Don't Starve, my pickaxe can be upgraded

Chapter 24: All Things Pickaxe Upgrade
"Lao Qi is dead..."

"hateful!"

There was a roar from behind.

Liu Hen picked up Xiao Heishi's thin body and ran away.

When they were about to run out of visibility, three heads appeared again at the previous position.

He immediately swung his arm again and threw the iron ore out.

The three men were so frightened that they quickly squatted back down again.

The distance was a bit far, and I failed to hit them this time, but I did slow down the speed of those people.

Finally, they were out of the robbers' sight.

Liu Hen suddenly slowed down, changed direction, ran more than 20 meters, and hid behind a huge rock with the small black stone.

A few seconds later, eleven people came from behind and chased in the direction they had been heading.

"Those guys who live in caves and raise poisonous creatures?"

Seeing the leader, Liu Hen couldn't help but squint his eyes slightly and recognized this group of so-called robbers.

In the original owner's memory, the man seemed to be called Pang Xuan, and his scavenging team was one of the best and most famous teams among the wastelanders in the Hongluo Camp area.

There are many caves within two kilometers of Hongluo Camp, all of which are occupied by people.

Almost all the teams there make a living by breeding poisonous creatures and trading them for food with the Hongluo Camp.

Most of those teams have hot weapons, although each team basically only has one, or maybe even just a pistol, with not many bullets.

But even if it is just the most ordinary pistol, it is a hot weapon with great deterrent power, and no one in this area dares to provoke it.

Not only hot weapons, those guys also made bows and arrows.

Although bows and arrows are not very useful when visibility is too low, if there are many people and dense arrows are shot, the hit rate is also very high.

Just like before, seven or eight arrows were shot at the same time, most of them missed the target, but they were still hit.

If the wooden arrows had not done much damage and they were wearing warm clothes made of bark, they would have been injured.

"So the so-called robbers are actually the guys living in the cave!"

Liu Hen's eyes were cold.

"Old Eight, Old Nine, you guys go back and take the materials for casting the bullet casings first, and the rest of you follow me."

Suddenly, Pang Xuan's voice was heard from a distance: "Whoever dares to kill me will regret coming into this world!"

Liu Hen, who was about to evacuate with Little Black Stone, suddenly thought: "Casting bullet shells?"

As far as he knew, the material used to make bullet casings on Earth was copper.

So do the barbarians in this world also use copper to cast their own bullet casings?
If so, pure copper is unlikely. The more likely possibility is copper ore. At least the current material should still be copper ore.

"The upgrade of the All-Kings Pickaxe happens to require copper ore. It's like a pillow when you're sleepy!"

Liu Hen was moved. Seeing that two people were left behind from the group, and the remaining nine people ran directly into the night fog, he immediately took Xiao Heishi and followed the two people from a distance.

Xiao Heishi was puzzled. Shouldn't he run for his life at this time?
Who in their right mind would follow that group of people at such a critical moment?

After all, this might very well be the group's lair. What if there are more enemies in the lair?

But she would never disobey the orders of her master, and her master is a person with superpowers.

Thinking of this, she followed her master like a shadow, keeping a vigilant eye on her back.

Up ahead, two men walked forward, cursing and keeping a vigilant eye on their surroundings.

One of them had a bulge under his thick clothes. As expected, it should be the material for casting bullet casings, and the quantity seemed to be very small.

Considering that the group of people probably only had one pistol, casting the bullet casing themselves shouldn't require much material.

"Am I wrong? Are these people here specifically to look for materials? Did they just stumble upon us and rob us along the way?"

But no matter what, the feud has already been formed, and there is no point in thinking about it now.

Liu Hen held a piece of iron ore in each hand, and with a small black stone, he used the protruding strange rocks in the stone mountain area to hide and continued to approach the two men.

Because he was worried that Pang Xuan and others had not gone far, he did not rush to take action.

Finally, half a minute later, when they were only ten meters away from the two people in front of them, he stood up and threw out a piece of iron ore.

"boom!"

One of them fell down.

"What is that..." The other person's face changed drastically and he quickly flew to the side.

"Whoosh..."

The second piece of iron ore shot towards him, and the man quickly swung his knife to chop it.

With a "clang", the knife in his hand was knocked away, but he also took the opportunity to roll over to avoid the attack of the third piece of iron ore.

Seeing that the man was about to roll behind the stone, Liu Hen narrowed his eyes, swung his arm, aimed at the man's head and threw the fourth piece of iron ore again: "Last chance, must hit!"

The fist-sized, square iron ore shot out more than ten meters in a rotation, accurately hitting the man's temple.

"what……"

The man fell to the ground with a scream.

"It's Lao Ba's voice..."

"what happened……"

There were exclamations coming from a hundred meters away. That place should be the lair of this group of people.

Liu Hen's face changed slightly, and he rushed towards the person who was knocked down first. He quickly unbuttoned the other's thick clothes and found a piece of ore half the size of his head.

"Hmph..." At this time, Xiao Heishi picked up the rusty steel knife next to him and slashed it into the back of Lao Ba's neck.

This girl was ruthless enough at the critical moment and had no hesitation in killing people. However, she did not have enough strength and failed to kill Lao Ba with one knife.

"Come on!"

Although Liu Hen admired Xiao Heishi's courage, he didn't have time to finish him off because someone was already approaching from a distance. He put the ore into his space backpack, then picked up Xiao Heishi and rushed into the darkness at his current maximum speed.

"over there……"

"Damn it, Lao Ba and Lao Jiu were knocked down..."

“Chase after them!!”

There was a roar from behind because someone suddenly lit a torch and those people saw what was happening here.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

At the same time, four or five arrows shot out. Although they had a large deviation, they still made Liu Hen scared to death. Because he was worried that someone would shoot him, he could only run as fast as he could without hesitation.

This state consumes too much physical energy. As far as he knows, the maximum sprinting record of humans on Earth in the previous life seems to be 320 meters.

The endurance of the barbarians far exceeds that of the people on Earth in the previous life, but there are limits.

However, I don’t know if it is because of the continuous upgrades that he has gained amazing physical strength.

After he ran for more than two thousand meters in one breath, he had already shaken off the sounds of those chasing him, but he was just beginning to run out of energy.

However, perhaps because his body had not yet recovered, after running for two kilometers in one breath, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated and he felt a strong sense of weakness, as if he would die at any time.

'Upgrade, upgrade now!'

He quickly gave instructions in his mind and slowed down.

[Insufficient copper ore purity]

As a result, such a prompt appeared in my mind.

'Insufficient purity?'

Liu Hen frowned slightly and looked behind him quickly.

Seeing that no one was catching up with him, he quickly put down the small black stone, took out the pickaxe in one hand, and took out the copper ore half the size of his head in the other hand.

After making sure there were enough slots in his backpack, he quickly swung his pickaxe to collect the items.

[Slag +2]

Copper Ore +1

The ore in his hand, which was half the size of a human head, was shattered directly and turned into debris and scattered.

Two pieces of slag and a piece of copper ore were added to the space backpack.

"There's so much slag mixed in, no wonder the purity isn't high enough."

Liu Hen complained in his heart, put away the Pickaxe again, and then chose to upgrade.

Finally, there were no more accidents this time.

Everything in my mind blurred along with the data.

Then, the feeling of being about to die at any moment disappeared, and was replaced by a feeling like being soaked in a hot spring.

Different from every previous upgrade——

This time, in addition to the reappearance of heat deep in his body, he suddenly felt a sense of spiritual sublimation.

It's like breaking through a level.

During the breakthrough process, although his physical fitness still did not improve significantly, he could feel that some hidden injuries in this body seemed to be repaired quickly.

"I'm already at the max Iron level now. Will the next level be Bronze?"

Liu Hen was looking forward to it: "I hope this brand new quality pickaxe will surprise me."

Because he was worried that Pang Xuan's scavenging team would catch up, he didn't dare to stay any longer and took Xiao Heishi away from here again.

"Hmm? Why is there light ahead?"

This time he walked a short distance and after climbing over a high, protruding boulder, he saw the light ahead.

The light was only about two hundred meters away from here, and there was also a high city wall there.

Black Stone reminded quietly: "Sir, the Red Snail Camp is ahead. I reminded you, but you were running too fast and probably didn't hear me."

Previously, because he was worried that Pang Xuan's scavenging team would use hot weapons, Liu Hen was a little panicked and didn't know where to go, and he accidentally passed Pang Xuan and the others who were originally chasing them.

"...I was wondering why he looked so familiar. But okay, I ran out of the danger zone in one breath." He muttered.

Nearly half a month had passed, and only two or three people were left under the wall of Hongluo Camp.

And it seems that they are no longer the same people they used to be.

Those people may have starved to death long ago, or they may have left.

Xiao Heishi looked at the three remaining people under the city wall with a complicated look in his eyes.

Because the disabled savage who had reminded her of the evil nature of human nature had also disappeared.

When she came back this time, she actually felt like showing off. She wanted to tell the other person that she had made the right bet, that she was not eaten by the adults, and that she was living a good life.

Unfortunately, the other party couldn't hold on.

Liu Hen was just about to take Xiao Heishi to the Hongluo camp to buy some food when suddenly a scream came from inside the Hongluo camp.

"Even medium and large camps don't have the guts to steal my stuff..."

A familiar voice came from afar, followed by dense gunfire and screams.

"This sound..."

Liu Hen was shocked: "Is it that peddler Shang Hongming?"

That guy...had a fight with the Hongluo Camp?

Are traveling merchants so tough?

He quickly retreated back into the darkness with the little black stone.
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