Don't Starve, my pickaxe can be upgraded

Chapter 118 The Choice of the Dead
"???"

Liu Hen was stunned: "Have you ever contributed precious materials to me?"

Could the so-called contribution here be the materials obtained from collecting corpses before?
He was suspicious.

It seems that the materials I got from Tong Kun are only those materials, but does that count?
At this time, Hong Ming next to him had already started yawning again: "If there is nothing else, I will go back to sleep."

"Go." Liu Hen nodded and waved his hand to tell him to leave quickly. He wanted to try to summon the eternal villagers to see what they looked like.

At this time, under the control of Xiao Heishi, the giant stone guard patrolled the surrounding area, returned to the village entrance, and sat down cross-legged on the side of the village gate, like a door god, motionless.

Because of Liu Hen's previous reminder, and because she is now much more proficient in using her strength, the stone guards she summoned this time are no longer naked, but are wearing clothes similar to warm suits.

It is so tall that even just sitting there, it is several meters high.

When the small black stone stopped controlling it, the giant stone guard slowly closed its eyes, as if it had fallen into a deep sleep. No breath came out of it, and it looked like a lifelike statue.

Around the campfire.

Liu Heng is checking the relevant information of the Eternal Villagers.

[Eternal Villagers: Villagers who emerge from the village's origin bonfire will never leave the village. They are special beings. Even if they die unexpectedly, they will emerge from the bonfire again. Their fuel consumption varies depending on their strength. They unconditionally recognize and obey the village leader, carrying out all his orders. They are strong-willed but also stubbornly conservative. They will easily accept changes in their own village and will not be tempted by anything.]

"Determined yet stubbornly conservative? Unkillable, resurrectable at any moment, and capable of unconditionally carrying out my orders, this feels..."

Liu Hen felt that these so-called eternal villagers were very similar to game NPCs.

Resurrection after death is similar to the refresh of NPCs, and there is a fixed refresh location.

He immediately thought about it and tried to summon the only eternal villager at present.

The next moment, he felt that the fuel for the campfire seemed to have been consumed a little less.

Then, a figure walked out from the flames, and it was Tong Kun who had died just now.

However, at this moment, Tong Kun had no expression on his face and his eyes were calm. He did not have the timidity he had before, nor did he have the arrogance of a former camp member.

Little Black Stone, who was standing by, saw the man walking out of the campfire and couldn't help but blink, staring in amazement.

Resurrection from the dead?
Is this resurrection from the dead?

She was stunned. Could it be that her master was really a god?
"Village chief." Tong Kun clenched his right fist and placed it on his heart, bowing respectfully.

As an eternal villager, his memory seemed to have been rewritten. From the moment he was transformed into an eternal villager, he naturally accepted his identity.

According to the name of the game, he is the true NPC of this village. He is almost invulnerable to damage, or even if he is damaged, he will refresh and resurrect.

Liu Hen stared at Tong Kun for a few seconds before asking, "Do you remember what happened before?"

Tong Kun replied calmly, "Before, the demon Tonglong killed dozens of the village chief's people. I was afraid of being punished by the village chief, so I wanted to escape. I don't know what happened, but I woke up here."

He felt as if he had suddenly fallen asleep and seemed to have no memory of his fall.

Moreover, he did not feel that it was strange that he suddenly became an eternal villager, as his memory was completely modified.

If an outsider saw this situation, his scalp would probably tingle.

However, Liu Hen felt quite good. He smiled and said, "Go back to the campfire. It's not appropriate for you to show up now."

Tong Kun was a dead person, but he suddenly came back to life, and there were obviously serious problems with his memory. If others saw this, they would inevitably think too much.

Even if they are your own people, you should still try to avoid them if you can avoid trouble.

He didn't need the Eternal Villagers right now. It wouldn't be too late to summon them when the opportunity arose.

"Yes, village chief."

Tong Kun immediately turned around and walked towards the campfire without hesitation.

Soon, his body became transparent and completely merged into the bonfire, disappearing as if he had never existed.

Liu Hen looked at Xiao Heishi and said, "Don't tell anyone about this."

"Yes, don't worry, sir." Little Heishi nodded quickly. Before he could fully come to his senses, he was still wondering in his heart, could his lord really be an omnipotent god?
At this time, Zong Ni walked out of a building in the distance.

She had been maintaining order underground, comforting the children and the elderly who were unable to take care of themselves, and had no idea what was going on.

Liu Hen originally thought that she came to get food, because according to the time, it was almost time for others to eat.

However, the first thing Zong Ni said made him stunned: "Those old people are all dead."

"died?"

Liu Hen frowned: "How did he die?"

"He was not injured or sick, he just died suddenly."

Zong Ni explained, "But they died very quietly, as if they knew they were going to die. By the way, they said thank you."

Liu Hen probably knew the reason.

Those old people should be almost at the end of their lives. Now they have come to a warm and safe place, and they basically have no worries about food and clothing. Their tense hearts have relaxed, and the tenacious will that locks their vitality has been moved.

In this case, to some extent, it can be said that they died because they were not adapted to such an environment.

"Have the bodies of the old men brought out and burned."

Liu Hen didn't comment on this matter much, and said to Zong Ni: "By the way, call those children out and have them swear to join the Journey Village together."

"Ok."

Zong Ni left again.

Soon, a total of ten modified humans came out carrying eight corpses, followed by more than twenty children.

Boys make up the majority of them, with only four or five girls. The youngest among them is four or five years old, and the oldest is only seven or eight years old. Those over ten years old have joined the mining team.

Everyone looked timidly at Liu Hen, the big man who dominated their fate.

As for those corpses... although they look very old, the oldest one is actually only about fifty years old.

The expressions of all the corpses were very calm, as if they were just asleep.

Liu Hen used the power of the earth from his Wanjinzhui suit to sense the bodies, confirming that the bio-force field of these people had completely disappeared. He then said to Zong Ni, "You do it yourself and throw all the bodies into the bonfire." "Okay."

Zong Ni immediately took the corpses from the modified humans and threw them into the bonfire one by one.

"Huhuhu..."

Suddenly, the bonfire was burning fiercely, and the corpses thrown in were burned to ashes in the blink of an eye. No matter whether it was clothes that had solidified into pieces, flesh, blood, bones, etc., nothing was left.

This scene was so magical, as if there was no burning time at all. In the blink of an eye, the corpse was completely burned to ashes, leaving nothing behind.

The modified humans just felt it was magical, while the children all looked terrified.

Liu Hen did not comfort the frightened children. After the bodies were burned, he found that there was indeed a little more fuel in the fuel tank of the bonfire.

'Um? '

Suddenly, he saw a figure appear in the flames, whose appearance was exactly the same as the corpse that was thrown into the bonfire before.

"Could it be that another Eternal Villager has been born?" He was looking forward to it.

However, this time no information appeared. Instead, the shadow in the flames knelt down before him, and then its body dissipated, turning into specks of light that merged into the bonfire.

The next moment, he felt that the bonfire in front of him seemed to have grown a little bit bigger.

Because the change was so small, he wasn't sure if it was an illusion.

"Sir, I saw his ghost." Little Black Stone's voice suddenly rang out in his mind.

Revenant?

Liu Hen understood in his heart that this time the phantom was different from the previous ones, and Xiao Heishi could also see it.

But others seemed invisible.

Zong Ni continued to throw corpses into the bonfire. Just like before, every corpse burned quickly after entering the bonfire, leaving no ashes.

And every corpse can add some fuel to the bonfire. This is a special privilege of the villagers, who can add fuel to the bonfire.

At the same time, just like before, after the second corpse was burned to ashes, a shadow appeared from the flames.

This time the old man was confused at first, and then he looked at everyone around the campfire.

Finally, he bowed deeply to Liu Hen, then turned into light spots and dissipated. This time, the light spots did not merge into the bonfire.

"He's gone, leaving no attachment behind." Xiao Heishi's voice echoed in Liu Hen's mind at the right moment.

Suddenly, Liu Hen became thoughtful.

The same thing happened next time. After each corpse was burned to ashes, a phantom would appear, which was the soul of the old man from the wilderness.

Two of the souls chose to merge into the bonfire, and the remaining six chose to dissipate into the world.

Finally, all the bodies were burned.

Liu Hen looked at Zong Ni and said, "You lead them in taking the oath. Do you remember the oath?"

"Remember." Zong Ni nodded.

"That's good."

Liu Hen said, pointing at the modified humans: "Let them come together."

"Thank you, sir!" The ten modified humans were immediately overjoyed. Sir Liu Hen was giving them a back door.

At the same time, they looked at Zong Ni with more gratitude, knowing that this must be because of their master.

Soon, all the children and ten modified humans had taken the oath.

When Liu Hen agreed to their joining in the village registration, everyone felt it immediately, and the bonfire in front of them seemed to become sacred.

The cyborgs were fine, they didn't react much other than being excited, but the children all knelt down at the same time and instinctively worshipped the bonfire in front of them.

Originally, this scene was nothing special, but Liu Hen discovered that a few spots of light flew out from the children's bodies and merged into the bonfire.

Suddenly, the flames of the bonfire seemed to be a little bigger, and at the same time, the upgrade experience of the bonfire increased a little.

"So the villagers' worship can increase the bonfire's upgrade experience. How does it increase it?"

Liu Hen suddenly realized. He walked to the tree that had been created before and took out the storage cabinet where the carbohydrate porridge was stored.

Since they have become my villagers, it is naturally impossible for me to let them starve, especially the children.

Soon, the lockers were placed successfully.

As he expected, this storage cabinet placed inside the village can, in theory, be opened by any villager with a registered residence in the Journey Village to take out or put things in.

But he can set some limits.

"Restrictions must be imposed, after all, it's impossible for everyone to abide by the rules."

Liu Hen thought about it and gave Xiao Heishi, Chang Xin and Zong Ni the permission to use whatever was inside at will, without any limit on quantity.

Hong Ming, Chen Ye and Zhang Mianmian were limited to five servings of carbohydrate porridge a day.

Five servings were enough to fill them up, and there was still some left over.

As for the rest, whether they keep it for themselves or give it away is their business.

"For the rest... just two pounds a day, one pound per meal."

Liu Hen gave the combat members who stayed behind in the village and children who were unable to take care of themselves the right to have two meals a day.

Two servings of food a day are enough for the healthy growth of those children.

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