Don't Starve, my pickaxe can be upgraded

Chapter 145 Everyone is scared

As the Pickaxe of All Things was swung, the frozen soil in front of him was constantly dug up.

Just one pickaxe strike will remove an area of ​​one cubic meter.

After the Pickaxe is upgraded to the silver level, the mining speed for large materials will not change, only the collection speed of small materials will increase.

For example, ordinary slag and ordinary soil, small pieces of materials, thirty pieces can be dug out at a time.

However, only one piece of large material can be dug out at a time, and the size does not change much. The real increase in speed is the collection of precious materials such as iron ore.

Just like a large piece of iron ore, it used to take several swings to collect the material, but now it may only take two or even one swing to collect one piece.

Of course, this collection speed is actually somewhat related to the power he uses.

If you only use the strength of ordinary savages to collect it, you still need to swing it more than ten times.

Even if you swing the Pickaxe with greater force, the current upper limit will not increase. If you use too much force, the materials will only be broken into pieces, and the amount collected will be very small.

Liu Hen continued digging into the mountain according to the guidance of the little black stone.

[Large Slag +1]

[Large Slag +1]

[Big Essence Stone +1]

After the frozen soil comes the slag, and after the slag comes the fine stone.

There are unexpectedly many fine stones here, all of which are top-quality stones.

In his previous life, he worked with stone, and his favorite was fine stone.

However, in the previous life, when mining stones in the mountains, the most difficult stones to mine were the fine stones, which had to be loosened with explosives before they could be collected.

In this life, no matter whether it is slag or fine stone, one pickaxe can get a big piece of it.

Finally, after digging more than 30 meters in one breath—

[Large Silver Mine +1]

The first large chunk of silver was unearthed.

This material contains a lot of fine stones, not all silver ore, and it will need to be purified by collecting small amounts of material later.

But even so, Liu Hen was very happy, because Xiao Heishi said that there were quite a few silver mines here, at least enough for his own use.

[Big Essence Stone +1]

[Big Essence Stone +1]

[Large Silver Mine +1]

After that, a large piece of silver mine was dug up almost every ten seconds.

After all, it is not a complete silver mine vein, so being able to dig up so much is already a huge harvest.

"I don't know where Chang Xin and the others were transferred to."

While collecting, Liu Hen was worried.

"I hope they're okay. Luckily, I left enough food for Chang Xin, which should be enough for them to last for a while."

The bronze-level space carrying suit has an internal space of more than three meters in length, width and height, which can hold a lot of things.

"What a shame! If only the Mist of Time and Space had arrived a few days later, I could have upgraded my thermal suit once the workbench was upgraded..."

Shaking his head, he stopped thinking about it and continued to collect silver.

"Chang Xin is already close to a breakthrough, and with the 300,000 magic crystals I provided, once she reaches the third realm, her strength will definitely improve by leaps and bounds. Just surviving shouldn't be a problem."

Liu Hen planned to dig out all the silver mines here first, then find a place to anchor the campfire, and then try to teleport back.

"I should be able to get back, right? There are four more bonfires over there, and I can teleport back and forth between my own bonfires..."

While thinking about this, he was suddenly surprised to find that the experience bar of the bonfire equipped in the [True Self Interface] was rising rapidly.

'what's the situation? ’

He quickly sensed the interior of the travel village and saw that most of the villagers who were trapped underground were kneeling on the ground, praying silently.

Just as he sensed it, a lot of whispers sounded in his ears.

"Village chief, please bless me, nothing will happen to me."

"May the holy fire bless you, and I hope the village chief is safe."

"I hope the leaders are all safe. I'm so lucky to have found a place to stay..."

Most of the villagers were praying.

As they prayed sincerely, points of light continued to fly out from their bodies, passing through numerous barriers and sinking into the projection of the bonfire in the center of the village.

This is how the experience bar increases.

In fact, the people of the Stone Tribe who were temporarily staying in the Journey Village were also praying.

However, it is not known whether it is because they are praying to the Stone Chief or because they are not villagers, so their prayers have no effect on the bonfire that is the source of the village.

Liu Hen's eyes flickered slightly, and he suddenly said to Zong Ni and Hong Ming inside the village: "Let all the registered villagers come outside, worship and pray in front of the bonfire, and say..."

He paused and continued, "Praying in front of the bonfire can bring them peace."

Hong Ming and Zong Ni in the village immediately received the order.

Liu Hen did not lie. The experience of the village's source bonfire increased, the village level was upgraded, and everyone's safety would be improved.

If the villagers are strong enough, it may not take more than a few days to accumulate enough experience points for upgrading without having to consume any additional materials.

As he expected, after the villagers returned to the ground, they heard that worshiping the bonfire could bring peace, and suddenly everyone became extremely pious.

More intense whispers rang in my ears, and at the same time, a large number of light points emerged from the villagers and merged into the campfire.

I saw the experience of the campfire increasing rapidly. At this rate, it would only take one day to reach full.

However, this is an ideal state, because that kind of prayer seems to produce a "fatigue value". Within a certain period of time, if you pray too many times, the number of light spots will decrease, or even disappear.

Liu Hen was not disappointed. He blocked out the prayer sounds and continued collecting.

At the same time, more than ten kilometers away, [Frame Peak].

peak.

A palace of ice and snow stands here, as if it has existed since time immemorial.

Inside the palace, the Snow Girl looked in the direction of Liu Hen with vigilance, not at all as relaxed as she had been when she met Liu Hen before.

"That person... there are images of sentient beings surrounding him, as if a large number of people are constantly praying for him. Is he really just a rule-based psychic?"

When she met Liu Hen before, she clearly saw that there were shadows around the man's body and kneeling in his direction from time to time.

'The appearance of all living things?'

The Snow Goddess's expression was solemn. As the embodiment of the law, she naturally understood what that meant. "No wonder the Stone of Extreme Yin follows him. It's best to avoid getting involved in the causal relationship of that kind of existence."

She continued to pretend not to see anything and allowed the man to collect ore in her territory.

……

Three hours later, the mountain was hollowed out.

Liu Hen collected more than 40,000 large fine stones, more than 10,000 large slag stones, and more than a dozen large pieces of silver ores.

"Black Stone, are there any more?" he asked in his mind.

'Gone. ’

The voice of Little Black Stone rang in his mind: 'The only place nearby is that... Box Figure Peak.'

'Forget it then.'

Liu Hen was not greedy. Even if there were impurities in the more than ten large silver mines, he could still collect thousands of small pieces of silver ores, which were enough for his own use.

Immediately, he took out an ordinary first-level campfire and placed it as an anchor point to avoid being unable to return later.

"No matter what, we still have to go back and take a look. It would be best if Chang Xin and the others could return to where they were."

After the bonfire was set, he moved his mind and his whole body turned into flames and disappeared. In the empty cave, only the bonfire was left to illuminate the surroundings.

……

On the edge of the Tonglong Mountains.

The bonfire on one of the hills suddenly burst into flames, and the next moment Liu Hen walked out of it.

"Rumble--"

As soon as he walked out of the flames, his face suddenly changed drastically.

I saw four pink tentacles more than two meters thick falling from the sky.

The tentacle was so long that it seemed to have no end, and one end was connected to the dark sky.

The moment he was teleported over, the four silver mine demons hundreds of meters away fell apart and were easily blown up by the tentacles.

But the moment he looked over, the four tentacles suddenly froze, and then shrank back into the dark sky as if they had been electrocuted, without even taking the spoils away.

"……grass!"

Liu Hen's face was a little stiff, and he vaguely guessed the identity of the tentacle's owner.

'The big conch?'

I have the impression that conchs also have tentacles.

But aren’t the conch’s tentacles organs for sensing the outside world?

He was filled with doubt and confusion, and looked around quickly. Not seeing Chang Xin and the others, he teleported away again without hesitation, without any intention of collecting the body materials of the four silver mine monsters.

It would have been fine if he hadn't known about it before, but now that he knew the conch's extraordinary strength, he had no intention of taking advantage of it.

However, the moment he teleported away again, he also took the bonfire on the hill away.

After all, it was an energy-level bonfire, which consumed a lot of his materials.

As for the three bonfires on the other three hills, they had to be abandoned.

At the same time, in the distant sky, a huge red conch more than ten meters long was flying away quickly.

"How could this happen? Didn't that person leave?"

It was very panicked because it had said before that it would not go to the ground again. Would that person blame it?

The territory of the seventh-level demon is too large. With Hongluo Camp as the center, the area within a radius of 500 miles is its territory.

This is the result of it not wanting to cause trouble and deliberately shrinking its territory.

It was the first to sense the four silver mine monsters entering this range.

Originally, it pretended to be deaf and dumb because of Liu Hen's existence.

But not long ago, it suddenly sensed that Liu Hen had disappeared, and it felt that it was fine again, so it immediately came out to clear the area.

Unexpectedly, he was caught red-handed as soon as he showed up.

'Why am I so unlucky?'

It felt helpless, and even though it sensed that Liu Hen had disappeared again, it had no intention of going back to collect the spoils.

And it decided to truly lie dormant underground and never come out again. It would be better to give up everything on the ground and not dare to be involved in this cause and effect.

……

Frame diagram deep underground in the snowy mountains.

The flames of the bonfire shot up more than three meters high, and the next moment Liu Hen walked out of it.

"The demon from the seventh realm... so terrifying!"

When he thought of the four tentacles falling from the dark sky, he broke out in a cold sweat.

Even though he knew that the conch seemed very afraid of him, he didn't dare to continue running around in the conch's territory.

"Before, I was so naive and fearless that I actually wanted to fight a demon of that level, Qiu Feng."

Liu Hen wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, then put away the ordinary campfire in the cave and dug a hole away from the Box Figure Peak.

Although he is almost immortal now, he still feels pain when being attacked.

And after the physical body dies, who knows when it will encounter fire and be revived?

"Resurrection after death may seem glorious, but the moment of death is absolutely terrifying."

Liu Hen thought of the suffocating feeling he felt when he was electrocuted in his previous life, and decided it would be better to be steady.

"I have no living pressure at all now, so why would I covet the materials of those four silver mine monsters?"

Soon, this side of the mountain was mined, and he waded directly into the thick snow and quickly left the place.

After seeing the strength of the giant conch, he suddenly suspected that the snow girl he saw before might not be much worse.

Even though the Snow Girl doesn't seem to have any ill will towards him now, this feeling of being out of control is very unpleasant, so it's better to stay away from her.

"Sir, there are demons ahead, but they are hiding."

Suddenly, Xiao Heishi's voice rang in his mind: "Those demons seemed to know we were passing by."

'...'

Liu Hen pretended not to know and continued to move forward at a normal speed, wading through the thick snow and heading away from the Box Figure Peak.
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