Don't Starve, my pickaxe can be upgraded

Chapter 134 Sea Salt
"Sir, I sense the presence of a demon."

Liu Hen was walking back excitedly when suddenly Xiao Heishi's voice sounded in his mind.

Although the little black stone no longer parasitizes the death mark on his body, they can still communicate with each other telepathically because of the master-servant contract.

In fact, to put it bluntly, it is communication through contracts.

"Demonic aura?" Liu Hen's face changed slightly, and his pace slowed down involuntarily.

"That demonic aura is just ahead."

Little Black Stone pointed in the direction of Journey Village.

Liu Hen couldn't help but squint his eyes and was secretly alert in his heart.

Just as he was worried that it might be the conch that had come over, Little Black Stone said again, "He looks familiar. He seems to be the tomb owner's subordinate whom we met earlier."

"The tomb owner's men?"

Liu Hen was startled: "Those paper figures?"

By the way, the coffin fragments of the tomb owner are still in the storage cabinet.

He had collected those materials before and found that there was nothing good except wood. However, he felt it was a pity to throw them away, so he kept them until now.

"If it were just those paper figures, there would be nothing to be afraid of."

He took another step and strode towards the Journey Village.

……

At the entrance of Journey Village, Zong Ni looked at the long queue in front of her with a look of helplessness.

The team consists of over a hundred people, plus ten spider cars.

The spider cars were surrounded by people wearing powered exoskeletons and armed with guns. Among the spider cars, seven of them were filled with flint and other supplies, and the remaining three were filled with strange corpses.

The reason why it was strange was that those corpses were made of paper, and they were the subordinates of the demon tomb master she had seen before.

For some unknown reason, the bodies of these paper figures were loaded onto a truck and sent here together.

Because there were too many people and there were corpses of demons, she did not let the team enter the village, so as to prevent the demon's aura from hurting the children.

Outside the village, the wind was howling and snowflakes were flying, but the temperature near the village entrance was much higher than that far away. People in this area couldn't help but whisper to each other, wondering why this place was so magical.

At the front of the convoy, Hong Bo looked at the shocked people from the travel village and felt secretly proud in his heart, but he did not show it.

While feeling proud, he was also a little nervous, wondering whether Lord Liu Hen would be satisfied with the gift from the Prophet.

Just as he was daydreaming, the strong wind suddenly subsided.

Following the gaze of the woman in front of him, he suddenly turned around and saw Liu Hen, whom he had met before, striding towards him.

As he watched in astonishment, the strong winds quickly subsided wherever the man passed.

Not only that, as the man continued to approach, the temperature outside the village was slowly rising, and soon reached a very comfortable level.

"This this……"

He was shocked and felt unbelievable.

Because the last time he saw Liu Hen was inside the village, he did not notice this and had no idea that the other party could affect the environment by himself.

At this moment, he was completely certain that the reason there was no wind in this small village in front of him was because of this mysterious rule-based psychic.

Not only him, but everyone else in the team was also shocked.

Everyone was surprised to find that wherever the man passed, not only did the strong wind subside and the temperature rise, but the visibility also increased significantly.

"Is this a rule-based mutant?"

"Incredible..."

"The Prophet's decision is correct!"

"This kind of person... is definitely not to be provoked!"

Many people have this idea.

Liu Hen thought there would be a battle, but when he got closer, he found that those paper people had turned into corpses and were placed in the carriage.

"Respected Lord Liu Hen, nice to meet you again."

At this time, Hong Bo lowered his exoskeleton mask and walked over. He bowed respectfully before explaining, "The Prophet said that the distance makes it inconvenient to trade with you. However, the Prophet knew you needed these materials, so he ordered us to deliver them to you."

"Send?" Liu Hen was puzzled.

"Yes."

Hong Bo said respectfully, "The Prophet has said that our camp will be completely closed and we will never return to the surface again. I'm really sorry about the trade. As an apology, these supplies will be sent directly to you."

He pointed at the corpses of the paper figures on the last three spider cars and said, "Those demon servants are subordinates of foreign demons. The prophet knew they had harassed you before, so he ordered us to capture them and send their bodies to you."

Liu Hen: “…”

Hong Bo pointed again at the supplies in the huge compartments of the other spider carts. "You mentioned earlier that you needed silver ore, but our camp doesn't have any, so the prophet found some on the seabed. The quantity is very small, so I hope you don't mind. As for the other supplies, there are 100 tons of tree cakes and 300 tons of flint. This is the maximum amount our camp can bring in at once."

He looked at Liu Hen cautiously, and seeing that this mysterious rule-based psychic was not angry, he continued, "The prophet said that it only wants to lie dormant underground and will not interfere with anything on the surface."

What this means is that you should not disturb it anymore and from now on you should really keep yourselves to yourself.

"..."

Liu Hen didn't know what to say. He always felt that the big conch might be more timid than a sesame seed.

"Thank you, please unload the car." He didn't say anything.

Although the previous proposal was unsuccessful, we made a fortune by obtaining so many supplies for free.

"no, I'm fine."

Hong Bo then said again, "These spider cars are also part of the supplies. Lord Prophet knows that you are mining, and these spider cars should be able to help you. If you have no other instructions, then we will take our leave first."

"..."

Liu Hen looked at the ten fully loaded spider cars, took a deep breath, and said with a smile: "Thank your prophet for me."

"Of course, of course! The car keys are in the car. Then we'll take our leave."

Hong Bo said this, waved his hand, and quickly left with the hundreds of people behind him, quickly entering the darkness without stopping. At the village entrance, Zong Ni and others were a little confused.

"This... is given to us for free?"

"Even the Spider Car was given as a gift... That Prophet is so kind."

"It must be because Lord Liu Hen is too powerful. The prophet is trying to show goodwill."

"Hehe, if we follow an adult like this, our future will definitely be bright..."

Everyone was proud of it and couldn't help but smile foolishly.

"The trade didn't go through, but we ended up getting so much material for nothing..."

Liu Hen didn't know what to say. He turned around and walked to the back of the convoy. He put one of the paper-made corpses into his space backpack and checked the identification information.

[Paper Figures (Demon Servant): Servants created by the demonic 'Tomb Master'. Their purpose of existence is to serve the 'Tomb Master'.]

It turned out to be the subordinate of the tomb owner.

He took out the corpse again, then took out the pickaxe, climbed directly onto the spider car, and started collecting from the corpses to see if there was any special gain.

【Paper Money +1】

【Paper Money +1】

What was collected was actually paper money.

Liu Hen did not give up and continued collecting.

【Paper Money +1】

……

Even after he collected more than 30 corpses in one go, he still only got paper money and nothing else.

"Why are they all paper money?"

Liu Hen was speechless, and at the same time couldn't help but take a look at the space backpack's identification of this paper money.

【Paper money: currency for the deceased, can be used in some special places.】

"Does it work?"

He was secretly surprised. Could it be that in this world, there was a place similar to the underworld in the Chinese folk legends on Earth in the previous life?

"It's a small gain, maybe it can be used in the future."

He looked at the other car again and found that it was covered with some stones that were obviously fished out from the seabed. The overall color was silvery white, but it was obviously different from normal silver ore.

"Did you fish that big conch out of the sea?"

Liu Hen put one of the pieces into his space backpack and checked the identification information:
[Seabed ore: Seabed ore containing very small amounts of silver.]

"Can you mine silver?"

He took out the ore and then collected other ores together.

[Slag +1]

【Silver Ore+1】

【Silver Ore+1】

……

All the seabed ores were collected in one go, and nearly a thousand small pieces of slag were obtained, but there were only more than thirty pieces of broken silver ore.

'The silver content of this ore is too low.'

Liu Hen was speechless, but since it was free, he didn't mind it.

Just as he was about to look at what was loaded into the next spider car, he suddenly noticed the word "upgradeable" appear on the panel of the pickaxe in his mind, and he was immediately cheered up.

"Can these silver ore fragments also be used for upgrades?"

Immediately, he put away the Pickaxe without hesitation and chose to upgrade.

The next moment, the thirty or so pieces of broken silver ore in the space backpack completely disappeared, the interface of the pickaxe in the mind also blurred, and the upgrade began.

Perhaps because it is not a breakthrough to a major realm, the countdown is only one hour.

'Not bad.'

Liu Hen was satisfied.

Although the silver ore collected from the ore provided by the conch is very small, it is just enough to upgrade the pickaxe of all things to the next level, which is already very good.

Once the Pickaxe of Everything is upgraded, the Campfire can also be upgraded.

Speaking of which, although the bonfire is also made by the workbench, it seems that the bonfire is not restricted by the workbench and can be upgraded before the workbench.

Perhaps this is the magic of campfires.

Putting these thoughts aside, Liu Hen continued to look at the supplies on the next spider car.

When he lifted the covering and took a look, he was stunned.

Because the inside of the carriage was covered in white, at first glance it looked like accumulated snow.

The colors are so similar that the people in the wilderness would probably mistake it for snow when they first saw it.

However, when he tried to pinch a little with his hands and put it in his mouth to taste it, his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Salt?"

Moreover, it is snowflake salt, very clean sea salt.

"Oh my god, that big conch is very sensible!"

Liu Hen was so surprised that he almost wanted to laugh. To him, the value of this cart of salt was more precious than the silver mines with too many impurities.

Because this truck of salt almost filled the entire carriage.

If there was nothing else underneath, the amount of salt would probably be hundreds of tons, enough for him to eat for the rest of his life.

(End of this chapter)