Don't Starve, my pickaxe can be upgraded

Chapter 133: The Caravan at Hongluo Camp (Two Chapters in One)

Liu Hen looked at Chang Xin with strange eyes.

"Is there something wrong with my suggestion?" Chang Xin asked in confusion.

"That's not it."

Liu Hen smiled and said, "Then what price do you think we should sell it for... well, rent it to the villagers?"

He just thought of some things in his previous life and felt that Chang Xin had a talent for lending money.

"How much did it cost you to make this kind of bed?" Chang Xin asked.

"One hundred magic crystals, plus some relatively easy-to-obtain but not very precious wood." Liu Hen replied.

"Then let's make it two hundred magic crystals. I suggest not selling it too expensively to the villagers."

Chang Xin said, "It's too expensive for the villagers to accept. Most importantly, it's too expensive for them to afford. That would be meaningless. Anyway, you won't lose money."

"Then do as you say."

Liu Hen nodded: "First, you count how many beds are needed in total. If there are not enough, I will add more."

"There are now 37 villagers who have obtained village membership."

Chang Xin remembers it clearly: "My suggestion is to only grant village membership to those who have already obtained it at this stage, and leave the others alone for now, because I've noticed that some of them are starting to act cunningly and dishonestly. If you have no objection, I will kick those people out."

"Someone is actually trying to be sneaky? How clever is that?"

Liu Hen felt that there were all kinds of birds in the forest, and he didn't even cherish such a good opportunity.

Seeing that Liu Hen had no objection, Chang Xin knew what to do.

In fact, she had been sending people to search for nearby barbarians during this period, but she didn't know whether it was because the number of people she sent out was too small, the search range was not large enough, or because there were no barbarians in this area at all.

Anyway, so much time has passed and not a single deserter has been found.

However, thinking about the purple-eyed demon they encountered when they came here, she roughly guessed what was going on.

There used to be a copper dragon guarding this area. The copper dragon only eats copper ore and should not eat humans. Because it guards this area, other demons will not trespass unless necessary.

But now that the bronze dragon has left, other demons are beginning to covet this area.

The barbarians who stayed in this area either migrated or died.

"By the way, distribute these guns to your men."

Liu Hen also transferred the 100 assault rifles he made last night into the locker, including the 100,000 rounds of ammunition,

"How powerful is this kind of gun?" Chang Xin's face lit up with joy.

"Anyway, I wouldn't be able to handle it even with my bronze-level thermal suit."

Liu Hen looked at Chang Xin: "It's hard to say what you said."

Chang Xin's pure strength is at least over one thousand kilograms. To be able to withstand such a terrifying burst of power, her physical body must be extremely amazing.

The opponent was wearing a bronze-level thermobaric suit, which further improved her physical fitness, so the assault rifle might not be able to hurt her.

"It's very strong."

Chang Xin was very satisfied: "Thank you."

"That's too formal." Liu Hen smiled.

The day passed peacefully. Except for the first half of the day which Hong Ming spent restoring the bodies of the modified humans, Liu Hen sent him to cultivate trees for the rest of the day.

late at night.

Liu Hen looked at the Creation Workbench which was starting to upgrade again, with a lot of thoughts in his mind.

"One more level and I'll be at the max level of bronze. If the silver mines don't arrive soon, I won't be able to continue growing stronger. I hope Chief Stone doesn't encounter any accidents."

It takes ninety hours, or nearly four days and three nights, to upgrade a bronze workbench from level nine to level ten.

Even if the upgrade is completed, there are still nearly ten days until the time agreed with Chief Stone.

"The Hongluo Camp team should have been able to make the round trip by now, based on their schedule. Did they reject my proposal?"

He frowned secretly.

Because he had done almost nothing important that day and was not feeling sleepy at all, he left the room and went to the living room.

After he finished making the guns last night, he also made a set of tables and chairs, so the living room was no longer empty.

In addition to a dozen lockers and nine black iron-grade workbenches, there is also a set of tables and chairs, which is six chairs and a round table.

Liu Hen sat down on the chair, thinking about the future.

"If the Red Snail Camp refuses to cooperate... even if that giant conch is wary of me, I won't be able to cause any trouble with it now..."

It just so happens that I am now able to move the village.

I have to wait for half a month at most. If Chief Shi doesn’t bring back the silver mine, then I will have to go to Luxia City in person.

At this time, Xiao Heishi half poked his head out of his room and secretly looked at Liu Hen.

After making the bed last night, Liu Hen had already arranged it for Xiao Heishi.

But perhaps because she was a rule-based creature, she didn't need to sleep at all. When she heard the noise, she immediately came out to see what was going on.

"Why are you so depressed?" Liu Hen asked.

"The adults are also unhappy." Little Heishi came out and said in a low voice.

"I'm not depressed, I'm just thinking about something."

Liu Hen smiled and said, "What's the matter?"

He could see that Xiao Heishi must be worried about something, which was very rare among the barbarians.

Perhaps it was because he was no longer hungry or cold, so he had time to think about other things.

To use the words of my previous life, if you eat too much, you will easily have wild thoughts.

Little Black Stone lowered his head and was silent for a moment before he spoke softly, "Master, do you no longer like Black Stone?"

"Why do you say that?" Liu Hen was stunned.

Little Black Stone said timidly, "The adults don't need Black Stone to serve them anymore."

During this period, she wanted to help Liu Hen rest several times, but was rejected every time. This made her feel lost and worried that Liu Hen no longer needed her.

Because there is no shortage of combat power in the Journey Village now, and if the adults want women, there will be no shortage of women, so she seems to be worthless.

"..."

Liu Hen laughed and patted the little girl's head: "You are still young now, wait until you grow up."

"I'm not young anymore."

Little Black Stone couldn't help but defend himself: "My mother gave birth to me when she was young. I have seen some girls younger than me, and they have all started to serve others."

In the minds of the barbarians, there is no such thing as underage. In their view, once you have that ability, you can do those things.

Like all women in this world, including the ambitious woman Chang Xin, they have the ability to have children and instinctively believe that they can have children when necessary.

They don't think that having children is for men, nor do they think that serving men is shameful or a loss. They just think it is a way to show their value.

People who have no value are destined to be abandoned.

This is what Xiao Heishi is worried about.

Liu Hen couldn't help but reflect on whether he was too hypocritical?
This world was no longer Earth, and it didn't have Earth's laws. He wasn't forcibly seizing a woman, and he wasn't forcing anyone. Especially since Little Heishi, besides being a little shorter, was so well-developed that he didn't look like a minor at all.

The most important thing is that according to the concepts of this world, this behavior of forcibly bringing in the moral values ​​and legal concepts of the previous life is, to some extent, unfair to the people of this world.

His thoughts became clear, and he felt relieved. He picked up the little girl and walked towards the room.

Chang Xin is obsessed with improving his strength. He hasn't touched a woman for a while. In this case, there is no need for hypocritical restraint.

This world is a world of eternal night and famine.

……

Early night arrives.

Liu Hen got up refreshed with the help of Xiao Heishi. He first shared the food with Xiao Heishi, then took out the big wood and collected it into small wood.

Because he promised Chief Stone to trade food for silver mines.

Even though he was the stronger party and could lower the price at will, it was difficult to lower the price too much for a precious and relatively rare metal like silver.

Even if he traded with the other party at the most outrageous price of ten kilograms of food for one kilogram of silver ore, for ten thousand kilograms of silver ore, he would still have to prepare one hundred thousand kilograms of food.

However, in order to ensure that there are no accidents in the transaction, he plans to produce one million kilograms of food.

One million jin may seem like a lot, but if you convert the unit into tons, it doesn’t feel like a lot. It’s only about 500 tons... OK, that’s not a small amount either.

This would undoubtedly require a lot of sawdust, so he started collecting it now.

For a large log, most of the materials will be collected into small pieces, and only 20% to 30% of the wood chips will be left.

Because of the different types of trees, if calculated by weight, it would be between one hundred and three hundred kilograms.

One pound of organic carbon is made from about three to four pounds of sawdust.

A pound of carbohydrate porridge contains only about one-tenth organic carbon, and the rest is water.

At the beginning, Liu Hen collected small pieces of wood honestly, and only used the remaining impure sawdust as materials for making food.

But later on, he simply became lazy and filled his space backpack with things first. This way, he would not be able to collect any materials. The entire big wood would be broken into pieces, and the remaining sawdust could be used to make organic carbon.

This way, the speed is much faster.

It only took about ten large pieces of wood to get enough sawdust material.

What really requires a large investment is ice, but he doesn't mind having millions of tons of ice on him.

And now there are constant blizzards outside, so it is impossible to be short of water.

So in the end, it only took him a few hours to make 500 tons of carbohydrate porridge.

Using an energy-grade campfire to cook a "big pot meal" such as carbohydrate nutritious porridge, one can cook 100,000 kilograms at a time.

As long as all the ingredients are added in and a certain amount of fuel is consumed, 100,000 kilograms of carbohydrate nutritious porridge can be produced in one minute.

It only took about ten minutes to prepare one million kilograms of food, and most of the time was spent on preparing the ingredients.

Liu Hen had previously made "big pot meals" in batches of one pound each, which took up a lot of space.

Since this time the transaction was in large quantities, he simply divided it into ten parts, each weighing 10,000 kilograms.

After receiving it, he took it out and took a look, and found that it was actually a huge wooden barrel filled with black liquid.

The wooden barrel is also a manifestation of his ability. It exists to hold the carbohydrate porridge. Once the carbohydrate porridge inside is eaten up, the wooden barrel will disappear.

"Just one million kilograms of food!"

Liu Hen smiled and felt relieved.

Although he himself has long been tired of eating this kind of food, the barbarians in this world will not be tired of it.

After preparing the food for trading, he made another 10,000 one-pound portions and added them to the food cabinet outside. Then he took Little Black Stone to look for trees outside the village and took a walk.

When passing by the place where the Stone Tribe was stationed, Liu Hen deliberately stopped to observe and found that the people of the Stone Tribe were really well-behaved.

Although the people of this stone tribe also need food, their diet is obviously different from that of ordinary people. Or it may be that their digestive ability far exceeds that of ordinary savages, and they really eat stones.

Except for those that have hibernated, those responsible for keeping watch and patrolling would occasionally dig out a stone from under the snow and eat it like a snack.

Liu Hen stayed here for a long time and finally found that although most people had no expression on their faces when eating stones, there were still some people whose faces were full of disgust and discomfort.

"It seems eating stones is the last resort."

He was sure of it and also felt relieved.

As long as the Stone Tribe still needs food, the initiative is still in our hands.

"Let's go."

He didn't linger any longer and walked into the darkness with the little black stone.

Because he was equipped with a campfire projection, wherever he passed, the strong winds silently weakened or even subsided, and the temperature rose as he moved.

The temperature would not return to normal until he passed by, and it was almost impossible for the temperature within three meters around him to drop below fifteen degrees.

Perhaps because she was favored again, Xiao Heishi was obviously much more active than before. If she didn't know how to find topics to talk about and she was not good at talking, she would probably chatter all the way.

Soon, they arrived at the mine.

The combat members who were on guard for the miners were suddenly shocked to find that the wind had stopped and even the temperature was rising rapidly.

Soon, they saw Liu Hen and Lord Heishi approaching, and their faces showed even more shock.

"Meet the village chief, meet Lord Blackstone..."

Everyone saluted quickly.

They originally thought that this magical phenomenon only occurred inside the village, but they did not expect that wherever the village chief passed, the strong winds would subside and the temperature would rise.

In their view, this method is no different from that of gods.

"Where is your leader?" Liu Hen looked around and didn't see Chang Xin, so he asked curiously.

"The leader is taking the other brothers to hunt monsters."

Tai Youwei walked over and replied respectfully, "Chen Ye has also gone. It's our turn to patrol now. However, I can summon the leader through the seal of amnesty. Do you need me to call the leader back?"

"No need, the village chief will come over to take a look."

Liu Hen glanced more than ten meters away and found that a huge mine had been dug out here.

The mine was at the bottom of a hill. It was more than three meters wide and close to four meters high. It was supported by huge rocks around it to prevent landslides.

Some of those boulders were found on the surface, while others were intact boulders specially hewn out from inside the mine.

Although the mine looks very rough at first glance, it can be seen that it is very solid.

In particular, the ground has already been frozen solid, and it should not collapse easily if no one destroys it.

The mine was very deep. Liu Hen was just about to go in to see what was going on inside when suddenly a combat member came running towards him quickly.

The combatant was Zong Ni's direct subordinate. He quickly approached and said respectfully, "Village Chief, the caravan from Hongluo Camp has arrived. Zong Ni is undecided and hopes you can go back and take a look."

"Has the caravan from Hongluo Camp arrived?"

Liu Hen was delighted and said quickly, "I will go back right away."

He originally wanted to go collect some wood. Since he had nothing to do, he decided to take the opportunity to continue collecting resources.

But now, he simply gave up today's plan and strode back, hoping that the caravan from Hongluo Camp would bring good things.
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This is two short chapters combined into one, over 4,000 words. I had something to do today, so I took some time to write this. I'll add more chapters later to make up for it.

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