Chapter 227: Chapter 227: Gift Donations and an Unexpected Discovery

Edwin said to the livestream audience with a smile, "Don’t underestimate building this shelter. Forget ordinary people—even some low-to-mid-level supernatural beings could die from hypothermia in certain special situations in the Myriad Mountains without a shelter."

"Our Hunters’ Association has a service where we bring back people who just died from hypothermia and haven’t been eaten by wild animals yet. If they have family, they can pay us a thank-you fee and take the body away."

"Ahem, anyway, getting back on track—the core of this shelter is two things: warmth and dryness. On top of that, simpler is definitely better."

"You can see I’ve laid a thick layer of soil and moss on top of the shelter. This way, even if it’s freezing outside, the temperature inside will be enough to keep someone alive..."

While Edwin introduced his masterpiece to the livestream audience, he pawed through the leaf bed on the ground, letting the viewers appreciate his other masterpiece for themselves!

First-time livestream viewers were instantly drawn in by Edwin’s creative broadcast. Magicians wouldn’t be this roughed up even when entering the wilderness, and nobles would never encounter situations like this—even when hunting, they’d bring a whole entourage.

But that didn’t affect their curiosity one bit.

At the same time, they’d think that if they ran into some special situation, maybe these skills really could save their lives. They watched extra seriously.

"Huh?! What’s that on your hand?"

"Looks like a mole!"

"What are you thinking? How could a mole move? And it’s all long and thin!"

"Looks like a bug. So gross!"

Edwin, who’d been confident the livestream audience would notice several of his little details, sighed somewhat helplessly after seeing the comments.

Sure enough, he still didn’t understand well enough what the audience wanted to see.

He quickly lifted his arm. On it was a black-and-red bug that looked kind of like a centipede, but with way more densely packed legs and a long antenna on its head.

"Holy crap? What is that thing?"

"First time I’ve ever seen a bug like that!"

"Could it be poisonous? Get it off already!"

"That scared me! If I ran into that, straight-up fireball!"

"Why’s it got so many legs? My hair’s standing on end, goosebumps everywhere!"

Looking at the bullet comments in the livestream, Edwin looked totally confused. "This is a Thousand-Legged Sand Worm. They’re pretty common in the Myriad Mountains. Don’t let its tough appearance fool you—it’s got basically no killing power at all. At most, when facing danger, it’ll spray out a bunch of sand-like stuff."

As he spoke, Edwin directly triggered the Thousand-Legged Sand Worm’s mechanism. After watching a big pile of red sand-like stuff spray out and the worm go completely still, people were about to discuss it when they saw Edwin straight-up toss it into his mouth.

His mouth moved as he spoke. "After spraying the sand, the Thousand-Legged Sand Worm makes a pretty good snack. Tastes like chicken, crunchy, bursts in your mouth. Eat 25 to 30 a day and you won’t starve to death."

"???"

"That’s brutal!"

"Oh my god!"

"Forget anything else, I’m impressed!"

"I’d rather starve to death than eat that thing!"

"I’m Really Not the Cult Heir sends Love x99—Whoa, you really can send gifts!"

The fact that Edwin ate a bug in one bite didn’t shock people for long. The livestream audience turned their attention to a new livestream feature: gift donations.

Turns out, as long as you deposited money in Dragon Bank, you could use it online and send gift donations.

Seeming to notice that lots of people were paying attention to them now, I’m Really Not the Cult Heir directly sent another gift worth 100 gold coins—a Magic Net #1!

"Oh my god! Total high roller!"

"100 gold coins—I’m a magician and even I can’t come up with that."

"Is this big shot actually a cult heir? That’s insanely loaded! I’ve never seen this much money in my entire life!"

"Sob sob, I’m still a lord and I only make 200-300 gold coins a year. Comparing yourself to others will drive you crazy!"

Seeing his thunder stolen, Edwin wasn’t angry at all. Instead, he froze for a moment, and after carefully checking, discovered this thing was actually worth 100 gold coins, and 70 of those gold coins would go into his own account. His whole body got kind of excited. "Thanks to big bro ’I’m Really Not the Cult Heir’ for the gift. Thank you so much!!!"

Even for him, 70 gold coins was a seriously huge sum.

As for why 30 gold coins got taken away, he didn’t care at all. The God of Technology and Goddess of Magic built the Magic Net for them and let them use it for free—what’s wrong with taking just 30 gold coins? Even if they took 70, that’d be reasonable!

"Ahem, we’re done introducing this shelter’s current situation for now. Now we need to search the surrounding area for some materials to further improve it and find some food. If we can catch some prey, that’d be even more perfect."

As Edwin spoke, he walked toward the surrounding forest.

As a member of the Hunters’ Association and the Church of Hunting, even without using supernatural powers, he was like a fish in water in these mountains. He kept showing the livestream audience all kinds of exquisite techniques, which had people’s hearts racing.

All kinds of donations and praise kept pouring in.

Roster territory, Church of Love and Beauty. Audrey watched Edwin’s livestream, her eyes practically glowing. "Never thought livestreaming could be this profitable and attract this much attention!"

"Yeah, even though the livestream situation right now isn’t quite what we imagined... I think your odds of success shouldn’t be small. Even most people in your church probably have decent odds of success."

News Bird Megan honestly hadn’t expected that the first person to livestream would be this hardcore. Even during those years hanging around in the slums, she’d never eaten stuff like this. But she could still look at and analyze all this with a fairly objective eye.

"It’s just like the videos that blow up on Magic Net videos—as long as you’ve got your own style, you’ve got a shot at success." Audrey forced herself to endure the discomfort in her heart and watched Edwin’s livestream seriously. Suddenly, her gaze started to freeze.

She saw that as Edwin explored the surrounding area, he discovered a canyon between two mountains that was only about one person wide. The stones inside the canyon were extremely smooth, without a single trace of artificial carving—probably formed by flowing water.

At first, he just wanted to look for some moss and stuff inside. But as they went deeper and deeper, they discovered that at the end of the canyon—probably just 100 or 200 meters away—their view suddenly opened up.

And straight ahead, there was actually a building that looked absolutely massive!