Don't Starve, my pickaxe can be upgraded

Chapter 152: Village Defense Cannon Demonstrates Power

"Growing white hair?"

Liu Hen instantly thought of the hairy monsters he had seen before: "So those mutants at Qiu Longshan..."

"That's right, almost all of those mutants mutated after eating the longevity pill."

Now that things had come to this, Kuiba Mo didn't hide it any further. "There's a legend that the Longevity Stone is likely made from the blood of the great demon from Qiulong Mountain. After consuming the longevity elixir, people will grow hair in their later years and become incredibly powerful. They're essentially mutants. While these people won't lose their minds, they will desperately believe in the great demon from Qiulong Mountain."

“…What a big pit.” Liu Hen was speechless.

"Do you still want the longevity pill?" Kuiba Mo asked.

Although he is a superpower, they are also very short of food.

Given the current environment, even a skilled cook cannot cook without rice.

"Of course, but the price..."

Liu Hen said, "How about one longevity pill for one pound of food?"

"...Village Chief Liu, are you kidding?"

Kuiba Mo frowned: "Of course, if the food you bring out is meat, then I have no objection."

"The longevity pill has such severe side effects, and it has no effect on people with special abilities."

Hong Ming sneered, "The lifespan of people with special abilities is far longer than 150 years, and longevity pills need to be taken long-term to be effective. It's not like one pill can make a person live to 150 years old."

"But no matter what, it is a treasure that can prolong life. A pound of ordinary food cannot possibly buy it. Moreover, the longevity pill can allow ordinary people in the wilderness to gain the power they dream of. Although it will not take effect until after the age of 100, it is better than nothing."

Kuiba Mo frowned and said, "Refining the longevity pill is not easy. At least... two kilograms of food must be exchanged for one."

"……make a deal."

Liu Hen looked at Zong Ni and said, "I'll leave this matter to you."

"Yes, village chief." Zong Ni answered respectfully.

Kuiba Mo quickly asked, "How much do you want?"

"How much do you have?" Liu Hen asked back.

"Um...we don't have any on us."

Kuiba Mo looked at his men behind him.

"Chief, we should still have more than a hundred in stock." One of the men replied respectfully.

"I want them all." Liu Hen said.

Kuiba Mo's face lit up with joy: "Then shall we go back and get the longevity pill?"

If more than one hundred longevity pills were exchanged for food, that would be more than two hundred kilograms. If they were a little frugal, it would be enough for everyone in their camp to eat several meals.

"Okay, I'll find Zong Ni then." Liu Hen nodded.

"Then I'll take my leave now."

When Kuiba Mo saw that Liu Hen did not mention asking them to relocate, he quickly said goodbye.

Hong Ming opened his mouth, but thought that Lulv Village might move again at any time, so he held back.

Indeed, for a magical force like the Journey Village, it doesn't matter whether there are other forces nearby. As long as they don't pose a threat, there is no need to make a big fuss.

"You should make some arrangements outside the village first to prevent those mutants from catching up."

Liu Hen said to Hong Ming: "I'll go prepare some things too."

"Okay." Hong Ming nodded.

Liu Hen returned to the village chief's residence, entered his room, took out a large piece of silver ore and began to collect it.

He didn't continue with the 'lottery'. It was too tricky. He would do it later when he had time.

Silver Mine +3

[Stone+7]

……

He kept wielding the pickaxe, collecting the large chunks of silver ore in front of him into small portions, preparing to manufacture the village defense cannon first.

The power of the Home Cannon is actually not small, but he has tried it before and it couldn't even kill those mutants. It seems useless to him now.

I just hope the village defense artillery can be more powerful.

After a few minutes, a large piece of silver ore was mined out, and only more than 500 small pieces of silver ore were obtained in total.

Liu Hen took out the second large piece of silver ore again. When this large piece of silver ore was also collected, the small pieces of silver ore finally exceeded one thousand pieces.

So he opened the production interface of the workbench and chose to make the first village defense cannon.

The countdown is one hour.

He was not in a hurry and continued to collect materials during this time.

Large pieces of silver ore are reserve materials and are mined in a rough manner, so the amount of impurities contained inside is uncertain.

So next, for each large piece of silver ore, the most that could be collected was more than 700 small pieces of silver ore, and the least was only more than 300 pieces.

When he had collected all the large pieces of silver ore he had previously collected, he had a total of more than 8,000 small pieces of silver ore. 'Not a small amount.'

Liu Hen smiled. This number was more than he had initially estimated.

"But it's only enough for now. We still need to find a way to get more silver mines later."

After all, just one village defense cannon requires a thousand pieces of small silver ore. Even if all these small pieces of silver ore are used to make village defense cannons, only nine village defense cannons can be made in total.

Whether it is upgrading the thermal suit or the workbench, silver ore is needed, and the materials on hand are definitely not enough.

"First, make four village defense cannons. The remaining materials will be used in areas of urgent need."

Finally, an hour later, the first village defense cannon was made.

Liu Hen chose to receive it, and then checked the introduction of the village defense cannon in the space backpack:
[Village Defense Cannon: A cannon that can only be placed inside a village. It has an effective range of 5,000 meters and the explosion damage radius of its shells is 15 meters.]

"Not bad, very good!"

Liu Hen smiled: "It has an effective range of 5,000 meters and an explosion damage radius of 15 meters, which is far better than the Homeland Artillery."

However, if you want to use the village defense cannon, you have to manufacture the shells.

The recipe for the village defense cannon's shells also appears together with the village defense cannon recipe. The manufacturing materials are simpler. Just use the shells of the home cannon and add silver ore.

A box of home cannon shells plus ten silver bars can be used to make a box of village defense cannon shells.

And the number of shells in a box is one hundred.

The production speed of artillery shells is much faster than that of village defense guns, and it only takes one minute.

Since there was still a large stock of shells for the homeland cannon, he directly consumed one hundred small silver bars and made ten boxes in one go before continuing to make the second village defense cannon.

"Ten boxes of shells, one thousand shells, should be enough."

Liu Hen strode out of the room, left the village chief's residence, gathered his strength slightly, jumped up, and landed on top of a nearby building.

He took out the village defense cannon and installed it with the muzzle pointed towards Qiulong Mountain.

"Snapped!"

With a slight sound, a silver-grade cannon with a half-meter-high turret appeared out of thin air. Including the barrel, the total height of the cannon was one and a half meters.

The barrel of this village defense artillery is three meters long, which is obviously much larger than the home artillery.

"Whoosh-"

Suddenly, a wooden spear pierced through the darkness and shot out from more than 800 meters away.

"Fuck, he's caught up with me!"

Liu Hen's face changed slightly, and he suddenly turned sideways and slapped the wooden spear away. Then, without hesitation, he used his space backpack to load the shells in a moment, and then calibrated the direction of the muzzle.

"Enemy attack..."

On the distant building, the villager on guard immediately shouted.

The gunners on other buildings turned their guns around.

"These beasts actually caught up with us?!"

Hong Ming sneered, and seeing that Liu Hen did not stop him, he suddenly controlled the newly born small tree to grow huge.

In an instant, hundreds of large trees appeared around the village, and then the branches of those trees quickly extended, turning into giant dragons that shot out eight hundred meters away.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

At the same time, eight hundred meters away, hundreds of mutants were frantically throwing wooden spears.

Their strength was so great that even if they threw a wooden spear from such a distance, it could still unleash a force comparable to that of a sniper rifle. If the wooden spears were not too light, even Liu Hen would not have dared to confront them head-on.

At the same time, Liu Hen had already aimed at the direction where the wooden spear was shot from eight hundred meters away and pressed the launch button without hesitation.

"boom--"

A red-hot shell shot out, instantly exploding a wooden spear that had flown two hundred meters away. At the same time, the terrifying explosion shock wave directly blew the other wooden spears within a radius of fifteen meters into pieces.

Without pausing, he waited for the one-second cooldown of the village defense cannon to end before firing the second shell.

"boom--"

The village defense cannon shook violently, and a red shell, dragging a long tail flame, shot into the mutant crowd 800 meters away in less than a second.

"Quickly disperse..."

The group of long-haired mutants' faces changed drastically, and they fled in all directions, obviously sensing the danger.

"Rumble--"

The next moment, a huge explosion occurred in this place, and flames shot up into the sky.

The terrifying shock wave swept in all directions, and all the snow, rocks, etc. within a radius of fifteen meters were blown away.

Two of the mutants who happened to be in this range were instantly torn into pieces. Even some of those who reacted quickly and escaped fifteen meters away in time were blown away by the shock wave.

Kuiba Mo, who was already walking towards this side with his men and carrying the longevity elixir, suddenly looked up and saw this scene.

Flames shot up into the sky, and those mutants that even he was extremely afraid of were flying around in the gunfire.

(End of this chapter)