Don't Starve, my items can be upgraded

Chapter 13: Stone Beast, Counterattack
Two hundred meters away.

Hu Zhou was about to continue on his way when he suddenly saw Yang Chen and the other two walking towards him, so he stopped and waited there.

Although he was not a perceptual evolver, he could roughly sense that Yang Chen should have awakened not long ago and was a quasi-evolver, not even a first-level evolver.

In this state, the opponent should need more crystallized bone marrow to improve his strength.

Only by improving both physique and strength and completing the first transformation can one be considered a true first-level evolver.

However, he did not underestimate the opponent because the opponent seemed to have offensive abilities.

If the two sides were to fight, he, a second-level evolver, might not be the opponent.

There's no way, his ability is biased towards carrying things, and he's not good at fighting.

The improvement speed from quasi-evolver to first-level evolver is very fast.

Normally, even the least talented person can do it within a month.

Because at this stage, there is no bottleneck.

If you have better talent and sufficient resources, you can do it in ten days or half a month.

Not long after, Yang Chen arrived thirty meters away.

He put the wolf's body on the ground and raised his voice, "I heard you have crystallized bone marrow? Give me ten pieces of crystallized bone marrow, and these three wolves will be yours."

"Ten dollars? Impossible."

Hu Zhou shook his head and said, "Three at most. This is the highest price I can offer."

"Three pieces is impossible."

Yang Chen said: "You said before that you are good at transportation? I think we should have the opportunity to cooperate in the future. How about ten dollars as an investment?"

Hu Zhou was speechless. I invested in you?
Why don't you invest in me?

He shook his head and said, "I can only give you four at most. If you don't accept, forget it. Anyway, I don't need your three wild wolves now."

"What if I tell you an important news?"

Yang Chen said: “I once got a map. The Gobi Desert we are in is called the Wandering Gobi Desert, and the mountain in front should be called Kunwu Mountain…”

"If this is what you are talking about, I know I am disappointed," Hu Zhou said.

“Do you also know about the refuge on Kunwu Mountain?” Yang Chen said in a shocking tone.

"what?!"

Hu Zhou's expression changed: "Is there a shelter here?!"

The shelter is said to be the place where humans hid after a great disaster.

It is said that humans once possessed extremely terrifying technology, but that technology was brought into the shelter.

These barbarians are the descendants of those who did not enter the refuge.

"refuge?"

Some of Hu Zhou's men were surprised, while others were confused.

Peng Min had a look of confusion on her face. She grew up in a small safe zone and had naturally heard of the word "shelter".

But for people on the surface, the refuge is too far away and has never been truly seen.

Because there were no other scavenging teams nearby, only the two of them could hear what Yang Chen said.

"Are you serious?" An inexplicable look flashed in Hu Zhou's eyes.

"I still hope to have the opportunity to cooperate with you in the future, so I won't lie."

Yang Chen said: “With ten pieces of crystallized bone marrow, I can tell you the approximate location of the shelter. However, the map I got is very old and weathered after I touched it, so I only know the approximate range.”

"So what if I know the approximate location? Do you think I have the ability to gain benefits from the shelter?"

Hu Zhou said, "I can give you five dollars at most."

"let it go."

Yang Chen said as he picked up the wild wolf's body and was about to leave.

"and many more."

Hu Zhou said coldly: "Ten dollars is fine, but I hope you don't play tricks on me!"

"I wouldn't intentionally offend an Evolver just for a few pieces of crystallized bone marrow."

Yang Chen said: "Shall we talk aside?"

"Okay." Hu Zhou walked straight away.

"You stay here and guard the body of the wild wolf. Don't worry."

Yang Chen said something to Peng Min, then followed Hu Zhou and walked away.

Soon, they were a hundred meters away.

Yang Chen drew a simple map on the ground, and then marked a point at one of the locations.

Then, he stepped back a distance and said, "The approximate location is right here, at the foot of the mountain. According to the scale of the map I saw earlier, this area is probably about 30 kilometers in size."

"Thirty kilometers..."

Hu Zhou moved closer to the map, carefully memorized the simple map, and then erased it with his foot.

Then he flipped his hand, took out ten pieces of crystallized bone marrow, placed them on the ground, and turned and left.

After Hu Zhou walked some distance away, Yang Chen went over to collect the crystallized bone marrow.

What frustrates him is that these crystallized bone marrows are very small.

The largest piece is only half the size of a fist, and most of the others are only one-third the size of a fist.

As for the smallest piece, it is only as big as a thumb.

Although it is a little small, it is indeed complete and not divided.

'This transaction method has too many loopholes.'

But there is no way around it. No rules were agreed upon beforehand, and the outcome of the transaction depends solely on the willingness and conscience of both parties.

Fortunately, these ten pieces of crystallized bone marrow contain the energy he needs.

'With the two pieces on my body, there are twelve pieces in total. Hopefully, that will be enough for the nail gun to reach the level of transformation.'

When Yang Chen returned to the original place with ten pieces of crystallized bone marrow, the bodies of the three wild wolves had already been taken away by Hu Zhou's people.

Hu Zhou had already led his men in the direction indicated on the map, probably to find the so-called refuge. Peng Min asked curiously, "Is the refuge you mentioned real?"

"Who knows? The map is so tattered and so old, I can only guess that it might be a shelter."

Yang Chen didn’t feel guilty at all. Hu Zhou had played some tricks on him anyway, giving him such a small piece of crystallized bone marrow.

"..."

Peng Min was speechless and was shocked for quite a while.

However, this kind of thing is indeed difficult to determine.

"The people from the safe zone are leaving again. Let's follow them."

Yang Chen put part of the crystallized bone marrow into the bag, holding the largest piece in his hand to absorb energy and transform it into derivative energy, quickly strengthening the nail gun.

The reason why the largest one is used first is because it takes up more space.

With enough crystallized bone marrow, the nail gun's strengthening speed skyrocketed.

More than ten minutes later, when the energy of the crystallized bone marrow in his hand was exhausted, the nail gun reached level nine.

[Guaranteed Nail Gun lv.9: 0% (…effective range 73 meters, maximum range 219 meters; cannot be upgraded)]

Yang Chen did not stop and continued to strengthen.

As piece after piece of crystallized bone marrow turned into powder, the upgrade progress of the nail gun also increased rapidly like a rocket.

About an hour later, when only the three smallest pieces of crystallized bone marrow were left on his body, the progress bar of the nail gun directly reached 99%.

'We will know the result soon. Perhaps the level of transformation is level ten.'

Yang Chen thought in his heart, and took out a piece of crystallized bone marrow that was only half the size of a fist from his bag to absorb energy.

"Boom bang..."

Suddenly, a crash was heard from dozens of meters to the left.

When they turned their heads, they saw a spherical monster that looked very much like a stone and was only about 30 centimeters in diameter suddenly jump up and knock the nearby deserters away.

The scavenging team was so frightened that they fled for their lives, but were soon caught up by the strange beast that seemed to have no legs.

"It's a strange beast, run!"

Yang Chen’s expression changed slightly, and he hurriedly started running.

"That's the strange beast?!"

Peng Min’s face also changed drastically, and he hurriedly followed Yang Chen and ran away.

"Oh!"

In the back, the scavenging team subconsciously wanted to resist, but were knocked away and their bones were broken.

After easily killing the scavenging team, the spherical monster suddenly set its sights on Yang Chen and the other two, and quickly chased after them, jumping and hopping.

Although it has no feet, it moves very fast. Each time it jumps, it can jump more than ten meters and soon reach twenty meters away.

“Yang Chen, it’s catching up!” Peng Min said nervously.

As soon as he finished speaking, Yang Chen turned around, aimed, and shot out a nail.

"boom!"

Gravel flew everywhere, and a hole was shot out on the surface of the strange beast, but it failed to break through the defense.

This seemed to have angered it, and it suddenly rolled rapidly on the ground. After it was five meters close to Yang Chen and the other person, it suddenly jumped up and crashed into them.

"Get out of the way!"

Yang Chen suddenly threw Peng Min to the ground, brushed past the strange-looking beast, and at the same time madly injected derivative Qi into the nail gun.

Finally, at the moment when the two men fell to the ground, the last bit of the nail gun's progress bar was filled and upgraded again.

The spherical monster exerted too much force and jumped more than 20 meters away.

It jumped on the ground very flexibly, turned around, and was about to attack again.

Yang Chen hurriedly aimed again and pressed the launch button.

"boom--"

A huge recoil force was felt, and a deep hole was shot directly into the surface of the spherical monster. The huge impact force caused it to roll backwards.

Almost at the same time, the nail gun suddenly broke away from Yang Chen's palm under the astonishing recoil and hit his chest.

Fortunately, the force was not strong enough to hurt him as the palm was unloading it.

Even so, Yang Chen was surprised.

He hurriedly picked up the nail gun again and looked at the spherical monster nervously.

However, the spherical beast rolled forward three or four meters under the huge impact force, and then lay on the ground motionless.

And from the hole pierced by the nail, a golden liquid slowly flowed out.

"died?"

Yang Chen was delighted, and quickly looked at the nail gun in his hand:
[Guaranteed Nail Gun lv.10 (Awakened): 0% (…effective range 100 meters, maximum range 300 meters; cannot be upgraded)]

'Awakened state? What does that mean?'

Yang Chen was confused.

However, he roughly understood that level ten was the level of transformation. Only when it reached level eleven could the transformation be completed and the results after the transformation be known.

'The recoil is so strong now that I can't hold it with my hands unless I use both hands at the same time.'

He prayed in his heart: "I hope that after the transformation is complete, the recoil problem can be solved. Otherwise, I will have to change weapons."

As soon as this thought flashed through my mind, a sweet fragrance suddenly wafted over.

Just smelling that sweet fragrance can make people feel refreshed, as if all fatigue is gone.

Not only him, even Peng Min smelled it.

The two of them subconsciously looked at the spherical monster more than 20 meters away.

"It's that golden liquid!"

Peng Min swallowed subconsciously and said in shock: "Could that be some treasure?"

(End of this chapter)