Don't Starve, my pickaxe can be upgraded

Chapter 147 Conflict, Keep a Backhand
"A messenger of the gods?"

Liu Hen frowned.

The expressions of other people in the village also changed.

"Zong Ni, go up to the roof and watch my gestures. Attack when I tell you to."

Liu Hen walked towards the village entrance with a cold expression. The voice before had already indicated that the visitor had ill intentions.

When he arrived at the village entrance, Hong Ming was already waiting there.

"It's a bunch of hairy monsters."

Hong Ming said in a deep voice: "I saw their appearance through the plants. They should have been human in the past, but it's hard to say now."

I saw a group of humanoid creatures over two meters tall and covered with white grass striding towards this side.

The 'hairy monster' in the lead has a ferocious appearance and looks similar to an ape at first glance, but its walking posture is exactly the same as that of a human, and its fingers are no different from those of a human.

"Are you the outsiders who came from the Frame Snow Mountain?"

The leading 'hairy monster' said coldly from even a hundred meters away, "According to the rules, outsiders must contribute half of their population. From then on, they must also hand over a hundred kilograms of food per person every month."

"Contribute population?" Hong Ming frowned and looked at Liu Hen.

The group of "hairy monsters" seemed to notice something was wrong here, because the small trees around the village did not bend, as if there was no wind over there.

However, they were not intimidated by this. The leader said in a cold voice, "Also, the beautiful women must be offered to the Mountain Master. Let everyone come out immediately. I will select them."

"Contribute population, contribute beautiful women?"

Liu Hen was a little nervous at first, worried about how to get along with these "locals".

But when he heard the last sentence, he suddenly laughed, took out his assault rifle, pulled the trigger without hesitation, and decided to speak with strength.

"you……"

The group of 'hairy monsters' in the distance changed their expressions and dodged quickly.

"Da da da……"

Many people were beaten to a pulp in an instant.

However, what is surprising is that these weirdos all have extraordinary physical fitness, and the powerful bullets only injure their skin, obviously not their vital parts.

"Outsiders, you are seeking death!"

One of them suddenly threw a wooden spear.

"Whoosh-"

A powerful wooden spear shot towards him, and Liu Hen quickly dodged it sideways and deflected it with his elbow.

As a result, although the direction of the wooden spear was changed, its power remained unchanged. It brushed over the heads of the group of praying Stone Tribe members and shot towards the village chief's residence.

With a loud "bang", a shock wave spread across the walls of the village chief's residence, and the wooden spears exploded, but the village chief's residence was safe and sound.

"What……"

The faces of the group of "hairy monsters" in the distance changed slightly, and they were about to continue their counterattack.

"boom--"

Suddenly, with a loud bang, a shell shot into them at high speed and exploded instantly, directly blowing the group of people away.

"cannon?!"

"Quickly retreat..."

The group of people all changed their expressions and quickly scattered and fled.

Their physical fitness was unexpectedly strong. Even when they were hit head-on by the Homeland Artillery, they were only injured and no one died.

"boom!"

"boom--"

At this time, more home artillery opened fire.

Shells exploded one after another in the darkness, and the shock waves blew the snow into the sky.

However, the group of "hairy monsters" had amazing physical fitness and ran extremely fast, running forty to fifty meters per second.

Today's gunners are all newcomers, and they may not be able to hit a target that cannot move, let alone a moving target.

At the entrance of the village, Hong Ming raised his hands and was about to use his ability, but was stopped by Liu Hen.

"These weirdos are quite powerful, and it's hard to keep them all. Don't reveal your abilities yet."

Seeing that the group of weirdos had already run into the darkness, Liu Hen said in a deep voice: "You have to work harder these two days and monitor those weirdos through the plants. If they approach without warning, sound the alarm."

Without professional combat members to stand guard and patrol, it is indeed a lot more troublesome.

Moreover, those monsters are incredibly powerful. If there are more of them, the situation will be very troublesome.

"Okay." Hong Ming nodded seriously, realizing how difficult the enemy this time was.

At this time, the gunners also stopped firing because the enemy had completely disappeared from their sight.

Liu Hen looked back at the experience of the bonfire at the source of the village. Seeing that it would take some time, he walked out of the village to prepare some things.

It is worth mentioning that the people of the Stone Tribe didn’t know whether they were all stone men or what. Even in the brief outbreak of battle just now, they had no other reaction except for being panicked.

When the battle was over, they began to pray in front of the campfire, as if they were doing something sacred.

However, from the content of the prayers of the Stone Tribe people, Liu Hen roughly guessed that the group of people must be eager for their chief to appear soon, so they prayed very hard.

From this we can also see that Helian Xiao is really popular in the Shi tribe.

Liu Hen did not walk far. He came to a place more than 30 meters away from the Lucheng Village, took out the pickaxe and began to collect.

In fact, it was just digging a hole. He planned to place a bonfire here as a teleportation anchor to prepare for the future.

Since we have had a conflict with that group of locals, we certainly cannot stay here for a long time. The purpose of this teleportation anchor point is that if a major conflict breaks out later, we can quickly fight our way back once we are strong enough.

However, he didn't intend to place this teleportation anchor point on the surface to prevent it from being destroyed. Since it was a backup plan, it had to be concealed, preferably buried underground.

【Big Mud +1】

【Big Mud +1】

The frozen soil in front of us was constantly being dug up.

suddenly--

[Tree Core +1]

A tree core was collected.

Liu Hen was stunned: "Why is there a tree core here?"

He looked down and saw that there were a large number of tree roots under his feet, which had been dug more than two meters deep.

These tree roots are very dense, crisscrossing underground, almost forming a large network.

The soil and rocks are squeezed very tightly between the large number of tree roots.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you, there are a lot of tree cores underground here."

At this time, Hong Ming walked over and said, "They are all the roots of the glutinous silk tree. They contain a lot of tree core. I suspect that the plants in this area have the tendency to become spirits."

"The roots of the silkwood tree?"

Liu Hen's heart moved and he asked, "Are there many tree roots like this in this area?"

"That's right. Anyway, I can sense that there are tree roots underground within a few hundred meters."

Hong Ming nodded. "I think this place is suitable for a short stay and rest, but not for long-term residence, because I'm worried that these plants could become spirits at any time."

"I see."

Liu Hen didn't say anything for the time being. He continued digging the hole calmly and collected the tree roots by the way.

[Wood +30]

With one blow of the pickaxe, a large number of tree roots collapsed and turned into wood chips, and all that was left was soil.

Then another pickaxe went down—

【Big Mud +1】

These tree roots did not slow down his digging speed, but instead provided him with a lot of wood materials.

A few minutes later, another tree core was collected.

"There are actually a lot of tree cores. If I collect all the tree cores in this area, can I arm all the villagers?"

Liu Hen thought to himself: "However, the ordinary suit can only increase the strength by 100 kilograms. At least a black iron-level suit is needed to give the villagers a strong fighting power."

As for wanting every villager to have strength comparable to those hairy monsters before, at least a bronze-level suit is needed.

"But if I want to upgrade them all to bronze level, I'll need to consume at least 20,000 small iron ores and hundreds of thousands of magic crystals... We'll see how things go later."

Various thoughts flashed through his mind as he continued to dig.

Finally, ten minutes later, a large pit three meters long, wide and more than ten meters deep was dug out.

"We should be almost there. With the isolation of the home buildings, we shouldn't be discovered."

He took out the ordinary first-level campfire he had made not long ago and placed it aside, then started the home building mode and directly used the large amount of soil he had just collected to build the foundation.

After the foundation was built, he opened the bonfire fuel tank, put in enough fuel to burn for a year, and then began to seal the bonfire.

"Clap! Clap! Clap..."

He placed large pieces of soil close to the walls of the cave, leaving only one square meter of space in the middle, which was the space for the campfire.

Anyway, the underground building was only built to have a backup plan. Apart from the location of the bonfire, he left enough space for himself to teleport over without hitting his head, and all the extra space had to be sealed off.

Even in the one square meter space where the bonfire was located, he only left a height of three meters, and the area above was sealed with a mud foundation.

"Clap! Clap! Clap..."

Large pieces of soil appeared out of thin air, quickly filling the large hole that had been dug previously.

In just a few minutes, the huge hole was completely filled.

Even though it was just made of mud, it was backed by the strength of a bonfire and was so thick that digging it out was no easy task.

When the last piece of dirt foundation was placed, Liu Hen brought all the snow nearby and made a camouflage.

In this way, even if someone passes by here, they would not know that there is a fire underground. After all, the burning of a bonfire does not require oxygen support.

"That should be fine, right?"

After completing the disguise, Liu Hen tried to teleport in.

"It's so cramped... Fortunately I'm not claustrophobic."

Inside the underground bonfire, after Liu Hen appeared, his shadow overlapped with the position of the bonfire.

"Fortunately, it's enough to be able to teleport here normally. As for when we want to get out of here, we can just dig up the foundation."

With a thought, he teleported again and returned directly to the travel village.

It just so happened that at this moment, the experience of the bonfire at the source of the village in the journey village was enough, so he didn't waste any time and chose to upgrade with just a thought.

Silently, in a dimension that only he could see, the fog rolled, and the blueprint of the village automatically appeared and extended outward.

'The blueprint will be automatically deduced during the upgrade process?'

Liu Hen had an idea, but did not interfere, letting it work out automatically.

In the illusory blueprint, the village fence continued to extend outward, and the buildings inside the village also increased outward according to the previous pattern.

During this process, he clearly felt that the scope of the rules he controlled was rapidly expanding.
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[This is the second chapter, and the two chapters together are close to 7,000 words. I have something to do today, so I'm taking a chapter off to go out and do something.]

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