Don't Starve, my pickaxe can be upgraded

Chapter 168: Nightless City, Black Snake City Lord
He changed Haimi's name without hesitation.

Although it was a bit shameless, Liu Hen didn't feel embarrassed at all.

Anyway, I don’t know how far this place is from Hongluo Camp. I may never have any intersection with Hongluo Camp again in this life, and Hongluo Camp will not know about this.

The most important thing is that Hongluo Camp has not applied for a patent and has not prohibited people from changing the name.

With these thoughts in mind, he came to the location of the spiritual field and looked at... the nine rice ears that had grown from the rice seedlings. He was extremely happy.

"Nine ears of rice, and they are all quite large. One is better than nine."

Liu Hen was satisfied.

Lingtian did not disappoint him.

"Congratulations, village chief, your dried shrimps are blooming." Hu Jinshi said with great tact.

"From now on, this crop will be called rice."

Liu Hen said: "Remember? Don't call the wrong name."

"Rice? Okay, from now on, it's rice."

Hu Jinshi didn't ask why, he just took whatever the village chief said.

Liu Hen looked at the flower of paradise again and found that it was no longer in the bud stage, but had already grown stems.

The stems of the paradise flower are dark and creepy, giving people an inexplicable feeling of fear.

Seeing Liu Hen staring at the stems, Hu Jinshi immediately explained, "Village Chief, the stems of the Paradise Flower secrete corrosive mucus to protect itself."

Liu Hen frowned and asked, "Will it emit poisonous gas or something like that?"

He didn't want to mess up the village.

"No, no, don't worry, Village Chief. I can guarantee this."

Hu Jinshi quickly explained, "Although the corrosive slime is quite lethal, it's actually a kind of food. It's very sweet. You just have to wait until the flowers bloom before you can eat it."

"Oh?"

Liu Hen was a little surprised. That kind of black mucus could be eaten?

It seems that Hu Jinshi's choice of this plant as a stable job had some reason.

"The Heaven Flower, before it bloomed... a long, long time ago, because few people could see it bloom, the people of the wasteland called it Hell Grass."

Hu Jinshi continued, "Before this plant blooms, anyone who touches it will have their skin corroded. While it's not contagious, the affected area will completely rot, exposing the bones. That's why this plant was originally called Hell Grass."

At this point, he couldn't help but reveal a hint of complacency. "When I was very young, about fourteen or fifteen, I was nearly starving. I was about to die, so I tried to get some Heaven Flower condensate to fill my stomach, thinking that even if I died, I had to fill my stomach first. I accidentally discovered that Hell Grass was blooming, and that's when I decided to grow that plant."

He sighed with emotion, "That time, I accidentally ate a large amount of Paradise Flowers and saw a bright future. This is actually one of the reasons why I always believe that human nature is not completely bad and why I have insisted on adopting children all these years."

Seeing that Liu Hen didn't interrupt him and was listening attentively, he felt a little touched and continued, "Back then, no one knew the beauty of the Heaven Flower, only the horror of the Hell Grass. After I ate the Heaven Flower for the first time, I stayed there, eating poisonous grass leaves or chewing the soil when I was hungry. I persisted for several months. Just when I was about to be poisoned to death by the Hell Grass leaves, the Hell Grass bloomed again. I ate a large amount of the flowers again and accidentally discovered that the flowers of the Hell Grass can detoxify, and during the flowering period, the Hell Grass's condensate is no longer highly toxic."

"Flowers can detoxify?" Liu Hen's mind moved.

"Yes, but I have tried it. This flower can only detoxify the poison of Hell Grass. It seems to be ineffective against other toxins."

Hu Jinshi explained, "This plant is extremely poisonous throughout its life, except during its blooming period. I guarded the area where the Hell Grass grew for two years, helping some younger deserters. Two years later, I stumbled upon a pistol by chance. I then led those younger deserters to find more Hell Grass seeds, settled down near the Hongluo camp, and officially named the Hell Grass 'Heavenly Flower'."

At this point, his face lit up with pride. "The Heavenly Flower is very popular with the people in the camp. I didn't have the resources to grow it at first, so I could only let the Red Snail Camp exploit me. But I could see that the people in the camp really loved the Heavenly Flower. They even forced me to hand over my Heavenly Flower seeds at one point, and even went to my cave and stole a lot of Heavenly Flower seeds. But the ground underground was clearly not suitable for Heavenly Flower growth, so they eventually gave up their plan and designated a piece of land for me to grow Heavenly Flower."

"The stems are highly poisonous, but they are non-toxic during flowering, and the sap can be used as sugar..." Liu Hen exclaimed, "The Flower of Heaven truly lives up to its name."

"From now on, Tiantanghua will belong to the village chief." Hu Jinshi said with a flattering smile.

Liu Hen smiled and suddenly asked, "Besides the Paradise Flower, do you know of any other valuable plants in the Night Mist World?"

……

More than a thousand kilometers away from Lulv Village, there is a huge city with a length and width of more than ten kilometers.

The interior of the huge city is brightly lit and bustling with people.

You can see that there are giant glowing trees planted in many places inside the giant city.

Those giant trees are the source of light for the giant city, ensuring that it will never be engulfed in darkness.

The only drawback is that this place is also covered with heavy snow, and the blizzard does not favor one over the other. People in the city are in a hurry, and only a very few people in gorgeous clothes can travel leisurely.

Because this group of people had special slaves to help them shield themselves from the blizzard, carrying huge umbrellas that moved with them.

This is the [City That Never Sleeps], a force established by a sixth-level human mutant.

The most obvious feature of the city that never sleeps is that poisonous snakes are raised in many places.

Even in the streets and alleys, you can occasionally see giant snakes escaping and running through the streets.

When the residents saw the giant snakes, they rushed forward to grab them.

Giant snakes with extremely venom are often torn into pieces by residents before they can bite anyone, and then taken home to be cooked and eaten.

Venomous snakes are the main food in this huge city and are also the most suitable for breeding in this place.

Because this place was originally a swamp, the poisonous snakes mainly feed on the mud in the swamp.

They eat mud, but the flesh they grow is non-toxic.

Originally, the City That Never Sleeps rarely lacked food, but with the arrival of the cold season, even the swamps that never freeze have frozen, leading to the current chaos.

now.

In the City Lord's Mansion, a man named Black Snake was listening to the reports of two intelligence officers.

"Lord City Lord, this is the information we two have gathered. It's said that the Journey Village came from the other side of the Frame Snow Mountain. They passed through the Dragon Seeking Mountain and fought a battle with the mutants from the Dragon Seeking Temple, but they are safe and sound. On the contrary, many mutants from the Dragon Seeking Mountain died."

One of the intelligence officers said, "Furthermore, I've heard that the village chief of Journey Village seems to be able to move the entire Journey Village. Wherever the Journey Village passes, the extreme cold is driven away, and falling snow turns into rain, melting in mid-air. Even monsters are reluctant to approach that mysterious village."

As he spoke, he handed a device to the man with a black snake tattoo on his face and said, "This is the strength of the Travel Village that my two subordinates have detected."

The Lord of Black Snake City took the mirror device and sensed the image stored inside.

When he saw the thirty-three realm halos on one of the men's head, he didn't express much.

However, when he saw the plane that seemed to be formed by the overlapping of countless realm halos, his eyes flickered.

"A god-like creature?"

He was somewhat puzzled. "The gods are bound to one place and cannot move. However, dimensional creatures are not bound by any region and can move freely. It is not unreasonable for the Journey Village to be able to cross the Snow Mountain in the Frame Diagram."

After a pause, he said in a deep voice, "Don't make this public yet. Also, you should go there in person and deliver a land deed to Lulv Village."

(End of this chapter)