Don't Starve, my pickaxe can be upgraded

Chapter 104 Huge Harvest
"Don't waste time attacking the powerful ones."

Liu Hen said: "We are trying to get magic crystals, it is more cost-effective to kill ordinary monsters."

"Okay, okay, I just want to see the strength of that monster..."

Hong Ming answered subconsciously. Now he was even more wary of Liu Hen's abilities.

He felt complicated and shocked, and suddenly understood why rule-based psychics were treated like gods.

This type of psychic may not appear to be very powerful in combat, but in some aspects they are like gods, just like Liu Hen now, who even the demonic tide is afraid of him.

At this time, he finally understood why the demon behind the Hongluo Camp, who was suspected to be in the seventh realm, had to give in on his own initiative.

When faced with this kind of rule-based ability, it is simply unrealistic to rely on numerical crushing.

Unless the opponent is strong enough to break the rules, I won't fight him unless he is cute and stupid.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom……"

The fiery red light of the shells and the silver-white thermobaric bombs with enhanced powers continued to explode in the demonic tide.

"Rumble--"

The giant branches were like giant dragons, constantly whipping away the demonic tide and blowing away the monsters one after another.

With time to prepare and giving it his all, Hong Ming's fighting power was indeed very impressive. The scene ahead was like the collapse of the sky and the splitting of the earth. Large groups of monsters were blown away, and the earth was beaten to the point of sinking and cracking.

Everyone was shocked.

However, the most shocking thing is still the seemingly ordinary bonfire in front of them. It clearly does not make any huge noise, but it can keep the tide of demons out.

Finally, after more than ten minutes, the demonic tide passed.

Chang Xin and Hong Ming both stopped. Even though Chang Xin had the thermobaric bomb suit to answer questions at any time, she had been strengthening her ability to release thermobaric bombs, and it was a bit too much for her to continue for more than ten minutes.

The same goes for Hong Ming. He burst out with all his strength for more than ten minutes. Even as a fourth-level psychic, he couldn't bear it and was almost exhausted.

Only Liu Hen was still full of energy, because he had consumed all external things. When he saw that the magic tide had passed, he turned the muzzle of the gun and bombarded the magic tide.

Finally, he stopped until the demon tide left the range of the home cannon.

A total of more than four hundred shells were fired. Even if his energy was not exhausted, he still felt a little tired due to the constant vibration of the home cannon.

There was peace and tranquility within the shelter of the campfire. There were no casualties and no smell of blood.

Except for Liu Hen, everyone was still in shock and had not fully recovered.

"Now that we're rich, I'm afraid we won't be short of magic crystals in the short term!"

Liu Hen looked at the magic crystals that almost covered the ground a hundred meters away, and smiled widely, his mouth almost crooked: "Send someone to pick up all the magic crystals."

"Ok."

Chang Xin quickly arranged for people to clean up the battlefield.

Liu Hen quickly checked the home cannon in front of him and was shocked to find that it was almost scrapped.

"Does this home cannon have durability?"

He checked carefully and found that there was no repair button, so he tried to punch it hard.

With a "bang", the home cannon, which was already close to being scrapped, exploded and turned into a pile of ore without a single part.

Everyone around looked over quickly, thinking something had happened.

“It’s scrapped.”

Liu Hen said with some regret: "This kind of home cannon, a brand new one, can only be fired 600 times at most."

"That's a lot. The heavy artillery my giant city previously manufactured would basically become scrapped after firing a hundred or so times."

Hong Ming looked at the pile of ore on the ground, his face bewildered and surprised: "This isn't made by technological means, it's a cannon manifested by your ability?"

"That's right." Liu Hen nodded. It was such an obvious thing.

This kind of home cannon has no internal structure at all, it is just an appearance and needs to rely on its golden finger for support.

Perhaps it is precisely because it has no structure and its internal structure is unscientific that it must be installed within the home building and needs the power of campfire for protection.

Otherwise, this kind of thing will just be a decoration and cannot be used at all.

"Incredible!"

Hong Ming was amazed. He had always thought that the cannon used by Liu Hen was made by technological means.

"that……"

After a pause, he suddenly asked, "Can you give me some of the magic crystals this time? I just used up a lot, and my abilities are highly dependent on magic crystals."

Liu Hen thought for a moment and said, "How about this, you go pick it up yourself. Whatever you pick up is yours."

After all, Hong Ming's speed in killing monsters was faster than that of him and Chang Xin combined, so it would be unreasonable not to give the other party some benefit.

"Thank you."

Hong Ming was overjoyed and quickly followed the others into the darkness.

A hundred meters away, the densely packed magic crystals almost covered the ground. He could pick up a handful of them. Although his speed in picking them up was definitely far slower than that of others, if he was fast, it would not be difficult to get thousands or even tens of thousands of them.

But Liu Hen was not idle either. He strode into the darkness, waving his hands continuously to put the magic crystals on the ground into the account of the Pickaxe of All Things.

His picking speed was the fastest. Wherever he passed, all the magic crystals within a one-meter radius disappeared. He didn't even need to bend down to pick them up.

Hong Ming couldn't help but reveal a look of resentment upon seeing this. With Liu Hen competing for his share, he would have lost many magic crystals. Zhang Mianmian, who had always diligently supervised Hong Ming, said calmly, "Be content. If it weren't for Master Liu Hen's protection, you'd be dead by now. Do you think you could have survived a demonic tide of that magnitude?"

"..."

This time, Hong Ming did not talk back to Zhang Mianmian who liked to make trouble for him.

Because it's true.

"But it's true. That guy was kind to me. I haven't completely escaped being a captive yet, yet he was willing to share some magic crystals with me..."

He quickly recognized himself and continued to pick up magic crystals.

At this moment, everyone was busy, whether they were old or young, or even those disabled people, they all joined in the task of picking up magic crystals.

"No secret possession is allowed. If anyone does, ask the knife in my hand if it agrees!"

Chang Xin specially arranged a group of modified humans to supervise the wastelanders to prevent any foolish people from hoarding magic crystals.

And of course she couldn't just sit there idle, so she was also picking up magic crystals.

Almost everyone was busy, nervous, exciting and excited.

"Oh my god, how many monsters were killed?"

"I've never seen so many magic crystals in my life..."

"Forget about seeing him, I haven't even dreamed about him!"

Whether they were the savages or the modified humans, they were all talking excitedly.

In fact, even Chang Xin, Zong Ni and others found it difficult to remain calm, as they had never seen so many magic crystals.

Only Hong Ming was slightly calmer. Green Cloud City had stood in the Night Fog World for more than 40 years, and naturally had encountered more than one demonic tide.

Although there would be huge losses every time, causing the population of Green Cloud City to never increase, a huge amount of magic crystals could be harvested after each magic tide passed through.

This was also one of the reasons why he said he didn't want magic crystals in his deal when he first met Liu Hen.

In the past, he had no shortage of magic crystals.

"The demonic tide moved at a speed of about twenty meters per second, and it took more than ten minutes to pass from beginning to end..."

Liu Hen continued to pick up magic crystals while calculating the scale of the magic tide he encountered this time: "At that time, the edge of the magic tide could not be seen in the darkness. The number of monsters in this magic tide is probably over a million, right?"

Anyway, the number of monsters they killed this time will definitely not be less than 10,000, but only more.

Considering that a four-armed monster can drop eight magic crystals and a six-armed monster can drop sixty-four magic crystals, the number of magic crystals cannot be used to determine the number of monsters killed.

"I've already picked up over 8,000 myself, and there are still quite a few..."

He glanced at the magic crystal data in Wanwuhao's account, and the smile on his face became more intense.

"I used to feel like I didn't have enough magic crystals, but for a long time to come, I shouldn't be short of them."

Unfortunately, such good things don't happen often. Otherwise, with the magical properties of my campfire, I would never be short of magic crystals again.

Time passed and late night gradually arrived, but because all the magic crystals had not been picked up yet, no one planned to rest. Even the wastelanders spontaneously wanted to work overtime, wanting to pick up all the magic crystals first.

They are used to being frugal, so even though they know they may not get any of these magic crystals, they are unwilling to waste them for fear that they will be snatched away by someone else.

Everyone is enjoying the joy of harvest.

Finally, after more than five hours, with the joint efforts of the remaining more than 300 people, the area within a kilometer was thoroughly searched.

When Chang Xin gathered all the magic crystals in front of Liu Hen, even Liu Hen couldn't remain calm.

Because after he deposited all these magic crystals into Wanwuhao's account, the data in Wanwuhao's account suddenly soared to more than 800,000.

"Over 800,000 magic crystals, how long will it take to use them all?"

Liu Hen subconsciously calculated in his mind: "The cost of upgrading other items is not too high, but the upgrade of the suit is ten times the increase. To upgrade a bronze suit to silver, it requires 10,000 magic crystals... Oh my..."

After doing this calculation, he suddenly felt that these more than 800,000 magic crystals seemed to be completely ineffective.

Because even if all of it is used to upgrade the suits, at most only more than 80 sets of silver-level suits can be upgraded.

"More than eighty sets..."

He shook his head helplessly and wanted to slap himself. Why should he calculate?
This does not even include the upgrade cost of the Creation Workbench.

When the Creation Workbench is at the Black Iron level, the magic crystals consumed are in single digits.

After the bronze level, the consumption of magic crystals suddenly increased to hundreds.

According to this rule, once you reach the silver level, you will have to consume five-digit magic crystals for each level up.

The production and upgrading of other things also require consumption.

After a series of calculations, it seems that more than 800,000 magic crystals are not enough to last.

'I wasn't happy for even a few seconds.'

He sighed, recomposed his expression, and looked at Chang Xin: "How many people are left?"

Chang Xin had already finished counting the number of people and walked over to say, "Everyone was frightened earlier. Many people ran out of the protection of the campfire and were killed by the demonic tide. Over eighty people were killed. Including us, there are only 327 people left."

If we really want to trace the casualties, only more than 80 people died in the demon tide, which is actually not that many.

However, this was despite the protection of the magical bonfire, and yet so many people died, which took on a completely different meaning.

"Good words cannot persuade the damned. Let them all learn a lesson."

Liu Hen did not sympathize with those who died in the demonic tide. He said calmly, "It looks like no one is injured, so let's continue on our way. Let's leave here first and rest later to avoid unnecessary trouble caused by the previous commotion."

　Asking for a monthly ticket! !
　　
　
(End of this chapter)