Don't Starve, my pickaxe can be upgraded

Chapter 121 Pistol Formula
After filling his stomach, Liu Hen had nothing to do, so he walked around the village and collected food from the nearby trees.

Unfortunately, he didn't collect any of the tree cores he wanted most.

This special material is extremely rare. From the information we have obtained so far, only plants that are about to become spirits can possess it.

When late night fell again, Chang Xin also returned with the mining team.

"Oh my god, it's so warm..."

"It's still more comfortable in the village, it's like two different worlds!"

“It’s so comfortable here!”

"There was no wind at all, and the snowflakes seemed to have disappeared. It was magical!"

"I must dig up a hundred kilograms of copper ore as soon as possible so I can get village membership!"

As soon as everyone entered the village, they shouted in surprise.

As expected, there is no harm without comparison. They had adapted to the coldness of the night fog world and felt that they could survive even in such an extremely cold environment.

However, after knowing this paradise-like place, they no longer wanted to return to the extreme environment outside.

In fact, the snowflakes did not disappear, but melted into small raindrops after entering the shelter of the campfire.

These raindrops were very sparse, like drizzle, so the people in the village hardly felt it.

"How is it?" Liu Hen walked towards Chang Xin.

"We've just found the right spot and discovered there's copper underground."

Chang Xin said, "Excavation will only start tomorrow. Do you need it urgently now?"

"There's no rush. What we need most now is silver mines, or gold mines that we will need in the future," said Liu Hen.

Based on the three levels of Black Iron, Bronze, and Silver, he felt that there would definitely be gold mines later.

"What does a gold mine look like?" Chang Xin asked immediately.

"Gold, um... the color is very similar to yellow. It's very beautiful. You'll know when you see it."

Liu Hen gave a rough description of the gold mine. In fact, he had never seen the gold mine with his own eyes, so he didn't know whether his description was accurate.

"I'll keep an eye out."

Chang Xin nodded: "I have people guarding those bonfires outside, but can those places calm the strong winds?"

"Yes, yes, but..."

Liu Hen paused and said, "After the function of calming the strong wind was generated, those bonfires were almost useless and it was difficult for them to continue to grow stronger."

In order to calm the strong wind, you need to use the energy-level bonfire as the source of the village, match it with the village construction mode, deduce the blueprint and spread it out.

Once it becomes the source of the village, even if the village is not built, the difficulty of upgrading those bonfires will increase a hundred times, but what they lack most now is supplies.

Resources like wood, although there are much more of them here than in the rocky mountain area near Hongluo Camp, are still limited.

In this night foggy world, plants grow slowly and can be regarded as non-renewable resources in a short period of time and cannot be wasted.

He planned to use all the resources to upgrade the source bonfire in the Journey Village.

"That's fine, no one will die anyway."

Chang Xin felt a little regretful and changed the subject: "There are quite a lot of monsters nearby. I will lead people to clean them up tomorrow. However, even if the combat members don't hunt monsters, they still need to patrol and may not have time to mine."

"Mining is not necessary, and the threshold for obtaining village membership can be lowered at this stage."

Liu Hen said: "Combat members, each of them can obtain village membership by hunting down one hundred two-armed monsters or other level monsters of the corresponding number of magic crystals."

"Okay." Chang Xin nodded.

Seeing that nothing was wrong, Liu Hen went back to sleep.

In the next two days, nothing special happened except that some combat members obtained village membership.

The only thing worth mentioning is that Hong Ming slept for two days, completely recovering from his previous internal injuries and loss of energy.

However, as soon as he woke up, Chang Xin pulled him to work and continued to help the modified humans remove metal parts and restore their bodies.

Liu Hen has been waiting for the workbench to be upgraded.

On this day, the workbench was finally upgraded to Bronze Level 7, and a new recipe was born.

As expected, the recipe that appeared this time was a pistol, paired with a recipe for pistol bullets.

"The hot weapons have finally appeared!"

Liu Hen was eager. Although the pistol was not very useful to him with his current background, it could be of great use to others.

For example, the wild people, combat members, etc., even if they cannot be used as the main means of combat, they are still very useful for self-defense.

However, the production of a pistol is a little troublesome, as it requires iron ingots and cannot use iron ore.

Iron ingots need to be smelted in the furnace that appeared earlier.

Considering that there was no urgent need to use the pistol now and the upgrade of the workbench was more urgent, he resisted the idea of ​​making a pistol to play with and continued to choose to upgrade the workbench.

It takes seventy hours to upgrade a Bronze Level 7 workbench to Bronze Level 8. After he consumes eight hundred small pieces of copper ore and eight hundred magic crystals, the countdown begins.

"Liu Hen, can I have more food? Five servings are not enough." At this time, Hong Ming's voice came from outside.

When Liu Hen walked out of the village chief's residence, he saw Hong Ming standing by the campfire with dark circles under his eyes, looking at him with resentment.

"After all, I am a fourth-level superpower, and I work hard without complaint. At least give me enough to eat." Hong Ming said.

"Five servings a day aren't enough for you?" Liu Hen wondered.

Hong Ming said frankly, "I haven't absorbed any magic crystals in the past few days. Food that can be fully digested is just as effective for cultivating superpowers as magic crystals, because the body absorbs that kind of food very quickly. It's just that the amount is too small, so it's difficult to achieve the desired effect."

The 500 copies he bought at the campfire camp were actually used for cultivation, not for preparing food for his subordinates.

"Can carbohydrate porridge be used for cultivation?"

Liu Hen was surprised. Because of his special ability, he couldn't absorb energy for cultivation, so he didn't feel anything. He felt full when he ate, just like eating other food.

"How many servings are enough for you?" he asked.

"One hundred a day," Hong Ming said. "It would be best if there were no limit on the quantity."

"...You're dreaming."

Liu Hen said, "I can increase your daily allowance to ten servings. That's food, not cultivation resources. But if you can do me a favor, it's not impossible to increase it to a hundred servings."

In this world, controlling unlimited food is almost like controlling the future.

He could increase the quantity for Hongming, but it was certainly impossible to provide unlimited supply.

"What's the matter?" Hong Ming perked up and asked quickly.

"As the former lord of Green Cloud City, you must know how to get the silver mine. I'll give you a holiday. You don't have to work here. Go get me some silver mine."

Liu Hen said, "During this period, I can give you a thousand servings of carbohydrate porridge at once. When you come back, if you can bring back at least a thousand kilograms of silver ore, I will give you a hundred servings a day."

A person traveling alone can definitely travel faster than a large group of people.

Moreover, as a person with superpowers, the other party can travel quickly in a blizzard in extremely cold conditions.

"This……"

Hong Ming was a little tempted, but still refused: "Ten portions is fine."

"I'll give you 5,000 copies at one time." Liu Hen increased the stakes.

“…Although it’s very tempting, let’s forget it.”

Hong Ming still refused: "I have enemies in Green Cloud City. Without the suppression of the Silver Mine Demon, the other demons will not be so polite to me. Besides, there are still many dangers in the Night Mist World."

"What danger? Can't you avoid it?" Liu Hen was curious.

"The Night Mist World is full of dangers."

Hong Ming gave an example: "For example, the most common demon tide passing through, the occasional night demon hunter, and if you are unlucky, you may also encounter the fog of time and space, as well as various other dangers."

Of course, the most important thing is that he loves to enjoy himself. Now that it is so comfortable here, he never wants to go back to the extreme environment.

"What is the Night Demon Hunter?"

Liu Hen asked curiously, "What is the fog of time and space like?"

Hong Ming sat down near the campfire and explained with some fear, "Night Demon Hunters are a special kind of monster. They move around and hunt all living things. I encountered one once before, and I was lucky enough to break into the territory of a powerful demon and escape, but in the end I was injured by the demon and escaped. As for the space-time fog..."

He paused. "I haven't seen the Spacetime Mist either, but I've heard demons near Green Cloud City mention it. It's a 'phenomenal disaster' in the Night Mist World. Once it appears, everything except rocks, trees, and other things that originally grew on the earth will be displaced."

"Transfer?" Liu Hen asked.

"Yes, transfer, not kill. But if you are transferred to a dangerous place, it is no different from being killed."

Hong Ming said, "A demon near my Green Cloud City said it himself. He once encountered the mist of time and space in a very far place and was transferred to the cave of the Silver Mine Demon. He was beaten half to death and finally voluntarily became a slave and survived."

"...It's a matter of luck. It won't be that dangerous every time."

Seeing Hong Ming was indifferent, Liu Hen gave up and asked: "Are there other relatively common dangers in the Night Fog World?"

"Yes, there are slave ships of superpowers, the death sites of powerful demons, or various Jedi..."

Hong Ming listed a dozen relatively common dangers, some of which he had personally experienced and some of which he had heard from other demons.

And those he listed, if encountered, are almost certain to lead to death, or even a total death.

"I've never even heard of what you said." Liu Hen suspected that Hong Ming made it up in order to avoid going to look for the silver mine alone.

"Maybe it has something to do with the demon behind the Red Snail Camp."

Hong Ming said, "That demon once led the human race that followed it into hiding underground. Perhaps it's a demon that's extremely afraid of death, so the place it chose must be a very safe place. Moreover, as a demon of the seventh realm, it can definitely be considered a local overlord. Most mobile disasters will avoid it."

There is some truth to this statement.

Seeing that Hong Ming was unwilling to go on the journey alone, Liu Hen had to give up and started thinking about how to get the silver mine.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye. On this day, the Creation Workbench was upgraded to Bronze Level 8.

And on this day, a group of uninvited guests hurriedly appeared nearby.

(End of this chapter)