Don't Starve, my pickaxe can be upgraded

Chapter 21 Peddler Hongming

[Warm Boots Recipe: Warm boots. Size can be selected during crafting. Materials: Two pieces of bark (starting), two pieces of wood, one magic crystal.]

"It's a shoe after all."

Liu Hen was overjoyed. Finally, he didn't have to wear worn-out shoes anymore.

"This time, I think we can form a complete set. I wonder if there will be any set effects?"

He couldn't wait to make a pair of warm boots, but when he saw the materials needed, he suddenly stopped.

Among the materials used to make these warm boots is wood.

All the wood he had collected earlier was put into the fuel tank of the campfire.

The wood put into the fuel tank cannot be taken out again.

"Looks like we'll have to wait a few days, but that's okay. Inside the cave, the need for shoes isn't that urgent."

Little Black Stone was always barefoot.

After closing the production interface, Liu Hen looked again at the materials needed for the next upgrade of the Creation Workbench.

The current workbench is already at level four. To upgrade from level four to level five, you need five hundred pieces of iron ore and five magic crystals.

There are still hundreds of magic crystals in stock, but only dozens of iron ore are left.

Since he had nothing to do, he took out the pickaxe again, went to the end of the cave and continued collecting.

However, this is not a mining area after all, and the iron ores are mixed in the slag, and the All-King Pickaxe can purify it.

Occasionally, if you are lucky, you may come across an area with dense iron elements and be able to dig out a piece quickly.

But when you are unlucky, you may not be able to collect a single piece in most of the day.

Liu Hen was not in a hurry. He was trapped in the cave anyway and had nothing to do. It was a good opportunity to pass the time by collecting materials.

Because the area inside the cave was limited, he piled the collected debris into the tunnel he had dug previously to make room for his backpack.

During this period, he dug a tunnel more than ten meters long to use as a toilet.

But the main function of this "dry toilet" is just to urinate.

Because the savage people have such good digestive abilities, they can digest anything they eat and almost don't need to defecate.

Of course, if you eat something that you really can’t digest, that’s another story.

Liu Hen specifically recalled the original owner's situation and found that even the original owner who ate indiscriminately generally needed to defecate only once a month, probably because there was really nothing to excrete.

As for himself and Xiao Heishi, they had no need to defecate in the past few days, and it seemed that everything they ate was digested, which was very magical.

Time passed, and two days passed in the blink of an eye.

That day, during the meal, Little Black Stone suddenly asked anxiously, "Master, is there anything you need Black Stone to help you with? Black Stone hopes to help you with your work."

She just watched like this, feeling that she, a servant, did nothing while her master was working non-stop. She felt uneasy, worried that she would lose her value and be abandoned.

Especially when the adults at home have no interest in their skinny body.

"What I do requires supernatural powers, you can't help me."

As Liu Hen spoke, he saw Xiao Heishi's eyes dim, and suddenly an idea came to his mind: "But there is indeed one thing that I need you to do."

"Just give me your orders, sir!" Little Heishi immediately became alert.

“Exercise and become stronger!”

Liu Hen said in a resounding voice: "My abilities are not good at fighting, and I don't like fighting myself, so the task of fighting is left to you."

"Don't worry, sir..."

Little Black Stone was about to promise, but suddenly said nervously: "But Black Stone doesn't know how to become stronger, and..."

"Don't worry about food. Starting today, I will increase your food intake. Apart from the time you need to be on guard, you can use the rest of your time for exercise."

Liu Hen said, "Start with the basics: push-ups, horse stance, practicing punching speed, etc. Don't know how to do these? Don't worry, I'll teach you!"

Even though he himself doesn't know anything, he is still a time traveler after all. How can he not only not be able to sing but also not be able to listen to music?

He would supervise Xiao Heishi with the strictest requirements. After all, this girl was able to endure hardships, and it would be a waste to support her entirely by himself.

Originally, he didn't want his partner to be too powerful, but Little Black Stone was too obedient and well-behaved.

In particular, in this girl's concept, since she adopted her, she would be her person in life and her ghost in death, including her body and all tangible and intangible property.

Under this premise, if you train the other person yourself and the other person always needs to rely on you, then the hidden dangers should be infinitely reduced.

So from that day on, whenever Xiao Heishi was awake, he was exercising.

This girl is very cruel to herself. In order to become stronger as soon as possible, she is very strict with herself. She can squat in a horse stance until she faints, and she squeezes herself to the best of her ability.

At first Liu Hen was worried that she wouldn't be able to handle it, but it was obvious that the barbarians were much more tenacious than he had expected.

Especially when he continued to give Xiao Heishi more food, Xiao Heishi's skinny body actually became plump at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Of course, his own body, which was originally severely malnourished, gradually became stronger and stronger, and he no longer felt weak.

In this cave where there is no telling whether it is day or night, time seems to have become blurred.

To save fuel, the campfires were put away during sleep, as this was the only way to extinguish them other than destroying them.

After the bonfire is recovered, it needs to be re-lit. The ignition method is also very simple, just a thought is enough, no tools such as lighters are needed.

On the fourth day of being trapped in the cave, Liu Hen dug out a safe passage exit three hundred meters away from the cave.

Perhaps because of the demonic tide, many monsters were left behind, so there are also many monsters wandering around here.

Those monsters might have been attracted by the light of the campfire. With no living creatures nearby, they kept wandering around and were unwilling to leave.

He was not in a hurry. He used free construction to seal this exit as well, and then continued to collect materials and dig the escape tunnel.

In this way, another five days passed in the blink of an eye.

At this time, nine days had passed since they were trapped in the cave.

On this day, Liu Hen dug through the mountain 500 meters away from the fortifications and opened up another exit.

To his surprise, as soon as he dug through the exit, he saw a figure leading a horse walking towards him.

Because it was late at night, visibility was not low, and the two people were only seven or eight meters apart.

At the same time he saw the other person, the other person also saw him.

Suddenly, the two of them stared at each other.

"The legendary underground people?" the man leading the horse asked in surprise.

Damn underground human race, I've never heard of it at all.

Liu Hen was on guard and asked calmly, "My friend doesn't look like a local."

There are no such creatures as horses in this area. Maybe there were some in the past, but they were all turned into food.

The people in the camp don't need to go out and don't need horses.

The man came back to his senses and said politely, "My name is Hongming, the Hong of loud, the Ming of bright, and I am a Night Mist Traveler. I'm visiting friends from the underground human race and am passing by here. I hope I didn't disturb you."

It seems that this guy really thinks of himself as an underground human.

"So you're the peddler Hongming, my name is Liu Hen."

Liu Hen didn't admit that he was an underground human, but he didn't deny it either. He asked curiously, "Are you from far away? What goods are you carrying?"

He was very interested in the goods of this peddler from the real world of night fog.

Of course, he did not dare to be careless, because anyone who dared to truly walk in the night fog world must be very powerful.

He even suspected that this person was... or was the real mutant.

Because the other party was not at all panicked when he saw him emerging from the ground, it was obvious that he had something to rely on.

Hong Ming immediately took a package from the horse's back and opened it in front of Liu Hen. Surprisingly, it was full of glowing things.

There are stones, wood, and grass.

But Liu Hen didn't recognize any of them.

But it doesn't seem to be simple.

"These are all natural treasures from the Night Mist World. They can assist psychics in their cultivation or be used to craft their weapons."

Hong Ming said, "But I don't want magic crystals or any other treasures. I only want the Extreme Yang Branch. If you don't have the Extreme Yang Branch, the Extreme Yang Grass will also do."

Extremely Yang Branch?
Extreme Yang Grass?
what is that?
Liu Hen searched through the original owner's memory but found no relevant information at all.

When Hong Ming saw Liu Hen's confused look, he immediately knew that there was no hope.

But he was not disappointed, because it was not the first time he was disappointed.

He put the package away and asked, "Are there any other Terran gathering places nearby?"

Liu Hen poked his head out, carefully identified the direction below, and then pointed in the direction of Hongluo Camp. "There's a camp over there, about five kilometers away. I'll answer your question, how about you answer one for me?"

"That's fair, please go ahead." Hong Ming nodded.

Liu Hen asked: "What kind of race is the underground human race?"

He didn't ask the other party whether this race really existed. If the other party answered his question, then the question would have an answer.

"Want to ask what I think of the underground people?"

Hong Ming smiled. Perhaps because he had already mistaken Liu Hen for an underground race, he spoke politely. "Outsiders think that the underground race hides underground because they are afraid of death. But in my opinion, this branch of the human race is the bravest. The dangers underground are no less than those on the surface. In fact, the dangers underground are more bizarre and difficult to guard against."

After saying that, he led the horse directly towards the Hongluo camp, leaving his back to Liu Hen, not afraid of a sneak attack from this "underground human race".

"There are dangers underground? And they are even more strange and difficult to guard against?"

Watching the traveling merchant disappear in the night fog, Liu Hen lost his composure.

"It seems that when collecting in the future, we must not dig randomly, especially not too deep."

Suppressing this thought, he quickly looked around.

There are no monsters gathering here, so let's collect some wood first, as the fuel for the campfire is almost exhausted.

Soon, he saw a low and twisted tree five meters away from the exit. He quickly widened the exit and then climbed up to the ground quietly.
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