one would believe him.

Lu Liran stretched, and after recovering from Lucio, he found his elder brother, lay down on his body, and muttered lazily: "It's great that elder brother is here."

Lu Liqing immediately put down the things in his hands, his heart softened into a ball of cotton candy, his precious brother acted like a baby!

QAQ is indeed a limited-time supply of soft candy!

"Why did you say that all of a sudden?" The eldest brother fiddled with his younger brother's short hair twice with a smile, wanting more younger brothers who act like a baby.

"You can run rampant in the wild star." Lu Liran replied.

Lu Liqing choked, and then immediately continued: "That's necessary. Gritting your teeth, it's not that you can't afford a desolate star, it just takes time and money."

"..."

Lu Liqing looked at the commander who was looking enviously at him not far away, curled his lips provocatively, and asked Lu Liran, "Didn't your Excellency come here two months earlier than elder brother? Why didn't you let you walk sideways?"

"I didn't know he was Your Excellency Commander at first." Lu Liran rubbed his nose, thinking of the oolong in the beginning, he really wanted to erase his memory with one click.

This answer was not what the elder brother wanted. Lu Liqing paused, and asked another way: "Did you recognize it later? At least it's a commander."

"Forget it, it's easier to recruit him in Desolate Star by declaring his name. Walking sideways may turn into crawling." Lu Liran whispered in his elder brother's ear.

Lu Liqing laughed with a "puchi" and couldn't stop laughing at all. From the corner of his eye, he glanced at the commander who was already a bit smug because he didn't know where he was, and he was even happier.

Tsk tsk, Commander, he can't do it.

"So at the critical moment, the elder brother is reliable." Lu Liqing bent down with a smile, hooked Lu Liran's neck, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, the elder brother will be there in the future."

Lu Liran patted his elder brother on the back: "Well, you can smile a little, don't laugh and get angry and have a stomachache."

When Lu Liqing was told by his younger brother, his stomach started to hurt: "Hiss, hiss, I'm sick."

Lu Liran: "..."

He twitched the corners of his mouth, and could only reach out to rub his belly for his elder brother.

Ke Ji, who was not far away, watched with envy.

He also wanted to rub his stomach.

///

In less than half a day, Lucio sent the preview picture made by the artist to Lu Liran.

Lu Liran took a look, online as always, there was a promotional word on the poster—

[Wildness survival expert Lu Liran is here! The muddy land, the bone forest, take the audience to experience an unprecedented wild land! 】

Lucio sent a message asking:

[Lucio: God, God! satisfied! 】

[Lu Liran: Well, it’s pretty good]

【Lucio: That's good, shall I send it? 】

Lu Liran responded, and let Lucio go about his troubles.

He opened the background of the live broadcast, and wanted to see the income of the background, but he didn't expect that the text message in the background showed an unread message.

When I poked it open, it was a contract modification reminder from the station manager.

Lu Liran looked at ten lines at a glance. Simply put, it was because the first version of the contract he signed before was a quarterly contract, and now there was not much time left, so he came to renew the contract.

The contract terms for renewal are obviously much more favorable:

In the past, the tipping rate was 40% to 60%, 40% to the platform, and 60% to the anchor, but now, the platform only charges 5% of the handling fee;

In addition to the subsidy share of video clicks, originally it was 100 star coins subsidy for 10,000 views, plus a factor ratio of 1.9 to calculate the advertising revenue. Now the coefficient of advertising revenue has been increased to 3.0, and the playback subsidy has been cancelled.

The benefit of broadcast volume subsidy is actually more suitable for new anchors, and for Lu Liran, advertising revenue is the real core source of income, so Lu Liran is very satisfied with the variables in the new contract conditions.

It is also a quarterly appointment, with a period of three months.

Lu Liran had no objection, and signed the electronic contract without hesitation and sent it back.

Looking at the background, the number of followers in the background has unexpectedly exceeded one million, and the number of followers has reached 2.37 million.

From breaking 500,000 followers at the end of the last live broadcast to now, that is, the last week or so.

The new underwater video uploaded in the background has exceeded 3 million views, and the total income displayed is still calculated according to the old version of the contract. Since there has been a wave of withdrawals before, the total income of the new and old videos after deducting taxes is now 78 Ten thousand.

The big head is still the new video. The new video has just been uploaded for more than a week, and it has directly accounted for nearly 600,000 star coins in revenue. Driven by the recent incident, the number of views of several old videos has also made a big leap forward.

Lu Liran withdrew the money, and it didn't take long before he heard a notification sound from the account that the money had been withdrawn.

He took a look at all his savings during this period, and the total amount was almost six million, which was almost the same as the nine million boat ticket fee he needed at the beginning.

If he only had a boat ticket before, he would have sold the amphibious aconite sea worm to some research institute at a high price, and he would have paid three million star coins in one go. Those people would be happy to buy it out.

Lu Liran tapped the light screen with his finger, six million star coins, what can he do with it?

He narrowed his eyes slightly, and walked outside the open-air balcony of the spaceship. Lu's merchant ship roamed aimlessly above the starry sky without encountering any obstacles.

He looked down, and saw the lights below in twos and threes, like a dark fire in an extinguished haystack, in stark contrast to another brightly lit urban area not far away.

Lu Liran was slightly stunned, and recognized that it was the place where they lived a few months ago, the slum of Huangxing.

The barren star slums are like a place where barren star bacteria breed. The people there are abandoned, whether they are good or bad, sick or healthy, they are thrown there, and most of them end up becoming barren star evil. One of the cells is the ending.

Lu Liran shook his head slightly, he would not take money to help a slum, giving them money is like pouring money into the water.

The three major groups of Huangxing will do charity, and they have also set up a charity foundation. The so-called charity is to donate 500,000 star coins every month to help the people in the slums.

However, this money is simply a drop in the bucket for a slum whose density is three times that of Star City but whose area is only one third of Star City.

—Even if each household had a little money left, it quickly evaporated in such a chaotic environment.

He used to be in it, so he knows better that cash doesn't help the slums.

The only thing that can save these people is the emergence of new industries in the slums, and people support people.

It's just that the chaos and violence in the slums are to such an extent that the police force in the wild star is too lazy to intervene, so no entrepreneur has ever been willing to do such a troublesome thing with little return.

Lu Liran clicked his tongue lightly, this is indeed a big trouble.

"What are you looking at?" Ke Ji's voice came from behind him.

Lu Liran turned around and looked over, and saw Ke Ji walking towards him, his face was a little tired, but he looked energetic.

Seeing this, Lu Liran said, "Since you are so tired, why don't you go to rest?"

"I'm not tired, it's just that there are too many things to deal with, and it's a bit troublesome to deal with." Ke Ji smiled, and moved to Lu Liran's side. The evening breeze was slightly cool, and it was very comfortable. It’s very motivating to see you and the kid.”

Lu Liran raised his eyebrows: "So we still have this function?"

Ke Ji lowered his head and kissed the corner of the man's eyes: "Of course."

"Then you're done with it?" Lu Liran asked, "I heard from my elder brother that you will follow me when I go to Ghost Forest Swamp."

Ke Ji nodded slightly: "If you settle the people in the garrison in the next few days, nothing will happen."

"Where do they live now?" Lu Liran asked.

"Sleep in a warship for the time being, but this is not a long-term solution. After all, it is a garrison, and you still need a place of your own." Ke Ji gently squeezed the center of his eyebrows, and expressed his current concerns, "Basically every city There are all barren star troops stationed there, we are not suitable to forcefully insert them, we can only look for them in remote places."

Lu Liran paused when he heard the words, and a thought crossed his mind: "What about the slums?"

"Slums?" Ke Ji was taken aback, thinking of the place he had visited before to find Lu Liran's whereabouts, he narrowed his eyes slightly.

"It looks like an...unregulated dump," he said.

Lu Liran nodded, Ke Ji's description was very accurate.

"It's really chaotic there, and the power and firepower of local snakes are also very strong. Even the barren star police force can't handle this group of people." Lu Liran said.

Ke Ji looked at him and knew that Lu Liran had lived there for a while. Since Lu Liran would mention that place, he had his reasons. Although these obstacles exist objectively, they should not be serious.

Sure enough, I heard Lu Liran change the subject: "But after all, Desolate Star is just a subsidiary planet under the Federation, and can only form self-defense army-level firepower, and more powerful warships, weapons, artillery, and nuclear energy are not allowed to be owned. , under the condition that there is not much difference in the firepower of the two sides, it is very difficult for Huangxing to deal with the forces in the slums."

Ke Ji understood what Lu Liran meant, but the firepower of the four garrison units of the Federation Interstellar Army was unmatched by Desolate Star.

The slums that Huang Xing can't handle, they can completely level them.

Lu Liran said: "In the slum area, there are a few old factory buildings that were abandoned in the early years. They have been occupied by the forces in the slum. You can think about it. It is not impossible to settle down as a temporary residence."

Ke Ji nodded thoughtfully.

He looked at Lu Liran, smiled slightly, and asked, "What are your plans for that slum?"

Lu Liran paused, and coughed lightly: "Is it that obvious?"

"It's just that it sounds like you've already considered this aspect, so I'll ask by the way to see if it's feasible." Ke Ji said, his eyes a little curious.

Lu Liran slightly looked away, thought for a while, and slowly revealed the blueprint and plans drawn in his mind to Ke Ji bit by bit. He reorganized his thoughts while talking.

The two leaned on the railing of the balcony and discussed in a low voice. With Ke Ji's supplements from time to time, Lu Liran even felt that it seemed that this could be put into practical operation immediately.

When the little boy wakes up and looks around for papa, he sees his papa and his beautiful uncle close together, leaning on the railing and talking in a low voice. There is a super big and round moon hanging in the sky, just like their background board Yes, it looks great.

The kid Lu Ziqian blinked, and subconsciously felt that he shouldn't interrupt them by making a sound.

"I always thought you didn't like Huang Xing." Ke Ji looked at Lu Liran, raised his eyebrows slightly, "Why do you want to help them?"

"I really don't like Desolate Star." Lu Liran didn't hide his disgust, "But what I hate more is the people above the Desolate Star Pyramid. As for the people below, they are just a group of fooled and ignorant ordinary people."

"Besides, it's not really helping them." Lu Liran looked at Ke Ji.

"Desolate Star is a planet that has not been fully developed. Those people only see the surface of Desolate Star, and try their best to share and empty those resources, but they don't know what the real precious resources of Desolate Star are."

"Desolate Star has ten times the total population of Planet Solto. Only humans are the most precious resource, but they don't know this. They only want to ask for more resources from nature, dig mines, and dig deep seas... "Lu Liran raised the corner of his mouth slightly.

He tapped his brows lightly, and said in a low voice, "But I saw something more precious."

Ke Ji looked at Lu Liran slightly surprised, his eyes flashed with surprise and admiration, he never thought that Lu Liran would consider this, which was completely different from what he usually showed.

Sure enough, it was still the Lu family.

Lu Liran changed the topic: "But the people of Huangxing ran into a misunderstanding under the instigation of those people."

He looked at Ke Ji and smiled: "So this is not considered help, it can only be regarded as an initial investment, and I am also curious about the extent of the final return."