Don't Starve, my pickaxe can be upgraded

Chapter 125 Hibernation in Place
In front, Helian Xiao was very calm: "This chief once sacrificed a piece of heaven and earth strange stone into his body and obtained the status of a small mountain god."

He was eager to improve his status in the hearts of those people in the back, hoping that this would make the other party pay more attention to him.

"Refine external objects into the body?"

Hong Ming raised his eyebrows, a hint of jealousy flashed in his eyes, but he curled his lips: "Fake status, can't even achieve immortality."

Compared with the potential of the Mithril Egg he had researched, the other party's method of refining external objects into the body was indeed disgraceful.

"But he is at least a person of some kind, isn't he?" Helian Xiao said, feeling quite proud.

Although this pseudo-personality is nothing compared to rule-based mutants, it is still related to personality.

Hong Ming did not refute it because it was true and he was a little jealous.

Liu Hen didn't understand any of this, but he didn't pretend to know. He directly said to Helian Xiao, "You'd better go talk to your tribesmen and explain everything clearly. If they do something bad, you can't blame me, the village chief, for being 'forced to fight back.'"

Helian Xiao nodded and walked towards the people of his tribe.

No one knew what he said to his tribesmen, but there was a cry of surprise from the crowd.

Some people even showed joy.

Liu Hen and Chang Xin looked at each other.

Chang Xin said: "In order to prevent his people from developing a resistance mentality, he should say something good."

Liu Hen nodded. He thought so too, because he felt that Helian Xiao was a very smart person.

Not long after, Helian Xiao came back.

The people from the Stone Tribe also followed him over here.

Helian Xiao said, "Tell them that I paid a price to allow them to temporarily reside here. I will be away for a while, and I want you to help take care of them during this time. They will be very well behaved and will not cause you any trouble."

"That's the best." Liu Hen nodded.

"I need to settle them down first." Helian Xiao spoke again.

"Take them to my Travel Village." Liu Hen said.

The population of Journey Village is not large, and it is impossible for them to spare so many people to look after the people of the Stone Tribe.

The distance is close, making it easy to monitor. There is no need to worry about these people escaping, you just need to pay more attention.

Helian Xiao glanced in the direction of the light a few thousand meters away, thought for a moment, and nodded, "Alright."

Immediately, he led his tribesmen and Liu Hen and others back.

Because there are many children among the Stone Tribe, the progress is a little slower.

But in just over ten minutes, they arrived near the Journey Village.

Originally, Helian Xiao didn't think much about it, he just thought this was a human gathering place.

However, when he approached the shelter of the campfire, he could no longer remain calm.

Because the temperature here is much higher than outside.

The temperature outside is now over 60 degrees below zero, close to 70 degrees below zero.

However, within the range illuminated by the fire, the temperature was above zero.

Just one step away, the outside is like hell, but here is like heaven, as if some invisible rules are protecting this place.

This is incredible.

With his eyesight, he could see at a glance that there seemed to be no wind inside the small village in front of him.

This made him even more confused and uncertain, and his eyes moved back and forth between the nearby hill and the bonfire in the village, his expression becoming more and more solemn.

Because in his vision, those bonfires seemed to have contracted an area and anchored that location. The flames coming out of the bonfires seemed to be completely unaffected by the strong wind, as if they were in another world.

"That fire... is a manifestation of rules?!"

He suddenly thought of something -

The little girl who was able to control his power also seemed to obey the young man.

"How is that possible? Am I overthinking it? Could he also be a rule-based psychic?"

Helian Xiao was completely numb.

This place doesn’t look very big. The appearance of one rule-based mutant is already incredible, but now it seems that two appear at once!
Although he instinctively felt that it was impossible and hard to believe such a thing, everything before him proved his guesses.

He couldn't think of any other reason for this ability to change the environment except the power of rules.

And that kind of bonfire obviously has nothing to do with the rules of stone, so it is unlikely to be the ability of that little girl.

What surprised Liu Hen and the others was that Helian Xiao suddenly stopped after arriving here: "Just stay outside. The people of my Stone Tribe are very resistant to low temperatures. They can survive in the dark for a long time. There is no need to get any closer."

Although he also wanted the people in his tribe to live in a warm and comfortable environment.

But as a leader, he was more worried that after his people entered a warm environment, they would find it difficult to return to an extreme environment. This would lead to laziness, which would be very bad for the potential of the tribe.

"Row."

Liu Hen nodded: "Then let them camp nearby, but they can't leave more than 500 meters."

"Don't worry, this chief has already told them that they will be very well-behaved during the time that this chief is away. But I hope you can keep your promise and not hurt them." Helian Xiao said quickly.

"It would do us no good to hurt them."

Liu Hen asked Chang Xin to call a few people who were familiar with Luxia City.

These people are no longer cyborgs. They have all restored their physical bodies, and their bodies have also been transformed in other directions.

Their transformation is actually somewhat similar to that of the Stone Tribe people, but in a different direction.

Under Chang Xin's instructions, these people told each other what they knew about Lvxia City, and then used their own methods to draw a simple map on the ground.

The map is really simple, but at least it is understandable. As long as you have good eyesight and are at a high place, you can tell where is where.

Helian Xiao carefully wrote down the map, then looked at Liu Hen: "Village Chief Liu, is there any danger over there?"

On the way here, they had already introduced themselves to each other, and he already knew that Liu Hen was the leader of this group. Because he couldn't see Liu Hen's specific realm, he felt only fear and awe.

Liu Hen looked at Hong Ming.

"There are several fourth-level monsters over there, but in addition to the fourth-level monsters, there are also many mineral monsters."

Hong Ming said: "As long as we are careful to avoid it, it shouldn't be a big problem."

"There's more than one demon in the fourth realm?"

Helian Xiao was speechless: "This chief knew it wouldn't be that easy."

"You only have half a month." Liu Hen reminded.

"Don't worry, this chief was once a member of the Stone Tribe, so it's impossible for him to abandon his own people."

Helian Xiao took another look at the map on the ground, and after making sure that there was no problem, he strode into the darkness very decisively.

After Helian Xiao walked away, Chang Xin asked, "Is this man trustworthy? Will he abandon these people here and run away alone?"

"Wouldn't that be better?"

Liu Hen was not worried about this: "You can recruit these people when the time comes. It will only benefit us, not harm us. We can afford to support these people anyway."

The most important thing is that these people are more adaptable to the environment, which makes him very excited.

"That's true."

Chang Xin nodded: "Then I'll have someone watch them."

"Don't make it too obvious, or they might rebel unnecessarily."

Liu Hen reminded: "Just don't let them go too far, don't interfere with other matters."

"I know what to do." Chang Xin nodded.

Several people did not go back immediately.

After Chang Xin arranged people to come over, they observed the people of the Stone Tribe again.

Several of them had good eyesight, and this place was not far from the campfire, enough for them to see what was happening inside the Stone Tribe.

What is surprising is that the people of the Stone Tribe actually sleep directly on this frozen soil.

Many people even grabbed snow and stuffed it into their mouths, even mixing it with stones.

"Could it be that they can also eat stones like that Helian Xiao?"

Hong Ming looked surprised.

Chang Xin and Xiao Heishi were also surprised.

Little Black Stone couldn't help but think that since he had merged with the Wishing Stone, he was essentially the Wishing Stone in human form. So, could he eat stones?
This ability made her envious.

If I could eat stones back then, I wouldn’t be hungry.

But she quickly gave up the idea because she had no shortage of food and would never go hungry again as long as she followed the adults.

"Perhaps this is the tenacity of the people in this world."

Liu Hen sighed.

The barbarians in the Moten domain are actually not bad, but most of them have no one to lead them. When a person with superpowers finally appears, he turns out to be like a tyrant who only cares about his own enjoyment and completely disregards the lives of others.

The inhabitants of this place can only survive on their own. After generations of adaptation, they have evolved very strong digestive abilities and the ability to resist low temperature environments.

As for the people of the Stone Tribe, it was with the intervention of people with special abilities that they acquired the ability to adapt to extremely low temperatures. It is hard to say which side of the savages is stronger.

Liu Hen didn't observe too much, since he didn't lack that kind of "food" anyway.

Seeing that the people of the Stone Tribe were very well behaved, he returned to the Lucheng Village with peace of mind, asked Zong Ni to inform the Stone Tribe about the matter, and then continued to study the recipe.

However, he was very unlucky today. He spent most of the day without coming up with a single useful recipe, and most of the dishes he came up with were shady ones.

The reason for this is that he had a wild imagination and mixed stones and soil into the food ingredients to see if a miracle would happen.

It now seems that even if you want a miracle to happen, you must have a certain theoretical basis.

The next day, after Liu Hen got up, he first walked around the village, and then went outside to check the bonfires on the surrounding hills and the amount of fuel inside.

The reason he checked the fuel quantity was because he wanted to use it to determine whether any demons had approached.

If a demon approaches, the fuel in the bonfire will be consumed abnormally.

But fortunately, everything is as usual.

After confirming that there was no problem, Liu Hen walked towards the direction of the Stone Tribe.

The Stone Tribe is about 500 meters away from the Journey Village, just outside the valley.

This place is about two or three hundred meters away from the bonfire on the hill.

Because of Liu Hen's order, although the people in Lulv Village were very curious about the people from the Stone Tribe, no one dared to disobey the order and no one dared to approach this group of people.

And this group of people are really very well-behaved, to an astonishing degree.

After some observation, Liu Hen discovered that most people in the Stone Tribe seemed to be hibernating.

It seems that they, like the savage people, have evolved the ability to hibernate in order to cope with extreme environments.

These people's sleeping methods are also very bold. They sleep directly on the ground in the snow.

Of course, it is also possible that they understand the situation of themselves and others. Now that the master with superpowers has left, their range of activities has also been restricted. Just a little thought will reveal the possible reasons.

In this situation, even if they wanted to go into a cave or a safer place to sleep, the conditions did not allow it.

However, not everyone is hibernating. There are at least three hundred young and middle-aged people who are still awake, responsible for keeping watch and patrolling to prevent danger, etc.

Seeing that these people were so well-behaved, Liu Hen didn't do anything extra.

Next, he walked around the area again, wanting to see if anyone from the Hongluo Camp had arrived.

(End of this chapter)