Don't Starve, my pickaxe can be upgraded

Chapter 192 Hong Ming Advances to the Fifth Realm

Don’t think that the snowman tribe is not afraid of the cold. The snowman tribe is just more cold-resistant.

Because they are still human beings in essence, their living habits are not much different from those of humans.

If they had this magical warm clothing, the snowman tribe would definitely live a better life.

……

"Finally reached level 6, not far from the maximum level."

Looking at the fire that seemed to have grown a little bigger, Liu Hen was very satisfied.

The sixth-level source bonfire has the properties of warding off evil and driving away evil spirits, as well as a constant temperature range. Like a normal energy bonfire, its radius is 600 meters.

But as the source bonfire of the village, it is blessed by the village blueprint, and this range is Liu Hen's rule domain.

The blueprint size of the sixth-level village has reached 460 meters in length and width, which is considered very large.

Even in the villages of the previous life, ignoring those small mountain villages with scattered houses, there were not many villages with dense buildings that were more than 400 meters long and wide.

"Upgrading from level 6 to level 7 requires 7,000 large logs, from level 7 to level 8 requires 8,000 logs, from level 8 to level 9 requires 9,000 logs, and from level 9 to level 10 requires... 10,000 logs!"

Liu Hen calculated it and was secretly shocked.

"That means we need another 34,000 large logs!"

This is a big piece of wood, one meter thick and three meters long.

Thirty-four thousand of them can form a mountain.

"I hope I can gather enough materials before the Ironwood Forest is completely cut down."

Liu Hen couldn't help but feel fortunate that he encountered the iron tree forest. Otherwise, it would not be easy to find so many trees in this barren world.

Just like near the Hongluo Camp in the past, you could only see a tree every few thousand meters.

In fact, it is similar outside the Iron Tree Forest. If you are unlucky, you may not encounter a tree even after walking several thousand meters. You have to walk a long way to find a tree.

At this time, Zong Ni came over and said, "Village Chief, the White Spirit Envoy hopes to purchase some warm clothes from us."

"These basic supplies are up to you."

Liu Hen said, "But I don't have time to make too many warm clothes in a short period of time. How many does she want?"

"One thousand sets."

Zong Ni replied: "A thousand sets, excluding the headgear."

This is not a small amount. If it is traded with magic crystals, even if it is still one hundred magic crystals per piece, it will be four hundred thousand magic crystals.

"Please let her wait for a while. I need to do other things during this time."

Liu Hen said, "If she can wait a month, I'll give her half price. Two months will give her 70% off. Half a year... If she can live here for half a year, I'll give her a thousand apartments."

What the Travel Village lacks most now is time. If they encounter a very powerful monster during this period, they will be in trouble if they rely on themselves.

But I don't want to keep running around, as that will only greatly delay the upgrade time of the Travel Village.

There may not be so many trees to collect in other places.

Zong Ni was stunned, but still nodded: "Okay. That's how I responded to her."

"By the way, did the City of Never Sleep say how long it would take to deliver the gold mine?"

Liu Hen asked: "Have you agreed on a time?"

"Huang Gu said it would take at least two months, but he would definitely come over within three months."

Zong Ni explained, "Because they don't have a ready-made gold mine, they need people to collect it. And the ore is too heavy, so it takes too long to carry it along."

"Three months... not so bad."

Liu Hen nodded: "During this period of time, you should entertain the guests from the Snowman tribe well. As long as they don't go too far, agree to any request they make."

Zong Ni quickly asked, "What's too much? What's the bottom line?"

"Things that are harmful to the Lulv Village, harming the villagers, etc." Liu Hen said.

Zong Ni understood that this situation should not happen.

Because the snowmen were not as arrogant as the people in the camp, and because the attitude shown by the Snow Girl was equal to Liu Hen, the snowmen were very cautious.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Suddenly, Hong Ming's excited laughter was heard outside.

"Is this guy crazy?"

Liu Hen walked out of the village in confusion. Thirty meters to the left of the village entrance, beneath a ten-meter-tall tree, Hong Ming laughed excitedly, "So that's how it is! So that's how it is!"

"Have you planted the winter fruit tree?"

Liu Hen came under the tree and looked at the fist-sized black fruits on the tree and asked curiously.

"No... the winter fruit trees have been planted for a long time, and the fruits are almost ripe now."

Hong Ming continued to smile: "Sense my breath."

Liu Hen was puzzled, then he perked up: "Are you in the fifth realm?"

"That's right, hehe!"

Hong Ming smiled and said, "I am now at the fifth level. I feel my strength has improved a lot. As long as I am given time to prepare, I can easily kill that big white bear."

"I'll give you time, how much time?" Liu Hen asked.

"Um... one hour... no, half an hour should be fine." Hong Ming calculated and said, his tone not quite certain.

Immediately, Liu Hen glanced at the guy and said, "As long as you can hold that big white bear for one minute, I can kill it."

"..."

Hong Ming said unconvincedly, "Even so, you still need help. Now I can entangle the big white bear and buy you a lot of time."

"really."

Liu Hen encouraged: "It's already very good, keep it up."

Hong Ming suddenly didn't want to talk anymore.

"Are the winter fruits ripe?" Liu Hen changed the subject.

"It should be almost done, right?"

Hong Ming was a little uncertain: "I've never seen a plant bear fruit. Plants in the Night Mist World almost never bear fruit. They spread their seeds through their roots."

Liu Hen jumped up, grabbed a winter fruit and picked it up, only to find that the shell of the winter fruit was very hard.

Although it is not as hard as steel, it is not something that ordinary people can break. In any case, it is definitely much harder than the coconut in the previous life.

He squeezed the winter fruit hard, and the shell broke, revealing the white flesh inside.

A special fragrance emanated.

"This taste..." Hong Ming was cheered up.

He had never smelled such a fragrance before, and he couldn't help feeling excited.

If this thing is edible, it means that he can produce delicious food by himself in the future, because his ability is to cultivate plants.

Liu Hen broke off a piece of fruit flesh and handed it to Hong Ming: "Try it."

"Thank you."

Hong Ming was a little surprised. This guy was willing to let himself eat it first?
He took it without hesitation and put it into his mouth, eating it in big gulps: "Is this fruit? It's amazing that a hard and bitter tree can grow such delicious food."

Before meeting Liu Hen, he had never heard of what fruit was. He thought it was outrageous that trees could bear fruit, let alone that the fruits of trees were so delicious.

Liu Hen waited patiently for half a minute and asked, "Are you okay?"

"what?"

Hong Ming was stunned for a moment, then he reacted: "You want me to test the poison?"

"It looks like it should be fine."

Liu Hen also tasted it immediately.

"..."

Hong Ming was speechless. Only this guy dared to play a trick on him like this.

If it were someone else... except Xiao Heishi, he would definitely... well, except Zong Ni, he couldn't afford to offend the person in charge of internal affairs.

Well, Bai Ling and the other snowmen, he couldn’t help it.

After thinking about it carefully, Hong Ming was speechless to find that he could only bully ordinary people at most.

"Is this a sweet potato?"

After Liu Hen took a bite of the fruit, he was surprised: "Winter fruit... Hearing the name, I thought it was winter melon."

"Sweet potato? What is that?" Hong Ming was curious.

(End of this chapter)